Kargam is a folk dance of which state?
Answer: B
Karagam belongs to Tamil Nadu.
The dancer balances a decorated pot on the head, sometimes topped with a parrot figure, while moving to the naiyandi melam. It is danced in honour of Mariamman, the goddess of rain.
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Which of the following cultural organizations was established by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of independent India.?
Answer: A
It was the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Maulana Azad founded the ICCR in 1950 to conduct India's cultural relations abroad, and it now runs chairs of Indian studies in foreign universities and administers scholarships for foreign students.
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Consider the following statements about the Saraswati Samman of KK Birla Foundation:
1. Award is annual
2. Jury is headed by a former Chief Justice of India
3. Selects only Indian Citizens
4. Selects writers from all Indian Languages
Answer: C
1, 2 and 3 are correct.
The Saraswati Samman is annual, its jury has been headed by a retired Chief Justice of India, and it is confined to Indian citizens. It is not restricted to any one language: any of the languages of the Eighth Schedule is eligible.
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Who among the following singer is often called as “Prince of Bhangra”?
Answer: C
He is Sukhbir.
The Punjabi singer is known as the Prince of Bhangra, and helped bring the form into mainstream Indian popular music in the 1990s.
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Oldest recorded Indian Music dates back to 1902, when India’s first disc had been recorded one of the following singers singing a khayal in Raag Jogiya. Identify the singer:
Answer: C
It was Gauhar Jan.
The Gramophone Company recorded her at Calcutta in November 1902, the first Indian recording. She ended each side by announcing 'My name is Gauhar Jan', so that the engineers in Hanover would know whose voice it was.
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The words 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below the base plate of the emblem of India are taken from
Answer: C
They are from the Mundaka Upanishad.
The full line - satyameva jayate nanritam - means truth alone triumphs, not falsehood. It was adopted with the Lion Capital as the state emblem in 1950, and is written in Devanagari below the abacus.
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Singhe-Khababs Festival is celebrated in which among the following states of India?
Answer: A
It is celebrated in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Singhe-Khababs festival at Leh in Ladakh marks the Indus, whose Tibetan name means 'coming from the lion's mouth', and was earlier known as the Sindhu Darshan festival.
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Who among the following produced India’s first dubbed film, Harischandra, in 1944?
Answer: A
It was A.V. Meiyappan.
The founder of AVM Productions made Harischandra in 1944, dubbing a Kannada film into Tamil - the first dubbed film in India.
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Which among the following is not correctly matched?
Answer: D
The wrong pair is Bidesia – Uttaranchal.
Bidesia is a Bhojpuri folk theatre of Bihar, created by Bhikhari Thakur, whose theme is the migrant labourer who leaves his wife behind. The other three are correctly placed.
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Which dish is one of the popular dishes of Kashmir?
Answer: B
It is dum aloo.
Kashmiri dum aloo takes small potatoes fried whole and then simmered in a yoghurt gravy coloured with Kashmiri chilli and flavoured with fennel and dry ginger, sealed and cooked on a low fire - the dum method that names it. It uses no onion or garlic.
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