Books and Authors GK Questions – General Knowledge questions and answers
1.Author of Around the World in Eighty Days is
a) Jules Verne
b) Richard
c) U.S.Naipaul
d) Jules Verne
2. The author of Business @ Speed of Thought is
a) Dick Fransis
b) John Gray
c) Bill Gates
d) David Baldexi
3. Who among the following is the author of the book India Remembered?
a) J K Rowling
b) Robert Dallek
c) Pamela Mountbatten
d) Stephen HawKING
4. Who among the following wrote the poem Subh-e-Azadi?
a) Sahir Ludhiyanvi
b) Faiz Ahmed Faiz
c) Muhammad IQbal
d) Maulana abul kalam
5. Who wrote Devdas?
a) Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
b) Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
c) Kalidasa
d) Surdas
6. Who said ‘Man is a political animal’?
a) Socrates
b) Plato
c) Dante
d) Aristotle
7. Panchatantra has been written by
a) Surdas
b) Kalidas
c) Vishnu Sharma
d) Vishakhadatta
8. Who among the following is a famous literary writer in English?
a) Arun Shourie
b) K.A. Abbas
c) Mulk Raj Aanand
d) Kuldip Nagar
9. Which of the following books is written by R.N. Tagore?
a) Anand Math
b) Chidambara
c) Rakta Karabi
d) Durgesh Nandini
10. Who said, Child is the father of Man?
a) Lord Byron
b) William Wordsworth
c) Shakespeare
d) John Keats
11. Who wrote the book Discovery of India?
a) Vikram Seth
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Mahatama Gandhi
d) Jawaharlal Nehru
12. Sishu is the literary work of which Indian author?
a) Vikram Seth
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) Arundhati Roy
13. Who among the following wrote the book Bahubivah?
a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c) Pandita Rambai
d) Rabindranath Tagore
14. The Musalman, the handwritten daily published from which one of the following places?
a) Chennai
b) Hyderabad
c) Mysore
d) Lucknow
15. Who wrote the book The Story of the Integration of the Indian States?
a) BN Rau
b) C Rajagopalachari
c) Krishna Menon
d) VP Menon
16. The autobiography “Living History” has been authored by
a) Margaret Atwood
b) Benazir Bhutto
c) Hilary Clinton
d) Monica Lewinsky
17. Who has written Shakuntala?
a) Kalidasa
b) Kabir
c) Tulisidas
d) none
18. Who has written Mother India ?
a) Sarojini Naidu
b) Rajiv Gandhi
c) awaharlal Nehru
d) Katherine Mayo
19. Who wrote the songs of Kaho naa Pyaar Hai?
a) Ibrahim Ashq
b) Aehboob
c) Anand Bakshi
d) Rajesh Roshan
20. Who is the author of Hamlet?
a) Christopher Marlowe
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) William Shakespeare
d) Edith Wharton
21. The song Bande Mataram was originally composed in
a) Aassamese
b) Bengali
c) Hindi
d) Sanskrit
22. My Life is the autobiography of
a) APJ Abdul kalam
b) Rajenndra Prasad
c) Bill Clinton
d) Hillary Clinton
23. The Author of India Divided is
a) Rajendra Prasad
b) V.V.Giri
c) F.A.Ahmed
d) Zail Singh
24. Shakespeare’s character named Beatrice appears in which play?
a) The Tempest
b) Othello
c) Much Ado About Nothing
d) A MidsummerNightsDream
25. Who is the Author of The Name Of The Rose?
a) John Steinbeck
b) William Shakespeare
c) Umberto Eco
d) J.K. Rowling
26. Who is the author of the book Blue Star?
a) K.S. Brar
b) Prakash Singh Badal
c) K.P.S. Gill
d) Fletcher Pratt
27. The Book Broken Wings was written by
a) Amrita Pritam
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) R.K. Narayan
d) Kahlil Gibran
28. In which languages did Jean Paul Sartre write his books?
a) Greek
b) French
c) Spanish
d) Russian
29. Who is the author of the book My Experiments with Truth?
a) Winston Churchill
b) James Morris
c) Michael Anderson
d) Mahatma Gandhi
30. The book Prison Diary was written by
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Morarji Desai
c) Jai Prakash Narayan
d) Jeffrey Archer
31. Who is the author of the book Kamayani?
a) Raja Rao
b) Prem Chand
c) Mulk Raj Anand
d) Jai Shankar Prasad
32. The author of the novel Bluest Eye is
a) Ms. Talima Nasreen
b) Ms. Tonny Morrison
c) Ms. Mamta Banerjee
d) Ms. K.Kamala Kumari
33. Gita Govinda is written by
a) Tulsidas
b) Jaya Dev
c) Maithili Sharan Gupta
d) Valmiki
34. Who is the author of All the Prime Minister Men?
a) Janardan Thakur
b) Romesh Thapar
c) Kamla Chattopadhyaya
d) Khushwant Singh
35. The Gathering Storm is written by
a) Voltaire
b) Romain Rolland
c) Winston Churchill
d) George Washington
36. The famous book ‘The Daughter of the East’ is written by
a) Ms. Bandarnaike Sirimavo
b) Ms. Taslima Nasreen
c) Ms. Aungsan Suru Kyi
d) Ms. Benazir Bhutto
37. Who is the author of the Book ‘My Presidential Years’?
a) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
b) R.Venkataraman
c) Dr.Rajendra Prasad
d) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
38. Aurobindo was the author of
a) Savitri
b) Yogashastra
c) Discovery of India
d) Hindu view of Life
39. Who is the author of the book ‘Sword And the Sickle’?
a) R.K. Laxman
b) K.P.S. Menon
c) R.K. Narayan
d) Mulk Raj Anand
40. Who is the author of the book ‘Indira Gandhi Returns’ is
a) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
b) Khushwant Singh
c) Kuldip Nayyar
d) Nirad C. Choudhuary
ANSWERS
1.A
2.C
3.C
4.B
5.B
6.D
7.C
8.C
9.C
10.B
11.D
12.C
13.B
14.A
15.D
16.C
17.A
18.D
19.D
20.C
21.D
22.C
23.A
24.C
25.C
26.D
27.D
28.B
29.D
30.D
31.D
32.B
33.B
34.A
35.C
36.D
37.B
38.A
39.D
40.B
