General Knowledge Quiz 51: Literature Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 51: Literature Quiz

Yet another Literary Quiz about books from various genres. Try this Books Quiz and give your feedback

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1. Who is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Roots: The Saga of an American Family"?

Aldous Huxley
Alex Haley
John Steonbeck
Ernest Hemingway

General Knowledge Quiz 45: Literature Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 45: Literature Quiz

Literary Quiz

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1. Which is the highest award given for Malayalam literature by Kerala government?

Vayalar Award
Odakkuzhal award
Vallathol award
Ezhuthachan Award

2. What was the names of the Indian twin sisters in the Harry Potter series?

Padma and Parvati
Priya and Padma
Parvati and Priya
Pournami and Padma

3. Which word from the Harry Potter was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2003?

Horcrux
Wrock
Muggle
Hogwarts

4. Who created the Bengali private investigator Pradosh C Mitter or Feluda?

Bankimchandra Chatterjee
Satyajit Ray
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Tarashankar Badyopadhyay

5. Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by R. K. Narayan. Which famous English novelist suggested the title "Swami and Friends"?

George Orwell
James Joyce
Graham Greene
Aldous Huxley

6. Stalky & Co. is a collection of school stories. Who is the author?

R K Narayan
Ruskin Bond
Satyajit Ray
Rudyard Kipling

7. Who is the author of the book "Hajar Chaurashir Maa"?

Mahasweta Dev
Amrita Pritam
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Bishnu Dey

8. In which one of the following books will you find Mano Majra, a fictional village on the border of Pakistan and India?

Train to Pakistan
Swami and Friends
The Other Side of Silence
A Bend in the Ganges

9. The Vyas Samman is awarded to the literary works in which Indian language?

Sanskrit
Hindi
Gujarati
Kannada

10. Raghupati Sahay became one of the most noted Urdu poets from India under a pen name. Do you know the pen name?

Mirza Ghalib
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Ali Sardar Jafri
Nida Fazli

Literary Quiz 16: Books and Authors

Literature Quiz 16: Books and Authors

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1. Who was the first recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his work "Him Taringini" in 1955?

Amritlal Nagar
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Amarkant
Naresh Mehta

2. Who translated Bhagavad Gita first into English?

Barbara Stoler Miller
Aldous Huxley
S Radhakrishnan
Charles Wilkins

3. Who translated Gandhi's autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", to English from its Gujarati original?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahadev Desai
Acharya Kripalani
Annie Besant

4. The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose and poetry literary works in any 22 Indian language. Which of the following instituted the award?

K K Birla Foundation
Kendra Sahitya Akademi
The Literary Foundation of India
National Book Trust

5. Name the Indian-American journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize, becoming the first Indian to win the prize

V S Naipaul
Jhumpa Lahiri
Gobind Behari Lal
Fareed Zakaria

6. Name the dbut short story collection of Jhumpa Lahiri that won her 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Ficgtion

The Namesake
The Lowland
Unaccustomed Earth
Interpreter of Maladies

7. "Rajmohan's Wife" was the first Indian novel to be written in English, which was published in 1864. Name the author

Rabindranath Tagore
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Mulk Raj Anand
Raja Ram Mohan Roy

8. The first free English translation of the epic Mahabharata was done by

K M Ganguli
R K Narayan
S Radhakrishnan
Rabindranath Tagore

9. The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad is a collection of four stories on feminism. Name the author who is a famous celebrity

Katrina Kaif
Twinkle Khanna
Saina Nehwal
Kareena Kapur

10. Who received the PEN Pinter Prize, an annual literary award by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter?

Margaret Atwood
James Fenton
Salman Rushdie
David Hare

Literary Quiz 15: Books and Authors

Literary Quiz 15: Books and Authors

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1. "The Boys from Syracuse" is a famous musical and the first one based on a Shakespearean play. Name the play

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Twelfth Night

2. When is World Poetry Day celebrated?

April 23
June 5
March 21
February 28

3. Name the first African to be honoured with Nobel Prize in Literature

Toni Morrison
Wole Soyinka
Nelson Mandela
Derek Walcott

4. A recipient of Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1998 for her work "Beloved", she is also the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize. Who is she?

Wangari Maathai
Leymah Gbowee
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Toni Morrison

5. Which one of the following Konkani novels by Maleshwar Sail won him Saraswati Samman 2016?

Kaali Ganga
Aranyakand
Yug Sanvar
Hawthan

6. Born as Dhanpat Rai Srivastav, this Indian writer started writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai". By what name we know this famous writer?

Sumitranandan Pant
Bhishma Sahni
Amarkant
Premchand

7. Who wrote, at the age of seventeen, the famous Bengali-language romantic novel Devdas?

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Rabindranath Tagore
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

8. Which of the following Indian writers is NOT a Man Booker Prize winner?

Kiran Desai
Amitav Ghosh
Arundhati Roy
Aravind Adiga

9. Who is the first woman to win the Jnanpith Award?

Mahaswetha Devi
Amritha Pritam
Ashapoorna Devi
Mahadevi Varma

10. Who has earned the title of "Rebel Poet" during the British rule for his activism for political and social justice?

Kazi Nazrul Islam
Premchand
Rabindranath Tagore
Bankimchandra Chatterjee

Literary Quiz 14 - Books and Authors

Literary Quiz 14 - Books and Authors

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1. James Alfred Wight was a veterinary surgeon who is known for a series of books about animals and their owners written under a pen name. What was his pen name?

James Herriot
George Orwell
Roald Dahl
Jack London

2. Who wrote the famous children's novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians" ?

Walt Disney
Dodie Smith
Enid Blyton
RL Stevenson

3. Topsy is one of the most famous characters in this book along with other popular characters Tom, Eva and Legree. Which book we are talking about?

David Copperfield
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lady Chatterly's Lover
Little Women

4. Who wrote The Silence of the Lambs, featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter a cannibalistic serial killer?

Robin Cook
Thomas Harris
James Patterson
Lee Child

5. "Gone with the Wind", a novel which was listed as the second favorie book of American readers behind Bible in a Harris poll, was written by

Margaret Mitchell
Leo Tolstoy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
George Bernad Shaw

6. Name the writer who wrote the "Schindler's Ark" which was later adapted to film by Steven Spielberg as Schindler's List?

Thomas Keneally
Peter Carey
Brian Schmidt
Robin Warren

7. "Weir of Hermiston" is an unfinished novel by a famous author which was cut short due to the sudden death of the author from a cerebral hemorrhage. Do you know this author?

RL Stine
RL Stevenson
Charles Dickens
Leo Tolstoy

8. Can you name the character whose nose grew whe he told a lie?

Peter Pan
Pinocchio
Tom Thumb
Tom Sawyer

9. Which character of children's classic literature was created by Hugh John Lofting?

Alice
Heidi
Tom Sawyer
Doctor Dolittle

10. Which one of the following comic characters has got a pet dog named "Gnasher"?

Fred Flintstone
Homer Simpson
Dennis the Menace
Tintin

Literary Quiz 13 - Books and Characters

Literary Quiz 13 - Books and Characters

This quiz is about the characters from famous children's stories and teen novels. If you are a good reader, you will be able to answer all of them easily.

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1. Our hero was created as a wooden puppet, carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Florence, who dreamed of becoming a real boy. Can you name him?

Pinocchio
Tom Thumb
Noddy
Peter Pan

2. He is a naughty boy at an American middle school, who keeps a diary about his best friend Rowley and the problems in his school. Who is he?

Charlie Bucket
Rodrick Heffley
Fregley
Greg Heffley

3. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl and her pet dog Toto who were swept away from their home by a cyclone in to the magical land of Oz. Do you know her name?

Alice
Dorothy
Matilda
Lisa

4. Do you know the name of the royal Bengal tiger that is stranded on a lifeboat with Piscine Molitor Patel, known as "Pi", the narrator and protagonist of a famous novel?

Sher Khan
Chester Cheetah
Richard Parker
Sabor Parker

5. She comes from District 12, a coal mining district in the dystopian fictional autocratic national of Panem and is chosen to compete in a televised fight to the death. Who is she?

Katniss Everdeen
Vega Jane
Rosemary Hathaway
Ginny Weasley

6. The title of this novel is the name of the hero, who finds a mysterious stone from which a dragon, named Saphira, hatches. Do you know which book or character is referred here?

Prince Caspian
Percy Jackson
Harry Potter
Eragon

7. She is the title character and protagonist of a bestselling children's novel. She has a passion for reading books and has the mental ability of telekinesis, the ability to move and levitate inanimate objects by mere thought, without having to physically touch them.

Matilda
Ginny Weasley
Susan
Charlotte

8. In which one of the following novels will you meet Edward Cullen, a vampire with the body of a seventeen-year old?

Vampire Academy
Vampire Hunter
Twilight
I am Legend

9. A demigod, the son of a mortal and the Greek god Poseidon and has ADHD and dyslexia, our hero is dangerously loyal to his friends and family. He can read ancient Greek and can cotrol water, make hurricanes, breath underwater and talk to horse-like animals and fish.

Percy Jackson
Jaxter Grimjinx
Artemis Fowl
Tobias Eaton

10. She is an adopted girl on the verge of adolescence, with a blonde hair. She is fascinated by the power of words and is the "Book Thief" referred to in the title of the book.

Vega Jane
Rosemary Hathaway
Liesel Meminger
Sephy Hadley