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(GK) Authors And Books

(GK) Authors And Books

1.To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, 'Plain Tales From the Hills'?
To the wittiest woman in India

2.'Beyond the Last Blue Mountain' is R.M Lala's biography of which Indian?
J. R. D. Tata

3.Which of Agatha Christie's books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title 'Anna the Adventure'?
The Man In The Brown Suit

4.Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
 (a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov
(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking
Ans : D

5.The book 'Living with Honour' is written by.
 (a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera
(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
Ans : B

6.The book 'Cricket My Style' is written by.
 (a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath
Ans : C

7.Who wrote the book 'The Book of Indian Birds'.
Dr. Salim Ali

8.'Economic History of India' was written by.
R. C. Dutt

9.The oldest of the vedic literature is.
 (a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda
(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
Ans : C

10.'Leelavathi' the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on.
Mathematics

11.Who is the author of An Equal Music (1999).
Vikram Seth

12.Who wrote the poem Passage to India in 1871.
 Walt Whitman (American Poet)

13.Who is the author of the book The Canterbury Tales.
Geoffrey Chaucer

14.Who is the author of the book Anna Karenina.
Leo Tolstoy

15.Who is the author of the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Mark Twain

16.Who is the author of the book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

17.Who is the author of the book The Comedy of Errors.
William Shakespeare

18.Who is the author of the book Animal Farm.
George Orwell

19.Who is the author of the book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

20.Who is the author of the book, Through the Looking-Glass.
Lewis Carroll

21.Who is the author of the book, Alls Well That Ends Well.
William Shakespeare

22.Who is the author of the book Akbar-nama.
Abul Fazl

23.Who is the author of the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain

24.Who is the author of the book Antony and Cleopatra.
William Shakespeare

25.Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687).
Sir Isaac Newton

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