1. ……………….. of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics, in his ‘Tantrasangraham’ revised Arybhata’s model for planets Mercury and Venus.
Correct : C. nilakanta somayaji
2. ……………….. had authored a treatise titled ‘Jyotir Mimamsa’ which stressed the
necessity and importance of astronomical observations to obtain correct parameters for computations.
Correct : B. somayaji
3. ……………….. an astronomer from Kerala wrote, ‘Sphuta nirnaya’ which details an elliptical correction to the existing notions.
Correct : A. achyuta pisharodi
4. The cross-staff known as the ‘Yasti-Yantra’ was used by……………….
Correct : B. bhaskaraii
5. ………………. invented the ‘Phalaka Yantra’ which consisted of a rectangular board with a pin and index arm, which was used to determine the time from the sun’s position.
Correct : A. bhaskaraii
6. Mahendra Suri, the court astronomer of ………………mentions about an astrolabe, a combination of two semi-circular board instrument giving rise to a ‘scissor instrument’.
Correct : A. firoz tughlaq
7. The oldest mathematical document produced in India is the ‘Bakhshali Manuscript’ discovered in 1881 in the village of …………….near Peshwar, now in modern Pakistan.
Correct : A. bakhshali
8. ‘Bakhshali Manuscript’ is believed to have prepared in ………………. century AD.
Correct : A. 7th
9. Who wrote Panchaka Sidhanta?’
Correct : C. varahamihira
10. Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy was founded by …………………
Correct : A. madhava of samgamagrama
11. Fahien, the ………………Buddhist traveler visited India in the 5th century AD wrote about the health care system of the Gupta empire and described the institutional approach of the Indian medicine system.
Correct : C. chinese
12. The basic text of the Vedanta school is the ‘Brahmasutra’ of…………………..
Correct : A. badarayana
13. Visishtadvaita, propounded by ……………..emphasizes the concept of Supreme
Being having definite form, name and attributes.
Correct : A. ramanuja
14. Dvaita school of philosophy is introduced by ………………….in the 13th century.
Correct : A. madhavacharya
15. Sudhadvaita was the philosophy propagated by ………………of 15th-16th centuries.
Correct : D. vallabhacharya
16. Achintya Bheda Abheda is the philosophy propagated by ……………..during the 15th-16th centuries.
Correct : A. chaitanya mahaprabhu
17. ………………… popularized the Rama Bhakti cult in north India through his work, ‘Ramacharit Manas’.
Correct : C. thulsidas
18. The Krishna cult of the Vaishnavite tradition was popularised by…………….., the only woman saint in the North Indian Bhakti tradition.
Correct : B. mira bai
19. The Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Bengal was spearheaded by………………,
through his famous popular work, ‘Gita Govinda’.
Correct : D. jayadeva
20. The Suharwardi Order was started in India by ……………….,a desciple of Shaik Suharwardi.
Correct : A. shaik zakariya
21. The most popular Sufi order in India was the Chisti order. Its founder Muinuddin
Chisti arrived India and settled at…………….
Correct : A. ajmir
22. The first monastic institution was founded in the Byzantine capital,…………………
Correct : B. constantinople
23. ……………….. is credited with the title of the ‘father of monasticism’ as he had laid
down the necessary ruled for the monasticism and monastic orders.
Correct : A. st. benedict
24. The Cluniac monastic order is an order of the Benedictine monks founded in
……………..in the 10th century by William, under the authority of the Pope.
Correct : D. france
25. The Byzantine scientist ………………founded the Platonic Academy in Florence on
the Islamic pattern.
Correct : A. gemston pletton
26. The first hospital in……………, Les Quinze Vingt was founded by the emperor
Louis IX after his return from the Crusade in 1260.
Correct : A. paris
27. In ………………‘De-Cameron’ a group of young people feeling the plague take refuge in a house outside the city of Florence, where they entertain each other with
colorful and irrelevant stories.
Correct : A. boccaccio’s
28. Pepin the short’s son Charles the Great or Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope
as the Holy Roman Emperor in …………… A.D.
Correct : B. 800
29. Born in 1166 AD in a small town near Chenni (Madras), ……………….was a
worshipper of Vishnu and preached Vaishnavism.