Books and Authors for RRB NTPC PDF
Books and Authors || RRB NTPC GK Questions and Answers PDF
1. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(A) Straight From the Heart: Kapil Deo
(B) My Life: Bill Clinton
(C) The Writing on the Wall: Gen. N.C. Vij
(D) Ignited Minds: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
2. Who among the following has authored the book "Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstopable"?
(A) Rodney Hartman
(B) D. R. Kartikeyan and Radha Vinod Raju
(C) L. K. Advani
(D) Shobha De
3. "India's Fragile Borderlands" is a recently published book which is written by ?
(A) Jaswant Singh
(B) Archana Upadhyaya
(C) Kapil Sibal
(D) Murli Manohar Joshi
4. The book "The Sea" has been written by-
(A) John Banville
(B) Levis Caroll
(C) A. Stevenson
(D) E. M. Forster
5. Who is the author of the book "Small Island?"
(A) Robert Mccrum
(B) Andrea Levy
(C) Lester R. Brown
(D) Jeremy Moore
6. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
(A) Zia-ud-din Barni: Tarikh-i-Muhammadi
(B) Shams-i-Siraj Afif: Tarikh-i-Feroze- shahi
(C) Ibn Batuta: Fatwa-i-Jahandari
(D) Amir Khusro: Tabqat-i-Nasiri
7. Who is the author of the book "India's Water Economy : Bracing for A Turbulent Future"?
(A) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the new Pope
(B) The Bishop of the Church of England
(C) Both in joint authorship
(D) R.P.S. Malik
8. The book entitled 'Indian Freedom Fighters: Struggle for Independence' on Indian National Movement was written by-
(A) Subhash Chandra Bose
(B) Pattabhi Sitaramaiya
(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(D) None of the above
9. Which one of the following is the author of the book "Let Us Kill Gandhi" ?
(A) Narasimha Rao
(B) Tushar A. Gandhi
(C) Vikram Seth
(D) Amitav Ghosh
10. The book "Moonlit Cage" has been authored by-
(A) P. Chidambaram
(B) Linda Holeman
(C) Dr. Manmohan Singh
(D) Dr. Subramaniam Swamy
11. The book "Faith of My Fathers" has been written by-
(A) Barack Obama
(B) John McCain
(C) M. S. Prabhakara
(D) Robert Harris
12. Which one of the following is correctly matched ?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi: Muk Naik
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak: Young India
(C) Annie Besant: Commonweal
(D) B.R. Ambedkar: Kesari
13. Who is the author of the book "The Elephant, The Tiger and The Cellphone" ?
(A) George W. Bush
(B) Atal Behari Vajpei
(C) Shashi Tharoor
(D) David Becham
14. Who among the following won the Inter- national Man Booker Prize for 2016 ?
(A) Hillary Clinton
(B) Han Kang
(C) Seema Sirohi
(D) Nayantara Sehgal
15. The book "The Line of Beauty" is written by-
(A) Alan Hollinghurst
(B) Gao Xingjian
(C) Malcolm Bradbury
(D) Salman Rushdie
16. Who wrote the "Ganit Sar" ?
(A) Sridhara
(B) Bhaskar II
(C) Aryabhatta II
(D) Brahmagupta
17. Who wrote "Waiting for the Mahatma" ?
(A) MJ. Akbar
(B) Pran Chopra
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Rajmohan Gandhi
18. The book "A Travelogue of My Struggle; Ridden Life and BSP Movement" has been authored by?
(A) Swami Prasad Maurya
(B) Mayawati
(C) Joint authorship of (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
19. The book "The Idea of Justice" has been written by-
(A) Amitabh Ghosh
(B) Amartya Sen
(C) Jaswant Singh
(D) S. S. Sodhi
20. Who was the author of "Gita Govinda" ?
(A) Vidyapati
(B) Surdas
(C) Jayadeva
(D) Mirabai
21. Who is the author of "The Asian Judgement: The Rise of China, India and Japan" ?
(A) Murli Manohar Joshi
(B) Lal Krishna Advani
(C) Brahma Chelani
(D) Rajiv Gandhi
22. The author of the book "Animal Farm" is-
(A) Leo Tolstoy
(B) George Orwell
(C) John Dryden
(D) S.M. Ali
23. The book "Confessions of A Secular Fundamentalist" was written by-
(A) Michael Moore
(B) Ashish Nandi
(C) Mani Shankar Aiyar
(D) Amit Chaudhary
24. A book that brought awareness of environment all over the world was "Silent Spring". It was written by-
(A) Julien Huxley
(B) Jane Goodall
(C) John Seymour
(D) Rachel Carson
25. Who is the author of "Business At the Speed of Thought" ?
(A) Dick Francis
(B) John Gray
(C) Bill Gates
(D) David Baldacci
26. The book "What Require from Life" has been written by-
(A) Aman Nath
(B) Jay Vithalani
(C) Tulsi Vatsal
(D) J.B.S. Haldane
27. Who among the following is the author of the book "Keeping the Faith Memoirs of a Parliamentarian" ?
(A) Sushma Swaraj
(B) Sonia Gandhi
(C) Somnath Chatterjee
(D) A. B. Bardhan
28. The book "Decoding Intolerance: Riots and the Emergence of Terrorism in India" has been authored by-
(A) N. K. Singh
(B) Pratap Lahiri
(C) Natwar Singh
(D) Meghnad Desai
29. Who is the author of 'In the Line of Fire: A Memoir' ?
(A) Nawaj Sharif
(B) N. K. Singh
(C) Parvez Musharraf
(D) None of these
30. Who is the author of the book "Songs of (B) Benazir Bhutto Blood and Sword" ?
(A) Sonia Gandhi
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Fatima Bhutto
(D) Shobha De
31. Who among the following is the author of the book "The Flinker Question" ?
(A) Arvind Adiga
(B) Howard Jacobson
(C) Barak Obama
(D) Hillary Clinton
32. Who is the author of the book "The Otherside of Justice" ?
(A) Arun Shourie
(B) MJ. Akbar
(C) Jaswant Singh
(D) S.S. Sodhi
33. Who is the author of the book "Without Fear"?
(A) Arun Shourie
(B) Kuldeep Nayar
(C) L.K. Advani
(D) M. J. Akbar
34. The author of the book "India's New Middle Class" is-
(A) Jaswant Singh
(B) Lila Fernandis
(C) M. J. Akbar
(D) Benazir Bhutto
35. The author of the book "Jyoti Punj" is-
(A) L. K. Advani
(B) Jaswant Singh
(C) Narendra Modi
(D) Sonia Gandhi
36. The author of the book "My Country, My Life" is-
(A) B. L. Joshi
(B) Sushama Swaraj
(C) L. K. Advani
(D) Narendra Modi
37. Who is the author of the book "Unaccustomed Earth" ?
(A) M.J. Akbar
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) Sushma Swaraj
(D) S. S. Sodhi
38. Who is the author of the book "Our Choice" ?
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Barack Obama
(C) AI Gore
(D) Nelson Mandela
39. Who is the author of the "Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi" ?
(A) Sonia Gandhi
(B) Pranay Gupte
(C) Sukhendu Shekhar Ray
(D) Pranab Mukherjee
40. Who is the author of the book "The Red Sari"?
(A) Sonia Gandhi
(B) Sushama Swaraj
(C) Javier Moro
(D) Uma Bharati
Answers
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