Practice Quiz set 4 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

Q-1)   ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is written by

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Explanation:

An Inconvenient Truth 2006 is an Academy award winning documentary film on the sensitive issues of environmental and climate change. It has been written by Al Gore.


Q-2)   Who is the author of ‘Indica’ ?

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Explanation:

Indica is an account of India that was authored by Megasthenes, an ancient Greek historian and diplomat. He was sent by the Hellenistic king Seleucus I on embassies to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta. He gave the most complete account of India then known to the Greek world and was the source for work by the later historians.


Q-3)   ‘Origin of Life by Natural Selection’ is a book written by:

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Explanation:

‘On the Origin of Species,’ published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.’ It introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.


Q-4)   A modern classic book on science ‘A Brief History of Time’ has been written by:
  1. James Jeans
  2. Stephen Hawking
  3. Martin Rees
  4. R. A. Fisher
Select the answer from the codes given below:

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Explanation:

The book written by Stephen Hawking deals with fundamental questions of physics and our existence: where did the universe come from "How and why did it begin" Will it come to an end, and if so, how Hawking attempts to deal with these questions (and where we might look for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon.


Q-5)   ‘Mrichhakatikam’ is written by

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Explanation:

Mrichhakatikam is written by Shudrak. Sanskrit dramas like Mrichhakatikam by Shudrak and Shakuntalam by Kalidas give some very vivid pictures of police force at work in the ancient times.


Q-6)   ‘The Gathering Storm’ is written by

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Explanation:

The Gathering Storm is the first volume of The Second World War (book series), a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill.


Q-7)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
A. Mitakshara 1. Plini
B. Daybhag 2. Vigyaneshwar 
C. Rajtarangini 3. Jeemootwahan
D. Natural History 4. Kalhana
Codes: A B C D

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Explanation:

  • Mitakshara — Vigyaneshwar
  • Daybhag — Jeemootwahan
  • Rajtarangini — Kalhana
  • Natural History — Plini


Q-8)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I List II
(Books) (Authors)
A. Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1. Mulk Raj Anand
B. India : A Wounded Civilization 2. Nirad C. Chaudhari
C. Confessions of a Lover 3. R.K. Narayan
D. The English Teacher 4. V.S. Naipaul
Codes: A B C D

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Explanation:


Q-9)   Match the following books with their authors:
List I List II
(Books) (Authors)
A. The Satanic 1. Sunil Gavaskar
B. A House for Mr. Biswas 2. V.S. Naipaul
C. Interpreter of Maladies 3. Salman Rushdie
D. Sunny Days 4. Jhumpa Lahiri
Codes: A B C D

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Explanation:

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent.

A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul’s first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries the Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it,

Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

Gavaskar has also been awarded the Padma Bhushan. In December 1994 he was appointed the Sheriff of Mumbai, an honorary post, for a year. After retirement, he has been popular, if sometimes controversial commentator, both on TV and in print. He has written four books on the cricket – Sunny Days (autobiography).


Q-10)   The book, A Tale of Two Cities was written by

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Explanation:

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.