1. Raghu Rai is famous for his

A) Paintings

B) Music Direction

C) Choreography

D) Photography

2. Pandit Ravishankar is an exponent of

A) Flute

B) Sitar

C) Violin

D) Tabla

3. Sanjukta Panigrahi is an exponent of

A) Kathak

B) Bhatata Natyam

C) Odissi

D) Lavni

4. Ammannur Mani Madhava Chakyar was an exponent of

A) Kudiyaattam

B) Satriya

C) Kuchipudi

D) Chau


5. The famous anti-war painting "Guernica" was painted by

A) Van Gough

B) Michaelangelo

C) Picasso

D) Nandlal Bose

6. The 18th century child prodigy, who is one of the most prolific and influential composers of western classical music

A) Vivaldi

B) Stravinsky

C) Mozart

D) Tchaikovsky

7. The contemporary practice, in which performers surprise people by dancing in urban public places without prior announcement is known as

A) Flash Mob

B) Jam

C) Potpourri

D) Improvisation

8. Rahul Ram, the vocalist of the band Indian Ocean, has recently teamed with two stand-up comedians for an irreverent popular show called

A) Comedy Kings

B) Aisi Taisi Democracy

C) Laughter Challenge

D) Commedia

9. Kabir Kala Manch, a group that performs protest songs is from the state of

A) Delhi

B) Uttar Pradesh

C) Bihar

D) Maharashtra


10. Leonardo DiCaprio won the recent Oscar award for best actor for his role in the film


A) The Covenant

B) The Great Gasby

C) The Revenant

D) Titanic

11. Vishal Bhardwaj's film "Haider" is based on this Shakespeare play

A) Coriolanus

B) Hamlet

C) The Tempest

D) Henry IV

12. "Annihilation ofCaste" is written by

A) B. R. Ambedkar

B) Ram Manohar Lohia

C) Mahatma Gandhi

D) Vinoba Bhave

13. The Child rights activist, who founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan and received Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Malala Yousufzai in 2014 is

A) Rippon Kapoor

B) Kailash Satyarthi

C) Mother Theresa

D) Flavia Agnes


14. is a Hyderabad based player, ranked at the top in the international women's badminton

MaryKom

Sania Mirza

Saina Nehwal

KaranamMalleswari

15. The famous theatre director from Manipur, who was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2016 is

A) Sukracharya Rabha

B) Sankhya Ibotombi

C) Heishnam Kanhailal

D) Baharul Islam

16. The returning of awards by writers and artists in protest against the alleged increase in intolerance in the country was triggered by the returning ofSahitya Academy Award by

A) Nayantara Sahgal

B) Krishna Sobti

C) Chetan Bhagat

D) Baba Nagarjun

17. The leader of Bhoomata Ranragini Brigade, spearheading the ongoing movement for equal access for women into temples and other places ofworship is

A) Medha Patkar

B) Sonali Kulkarni

C) Trupti Desai

D) SadhviPrachi

18. Andha Yug (The Dark a play in Hindi is written by

A) Shankar Sesh

B) Dharamvir Bharti

C) Swadesh Deepak

D) Nag Bodas

19. Tamasha is a traditional theatre form from the state of

A) Uttar Pradesh

B) Jharkhand

C) Maharashtra

D) Bihar

20. Bhand Pather is a traditional theatre form from the state of

A) Gujarat

B) Jammu Kashmir

C) Madhya Pradesh

D) Chhattisgarh

21. Keertan and Thang-ta are performance forms from the state of

A) Manipur

B) Arunachal Pradesh

C) Nagaland

D) Assam

22. Bhavai is a folk theatre form from the state of

A) Gujarat

B) Jammu Kashmir

C) Madhya Pradesh

D) Chhattisgarh

23. Therukoothu is a folk theatre form from the state of


A) Kerala

B) Tamil Nadu

C) Maharashtra

D) Orissa

24. The lost form of Urdu story-telling performance that is revived in 21st century is

A) Mushaira

B) Caravaan

C) Afsana

D) Dastaangoi


25. The name ofthe repertory company led by Ratan Thiyam in Manipur is

A) Chorus Repertory Company

B) Kalakshetra Repertory

C) Little Theatre Group

D) Dapon Theatre Group


26. Habib Tanvir was doing modem theatre, using folk perfonners from

A) Gujarat

B) Maharashtra

C) Bihar

D) Chhattisgarh


27. The director ofNSD Repertory's classic Bamam Van (Macbeth), known for introducing Yakshgana into modem Kannada and Hindi theatres is

A) B. M. Shah

B) V. Ram Murthy

C) B. V. Karanth

D) G. Shankar Pillai

28. Kalidas appears as a character in the play

A) Chandra Gupta

B) Ashadh Ka Ek Din

C) Abhigyana Shakuntalam

D) Evam Indrajit

29. IPTA stands for

A) International Popular Theatre Academy

B) Indian People's Theatre Association

C) Indian Progressive Theatre Arts

D) Indian People's Trade Association

30. Prithvi T theatre in Mumbai commemorates the Parsi style theatre company of

A) Prithviraj Chouhan

B) Prithvi Singh

C) Prithviraj Kapoor

D) Prithvi Mata

31. is a veteran dancer and actress. She worked with Uday Shankar, Ebrahim Alkazi and even Mani Ratnam. She passed away in 2014, at the age of 102.

A) Zohra Sehgal

B) Sheila Bhatia

C) Begum Qudsia Zaidi

D) Meena Kumari


32. The theatre in Bangalore, built in memory oftheatre and film veteran Shankar Nag is

A) Shankara Ranga Shale

B) Naga Mandala

C) S.N. Kalakshetra

D) Ranga Shankara

33. The pioneering theatre group from Pune, which created the original Ghasiram Kotwal is

A) Theatre Academy

B) Rangayan

C) Ranga Bhoomi

D) NCPA

34. The Sanskrit play Oorubhangam is written by

A) Visakhadatta

B) Raja Martanda Verma

C) Bhasa

D) Kalidasa

35. Oedipus Rex (King Oedipus), the classical Greek play is written by

A) Angelopoulos

B) Papadopoulos

C) Onassis

D) Sophocles

36. Chandalika, a dance drama in Bengali is written by

A) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

B) Ravindranath Tagore

C) Hemago Biswas

D) Uday Shankar

37. Nabanna (Harvest), a play on Bengal famine of 1943 is written by

A) Sunil Ganguly

B) Dinabandhu Mitra

C) Utpal Dutt

D) Bijon Bhattacharya

38. Shantata! Court Tsaalu Ahe (Silence! The Court is in Session) is a Marathi play written by

A) G. P. Deshpande

B) Satish Alekar .

C) Vijay Tendulkar

D) Mahesh Elkunchwar


39. Michill (The Procession) is a Bengali play written by the exponent of Third Theatre

A) Badal Sircar

B) Manoj Mitra

C) Shanka Ghosh

D) Nazrul Islam

40. Jo Kumaraswami and Siri Sampige are Kannada plays written by

A) H. S. Shivaprakash

B) Chandrashekhara Kambara

C) Devanoora Mahadeva

D) P. Lankesh

41. Halla Bol, the Hindi street play is written by the founder of Jana Natya Manch

A) Saba Zaidi

B) Badal Sircar

C) Arvind Gaur

D) Safdar Hashmi


42. Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare

A) Macbeth

B) Romeo and Juliet

C) Emperor Jones

D) King Lear


43. The Norwegian play A Doll's House is written by

A) Goethe

B) August Strindberg

C) Henrik Ibsen

D) Johannes Vermeer

44. The German play Caucasian Chalk Circle is written by

A) Schiller

B) Bertold Brecht

C) Peter Weiss

D) Goethe

45. According to Natyasastra, the ultimate aim of a performance is an experience of

A) Rasa

B) Itivrittam

C) Alamkara

D) Vritti

46. According to Aristotle's Poetics, the purpose of tragedy is the experience of

A) Pleasure

B) Disgust

C) Catharsis

D) Anger

47. The portable half curtain, used in Sanskrit theatre for entry of important characters is called

A) Nepathya

B) Mattavaarini

C) Yavanika

D) Ahaarya


48. The most used stage arrangement today, which has an arch in the front, wings on sides and a cyclorama or back curtain is called stage

A) Environmental

B) Sandwich

C) Arena

D) Proscenium

49. The device used for controlling the intensity of lights during a performance is called

A) Mixer

B) Dimmer

C) Conditioner

D) Switch

50. The "PAR" in par light stands for

A) Parabolic Aluminized Reflector

B) Paradoxical Alternative Range

C) Paranoid Active Reflector

D) Parallel Automatic Reflector