Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 18

The last Nawab of Awadh was a trained dancer and a prolific writer who composed thumris under the pen name Akhtarpiya, among them the celebrated Babul mora naihar chhuto hi jaye, and who devised the Rahas, a court dance drama on the Krishna theme that drew on Raslila.

Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of Uttar Pradesh under the Uttar Pradesh Official Language Act, 1951, and an amendment passed in 1989 added Urdu as the second official language of the state.

The Uttar Pradesh government launched the One District One Product programme in January 2018, picking one traditional product for every district and backing it with credit, design, packaging, skill and marketing support so that the craft could be sold outside its own market.

Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Chandauli tract, a station town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar.

Braj Bhasha is the speech of the Braj tract, which covers Mathura, Agra, Aligarh, Hathras and Etah, and it belongs to the Western Hindi group that descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha.

Nautanki is played on an open platform to an audience of hundreds, often through the whole night, so it needs an instrument that carries.

Both men came from Shahjahanpur and were members of the Hindustan Republican Association.

Moradabad has worked brass for centuries into engraved, enamelled and lacquered vessels, lamps and decorative ware, and the trade gave it the name Peetal Nagri.

Bhojpuri descends from Magadhi Apabhramsha and is grouped with Magahi and Maithili in the Bihari group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan family, a classification made by George Abraham Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India.

Mathura, on the right bank of the Yamuna, is revered as the place where Krishna was born in the prison of Kansa, and the Krishna Janmabhoomi complex marks the spot.

Born at Allahabad in 1861 and known as Mahamana, Malaviya founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916, collecting donations across the country for it, served four times as President of the Congress and edited the newspaper Leader.

Maha Shivratri falls on the Chaturdashi of the dark half of Phalguna, which comes in February or March, and in Uttar Pradesh it is the closing bathing day of the Magh Mela at Prayagraj and the biggest night of the year at the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.

Premchand, whose real name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was born at Lamhi village near Varanasi in 1880 and died in 1936.

The three states came into existence within a fortnight: Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000 from Madhya Pradesh as the twenty-sixth state, Uttaranchal on 9 November 2000 from Uttar Pradesh as the twenty-seventh, and Jharkhand on 15 November 2000 from Bihar as the twenty-eighth.

Azad, the leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association after the Kakori case, was surrounded by the police at Alfred Park in Allahabad on 27 February 1931 and died fighting there.

Ghiyas Beg, a Persian noble who rose to be Jahangir's treasurer with the title Itmad-ud-Daulah, was buried in a garden tomb across the Yamuna that Nur Jahan completed in the 1620s. It is the first Mughal building faced entirely in white marble and decorated with pietra dura inlay, techniques later…

Prasad, who lived at Varanasi from 1889 to 1937, published Kamayani in 1936; it retells the story of Manu, Shraddha and Ida as an allegory of feeling and intellect and is treated as the chief long poem of Chhayavad.

Dhyan Chand was born at Allahabad on 29 August 1905, grew up at Jhansi and played in the Indian teams that won the hockey gold at Amsterdam in 1928, Los Angeles in 1932 and Berlin in 1936, the last as captain.

Mahadevi Verma, born at Farrukhabad in 1907, was given the Jnanpith Award in 1982 for Yama, a collection that brings together her lyric poetry.

Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963 and held the office until 1967, which made her the first woman to head the government of any Indian state.