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#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
41	Which vocal form is made up of sthayi, antara, sanchari and abhog and is accompanied by the pakhawaj?	Performing Arts Hindustani forms	Easy
42	A song is sung in fast tempo using syllables such as "tana dere na, dir dir" with no meaningful words. It is …	Performing Arts Hindustani forms	Easy
43	Which instrumental composition is a slow sitar gat in Teentaal traditionally starting from the 12th matra?	Performing Arts Hindustani forms	Medium
44	A singer focuses on expressing the shades of meaning of a romantic Braj text in raga Khamaj, with flexible ra…	Performing Arts Hindustani forms	Medium
45	Which ruler's court at Gwalior is most closely associated with the flowering of dhrupad?	Performing Arts Hindustani forms	Hard
46	What is the correct order of the three sections of a Karnatak kriti?	Performing Arts Karnatak forms	Easy
47	Which Karnatak form, built on rhythmic syllables, usually brings a Bharatanatyam recital to a close?	Performing Arts Karnatak forms	Easy
48	The best-known composer of Telugu padams, used widely for abhinaya in dance, is:	Performing Arts Karnatak forms	Medium
49	In a Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi, a singer repeats one line of the pallavi with improvised melodic variations while k…	Performing Arts Karnatak forms	Hard
50	A tillana in Karnatak music is closest in character to which Hindustani form?	Performing Arts Karnatak forms	Medium
51	Who is honoured as the "Karnataka Sangeeta Pitamaha" for framing the basic graded lessons of Karnatak music?	Performing Arts Musicians and composers	Easy
52	Which musicologist classified Hindustani ragas into ten thaats and wrote the Kramik Pustak Malika?	Performing Arts Musicians and composers	Easy
53	Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi were all trained by the same guru. Who was he?	Performing Arts Musicians and composers	Medium
54	The Pancharatna kritis are a famous set of five compositions by:	Performing Arts Musicians and composers	Medium
55	A vocalist was a disciple of Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, headed the music faculty at BHU and wrote Sangeetanjal…	Performing Arts Musicians and composers	Hard
56	Which ancient text gives the fourfold classification of instruments into tata, avanaddha, sushir and ghana?	Performing Arts Classification of instruments	Easy
57	The shehnai and the nadaswaram belong to which class of instruments?	Performing Arts Classification of instruments	Easy
58	The ghatam, a clay pot used in Karnatak concerts, is classified as:	Performing Arts Classification of instruments	Medium
59	The santoor is played by striking strings with light wooden hammers. In which class does it fall?	Performing Arts Classification of instruments	Medium
60	Which group contains only avanaddha instruments?	Performing Arts Classification of instruments	Hard