This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Culture > Festivals > World Book Day – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books World Book Day Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What position does Harry play on the Quidditch team in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter book series? A) Seeker. B) Shepherd. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seeker. 2. In the book series 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians', what is the name of the camp where demigods are trained? A) Camp Demigod. B) Camp Jupiter. C) Camp Half-Blood. D) Camp Olympus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Camp Half-Blood. 3. In The Cat in the Hat, what type of pet does Sally have? A) Hamster. B) Fish. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fish. 4. What is the surname of the family of Borrowers that feature in The Borrowers by Mary Norton? A) Watch. B) Clock. C) Chime. D) Hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clock. 5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, was the first book written by A) Hand. B) Typewriter. C) Computer. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Typewriter. 6. Who wrote the books Gangsta Granny, Mr Stink and The Midnight Gang? A) Frank Cottrell-Boyce. B) J.K Rowling. C) Roald Dahl. D) David Walliams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) David Walliams. 7. Who wrote and illustrated The Very Hungry Caterpillar? A) Eric Carle. B) Jan Brett. C) Dr. Seuss. D) Bill Wallace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eric Carle. 8. Which story does NOT have a wizard? A) Superworm. B) The Princess and the Wizard. C) Harry Potter. D) The Twits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Twits. 9. Which book among the following was written by the legendary author Premchand? A) Temptation. B) Get on paper. C) Gillu. D) Put them in. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temptation. 10. What is the main purpose of World Book Day? A) To promote digital books and e-readers. B) To celebrate authors, illustrators, books, and reading. C) To increase the price of books worldwide. D) To honor the best-selling book of the year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To celebrate authors, illustrators, books, and reading. 11. The World Book Capital for 2021 will be A) Nasca Lines. B) Pamukkale. C) TI case. D) Tbilisi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tbilisi. 12. Which of the following books are set in the same time period- A) The Weight of Our Sky and Don't Breathe a Word. B) All that Glitters along with Hamilton and Peggy. C) The Book Thief and The Diary of Anne Frank. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 13. Who wrote THE BLUE UMBRELLA? A) Ruskin Bond. B) R.K. Narayan. C) Chetan Bhagat. D) Arundhati Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruskin Bond. 14. Who is the writer of the book, 'All time favorites for children'? A) Ruskin Bond. B) Shakoor Rather. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruskin Bond. 15. Which animal dropped stones into the pot to drink water in famous Indian stories? A) Crow. B) Elephant. C) Fish. D) Monkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crow. 16. In Super Happy Magic Forest by Matty Long, what type of creature is Trevor? A) A unicorn. B) A mushroom. C) A gnome. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A mushroom. 17. Who is Author of the Book Blue Umbrella? A) Ruskin Bond. B) Subas Chandra. C) Chetan Bhagat. D) Salman Rushdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruskin Bond. 18. How much of the chocolate cake did he eat? A) A slice. B) A bite. C) The whole cake. D) A nibble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The whole cake. 19. Name the author of the Sherlock Holmes series of books A) J.K. Rowling. B) Charles Dickens. C) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 20. In which country is the 'jungle' in Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'? A) Brazil. B) India. C) Indonesia. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) India. 21. How many things did Fin steal in the story? A) One. B) He did not steal anything. C) Two. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two. 22. Who wrote the Book Yama? A) Suryakant Nitla. B) Love moon. C) Maha Devi Verma. D) Jaishankar Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maha Devi Verma. 23. Which word rhymes with rob? A) Laptop. B) Sob. C) Cup. D) Mop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sob. 24. Walt Disney's Pluto is what kind of animals? A) Horse. B) Dog. C) Cat. D) Rabbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dog. 25. Who is Author of Book Waiting For Visa? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) B.R Ambedkar. C) Mamta Banerjee. D) Narendra Modi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B.R Ambedkar. 26. What country does Paddington Bear originally come from? A) Chile. B) Peru. C) Brazil. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peru. 27. How do schools typically celebrate World Book Day? A) By having a day off. B) By asking students to dress as their favorite book characters. C) By conducting science experiments. D) By organizing book fairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By asking students to dress as their favorite book characters. 28. Which author wrote these books?*Demon Dentist*Ratburger*Billionaire Boy A) David Walliams. B) Roald Dahl. C) Julia Donaldson. D) Malorie Blackman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) David Walliams. 29. In James and the Giant Peach, what provided the power for the peach when it floated through the air? A) Balloons. B) Dreams. C) Wind. D) Seagulls. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seagulls. 30. Which episode of the show, 'Bet Your Life', is the story about? A) The first episode. B) The grand finale. C) The second episode. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The grand finale. 31. In the Isadora Moon series, Isadora's mum is what kind of magical creature? A) A vampire. B) A yeti. C) A fairy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A fairy. 32. What is the name of Ada's father A) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. B) Alfred Lord Tennyson. C) Lord Byron. D) Alexander Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Byron. 33. World Book Day is organized by A) WHO. B) AND. C) UNESCO. D) UNICEF. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) UNESCO. 34. In which year was William Shakespeare born? A) 1534. B) 1555. C) 1564. D) 1594. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1564. 35. Who wrote "The Cat in the Hat" ? A) J.K. Rowling. B) Dr. Seuss. C) Mark Twain. D) Dr. Seuss Jr. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dr. Seuss. 36. Who was the first Mr Men character? A) Mr Greedy. B) Mr Bump. C) Mr Tickle. D) Mr Funny. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mr Tickle. 37. I love reading books and I also have special powers. I have a lovely teacher called Miss Honey but the headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, is horrible. Who am I? A) August Pullman. B) Charlie Bucket. C) Hermione. D) Matilda. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matilda. 38. What type of a creature is trying to catch Rosie the hen in Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins? A) A wolf. B) An owl. C) A fox. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A fox. 39. Which short story by Ismat Chughtai is her most widely anthalogised work, even though it led to much uproar and controversy when it was initially published? A) Lihaaf. B) Impudent. C) Rhinoceros. D) Kafir. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lihaaf. 40. What was Matilda's father's job? A) Second-hand car dealer. B) Doctor. C) Burglar. D) Cashier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Second-hand car dealer. 41. 'The 7 sins of being a Mother' is written by whom? A) Kajal Suri. B) Sunita Dwibedi. C) Tahira Kashyap Khurana. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tahira Kashyap Khurana. 42. What kind of book tells you real-life stories? A) Textbook. B) Non-fiction and autobiography. C) Fiction. D) Self-help. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-fiction and autobiography. 43. When was Ada born? A) 1853. B) 1851. C) 1854. D) 1852. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1852. 44. Which of these is a quote by Roald Dahl in The Twits? A) 'It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.'. B) 'If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.'. C) 'Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.'. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.'. 45. Alice in wonderland was first published in ..... A) 1865. B) 2065. C) 1765. D) 1965. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1865. 46. Who wrote a collection of books called 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'? A) JK Rowling. B) J.R.R Tolkein. C) Lemony Snicket. D) Lewis Carroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lemony Snicket. 47. Which is the most selling book in history ever achieved by an author? A) Roald Dahl. B) Jeff Kinney. C) J. K. Rowling. D) Dr Seuss. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) J. K. Rowling. 48. Which of these was NOT a job held by Roald Dahl at some point? A) Chocolate historian. B) Spy. C) Novelist. D) Astronomer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astronomer. 49. Which gothic vampire novella by Sheridan Le Fanu predated Dracula by 26 years? A) Rebecca. B) Carmilla. C) Frankenstein. D) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carmilla. 50. World Book and copyright Day is celebrated on? A) I like it. B) 20March. C) May 21. D) I cross. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I cross. 51. Alice defended who? A) The Queen of Hearts. B) The Jack of Hearts. C) The White Queen. D) Mad Hatter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Jack of Hearts. 52. Which one of the following Book is not writen by Prem Chand? A) Seva Sadan. B) Nirmala. C) Saket. D) In the name of. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saket. 53. What colour dress does Alice wear? A) Blue and white. B) Orange and pink. C) Purple and green. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue and white. 54. What job does Matilda Wormwood's father have in Matilda by Roald Dahl? A) A second-hand car salesman. B) An undertaker. C) A banker. D) A pilot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A second-hand car salesman. 55. Which story teaches "Honesty is the best policy" ? A) The Tortoise and the Hare. B) The Honest Woodcutter. C) Cinderella. D) The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Honest Woodcutter. 56. What does an autobiography talk about? A) An autobiography talks about the author's life. B) An autobiography discusses historical events. C) An autobiography focuses on other people's lives. D) An autobiography is a fictional story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An autobiography talks about the author's life. 57. The firat English translation of the Bhagavad Gita was done by A) Warren Hastings. B) Charles Wikins. C) Henry Thomas Colebrooke. D) William Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Wikins. 58. World Book Day is also a day to recognize the rights of: A) Animals. B) Authors and publishers. C) Teachers. D) Librarians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Authors and publishers. 59. What did Danny have that gave him good general knowledge? A) A house full of books. B) A love of books. C) A photographic memory. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A photographic memory. 60. What do you call the person who draws the pictures in books? A) Reporter. B) Drawer. C) Author. D) Illustrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Illustrator. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian Culture QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesWorld Book Day Quiz 1World Book Day Quiz 3World Book Day Quiz 4World Book Day Quiz 5World Book Day Quiz 6Air Force Day QuizAmbedkar Jayanti QuizApril Fools Day Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books