INDIAN

Question 1

Common ancestral language?

Answer 1

Sanskrit

Question 2

What are the traditions of India?

Answer 2

Vedas

Question 3

WHAT is the literature of INDIA?

Answer 3

Sanskrit Literature

Question 4

What does Sanskrit mean?

Answer 4

cultivated or perfected

Question 5

It reveals the inner and outer life of a remarkable people

Answer 5

Hindu Literature

Question 6

What was the center of ancient civilization?

Answer 6

India

Question 7

What were the continents affected by this civilization?

Answer 7

Europe and Asia

Question 8

What colonies did India founded?

Answer 8

Persia, Greece, Rome, Spain, England, France

Question 9

What is duhitr?

Answer 9

To draw milk

Question 10

Does India have older civilization than the ancient Greeks and Romans? True or False

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Long before ___ lived, the Indians were already teaching what?

Answer 11

Christ, the brotherhood of all people and the fatherhood of God.

Question 12

How many years ago were Indian fully developed?

Answer 12

3000 years ago

Question 13

What did India gave to the scientific world?

Answer 13

Trigonometry, Phonetics, game of chess, grammar books,

Question 14

Why is it necessary to have a knowledge of God and a strong belief in Hinduism?

Answer 14

It’s necessary to save humankind

Question 15

What is the bible of Indians?

Answer 15

Vedas

Question 16

Most important epics of India

Answer 16

Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Question 17

What do Indians believe on?

Answer 17

Reincarnation

Question 18

They abstain from what?

Answer 18

destroying plants

Question 19

What is Ramayana about?

Answer 19

reincarnation of creator God, Vishnu in the person of Rama

Question 20

What is Mahabharata about?

Answer 20

deals with another reincarnation of Vishnu in the person of Krishna

Question 21

What are the reincarnations of Vishnu called?

Answer 21

avatars or descending from the god.

Question 22

How many avatars do Vishnu have?

Answer 22

10

Question 23

Nine avatars have already taken place, and the tenth is yet to come. When this last avatar takes place, what will Vishnu do?

Answer 23

He will descend from heaven to destroy the present world and restore peace and purity

Question 24

Greatest epic of India

Answer 24

Mahabharata

Question 25

what is the story of it?

Answer 25

Story of civil war in the early years of Aryan occupation of India .

Question 26

It tells of two______ descendants of a common grandfather______. When he died he left his five sons in the care of this____ who was to be a regent while his sons were still minors.

Answer 26

rival bands of brothers, King Pandu, Brother

Question 27

The Ramayana recounts the adeventures of?

Answer 27

Rama and wife Sita

Question 28

Who was the child of mother earth?

Answer 28

Sita

Question 29

Sita is regarded by whom?

Answer 29

the women of India as the perfect symbol of wifely devotion and self-sacrifice.

Question 30

Who are the two greatest dramatists in India?

Answer 30

Bhasa and Kalidasa

Question 31

What is Kalidasa called?

Answer 31

Indian Shakespeare

Question 32

Background of the story?

Answer 32

about happy ending, No violent emotions, good men and women. if any wrong is committed it's because of the tricks of magicians and evil spirits.

Question 33

Why is Indian drama multilingual?

Answer 33

because the Gods, kings, and nobles speak in Sanskrit. The women, thieves, and police officers speak appropriate dialects.

Question 34

First great name in Indian drama

Answer 34

Bhasa

Question 35

greatest writer of plays?

Answer 35

Kalidasa

Question 36

Who is the author of Shakuntala

Answer 36

Kalidasa

Question 37

What is the story of Shakuntala?

Answer 37

The king goes hunting and met a maiden named Shakuntala and whom he falls in love. He arries her but have to go to a pressing official business. He leaves a ring with her as a sign of marriage

Question 38

What is the Panchatantra (Five Headings)?

Answer 38

is a rich collection of brief stories of ancient times. This book is said to contain the first fables every written.

Question 39

What are fables?

Answer 39

Story of animals who behave like human beings, the purpose of this is to drive home a truth or a lesson.

Question 40

Who is Rabindranath Tagore?

Answer 40

a great Indian poet and dramatist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.