Art & Culture Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 3

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

Man Kautuhal was compiled under the patronage of Raja Man Singh Tomar, who ruled Gwalior from 1486 to 1516. Man Singh Tomar was a great patron of music, and his court is closely linked with the growth of the Dhrupad style of Hindustani singing.

Ustad Sultan Khan of the Sikar gharana was the best known sarangi player of his time, accompanied Ravi Shankar on world tours and won the Padma Bhushan in 2010.

The tribal languages of Jharkhand and the neighbouring belt of central and eastern India, namely Santali, Mundari, Ho and Kurukh's neighbours in the Munda group, belong to the Austro-Asiatic family, whose Indian branch is called Munda.

The Maasai are a cattle-keeping people of East Africa, living in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania around the Rift Valley and the Serengeti.

The Ambubachi Mela is held every year at the Kamakhya temple, which stands on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, the largest city of Assam.

Thrissur Pooram is held at the Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrissur during the Malayalam month of Medam, which falls in April and May.

Kui is the language of the Kondh (Kandha) tribe of Odisha and is grouped with Telugu and Gondi in the south-central or south-eastern branch of the Dravidian family.

Gol Gumbaz, the tomb of Muhammad Adil Shah, carries the dome long described as the second largest in the world after St Peter's Basilica in Rome.

The Great Stupa at Sanchi, in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, is one of the oldest Buddhist monuments in India.

Bihu is the chief festival and folk dance of Assam. The dance is performed by young men and women in groups to the beat of the dhol and the pepa, a pipe made of buffalo horn, with quick steps and graceful hand movements.

Pochampalli, also written Pochampally, is a weaving town in the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of Telangana, not far from Hyderabad. It is famous for ikat sarees, in which the threads are tied and dyed before weaving, so the pattern appears as the cloth is woven.

At Mat, a village near Mathura, the Kushanas had a dynastic shrine (devakula) where life-size statues of their kings were found.

He painted The Last Supper on a wall of the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan between about 1495 and 1498.

The rock inscription at Kudumiyamalai records groups of musical notes set out by a king for his pupils. Kudumiyamalai is in the Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu.

The phrase 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', meaning 'the whole world is one family', comes from a verse of the Maha Upanishad (chapter 6, verse 72).

The Central Institute of Buddhist Studies is at Choglamsar near Leh in Ladakh. It is a deemed university funded by the Union Ministry of Culture.

Delhi has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and they are exactly these three. Humayun's Tomb was inscribed in 1993; built in the 1560s at the wish of his widow Bega Begum, it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent and a model for the Taj Mahal.

Both statements match the record of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, in Madhya Pradesh, as NCERT's Class 12 history text describes it.

In the Chola Nataraja it is the raised left leg, in the bhujangatrasita pose, that stands for tirobhava, kicking away the veil of illusion from the devotee's mind.