Who among the following has won the prestigious DSC Prize for Literature, one of the South Asia’s top literary awards?

• Jhumpa Lahiri 

• Vijay Sheshadri 

• Amitav Ghosh 

• Aravind Adiga

'Anandmath', 'Durgeshnondini' and 'Kapalkundala' novels were authored by which Bengali writer ?

•      Rabindranath Tagore

•      Sharat Chandra Chatterjee

•      Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

•       Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay

What was the theme of Hans Christian Andersen’s play The Mulatto?

•      Science

•      Slavery

•      War

•      Discovery

Who was the author of Living History?

• Mother Teresa

• Arundhati Roy

• Kiran Bedi

• Hillary Clinton

Who is the author of Ulysses?

• Umberto Eco

• Theodore Dreiser

• James Joyce

• J.R.R. Tolkien

Who has written the book "Antony and Cleopatra" ?

•      Jules Verne

•      William Shakespeare

•      Sinclair Lewis

The "Killer Instinct" is written by

•      Sulakshan Mohan

•      M.K.Santanam

•      Joseph Finder

Which novel of Thomas Hardy first gained notice?

•      Vestiges of an Old Flame

•      Far from the madding crowd

•      Under the Greenwood Tree

•      A Pair of Blue Eyes

When did Oliver Goldsmith write The Deserted Village?

•      1794

•      1782

•      1776

•      1770

‘Mein Kampf’ (My Struggle) book is the autobiography of which dictator ?

•      Pol Pot

•      Idi Amin

•      Adolf Hitler

•      Joseph Stalin

Which is the highest literary award of the world?

•      Nobel Prize

•       Booker Prize

•       Pulitzer Prize

•       Magsaysay Award

Who has written the book "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" ?

•      Mahatma Gandhi

•      Lech Walesa

•      Rousseau

The popular TV serial 'Neem ka Ped' was written by

•       Rahi Masoom Raza

•       Sharad Joshi

•       Ashapurna Devi

•       Harivansh Rai Bachachan

Who wrote 'The Vendor of Sweets'?

•      R.K. Narayan

•      Khushwant Singh

•      Arun Shourie

Who wrote the novel 'Godan'?

•      Bharatendu Harischandra

•      Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

•      Munshi Premchand

Who among the following viceroys of India wrote a book " Persia" ?

•      Lord Elgin

•      Lord Curzon

•      Lord Minto

•      Lord Irwin

Which poem of Thomas Hardy deals with Napoleonic Wars?

    *  The Grave by the Handpost
    *  A Changed Man
    *  The Dynasts
    *  Enter a Dragoon

The book Guiding Souls : Dialogues on the purpose of life of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has been translated into—

    *  Japanese
    *  Chinese
    *  German
    *  Portuguese

Which novel of George Orwell deals with suppression of truth and free speech in future?

•   Utopia
•   1984
•   Homage to Catalonia
•   Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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

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