Which of the following visitors to India/thinkers is wrongly matched with place of his origin?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Zarathustra - Australia
Around the sixth century BCE, great thinkers arose in several parts of the world at nearly the same time. Each pair is checked against the land the thinker came from:
Option (1) Zarathustra - Australia — Wrongly matched (Correct). Zarathustra (Zoroaster), the founder of Zoroastrianism, was a prophet of Iran (ancient Persia), not of Australia.
Option (2) Kong Zi - China — Rightly matched (Incorrect). Kong Zi, known in the West as Confucius, was a teacher and thinker of China.
Option (3) Socrates - Greece — Rightly matched (Incorrect). Socrates was a philosopher of Athens, the teacher of Plato.
Option (4) Gautam Buddha - India — Rightly matched (Incorrect). The Buddha taught in the Ganga valley of ancient India, where Buddhism began.