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Which Harappan site has one of the earliest known docks, dated to 2400 BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the people of the Indus valley standardise to support construction and measurement?Read the answer and worked solution →The early Indian astronomical text Vedanga Jyotisha is attributed to whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scholar of the 4th century BCE made advances in phonetics, phonology and morphology?Read the answer and worked solution →The zinc mines of Zawar, active around 400 BCE, lie near which Rajasthan city?Read the answer and worked solution →Cataract surgery in ancient India is linked to which physician?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ancient treatise gives the first written record of cheek flap rhinoplasty?Read the answer and worked solution →Which philosopher founded the Vaisheshika school of atomism?Read the answer and worked solution →In Vaisheshika atomism, atoms are described as having which nature?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of high-quality steel originated in India before the Common Era?Read the answer and worked solution →The Iron pillar of Delhi was erected in the time of which ruler?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Buddhist philosopher refined the Catuskoti form of logic in the 2nd century?Read the answer and worked solution →Pingala, who may have found Pascal's triangle, wrote a Sanskrit treatise on which subject?Read the answer and worked solution →Which idea is attributed to India in the history of the decimal number system?Read the answer and worked solution →Which mathematician used the trigonometric functions sine and versine in the late 5th century?Read the answer and worked solution →The calculus theorem now called Rolle's theorem was stated in the 12th century by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which natural dye plant variety was domesticated in India and traded to Greece and Rome?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Kerala school leader first used infinite series for trigonometric functions?Read the answer and worked solution →Which arithmetical treatise was written by the mathematician Narayana Pandit?Read the answer and worked solution →The Navya-Nyaya school of logic was founded in the 13th century by whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Ganesa Daivajna's best known work, with ephemeris and calendar calculations, was named what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ruler of northern India issued silver currency later imitated by the Mughals?Read the answer and worked solution →Who revised Aryabhata's model for Mercury and Venus in 1500?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian town was a centre of saltpeter refining used by the Dutch, French, Portuguese and English?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 15th century Kashmir ruler is traditionally seen as founder of the cashmere wool industry?Read the answer and worked solution →Which element was discovered by Pierre Janssen while observing the 1868 eclipse from Guntur?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scientist of the colonial era was born in 1888 and is listed among Indians exposed to foreign institutions?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was Aryabhata born, as implied by his own statement in the Aryabhatiya?Read the answer and worked solution →Aryabhata called himself a native of which place, identified with modern Patna?Read the answer and worked solution →The only surviving work of Aryabhata is the Aryabhatiya. How many verses does it have?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which Harappan site has one of the earliest known docks, dated to 2400 BCE?

  1. Kalibangan
  2. Mehrgarh
  3. Balakot
  4. Lothal
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Correct answer: D. Lothal

1. The dock was built away from the main current to avoid silt deposition. 2. That dock is at Lothal. 3. Kalibangan is known for hearths and kilns, Balakot for a furnace, and Mehrgarh is an older site. _Source: Wikipedia, History of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent, Prehistory_

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What did the people of the Indus valley standardise to support construction and measurement?

  1. Coins and taxes
  2. Roads and milestones
  3. Weights and measures
  4. Seals and scripts
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Correct answer: C. Weights and measures

1. Excavations show a system of standardisation at Indus sites. 2. It used weights and measures, which allowed gauging devices to be used in construction. 3. Coins, roads and scripts are not what the text names for this standardisation. _Source: Wikipedia, History of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent, Prehistory_

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The early Indian astronomical text Vedanga Jyotisha is attributed to whom?

  1. Brahmagupta
  2. Aryabhata
  3. Varahamihira
  4. Lagadha
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Correct answer: D. Lagadha

1. Vedanga Jyotisha is among the oldest astronomical texts, dated to the fifth century BCE. 2. It is attributed to Lagadha. 3. Aryabhata, Varahamihira and Brahmagupta lived many centuries later. _Source: Wikipedia, History of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent, Early kingdoms_

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