Quiz - 3 General Knowledge (Literature)

Q.1	Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel uses the plot of an epic. Which epic was that?
Ans	The Mahabharata
Q.	Who wrote the words “brevity is the soul of wit’
Ans	Shakespeare in his work Hamlet.
Q.	When did Rabindranath Tagore become a Nobel Laureate?
Ans	1913
Q.	What is the name of the Autobiography of Mulk Raj Anand?
Ans	The Seven Ages of Man
Q.	What is the name of Mrinalani Sarabhai’s novel which has dance as its theme?
Ans	This Alone is Truth
Q.	The world famous novelist Herman Hesse is the grandson of another celebrity. What was the name of that celebrity?
Ans	Herman Hesse was the grandson of Herman Gundert. It was Gundert who compiled the Malayalam grammar book called Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam.
Q.	Who was the person selected as the British Personality of the Millennium in 1999 by the listeners of BBC radio?
Ans	William Shakespeare
Q.	What is the name of the heroine of Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe?
Ans	Akhilandeswari
Q.	In which year was the Booker Prize (renamed as Man Booker Prize) established?
Ans	1969
Q.	Who wrote the famous words ‘Water, water everywhere; Nor any drop to drink’?
Ans	Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Q.	Who is the author who claimed Joseph Anton as his nickname?
Ans	Salman Rushdie
Q.	Who is the famously believed to have said ‘Knowledge is Power’
Ans	Sir Francis Bacon
Q.	Where is the Kendra Sahitya Academy located?
Ans	New Delhi