Books and Authors GK Quiz 2024
[1] Who is the Author of The Name of the Rose?
- A) John Steinbeck
- B) William Shakespeare
- C) Umberto Eco
- D) J K Rowling
Answer: C) Umberto Eco
[2] Who has written Shakuntala?
- A) Kalidasa
- B) Kabir
- C) Tulisidas
- D) None of these
Answer: A) Kalidasa
[3] Who among the following wrote the book Bahubivah?
- A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- C) Pandita Rambai
- D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
[4] The book ‘To Live or Not Live’ was written by
- A) V S Naipaul
- B) Alexandra Dumas
- C) George Elliot
- D) Nirad C Chaudhuri
Answer: D) Nirad C) Chaudhuri
[5] The Author of India Divided is
- A) Rajendra Prasad
- B) V V Giri
- C) F A Ahmed
- D) Zail Singh
Answer: A) Rajendra Prasad
[6] The author of Business @ Speed of Thought is
- A) Dick Fransis
- B) John Gray
- C) Bill Gates
- D) David Baldexi
Answer: C) Bill Gates
[7] In which languages did Jean Paul Sartre write his books?
- A) Greek
- B) French
- C) Spanish
- D) Russian
Answer: B) French
[8] Who wrote the line: ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’?
- A) John Keats
- B) Robert Browing
- C) P B Shelley
- D) William Wordsworth
Answer: A) John Keats
[9] ‘The Naked Face’, a very popular book is written by
- A) Dominique Lapierre
- B) Larry Collins
- C) Sidney Sheldon
- D) Juan Benet
Answer: C) Sidney Sheldon
[10] Who wrote the famous book – ‘We the people’?
- A) T N Kaul
- B) J R D Tata
- C) Khushwant Singh
- D) Nani Palkhivala
Answer: D) Nani Palkhivala
[11] 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
Answer: C) Pamela Mountbatten
[12] The book Prison Diary was written by
- A) Jawaharlal Nehru
- B) Morarji Desai
- C) Jai Prakash Narayan
- D) Atal Behari Vajpayee
Answer: C) Jai Prakash Narayan
[13] George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was
- A) a Welsh
- B) an Irishman
- C) a Scotsman
- D) an Englishman
Answer: B) an Irishman
[14] My Life is the autobiography of
- A) APJ Abdul Kalam
- B) Rajendra Prasad
- C) Bill Clinton
- D) Hillary Clinton
Answer: C) Bill Clinton
[15] Author of Around the World in Eighty Days is
- A) William Shakespeare
- B) Richard
- C) U S Naipaul
- D) Jules Verne
Answer: D) Jules Verne
[16] The song Bande Mataram was originally composed in
- A) Assamese
- B) Bengali
- C) Hindi
- D) Sanskrit
Answer: D) Sanskrit
[17] Who among the following is a famous literary writer in English?
- A) Arun Shourie
- B) K A Abbas
- C) R K Laxman
- D) Kuldip Nagar
Answer: B) K A Abbas
[18] Who is the author of the book ‘Forbidden Verses’?
- A) Salman Rushdie
- B) Abu Nuwas
- C) Ms) Taslima Nasrin
- D) D H Lawrence
Answer: B) Abu Nuwas
[19] Who is the author of the book My Experiments with Truth?
- A) Winston Churchill
- B) James Morris
- C) Michael Anderson
- D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: D) Mahatma Gandhi
[20] Who is the father of English Poetry?
- A) Milton
- B) Wordsworth
- C) Chaucer
- D) Charles Dickens
Answer: C) Chaucer
[21] Which of the following books has been written by Vikram Seth?
- A) My God Died Young
- B) Islamic Bomb
- C) Look Back in Anger
- D) A Suitable Boy
Answer: D) A Suitable Boy
[22] ‘A Voice for Freedom’ is a book written by
- A) Corazon Aquino
- B) Nayantara Sahgal
- C) Aung San Suu Kyi
- D) Benazir Bhutto
Answer: B) Nayantara Sahgal
[23] Who is the author of the book ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’?
- A) Thomas Hardy
- B) Emile Zola
- C) George Orwell
- D) Walter Scott
Answer: C) George Orwell
[25] Shakespeare’s character named Beatrice appears in which play?
- A) The Tempest
- B) Othello
- C) Much Ado About Nothing
- D) A Midsummer Nights’ Dream
Answer: C) Much Ado About Nothing
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