YII-ARJUN V NAIR-RIDDLES-2020

Riddles

100

What can you keep after giving to someone?

Answer: Your word

200

 What is full of holes but still holds water?

A sponge

300

 What gets bigger when more is taken away?

Answer: A hole

400

 I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

Answer: Seven. When 'S' is removed it become 'EVEN'

500

 I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

Answer: A bank

Mughal Empre

100

Which among the following books was authored by a lady of the Mughal Royal House?

1. Babar Namah
2. Akbar Namah
3. Humayun Namah
4. Badshah Namah

• Humayun Namah

200

2. Which Mughal ruler earned the title Insan-i-kamil (Perfect Man) for his peaceful personality and patience?

1. Shahjahan
2. Humayun
3. Jahangir
4. Akbar

• Humayun

300

Where did Babar die?

1. Agra
2. Kabul
3. Lahore
4. Delhi

• Agra

400

 Which ruler succeeded to the throne of Ferghana in 1494?

A. Akbar

B. Mjinda

C. Rahal

D. Babur

D. Babur

500

5. During the reign of which Mughal emperor, was the empire territorially most extensive?

1. Akbar
2. Shah Jahan
3. Jahangir
4. Aurangzeb

• Aurangzeb

Birds

100

If 20 blackbirds are on a fence and you shoot one, how many remain?

A. 19

B. 15

C. None

D. 20

None, they would all fly away from the sound of the shot.

200

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue

Answer: Queue

300

What bird can lift the heaviest weight?

Crane

400

What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano

Answer: A piano

500

What do you call two birds in love? 

A. Love birds

B. Tweet hearts

C. King fishers

D. Sweet hearts

B. Tweet hearts

Nature

100

I touch your face, I'm in your words,  I'm lack of space and beloved by birds.

Air

200

What breaks but never falls?

Dawn

300

What has a mouth but cannot chew?

A river

400

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Fire

500

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. 

A. Echo

B. Cloud

C. Darkness

D. Sunlight

Darkness

Art & Culture

100

1. Which of the following is related to Etymology?

A. Shiksha

B. Kalpa

C. Nirukta

D. Vyakaran

C. Nirukta

200

2. Study of inscription is called:

A. Archaeology

B. Numismatic

C. Epigraphy

D. Palaeography

C. Epigraphy

300

3. Which of the following is not a religious text?

A. Rigveda

B. Sangam

C. Upanishad

D. None of the above

B. Sangam

400

4. Who wrote Panchatantra?

A. Kalidas

B. Vishnu Sharma

C. Chanakya

D. Nagarjun

B. Vishnu Sharma

500

5. Satavahana dynasty originated from?

A. South of Arawali

B. South of Vindhya

C. South of Satpura

D. South of Satmola

B. South of Vindhya