RBI ASSISTANT MAINS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
MODEL PAPER – HARAPPA CIVILIZATION (Set 2)
BY: GAZAL BHATNAGAR, VIDHYARTHI DARPAN
Q.1 Which were the principal weapons used by hunters in the Indus Valley?
Ans: Spears
Q.2 Which animals did the inhabitants of the Indus valley use to drive carts?
Ans: Bulls
Q.3 What ancient script had never been read or deciphered?
Ans: Indus Valley Script
Q.4 Which was the first city discovered in the Indus valley?
Ans: Harappa city in 1921
Q.5 How ancient is the civilization of the Indus valley?
Ans: 5000 Years old
Q.6 Who founded the Indus Valley civilization site of Harappa?
Ans: Daya Ram Sahini
Q.7 Which civilization is similar to the seals found at mohenjo daro?
Ans: Sumeria
Q.8 Why the culture of the Indus Valley was Non-Aryan?
Ans: Because it was urban civilization
Q.9 What site of the Indus Valley is situated in Montogomery (Punjab) in Pakistan?
Ans: Harappa
Q.10 What was the harappan civilisation’s span of time?
Ans: 2500 BC-1700 BC
Q.11 What is Mohenjodaro’s other name?
Ans: Mound of the Dead
Q.12 Great Bath has been found at which location in the Indus Valley Civilization?
Ans: Mohenjodaro
Q.13 What was Indus Valley people script?
Ans: Pictographic Script
Q.14 In which field the civilisation of the Indus Valley has specialized?
Ans: Town Planning and Great Bath
Q.15 What was the most widely recognized theme of the Indus Seals ?
Ans: Unicorn
Q.16 What god affirms the love of the natural connection between the old Indus Valley culture and present-day Hinduism?
Ans: Mother Goddess, Pashupati and Lord Indra
Q.17 What was the basic attribute of society in the Indus Valley?
Ans: Use of burnt bricks
Q.18 Which material did the well-known figure of a dancing girl found in Mohenjodaro’s excavation made up?
Ans: Bronze
Q.19 What species were not introduced to the civilization of the Indus Valley?
Ans: Giraffe
Q.20 Which wasn’t a Harappan diety?
Ans: Lord Vishnu
Q.21 What shows the business and monetary improvement from the remaining parts unearthed in the Indus valley?
Ans: Seals
Q.22 Which creature was not depicted on the harappan culture seals and terracotta?
Ans: Horse
Q.23 Which was the earliest city discovered in India?
Ans: Harappa
Q.24 What were the metals known to the civilisations of the Indus Valley?
Ans: Copper, bronze, silver and gold
Q.25 Who had commercial ties to the harpans?
Ans: Mesopotamia
Q.26 How harappan civilization ended?
Ans: With the possibility of floods, earthquakes or Aryan Invasion.
Q.27 What site of Indus civilisation proves a dockyard?
Ans: Lothal
Q.28 Where have Horse bones remains been found at Indus Valley Site?
Ans: Surkotada
Q.29 Where at harappa was granary discovered?
Ans: Across the Ravi river.
Q.30 What was the Indus Valley civilization ‘port city’ ?
Ans: Lothal
