1. Who is the author of "The Kalam effect: My years with the president"?
(a) P.M.Nayar (b) Sonia Gandhi
(c) L.K.Adwani (d) Arun Shaurie
ANS (a)
2. Who is the author of the book "Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Shobha De (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)
3. The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d) Kautilya
ANS (a)
4. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The Post Office (b) Gora
(c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie
ANS (Try Yourself)
5. Who is the author of the book 'My other two daughters'?
(a) Lalu Prasad Yadav (b) Surjit Singh Barnala
(c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy
ANS (b)
6. Who is known as the Father of Detective Story
(a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) Bram Stoker
(c) Edgar Allen Poe (d) None of the above
ANS (c)
7. Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny' aEs book was written by
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami Vivekananda
ANS (d)
8. Find out the odd one
(a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock HolmesANS (d) Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a character9.One among the following is not written by Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam
(c) Rith Samharam (d) Kaavyadooth
ANS (d)
10. 'Sonia, a Biography' was written by
(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy
(c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty
ANS (c)
11. One among the following is not a Harry Potter story
(a) Chamber of secrets
(b) The philosopher's stone
(c) Half blood prince (d) Naked Truth
ANS (d)
12. Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer wrote a book, which carried a more or less accurate prediction of the launchingof Apollo-8. Which is the book
(a) From the Earth to the moon
(b) All under Heaven
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(d) Past and Present
ANS (a)
13. Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?
(a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston Churchill
ANS (b)
14. "Does IT matter" is a book written by
(a) Bill Gates (b) N. R. Narayanan (c) Nicholas Carr
(d) Thomas D. Harris (e) None of these
ANS (c)
15. 'Beyond time' is the book written by
(a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel
(e) None of these
ANS (e)
16. The famous book 'Anandmath' has been authorised by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sri Aurobindo
ANS (b)
17.Who wrote a book describing the theory of economic drain of India during British rule?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
ANS (a)
18. The author of the book 'Waiting for Godot' is:
(a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag
(c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson
ANS (c) Waiting for the Mahatma - R. K. Narayanan
Waiting to Exhale - Terry Mc Millan
19. "The Vedas contain all the truth", was interpreted by:
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. Radhakrishnan
ANS (b)
20. Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?
ANS - Dara Shikoh
21.In "The Travels of Gulliver", what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?
ANS - The health of the sun
22."The man who knew infinity" is the biography of
(a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking
(c) Albert Einstein (d) S. Ramanujan
ANS (d)
23.What was the original name of 'Alice in Wonderland' when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry Kingsley in 1863?
ANS - Alice's Adventures Underground
24. The author of the book "Waiting for the Mahatma" is
(a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala
(c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. Malgonkar
ANS (a)
25. Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem 'Arjuna vivaha' written?
ANS - King Airlangga
26. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, 'Plain Tales From the Hills'?
ANS - To the wittiest woman in India
27. 'Beyond the Last Blue Mountain' is R.M Lala's biography of which Indian?
ANS - J. R. D. Tata
28. Which of Agatha Christie's books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title 'Anna the Adventure'?
ANS - The Man In The Brown Suit
29. Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov
(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking
ANS (d)
30. The book 'Living with Honour' is written by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera
(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (b)
31. The book 'Cricket My Style' is written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath
ANS (c)
32. Who wrote the book 'The Book of Indian Birds'
ANS - Dr. Salim Ali
33. 'Economic History of India' was written by
ANS - R. C. Dutt
34.The oldest of the vedic literature is
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda
(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
ANS (c)
35. 'Leelavathi' the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on
ANS - Mathematics
36. Who is the author of EsAn Equal MusicAc (1999)
ANS - Vikram Seth
37. Who wrote the poem EsPassage to India in 1871
ANS - Walt Whitman (American Poet)
38. Who is the author of the book EsThe Canterbury Tales
ANS - Geoffrey Chaucer
39. Who is the author of the book EsAnna Karenin
ANS - Leo Tolstoy
40.Who is the author of the book EsThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ANS - Mark Twain
41. Who is the author of the book EsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
ANS - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
42.Who is the author of the book EsThe Comedy of Errors?
ANS - William Shakespeare
43. Who is the author of the book EsAnimal Farm
ANS - George Orwell
44. Who is the author of the book EsThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
ANS - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. Who is the author of the book, EsThrough the Looking-Glass?
ANS - Lewis Carroll
46. Who is the author of the book, EsAllAcs Well That Ends WellAc?
ANS - William Shakespeare
47. Who is the author of the book EsAkbar-nama
ANS - Abul Fazl
48. Who is the author of the book EsThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAc?
ANS - Mark Twain
49. Who is the author of the book EsAntony and CleopatraAc?
ANS - William Shakespeare
50. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,1687)
ANS - Sir Isaac
51. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Atal Bihari Vajpeyi
(c) Narendra Modi (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)
52. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Sushma Swaraj
(c) Narendra Modi (d) Jaswant Singh
ANS (a)
*Choice of Technique : Amartya Sen.
*The Black Economy of India : Arun Kumar
*The Rediscovering of India : Meghnath Desai.
*The Politician : Andrew Young.
*Many Lives Many Masters : Brian Weiss.
*The Golden Gate : Vikram Seth..
*Gandhi: A Spiritual Journey :: MV Kamath.
*Pakistan-The Gathering Storms :Benazir Bhutto.
*Speed Post : Shobhaa De.
*The Enchantress of Florence :Salman Rushdie.
*Freedom From Fear : Aung San Suu Kyi.
*The Shape of the Beast : Arundhati Roy.
*A suitable Boy : Vikram Seth.
*My Days : An autobiography of Mr RK Narayan.
*No Full Stop In India : Marry Tully
*The Last Mughal : William Darlymple.
*.Economy of permanence :J C Kumarappa
*.Small is Beautiful :E F Schumacher
*.Not By Reason Alone :The Politics Of Change :- N K Singh
*.The Complaints :Ian Rankin
*.The Gathering :Anne Enright
*.Nehru :The Invention Of India : Shashi Tharoor
*.Decoding Tolerance :Prateep K. Lahiri
*.We Must Have No Price :Aroun Shourie
*.And Every One Must Know
*.That We Have No Price
*.The Post American World :Fareed Zakaria
*India's Forign Policy-The Democracy Dimension : S.D.Muni
*Miracle of Democracy : T.S.Krishnamurthy.
*India drom Midnight to Millenium : Shashi Tharoor.
*Interpreter of Maldivies : Jhumpa Lahri
*Unaccustomed Earth : Jhumpa Lahari
*India fragile border land :Archana Upadhyay.
*Dynamics of law and justice : Neeraj Bharihoke.
*The Privilaege : Jonathan Dee.
*Decoding Intolerence :Prateep Lahari.
*Not by reason alone-the politics of change : NK Singh.
*The rediscovery of India : Meghnad Deasi
*A Travelogue of My Struggle:Ridden life and BSP movement : Ms Mayawati.
*Pranab Mukherjee :
(i) Midterm Poll -1969
(ii) Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy - 1984
(iii) Off the Track -1987
(iv) Saga of Struggle and Sacrifice -1992
(v) Challenges Before the Nation (on Indian National Congress)- 1992.
*Unaccustomed Earth : Jhumpa Lahari.
*In Line of Fire : Pervez MusharrafOrhan Pamuk
*My Name is Red : Orhan Pamuk
*The Heart of India : Mark tully
*Speed Post : Shobha de
*Call of Hanour : Jaswanth Singh
*Blind Faith : Sagarika Ghose
*God's Little Soldier : Kiran Nagarkar
*No Limit-The will to suceed : Michael Phelps
*The Elephant,The Tiger,The Cellphone : Shashi Tharoor.
*Listening to Grasshopper : Arundhati Rao
*Jyoti Punj: Narendra Modi
*India :Monitary Policy,Financial Stability and Others Essay : C.Rangarajan.
*Listening to Grass Hoppers Field Notes on Democracy: Arundhati Roy.
*Wolf Hall :Hiliary Mantal
*To a hunger Free World : Sonia Gandhi
*The score of my life : Zubin Mehta
*What I require from Life : JBS Haldane.
*2 States: Chetan Bhagat
*Sunny Days : Sunil Gavaskar
*Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mendela
*My Country My Life : Lal Krishna Adwani.
*India:monetary policy,financial stability and other essays: Dr C Rangarajan.
*Too much happiness : Elis Munro
*New delhi:making of a capital : Malwika Singh and Rudransu Mukherjee
*empire of the Sikhs,the life and times of maharaja ranjit singh :Patwant Singh
*lata mungeskar in her own voice : Nasreen Munni.
*sun in the forest :Ajit Gupta.
*Barak Obama : first black president of Amerika.
*the mirracle of democracy : T.S.Krishnamurti.
*IPL cricket and commerce ,in inside story : A.Shrineewas and T.R.Vivek
*Mumbai under cease: Nikhil S. dixit
*Indian by choice : Amit Das Gupta.
*The Immortals :Amit Chaudhry
*The Inharitors : Neel Chaudhry
*Act like a lady,think like a man : Steev Harvi.
*Dreams from My Father:Barak Obama. Translated into hindi by Asok Kumar
*Audicity of Hope :thouts on reclaiming the American Dreams : Obama
*my china my diary :k natwar singh
*the score of my life :jubin mehta
*songs of gurus: khuswant singh
*Amen-autobiography of a nun : sister Jesme
*SMG : debendra prabhu Desai
*Daughter of Shame : jasvinder Sanghera imprint holder,gurgaon
*celebrating india -reflection on eminent indian muslims(1857-2007) : meher fatima hussain,manak publication
*the myth of judicial activism:making sense of supreme court decision : kermit roosevelt III,universal law publishing co pvt ltd new delhi.
*em-indian relation : a critique.edited by shazia aziz wulbers academy foundation darya ganj new delhi.
*Rethinking India's Past :R.S.Sharma
*Musharraf:the years in Power : Murtaja Rajwi
*The Judges Speaks :A.R.Lakshman
*India and the global financila crisis:y v reddy
*a captains diary 2007 2008 : grim smith
*the making of Barak obama :richard wolfi
*the idea of justice: Amertya Sen.
*RK Lakshman : the Uncommon man : dhermandra bhandari
*My album :Parveen Mahajan
*The Pleasure and Sorrow of Works: Elen D Batan.
*Wars Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places : Pal Koliyar.
*Guarding Indias Integrity: A proactive governor Speaks : Lt general S K Sinha.
*The India and Justice :Amartya Sen.