The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival is associated with which one of the following cities?
Answer: D
It is associated with Mumbai.
The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival has been held every February since 1999 in the heritage precinct of that name in south Mumbai, and covers visual art, music, theatre, literature and film.
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Hanukkh, the festival of light is associated with which one of the following religions?
Answer: B
Hanukkah is a Jewish festival.
The eight-day festival of lights commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabean revolt, and the tradition that one day's oil burned for eight. A candle of the menorah is lit on each night.
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Who was known as Bengal’s Greta Garbo?
Answer: A
It was Suchitra Sen.
The Bengali actress, celebrated for her films with Uttam Kumar, withdrew entirely from public life after 1978 and was not photographed again for over thirty years - which earned her the comparison with Greta Garbo.
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Thaipusam festival is celebrated by which of the following communities?
Answer: A
It is celebrated by Tamils.
Thaipusam falls on the full moon of the Tamil month Thai and honours Murugan, marking the day Parvati gave him the spear to destroy the demon Soorapadman. Devotees carry the kavadi, and it is observed most spectacularly in Malaysia at Batu Caves.
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The Flamingo Festival is celebrated in__?
Answer: A
It is held in Andhra Pradesh.
The Flamingo Festival takes place each January at Pulicat lake and Nelapattu bird sanctuary in Nellore district, where greater and lesser flamingoes and pelicans winter in large numbers.
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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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The annual Royal Kathina ceremony is associated with which religion?
Answer: B
It belongs to Buddhism.
Kathina falls at the end of the three-month rains retreat, when the laity offer robes and requisites to the monastic community. In Thailand the king or his representative presides at the royal ceremony.
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Who among the following invented Zero?
Answer: D
It was an unknown Indian.
The Bakhshali manuscript and the Gwalior inscription of 876 show zero as a place-holder and a number, but no individual can be credited with it. Brahmagupta first set out its arithmetic in 628; Aryabhata used the place-value system without a symbol for zero.
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Who among the following established the Ved Samaj in Madras in 1864?
Answer: A
It was Keshab Chandra Sen.
The Veda Samaj was founded at Madras in 1864 under his influence, on the model of the Brahmo Samaj, and worked against caste and idol worship. It was renamed the Southern India Brahmo Samaj in 1871.
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Who among the following preached the doctrine of “One religion, one caste and one God for mankind“?
Answer: C
It was Sri Narayana Guru.
The Kerala reformer, born into the Ezhava community, consecrated a Shiva temple at Aruvippuram in 1888 in defiance of the rule that only Brahmins might do so, and founded the SNDP Yogam. His slogan was one caste, one religion, one God for man.
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