Books & Authors
related Quiz for All Exams
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)