India Quiz 100: Literature Quiz

India Quiz 100: Literature Quiz

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1. Who is the author of the book "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"?

Arundhati Roy
Robin Sharma
Shiv Khera
Rashmi Bansal

2. 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

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

R K Narayan
Ruskin Bond
Satyajit Ray
Rudyard Kipling

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

Mahasweta Dev
Amrita Pritam
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Bishnu Dey

5. Who wrote the book "Satyagraha at Champaran"?

Mahatma Gandhi
Anugrah Narayan Sinha
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
J B Kripalani

6. Who is the writer of the children's book series "Mary Poppins"?

Enid Blyton
P L Travers
J K Rowling
R L Stevenson

7. Who is the recipient of 54th Jnanpith Award in 2018?

Amitav Ghosh
Krishan Sobti
Shanka Ghosh
Raghuveer Chadhari

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

Bankimchandra Chatterjee
Satyajit Ray
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Tarashankar Badyopadhyay

9. This by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni novel is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Draupadi's (Panchaali's) viewpoint. Name the novel

The Mistress of Spices
Queen of Dreams
The Palace of Illusions: A Novel
Before We Visit the Goddess

10. Who wrote "The Calcutta Chromosome" which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 1997?

Salman Rushdie
Amitav Ghosh
Vikram Seth
Satyajit Ray

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