GK on Literature

Literature

2. Who is known as the father of English poetry

1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. John Milton
3. John Keats
4. None of these

3. Firdausi was-

1. a poet
2. well known for his epic Sharnama
3. both are correct
4. None of these

4. Euclid was-

1. Greek Mathematician
2. Contributor to the deductive principle of Mathematics
3. Propounded the geometrical theorems
4. The first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China

5. The book “We Indians” was written by-

1. HG Wells
2. Khushwant Singh
3. James Jeans
4. Thomas Moore

6. Who is the author of the play/ book “ Yashodhara”

1. Maithili Sharan Gupta
2. Khuswant Singh
3. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
4. Sarojini Naidu

7. The oldest printed work in the world that dates back to 868 AD is-

1. The Bible
2. The Hirake Sutra
3. The Ramayana
4. The Mahabharata

8. The only ever religious book printed in a shorthand script-

1. The Ramayana
2. The Mahabharata
3. The Bible
4. Guru Granth Sahib

9. Which book has been printed in the maximum number of languages and scripts?

1. The Bible
2. Hiraka Sutra
3. The Super book
4. None of these

10. The Oldest Indian language-

1. Telegu
2. Hindu
3. Tamil
4. Bengali

11. The language with richest vocabulary is-

1. Hindi
2. French
3. English
4. German

12. Super Book- the largest book weights?

1. 270cm, 300cm, 252 kg
2. 100cm, 110 cm, 100 kg
3. 200cm, 100 cm, 60 kg
4. None of these

13. Les hommes de bonne volonte

1. Longest novel ever published
2. Shortest novel ever published
3. The oldest novel
4. None of these

14. Which of the following is the author of “The Song of India”

1. Firdausi
2. Sarojini Naidu
3. Lala Lajpat Rai
4. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

15. Who is the author of the book- “Vrish Vriksha”

1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
2. Annie Besant
3. Tulsidas
4. Rabindranath Tagore

16. In the novel "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" what was the name of the captain of the submarine "Nautilus"?

a. Captain Spark

b. Captain Bin 

c. Captain William          

d. Captain Nemo

17. In the series of children's "Noddy" books, what is the name of the

policeman?

a. Mr. Plod

 b. Mr Lod 

c. Mr Jones 

18. Who wrote "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes"?

a. Charles Dickens

b. Hans Christian Anderson

c. Agatha Christie

d. Salman Rushdie

19. The artist Leonardo Da Vinci was alive in which two centuries?

a. 15th and 16^th 

b. 16^th and 17^th 

c. 14^th and 15^th 

d. 17^th and 18th

20. In what year did Agatha Christie die?

a. 1966 

b. 1976 

c. 1956 

d. 1977

 Answers

1. a
2. a.
3. c.
4. d
5. b.
6. a.
7. a.
8. c.
9. a.
10. c.
11. c
12. a.
13. a.
14. b.
15. a.
16. d
17. a
18. b
19. a.
20. b.

Frequently Asked "Books & Authors" in Competitive Exams

Book                                                          Author

A House for Mr. Biswas                     V.S. Naipaul

A Passage to England                         Nirad C. Choudhari

A Prisoner`s Scrapbook                     L.K. Advani

A Suitable Boy                                   Vikram Seth

Agni Veena                                        Kazi Nazrul Islam

An Equal Music                                 Vikram Seth

Beginning of the Beginning                  Bhagwan Sri. Rajneesh

Coolie                                               Mulk Raj Anand

Devdas                                             Sharat Chandra Chatterjee

English August                                   Upamanyu Chatterjee

Fasting Feasting                                 Anita Desai

Ganadevata                                       Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya

Ghasiram Kotwal                               Vijay Tendulkar

Gitanjali                                            Rabindra Nath Tagore

Guide                                                R.K. Narayan

Half a Life                                         V.S. Naipaul

Hinduism                                           Nirad C. Choudhuri

Ignited Minds                                     A.P.J Abdul Kalam

India - Another Millennium                 Romila Thapar

India Unbound                                   Gurcharan Das

India Wins Freedom                          Abul Kalam Azad

India`s Priceless Hertiage                   N.A. Palkhivala                               

Interpreter of Maladies                      Jhumpa Lahiri

Kalpana Chawla - A Life                   Anil Padmanabhan

Kamasutra                                        Vatsyayana

Kasmir : A Tragedy of Errors            Tavleen Singh

Lajja                                                 Taslima Nasreen

Malgudi Days                                   R.K Narayan

My India                                          S. Nihal Singh

My Life and Times                           V.V. Giri

My Music , My Life                          Pt. Ravi Shankar

Operation Bluestar : The True Story   Lt. Gen. K.S. Brar

Panchatantra                                     Vishnu Sharma

Pather Panchali                                 Bibhuti Bhushan

Plain Speaking                                  N. Chandrababu Naidu

Prison Diary                                     Jayaprakash Narayan

Riot: A Novel                                   Shashi Tharoor

Snakes and Ladders:Essays on India     Gita Mehta

Sunny Days                                          Sunil Gavaskar

Swami and Friends                               R.K. Narayan

The Death of Vishnu                             Manil Suri

The Degeneration of India                     T.N. Seshan

The Glass Palace                                  Amitav Ghosh

The God of Small Things                      Arundhati Roy

The Golden gate                                   Vikram Seth

The Interpreter of Maladies                  Jhumpa Lahiri

The Men Who Killed Gandhi                Manohar Malgaonkar

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success    Deepak Chopra

Train to Pakistan                                  Khushwant Singh

Yesterday and Today                          K.P.S Menon

You Can Win                                      Shiv Khera

White Tiger                                         Arvinda Adiga

Namesake                                           Jhumpa Lahiri

History of India: Objective Type Questions and Answers

1)      What was the type of marriage in the Vedic period in which, in place of the dowry, there was a token bride price of a cow and a bull -
1.                   Asura
2.                   Arsa
3.                   Gantharva
4.                   Rakshsa
Ans:1
2)      In which field of art extraordinary progress was made in the Gupta period?
1                     Architecture
2                     Sculpture
3                     Painting
4                     Coinage
Ans:3
3)      Which one of the following is correctly matched?
1                     Brahmo Samaj - Annie Basant
2                     Arya Samaj - Lala Lajpat Rai
3                     Ram Krishna Mission - Keshab Chandra Sen
4                     Theosophical Society - vivekananda
Ans:2
4)      Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the victories of Babur?
1                     Panipat, Chanderi, Ghaghara and Khanwah
2                     Panipat, Ghaghara, Khanwah and Chanderi
3                     Panipat, Khanwah, Chanderi and Ghaghara
4                     Ghaghara, Panipat, Khanwah and Chanderi
Ans:3
5)      The battle at Waihind in 1008-09 A.D was fought between
1                     Mahmud of Ghazni and Jayapala
2                     Mahmud of Ghazni and Anandapala
3                     Muhammad Ghori and Prithviraj
4                     Muhammad Ghori and Jaichandra
Ans:2
6)      As a prince where was Ashoka sent to suppress the revolt?
1                     Taxila
2                     Kalinga
3                     Ujjain
4                     Deccan
Ans:1
7)      Among the following foreign travellers who was the first to visit India?
1                     Bernier
2                     Ibn Batuta
3                     Abdur Rajjak
4                     Vasco-da-Gama
Ans:2
8)      Against whom Skandagupta had to wage long wars on the North West border?
1                     Shakas
2                     Yavanas
3                     Huns
4                     Greeks
Ans:3
9)      The oldest Veda is
1                     Atharva Veda
2                     Rig Veda
3                     Yajur Veda
4                     Sama Veda
Ans:2
10)   Over Which territory there were frequent clashes between Bahamani Kingdom and Vijaynagar Kingdom?
1                     The Raichur Doab
2                     Warangal
3                     Madurai
4                     Malabar
Ans:1
11)   The Hathigumpha inscription (near Bhubaneshwar, Orissa) relates to the king
1                     Susharma
2                     Hala
3                     Kharavela
4                     Pulamayi
Ans:3
12)   The entry port for trade between the Indus trading centres and Mesopotamia was
1                     Elam
2                     Oman
3                     Behrain
4                     Afganistan
Ans:3
13)   Among the four dynasties listed below, which one minted coins made of lead?
1                     Mauryas
2                     Satvahanas
3                     Western Kshatrapas
4                     Guptas
Ans:2
14)   During whose period Al-Beruni came to India?
1                     Mahmud Ghaznavi
2                     Balban
3                     Firoz Tughluq
4                     Ibrahim Lodhi
Ans:1
15)   Against whom Skandagupta had to wage long wars on the North West border?
1                     Shakas
2                     Yavanas
3                     Huns
4                     Greeks
Ans:3
16)   Where did Aurangzeb die?
1                     Agra
2                     Asirgarh
3                     Daultabad
4                     Ahmadnagar
Ans:4
17)   Ashoka called the Third Buddhist Council at
1                     Pataliputra
2                     Magadha
3                     Kalinga
4                     Sarnath
Ans:2
18)   The main historical source regarding the information about village government under the Cholas is the
1                     Halmidi inscription
2                     Jatwai inscription
3                     Uttaramerur inscription
4                     Chandravallo inscription
Ans:3
19)   What was Sher Shah's precious legacy to the Mughals?
1                     Organization of Army
2                     Land Revenue System
3                     Mansabdari System
4                     Provincial Administration
Ans:2
20)   Who among the following taught the doctrine of 'Shunyata'?
1                     Nagarjuna
2                     Shankaracharya
3                     Harisena
4                     Vallabhacharya
Ans:1
21)   Which factor influenced most to eliminate caste-system in India?
1                     Rationalism
2                     Job Opportunities
3                     Legislations
4                     Liberal Education
Ans:1
22)   The earliest tribal assembly was
1                     Gana
2                     Vidhata
3                     Samiti
4                     Sabha
Ans:2
23)   The foreign traveler who visited India during the rule of the Guptas was
1                     Hiuen Tsang
2                     Beriner
3                     Fa-Hein
4                     Manucci
Ans:3
24)   The entry port for trade between the Indus trading centres and Mesopotamia was
1                     Elam
2                     Oman
3                     Behrain
4                     Afganistan
Ans:3
25)   At the earlier stage backward classes movement means?
1                     Santal movement
2                     Non-Brahmin movement
3                     Harijan movement
4                     Antirulers movement
Ans:2
26)   Which of the following dynasties patronised the famous Kailash temple at Ellora?
1                     Vakataka
2                     Gupta
3                     Early Chalukya
4                     Rastrakuta
Ans:4
27)   Which organization had proposed first to constitute the Constitution Assembly to form the Indian Constitution?
1                     Swaraj Party in 1928
2                     Indian National Congress in 1936
3                     Muslim League in 1942
4                     By all parties convention in 1946
Ans:2
28)   During the Indian freedom Struggle, who of the following founded the Parthana Samaj?
1                     Atmaram Pandurang
2                     Gopal Hari Deshmukh
3                     Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
4                     Keshab Chandra Sen
Ans:1
29)   The main historical source regarding the information about village government under the Cholas is the
1                     Halmidi inscription
2                     Jatwai inscription
3                     Uttaramerur inscription
4                     Chandravallo inscription
Ans:3
30)   Among the following who was in chronological order, the last famous ruler of Vijayanagar?
1                     Harihar-II
2                     Devarai-I
3                     Vir Narsingh
4                     Krishna Deva Rai
Ans:4
31)   'Ratti' used by jewellers is obtained from seed of a -
1                     Gymnospermous plant
2                     Angiospermous plant
3                     Algae
4                     Fungi
Ans:2
32)   During the Civil Disobedience Movement, who led the 'Red Shirts' of North-Western India?
1                     Abdul Kalam Azad
2                     Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
3                     Mohammad Ali Jinnah
4                     Shaukat Ali
Ans:2
33)   During whose tenure as the Viceroy of India were the great martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged?
1                     Lord Curzon
2                     Lord Irwin
3                     Lord Minto
4                     Lord Chemsford
Ans:2
34)   How did Hiuen Tsang undertake journey from and to India?
1                     He came by land route and also returned by land route
2                     He came by land route but returned by sea route
3                     He came by sea route and returned by land route
4                     He came by sea route and also returned by sea route
Ans:1
35)   Where did Aurangzeb die?
1                     Agra
2                     Asirgarh
3                     Daultabad
4                     Ahmadnagar
Ans:4
36)   Sir Thomas Rose visited the court of
1                     Akbar
2                     Jehangir
3                     Shajahan
4                     Aurangazeeb
Ans:2
37)   Which of the following is wrongly matched
1                     The Pitt's India Act (1784) : Board of Control to guide and control company's affairs
2                     Charter Act of 1813 : Company's monopoly of trade with India ended
3                     Charter Act of 1833 : Company's debt taken over by the government of India
4                     Charter Act of 1853 : To regulate company's affairs
Ans:4
38)   Which one of the following battles was fought between babar and the Rajputs in 1527?
1                     The First Battle of Panipat
2                     The Battle of Khanwa
3                     The Battle of Ghagra
4                     The Battle of Chanderi
Ans:2
39)   Which was the only Indus city without a citadel?
1                     Kalibangan
2                     Harappa
3                     Mohenjodaro
4                     Chanhudraro
Ans:2
40)   Even though India became independent in 1947 but Daman and Diu remained a European colony till 1961. Which country ruled over it ?
1                     France
2                     Britain
3                     Netherlands
4                     Portugal
Ans:4