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Saturday, June 13, 2020

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 45

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 45

341) 'Love Story' was written by
A) Khushwant Singh
B) Erich Segal
C) William Golding
D) Dom Moraes
Answer: Erich Segal

342) 'Life Divine' was the work of
A) Sri Aurobindo
B) C Rajagopalachari
C) Swami Vivekananda
D) Ramana Maharishi
Answer: Sri Aurobindo

343) The author of 'Manas Ka Hans' is
A) Amrit Lal Nagar
B) Munshi Premchand
C) Jayashankar Prasad
D) RN Tripathi
Answer: Amrit Lal Nagar

344) 'Beyond the last Blue Mountain' is the biography of
A) JRD Tata
B) GD Birla
C) RN Goenka
D) GD Naidu
Answer: JRD Tata

345) Who wrote 'The Great Indian Middle Class'?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) Vikram Chandra
C) Pawan Verma
D) Jayprakash Sharma
Answer: Pawan Verma

346) 'The Romantic' is the first fiction work by:
A) Pankaj Mishra
B) Raj Kamal Jha
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Tarun Tejpal
Answer: Pankaj Mishra


347) India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium is a book on future India is authored by:
A) Khushwant Singh
B) APJ Abdul Kalam and YS Singh
C) RK Laxman
D) Nirad C Chaudhary
Answer: APJ Abdul Kalam and YS Singh

348) Consider the following eminent literary person of India.
1. O. N. V. Kurup 2. Sri Lal Sukla
3. Pratibha Ray 4. Girish Karnad
Who of the above has/have been recipient(s) of Bharatiya Jnanpith award for their contribution to Indian literature?
A) 1 and 3
B) 1, 3 and 4
C) 1, 2, 3 and 4
D) 2, 3 and 4
Answer: 1, 2, 3 and 4

349) Which of the following is not a Booker award winning book?
A) Midnight's Children
B) The Inheritance of Loss
C) The God of Small Things
D) 3 Idiots
Answer: 3 Idiots

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 44

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 44

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 44

331) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'The Last Mughal'?
A) Pervez Musharraf
B) Vikram Seth
C) William Darlympie
D) APJ Abdul Kalam
Answer: William Darlympie

332) 'White Tiger' is a book written by
A) RK Narayan
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Shobhaa De
D) Khushwant Singh
Answer: Aravind Adiga

333) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Long Walk to Freedom'?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Laxmi Sehgal
D) Parvez Musharraf
Answer: Nelson Mandela

334) Which of the following is one famous book written by Late Kamaleshwar, a well-known personality in the held of literature and TV?
A) Train To Pakistan
B) Pakistan Cut to Size
C) Kitne Pakistan
D) Post thce
Answer: Kitne Pakistan

335) Who amongst the following is the author ofthe book 'A View from the Outside: Why Good Economics Works for Everyone'?
A) Dr Manmohan Singh
B) P Chidambaram
C) Dr Amartya Sen
D) L N Mittal
Answer: P Chidambaram

336) Who amongst the following is the author of the book “Gandhi: A Spiritual Journey'?
A) M V Kamath
B) Mark Tully
C) Ramchandra Gandhi
D) K N Raj
Answer: M V Kamath

337) Who amongst the following is the author of the book series named as 'Harry Potter'?
A) Sandra Bullock
B) JK Rowling
C) Lindsay Lohan
D) Julia Roberts
Answer: JK Rowling

338) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'A Better India: A Better World'?
A) C Rangarajan
B) NR Narayana Murthy
C) G Madhavan Nair
D) Anil Kakodkar
Answer: NR Narayana Murthy

339) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'The score of my Life'?
A) APJ Abdul Kalam
B) Zubin Mehta
C) Javed Akhtar
D) Deepa Narayan
Answer: Zubin Mehta

340) Who is the author of the book 'To a Hunger-Free World'?
A) Sonia Gandhi
B) APJ Abdul Kalam
C) LK Advani
D) MS Swaminathan
Answer: MS Swaminathan

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 43

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 43

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 43

321) The Road Ahead is a book written by
A) Jyoti Basu
B) LK Advani
C) Bill Gates
D) Bill Clinton
Answer: Bill Gates

322) The book 'Living with Honour' is written by
A) Shiv Khera
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Pramod Batra
D) Vikram Seth
Answer: Shiv Khera

323) ________is a book written bv Late Dr Mulkraj Anand
A) Coolie
B) The Barbers Trade Union
C) Two Leaves and a Bud
D) All of these
Answer: All of these

324) The book 'The Alchemy of Desire' has been written by:
A) Ruskin Bond
B) Khushwant Singh
C) Tarun J Tejpal
D) Jack Higgins
Answer: Tarun J Tejpal

325) The famous book 'Two Lives' has been written by _________.
A) Anurag Mathur
B) Vikram Seth
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Shiv Khera
Answer: Vikram Seth

326) Who amongst the following is not an eminent literary person?
A) Leander Paes
B) VS Naipaul
C) Anita Desai
D) Kiran Desai
Answer: Leander Paes

327) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'No full stops in India'?
A) BK Nehru
B) DR Mankekar
C) Mary Tully
D) RK Narayan
Answer: Mary Tully

328) Which of the following books is written by Aung San Suu Kyi?
A) The Power and the Glory
B) My Childhood Days
C) Against the Grain
D) Freedom from Fear
Answer: Freedom from Fear


329) Who has written the famous book “The Enchantress of Florence'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Kiran Desai
C) Shobha De
D) Arundhati Roy
Answer: Salman Rushdie

330) Who amongst the following la the author of the book 'The Shape of the Beast'?
A) VS Naipaul
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Chetan Bhagat
Answer: Arundhati Roy

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 42

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 42

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 42

311) Which of the following is the book written by VS Naipaul?
A) My God Died Young
B) The Sea
C) Magic Seeds
D) My India
Answer: Magic Seeds

312) Who amongst the following is the author ofthe book 'Development as Freedom'?
A) MS. Swaminathan
B) C. Rangarajan
C) Manmohan Singh
D) Amartya Sen
Answer: Amartya Sen

313) Which of the following books is written by Chetan Bhagat?
A) The Golden Gate
B) Journey To Ithaca
C) Fore on the Mountain
D) 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Answer: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

314) Which of the following books has been written by Nandan Nilekani?
A) A Good Woman
B) Imagining India
C) Between the Assassinations
D) The White Tiger
Answer: Imagining India

315) Who amongst the following la the author of the book 'Between the Assassinations'?
A) Danielle Steel
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Anita Desai
D) Nandan Nilekani
Answer: Aravind Adiga

316) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Termites in the Trading system'?
A) MS Swaminathan
B) Jagdish Bhagwati
C) Jaswant Singh
D) M Chelapati Rao
Answer: Jagdish Bhagwati

317) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Dreams from My father: A Story of Race and Inheritance'?
A) Danny Boyle
B) Barack Obama
C) John Evans Aatta Mills
D) Nelson Mandela
Answer: Barack Obama

318) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Flight into Fear'?
A) Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat
B) Dr Kiran Bedi
C) Capt. Devi Sharan
D) Jaswant Singh
Answer: Capt. Devi Sharan

319) Who amongst the following has written the book 'A Himalayan Love Story'?
A) Namita Gokhale
B) Amitav Ghosh
C) Avijit Pathak
D) Shashi Deshpande
Answer: Namita Gokhale

320) Which of the following is the book written by VS Naipaul?
A) Magic Seeds
B) My God Died Young
C) The Sea
D) My India
Answer: Magic Seeds

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 41

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 41

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 41

301) Who among the following wrote “The Communist Manifesto” along with Karl Marx?
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Friedrich Engels
C) Robert Owen
D) Max Weber
Answer: Friedrich Engels

302) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Economic Nightmare of India'?
A) Morarji Desai
B) Charan Singh
C) K Rajeshwar Rao
D) Jyoti Basu
Answer: Charan Singh

303) Which of the following books has been written by Anita Desai?
A) Between Hope and History
B) Where Shall We Go This Summer?
C) A General and His Anny
D) An Eye to China
Answer: Where Shall We Go This Summer?

304) Who among the following was a famous author of Sanskrit language?
A) Mirabai
B) Kalidas
C) Tulsidas
D) Jaidev
Answer: Kalidas

305) Who is the author of the book 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?
A) Jeffrey Archer
B) Norman Lewis
C) Edward Klein
D) EL James
Answer: EL James

306) Which of the following is a book authored by Shri Pranab Mukherji?
A) Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy
B) The Inheritance of Loss
C) The Argumentative Indian
D) The Family and the Nation
Answer: Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy

307) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Fool's Gold'?
A) V Harrison
B) Gillian Tett
C) Adam Smith
D) Alex Rutherford
Answer: Gillian Tett

308) Which of the following books is written by Dr. MS Swaminathan?
A) The Power and the Glory
B) Wings of Fire
C) Towards a Hunger-Free World
D) Two Lives
Answer: Towards a Hunger-Free World

309) 'Maximum City' is a book written by
A) Suketu Mehta
B) VS Naipaul
C) Vikram Seth
D) Chetan Bhagat
Answer: Suketu Mehta

310) 'A Good Woman' is a book written by
A) Danielle Steel
B) Dario Fo
C) VS Naipaul
D) Orhan Pamuk
Answer: Danielle Steel

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 40

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 40

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 40

291) Match the following:
Author     Work
A. Bankimchandra     1. Shatranj Ke Khilari
B. Dinabandhu Mitra     2. Debi Chaudhurani
C. Premchand     3. Nil-Darpan
    4. Chandrakanta
Below the options are given in A B C order
A) 2 4 1
B) 3 4 2
C) 2 3 1
D) 3 1 4
Answer: 2 3 1

292) 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
Answer: Aurobindo Ghosh

293) Match the following:
Writer     Book
A. V. S. Naipaul     1. The Siege of Krishnapur
B. Salman Rushdie     2. In a Free State
C. Paul Scott     3. Midnight's Children
D. J. G. Farrell     4. Staying on
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 2 3 4 1
B) 4 1 2 3
C) 2 1 4 3
D) 4 3 2 1
Answer: 2 3 4 1

294) Who among the following wrote the bopk 'Babubivah'?
A) Raja Rammoilan Roy
B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
C) Pandita Rambai
D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

295) Which of the following is not correctly matched?
Prominent Indian Writer : Language
A) Raja Rao :Telugu
B) Gobind Trimbuk Deshpande : Marathi
C) Subramaniyam Bharati :Tamil
D) Tara Shankar Joshi : Gujarati
Answer: Raja Rao :Telugu

296) Match the following:
Author     Book
A. Amartya Sen     1. An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
B. Bimal Jalan     2. The Argumentative Indian
C. Arundhati Roy     3. The Future of India
D. Mani Shankar     4. Confessions of a Secular Fundamental
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 3 2 1 4
B) 3 2 4 1
C) 2 3 1 4
D) 2 3 4 1
Answer: 3 2 1 4

297) 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: Pamela Mountbatten

298) Who among the following is the author of the book 'My Country, My Life'?
A) A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
B) Atal Behari Vajpayee
C) L.K. Advani
D) Shashi Tharoor
Answer: L.K. Advani

299) Who is the author of the book “Glimpses of World History'?
A) Abul Kalam Azad
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) S. Gopalan
D) S. Radhakrishnan
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

300) 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
Answer: V. P. Menon

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 39

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 39

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 39

281) Author of the book “Around the World in Eighty Days' is _______.
A) J. K. Rowling
B) Jack London
C) Jules Verne
D) George Orwell
Answer: Jules Verne

282) “My Name is Red' an international bestseller is written by Nobel laureate:
A) Orhan Pamuk
B) Harold Pinter
C) Herta Mulle
D) Doris Lessing
Answer: Orhan Pamuk

283) 'Matimatala' a Jnanpith award winning book authored by:
A) Sitakanta Mohaptra
B) Ashapurna Devi
C) Sachi Routray
D) Gopinath Mohanty
Answer: Gopinath Mohanty

284) Who is the author of the book 'Superstar India'?
A) Arun Shourie
B) Dominique Lapierre
C) Shobha De
D) Salman Rushdie
Answer: Shobha De

285) Match List I and List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List I     List II
Book     Author
A. In custody     1. Amitav Ghosh
B. Sea of Poppies     2. Amartya Sen
C. The Argumentative Indian     3. Anita Desai
D. Unaccustomed Earth     4. Jhumpa Lahiri
Below the Codes are given in A B C D order:
A) 4 1 2 3
B) 4 2 1 3
C) 3 2 1 4
D) 3 1 2 4
Answer: 3 1 2 4

286) Who amongst the following is the author of the famous classical book “A passage to India"?
A) E.M.Foster
B) Mark Twain
C) Nayantara Sehgal
D) Nirad C. Choudhuri
Answer: E.M.Foster

287) Who is the author of the book 'Black Beauty”?
A) Dante Alighieri
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Anna Sewell
D) Pearl Buck
Answer: Anna Sewell

288) 'My Music, My Life' is the autobiography of:
A) Pt. Shivkumar Sharrna
B) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
C) Pt. Ravi Shankar
D) Ustad Zakir Hussain
Answer: Pt. Ravi Shankar

289) Who was the author of the famous work 'A Contributions to the Critic of Political Economy'?
A) Adam Smith
B) John Lock
C) Karl Marx
D) Thomas Penn
Answer: Karl Marx

290) Match the following:
Book     Author
A. Chitra     1. Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
B. Devdas     2. Rabindra Nath Tagore
C. Durgesh     3. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Nandini
D. Ganadevata     4.Tara Shankar Bandopadhyay
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 2 1 3 4
B) 1 4 2 3
C) 2 4 1 3
D) 1 3 2 4
Answer: 2 1 3 4

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 38

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 38

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 38

271) Who is the author of 'Death in The Castle'?
A) Thomas Mann
B) Pearl S. Buck
C) H.P Nanda
D) John Gunther
Answer: Pearl S. Buck

272) ________ is the author of 'Cricket My Style' book.
A) Yuvraj Singh
B) Ajay Jadeja
C) Kapil Dev
D) Sunil Gawaskar
Answer: Kapil Dev

273) Author of 'A Tale of Two Cities' is ________.
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Charles Dickens
C) John Bunyan
D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: Charles Dickens

274) 'A Suitable Boy' is written by _______.
A) J N Dixit
B) Abul Fazal
C) Vikram Seth
D) Amar Singh
Answer: Vikram Seth

275) 'Two States' is written by _____.
A) Jhon W. Henery
B) Vikram Seth
C) Chetan Bhagat
D) Amar Singh
Answer: Chetan Bhagat

276) The book “The Other Side', dealing with the supernatural, is written by:
A) Faraaz Kazi
B) Vikram Seth
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Amish Tripathy
Answer: Faraaz Kazi

277) 'Wings of Fire' is written by _____.
A) Mark Lucas
B) APJ Abdul Kalam
C) Chetan Bhagat
D) Amar Singh
Answer: APJ Abdul Kalam

278) Which of the following is not correctly matched?
Nobel laureates in Literature : Year
A) Alice Munro : 2013
B) Mo Yan : 2012
C) Tomas Gosta Transtrome : 2011
D) Le Clezio : 2010
Answer: Le Clezio : 2010

279) 'The Fifth Wave' is written by:
A) Dan Brown
B) Rick Yance
C) Vikas Swarup
D) Rick Yancey
Answer: Rick Yancey

280) 'Red Sorghum' is written by Nobel laureate:
A) Mo Yan
B) Tomas Gosta Transtromer
C) Le Clezio
D) Doris Lessing
Answer: Mo Yan

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 37

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 37

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 37

261) “India of our Dreams' is a book written by
A) M.V. Kamath
B) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
C) Dr. C. Subramanian
D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Answer: M.V. Kamath

262) 'Neela Chand' which won the Vyas Samman for 1992 is written by
A) Ram Vilas Sharma
B) Shiv Prasad Singh
C) Subash Mukhopadhyay
D) Ramakant Rath
Answer: Ram Vilas Sharma

263) 'The Lowland' is written by:
A) Sreemoyee Piu Kundu
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Devdutt Patnaik
D) Jerry Pinto
Answer: Jhumpa Lahiri

264) The author of the book 'Waiting for the Mahatma' is
A) R.K. Narayan
B) N.A. Palkhiwala
C) Amrita Pritam
D) Manohar Malgonkar
Answer: R.K. Narayan

265) Who among the following wrote the poem 'Subh-e Azadi'?
A) Sahir Ludhiyanvi
B) Faiz Ahmed Faiz
C) Muhammad Iqbal
D) Mautana Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: Faiz Ahmed Faiz

266) Who among the following translated the Autobiography of Madam Curie in Hindi?
A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
B) Lal Bahadur Shastri
C) Choudhary Charan Singh
D) Gobind Vallabh Pant
Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri

267) Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
1. Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things
2. Kiran Desai : The Inheritance of Loss
3. Jhumpa Lahiri : The Namesake
Select the correct answer using the codes given below
A) 1, 2 and 3
B) 2 and 3
C) 1 and 3
D) 1 and 2
Answer: 1, 2 and 3

268) “The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant and The Krishna Key", the bestsellers are authored by:
A) Ashwin Sanghi
B) Ravi Subramanian
C) Amish Tripathi
D) Chetan Bhagat
Answer: Ashwin Sanghi

269) '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
Answer: Chennai

270) Lala Lajpat Rai is the author of the book:
A) 'Unhappy India'
B) 'India Divided'
C) 'Mother India'
D) 'Hind Swaraj'
Answer: 'Unhappy India'

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 36

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 36

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 36

251) Who is the author of famous book 'The Judgement'?
A) Anthony Mascarenhasa
B) Kuldip Nayar
C) R. Vankataraman
D) Janardhan Turkur
Answer: Kuldip Nayar

252) Who is the author of the book 'The Future of Freedom'?
A) Richard Wolfee
B) Fareed Zakaria
C) Peter Hudson
D) Tamara Lipper
Answer: Fareed Zakaria

253) Who said “I therefore, want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn, if it can be had"?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) Nelson Mandela
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

254) 'Gita Govinda' is written by
A) Jaya Dev
B) Valmiki
C) Tulsidas
D) Sharan Gupta
Answer: Jaya Dev

255) Who has written the book “Kashmir - Behind the Vale'?
A) L. Ramdas
B) Lt. Gen. Dipendra Singh
C) Lt. Gen. S. C. Sardeshpande
D) M. J. Akbar
Answer: M. J. Akbar

256) Who has won the Jnanpith Award for her book 'Yama'?
A) Mahadevi Verma
B) Maheswari Devi
C) Asha Poorna Devi
D) Amrita Preetam
Answer: Mahadevi Verma

257) The original name of 'Mahabharata' is
A) Jai Samhita
B) Katha Saritsagar
C) Vrahat Katha
D) Rajatarangini
Answer: Jai Samhita

258) Who is the author of the book 'Naked Triangle'?
A) R.K.Narayan
B) Khushwant Singh
C) Balwant Gargi
D) Vikram Seth
Answer: Balwant Gargi

259) 'The Better Man' a bestseller is written by:
A) Khuswant Singh
B) Anita Nair
C) Arundhanti Ray
D) Gita Mehta
Answer: Anita Nair

260) 'If God was a Banker' is written by:
A) Anita Nair
B) Ravi Subramanian
C) Ashwin Sanghi
D) Amish Tripathi
Answer: Ravi Subramanian

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 35

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 35

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 35

241) The author of 'Business @ Speed of Thought' is :
A) Dick Fransis
B) John Gray
C) Bill Gates
D) David Baldexi
Answer: Bill Gates

242) 'Na Khatma Hone Wali Kahani' is the autobiography of:
A) T.N. Sheshan
B) Amitabh Bachchan
C) Sonia Gandhi
D) V.P. Singh
Answer: V.P. Singh

243) “Alice in Wonderland' the famous TV Serial, is based on a book written by :
A) Charles Dickens
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Lewis Caroll
D) Father Dicoste
Answer: Lewis Caroll

244) The celebrated novel 'The Godfather' was authored by:
A) John Milton
B) Victor Hugo
C) Mario Puzo
D) Harold Robbins
Answer: Mario Puzo

245) The book 'Satanic Verses' was written by _____
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Gunnar Myrdal
C) Agatha Christie
D) William Golding
Answer: Salman Rushdie

246) The song “Bande Mataram" was originally composed in :
A) Assamese
B) Bengali
C) Hindi
D) Sanskrit
Answer: Sanskrit

247) The author of the book "The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer”, for which 2011 Pulitzer Prize has been awarded, is
A) Farid Zakariya
B) Geeta Anand
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Siddhartha Mukherjee
Answer: Siddhartha Mukherjee

248) Match the following:
Books     Authors
A. Half a Life     1. Arun Shouri
B. Worshipping False Gods     2. APJ Abdul Kalam
C. Ignited Minds     3. Shiv Khera
D. You Can Win     4. V.S. Naipaul
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 1 4 2 3
B) 1 4 3 2
C) 4 1 3 2
D) 4 1 2 3
Answer: 4 1 2 3

249) The famous character 'Pickwick' was created by
A) Charles Dickens
B) Steven Spielberg
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Walt Disney
Answer: Charles Dickens

250) The creator of 'Sherlock Holmes' was
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Shakespeare
C) Ian Fleming
D) Dr.Watson
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 34

UPSC June 13, 2020

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 34

BOOKS AND AUTHORS MCQS SET 34

231) The author of controversial book 'Lajja' is a citizen of
A) Pakistan
B) Bangladesh
C) Indonesia
D) India
Answer: Bangladesh

232) Which book is entitled as 'Bible of Communism'?
A) Das Kapital
B) Affluent Society
C) War and Peace
D) Gulag Archipelago
Answer: Das Kapital

233) The book “Gulliver's Travels' was written by:
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Charles Lamb
C) Charles Dickens
D) Alexander Dumas
Answer: Jonathan Swift

234) 'Higher than Hopes' is a biography of:
A) Mother Teresa
B) Bishop Tutu
C) Nelson Mandela
D) None of these
Answer: Nelson Mandela

235) The 'Rediscovery of India' is written by
A) Gurcharan Das
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Meghnad Desai
D) Mrinal Pandey
Answer: Meghnad Desai

236) The author of the book 'A Brief History of Time' is:
A) Carl Sagan
B) John Schwarz
C) Mrehael Green
D) Stephen Hawking
Answer: Stephen Hawking

237) 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
Answer: Wings of Fire

238) Karl Marx's book 'Das Kapital' was published in
A) 1857
B) 1862
C) 1867
D) 1872
Answer: 1867

239) Who among the following wrote the book “Algebra of Infinite Justice'?
A) Anita Desai
B) Vikram Seth
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Rohington Mistry
Answer: Arundhati Roy

240) The autobiography 'Living History' has been authored by:
A) Margaret Atwood
B) Benazir Bhutto
C) Hillary Clinton
D) Monica Lewinsky
Answer: Hillary Clinton

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221) Which of the following is the book written by 'Shobha De'?
A) Speed Post
B) Namesake
C) My Life
D) Long walk to freedom
Answer: Speed Post

222) Which of the following books is/are written by Gita Mehta?
A) A River Sutra
B) Snakes and Ladders
C) Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
D) all of these
Answer: all of these

223) Who amongst the following is the author of the book Business at the 'Speed of Thought'?
A) Bill Gates
B) VS Naipaul
C) Steve jobs
D) Ritu Beri
Answer: Bill Gates

224) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'A Golden Age'?
A) Tahmina Anam
B) Taslima Nasrin
C) Anita Desai
D) Salman Rushdie
Answer: Tahmina Anam

225) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Inside Third World'?
A) Amit Chaudhury
B) P Harison
C) William Golding
D) V Harrison
Answer: P Harison

226) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'The Other Side of Midnight”?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Katherine Mayo
C) Sidney Sheldon
D) Ernest Hemmingway
Answer: Sidney Sheldon

227) 'Sacred Games' is a novel written by
A) Anita Desai
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Vikram Chandra
D) Kiran Desai
Answer: Vikram Chandra

228) Kiran Desai is the author of which of the following books?
A) The Inheritance of Loss
B) God of Small Things
C) Midnight's Children
D) A House for Mr Biswas
Answer: The Inheritance of Loss

229) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Development as Freedom'?
A) C Rangarajan
B) YV Reddy
C) Amartya Sen
D) Bimal Jalan
Answer: Amartya Sen

230) Which of the following is a biography of the Lady Mountbatten?
A) Edwina Mountbatten - Her relationship with Nehru
B) Edwina Mountbatten - A Life of Her Own.
C) Mountbatten
D) Edwina Mountbattten
Answer: Edwina Mountbatten - A Life of Her Own.

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211) Who among the following has written the famous book 'Malgudi Days'?
A) VS Naipaul
B) RK Narayan
C) Deepak Chopra
D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: RK Narayan

212) 'Lajja' is a book written by
A) Taslima Nasreen
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Sunil Ganguli
D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: Taslima Nasreen

213) 'The End of India' is written by:
A) Vikram Seth
B) Sunil Ganguli
C) Khushwant Singh
D) V. S. Naipul
Answer: Khushwant Singh

214) Who among the following is the author of the book 'Nirbasan'?
A) Taslima Nasreen
B) Mahashweta Devi
C) Sunil Gangopadhyay
D) Vikram Seth
Answer: Taslima Nasreen

215) Which of the following books has been written by 'Satlah Gujtal'?
A) A Brush with Life
B) A General and His Anny
C) A Bend in the River
D) A Secular Agenda
Answer: A Brush with Life

216) Which of the following book has been written by Chetan Bhagat?
A) Revolution 2020
B) A General and His Army
C) A Possible India
D) Bitter Sweet
Answer: Revolution 2020

217) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Shape of Things To Come'?
A) Adam Smith
B) Edgar Snow
C) James Joyce
D) Daniel Defoe
Answer: Edgar Snow

218) Who of the following has written the book 'Between the Lines'?
A) Kuldeep Nayyar
B) V S Naipaul
C) Prem Bhatia
D) C Rangarajan
Answer: Kuldeep Nayyar

219) Who amongst the following is the author of the book novel “Infinite Jest'?
A) Quentin Bryce
B) David Foster Wallace
C) Arvind Adiga
D) Paul Newman
Answer: David Foster Wallace

220) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'The Namesake'?
A) Vikram Seth
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) V S Naipaul
D) Arun Bhagat
Answer: Jhumpa Lahiri

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201) George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was
A) an Irishman
B) a Welsh
C) a Scottish
D) an Englishman
Answer: an Irishman

202) Who is the author of famous statement: “That Government is the best which governs least"?
A) Herbert Spencer
B) Harold Laski
C) Henry David Thoreau
D) Alexis De Tocqueville
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

203) Aurobindo was the author of
A) Discovery of India
B) Hindu view of life
C) Savitri
D) Yogashastra
Answer: Savitri

204) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Animal's People'?
A) VS Naipaul
B) Indra Sinha
C) Kiran Desai
D) Anita Desai
Answer: Indra Sinha

205) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Blood Brothers'?
A) Janardan Thakur
B) Rajmohan Gandhi
C) MJ Akbar
D) Suketu Mehta
Answer: MJ Akbar

206) Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Half A Life'?
A) VS Naipaul
B) Mark Tully
C) Deepak Chopra
D) Chetan Bhagat
Answer: VS Naipaul

207) Which of the following books is written by Sunil Gavaskar?
A) Sunny Days
B) By God's Decree
C) Freedom From Fear
D) Story of My Life
Answer: Sunny Days

208) Which of the following is the book written by V S Naipaul?
A) A Passage to England
B) A House For Mr Biswas
C) Higher than Everest
D) Affluent Society
Answer: A House For Mr Biswas

209) Who amongst the following is the author of the book The Miracle of Democracy India's Amazing Journey?
A) Mr T S Krishnamurthy
B) Mr Nandan Nilekani
C) Mr Madhav Godbole
D) Mr Gopal Krishna Pillai
Answer: Mr T S Krishnamurthy

210) Who amongst the following has written the book 'A Train to Pakistan'?
A) Kamala Das
B) Anita Desai
C) Khushwant Singh
D) Vikram Seth
Answer: Khushwant Singh

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191) 'A Voice for Freedom' is a book written by
A) Nayantara Sahgal
B) Corazon Aquino
C) Aung San Suu Kyi
D) Benazir Bhutto
Answer: Nayantara Sahgal

192) Match the following:
Authors     Books
A. Mahatma Gandhi     1. India Wins Freedom
B. Ram Manohar Lohia     2. India Divided
C. Dr. Rajendra Prasad     3. Hind Swaraj
D. Maulana Azad     4. The Wheel of History
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 3 4 2 1
B) 1 3 4 2
C) 4 3 2 1
D) 2 3 4 1
Answer: 3 4 2 1

193) Match the following:
Books     Authors
A. Wealth of Nations     1. Adam Smith
B. Future Shock     2. Alan Tauffler
C. Mother     3. Adolf Hitler
D. Mein Kamph     4. Maxim Gorki
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 1 2 3 4
B) 1 2 4 3
C) 2 1 3 4
D) 2 1 4 3
Answer: 1 2 4 3

194) Match the following:
Book     Authors
A. Freedom at Midnight     1. Sarojini Naidu
B. Nineteen Eighty Four     2. Mahatma Gandhi
C. My Experiments with Truth     3. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
D. The Song of India     4. George Orwell
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 3 4 2 1
B) 4 1 2 3
C) 3 4 1 2
D) 4 1 3 2
Answer: 3 4 2 1

195) Match the following:
Books     Authors
A. My Days     1. Indira Gandhi
B. My India     2. R.K. Narayan
C. My Life and Times     3. S. Nihal Singh
D. My Truth     4. V.V. Giri
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 2 3 1 4
B) 3 2 4 1
C) 3 2 1 4
D) 2 3 4 1
Answer: 2 3 4 1

196) Match the following:
Autobiography     Books
A. Never say die     1. Kapil Dev
B. Straight from the heart     2. Steve Waugh
C. Cutting Edge-My Autobiography     3. Javed Miandad
D. My side     4. David Beckham
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 1 2 3 4
B) 1 2 4 3
C) 2 1 3 4
D) 2 1 4 3
Answer: 2 1 3 4

197) Match the following:
Book     Author
A. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian     1. Mulk Raj Anand
B. India: A Wounded Civilization     2. Nirad
C. Chaudhari     3. R.K. Narayan
D. The English Teacher     4. V.S. Naipaul
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 1 3 2 4
B) 2 4 1 3
C) 1 4 2 3
D) 2 3 1 4
Answer: 2 4 1 3

198) Match the following:
Books     Authors
A. Oliver Twist     1. Charles Dickens
B. Gathering Storm     2. Thomas Mann
C. Death in Venice     3. Winston Church
D. Confessions     4. J.J. Rousseau
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 1 3 2 4
B) 4 3 2 1
C) 1 2 3 4
D) 4 2 3 1
Answer: 1 3 2 4

199) Match the following :
Books     Authors
A. My Presidential Years     1. S.Radhakrishnan
B. The Hindu-View of Life     2. V.V.Giri
C. Voice of Conscience     3. N. Sanjiva Reddy
D. Without Fear or Favour     4. R.Venkataraman
Below the options are given in A B C D order
A) 2 1 4 3
B) 4 3 2 1
C) 2 3 4 1
D) 4 1 2 3
Answer: 4 1 2 3

200) Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Charles Dickens
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Kipling
Answer: Leo Tolstoy

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181) Who is the author of the book “Nineteen Eighty Four"?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) George Orwell
C) Emile Zola
D) Walter Scott
Answer: George Orwell

182) Which of the following is not written by Munshi Premchand?
A) Guide
B) Gadan
C) Godan
D) Manasorovar
Answer: Guide

183) Who is the author of the book “Forbidden Verses'?
A) Salman RushDie
B) Ms. Taslima Nasrin
C) Abu Nuwas
D) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: Abu Nuwas

184) Who is the author of the book 'The Test of My life'?
A) Yuvraj Singh
B) Rodger Feder
C) Tiger Woods
D) Sania Mirza
Answer: Yuvraj Singh

185) Who is the author of the book 'The Art of Living'?
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Stephen Hawking
C) Dalai Lama
D) Swami Dayananda
Answer: Dalai Lama

186) Who is the author of the book 'Mein Kampf'?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Winston Churchill
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt
D) Joseph Stalin
Answer: Adolf Hitler

187) Who is the author of the book 'Life of Pi'?
A) Ang Lee
B) Irrfan Khan
C) Yaan Martel
D) Kazuo Ishiguro
Answer: Yaan Martel

188) Who wrote the line: 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever'?
A) P.B.Shelley
B) John Keats
C) Robert Browing
D) William Wordsworth
Answer: John Keats

189) Who has written the book 'My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir'?
A) Anees Jung
B) Jagmohan
C) M.J.Akbar
D) Nissim Ezekiel
Answer: Jagmohan

190) In India the first television programme was broadcasted in
A) 1959
B) 1965
C) 1976
D) 1957
Answer: 1959

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171) Which of the following authors had received the Jnanapith Award in 2015?
A) Balchandra Nemade
B) Raghuveer Chaudhari
C) Kedarnath Singh
D) Pratibha Ray
Answer: Raghuveer Chaudhari

172) Which of the following books tells the story of the long and eventful journey of Indian railways starting from 1853 to the present day?
A) The Three Railway Engines
B) India as seen through its Train Journeys
C) India Junction - A window to the Nation
D) The complete story of Indian Railway
Answer: India Junction - A window to the Nation

173) Which of the following is the reason for banning of the book 'Nine Hours to Rama' written by Stanley WoI Pest?
A) It gives a fictional account about the assassination of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
B) It tells the Indian classic Epic 'Ramayana' in a funny way and the narration horrified the Orthodox Hindu Devout.
C) In this book. the author attacked the Indian society at large along with various tenets of Hinduism.
D) None of the above
Answer: It gives a fictional account about the assassination of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.

174) Which of the following is the most popular book in the world according to the list of writer James Chapman?
A) Harry Potter
B) The Alchemist
C) The Holy Bible
D) The Philosophy
Answer: The Holy Bible

175) Which of the following is not correctly matched?
Ancient Books : Authors
A) Astadhyayi : Panini
B) Mahabhasya : Patanjli
C) Nagananda : Harshvardhana
D) Naishadhacharita : Banabhatta
Answer: Naishadhacharita : Banabhatta

176) 'Mirchchhakatika' was written by
A) Shudraka
B) Vikramaditya
C) Kalhana
D) Banabhatta
Answer: Shudraka

177) The great epical work of ancient India, the Kadambari is written by:
A) Patanjali
B) Banabhatta
C) Kalhana
D) Panini
Answer: Banabhatta

178) Match the following.
Name of the classics     Authors
A. Mrichhakatika     1.Sudraka
B. Gitagovinda     2. Jayadev
C. Navratna     3. Virsena
D. Mudrarakshasa     4. Visakdatta
E. Raitarangini     5. Kalhana
Below the options are given in A B C D E order
A) 2 3 4 5 1
B) 3 1 2 4 5
C) 1 3 5 4 2
D) 1 2 3 4 5
Answer: 1 2 3 4 5

179) The famous book 'Anandmath' was authored by
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Sri Aurobindo
C) Bankim Chandra Chottapadhya
D) Rabindrnath Tagore
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chottapadhya

180) Who wrote the famous book 'We the people'?
A) T.N. Kaul
B) Nani Palkhivala
C) J.R.D.Tata
D) Khushwant Singh
Answer: Nani Palkhivala

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161) Name the French Revolutionary who wrote 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen'.
A) Olympe de Geuges
B) Nancy Ruhling
C) Maximilien Robespierre
D) Mary Wollstonecraft
Answer: Olympe de Geuges

162) 'And Then One Day : A Memoir' is an autobiography of
A) Kamal Hasan
B) Shahrukh Khan
C) Nasuruddin Shah
D) Karan Johar
Answer: Nasuruddin Shah

163) The Rihla was written in
A) Arabic in the 14th century by lbn Battuta
B) Persian in the 15th century by Abdul Razzag
C) Persian in the 13th century by lbn Battuta
D) Italian in the 13th century by Marcopolo
Answer: Arabic in the 14th century by lbn Battuta

164) The 'Sur Sagar' is
A) a Medieval Treatise on music composed by Tansen.
B) a poetic work of Surdas.
C) Memories of Bahadur Shah Zafar.
D) None of the Above
Answer: a poetic work of Surdas.

165) Which one of the following is the first Indian to receive the booker prize who is a British citizen?
A) Javier Moro
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Khurshid M Kasuri
D) None of the above
Answer: Salman Rushdie

166) Which of the following is the book written by former Lok Sabha speaker Meera Kumar?
A) Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy - Speaker's perspective
B) World order
C) Diplomacy
D) A Foreign Policy for lndia
Answer: Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy - Speaker's perspective

167) Who is the second hindi author received Saraswathi Samman in 2013?
A) Mr. Harivansh Rai Bachhan
B) Ramakanth Rath
C) Shankha Ghosh
D) Mr. Mishra
Answer: Mr. Mishra

168) For which of the following books, Mr. Govind Mishra received the honour of Saraswathi Samman in 2013?
A) The House with Five Courtyards.
B) Lal Peeli Zameen
C) Dhool Paudho par
D) Gods of Antartica
Answer: Dhool Paudho par

169) Who wrote the book 'Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan' which tells an untold story of India's 14th PM Manmohansingh and his wife Gulsharan?
A) Daman Singh
B) Vir Singh
C) Hari Singh Dilbar
D) Mohan Bhandari
Answer: Daman Singh

170) Which of the following fact is unveiled in the Autobiography of Natwar Singh 'One Life is not Enough'?
A) Why Narendra Modi's favourite Movie is the Lion king
B) Why Kejriwal can't get rid of his shawl in the Delhi Summer.
C) How Sonia Gandhi reshuffles her cabinet with a little help from Britney spears.
D) Why Sonia Gandhi didn't opt for the post of Prime Minister in 2004 General Elections.
Answer: Why Sonia Gandhi didn't opt for the post of Prime Minister in 2004 General Elections.

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151) Author of the book 'World of All Human Rights' is
A) Chetan Bhagat
B) Vishnu Saha!
C) Soil J Sorabji
D) Arun Jaitley
Answer: Soil J Sorabji

152) Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List - l     List ll
(Person)     (Work)
A. Uddanda     1. Sudhanidhl
B. Sayana     2. Mallikamaruta
C. Yadavaprakasa     3. Malatimadhava
D. Bhavabhuti     4. Vaijayantl
Codes
A B C D
A) 2 1 4 3
B) 3 4 1 2
C) 2 4 1 3
D) 3 1 4 2
Answer: 2 1 4 3

153) Who is the author of Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.
A) Ruskin Bond
B) Arvind Adiga
C) VS Naipaul
D) Salman Rushdie
Answer: Salman Rushdie

154) Match the following
Book     Author
A.. Neither a hawk nor a Dove     1. Vinod Metha
B. The Indian Parliament critical Appraisal     2. Sudha Pai and Avinash kumar
C. Family Life     3. Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri
D. Lucknow Boy : A Memoir     4. Akhil Sharma
Codes
A B C D
A) 2 4 3 1
B) 3 2 4 1
C) 1 3 4 2
D) 3 4 2 1
Answer: 3 2 4 1

155) 'Beyond Gandhi' On Gandhi's assasination is written by
A) Uma Lele
B) Teesta Setalvad
C) Meera Kumar
D) Amitav Gosh
Answer: Teesta Setalvad

156) Who among the following is the author of the book 'lndian Parliamentary Democracy'?
A) Amitav Gosh
B) Hamid Ansari
C) Prof. Abdul Haq
D) Meera Kumar
Answer: Meera Kumar

157) 'Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji' is written by
A) Shri Tarun Vijay
B) Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
C) Pandit Ravi Shankar
D) Amiya Chandra
Answer: Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

158) Who among the following is the author of 'lnterlinking of Indian rivers'?
A) P V Manoranjan Rao
B) J.B Kripalani
C) Nandan Nilehani
D) Radha kant Bharati
Answer: Radha kant Bharati

159) 'What happen to Netaji' is written by
A) Anuj Dhar
B) Maithili Fiao
C) Jairam Ramesh
D) C Raj Kumar
Answer: Anuj Dhar

160) 'Silent Spring', considered by many as one among the greatest science books of all time, is written by Rachel Carson, the book deals with
A) Wildlife preservation
B) Protection of environment
C) Pollution at the water body
D) None of the above
Answer: Protection of environment

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