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  1. Where and in what year was the first INC session held? Answer: Bombay, 1885.

  2. Who presided over the first INC session? Answer: W.C. Bonnerjee.

  3. Who was the first Muslim president of the INC? Answer: Badruddin Tyabji (1887, Madras).

  4. At which session was "Bande Mataram" first sung? Answer: 1896, Calcutta.

  5. At which session was the demand for "Swaraj" first explicitly raised? Answer: 1906, Calcutta, presided by Dadabhai Naoroji.

  6. What happened at the 1907 Surat session? Answer: The Congress split into Moderate and Extremist factions.

  7. Which session saw the Lucknow Pact? Answer: 1916, Lucknow, presided by Ambica Charan Mazumdar.

  8. Who was the first woman president of the INC? Answer: Annie Besant (1917, Calcutta).

  9. Who was the first Indian woman president of the INC? Answer: Sarojini Naidu (1925, Kanpur).

  10. Which was the only session Gandhi presided over? Answer: 1924, Belgaum.

  11. Who was the youngest-ever Congress president? Answer: Abul Kalam Azad (1923, age 35).

  12. Which session adopted the Purna Swaraj Resolution? Answer: 1929, Lahore, presided by Jawaharlal Nehru.

  13. Which session adopted resolutions on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Policy? Answer: 1931, Karachi, presided by Vallabhbhai Patel.

  14. Which was the first session held in a rural area? Answer: 1937, Faizpur.

  15. At which session was Subhas Chandra Bose re-elected, defeating Gandhi's nominee? Answer: 1939, Tripuri (defeating Pattabhi Sitaramayya).

  16. What did Bose found after resigning from the Congress presidency in 1939? Answer: The Forward Bloc.

  17. Who held the Congress presidency continuously from 1940 to 1946? Answer: Abul Kalam Azad.

  18. Which session ratified the Non-Cooperation Movement and reorganised Congress on linguistic lines? Answer: 1920, Nagpur.

  19. Which session was held despite a government ban during Civil Disobedience? Answer: 1933, Calcutta, presided by Mrs Nellie Sengupta.

  20. In which year and where was the first post-independence Congress session held? Answer: 1948, Jaipur, presided by Pattabhi Sitaramayya.

(End of Congress Sessions notes. Cross-reference with the Freedom Movement and Historical Timelines files.)

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