Which among the following Sikh Guru declared that Guru Granth Sahib will be the holy scripture of Sikkhism and will be the permanent Guru of Sikhs?
Answer: A
Guru Gobind Singh declared it.
Before his death at Nanded in 1708 the tenth Guru ended the line of human Gurus and installed the Adi Granth as Guru Granth Sahib, the perpetual Guru of the Sikhs.
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The famous Muslim pilgrimage town “Galiakot” is located in which among the following states of India?
Answer: C
It is in Rajasthan.
Galiakot in Dungarpur district holds the shrine of Syedi Fakhruddin Shaheed and is a pilgrimage centre for the Dawoodi Bohra community, drawing large numbers at the annual urs.
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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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Which of the following religions “Tower of Silence ” is related to in India?
Answer: A
It relates to the Zoroastrians.
The dakhma is where Parsis expose their dead to vultures, since a corpse must not defile earth, fire or water. The practice has become difficult since Indian vulture numbers collapsed in the 1990s.
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Which state of India is associated with the Folk Dance Teratali?
Answer: B
Terah Taali belongs to Rajasthan.
Women of the Kamad community perform it seated, striking thirteen small brass cymbals tied to their limbs, in devotion to the folk deity Ramdev.
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The first novel written by Sunil Gangopadhyay is :
Answer: A
It was Atmaprakash.
Sunil Gangopadhyay's first novel, published in 1966, was a study of restless youth in post-Partition Calcutta. Sei Samay, Pratham Alo and Purba Paschim are the later historical trilogy for which he is better known.
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Who among the following is also venerated as “Second Buddha”?
Answer: A
Padmasambhava is venerated as the Second Buddha.
Also called Guru Rinpoche, he brought Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century and founded the Nyingma school. Tibetans regard him as the second Buddha of this age.
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Sangai Festival is celebrated in which among the following states of India?
Answer: B
It is celebrated in Manipur.
The Sangai Festival is named after the brow-antlered deer of the floating meadows of Loktak lake, found nowhere else in the world, and runs for ten days each November.
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Which Veda Sanskrit literature has begun from?
Answer: D
It begins with the Rigveda.
The Rigveda, composed roughly between 1500 and 1000 BCE, is the oldest surviving text in any Indo-European language, and the whole of Sanskrit literature follows from it. Its ten mandalas hold 1,028 hymns.
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Which among the following is known as the earliest example of Panchayatana style of temple?
Answer: A
It is the Dashavatara temple at Deogarh.
Built about 500 in Uttar Pradesh, it is the earliest surviving example of the panchayatana plan, in which four subsidiary shrines stand at the corners of the platform around the main sanctum.
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