Euclid'S Geometry quiz 2

Thales belongs to the country:

• Babylonia

• Egypt

• Greece

• Rome

Euclid belongs to the country:

• Babylonia

• Egypt

• Greece

• India

In Ancient India, Altars with combination of shapes like rectangles, triangles and trapeziums were used for:

• Public worship

• Household rituals

• Both A and B

• None of A, B, C

Greek’s emphasised on:

• Inductive reasoning

• Deductive reasoning

• Both A and B

• Practical use of geometry

The number of interwoven isosceles triangles in Sriyantra (in the Atharva Veda) is:

• 7

• 8

• 9

• 10

In ancient India, the shapes of altars used for house hold rituals were:

• Squares and circles

• Triangles and rectangles

• Trapeziums and pyramids

• Rectangles and squares

Euclid stated that all right angles are equal to each other in the form of

• axiom

• definition

• postulate

• proof

Which of the following needs a proof?

• Theorem

• Axiom

• Definition

• Postulate