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GK Questions: Books & Authors – Set 5

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  1. On My Terms is an autobiography of…………………..
    1.David Chanoff
    2.C Raj Kumar
    3.AnujDhar
    4.Sharad Pawar
    5.None of these
    Answer – 4.Sharad Pawar
    Explanation :
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power, an autobiography of former Union Minister Sharad Pawar.

  2. Amiya Chandra is written the book titled ……………………
    1.Recasting India
    2.India Central Asia Relations
    3.Food For All
    4.Kashmir The Vajpayee Years
    5.None of these
    Answer – 2.India Central Asia Relations
    Explanation :
    Book titled India Central Asia Relations: The Economic Dimension authored by Amiya Chandra .

  3. Dreaming Big – My Journey to Connect India is written by …………………..
    1.Sam Pitroda
    2.Radha Kant Bharati
    3.J B Kriplani
    4.Maithili Rao
    5.None of these
    Answer – 1.Sam Pitroda
    Explanation :
    The book Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India was launched on 19 October 2015. It is the auto biography of Sam Pitroda.

  4. The book titled Second political nonfiction ‘Making India Awesome’ is authored by ……………………
    1.Sharad Pawar
    2.Jairam Ramesh
    3.Chetan Bhagat
    4.Nitin Gokhale
    5.None of these
    Answer – 3.Chetan Bhagat
    Explanation :
    Chetan Bhagat Launches Second Political Non Fiction ‘Making India Awesome’.It is a work of non-fiction, a bunch of essays addressed to Indians who care and want to make a difference. Bhagat tells us that 80% of Indians don’t care about politics or government.

  5. Salman Rushdie is the author of ………………………………………………
    1.I know How to Live, I know How to Die
    2.Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights
    3.From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet
    4.The Clintons’ War on Women
    5.None of these
    Answer – 2.Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights
    Explanation :
    Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a 2015 novel by Salman Rushdie.

  6. My country My life is written by …………………………
    1.YV Reddy
    2.MJ Akbar
    3.Mahadevi Verma
    4.Lal Krishna Advani
    5.None of these
    Answer – 4.Lal Krishna Advani
    Explanation :
    My Country My Life is an autobiographical book by L. K. Advani, an Indian politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004

  7. ……………………………………. is authored by J B Kriplani
    1.An Unkown India
    2.A Bend in the Ganges
    3.Gandhian Philosophy Set for Auction
    4.Lucknow Boy
    5.None of these
    Answer – 3.Gandhian Philosophy Set for Auction
    Explanation :
    A book on Gandhian philosophy with a handwritten note by J B Kriplani wa set to be auctioned on October 13-14 by domestic auctioneers Bidsvilla.com

  8. The book titled “The Unaccustomed Earth” is written by ……………………….
    1.Jumpa Lahiri
    2.Kiran Desai
    3.Shobha De
    4.Tarun Tejpal
    5.None of these
    Answer – 1.Jumpa Lahiri
    Explanation :
    Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. This is her second collection of stories, the first being the Pulitzer-winning Interpreter of Maladies

  9. Which of the following book is written by Charles Dickens ?
    1.A Passage to India
    2.The War of the Worlds
    3.War and Peace
    4.A Tale of Two Cities
    5.None of these
    Answer – 4.A Tale of Two Cities
    Explanation :
    A Tale of Two cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

  10. The Discovery of India is penned by …………………………..
    1.APJ Abdul Kalam
    2.Jawaharlal Nehru
    3.Narendra Modi
    4.Chetan Bhagat
    5.None of these
    Answer – 2.Jawaharlal Nehru
    Explanation :
    The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra, India





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