Sunday, June 21, 2015

Books and Authors

1. Which one of the following is written by Donna Trott?

a) The goldfinch
b) What young India wants
c) Substance and Shadow
d) None

ANSWER: a) The goldfinch

It won the Pulitzer Prize for Friction in 2014.


2. K. Giriprakash wrote a book on whom among the following?

a) Lakshmi Mittal
b) Mukesh Ambani
c) Subrata Roy
d) Vijay Mallya

ANSWER: d) Vijay Mallya

Vijay Mallya is an Indian businessman and politician.


3. Who is the author of 'What young India wants'?

a) Amish Tripati
b) Chetan Bhagat
c) Durjoy Datta
d) Ravinder Singh

ANSWER: b) Chetan Bhagat

'What Young India Wants' is the only non-fiction book by Chetan Bhagat, author of five novels. It is a compilation of his speeches and essays. It has various topics ranging from Indian society, Indian politics and young Indians.


4. Who is the author of “3 Sections”?

a) Arvind Krishna Mehtotra
b) Arun Kolatkar
c) Nissim Ezekiel
d) Vijay Seshadri

ANSWER: d) Vijay Seshadri

It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.


5. Who is the author of "Sahara: the untold story"?

a) Aditya Puri
b) Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty
c) Subrata Roy
d) Tamal Bandyopadhyay

ANSWER: d) Tamal Bandyopadhyay

"Sahara: the untold story" details the beginnings and the current day working of the secretive Sahara India Parivar.



6. Who published 'Young India'?

a) Indira Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Mother Teresa

ANSWER: c) Mahatma Gandhi

Young India was a weekly journal in English from 1919 to 1932.


7. Who is the author of 'The Inheritance of Loss'?

a) Anita Desai
b) Amitav Ghosh
c) Aravind Adiga
d) Kiran Desai

ANSWER: d) Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.


8. Who is the author of "A Suitable Boy"?

a) Amitav Ghosh
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Jhumpa Lahiri
d) Vikram Seth

ANSWER: d) Vikram Seth

It was published in 1993.


9. Who is the author of "Cry, the Peacock"?

a) Anita Desai
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Kiran Desai
d) R. K. Narayan

ANSWER: a) Anita Desai

It is the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award.


10. Who is the author of "The Casual Vacancy"?

a) Bonnie Wright
b) Daniel Radcliffe
c) J. K. Rowling
d) Rupert Grint

ANSWER: c) J. K. Rowling

The book was published worldwide on 27 September 2012. A paperback edition was released on 23 July 2013.

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