Singhey Khababs Festival is celebrated in which among the following states of India?
Answer: B
It is celebrated in Jammu and Kashmir.
The festival at Leh in Ladakh honours the Indus, whose Tibetan name Singhe-Khabab means 'coming from the lion's mouth'. It was earlier called the Sindhu Darshan festival.
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___________ is classical dance form of Uttar Pradesh.
Answer: B
It is Kathak.
Kathak takes its name from the kathakas, the storytellers of the Gangetic plain, and its Lucknow and Banaras gharanas are in Uttar Pradesh. Kathakali and Mohiniyattam are Keralan, Kuchipudi from Andhra.
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In which of the following fields Vyas Samman is given?
Answer: B
It is given in literature.
The Vyas Samman, instituted by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 1991, honours an outstanding literary work in Hindi published in the previous ten years.
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Which of the following places is famous for Chikankari work, which is a traditional art of embroidery?
Answer: A
It is Lucknow.
Chikankari is white shadow-work embroidery on fine muslin, said to have been introduced by Nur Jahan. It uses some thirty stitches, of which bakhiya, the herringbone worked from the reverse, gives the characteristic shadow. It holds a GI tag.
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Which one is not a harvest festival in india
Answer: D
Holi is not.
Holi marks the coming of spring and the burning of Holika, not a harvest. Onam follows the Kerala rice harvest, Lohri the Punjabi rabi crop, and Ugadi opens the new year with the first fruits of the season.
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Which among the following is the most famous Bronze Image of Chola Period?
Answer: B
It is the Nataraja.
The Chola bronze of Shiva dancing within a ring of flame, one foot on the demon of ignorance, is the most celebrated Indian sculpture of any period. It was cast by the lost-wax process, and a copy stands outside CERN.
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Among the five monolithic rathas of Pallavas at Mahabalipuram, the largest is ___?
Answer: C
It is the Dharmaraja Ratha.
The largest and tallest of the five monolithic rathas at Mahabalipuram, cut from a single outcrop of granite in the seventh century, it is three storeys high and is named after Yudhishthira.
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Today’s Gurmukhi, Dogri and Sindhi scripts have developed from which among the following scripts?
Answer: B
They developed from the Sharada script.
Sharada grew out of Brahmi in Kashmir about the eighth century, and Gurmukhi, Dogri, Sindhi and Takri all descend from it. Kashmiri Pandits still use it for ritual purposes.
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Lavani is one of the most popular forms of dance and music that is practiced in which state?
Answer: A
Lavani belongs to Maharashtra.
Sung to the beat of the dholki and performed in a nine-yard sari, it flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the tamasha theatre, and its verses range from the devotional to the frankly erotic.
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Which festival is celebrated in north India when Pongal is celebrated in Tamil Nadu?
Answer: B
Makar Sankranti is celebrated then.
Both fall in mid-January, when the sun enters Capricorn and begins its northward journey. The same day is Lohri in Punjab, Magh Bihu in Assam and Uttarayan in Gujarat.
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