Which among the following temples does not belong to the Chola Empire?
Answer: C
The Kailasanatha does not.
The Kailasanatha temple at Kanchipuram was built by the Pallava king Rajasimha about 700. The Brihadeeswarar at Thanjavur, the Airavatesvara at Darasuram and the Koranganatha at Srinivasanallur are all Chola.
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In which year India ratified UNESCO Convention, 1972?
Answer: C
India ratified it in 1977.
The World Heritage Convention of 1972 came into force in 1975, and India acceded two years later. Ajanta, Ellora, Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal were inscribed in 1983, the first Indian sites on the list.
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In context with the Indian music, Abhang are the devotional songs dedicated to which among the following gods?
Answer: C
They are dedicated to Vitthala.
The abhang is a Marathi devotional form sung by the Varkari saints - Jnaneshwar, Namdev, Eknath and Tukaram - to Vitthala, the form of Vishnu worshipped at Pandharpur.
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Which of the following dances of Kerala was called by Jawahar Lal Nehru as poor man’s Kathakali?
Answer: C
It is Ottamthullal.
Kunchan Nambiar created it in the eighteenth century as a solo form with simple costume, colloquial Malayalam and pointed social satire - accessible where Kathakali was courtly, which is why Nehru called it the poor man's Kathakali.
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Each Year Ramzan occurs about ______from the Previous year?
Answer: A
About eleven days earlier.
Ramzan follows the Islamic lunar calendar, whose year of twelve lunar months is about 354 days, some eleven shorter than the solar year. The month therefore moves back through the seasons and returns to the same season after about thirty-three years.
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Which of the following was India’s first indigenously made colour film?
Answer: B
It was Kisan Kanya.
Made in 1937 by Moti B. Gidwani for Ardeshir Irani's Imperial Film Company, it was processed in India using the Cinecolor system - the first Indian colour film made wholly in the country.
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In which state of India is Rigon Thupten Mindroling monastery, inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2010?
Answer: C
It is in Odisha.
The Rigon Thupten Mindroling monastery is at Jirang in Gajapati district, in a Tibetan settlement established in the 1960s, and was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2010.
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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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Which of these books is / are works by Amir Khusrau?
1. Qiran-u-Sadain
2. Tahqiq-i-Hind
3. Miftah-ul-Futuh
4. Nur-i-Sipihar
Choose the correct option from the codes given below:
Answer: B
1, 3 and 4 are his.
Qiran-us-Sadain, Miftah-ul-Futuh and Nuh Sipihr are all by Amir Khusrau. Tahqiq-i-Hind, better known as Kitab-ul-Hind, is Alberuni's.
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The National Song of India was composed by
Answer: B
It was Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Vande Mataram was written in 1875 and later placed in his novel Anandamath. The Constituent Assembly gave it equal status with the national anthem in 1950; it was first sung at the Congress session of 1896, by Tagore.
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