ANCIENT INDIA ( Answer Key )

ANCIENT INDIA ( Answer Key )

1. What was built in Lothal to facilitate the ships?
ANSWER:    b.  Dockyard               

2. Who is known as the first keertankar of Maharashtra ?
ANSWER:    c. Saint Namdev       

3. The sixteen Mahajanapadas are mentioned:
ANSWER:    c. Anguttara Nikaya     

4. The capital vasta mahajanapada was:
     ANSWER:     c. Kaushambi               

5. Father of history is called:
ANSWER:     c. Herodotus                 

6. Satakarni was the ruler of which dynasty?
                ANSWER:      d. Satavahana

7. During seventeen century B.C. the form of buddism was famous as:
        ANSWER:       c. Vajrayana                 

8. Who  was the direct descendents of stone age civilizations and creator of Mohen – jo – Daro’s Sindh culture ?
ANSWER:     c. Dravidians                 

9. Which veda is known as Gangotri of Music ?
ANSWER:    d. Samaveda

10. Which ancient university was situated at Badgaon village of Patna in Bihar ?
ANSWER:    c. Nalanda                       

      11.  Name the Indian mathematician who discovered zero.
          ANSWER:     ( a)  Aryabhatta     

       12. Which book of Maths had been written by Bhaskaracharya?
             ANSWER:    (b) Lilavati Ganit     

       13.Samrat Ashok was ruler of
              ANSWER:    (b)  Patliputra

        I4. Most powerful ruler of Gupta dynasty was :
               ANSWER:    (d) Samudra Gupta

        15. The Rath temples at Mahaballipuram were built by
ANSWER:      (b) Pallavas

       16  Who was the ruler of 'Vatsa’  during the time of Buddha?
                  ANSWER:    (b) Udayana

       17. Which is the world's largest Epic?
                ANSWER:     (d) Mahabharata

       18. In which literature a collection of dialogues between () Buddha and his disciples is given?
                ANSWER:      (a) Sutta Pitaka

         19. Give the name of race known as creator of Mohen-jo-Daro Culture.
                ANSWER:       (b) Dravidian

         20. Black complexion, broad hand, flat nose, short height etc. were the physical features of the tribe called.............
           ANSWER:     (d) The Austroloid

 21. German poet Goethe was so much impressed by reading which drama that he put it on his head and danced with joy?
ANSWER:     (c) Abhigyan Shakuntalam

 22. Big Bath has been found in which of the Indus valley site?
 ANSWER:       (b) Mohenjodaro Lothal

23. Which statement about the position of women in the Rig Vedic society is not true?
. ANSWER:     (b) Parda system and child marriages were prevalent. .

24. When did the first urbanization take place?
ANSWER:     (b) in the Indus Valley civilization

25. Which ruler of ancient India is known as Devanam Piya Priyadasi?
ANSWER:      (c) Ashoka

26. What are tripitakas?
ANSWER:     (b) Compilation of Buddha's sermons

 27. Tripitaki texts are related with which religion?
ANSWER:     (b) Buddhism

28. The language of sangam literature was
ANSWER:     (a) Tamil

29. Ashoka was the son of
ANSWER:     (c) Bindusar

30. The thinker Confucius belonged to the country
ANSWER:     (c) China

31. By whom 'Saka Era' was started?
ANSWER:    (a) Kanishka

32. Which city was founded by Sikandar Lodi?
ANSWER:     (d) Agra  Indus valley

33. The great bath of the Indus valley civilizations was discovered in
ANSWER:      (c) Mohenjodaro 

34. Lothal is stitauted in
  ANSWER:     (d) Gujarat

35. Samaveda means:
     ANSWER:     (b) The Book of Music

 36, The capital of Kuru was :
ANSWER:     (c) Hastinapur 

   37. During the invasion on India which Greek intellect ccompanied Alexander?
 ANSWER:    (c) Nearchus

   38. Which of the following  city is not related with Indus civilization?
ANSWER:     (d) Patliputra

   39. Which of the following was the oldest veda?
  ANSWER:         (a) Rigveda

 40. Founder of Gupta Dynasty was:
 ANSWER:       (a)  Shri Gupta 

  41. Huen Tsang came in the period of
ANSWER:      (b) Harshavardhan

42. Which city was established by Harihar-Bukka?
  ANSWER:      (c) vijaynagar

43. Jeevak, the first surgeon, was of
ANSWER:     (c) Rajgrih

44. Which pillar inscription describes about ‘Samudragupta'?
ANSWER:     (c) Mehrauli Prashasti

45. Which epic describes about the Indraprastha Nagar'?
 ANSWER:    (c) Rigveda

46. The reign of ______  witnessed the golden age of Mesopotamia.
ANSWER:     (c) Hammurabi

47. ‘Zend Avesta' is the holy book of the __________
ANSWER:     (c) Parsees

 48. Among the following who is called 'Light of Asia'?
ANSWER:     (b) Buddha

  49. The Upanishads are
ANSWER:    (a) a source of Hindu philosophy