Literature Quiz 1

1. 'Frailty, thy name is woman.' in which Shakespeare play do these words appear ?
2. Who was the first African writer to win a Literature Nobel ?
3. How do we better know Charles Dodgson ?
4. Who was the first winner of Jnanpith Award, India's most prestigious literary honor ?
5. Who was the author of The Godfather ?
6. 'Call me Ishmael', which classic novel begins with this line ?
7. Which famous poet wrote the preface to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali ?
8. What is the other name of Geethagovindam by Jayadeva ?
9. Sir Nigel and The White Company are the lesser known romance novels by which author ?
10. Who is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar Award ?
11. What is the real name of the character who people know as the 'hunchback of Notre Dame' ?
12. Who created the character Lolita ?
13. Lago is the antagonist of which famous literary work ?
14. On whose novel of the same title is the Oscar winning film The English Patient based ?
15. Which literature Nobel laureate was once the Mexican ambassador to India ?
16. Which famous novel ends with the line 'After all, tomorrow is another day' ?
17. Whose autobiography is titled The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian ?
18. Which author played a village girl in the film Massey Saahib ?
19. Which Soviet author had to reject the Nobel prize in 1958 due to the government pressure ?
20. The Hugo Award for detective fiction is named after whom ?

Answers

1. Hamlet
2. Wole Soyinka
3. Lewis Caroll, author of Alice in Wonderland
4. G Shankarakkurup, Malayalam poet
5. Mario Puzo
6. Mobydick by Herman Melville
7. WB Yeats
8. Ashtapadi
9. Arthur Conan Doyle
10. George Bernard Shaw
11. Quasimodo
12. Vladimir Nabokov
13. Othello
14. Michael Ondaatje
15. Octavio Paz
16. Gone With the Wind
17. Nirad C Chaudhari
18. Arundhati Roy
19. Boris Pasternak
20. Hugo Gernsbach

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General Knowledge Quiz 1

Here are some General Knowledge questions and answers useful for competitions and examinations and of course, for a little fun ! Here we go !

1. Where can you find the Sea of Tranquility ?
2. Who directed the famous film The Godfather ?
3. By what name is the boundary line that separates India and China known as ?
4. Who invented the pendulum clock ?
5. What is Vexilology a study of ?
6. Which animal has the shortest gestation period ?
7. Which river is known as Sorrow of China ?
8. What are the ingredients of Pancha Loha ?
9. How is the International Bank for Re-construction and Development better known as ?
10. Which was the first Asian city to host the Olympics ?
11. Who is known as Nature Poet ?
12. Which element in periodic table is named after the Greek word for Sun ?
13. What does the abbreviation ATM stand for ?
14. Where are the headquarters of World Water Council situated ?
15. Who is the architect of Taajmahal ?

Answers

1. Moon
2. Francis Ford Coppola
3. Mc Mahon Line
4. Christiaan Huygens
5. Flags
6. Opposum (12 days)
7. Huang Ho
8. Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead and Iron
9. World Bank
10. Tokyo, in 1964
11. William Wordsworth
12. Helium, from Helious
13. Automated Teller Machine
14. Marseille, France
15. Ustad Isa

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