Topic: Books and Authors
Q1: Who wrote the book 'The White Tiger'?
- (A) Salman Rushdie
- (B) Chetan Bhagat
- (C) Aravind Adiga
- (D) Amitav Ghosh
Answer: Option C - Aravind Adiga
Q2: Who wrote the book 'Equality in Liberty and Justice'?
- (A) John Rawls
- (B) Antony Flew
- (C) Amartya Sen
- (D) Thomas Piketty
Answer: Option B - Antony Flew
Q3: Rabindranath Tagore's 'Gitanjali', which won the Nobel Prize in 1913, is a collection of what?
- (A) Short Stories
- (B) Novels
- (C) Poems
- (D) Essays
Answer: Option C - Poems
Q4: Who is the author of the book 'Chhonk on Food, Economics and Society'?
- (A) Raghuram Rajan
- (B) Abhijit Banerjee
- (C) Amartya Sen
- (D) Manmohan Singh
Answer: Option B - Abhijit Banerjee
Q5: The ancient book 'Katha Sarit Sagara' (written by Somadeva) is in which language?
- (A) Pali
- (B) Sanskrit
- (C) Prakrit
- (D) Tamil
Answer: Option B - Sanskrit
Q6: Who wrote the Harry Potter series?
- (A) J.R.R. Tolkien
- (B) J.K. Rowling
- (C) C.S. Lewis
- (D) George R.R. Martin
Answer: Option B - J.K. Rowling
Q7: 'Straight from the Heart: An Autobiography' is the autobiography of whom?
- (A) Sachin Tendulkar
- (B) Sunil Gavaskar
- (C) Kapil Dev
- (D) MS Dhoni
Answer: Option C - Kapil Dev
Q8: Who wrote 'Discovery of India'?
- (A) Mahatma Gandhi
- (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
- (C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- (D) B.R. Ambedkar
Answer: Option B - Jawaharlal Nehru
Q9: Who wrote the collection of stories in 'Malgudi Days'? [cite: 88]
- (A) Ruskin Bond
- (B) R.K. Narayan
- (C) Mulk Raj Anand
- (D) Khushwant Singh
Answer: Option B - R.K. Narayan
Q10: Who is the author of the book 'Oliver Twist'?
- (A) Mark Twain
- (B) Charles Dickens
- (C) Jane Austen
- (D) William Shakespeare
Answer: Option B - Charles Dickens
Q11: What is the name of Major Dhyan Chand's autobiography?
- (A) The Greatest My Own Story
- (B) Goal
- (C) Straight from the Heart
- (D) The Race of My Life
Answer: Option B - Goal
Q12: Who wrote 'Kerala: God's Own Country'?
- (A) Arundhati Roy
- (B) Shashi Tharoor
- (C) Kamala Das
- (D) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Answer: Option B - Shashi Tharoor
Q13: Who wrote 'Unaccustomed Earth'?
- (A) Kiran Desai
- (B) Anita Desai
- (C) Jhumpa Lahiri
- (D) Arundhati Roy
Answer: Option C - Jhumpa Lahiri
Q14: 'The Edge of Time' is the biography of which personality?
- (A) Sunita Williams
- (B) Kalpana Chawla
- (C) Mary Kom
- (D) P.T. Usha
Answer: Option B - Kalpana Chawla
Q15: Who penned the novel 'A Suitable Boy'?
- (A) Amitav Ghosh
- (B) Salman Rushdie
- (C) Vikram Seth
- (D) R.K. Narayan
Answer: Option C - Vikram Seth
