Who among the following had written Bangladesh’s national anthem” Amar Sonar Bangla” ?
Answer: B
Rabindranath Tagore wrote it.
He wrote Amar Sonar Bangla in 1905 in protest against the partition of Bengal, and it was adopted as Bangladesh's national anthem in 1971. He is the only person to have written the anthem of two countries.
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What is the title of the first chapter of the Qur’an?
Answer: B
It is Al-Fatiha.
The Opening is a chapter of seven verses recited in every unit of the daily prayers, and is the most frequently repeated passage of the Qur'an.
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The last Mahakumbh of the 20th century was held at
Answer: D
It was at Haridwar.
The Purna Kumbh at Haridwar in 1998 was the last of the century; the next, at Allahabad in 2001, fell in the twenty-first. The mela rotates between Haridwar, Prayagraj, Ujjain and Nashik.
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Baisakhi commemorates which event in Sikh history?
Answer: B
It commemorates the founding of the Khalsa.
Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib on Baisakhi in 1699, initiating the five beloved ones and then being initiated by them in turn. The festival is also the spring harvest festival of Punjab.
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Akshardham temple, which is situated in Delhi, is revered for which Hindu deity?
Answer: A
It is dedicated to Swaminarayan.
The Akshardham complex on the Yamuna at Delhi was opened in 2005 by BAPS, and its central shrine holds the image of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. It is built in pink sandstone and marble without structural steel.
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The Elephanta caves have been mostly ascribed to which among the following dynasty?
Answer: C
They are ascribed to the Rashtrakutas.
The rock-cut Shaiva caves on Gharapuri island near Mumbai date from the fifth to eighth centuries and are generally attributed to the Rashtrakutas, whose Ellora work they resemble. The three-headed Trimurti is the central image.
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Who among the following is considered to be the originator of the khayal and tarana styles of Hindustani Classical Music?
Answer: C
Amir Khusro is credited with them.
The thirteenth-century poet and musician at the Delhi sultanate court is traditionally held to have originated the khayal and the tarana, and to have devised the sitar and the tabla - though the evidence for each attribution is thin.
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Who among the following Arab scholars studied Sanskrit and astronomy for a decade at Varanasi ?
Answer: A
It was Alberuni.
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni came to India with Mahmud of Ghazni's campaigns, learned Sanskrit and spent years studying Indian astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. His Kitab-ul-Hind is the most careful foreign account of India before the modern period.
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Who among the following had written the Novel “Pather Panchali”, which was base of the film of same name by Satyajeet Ray?
Answer: B
It was Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay.
His novel of 1929 follows the boy Apu in a Bengal village. Satyajit Ray, who had illustrated an edition of it, filmed it in 1955 as the first part of the Apu trilogy.
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Kallol was the name of one of the most influential movements in which among the following literatures?
Answer: B
It belongs to Bengali literature.
Kallol, a magazine founded in 1923, gave its name to a movement that broke with the Tagorean manner and turned to the lives of the poor and the disillusion after the First World War.
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