India MIDTERM

Question 1

He launches anti british civil disobedience campaign and he became the leader of the indian independence movement

Answer 1

Mahatma gandhi

Question 2

India’s first minister

Answer 2

Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 3

The first woman prime minister of india

Answer 3

Indira gandhi

Question 4

First woman to be elected president of india in 2007

Answer 4

Pratibha Patil

Question 5

One of the known sites and the best agricultural achievements in india located in agra utar pradesh which serves as atom of emperor Shah Jahan’s wife

Answer 5

Taj Mahal

Question 6

Emperor’s wife

Answer 6

Arjumand Banu or Mumtaz Mahal

Question 7

2000 year old historical site in india dedicated to gautama buddha

Answer 7

Mahabodhi Temple

Question 8

This temple served as the Mother Temple of the indian subcontinent it is also known as the Lotus Temple

Answer 8

Baha’i Temple

Question 9

It is a buddhist center of learning located in the indian state of Bihar and called as “one of the first great universities”

Answer 9

Nalanda

Question 10

This site was built during the british raj

Answer 10

Victoria memorial in kolkata

Question 11

A site built for queen Victoria

Answer 11

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

Question 12

One of the oldest attestations of any indoorian language and one of the earliest attested members of the indo-european language family

Answer 12

Rigvedic sanskrit

Question 13

The classical form of old indo aryan which means polished cultivated and correct

Answer 13

Samskrta

Question 14

One of india’s major classical languages the sense from Proto-Dravidian languages which was spoken around the third millennium bc in peninsular india

Answer 14

Tamil

Question 15

An important facet of hinduism is a major social system that groups people according to

Answer 15

Indian caste system

Question 16

Indians ritual mark on the forehead

Answer 16

Tilak

Question 17

It is a custom which is an act of veneration and love

Answer 17

Arati

Question 18

It is considered a symbol of goddess pervati which signifies female energy and is believed to protect women and their husbands

Answer 18

Bindi

Question 19

It is A pair of shell and red coral bangles burn As marriage symbols by the Bengali women

Answer 19

Shakha-Paula

Question 20

This only wearing by the married women as a mark of being married an indian equivalent of the western wedding

Answer 20

Mangalsutra

Question 21

This only wearing by the married women as a mark of being married an indian equivalent of the western wedding

Answer 21

Mangalsutra

Question 22

Small gold ornaments strang on a cotton cord or a gold chain

Answer 22

Tali

Question 23

It is the chain of good and bad actions and their inevitable consequences

Answer 23

Karma

Question 24

It is a special chant or prayer whose words contain what we might call a magical power

Answer 24

Mantra

Question 25

Book of knowledge

Answer 25

Veda

Question 26

Four vedas

Answer 26

Rig veda
Sama veda
Yajur veda
Atharva veda

Question 27

Aveda which means the wisdom of verses

Answer 27

Rig veda

Question 28

This is a veda which means wisdom of chance is basically a collection of summons or chants meant for the priest who officiated at the rituals

Answer 28

Sama veda

Question 29

Avada which means wisdom of sacrifices

Answer 29

Yajur veda

Question 30

Aveda which is accompilation of hymns but locks the awesome grandeur which makes the rigveda such a breathtaking spiritual experience

Answer 30

Atharva veda

Question 31

A prose commentaries on the vedicames and religious rights

Answer 31

Brahmanas

Question 32

It is a collection of 108 discourses on the brahman religion

Answer 32

Upanishads

Question 33

Mahatma Gandhi’s full name

Answer 33

Monhandas Karamchand Gandhi

Question 34

Akbar the Great

Answer 34

Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar