World Scholar's Cup Fine Arts — practice questions
22 free MCQs with worked solutions. Tap any question for the answer + explanation, or practice them all in the app.
Practice World Scholar's Cup Fine Arts in the app →A visitor steps into the small dark cubicle that holds the main idol. That room is the:A pilgrim crosses a pillared hall packed with worshippers before reaching the shrine. That hall is the:A traveller in the north sees a tower whose walls curve inward to a point. That spire is a:The same traveller reaches Tamil Nadu and finds a pyramidal tower over the shrine. There it is called the:Two broad orders of Indian temples are named. Nagara belongs to the north, and the southern order is:A pilgrim in the south passes through a towering gateway set in the front wall. That gateway is the:A Tamil temple is ringed all round, while a Khajuraho temple has no such ring. The dravida temple sits within Standing outside a nagara temple you want to guess where the idol sits. Look directly under the:On the shore of the Bay of Bengal stand the ruins of a temple built in stone around 1240 for the god:The Konark spire proved too heavy for its site and fell in the nineteenth century. Its height is said to have A king completes the largest and tallest of all Indian temples at Thanjavur around 1009. That king was:The multi-storeyed pyramidal vimana of the Thanjavur temple rises to roughly:At Ellora one whole temple was cut down out of a hillside instead of built up in blocks. It is the:The Kailashnath tower rises about thirty metres, and every part of the temple is carved out of:Each new patron at Tiruchirapally raised a taller wall around the old one. The Srirangam temple ended with encIn such a walled temple, a student asks which ring went up last. The newest wall is the one that is:A scholar names deities in a sculpture by reading their symbols and myths. That branch of art history is:At the doorway of a nagara sanctum a visitor is met by two river goddesses. They are:A main shrine stands on a plinth with four smaller shrines at its corners. The five together name the style:A Chandela king named Dhanga built a Khajuraho temple in 954. He dedicated it to:Near the top of a nagara tower sits a horizontal fluted disc, with a vase above it. The disc is the:In front of the Sun temple at Modhera lies a huge rectangular stepped tank. It is called the: