1. Who is the author of the book “The Blood of Flowers”?
(A) Anita Shreva (B) Jodi Picoult (C) Anita Amirrezvani (D) Kofi Annan 2. Match the List-I (Books) with List-II
(Authors) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists—
List-I (Books) List-II (Authors) (a) My Music, My
Life
1. Laxman Gaikwad (b) Adha Gaon 2. Rahi Masoom Raza (c) Radha 3. Ramakanta Rath (d) The Pilferer 4. Ravi Shankar Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 4 1 3 2
(D) 3 1 4 2
3. The book “The Family and the Nation” has been written by—
(A) Raj Kamal Jha (B) Salman Rushdie (C) Tarun Tejpal
(D) Acharya Mahapragya and Dr. A. P. J.
Abdul Kalam
4. Who is the author of the book “Forgive Me Amma”?
(A) J. K. Rowling (B) Sandeep Mishra
(C) Both of them in joint authorship (D) None of these
5. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists—
List-I List-II
(Name of Book) (Authors) (a) 3001 : Final
Odyssey
1. Steven Weinberg (b) A Brief History
of Time
2. Stephen Hawking (c) The First Three
Minutes
3. Carl Sagan (d) Cosmos 4. Arthur C. Clarke
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 2 4 3 1
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 2 4 1 3
6. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
(A) Zia-ud-din Barni : Tarikh i-Muhammadi (B) Shams-i-Siraj Afif : Tarikh-i-Feroze
Shahi
(C) Ibn Batuta : Fatwa-i-Jahandari (D) Amir Khusro : Tabqat-i- Nasiri 7. Match the following—
List-I List-II
(Books) (Authors)
(a) Price of Partition 1. Abdul Kalam (b) Ulysses 2. S.S. Gill (c) India 2020 3. Rafiq Zakaria (d) Pathology of
Cor-ruption
4. James Joyce 5. P.N. Chopra Select the correct answer from the codes given below—
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 3 5 1 2
(B) 4 2 5 1
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 4 3 2 5
8. The book “Accidental Prime Minister” has been written by—
(A) P. C. Parakh (B) Sanjay Baru (C) Digviay Singh (D) Kiran Bedi 9. Which one of the following is the author of
“A Passage to Hope : Women and Inter-national Migration” is ?
(A) A book written on the theme of uplift-ment of women
(B) The theme of the new realised ‘State of World Population Report-2006’ by UNFPA
O.G.K. | 81A (C) A documentary film on global migration
of women
(D) A report on the status of women in the world
10. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists—
List-I List-II
(Authors) (Books)
(a) Mahatma Gandhi 1. India Divided (b) RamManoharLohia 2. India Wins
Freedom (c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 3. Hind Swaraj (d) Abul Kalam Azad 4. The Wheel of
History Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 2 3 4 1
11. Persian translation of the Mahabharata is titled as—
(A) Anwar-i- Suheli (B) Rajm Nama (C) Hasht Bahisht (D) Ayar Danish 12. Which one of the following is correctly
matched ?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi : Muk Naik (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak : Young India (C) Annie Besant : Commonweal (D) B.R. Ambedkar : Kesari
13. The book “Crusader or Conspirator” has been authored by—
(A) A. Joseph Antony (B) Prakash Karat (C) P.C. Parakh (D) Sanjay Baru
14. “The Universe in a Single Atom” is a recently published book written by—
(A) George Bush (B) Dalai Lama (C) Hillary Clinton (D) Vladimir Putin 15. The book “Envisioning an Empowered
Nation” is written by—
(A) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (B) Atal Behari Vajpai (C) Amartya Sen (D) None of these
16. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists—
List-I
(a) Manju Kapoor (b) Vikram Seth (c) Mahasweta Devi (d) K. Venkatasubramaniam List-II
1. Two Lives 2. Old Woman 3. Difficult Daughters
4. India’s Development As Knowledge Society
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 1 2 4
(C) 3 2 1 4
(D) 4 2 1 3
17. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists—
List-I List-II
(a) Vishakhadatta 1. Mrichhakatika (b) Shudraka 2. Ritusamhara (c) Kalidasa 3. Kamasutra
(d) Vatsyayana 4. Devichandraguptam Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 4 2 3
(B) 4 1 3 2
(C) 1 4 3 2
(D) 4 1 2 3
18. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists—
List-I (Books)
(a) The Struggle in My Life (b) The Struggle and the Triumph (c) Friends and Foes
(d) Rebirth
List-II (Authors) 1. Lech Walesa 2. Nelson Mandela 3. Leonid Brezhnev 4. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 5. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 2 5 3
(B) 2 1 5 3
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 1 3 4
82A | O.G.K.
19. Who amongst the following Englishmen, first translated Bhagvadgita into English ?
(A) William Jones (B) Charles Wilkins (C) Alexander Cunningham (D) John Marshall
20. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(A) Anand Math : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (B) India Wins Freedom : Surendranath
Bannerjee (C) Indian Poverty and UN-British Rule in
India : Dadabhai Naoroji (D) Unhappy India : Lala Lajpat Rai 21. Consider the following literary works :
1. Kumarsambhava 2. Mudrarakshasa 3. Raghuvansa 4. Ritusamhara Which of these were the works of Kalidasa ? (A) 1, 2 and 3 (B) 2, 3 and 4 (C) 1, 3 and 4 (D) 1, 2 and 4 22. Who was the author of “Geet Govind” ?
(A) Vidyapati (B) Surdas (C) Jayadeva (D) Mirabai
23. Who is the author of the book “The White Tiger” ?
(A) Arvind Adiga (B) Jagmohan Dalmia (C) Kapil Dev (D) Sunil Gavaskar 24. The author of the book “The Red Sari” is—
(A) Justin Cromin (B) Javier Moro (C) Jon Stroud (D) Jhumpa Lahiri 25. The book “Drishtikon” has been written by—
(A) Amitav Ghosh (B) Monica Ali (C) Arjun Munda (D) None of these 26. A book that brought awareness of
environ-ment all over the world was “Silent Spring”.
It was written by—
(A) Julien Huxley (B) Jane Goodall (C) John Seymour (D) Rachel Carson 27. Who is the author of “Business At the Speed
of Thought” ?
(A) Dick Francis (B) John Gray (C) Bill Gates (D) David Baldacci 28. “Mao, the Unknown Story” is a book written
by—
(A) Jyoti Basu (B) L.K. Advani (C) Bill Clinton
(D) Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
29. Who is the author of the book “India and China—A Thousand Years of Cultural Rela-tions” ?
(A) Rajmohan Gandhi (B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Jaswant Singh
(D) Probodh Chandra Bagchi
30. The author of the book “Joseph Anton” is—
(A) John Lennon (B) Shakespeare (C) Amitav Gosh (D) Salman Rushadi 31. “Life Divine” is a book written by—
(A) Gandhiji (B) Tagore (C) Radhakrishnan (D) Sri Aurobindo 32. Which of the following combinations of
Authors and Books is incorrectly matched ? (A) Vishakhadatta : Mudrarakshasa (B) Kautilya : Arthashastra (C) Megasthenes : Indica (D) Nagarjuna : Dhruvaswamini
33. Who has written the book “The Man Who Killed Gandhi” ?
(A) Gopal Das Neeraj (B) Dr. Ram Vilas Sharma (C) Manohar Malgonkar (D) Srilal Shukla
34. Who is the author of the book “A Brief History of Time” ?
(A) K. S. Ramchandran (B) Stephen Hawkins (C) J. K. Rowling (D) Tony Blair
35. Who wrote “India Votes” ?
(A) M. J . Akbar (B) Pran Chopra (C) M. S. Rana (D) Rajmohan Gandhi 36. Who wrote the “Ganit Sar” ?
(A) Sridhara (B) Bhaskar II (C) Aryabhatta II (D) Brahmagupta 37. The religious text of the Jews is named as—
(A) The Analectus (B) Torah (C) Tripatika (D) Zend Avesta 38. Who among the following is the author of the
book “Songs of Blood and Sword” ? (A) Kavita Krishnamurthy
(B) Fatima Bhutto (C) Jaswant Singh (D) Shobha De
39. Who among the following is the author of the book “Keeping the Faith : Memories of Parliamentarian” ?
(A) Murali Manohar Joshi (B) Somnath Chatterjee (C) Sushma Swaraj (D) L. K. Advani
40. ThewriteroftheHarryPotterbookseries is—
(A) DBC Pierre
(B) Dominique Lapierre and Lary Collins
O.G.K. | 83A (C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) J. K. Rowling
41. The book “The Google Story” has been authored by—
(A) David A. Vise (B) Kuldip Nayyar (C) Pawan Verma (D) Shobha De 42. Who wrote “In the Line of Fire : A Memoir”?
(A) Begum Khalida Zia (B) Nawaj Sharif (C) Parvez Musharraf (D) Sonia Gandhi
43. Who is the author of the book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows” ?
(A) Stephen Hawkins (B) J. K. Rowling (C) Don De Lillo (D) Sophie Kinsella 44. Who has written the book “The Elephant, The
Tiger and The Cellphone”?
(A) Alice Hoffman (B) Shashi Tharoor (C) Bridie Clark (D) J. D. Robb 45. The book “Termites in the Trading System—
How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade” has been written by—
(A) Don DeLillo (B) Jagdish Bhagwati (C) Sophie Kinsella (D) Khaled Hosseini 46. Who has written the book “A View from the
Outside” ?
(A) Amartya Sen (B) P. Chidambaram (C) Yashwant Sinha (D) Jaswant Singh 47. Who is the author of the book “India’s New
Middle Class” ?
(A) Jaswant Singh (B) Meera Nayar (C) L. K. Advani (D) Leela Fernandis 48. Who is the author of the book “Law of
Attraction”?
(A) Narendra Modi (B) Michael J. Loslier (C) Jaswant Singh (D) Peter Leonard 49. Who is the author of the book
“Unaccusto-med Earth”?
(A) L. K. Advani (B) Jhumpa Lahiri (C) Shobha De (D) Arundhati Roy 50. Who is the author of the book “Wedding
Album” ?
(A) Meera Nayer (B) Amitabh Ghosh (C) Girish Karnard (D) Shobha de 51. Who is the author of the book “The
Immor-tals” ?
(A) Barack Obama (B) Amit Choudhury (C) Lt. Gen. S. K. Sinha (D) L. K. Advani
52. Who is the author of the book “Wolf Hall” ? (A) Arundhati Roy (B) Hilary Mantle (C) Shobha De (D) J. K. Rowling 53. Who is the author of the book “Jinnah :
India-Partition-Independence” ? (A) Yashwant Sinha (B) Jaswant Singh (C) A. B. Vajpai
(D) Lt. Gen. S. K. Sinha
54. Who among the following is the author of the book“Keepingthe Earth—Memoirs of Parlia-mentarian” ?
(A) A. B. Bardhan (B) Somnath Chatterjee (C) Prakash Karat (D) L. K. Advani
55. Who amongst the following is the author of the book “The Indian Parliament : A Demo-cracy at Work” ?
(A) V. S. Ramchandran
(B) B. L. Shankar and Valerian Rodrigues (C) Rudra Krishna
(D) Ashutosh Garg
56. Who amongst the following is the author of the book “Graham Buffet and Me” ?
(A) Emi Rafael (B) Aryaman Dalmia (C) Sonia Gandhi (D) Shobha De 57. Who authored the book “Muslim in Indian
Cities” ?
(A) NAK Browne (B) M. Hamid Ansari (C) P. V. Naik (D) V. K. Singh 58. Who amongst the following is the author of
the book “A Gardener in the Wasteland” ? (A) Sushan Orlean
(B) Srividya Natarajan (C) Anupam Kher (D) None of these
Answers
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