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A book entitled “The Hindus: An Alternative History” was written by:
(a) Shobha De
(b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) Wendy Doniger
(d) Salman Rushdie
Option c – Wendy Doniger
Which of the following books was written by B.R. Ambedkar?
(a) The Discovery of India
(b) My Life
(c) Buddha or Karl Marx
(d) Hind Swaraj
Option c – Buddha or Karl Marx
(a) Shashi Tharoor
(b) Bill Clinton
(c) Kapil Dev
(d) Dev Anand
Option d – Dev Anand
Which of the following pairs is wrongly matched?
(a) Plato’s – Republic
(b) Aristotle’s – Politics
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru – Hind Swaraj
(d) Karl Marx – Das Kapital
Option c – Jawaharlal Nehru – Hind Swaraj
Who wrote ‘As You Like It’?
(a) Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Bernard Shaw
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Leo Tolstoy
Option c – William Shakespeare
Name the story written by Rabindranath Tagore.
(a) Unto the Last
(b) Al-Balagh
(c) Akash
(d) Kabuliwallah
Option d – Kabuliwallah
Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate politics of the Indian National Congress in a series of articles entitled “New Lamps for Old”?
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh
(b) R. C. Dutt
(c) Syed Ahmad Khan
(d) Viraraghavachari
Option a – Aurobindo Ghosh
Who among the following wrote the poem, Subh-e Azadi?
(a) Sahir Ludhiyanvi
(b) Faiz Ahmed Faiz
(d) Muhammad Iqbal
(d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Option b – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Who among the following translated the Autobiography of Madam Curie into Hindi?
(a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) Choudhary Charan Singh
(d) Gobind Vallabh Pant
Option b – Lal Bahadur Shastri
The Musalman, the handwritten daily newspaper in circulation since 1927, is published from which one of the following places?
(a) Chennai
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Mysore
(d) Lucknow
Option a – Chennai
(a) J. K. Rowling
(b) Robert Dallek
(c) Pamela Mountbatten
(d) Stephen Hawking
Option c – Pamela Mountbatten
Who among the following has written a book named ‘A Minister and his Responsibilities’?
(a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(b) Morarji Desai
(c) Charan Singh
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Option b – Morarji Desai
(a) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(b) Atal Behari Vajpayee
(c) L. K. Advani
(d) Shashi Tharoor
Option c – L. K. Advani
(a) Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) S. Gopalan
(d) S. Radhakrishnan
Option b – Jawaharlal Nehru
Who wrote the book ‘The Story of the Integration of the Indian States’?
(a) B. N. Rau
(b) C. Rajagopalachari
(c) Krishna Menon
(d) V. P. Menon
Option d – V. P. Menon
Who among the following wrote the book ‘Bahubivah’?
(a) Raja Rammohan Roy
(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(c) Pandita Rambai
(d) Rabindranath Tagore
Option b – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(a) Rajdeep Sardesai
(b) Karan Thapar
(c) Kuldeep Nayar
(d) Sanjaya Baru
Option d – Sanjaya Baru
The book “Ace Against Odds” is an autobiography of:
(a) Leander Paes
(b) Somdev Devvarman
(c) Sania Mirza
(d) Mahesh Bhupathi
Option c – Sania Mirza
(a) Amrish Tripathi
(b) Hamid Ansari
(c) Shashi Tharoor
(d) Romesh Dutt
Option c – Shashi Tharoor
‘Letters from Burma’ is a book of essays penned by:
(a) Aung San Suu Kyi
(b) Rashbehari Bose
(c) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Option a – Aung San Suu Kyi
(a) Francis Fukuyama
(b) Daniel Bell
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) Anthony Giddens
Option a – Francis Fukuyama
(a) William H. McNeill
(b) W.I. Thomas
(c) Rachel Carson
(d) David Cannadine
Option a – William H. McNeill
Who, in his book “The Managerial Revolution,” argued that the managerial class dominated all industrial societies, both capitalist and communist, by virtue of its technical and scientific knowledge and its administrative skills?
(a) James Burnham
(b) Robert Michels
(c) Gaetano Mosca
(d) Vilfredo Pareto
Option a – James Burnham
(a) Pranab Mukherjee
(b) Hamid Ansari
(c) Nandan Nilekani
(d) Satyajit Ray
Option b – Hamid Ansari
(a) Pandita Ramabai
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Tarabai Shinde
(d) Rameshwari Nehru
Option c – Tarabai Shinde
(a) Paul Beatty
(b) Arvind Adiga
(c) Eleanor Catton
(d) Howard Jacobson
Option a – Paul Beatty
(a) Kailash Satyarthi
(b) Radhakant Bharti
(c) Dipak Mishra
(d) Subhash Chandra
Option a – Kailash Satyarthi
“Six Machine (I Don’t Like Cricket ….l Love It)” is an autobiography of which famous batsman?
(a) Virat Kohli
(b) AB De Villiers
(c) Chris Gayle
(d) Tillakaratne Dilshan
Option c – Chris Gayle
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Surya Sen
(d) Yashpal
Option a – Bhagat Singh
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Henry Fielding
Option b – Ruskin Bond
Which of the following is a book written by Shashi Tharoor?
(a) It’s Not About You
(b) Invisible People
(c) An Era of Darkness
(d) Democrats and Dissenters
Option c – An Era of Darkness
“My Story” is an autobiography of which famous cricketer?
(a) Kumar Sangakkara
(b) Kevin Pietersen
(c) Brendon McCullum
(d) Michael Clarke
Option d – Michael Clarke
What is the name of the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar?
(a) Numbers Do Lie
(b) Playing It My Way
(c) Once Upon a Time
(d) What Is Remembered
Option b – Playing It My Way
Who has written the book ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’?
(a) Chaitanya Padukone
(b) Amitav Ghosh
(c) Pramod Kapoor
(d) Arundhati Roy
Option d – Arundhati Roy
Who has recently launched his autobiography titled ‘An Unsuitable Boy’?
(a) Rishi Kapoor
(b) M.S. Dhoni
(c) Karan Johar
(d) Vikram Seth
Option c – Karan Johar
“Ace Against Odds” is an autobiography of which sports person?
(a) Vishwanathan Anand
(b) Sania Mirza
(c) Abhinav Bindra
(d) Anjali Bhagwat
Option b – Sania Mirza
(a) Aravind Adiga
(b) Anil Menon
(c) Krishna Sobti
(d) Arunava Sinha
Option a – Aravind Adiga
(a) Anil Menon
(b) Aakash Chopra
(c) Ian Chappell
(d) Kunal Basu
Option b – Aakash Chopra
(a) Hind Swaraj
(b) An Autobiography – The Story of My Experiments with Truth
(c) History of the Satyagraha in South Africa
(d) The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
Option c – History of the Satyagraha in South Africa
Carefully read the following passage and identify the person referred to: Her best-known works are ‘The Golden Notebook,’ ‘Memoirs of a Survivor,’ and ‘The Summer Before the Dark.’ She was the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
(a) Alice Munro
(b) Doris Lessing
(c) Herta Muller
(d) Elfriede Jelinek
Option b – Doris Lessing
Who wrote the book, “TRAIN TO PAKISTAN”?
(a) Nayantara Sehgal
(b) Inder Malhotra
(c) Khushwant Singh
(d) Amrita Pritam
Option c – Khushwant Singh
The book “Twenty Years’ Crisis” was written by:
(a) Hans Morgenthau
(b) E. H. Carr
(c) Kenneth Waltz
(d) Woodrow Wilson
Option b – E. H. Carr
The book “The Roots of Ancient India” was written by:
(a) D.K. Chakravarti
(b) D.P. Agrawal
(c) W.A. Fairservis
(d) A. Ghosh
Option c – W.A. Fairservis
The book “Kargil: Turning the Tide” was written by:
(a) Mohinder Puri
(b) Anita Nair
(c) Chetan Bhagat
(d) Durjoy Datta
Option a – Mohinder Puri
The book “The Man Who Divided India” was written by:
(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) Rafiq Zakaria
(d) Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Option c – Rafiq Zakaria
The song “Bande Mataram” was originally composed in:
(a) Assamese
(b) Bengali
(c) Hindi
(d) Sanskrit
Option d – Sanskrit
My Music, My Life is the autobiography of:
(a) Pt. Shivkumar Sharma
(b) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
(c) Pt. Ravi Shankar
(d) Ustad Zakir Hussain
Option c – Pt. Ravi Shankar
(a) Adam Smith
(b) John Locke
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Thomas Paine
Option c – Karl Marx
The book ‘Satanic Verses’ was written by:
(a) Gunnar Myrdal
(b) Agatha Christie
(c) William Golding
(d) Salman Rushdie
Option d – Salman Rushdie
The ‘Rediscovery of India’ is written by:
(a) Gurcharan Das
(b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Meghnad Desai
(d) Mrinal Pandey
Option c – Meghnad Desai
(a) Carl Sagan
(b) John Schwarz
(c) Michael Green
(d) Stephen Hawking
Option d – Stephen Hawking
What is the title of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s autobiography?
(a) Me and Missile
(b) My Memories
(c) Sky is the Limit
(d) Wings of Fire
Option d – Wings of Fire
(a) Dick Francis
(b) John Gray
(c) Bill Gates
(d) David Baldacci
Option c – Bill Gates
‘Na Khatma Hone Wali Kahani’ is the autobiography of:
(a) T.N. Sheshan
(b) Amitabh Bachchan
(c) Sonia Gandhi
(d) V.P. Singh
Option d – V.P. Singh
Who is called the Father of English Poetry?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Milton
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Chaucer
Option d – Chaucer
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