What is the name of the writer of indian origin whose novel, "The Inheritance of Loss" has bagged Man Booker Prize?
Answer: B
It was Kiran Desai.
The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker in 2006, when she was 35, the youngest woman then to have won it. Her mother Anita Desai had been shortlisted three times without winning.
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Who is the author of the book A Journey ?
Answer: A
It is Tony Blair.
A Journey, published in 2010, is his memoir of ten years as British Prime Minister, including his defence of the decision to join the invasion of Iraq. He gave the advance and royalties to the Royal British Legion.
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Who has written the book " The Famished Road "
Answer: C
It is Ben Okri.
The Famished Road won the Booker in 1991. Its narrator Azaro is an abiku, a spirit child who keeps returning to the world of the living, and the novel moves between that world and this without marking the boundary.
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Who is the author of the book "WE INDIANS"
Answer: A
It is Khushwant Singh.
We Indians collects his columns on the national character - its hypocrisies, its noise, its obsession with astrology - written in the manner that made him the most widely read columnist in India.
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The novel "The Post Office" was written by
Answer: A
It was Rabindranath Tagore.
Dak Ghar, written in Bengali in 1912, is about a dying child confined indoors who waits for a letter from the king. It was broadcast in Paris the night before that city fell in 1940, and staged in the Warsaw ghetto weeks before its orphans were deported.
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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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What was the real name of Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: B
It was Norma Jeane Baker.
She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926 and baptised Baker, her mother's surname. Twentieth Century-Fox gave her the name Marilyn Monroe in 1946, Monroe being her grandmother's family name.
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"Neela Chand", which won the Vyas Samman in 1992, is written by
Answer: D
It is by Shiv Prasad Singh.
Neela Chand, a Hindi novel set in medieval Varanasi, won the Vyas Samman in 1992, the second year the prize was given, and later the Sahitya Akademi award.
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Who has penned a book titled "I Do What I Do: On Reform, Rhetoric and Resolve" ?
Answer: B
It is Raghuram Rajan.
I Do What I Do, published in 2017, collects the speeches and essays from his three years as Governor of the Reserve Bank - the inflation-targeting framework, the asset quality review of bank books, and his remarks on tolerance that drew political fire.
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Who wrote the Book "A Tale of Two Cities"
Answer: D
It was Charles Dickens.
A Tale of Two Cities, published in 1859, is set in London and Paris before and during the Revolution. It opens with the best of times and the worst of times, and is among the best-selling novels ever written.
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