Books and Authors Part(I)
2. O. Henry is the pen name of
(a) William Sydney Porter (b) Charles Dickens
(c) H.G. Wells�(d) Oscar Wild
: A
3.
Who published 'Horthus Malabaricus'
(a) The Portuguese (b) The British
(c) The Dutch (d) The French
: C
4.
The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d) Kautilya
: A
5.
Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The Post Office (b) Gora
(c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie
: D
6.
Author of the book - 'Between Hope and History'
(a) Abraham Lincoln (b) Bill Clinton
(c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy
: B
7.
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
: C
8.
'Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny' � book was written by
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami Vivekananda
: D
9.
Find out the odd one
(a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen
(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock Holmes
: D
Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a character
10.
One among the following is not written by Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam
(c) Rith Samharam (d) Kaavyadooth
: D
11.
'Sonia, a Biography' was written by
(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy
(c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty
: C
12.
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
: D
13.
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
: A
14.
Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?
(a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston Churchill
: B
15.
"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
: C
16.
'Beyond time' is the book written by
(a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel
(e) None of these
: E
17.
The famous book 'Anandmath' has been authorised by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Sri Aurobindo
: B
18.
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
: A
19.
The author of the book 'Waiting for Godot' is:
(a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag
(c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson
: C
Waiting for the Mahatma - R. K. Narayanan
Waiting to Exhale - Terry Mc Millan
20.
"The Vedas contain all the truth", was interpreted by:
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. Radhakrishnan
: B
21.
Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?
: Dara Shikoh
22.
In "The Travels of Gulliver", what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?
: The health of the sun
23.
"The man who knew infinity" is the biography of
(a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking
(c) Albert Einstein (d) S. Ramanujan
: D
24.
What was the original name of 'Alice in Wonderland' when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry Kingsley in 1863?
: Alice's Adventures Underground
25.
The author of the book "Waiting for the Mahatma" is
(a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala
(c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. Malgonkar
: A
26.
Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem 'Arjuna vivaha' written?
: King Airlangga
27.
To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, 'Plain Tales From the Hills'?
: To the wittiest woman in India
28.
'Beyond the Last Blue Mountain' is R.M Lala's biography of which Indian?
: J. R. D. Tata
29.
Which of Agatha Christie's books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title 'Anna the Adventure'?
: The Man In The Brown Suit
30.
Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov
(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking
: D
31.
The book 'Living with Honour' is written by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera
(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
: B
32.
The book 'Cricket My Style' is written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath
: C
33.
Who wrote the book 'The Book of Indian Birds'
: Dr. Salim Ali
34.
'Economic History of India' was written by
: R. C. Dutt
35.
The oldest of the vedic literature is
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda
(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
: C
36.
'Leelavathi' the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on
: Mathematics
37.
Who is the author of �An Equal Music� (1999)
: Vikram Seth
38.
Who wrote the poem �Passage to India� in 1871
: Walt Whitman (American Poet)
39.
Who is the author of the book �The Canterbury Tales�
: Geoffrey Chaucer
40.
Who is the author of the book �Anna Karenina�
: Leo Tolstoy
41.
Who is the author of the book �The Adventures of Tom Sawyer�
: Mark Twain
42.
Who is the author of the book �The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes�
: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
43.
Who is the author of the book �The Comedy of Errors�
: William Shakespeare
44.
Who is the author of the book �Animal Farm�
: George Orwell
45.
Who is the author of the book �The Rime of the Ancient Mariner�
: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
46.
Who is the author of the book, �Through the Looking-Glass�
: Lewis Carroll
47.
Who is the author of the book, �All�s Well That Ends Well�
: William Shakespeare
48.
Who is the author of the book �Akbar-nama�
: Abul Fazl
49.
Who is the author of the book �The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn�
: Mark Twain
50.
Who is the author of the book �Antony and Cleopatra�
: William Shakespeare
51.
Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687)
: Sir Isaac Newton
52.
Who wrote the novel ?A Passage to India? in 1924
: E.M. Forster (English novelist)
53.
Who wrote ?Meghdoot?
: Kalidas
54.
The author of the book ?The Guide?
: R.K. Narayan
55.
Author of the famous book ?On the Origin of Species?
: Charles Darwin
56.
The Griha Sutra deals with the
(a) Individual (b) State
(c) Society (d) Family
: D
57.
The Tamil epic ?Tholkappiyam? deals with
(a) Dance (b) Grammar
(c) History (d) Social Life
: B
58.
?Mark Twain? is the ser name of
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Samuel Clemens
(c) Erick Blair (d) Charles Dickens
: B
59.
Which among the following is not a work of Leo Tolstoy
(a) Anna Karenina (b) Crime and Punishment
(c) Resurrection (d) War and Peace
: B
60.
Who wrote the book ?Punjab ? The Knights of Falsehood?
: K.P.S. Gill
61.
?One Life? was written by
: Dr. Christiaan Barnard
62.
The detective characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple was created by the author
: Agatha Christie
63.
Who wrote the book ?A House for Mr. Biswas?
: V.S. Naipal
64.
Who wrote the book ?The Golden Threshold?
: Sarojini Naidu
65.
?The Last Supper? is a painting by
: Leonardo da Vinci
66.
Who is the author of ?Sur Sagar?
: Sur Das
67.
Author of ?The God of Small Things? is
: Arundhati Roy
68.
The author of ?Das Capital? is
: Karl Marx
69.
The book ?As You like It? was written by
: Shakespeare
70.
Writer 'William Sydney Porter' popularly known as
: O. Henry
71.
?The Brave new World? is the book by
: Aldous Huxley
72.
Who was the publisher of first Harry Potter series novel ?Harry Potter and the Philosopher?s Stone? in 1997
: Bloomsbury Publishing
73.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series was first published in which country
: Britain
74.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series was published in the year
: 1997
75.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series ?Harry Potter and the Philosopher?s Stone? was published in the US in1998 as
: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
76.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series is
: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
77.
The book ?Song of India? was written by
: Sarojini Naidu
78.
The author of the book ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? is
: William Shakespeare
79.
?What mad Pursuit? is the autobiography of
: Francis Crick
80.
The fiction character ?Frankenstein? was created by
: Mary Shelly
81.
?Straight from the Heart? is the autobiography of
: Kapil Dev
82.
The author of ?Snakes and Ladders? is
: Gita Mehta
83.
?An Indian Pilgrim? is the autobiography of
: Subhas Chandra Bose
84.
?Kadambari? was written by
: Banabhatta
85.
Sherlock Homes was created by
: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
86.
Who wrote ?Alice in Wonderland?
: Lewis Carroll
87.
Hortus Malabaricus was written in which language
: Latin
88.
The author of ?The Spirit of India?
: J.B. Kripalani
89.
The father of the Punjabi poetry is
: Sheik Baba Harid Sakkar
90.
The famous book ?Fifth Horseman? is written by
: Larry Collins & Dominique Lappierre
91.
Who wrote the book ?What went wrong?
: Kiran Bedi
92.
Which one of the following books is authored by Tann Martel, the winner of the Booker Prize 2002
a. The Old Man and The Sea
b. The Blind Assassin
d. Disgrace
: C
93.
To which language the sangham literature is related
a. Sanskrit
b. Malayalam
d. Tamil
: D
94.
The author of ?One hundred years of Solitude?
: Gabriel Gracia Marquez
95.
Who is the author of ?Difficult Daughters?
: Manju Kapoor
96.
Who is the creator of the cartoon character ?Tintin?
a. Geroges Remi
b. Edgar Riceburrogh
d. Elzie Segar
: A
97.
The author of ?Panch Tantra?
: Vishnu Sharma
98.
?Post Office? was written by
: Tagore
99.
The term ?Yavnapriya? mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts denotes
: Pepper
100.
?Many Worlds? is the autobiography of
: K.P.S. Menon
