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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Thumri Singer Girija Devi belongs to which among the following Gharanas?
Answer: A
She belonged to the Banaras gharana.
Girija Devi, called Appaji, was the leading exponent of purab ang thumri, and worked to raise the semi-classical forms - thumri, dadra, kajri, chaiti - to concert standing.
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According to the beliefs of the Pasupata sect, Siva is the lord of Pasu. Pasu here refers to __?
Answer: D
Pashu here means jiva, the individual soul.
In Pashupata doctrine Shiva is Pati, the lord; the bound soul is pashu, the beast; and pasha is the fetter of ignorance and karma that binds it. Release consists in the soul's union with the lord.
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'Natya - Shastra' the main source of India's classical dances was written by
Answer: B
It was written by Bharata Muni.
The Natyashastra, composed between about 200 BCE and 200 CE, treats drama, dance and music together, and sets out the theory of rasa and the classification of gestures on which all the classical dance forms rest. Abhinavagupta wrote its great commentary.
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In Pali texts, who among the following is referred to as Nigantha Nataputta?
Answer: B
It refers to Mahavira.
Nigantha Nataputta is the Pali name for the leader of the Jains - nigantha meaning free of bonds, and Nataputta the son of the Jnatrika clan. The Buddhist texts name him among the six heterodox teachers of the Buddha's time.
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With which of the following states of India is the Garba dance associated
Answer: A
It is Garba.
Danced in concentric circles around a perforated earthen lamp, the garbo, during Navratri, it honours the goddess. Nautanki belongs to the Hindi belt, Kathakali to Kerala and Bhangra to Punjab.
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The ratio of width of our National flag to its length is
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Answer: B
The ratio is 2:3.
The Flag Code fixes the width to length ratio of the national flag at two to three. The Ashoka Chakra at the centre has 24 spokes and its diameter equals the width of the white band.
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