List of top General Awareness Questions on Books and Authors asked in XAT

Which of the following is the Oxford Word of the Year 2025?

Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her space novel, based on the events on a single day, of lives of six astronauts in the international space station as they revolve around the Earth, wondering about what is happening at the Earth.

Match the following authors with their respective works.

Authors	Books
1. Andy Weir	A. Dune
2. Cixin Liu	B. The Time Machine
3. Stephen Hawking	C. The Brief History of Time
4. HG Wells	D. The Martian
5. Frank Herbert	E. The Three Body Problem

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

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

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

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

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

Who authored the famous book Economy of Permanence?

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

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

Which of the following novelists has won the Booker Prize?

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