SHANTINIKETAN UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

Birhum district

Question 2

Where was it announced

Answer 2

45th session of UNESCO SITE….
Riyadh Saudi arabia

Question 3

Number of UNESCO site

Answer 3

42nd in West Bengal
After SUNDERBANS and
DARJEELING MOUTAIN PARK

Question 4

When was Durga Pooja was recognised as UNESCO’s INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITT

Answer 4

2022

Question 5

Which birth anniversary of tagore was in 2010

Answer 5

150th

Question 6

On which number is India ranked on world heritage list

Answer 6

India-6th
1st - ITALY (58 SITES)
2nd-CHINA (57 sites)
3rd- GERMANY(51 sites)

Question 7

When was shanitinketan started?

Answer 7

In 1901 established

Question 8

Meaning shantiniketan

Answer 8

Sanskrit…ABODE OF PEACE

Question 9

Shantiniketan ashram by?

Answer 9

Maharishi debendranath father of tagore in 1863 established

Question 10

When did tagore established open air laboratuin school

Answer 10

1901

Question 11

What is it’s universities museum called

Answer 11

Rabindra Sadana

His residence….UDAYANA

Question 12

When was another campus of vishwa bharti established?

Answer 12

1922

Question 13

By whom was nomination by India prepared for shantiniketan

Answer 13

Prof Manish Chakraborty + Abha narain lamba(2021)

Question 14

ICOMOS

Answer 14

International council on monuments and sites

Total area…36 hectare nominated to be conserved by ASI

Buffer zone regulated..537 hectare

Question 15

Who is the chancellor of visva bharti vidyalaya

Answer 15

Pm of india

Question 16

Other sites

Answer 16

1..PALESTINE ( ancient Jericho)

2.ETHIOPIA (gedeo cultural landscape)

3. CHINA PUER (cultural landscape of old tea forests of jingmai mountain)….. China’s 57th UNESCO world heritage sites

Question 17

World’s first tea culture world heritage site

Answer 17

Jingmai moutain in puer in China

Question 18

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Answer 18

7th May ,1941 death in Calcutta

Other names…GURUDEV, KABIGURU, BISWAKABI

Question 19

When did he deliver speeches in parliament religions?

Answer 19

1929 and 1937

Question 20

Tagore published his first poems aged 16 under the pen name?

Answer 20

BHAMUSIMHA

Question 21

Famous works of tagore

Answer 21

Gitanjali,Ghare Baire,Gora,Manasi,Balaka,Sonar Tori,Eka Chalo Re

Question 22

When did he get the Nobel prize in literature

Answer 22

1913 for Gitanjali
Became the first non European to receive award

Question 23

When did he received knighthood

Answer 23

1915 from British King George V renounced by him in 1919 after Jallianwala massacre

Question 24

Which countries national anthems did he compose

Answer 24

India and Bangladesh

Question 25

Death

Answer 25

7th August,1941

Question 26

UNESCO SITE

Answer 26

Exceptional cultural or natural importance

Committee consists of 21 member states chosen by general assembly

Question 27

History UNESCO heritage was enshrined in which treaty?

Answer 27

Convention concerning Protection of the World cultural and Natural heritage

ADOPTED BY UNESCO IN 1972

Question 28

When did India formally signed the convention

Answer 28

14 November, 1977

Question 29

UNESCO’S NEW DELHI OFFICE established in?

Answer 29

1948

Question 30

STATIC

Answer 30

Founded…16 november,1945
Location…Paris France

Director general..audrey auzaoulay