Art & Culture Personalities Questions with Solutions
This topic covers the people behind India's art and culture: classical and folk dancers, vocalists and instrumentalists, painters, sculptors, theatre and film personalities, and the gurus who founded or revived art forms. Questions also cover the art form each person is known for and the honours they have received. Exams typically name a person and ask for their art form, or name an art form and ask who popularised it. Recent Padma award winners from the arts appear often, so link each name to the field and state the award was given for. Since award lists change every year, always revise from the latest official list rather than relying on older notes. Practise the art and culture personalities questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.
- Q21.
The poet Vallathol Narayana Menon and Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma revived and rejuvenated which dance form?
A. KuchipudiB. OdissiC. BharatanatyamD. MohiniyattammediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q22.
Roshan Kumari and Shovana Narayan are well-known artists of which dance form?
A. BharatanatyamB. OdissiC. KathakD. KuchipudimediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q23.
Jatin Goswami is a renowned exponent of which classical dance?
A. SattriyaB. OdissiC. KathakD. ManipurimediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q24.
Vyjayanthimala, the film actress and politician, was an exponent of which dance form?
A. OdissiB. MohiniyattamC. BharatanatyamD. KathakeasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q25.
Sujata Mohapatra and Madhavi Mudgal are renowned for which dance form?
A. KuchipudiB. SattriyaC. KathakaliD. OdissieasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q26.
Darshana Jhaveri and Devjani Chaliha are renowned for which dance form?
A. MohiniyattamB. KathakC. ManipuriD. BharatanatyammediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q27.
Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam, a Padma Bhushan awardee, was associated with which dance form?
A. KuchipudiB. BharatanatyamC. KathakaliD. OdissieasyAsked in SSC +1View solution › - Q28.
Raja Reddy and Radha Reddy are famous proponents of which dance form?
A. OdissiB. MohiniyattamC. KathakD. KuchipudieasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q29.
E. Krishna Iyer is associated with the revival of which classical dance?
A. KathakaliB. KathakC. ManipuriD. BharatanatyammediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q30.
Guru Kunchu Kurup is related to which dance form?
A. KathakaliB. KuchipudiC. SattriyaD. OdissimediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q31.
Who is known as the 'Shakespeare of Bhojpuri'?
A. Ramdhari Singh DinkarB. Phanishwar Nath RenuC. VidyapatiD. Bhikhari ThakurmediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q32.
Guru Mayadhar Raut is a renowned exponent of which dance form?
A. OdissiB. BharatanatyamC. KathakaliD. KuchipudimediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q33.
Shobha Naidu is an exponent of which classical dance?
A. KathakB. ManipuriC. OdissiD. KuchipudieasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q34.
Sharon Lowen, a well-known Odissi dancer, belongs to which country?
A. AustraliaB. United KingdomC. United States of AmericaD. ItalyhardAsked in SSCView solution › - Q35.
Guru Bipin Singh, often called the father of modern Manipuri dance, was renowned for which dance?
A. Kathak danceB. Manipuri danceC. Odissi danceD. Sattriya danceeasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q36.
Padma Shri awardee Satyaram Reang, a Hojagiri dancer, belongs to which state?
A. TripuraB. ManipurC. AssamD. MizorammediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q37.
T. Balasaraswati, who received the Sangita Kalanidhi from the Madras Music Academy in 1973, was an exponent of:
A. KathakaliB. KuchipudiC. BharatanatyamD. MohiniyattammediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q38.
Music composer Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, popularly known as 'Rupkonwar', belonged to which state?
A. TripuraB. West BengalC. AssamD. OdishamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q39.
Surupa Sen, a dancer of the Nrityagram ensemble, is famous for which dance form?
A. OdissiB. KathakC. KathakaliD. BharatanatyammediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q40.
Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, who created the style called 'Bharata Nrithyam', is a dancer of:
A. KathakB. OdissiC. BharatanatyamD. KathakalimediumAsked in SSCView solution ›