Who wrote "Whom God Loves, Die Young"?
Answer: C
'Whom the gods love die young' is Byron's, in Don Juan.
The line is much older - Menander wrote it in Greek in the fourth century BC - but Byron's version is the one usually quoted in English.
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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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"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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The famous book "A Better India, A better world" has been written by-
Answer: B
Infosys was founded in 1981 by N.R. Narayana Murthy along with six colleagues, with initial capital of about ₹10,000.
He served as CEO until 2002 and as chairman thereafter. Azim Premji built Wipro, and Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail.
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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 wrote the book "Train to Pakistan"?
Answer: D
Train to Pakistan was written by Khushwant Singh, published in 1956.
It is set in the fictional village of Mano Majra on the border during partition, and shows how a community that had lived together for generations was destroyed within weeks.
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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, published in 1968 after a decade of research, argued that South Asian poverty persisted because governments were soft states, unable to enforce the policies they announced. Myrdal shared the Nobel in economics in 1974.
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The film "Salaam Bombay" is directed by-
Answer: B
Salaam Bombay! was directed by Mira Nair, in 1988.
It follows a boy living on the streets of Bombay, and used real street children in its cast. It won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Who is the author of the book "We Indians"?
Answer: B
We Indians was written by Khushwant Singh.
It is a collection of his observations on Indian habits and hypocrisies, written in the plain and often provoking manner that made him among the most widely read columnists in the country.
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Who amongst the following directed the famous T.V. Serial "Tandoori Nights"?
Answer: B
Tandoori Nights was directed by Jon Amiel.
The Channel 4 comedy of 1985, set in rival Indian restaurants in London, was written by Farrukh Dhondy and starred Saeed Jaffrey and Zohra Sehgal.
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