ANSWER:B
SOLUTION : A staple food, or simply a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for a given people, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well. Milk and its products were used by the Vedic Aryan as a staple food.

ANSWER:A
SOLUTION: The Gayatri, also known as the Savitri mantra, is a highly revered mantra from the Rig Veda, dedicated to Savitr, the sun deity. Gayatri is the name of the Vedic meter in which the verse is composed. Its recitation is traditionally preceded by oṃ and the formula bhur bhuvaḥ svaḥ, known as the mahavyahṛti, or “great (mystical) utterance”. Vishvamitra is said to have created the Gayatri mantra.

ANSWER:D
SOLUTION:Two popular Assemblies of the Vedic period were Sabha and samiti.

ANSWER:C
SOLUTION:The terms varna (theoretical classification based on occupation). The classical authors scarcely speak of anything other than the varnas. ‘Varna’ defines the hereditary roots of a newborn, it indicates the colour, type, order or class of people.

ANSWER:B
SOLUTION: Yajurveda is a compound Sanskrit word, composed of yajus and veda. Michael Witzel interprets Yajurveda to mean a “knowledge text of prose mantras” used in Vedic rituals. Ralph Griffith interprets the name to mean “knowledge of sacrifice or sacrificial texts and formulas”.

ANSWER:C
SOLUTION :The salient feature of the Rig Vedic religion was worship of nature.

ANSWER:A
SOLUTION: The cattle in general and cow in particular was the main medium of exchange during the Rig Vedic period. The economy was based upon agriculture.

ANSWER:C
SOLUTION: The Shulva Sutras are sutra texts belonging to the Srauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction. The Science of the Sulva. A study in early Hindu geometry. Sulva-sutras represent the ‘traditional’ material along with further related elaboration of Vedic mathematics.

ANSWER:B
SOLUTION: The word appears in the Rigveda, where it means “colour, outward appearance, exterior, form, figure or shape”. The word means “color, tint, dye or pigment” in the Mahabharata. Varna contextually means “colour, race, tribe, species, kind, sort, nature, character, quality, property” of an object or people in some Vedic and medieval texts. Varna refers to four social classes in the Manusmriti.

ANSWER:C
SOLUTION:Monarchy was the normal form of Government. Kingship was hereditary. But there was a sort of hierarchy in some states, several members of the royal family exercising the power in common. There were references of democratic form of government and their chiefs were elected by the assembled people.