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4651	Which festival offers dance to Lord Nataraja at Chidambaram around Maha Shivaratri?	Performing Arts Dance institutions and festivals	Medium
4652	Which Kathak gharana is especially noted for grace, delicate abhinaya and development at the court of Wajid A…	Performing Arts Dance institutions and festivals	Medium
4653	The Kathak Kendra in New Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy in Imphal function as units of …	Performing Arts Dance institutions and festivals	Hard
4654	Which tabla stroke is produced by playing Ta on the dayan and Ge on the bayan together?	Performing Arts Tabla, pakhawaj and mridangam	Easy
4655	The wooden blocks placed under the leather straps of the tabla and moved to adjust pitch are called:	Performing Arts Tabla, pakhawaj and mridangam	Medium
4656	Which pair of tabla gharanas is known for the "band baaj" (closed style)?	Performing Arts Tabla, pakhawaj and mridangam	Medium
4657	Which drum is the traditional accompaniment of dhrupad and has wheat dough applied to its bass head?	Performing Arts Tabla, pakhawaj and mridangam	Easy
4658	A barrel drum carved from jackfruit wood, with semolina paste applied on the left head, is played in a Karnat…	Performing Arts Tabla, pakhawaj and mridangam	Hard
4659	A phrase is played three times so that its last bol falls exactly on sam. This device is called:	Performing Arts Percussion terms	Easy
4660	A tabla player presents a fixed theme and then develops variations using only the bols of that theme, ending …	Performing Arts Percussion terms	Easy
4661	In a Karnatak tani avartanam, which pattern is played three times to end exactly on the sam, as a counterpart…	Performing Arts Percussion terms	Medium
4662	A composition with heavy, open bols such as "dhage tita kata gadi gana", derived from the pakhawaj, is called:	Performing Arts Percussion terms	Medium
4663	A tukda containing its own tihai is repeated three times, and only the third tihai is timed to land on sam. T…	Performing Arts Percussion terms	Hard
4664	In Bhatkhande notation, how is a note of the taar saptak shown?	Performing Arts Notation systems	Easy
4665	Which mark shows that Ma is teevra in Bhatkhande notation?	Performing Arts Notation systems	Easy
4666	In Karnatak taal notation, what does the symbol U stand for?	Performing Arts Notation systems	Medium
4667	How many beats does a khanda jati laghu contain?	Performing Arts Notation systems	Medium
4668	A taal is written as I O O with a misra jati laghu. How many beats does one cycle have?	Performing Arts Notation systems	Hard
4669	How many matras does Sooltaal have?	Performing Arts Prescribed taals	Easy
4670	Which Karnatak suladi taal has the anga pattern I O I I?	Performing Arts Prescribed taals	Easy
4671	Ata taal (I I O O) in its usual khanda jati has how many aksharas?	Performing Arts Prescribed taals	Medium
4672	What is the length of Jhampa taal (I U O) in its usual misra jati?	Performing Arts Prescribed taals	Medium
4673	Matya taal has the pattern I O I. How many aksharas does it have in tisra jati?	Performing Arts Prescribed taals	Hard
4674	Pandit Kishan Maharaj was a tabla exponent of which gharana?	Performing Arts Percussionists	Easy
4675	Zakir Hussain was the son and disciple of which tabla maestro?	Performing Arts Percussionists	Easy
4676	Which instrument is associated with both Raja Chhatrapati Singh and Purushottam Das?	Performing Arts Percussionists	Medium
4677	Palghat Mani Iyer is remembered as a master of which instrument?	Performing Arts Percussionists	Medium
4678	Match: P. Purushottam Das, Q. Palani Subramania Pillai, R. Kishan Maharaj with 1. Banaras tabla, 2. Nathdwara…	Performing Arts Percussionists	Hard
4679	Which Sanskrit play, about Charudatta and Vasantasena, is known for its realistic picture of city life?	Performing Arts Indian classical and traditional theatre	Easy
4680	The dramatist best known for karuna rasa and the play Uttararamacharita is:	Performing Arts Indian classical and traditional theatre	Easy
4681	Which play attributed to Bhasa is unusual in Sanskrit drama for showing the death of its central character on…	Performing Arts Indian classical and traditional theatre	Medium
4682	Which traditional theatre form of Kerala is the oldest surviving form of Sanskrit theatre?	Performing Arts Indian classical and traditional theatre	Medium
4683	Match: P. Tamasha, Q. Bhavai, R. Jatra with 1. Gujarat, 2. Bengal, 3. Maharashtra.	Performing Arts Indian classical and traditional theatre	Hard
4684	Andher Nagari, a satirical play, was written by:	Performing Arts Modern Indian theatre	Easy
4685	Which playwright wrote Tughlaq and Hayavadana?	Performing Arts Modern Indian theatre	Easy
4686	Ashadh Ka Ek Din, a Hindi play centred on the life of Kalidasa, is by:	Performing Arts Modern Indian theatre	Medium
4687	A director rejects the proscenium stage and performs plays in rooms and open spaces, close to the audience an…	Performing Arts Modern Indian theatre	Medium
4688	Charandas Chor, performed with Chhattisgarhi folk actors, is the best-known production of:	Performing Arts Modern Indian theatre	Hard
4689	Which Greek tragedian wrote the Oresteia trilogy?	Performing Arts Western classical drama	Easy
4690	Oedipus Rex and Antigone are tragedies by:	Performing Arts Western classical drama	Easy
4691	According to Aristotle's Poetics, which of the six elements of tragedy is the most important?	Performing Arts Western classical drama	Medium
4692	Medea, in which a wronged wife takes terrible revenge, was written by:	Performing Arts Western classical drama	Medium
4693	Statement I: Sophocles introduced the third actor into Greek tragedy. Statement II: The skene was the semicir…	Performing Arts Western classical drama	Hard
4694	Which playwright wrote A Doll's House and is called the father of modern drama?	Performing Arts Modern Western theatre	Easy
4695	Waiting for Godot, a key play of the Theatre of the Absurd, was written by:	Performing Arts Modern Western theatre	Easy
4696	A director uses placards, songs and a narrator so that the audience stays critically aware that it is watchin…	Performing Arts Modern Western theatre	Medium
4697	Stanislavski developed his system of acting while working at which theatre?	Performing Arts Modern Western theatre	Medium
4698	Match: P. Chekhov, Q. Shaw, R. Brecht with 1. Mother Courage and Her Children, 2. The Cherry Orchard, 3. Pygm…	Performing Arts Modern Western theatre	Hard
4699	In which type of stage does the audience sit on three sides of the acting area?	Performing Arts Theatre production and architecture	Easy
4700	An actor is told to "move upstage". In which direction should she go?	Performing Arts Theatre production and architecture	Easy