Books and Authors Quiz

Books and Authors Quiz

Question 1: Who is the author of the book ‘Freedom Behind Bars ‘?

1. Kiran Bedi
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Nelson Mandela
4. Sheikh Abdullah

Question 2: Which of the books is written by Kapil Dev

1. One day Wonders
2. Cricket – My Style
3. Twenty Years at the top
4. Cricket-Favourite Game

Question 3: Who is the author of “Unhappy India”?

1. Vikram Seth
2. Lala Lajpath Roy
3. Chethan Bhagath
4. None

Question 4: Who is the author of the book “The Judgement”?

1. Kuldip Nayar
2. Mathili Saran Gupta
3. Amitabh Ghosh
4. None

Question 5: Prime Minister NarendraModi released a book authored by LokSabha Speaker SumitraMahajan in New Delhi, recently. The book is titled as __________.

1. Matopadesh
2. Bhagyashree
3. Preranadayini
4. Matoshree

Question 6: ‘ Asian Drama ‘, by Gunnar Karl Myrdal, is a book on which of the following subjects

1. Theatre Movement in Asia
2. Economics
3. International Politics
4. Look East Policy of India

Question 7: Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘ Colours of the Rainbow ‘

1. V.Kamath
2. Anita Nayyar
3. Pritish Nandy
4. Ranjit Biswas

Question 8: The famous book Kankal is authored by ?

1. Ketan Bhagat
2. Mahesh Rao
3. Nirmal Verma
4. Jaishankar Prasad

Question 9: Which freedom fighter was the author of the book “An Introduction of the dreamland” ?

1. Bhagat Singh
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
4. Subhas Chandra Bose

Question 10: Who is the author of the controversial book ‘Forbidden verses’

1. Abu nuwaz
2. Salman Rushdie
3. H.Lawrence
4. Taslima Nasreen

Question 11: Who is the author of “Koonalamma Padalu” ?

1. Arudra
2. Gaddar
3. Sri Sri
4. Devulapalli Krishnasastry

Question 12: Who wrote the book ‘Rama Charita Manas ‘

1. Tulsi Das
2. Bhakta Kabir
3. Bhakta Ramdev
4. Valmiki

Question 13: ‘Zulfi, MyFriend ‘ is a book written by

1. A. Bhutto
2. Ali Jinnah
3. Khushwant Singh
4. Piloo Modi

Question 14: The book ‘ Gullivers Travels ‘ was written by

1. Charles Lamb
2. Charles Dickens
3. Alexander Dumas
4. Jonathan Swift

Question 15: The book which deals with the love plays of the Dark Lord Krishna and his fair beloved Radha.

1. Meghdoot
2. Raghuvamsa
3. Geet Govinda
4. Padmavat

Question 16: Who has penned a book titled ‘I Do What I Do: On Reform, Rhetoric and Resolve’ ?

1. Ajay Tyagi
2. Raghuram Rajan
3. Bimal Jalan
4. Urjit Patel

Question 17: The book ‘ Discovery of India ‘ is written by

1. Maithilisharan Gupt
2. Mahadevi Verma
3. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
4. Surya Kant Tripathi Nirala

Question 18: Famous book ‘ The Return of the Native ‘ is written by

1. Thomos Hardy
2. Bill Gates
3. M.Kaya
4. Lioy Douglas

Question 19: Which of the following books is written by R.N.Tagore

1. Rakta Karabi
2. Anand Math
3. Chidambara
4. Durgesh Nandini

Question 20: Who is the author of the book “Flaming Tresses of Draupadi” ?

1. Smriti Irani
2. Veerappa Moily
3. Mallikarjun Kharge
4. None

Question 21: Which of the following books has been written by Vikram Seth?

1. My God Died Young
2. Islamic Bomb
3. Look Back in Anger
4. A Suitable Boy

Question 22: Who wrote the line: ‘ A thing of beauty is a joy forever’?

1. John Keats
2. Robert Browning
3. B.Shelley
4. William Wordsworth

Question 23: The book ‘To Live or Not Live’ was written by

1. V.S. Naipaul
2. Alexandra Dumas
3. George Elliot
4. Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Question 24: Who is the father of English Poetry?

1. Milton
2. Wordsworth
3. Chaucer
4. Charles Dickens

Question 25: The popular TV serial ‘Neem ka Ped’ was written by

1. Rahi Masoom Raza
2. Sharad Joshi
3. Ashapurna Devi
4. Harivansh Rai Bachachan

Question 26: Who wrote ‘War and Peace’?

1. Leo Tolstoy
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Charles Dickens
4. Kipling

Question 27: ‘Mirchchhakatika’ was written by

1. Vikramaditya
2. Shudraka
3. Kalhana
4. Banabhatta

Question 28: The famous book ‘Anandmath’ was authored by

1. Sarojini Naidu
2. Bankim Chandra Chottapadhya
3. Sri Aurobindo
4. Rabindrnath Tagore

Question 29: Who is the author of famous statement: “That Government is the best which governs least”?

1. Herbert Spencer
2. Harold Laski
3. Alexis De Tocqueville
4. Henry David Thoreau

Question 30: Who wrote the book ‘Reminiscences of the Nehru Age’?

1. D.Deshmukh
2. P.C.Alexander
3. O.Mathai
4. C.Rajagopalachari

Question 31: Aurobindo was the author of

1. Discovery of India
2. Hindu view of life
3. Yogashastra
4. Savitri

Question 32: In which year was the ‘All India Radio’ set up?

1. 1936
2. 1927
3. 1947
4. 1950

Question 33: Which of the following is not written by Munshi Premchand?

1. Gaban
2. Godan
3. Manasorovar
4. Guide

Question 34: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ the famous TV serial is based on a book written by

1. Father Discoste
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Charles Dickens
4. Lewis Caroll

Question 35: Who is the writer of ‘Swamy and Friends’?

1. Munshi Premchand
2. Raman
3. Max Muller
4. K. Narayan

Question 36: The book named ‘Three Decades in Parliament’ is a collection of the speeches of

1. B. Vajpayee
2. Somnath Chatterjee
3. K. Advani
4. G. Ranga

Question 37: ‘Sports Channel’ a monthly video magazine has been launched by

1. Kapil Dev
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Ajit Wadekar
4. Nawab Pataudi

Question 38: The creator of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ was

1. Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Ian Fleming
3. Watson
4. Shakespeare

Question 39: Who is the author of book ‘We Indians’?

1. Nirad C. Choudry
2. Subramaniya Swamy
3. Khushwant Singh
4. Muluk Raj Anand

Question 40: ‘India of our Dreams’ is a book written by

1. S. Radhakrishnan
2. C. Subramanian
3. V. Kamath
4. Rajendra Prasad

Answers:

Ans1) 1	Ans15) 3	Ans29) 4
Ans2) 2	Ans16) 2	Ans30) 3
Ans3) 2	Ans17) 3	Ans31) 4
Ans4) 1	Ans18) 1	Ans32) 1
Ans5) 4	Ans19) 1	Ans33) 4
Ans6) 2	Ans20) 2	Ans34) 4
Ans7) 4	Ans21) 4	Ans35) 4
Ans8) 4	Ans22) 1	Ans36) 1
Ans9) 1	Ans23) 4	Ans37) 1
Ans10) 1	Ans24) 3	Ans38) 1
Ans11) 1	Ans25) 1	Ans39) 3
Ans12) 1	Ans26) 1	Ans40) 3
Ans13) 4	Ans27) 2
Ans14) 4	Ans28) 2