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Sr. No.

Questions

1.

Who is the author of the boo

(a) Anna Sewell
(b) Voltaire
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(d) Jane Austen

2.

Author of the book Around

(a) J. K. Rowling
(b) Jack London
(c) Jules Verne
(d) George Orwell

3.

Amrita Pritam's work "A Rev

(a) A book of stories
(b) A novel
(c) A biography
(d) An autobiography

4.

Author of the book Crime a

(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(b) Vatsyayana
(c) Niccolo Machiavelli
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

5.

Author of the book Gulliver's

(a) P G. Wodehouse
(b) Rod Barker
(c) Saul Bellow
(d) Jonathan Swift

6.

Author of the book Sherlock

(a) Seymour Hersh
(b) Arthur Koestler
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Arthur Conan Doyle

7.

Author of the books 5 Weeks

(a) Jules Verne
(b) Alexander Dumas
(c)Jules Verne
(d) Charles Dickens

8.

Author of the books The Thr

(a) Alexandre Dumas
(b) Albert Camus
(c) Arthur Stanley Eddington
(d) Aldous Huxley

9.

'Beyond time' is the book wr

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(a) Namita Gokhale

(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple
(d) None of these
10.

Mulk Raj Anand is the autho

(a) The Post Office
(b) Gora
(c) India Wins Freedom
(d) Coolie

11.

The "Killer Instinct" is writte

(a) Sulakshan Mohan
(b) M.K.Santanam
(c) O.P.Sabharwal
(d) Subash Jain

12.

The book Vish Vriksha was

(a) Bankimchandra Chatterj
(b) Annie Basant
(c) Tulsidas
(d) Kalidas

13.

The only religious book ever

(a) The Ramayana
(b) The Mahabharata
(c) The bible
(d) Guru Granth Sahib

14.

Which of the following in the

(a) Saket
(b) Satyartha Prakash
(c) Shakuntala
(d) Savitri

15.

Who authored the 'Gitanjali'

(a) Sumitranandan Pant
(b) Makhanlal Chaturvedi
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Maithili Sharan Gupt

16.

Who is the author of the boo

(a) Arun Shourie
(b) Dominique Lapierre
(c) Shobha De
(d) Salman Rushdie

17.

Travelling Through Conflict

(a) Hamid Ansari
(b) Cherie Blair
(c) Balraj Krishna
(d) Salman Rushdie

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18.

Author of the book Candide

(a) Anna Sewell
(b) Voltaire
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(d) Voltaire

19.

Author of the book Frankens

(a) Mary Shelley
(b) W.M. Thackeray
(c) Charlotte Bronte
(d) Jules Verne

20.

Author of the book Robinson

(a) Daniel Defoe
(b) Johanna Spyri
(c) Lewis Carroll
(d) Rudyard Kipling

21.

Author of the book Wutherin

(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) Omar Khayyam
(c) Joyce Kilmer
(d) Gaston Leroux

22.

Author of the books The Prin

(a) James A. Michener
(b) Stephen King
(c) George Byron
(d) Mark Twain

23.

Authors of the book Tales Fro

(a) Charles And Mary Lamb
(b) Gaurav C. Samant
(c) Benazir Bhutto
(d) Charles Dickens

24.

Match List I and List II and s

List I
(Book)
A. In custody
B. Sea of Poppies
C. The Argumentative Indian
D. Unaccustomed Earth
Code:
ABCD
(a) 4 1 2 3
(b) 4 2 1 3
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 3 1 2 4

25.

She wrote the famous poem

(a) Joyce Kilmer

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(b) Alexander Dumas

(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) Robert Louis Stevenson
26.

The book Satyartha Prakash

(a) Swami Dayanand
(b) Swami Vivekanand
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Kalidas

27.

The oldest printed work in th

(a) The Bible
(b) The Hirake Sutra
(c) The Ramayana
(d) The Mahabharata

28.

Which of the following book

(a) Vinay Patrika
(b) Ramcharitmanas
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Yashodhara

29.

Who amonst the following is

(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Aung San Suukyi
(c) Taslima Nasreen
(d) Benazir Bhutto

30.

Who is the author of the boo

(a)Mark Twain
(a) J. K. Rowling
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Jules Verne
Set B

Sr. No. Questions

Answers

1.

Wrote the nationalist play "Hindi Ako Patay".

(a) Sir John Hunt
(b) E. M. Forster
(c) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(d) Juan Matapang Cruz

Answer: (d)

2.

Ethics for the New Millennium is a book written

by:
(a) Dalai Lama
(b) Tiger Woods
(c) Hillary Clinton
(d) Andrew Miller

Answer: (a)

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3.

Author of the book Dracula.

(a) Juan Matapang Cruz
(b) S. K. Pachuri
(c) Thomas Paine
(d) Bram Stoker

Answer: (d)

4.

Author of the book Peter Pan.

(a) J.M. Barrie
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Alexandre Dumas

Answer: (a)

5.

Author of the book Vanity Fair.

(a) W.M. Thackeray
(b) Charles And Mary Lamb
(c) Zoilo Galang
(d) Plato

Answer: (a)

6.

Author of the books The Hunchback of Notre

Dame and Les Miserables.
(a) Victor Hugo
(b) Captain Devi Sharan
(c) Caryl Phillips
(d) Amrit Wilson

Answer: (a)

7.

Authored of Tamburlaine The Great.

(a) Christopher Marlowe
(b) Seymour Hersh
(c) Arthur Koestler
(d) Karl Marx

Answer: (a)

8.

Les Hommes de bonne volont is the:

(a) Longest novel ever published
(b) Shortest novel every published
(c) The oldest novel
(d) None of these

Answer: (a)

9.

Prominent Oriya poet - was conferred the coveted Answer: (b)

Fellowship of the Sahitya Akademi, the national
academy for literature, in Bhubaneshwar on
December 4, 2009.
(a) Dinkar Oza
(b) Ramakanta Rath
(c) Mahendra Dey
(d) Suresh Panda

10.

The author of the play/book Ratnawali is:

(a) Tulsidas
(b) Kalidas
(c) Harsha Vardhan
(d) Prem Chand

11.

The medical technique that is very much similar

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

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to Ayurveda called "sowa-rigpa" has got official

recognition as a way of medicine has its official
book called
(a) Ringche Bomjee
(b) Rgyud-bzi
(c) Rigoche
(d) Ayur-rimponche
12.

Which of he following is he author of play/book

Yashodhara:
(a) Maithili Sharan Gupt
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) Bankimchandra Chatterjee
(d) Sarojini Naidu

Answer: (a)

13.

Who amongst the following is the author of the

famous classical book A passage to India?
(a) Mark Twain
(b) Nayantara Sehgal
(c) Nirad C. Choudhuri
(d) E.M.Foster
(E) None of these

Answer: (d)

14.

Who is the author of the book Black Beauty?

(a) Anna Sewell
(b) Arthur Conan Doyle
(c) Dante Alighieri
(d) Pearl Buck

Answer: (a)

15.

Wrote the book "Almagest" which was the chief

source of astronomy.
(a) Ptolemy
(b) Mark Twain
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer: (a)

16.

Bite the Bullet is a book written by:

(a) Ajit Haksar
(b) K.R. Narayanan
(c) Mukesh Ambani
(d) both (a) and (c)

Answer: (a)

17.

Author of the book "The Bourne Identity"?

(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista
(c) Robert Ludlum
(d) Robert Ludlum

Answer: (d)

18.

Author of the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde &

Treasure Island.
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson
(b) Bram Stoker

Answer: (d)

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(c) Mary Shelley

(d) Robert Louis Stevenson
19.

Author of the Book of Nonsense.

(a) Edward Lear
(b) Mainank Dhar
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Terry Pratchett

Answer: (a)

20.

Author of the book The Scarlet Letter.

(a) Gaurav C. Samant
(b) Benazir Bhutto
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer: (d)

21.

Author of the novel The Horse Whisperer which

became the movie starring Robert Redford &
Kristine Scott Thomas.
(a) Richard Nixon
(b) Pran Nevile
(c) Lalini Rajasuriya
(d) Nicholas Evans

Answer: (d)

22.

He wrote the famous epic poem dealing with

nature and love called "Rubaiyat".
(a) Lewis Carroll
(b) Jack London
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer
(d) Omar Khayyam

Answer: (d)

23.

One among the following is not written by

Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam
(b) Raghu Vamsam
(c) Rith Samharam
(d) Kaavyadooth

Answer: (d)

24.

The author of the book 'My Experiments With

Truth' is
(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Govind Vallabh Pant
(c) M.K.Gandhi
(d) Tara Ali Beg

Answer: (c)

25.

The largest book, the super book, is _____ and

weight is _____.
(a) 270 cm, 300 cm, 252 kg.
(b) 100 cm, 110 cm, 100 kg.
(c) 200 cm, 100 cm, 60 kg.
(d) None of these

Answer: (a)

26.

Which book has been printed in the maximum

number of languages and these scripts?

Answer: (a)

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(a) The Bible

(b) Hiraka Sutra
(c) The Super Book
(d) None of these
27.

Who among the following was the author of

Rajtarangini, commonly regarded as the first
genuine history of India written by an Indian?
(a) Banbhatta
(b) Ravikirti
(c) Pushpananda
(d) Kalhana

Answer: (d)

28.

Who is the author of the Act of Declaration of

Independence?
(a) Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista
(b) Edward Lear
(c) J.M. Barrie
(d) Daniel Defoe

Answer: (a)

29.

Who wrote a book describing the theory of

economic drain of India during British rule?
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (a)

30.

"Does IT matter" is a book written by

(a) Nicholas Carr
(b) Bill Gates
(c) N. R. Narayanan
(d) Thomas D. Harris
Set C

Answer: (a)

Sr. No.

Questons

1.

Author of the Jungle Book.

(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Juan Matapang Cruz
(c) S. K. Pachuri
(d) Thomas Paine

2.

Author of the book War and

(a) Richard Nixon
(b) Pran Nevile
(c) Lalini Rajasuriya
(d) Leo Tolstoy

3.

Author of the book Oedipus

(a) Sophocles
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Louisa May Alcott

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(d) Jane Austen

4.

Author of the book The Princ

(a) Niccolo Machiavelli
(b) Nicholas Evans
(c) J.K. Rowling
(d) Christopher Marlowe

5.

Author of the books Little Me

(a) Louisa May Alcott
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Miguel de Cervantes
(d) George Orwell

6.

Author of the famous childre

(a) Stephen Hawking
(b) Honore de Balzac
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Lewis Carroll

7.

He wrote the book The Repu

(a) Plato
(b) Mark Twain
(c) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(d) Arthur Schnitzler

8.

One among the following is

(a) Chamber of secrets
(b) The philosopher's stone
(c) Half blood prince
(d) Naked Truth

9.

The author of the book Tim

(a) Lewis Carroll
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) H.G. Wells

10.

The famous book 'Anandma

(a) Bankim Chandra Chattop
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sri Aurobindo

11.

The Sanskrit poet called as t

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

12.

Who among the following is

(a) A. Ranga Reddy
(b) N.K. Singh

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(c) Sanjay Nahar

(d) Prashant Talnikar
13.

Who is the author of "A Pass

(a) E.M. Forster
(b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) Winston Churchill

14.

Who was the author of the fi

(a) O. Pulla Reddi
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Gaston Leroux

15.

"Bhanu Singha" was the pen

(a) Bankin Chandra Chattop
(b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(c) Abanindra Nath Thakur
(d) Sarat Chandra Chattopad

16.

Austrian playwriter of the pl

(a) Arthur Schnitzler
(b) Jonathan Swift
(c) Herman Merville
(d) Sophocles

17.

Author of the book Hamlet

(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Lewis Carroll
(c) Jack London
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer

18.

Author of the book Moby Dic

(a) George Eliot
(b) Karen Hall
(c) Eric Lustbader
(d) Herman Merville

19.

Author of the book The Good

(a) Pearl Buck
(b) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(c) William Faulkner
(d) P. D. Tandon

20.

Author of the books A Christ

(a) Eyvind Johnson
(b) Dalai Lama
(c) Honore de Balzac
(d) Charles Dickens

21.

Author of the children's boo

(a) Johanna Spyri

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(b) Time Parks

(c) Allan Sealey
(d) Norman Mailer
22.

Filipino who wrote the first E

(a) Lewis Wallace
(b) Charles Berlitz
(c) James Rusbridger
(d) Zoilo Galang

23.

Name of the 39 books comp

(a) Old Testament
(b) Alexander Dumas
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Jonathan Swift

24.

The author of the book "Indi

(a) Kuldeep Nayyar
(b) Maulana Abdul Kalam Az
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Indira Gandhi

25.

The book We Indians was w

(a) H.G. Wells
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) James Jeans
(d) Thomas Moore

26.

The play/book Shakuntala

(a) Maithili Sharan gupt
(b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Kalidas
(d) Tulsidas

27.

Which of the following is the

(a) Firdausi
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

28.

Who has authored the book

(a) Swaraj Paul
(b) Ajit Haksar
(c) Anil Ambani
(d) JRD Tata

29.

Who of the following is the a

(a) Al Gore
(b) Barack Obama
(c) Bill Clinton
(d) Hillary Clinton

30.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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(a) Lucinda Vardey

(b) John Lennon
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Arthur M. Schlesinger