Manufacturing Technology: Multiple choice questions with answer

Tamils and Technology

Unit - III

MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

 

1. What is otham related to?

a) Driving a vessel

b) Driving a car

c) Transfer of land

d) Water variation

(Ans: a)

2. How many types of otham are there?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

(Ans: a)

3. What is the otham of seawater moving towards the shore?

a) Sea otham

b) Shore otham

c) Kazhi otham

d) Water otham

(Ans: c)

4. How many categories of shores are there?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

(Ans: a)

5. What is the name of the outer part of the estuary?

a) Munthurai

b) Siruthurai

c) Perunthurai

d) Padithurai

(Ans: a)

6. The harbour located in the inner part of the estuary?

a) Perunthurai

b) Siruthurai

c) Munthurai

d) Padithurai

(Ans: a)

7. How many types of vessels are said to have existed during the Sangam period?

a) 10

b) 15

c) 18

d) 22

(Ans: c)

8. What types of vessels are Punai-Parisal?

a) Boat

b) Vallam

c) Catamaran

d) Thoni

(Ans: c)

9. In how many ways do Tamils include wood vessels?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

(Ans: b)

10. What is the name of the root stock for making vallam?

a) Thadi

b) Vairam

c) Aera

d) Kadaikal

(Ans:c)

11. What would a tree look like if a snake lives there?

a) Black

b) Red

c) White

d) Ash colour

(Ans: a)

12. What is the heart of a ship?

a) Front part

b) Engine compartment

c) Base part

d) Lateral part

(Ans: c)

13. What is shipbuilding technology?

a) Bipolar Technology

b) Metallurgy

c) Air flow

d) Current

(Ans: a)

14. Who are the iron workers of shipbuilding?

a) Sailor

b) Blacksmith

c) Kammiyar

d) Artisan

(Ans: c)

15. When did iron extraction technology begin?

a) A D.1200

b) B.C.1200

c) B.C. 12

d) A.D.12

(Ans: b)

16. Where did iron come from?

a) Soil

b) Stone

c) Meteorite

d) Sky soil

(Ans:c)

17. What is the furnace called?

a) Workshop-barracks

b) Kollulai-Korturai

c) Furnace room

d) The forge

(Ans: b)

18. What is bellow made of?

a) Metal

b) Rubber

c) Animal skin

d) Iron

(Ans: c)

19. What is the name of the pipe part of bellow?

a) Bellow pipe

b) Bellow face

c) Bellow tip

d) Furnace nose

(Ans: d)

20. What is the tool used to put in and take out of the furnace?

a) Pliers

b) Wrench

c) Rod

d) Needle

(Ans:b)

21. What is the word that refers to the colour of semmai?

a) Senakkuzhi

b) Sentheek kuzhi

c) Senthanal

d) Red hollow

(Ans: a)

22. What material did the ancient Tamils use to smelt iron?

a) Thazhi

b) Iron

c) Herb

d) Furnace

(Ans:c)

23. Give an example for an alloy.

a) Iron

b) Steel

c) Lead

d) Aluminium

(Ans:b)

24. What is another name for Steel?

a) Iron

b) Urukku

c) Metal

d) Steel

(Ans: b)

25. How much heat is required for blackening?

a) 1000°C

b) 1200°C

c) 1400°C

d) 1500°C

(Ans: c)

26. Where did organic wood Steel originate?

a) North India

b) South India

c) China-Japan

d) Tamil Nadu

(Ans:b)

27. Who is the author of the book ‘Kanakkadhigaram'?

a) Mari Nayanar

b) Kari Nayanar

c) Marudha Nayanar

d) Mangudi Nayanar

(Ans: b)

28. What was the shape of the coins of the Sangam period?

a) Square

b) Rectangle

c) Circle

d) Square oblong

(Ans: d)

29. What are the types of characters on the coin?

a) Brahmi letters

b) Tamil letters

c) Round letters

d) Pictographic letters

(Ans: a)

30. Who was the first to issue stamped coins?

a) Chola

b) Chera

c) Pandiya

d) British

(Ans: c)

31. What is the sign that shows that the Pandiyas were involved in sacrifice?

a) Elephant

b) Horse

c) Tortoise

d) Tiger

(Ans: c)

32. What is Peruvazhuthi?

a) King

b) Title

c) Seal

d) Speciality

(Ans: b)

33. Which coin has a bull on the front and a tiger on the back?

a) Pandiyas of the Sangam period

b) The territorial rulers of the Sangam period

c) Cheras of the Sangam period

d) Cholas of the Sangam period

(Ans: d)

34. What is the symbol engraved on the chera coins of the Sangam period?

a) Fish

b) Bow and arrow

c) Horse

d) Peacock

(Ans: b)

35. Who was the king of the territorial region of Tirukovilur from 100 A.D to 300 A.D?

a) Malaiyaman

b) Peruvazhuthi

c) Tirukovilur territorial ruler

d) Chera leader

(Ans: a)

36. What were punched coins called?

a) Punch coin

b) Stamp currency

c) Kuthu coin.

d) Symbolic currency

(Ans: c)

37. Which language was featured on Indo-Greek coins?

a) Tamil

b) Greek

(c) Brahmi

d) Sanskrit

(Ans:c)

38. Who issued well-printed cold coins?

a) Kushanar

b) Mauriya

c) Gupta

d) British

(Ans:c)

39. What refers to the production facility where currency is used?

a) Puthina

b) Nagina

c) Currency (Coin)

d) Agina

 (Ans: a)

40. What were the coin makers called?

a) Nanayar

b) Blacksmith

c) Kammiyar

d) Accasalaiyar

(Ans: d)

41. What is the name of the street where the printer lives?

a) Achchu Street

b) Achchupattarai Street

c) Accasalai Street

d) Thataar Street

(Ans: b)

42. Who wandered in search of beads?

a) Maniyar

b) Vettuvar

c) Kuravar

d) Pazhiyar

(Ans:b)

43. Who was the compiler of the basic materials of beads?

a) Poozhiyar

b) Maniyar

c) Vettuvar

d) Kuravar

(Ans:a)

44. Who compiled the beads?

a) Kuttuvar

b) Maniyar

c) Thattar

d) Vettuvar

(Ans: a)

45. Who drills the beads?

a) Kuttuvar

b) Kuyirtunar (Kuyinar)

c) Vettuvar

d) Thulaiyar

(Ans: b)

46. What type of stone is used to cover the pot used to heat the beads?

a) Blackstone

b) Navamanikkal

c) Kalsidney stone

d) Chikki Mukki stone

(Ans: c)

47. Who polishes the beads?

a) Sirucarodar

b) Polisher

c) Sirumaniyar

d) Kalmaniyar

(Ans: a)

48. What is the period of the red stone?

a) 2000 years ago

b) 3000 years ago

c) 4000 years ago

d) 6000 years ago

(Ans: d)

49. How many types of glass beads are there?

a) 5

b) 6

c) 7

d) 8

(Ans: b)

50. What are the beads made on vertical axes?

a) Grobo beads

b) Agosa beads

c) Adeyun beads

d) Kiffa beads

(Ans: a)

51. What is the colour of Akosa beads?

a) Red

b) Blue

c) Yellow, green

d) Black-White

(Ans: c)

52. What colour are the beads of Adeyun?

a) Black

b) Red

c) Yellow

d) Blue

(Ans: b)

53. Which bead is available in blue colour?

a) Kifa bead

b) Ketta bead

c) Adeyun bead

d) Metteyi bead

(Ans: b)

54. What is the Kifa bead made of?

a) Glass

b) Broken glass

c) Porcelain

d) Clay soil.

(Ans: b)

55. What is the soil required for hot soil beads?

a) Red sand

b) Clay or river bed soil

c) Gravel soil

d) River soil

(Ans: b)

56. What is conch jewellery made from?

a) Conch

b) Sea shell

(c) Horn

d) Bone

(Ans: b)

57. What were the oldest known pieces of jewellery in the world made from?

a) Conches

b) Pearl oysters

c) Sea snail shell

d) Beads

(Ans: c)

58. What is the oldest musical instrument in the world?

a) Thavil

b) Hormonium

c) Flute

d) Udukkait

(Ans: c)

59. What was the double axe which was popular especially in France during the Sangam period made of?

a) Iron

b) Bone

c) Porcelain

d) Stone

(Ans: b)

60. Who is the father of Indian archaeology?

a) Alexander Cunningham

b) Max Muller

c) Sage Vyasa

d) Monroe

(Ans: a)

61. In which year was the Poompuhar Archaeological Survey conducted?

a) 1981

b) 1971

c) 1986

d) 1976

(Ans: a)

62. How were the people of Kodumanal area called?

a) Perungkarpadai people

b) Kodumanal people

c) Tholkala people

d) Tholpazhangala people

(Ans: a)

63. Which is the biggest excavation that took place in Tamilnadu?

a) Korkai

b) Poompuhar

c) Keezhadi

d) Arikkamedu

(Ans: c)

64. With which country did the ancient Tamils have trade relations?

a) England

b) Romapuri

c) America

d) Cuba

(Ans: b)

65. How many beads does the Silappathikaram mention?

a) 5

b) 8

c) 9

d) 10

(Ans: c)

66. How many flaws are found in diamonds?

a) 3

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

(Ans: c)

67. What is the name of the stone that looks like a cat's eye?

a) Emerald

b) Topaz

c) Blue

d) Diamond

(Ans: b)

68. What is the clear honey-coloured stone?

a) Diamond

b) Blue

c) Ruby

d) Vaidooriyam (Chrysoberyl cat's eye)

(Ans: d)

69. Which stone has no defects such as holes, curves or twists?

a) Coral

b) Blue

c) Pearl

d) Diamond

(Ans: a)

70. What is the colour of Hessonite stones (Komedhagam)?

a) Green

b) Red

c) Yellow - red

d) Black

(Ans: c)