1. Who is the author of "The Kalam effect: My years with the president"?

(a) P.M.Nayar (b) Sonia Gandhi (c) L.K.Adwani (d) Arun Shaurie
ANS (a)
2. Who is the author of the book "Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Arundhati Roy (c) Shobha De (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)
3. The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa (b) Thulasidas (c) Sudraka (d) Kautilya
ANS (a)
4. Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The Post Office (b) Gora (c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie
ANS (Try Yourself)
5. Who is the author of the book 'My other two daughters'?
(a) Lalu Prasad Yadav (b) Surjit Singh Barnala (c) E.M. Forster (d) Paul Kennedy
ANS (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
ANS (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
ANS (d)
8. Find out the odd one
(a) Louis Fischer (b) Ibsen (c) William Shakespeare (d) Sherlock Holmes
ANS (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
ANS (d)
10. 'Sonia, a Biography' was written by
(a) Sonia Gandhi (b) Arundhathi Roy (c) Rasheed Kidvai (d) V.K. Madhavan Kutty
ANS (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
ANS (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
ANS (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
ANS (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
ANS (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
ANS (e)
16. The famous book 'Anandmath' has been authorised by
(a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Sri Aurobindo
ANS (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
ANS (a)
18. The author of the book 'Waiting for Godot' is:
(a) Ruth Harring (b) Susan Sontag (c) Samuel Beckett (d) Ben Jonson
ANS (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
ANS (b)
20. Sirr-i-Akbar was the Persian translation of fifty-two Upanishads by which son of shah Jahan?
ANS - Dara Shikoh
21.In "The Travels of Gulliver", what is the first things two Lilliputians discuss when they meet in the morning?
ANS - 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
ANS (d)
23.What was the original name of 'Alice in Wonderland' when Lewis Carroll first showed it to novelist Henry
Kingsley in 1863?
ANS - 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
ANS (a)
25. Under the patronage of which ruler of the Javanese house of Mataram, was the epic poem 'Arjuna vivaha'
written?
ANS - King Airlangga
26. To whom, in his own words, did Rudyard Kipling dedicate his collection, 'Plain Tales From the Hills'?
ANS - To the wittiest woman in India
27. 'Beyond the Last Blue Mountain' is R.M Lala's biography of which Indian?
ANS - 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'?
ANS - 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
ANS (d)
30. The book 'Living with Honour' is written by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Shiv Khera (c) Pramod Batra (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (b)
31. The book 'Cricket My Style' is written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar (b) Sachin Tendulkar (c) Kapil Dev (d) Mohinder Amarnath
ANS (c)
32. Who wrote the book 'The Book of Indian Birds'
ANS - Dr. Salim Ali
33. 'Economic History of India' was written by
ANS - R. C. Dutt
34.The oldest of the vedic literature is
(a) Sama Veda (b) Yajur Veda (c) Rig Veda (d) Atharva Veda
ANS (c)
35. 'Leelavathi' the famous sanskrit grantha is a book on
ANS - Mathematics
36. Who is the author of ˜An Equal Musicâ (1999)
ANS - Vikram Seth
37. Who wrote the poem ˜Passage to India in 1871
ANS - Walt Whitman (American Poet)
38. Who is the author of the book ˜The Canterbury Tales
ANS - Geoffrey Chaucer
39. Who is the author of the book ˜Anna Karenin
ANS - Leo Tolstoy
40.Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ANS - Mark Twain
41. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
ANS - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
42.Who is the author of the book ˜The Comedy of Errors?
ANS - William Shakespeare
43. Who is the author of the book ˜Animal Farm
ANS - George Orwell
44. Who is the author of the book ˜The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
ANS - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. Who is the author of the book, ˜Through the Looking-Glass?
ANS - Lewis Carroll
46. Who is the author of the book, ˜Allâs Well That Ends Wellâ?
ANS - William Shakespeare
47. Who is the author of the book ˜Akbar-nama
ANS - Abul Fazl
48. Who is the author of the book ˜The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnâ?
ANS - Mark Twain
49. Who is the author of the book ˜Antony and Cleopatraâ?
ANS - William Shakespeare
50. Who is the author of the book , Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy, 1687)
ANS - Sir Isaac
51. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Atal Bihari Vajpeyi (c) Narendra Modi (d) Vikram Seth
ANS (c)
52. Who is the author of the book "Jyoti Punj"?
(a) L.K.Adwani (b) Sushma Swaraj (c) Narendra Modi (d) Jaswant Singh
ANS (a)

1 Who is the author of ‘Jyoti Punj’ ?

2 Who is the author of ‘The English Roses ’ ?
3 Who is the author of ‘Indomitable Spirit’ ?
4 Who is the author of ‘The Fire Next time ?
5 Who is the author of ‘The Hungry tide’ ?
6 Who is the author of ‘The Last song of Dusk’ ?
7 Who is the author of ‘The Man without qualities’ ?
8 Who is the author of ‘The total zone’ ?
9 Who is the author of ‘The Trial’ ?
10 Who is the author of ‘The unfurnished man ’ ?
11 Who is the author of ‘The vicar of wakefield’ ?
12 Who is the author of ‘The Volcano Lover’ ?
13 Who is the author of ‘The world is flat’ ?
14 Who is the author of ‘Theory of war’ ?
15 Who is the author of ‘Thirteenth Sun’ ?
16 Who is the author of ‘Time Machine’ ?
17 Who is the author of ‘Train to Pakistan’ ?
18 Who is the author of ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin’ ?
19 Who is the author of ‘Up from slavery’ ?
20 Who is the author of ‘Wake up India ’ ?
21 Who is the author of ‘Westward Ho’ ?
22 Who is the author of ‘What would you do to save the world ’ ?
23 Who is the author of ‘Witness to an era ’ ?
24 Who is the author of ‘Wuthering Heights’ ?
25 Who is the author of ‘Let's Kill Gandhi’ ?
Answers
1. Narendra Modi
2. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
3. Betty Friedan
4. James waldwin
5. Amitav Ghosh
6. Sidarth sangvi
7. David selbourne
8. Martina Navratilova
9. Franz Kafka
10. Nizzim Ezekiel
11. Oliver goldsmith
12. Susan Sontang
13. Thomas Friedman
14. Joan Brady
15. Amrita Pritam
16. H. G. Wells
17. Khushwant Singh
18. Harriet Beecher Stowe
19. Booker T. Washington
20. Annie Beasnt
21. Charles kingsley
22. Ira Trivedi
23. Frank Moraes
24. Emily Bronte
25. Tushar Gandhi

* January 1 - Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and Uganda assume their seats on the United Nations Security
Council.
* January 1 - The Czech Republic takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from
France.
* January 1 - At least 61 people are killed in a fire in Bangkok during New Year celebrations.
* January 1 - Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, becomes the American Capital of Culture and Vilnius and Linz
become the European Capitals of Culture.
* January 1 - Slovakia adopts the Euro as its national currency, replacing the Slovak koruna.
* January 3 - Israel launches a ground invasion of Gaza.
* January 7 - Russia shuts off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
publicly endorses the move and urges that international observers be brought into the energy dispute.
* January 12 - The Electronic System for Travel Authorization becomes mandatory for participating travelers
from Visa Waiver Program countries in advance of travel to the United States.
* January 13 - Ethiopian military forces begin pulling out of Somalia, where they have tried to maintain order for
nearly two years.
* January 15 - US Airways Flight 1549, en route to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport from New York's
LaGuardia Airport, ditches in the Hudson River off Manhattan. All 155 passengers and crew are evacuated and
taken to safety. The plane is apparently brought down by a flock of Canada Geese.
* January 17 - Israel declares a unilateral cease-fire against Hamas militants and puts an end to attacks after
22 days of violence in Gaza.
* January 20 - Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th, and first African-American, President of the United
States, in front of the largest crowd to attend such a ceremony to date.
An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict.
* January 21 - Icelandic police use tear gas for the first time since 1949 and a number of officers are injured as
protests in the capital Reykjavík amid the 2008–2009 Icelandic financial crisis intensify.
* January 22 - U.S. President Barack Obama signs an order to close Guantanamo Bay detention camp within
one year.
* January 22 - Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is captured by Rwandan forces after crossing over the
border into Rwanda.
* January 23 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches the world's first-ever Greenhouse Gases
Observing Satellite, "Ibuki", from Tanegashima Space Center.
* January 26 - The first-ever trial at the International Criminal Court is held. Former Union of Congolese
Patriots leader Thomas Lubanga is accused of training child soldiers to kill, pillage, and rape.
* January 26 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapse; Prime Minister Geir Haarde
immediately resigns.
* January 28 - The IMF issues its worst outlook for the world economy in 60 years.
* January 29 - An Israeli Defense Forces air raid injures nine people in the Gaza Strip in response to continued
militant rocket fire.
* January 30 - The North Korean government declares all its political and military agreements with South Korea
"dead".

* February 1 - Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow is enthroned as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
* February 1 - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's
first openly gay head of government.
* February 2 - The Zimbabwean government announces that one trillion Zimbabwean dollars are revalued as
one new Zimbabwean dollar.
* February 2 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has launched its own satellite,
"Omid", into orbit on an Iranian-built rocket.
* February 3 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticizes Pope Benedict XVI's decision to lift the
excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson, a Holocaust denier[21] who has said no Nazi gas chambers
existed.
* February 7- The deadliest bushfires in Australian history begin; they kill 210 people, injure 500 more, and
leave 7,500 homeless. The fires come after Melbourne records the highest-ever temperature (46.4°C, 115°F)
of any capital city in Australia. Both arson and global warming are suspected causes.
* February 8 - The Taliban releases a video which shows Polish geologist Piotr Stańczak, who was abducted
by the Taliban on September 28, 2008, being beheaded. It is the first killing of a Western hostage in Pakistan
since American journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded in 2002.
* February 9 - The 14th Dalai Lama is made an honorary citizen of Rome by Roman Mayor Gianni Alemanno,
who pledges his support for the Dalai Lama's campaign for greater Tibetan autonomy. The Chinese
government expresses "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" on the following day.
* February 10 - A Russian and an American satellite collide over Siberia, creating a large amount of space
debris.
* February 11 - Morgan Tsvangirai is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe following the power-
sharing deal between him and President Robert Mugabe signed in September, 2008.
* February 12 - Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, is commemorated at the
London Natural History Museum and elsewhere.
* February 12 - Colgan Air Flight 3407, crashes into a home in Clarence Center, a suburb of Buffalo, New
York, killing 49 on the plane and one on the ground.
* February 16 - The trial of former Khmer Rouge leader Kang Kek Iew begins in Phnom Penh, 30 years after
Cambodian leader Pol Pot was overthrown.
* February 17 - The JEM rebel group in Darfur, Sudan sign a deal with the Sudanese government, allowing a
ceasefire in the war-torn region.
* February 20 - Two Tamil Tiger rebel aircraft attack Sri Lanka's largest city, Colombo, killing 2 and injuring 45.
* February 25 - Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 135 passengers on board crashes
into a field outside Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, killing nine and injures 80.