Art & Culture Mixed Quiz: Set 16

Commemorative coins are issued by the Government of India under the Coinage Act, and the set marking the Nabakalebara of the Jagannath temple was released at a function in Puri in March 2018 by the President.

Chhau was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.

The Toda are a small pastoral people of the upper Nilgiri plateau in Tamil Nadu. They live in hamlets called munds, herd buffaloes and treat dairy work as a sacred duty carried out at the conical or barrel-vaulted temple huts that appear in every photograph of them.

Le Corbusier is counted as a French architect. He was born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887, settled in Paris, took French citizenship in 1930 and worked from France for the rest of his life.

The Hornbill Festival is held at the Naga heritage village of Kisama near Kohima from 1 to 10 December, the state formation day being 1 December.

The Gandhara School of Art, which grew in the north west around Taxila and Peshawar between the first and fifth centuries, was shaped by Greek or Hellenistic sculpture that had reached the region after Alexander's campaign and stayed on through the Indo Greek and Kushana rulers.

Bhagta Parab is observed by the tribal communities of Jharkhand in the weeks between spring and summer, and it is dedicated to Budha Baba.

Amritlal Vegad, born in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh in 1928, was a painter and collage artist who trained at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan under Nandalal Bose, and later taught art in Jabalpur.

Rongali Bihu, also called Bohag Bihu, falls in mid-April at the start of the Assamese month of Bohag and opens the new year and the sowing season.

She won the best actress award in 1975 for her role in the Gujarati film Meena Gurjari, early in a career that moved between cinema, theatre and dance.

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

Ranmale is a folk theatre of Goa, performed mainly in the Sattari and Sanguem areas. It is staged at night in the open during the Shigmo festival and around Holi, in front of a village temple.

Onam is the harvest festival of Kerala, celebrated in the Malayalam month of Chingam, and remembers the yearly return of the mythical king Mahabali to his people.

The star-shaped shrine of Gurudwara Shri Hemkund Sahib is built with a roof shaped like an upturned lotus, a flower that also appears in the story of the site.

The Pushkar Fair is held at Pushkar in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan, on the bank of the Pushkar lake and beside the temple of Brahma.

The craftspersons of Bidar were famous for inlay work in copper and silver, and the craft took the name Bidri from the town.

Ganesh Chaturthi in the month of Bhadrapada had long been a household worship in Maharashtra. In 1893 Tilak organised it as a community celebration with public pandals, processions and lectures, so that people of every caste could gather in one place at a time when political meetings were watched.

The Sonepur Mela is held at Sonepur in the Saran district of Bihar, where the Gandak joins the Ganga. It begins on Kartik Purnima, the same full moon as the Pushkar Fair, and is named the Harihar Kshetra Mela after the Harihar Nath temple there, which tradition links to Rama.

Chapchar Kut is the best known festival of Mizoram, celebrated in late February or March after the jhum fields have been cleared and before the sowing.

Wangala is the post-harvest thanksgiving festival of the Garo of Meghalaya, offered to Saljong, the sun god who grants the harvest.