• 1. 
    Which ancient Roman city founded by the emperor Trajan included a large library?

  • Timbuktu
  • Thamugadi
  • Numidia
  • Cuicul
  • 2. 
    Which Greek poet and grammarian was appointed as the royal librarian of Antioch by Antiochus the Great?

  • Faust
  • Hesiod
  • Euripides
  • Euphorion
  • 3. 
    Which ruler established the Imperial Library of Constantinople and reigned from 337 to 361 CE?

  • Justinian I
  • Constantius II
  • Constantine the Great
  • Diocletian
  • 4. 
    Which Chinese text, compiled during the Ming dynasty, was then the world’s largest known encyclopaedia?

  • the Zizhi tongjian
  • the Yongle dadian
  • the Siku quanshu
  • the Gujin tushu jicheng
  • 5. 
    Which Grecian island had a large book market that helped supply the Library of Alexandria?

  • Lesbos
  • Crete
  • Rhodes
  • Corfu
  • 6. 
    Which ancient university and Buddhist monastic center, dating to the time of the Buddha (6th–5th century BCE), continued to flourish as a center of learning until circa 1200?

  • Nalanda
  • Kolkata
  • Sahitya Kala Akademi
  • Maulana Azad
  • 7. 
    Which Assyrian king maintained an archive of some 30,000 tablets, comprising transcripts and texts systematically collected from temples throughout his kingdom?

  • Ashurbanipal
  • Rimush
  • Erishum III
  • Shamshi-Adad I
  • 8. 
    A temple in which Babylonian town dating from the first half of the 3rd millennium BCE was found to have a number of rooms filled with clay tablets featuring early depictions of the Great Flood?

  • Al-Dīwāniyyah
  • Ur
  • Nippur
  • Nineveh
  • 9. 
    At which site were more than 4,000 cuneiform tablets, written mostly in Akkadian, discovered?

  • Nuzu
  • Ur
  • Marad
  • Urum
  • 10. 
    In which ancient Mesopotamian city was the great palace of Zimrilim, which held thousands of archives that extended the knowledge of Assyrian geography and history, located?

  • Persepolis
  • Mari
  • Assur
  • Nimrūd
  • 11. 
    Which major educational centre, discovered virtually intact, housed more than 17,000 clay cuneiform tablets and fragments?

  • Ebla
  • Kish
  • Umma
  • Larsa
  • 12. 
    In which ancient city was the magnificent Celsus Library, which once held about 12,000 scrolls?

  • Selƈuk
  • Gobeklitepe
  • Priene
  • Ephesus
  • 13. 
    Which ancient city lying in a large artificial mound was home to a temple library that revealed a hitherto unknown cuneiform alphabetic script?

  • Latakia
  • Ugarit
  • Kish
  • Al-Bayḍā
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