Books and Authors Quiz 1

#1. The Jnanpith Award is given for outstanding contribution in the field of

Cinema

Science

Journalism

Literature

#2. Who is the father of English Poetry?

Chaucer

Wordsworth

Keats

Milton

#3. The book titled “A season of ghosts” is written by

Ruskin Bond

Stephen King

Susan Hill

R K Narayan

#4. Which of these was NOT written by Charles Dickens?

Northanger Abbey

David Copperfield

Pickwick Papers

A Christmas Carol

#5. “You too, Brutus!” is a dialogue from ________________.

Julius Caesar

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Othello

#6. What is the first book in the Geronimo Stilton series?

The Karate Mouse

The Mouse Island Marathon

The Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye

Kingdom of Fantasy

#7. The author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" is

Jules Verne

V S Naipaul

H G Wells

Jonathan Swift

#8. The book “A Farewell to Arms” was written by

George Bernard Shaw

William Shakespeare

Thomas Hardy

Ernest Hemingway

#9. The creator of the famous detective character “Sherlock Holmes” is

J K Rowling

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dr.Watson

Ian Fleming

#10. “Hori”, a poor farmer, is the main character of which famous Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand?

Gaban

Godaan

Vardaan

Sevasadan

#11. The creator of the character “Tarzan” is

Stan Lee

Jules Verne

Edgar Rice Burrough

Rudyard Kipling

#12. The book “Gulliver’s Travels” was written by

Jonathan Swift

Alexandra Dumas

H G Wells

Charles Dickens

#13. George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was

an Irishman

a Scotsman

an Englishman

a Welsh

#14. Which among the following is NOT a work of Rabindranath Tagore?

Chitra

Gora

Chithrangada

Kapala Kundala

#15. Under what pen-name did Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?

Saki

Lewis Caroll

Charles Dickens

Mark Twain

#16. Who is the author of “The Immortals of Meluha”?

Chetan Bhagat

Amitav Ghosh

Amish Tripathi

Anita Desai

#17. “Madhusala” the book of poetry is written by

Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Rabindranath Tagore

Sumitranandan Pant

Mahadevi Verma

#18. Rabindranath Tagore renounced the Knighthood in 1919 as a protest against which incident?

The Partition of Bengal

Racial violence between Hindus and Muslims

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre

The British refusing to grant Indendence to India

#19. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which children’s book?

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

#20. The author of “The Diary of a Young Girl” is

Rachel Carson

Malala Yusufsai

Anne Frank

Lewis Caroll

#21. Which of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?

Mansarovar

Gaban

Rudali

Nirmala

#22. Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) is a Latin phrase by which philospher?

Plato

Rene Descartes

Friedrich Nietzsche

Aristotle

#23. “25 Years Of a life” is the biography of whom among the following?

Sunil Gavaskar

Asha Bhonsle

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Shah Rukh Khan

#24. Who was the wife of Othello?

Cressida

Portia

Cordelia

Desdemona

#25. The famous book "Anna Karenina" is written by

Boris Pasternak

Ivan Turgenev

Leo Tolstoy

George Orwell

#26. Which journalist and author wrote the “Chitty chitty bang bang” series of children’s stories?

Carolyne Keene

Enid Blyton

Mark Twain

Ian Fleming

#27. “The Gathering Storm”, a definitive account of the Second World War, is authored by

Romain Rolland

Winston Churchill

Indira Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Who wrote the novel Catch 22?

Kurt Vonnegut

Hunter S. Thompson

Ken Kesey

Joseph Heller

#29. The second sequel of which of the following of Roald Dahl’s books is an unfinished work?

James and the Giant Peach

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The BFG

Matilda

Roald Dahl began writing a third book in the Charlie Bucket series, titled Charlie in the White House, but did not complete it.

#30. “Glimpses of World History” Written by

Jawaharlal Nehru

Charles Dickens

Rabindranath Tagore

Mark Twain

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Books and Authors Quiz 1

Results

#1. The Jnanpith Award is given for outstanding contribution in the field of

#2. Who is the father of English Poetry?

#3. The book titled “A season of ghosts” is written by

#4. Which of these was NOT written by Charles Dickens?

#5. “You too, Brutus!” is a dialogue from ________________.

#6. What is the first book in the Geronimo Stilton series?

#7. The author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" is

#8. The book “A Farewell to Arms” was written by

#9. The creator of the famous detective character “Sherlock Holmes” is

#10. “Hori”, a poor farmer, is the main character of which famous Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand?

#11. The creator of the character “Tarzan” is

#12. The book “Gulliver’s Travels” was written by

#13. George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was

#14. Which among the following is NOT a work of Rabindranath Tagore?

#15. Under what pen-name did Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?

#16. Who is the author of “The Immortals of Meluha”?

#17. “Madhusala” the book of poetry is written by

#18. Rabindranath Tagore renounced the Knighthood in 1919 as a protest against which incident?

#19. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which children’s book?

#20. The author of “The Diary of a Young Girl” is

#21. Which of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?

#22. Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) is a Latin phrase by which philospher?

#23. “25 Years Of a life” is the biography of whom among the following?

#24. Who was the wife of Othello?

#25. The famous book "Anna Karenina" is written by

#26. Which journalist and author wrote the “Chitty chitty bang bang” series of children’s stories?

#27. “The Gathering Storm”, a definitive account of the Second World War, is authored by

#28. Who wrote the novel Catch 22?

#29. The second sequel of which of the following of Roald Dahl’s books is an unfinished work?

#30. “Glimpses of World History” Written by

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Books and Authors Quiz 1

Results

#1. The Jnanpith Award is given for outstanding contribution in the field of

#2. Who is the father of English Poetry?

#3. The book titled “A season of ghosts” is written by

#4. Which of these was NOT written by Charles Dickens?

#5. “You too, Brutus!” is a dialogue from ________________.

#6. What is the first book in the Geronimo Stilton series?

#7. The author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" is

#8. The book “A Farewell to Arms” was written by

#9. The creator of the famous detective character “Sherlock Holmes” is

#10. “Hori”, a poor farmer, is the main character of which famous Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand?

#11. The creator of the character “Tarzan” is

#12. The book “Gulliver’s Travels” was written by

#13. George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was

#14. Which among the following is NOT a work of Rabindranath Tagore?

#15. Under what pen-name did Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?

#16. Who is the author of “The Immortals of Meluha”?

#17. “Madhusala” the book of poetry is written by

#18. Rabindranath Tagore renounced the Knighthood in 1919 as a protest against which incident?

#19. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which children’s book?

#20. The author of “The Diary of a Young Girl” is

#21. Which of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?

#22. Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) is a Latin phrase by which philospher?

#23. “25 Years Of a life” is the biography of whom among the following?

#24. Who was the wife of Othello?

#25. The famous book "Anna Karenina" is written by

#26. Which journalist and author wrote the “Chitty chitty bang bang” series of children’s stories?

#27. “The Gathering Storm”, a definitive account of the Second World War, is authored by

#28. Who wrote the novel Catch 22?

#29. The second sequel of which of the following of Roald Dahl’s books is an unfinished work?

#30. “Glimpses of World History” Written by

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