Who among the following is the author of the book India Remembered?
Answer: C
It is Pamela Mountbatten.
India Remembered, published in 2007, sets her own photographs and diary of 1947-48 beside her father's, from the months when Mountbatten was the last Viceroy and then the first Governor-General.
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Author of the book "If Cricket is Religion, Sachin is God"?
Answer: B
It is both - Vijay Santhanam and Shyam Balasubramanian.
The two wrote If Cricket is Religion, Sachin is God together in 2009, a statistical as well as narrative account of Tendulkar's career.
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The famous book “A Better India, A Better world” has been written by
Answer: B
It is N. R. Narayana Murthy.
A Better India, A Better World, published in 2009, collects the Infosys founder's lectures on values in public life, education and what he called compassionate capitalism.
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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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Who is the author of the books ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’?
Answer: D
It is Jane Austen.
Sense and Sensibility appeared in 1811 and Pride and Prejudice in 1813, both published anonymously - the first as By a Lady. Austen's name was attached to her novels only after her death.
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Author of the book ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’
Answer: C
It is Jules Verne.
Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873, follows Phileas Fogg's wager and turns at the end on the day gained by travelling eastward, which no character had counted.
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Amrita Pritam's work "A Revenue Stamp" is
Answer: D
It is an autobiography.
Rasidi Ticket takes its title from Khushwant Singh's remark that Amrita Pritam's life was so uneventful it could be written on the back of a revenue stamp. She took him at his word for the title.
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Author of the book ‘Crime and Punishment’.
Answer: A
It is Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Crime and Punishment, published in 1866, follows Raskolnikov's murder of a pawnbroker and the disintegration that follows it. Dostoevsky wrote it against a deadline set by a ruinous publishing contract.
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Author of the book Gulliver's Travels.
Answer: D
It is Jonathan Swift.
Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, is a satire on politics, science and human nature in the form of a travel narrative. Swift published it anonymously and through an intermediary, fearing prosecution.
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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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