Contributions of China

Q. Who developed the art of Block Printing?

1. Mongols
2. Indians
3. Japanese
4. Chinese

Q. Which British Surveyor general prepared the first survey based maps of India?

1. George Everest
2. James Rennel
3. Vasco da gama
4. Mountbatten

Q. What is the Suanpan, a very famous invention of the Chinese, commonly known as?

1. Umbrella
2. Abacus
3. Mariner's Compass
4. Water Clock

Q. What did the Chinese invent to record earthquakes?

1. Seismograph
2. Anemometer
3. Barometer
4. Hygrometer

Q. The Chinese wrote on silk or bamboo slips with brushes made from the hair of ____.

1. camels
2. elephants
3. pandas
4. koalas

Q. What kind of writing system does the Chinese script employ?

1. True alphabets
2. Ideographic system
3. Syllabaries
4. Pictographic system

Q. Latika was reading a bedtime story to her little brother about how silk was discovered accidentally. She started wondering about how silk was traded with the rest of the world.

Which of the following do you think could have been traded by using the Silk Route?

1. Spices
2. Clothes
3. Religious ideas
4. Plastic bottles

Q. What kind of calendar do the Chinese use?

1. Lunar
2. Solar
3. Lunisolar
4. Seasonal

Q. Who was the first emperor of China?

1. Wu-Ti
2. Chi-Huang-Ti
3. Kublai Khan
4. Zhu Yuanzhang

Q. The Ancient Chinese used to write in pictographic script.

1. True
2. False

Q. Match the following.

1. Golden Age
2. Wu Wang
3. Taoism
4. Silk Route

Q. Identify the famous Chinese philosophers.

1. Confucius
2. Zoroaster
3. Oda Nobunaga
4. Lao Tze