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(Q1) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who is the author of the book, ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’?

A

 Dadabhai Naoroji

B

 Annie Besant

C

 Shashi Tharoor

D

 Jairam Ramesh

(Q2) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

The Atharvaveda is a collection of ______ khandas.

A

 15

B

 5

C

 20

D

 10

(Q3) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Social Harmony’?

A

Manmohan Singh

B

HD Deve Gowda

C

Narendra Modi

D

PV Narsimha Rao

(Q4) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the novel ‘Q and A’?

A

Muchkund Dubey

B

MK Rasgotra

C

Vikas Swarup

D

JN Dixit

(Q5) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Which of the following is a book written by Avni Doshi?

A

Interpreter of Maladies

B

In Other Words

C

Unaccustomed Earth

D

Burnt Sugar

(Q6) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Myth = Mithya : Decoding Hindu Mythology’?

A

Amitav Ghosh

B

Vikram Seth

C

Devdutt Pattanaik

D

Shashi Tharoor

(Q7) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Two Lives’?

A

Vikram Seth

B

Chetan Bhagat

C

Sudha Murty

D

Arundhati Roy

(Q8) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the epic poem ‘Kamayani’?

A

 Jaishankar Prasad

B

 Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi

C

 Mahadevi Varma

D

 Gopala Sarana Sinha

(Q9) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following wrote the novel 'The Great Gatsby'?

A

Chinua Achebe

B

F Scott Fitzgerald

C

Harper Lee

D

Alice Walker

(Q10) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following wrote ‘India Wins freedom’?

A

 Jawaharlal Nehru

B

 Rajendra Prasad

C

 Abul Kalam Azad

D

 Jaswant Singh

(Q11) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Mrs Funnybones’?

A

Juhi Chawla

B

Twinkle Khanna

C

Rekha

D

Sonali Bendre

(Q12) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

‘Ashtadhyayi’, written by Sanskrit scholar Panini, is a book on ______.

A

medicine

B

law

C

grammar

D

economy

(Q13) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Coalition Years’?

A

APJ Abdul Kalam

B

Pranab Mukherjee

C

Giani Zail Singh

D

KR Narayanan

(Q14) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following persons is NOT a co-author of the book 'Till We Win: India's Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic'?

A

Dr Gagandeep Kang

B

Dr Soumya Swaminathan

C

Dr Randeep Guleria

D

Dr Chandrakant Lahariya

(Q15) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Unfinished : A Memoir’?

A

Katrina Kaif

B

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

C

Deepika Padukone

D

Alia Bhatt

(Q16) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Unaccustomed Earth’?

A

Arundhati Roy

B

Jhumpa Lahiri

C

Anita Nair

D

Shobha De

(Q17) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Si-yu-ki or ‘The Records of the Western World’ was written by:

A

Marco Polo

B

Fa-Hien

C

Hiuen Tsiang

D

Abdur Razzak

(Q18) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

The picture that won the World Press Photo of the Year 2021 contest is titled ‘______’.

A

Crying Girl on the Border

B

Straight Voice

C

Emancipation Memorial Debate

D

The First Embrace

(Q19) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Which of the following books was written by Jawaharlal Nehru?

A

 A Bunch of Old Letters

B

 Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah

C

 Riddles in Hinduism

D

 Waiting For A Visa: Autobiographical Notes

(Q20) General Knowledge » Books and Authors

Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Sea of Poppies’?

A

 Vikram Seth

B

 Shashi Tharoor

C

 Amitav Ghosh

D

 Arvind Adiga