1.

Who is the author of the books Sense and Sensibility and Pride
and Prejudice?
(a) Anna Sewell
(b) Voltaire
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(d) Jane Austen

Answer: (d)

2.

Author of the book Around the World in Eighty Days

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

Answer: (c)

3.

Amrita Pritam's work "A Revenue Stamp" is

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

Answer: (d)

4.

Author of the book Crime and Punishment.

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

Answer: (a)

5.

Author of the book Gulliver's Travels.

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

Answer: (d)

6.

Author of the book Sherlock Holmes.

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

Answer: (d)

7.

Author of the books 5 Weeks in a Balloon & 80,000 Leagues

Under the Sea.
(a) Jules Verne
(b) Alexander Dumas
(c)Jules Verne
(d) Charles Dickens

Answer: (a)

8.

Author of the books The Three Musketeers and The Legend of

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

Answer: (a)

9.

'Beyond time' is the book written by

(a) Namita Gokhale
(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple
(d) None of these

Answer: (d)

10.

Mulk Raj Anand is the author of

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

Answer: (d)

11.

The "Killer Instinct" is written by

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

Answer: (c)

12.

The book Vish Vriksha was written by:

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

Answer: (a)

13.

The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is:

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

Answer: (c)

14.

Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan

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

Answer: (a)

15.

Who authored the 'Gitanjali', an anthology of poems?

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

Answer: (c)

16.

Who is the author of the book Superstar India?

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

Answer: ( c )

17.

Travelling Through Conflict is a book written by _____.

(a) Hamid Ansari

Answer: (a)

(b) Cherie Blair

(c) Balraj Krishna
(d) Salman Rushdie
18.

Author of the book Candide.

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

Answer: (d)

19.

Author of the book Frankenstein.

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

Answer: (a)

20.

Author of the book Robinson Crusoe.

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

Answer: (a)

21.

Author of the book Wuthering Heights.

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

Answer: (a)

22.

Author of the books The Prince and the Pauper, The Great
Expectation, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn.
(a) James A. Michener
(b) Stephen King
(c) George Byron
(d) Mark Twain

Answer: (d)

23.

Authors of the book Tales From Shakespeare.

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

Answer: (a)

24.

Match List I and List II and select the correct answer using the
code given below the lists:
List I
List II
(Book)
(Author))
A. In custody
1. Amartya Sen
B. Sea of Poppies
2. Amitav Ghosh
C. The Argumentative Indian
3. Anita Desai
D. Unaccustomed Earth
4. Jhumpa Lahiri
Code:
ABCD

Answer: (c)

(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 "Trees".

(a) Joyce Kilmer
(b) Alexander Dumas
(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer: (a)

26.

The book Satyartha Prakash was written by:

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

Answer: (a)

27.

The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868
is:
(a) The Bible
(b) The Hirake Sutra
(c) The Ramayana
(d) The Mahabharata

Answer: (b)

28.

Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas:

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

Answer: (c)

29.

Who amonst the following is the author of the book 'Freedom from
Fear'?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Aung San Suukyi
(c) Taslima Nasreen
(d) Benazir Bhutto

Answer: (b)

30.

Who is the author of the book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince?
(a)Mark Twain
(a) J. K. Rowling
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Jules Verne

Answer: (a)

1.

Wrote the nationalist play "Hindi Ako Patay".

(a) Sir John Hunt
(b) E. M. Forster
(c) Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Answer: (d)

(d) Juan Matapang Cruz

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 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 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

Answer: (b)

(d) Suresh Panda

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

Answer: (d)

(b) Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista

(c) Robert Ludlum
(d) Robert Ludlum
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.

Answer: (a)

(c) 200 cm, 100 cm, 60 kg.

(d) None of these
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

Answer: (a)

1.

Author of the Jungle Book.

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

Answer: (a)

2.

Author of the book War and Peace.

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

Answer: (d)

3.

Author of the book Oedipus Rex.

(a) Sophocles
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Louisa May Alcott
(d) Jane Austen

Answer: (a)

4.

Author of the book The Prince.

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

Answer: (a)

5.

Author of the books Little Men and Little Women.

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

Answer: (a)

6.

Author of the famous children book "The Adventure Of Alice In

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

Answer: (d)

7.

He wrote the book The Republic.

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

Answer: (a)

8.

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

Answer: (d)

9.

The author of the book Time machine is:

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

Answer: (d)

10.

The famous book 'Anandmath' has been authorised by

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

Answer: (a)

11.

The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?

(a) Kalidasa

Answer: (a)

(b) Thulasidas
(c) Sudraka
(d) Kautilya
12.

Who among the following is the author of recently published book,

"Not by Reason Alone - The Politics of Change"?
(a) A. Ranga Reddy
(b) N.K. Singh
(c) Sanjay Nahar
(d) Prashant Talnikar

Answer: (b)

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

Answer: (b)

14.

Who was the author of the first famous books "The Phantom of the
Opera"?
(a) O. Pulla Reddi
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Gaston Leroux

Answer: (d)

15.

"Bhanu Singha" was the pen name of famous writer?

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

Answer: (b)

16.

Austrian playwriter of the play "Professor Bernhardi" and "La Ronde

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

Answer: (a)

17.

Author of the book Hamlet

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

Answer: (a)

18.

Author of the book Moby Dick.

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

Answer: (d)

19.

Author of the book The Good Earth.

(a) Pearl Buck

Answer: (a)

(b) Alexander Solzhenitsyn

(c) William Faulkner
(d) P. D. Tandon
20.

Author of the books A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield & Oliver

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

Answer: (d)

21.

Author of the children's book Heidi.

(a) Johanna Spyri
(b) Time Parks
(c) Allan Sealey
(d) Norman Mailer

Answer: (a)

22.

Filipino who wrote the first English novel "A Child Of Sorrow".
(a) Lewis Wallace
(b) Charles Berlitz
(c) James Rusbridger
(d) Zoilo Galang

Answer: (d)

23.

Name of the 39 books comprising the Jewish scriptures.

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

Answer: (a)

24.

The author of the book "India Wins Freedom" is

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

Answer: (b)

25.

The book We Indians was written by:

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

Answer: (b)

26.

The play/book Shakuntala was written by:

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

Answer: (c)

27.

Which of the following is the author of _____ Song of India, The?:

(a) Firdausi
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai

Answer: (b)

(d) Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

28.

Who has authored the book Beyond the Last Blue Mountain?
(a) Swaraj Paul
(b) Ajit Haksar
(c) Anil Ambani
(d) JRD Tata

Answer: (d)

29.

Who of the following is the author of the book "The Audacity of Hope"?
(a) Al Gore
(b) Barack Obama
(c) Bill Clinton
(d) Hillary Clinton

Answer: (b)

30.

A Midsummer Night's Dream :

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

Answer: (c)