Who wrote the famous novel "The Guide"?
Answer: C
The Guide was written by R.K. Narayan, published in 1958.
It follows Raju from tourist guide to prisoner to reluctant holy man. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award and was filmed in 1965 with Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman.
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This part-time race car driver invented the bucket seat in 1969. Who was he??
Answer: A
Steve McQueen is credited here with inventing the bucket seat in 1969.
The actor was a serious amateur racing driver who finished second at Sebring in 1970 with a broken foot, and did much of his own driving in Bullitt and Le Mans.
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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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Who has authored the book titled "Narendra Modi : A Political Biography"?
Answer: A
Narendra Modi: A Political Biography was written by Andy Marino, published in 2014.
It was the first full-length biography written with Modi's cooperation, and appeared shortly before the general election of that year.
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What is the name of Kalhana's book
Answer: D
Kalhana wrote the Rajatarangini, in 1148.
It is a chronicle in Sanskrit verse of the kings of Kashmir, and is regarded as the first work of Indian historical writing in the modern sense - it names its sources and weighs their reliability.
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Who among the following is the author of the book, "Pakistan Paradox : Instability and Resilience"?
Answer: A
The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience was written by Christophe Jaffrelot.
The French political scientist argues that Pakistan's contradictions - between centralisation and provincial autonomy, between Islam and secularism, between civil and military rule - both destabilise it and keep it going.
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Who is the author of the book "The Right of Man"?
Answer: D
Rights of Man was written by Thomas Paine, published in 1791.
It defended the French Revolution against Burke and argued that government exists only by the consent of the governed. Paine was tried in absentia for seditious libel in Britain and fled to France.
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Which of the books mentioned below was not written by Munshi Premchand?
Answer: C
Gora was not written by Premchand - it is by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1910.
Godan, Gaban and Rangbhoomi are all Premchand's Hindi novels.
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Who wrote the novel "Tamas"?
Answer: A
Tamas was written by Bhisham Sahni, published in 1974.
It is set in a town in north-west India in the weeks before partition, and shows how communal violence is manufactured. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award and was filmed by Govind Nihalani in 1988.
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The author of book "Guide" is
Answer: C
The Guide is by R.K. Narayan.
R.K. Laxman, the cartoonist who created the Common Man, was his younger brother and illustrated several of his books.
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