Literature Quiz 20

Literature Quiz 20

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1. Which word means "forced labour" in Czech and was first used by the playwright Karel Capek in his play R.U.R?

Android
Robot
Artificial Intelligence
Computer

2. Hogwarts' is a school of wizardry found in the works of which author?

Stephenie Meyer
J K Rowling
C S Lewis
J R R Tolkien

3. Which English novelist is the author of the well-known classic 'A Christmas Carol'?

Mark Twain
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
R L Stine

4. Which historic train connecting Paris and Istanbul is featured in an Agatha Christie novel?

The Orient Express
The Trans-Siberian Express
Frontier Mail
Glacier Express

5. In Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, Rikki Tikki Tavi is a

Snake
Bear
Leopard
Mongoose

6. Name the collection of folk tales whose famous characters include Alibaba, Sindbad, and Aladdin

Panchtantra
Grimm's fairy tales
One Thousand and One Nights
Caterbury Tales

7. In which famous children's novel by Roald Dahl will you meet the villains Bunce, Boggis, and Bean?

Matilda
George's Marvellous Medicine
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The BFG

8. Indian short story writer, novelist, and script writer in Konkani, he was awarded the 57th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour, in 2022. Who is he?

Damodar Mauzo
Ravuri Bharadhwaja
Shankha Ghosh
Kedarnath Singh

9. "Rajmohan's Wife" was the first Indian novel to be written in English, which was published in 1864. The author of this book is well known as the verses of the poem written by him were adopted as the National Song of India in 1937.

Rabindranath Tagore
Munshi Premchand
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

10. "The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it." A best-selling book of all time, Black Beauty which is considered to be one of the first fictional animal autobiographies starts with these lines. Which animal is the central character in the story?

Lion
Horse
Donkey
Elephant

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