“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers…

An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

The Knowledge Library

Books & Authors MCQs for All Competitive Exams

Q. The book ‘ Delhi is not far’ is written by which of the following authors?

Khushwant Singh

Anita Desai

Arundhati Roy

Ruskin Bond

Answer:  Ruskin Bond

Q. Book ‘A Brief History of Time’ is written by?

John Green

J K Rowling

Suzame Colling

Stephen Hawking

Answer:  Stephen Hawking

Q. ’Long Walk to Freedom’ is an Autobiography of?

Kofi Annan

John F Kennedy

Nelson Mandela

Abrahm Linkon

Answer:  Nelson Mandela

Q. Who is the writer of novel ‘The White Tiger’?

R.K. Narayan

Arvind Adiga

Vikram Seth

Shashi Tharoor

Answer:  Arvind Adiga

Q. The book ‘Experiments with Truth’ is based on whose life?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Subhash Chandar Bose

Jawaharlal Nehru

Lala Lajpat Rai

Answer:  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Dreams From My Father’?

Olivia Laing

Barack Obama

Navin Chawla

Charles Darwin

Answer:  Barack Obama

Q. Who wrote the book ‘My Experiments with Truth’?

Amitav Ghosh

Jawaharlal Nehru

Rabindranath Tagore

M.K. Gandhi

Answer:  M.K. Gandhi

Q. Who is the author of the Ben-Hur  A Tale of the Christ?

Lewis Carroll

Jules Verne

Ben Jonson

Lew Wallace

Answer:  Lew Wallace

Q. The book ‘The Life Divine’ was written by?

Swami Vivekananda

Dayanand Saraswati

Sri Aurobindo

Amrita Pritam

Answer:  Sri Aurobindo

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘We Are Displaced’?

Amrit Singh

Amrita Pritam

Arnab Goswami

Malala Yousafzai

Answer:  Malala Yousafzai

Q. Who wrote the book ‘An enquiry into the Nature’?

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Darwin

Rabindranath Tagore

Adam Smith

Answer:  Adam Smith

Q. Who among the following is the writer of the novel ‘The room on the roof’?

Ruskin Bond

Khushwant Singh

Manohar Malgonkar

R.K. Narayan

Answer:  Ruskin Bond

Q. Who is the author of ‘The Silent Cry’?

Haruki Murakami

Kenzaburo O A

John Milton

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Answer:  Kenzaburo O A

Q. ___ is the biography of Sachin Tendulkar.?

The Test of My Life

Playing to Win

Playing It My Way

Ace Against Odds

Answer:  Playing It My Way

Q. “The origin of Species” was written by?

Charles Darwin

Carolus Linnaeus

Erasmus Darwin

William Paley

Answer:  Charles Darwin

Q. The book ‘ Target 3 Billion’ is written by _____?

Pranab Mukherjee

Shankar Dayal Sharma

A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Ram Nath Kovind

Answer:  A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Q. Who among the following wrote the book ‘ The Namesake’?

Arundhati Roy

Jhumpa Lahiri

Amitav Ghosh

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Answer:  Jhumpa Lahiri

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘India Shastra Reflections on the Nation in our Time’?

Narendra Modi

Shashi Tharoor

Manmohan singh

A P J Abdul Kalam

Answer:  Shashi Tharoor

Q. Who among the following wrote the book ‘ Wise and Otherwise’?

Gita Piramal

Jhumpa Lahiri

Arundhati Roy

Sudha Murthy

Answer:  Sudha Murthy

Q. Who is the writer of ‘Becoming’?

Jhumpa Lahiri

Sudha Murthy

Michelle Obama

Hillary Clinton

Answer:  Michelle Obama

Q. The book ‘War and Peace’ is written by?

Leo Tolstoy

Dalai Lama

Maroof Raza

H.G. Wells

Answer:  Leo Tolstoy

Q. Who is the writer of ‘Revolution 2020’?

Chetan Bhagat

Amish Tripathi

Ravindra Singh

Vikram Seth

Answer:  Chetan Bhagat

Q. ’Unbreakable’ is an autobiography of?

Mary kom

Saniya Mirza

Wasim Akram

Chris Gayle

Answer:  Mary kom

Q. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘What Happened’?

Shashi Tharoor

Hillary Clinton

Jean Dreze

Shimon Peres

Answer:  Hillary Clinton

Q. Who is the author of the Book the ‘Ministry of Utmost Happiness’?

Jhumpa Lahiri

Arundhati Roy

Anita Desai

Amitav Ghosh

Answer:  Arundhati Roy

Q. Who wrote the famous book ‘The God of Small Things’?

Arundhati Roy

Kiran Desai

Ruskin Bond

Chetan Bhagat

Answer:  Arundhati Roy

Q. Who wrote the famous book ‘ The God of Small Things’.?

Arundhati Roy

Kiran Desai

Ruskin Bond

Chetan Bhagat

Answer:  Arundhati Roy

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘The Blue Umbrella’?

Suketu Mehta

Ruskin Bond

Vikram Seth

Vikram Chandra

Answer:  Ruskin Bond

Q. Which Nobel laureate wrote the book ‘India A Million Mutinies Now’?

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Olga Tokarczuk

Peter Handke

Patrick Modiano

Answer:  Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Q. Which of the following poems is NOT written by Sarojini Naidu?

A Love Song from the North

The Banyan Tree

My Dead Dream

In the Forest

Answer:  The Banyan Tree

Q. ‘Those Days’ is the translated version of a Sahitya Akademi Award winning historical novel originally written by?

Nandita Das

Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sumitranandan Pant

Bhartendu Harishchandra

Answer:  Sunil Gangopadhyay

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘The Free Voice On Democracy, Culture and the Nation’?

Ravish Kumar

Arnab Goswami

Barkha Dutt

Rahul Kanwal

Answer:  Ravish Kumar

Q. ‘India The Future is Now’ is written by whom?

Natwar Singh

Arundhati Ray

Shashi Tharoor

Amish Tripathi

Answer:  Shashi Tharoor

Q. ‘My Life, My Mission’ is an autobiography of ____?

Baba Ramdev

Guru Ram Rahim

Ratan Tata

Mahatma Gandhi

Answer:  Baba Ramdev

Q. Who is the author of the book “Neel Darpan”?

Abanindranath Tagore

Mumtaz Ali

Dina Bandhu Mitra

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Answer:  Dina Bandhu Mitra

Q. “A Comparison Between Woman and Man” is written by _______?

Tarabai Shinde

Begum Rukaiya Sakhawat Hussain

Pandit Ramabai

Jyotiba Phule

Answer:  Tarabai Shinde

Q. ‘Wings of Fire’ is an Autobiography of ______?

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Bhagat Singh

Jawaharlal Nehru

Mahatma Gandhi

Answer:  Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Q. Who among the following has co-authored the book titled ‘ Bridgital Nation Solving Technology’s People Problem’?

Sundar Pichai

Nandan Nilekani

N Chandrasekaran

Sam Pitroda

Answer:  N Chandrasekaran

Q. What is the name of the famous collection of animal fables composed by Vishnu Sharma?

Hitopadesha

Kathasaritasagar

Panchtantra

Jataka

Answer:  Panchatantra

Q. Which of the following books is NOT written by Chetan Bhagat?

Revolution 2020

Making India Awesome

Wise and Otherwise

One Indian Girl

Answer:  Wise and Otherwise

Q. Who is the author of the famous book ‘ Kamayani’?

Sumitranandan Pant

Mahadevi Verma

Jaishankar Prasad

Maithili Sharan Gupt

Answer:  Jaishankar Prasad

Q. The book titled ‘ Every Vote Counts – The Story of India’s Elections’ was written by _____?

JM Lyngdoh

Hamid Ansari

SY Qureshi

Navin Chawla

Answer:  Navin Chawla

Q. The book titled ‘ Social Harmony’ is written by?

Lal Krishna Advani

Narendra Modi

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Answer:  Narendra Modi

Q. Which of the following books was NOT written by the great Indian poet and dramatist Mahakavi Kalidas?

Shakuntala

Ritusamhara

Malatimadhava

Malavikagnimitram

Answer:  Malatimadhava

Q. Which Indian author wrote the book ‘The English Teacher’?

Ruskin Bond

Khushwant Singh

R K Narayan

Vikram Seth

Answer:  R K Narayan

Q. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘ A Passage to England’?

Nirad C Chaudhuri

V S Naipaul

Salman Rushdie

Khushwant Singh

Answer:  Nirad C Chaudhuri

Q. Who is the writer of the book ‘Thoughts on Pakistan’?

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Mahatma Gandhi

Rajendra Prasad

Answer:  Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Q. ‘Michael Madhusudan Dutt’ was ____ by occupation?

Sportsperson

Politician

Writer

Actor

Answer:  Writer

Q. Who has written the book ‘Five Point Someone?

Gurucharan Das

Vidhu Vinod Chopda

Chetan Bhagat

Amish Tripathi

Answer:  Chetan Bhagat

Q. The novel titled ‘Quichotte’ is authored by?

Amit Chaudhuri

Salman Rushdie

Sukumar Sen

VS Naipaul

Answer:  Salman Rushdie

Q. Who is the author of ‘ Swami Vivekananda in the West New Discoveries’?

Marie Louise Burke

Romain Rolland

Sister Nivedita

Swami Ranganathananda

Answer:  Marie Louise Burke

Q. The collection of poems titled ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’ has been composed by?

Kasturi Murali Krishna

K Siva Reddy

Varavara Rao

Suryadevara Rammohan Rao

Answer:  K Siva Reddy

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Arctic Home of the Vedas’?

Bipin Chandra Pal

Max Muller

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Aurobindo Ghosh

Answer:  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’?

Krishna Sobti

Rita Kothari

Sugathakumari

Mahasweta Devi

Answer:  ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki

Q. Who is the author of the book titled ‘ The Anarchy The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire’?

VP Menon

William Dalrymple

Shashi Tharoor

Pankaj Mishra

Answer:  William Dalrymple

Q. Which of the following books was translated as ‘The Razmnama’ (Book of Wars) during the reign of Akbar?

Ramayana

Babur Nama

Mahabharata

Akbar Nama

Answer:  Mahabharata

Q. Kamban wrote the Ramayana in which of the following languages?

Malayalam

Kannada

Tamil

Telugu

Q. ‘The Man-Eater of Malgudi’ is written by?

KR Narayanan

RK Laxman

KR Laxman

RK Narayan

Answer:  RK Narayan

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Reset Regaining India’s Economic Legacy’?

Suketu Mehta

Abhijeet Banerjee

Subramanian Swamy

Raghuram Rajan

Answer:  Subramanian Swamy

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Kerala God’s Own Country’?

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Shashi Tharoor

Sudha Murthy

Jeet Thayil

Answer:  Shashi Tharoor

Q. Which of the following books is NOT written by Jawahar Lal Nehru?

An Autobiography

The Broken Wing

A Bunch of Old Letters

The Discovery of India

Answer:  The Broken Wing

Q. “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” (1936) was written by______?

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Adam Smith

John Maynard Keynes

Amartya Sen

Answer:  John Maynard Keynes

Q. ‘Broom and groom’ book is co-authored by?

Salman Rushdie

Shashi Tharoor

Kiran Bedi

Narendra Modi

Answer:  Kiran Bedi

Q. Who is the author of ‘Godaan’?

Munshi Premchand

Shrilal Shukla

Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Manmohan Shyam Joshi

Answer:  Munsi Premchand

Q. Who has authored the book ‘Every Child Matters’?

Jawahar Lal Nehru

Kailash Satyarthi

Chetan Bhagat

Arun Shorry

Answer:  Kailash Satyarthi

Q. ‘Lessons Life Taught Unknowingly’ is an autobiography of which actor?

Sunil Shetty

Amitabh Bachchan

Anupam Kher

Sanjay Dutt

Answer:  Anupam Kher

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Wise and Otherwise  A Salute to Life?

Kiran Desai

Sudha Murthy

Zoya Hasan

Amrita Pritam

Answer:  Sudha Murthy

Q. Who is the writer of the book ‘Anandmath’?

Dadabhai Naoroji

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Annie Besant

Answer:  Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Q. Who is the author of ‘Freedom in Exile’?

Dalai Lama

Abdul Kalam Azad

Nelson Mandela

Shashi Tharoor

Answer:  Dalai Lama

Q. The Hindi film ‘Kai Po Che’ is based on the book titled ____ by Chetan Bhagat.?

Two States

Five Point Someone

One Night At The Call Centre

Three Mistakes Of My Life

Answer:  Three mistakes of My Life.

Q. Arundhati Roy won Man Booker Prize in 1997 for her book?

History of Wolves

The God of Small Things

2 States

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Answer:  The God of Small Things

Q. Who is the author of the autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’?

Sachin Tendulkar

Mahesh Bhupati

Kapil Dev

Leander Paes

Answer:  Sachin Tendulkar

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Changing India’?

Narendra Modi

Shashi Tharoor

A P J Abdul Kalam

Manmohan Singh

Answer:  Manmohan Singh

Q. Which Eminent Novelist and Poet of the 20th century is the author of ‘Pinjar’?

Amrita Pritam

Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Bhawani Prasad MIshra

Prabha Kiran Jain

Answer:  Amrita Pritam

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Cricket World Cup  The Indian Challenge’?

Harsha Bhogle

Sanjay Manjrekar

Narottam Puri

Ashis Ray

Answer:  Ashis Ray

Q. Who wrote the book ‘ An Era of Darkness The British Empire in India’?

Sudha Murthy

Shashi Tharoor

Ramchandra Guha

A P J Abdul Kalam

Answer:  Shashi Tharoor

Q. Which of the following Indian authors is one of the four screenplay writers of the movie ‘Kai Po che’?

Amish Tripathi

Chetan bhagat

Ravinder singh

Durjoy Datta

Answer:  Chetan bhagat

Q. Who authored ‘A Century is not Enough’?

Sourav Ganguly

Sachin Tendulkar

M S Dhoni

Virat Kohli

Answer:  Sourav Ganguly

Q. By whom was the play ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ written?

Joy Adamson

Thomas Powers

George Bernard Shaw

Ernest Hemingway

Answer:  George Bernard Shaw

Q. Which among the following books was written by BR Ambedkar?

Satyarth Prakash

The New Economic Menace of India

Annihilation of Caste

Savitri

Answer:  Annihilation of Caste

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Bridgital Nation – Solving Technology’s People Problem’?

Nandan Nilekani

Ratan Tata

N Chandrasekaran

Narayanamurthy

Answer:  N Chandrasekaran

Q. The ‘Great Indian Novel’ is authored by?

Vikram Seth

Chitra Banerjee

Shashi Tharoor

Arvind Adiga

Answer:  Shashi Tharoor

Q. The book ‘Timeless laxma’ is based on the life of which of the following person.?

O.P. Laxman

R.K. Narayan

V.V.S Laxman

R.K. Laxman

Answer:  R.K. Laxman

Q. The Book ‘Capital And Growth’ is written by?

Adam Smith

A.R. Redon

John Hicks

Keneath Ero

Answer:  John Hicks

Q. Who wrote the book ‘The Audacity of Hope’?

George Bush

Barack Obama

Bill Clinton

Bill Gates

Answer:  Barack Obama

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Cricket World Cup  The Indian Challenge’?

Harsha Bhogle

Sanjay Manjrekar

Ashis Ray

Narottam Puri

Answer:  Ashis Ray

Q. Who among the following wrote the book ‘ A History of The Sikhs’?

Bhai Vir Singh

Khushwant Singh

Amrita Pritam

Gurbachan Singh Talib

Answer:  Khushwant Singh

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘The Judgement Inside Story of the Emergency in India’?

KM Munshi

Indira Gandhi

Kuldip Nayar

Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer:  Kuldip Nayar

Q. Who wrote the book ‘India Wins Freedom’?

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Mahatma Gandhi

Vijay Lakshmi Pandit

Answer:  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Crossed Swords Pakistan, Its Army and the War Within’?

SD Muni

Shashi Tharoor

JN Dixit

Shuja Nawaz

Answer:  Shuja Nawaz

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