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GK on Literature


Literature

    1. Who is known as the father of English poetry
    1. Geoffrey Chaucer
    2. John Milton
    3. John Keats
    4. None of these

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

    1. 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

    1. The book “We Indians” was written by-
    1. HG Wells
    2. Khushwant Singh
    3. James Jeans
    4. Thomas Moore

    1. Who is the author of the play/ book “ Yashodhara”
    1. Maithili Sharan Gupta
    2. Khuswant Singh
    3. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
    4. Sarojini Naidu

    1. 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

    1. The only ever religious book printed in a shorthand script-
    1. The Ramayana
    2. The Mahabharata
    3. The Bible
    4. Guru Granth Sahib

    1. 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

    1. The Oldest Indian language-
    1. Telegu
    2. Hindu
    3. Tamil
    4. Bengali

    1. The language with richest vocabulary is-
    1. Hindi
    2. French
    3. English
    4. German

    1. 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

    1. Les hommes de bonne volonte
    1. Longest novel ever published
    2. Shortest novel ever published
    3. The oldest novel
    4. None of these

    1. 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

    1. 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 16th 
    b. 16th and 17th 
    c. 14th and 15th 
    d. 17th 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

     
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