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(a) Kapil Sibal
(b) None of these
(c) Kapil Dev
(d) Kapil Srimohan
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (c)
Kapil Dev
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Question : 1
‘Playing to Win’ is written by
a) Nadeem Aslam
b) Harsh Mander
c) Salman Rushdie
d) Saina Nehwal
Answer »Answer: (d)
Playing to win is written by Saina Nehwal. In ‘Playing to win, my life on and off the court’ Saina has written her autobiography in which she has revealed many of her secrets.
The book has many incidents about Saina which are not in the public domain.
Question : 2
The book “The God of small things” is written by :
a) Sobha De
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Pupul Jayakar
d) Shekhar Kapoor
Answer »Answer: (b)
Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist who was best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes.
Roy’s novel became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996. The book is semiautobiographical and a major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam.
The publication of The God of Small Things catapulted Roy to instant international fame. It received the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year for 1997.
It reached the fourth position on the New York Times Bestsellers list for Independent Fiction.
Question : 3
Match the following:
List I | List II |
(Book) | (Author) |
A. Abul Fazl | 1. Akbarnama |
B. Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad | 2. Tabaqat-i-Akbari |
C. Gulbadan Begum | 3. Humayun-Nama |
D. Jauhar | 4. Tazkiratul-Waqiat |
a) 1 2 4 3
b) 3 4 2 1
c) 4 3 2 1
d) 1 2 3 4
Answer »Answer: (d)
Question : 4
Who wrote ‘Indica’ ?
a) Megasthenes
b) Hieun Tsang
c) I-tsing
d) Fa-hien
Answer »Answer: (a)
Megasthenes was a Greek Ambassador in the court of Chandragupta Maurya. In Indica, he has left an elaborate account of the administrative system of the Mauryans.
Question : 5
The author of the famous Indian book of astrology ‘Panchsiddhantika’ is —
a) Bhaskar
b) Brahma Gupta
c) Varahmihir
d) Aryabhatta
Answer »Answer: (c)
Varahamihira was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He is considered to be one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendary ruler Vikramaditya (thought to be the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II Vikramaditya).
Varahamihira’s main work is the book Pañcasiddhantika (or PanchaSiddhantika, “[Treatise] on the Five [Astronomical] Canons) dated ca. 575 CE gives us information about older Indian texts which are now lost.
The work is a treatise on mathematical astronomy and it summarises five earlier astronomical treatises, namely the Surya Siddhanta, Romaka Siddhanta, Paulisa Siddhanta, Vasishtha Siddhanta and Paitamaha Siddhantas.
Question : 6
Who wrote the book “Why Socialism†?
a) Acharya Narendra Dev
b) Jayaprakash Narayan
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) M.N. Roy
Answer »Answer: (b)
In a book “Why Socialism?†(1932), Jayaprakash Narayan explained why socialism would be right for India. In 1934, Jayaprakash and his friends formed the Congress Socialist Party under the Presidentship of Acharya Narendra Deva and Secretaryship of Jayaprakash himself.
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