Know Your World - 5


1. Iron age was started in India around ___ BC

1200 BC

2. Gayatri hymns were dedicated to ___

Savitri

3. Allahabad Prasasti contained how many lines?

33 lines

4. Who wrote Vikramanka deb Charita?

the Kashmiri poet and scholar, Bilhana

5. Battle of Kalinga was mentioned in which inscription of Ashoka?

Ashoka's Major Rock Edict XIII

6. Who wrote "Mudra rakshasa"?

Visakhadatta

7. Deopara Prasasti is associated with which ruler?

Vijaya Sena

8. Who wrote Dasakumarcharit?

Daṇḍin

9. In which language did Goutam Buddha preached his religion?

Pali

10. Agam Siddhant is the religious text of which religion?

Jainism

11. Birth place of Goutam Buddha was ___

Lumbini

12. Who was the president of 2nd Jain council?

Devardhi Kshemasarmana

13. 1st division of buddhist monastry occured in which buddhist council?

Rajagriha (modern day Rajgir)

14. 1st Jain council was held at __

Pataliputra (now Patna)

15. Kaivarta revolt took place during whose reign?

Mahipala II

16. Who introduced Koulinya system in Bengal?

Raja Ballala Sena

17. "Pancha Ratna" was in the court of which ruler?

Jahangir

18. Mahavir died at the age of ___

72years

19. Who was known as the founder of 2nd Pala empire?

Mahipala I

20. Who was the teacher of Goutam Buddha?

Alara Kalama

21. Symbol of Mahaviniskraman of Buddha was ___

a horse

22. Who wrote Buddha Charita?

Ashvaghosha

23. Four noble truth and eight fold path was in which religion?

Buddhism

24. Price discrimination is possible under which market?

monopoly market structure

25. The number of sellers in a duopoly market is ____

two sellers

26. The shape of demand curve of a firm under oligopoly is ___

indeterminate or kinked

27. What is "Break-even" point?

the point at which a business's total revenue equals its total costs, resulting in neither a profit nor a loss

28. What is "Shut-down" point?

the level of operation where a company decides to stop production, even temporarily, because it no longer benefits from continuing operations

29. If there is one seller or producer of commodity in a market it is called ____

monopoly

30. What is "Fixed cost"?

a business expense that remains constant regardless of the quantity of goods or services produced or sold