Kalady in Ernakulam district of Kerala is a birth place of which of the following ?
Answer: A
It is the birthplace of Adi Shankara.
Kalady on the Periyar was where the eighth-century philosopher of Advaita Vedanta was born. He travelled across India in a short life of thirty-two years and founded the four mathas at Sringeri, Puri, Dwarka and Jyotirmath.
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Hymns composed by which of the following saints have been incorporated in the Guru Granth Sahib?
Answer: A
Hymns of Jayadeva are included.
The Guru Granth Sahib incorporates the verse of fifteen bhagats besides the Gurus - Kabir, Namdev, Ravidas, Farid, Jayadeva and others - drawn from different regions, castes and both Hindu and Muslim backgrounds.
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Which among the following is the main feature of Dravida Style of Temple architecture?
Answer: C
The main feature is the vimana.
In the Dravida style the tower rises over the sanctum in receding storeys to a domed finial, unlike the curving northern shikhara. The gopurams over the gateways came later and grew taller than the vimana itself.
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The Varaha cave temple at Mamallapuram was built by
Answer: A
It is attributed to Simhavishnu.
The Varaha cave temple at Mamallapuram, cut in the seventh century, holds panels of Vishnu as the boar lifting the earth and of Gajalakshmi, and portrait sculptures of the Pallava kings.
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To which of the following parvas of Mahabharata, Bhagvatgita Belongs?
Answer: B
It belongs to the Bhishma Parva.
The Bhagavad Gita occupies chapters 23 to 40 of the sixth book of the Mahabharata, spoken between the armies before the fighting begins, while Bhishma commands the Kaurava host.
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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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Vedantham Satyanarayan is known to be a greatest guru of which of the following dance forms?
Answer: D
He is a guru of Kuchipudi.
Vedantam Satyanarayana Sarma of Kuchipudi village was celebrated for his portrayal of Satyabhama in the Bhama Kalapam, a male dancer in a female role, and received the Padma Shri.
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Ancient Damascus which is located in Syria is a world heritage site. It is a ____?
Answer: C
It is a city.
Damascus is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and the whole of the ancient city was inscribed by UNESCO in 1979 for its Roman, Umayyad and Ottoman fabric, including the Umayyad Mosque.
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The Angkor Vat Temple at Cambodia is devoted to which of the following deity?
Answer: C
It is dedicated to Vishnu.
Suryavarman II built Angkor Wat in the twelfth century as a Vaishnavite temple, unusually facing west, and it became Buddhist by the end of that century. It is the largest religious monument in the world and appears on Cambodia's flag.
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In which of the following states Devnimori stupa related to Buddhism is located?
Answer: D
It is in Gujarat.
The Devnimori stupa in Sabarkantha district, of about the fourth century, yielded a casket with relics said to be of the Buddha. The site now lies under the reservoir of the Meshvo dam.
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