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| 201. |
……………….. of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics, in his ‘Tantrasangraham’ revised Arybhata’s model for planets Mercury and Venus. |
| A. | achyuta pisharodi |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | nilakanta somayaji |
| D. | varahamihira |
| Answer» C. nilakanta somayaji | |
| 202. |
……………….. had authored a treatise titled ‘Jyotir Mimamsa’ which stressed the necessity and importance of astronomical observations to obtain correct parameters for computations. |
| A. | ramanuja |
| B. | somayaji |
| C. | dante |
| D. | achyuta pisharodi |
| Answer» B. somayaji | |
| 203. |
……………….. an astronomer from Kerala wrote, ‘Sphuta nirnaya’ which details an elliptical correction to the existing notions. |
| A. | achyuta pisharodi |
| B. | varahamihira |
| C. | aryabhatta |
| D. | brahmagupta. |
| Answer» A. achyuta pisharodi | |
| 204. |
The cross-staff known as the ‘Yasti-Yantra’ was used by………………. |
| A. | ramanuja |
| B. | bhaskaraii |
| C. | dante |
| D. | brahmagupta |
| Answer» B. bhaskaraii | |
| 205. |
………………. 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. |
| A. | bhaskaraii |
| B. | thomas aquinas |
| C. | peter abelard |
| D. | roger bacon |
| Answer» A. bhaskaraii | |
| 206. |
Mahendra Suri, the court astronomer of ………………mentions about an astrolabe, a combination of two semi-circular board instrument giving rise to a ‘scissor instrument’. |
| A. | firoz tughlaq |
| B. | ibrahim lodi |
| C. | muhammad bin tuglaq |
| D. | alauddin khilji |
| Answer» A. firoz tughlaq | |
| 207. |
The oldest mathematical document produced in India is the ‘Bakhshali Manuscript’ discovered in 1881 in the village of …………….near Peshwar, now in modern Pakistan. |
| A. | bakhshali |
| B. | lothal |
| C. | rupar |
| D. | harappa |
| Answer» A. bakhshali | |
| 208. |
‘Bakhshali Manuscript’ is believed to have prepared in ………………. century AD. |
| A. | 7th |
| B. | 8th |
| C. | 9th |
| D. | 10th |
| Answer» A. 7th | |
| 209. |
Who wrote Panchaka Sidhanta?’ |
| A. | dante |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | varahamihira |
| D. | madhavacharya |
| Answer» C. varahamihira | |
| 210. |
Kerala School of Mathematics and Astronomy was founded by ………………… |
| A. | madhava of samgamagrama |
| B. | nilakanta somayaji |
| C. | achyutha pisharodi |
| D. | melpathur narayana bhattatiri |
| Answer» A. madhava of samgamagrama | |
| 211. |
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. |
| A. | portuguese |
| B. | british |
| C. | chinese |
| D. | spanish |
| Answer» C. chinese | |
| 212. |
The basic text of the Vedanta school is the ‘Brahmasutra’ of………………….. |
| A. | badarayana |
| B. | sankaracharya |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | madhavacharya |
| Answer» A. badarayana | |
| 213. |
Visishtadvaita, propounded by ……………..emphasizes the concept of Supreme Being having definite form, name and attributes. |
| A. | ramanuja |
| B. | dante |
| C. | sankaracharya |
| D. | badarayana |
| Answer» A. ramanuja | |
| 214. |
Dvaita school of philosophy is introduced by ………………….in the 13th century. |
| A. | madhavacharya |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | vallabhacharya |
| D. | sankaracharya |
| Answer» A. madhavacharya | |
| 215. |
Sudhadvaita was the philosophy propagated by ………………of 15th-16th centuries. |
| A. | sambandhar |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | sundaramurthi nayanar |
| D. | vallabhacharya |
| Answer» D. vallabhacharya | |
| 216. |
Achintya Bheda Abheda is the philosophy propagated by ……………..during the 15th-16th centuries. |
| A. | chaitanya mahaprabhu |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | nandanar |
| D. | viralminda nayanar |
| Answer» A. chaitanya mahaprabhu | |
| 217. |
………………… popularized the Rama Bhakti cult in north India through his work, ‘Ramacharit Manas’. |
| A. | namadev |
| B. | janeswar |
| C. | thulsidas |
| D. | tukaram |
| Answer» C. thulsidas | |
| 218. |
The Krishna cult of the Vaishnavite tradition was popularised by…………….., the only woman saint in the North Indian Bhakti tradition. |
| A. | sarojini naidu |
| B. | mira bai |
| C. | kamala das |
| D. | vijayalaksnmi pandit |
| Answer» B. mira bai | |
| 219. |
The Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Bengal was spearheaded by………………, through his famous popular work, ‘Gita Govinda’. |
| A. | mira bai |
| B. | chaitanya |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | jayadeva |
| Answer» D. jayadeva | |
| 220. |
The Suharwardi Order was started in India by ……………….,a desciple of Shaik Suharwardi. |
| A. | shaik zakariya |
| B. | shaik nizamuddin auliya |
| C. | shajahan |
| D. | akbar |
| Answer» A. shaik zakariya | |
| 221. |
The most popular Sufi order in India was the Chisti order. Its founder Muinuddin Chisti arrived India and settled at……………. |
| A. | ajmir |
| B. | delhi |
| C. | kashmir |
| D. | raipur |
| Answer» A. ajmir | |
| 222. |
The first monastic institution was founded in the Byzantine capital,………………… |
| A. | cairo |
| B. | constantinople |
| C. | cambridge |
| D. | damascus |
| Answer» B. constantinople | |
| 223. |
……………….. is credited with the title of the ‘father of monasticism’ as he had laid down the necessary ruled for the monasticism and monastic orders. |
| A. | st. benedict |
| B. | bernard of clairvaux |
| C. | charlemagne |
| D. | st.paul |
| Answer» A. st. benedict | |
| 224. |
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. |
| A. | germany |
| B. | italy |
| C. | england |
| D. | france |
| Answer» D. france | |
| 225. |
The Byzantine scientist ………………founded the Platonic Academy in Florence on the Islamic pattern. |
| A. | gemston pletton |
| B. | st. cyril |
| C. | st. methodius |
| D. | thomas aquinas |
| Answer» A. gemston pletton | |
| 226. |
The first hospital in……………, Les Quinze Vingt was founded by the emperor Louis IX after his return from the Crusade in 1260. |
| A. | paris |
| B. | oxford |
| C. | cambridge |
| D. | bohemia |
| Answer» A. paris | |
| 227. |
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. |
| A. | boccaccio’s |
| B. | thomas aquinas |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | dante |
| Answer» A. boccaccio’s | |
| 228. |
Pepin the short’s son Charles the Great or Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope as the Holy Roman Emperor in …………… A.D. |
| A. | 700 |
| B. | 800 |
| C. | 850 |
| D. | 900 |
| Answer» B. 800 | |
| 229. |
Born in 1166 AD in a small town near Chenni (Madras), ……………….was a worshipper of Vishnu and preached Vaishnavism. |
| A. | kabir |
| B. | ramananda |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | namdeva |
| Answer» C. ramanuja | |
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