Brain Stimulators
    

QUIZ NO. 5 - ON LEGENDARY PERSONALITIES
    
This round of Brain Stimulators brings you an interactive quiz on legendary music personalities. Submit your answers to get your results right away!
    
  • A bold musician involved in several controversies, he was also an actor, film producer and master of several instruments like the khanjira, mridangam, sitar and tabla. But he is synonymous with an entirely different instrument. Name this great musician.

Flute Mali
U Srinivas
Lalgudi Jayaraman
S Balachander
    
  • Who among the following musician-composers did not live to see the 20th century?

Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar
Patnam Subramanya Iyer
Subbarama Dikshitar
Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer
    
  • He has tuned several Dasara Padas, which were popularised by the late M L Vasantakumari. He has recently published the compositions of the Trinity with notation. Whom are we talking about?

T R Subramanyam
Alathur S Panchapakesan
T K Govinda Rao
Tanjavur Sankara Iyer
    
  • Disciple of Ramanathapuram C S Sankara Sivam, this very versatile and popular vocalist has also starred in a Tamil film.

T V Sankaranarayanan
Trichur V Ramachandran
T N Seshagopalan
O S Tyagarajan
    
  • He was the nephew of a legendary vocalist. His nephew is a very popular vocalist in Carnatic music today. Who is this personality?

Madurai Mani Iyer
G N Balasubramanyam
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
Alathur Srinivasa Iyer
    
  • She is the vainika in a family of violinists. Name her.

Rajeswari Padmanabhan
Padmavati Anantagopalan
Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
Kalpagam Swaminathan
    
  • Which among the following mridangam maestros received the title of 'Nadabrahmam' from Narada Gana Sabha last year? 

Umayalpuram K Sivaraman
Karaikkudi R Mani
Palghat R Raghu
Vellore Ramabhadran
    
  • Sons of a legendary violinist, one of them is a violinist but the other has taken to the khanjira. Who is the khanjira vidwan?

G Harishankar
V Nagarajan
B S Purushottaman
V Selvaganesh
    
  • This disciple of Musiri Subramanya Iyer is known as a master of laya, and can sing complicated Pallavis keeping two different talas in two hands.

Mani Krishnaswamy
R Vedavalli
Raji Gopalakrishnan
Suguna Purushottaman
    
  • Who was the inventor of the Double Violin?

Mysore T Chowdiah
Lalgudi Jayaraman
L Shankar
L Subramanyam
   
      

Posted on 6th November 2001
   

More Brain Stimulators