The famous character pickwick was created by
Answer: B
He was created by Charles Dickens.
Samuel Pickwick, of The Pickwick Papers, was Dickens's first great success, published in monthly parts from 1836. Sales rose from 400 copies a number to 40,000 once Sam Weller appeared.
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Who is the author of the book "Freedom Behind Bars "
Answer: A
It is Kiran Bedi.
It's Always Possible, published in 1998, is her account of the reforms she introduced as Inspector General of Tihar Jail - the meditation courses, literacy classes and petition boxes that won the prison a Ramon Magsaysay Award.
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Famous book " The Return of the Native " is written by
Answer: A
It is Thomas Hardy.
The Return of the Native, published in 1878, is set on Egdon Heath, which Hardy treats almost as a character in its own right, and follows Clym Yeobright's return from Paris and Eustacia Vye's wish to leave.
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"The general happiness is the end of the state." Who said this?
Answer: D
It was Bentham.
Jeremy Bentham founded utilitarianism on the principle that the object of government is the greatest happiness of the greatest number, and that pleasure and pain alone determine what people ought to do.
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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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Which one of the following is not an award given on the National Awards Day
Answer: D
The Vishwamitra Award is not.
The National Sports Awards comprise the Khel Ratna, the Arjuna Award for performance, the Dronacharya Award for coaches and the Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime contribution. There is no Vishwamitra Award among them.
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Who is the author of the book "Flaming Tresses of Draupadi" ?
Answer: B
It is Veerappa Moily.
The Karnataka politician and former Union minister wrote the Kannada epic poem Sri Ramayana Mahanveshanam and this work on Draupadi, retelling the Mahabharata episode from her side.
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Which of the following books was written by Gandhiji
Answer: B
It is My Experiments with Truth.
Gandhi wrote his autobiography in Gujarati in weekly instalments for Navjivan between 1925 and 1929. The Discovery of India is Nehru's, India Wins Freedom Azad's, and Freedom at Midnight is by Lapierre and Collins.
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Who is the author of the book "The Alchemist"?
Answer: B
It is Paulo Coelho.
O Alquimista, published in Portuguese in 1988, follows the shepherd Santiago from Andalusia to the pyramids in search of a treasure he finds where he began. It has been translated into more than 80 languages.
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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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