BOOKS & AUTHORS RELATED QUESTIONS

1. Who is the author of "The Kalam effect: My years with the president"?
(a) P.M.Nayar (b) Sonia Gandhi
(c) L.K.Adwani (d) Arun Shaurie
ANS (a)

2. Who is the author of the book "Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Shobha De (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)

3. The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d) Kautilya
ANS (a)

4. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The Post Office (b) Gora
(c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie
ANS (Try Yourself)

5. Who is the author of the book ’My other two daughters’?
(a) Lalu Prasad Yadav (b) Surjit Singh Barnala
(c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy
ANS (b)

6. Who is known as the Father of Detective Story
(a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) Bram Stoker
(c) Edgar Allen Poe (d) None of the above
ANS (c)

7. Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ “ book was written by
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami Vivekananda
ANS (d)

8. Find out the odd one
(a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock HolmesANS (d) Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a character 9.One among the following is not written by Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam
(c) Rith Samharam (d) Kaavyadooth
ANS (d)

10. ’Sonia, a Biography’ was written by
(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy
(c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty
ANS (c)

11. One among the following is not a Harry Potter story
(a) Chamber of secrets
(b) The philosopher’s stone
(c) Half blood prince (d) Naked Truth
ANS (d)

12. Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer wrote a book, which carried a more or less accurate prediction of the launching of Apollo-8. Which is the book
(a) From the Earth to the moon
(b) All under Heaven
(c) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(d) Past and Present
ANS (a)

13. Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?
(a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston Churchill
ANS (b)

14. "Does IT matter" is a book written by
(a) Bill Gates (b) N. R. Narayanan (c) Nicholas Carr
(d) Thomas D. Harris (e) None of these
ANS (c)

15. ’Beyond time’ is the book written by
(a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel
(e) None of these
ANS (e)

16. The famous book ’Anandmath’ has been authorised by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sri Aurobindo
ANS (b)

17.Who wrote a book describing the theory of economic drain of India during British rule?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
ANS (a)

18. The author of the book ’Waiting for Godot’ is:
(a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag
(c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson
ANS (c) Waiting for the Mahatma - R. K. Narayanan
Waiting to Exhale - Terry Mc Millan

19. "The Vedas contain all the truth", was interpreted by:
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. Radhakrishnan
ANS (b)

20. Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?
ANS - Dara Shikoh

21.In "The Travels of Gulliver", what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?
ANS - The health of the sun

22."The man who knew infinity" is the biography of
(a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking
(c) Albert Einstein (d) S. Ramanujan
ANS (d)

23.What was the original name of ’Alice in Wonderland’ when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry Kingsley in 1863?
ANS - Alice’s Adventures Underground

24. The author of the book "Waiting for the Mahatma" is
(a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala
(c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. Malgonkar
ANS (a)

25. Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem ’Arjuna vivaha’ written?
ANS - King Airlangga

26. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, ’Plain Tales From the Hills’?
ANS - To the wittiest woman in India

27. ’Beyond the Last Blue Mountain’ is R.M Lala’s biography of which Indian?
ANS - J. R. D. Tata

28. Which of Agatha Christie’s books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title ’Anna the Adventure’?
ANS - The Man In The Brown Suit

29. Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov
(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking
ANS (d)

30. The book ’Living with Honour’ is written by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera
(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (b)

31. The book ’Cricket My Style’ is written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath
ANS (c)

32. Who wrote the book ’The Book of Indian Birds’
ANS - Dr. Salim Ali

33. ’Economic History of India’ was written by
ANS - R. C. Dutt

34.The oldest of the vedic literature is
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda
(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
ANS (c)

35. ’Leelavathi’ the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on
ANS - Mathematics

36. Who is the author of ˜An Equal Musicâ (1999)
ANS - Vikram Seth

37. Who wrote the poem ˜Passage to India in 1871
ANS - Walt Whitman (American Poet)

38. Who is the author of the book ˜The Canterbury Tales
ANS - Geoffrey Chaucer

39. Who is the author of the book ˜Anna Karenin
ANS - Leo Tolstoy

40.Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ANS - Mark Twain

41. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
ANS - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

42.Who is the author of the book ˜The Comedy of Errors?
ANS - William Shakespeare

43. Who is the author of the book ˜Animal Farm
ANS - George Orwell

44. Who is the author of the book ˜The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
ANS - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

45. Who is the author of the book, ˜Through the Looking-Glass?
ANS - Lewis Carroll

46. Who is the author of the book, ˜Allâs Well That Ends Wellâ?
ANS - William Shakespeare

47. Who is the author of the book ˜Akbar-nama
ANS - Abul Fazl

48. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnâ?
ANS - Mark Twain

49. Who is the author of the book ˜Antony and Cleopatraâ?
ANS - William Shakespeare

50. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687)
ANS - Sir Isaac

51. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Atal Bihari Vajpeyi
(c) Narendra Modi (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)

52. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Sushma Swaraj
(c) Narendra Modi (d) Jaswant Singh
ANS (c)

Books — Authors

• Accident — Daniel Steel
• Ain-e-Akbari — Abul Fazal
• A Simple Path — Lucinda Ward
• A Mountain of Happiness — D. K. Khullar
• A Moment in Time — Alka Raghuvanshi
• Abhijnan Shakuntalam — Kalidas
• Azhar (Life) — Harsha Bhogle
• Agni Veena — Kazi Nazurul Islam
• Anna Karennina — Tolstoy
• August Coup, The —Mikhail S. Gorbachov
• Anand Math, Kapal Kundla, Durgesh Nandini— Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• A Pair of Blue Eyes — Thomas Hardy
• Bhagwad Gita, Mahabhrat —Veda Vyas
• Bliss was it in that Dawn — Minoo Masani


• Blood Bath in Bangladesh — Prabodh Chandra
• Blood Brothers —M. J. Akbar
• Bihari Satsai — Bihari
• Bharat Bharati — Maithili Saran Gupta
• Charitraheen — Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
• Chittirappavai — P. V. Akaliandan
• Conservationist, The — Nadine Gordimer
• Cosmic Reality — Lajja Ram
• Divine Comedy — Dante
• Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History — Jawahar Lal Nehru
• Death of a city — Amrita Pritam
• Decline and Fall of Roman Empire — Gibbon
• Das Capital — Karl Marx
• Descendant of Man — Charles Darwin
• Desparate Major — David Sorel
• Death, The Supreme Friend — Kaka Saheb Kalelkar
• Experiments with Untruth — Michael Aenderson
• Economic Planning of India — Ashoka Mehta
• Eternal India — Mrs. Indira Gandhi
• End of an Era, The — C. S. Pandit
• Famished Road — Ben Okri
• Final Exit — Derek Humphry
• From the Himalayas — Ruskin Bond
• Forty years after Forgive me Amma —Sundeep Mishra
• Independence — S. K. Banerjee
• Freedom from Fear — Aung San Suu Kyi
• Glimpses of World History — Jawahar Lal Nehru
• Gandhi to Gandhi : Private Faces of Public Figures — Ansar Harvana
• Gitanjali —Rabindra Nath Tagore Good Earth, House Divided — Pearl Buck
• Golden Threshold, Broken wing — Sarojini Naidu
• Goddan, Rang Bhumi, Kaya Kalp — Prem Chand
• Gulag Archipelago — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Gurusangaran — O. P. Vijayan
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — J. K. Rowling
• Harsha Charit — Bana Bhatta
• Hindu view of Life —Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
• Higher than Hope — Fatima Meer
• Hitlist in Hindi —Ravindra Rajhans
• History of Western Philosophy —B. Russel
• Human Knowledge —B. Russel
• Identity and Violence : The Illusion of Destiny —Prof. Amartya Sen
• Impossible Allies —C. Raja Mohan
• India Wins Freedom —Abul Kalam Azad
• Indian Philosophy —Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
• Indian War of Independence —V. D. Savarkar
• Kamayani, Prem Pathic, Ajatshatru —Jai Shanker Prasad
• Life Divine —Sri Aurobindo
• Lenin in Zurich —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Last Days of Netaji —G. D. Khosla
• Les Miserables —Victor Hugo
• Literary Theory and Criticism in Theory and Practice in English —Ravindra Rajhans
• Living History — Hillary Clinton
• Mahabharat —Veda Vyas
• Maximum City —Suketu Mehta
• Meghdoot, Shakuntla, Kumarshambhava, Reghuvansha —Kalidas
• Mein Kempf —Hitler
• My Childhood Day —Tasleema Nasreen
• My Experiments With Truth —Mahatma Gandhi
• My Own Boswell —M. Hidayatullah
• Murder in the Cathedral Waste Land —Eliot, T. S.
• Mrityunjaya —Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
• Naganand —King Shri Harsha
• Neeti Shatak —Bharthari
• Odyssey, Illiad —Homer
• Origin of Species —Charles Darwin
• Oil —Jack Anderson
• Panchtantra —Vishnu Sharma
• Political Economy of India —Chandra Shekhar
• Rajtarangini —Kalhana
• Ramayana —Valmiki (in Sanskrit)
• Ram Charit Manas, Vinay Patrika —Tulsi Das
• Red —Irvin Allan Sealy
• Satanic Verses —Salman Rushdie
• Shah Nama —Firdausi
• Social Contract —Rousseau
• Speaker’s Diary — Manohar Joshi
• The Coolie, The Golden Breath —Mulkraj Anand
• Tale of Two Cities —Charles Dickens
• The Light that Failed —Rudyard Kipling
• The God of Small Things —Arundhati Roy
• The Greater Common Good —Arundhati Roy
• The Tin Drum —Guenter Grass
• The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns —Khaled Hosseini
• Utopia —Sir Thomas More
• War and Peace —Tolstoy
• Wake up India —Annie Besant
• Yayati —V. S. Khandekar
• A New World —Amit Chaudhari
• Interpreter of Maladies —Jhumpa Lahiri
• Satwan Lok —P. L. Gautam
• District Diary —Jaswant Singh
• Bradman’s Best —Rolland Perry
• How I Play Golf —Tiger Woods
• Ignited Minds — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• Life of Pi — Yann Martel
• Two Lives —Vikram Seth
• The Namesake —Jhumpa Lahiri
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix —J. K. Rowling
• India First — K. R. Malkani
• My Life — Bill Clinton
• Straight From Heart — Kapil Deo
• The Hungary Tide — Amitav Ghosh
• The Piano Teacher — Elfriede Jelinek
• Magic Seeds — V.S. Naipaul
• Harry Potter and the Half–Blood Prince — J. K. Rowling
• Guiding Souls : Dialogues on The Purpose of Life — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• Spouse : The Truth About Marriage — Shobha De
• Small Island — Andrea Levy
• The Future of India — Dr. Bimal Jalan
• The Argumentative Indian —Dr. Amartya Sen
• Mao, the Unknown Story —Jung Chang & Jon Holliday
• Shalimar, the Clown — Salman Rushdie
• The Sea — John Banville Out of My Comfort Zone : The Autobiography —Steve Waugh
• Touch Play —Dev Sukumar
• A Call To Honour : In Service of Emergent India — Jaswant Singh
• Falling Over Backward — Arun Shourie
• The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai
• Sacred Games — Vikram Chandra
• One Day Cricket, The Indian Challenge —Ashish Rai
• The Exile Navtej Sarna I Witness : Partial Observations —Kapil Sibal
• The White Tiger —Aravind Adiga
• Wolf Hall —Hilary Mantel
• Dreams from my father —Barack Obama
• The Humbling —Philip Roth
• The Museum of Innocence —Orphan Pamuk
• Songs of Blood and Sword —Fatima Bhutto
• Keeping the Faith : Memoirs of a Parliamentarian —Somnath Chatterjee
• Vikas Ki Udan Abhi Baki Hai —Bhupinder Singh Hooda
• India-Pakistan–“Coming to Terms” —Ashutosh Mishra

BOOKS - AUTHORS

1. The book To Live or Not to Live’ was written by
(a) Alexander Dumas
(b) Nirad C. Chaudhary
(c) V. S. Naipaul
(d) George Eliot
Ans. (b)

2. Who wrote the line: ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever?
(a) P.B. Shelley
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(d) Robert Browning
Ans. (c)

3. ‘A Voice of Freedom’ is a book written by
(a) Benazir Bhutto
(b) Corazon Aquino
(c) Nayantara Sahgal
(d) Aung San Suu Kyi
Ans. (c)

4. The first History book was written by
(a) Euclid
(b) Julius Caesar
(a) Aristotle
(d) Herodotus
(e) None of these
Ans. (d)

5. The creator of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ was
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dr. Watson
(c) Ian Fleming
(d) Arthur Conan Doyle
(e) John Le Carre
Ans. (d)

6. Who wrote the book ‘Reminiscences of the Nehru Age’?
(a) S.C. Rajagopalachari
(b) O.P. Mathai
(c) C.D. Deshmukh
(d) Dr. P.C. Alexander
Ans. (b)

7. Who among the following has directed the film ‘Little Buddha’?
(a) Mani Kaul
(b) Ben Johnson
(c) Bernardo Bertolucci
(d) Richard Attenborough
(e) None of these
Ans. (c)

8. Which of the following is not written by Munshi Premchand?
(a) Gaban
(b) Godan
(c) Manasorovar
(d) Guide
(e) Nirmala
Ans. (d)

9. Who wrote the book ‘The Prince’?
(a) V.S. Sharma
(b) Bernard Shaw
(c) Emile Zola
(d) Niccolo Machiavelli
Ans. (d)

10. Who has written the famous book ‘Mankind and Mother Earth?
(a) Bertrand Russell
(b) John Ruskin
(c) Leo Tolstoy
(d) V.K. Krishna lyer
(e) Arnold Toynbee
Ans. (e)

11. Man without society is either a beast or a God’. Who said this?
(a) Plato
(b) Gandhi
(c) Henry Maine
(d) Aristotle
Ans. (d)

12. The novel ‘Post Office’ was written by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) K.M. Munshi
(c) R.D. Dinkar
(d) Neeraj
Ans. (a)

13. The novel ‘A Suitable Boy’ is written by
(a) V.S. Naipaul
(b) Vikram Seth
(c) Khushwant Singh
(d) Amit Chaudhary
(e) None of these
Ans. (b)

14. Who said ‘Man is a political animal’?
(a) Dante
(b) Plato
(c) Aristotle
(d) Socrates
Ans. (c)

15. Who is the author of the famous statement: That Government is the best which governs least”?
(a) Henry David Thoreau
(b) Herbert Spencer
(c) Alexis De Tocqueville
(d) Harold Laski
Ans. (b)

16. Who is the author of the novel ’Les Miserables’?
(a) Fedric
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) G. Wynne
(d) Alium Tofler
Ans. (b)

17. Lapierre is the author/co-author of
1. Freedom At Mid night
2. City of Joy
3. Is Paris Burning?
4. Beyond Love
Which of the following is correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1 and 3
(c) l, 2 and 4
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (b)

18. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
1. Taslima Nasreen – Lajja
2. Vikram Seth – The Golden Gate
3. Dilip Thakore – A Suitable Boy
(a) l alone
(b) l and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) l, 2 and 3
Ans. (a)

19. Who is the author of the book ‘We Indians’?
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Mulk Raj Anand
(c) Nirad C. Chaudhary
(d) Subramanya Swamy
Ans. (a)

20. Which of the following is a film directed by Mr. Buddhadeb Das Gupta?
(a) Krantiveer
(b) Mohra
(c) Charachar
(d) 1942 – A Love Story
Ans. (a)

21. Who wrote the famous book -‘We the people’?
(a) J.R.D. Tata
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) T.N. Kaul
(d) Nani Palkhivala
Ans. (c)

22. ‘India of our dreams’ is a book written by
(a) Dr.Rajendra Prasad
(b) Dr.S.Radhakrishnan
(c) Dr.C.Subramaniam
(d) M.V. Kamath
Ans. (d)

23. In which language did Dr. Masti Venkatesh Iyengar write?
(a) Tamil
(b) Malayalam
(c) Kannada
(d) Telugu
Ans. (c)

24. Who directed the world famous film ‘The Gandhi’?
(a) Satyajit Ray
(b) Ben Kingsley
(c) Mrinal Sen
(d) Richard Attenborough
Ans. (d)

25. Who is the author of the best seller book ‘No Full Stops in India’?
(a) Shyam Lal
(b) E.M. Forster
(c) Mark Tully
(d) Raj Mohan Gandhi
Ans. (c)

26. George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was
(a) a Welsh
(b) a Scotsman
(c) an Englishman
(d) an Irishman
Ans. (d)

27. Who among the following has directed the film ‘Sardar’?
(a) Tapan Sinha
(b) Shyam Benegal
(c) Ketan Mehta
(d) Buddhadeb Das Gupta
Ans. (c)

28. The celebrated novel ‘The Godfather’ was authored by
(a) John Milton
(b) Victor Hugo
(c) Mario Puzo
(d) Harold Robbins
Ans. (c)

29. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ the famous TV Serial is based on a book written by
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Lewis Carroll
(d) Father Dicoste
Ans. (c)

30. Who is the author of the controversial book ‘Forbidden Verses’?
(a) Abu Nawaz
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) D.H. Lawrence
(d) Ms. Taslima Nasreen
(e) Mikhail Sholokhev
Ans. (a)

31. Which of the following books would you consult to get acquainted with Gandhian thought?
(a) India Wins Freedom
(b) India Divided
(c) Hind Swaraj
(d) Discovery of India
Ans. (c)

32. ‘The Gathering Storm’ is written by
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Voltaire
(c) George Washington
(d) Romain Rolland
Ans. (a)

33. The famous character Pickwick’ was created by
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Walt Disney
(d) Steven Spielberg
Ans. (b)

34. Consider the following statements about the film ‘Bandit Queen’
1. It is said to be a film based on the life of Phoolan Devi.
2. It was made by Shekhar Kapoor.
3. It was one of the two Indian entries in the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
Of these statements, the correct ones are
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3
(c) l and 3
(d) l, 2 and 3
Ans. (d)

35. Which of the following books was written by Graham Greene?
(a) Of Human Bondage
(b) The Power and Glory
(c) Crisis in India
(d) O’ Jerusalem
(e) Shape of Things to Come
Ans. (b)

36. Who said, “I therefore, want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn, if it can be had?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Nelson Mandela
Ans. (a)

37. Which of the following is a biography of Lady Mountbatten?
(a) Mountbatten
(b) Edwina Mountbatten
(c) Edwina Mountbatten -Her Relationship with Nehru
(d) Edwina Mountbatten -A Life of Her Own
(e) Edwina Mountbatten And Her Stay In India
Ans. (d)

38. Which of the following newspapers was published in Bengali language?
(a) Jugantar
(b) Pratap
(c) Din Mani
(d) Lok Satta
Ans. (a)

39. Who has written the book ‘The Famished Road’?
(a) Zola Emile
(b) VS. Naipaul
(c) Ben Okri
(d) Ian Austin
Ans. (c)

40. What is unique about the film ‘Adi Shankaracharya’?
(a) It is the first Sanskrit film.
(b) It has no female actress.
(c) It is the first film of the director G.V. lyer.
(d) It has won the national award.
Ans. (a)

41. The serial ‘India’s Rajiv’ was produced and directed by
(a) Satyajit Ray
(b) Mira Nair
(c) Shyam Benegal
(d) Simi Garewal
Ans. (d)

42. Who is the author of the book ‘Freedom Behind Bars’?
(a) Kiran Bedi
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Sheikh Abdullah
Ans. (a)

43. Who is the author of the book ‘Preparing for the Twenty -first Century’?
(a) V.S. Naipaul
(b) Larry Collins
(c) Paul Kennedy
(d) Henry Kissinger
(e) V.R. Krishna Iyer
Ans. (c)

44. Who is the author of ‘Tom Sawyer’?
(a) John Ruskin
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Leo Tolstoy
(d) Mark Twain
Ans. (d)

45. ‘Crime and Punishment’ was written by
(a) Alexander Solzhenitysn
(b) Lewis Carroll
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(d) Vladimir Nabakov
Ans. (c)

46. ‘The General happiness is the end of the state’; who said this?
(a) Plato
(b) Hegel
(c) Green
(d) Bentham
Ans. (d)

47. ‘The Naked Face’, a very popular book is written by
(a) Larry Collins
(b) Dominique Lapierre
(c) Juan Benet
(d) Sidney Sheldon
Ans. (d)

48. “All the world’s stage, And all the men and women merely players’; They have their exits and their entrances’ And one man in his time plays many parts; His acts being seven ages.’ This famous quotation is attributed to
(a) M.K. Gandhi
(b) R, N. Tagore
(c) G.B.Shaw
(d) Abraham Lincoln
(e) William Shakespeare
Ans. (e)

49. Who is the author of the book ‘Naked Triangle’?
(a) R.K. Narayan
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) Balwant Gargi
(d) Amrita Pritam
Ans. (c)

50. Who has written the book ‘War and Peace’?
(a) Boris Pasternak
(b) Mikhail Solokhov
(c) Count Leo Tolstoy
(d) Saul Bellow
(a) Adam Smith
Ans. (c)