ANCIENT INDIA MCQS SET 39

ANCIENT INDIA MCQS SET 39

1. Which of the following is the oldest seat of learning?
(a) Nalanda
(b) Vikramshila
(c) Taxila
(d) Ujjain
Ans: (c)
 
2. The Shrimad Bhagvata Gita contains ______ chapters and ______Sanskrit slokas or couplets.
(a) 14,500
(b) 16,600
(c) 18,700
(d) 20,800
Ans: (c)

3. The Ramayana narrates events believed to have taken place in the ______ Yuga or age.
(a) Sat
(b) Dwapar
(c) Kal
(d) Treta
Ans: (d)
 
4. Who among the following anticipated Newton by affirming that all things tended to gravitate to the earth?
(a) Aryabhatta
(b) Brahmagupta
(c) Varahamihira
(d) Buddhagupta
Ans: (b)

5. In ancient India, Nalanda University represented a great centre for the study of
(a) Mahayana Buddhism
(b) Hinduism
(c) Hinayana Buddhism
(d) Jainism
Ans: (a)
 
6. Who is the author of Kadambari, from among the following?
(a) Kalidas
(b) Panini
(c) Kautilya
(d) Bana
Ans: (d)

7. Which sage or scholar had recast the original single Veda into four distinct Vedas?
(a) Patanjali
(b) Kapila
(c) Vyasa
(d) Shankaracharya
Ans: (c)
 
8. To whom did the term 'Macedonia's madaman' refer?
(a) Alexander
(b) Xersus
(c) Darius
(d) Phillip II
Ans: (a)
 
9. The bronze coins of Natraja or Dancing Shiva during the Chola period invariably depicted the deity with _____ arms.
(a) Eight
(b) Six
(c) Four
(d) Two
Ans: (b)

10. The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are an instance of the _____ art?
(a) Early Mathura
(b) Maurya
(c) Gupta
(d) Gandhara
Ans: (c)