Art & Culture GK Questions with Answers – Page 5

Dal baati churma is the signature meal of Rajasthan: hard wheat balls baked in embers, served with a spiced lentil preparation and with churma, the same baati crushed with ghee and sugar.

The Sadya is the grand vegetarian meal of Kerala, laid out on a fresh banana leaf in a fixed order of pickles, thorans, avial, sambar, rice and finally payasam, and it is eaten above all at the Onam harvest festival.

The Wazwan is the ceremonial banquet of the Kashmir valley, a meal of many courses that tradition puts at thirty six, cooked by a hereditary chef called the Waza under a head cook known as the Vasta Waza.

The Ajanta caves are cut into a horseshoe-shaped cliff above the Waghora river in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad) district of Maharashtra.

The Nalayira Divyaprabandham, meaning "four thousand sacred compositions", gathers the Tamil hymns of the twelve Vaishnava saints known as Alvars.

Inamgaon is a Chalcolithic site in Maharashtra and Mangadu is a megalithic site in Kerala; rows 1 and 4 each have an error.

The British blended Indian and European forms to present themselves as the rightful rulers of India. Towards the beginning of the twentieth century a mixed style called Indo-Saracenic took shape in colonial cities.

The long necked terracotta horse of Panchmura village in Bankura district of West Bengal is made in parts on the wheel and by hand, then joined and fired, and it has become a symbol of Indian handicrafts.

Longpi pottery, also called Longpi Hampai, is made in the Longpi villages of Ukhrul district in Manipur by the Tangkhul Naga community.

The black pottery of Nizamabad comes from a town of that name in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh.

Blue Pottery is a Turko Persian technique that reached Rajasthan through Mughal and Kashmiri craftsmen and was encouraged by the rulers of Jaipur.

The Jorwe culture is named after the village of Jorwe in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, and its pottery is a matt surfaced, black on red painted ware found in large quantities at Inamgaon, Daimabad, Nevasa and Chandoli.

Rouletted Ware is a wheel turned dish with concentric rows of small impressed dots on the inner surface, made by holding a toothed tool against the turning pot.

Mature Harappan potters used the fast wheel and fired their pots well, producing a sturdy red ware on which they painted in black over a red slip.

Ochre Coloured Pottery, usually abbreviated to OCP, is a worn, ill fired, orange to ochre pottery whose colour rubs off on the fingers because the surface has been damaged by water.

Northern Black Polished Ware, usually shortened to NBPW, is a very fine clay pottery with a glossy, almost mirror like surface in steel grey to jet black.

Painted Grey Ware is a fine, thin, wheel made grey pottery decorated with simple black lines, dots and spirals, dated roughly between 1100 and 600 BCE.

Sopana sangeetam takes its name from sopanam, the flight of steps leading to the sanctum of a Kerala temple, where the singer stands and sings slow devotional verse, keeping time on the edakka, an hourglass drum played with a stick.

The Nayanars were the Shaiva saint-poets of the Tamil country, and the hymns of Appar, Sundarar and Sambandar make up the Thevaram, the first seven books of the Shaiva canon called the Tirumurai.

Vallabhacharya founded the Pushtimarg, the path of grace, whose worship of Krishna as Shrinathji is centred at Nathdwara in Rajasthan.