1. Who is the author of the book 'The Rights of Man'?
a) Thomas Hardy
b) Thomas Mann
c) Thomas Moore
d) Thomas Paine
2. A Passage to India was written by -
a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
b) E. M. Foster
c) Thomas Hardy
d) Rabindranath Tagore
3. Which novel of Salman Rushdie was released in 2017?
a) Midnight's Children
b) The Golden House
c) The Satanic Verses
d) The Sellout
4.A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, is the author of the book -
a) Four Fires and Death of Fire
b) The Wings of Fire and Ignited Minds
c) The Algebra of Infinite Justice
d) None of these
5. Who among the following is the author of the book 'A Comparison between Women and Men'?
a) Pandita Ramabai
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Tarabai Shinde
d) Rameshwari Nehru
6. Bhatnagar Prize is given in the field of -
a) Peace
b) Music and dance
c) Science and technology
d) Fine Arts
7. Aurobindo was the author of
a) Yogashastra
b) Discovery of India
c) Savitri
d) Hindu view of life
8. Author of the book named "Waiting for the Mahatma"
a) P. C. Parakh
b) R. K. Narayan
c) Sanjay Baru
d) R. D. Pradhan
9. Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?
a) Jonathan Swift
b) Alivin Toffler
c) Samuel Johnson
d) D. H. Lawrence
10.The book 'Midnight's Children' has been written by -
a) Arundhati Roy
b) Tasleema Nasreen
c) Salman Rushdie
d) Kiran Desai
11. 'Beyond time' is the book written by -
a) Namita Gokhale
b) Ruskin Bond
c) William Balrymple
d) None of these
12. "I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Who said this?
a) Mother Teresa
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Walt Disney
d) Kennedy
13.Panchatantra has been written by :
a) Kalidas
b) Surdas
c) Vishakhadatta
d) Vishnu Sharma
14. The author of the book "Zest for Life" is -
a) Mark Twain
b) Emile Zola
c) Virginia Wolf
d) H. G. Walls
15. The book "Six Machine : I don't Like Cricket .... I Love It" is the autobiography of which cricketer?
a) Yuvraj Singh
b) Chris Gayle
c) Virender Sehwag
d) AB de Villiers
16. Famous hindi novel 'Neela Chand' is written by -
a) Ramakant Rath
b) Ram Vilas Sharma
c) Shiv Prasaad Singh
d) Harivansh Rai Bachchan
17. Who is the author of 'Half of What I Say'?
a) Anil Menon
b) Namitha Gokhale
c) Shashi Tharoor
d) K. R. Meera
18. Book of poems entitled 'Lamha Lamha' is written by which of the following Indian actresses?
a) Deepti Naval
b) Rekha
c) Sharmila Tagore
d) Shabana Azmi
19. The popular TV serial 'Neem ka Ped' was written by -
a) Ashapurna Devi
b) Harivansh Rai Bachchan
c) Sharad Joshi
d) Rahi Masoom Raza
20. "Don't Laugh : We are Police", this book was compiled by -
a) K. P. S. Gill D. G. P.
b) Bishan Lal Vohra I. G. P.
c) Shanti Swaroop I. G. P.
d) None of the options
21. Who wrote the famous book - 'We the people'?
a) V. S. Naipaul
b) Khushwant Singh
c) T. N. Kaul
d) Nani Palkhivala
22. Who wrote the book 'Two Fates - The Story of My Divorce', which is a parody of Chetan Bhagat's 'Two States - The Story of My Marriage'?
a) Namita Gokhale
b) Judy Balan
c) Swati Kaushal
d) Arundhati Roy
23. The latest book 'Kurukshetra to Kargil' is written by :
a) Karan Singh
b) Kunal Bhardwaj
c) Suryanath Singh
d) Kuldip Singh
24. Who is the author of the book 'My other two daughters'?
a) Vijneswara
b) Somadeva
c) Surjit Singh Barnala
d) Mulk Raj Anand
25. Who among the following has authored the book 'The Idea of India'?
a) Khushwant Singh
b) Shashi Tharoor
c) Sunil Khilnani
d) William Dalrymple
26. Author of the book 'The Three Mistakes in My Life' -
a) Amrita Pritam
b) Jhumpa Lahiri
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Chetan Bhagat
27. 'Neela Chaand' which won the Vyas Samman in 1992 is written by -
a) Subhash Mukhopadhyay
b) V. S. Naipaul
c) Ram Vilas Sharma
d) Shiv Prasaad Singh
28. "Hema Malini : Beyond the Dream Girl" is authored by which author?
a) Meena Iyer
b) Hema Malini
c) Ram Kamal Mukherjee
d) Vijay Kumar
29. Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Rekha : The untold story" a biography on veteran actress Rekha?
a) Yasser Usman
b) Anand Neelakantan
c) Ram Kamal Mukherjee
d) Vijay Kumar
30. Who of the following wrote "The Story of My Experiments with Truth"?
a) B. R. Ambedkar
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
d) Mahatma Gandhi
31. What is unique about the film 'Adi Shankaracharya'?
a) It has won the National Award.
b) It is the first Bengal film
c) It is the first Sanskrit film.
d) It has no female actress.
32. 'Crime and Punishment' was written by -
a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
b) Vladimir Nabakov
c) Lewis Carrol
d) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
33. Lala Lajpat Rai is the author of the book -
a) India Divided
b) Unhappy India
c) Mother India
d) Hind Swaraj
34. Who has written the book entitled 'Hind Swaraj' ?
a) Lala Lajpat Rai
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
d) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
35. The book 'Springing Tiger' was written by -
a) Hugh Toye
b) Louis Fisher
c) Webb Miller
d) None of the above
36. Who wrote 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'?
a) D. H. Lawrence
b) Lynn Vincent
c) Sir Walter Scott
d) Anton Chekhov
37. Who wrote the famous line : 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever'?
a) John Keats
b) V. S. Naipaul
c) Sir Richard Burton
d) Larry Collins
38. Who wrote 'Jungle Book'?
a) Mohd. Salim
b) Rudyard Kipling
c) Sibhu
d) None of the above
39. The serial 'India's Rajiv' was produced and directed by -
a) Satyajit Ray
b) Mira Nair
c) Shyam Benegal
d) Simi Garewal
40. Who has written the book 'Courtyards of my childhood - A Memoir'?
a) Romola Chatterjee
b) Kamala Markandey
c) Shobha De
d) Tabish Khair
41. Who is the author of the book "Book at Noon"?
a) V. S. Naipaul
b) Chetan Bhagat
c) Vikram Seth
d) None of these
42. Who has written the book 'Two Lives'?
a) Salman Rushdie
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Vikram Seth
d) Shiv Khera
43. The book 'The Audacity of Hope' has been written by -
a) Nayantara Sehgal
b) Aravind Adiga
c) Vikram Seth
d) Barack Obama
44. The book 'The Man who knew Infinity' by Robert Kanigel is the biography of -
a) Sir C. V. Raman
b) Srinivasa Ramanujan
c) Vikram Sarabhai
d) Homi Bhabha
45. Which of the following books is called the 'Bible of Socialism'?
a) Economics of Welfare
b) Das Capital
c) Value and Capital
d) Asian Drama
46. Who is the author of the book 'Akhada : The Authorised Biography of Mahavir Singh Phogat'?
a) Rabi Thapa
b) Saurabh Duggal
c) Salman Rushdie
d) Tana French
47. Author of the book 'The City of Joy' is :
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Dominique Lapierre
c) Salman Rushdie
d) H. G. Wells
48. 'Life Divine' is a book written by -
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
d) Shri Aurobindo
49. A recent movie titled 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' is based on the biography of -
a) S. Ramanujan
b) S. Chandrasekhar
c) S. N. Bose
d) C. V. Raman
50. Who wrote the book 'Train to Pakistan'?
a) Mulk Raj Anand
b) Shobha Singh
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Khuswant Singh
51. Who is the author of the book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
a) Kiran Bedi
b) Nelson Mandela
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Sheikh Abdullah
52. The author of the book 'India Wins Freedom' is?
a) Kuldeep Nawar
b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Indira Nehru
53. Who amongst the following is the author of the book "Termites in the Trading System"?
a) M. S. Swaminathan
b) Jagdish Bhagwati
c) Jaswant Singh
d) M. Chelapati Rao
54.What was the pen name of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay?
a) Anila Devi
b) Kamla Kant
c) Jarasandha
d) Rupdarshi
55. What was the pen name of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay?
a) Kamla Kant
b) Anila Devi
c) Jarasandha
d) Dhananjoy Bairagi
56. Long Walk to Freedom' is a book written by -
a) Sonia Gandhi
b) L. K. Advani
c) Nelson Mandela
d) Benazir Bhutto
57.Who amongst the following is the author of the Book "Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance"?
a) Barack Obama
b) John Evans Aatta Mills
c) Nelson Mandela
d) Danny Boyle
58.Whose biography is the book 'Anything but Khamosh'?
a) Manoj Bajpai
b) Shatrughan Sinha
c) Nana Patekar
d) Sonakshi Sinha
59. The third Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) distinguished Indologist Award for the year 2017 was awarded to Japanese Professor -
a) Hiroshi Marui
b) Hiroshima Marui
c) Nagasaki Marui
d) Jayota Marui
60. 'Three Decades in Parliament' is a collection of -
a) L. K. Advani
b) A. B. Vajpayee
c) N. G. Ranga
d) S. Chatterjee
61. Who is the author of the book "The State of the Nation"?
a) Kuldip Nayar
b) Fali S. Nariman
c) Mark Tully
d) Vinod Mehta
62. Who is the author of the book 'No Full Stops in India'?
a) Shyam Lal
b) E. M. Foster
c) Mark Tully
d) Raj Mohan Gandhi
63. The author of the famous novel 'Gone with the Wind' is :
a) R. L. Stephenson
b) Charles Dickens
c) Margaret Mitchell
d) Harold Robins
64. "My Unforgettable Memories" is the autobiography of :
a) Mayawati
b) Pratibha Patil
c) Mamata Banerjee
d) Suu Kyi
65. Which of the following books was written by Phaniswar Nath 'Renu'?
a) Rag Darbari
b) Gunahon Ka Devta
c) Maila Anchal
d) Andha Yug
66. Who wrote the book 'Gulamgiri'?
a) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
b) Rammohan Roy
c) Jyotiba Phule
d) Ambedkar
67. The book 'Around the World in Eighty Days' was written by :
a) Charles Dickens
b) H. H. Munro
c) Jules Verne
d) Sir Richard Burton
68. Who wrote the line : 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'?
a) P. B. Shelley
b) William Wordsworth
c) John Keats
d) Robert Browning
69.Who has written the book 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'?
a) Patrick Suskind
b) Anne Frank
c) J. K. Rowling
d) Elena Ferrante
70.Who has authored the book titled 'Narendra Modi : A Political Biography'?
a) Andy Marino
b) David Irving
c) Jeffrey Dell
d) Kingsley Amis
71. Who is the writer of the famous book 'Kabuliwala'?
a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Munshi Premchand
d) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
72. Who directed the world famous film 'The Gandhi'?
a) Nani Palkhivala
b) Ben Kingsley
c) Mrinal Sen
d) Richard Attenboroughe
73. Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Nice Guys Finish Second'?.
a) B. K. Nehru
b) Pupul Jayakar
c) Michael Hammer
d) R. K. Karanjia
74. Which of the following was not written by Kalidas?
a) Kumar Sambhavam
b) Laghujatakam
c) Meghdootam
d) Raghuvansham
75. Who is the author of 'India Wins Freedom'?
a) Dominique Lapierre
b) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
c) Maulana Azad
d) Jawaharlal Nehru
76. 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' is the autobiography of :
a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
77. Who is the author of the book "The Accidental Prime Minister"?
a) Rajdeep Sardesai
b) Karan Thapar
c) Kuldeep Nayar
d) Sanjaya Baru
78. Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'A bend in the River'?
a) Chetan Bhagat
b) V. S. Naipaul
c) Kiran Desai
d) Anita Desai
79. Who is the author of 'A Suitable Boy'?
a) Vikram Seth
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Khushwant Singh
d) None of these
80. Who among the following has directed the film 'Sardar'?
a) Tapan Sinha
b) Shyam Benegal
c) Ketan Mehta
d) Buddhadeb Das Gupta
81. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of -
a) The Post Office
b) Gora
c) India Wins Freedom
d) Coolie
82. Who among the following is the author of the book, "Pakistan Paradox : Instability and Resilience"?
a) Christophe Jaffrelot
b) Gopalaswami Parthasarathy
c) Imran Khan
d) Mamnoon Hussain
83. Who is the author of the book titled 'Numbers Do Lie'?
a) Anil Menon
b) Akash Chopra
c) Ian Chapell
d) Kunal Basu
84.'The World Outside My Window' is written by which author?
a) Emily Bronte
b) Ruskin Bond
c) Jane Austen
d) Henry Fielding
85.The first lady of the Indian screen to had been nominated to the Rajya Sabha is -
a) Nargis
b) Madhubala
c) Hema Malini
d) Shobhana Bhartia
86. 'Maya Memsaab' is a film directed by -
a) Shyam Benegal
b) Bhupen Hazarika
c) Ketan Mehta
d) Tapan Sinha
87. Who was the author of the trilogy "The Immortals of Meluha","The Secret of the Nagas", and "The Oath of the Vayuputras"?
a) Amish Tripathi
b) Anand Neelakantan
c) Kavita Kane
d) Devdutt Pattanaik
88. In which language did Dr. Masti Venkatesh Iyengar write?
a) Tamil
b) Malayalam
c) Kannada
d) Hindi
89. Who has written 'Panchatantra'?
a) Bhartendu Harischandra
b) Vishnu Sharma
c) Kalidas
d) Chanakya
90. Who authored the book titled 'Jinnah often came to our House', which one the 2016 The Hindu Prize?
a) Kiran Doshi
b) Salman Rushdie
c) K. Vijay Kumar
d) Yasser Usman
91. Who of the following wrote "The story of My Experiments with Truth"?
a) Babasaheb B. R. Ambedkar
b) Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
d) Mahatma Gandhi
92. Who amongst the following is the author of the classic book 'Life Divine'?
a) Ravi Shankar
b) Swami Vivekanand
c) Radha Krishnan
d) Aurobindo Ghosh
93. Who among the following has written the famous book 'Malgudi Days'?
a) V. S. Naipaul
b) Deepak Chopra
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) R. K. Narayan
94. The novel 'Post Office' was written by :
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) K. M. Munshil
c) R. D. Dinkar
d) Neeraj
95. The author of book 'The Guide' is -
a) R. K. Laxman
b) R. K. Singh
c) R. K. Narayan
d) Raj Kapoor
96.Who among the following authors wrote books namely Among the Believers, India - A Million Mutinies, An Area of Darkness?
a) Sulman Rushdie
b) Shiva Naipal
c) Paul Theroux
d) V. S. Naipaul
97. Who is the author of the book "Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstoppable"?
a) Sobha De
b) Anees Jung
c) P. M. Nayer
d) Mulk Raj Anand
98. Who wrote 'A Passage to India'?
a) E. M. Forster
b) Kipling
c) Orwell
d) None of these
99. What is the name of the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar?
a) Numbers Do Lie
b) Playing it my way
c) Once upon a time
d) What is Remembered
100. Who is the author of 'Adhe-Adhure'?
a) Mohan Rakesh
b) Munshi Premchand
c) Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
d) Sumitranandan Pant