Krishnadevaraya was a man of many talents and took keen interest in art, literature and architecture. He had keen interest in Telgu and Sanskrit literature and wrote several works in these languages. His most famous work is Amukta Malyada, which is written in Telgu and describes the wedding of Vishnu and Andal. The Vijaynagar Kingdom rose to its highest peak of glory during the reign of Krishna Deva Raya. Not only he was an able administrator and a great warrior but he was also a scholar, a poet, a. Placed some valuable jewels in them and also a letter seeming to be from Krishnadevaraya written to Gajapathi’s generals. These boxes were dispatched in such a manner so that it could be seized by Gajapathi’s men. When these boxes were placed before the Gajapathi, he had them opened and the letters read aloud.

1. O. Henry is the pen name of
(a) William Sydney Porter (b) Charles Dickens
(c) H.G. Wells (d) Oscar Wild
A
2.
Who published 'Horthus Malabaricus'
(a) The Portuguese (b) The British
(c) The Dutch (d) The French
C
3.
The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas(c) Sudraka (d) Kautilya
A
4.
Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The PostOffice (b) Gora
(c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie
D
5.
Author of the book - 'Between Hope and History'
(a) Abraham Lincoln (b) Bill Clinton
(c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy
B
6.
Who is known as the Father of Detective Story
(a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) Bram Stoker
(c) Edgar Allen Poe (d) None of the above
C
7.
'Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny' – book was written by
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Guenter Grass (d) Swami Vivekananda
D
8.
Find out the odd one
(a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen
(c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock Holmes
D
Others are writers. Sherlock Holmes is a character
9.
One among the following is not written by Kalidasa
(a) Saakunthalam (b) Raghu Vamsam
(c) Rith Samharam (d) Kaavyadooth
D
10.
'Sonia, a Biography' was written by
(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy
(c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty
C
11.
One among the following is not a Harry Potter story
(a) Chamber of secrets
(b) The philosopher's stone
(c) Half blood prince (d) Naked Truth
D
12.
Jules Verne, a French science fiction writer wrote a book, which carried a more or less accurate prediction of the launching of Apollo-8. Which is the book
(a) From the Earth to the moon
(b) All under Heaven
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream
(d) Past and Present
A
13.
Who is the author of 'A Passage to England'?
(a) E.M. Forster (b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
(c) G.B. Shaw (d) Winston Churchill
B
14.
'Does IT matter' is a book written by
(a) Bill Gates (b) N. R. Narayanan(c) Nicholas Carr
(d) Thomas D. Harris(e) None of these
C
15.
'Beyond time' is the book written by
(a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple (d) Josef Korbel
(e) None of these
E
16.
The famous book 'Anandmath' has been authorised by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Sri Aurobindo
B
17.
Who wrote a book describing the theory of economic drain of India during British rule?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
A
18.
The author of the book 'Waiting for Godot' is:
(a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag
(c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson
C
Waiting for the Mahatma - R. K. Narayanan
Waiting to Exhale - Terry Mc Millan
19.
'The Vedas contain all the truth', was interpreted by:
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Swami Shraddhanand (d) S. Radhakrishnan
B
20.
Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?
Dara Shikoh
21.
In 'The Travels of Gulliver', what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?
The health of the sun
22.
'The man who knew infinity' is the biography of
(a) Rene Descartes (b) Stephen Hawking
(c) Albert Einstein (d) S. Ramanujan
D
23.
What was the original name of 'Alice in Wonderland' when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry Kingsley in 1863?
Alice's Adventures Underground
24.
The author of the book 'Waiting for the Mahatma' is
(a) R.K Narayan (b) N.A Palkhiwala
(c) Amrita Pritam (d) M. Malgonkar
A
25.
Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem 'Arjuna vivaha' written?
King Airlangga
26.
To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, 'Plain Tales From the Hills'?
To the wittiest woman in India
27.
'Beyond the Last Blue Mountain' is R.M Lala's biography of which Indian?
J. R. D. Tata
28.
Which of Agatha Christie's books was the first to be serialised in the Evening News under the title 'Anna the Adventure'?
The Man In The Brown Suit
29.
Who has authored the book A Brief History of Time?
(a) Carl Sagan (b) Issac Asimov
(c) John Gribbin (d) Stephen Hawking
D
30.
The book 'Living with Honour' is written by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera
(c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
B
31.
The book 'Cricket My Style' is written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar
(c) Kapil Dev (d) MohinderAmarnath
C
32.
Who wrote the book 'The Book of Indian Birds'
Dr. Salim Ali
33.
'Economic History of India' was written by
R. C. Dutt
34.
The oldest of the vedic literature is
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda
(c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
C
35.
'Leelavathi' the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on
Mathematics
36.
Who is the author of ‘An Equal Music’ (1999)
Vikram Seth
37.
Who wrote the poem ‘Passage to India’ in 1871
Walt Whitman (American Poet)
38.
Who is the author of the book ‘The Canterbury Tales’
Geoffrey Chaucer
39.
Who is the author of the book ‘Anna Karenina’
Leo Tolstoy
40.
Who is the author of the book ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’
Mark Twain
41.
Who is the author of the book ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
42.
Who is the author of the book ‘The Comedy of Errors’
William Shakespeare
43.
Who is the author of the book ‘Animal Farm’
George Orwell
44.
Who is the author of the book ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45.
Who is the author of the book, ‘Through the Looking-Glass’
Lewis Carroll
46.
Who is the author of the book, ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’
William Shakespeare
47.
Who is the author of the book ‘Akbar-nama’
Abul Fazl
48.
Who is the author of the book ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
Mark Twain
49.
Who is the author of the book ‘Antony and Cleopatra’
William Shakespeare
50.
Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687)
Sir Isaac Newton
51.
Who wrote the novel ‘A Passage to India’ in 1924
E.M. Forster (English novelist)
52.
Who wrote ‘Meghdoot’
Kalidas
53.
The author of the book ‘The Guide’
R.K. Narayan
54.
Author of the famous book ‘On the Origin of Species’
Charles Darwin
55.
The Griha Sutra deals with the
(a) Individual (b) State
(c) Society (d) Family
D
56.
The Tamil epic ‘Tholkappiyam’ deals with
(a) Dance (b) Grammar
(c) History (d) Social Life
B
57.
‘Mark Twain’ is the ser name of
(a) Charles Lamb (b) Samuel Clemens
(c) Erick Blair (d) Charles Dickens
B
58.
Which among the following is not a work of Leo Tolstoy
(a) Anna Karenina (b) Crime and Punishment
(c) Resurrection (d) War and Peace
B
59.
Who wrote the book ‘Punjab – The Knights of Falsehood’
K.P.S. Gill
60.
‘One Life’ was written by
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
61.
The detective characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple was created by the author
Agatha Christie
62.
Who wrote the book ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’
V.S. Naipal
63.
Who wrote the book ‘The Golden Threshold’
Sarojini Naidu
64.
‘The Last Supper’ is a painting by
Leonardo da Vinci
65.
Who is the author of ‘Sur Sagar’
Sur Das
66.
Author of ‘The God of Small Things’ is
Arundhati Roy
67.
The author of ‘Das Capital’ is
Karl Marx
68.
The book ‘As You like It’ was written by
Shakespeare
69.
Writer 'William Sydney Porter' popularly known as
O. Henry
70.
‘The Brave new World’ is the book by
Aldous Huxley
71.
Who was the publisher of first Harry Potter series novel ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ in 1997
Bloomsbury Publishing
72.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series was first published in which country
Britain
73.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series was published in the year
1997
74.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ was published in the US in1998 as
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
75.
The first novel in the Harry Potter series is
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
76.
The book ‘Song of India’ was written by
Sarojini Naidu
77.
The author of the book ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is
William Shakespeare
78.
‘What mad Pursuit’ is the autobiography of
Francis Crick
79.
The fiction character ‘Frankenstein’ was created by
Mary Shelly
80.
‘Straight from the Heart’ is the autobiography of
Kapil Dev
81.
The author of ‘Snakes and Ladders’ is
Gita Mehta
82.
‘An Indian Pilgrim’ is the autobiography of
Subhas Chandra Bose
83.
‘Kadambari’ was written by
Banabhatta
84.
Sherlock Homes was created by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
85.

Book Written By Krishnadevaraya In Sanskrit

Who wrote ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Lewis Carroll
86.
Hortus Malabaricus was written in which language
Latin
87.
The author of ‘The Spirit of India’
J.B. Kripalani
88.
The father of the Punjabi poetry is
Sheik Baba Harid Sakkar
89.
The famous book ‘Fifth Horseman’ is written by
Larry Collins & Dominique Lappierre
90.
Who wrote the book ‘What went wrong’
Kiran Bedi
91.
Which one of the following books is authored by Tann Martel, the winner of the Booker Prize 2002
a. The Old Man and The Sea
b. The Blind Assassin
c. Life of Pi
d. Disgrace
C
92.
To which language the sangham literature is related
a. Sanskrit
b. Malayalam
c. Telugu
d. Tamil
D
93.
The author of ‘One hundred years of Solitude’
Gabriel Gracia Marquez
94.
Who is the author of ‘Difficult Daughters’
Manju Kapoor
95.
Who is the creator of the cartoon character ‘Tintin’
a. Geroges Remi
b. Edgar Riceburrogh
c. Lee Flak
d. Elzie Segar
A

Name The Book Written By Krishnadevaraya In Sanskrit

96.
The author of ‘Panch Tantra’
Vishnu Sharma
97.
‘Post Office’ was written by
Tagore
98.
The term ‘Yavnapriya’ mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts denotes
Pepper
99.
‘Many Worlds’ is the autobiography of
K.P.S. Menon
100.
The book ‘Freedom from fear’ is written by
Aung San Suu Kyi
101.
The autobiography of Nirad C. Choudhary is
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
102.
‘The Cardinal Mistress’ is not a classical novel, but its author is notoriously famous. Who is he?
Benito Mussolini
103.
Who wrote the national anthem of Bangladesh
Rabindranath Tagore
104.
'Dhwanyalokam', the ancient text deals with poetics and aesthetics was written by
Anandavardhan
105.
Who is the author of ‘A Passage to England’
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
106.
Vande Mataram was taken from
Ananda Math
107.
Who is the author of the book ‘My Presidential Years’
R. Venkataraman
108.
The name of Plato’s famous book is
The Republic
109.
Rima is the heroine of the novel ‘Green Mansions’ written by
W.H Hudson
110.
The hero of the novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’
Charles Bingley
111.
The author of the famous song ‘Vande Mataram’
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
112.
The author of ‘Gita Govinda’ is
Jayadeva
113.
'God of Small Things' is the book written by
Arundhati Roy
114.
The book ‘Empire Falls’ was written by
Richard Russo
115.
The creator of Harry Potter is
J.K. Rowling
116.
Which of the following Sikh guru wrote the letter ‘Zafarnama’ to a Mughal emperor
a. Arjun Dev
b. Hari Rai
c. Gobind Singh
d. Tegh Behadur
C
117.
The book ‘The Road Ahead’ is written by
Bill Gates
118.
The political treatise of ‘Amuktamalyamada’ was written by
Krishnadevaraya
119.
‘Freedom in Exile’ is the book written by
Dalai Lama
120.
Who wrote the book ‘The Insider’
Narasimha Rao
121.
Which Indian scientist’s autobiography is titled as ‘Wings of Fire’
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
122.
‘Granth Sahib the holy book of Sikhism was completed by
Guru Arjun Dev
123.
The holy book ‘Granth Sahib’ is also known as
Adi Granth
124.
Which is the holy book of Sikhism
Granth Sahib
125.
‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ was written by
Sigmund Freud