#1. The Soulbury Commission, appointed in the year ______, was tasked with proposing constitutional reforms for Sri Lanka.
#2. The 1945 report from the Soulbury Commission recommended that Sri Lanka be granted internal ______.
#3. In the 1947 parliamentary election, the ______ emerged as the largest single party with 42 seats.
#4. Sri Lanka’s first Prime Minister, who formed a government with UNP and independent support after the 1947 election, was ______.
#5. The post-independence Defence Convention with Britain granted the UK the right to use Sri Lankan territory for ______ purposes.
#6. Under the Soulbury Constitution, the Governor General served as the nominal representative of the ______.
#7. The upper house of the Soulbury-era Parliament, which consisted of 30 members, was known as the ______.
#8. The Soulbury Constitution’s House of Representatives included 95 elected members and ______ members appointed to represent minorities.
#9. According to the Soulbury Constitution, the primary executive powers, including control over defence and foreign affairs, were vested in the ______.
#10. The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), founded in 1935 by leaders like Dr. N.M. Perera, aimed to establish a ______ society.
#11. The United National Party (UNP) was founded in 1946 by D.S. Senanayake, who merged the Sinhala Maha Sabha with the ______.
#12. In 1951, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike founded the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) after he split from the ______.
#13. The Federal Party, a key party advocating for Tamil rights, was founded in 1949 by J.V. Chelvanayagam after a split from the ______.
#14. The victorious coalition in the 1956 election, led by the SLFP, was named the ______.
#15. The government of 1956 won a landslide victory, with S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike becoming the new ______.
#16. A major policy change of the 1956 government was the official termination of the defence and external affairs pacts with ______.
#17. The social base that supported the 1956 revolution was famously known as the ‘Pancha Maha Balavega’, which included monks, doctors, teachers, farmers, and ______.
#18. A key policy of the 1956 government was to upgrade the Vidyodaya and Vidyalankara Pirivenas into ______.
#19. The 1970 election was won by the ______, a coalition of the SLFP, LSSP, and Communist Party, which had pledged to create a new constitution.
#20. The 1972 Constitution officially changed the country’s name from Ceylon to ______.
#21. By severing all constitutional links with the British monarchy, the 1972 constitution established Sri Lanka as a ______.
#22. Under the 1972 Constitution, ______ was appointed as the country’s first (and largely nominal) President.
#23. The 1972 Constitution replaced the old Parliament with a new, unicameral legislature called the ______, which had a six-year term.
#24. The 1978 Constitution, which introduced the Executive Presidency, was drafted after a landslide victory for the UNP under the leadership of ______.
#25. The 1978 constitution introduced ______ as the new electoral method for all elections, replacing the first-past-the-post system.
#26. To win a Presidential Election under the 1978 Constitution, a candidate must obtain more than ______ of the valid votes.
#27. A new political instrument called the ______ was introduced in the 1978 constitution and was used in 1982 to extend the term of Parliament.
#28. The 1978 Parliament has a total of 225 members, composed of 196 elected members and ______ members appointed from a national list.
#29. The Lanka Communist Party was formed in 1943 by Dr. S.A. Wickramasinghe after a split from the ______.
#30. The formal ceremony of lowering the British flag and raising the Sri Lankan flag took place on ______, six days after the official declaration of independence.
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