Who among the following has written the famous book "Malgudi Days"?
Answer: D
Malgudi Days was written by R.K. Narayan, a collection of short stories published in 1943.
Malgudi is a fictional South Indian town in which almost all his work is set. The stories were adapted into a television series in 1986 with his brother R.K. Laxman's illustrations as its titles.
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The "One Straw Revolution" was written by:
Answer: A
The One-Straw Revolution was written by Masanobu Fukuoka, published in 1975.
The Japanese farmer set out a method of natural farming with no ploughing, no fertiliser, no weeding and no pesticide, and argued that intervention creates the problems it then has to solve.
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Which of the books mentioned below was not written by Munshi Premchand?
Answer: C
Gora was not written by Premchand - it is by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1910.
Godan, Gaban and Rangbhoomi are all Premchand's Hindi novels.
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In which Indian state is the world's highest cricket ground located?
Answer: A
It is in Himachal Pradesh.
The Chail cricket ground, built in 1893 by the Maharaja of Patiala, stands at about 2,444 metres in Solan district - the highest in the world. It is now part of a military school.
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Mitakshara the ancient book was written by:
Answer: B
The Mitakshara was written by Vijnaneshwara, in the eleventh century.
It is a commentary on the Yajnavalkya Smriti and became the leading school of Hindu law across most of India, its rules on joint family property surviving into the Hindu Succession Act.
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Who has written the book "Courtyards of my childhood - A Memoir"?
Answer: A
Courtyards of My Childhood - A Memoir was written by Ramola Chatterjee.
It recalls an aristocratic Bengali upbringing and the world of the great Calcutta houses as they were before independence.
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David Copperfield is the name of
Answer: A
It is a novel.
David Copperfield, published in 1850, was the most autobiographical of Dickens's novels and his own favourite, as he says in the preface. A twentieth-century stage magician later took the name.
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Who is the author of the book "The Hungry Tide"?
Answer: C
It is Amitav Ghosh.
The Hungry Tide, published in 2004, is set in the Sundarbans and draws on the Morichjhapi massacre of 1979 and on the work of dolphin researchers in the delta.
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The novel Post Office was written by
Answer: A
The Post Office - Dak Ghar - was written by Rabindranath Tagore, in 1912.
It is a play about a dying boy confined indoors who dreams of the world beyond his window. It was performed in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, weeks before the orphanage that staged it was deported.
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What is Harry Potter"s owl"s name
Answer: A
It is Hedwig.
The snowy owl was Hagrid's eleventh-birthday present to Harry, bought at Eeylops Owl Emporium in Diagon Alley, and Harry named her after a witch in A History of Magic. Honeydukes is the sweet shop at Hogsmeade.
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