Books and Authors Quiz 3

#1. What is the second Harry Potter book called?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

#2. What is a working title?

A temporary title given to a book

The subtitle of a book

The title finally given to a book before printing

The common name of a series

#3. Which of the following is not written by Munshi Premchand?

Mansarovar

Path Ke Saathi

Godan

Gaban

#4. Which author wrote the 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

Lee Child

Harper Lee

Paula Hawkins

Arthur Hailey

The novel’s title comes from a conversation between Atticus and Scout where Atticus states that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” because they simply sing their song and never harm others. The mockingbird is used as a symbol for Robinson, who was innocent and never hurt anyone, yet was shot dead.

#5. Who wrote "Ashtadhyayi", a book on Sanskrit linguistics and grammar?

Vishnu Sharma

Pingala

Bhavabhuti

Panini

#6. Which character from Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is turned into an enormous blueberry?

Veruca Salt

Mr Willy Wonka

Violet Beauregarde

Charlie Bucket

#7. Who wrote the book "India: From Midnight to the Millennium"?

Abhijeet Banerjee

Shashi Tharoor

Arundhati Roy

Amartya Sen

#8. One of the first widely known stories of this author was titled "The Happy Prince". Who is this author?

Rabindranath Tagore

Oscar Wilde

O Henry

William Somerset Maugham

#9. Which Dickens character says "Please, Sir, I want some more"?

David Copperfield

Fagin

Inspector Bucket

Oliver Twist

#10. Who is the author of the book "Life of Pi"?

Hilary Mantel

Ang Lee

Salman Rushdie

Yann Martel

#11. What is the name of the penny-pinching boss at the heart of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"?

Tiny Tim

Jacob Marley

Bob Cratchit

Ebenezer Scrooge

#12. What do these three novels have in common? "Study for Obedience", "This Other Eden" and "Prophet Song".

They were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023

They are all written by one author

They have the same main character

They are all set in India

#13. Which ancient author is known as the Indian Machiavelli?

Aryabhata

Vishnu Sharma

Chanakya

Panini

Kautilya, also known as Chanakya, was a political thinker and economist in ancient India, who lived around the 4th century BCE. Machiavelli, on the other hand, was an Italian political philosopher and statesman who lived during the Renaissance, around the 15th and 16th centuries CE. The reason Kautilya is known as the “Indian Machiavelli” is not because he was born before Machiavelli, but because both of them were political thinkers and their works are considered classics in their respective cultures. Both of them wrote about statecraft, power, and politics in a way that is considered pragmatic and realistic, and their works are still widely read and studied today.