Which of the following is not a folk dance of Uttar Pradesh?
Answer: B
Chhau is not.
Chhau is the masked dance of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, in its Seraikela, Mayurbhanj and Purulia styles. Qawwali, birha and charkula all belong to Uttar Pradesh.
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Which among the following Hindu Painters was sent by Jahangir to portrait Shah Abbas-I of Persia ?
Answer: B
It was Bishan Das.
Jahangir sent him with the embassy to Persia about 1613 to paint Shah Abbas I from life, and praised him as unequalled in taking a likeness. The resulting portraits are among the finest Mughal works of the period.
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Husari and Bihunas are two main forms of dancing of which among the following states?
Answer: A
They belong to Assam.
Husori is the Bihu song sung by groups going from house to house at Bohag Bihu, and Bihunaas are the Bihu dances performed in the open by young men and women.
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‘Me-Dam-Me-Phi’ festival is a festival of which the communities in North Eastern India?
Answer: A
It is a festival of the Tai-Ahom.
Me-Dam-Me-Phi is observed on 31 January in Assam as an offering to the ancestors, in the belief that the dead live on and can bless the living. The Ahoms ruled Assam for six centuries.
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Sidi Bashir Mosque is located at:
Answer: A
It is at Ahmedabad.
The Sidi Bashir mosque is known for its shaking minarets: pressure applied to one sets the other vibrating, an effect achieved by the flexible sandstone construction and never fully explained.
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Watson’s Hotel or Esplanade Mansion, which is India’s oldest surviving cast Iron Building is located in which of the following cities?
Answer: A
It is in Mumbai.
Watson's Hotel, later Esplanade Mansion, was built in the Kala Ghoda area between 1867 and 1869 from cast iron shipped in from England, and is India's oldest surviving cast-iron building. The Lumiere brothers gave India's first film show there in 1896.
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Navalinga Temples, the nine temples cluster of the 9th century built by the Amoghavarsha I of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty was located in which state?
Answer: C
They are in Karnataka.
The Navalinga temples at Kuknur in Koppal district were built in the ninth century under Amoghavarsha I of the Rashtrakutas, nine shrines to Shiva grouped together and sharing common walls.
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Bihu is a folk dance from which state
Answer: C
It is from Assam.
Bihu is danced at Rongali Bihu in mid-April, marking the Assamese new year and the coming of spring, to the dhol, pepa and taal, with brisk hip movement and rapid steps.
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Madai festival is a tribal festival of which among the following states?
Answer: C
It is a festival of Chhattisgarh.
Madai is the tribal festival of the Gond, celebrated in turn at different villages of Bastar between December and March, with a procession of the village deity, a market and dancing.
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In which of the following states of India , a festival called Chapchar Kut is celebrated in March ?
Answer: B
It is celebrated in Mizoram.
Chapchar Kut is the spring festival of the Mizo, held in March after the jhum clearings have been cut and left to dry, and is marked by the bamboo dance Cheraw.
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