Indian Culture Quiz 8 (20 MCQs)

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1. Tulsidas, the author of Ramcharitmanas, was a contemporary of which of the following rulers?

Correct Answer: C) Akbar.

2. Portable, cone-shaped homes, favored by the plains cultures

Correct Answer: C) Teepee.

3. The map shows that only ..... and ..... countries were independent when the war Broke out

Correct Answer: A) Thailand and Republic of China.

4. Buddha is known as .....

Correct Answer: A) Gautam.

5. Around ..... % of Indonesia's population were Muslims in 2017.

Correct Answer: B) 80-90.

6. The Puranas and Upanishads are written in one of the oldest languages of our country. This language is .....

Correct Answer: D) Sanskrit.

7. When Islam was accepted by the rulers and elites, Islamic culture influences spread to ..... and became a part of ..... cultures.

Correct Answer: B) Villages.

8. Which Indian mathematician is considered as the founder of numerical analysis?

Correct Answer: C) Brahmagupta.

9. The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha was

Correct Answer: C) Pali.

10. The year 788 AD was a good one for Hinduism. Why?

Correct Answer: B) Shankracharya was born that year.

11. What is meant by Harvest?

Correct Answer: A) Collect.

12. Which century was the Angkor Wat temple buit

Correct Answer: C) 12 th century.

13. Who got the first Asian poet to badge nobel prize for literature?

Correct Answer: D) Rabindranath Tagor.

14. Garba is a form of

Correct Answer: C) Folk Dance.

15. As a dwelling, what advantage did the tepee offer to the hunters of the Great Plains?

Correct Answer: D) Easily moved from place to place.

16. What was the name of the dolls that were presented to young Puebloan girls?

Correct Answer: B) Kachina Doll.

17. Who is Mahatma Gandhi?

Correct Answer: D) All answers correct.

18. Which Indian group is least likely to have a Green Corn Ceremony?

Correct Answer: A) Inuit.

19. This Islamic architecture was built by Shah Jahan as a memorial to his wife. Name it.

Correct Answer: C) Taj Mahal.

20. Rearrange the jumbled words1-valain

Correct Answer: A) Lavani.