In Books and Authors type of General Knowledge questions candidate have to find the name of a author for a book or book name written by the author and answer accordingly.
1. Who among the following is the author of the book, 'Sachin: Born to Bat - The Journey of Cricket's Ultimate Centurian'?
(a) Khalid Ah Ansari
(b) Boria Majumdar
(c) Kiran Nagarkar
(d) Ed Hawkins
2. Which of the following books is written by Rabindra Nath Tagore?
(a) Rakta Karabi
(b) Anand Math
(c) Chidambara
(d) Durgesh Nandini
3. Which of the following books is written by Kapil Dev ?
(a) One Day Wonders
(b) Cricket – My Style
(c) Twenty Years at the Top
(d) Cricket - Favourite Game
4. Who is the author of the book 'Glimpses of World History' ?
(a) Abdul Kalam Azad
(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(c) S Gopalan
(d) S Radhakrishnan
5. 'India of our dreams' is a book written by
(a) Dr Rajendra Prasad
(b) Dr S Radhakrishnan
(c) Dr C Subramaniam
(d) M.V. Kamath
6. The novel 'The Post Office' was written by
(a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(b) K.M. Munshi
(c) R.D. Dinkar
(d) Neeraj
7. Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched?
1. Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things
2. Kiran Desai : The Inheritance of Loss
3. Jhumpa Lahiri : The Namesake
Codes
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 1 and 2
8. 'My Music, My Life' is the autobiography of
(a) Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
(b) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
(c) Pandit Ravi Shankar
(d) Ustad Zakir Hussain
9. The book Tehrik - i Mujahideen written by a Pakistani writer Dr Sadiq Hussain created much more furore in India because it
(a) allegedly asked Hindus to leave Pakistan
(b) contains derogatory remarks about the Sikh Gurus
(c) allegedly exhorted the Kashmiri militants to kill the leaders of India
(d) allegedly contains very abusive and sarcastic language against the Indian Muslims
10. Who has written the book "Courtyards of my childhood - A Memoir" ?
(a) Ramola Chatterjee
(b) Kamala Markandey
(c) Shobha De
(d) Tabish Khair
11. Who among the following is the author of the book 'My Country, My life' ?
(a) APJ Abdul Kalam
(b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(c) LK Advani
(d) Shashi Tharoor
12. Which of the following books was written by Graham Green?
(a) Of Human Bondage
(b) The Power and Glory
(c) Crisis in India
(d) O' Jerusalem
13. Who among the following is the author of the book 'India Remembered' ?
(a) JK Rowling
(b) Robert Dallek
(c) Pamela Mountbatten
(d) Stephen Hawking
14. Who has written the book 'The Famished Road' ?
(a) Zola Emile
(b) VS. Naipaul
(c) Ben Okri
(d) Din Mani
15. Who wrote 'Jungle Book' ?
(a) Mohd. Salim
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) Sibhu
(d) none of the above
16. Who is the author of the book 'Freedom Behind Bars' ?
(a) Kiran Bedi
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Sheikh Abdullah
17. Who is the author of 'Nineteen Eighty Four' ?
(a) J.M Barrie
(b) Walter Scott
(c) George Orwell
(d) Thomas Hardy
18. The book 'All Under Heaven' was written by
(a) Paul S. Buck
(b) Sydney Sheldon
(c) D.H. Lawrence
(d) George Bernard Shaw
19. Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate policies of the Indian National Congress in a series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old' ?
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh
(b) RC Dutt
(c) Syed Ahmad Khan
(d) Viraraghavachari
20. Who is the author of 'Anandmath' ?
(a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Jyotiba Phule
21. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians' ?
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Mulk Raj Anand
(c) Nirad C. Chaudhary
(d) Subramanya Swamy
22. Who is the author of the novel 'Les Miserables' ?
(a) Fedric
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Steven Spielberg
(d) Alium Tofler
23. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
1. Taslima Nasreen - Lajja
2. Vikram Seth - The Golden Gate
3. Dilip Thakore - A Suitable Boy
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
24. Lapierre is the author/co-author of
1. Freedom At Mid night
2. City of Joy
3. Is Paris Burning ?
4. Beyond Love
Which of the following is correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1 and 3
(c) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(d) 2, 3 and 4
25. Who among the following translated the autobiography of Madam Curie in Hindi?
(a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) Choudhary Charan Singh
(d) Gobind Vallabh Pant
26. The author of the book 'A Brief History of Time' is
(a) Carl Sagan
(b) John Sohwarz
(c) Michael Green
(d) Stephen Hawking
27. Who among the following authored the book 'Plain Speaking'?
(a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(b) EK Nayanar
(c) LK Advani
(d) N Chandrababu Naidu
28. 'Higher than Hopes' is a biography of
(a) Mother Teresa
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Bishop Tutu
(d) none of the above
29. Who composed the National anthem 'Jana Gana Mana' ?
(a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(b) R.D. Dinkar
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(d) Sarojini Naidu
30. The book 'Satanic Verses' was written by
(a) Gunnar Myrdal
(b) Agatha Christie
(c) William Golding
(d) Salman Rushdie
31. Who among the following is the author of the book ' Nirbasan' ?
(a) Mahashweta Devi
(b) Taslima Nasreen
(c) Sunil Gangopadhyay
(d) Vikram Seth
32. Who wrote the book 'A Passage to India' ?
(a) Minoo Masani
(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(c) Victor Bannerjee
(d) E. M. Forster
33. Who is the author of the controversial book 'Forbidden Verses' ?
(a) Abu Nawaz
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) D.H. Lawrence
(d) Ms. Taslima Nasreen
34. Who said, "I therefore, want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn, if it can be had" ?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Dr Rajendra Prasad
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Ms. Taslima Nasreen
35. Which of the following books would you consult to get acquainted with Gandhian thought?
(a) India Wins Freedom
(b) India Divided
(c) Hind Swaraj
(d) Discovery of India
36. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism' ?
(a) Affluent Society
(b) War and Peace
(c) Das Kapital
(d) Gulag Archipelago
37. Who among the following writers was born in 1891?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Agatha Christie
(d) Thomas Hardy
38. What is the title of APJ Abdul Kalam's autobiography?
(a) Me and Missile
(b) My Memories
(c) Sky is the Limit
(d) Wings of Fire
39. The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Alexander Dumas
(d) Jonathan Swift
40. The celebrated novel 'The Godfather' was authored by
(a) John Milton
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Mario Puzo
(d) Harold Robbins
1. Who among the following is the author of the book, 'Sachin: Born to Bat - The Journey of Cricket's Ultimate Centurian'?
(a) Khalid Ah Ansari
(b) Boria Majumdar
(c) Kiran Nagarkar
(d) Ed Hawkins
Answer : (a) Khalid Ah Ansari
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer2. Which of the following books is written by Rabindra Nath Tagore?
(a) Rakta Karabi
(b) Anand Math
(c) Chidambara
(d) Durgesh Nandini
Answer : (a) Rakta Karabi
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer3. Which of the following books is written by Kapil Dev ?
(a) One Day Wonders
(b) Cricket – My Style
(c) Twenty Years at the Top
(d) Cricket - Favourite Game
Answer : (b) Cricket – My Style
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer4. Who is the author of the book 'Glimpses of World History' ?
(a) Abdul Kalam Azad
(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(c) S Gopalan
(d) S Radhakrishnan
Answer : (a) Abdul Kalam Azad
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer5. 'India of our dreams' is a book written by
(a) Dr Rajendra Prasad
(b) Dr S Radhakrishnan
(c) Dr C Subramaniam
(d) M.V. Kamath
Answer : (d) M.V. Kamath
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer6. The novel 'The Post Office' was written by
(a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(b) K.M. Munshi
(c) R.D. Dinkar
(d) Neeraj
Answer : (a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer7. Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched?
1. Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things
2. Kiran Desai : The Inheritance of Loss
3. Jhumpa Lahiri : The Namesake
Codes
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 1 and 2
Answer : (c) 1 and 3
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer8. 'My Music, My Life' is the autobiography of
(a) Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
(b) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
(c) Pandit Ravi Shankar
(d) Ustad Zakir Hussain
Answer : (c) Pandit Ravi Shankar
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer9. The book Tehrik - i Mujahideen written by a Pakistani writer Dr Sadiq Hussain created much more furore in India because it
(a) allegedly asked Hindus to leave Pakistan
(b) contains derogatory remarks about the Sikh Gurus
(c) allegedly exhorted the Kashmiri militants to kill the leaders of India
(d) allegedly contains very abusive and sarcastic language against the Indian Muslims
Answer : (a) allegedly asked Hindus to leave Pakistan
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer10. Who has written the book "Courtyards of my childhood - A Memoir" ?
(a) Ramola Chatterjee
(b) Kamala Markandey
(c) Shobha De
(d) Tabish Khair
Answer : (a) Ramola Chatterjee
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer11. Who among the following is the author of the book 'My Country, My life' ?
(a) APJ Abdul Kalam
(b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(c) LK Advani
(d) Shashi Tharoor
Answer : (c) LK Advani
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer12. Which of the following books was written by Graham Green?
(a) Of Human Bondage
(b) The Power and Glory
(c) Crisis in India
(d) O' Jerusalem
Answer : (b) The Power and Glory
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer13. Who among the following is the author of the book 'India Remembered' ?
(a) JK Rowling
(b) Robert Dallek
(c) Pamela Mountbatten
(d) Stephen Hawking
Answer : (c) Pamela Mountbatten
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer14. Who has written the book 'The Famished Road' ?
(a) Zola Emile
(b) VS. Naipaul
(c) Ben Okri
(d) Din Mani
Answer : (c) Ben Okri
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer15. Who wrote 'Jungle Book' ?
(a) Mohd. Salim
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) Sibhu
(d) none of the above
Answer : (b) Rudyard Kipling
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer16. Who is the author of the book 'Freedom Behind Bars' ?
(a) Kiran Bedi
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Sheikh Abdullah
Answer : (a) Kiran Bedi
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer17. Who is the author of 'Nineteen Eighty Four' ?
(a) J.M Barrie
(b) Walter Scott
(c) George Orwell
(d) Thomas Hardy
Answer : (c) George Orwell
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer18. The book 'All Under Heaven' was written by
(a) Paul S. Buck
(b) Sydney Sheldon
(c) D.H. Lawrence
(d) George Bernard Shaw
Answer : (a) Paul S. Buck
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer19. Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate policies of the Indian National Congress in a series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old' ?
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh
(b) RC Dutt
(c) Syed Ahmad Khan
(d) Viraraghavachari
Answer : (a) Aurobindo Ghosh
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer20. Who is the author of 'Anandmath' ?
(a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Jyotiba Phule
Answer : (b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer21. Who is the author of the book 'We Indians' ?
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Mulk Raj Anand
(c) Nirad C. Chaudhary
(d) Subramanya Swamy
Answer : (a) Khushwant Singh
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer22. Who is the author of the novel 'Les Miserables' ?
(a) Fedric
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Steven Spielberg
(d) Alium Tofler
Answer : (b) Victor Hugo
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer23. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
1. Taslima Nasreen - Lajja
2. Vikram Seth - The Golden Gate
3. Dilip Thakore - A Suitable Boy
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer : (a) 1 only
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer24. Lapierre is the author/co-author of
1. Freedom At Mid night
2. City of Joy
3. Is Paris Burning ?
4. Beyond Love
Which of the following is correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1 and 3
(c) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Answer : (b) 1 and 3
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer25. Who among the following translated the autobiography of Madam Curie in Hindi?
(a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) Choudhary Charan Singh
(d) Gobind Vallabh Pant
Answer : (b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer26. The author of the book 'A Brief History of Time' is
(a) Carl Sagan
(b) John Sohwarz
(c) Michael Green
(d) Stephen Hawking
Answer : (d) Stephen Hawking
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer27. Who among the following authored the book 'Plain Speaking'?
(a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(b) EK Nayanar
(c) LK Advani
(d) N Chandrababu Naidu
Answer : (d) N Chandrababu Naidu
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer28. 'Higher than Hopes' is a biography of
(a) Mother Teresa
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Bishop Tutu
(d) none of the above
Answer : (b) Nelson Mandela
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer29. Who composed the National anthem 'Jana Gana Mana' ?
(a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(b) R.D. Dinkar
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(d) Sarojini Naidu
Answer : (a) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer30. The book 'Satanic Verses' was written by
(a) Gunnar Myrdal
(b) Agatha Christie
(c) William Golding
(d) Salman Rushdie
Answer : (d) Salman Rushdie
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer31. Who among the following is the author of the book ' Nirbasan' ?
(a) Mahashweta Devi
(b) Taslima Nasreen
(c) Sunil Gangopadhyay
(d) Vikram Seth
Answer : (b) Taslima Nasreen
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer32. Who wrote the book 'A Passage to India' ?
(a) Minoo Masani
(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(c) Victor Bannerjee
(d) E. M. Forster
Answer : (d) E. M. Forster
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer33. Who is the author of the controversial book 'Forbidden Verses' ?
(a) Abu Nawaz
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) D.H. Lawrence
(d) Ms. Taslima Nasreen
Answer : (a) Abu Nawaz
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer34. Who said, "I therefore, want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn, if it can be had" ?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Dr Rajendra Prasad
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Ms. Taslima Nasreen
Answer : (a) Mahatma Gandhi
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer35. Which of the following books would you consult to get acquainted with Gandhian thought?
(a) India Wins Freedom
(b) India Divided
(c) Hind Swaraj
(d) Discovery of India
Answer : (c) Hind Swaraj
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer36. Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism' ?
(a) Affluent Society
(b) War and Peace
(c) Das Kapital
(d) Gulag Archipelago
Answer : (c) Das Kapital
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer37. Who among the following writers was born in 1891?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Agatha Christie
(d) Thomas Hardy
Answer : (c) Agatha Christie
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer38. What is the title of APJ Abdul Kalam's autobiography?
(a) Me and Missile
(b) My Memories
(c) Sky is the Limit
(d) Wings of Fire
Answer : (d) Wings of Fire
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer39. The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Alexander Dumas
(d) Jonathan Swift
Answer : (d) Jonathan Swift
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer40. The celebrated novel 'The Godfather' was authored by
(a) John Milton
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Mario Puzo
(d) Harold Robbins
Answer : (c) Mario Puzo
Explanation :
No explanation available for this answer
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My country, my life is written by L K Advani and not by APJ Abdul Kalam
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