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GK (Books and Authors)

Description: General Knowledge questions about Famous books and authors.
Number of Questions: 26
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Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy?

  1. Gitanjali

  2. Godan

  3. Descent of Man

  4. Far from the Madding Crowd


Correct Option: D

Who is the author of “The Idiot”?

  1. Homer

  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. Rudyard Kipling

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

'The Alchemist' has been written by

  1. Agatha Christie

  2. Robin Sharma

  3. Paulo Coelho

  4. Karl Marx


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Paulo Coelho

The author of “As you Like it” is

  1. Charles Dickens

  2. William Shakespeare

  3. Thomas Hardy

  4. Ernest Hemingway


Correct Option: B

'Between the Lines' is a book written by

  1. Rabindranath Tagore

  2. Amrita Pritam

  3. Munshi Premchand

  4. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

It is written by Kuldeep Nayar.

_______ is written by Abul Fazal.

  1. Ain-i-Akbari

  2. Coolie

  3. Das Capital

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Which among the following books is/are written by Jawaharlal Nehru?

  1. Letters from a father to his daughter

  2. Discovery of India

  3. As you like it

  4. Both (1) and (2)

  5. All of the above


Correct Option: B

“Coolie” is written by

  1. R. K. Narayan

  2. Mulkraj Anand

  3. Charles Dickens

  4. Karl Marx


Correct Option: B

Who is the author of Vanity Fair?

  1. William Shakespeare

  2. William Thackeray

  3. Munshi Premchand

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

Which among the following books is written by Geoffrey Chaucer?

  1. The Canterbury Tales

  2. Illiad

  3. The Idiot

  4. Godan


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: The Canterbury Tales

'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' is written by

  1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  2. Homer Simpson

  3. Shakespeare

  4. Rudyard Kipling


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option 1 is the correct answer.

_______ is a book written by Sharat Chandra Chatterjee.

  1. Devdas

  2. Godan

  3. Kidnapped

  4. Heat and Dust


Correct Option: A

Who is/are the author/s of Heat and Dust?

  1. Ruth.P.Jhabwala

  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Who is the author of 'David Copperfield'?

  1. Charles Dickens

  2. Charlotte Bronte

  3. Leo Tolstoy

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

“A farewell of Arms” is written by

  1. William Thackeray

  2. Count Leo Tolstoy

  3. Ernest Hemingway

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

Which among the following books is written by Munshi Premchand?

  1. Gitanjali

  2. Heat and Dust

  3. Nineteen eighty four

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: D

'Jane Eyre' is written by

  1. H.G. Wells

  2. John Milton

  3. Charlotte Bronte

  4. George Orwell


Correct Option: C

________ is the author of Jungle Book.

  1. Shakespeare

  2. Rudyard Kipling

  3. Thomas Hardy

  4. Wordsworth


Correct Option: B

Which among the following books is/are written by William Shakespeare?

  1. Macbeth

  2. As you Like it

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Paradise Lost


Correct Option: C

'Meghdoot' is written by

  1. Salman Rushdie

  2. Maharishi Veda Viyas

  3. Maharishi Valmiki

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

It is written by Kalidasa.

Which of the following books is written by George Orwell?

  1. Nineteen Ninety Four

  2. Nineteen Eighty Four

  3. Nineteen Seventy Four

  4. Nineteen Sixty Four


Correct Option: B

“Of Human Bandage” is written by

  1. Somerset Maugham

  2. Gabriel Garcia Marques

  3. John Milton

  4. All the above


Correct Option: A

The author/s of “Freedom at Midnight” is/are

  1. Larry Collins

  2. Dominique Lapierre

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

The author of “Kore Kagaz” is

  1. Amrita Pritam

  2. Kalidasa

  3. Vishnu Sharma

  4. Ramanujan


Correct Option: A

“Kidnapped” is written by

  1. Stevenson

  2. Amrita Pritam

  3. Charlotte Bronte

  4. George Orwell


Correct Option: A

Who is the author of “The Republic”?

  1. Plato

  2. Shakespeare

  3. Karl Marx

  4. Wordsworth


Correct Option: A
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