BOOKS & AUTHORS RELATED QUIZ

• ·         BOOKS & AUTHORS RELATED QUIZ

  
  

  1. Who is the author of "The Kalam effect: My years with the president"?

  (a) P.M.Nayar (b) Sonia Gandhi

  (c) L.K.Adwani (d) Arun Shaurie

  ANS (a)

  2. Who is the author of the book "Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable"?

  (a) L.K.Adwani (b) Arundhati Roy

  (c) Shobha De (d) Vikram Seth

  ANS (c)

  3. The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?

  (a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d) Kautilya

  ANS (a)

  4. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of

  (a) The Post Office (b) Gora

  (c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie

  ANS (Try Yourself)

  5. Who is the author of the book ’My other two daughters’?

  (a) Lalu Prasad Yadav (b) Surjit Singh Barnala

  (c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy

  ANS (b)

  6. Who is known as the Father of Detective Story

  (a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) Bram Stoker

  (c) Edgar Allen Poe (d) None of the above

  ANS (c)

  7. Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ “ book was written by

  (a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi

  (c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami Vivekananda

  ANS (d)

  8. Find out the odd one

  (a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock HolmesANS (d) Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a

  character

  9.One among the following is not written by Kalidasa

  (a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam

  (c) Rith Samharam (d) Kaavyadooth

  ANS (d)

  10. ’Sonia, a Biography’ was written by

  (a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy

  (c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty

  ANS (c)

  11. One among the following is not a Harry Potter story

  (a) Chamber of secrets

  (b) The philosopher’s stone

  (c) Half blood prince (d) Naked Truth

  ANS (d)

  12. Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer wrote a book, which carried a more or less accurate prediction of

  the launching of Apollo-8. Which is the book

  (a) From the Earth to the moon

  (b) All under Heaven

  (c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  (d) Past and Present

  ANS (a)

  13. Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?

  (a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari

  (c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston Churchill

  ANS (b)

  14. "Does IT matter" is a book written by

  (a) Bill Gates (b) N. R. Narayanan (c) Nicholas Carr

  (d) Thomas D. Harris (e) None of these

  ANS (c)

  15. ’Beyond time’ is the book written by

  (a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond

  (c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel

  (e) None of these

  ANS ((Try Yourself))

  16. The famous book ’Anandmath’ has been authorised by

  (a) Rabindranath Tagore

  (b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya

  (c) Sarojini Naidu

  (d) Sri Aurobindo

  ANS (b)

  17.Who wrote a book describing the theory of economic drain of India during British rule?

  (a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai

  (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

  ANS (a)

  18. The author of the book ’Waiting for Godot’ is:

  (a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag

  (c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson

  ANS (c) Waiting for the Mahatma - R. K. Narayanan

  Waiting to Exhale - Terry Mc Millan

  19. "The Vedas contain all the truth", was interpreted by:

  (a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand

  (c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. Radhakrishnan

  ANS (b)

  20. Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?

  ANS - Dara Shikoh

  21.In "The Travels of Gulliver", what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?

  ANS - The health of the sun

  22."The man who knew infinity" is the biography of

  (a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking

  (c) Albert Einstein (d) S. Ramanujan

  ANS (d)

  23.What was the original name of ’Alice in Wonderland’ when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry

  Kingsley in 1863?

  ANS - Alice’s Adventures Underground

  24. The author of the book "Waiting for the Mahatma" is

  (a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala

  (c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. Malgonkar

  ANS (a)

  25. Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem ’Arjuna vivaha’

  written?

  ANS - King Airlangga

  26. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, ’Plain Tales From the Hills’?

  ANS - To the wittiest woman in India

  27. ’Beyond the Last Blue Mountain’ is R.M Lala’s biography of which Indian?

  ANS - J. R. D. Tata

  28. Which of Agatha Christie’s books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title ’Anna the

  Adventure’?

  ANS - The Man In The Brown Suit

  29. Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?

  (a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov

  (c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking

  ANS (d)

  30. The book ’Living with Honour’ is written by

  (a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera

  (c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth

  ANS (b)

  31. The book ’Cricket My Style’ is written by

  (a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar

  (c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath

  ANS (c)

  32. Who wrote the book ’The Book of Indian Birds’

  ANS - Dr. Salim Ali

  33. ’Economic History of India’ was written by

  ANS - R. C. Dutt

  34.The oldest of the vedic literature is

  (a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda

  (c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda

  ANS ((Try Yourself))

  35. ’Leelavathi’ the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on

  ANS - Mathematics

  36. Who is the author of ˜An Equal Musicâ (1999)

  ANS - Vikram Seth

  37. Who wrote the poem ˜Passage to India in 1871

  ANS - Walt Whitman (American Poet)

  38. Who is the author of the book ˜The Canterbury Tales

  ANS - Geoffrey Chaucer

  39. Who is the author of the book ˜Anna Karenin

  ANS - Leo Tolstoy

  40.Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  ANS - Mark Twain

  41. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

  ANS - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  42.Who is the author of the book ˜The Comedy of Errors?

  ANS - William Shakespeare

  43. Who is the author of the book ˜Animal Farm

  ANS - George Orwell

  44. Who is the author of the book ˜The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

  ANS - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  45. Who is the author of the book, ˜Through the Looking-Glass?

  ANS - Lewis Carroll

  46. Who is the author of the book, ˜Allâs Well That Ends Wellâ?

  ANS - William Shakespeare

  47. Who is the author of the book ˜Akbar-nama

  ANS - Abul Fazl

  48. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnâ?

  ANS - Mark Twain

  49. Who is the author of the book ˜Antony and Cleopatraâ?

  ANS - William Shakespeare

  50. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of

  Natural Philosophy, 1687)

  ANS - Sir Isaac

  51. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?

  (a) L.K.Adwani (b) Atal Bihari Vajpeyi

  (c) Narendra Modi (d) Vikram Seth

  ANS (c)