Which of the following rulers had turned the Moti Masjid of Lahore built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan into a gemstone repository?
Answer: D
It was Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
After taking Lahore in 1799 he converted the Moti Masjid within the fort into a treasury for gemstones, renaming it Moti Mandir. It was restored as a mosque after his time.
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At which of the following place the only Swaminarayan temple is located in Pakistan?
Answer: C
It is at Karachi.
The Shri Swaminarayan Mandir on M.A. Jinnah Road, built in 1849, is the only Swaminarayan temple in Pakistan and one of the few Hindu temples still functioning there.
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In context with Karnataka, what is Halegannada?
Answer: D
It is a language.
Halegannada is Old Kannada, the form of the language used between about the ninth and fourteenth centuries, in which the classics of Pampa, Ranna and Ponna were written.
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A Fire temple is a place of worship for _____?
Answer: B
It is a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
The fire temple, or agiary, keeps a sacred fire burning perpetually as the symbol of Ahura Mazda's purity and light. Fires of the highest grade have burned continuously for centuries; the one at Udvada in Gujarat since the eighth.
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Bageshwari Qamar is India’s first and only (possibly) woman player of which of the following music instruments?
Answer: B
She plays the shehnai.
Bageshwari Qamar of Bihar is regarded as India's first and possibly only professional woman shehnai player, in a tradition long confined to men.
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Which among the following material was used in Mathura School of Art?
Answer: D
Red sandstone was used.
The Mathura school of the Kushana period carved in the spotted red sandstone of Sikri near Fatehpur, and produced some of the earliest images of the Buddha in human form - contemporary with, and independent of, the grey schist figures of Gandhara.
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As per Indian Mythology, Dhumravarna is an incarnation or avatara of _______?
Answer: C
Dhumravarna is an incarnation of Ganesha.
He is the eighth of the avatars listed in the Mudgala Purana, smoke-coloured and riding a mouse, who subdues the demon of egoism.
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Which among the following is the oldest surviving rock-cut cave in India ?
Answer: D
The Barabar Caves are the oldest.
Cut into granite in Jehanabad district of Bihar in the third century BC under Ashoka, they were given to the Ajivika sect. Their polished interiors produce a remarkable echo, and they suggested the Marabar caves of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India.
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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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In which of the following states of India, Yakshagana, a dance drama is popular
Answer: B
Yakshagana is popular in Karnataka.
A dance drama of coastal Karnataka, it combines dance, song, spoken dialogue and elaborate painted headgear, and traditionally runs from dusk to dawn on stories from the epics and Puranas.
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