Thursday 21 June 2012

Books Quiz - Part 1


Books Quiz - Part 1


1) Sishu is the literary work of which Indian author?

1) Vikram Seth
2) Jawaharlal Nehru
3) Rabindranath Tagore
4) Arundhati Roy

2) Which of the following has NOT been seriously suggested as being the true author of Shakespeare's works?

1) Edward DeVere, Earl of Oxford
2) John Webster
3) William Stanley, Earl of Derby
4) Francis Bacon

3) Shakespeare's character named "Beatrice" appears in which play?

1) The Tempest
2) Othello
3) A Midsummer Night's Dream
4) Much Ado About Nothing

4) Who was played by Kenneth Branagh in "Hamlet" (1996)?

1) Horatio
2) Laertes
3) Polonius
4) Hamlet

5) Who wrote the Novel 'Pather Dabi'in Bengali?

1) Kazi Nazrul Islam
2) Bankimchandra
3) Rabindranath Tagore
4) Saratchandra Chattopadhay



6) Who wrote the songs of 'Kaho naa...Pyaar Hai'?

1) Sameer
2) Mehboob
3) Anand Bakshi
4) Ibrahim Ashq

7) Who wrote the 'Geet Gobindom'?

1) Dijendralal Sarkar
2) Ballal Sen
3) Jaidev
4) Dhoyi

8) Who is also called the 'Bidrohi Kobi' in Bengali literature?

1) Saratchandra Chattopadhay
2) Ashapurna Debi
3) Rabindranath Tagore
4) Kazi Nazrul Islam

9) Which author is a Bengali writer and an Oscar winning film director?

1) Chhabi Biswas
2) Rabindranath Tagore
3) Satyajit Ray
4) Bankimchandra

10) Which famous national leader of India has written books on the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates and the ancient Roman king Marcus Aurelius?

1) Mahatma Gandhi
2) Jawaharlal Nehru
3) C.Rajagopalachari
4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak



11) Who is the Author of 'The Three Musketeers'?

1) Miguel De Cervantes Saaverda
2) William Shakespeare
3) Alexandre Dumas
4) Robert L.B. Stevenson

12) Who is the Author of 'The Name Of The Rose'?

1) John Steinbeck
2) William Shakespeare
3) Umberto Eco
4) J.K. Rowling

13) Who is the Author of 'Les Miserables'?

1) Alexandre Dumas
2) William Shakespeare
3) Victor Hugo
4) Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley

14) Who is the Author of ' Wuthering Heights'?

1) Harriet Beecher Stowe
2) Margaret Mitchell
3) Emily Bronte
4) Jane Austen

15) Who is the Author of 'Around The World In Eighty Days'?

1) Herman Melville
2) Jules Verne
3) Jonathan Swift
4) Graham Greene



16) Who is the author of The Grapes Of Wrath?

1) Umberto Eco
2) J.R.R. Tolkien
3) Ernest Hemingway
4) John Steinbeck

17) Who is the author of The Last of The Mohicans?

1) James Fenimore Cooper
2) John Steinbeck
3) Mark Twain
4) Jules Verne

18) Who is the author of Moby Dick?

1) F. Scott Fitzgerald
2) Mark Twain
3) Herman Melville
4) William Golding

19) Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

1) Emily Bronte
2) Harriet Beecher Stowe
3) Margaret Mitchell
4) Alice Walker

20) Who is the author of Hamlet?

1) Christopher Marlowe
2) Geoffrey Chaucer
3) Edith Wharton
4) William Shakespeare

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