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GK Questions: Books & Authors – Set 1

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  1. “Playing It My Way” is the autobiography of …………………
    1.Yuvaraj
    2.APJ.Abdul Kalam
    3.Sachin Tendulkar
    4.Narendra Modi
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 3.Sachin Tendulkar
    Explanation :
    Playing It My Way is the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. It was launched on 5 November 2014 in Mumbai.

  2. Arunima Sinha is author of …………………………
    1.Born Again on the Mountain
    2.Lost and Found in India
    3.Forge your Future
    4.Water in the coming Decades
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 1.Born Again on the Mountain
    Explanation :
    Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched Arunima Sinha’s book Born Again on the Mountain in New Delhi. Arunima Sinha is the first female amputee and first Indian amputee to climb Mount Everest.

  3. “Empire to Independence” authored by whom ?
    1.Lance price
    2.Chetan Mahajan
    3.Jai Krishna Kaushik
    4.Manu Joseph
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 3.Jai Krishna Kaushik
    Explanation :
    The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari was presented with a book entitled “Empire to Independence” authored by Maj Gen (Retd) Jai Krishan Kaushik.

  4. Pranab Mukherjee is an author of which book ?
    1.The rise of big business in India
    2.The illicit happiness of other people
    3.Black Tornado: The three sieges of Mumbai 26/11
    4.Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 4.Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years
    Explanation :
    In the first book of a trilogy, the President of India recalls that a number of people “claimed authorship to idea of emergency,then same set of people took a u-turn”

  5. India and the First world war is written by ……………………………
    1.Jairam Ramesh
    2.Allan Sealey
    3.Vedica Kant
    4.Mayawati
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 3.Vedica Kant
    Explanation :
    India and the First world war is written by Vedica Kant

  6. ……………………………………..  is written by Chetan Mahajan
    1.The Second Coming
    2.The Bad boys of bokaro jail
    3.Why I Assassinated Gandhi
    4.Truth Always  Prevails
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 2.The Bad boys of bokaro jail
    Explanation :
    The Bad boys of bokaro jail is written by Chetan Mahajan

  7. The biography of former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly written by …………………
    1.Sarah Gerad
    2.Anoothi Vishal
    3.John Grisham
    4.Saptarshi Sarkar
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 4.Saptarshi Sarkar
    Explanation :
    The book Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy was written by Saptarshi Sarkar and was published in April 2015 by HarperCollins India.The biography of former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly deals with his cricketing career.

  8. Amitav Gosh is an author of ………………………….
    1.Flood of fire
    2.The Seeker
    3.In Other Words : Poems
    4.Partition: The Long Shadow
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 1.Flood of fire
    Explanation :
    Amitav Gosh is an author of  Flood of fire

  9. The book “ Arise, Awake” is written by whom ?
    1.Javed Akthar
    2.Taha Kehar
    3.Rashmi Bansal
    4.Karan Bajaj
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 3.Rashmi Bansal
    Explanation :
    The Inspiring Stories Of Young Entrepreneurs Who Graduated From College Into A Business Of Their Own Books by Rashmi Bansal.

  10. India’s biggest fraud: How the 2G scam unravelled authored by ……………….
    1.John Grisham
    2.J.Gopikrishnan
    3.Anoothi Vishal
    4.Anuupama Chopra
    5.None of these
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 2.J.Gopikrishnan
    Explanation :
    India’s Biggest Fraud: How the 2G Scam Unravelled, an account of the 2G spectrum scam and its aftermath by J Gopikrishnan, the journalist who is credited with exposing the scam in 2008.





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