Cultural Heritage & Archaeology MCQ — 49 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

Visva-Bharati is the institution identified by the cited UNESCO fact as a world university established at Santiniketan in 1921. Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University, and Jamia Millia Islamia are important modern Indian institutions, but they are not the Santiniketan world university named in this fact.

Explanation

Statement 1 is correct because 4.5 lakh villages were live on the MGMD portal as of 2 December 2024. Statement 2 is also correct because those villages were live with cultural portfolios. Statement 3 is wrong because the sourced live count on that date is 4.5 lakh villages, not 5.5 lakh villages.

Explanation

The correct sequence is that the earlier heritage adoption scheme was launched in 2017 and Adopt a Heritage 2.0 is its revamped version. Reversing the order wrongly places Adopt a Heritage 2.0 in 2017. Linking the National Mission on Cultural Mapping to the heritage adoption sequence confuses a separate cultural mapping initiative with ASI's programme. Treating the Indian Heritage app as the 2017 predecessor is also not the sourced relationship.

Explanation

The Assertion is true because Karnataka is recorded with 506 centrally protected monuments and sites. The Reason is also true and directly explains the Assertion, since it states the same deciding ASI count for Karnataka. Claims that either part is false, or that the Reason does not explain the Assertion, do not fit the cited fact.

Explanation

Both A and R are true. The international ICOMOS theme for World Heritage Day 2026 was indeed "Emergency Response for Living Heritage in Contexts of Conflicts and Disasters" (A is true). The Petroglyph Conservation Park was laid at Sindhu Ghat by the Lieutenant Governor on the same day (R is true). However, the park primarily addresses long-term threats from unregulated tourism, infrastructure development and climate stress under the regional theme "Ancient Art, Modern Challenges", not the international emergency-response framing — so R is not the direct explanation of A. Hence the correct answer is B.