(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

26.Who wrote the novel A Passage to India in 1924.
E.M. Forster (English novelist)

27.Who wrote Meghdoot.
Kalidas

28.The author of the book The Guide.
R.K. Narayan

29.Author of the famous book On the Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin

30.The Griha Sutra deals with the.
(a) Individual (b) State
(c) Society (d) Family
Ans : D

31.The Tamil epic Tholkappiyam deals with.
(a) Dance (b) Grammar
(c) History (d) Social Life
Ans : B

32.Mark Twain is the ser name of.
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Samuel Clemens
(c) Erick Blair (d) Charles Dickens
Ans : B

33.Which among the following is not a work of Leo Tolstoy.
(a) Anna Karenina (b) Crime and Punishment
(c) Resurrection (d) War and Peace
Ans : B

34.Who wrote the book Punjab The Knights of Falsehood.
K.P.S. Gill

35.One Life was written by.
Dr. Christiaan Barnard

36.The detective characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple was created by the author.
Agatha Christie

37.Who wrote the book A House for Mr. Biswas.
V.S. Naipal

38.Who wrote the book The Golden Threshold.
Sarojini Naidu

39.The Last Supper is a painting by.
Leonardo da Vinci

40.Who is the author of Sur Sagar.
Sur Das

41.Author of The God of Small Things is.
Arundhati Roy

42.The author of Das Capital is.
Karl Marx

43.The book As You like It was written by.
Shakespeare

44.Writer 'William Sydney Porter' popularly known as.
O. Henry

45.The Brave new World is the book by.
Aldous Huxley

46.Who was the publisher of first Harry Potter series novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in 1997.
Bloomsbury Publishing

47.The first novel in the Harry Potter series was first published in which country.
Britain

48.The first novel in the Harry Potter series was published in the year.
1997

49.The first novel in the Harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone was published in the US in1998 as.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

50.The first novel in the Harry Potter series is.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone