Art & Culture Section 5 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

Answer: (c)

The Lahore Fort was built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (ruled 1556-1605) in the 1560s on a site of an earlier citadel that had been built, rebuilt and demolished by several Mughal rulers.

Akbar’s fort was modified by his successors and later by the British rulers as well but in 1981, UNESCO inscribed it on the World Heritage Site List as one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture.

The Lahore Fort is located in the city of Lahore, the capital of the province of Punjab in Pakistan.

Answer: (b)

Pt. Ravi Shankar was a famous sitar player. Shankar won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the 1957 Berlin International Film Festival for composing the music for the movie Kabuliwala.

He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1962 and was named a Fellow of the academy for 1975. Shankar was awarded the three highest national civil honours of India:

• Padma Bhushan, in 1967,
• Padma Vibhushan, in 1981, and
• Bharat Ratna, in 1999.

He received the music award of the UNESCO International Music Council in 1975, three Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award.