41. Louis Fischer has written
(a) biography of Dr. Johnson
(b) biography of Mahatma Gandhi
(c) biography of Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) biography of Lincoln.
42. “The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is” quotation given by
(a) Keats
(b) Pope
(c) Shelly
(d) Socrates.
43. Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel Prize?
(a) Rudyard Kipling & T.S. Eliot
(b) Rabindranath Tagore & V.S. Naipaul
(c) Salman Rushdie & Arundhati Roy
(d) Mother Teresa & Yasir Arafat.
44. The book “Freedom Behind Bars” is written by
(a) Kiran Bedi
(b) Atal Behari Vajpayee
(c) L.K. Advani
(d) Tarsem Kumar.
45. Match the following:
I. R.K. Narayan
II. Vikram Seth
III. V.S. Naipaul
IV. Arundhati Roy
A. Two Lives
B. Half a Life
C. Malgudi Days
D. God of small things
I II III IV
(a) C A B D
(b) A B C D
(c) D C B A
(d) B A C D
46. What is the meaning of ISBN, printed in books?
(a) Copy Right Number
(b) International Standard Book Numbering
(c) Indian School Books for National Development
(d) International Students Books for Natural Adults.
47. The book “War and Peace” is written by
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Tolstoy
(c) R.N. Tagore
(d) Bankim Chandra.
48. ‘Self-respect is a most vital factor in life without it man is a mere cipher’ quotation given by
(a) George Eliot
(b) Jeremy Bentham
(c) B.R. Ambedkar
(d) Mahatma Gandhi.
49. Match the following:
I. M.J. Akbar
II. Monica Ali
III. Piloo Modi
IV. Vikram Seth
(A) The Untold Story
(B) The Golden Gate
(C) The Siege Within
(D) Zulfi, My Friend
I II III IV
(a) A B D C
(b) C A D B
(c) D B A C
(d) B A D C
50. Match the following:
A. Rig Veda
B. Yajur Veda
C. Sama Veda
D. Atharva Veda
1. Musical Hymns
2. Hymns and Rituals
3. Charms and Spells
4. Hymns and Prayers
A B C D
(a) 4 2 1 3
(b) 3 2 4 1
(c) 4 1 2 3
(d) 2 3 1 4
51. ‘Justice in Wartime’ is authored by?
(a) Bertrand Russell
(b) Alber Speer
(c) Irving Stone
(d) H.B. Stove.
52. The Novel ‘The Outsiders’ is authored by
(a) Moraes Dom
(b) S.E. Hinton
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) John Dryden.
53. ‘Delusion and Dream’ is authored by
(a) Rober Frost
(b) Sigmund Freoud
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Edward Gibbon.
54. Which of the following book is written by T.S. Eliot?
(a) Cocktail Party
(b) Escape
(c) Justice
(d) Eden.
55. “Jungle Book” is written by
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Albert Speer
(c) Irving Stone
(d) Jonashan Swift.
56. The book “India First” written by
(a) Syed Ahmed Khan
(b) Amar Ali
(c) Kushwant Singh
(d) K.R. Malkani.
57. Which of the following book is authored by Vishnu Sharma?
(a) Panchatantra
(b) Meghdoot
(c) Kamayani
(d) Rubaiyat.
58. “Business @ the speed of thought” is a book written by
(a) Bill Clinton
(b) Narayanmurthy
(c) Bill Gates
(d) V.S. Naipaul.
59. Words of which poem are inscribed in the entrance to the Player’s tunnel at Wimbledon?
(a) Honour (by R.N. Tagore)
(b) Owl (by George Bemard Shaw)
(c) Daffodils (by Wordsworth)
(d) If (By Rudyard Kipling).
60. “Unhappy India” is a book authored by
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) M.K. Gandhi
(c) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) B.G.Tilak.
61. Jhumpa Lahiri has written which of the following books?
(a) Interpreter of Maladies
(b) Far East Front
(c) The Second Sex
(d) The Conscious Lovers.
62. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is authored by
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) George Eliot
(c) Graham Swift
(d) George Bernard Shaw.
63. “A Prisoner’s Scrapbook” has been written by
(a) Madan Mohan Malviya
(b) M.K. Gandhi
(c) L.K. Advani
(d) Charles Shobraj.
64. The book “India in Slow Motion” on India’s bad administration is written by
(a) George Bumard Shaw
(b) Sir Mark Tully
(c) Khushwant Singh
(d) Mahatma Gandhi.
65. Who Wrote the book “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”?
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) Vikram Seth.
66. “In the Afternoon of Time” a book of Harivansh Rai’s autobiography relates to the phrase of poem of
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson
(b) George Bumard Shaw
(c) Louis Pastecher
(d) E.M. Foster.
67. Who wrote the fiction “Gulliver’s Travels”?
(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) Aldous Huxley
(d) Johan Locke.
68. Who among the following was the first Indian who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913?
(a) C.V. Raman
(b) Dr. Hargovind Khurana
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Dr. Amartya Sen.
69. “Charak” was the court physician of
(a) Kanishka
(b) Kautilya
(c) Ashoka
(d) Vikramaditya.
70. In the film titled “Indira Gandhi” who is the actress to play the role of Indira Gandhi
(a) Rani Mukherji
(b) Aishwarya Rai
(c) Manisha Koirala
(d) Madhuri Dixit.
71. The book ‘Midnight’s Children’ is written by
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) Arundhati Roy.
72. The Decameron is
(a) collection of short stories
(b) collection of Poems
(c) novel
(d) tragic drama.
73. The book “Crime and Punishment” is written by
(a) Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
(b) John K. Galbraith
(c) Oliver Goldsmith
(d) Lewis Carroll.
74. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” is authored by
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Emile Zola
(c) John Grisham
(d) J.K. Rowling.
75. “Mein Kampf” is a book authored by
(a) Adolf Hitler
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Jane Austen
(d) G. Wgnne.
76. Who wrote “Train to Pakistan”
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) V.S. Naipul
(c) Khushwant Singh
(d) C. Rajgopalachari.
77. Who among the following personalities won National Florence Nightingale Nurses Award 2012?
(a) UdasiShahoo
(b) S. Subalakhmi
(c) Arundhati Roy
(d) None of the above.
78. Who among the following Indians is the first recipient of the Jnanpith Award?
(a) Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
(b) Amrita Pritam
(c) G. Sankara Kurup
(d) Naresh Mehta.
79. ‘Warrior from the South’ is a book on
(a) Kamaraj
(b) Tipu Sultan
(c) C. Rajagopalachari
(d) V.V. Giri.
80. Who wrote the book ‘Asian Drama’?
(a) Graham Green
(b) Garbriel Garcia Marquez
(c) Gunnar Myrdal
(d) Milan Kundera.
ANSWERS
41. (b
42. (c)
43. (c)
44. (a)
45. (a)
46. (b)
47. (b)
48. (c)
49. (b)
50. (a)
51. (a)
52. (b)
53. (b)
54. (a)
55. (a)
56. (d)
57. (a)
58. (c)
59. (d)
60. (a)
61. (a)
62. (a)
63. (c)
64. (b)
65. (c)
66. (a)
67. (a)
68. (c)
69. (a)
70. (c)
71. (c)
72. (a)
73. (a)
74. (d)
75. (a)
76. (c)
77. (a)
78. (c)
79. (c)
80. (c)