1. Bishnupur in the Bankura District of West Bengal is famous for

a) Handwoven silk sarees

b) Terracotta Temples

c) Temple Dance traditions

d) Sufi music

2. The five famous Jain marble temples situated near Mount Abu are known as

a) Deenanath shrines

b) Adinatha group

c) Dilwara Temples

d) Mahanavami Group

3. The Great Wall is in

a) Russia

b) China

c) Turkey

d) Brazil

4. The Union Budget this year was presented by

a) Sushma Swaraj

b) Shashi Tharoor

c) Arun Jaitley

d) D Raja

5. The city that hosts an Annual important Literary Festival in India is

a) Jaipur

b) Kanpur

c) Jabalpur

d) Kanha

6. The Musee du Louvre is in

a) Madrid

b) Sao Paulo

c) Venice

d) Paris

7. The Hamzanama series of paintings was painted in the court of

a) Emperor Akbar

b) Sher Shah

c) Qutubuddin Aibak

d) Ibrahim Lodi

8.The famous drawing ofVitruvian Man was drawn by

a) Leonardo Vinci

b) Michelangelo

c) Raphael

d) Titian

9. The recent discovery that confirmed Einstein's General theory of Relativity was of

a) New Planet in our solar system

b) Recorded Sound ofGravitational Waves

c) Tsunami Waves

d) Solar Panels

10. The art practice based on ideas ofIndian Nationalism and Revivalism before Independence was

a) Group 1890

b) Bombay Progressives

c) Art Craft Movement

d) Bengal School of Art

11. Priyanka Chopra was the first South Asian woman to headline an American Network Series called

a) Quantico

b) Star wars

c) Stepford Wives

d) Downton Abbey

12. The Current Secretary-General of the United Nations is

a) Kofi Annan

b) Ban ki Moon

c) Madeleine Albright

d) Angela Markel

13. The Koh-i-noor is the name of a

a) Famous diamond that sits in the Queen Mother's Crown

b) Royal emblem of the Kakatiya Kings

c) Golden throne in a Mughal palace

d) Robe worn during ritual prayers

14. The Golden Temple in Amritsar is the name given to

a) Gurudwara BangIa Sahib

b) Hannandir Sahib Darbar Sahib Gurudwara

c) Nanak Sahib Gurudwara

d) Manikaran Sahib Gurudwara

15. The following is not a center ofTraditional Rajasthani Painting in India

a) Kota

b) Bundi

c) Udaipur

d) Kangra


16. The name of the student whose suicide on campus has triggered debate is

a) Dhrubajit Choudhary

b) Hrithik Patel

c) Rohit Vemula

d) Osman Khan

17. A residential hall for monks in a Buddhist cave temple is called

a) Stupa

b) Chaitya

c) Vihara

d) Pagoda

18. Which among these is not a Print Making technique

a) Lithography

b) Mezzotint

c) Die casting

d) Aquatint



19. Which Art Design college is located outside India?

a) Rhode Island School of Design

b) NID

c) NIFT

d) Srishti Institute ofArt, Design Technology


20. The main ingerdients used in Ceramic art are

a) Bronze and wax

b) Clay and silica

c) Oil and cloth

d) None of the above

21. The Indian artist who is known for the representation of "Bindu", IS

a) Ram Kumar

b) G R Santhosh

c) SHRaza

d) N S Bendre

22. The influential architect who designed a a new city in independent India was

a) Louis Kahn

b) Le Corbusier

c) Laurie Baker

d) Claude Batley

23. Egyptian civilization was prevalant during

a) Palaeolithic period

b) Early Bronze Age

c) Late Neolithic period

d) Early Iron age

24. Sarcophagus is a box used for

a) Funeral

b) Marriage

c) Coronation

d) Birth

25. Jataka Tales are the stories of previous births of

a) Mahavira

b) Krishna

c) Buddha

d) Siva


26. The Indian artist who has extensively explored the use of photography in her works is

a) Manisha Parekh

b) Mrinalini Mukherjee

c) Pushpamala N

d) Arpita Singh

27.Who is not a photographer from the following?

a) Dayanita Singh

b) Seba Chachi

c) Ketaki Sheth

d) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

28. Akka Mahadevi is a

a) Goddess

b) Bhakti poet

c) Devadasi

d) Yakshini

29. Which artist who was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government ofIndia this year?

a) TV Santosh

b) N Pushpamala

c) Laxma Goud

d) Suneel Mamadapur

30. The famous large mural painted in 1937 that depicts the violence and suffering
experienced during the Spanish Civil War is

a) Saturn devouring his son

b) Liberty Leading the People

c) Massacre at Chios

d) Guernica

31. Who among these was not a muralist from Mexico?

a) Juan Gris

b) Diego Rivera

c) Jose Clemente Orozco

d) David Alfaro Sequiros

32. Ustad Mansur at the court of Emperor Jahangir was famous for

a) Portrait Paintings

b) Landscape Paintings

c) Animal and Bird Paintings

d) Calligraphy

33. The name Company Painting is given to a group of images painted by

a) Indian painters for the British

b) British painters for the Indian Rulers

c) British painters for British Elites

d) Indian artists working for Computer companies


34. Mattanchery Palace famous for its depictions of deities and rulers is in

a) Trivandrum

b) Palakkad

c) Kochi

d) Kanya Kumari

35. The Chennakesava Temple in Belur was built by the

a) Hoysala Kings

b) Chalukyan Kings

c) Nolamba Kings

d) Satavahana Kings

36. In the 19th century, Battala woodcut prints were in popular demand in

a) Lahore

b) Patna

c) Calcutta

d) Rawalpindi

37. Chittara is a folk art practice ofDeevaru community from

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Telangana

c) Kerala

d) Kamataka


38. A famous pilgrimage place for Buddhists in India is

a) Jogeshwari

b) Bijapur

c) Thanjavur

d) Samath

39. Tesserae are tiles used in

a) Scroll painitng

b) Water colour painting

c) Mosaic panitng

d) Oil painitng

40. The artist who has used the Dokra craft technique ofBastar in her works is

a) Surekha

b) Nasreen Mohammedi

c) Meera Mukherjee

d) Navjot.Altaf

41. Theatrical light was the key element in the style of the painting of

a) Cubism

b) Renaissance

c) Neo-plasticism

d) Baroque

42. In 1969, Gulam Mohammed Sheik1:1, Bhupen Kakkar and a group of enthusiasts founded the art magazine named

a) Art India

b) Art Galleria

c) Avantika

d) Vrishchik

43. A traditional religious and portable art form ofIndia that uses text and image is

a) Palm leaf manuscripts

b) Codex Books

c) Pichwai

d) Kaavad

44. Pabuji ka Phad is a religious scroll painting tradition in which stories of folk deities are narrated by bhopas in

a) Telangana

b) Rajasthan

c) Maharatra

d) Gujarat

45. Sand Painting is an Aboriginal art form that is still practised in

a) Australia

b) Antarctica

c) Europe

d) South Asia

46. The reference texts used for building of classical Hindu temple architecture is

a) Vigyan Shastra

b) Tattva Bodha

c) Artha Shastra

d) Agama Shastras

47. The Chitrasutra of the Vishnudharmottara Purana is a treatise on

a) Medicine

b) Minerals

c) Painting

d) Palace

48. Art Nouveau is the name given to a Late 19th, Early 20th century

a) War

b) Play

c) Art Movement

d) Music

49. Donato Bramante, Michaelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the

a) Apostolic Palace

b) Santa Maria Novella

c) Santa Trinita Church

d) St. Peter's Basilica

50. The mural Thirteen Most Wanted Men was created by the famous Pop artist

a) Henri Matisse

b) Pablo Picasso

c) Andy Warhol

d) Umberto Boccioni