Books & Author Questions 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 (e) 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 (c) 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)
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