Twenty-Question Flash Check

1. What colour do Articles 1–4 spell out? — NEEL.
2. Which article is the only ground for impeaching a President, and what majority does it require? — Art. 61 — "violation of the Constitution," by a two-thirds majority of the total membership of each House.
3. Which Schedule shields land-reform laws, and what's the catch? — Ninth; now open to Basic Structure review since I.R. Coelho (2007), after Waman Rao (1981) had already cut off protection for post-24 April 1973 additions.
4. Which amendment made GST possible? — 101st (2016) — Articles 246A, 269A, 279A.
5. Which two Emergency articles are the classic confusable pair, and what's the difference? — Article 358 auto-suspends Art. 19 during a war/external-aggression Emergency; Article 359 lets the President suspend only the remedy for other FRs, never Arts. 20/21.
6. What ended in J&K on 5 August 2019, and when did the Supreme Court uphold it? — Article 370's special status; upheld December 2023.
7. Which amendment is called the "Mini-Constitution," and why? — 42nd (1976) — it touched the Preamble, Fundamental Duties, DPSPs (Art. 31C), Tribunals and judicial review all at once.
8. Which Part has exactly one article, and it's repealed? — Part VII (Art. 238), repealed by the 7th Amendment (1956).
9. Name the three roads Article 368 offers. — Simple majority (outside Art. 368), special majority, and special majority + State ratification (federal provisions).
10. Which 2023 amendment reserves seats for women, and where? — 106th — one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, effective after the next delimitation.
11. Who chaired the Constituent Assembly's Drafting Committee, and how many members did it originally have? — Dr. B.R. Ambedkar; seven members.
12. How long did the Constituent Assembly take to frame the Constitution? — 2 years, 11 months and 18 days (9 December 1946 – 26 November 1949).
13. From which country was the concept of Directive Principles of State Policy borrowed? — Ireland.
14. Which case first held that Parliament could NOT amend Fundamental Rights, and which amendment reversed it? — Golaknath v. State of Punjab (1967); reversed by the 24th Amendment (1971).
15. What did the Kesavananda Bharati (1973) judgment actually decide, and by what margin? — Parliament can amend any part of the Constitution, including FRs, but cannot alter the "basic structure"; decided 7–6 by a 13-judge bench.
16. Which amendment abolished privy purses, and which article did it insert? — 26th Amendment (1971) — Article 363A.
17. Name the exception the 91st Amendment (2003) removed from, and the one it added to, the Tenth Schedule. — Removed the one-third "split" exception; strengthened the two-thirds "merger" exception.
18. How many languages does the Eighth Schedule currently list, and name two added by the 92nd Amendment (2003). — 22 languages; Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were all added in 2003 (any two suffice).
19. Which amendment created the NJAC, and why was it struck down? — 99th Amendment (2014); struck down in 2015 for violating the basic structure's guarantee of judicial independence (primacy of the judicial collegium).
20. Which committee first recommended the three-tier Panchayati Raj structure that the 73rd Amendment later constitutionalised? — The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee (1957).
21. What does Article 246A do that the original three-list scheme in the Seventh Schedule could not? — It creates a simultaneous, concurrent taxing power for both Parliament and State legislatures specifically for GST, since GST did not fit cleanly into the Union/State/Concurrent split.
22. Name three features the Constitution borrowed from the Government of India Act, 1935. — Any three of: federal scheme, provincial autonomy, office of Governor, Public Service Commissions, emergency provisions (in substance).

Compiled and cross-checked against the Constitution of India as amended to 2026. For personal study; always verify exam-critical figures against the bare Act.