1. Tughlaq is a 1964 Indian Kannada language play written by Girish Karnad. The thirteen-scene play is set during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq. It was first staged in Urdu in 1966, as a student production at National School of Drama. Most famously, it was staged at Purana Qila, Delhi in 1972. When it was enacted in English in Mumbai?
A:) 1969
B:) 1970
C:) 1972
D:) 1975
springline- Correct option: B:) 1970
2. Which is comments: ’In the play, the protagonist, Tughlaq, is portrayed as having great ideas and a grand vision, but his reign was an abject failure. He started his rule with great ideals of a unified India, but his degenerated into anarchy and his kingdom ?
A:) The Times of India
B:) Oxford Team
C:) Filmfare
D:) Forbes India
springline- Correct option: A:) The Times of India
3. As the play opens, the reader is introduced to the court of Mohammad Bin Tughlaq, a Muslim Sultan (Emperor). Tughlaq declares that he is shifting his capital from Delhi to Daultabad . Daultabad is in south India and at a long distance from Delhi. Daultabad also known as_________?
A:) Gurugram
B:) Mehrauli
C:) Deogiri
D:) Sonipat
springline- Correct option: C:) Deogiri
4. Tughlaq has two purposes behind this decision. First, it will help him to rule over southern part of India effectively and increase fraternity and unity among Hindus and Muslims as Daultabad is a Hindu majority city. Second, it will help him saving his capital against the attacks of Mongols from the ________?
A:) northwest
B:) west
C:) east
D:) north
springline- Correct option: D:) north
5. A man named, Aziz appears in the court. Aziz has changed his identity from a Muslim to a Hindu with a definite purpose. Despite being a Muslim Sultan, Tughlaq shows a great heart towards the Hindus. Tughlaq is well known for ?
A:) Secularism
B:) Faceism
C:) supernaturalism
D:) hyperurbanism
springline- Correct option: A:) Secularism
6. Tughlaq desires himself to be seen as an idealist who wants a unity between Hindus and Muslims. In order to win hearts of Hindus, he favors Hindus more in his decisions and policies. So Who takes the name as Vishnu Prasad, a Hindu Brahmin?
A:) Aazam
B:) Aziz
C:) Ain-ul-Mulk
D:) Ratan Singh
springline- Correct option: B:) Aziz
7. Aziz has filed a case against the sultan Tughlaq for acquiring his land unfairly. He is given a handsome amount on the name of land acquisition. Later in his court, He invites the public to get settled in Daultabad. He doesn’t force the public but leave on them at their own will whether to move or to remain there. Aziz, with his friend _______?
A:) Najib
B:) Ain-ul-Mulk
C:) Barani
D:) Aazam
springline- Correct option: D:) Aazam
8. The scene , Tughlaq is playing chess in his private chamber. Who appears and Who is quite concerned about his eccentric approach in his administration and also it is also revealed that Tughlaq had murdered his father and his brother in the past to get to the throne?
A:) stepmother
B:) stepfather
C:) sister
D:) wife
springline- Correct option: A:) stepmother
9. Tughlaq stepmother She scolds him for his negligence towards the uprising led by Ain-ul-Mulk, an old friend of Tughlaq. Ain-ul-Mulk has now turned into an enemy. He is marching with his thirty thousand soldiers to attack the state. On the other hand, Tughlaq has only ________?
A:) ten thousand soldiers
B:) five thousand soldiers
C:) six thousand soldiers
D:) seven thousand soldiers
springline- Correct option: C:) six thousand soldiers
10. If the battle takes place, Tughlaq defeat is quite certain. His stepmother asks Whom as a historian of that time, to keep Tughlaq away from the company of foolish advisors and councilors and Sheikh-Imam-Uddin, another character, appears on the stage?
A:) Ziauddin Barani
B:) Ain-Ul-Mulk
C:) Stepmother
D:) Aziz
springline- Correct option: A:) Ziauddin Barani
11. Sheikh-Imam-Uddin, another character, appears on the stage. He doesn’t like the Sultan at all. In fact, he incites the people against Tughlaq for his eccentric decisions. Tughlaq himself is well aware of the fact that Sheikh has ill desires against him. Tughlaq calls him and asks him to visit _____?
A:) Najib
B:) Ain-ul-Mulk
C:) Aazam
D:) Ratan Singh
springline- Correct option: B:) Ain-ul-Mulk
12. Sheikh is asked to be dressed as a royal person and is sent on an elephant. Tughlaq has done this with an intention. Later news comes that Sheikh-Imam-Uddin is murdered. He was mistaken for Tughlaq by the enemies for his royal dress and riding on elephant. Who reveals that it was Tughlaq’s plot?
A:) Ghiyas-Ud-Din Abbasid
B:) Aziz
C:) Sheik Imam uddin
D:) Ratan Singh
springline- Correct option: D:) Ratan Singh
13. Ratan Singh, Amirs and Sayyids are planning to murder the Sultan as there is no other way left for them to stop his foolish acts. They argue about Daultabad city and its Hindu majority population. They persuade Sihabuddin to join them. But he hasn’t made up his mind yet. They plan to murder him during ___?
A:) the prayer
B:) the party
C:) the night walk
D:) festival
springline- Correct option: A:) the prayer
14. Tughlaq takes another ridiculous decision to have currency minted on copper and brass metal. Adding more to his foolishness, he declares that the all coins will have an equal value, no matter whether the coin is made of gold, silver, copper or brass. He also announces a ban on prayers. Even people now start terming him as a _______
A:) mad Sultan
B:) foolish Sultan
C:) Cruel Sultan
D:) Arrogant Sultan
springline- Correct option: foolish Sultan
15. Tughlaq wants to shift there as early as possible. On the way, many people die of hunger, diseases and for other reasons. Who appears with his friend and tells him how to make others fool and extract money?
A:) Azam
B:) Najib
C:) Aziz
D:) Barani
springline- Correct option: C:) Aziz
16. The scene shifts to Daultabad. It is reported that Najib, a confidante and an advisor of Tughlaq, is murdered. Who comes and scolds him that the economy of the state is collapsing as the people have minted so much fake currency on copper and brass and They have exchanged it for gold and silver coins?
A:) Shekih-Imam-Uddin
B:) Ain-ul-Mulk
C:) Ratansingh
D:) Stepmother
springline- Correct option: D:) Stepmother
17. Tughlaq is frustrated by Najib's murder. So many people, whomever he suspects, are executed . Finally it is revealed that Najib was poisoned by Whom, and When Tughlaq comes to know about the murderer, he orders to arrest the murderer and punished by pelting stones on her until she dies?
A:) Ain-ul-Mulk
B:) Sihabuddin
C:) stepmother
D:) Aziz
springline- Correct option: C:) stepmother
18. It is announced to the public that when Ghiyasuddin-Abbasid arrives, the ban on the prayers will be lifted. But the people are no way interested in it as they are dying of hunger. The life of common man is devastated. But Tughlaq is preparing for Ghiyasuddin-Abbasid’s welcome. Who appears and murders Ghiyas-uddin-Abbasid?
A:) Najib
B:) Ratan Singh
C:) Aazam
D:) Aziz
springline- Correct option: D:) Aziz
19. Aziz disguises himself as Ghiyas-uddin-Abbasid with a motive to fudge the Sultan. Aziz manages to deceive Tughlaq with his new identity. Later Who is murdered and somehow, his true identity is revealed to Tughlaq?
A:) Aazam
B:) Aziz
C:) RatanSingh
D:) Ain-ul-Mulk
springline- Correct option: A:) Aazam
20. Aziz tells him everything whatever he had done in past to cheat him. The revelation of these facts really impresses Tughlaq. He appoints him on a powerful position in his court. Having taken this decision, Tughlaq goes to sleep. When he wakes up, he realizes himself as he has _____?
A:) bad man
B:) gone a fool
C:) gone a real king
D:) gone mad
springline- Correct option: D:) gone mad
21. Tughlaq is defined as a historical play because the chief protagonist is a character taken from history and the play documents a series of past events that took place during the reign of Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq. Tughlaq can also be considered as a political play as it represents the reign of a king and his various moves to unify the Hindus and Muslims, and establish a just kingdom in ______?
A:) Ahmedabad
B:) Delhi
C:) Mumbai
D:) Aurangabad
springline- Correct option: B:) Delhi
22. Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in ____?
A:) Gujarati
B:) Bengali
C:) Hindi
D:) Marathi
springline- Correct option: B:) Bengali
23. For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. Girish Karnad translated his plays into English and received acclaim. He was a recipient of the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India. When he was recipient of Jnanpith Award_________?
A:) 1995
B:) 1996
C:) 1997
D:) 1998
springline- Correct option: D:) 1998
24. Girish Karnad was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India and won four Filmfare Awards, of which three are Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada and the fourth a Filmfare Best Screenplay Award. He was a presenter for a weekly science magazine programme called ‘Turning Point’ that aired on Doordarshan in______?
A:) 1991
B:) 1992
C:) 1993
D:) 1994
springline- Correct option: A:) 1991
25. Karnad is known as a playwright. His plays, written in Kannada, have been translated into English (mostly translated by himself) and some Indian languages. Kannada is his language of choice. When Karnad started writing plays, Kannada literature was highly influenced by the renaissance in _____?
A:) British literature
B:) Western literature
C:) American literature
D:) northern literature
springline- Correct option: B:) Western literature
26. Karnad found a new approach of drawing historical and mythological sources to tackle contemporary themes and existentialist crisis of modern man through characters locked in psychological and philosophical conflicts. His next was Tughlaq (1964), about a rashly idealist 14th-century Sultan of Delhi, Muhammad bin Tughluq, and allegory on the _____?
A:) Nehruvian era
B:) Sultan era
C:) sengupta era
D:) Harshavardhana
springline- Correct option: A:) Nehruvian era
27. Which of Karnad’s Play was based on a theme drawn from The Transposed Heads, a 1940 novella by Thomas Mann, which is originally found in the 11th-century Sanskrit text Kathasaritsagara, Herein he employed the folk theatre form of Yakshagana?
A:) This Life at Play
B:) Bali
C:) Yayati
D:) Hayavadana
springline- Correct option: D:) Hayavadana
28. The theatre subsequently commissioned him to write the play, Agni Mattu Male (The Fire and the Rain). Though before it came Taledanda (Death by Beheading, 1990) which used the backdrop, the rise of Veerashaivism, a radical protest and reform movement in ______?
A:) 11th century
B:) 12th century
C:) 13th century
D:) 14th century
springline- Correct option: C:) 12th century
29. Karnad's initial schooling was in Marathi. Later, after his father was transferred to Sirsi in the Kannada-speaking regions of Bombay Presidency, Karnad was exposed to travelling theatre groups and natak mandalis (theatre troupes), which were experiencing a period of efflorescence during the iconic _______?
A:) Balgandharva Era
B:) Vikram Era
C:) Laukika Era
D:) Harsha Era
springline- Correct option: A:) Balgandharva Era
30. Karnad earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and statistics from Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad (Karnataka University), in 1958. After graduation, he went to England and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (1960–63), earning his Master of Arts degree in philosophy, political science and economics. Karnad was elected the President of the Oxford Union in ______?
A:) 1962–64
B:) 1962–63
C:) 1963–65
D:) 1964–65
springline- Correct option: B:) 1962–63