TRY IT! The essential 2014 general elections QUIZ

The biggest ‘poll dance’ in the world is underway where 814.5 million voters are electing their representatives in 543 constituencies to form the 16th Lok Sabha.

The elections that began on April 7 will conclude on May 12 -- the longest election in the country’s history -- after nine phases of polling and will approximately cost Rs 3,500 crore to the exchequer. The results will be out on May 16.

In this poll season, we ask our readers to take this quiz to find out how much they know about the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Give it a shot, voters!

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1. Apart from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi is contesting 2014 LS polls from another constituency. Which one?
1) Ahmedabad
2) Vadodara
3) Surat

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2. Which is the largest Lok Sabha constituency in the country in terms of area?
1) Barmer, Rajasthan
2) South Goa
3) Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir

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3. Congress president Sonia Gandhi won the 2009 LS elections from Rae Bareli by what margin?
1) Between 2 lakh to 3 lakh votes
2) Above 3 lakh votes
3) Below 2 lakh votes

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4. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will be contesting Lok Sabha elections 2014 from which two constituencies?
1) Mainpuri and Azamgarh
2) Etawah and Jaunpur
3) Mainpuri and Faizabad

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5. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will be contesting 2014 Lok Sabha elections from which constituency?
1) Madurai
2) Chennai Central
3) She is not contesting

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6. BJP’s Varun Gandhi is contesting 2014 Lok Sabha elections from which constituency?
1) Amethi
2) Sultanpur
3) Pilibhit

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7. Who is the Aam Aadmi Party candidate who is challenging Union Minister Kapil Sibal from the Chandni Chowk LS constituency in Old Delhi?
1) Shazia Ilmi
2) Ashutosh
3) Yogendra Yadav

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8. Filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar is contesting LS polls 2014 from Mumbai North West. He is representing which party?
1) Shiv Sena
2) Nationalist Congress Party
3) Maharashtra Navnirman Sena

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9. Former Team India skipper Mohd Azharuddin won the 2009 LS polls from Moradabad in UP on a Congress ticket. He is contesting 2014 elections from which constituency?
1) Hyderabad
2) Tonk-Sawai Madhopur
3) Moradabad

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10. Former Infosys co-founder and UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani is making his electoral debut in the 2014 LS elections on a Congress ticket from which constituency?
1) Bangalore North
2) Bangalore South
3) Bellary

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11. The BJP recently forged an alliance with which party in Andhra Pradesh?
1) TDP
2) TRS
3) YSR Congress

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12. How many Lok Sabha seats does Sikkim have?
1) 2
2) 3
3) 1

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13. Who is the BJP candidate contesting against Rahul Gandhi in Amethi?
1) Kumar Vishwas
2) Smriti Irani
3) Uma Bharti

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14. Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley is contesting from which constituency?
1) Amritsar
2) Outer Delhi
3) Patiala

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15. Trinamool Congress is fielding which celebrity from Bankura constituency in West Bengal?
1) P C Sorcar
2) Dev Adhikari
3) Moon Moon Sen

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