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Pop only the CIVILIAN awards of India

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Other terms
  1. Param Vir Chakra
  2. Ashok Chakra
  3. Vir Chakra
  4. Maha Vir Chakra
Matching terms
  1. Bharat Ratna
  2. Padma Vibhushan
  3. Padma Bhushan
  4. Padma Shri

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Place each Indian award on its institution year

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End
2000
Start
1950
Events
  1. Year
    1954
    Item
    Bharat Ratna instituted
  2. Year
    1954
    Item
    Padma awards instituted
  3. Year
    1961
    Item
    Arjuna Award started
  4. Year
    1969
    Item
    Dadasaheb Phalke Award started
  5. Year
    1985
    Item
    Dronacharya Award started
  6. Year
    1991
    Item
    Khel Ratna instituted

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Knock out the false history lines

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Questions
  1. Question
    Three of these lines about the Government of India Act of 1935 are false.
    Choices
    1. Item
      It planned an all India federation
      Correct
      Yes
    2. Explanation
      Defence stayed with the Governor General as a reserved subject.
      Item
      It put defence under the federal house
    3. Explanation
      Joining was voluntary, and too few states signed up for it to start.
      Item
      It forced every princely state to join
    4. Explanation
      Only the provincial part started in 1937; the federal part never did.
      Item
      Its federal part started in 1937
  2. Question
    Three of these pairings of a party with its leader are false.
    Choices
    1. Explanation
      Rajagopalachari founded the Swatantra Party in 1959.
      Item
      Socialist Party and C Rajagopalachari
    2. Explanation
      Acharya Narendra Dev led the Socialist Party instead.
      Item
      Swatantra Party and Narendra Dev
    3. Item
      Bharatiya Jana Sangh and S P Mukherjee
      Correct
      Yes
    4. Explanation
      Jagjivan Ram broke away in 1977 to form Congress for Democracy.
      Item
      Congress for Democracy and Lohia
Instructions
Tap the three wrong lines in each set and leave the one true line standing.
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