Quiz on Art and Culture

1. SANSKRUTHI
QUIZ
FINAL

2. ROUND 1
CLASSICAL
10 QUESTIONS
10 Points each
+10/-10 for pounce

3. 1.Connect.

4. They represents the
seven animals/birds
from whose sound the
sa ri ga ma pa dha ni
of Indian classical
music have derived.

5. 2.Identify this person who is perhaps
the only person featured in the stamps
of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

6. Kazi Nazrul Islam,
the national poet
of Bangladesh.

7. 3.Identify the singer who got a national
award for this song from the 1985
movie Ankahee.

8. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

9. 4.Connect

10. Both movies are based on works of
Munshi Premchand.

11. 5.Who are
Known as
Ponnani and
Singidi?

12. They are the lead and assistant singers
in Kathakali.

13. 6. Kambakth Bilkul Aurat ,an Urdu drama directed by
Naseerudheen shah is a second in a series of his
tribute to one of the greatest female Urdu writers
ever. Name her.

14. ISMAT CHUGTAI.
This drama is a collection of 3 of her stories.

15. 7.What is the major attraction of
Krishnapuram Palace, Kayamkulam?

16. The biggest mural painting of Kerala
called “Gajendra Moksham” is there.

17. 8.How does the two following works are
connected?

18. Both were created as reactions to
Catherine Mayo’s “ Mother India”

19. 9.The Indian National
Congress session at
Haripura in 1939 had
pavillions decorated by
paintings based on
village India which was
very atractive like the
one shown here. The
painter was a person
who was deeply
influenced by Gandhiji
and Tagore and went on
to become on of the
known artists of India.
Name him.

20. NANDALAL BOSE

21. 10.According to an ancient Hinduism
book Suddhi Thatvam the list consist
of Brahmin, Cow, Fire, Gold, Ghee,
Sun, Water and King. The list varies for
different occasions and include a
variety of things like Rice, Paddy,
Tailed Mirror, Sandal, Reddish
Kumkum, and Washed Clean Cloth.
What is the name of this list?

22. ASHTA MANGALYAM

23. Round 2
POPULAR
Same rules
Reverse Direction

24. 1. Identify the mother son duo.
Mother is known as the queen of Kathak and
the son is a musician known for playing drums.

25. SITARA DEVI and
RANJIT BAROT

26. 2.Kaufmann
Residence is a house
designed by
architect Frank Lloyd
Wright in 1935 in
rural south western
Pennsylvania .
It is listed
among Smithsonian's
Life List of 28 places "to
visit before you die.
It is considered as one
of the most popular
houses ever built.
What does it
popularly called?

27. FALLING
WATER

28. 3.What do you call
a piece of
jewellery, typically
oval in shape,
consisting of a
portrait in profile
carved in relief on
a background of a
different colour?

29. Which also means a short descriptive
literary sketch which neatly
encapsulates someone or something.

30. 4. Name the popular Indian song
immortalised by the Afro-British Band
OSIBISA

32. 5. Santa muerte, Saint Death is a deity originated
from Aztec and Catholic belief.
Jesus Malverde was a Robinhood type of Robber.
Who worship these two?

33. The drug traffickers of
Mexico.

34. 6.The Man from Chinnamasta is a novel published in 2005 and written
by the Jnanpith Award winner Indira Goswami. Set in pre-
independence British Assam, it was written with a specific political
vision :To protest against a ritual in the most important Shakti temple
of the world, Kamakhya.
Once published, it took Assam by storm .The Brahmins especially took
offence for her frank demand to remove an ancient practice .
What was the practice mentioned?

35. Animal sacrifice

36. 7.This Artwork
by Claude Monet
in 19th century
led to an Art
Movement which
influenced even
Music and
Literature.It was
originated in
Paris.Name the
Movement

37. IMPRESSIONISM.
Soleil levant (Impression,
Sunrise)was the name of the
painting which provoked the critic
Louis Leroy to coin the term in a
satirical review published in the
Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

38. 8.Bill Watterson an American cartoonist stopped drawing his famous
cartoon strip at the end of 1995 .However In June 2014, three strips
of Pearls Before Swine featured guest illustrations by Watterson and
he wanted to raise some money for Parkinson’s research.
What is his most famous comic strip?

39. Calvin and
Hobbes

40. 9.This long necklace of pearls,
diamonds and emeralds, considered
to be one of the most fabulous
necklaces in the world was
originally belonged to Peshwa Bajirao
and was named after the prize he
paid for it.
After the revolt of 1857, Nanasaheb
took it with him to Nepal where it
was sold to Rana Jung Bahadur. Later
it was bought by the King of
Dharbhanga. Satyajith Rai wrote a
story called “Thief in Bombay” based
on this necklace.
Name it.

41. It means 9
lakhs.

42. 10. This Christmas carol “Do You Hear What I Hear?" was
written in October 1962, with lyrics by Noël Regney and
music by Gloria Shayne Baker .The pair, married at the time,
wrote it as a plea for peace.
What was the occasion which provoked them to write this?

44. SCORE
PLEASE
……

45. ROUND 3:
5 CLUES 5MARKS EACH +25 FOR CONNECT

46. A TV Channel owned by Malayalam
communications Ltd.

47. A River of dispute in South
India

48. A temple in
Andhra
Pradesh
known for
murals

49. A place mentioned in
Chilappathikaram

50. A Singing queen from
Gwalior.

51. They are all Government
handicraft emporiums.

52. ROUND 4
CONTEMPORARY
BUZZER ROUND
+20/-10

53. 1.The weavers from Bhagalpur,
Barabanki and Chanderi were
shortlisted for this project.They
were to make silk angavastrams in
an eco friendly way. The products
were hugely appreciated and the
sales of these clusters increased.
What are these products?

54. The shawls given to the winners of
commonwealth games 2010.

55. 2.CONNECT.

56. Prime minister played all these
during his recent visits to Japan and
Mongolia.

57. 3. Identify the
singer.

58. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
Insaan

59. 4. Raunaq: Conversation of
Music and Poetry is a
2014 studio album composed
by A. R. Rahman. The album is
described as a conversation of
music and poetry that takes one
on a journey of varied emotions.
Selected tracks of the album
depict social scenario of
India .The album was a result of
an anthology of poems to which
Rahman added visuals from Raja
Ravi Varma’s paintings, thus,
developing songs and
corresponding videos to it.
Who wrote the poems of this
album?

60. KAPIL SIBAL

61. 5.A recent novel named “Faking it” by Amrita Choudhari is
based on her works. She was an inspiration behind Aurora
Zogoiby, a character in Salman Rushdie's 1995 novel "The
Moor's Last Sigh and a famous Urdu play, by Javed Siddiqi,
Tumhari______.
Who is she?

62. AMRITA SHERGILL

63. 6.Which company used this tune for
their 2014 world cup ad?

64. Macdonalds

65. 7.Name this Artist who is a pioneer in Graphic Novel in India with
works like The Corridor and The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers.
His project ,the Gallery of losers, was on display on billboards DURING
THE London Olympics 2012.

66. SARNATH BANERJEE

67. 8.This background music is done by the violin brothers
Ganesh and Kumaresh. Interestingly, the original score
composed for the tele serial Malgudi days was also done by
a violinist who have two violinist brothers.
Name the original composer.

68. L.Vaidyanathan

69. 9.This Genus of Ferns is
named after a popular
singer because of the ferns
bear a close resemblance to
her costume from the 52nd
Annual Grammy
Awards and also bear a
distinct DNA sequence
similar to her name.
Who is the artist?

70. LADY GAGA.
On of the ferns have base pair sequence "G–A–G–A"
(guanine, adenine, guanine, adenine) in its DNA.

71. 10.Coming from a family of bamboo weavers and graduated from Trissur college of
Art, he was the youngest artist featured in the second edition of Cochi Musiris
Bienelle.
His work ,a wall with individual paintings on each brick was heavily appreciated and
was also featured in the Sharjah Bienelle.
Name the artist.

72. C.UNNIKRISHNAN

73. SCORE
PLEASE
……

74. ROUND
5
FOLK
and
TRIBAL
DIRECT +10
POUNCE
+10/-10

75. 1.Identify the language of the
song.

76. Jaintia.

77. 2.Muga silk is the product of the silkworm Antheraea
assamensis endemic to Assam. Name the town in
Assam known for producing Muga as well as Eri and
Pat silk.

79. 3. The emblem of central cottage
industries emporium is an artefact
from West Bengal . Name it.

80. BANKURA HORSE

81. 4.The picture here is aTibetan
Buddhist painting on cotton,
or silk appliqué, usually
depicting a Buddhist deity or
scene,. They are traditionally
kept unframed and rolled up
when not on display. Most of
them were intended for
personal meditation or
instruction of monastic
students.A central "deity" is
often surrounded by other
identified figures in a
symmetrical composition.
Name it.

83. 5.This dance form is performed
around a clay lantern with a
light inside representing the
fetus in the womb.The dancers
thus honour Durga, the
feminine form of divinity.
Identify the dance form.

84. GARBA

85. 6.Approximately a dozen manuscripts of this script
were recovered from Gunjala, a village in Adilabad
district of Telangana recently.
It is used to write a language which was using
Devnagri or Telugu scripts till now.
Identify the language.

87. 7.History states that Queen Ahilya Bai
Holkar brought skilled weavers and
made them set up looms to teach the
art of weaving to the local
population.The patterns created by the
waves of the Rehwa river was
supposed to be an inspiration to the
designs of this handloom.
When this tradition was in loss, the
Holkar family once again stepped in
.Richard and Sally Holkar created the
Rehwa Society. While retaining
traditional designs, this society
introduced new concepts.
Now it is a very popular handloom
known for its silk and cotton sarees.
Name the product.

88. MAHESHWARI SARI

89. 8. Identify the town in Karnataka known for its metal ware which
came to prominence in the Bahamani sultans in the 14th–15th
centuries. It is of Persian origin. It was brought to India by the
followers of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti. The art form developed in the
kingdom was a mix of Turkey, Persia and Arabic countries .

90. BIDAR
The art is known as BIDRI

91. 9.Name this musical instrument which
is a long hollow tube filled with small
pebbles or beans. It is believed to have
been invented by the Aztecs. Originally
it was made of dried Cactus.

92. RAIN MAKER
OR RAIN STICK

93. 10. The Dao is a multi-
purpose weapon. It is
used to fell trees, cut
fowls, divide meat, carve
posts and kill enemies - in
fact for any kind of work
involving cutting. The
weapon consists of a
blade about twelve inches
long, its breath being
more at the tip than at the
base. The blade is fitted
into a wooden handle
which is tightly bound
with cane . Some decorate
their Dao handle with
goat's hair. The Dao is
carried in a holder at the
back.
Who uses it?

94. The NAGAS

95. Thank you