1. Who was the author of the book 'Plagues and Peoples'?
a) W. L. Thomas
b) Rachel Carson
c) David Cannadine
d) William H. Mcneill
2. Karl Marx wrote
a) Asian Drama
b) Emma
c) Das Kapital
d) Good Earth
3. The novel 'A Suitable Boy' is written by -
a) V. S. Naipaul
b) Vikram Seth
c) D. H. Lawrence
d) Ruskin Bond
4. The book 'All Under Heaven' was written by :
a) Pearl S. Buck
b) Sydney Sheldon
c) D. H. Lawrence
d) George Bernard Shaw
5. 'Six Machine (I Don't Like Cricket . . . . . I Love It)' is an autobiography of which famous batsman?
a) Virat Kohli
b) AB de Villiers
c) Chris Gayle
d) Tilakaratne Dilshan
6.Consider the following statements:
"If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don't give up. There is a way out."
Who among the following made the above statement?
a) Albert Einstein
b) Stephen Hawking
c) C. V. Raman
d) Abdus Salam
7. 'My Story' is an autobiography of which famous cricketer?
a) Kumar Sangakkara
b) Kevin Pietersen
c) Brendon McCullum
d) Michael Clarke
8. Who is the author of the book 'If Cricket is Religion, Sachin is God'?
a) Vijay Santhanam
b) Shyam Balasubramanian
c) Both A and B
d) none
9. Who of the following is the author of the book "The Audacity of Hope"?
a) Hillary Clinton
b) Barack Obama
c) Bill Clinton
d) Al Gore
10. Who wrote the book "Ramacharitmanas"?
a) Tulsidas
b) Bhakta Kabir
c) Bhakta Ramdev
d) Valmiki
11. Who is the author of "The Kalam effect : My years with the president"?
a) M. J. Akbar
b) Mulk Raj Anand
c) Anees Jung
d) P. M. Nair
12. Who has written the book 'My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir'?
a) M. J. Akbar
b) Jagmohan
c) Anees Jung
d) Shashi Tharoor
13. Who has written the famous book 'Anna Karenina'?
a) Victor Hugo
b) Boris Pasternak
c) Anees Jung
d) Leo Tolstoy
14. 'A China Passage' book was written by -
a) M. J. Akbar
b) Jagmohan
c) Anees Jung
d) John Kenneth Galbraith
15. Author of the book 'My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir'?
a) M. J. Akbar
b) Jagmohan
c) Anees Jung
d) Nissim Eziekel
16. The book "Born Again on the Mountain" is authored by which of the following Indian mountaineer?
a) Santhosh Yadav
b) Bachendri Pal
c) Arunima Sinha
d) Praveen Agarwal
17. Who is the author of the book "The Interpreter of Maladies"?
a) Jhumpa Lahiri
b) Sunetra Gupta
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Kiran Desai
18.'Sonia, a Biography' was written by -
a) Sonia Gandhi
b) Rasheed Kidvai
c) Arundhati Roy
d) V. K. Madhavan Kutty
19. Who is the author of the book 'Argumentative Indian writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity'?
a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
b) Amit Chaudhuri
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Amartya Sen
20.Who is the author of the book 'Wings of Fire'?
a) Abul Kalam Azad
b) Abdul Kalam
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Chetan Bhagat
21. Which play of Shakespeare was recently claimed to be dated wrongly?
a) Macbeth
b) Othello
c) Hamlet
d) Romea Juliet
22. Consider the following statement and identify the author of the statement using the code given below:
"I shall work for an Indian in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country, in whose making they have an effective voice, an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people, an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony."
a) B. R. Ambedkar
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) Jawaharlal Nehru
23. Which one of the following literary works was not written by R. K. Narayan?
a) Malgudi Days
b) Swami and his Friends
c) Guide
d) Gardener
24. 'Man - The Maker of His Own Destiny' book was written by -
a) V. S. Naipaul
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Guenter Grass
d) Swami Vivekanand
25. Which of the books mentioned below was not written by Munshi Premchand?
a) Godan
b) Gaban
c) Gora
d) Rangbhoomi
26. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Noble Prize for his literary work named -
a) Gitanjali
b) Rajatarangini
c) Chokher Bali
d) None of these
27. Which of the following books is written by Rabindranath Tagore?
a) Raktakarabi
b) Anand Math
c) Chidambara
d) Durgesh Nandini
28. Who is the author 'The Association of Small Bombs', which is currently shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award?
a) Karan Mahajan
b) Namitha Gokhale
c) Chetan Bhagat
d) Arundhati Roy
29.The book 'Kargil : Turning the Tide' is written by -
a) Mohinder Puri
b) Durjoy Datta
c) Chetan Bhagat
d) Anita Nair
30. Who wrote the book "War and Peace"?
a) Leo Tolstoy
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Charles Dickens
d) Kipling
31. Which of the following is a book written by Shashi Tharoor?
a) It's Not About You
b) Invisible People
c) An Era of Darkness
d) Democrats and Dissenters
32. George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was -
a) a Welsh
b) a Indonesian
c) an Englishman
d) an Irishman
33. Who is the author of the book named 'Pinjar'?
a) Laxmi Sehgal
b) Vijay Darda
c) Amrita Pritam
d) Tarun Khanna
34. Which author employed India's obsession for cricket as the theme for his recent book 'selection day'?
a) Vikram Seth
b) Anil Menon
c) Amish Tripathi
d) Aravind Adiga
35. The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by :
a) Charles Lamb
b) Charles Dickens
c) Alexander Dumas
d) Jonathan Swift
36. Who is the author of the book 'Nineteen Eighty Four'?
a) J. M. Barrie
b) Walter Scott
c) George Orwell
d) Thomas Hardy
37. Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?
a) E. M. Forster
b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
c) G. B. Shaw
d) Winston Churchill
38. 'Crime and Punishment' was written by -
a) Alexander Solzhenitysn
b) Lewis Caroll
c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
d) Vladimir Nabakov
39.Who wrote the book 'The Prince'?
a) V. S. Sharma
b) Bernard Shaw
c) Emile Zola
d) Niccolo Machiavelli
40. Which of the following is a biography of Lady Mountbatten?
a) Mountbatten
b) Edwina Mountbatten
c) Edwina Mountbatten - Her Relationship with Nehru
d) Edwina Mountbatten - A Life of Her Own
41. 'A Secular Agenda' is a book written by -
a) M. J. Akbar
b) Prem Shankar Jha
c) Arun Shourie
d) Shashi Tharoor
42. Who said 'Man is a political animal'?
a) Dante
b) Plato
c) Aristotle
d) Socrates
43. '24 Brand Mantras' is a book written by -
a) Bimal Chowdhary
b) Shiv Khera
c) Arindam R. Chowdhary
d) Jagdeep Kapoor
44. Who is the author of the famous book 'The Judgement'?
a) Janardan Thakur
b) R. Venkataraman
c) Anthony Mascarenhas
d) Kuldip Nayar
45. Who wrote the book, Cry, the Peacock?
a) Khushwant Singh
b) Morarji Desai
c) Anita Desai
d) Arun Gandhi
46. Which one of the following books was written by Tilak?
a) India in Transition
b) Geeta Rahasya
c) Gokhale - My Political Guru
d) Discovery of India
47. Which of the following is not written by Munshi Premchand?
a) Gaban
b) Godan
c) Godaveri
d) Guide
48. 'A Critique of Pure Reason' book was written by
a) Charles Dickens
b) Immanuel Kant
c) Girish Karnad
d) Shashi Tharoor
49. The famous character Pickwick was created by -
a) Leo Tolstoy
b) Charles Dickens
c) George Washington
d) Steven Spielberg
50. Who among the following is the author of the book 'Nineteen Eighty Four'?
a) Emile Zola
b) Walter Scott
c) George Orwell
d) Thomas Hardy
51. The famous book 'Anandmath' was authored by -
a) Sarojini Naidu
b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
c) Aurobindo Ghosh
d) Rabindranath Tagore
52. Who directed the film '1942 : A love story'?
a) Mahesh Bhatt
b) Vidhu Vinod Chopra
c) Yash Chopra
d) Ketan Mehta
53. Who is the author of famous statement: "That Government is the best which governs least"?
a) Herbert Spencer
b) Harold Laski
c) Alexis De Tocqueville
d) Henry David Thoreau
54. Who wrote the book 'Reminiscences of the Nehru Age'?
a) C. D. Deshmukh
b) Dr. P. C. Alexander
c) M. O. Mathai
d) S. C. Rajagopalachari
55. Aurobindo was the author of -
a) Discovery of India
b) Hindu view of life
c) Yogashastra
d) Savitri
56. Who directed the famous TV Serial 'Tandoori Nights'?
a) Farrukh Dhondy
b) Jon Amiel
c) Zohra Sehgal
d) Saeed Jaffrey
57. Who is the author of book 'We Indians'?
a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
b) Subramanian Swamy
c) Khushwant Singh
d) Mulk Raj Anand
58. Who is the author of the book - 'Preparing for the Twenty - First Century'?
a) Larry Collins
b) V. S. Naipaul
c) V. R. Krishna Iyer
d) Paul Kennedy
59. Which of the film is directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta?
a) Mohra
b) Krantiveer
c) 1942 - A Love Story
d) Charachar
60. 'Neela Chand' which won the Vyas Samman for 1992 is written by -
a) Shiv Prasad Singh
b) Subash Mukhopadhyay
c) Ram Vilas Sharma
d) Ramakant Rath
61. Who wrote the famous book 'We the people'?
a) T. N. Kaul
b) J. R. D. Tata
c) Khushwant Singh
d) Nani Palkhivala
62. Who is the author of the book 'Nineteen Eighty Four'?
a) Thomas Hardy
b) Emile Zola
c) George Orwell
d) Walter Scott
63. Which of the following is not written by Munshi Premchand?
a) Gaban
b) Godan
c) Guide
d) Manasorovar
64. Who is the author of the book 'Forbidden Verses'?
a) Salman Rushdie
b) Abu Nuwas
c) Ms. Taslima Nasrin
d) D. H. Lawrence
65. The lead character in the film 'The Bandit Queen' has been played by -
a) Rupa Ganguly
b) Seema Biswas
c) Pratiba Sinha
d) Shabana Azmi
66. 'The Naked Face', a very popular book is written by -
a) Dominique Lapierre
b) Larry Collins
c) Sidney Sheldon
d) Juan Benet
67. The author of controversial book 'Lajja' is a citizen of -
a) Pakistan
b) Indonesia
c) Bangladesh
d) India
68. The first history book was written by -
a) Euclid
b) Herodotus
c) Aristotle
d) Caesar
69. 'A Secular Agenda' is a book written by -
a) Arun Shourie
b) Mani Shankar Aiyar
c) Prem Shankar Jha
d) M.J. Akbar
70. In which language did 'Dr. Masti Venkatesh Iyengar' write?
a) Malayalam
b) Tamil
c) Telugu
d) Kannada
71. Which of the following is a biography of the Lady Mountbatten?
a) Edwina Mountbatten - A Life of Her Own.
b) Edwina Mountbatten - Her relationship with Nehru
c) Mountbatten
d) Edwina Mountbattten
72. In which year was the 'All India Radio' set up?
a) 1936
b) 1927
c) 1947
d) 1950
73. Who directed the film 'Sardar'?
a) Das Gupta
b) Shyam Benegal
c) Tapan Sinha
d) Ketan Mehta
74. Who said "God helps those who help themselves"?
a) Andre Maurois
b) Andre Gide
c) Algernon Sidney
d) Swami Vivekananda
75. Alice in Wonderland' the famous TV serial is based on a book written by -
a) Father Discoste
b) Thomas Hardy
c) Charles Dickens
d) Lewis Caroll
76. Who is the father of English Poetry?
a) John Milton
b) William Wordsworth
c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) Charles Dickens
77. The popular TV serial 'Neem ka Ped' was written by -
a) Rahi Masoom Raza
b) Sharad Joshi
c) Ashapurna Devi
d) Harivansh Rai Bachachan
78. Which of the book was written by Graham Greene?
a) O' Jerusalem
b) The Power and Glory
c) Crisis in India
d) Of Human Bondage
79. George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was -
a) a Welsh
b) an Irishman
c) a Scotsman
d) an Englishman
80. 'Mrichchhakatika' was written by -
a) Vikramaditya
b) Shudraka
c) Kalhana
d) Banabhatta
81. The book named 'Three Decades in Parliament' is a collection of the speeches of -
a) A. B. Vajpayee
b) S. Chatterjee
c) L. K. Advani
d) N. G. Ranga
82. The famous character 'Pickwick' was created by -
a) Steven Spielberg
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Walt Disney
d) Charles Dickens
83. The General Happiness is the end of the state' who said this?
a) Hegel
b) Bentham
c) Plato
d) Green
84. Sports Channel' a monthly video magazine has been launched by -
a) Kapil Dev
b) Sunil Gavaskar
c) Ajit Wadekar
d) Nawab Pataudi
85. The creator of 'Sherlock Holmes' was -
a) Arthur Conan Doyle
b) Ian Fleming
c) Dr. Watson
d) William Shakespeare
86. Who is the author of the book 'No Full Stops in India'?
a) Raj Mohan Gandhi
b) Shyam Lal
c) E. M. Forster
d) Mark Tully
87. Who has written the book 'Kashmir - Behind the Vale'?
a) L. Ramdas
b) Lt. Gen. Dipendra Singh
c) M. J. Akbar
d) Lt. Gen. S. C. Sardeshpande
88. Who has written the book 'The Famished Road'?
a) Ian Austin
b) V. S. Naipaul
c) Ben Okri
d) Zola Emile
89. 'Eight Lives' is a book written by -
a) Raja Ramana
b) Savita Ambedkar
c) Mahesh Yogi
d) Rajmohan Gandhi
90. Who is the author of the book 'Freedom Behind Bars'?
a) Kiran Bedi
b) Jawaharlal Nahru
c) Sheikh Abdullah
d) Nelson Mandela
91. The serial 'India's Rajiv' was produced and directed by -
a) Simi Garewal
b) Satyajit Ray
c) Shyam Benegal
d) Mira Nair
92. The original name of 'Mahabharata' is -
a) Katha Saritsagar
b) Jaya Samhita
c) Vrahat Katha
d) Rajatarangini
93. 'Man without society is either a beast or a God'. Who said this?
a) Plato
b) Gandhi
c) Aristotle
d) Henry Maine
94.Who has written the famous book 'Mankind and Mother Earth'?
a) Arnold Toynbee
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) John Ruskin
d) Bertrand Russel
95. 'Maya Memsaab' is a film directed by -
a) Shyam Benegal
b) Ketan Mehta
c) Bhupen Hazarika
d) Tapan Sinha
96. The famous book 'Anna Karenina' is written by -
a) Boris Pasternak
b) Victor Hugo
c) Lewis Carrol
d) Leo Tolstoy
97. Who is the author of famous book 'The Judgement'?
a) Anthony Mascarenhasa
b) R. Vankatarama
c) Kuldip Nayar
d) Janardhan Turkur
98. Who said "I therefore, want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn, if it can be had"?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Rajendra Prasad
d) Nelson Mandela
99. Who is the author of 'Ashtadhyayi'?
a) Sumitranandan
b) Raj Anand
c) Panini
d) Gitta Piramal
100. Who directed the world famous film 'The Gandhi'?
a) Ben Kingsley
b) Satyajit Ray
c) Mrinal Sen
d) Richard Attenborough