Question: What language texts  are as much as 70% Sanskrit?
Answer: Telugu

Question: From when are the earliest dated Sanskrit inscriptions?
Answer: first century BCE

Question: In what script are the earliest Sanskrit inscriptions?
Answer: Brahmi

Question: In what language was Brahmi first used?
Answer: Prakrit

Question: What language is the descendant of Sanskrit?
Answer: Prakrit

Question: How were early sacred texts offered?
Answer: orally

Question: What is the Sanskrit grammatical tradition?
Answer: Vyākaraṇa

Question: In what period did Vyakarana begin?
Answer: late Vedic

Question: How many sutras are in the Astadhyayi?
Answer: 3990 sutras

Question: Who composed Vartikas on the Panini sutras?
Answer: Kātyāyana

Question: What is the abbreviated alphabet called? 
Answer: Pratyāhara

Question: According to Panini, from where did Sanskrit evolve?
Answer: earlier Vedic

Question: To what time can the present form of Sanskrit be traced?
Answer: second millennium BCE

Question: As what are Classical and Vedic Sanskrit often viewed?
Answer: separate dialects

Question: What is Vedic Sanskrit meant to be used as?
Answer: the Vedas

Question: What hymns are thought to be the earliest?
Answer: Rigveda Samhita

Question: When is it thought that early speakers of Sanskrit came to India?
Answer: early second millennium BCE

Question: What is the relationship between Indo-Iranian and Baltic languages?
Answer: close

Question: From what direction did Sanskrit travel to come to India?
Answer: north-west

Question: Sanskrit came from the north west and traveled to what present day countries?
Answer: India and Pakistan

Question: What is the theory called dealing with the transfer of Sanskrit to India?
Answer: Indo-Aryan migration theory

Question: What form of speech shows that Sanskrit and Prakrits existed together?
Answer: Sanskrit dramas

Question: What type of speakers spoke Sanskrit?
Answer: multilingual

Question: For what did Brahmins use Sanskrit?
Answer: scholarly communication

Question: Until what period was high Sanskrit used?
Answer: British times

Question: How large of a group in society use Sanskrit?
Answer: thin layer

Question: What organization is trying to revive Sanskrit?
Answer: Samskrita Bharati

Question: What kind of competitions does the All-India Sanskrit Festival have?
Answer: composition contests

Question: How many speakers of Sanskrit were there by the 1991 census?
Answer: 49,736

Question: Where in India is Sanskrit still spoken by the population?
Answer: Mattur village

Question: Who originally gave Mattur village to Sanskrit scholars?
Answer: king Krishnadevaraya

Question: When was Sanskrit and Indian culture popular?
Answer: 18th century

Question: In what century was Indian culture accorded a more hostile reception?
Answer: early 19th century

Question: How did the British academics show their feelings about Sanskrit?
Answer: neglect

Question: What did British of the 19th century want India to be as soon as possible?
Answer: assimilated to Britain

Question: Besides assimilation of British culture, what else did the British consider Indians to be?
Answer: inferior

Question: Who wrote an opera in Sanskrit?
Answer: Philip Glass

Question: On what was the Philip Glass opera based?
Answer: Bhagavad Gita

Question: Which well known performer has used Sanskrit chants in her music?
Answer: Madonna

Question: Which composer featured Sanskrit music in his movies?
Answer: John Williams

Question: What is the source of the theme song of Battlestar Galactica?
Answer: Rigveda

Question: What country is Valencia in?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is the population of Valencia's urban area?
Answer: 1.5 million

Question: Where does Valencia rank among Spain's largest cities?
Answer: third

Question: What body of water is Valencia located on?
Answer: the Mediterranean Sea

Question: What is the city of Valencia the capital of?
Answer: the autonomous community of Valencia

Question: What is the main type of employment in Valencia?
Answer: service sector occupations

Question: What percentage of Valencia's workers are employed in industry?
Answer: 5.5

Question: What percentage of Valencia's workers are employed in the agricultural sector?
Answer: 1.9

Question: How much of Valencia's land is used for agriculture?
Answer: 3973 hectares

Question: What are Valencia's agricultural areas mainly planted with?
Answer: orchards and citrus groves

Question: What airport is closest to Valencia?
Answer: Valencia Airport

Question: What airport is south of Valencia?
Answer: Alicante Airport

Question: What is the main train station in Valencia?
Answer: Estació del Nord

Question: What group runs Valencia's public transit?
Answer: Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana

Question: What station in Valencia was built for high-speed trains?
Answer: Estación de València-Joaquín Sorolla

Question: What promenade was built north of Valencia's port?
Answer: The Paseo Marítimo

Question: How long is the Paseo Maritimo?
Answer: 4 km (2 mi)

Question: What Valencian landmark contains a conservation library?
Answer: San Miguel de los Reyes monastery

Question: When did Valencia's rapid development begin?
Answer: the mid-1990s

Question: What is an example of a section of Valencia that was majorly renovated?
Answer: the Carmen Quarter

Question: How long did the English occupy Valencia?
Answer: 16 months

Question: At what battle were the Bourbons victorious?
Answer: Battle of Almansa

Question: Who ordered Valencia punished for supporting Charles?
Answer: Philip V

Question: What abolished Valencia's ancient charters?
Answer: Nueva Planta decrees

Question: Who resigned in protest against Philip?
Answer: Cardinal Luis de Belluga

Question: In what year did Christian troops lose control of Valencia?
Answer: 1102

Question: Who called himself the Emperor of All Spain?
Answer: Alfonso VI of León and Castile

Question: Who wrote poetry about Valencia's capture by the Almoravids?
Answer: Ibn Khafaja

Question: When did the Almohads gain control of the peninsula?
Answer: 1145

Question: Who prevented the Almohads from entering Valencia?
Answer: Ibn Mardanis

Question: When was the Valencian Golden Age?
Answer: 15th century

Question: Of what area was Valencia the largest city?
Answer: Crown of Aragon

Question: What building attracted merchants from other countries to Valencia?
Answer: Silk Exchange

Question: Who borrowed money from Valencian bankers in 1492?
Answer: Queen Isabella I of Castile

Question: What was Valencia's leading industry?
Answer: textile production

Question: Who suppressed agermanats' uprising?
Answer: Germaine of Foix

Question: When did a similar revolt occur in Castile?
Answer: 1520–1522

Question: What group in Castile was similar to the agermanats?
Answer: comuneros

Question: Up to how many executions took place after the agermanats' revolt?
Answer: 800

Question: Whom did the comuneros rebel against?
Answer: Charles

Question: What were Valencia's main food exports in the early 20th century?
Answer: wine and citrus

Question: When was an exhibition held that showed agricultural and industrial progress?
Answer: 1909

Question: What architectural style was particularly successful?
Answer: Art Nouveau

Question: What station was built in the Art Nouveau style?
Answer: North Station (Gare du Nord)

Question: What markets were built in the Art Nouveau style?
Answer: Central and Columbus

Question: What is Valencia's average yearly temperature?
Answer: 18.4 °C

Question: Which month is the hottest in Valencia?
Answer: August

Question: Which month is the chilliest in Valencia?
Answer: January

Question: In northern Europe, which months have temperatures similar to Valencia's in January?
Answer: May and September

Question: What is the average maximum daytime temperature in August in Valencia?
Answer: 28–34 °C

Question: When was the age of Enlightenment?
Answer: 18th century