Test: Overview of India- 1 - Class 5 MCQ

Edo was the ancient name of Tokyo. When Emperot Meiji moved Japan's capital from Kyoto to Edo, he named it Tokyo. Before Kyoto, Nara was the ancient capital of Japan.

Lotus, (Nelumbo nucifera) is the national flower of India. The lotus flower symbolizes divinity, fertility, wealth, knowledge and enlightenment. It is also regarded as a symbol of triumph as it can survive to regerminate for thousands of years. 

Chapbooks were timeless books of jest and tales that often sprang out of folklore. Chapbooks were so called because they were sold by peddlers known as chapmen.
Chap comes from the Old English for trade, so a chapman was literally a
dealer who sold books.

On January 22, 1905, the day after a general strike burst out in St. Petersburg, Father Gapon organized a workers' procession to present a petition to the Tsar, which ended tragically (Bloody Sunday 1905). Gapon's life was saved by Pinchas Rutenberg, who took him away from the gunfire. He then became the guest of Maxim Gorky. 

Printing was first developed in China. The earliest form of printing was woodblock printing, which existed in China before 220 A. D. and Egypt in the fourth century, Later the developments in printing include the movable type, first developed by Bi Sheng in China.

National Forest Commission is a non-ministerial department with two agencies and public bodies. The chairman of the first National Forest Commission was Justice B N Kirpal. He was former Chief Justice of Supreme Court.

The capital of Punjab is Chandigarh, which also serves as the capital of Haryana and is thus administered separately as a Union Territory of India. The judicial branch of the state government is provided by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Chandigarh.

Thiruvananthapuram, commonly known by its former name Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. 

Kohima is the hilly capital of India's north eastern border state of Nagaland which shares its borders with Burma. 

Mumbai is the Capital while Nagpur is sub-capital of Maharashtra.