1. Match the following:
A George Orwell 1. Asian Drama
B. Gunnar Myrdal 2. Descent of Man
C. Charles Darwin 3. Lokayata
D. Debiprasad Chattopadhya 4. Animal Farm
A B C D
(a) 2 4 1 3
(b) 2 4 3 1
(c) 3 1 2 4
(d) 4 1 2 3
Ans. (d)
2. Famous Hindi Novel ‘Neela Chand’ is written by
(a) Ramankant Rath
(b) Ram Vilas Sharma
(c) Shiv Prasad Singh
(d) Harivnash Rai Bachchan
Ans. (c)
3. ‘A Secular Agenda’ is a book written by
(a) M.J. Akbar
(b) Prem Shankar Jha
(c) Arun Shourie
(c) Mani Shankar Aiyar
Ans. (c)
4. ‘Eight Lives’ is a book written by
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Mahesh Yogi
(c) Raj Mohan Gandhi
(d) Savita Ambedkar
(e) Raja Ramanna
5. Who has written the book ‘My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir’?
(a) M.J. Akbar
(b) Jagmohan
(c) Anees Jung
(d) Nissim Ezekiel
Ans. (b)
6. Lala Lajpat Rai is the author of the book
(a) ‘India Divided’
(b) ‘Hind Swaraj’
(c) ‘Unhappy India’
(d) ‘Mother India’
Ans. (c)
7. The controversial documentary ‘Hell’s Angel’ recently broadcasted by Channel 4 on independent British Television Station is based on who among the following?
(a) Adolf Hitler
(b) Saddam Hussein
(c) Joseph Stalin
(d) Mother Teresa
(e) Idi Amin
Ans. (d)
5. The book ‘Gulliver’s’ Travels’ was written by
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Alexander Dumas
(d) Jonathan Swift
Ans. (d)
9. ‘Maya Memsaab is a film directed by
(a) Shyam Benegal
(b) Bhupen Hazarika
(c) Ketan Mehta
(d) Tapan Sinha
(e) Govind Nihalani
Ans. (c)
10. The book ‘The Man who knew Infinity’ by Robert Kanigel is the biography of
(a) Homi Bhabha
(b) Srinivasa Ramanujan
(c) Vikram Sarabhai
(d) Sir C.V. Raman
Ans. (b)
11. Who has written the book ‘Kashmir behind the Vale?’
(a) Lt. Gen. S.C. Sardeshpande
(b) Lt. Gen. Dipendra Singh
(c) Air Chief Marshal L. Ramdas
(d) Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw
(e) None of these
Ans. (e)
12. The recently published book ‘Three Decades in Parliament’ is a collection of the speeches of
(a) L.K. Advani
(b) A.B. Vajpayee
(c) N.G. Ranga
(d) Somnath Chatterjee
Ans. (c)
13. The television serial’ Charitraheen is based on a famous novel of which of the following authors?
(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(c) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
(d) Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
(e) None of these
Ans. (c)
14. Who is the author of the book ‘My Experiments with Truth’?
(a) Michael Anderson
(b) James Morris
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Winston Churchill
Ans. (c)
15. The original name of Mahabharata is
(a) Katha Saritsagar
(b) Jai Samhita
(c) Rajatarangini
(d) Vraht Katha
Ans. (b)
16. Who amongst the following directed the famous T.V Serial ‘Tandoori Nights’?
(a) Zohra Sehgal
(b) Jon Amiel
(c) Saeed Jaffrey
(d) Farukh Dhondy
(e) None of these
Ans. (c)
17. The film ‘Salaam Bombay’ is directed by
(a) Aparna Sen
(b) Mira Nair
(c) Shyam Benegal
(d) Mrinal. Sen
Ans. (b)
18. Which of the following books has been written by Vikram Seth?
(a) My God Died Young
(b) Islamic Bomb
(c) Look Back in Anger
(d) A Suitable Boy
(e) Accession in Extinction
Ans. (d)
19 Who is the author of the book ‘We Indians’?
(a) Subramanya Swamy
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) Mulk Raj Anand
(d) Nirad C. Choudhary
Ans. (b)
20. Who has directed the film ‘1942: A love story’?
(a) Mahesh Bhatt
(b) Yash Chopra
(c) Shakti Samanta
(d) Ketan Mehta
(e) Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Ans. (e)
21. ‘The General happiness is the end of the state”, who said this?
(a) Green
(b) Hegel
(c) Plato
(d) Bentham
Ans. (d)
22. The book ‘A Farewell to Arms’ was written by
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Ernest Hemingway
(d) Huxley
Ans. (c)
23. Which is not a correct combination?
(a) Idols -Sunil Gavaskar
(b) Meghdoot -Kalidas
(c) Prithivi Raj Raso – Chand Bardai
(d) Midnight’s Children – A. Sanderson
Ans. (d)
24. Who has written the famous book ‘Anna Karenina’?
(a) Victor Hugo
(b) Boris Pasternak
(c) Lewis Carroll
(d) Leo Tolstoy
(e) Agatha Christie
Ans. (d)
25. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’?
(a) Emile Zola
(b) Walter Scott
(c) George Orwell
(d) Thomas Hardy
Ans. (c)
26. Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgment’?
(a) Janardan Thakur
(b) R. Venkataraman
(c) Anthony Mascarenhas
(d) Kuldip Nayar
Ans. (d)
27. Who wrote ‘War and Peace’?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) Leo Tolstoy
(d) Charles Dickens
Ans. (d)
28. Which of the following Indian epics was filmed by British Director Peter Brook?
(a) Mahabharat
(b) Ramayana
(c) Kumar Sambhavam
(d) Gita
Ans. (a)
29. The popular TV. serial ‘Neem ka Ped’ was written by
(a) Ashapurna Devi
(b) Harivansh Rai Bachhan
(c) Sharad Joshi
(d) Rahi Masoom Raza
(e) None of these
Ans. (d)
30. Aurobindo was the author of
(a) Yogashastra
(b) Discovery of India
(c) Savitri
(d) Hindu view of life
Ans. (c)
31. Who said the words, ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it’?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Lenin
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Voltaire
Ans. (d)
32. Who is the writer of ‘Swamy and Friends’?
(a) Max Muller
(b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Munshi Premchand
(d) None of these
Ans. (b)
33. Who wrote Whom God Loves, Die Young’?
(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Byron
(d) Wordsworth
Ans. (c)
34. The author of the controversial book ‘Lajja’ is a citizen of
(a) India
(b) Pakistan
(c) Indonesia
(d) U.K.
(e) None of these
Ans. (e)
35. Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?
(a) Dominique Lapierre
(b) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(c) Maulana Azad
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans. (c)
36. ‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her’ is a quotation from
(a) J. Byron
(b) W. Wordsworth
(c) J. Keats
(d) P.B. Shelly
Ans. (b)
37. The owner of Star T.V. is
(a) George Lucas
(b) Tata Group
(c) Richard Attenborough
(d) Rupert Murdoch
Ans. (d)
38. ‘Ek Doctor Ki Maut’ is film directed by
(a) Goutam Ghosh
(b) Shyam Benegal
(c) Tapan Sinha
(d) Mira Nair
(e) None of these
Ans. (c)
39. Who said, “God helps those who help themselves”?
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Andre Maurois
(c) Algernon Sidney
(d) Andre Gide
Ans. (c)
40. ‘Gita Govinda’ is written by
(a) Valmiki
(b) Thlsidas
(c) Jaya Dev
(d) Maithili Sharan Gupta
Ans. (c)
41. Telecasted serial ‘India’s Rajiv’ was produced and directed by
(a) Shyam Benegal
(b) Satyajit Ray
(c) Simmi Garewal
(d) Mira Nair
(e) None of these
Ans. (c)
42. The book Tehrik- i Mujahideen written by a Pakistani writer Dr. Sadiq Hussain created much furore in India because it
(a) allegedly asked Hindus to leave Pakistan
(b) contains derogatory remarks about the Sikh Gurus
(c) allegedly exhorted the Kashmiri militants to kill the leaders of India
(d) allegedly contains very abusive and sarcastic language against the Indian Muslims
Ans. (a)
43. Which of the following books is written by R.N. Tagore?
(a) Rakta Karabi
(b) Anand Math
(c) Chidambara
(d) Durgesh Nandini
Ans. (a)
44. The lead character in the film ‘The Bandit Queen’ has been played by
(a) Shabana Azmi
(b) Rupa Ganguly
(c) Seema Biswas
(d) Pratibha Sinha
Ans. (c)
45. The famous book’ The Daughter of the East’ is written by
(a) Ms. Benazir Bhutto
(b) Ms. Taslima Nasreen
(c) Ms. Aungsan Suu Kyi
(d) Ms. Bandarnaike Sirimavo
Ans. (a)
46. ‘In Custody’, an English novel, is written by which one of the following?
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Shobha De
(c) Anita Desai
(d) VS. Naipaul
Ans. (c)
47. ‘Neela Charid’ which won the Vyas Samman for 1992 is written by
(a) Subhash Mukhopadhyay
(b) Ramakant Rath
(c) Ram Vilas Sharma
(d) Shiv Prasad Singh
Ans. (d)
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