Q 1. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, 'Plain Tales From the Hills'?
ANS- To the wittiest woman in India
Q 2. Beyond the Last Blue Mountain' is R.M Lala's biography of which Indian?
ANS- J. R. D. Tata
Q 3. 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
Q 4. Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov
(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking
Ans : D
Q 5. The book 'Living with Honour' is written by.
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera
(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
Ans : B
Q 6. The book 'Cricket My Style' is written by.
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath
Ans- C
Q 7. Who wrote the book 'The Book of Indian Birds'.
ANS- Dr. Salim Ali
Q 8. 'Economic History of India' was written by.
ANS- R. C. Dutt
Q 9. The oldest of the vedic literature is.
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda
(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
Ans : C
Q 10. 'Leelavathi' the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on.
ANS- Mathematics
Q 11. Who is the author of An Equal Music (1999).
ANS- Vikram Seth
Q 12. Who wrote the poem Passage to India in 1871.
ANS- Walt Whitman (American Poet)
Q 13. Who is the author of the book The Canterbury Tales.
ANS- Geoffrey Chaucer
Q 14. Who is the author of the book Anna Karenina.
ANS- Leo Tolstoy
Q 15. Who is the author of the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
ANS- Mark Twain
Q 16. Who is the author of the book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
ANS- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Q 17. Who is the author of the book The Comedy of Errors.
ANS- William Shakespeare
Q 18. Who is the author of the book Animal Farm.
ANS- George Orwell
Q 19. Who is the author of the book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
ANS- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Q 20. Who is the author of the book, Through the Looking-Glass.
ANS- Lewis Carroll
Q 21. Who is the author of the book, Alls Well That Ends Well.
ANS- William Shakespeare
Q 22.Who is the author of the book Akbar-nama.
ANS- Abul Fazl
Q 23. Who is the author of the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
ANS- Mark Twain
Q 24. Who is the author of the book Antony and Cleopatra.
ANS- William Shakespeare
Q 25. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687).
ANS- Sir Isaac Newton
Q 26. Who wrote the novel A Passage to India in 1924.
ANS- E.M. Forster (English novelist)
Q 27. Who wrote Meghdoot.
ANS- Kalidas
Q 28. The author of the book The Guide.
ANS- R.K. Narayan
Q 29. Author of the famous book On the Origin of Species.
ANS- Charles Darwin
Q 30. The Griha Sutra deals with the.
(a) Individual (b) State
(c) Society (d) Family
Ans : D
Q 31. The Tamil epic Tholkappiyam deals with.
(a) Dance (b) Grammar
(c) History (d) Social Life
Ans : B
Q 32. Mark Twain is the ser name of.
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Samuel Clemens
(c) Erick Blair (d) Charles Dickens
Ans : B
Q 33. Which among the following is not a work of Leo Tolstoy.
(a) Anna Karenina (b) Crime and Punishment
(c) Resurrection (d) War and Peace
Ans : B
Q 34. Who wrote the book Punjab The Knights of Falsehood.
ANS- K.P.S. Gill
Q 35. One Life was written by.
ANS- Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Q 36. The detective characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple was created by the author.
ANS- Agatha Christie
Q 37. Who wrote the book A House for Mr. Biswas.
ANS- V.S. Naipal
Q 38. Who wrote the book The Golden Threshold.
ANS- Sarojini Naidu
Q 39. The Last Supper is a painting by.
ANS- Leonardo da Vinci
Q 40. Who is the author of Sur Sagar.
ANS- Sur Das
Q 41. Author of The God of Small Things is.
ANS- Arundhati Roy
Q 42. The author of Das Capital is.
ANS- Karl Marx
Q 43. The book As You like It was written by.
ANS- Shakespeare
Q 44. Writer 'William Sydney Porter' popularly known as.
ANS- O. Henry
Q 45. The Brave new World is the book by.
ANS- Aldous Huxley
Q 46. Who was the publisher of first Harry Potter series novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in 1997.
ANS- Bloomsbury Publishing
Q 47. The first novel in the Harry Potter series was first published in which country.
ANS- Britain
Q 48. The first novel in the Harry Potter series was published in the year.
ANS- 1997
Q 49. The first novel in the Harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone was published in the US in1998 as.
ANS- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Q 50. The first novel in the Harry Potter series is.
ANS- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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