Quiz: Redemption songs

1 The Boston Tea Party was one of the first open rebellions by American settlers against the British government. The tea from three ships, The Eleanor, The Beaver and The Dartmouth was dumped in the Boston Harbour. The question is, which organisation owned the tea?

2 By what name is the protest songwriter and singer Gummadi Vittal Rao better known among the people of Telangana?

3 Which iconic song did Neil Young write after seeing a picture of 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of college student Jeffrey Miller?

4 Which novel, protesting the conditions of immigrant labour in 1930s America, sold 4,30,000 copies in its first year of publication and was regarded as the main reason for the author winning the Nobel Prize in 1962?

5 Which agitation got its name after Gaura Devi and the women of the village of Reni decided to take matters in their own hands to save their trees from lumbermen?

6 Which actress protested against the state of Israel and the oppression of the Palestinian people in her Oscar acceptance speech in 1978?

7 Holi was a 1984 film depicting student unrest on campus based on a play by Marathi playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar. The cast included Aamir Khan, Shreeram Lagoo, Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah and was directed by Ketan Mehta. In which location was it primarily shot?

8 Which 1906 novel based on the meatpacking industry in Chicago created a stir among readers and caused an almost 50 per cent fall in domestic and foreign meat purchases? It also resulted in public support for congressional legislation to regulate working conditions.

9 ‘Razom nas bahato! Nas ne podolaty,’ meaning ‘Together we are many, we cannot be defeated’ was the rallying slogan of agitation in which country in 2004?

10 Fill in the blanks with the initials of this common protest chant in the US, and the actions of the American government which it referenced. “Hey, hey, ____, how many kids did you kill today?”

Answers

1. The East India Company

2. Gaddar, the name he took as a tribute to the Gaddar party which opposed colonial rule in Punjab in the early 20th century

3. ‘Ohio’, about the protests in Kent State University in 1970. The song was performed by Crosby Stills Nash and Young

4. The Grapes Of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

5. The Chipko Andolan, started in 1973 in the Garhwal Himalayas

6. Vanessa Redgrave, who won an Academy award in 1978 for Julia

7. The Film and Television Institute of India campus in Pune. Most of the supporting cast were also students and staff

8. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, first serialised in the newspaper Appeal To Reason

9. Ukraine

10. LBJ, for Lyndon Johnson; to protest the American involvement in the Vietnam War

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