List of top General Knowledge Questions on Books and Authors

Munshi Premchand's Godaan has been translated into English by:

Who among the following first used the term 'Meritocracy' in his satirical book "Rise of Meritocracy" in 1958 ?

Who among the following is the author of the book "Learning to Labour" ?

Which of the following is a controversial book published in 1972 that used Computer models to calculate the planet's available resources, rate of population growth, amount of land available for cultivation, levels of industrial and food production and amount of pollutants released into the air, and had a large hand in launching the environmental movement?

Match the following literary works with their authors.

Literary Works		Authors
P	Mrcchakatika	I	Kalidasa
Q	Mudrarakshasa	II	Shudraka
R	Abhijnanashakuntalam	III	Bāṇabhaṭṭa
S	Rasamanjari	IV	Vishakhadatta
T	Harshacharita	V	Krishnadevaraya

Match the following books with their authors.

Books		Authors
P	The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet I. Dinayar Patel China 1949-1962	I	Dinayar Patel
Q	False Allies: India's Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma	II	Tamal Bandyopadhyay
R	VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India	III	Manu S Pillai
S	Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy	IV	Nirupama Menon Rao
T	Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism	V	Narayani Basu

Who is the author of the novel "Burnt Sugar"?

Who authored the famous book Economy of Permanence?

Who translated the book 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' written by M.K. Gandhi from Gujarati to English?

Which of the following is the longest Indian Novel ever published in a single volume in English language:

Who authored the book "The Death of Jesus"?

Match the following authors with their works:

A	Shashi Tharoor	P	The Suitable Boy
B	Salman Rushdie	Q	Sea of Poppies
C	Vikram Seth	R	Inglorious Empire
D	Arundhati Roy	S	Shalimar the Clown
E	Amitav Ghosh	T	The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Who has said "How dare you? You have stolen my dreams, my childhood with your empty word."?

Who wrote the book "The Paradoxical Prime Minister" ?

For which novel did Indian novelist Aravind Adiga win the prestigious Man Booker Prize?

Name the Indian saint who wrote ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’.

The book ‘The Audacity of Hope’ is written by

Who is the author/writer of the ...... recently released book 'Gandhi Before India'?

'Dans le harem de Kadhafi' is a book written by :

Which one of the following is an important historical novel written during the latter half of the nineteenth century ?

The book “Unto this Last” which influenced Gandhiji, was authored by

Famous film 'Slumdog Millionaire', which won eight Oscars, was based on the book written by

The well-known book "The Rediscovery of India' has been written by

The novel which is not the work of Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel laureate in Literature, is

Which of the following pairs books and authors is correct?