National Reading Day is celebrated to honour the Father of the Library Movement in Kerala, the late Puthuvayil Narayana Panicker. The purpose of celebrating National Reading Day is to spread awareness about the importance of reading and promote a culture of reading among people and encourage literary reflection on school children, youth, and the country’s poorest population.
This quiz is on books, authors and reading. And, of course, P N Panicker.
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#1. Which Indian author recently got the International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction?
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#2. Which of the following is NOT written by Munshi Premchand?
#3. The activities of the Kerala Grandhasala Sangham that the late P N Panicker initiated triggered a popular cultural movement in Kerala which produced universal literacy in the state in the 1990s. When was P N Panicker born?
#4. What is the name of the character created by Ruskin Bond to tell stories about his own past?
#5. One of the following books is not authored by Ruskin Bond. Which one?
#6. Which of these famous poets wrote an introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s famous work "Gitanjali"?
#7. What is the second Harry Potter book called?
#8. This Greek historian wrote the first systematic book of history and is, therefore, known as "The Father of History". Who are we talking about?
#9. In India, National Reading Day is celebrated to honour the late P N Panicker, who is best known as the Father of the Library Movement in Kerala. When is National Reading Day celebrated?
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#10. The Department of Posts honored P N Panicker by issuing a commemorative postage stamp in
#11. When did Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi declare June 19, Kerala's Reading Day, as National Reading Day in India?
#12. “Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Which novel of Leo Tolstoy opens with this sentence?
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#13. In R K Narayan's name, what do the initials R K stand for?
#14. The original name of "Mahabharata" is
#15. What's the name of the book written by Winston Churchill which covers the time period between the two World Wars?
#16. What's the name of the book written by Winston Churchill which covers the time period between the two World Wars?
#17. Gita Govinda is a work composed by which 12th-century Hindu poet?
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