Who is the author of the book "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"?
Answer: B
It is Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1892, collects the first twelve short stories from The Strand Magazine. Conan Doyle modelled Holmes on Joseph Bell, his teacher at Edinburgh, who diagnosed patients by observation before they spoke.
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Who is the author of " Tom Sawyer "
Answer: D
It was Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published in 1876, is set in St Petersburg, Missouri, drawn from Twain's own Hannibal on the Mississippi. Huckleberry Finn first appears in it as a minor character.
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Who has written "Panchatantra"?
Answer: B
The Panchatantra was written by Vishnu Sharma.
It is a collection of animal fables in Sanskrit, composed to teach statecraft to three dull princes. Translated into Persian and Arabic and then across Europe, it is among the most widely travelled books ever written.
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" Asian Drama ", by Gunnar Karl Myrdal, is a book on which of the following subjects
Answer: B
It is a book on economics.
Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968 after ten years' work, argued that South Asian poverty was rooted in soft states unable to enforce their own policy. Myrdal shared the Nobel in economics in 1974.
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Who has written the book "Anna Karenina"?
Answer: D
Anna Karenina was written by Leo Tolstoy, published in instalments from 1875.
It opens with one of the most quoted sentences in fiction, on happy and unhappy families. Tolstoy himself later considered it and War and Peace to be trivial beside his religious writing.
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Who wrote the line: " A thing of beauty is a joy forever"?
Answer: A
John Keats wrote 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'.
It is the opening line of Endymion, published in 1818. Keats died of tuberculosis at 25, having written all his major poetry in about four years.
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Who is the author of the famous book "The Judgement"?
Answer: D
The Judgement was written by Kuldip Nayar.
It is his account of the Emergency of 1975–77, during which he was himself imprisoned. He was a journalist, high commissioner to Britain and a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha.
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Who is the author of the book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: D
It is Arthur Conan Doyle.
Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 and the short stories from 1891. Conan Doyle thought his historical novels the better work and resented the detective's popularity.
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Mulk Raj Anand is the author of-
Answer: D
Coolie (1936) is the novel by Mulk Raj Anand.
It follows Munoo, an orphaned hill boy, through servitude in a household, a factory and finally the streets of Bombay. With Untouchable (1935) it established Anand as a novelist of social protest.
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“My Unforgettable Memories” is an autobiography of
Answer: C
It is Mamata Banerjee.
My Unforgettable Memories, published in English in 2012, is her autobiography, written the year after she ended 34 years of Left Front government in West Bengal.
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