(Q1) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Mrinalini Sarabhai was awarded the ___________ in 1992.
Bharat Ratna
Padma Shri
Padma Bhushan
Padma Vibhushan
(Q2) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Who won the Saraswati Samman for the year 2020?
Amitabha Bagchi
Padma Sachdev
Sharankumar Limbale
Leeladhar Jagudi
(Q3) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Malka Jaan of Agra Gharana was the court musician at the durbar of which of the following Nawabs of Calcutta?
Asaf-ud-Daula
Shuza-ud-Daula
Wajid Ali Shah
Mohammad Ali Shah
(Q4) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Uma Sharma was conferred the Padma Bhushan award for enriching which of the following forms of Classical Dances in India?
Kathak
Bharatanatyam
Manipuri
Odissi
(Q5) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Which group was given the name ‘paraffin’ earlier?
Alkanes
Acids
Aldehydes
Alcohols
(Q6) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Pavithran was conferred the Padma Shri award for her contribution to which of the following dance forms?
Mohiniyattam
Bharatanatyam
Kuchipudi
Kathak
(Q7) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
The famous folk musician Bhupen Hazarika belongs to which of the following states?
Karnataka
Odisha
Madhya Pradesh
Assam
(Q8) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Who among the following authors won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in the year 2019?
Jairam Ramesh
Dinyar Patel
Ornit Shani
Milan Vaishnav
(Q9) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, a renowned musician from India is known for playing which of the following instruments?
Veena
Jaltarang
Sarod
Sarangi
(Q10) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Which of the following Carnatic instruments is performed by Rajna Swaminathan?
Flute
Violin
Mridangam
Veena
(Q11) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Which of the following instruments is played by P Mani Iyer?
Mridangam
Mandolin
Sarangi
Violin
(Q12) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
C V Chandra Shekhar was conferred the Padma Bhushan for his contributions to which of the following forms of Dance?
Manipuri
Kathak
Kathakali
Bharatanatyam
(Q13) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Three Indians were named amongst Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ of 2021. Who among the following is NOT one of them?
Mamata Banerjee
Narendra Modi
Adar Poonawalla
Gautam Adani
(Q14) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Which Indian musician won the Grammys in 2015 in the Best New Age Album category, his album Winds of Samsara was a collaboration with a South African falutist Wouter Kellerman?
Alokananda Dasgupta
Sadhu Kokila
Rickey Kej
Stephen Devassy
(Q15) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
In February 2022, which of the following persons was nominated for Laureus ‘World Breakthrough of the Year’ award?
Vinesh Phogat
Neeraj Chopra
Sachin Tendulkar
Max Parrot
(Q16) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Which of the following Indian classical Bharatanatyam dancers received the honours of Padma Shri in 1981 and Padma Bhushan in 2003?
Mallika Sarabhai
Padma Subrahmanyam
Savitha Sastry
Rukmini Devi
(Q17) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Which of the following Indian classical singers was known as Mallika-e-Ghazal or the Queen of Ghazal and got appreciations by the Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu at the age of fifteen?
Suraiya
Amrutha Suresh
Chitra Singh
Begum Akhtar
(Q18) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Sonal Mansingh, the classical dance legend, has NOT received which of the following awards?
Padma Shri
Padma Bhushan
Padma Vibhushan
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
(Q19) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Who among the following Indian musicians introduced shehnai to the concert stage and was selected to perform for the ceremony at Delhi’s historic Red Fort on the occasion of India’s Independence Day on 15 August 1947?
Ali Ahmad Hussain
Ali Bakhsh
Bismillah Khan
Anant Lal
(Q20) General Knowledge » Awards and Honors
Mallika Sarabhai, a Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer, was awarded with the Padma Bhushan in which of the following years?
2012
2008
2010
2006