Ramman is a religious festival and ritual theatre of ____?
Answer: A
It belongs to Uttarakhand.
Ramman is performed each April at Saloor Dungra in Chamoli district, with masked dances, songs and the recitation of the local Ramayana. UNESCO inscribed it on the intangible heritage list in 2009.
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Vallabhi era is identical with which of the following era?
Answer: B
It is identical with the Gupta era.
The Maitrakas of Vallabhi in Gujarat continued to date their records in the era begun by Chandragupta I in 319-20, so the Vallabhi and Gupta eras are the same reckoning under two names.
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Which of the following rulers had turned the Moti Masjid of Lahore built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan into a gemstone repository?
Answer: D
It was Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
After taking Lahore in 1799 he converted the Moti Masjid within the fort into a treasury for gemstones, renaming it Moti Mandir. It was restored as a mosque after his time.
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In which of the following festivals are boat races a special feature?
Answer: A
It is Onam.
The vallam kali or snake-boat races of Kerala are held in the Onam season, the largest being the Nehru Trophy on Punnamada lake at Alappuzha, where the chundan vallams carry more than a hundred rowers each.
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Badaam Halwa is a popular __________ dish
Answer: C
It is a Mughlai dish.
Badam halwa is made by grinding blanched almonds and cooking them slowly in ghee with sugar, milk and saffron until the mixture leaves the pan - the rich, nut-based sweet characteristic of Mughlai cooking.
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The world heritage site of “Terracotta Army” belongs to which of the following countries?
Answer: D
It is in China.
The Terracotta Army was found near Xi'an in 1974 by farmers digging a well: some 8,000 life-size figures buried with Qin Shi Huang about 210 BC, each face individually modelled.
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In context with Karnataka, what is Halegannada?
Answer: D
It is a language.
Halegannada is Old Kannada, the form of the language used between about the ninth and fourteenth centuries, in which the classics of Pampa, Ranna and Ponna were written.
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Who among the following Indian painters was elected as Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris in 1933?
Answer: C
It was Amrita Sher-Gil.
She was elected an Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris in 1933 at twenty, the youngest ever and the only Asian to receive the honour. She returned to India the following year and turned to Indian subjects.
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The famous World Heritage Site “Basilica of Bom Jesus” is located in which among the following places in India?
Answer: D
It is in Goa.
The Basilica of Bom Jesus at Old Goa, completed in 1605, holds the body of St Francis Xavier, exposed to public view once every ten years. It is part of the UNESCO listing of the churches and convents of Goa.
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The Sangai Festival is celebrated in __:
Answer: B
The Sangai Festival is held in Manipur.
Held every November since 2010, it is named after the Sangai, the brow-antlered deer found only in the floating meadows of Loktak Lake and the state animal of Manipur.
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