Literature
Questions:
1. What was the real name of the authoress George Eliot?
2. Who said the words: ' To be or not to be, that is the question ' ?
3. Name the French writer whose book, 'The Social Contract', was said to have inspired the French Revolution?
4. Who was ' the boy who never grew up'?
5. Which British Prime Minister was awarded the nobel Prize, for Literature?
6. Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?
7. Who wrote David Copperfield?
8. Who wrote the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey?
9. Who wrote the Discovery of India?
10. In which of Shakespeare's plays does the character Shylock appear?
11. What is the sacred book of the Jews?
12. Who wrote Prison and Chocolate Cake?
13. Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?
14. What is the tittle of Sir Walter Scott's first novel?
15. What is the complete name of P.G.Wodehouse?
16. Who wrote kadambari?
17. Who wrote ' Train to Pakistan ' ?
18. Who was King Arthur's fairy sister?
19. Who wrote The Song of India?
20. Who wrote the Panchatantra?
21. Who wrote Anand Math?
22. There is another title to Shakespeare's play ' Twelfth Night '. What is it?
23. What was Mark Twain's real name?
24. Who said: ' They also serve who only stand and wait ' ?
25. Who wrote ' Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea' ?
11. What is the sacred book of the Jews?
12. Who wrote Prison and Chocolate Cake?
13. Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?
14. What is the tittle of Sir Walter Scott's first novel?
15. What is the complete name of P.G.Wodehouse?
16. Who wrote kadambari?
17. Who wrote ' Train to Pakistan ' ?
18. Who was King Arthur's fairy sister?
19. Who wrote The Song of India?
20. Who wrote the Panchatantra?
21. Who wrote Anand Math?
22. There is another title to Shakespeare's play ' Twelfth Night '. What is it?
23. What was Mark Twain's real name?
24. Who said: ' They also serve who only stand and wait ' ?
25. Who wrote ' Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea' ?
26. Who was the American born British poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948?
27. Who wrote Geetanjali?
28. Who wrote Ivanhoe?
29. Who wrote Mein Kampf?
30. Who wrote A Tale Of Two Cities?
31. Who wrote Artha Shastra?
32. Who was called the ' Brad of Avon '?
33. Who is the creator of Jeeves?
34. In which poem do these lines appear: ' For men many come and men may go, But I go on for ever ' ?
35. Who wrote the book ' Between the Lines ' ?
36. Who wrote ' Harsha Charitra ' ?
37. Who wrote: ' If winter comes can spring be far behind ' ?
38. Under what name did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle write?
39. Who wrote the famous poem Madhu Shala?
40. Who was the author of Doctor Zhivago, the Nobel Prize winning novel?
41. Name the playwright who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?
42. In Greek mythology, who prophesied the destruction of Troy?
43. In which part of London was Shakespeare's Globe Theatre?
44. Who wrote: ' A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing ' ?
45. Who is the author of the book ' With No Regrets ' ?
46. Who wrote : ' Nowhere and under no circumstances should a woman ever be quite accurate about her age ' ?
47. Where did the expression ' mad as a hatter ' come from?
48. What kind of bird took Sinbad the sailor to its lair, in The Arabian Nights Entertainments?
49. What are the first names of the two brothers who wrote Grimm's Fairy Tales?
50. Who wrote Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde?
51. Who Created the comic strip Dennis the Menace?
52. What were the magic words spoken to open the door of the robbers' den in the story of Alibaba?
53. Which was the book that made Jim Corbett famous?
54. In which play was Ariel a character?
55. Who was the "grand old man" of American poetry?
56. What was the elegy Shelley wrote in memory of keats?
57. Which were the flowers that William Wordsworth saw ' beside the lake , beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze' ?
58. What are the giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels called?
59. On what day of the week did Robinson Crusoe meet his future servant and companion?
60. Who wrote The City of Joy?
61. Who wrote The Cocktail Party?
62. If Romeo and Juliet had surnames, what would they be?
63. For which translation is Edward Fitzgerald remembered?
64. Who wrote Gone with the Wind?
65. Which famous German poet, scientist and novelist wrote Faust?
66. Who wrote: ' Auld Lang Syne '?
67. Where was the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published?
68. For which of his books did Hemingway win the Noble Prize?
69. Who was the english outlaw who led a band of 'merry men'?
70. Who said the following: 'The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it'?
71. Most scholars agree that Shakespeare wrote a certain number of plays. How many?
72. Which great Sanskrit writer is said to have been a robber in his early life?
73. Who wrote Indians National Anthem?
74. Who wrote "Man is born free, and is everyone in chains", and in which famous book?
75. Which was the last play written by "William Shakespeare"?
76. Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
77. Who is considered to be the greatest poet in the German language?
78. Who said: "I can resist anything except temptation"?
79. Who wrote: "For fools rush in where angles fear to tread"?
80. Who is the author of the book The Guide?
81. Who was the author of the book Himalayan Blunder?
82. Who wrote Treasure Island?
83. "If music be the food of love, play on". Give the title of the play in which this occurs and name the author?
84. Who said or wrote the following: "Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he?
85. Who was Ogden Nash?
27. Who wrote Geetanjali?
28. Who wrote Ivanhoe?
29. Who wrote Mein Kampf?
30. Who wrote A Tale Of Two Cities?
31. Who wrote Artha Shastra?
32. Who was called the ' Brad of Avon '?
33. Who is the creator of Jeeves?
34. In which poem do these lines appear: ' For men many come and men may go, But I go on for ever ' ?
35. Who wrote the book ' Between the Lines ' ?
36. Who wrote ' Harsha Charitra ' ?
37. Who wrote: ' If winter comes can spring be far behind ' ?
38. Under what name did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle write?
39. Who wrote the famous poem Madhu Shala?
40. Who was the author of Doctor Zhivago, the Nobel Prize winning novel?
41. Name the playwright who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?
42. In Greek mythology, who prophesied the destruction of Troy?
43. In which part of London was Shakespeare's Globe Theatre?
44. Who wrote: ' A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing ' ?
45. Who is the author of the book ' With No Regrets ' ?
46. Who wrote : ' Nowhere and under no circumstances should a woman ever be quite accurate about her age ' ?
47. Where did the expression ' mad as a hatter ' come from?
48. What kind of bird took Sinbad the sailor to its lair, in The Arabian Nights Entertainments?
49. What are the first names of the two brothers who wrote Grimm's Fairy Tales?
50. Who wrote Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde?
51. Who Created the comic strip Dennis the Menace?
52. What were the magic words spoken to open the door of the robbers' den in the story of Alibaba?
53. Which was the book that made Jim Corbett famous?
54. In which play was Ariel a character?
55. Who was the "grand old man" of American poetry?
56. What was the elegy Shelley wrote in memory of keats?
57. Which were the flowers that William Wordsworth saw ' beside the lake , beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze' ?
58. What are the giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels called?
59. On what day of the week did Robinson Crusoe meet his future servant and companion?
60. Who wrote The City of Joy?
61. Who wrote The Cocktail Party?
62. If Romeo and Juliet had surnames, what would they be?
63. For which translation is Edward Fitzgerald remembered?
64. Who wrote Gone with the Wind?
65. Which famous German poet, scientist and novelist wrote Faust?
66. Who wrote: ' Auld Lang Syne '?
67. Where was the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published?
68. For which of his books did Hemingway win the Noble Prize?
69. Who was the english outlaw who led a band of 'merry men'?
70. Who said the following: 'The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it'?
71. Most scholars agree that Shakespeare wrote a certain number of plays. How many?
72. Which great Sanskrit writer is said to have been a robber in his early life?
73. Who wrote Indians National Anthem?
74. Who wrote "Man is born free, and is everyone in chains", and in which famous book?
75. Which was the last play written by "William Shakespeare"?
76. Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
77. Who is considered to be the greatest poet in the German language?
78. Who said: "I can resist anything except temptation"?
79. Who wrote: "For fools rush in where angles fear to tread"?
80. Who is the author of the book The Guide?
81. Who was the author of the book Himalayan Blunder?
82. Who wrote Treasure Island?
83. "If music be the food of love, play on". Give the title of the play in which this occurs and name the author?
84. Who said or wrote the following: "Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he?
85. Who was Ogden Nash?
Answers:
1. Mary Ann Evans.
2. Hamlet, in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
3. Jean Jacques Rousseau.
4. Peter Pan ( a character in a tale for children by James Barrie )
5. Sir Winston Churchill in 1953.
6. Jonathan Swift.
7. Charles Dickens.
8. The blind poet Homer.
9. Jawaharlal Nehru.
10. Merchant of Venice.
11. The Torah.
12. Nayantra Sahgal.
13. Waverley.
14. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
15. Sir. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
16. Banabhatta.
17. Kushwant Singh.
18. Morgan le Fay.
19. Sarojini Naidu.
20. Pandit Vishnu Sharma.
21. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
22. What You Will.
23. Samuel Langhorme Clemens.
24. John Milton.
25. Jules Verne.
12. Nayantra Sahgal.
13. Waverley.
14. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
15. Sir. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
16. Banabhatta.
17. Kushwant Singh.
18. Morgan le Fay.
19. Sarojini Naidu.
20. Pandit Vishnu Sharma.
21. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
22. What You Will.
23. Samuel Langhorme Clemens.
24. John Milton.
25. Jules Verne.
26. Thomas Stearns Eliot.
27. Rabindranath Tagore.
28. Sir Walter Scott.
29. Adolf Hitler.
30. Charles Dickens.
31. Kautilya ( or Chanakya ).
32. William Shakespeare.
33. P.G. Wodehouse.
34. ' The Brook ' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
35. Kuldip Nayar.
36. Banabhata.
37. Shelley in ' Ode to the West Wind '.
38. His own.
39. Bachhan.
40. Boris Pasternak. He declined the prize.
41. Tennessee Williams.
42. Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.
43. Bankside, in the Borough of Southwark.
44. Oscar Wilde.
45. Krishna Hutheesingh, sister of Jawaharlal Nehru.
46. Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest.
47. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
48. A Roc.
49. Jacob and Wilhelm.
50. Robert Louis Stevenson.
51. Hank Ketcham.
52. 'Open Sesame'
53. Man-eaters of the Kumaon.
54. The Tempest by Shakespeare.
55. Robert Frost.
56. 'Adonais'.
57. Daffodils in the poem 'The Daffodils'.
58. Borbdingnagians.
59. Friday. So he named his servant Friday.
60. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
61. T.S. Eliot.
62. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
63. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
64. Margaret Mitchell.
65. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ( 1749 - 1832 ).
66. Robert Burns.
67. Edinburgh, Scotland, in December 1768.
68. The Old Man and the Sea.
69. Robin Hood.
70. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
71. Thirty Eight Plays written by Shakespeare either partially or totally.
72. Valmiki.
73. Rabindranath Tagore.
74. Jean Jacques Rousseau in his Social Contract.
75. The Tempest.
76. Dante Alighieri.
77. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
78. Oscar Wilde, ( 1854 - 1900 ).
79. Alexander Pope.
80. R.K. Narayan.
81. Brigadier J.P. Dalvi.
82. Robert Louis Stevenson.
83. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
84. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
85. A famous American poet renowned for his limericks and "nonsense" poems.
27. Rabindranath Tagore.
28. Sir Walter Scott.
29. Adolf Hitler.
30. Charles Dickens.
31. Kautilya ( or Chanakya ).
32. William Shakespeare.
33. P.G. Wodehouse.
34. ' The Brook ' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
35. Kuldip Nayar.
36. Banabhata.
37. Shelley in ' Ode to the West Wind '.
38. His own.
39. Bachhan.
40. Boris Pasternak. He declined the prize.
41. Tennessee Williams.
42. Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.
43. Bankside, in the Borough of Southwark.
44. Oscar Wilde.
45. Krishna Hutheesingh, sister of Jawaharlal Nehru.
46. Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest.
47. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
48. A Roc.
49. Jacob and Wilhelm.
50. Robert Louis Stevenson.
51. Hank Ketcham.
52. 'Open Sesame'
53. Man-eaters of the Kumaon.
54. The Tempest by Shakespeare.
55. Robert Frost.
56. 'Adonais'.
57. Daffodils in the poem 'The Daffodils'.
58. Borbdingnagians.
59. Friday. So he named his servant Friday.
60. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
61. T.S. Eliot.
62. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
63. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
64. Margaret Mitchell.
65. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ( 1749 - 1832 ).
66. Robert Burns.
67. Edinburgh, Scotland, in December 1768.
68. The Old Man and the Sea.
69. Robin Hood.
70. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
71. Thirty Eight Plays written by Shakespeare either partially or totally.
72. Valmiki.
73. Rabindranath Tagore.
74. Jean Jacques Rousseau in his Social Contract.
75. The Tempest.
76. Dante Alighieri.
77. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
78. Oscar Wilde, ( 1854 - 1900 ).
79. Alexander Pope.
80. R.K. Narayan.
81. Brigadier J.P. Dalvi.
82. Robert Louis Stevenson.
83. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
84. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
85. A famous American poet renowned for his limericks and "nonsense" poems.
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