With which of the following states of India is the Garba dance associated
Answer: A
It is Garba.
Danced in concentric circles around a perforated earthen lamp, the garbo, during Navratri, it honours the goddess. Nautanki belongs to the Hindi belt, Kathakali to Kerala and Bhangra to Punjab.
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Lohri is celebrated in the month of
Answer: D
It falls in January.
Lohri is kept on 13 January, the eve of Makar Sankranti, at the end of the Punjabi winter. Bonfires are lit and sesame, jaggery and popcorn thrown into the flames as the rabi crop is celebrated.
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Number of classical Kathakali stories included in traditional Kathakali dance are
Answer: B
There are 101.
The traditional repertoire of Kathakali attakathas numbers 101 stories, drawn mostly from the Mahabharata, Ramayana and Bhagavata, though only some thirty are regularly staged today.
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Kathakali dance is a combination of -------- many elements of fine art
Answer: C
It combines five.
Kathakali brings together natyam the acting, nritham the dance, nrithyam the mime, geetham the song and vadyam the instrumental music - the five elements that make it a complete dance-drama rather than a dance alone.
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Indian classical dance forms are based on the instructions of the book
Answer: B
It is the Natyashastra.
Bharata's treatise sets out the theory of rasa, the classification of hand gestures and body movement, and the rules of stagecraft on which every classical form draws. It is the authority a dance must trace itself to in order to be counted classical.
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Which one is not a harvest festival in india
Answer: D
Holi is not.
Holi marks the coming of spring and the burning of Holika, not a harvest. Onam follows the Kerala rice harvest, Lohri the Punjabi rabi crop, and Ugadi opens the new year with the first fruits of the season.
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Number of asanas in surya namaskar process are
Answer: C
There are twelve.
The Surya Namaskar cycle runs through twelve postures, from pranamasana through hasta uttanasana, padahastasana, ashwa sanchalanasana, dandasana, ashtanga namaskara, bhujangasana and adho mukha svanasana and back, one round covering the sequence forward and in reverse.
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Berana is a wedding ceremony of
Answer: C
It is a Sindhi ceremony.
Berana or Berana Satsang is the evening gathering held at the bride's and groom's homes in the days before a Sindhi wedding, where the women sing traditional songs to the dholak.
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Sattriya dance is originated from which state
Answer: A
It originated in Assam.
Sattriya was created by Sankaradeva in the fifteenth century as part of the worship in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries of Assam, and was danced there by monks. It was recognised as a classical form by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2000.
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