Fine Arts: No.QuestionAnswer 01The Persian epic Shahnama was written byFirdausi 02Mohenjadaro literally meansMound of Corpes 03The Classic "Measure for Measure"was written byWilliam Shakespeare 04The composer of Geet Govind wasJayadev 05By the middle of the 1st century,the city that was famous for fine arts wasPataliputra 06The first Cartoonist to win the B.D.Goenka Award wasR.K.Laxman 07The magazine started by M.Karunanidhi wasMurasoli 08Shakespeare's last play wasThe Tempest 09Bismillah Khan is a famousMusician 10Bismillah Khan specialises inShahnai Vadan 11The famous museum located in Hyderabad isSalarjung 12Vinoba Bhave,author,started a famous movement known asBhoodan Movement 13Geetha Pravachan in Marathi was written byVinoba Bhave 14The ancient Buddhist University Nalanda was located in the state ofBihar 15The architectural style in which Taj Mahal is built isIndo persian 16Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for his bookGitanjali 17Tamil Ramayanam was authoblack byKambar 18The oldest collection of stories in India isKathasaritsagara 19The instrument played by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan isSarod 20The Biography of Dr.Samuel Johnson was written byJames Bosewell 21Subramanya Bharthi was a notedPoet 22K.V.Subbabba,who won the Magsaysay Award was fromHeggodu,Karnataka 23The heroine of the film `Cleopatra' wasElizabeth Taylor 24"Bhagvatgeet"the movie which won the Lotus Award was made in which LanguageSanskrit 25The only Indian actor to have received the Oscar award isSatyajit Ray 26Bhimsen Joshi is associated withHindustani Music 27The B.C.Roy National Award for the year 1981 was received byDr.Harindranath Chattopadhyaya 28National Anthem of India was written byRabindranath Tagore 29The first film of Ashok Kumar wasJeevanayya 30The dancer who,inspite of losing one leg,dances and acts in films isSudha Chandran 31The studio owned by Raj Kapoor and his family isR.K.Studios 32The author cum adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence was famous forLawrence of Arabia 33William Wordsworth was also known asNature's Poet 34Robert Benchley acted in the filmAuthor 35A comedian who insublack his nose for Ten lakh dollars wasJimmy Durant 36The earlier name of film star Devanand wasDharam Devanand 37The real name of Dilip kumar isYusuf Khan 38Bala Gandharva was a famousStage actor 39Bala Gandharva was so named byBal Gangadhar Tilak 40The lead role in Tamil film Nayakan was played byKamala Hasan 41Hollywood is located inCalifornia,USA 42The book `Life Divine' was written byAurobindo 43The editor of the book `Indian Cartoons' isAbu Abraham 44Canterbury Tales was written byChaucer 45Orthography means the art ofCorrect Spelling 46The book "Mad,Mad,Mad,World of Indian Cinema" was written byK.A.Abbas 47The National Gallery of Modern Art is located atNew Delhi 48"Les miserables" was written byVictor Hugo 49The first opera ever performed wasPersi Dafni 50The word "Opera" meansWorks 51Henrik Isben's first play wasCatalina 52The only comedy written by Jean Racine wasLes Plaideurs 53`Rip Van Wrinkle' was written byWashington Irwing 54The 1995 Jnana Peeth Award was won byM.T.Vasudevan Nair 55The 1997 Booker Prize was won byArundathi Roy 56"Love's Labour Lost"was a play byShakespeare 57The Roman Magsaysay Award 1997 was won byMahasweta Devi 58The collection of Short Stories entitled "Mortal Coils" was written byAldous Hexley 59The play "Enemy of the People" was written byHensik Isben 60The first cinema theater was established atPittsberg,Pensylvania 61The first cinema theater was established in the year1905 AD 62In the play `Macbeth',the king of Scotland isDuncan 63Kesari,a Marathi daily was started byBal Gangadhar Tilak 64The one eyed giant who appeablack in Greek mythology wasCyclops 65"Ajax" was written bySophocles 66"Antigone" was written bySophocles 67"Aparajito", a Bengali film, was directed bySatyajit Ray 68The Piano was discoveblack byGuidod Arezzo 69Sense and Sensibility,was written byJane Austin 70Rabindranath Tagore was popularly known asGurudev 71The author who used a new pen every time he sat down to write a poem wasAlexander Dumas 72The French author who could work only in a darkened room wasEmil Zola 73The writer who was known as the `Wizard of the North' wasWalter Scott 74The noble prize winning novel "The Good Earth" was written byPearl S.Buck 75Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck,the cartoon characters were created byWalt Disney 76Pablo Picasso was fromSpain 77The Comic Character "Tarzan"was created byEdgar Rice Burroughs 78Bernard Shaw wrote the "Far Fetched Fables" at the age of93 years 79The first full-length feature film wasThe Great Train Robbery 80The first full-length feature film was made in the year1903 AD 81The Tansen Awards are given toMusicians 82The Character 1Gulliver' was created byJonathan Swift 83Gulliver's first name wasLumuel 84Treasure Island was written byRobert Louis Stevenson 85The person who is known as father of Carnatic Classical music isPurandaradasa 86`King Solomon's Ring' was written bykonard Lorenz