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)

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 volonté 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

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

Answer: (b)

10. The author of the play/book ‘Ratnawali’ is:

(a) Tulsidas

(b) Kalidas

(c) Harsha Vardhan

(d) Prem Chand

Answer: (c)
11. The medical technique that is very much similar 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

Answer: (b)

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

(c) Mary Shelley

(d) Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer: (d)

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?

(a) The Bible

(b) Hiraka Sutra

(c) The Super Book

(d) None of these

Answer: (a)

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