Q.1

'The Gathering Storm' is written by

  • Winston Churchill
  • George Washington
  • Voltaire
  • Romain Rolland
Q.2

'Neela Chand' which won the Vyas Samman foris written by

  • Shiv Prasad Singh
  • Subash Mukhopadhyay
  • Ram Vilas Sharma
  • Ramakant Rath
Q.3

What is unique about the film 'Adi Shankaracharya'?

  • It has won the National Award.
  • It is the first Bengal film.
  • It is the first Sanskrit film.
  • It has no female actress.
Q.4

The first history book was written by

  • Euclid
  • Herodotus
  • Aristotle
  • Julius Caesar
Q.5

Who is the author of 'Tom Sawyer'?

  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Mark Twain
  • John Ruskin
  • William Shakespeare
Q.6

In India the first television programme was broadcasted in

  • 1959
  • 1965
  • 1976
  • 1957
Q.7

Which of the following is a biography of the Lady Mountbatten?

  • Edwina Mountbatten - A Life of Her Own.
  • Edwina Mountbatten - Her relationship with Nehru
  • Mountbatten
  • Edwina Mountbattten
Q.8

Who has written the book 'The Famished Road'?

  • Ian Austin
  • V.S. Naipaul
  • Ben Okri
  • Zola Emile
Q.9

Which is not a correct combination?

  • Prithivi Raj Raso - Chand Bardai
  • Idols - Sunil Gavaskar
  • Midnight Children - A. Sanderson
  • Meghdoot - Kalidaas
Q.10

Who directed the famous TV Serial 'Tandoori Nights'?

  • Farukh Dhondy
  • Jon AMiel
  • Zohra Sehgal
  • Saeed Jaffrey
Q.11

The book 'Satanic Verses' was written by

  • Gunnar Myrdal
  • William Golding
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Agatha Christie
Q.12

The television serial 'Charitraheen' is based on the famous novel of which of the following authors?

  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Sarat Chandra Chattopadhaya
  • Tara Sankar Bandhopadhya
  • Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Q.13

The famous book 'Anna Karenina' written by ?

  • Boris Pasternak
  • Victor Hugo
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Leo Tolstoy
Q.14

'Crime and Punishment' was written by

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Vladimir Nabakov
  • Lewis Carrol
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Q.15

'A Secular Agenda' is a book written by

  • Arun Shourie
  • Mani Shankar Aiyar
  • Prem Shankar Jha
  • M.J. Akbar
Q.16

Who is the author of the book 'The Future of Freedom'?

  • Richard Wolfee
  • Peter Hudson
  • Tamara Lipper
  • Fareed Zakaria
Q.17

'A Voice for Freedom' is a book written by

  • Corazon Aquino
  • Nayantara Sahgal
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Benazir Bhutto
Q.18

In which year was the 'All India Radio' set up?

  • 1936
  • 1927
  • 1947
  • 1950
Q.19

'Eight Lives' is a book written by

  • Raja Ramana
  • Savita Ambedkar
  • Mahesh Yogi
  • Raj Mohan Gandhi
Q.20

The author of the book 'Waiting for the Mahatma' is

  • R.K. Narayan
  • N.A. Palkhiwala
  • Amrita Pritam
  • Manohar Malgonkar
Q.21

Who is the author of book 'We Indians'?

  • Nirad C. Choudry
  • Subramaniya Swamy
  • Khushwant Singh
  • Muluk Raj Anand
Q.22

Who has won the Gyan Peeth Award for her book 'Yama'?

  • Maheswari Devi
  • Asha Poorna Devi
  • Amrita Preetam
  • Mahadevi Verma
Q.23

The programme 'Gyan Vani' is broadcasted by

  • Zee TV
  • AIR
  • Sony TV
  • Doordarshan
Q.24

Who is the author of famous book 'The Judgement'?

  • Anthony Mascarenhasa
  • R. Vankataraman
  • Kuldip Nayar
  • Janardhan Turkur
Q.25

Lala Lajpat Rai is the author of the book

  • India Divided
  • Unhappy India
  • Mother India
  • Hind Swaraj
Q.26

In which language did 'Dr. Masti Venkatesh Iyengar' write?

  • Malayalam
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Kannada
Q.27

Who said the words, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to Death your right to say it'?

  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Lenin
  • Voltaire
  • Mahatma Gandhi
Q.28

Who is the father of English Poetry?

  • Milton
  • Wordsworth
  • Chaucer
  • Charles Dickens
Q.29

Who directed the film 'Sardar'?

  • Das Gupta
  • Shyam Benegal
  • Tapan Sinha
  • Ketan Mehta
Q.30

'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her' is a quotation from

  • W.Wordsworth
  • J.Brayon
  • P.B.Shelly
  • J.Keats
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