This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Books Authors > Books And Authors – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Books And Authors Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. COMPLETE THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR. SURYAKANT TRIPATHI ..... A) DINKAR. B) PANT. C) PRASAD. D) NIRALA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NIRALA. 2. Who is the author of the book New India? A) Manik Bandopadhyay. B) John Milton. C) Annie Besant. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Annie Besant. 3. Who is the author of The Lord of the Rings? A) Edith Tolkien. B) Christopher Tolkien. C) Peter Jackson. D) J.R.R. Tolkien. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J.R.R. Tolkien. 4. Who said "God helps those who help themselves" ? A) Andre Maurois. B) Andre Gide. C) Algernon Sidney. D) Swami Vivekananda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Algernon Sidney. 5. Who is the father of English Poetry? A) Chaucer. B) Charles Dickens. C) Milton. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chaucer. 6. What book did Patricia Reilly Giff write? A) My Life As A Book. B) Island War. C) We Dream Of Space. D) Ghost Squad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Island War. 7. What book did William Shakespeare write? A) Gnomeo & Juliet. B) Romeo & Juliet. C) Romeo & Julet. D) Gnome & Julit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romeo & Juliet. 8. Who among the following is the author of the book, "Pakistan Paradox : Instability and Resilience" ? A) Christophe Jaffrelot. B) Mamnoon Hussain. C) G. Parthasarthy. D) Imran Khan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christophe Jaffrelot. 9. "Panini" is the author of A) Aranyak. B) Adventures of Sherlock Homes. C) Amukta Malyad. D) Astyadhaye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astyadhaye. 10. Who wrote the book JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH A) Roald Dahl. B) Judy Blume. C) Charles Dickens. D) Jules Verne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jules Verne. 11. Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer, co-authored the book ..... A) Starfish. B) When Stars are Scattered. C) Healer of the Water Monster. D) To Night Owl from Dogfish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To Night Owl from Dogfish. 12. Which book is not written by Chetan Bhagat? A) Half Girlfriend. B) Five Point Someone. C) The Three Musketeers. D) Two States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Three Musketeers. 13. "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" A) James Dashner. B) Jojo Moyes. C) Ransom Riggs. D) Lev Grossman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ransom Riggs. 14. Who wrote 11 Birthdays? A) Mass. B) Camper. C) Jamison. D) Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mass. 15. What book did Gordon Korman write? A) Island War. B) Restart. C) One and Only Ivan. D) We Dream of Space. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restart. 16. Who is the author of "Unhappy India" ? A) Vikram Seth. B) Lala Lajpath Roy. C) Chethan Bhagath. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lala Lajpath Roy. 17. The book 'geography:it's history and concepts' in 1979 done by.. A) Ptolemy. B) R.johnston. C) D.harvey. D) A.holt-jensen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A.holt-jensen. 18. Which Prize is awarded to writers of full-length Novels? A) Booker Prize. B) National Book Award. C) Costa Book Award. D) Pulitzer Prize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Booker Prize. 19. What book did K.A. Holt write? A) Small Spaces. B) House Arrest. C) Amari and the Night Brothers. D) Ali Cross. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) House Arrest. 20. Who is the author of the book 'Forbidden Verses'? A) D.H. Lawrence. B) Abu Nuwas. C) Ms. Taslima Nasrin. D) Salman RushDie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abu Nuwas. 21. Who wrote One Dead Spy? A) Birney. B) Smith. C) Flaherty. D) Hale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hale. 22. Who is the publisher of Oxford English Dictionary? A) Oxford publishing house. B) Penguine publisher. C) Orient Black Swan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxford publishing house. 23. The author of Three mistakes of my life, Half girlfriend. A) Chetan Bhagat. B) Jonathan Swift. C) Stephen Spielberg. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chetan Bhagat. 24. Who wrote the book 'The Prince'? A) Bernard Shaw. B) Emile Zola. C) V.S. Sharma. D) Niccolo Machiaveli. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Niccolo Machiaveli. 25. Who is the author of famous book Malgudi Days? A) R K NARAYAN. B) R K LAXMAN. C) MUNSHI PREMCHAND. D) MAHADEVI VERMA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) R K NARAYAN. 26. Famous Five series is written by A) Enid Blyton. B) Carolyn Keene. C) Franklin W. Dixon. D) Ravindra Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enid Blyton. 27. Which one of the following novels was not written by Charles Dickens? A) Pride and Prejudice. B) Oliver Twist. C) Pickwick Papers. D) Hard Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pride and Prejudice. 28. Who is the author Saving Red A) Sonya Wright. B) Sarah Sones. C) Sonia Sones. D) Sonya Sones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonya Sones. 29. Who wrote the Jungle Book A) Shakespeare. B) J.K.Rowling. C) John Milton. D) Rudyard Kipling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rudyard Kipling. 30. Who wrote Hamster Magic? A) Flaherty. B) Brallier. C) Jonell. D) Krosoczka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jonell. 31. Who is the author of Ways to Make Sunshine? A) Renee Watson. B) Arianne Costner. C) Alan Gratz. D) Victoria Jamieson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renee Watson. 32. How many books are in the original Harry Potter series? A) 9. B) 7. C) 8. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 33. Who is the author of famous book "Chamber of Secrets" ? A) J.k.rowling. B) R.L.Stine. C) B. Richard. D) Agatha Christie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J.k.rowling. 34. African Writer who won Nobel prize for literature for the first time? A) Chinua Achebe. B) Wole Soyinka. C) N'Gugi Wa Thiango. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wole Soyinka. 35. Q:1 Who is the author of the book "Geetanjali" ? * A) Premchand. B) Ravinder Nath Tagore. C) Varndavan Sharma. D) Mahadevi Verma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ravinder Nath Tagore. 36. Pilgrim Progress is written by A) John Bunyan. B) John Milton. C) John Donne. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Bunyan. 37. Who wrote Cardboard Kingdom? A) Segal/Miller. B) Hale. C) Lee/Gilbert. D) Sell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sell. 38. When did JK Rowling get the idea of writing Harry Potter novels? A) In a bus while going to school to visit it. B) In an aeroplane. C) In a train, while having a dream. D) In a car while whizzing past other cars to get to a place on time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a train, while having a dream. 39. Who wrote the Great Shelby Holmes? A) Eddleman. B) Deedy. C) Eulberg. D) Cousteau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eulberg. 40. Who is the author of Ghost? A) George Takei. B) Jason Reynolds. C) Renee Watson. D) Victoria Jamieson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jason Reynolds. 41. The Book "A Journey "is written by whom A) Tony Blair. B) G.B Shaw. C) E.M Foster. D) Panini. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tony Blair. 42. The book ' Gullivers Travels ' was written by A) Charles Lamb. B) Charles Dickens. C) Alexander Dumas. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jonathan Swift. 43. 'The Gathering Storm' is written by A) Winston Churchill. B) George Washington. C) Voltaire. D) Romain Rolland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Winston Churchill. 44. Whose autobiography is named as "My life" ? A) Nelson Mandela. B) Bill Clinton. C) Margaret Thatcher. D) J M Lyngdoh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bill Clinton. 45. Who wrote this book-The Home and the World A) Khushwant Singh. B) Mahatma gandhi. C) Rabindranath tagore. D) Apj abdul Kalam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rabindranath tagore. 46. Who wrote freedom in Exile A) Kapil Ishapauri. B) Dalai Lama. C) Deepak Nayyer. D) Salman Rushdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dalai Lama. 47. 'Indian Cotton merchant, banker, Congressman and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi'. This description fits A) V.S. Srinivasa Shastri. B) Jamnalala Bajaj. C) M.R. Jayaker. D) G.D. Birla. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) G.D. Birla. 48. Who is the author of famous book 'The Judgement'? A) Kuldip Nayar. B) Anthony Mascarenhasa. C) Janardhan Turkur. D) R. Vankataraman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kuldip Nayar. 49. Who is the author of the book 'Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstopable'? A) Sobha De. B) Anees Jung. C) P.M. Nayer. D) Mulk Raj Anand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sobha De. 50. Who among the following is famous for his travelogues? A) P Kesavadev. B) Kakkanadan. C) M T vasudevan Nair. D) S K Pottekkattu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) S K Pottekkattu. 51. A famous series of Harry Potter has been written by A) William Shakespeare. B) Khushwant Singh. C) Ruskin bond. D) J k Rawling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J k Rawling. 52. The religious text of the Jews is named as A) Tripatika. B) Zend Avesta. C) Torah. D) The Analectus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Torah. 53. "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old" .This quotation is from which Novel? A) The Alchemist. B) Gulliver's Travel. C) Life of Pi. D) Alice in Wonderland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gulliver's Travel. 54. Who had written this famous book-The Coalition Years A) APJ Abdul Kalam. B) Vikram Seth. C) Pranab Mukherjee. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pranab Mukherjee. 55. Geography:'a modern synthesis' written by ..... in 1972. A) C.ritter. B) P.hegget. C) F.ratzel. D) P.james. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) P.hegget. 56. Who wrote Martina the Beautiful Cockroach? A) Tonatiuh. B) Deedy. C) Engle. D) Applegate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deedy. 57. The programme 'Gyan Vani' is broadcasted by A) Zee TV. B) Doordarshan. C) AIR. D) Sony TV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AIR. 58. 'A China Passage' book was written by A) M.J Akbar. B) Jagmohan. C) Anees Jung. D) John Kenneth Gelbrith. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Kenneth Gelbrith. 59. The book which is written by Gandhiji. A) Geetanjali. B) An autobiography:My experiment with truth. C) Gaban. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An autobiography:My experiment with truth. 60. Dusti Bowling authored the book ..... A) When Stars are Scattered. B) The Bitter Side of Sweet. C) Starfish. D) Insignificant Events in the Life of A Cactus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Insignificant Events in the Life of A Cactus. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesBooks And Authors Quiz 1Books And Authors Quiz 3Books And Authors Quiz 4Books And Authors Quiz 5Books And Authors Quiz 6Books And Authors Quiz 7Books And Authors Quiz 8Books And Authors Quiz 9Books And Authors Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books