Each Year Ramzan occurs about ______from the Previous year?
Answer: A
About eleven days earlier.
Ramzan follows the Islamic lunar calendar, whose year of twelve lunar months is about 354 days, some eleven shorter than the solar year. The month therefore moves back through the seasons and returns to the same season after about thirty-three years.
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Which of the following was India’s first indigenously made colour film?
Answer: B
It was Kisan Kanya.
Made in 1937 by Moti B. Gidwani for Ardeshir Irani's Imperial Film Company, it was processed in India using the Cinecolor system - the first Indian colour film made wholly in the country.
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In which state of India is Rigon Thupten Mindroling monastery, inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2010?
Answer: C
It is in Odisha.
The Rigon Thupten Mindroling monastery is at Jirang in Gajapati district, in a Tibetan settlement established in the 1960s, and was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2010.
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The Sangai Festival is organized in __:
Answer: B
It is held in Manipur.
The ten-day festival each November is named after the Sangai, the brow-antlered deer of the floating meadows of Loktak lake, found nowhere else and the state animal.
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Which of these books is / are works by Amir Khusrau?
1. Qiran-u-Sadain
2. Tahqiq-i-Hind
3. Miftah-ul-Futuh
4. Nur-i-Sipihar
Choose the correct option from the codes given below:
Answer: B
1, 3 and 4 are his.
Qiran-us-Sadain, Miftah-ul-Futuh and Nuh Sipihr are all by Amir Khusrau. Tahqiq-i-Hind, better known as Kitab-ul-Hind, is Alberuni's.
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The National Song of India was composed by
Answer: B
It was Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Vande Mataram was written in 1875 and later placed in his novel Anandamath. The Constituent Assembly gave it equal status with the national anthem in 1950; it was first sung at the Congress session of 1896, by Tagore.
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Who among the following started Ganapati Festival in 1893 and thereby gave it national character?
Answer: C
It was Lokmanya Tilak.
He turned the household worship of Ganesh into a ten-day public festival at Pune in 1893, using the processions and gatherings to build national feeling at a time when political meetings were restricted.
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Who among the following appoints the chairperson of National Monuments Authority?
Answer: A
The President appoints the chairperson.
The National Monuments Authority was set up under the amended Ancient Monuments Act of 2010 to regulate construction in the prohibited and regulated areas around centrally protected monuments.
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Which of the following state government confers National Kabir Samman?
Answer: B
Madhya Pradesh confers it.
The Kabir Samman, instituted in 1987, is given every two years for outstanding poetry in any Indian language, and is one of the national awards of the state's culture department.
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Which among the following are the earliest examples of Rock Cut architecture in Ancient India?
Answer: A
The Barabar Caves are the earliest.
Cut into granite in Bihar in the third century BC under Ashoka and his grandson Dasharatha, and given to the Ajivikas, they predate the Buddhist excavations at Ajanta and the western Deccan by two centuries.
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