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1. What is the nickname of Adolf Hitler?

(A) Yankee

(B) Mark Twain

(C) Fuhrer

(D) Man of Peace

Answer: Fuhrer

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2. What is the nickname of Geoffrey Chaucer?

(A) Wizard of the North

(B) Father of English Literature

(C) Otto von

(D) Tiger of Snow

Answer: Father of English Literature

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3. What is the nickname of Florence Nightingale?

(A) Lady with the Lamp

(B) Nightingale of India

(C) The Angel of the Battlefield

(D) The Maid of Orléans

Answer: Lady with the Lamp

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4. What is the nickname of Joan of Arc?

(A) Mark Twain

(B) Doozer

(C) The maid of orléans

(D) Charles

Answer: The maid of orléans

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5. What is the nickname of Lal Bahadur Shastri?

(A) Bismarck of India

(B) Man of Peace

(C) Punjab Kesari

(D) Baba Saheb

Answer: Man of Peace

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6. What is the nickname of Napolean Bonaparte?

(A) The Bard of Avon

(B) The Little Corporal

(C) Light of Asia

(D) Patriot of Patriots

Answer: The Little Corporal

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7. What is the nickname of Otto von Bismarck?

(A) Iron Chancellor

(B) Little Master

(C) Bard of Avon

(D) Grand Old man of Britain

Answer: Iron Chancellor

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8. What is the nickname of Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

(A) Prince of Builders

(B) Maid of Orleans

(C) Prince of Pilgrims

(D) Mark Twain

Answer: Mark Twain

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9. What is the nickname of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah?

(A) Father of Medicine

(B) Father of English Poetry

(C) Lion of Kashmir

(D) Bihar Kesari

Answer: Lion of Kashmir

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10. What is the nickname of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman?

(A) Bangabandhu

(B) Desh Ratna

(C) Grand Old man of India

(D) Deenbandhu

Answer: Bangabandhu

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11. What is the nickname of Tenzing Norgay?

(A) The Divine One

(B) The Greatest

(C) Tiger of the Snows

(D) The Little Tramp

Answer: Tiger of the Snows

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12. What is the nickname of Madan Mohan Malviya?

(A) Tau

(B) Sahid-e-Azam

(C) Mahamana

(D) Anna

Answer: Mahamana

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13. What is the nickname of Lala Lajpat Rai?

(A) The Scourge of God

(B) Punjab Kesari

(C) Machiavelli of India

(D) The Little General

Answer: Punjab Kesari

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14. What is the nickname of Kapil Dev?

(A) The People's Champion

(B) The Wiz

(C) The Haryana Hurricane

(D) Prince of Autobiography

Answer: The Haryana Hurricane

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15. What is the nickname of Sarojini Naidu?

(A) The Blessed Virgin

(B) Furry

(C) The King of Spades

(D) Nightingale of India

Answer: Nightingale of India

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16. What is the nickname of Sardar Vallabhai Patel?

(A) Parrot of India

(B) Martin Luther of India

(C) Man of Iron or Bismarck of India

(D) Machiavelli of India

Answer: Man of Iron or Bismarck of India

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17. What is the nickname of Sunil Gavaskar?

(A) Little Master or Sunny

(B) The Son of God

(C) The Lion of Judah

(D) The Prince of Peace

Answer: Little Master or Sunny

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18. What is the nickname of Walter Scott?

(A) Little Man

(B) Tiger Woods

(C) Bluebeard

(D) The Wizard of the North

Answer: The Wizard of the North

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19. What is the nickname of Dadabhai Naoroji?

(A) Martin Luther of India

(B) Grand Old Man of India

(C) The Velvet Fog

(D) Bengali Tiger

Answer: Grand Old Man of India

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20. What is the nickname of Chittaranjan Das?

(A) Deshbandhu

(B) Anna

(C) Lokmanya

(D) Desh Ratna

Answer: Deshbandhu

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21. What is the nickname of Bal Gangadhar Tilak?

(A) Bihar Vibhuti

(B) Lokmanya Tilak

(C) Bihar Kesari

(D) Ajatshatru

Answer: Lokmanya Tilak

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22. What is the nickname of William Shakespeare?

(A) The Legend

(B) Bard of Avon

(C) Poet’s Poet

(D) Bluebeard

Answer: Bard of Avon

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23. What is the nickname of Rabindra Nath Tagore?

(A) Gurudev

(B) Shakespeare of India

(C) Parrot of India

(D) Prince of Autobiography

Answer: Gurudev

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24. What is the nickname of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?

(A) Deshpriya

(B) Tiger of Mysore

(C) Father of the Nation

(D) Light of Asia

Answer: Father of the Nation

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25. What is the nickname of Subhas Chandra Bose?

(A) Bangabandhu

(B) Little Master

(C) Lion of Kashmir

(D) Netaji

Answer: Netaji

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26. What is the nickname of Jawahar Lal Nehru?

(A) Napoleon of India

(B) Panditji or Chacha Nehru

(C) Prince of Kolkata

(D) Light of Asia

Answer: Panditji or Chacha Nehru

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27. What is the nickname of Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi?

(A) Ajatshatru

(B) Sparrow Major

(C) Tiger

(D) Father of Gujarat

Answer: Tiger

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28. What is the nickname of Sachin Tendulkar?

(A) Parrot of India

(B) Master Blaster

(C) Desh Ratna

(D) King Maker of Indian History

Answer: Master Blaster

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29. What is the nickname of Rahul Dravid?

(A) The Rollover

(B) Golden Wrecking Ball

(C) The Boneless

(D) The Wall

Answer: The Wall

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30. What is the nickname of Jayaprakash Narayan?

(A) Tota-e-Hind

(B) Loknayak

(C) Fuehrer

(D) Tau

Answer: Loknayak

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31. Who is the author of the book “Moon Walk”?

(A) Sunil Gavaskar

(B) Paul Marlowe

(C) Michael Jackson

(D) Deborah Mathis

Answer: Michael Jackson

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Michael Jackson. In this intimate and often moving personal account of Michael Jackson’s public and private life, he recalls a childhood that was both harsh and joyful but always formidabl

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32. Who is the author of the book “Babur-Nama”?

(A) Amin Maalouf

(B) Naguib Mahfouz

(C) Arthur Maimane

(D) Babur

Answer: Babur

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“‘The facts are as stated here . . . I have set down of good and bad whatever is known.’ The Babur Nama, a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (1483–1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature, and one of the finest. Against the turbulent backdrop of medieval history, it paints a precise and vivid picture of life in Central Asia and Afghanistan—where Babur ruled in Samarkand and Kabul—and in the Indian subcontinent, where his dazzling military career culminated in the founding of a dynasty that lasted three centuries. Babur was far more than a skilled, often ruthless, warrior and master strategist. In this abridged and edited version of a 1921 English translation of his memoirs, he also emerges as a sensitive aesthete, naturalist, poet and lover. Writer, journalist and internationally acclaimed Middle eastern and Central asian expert, Dilip Hiro breathes new life into a unique historical document that is at once objective and intensely personal—for, in Babur’s words, ‘the truth should be reached in every matter’.”

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33. Who is the author of the book “Mein kampf”?

(A) Thomas Mann

(B) Adolf Hitler

(C) Alexander Masters

(D) Richard Maybury

Answer: Adolf Hitler

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This translation is considered as the most accurate English translation/edition of the original Mein Kampf (German) by Adolf Hitler. And it has the popular Eagle on the top of cover just like the original Mein Kampf (First German Edition, Complete volumes, Golden Embossed Eagle). This edition is the only German government funded and recognized version of Adolf Hitler’s popular Mein Kampf (popularly known as My Struggle in English). James Murphy was invited by the NAZI Propaganda Ministry to translate the book in English so that the NAZI propaganda and vision can be disseminated in the English speaking countries too. This edition has both the volumes and is the James Murphy’s original translation that you are viewing right now! Mein Kampf was originally published in two volumes. Adolf Hitler started dictating Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess when he was imprisoned in Festungshaft

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34. Who is the author of the book “Made in Japan”?

(A) Tucker Max

(B) Carol Matas

(C) Akio Morita

(D) Dary Matera

Answer: Akio Morita

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Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony

The chairman of the Sony Corporation discusses the rise of Sony, his extraordinary career as a businessman, and his views on the United States, Japan, and the world economy

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35. Who is the author of the book “Sunny Days”?

(A) Sunil Gavaskar

(B) R.K. Narayan

(C) Salman Rushdie

(D) Arundhati Roy

Answer: Sunil Gavaskar

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Sunny Days is the fascinating account of the growth of one of India’s greatest batsmen, one whose astonishing feats on the cricket field have caused innumerable records to be re-written and set close to impossible targets. How did the story of Sunil Manohar Gavaskar begin? What was the genesis of the man who grew to be a legend in his own lifetime? The story starts with a baby being switched after birth luckily restored by an eagle-eyed uncle, he grows up to almost break his mother’s nose with a mighty hit (a childhood habit that persists in later life), plays good cricket in school and college, inevitably graduates beyond university and trophy cricket, is occasionally booed by the crowd as his uncle happens to be a selector and then bursts into the international cricket scene with his test debut at Port of Spain at the age of twenty-one. The year is 1971, it is Gavaskar’s year and sunny days have finally begun for Indian cricket. By the end of the 1975-76 season Gavaskar has played 147 first class matches, amassed 11574 runs and thirty-eight hundreds. He has played twenty-four matches in eight Tests, with 2123 runs and eight hundreds. And there is still nearly a decade left before the glory-days of the Kotla and Chidambaram stadiums. A fluently written book with Gavaskar’s usual self-effacing modesty imparting a rare grace to its pages, Sunny Days is a must-read for all cricket fans.

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36. Who is the author of the book “Triumph”?

(A) W. Somerset Maugham

(B) Anne Mayfield

(C) Jeremy Schaap

(D) Karl Marx

Answer: Jeremy Schaap

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Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics.

At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African-American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals and single-handedly demonstrated that Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy was a lie. The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is that of an athletic performance that transcends sports. It is also the intimate and complex tale of one remarkable man’s courage. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and exhaustive archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Germany and tells the dramatic tale of Owens and his fellow athletes at the contest dubbed the Nazi Olympics.

With his incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really happened over those tense, exhilarating weeks in a nuanced and riveting work of sports history.

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37. Who is the author of the book “Ain-I-Akbari” and “Akbarnama”?

(A) Akbar

(B) Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (Abul Fazl)

(C) Mulk-abadi

(D) Akbar Allahabadi

Answer: Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (Abul Fazl)

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The Akbarnama which translates to Book of Akbar, is the official chronicle of the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor (r. 1556–1605), commissioned by Akbar himself by his court historian and biographer, Abul Fazl who was one of the nine jewels in Akbar’s court. It was written in Persian, the literary language of the Mughals, and includes vivid and detailed descriptions of his life and times.

The Ain-i-Akbari is the third volume of the Akbarnama containing information regarding Akbar’s reign in the form of, what would be called in modern times, administration reports, statistical compilations, or gazetteers. It contains the áín (i.e., mode of governing) of Emperor Akbar, and is, in fact, the administration report and statistical Return of his government. The first volume of the Akbarnama contains the history of Timur’s family and the reigns of Babar, the Súr kings, and Humayun. The second volume is devoted to the detailed history of the nearly forty-six years of the Akbar’s reign. Since it was written around 1590, it also contains details of Hindu beliefs and practices as well as a history of India.

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38. Who is the author of the book “To Live or not to Live”?

(A) Nirad C. Chaudhuri

(B) George Elliot

(C) V.S. Naipaul

(D) Alexandra Dumas

Answer: Nirad C. Chaudhuri

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Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (23 November 1897 – 1 August 1999) was an Indian Bengali−English writer and man of letters. He was born in a Hindu family in 1897 in Kishoreganj, then part of Bengal in British India, now in Bangladesh. He wrote the book “To Live or Not to Live” (English) in 1971.

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39. Who is the author of the book “Wings of Fire”?

(A) Pratibha Patil

(B) K. R. Narayanan

(C) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

(D) C. V. Raman

Answer: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Every common man who by his sheer grit and hard work achieves success should share his story with the rest for they may find inspiration and strength to go on, in his story. The ‘Wings of Fire’ is one such autobiography by visionary scientist Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, who from very humble beginnings rose to be the President of India. The book is full of insights, personal moments and life experiences of Dr. Kalam. It gives us an understanding on his journey of success.

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40. Who is the author of the book “Worshipping False Gods”?

(A) Subramanian Swamy

(B) Sita Ram Goel

(C) Ram Swarup

(D) Arun Shourie

Answer: Arun Shourie

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Worshipping False Gods is a book authored by Arun Shourie in which he uses his knowledge on the subject to take a critical look at the legend that Ambedkar had become. His keen eye for detail allows him to go deep into the archives and ask questions that seem relevant like whether Ambedkar coordinated his opposition to the freedom struggle with the British, how his approach to social change is in contrast to that of Gandhi’s, and whether the Constitution rose from him or did it grow as a dynamic living organism. The book goes into the myths on which dialog is built in India today.

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41. Who is the author of the book “Idols”?

(A) Ravi Shastri

(B) Sunil Gavaskar

(C) Kapil Dev

(D) Sourav Ganguly

Answer: Sunil Gavaskar

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Idols is a book authored by Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar. After reading this book the reader feels that the legendary batsmen can wield his pen as well as his bat. In Idols , Gavaskar lists his favourite cricketers and his experiences with them.

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42. Who is the author of the book “My Truth”?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru

(B) Sanjay Gandhi

(C) Indira Gandhi

(D) Feroze Gandhi

Answer: Indira Gandhi

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Based on interviews and other source material My Truth is a rare and vitally important book; the story of much of Indira Gandhi’s life in her own words. First published in India and France in 1980 when Mrs Gandhi was out of power, it now assumes an extra importance in view of her tragic and untimely death.
Told simply and warmly, the book unfolds the life of a gifted person born into a remarkable family. There are evocative passages of her recollections of her grandfather and the days spent in Allahabad, of the heroes of her childhood, the books she admired, of Jawaharlal exhorting her to take to physical activities, of holidays in the hills, a dream, like childhood abruptly altered as her father plunged into the freedom movement.

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43. Who is the author of the book “Kumar Sambhava”?

(A) Kalidas

(B) Vishakdutt

(C) Shudrak

(D) Bhaas

Answer: Kalidas

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Kumarsambhav, literally stands for the birth of the war-god Kartikeya, Shiva’s first son. Kumarsambhav (Sanskrit Classics) is a Sanskrit epic poem and one of the finest work of Kalidas. This is a legendary Sanskrit poem and one of the most leading and significant examples of Kavya poetry. This book essentially talks about the courtship of Lord Shiva and Parvati. Most of chapters have enormous details about the love and romance between Shiva and Parvati.

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44. Who is the author of the book “Mother India”?

(A) Mrinalini Sinha

(B) Katherine Mayo

(C) Cornelia Sorabji

(D) Dalip Singh Saund

Answer: Katherine Mayo

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The positive impact that this controversial book created in the Indian nationalism and feminism during the early part of the 20th century cannot be belittled even when the motives behind such a polemic work on the social and political life of colonial India can undoubtedly be questioned.

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45. Who is the author of the book “My Music, My Life”?

(A) Chetan Bhagat

(B) Arundhati Roy

(C) Ravi Shankar

(D) R.K. Narayan

Answer: Ravi Shankar

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With stunning new photographs and a new final chapter detailing Ravi Shankar’s hope for the preservation of Indian classical music, this updated edition of My Music, My Life profiles an extraordinary man. In his own words, Shankar describes his transformation from a young traveling dancer to a Grammy Award-winning, internationally known musician. An autobiography, a history of Indian classical music, and a manual on how to play the sitar, this book is about music as a both a lifestyle and an art. It embodies Ravi Shankar’s unique approach to his craft.

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46. Who is the author of the book “If I Am Assassinated”?

(A) Muhammad Zia‑ul‑Haq

(B) Asif Ali Zardari

(C) Ayub Khan

(D) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Answer: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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If I Am Assassinated is a testimony of Bhutto’s courage. Even with death staring him in the face, he had not lost his faculty for analysis and his biting sarcasm. But the work suffers from contradictions and it fails as an effective rejoinder to the White Paper issued by Zia’s regime on the alleged rigging of elections by Bhutto.

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47. Who is the author of the book “Is Paris Burning”?

(A) William L. Shirer

(B) Frederick Forsyth

(C) Winston Churchill

(D) Larry Collins and Dominique Lapiere

Answer: Larry Collins and Dominique Lapiere

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“‘Is Paris burning?’ was a question that Hitler persistently put to his commander in the French capitol during August 1944. Thus begins the absorbing account of the liberation of Paris. You will be moved by the descriptions and want to see Paris to witness what history allowed to survive. Is Paris Burning? is researched with meticulous and riveting detail, well narrated and certain to keep you intrigued.”

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48. Who is the author of the book “Golden Threshold”?

(A) Annie Besant

(B) Rani of Jhansi

(C) Sarojini Naidu

(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: Sarojini Naidu

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts – the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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49. Who is the author of the book “India Unbound”?

(A) Gurcharan Das

(B) Swaminathan Aiyar

(C) Ramachandra Guha

(D) Arun Maira

Answer: Gurcharan Das

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India Unbound is the riveting story of a nation’s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Gurcharan Das examines the highs and lows of independent India through the prism of history, his own experiences and those of numerous others he has met—from young people in sleepy UP villages to chiefs of software companies in Bangalore. Defining and exploring the new mindset of the nation, India Unbound is the perfect introduction to contemporary India.

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50. Who is the author of the book “The Broken Wing”?

(A) Rohinton Mistry

(B) Sarojini Naidu

(C) Anita Desai

(D) Kiran Desai

Answer: Sarojini Naidu

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The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death, and Destiny, 1915-1916.

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51. Who is the author of the book “The Golden Gate”?

(A) Satyajit Ray

(B) Arundhati Roy

(C) Vikram Seth

(D) Arun Maira

Answer: Vikram Seth

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The Golden Gate marked the debut of famed poet and novelist, Vikram Seth, in the year 1986. Inspired by Charles Johnston’s translation of Eugene Onegin, this book is a novel in verse composed with beautiful lyrical sonnets.

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52. Who is the author of the book “Beyond Peace”?

(A) Gerald Ford

(B) Lyndon B. Johnson

(C) Jimmy Carter

(D) Richard Nixon

Answer: Richard Nixon

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Beyond Peace is a manifesto for a new America, written with visionary insight and a realistic idealism by the 37th President of the United States—and only completed weeks before his death. In this last testament, Nixon offers a new agenda for the United States and defines its role in the complex post-Cold War era.

Nixon charts the course America should take in the future to ensure that the opportunities of this new era beyond peace are not lost. America’s issues, he argues, extend from a crisis of spirit which manifests itself in a corrosive entitlement mentality that he describes as “one of the greatest threats to our fiscal health, our moral fiber, and our ability to renew our nation.”

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53. Who is the author of the book “Glimpses of World History”?

(A) Indira Gandhi

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Feroze Gandhi

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

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‘Glimpses of the World History’ is an account of the progress of the world through centuries and ages. This book is a collection of letters that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to his daughter Indira when he was in various Indian prisons for three years. The letters were meant to introduce her to the world and its history. In the first few letters, Nehru expresses his sadness for not being able to be around his daughter and give her the materialistic gifts that other parents could but he promises to give her a gift that he could afford; in the form of knowledge and wisdom through words that come from the very core of his heart. Nehru wrote 196 letters and covered the history of mankind from 6000 BC to the time he was writing the letters.

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54. Who is the author of the book “Confessions of a Lover”?

(A) Amin Maalouf

(B) Asif Ali Zardari

(C) Anita Desai

(D) Mulk Raj Anand

Answer: Mulk Raj Anand

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55. Who is the author of the book “The Gathering Storm”?

(A) Marcel Proust

(B) Leo Tolstoy

(C) Winston S. Churchill

(D) James Clavell

Answer: Winston S. Churchill

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Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed substantial literary talents. These two factors combine to make The Gathering Storm a unique work. The first volume of Churchill’s memoirs, this selection is broken into two parts. The first, From War to War, consists of Churchill’s critical observations on the settlement of World War I and its place in the causes of the Second World War.

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56. Who is the author of the book “District Diary”?

(A) Jaswant Singh

(B) L. K. Advani

(C) Yashwant Sinha

(D) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Answer: Jaswant Singh

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This is a collection of articles, originally written by Jaswant Singh for District Dairy , a column that appeared in The Indian Express in the 1980s.

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57. Who is the author of the book “For Whom The Bell Tolls”?

(A) Mark Twain

(B) William Faulkner

(C) Ernest Hemingway

(D) Gertrude Stein

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight,” For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan’s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo’s last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal,

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58. Who is the author of the book “The Doctor’s Dilemma”?

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Henrik Ibsen

(C) Samuel Beckett

(D) George Bernard Shaw

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

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‘The Doctors Dilemma’ is about a doctor who has discovered a cure for tuberculosis and is faced with the decision of whether to save a great artist or an unselfish friend who has not made a success of his life. The doctor’s decision is further complicated by the fact that he is in love with the artist’s wife.

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59. Who is the author of the book “Farewell to Arms”?

(A) Ernest Hemingway

(B) Carol Matas

(C) Akio Morita

(D) Deborah Mathis

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.

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60. Who is the author of the book “First Among Equals”?

(A) Gerald Ford

(B) Annie Besant

(C) Jeffrey Archer

(D) Arun Shourie

Answer: Jeffrey Archer

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First Among Equals is an exciting political drama, by master storyteller, Jeffrey Archer.

In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions and upheavals of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes of all.

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61. Which city known as “City of Palaces”?

(A) Jaipur

(B) Kolkata

(C) Mumbai

(D) New Delhi

Answer: Kolkata

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62. Which city known as “Cockpit of Europe”?

(A) Netherlands

(B) Poland

(C) Belgium

(D) Greece

Answer: Belgium

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63. Which states share the Tungabhadra multi-purpose project?

(A) Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka

(B) Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu

(C) Orissa and Madhya Pradesh

(D) Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

Answer: Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

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Tungabhadra dam is constructed across the river Tungabhadra which is a tributary of river Krishna. The dam is near the town of Hospet in Karnataka.

It is a multipurpose dam serving irrigation, electricity generation, flood control, etc. The waters of this dam are shared by states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

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