Who among the following started Ganapati Festival in 1893 and thereby gave it national character?
Answer: C
It was Lokmanya Tilak.
He turned the household worship of Ganesh into a ten-day public festival at Pune in 1893, using the processions and gatherings to build national feeling at a time when political meetings were restricted.
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Who among the following appoints the chairperson of National Monuments Authority?
Answer: A
The President appoints the chairperson.
The National Monuments Authority was set up under the amended Ancient Monuments Act of 2010 to regulate construction in the prohibited and regulated areas around centrally protected monuments.
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Which of the following state government confers National Kabir Samman?
Answer: B
Madhya Pradesh confers it.
The Kabir Samman, instituted in 1987, is given every two years for outstanding poetry in any Indian language, and is one of the national awards of the state's culture department.
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Which among the following are the earliest examples of Rock Cut architecture in Ancient India?
Answer: A
The Barabar Caves are the earliest.
Cut into granite in Bihar in the third century BC under Ashoka and his grandson Dasharatha, and given to the Ajivikas, they predate the Buddhist excavations at Ajanta and the western Deccan by two centuries.
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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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