CurrentMUDDE

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND RELATED MUSICIANS

From TCS 2018-CPO22
By Anushka Tripathi
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1.who among the following is credited with 5. Hariprasad Chaurasia is associated with
single-handedly making the Santoor a which of the following instruments ?
popular classical instrument? 1.Sarod
1.Ulhas Bapat 2. Bansuri
2. Rahul Sharma 3. Shehnai
3. Shiv Kumar Sharma 4. Tabla
4. Bhajan Sopori
6. Pandit Bhawani Shankar is a _________
2. EM Subramaniam, was an exponent of player.
the _______, a musical instrument . 1.tabla
1.guitar 2. tanpura
2.ghatam 3. pakhawaj
3. mandolin 4. dholak
4. pakhawaj
7. Mohanan Chandrasekaran, an awardee
3. Rajeev Janardan is an Indian classical of Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha
________ player of the Imdadkhani Kalanidhi, is a ________ player of carnatic
gharana. classical music.
1.flute 1.violin
2. harmonium 2. flute
3. tabla 3. ghatam
4. sitar 4. mridangam

4. Which of the following is a famous 8. Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Allah Rakha,
Violinist? Ustad Sabir Khan, pt. Kishan Maharaj are
1.Nagai R Muralidharan known for which of the following
2. Sajjad Hussain instruments?
3. Anoushka Shankar 1.Mandolin
4. Krishna R Choudhary 2. Surbahar
3. Tabla
4. Mohan Veena
14. Rajeev Taranath , a disciple of Ali Akbar
9. Who among the following is associated Khan , is a _______ player.
with the Tabla? 1.flute
1.Zakir Hussain 2. santoor
2. Sultan Khan 3. tabla
3. Ajmad Ali Khan 4. sarod
4. Hariprasad Chaurasia
15. Ustad Bismillah Khan is best known for
10. S Balachander a famous musician from playing which of the following instruments?
India is known for playing which of the 1.Sitar
following instruments? 2. Shehnai
1.Sitar 3. Tambura
2. Tabla 4. Sarod
3. Veena
4. Ghatam 16. Pandit Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay
was a ______ player of the Benaras
11. Sheikh Chinna Moula was an exponent Gharana.
of the ______, a musical instrument. 1.tabla
1.veena 2. sarod
2. sitar 3. sarangi
3. mandolin 4. sitar
4. nadaswaram
17. Famous musician Shakoor Khan was
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12. Bickram Ghosh, a recipient of Global 4. Sarod
Indian Music Award, is a music composer
and an Indian classical _________ player. 18. Ustad Allah Rakha is famous for his
1.sarangi contribution to playing which of the following
2. tabla instruments in Indian music?
3. bansuri 1.Santoor
4. tanpura 2. Veena
3. Tabla
13. Padma Vibhushan awardee 4. Ghatam
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman is a ________
player. 19. Which of the following pairs is NOT
1.veena correctly matched.
2. mridangam 1.Ustad Ali Akbar Khan - Sarode
3. tabla 2. Miya Tansen - one of the nine jewels
4. violin 3. Ustad Bismillah Khan - Sitar
4. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia - Bamboo 3. Sitar
flute 4. Bansuri

20. Totaram Sharma is an exponent of 26. Which of the following instruments is

________. played by P Mani Iyer ?
1.flute 1.Mandolin
2. ghatam 2. Violin
3. Pakhawaj 3. Sarangi
4. Nadaswaram 4. Mridangam

21. Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram, an 27. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, a renowned
Indian percussionist, is known for musician from India is known for playing
popularizing which of the following musical which of the following instruments?
instruments ? 1.Veena
1.Sitar 2. Sarod
2. Ghatam 3. Sarangi
3. Tabla 4. Jaltarang
4. Sarangi
28. Which of the following Carnatic
22. Sheikh Chinna Moulana used to play instruments is performed by Rajna
which of the following instruments? Swaminathan?
1.Ghatam 1.Flute
2. Tabla 2. Violin
3. Nadaswaram 3. Mridangam
4. Mridangam 4. Veena

23. Which of the following instruments is 29. Which renowned Tabla player's son is
played by Anokhelal Mishra? also a famous tabla player who has
1.Tabla collaborated with international bands ?
2. Sarod 1.Ustad Bismillah Khan
3. Surbahar 2.Ustad Allah Rakha
4. Shehnai 3. Ustad Rashid Khan
4. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
24. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was
renowned a _______. 30. Who among the following is known as a
1.tabla player Sarangi instrumentalist?
2.classical player 1.T Brinda
3.harmonium player 2. T.N. Krishan
4.sarod player 3. T.M. Krishna
4. Ustad Bundu Khan
25. Vilayat Khan is associated with which
musical instruments? 31. Which of the following Odissi dancers is
1.Santoor also a master of percussion instruments like
2. Tabla Mridangam, Pakhawaj, and Tabla?
1.Sujata Mohapatra 1.Sultan Khan
2. Ramani Ranjan Jena 2. Shahid Parvez
3. Kelucharan Mohapatra 3. Shivkumar Sharma
4. Sudhakar Sahoo 4. Sheikh Chinna Moulana

32. Padma Bhushan awardee Ustad Sabri 38. Who among the following is the best
Khan was a ________ player. Veena player in Hindustani Classical
1.Sarangi music?
2. Sarod 1.Sultan Khan
3. Flute 2. Inayat Hussain Khan
4. Santoor 3. Ustad Asad Ali Khan
4. Ustad Rashid Khan
33. Padma Bhushan awardee Buddhadev
Das Gupta was an Indian classical _______ 39. Who among the following is NOT a tabla
player. player?
1.tabla 1.Tanmoy Bose
2.sarangi 2. Bickram Ghosh
3.tambura 3. G N Balasubramaniam
4.sarod 4. Swapan Chaudhari

34. Who among the following is NOT a

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40. With which musical instrument can you
35. Who among the following is India's only associate the name of Ali Akbar Khan?
publicly well-known woman Shehnai Player 1.Been
? 2. Sarod
1.Binodini Dasi 3. Rudra Veena
2. Bagheshwari Qamar 4. Sarangi
3. Gauhar Jaan
4. Rasoolan Bai 41. Padma Bhushan awardee pandit Nikhil
Jyoti Ghosh was a _______ player.
36. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is a classical 1.harmonium
_______ player. 2. tabla
1.flute 3. flute
2.santoor 4. sarod
3.tabla
4.shehnai 42. Ustad Allah Rakha was famous for
playing the _________.
37. Who among the following is a Sitar 1.bansuri
Player? 2. tabla
3. sitar 3. Harmonium
4. sarod 4. Mridangam

43. Who among the following is an 49. Hafiz Ali Khan was an Indian _______
outstanding Player to have mastered the player of the Bangash gharana.
Surbahar instrument? 1.sarod
1.Ali Akbar Khan 2. santoor
2. Ustad Imarat Khan 3. flute
3. Allauddin Khan 4. Sarangi
4. Abdul Karim Khan
50. Pandit Swapan Chaudhari is associated
44. Pandit Ravi Shankar was one of the with _________ instrument.
best known players of the ______. 1.bansuri
1.tabla 2. sarod
2. sarod 3. Veena
3. sitar 4. tabla
4. Sarangi
51. Which of the following pairs is
45. Padma Bhushan awardee Vikku INCORRECT?
Vinayakram is a _________ player . 1.Kumar Gandharva - Guitar
1.Ghatam 2. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Rudra Veena
2. Pakhawaj 3. Bombay Jayashri - Vocalist
3. Dholak 4. Kadri Gopalnath - Saxophone
4. Tabla
52. A Ghatam is a _________.
46. Pandit Pannalal Ghosh also known as 1.large, narrow-mouthed earthenware
Amal Jyoti Ghosh , was a ______ player pot used as a percussion instrument
and composer. 2. small handheld drum that resembles a
1.bansuri tambourine
2. sarod 3. percussion instrument made of leather
3. tabla and Jackwood
4. sitar 4. wind instrument made of wood and metal

47. Asad Ali Khan is a maestro of playing 53. Which of the following musical
_________. instruments did Dwaram Venkataswamy
1.shehnai Naidu play ?
2.rudra Veena 1.Nadaswaram
3.tabla 2. Violin
4.sitar 3. Veena
4. Mandolin
48. Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman used to
play which of the following instruments? 54. Which of the following is NOT a
1.Violin percussion instrument?
2. Flute 1.Mridangam
2. Tabla 60. 'Chinkara' is a __________ musical
3. Sarod instrument popular in the state of Madhya
4. Ghatam Pradesh.
1.wind
55. Which of the following musical 2. plate
instruments is also known as a ' Mangal 3. membrane
Vaidya' ? 4. stringed
1.Damaru
2. Santoor 61. The traditional binding instrument called
3. Shehnai 'Pena' is related to which of the following
4. Tabla States?
1.Manipur
56. A distinct 'Dhrupad style' is associated 2. Goa
with the _______ gharana . 3. Sikkim
1.Ajrada 4. Kerala
2. Nathdwara
3. Jafarkhani 62. Which of the following musical
4. Bishnupur instruments is an example of the stringed
instruments played by the Manganiars of
57. Which of the following instruments is West Rajasthan ?
normally played in a vertical position and 1.Manjira
with an arched bow ? 2. Jhanj
1.Shehnai 3. Kamaicha
2. Sitar 4. Toomba
3. Sarangi
4. Veena 63. The musical instrument 'kartal' from the
state of Rajasthan comes under the
58. In which state is Ponu Yoksi , a sword- category of ________.
like instrument, used during ceremonial 1.idiophones
dances performed by priests? 2. electrophones
1.Uttar Pradesh 3. membranophones
2. Himachal Pradesh 4. chordophones
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Arunachal Pradesh 64. With which of the following musical
instruments was the musician Palghat Mani
59. The Kamaicha is a bowed flute player Iyer associated?
by the Manganiars of: 1.Flute
1.West Kerala 2. Mridangam
2. West Rajasthan 3. Shehnai
3. West Bihar 4. Sitar
4. West Goa
65. The ________ is a single string musical
instrument made using bamboo and a
gourd, mostly used by traditional folk 4. Pungi
singers in Maharashtra.
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66. TH Vinayakram, a famous musician, is 71. The famous musician, Appa Jalgaonkar
associated with which musical instrument? is associated with which musical
(CPO 2022) instrument? (CPO 2022)
1. Ghatam 1. Harmonium
2. Mridangam 2. Tabla
3. Sarod 3. Sarod
4. Tabla 4. Violin

67. Annapurna Devi, who was awarded the 72. In which year was the famous sitar
Padma Bhushan, was a famous player of player Pt. Ravi Shankar awarded the Bharat
which of the following instruments?(CPO Ratna? (CPO 2022)
2022) 1. 1998
1. Sarod 2. 1999
2. Santoor 3. 1996
3. Veena 4. 1995
4. Surbahar
73. Hari Prasad Chaurasia, an Indian flutist,
68. Who among the following was a famous is associated with which of the following
sitar player? (CPO 2022) Music gharanas? (CPO 2022)
1. Zakir Hussain 1. Maihar
2. Hari Prasad Chaurasia 2. Rampur-Jaipur
3. Raja Khan 3. Senia
4. Nikhil Banerjee 4. Prasanna

69. Who among the following is associated 74. Ustad Allauddin Khan, the legendary
with the Tabla? (CPO 2022) sarod player, was from which of the
1. Pannalal Ghosh following
2. Ronu Majumdar gharanas of music? (CPO 2022)
3. Doreswamy Iyengar 1. Kasur-Patiala
4. Alla Rakha Khan 2. Benaras
3. Maihar
70. TR Mahalingam, a legendary musician, 4. Rangeela
was known for playing which of the following
instruments? (CPO 2022) 75. Chakri (Chhakri), is a collective song. It
1. Shehnai is a popular form of folk music of
2. Flute _________.
3. Tabla (CPO 2022)
1. Bihar of music from his father at an early age?
2. West Bengal (CPO 2022)
3. Kashmir 1. Benaras
4. Tamil Nadu 2. Kasur Patiala
3. Jaipur-Atrauli
76.Ustad Bundu Khan and Santosh Mishra 4. Gwalior
are the famous players of which musical
instrument: (CPO 2022) 81. Which Gharana was propounded by
1. sitar Bade Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Baksh Jarnail
2. shehnai Khan? (CPO 2022)
3. sarangi 1. Gwalior Gharana
4. sarod 2. Agra Gharana
3. Patiala Gharana
77. The famous musician Satyadev Pawar 4. Bhendi Bazaar Gharana
is associated with which musical
instrument? (CPO 2022) 82. Bhajan Sopori, a famous musician, is
1. Violin associated with which musical instrument?
2. Shehnai (CPO 2022)
3. Veena 1. Sarod
4. Sitar 2. Shehnai
3. Santoor
78. The famous musician Ustad Sultan 4. Sitar
Khan is associated with which musical
instrument? (CPO 2022) 83. Violin virtuoso L Subramaniam is
1. Drums famous for which of the following genres of
2. Sarangi music
3. Tabla globally?(CPO 2022)
4. Flute 1. Jazz
2. Hindustani music
79. In which year did Teejanbai, the well- 3. Carnatic music
known artist of Pandavani music, win the 4. Rock
Padma Vibhushan? (CPO 2022)
1. 2020 84. The first Indian musician to receive the
2. 2019 Ramon Magsaysay award for public service
3. 2021 is: (CPO 2022)
4. 2017 1. MS Subbulakshmi
2. Zakir Hussain
80. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, a musical 3. Bhimsen Joshi
genius, learnt which of the following 4. Bismillah Khan
gharanas
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