List of top General Knowledge Questions on Books and Authors

Who is the author of the book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”?

Match the following books with their authors.

Books		Authors
a	Adventures of Tom Sawyer	i	Charles Dickens
b	Around the World in eighty days	ii	Arthur Conan Doyle
c	Gulliver's Travels	iii	Jules Verne
d	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	iv	Mark Twain
e	David Copperfield	v	Jonathan Swift

The Author of the famous Book "My Life" is:

The book titled "Exam Warriors" is written by:

Who is the author of the book "Castes : Old and New"?

Which former Prime Minister of India wrote “Kaidi Kavirai Ki Kundalian,” a poetic compilation, while being lodged in jail?

Match the famous CEOS with the title of their biographies.

A. Indra Nooyi	1. Zero to one
B. Gregory Zuckerman	2. The man who solved the market
C. Peter Thiel	3. My life in Full: work Family and our future
D. Sheryl Sandberg	4. Lean In: Women work and will to lead

The author of the book, The Struggle in My Life is

Match List I with List II.

	List I		List II
A	R.K Narayana	I	Dreams from My Father
B	Arundhati Rai	II	Malgudi Days
C	Ramchandra Guha	III	God of Small Things
D	Barak Obama	IV	A corner of a Foreign Field

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Choose the name of the author of Economy of Permanence'

Who is the author of the book "The making and unmaking of an industrial working class"?

Match the books in List-I with the authors in List-II

List-I	List-II
Books	Authors
(A) Caste Today	(i) M.N. Srinivas
(B) Caste: It's Modern Avatar	(ii) Anthony Giddens
(C) Invisible Man	(iii) C.J. Fuller
(D) Sociology	R. Ellison

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Which Indian novelist has written 'The Cat and Shakespeare'?

Who wrote the preface to Mulk Raj Anand's 'Untouchable'?

'A Bend in the Ganges' is written by.

The first Indian novel, Rajmohan's Wife, was written by:

English August: An Indian Story is a famous novel written by:

Match List I with List II :

List I		List II
(A)	Robert Browning	(I)	Ode To a Nightingale
(B)	John Keats	(II)	My Last Duchess
(C)	P.B. Shelley	(III)	Dover Beach
(D)	Matthew Arnold	(IV)	Prometheus Unbound

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Match List I with List II :

List I		List II
(A)	Oliver Goldsmith	(I)	Tom Jones
(B)	Henry Fielding	(II)	The Lives of the Poets
(C)	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	(III)	Biographia Literaria
(D)	Samuel Johnson	(IV)	The Vicar of Wakefield

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Who amongst the following is not a part of the group of the "University Wits"?

Match List I with List II:

List I		List II
(A)	The Sex which is Not One	(I)	Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
(B)	The Newly Born Women	(II)	Luce Irigaray
(C)	The Madwoman in the Attic	(III)	Adrienne Rich
(D)	On Lies, Secrets and Silence	(IV)	Helene Cixous

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Match the works in List I with their authors in List II:

List I		List II
(A)	Doctor Faustus	(I)	William Shakespeare
(B)	Julius Caesar	(II)	Christopher Marlowe
(C)	In Defence of Poesy	(III)	Edmund Spenser
(D)	The Faerie Queene	(IV)	Sir Philip Sidney

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Who introduced the term "Stream of Consciousness"?

Toxophilus was, in the author's own words, written "in the English tongue for English men". Who is the author?