CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 2 - MCQExams.com

Who is the Author of the Book "Playing to Win"?
  • Saina Nehwal
  • Adithya Joshi
  • Stanislas Wawrinka
  • Monica Seles
The "Killer Instinct" is written by
  • M.K. Santanam
  • Sulakshan Mohan
  • Subash Jain
  • O.P. Sabharwal
The famous book 'Anandmath' was authored by
  • Sarojini Naidu
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Bankim Chandra Chattopadhya
  • Sri Aurobindo
Author of the book 'Crime and Punishment'.
  • Vatsyayana
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
Who is the Author of the Book "Economic History of India"?
  • R.C. Dutt
  • P. Chidambaram
  • Raghuram Rajan
  • D. Subbarao
Author of the books The Three Musketeers and The Legend of Monte Cristo.
  • Albert Camus
  • Alexandre Dumas
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Arthur Stanley Eddington
Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Kipling
  • Charles Dickens
Who of the following was the earliest known greek follower of Bhagavatism?
  • Megasthenes
  • Antialkidas
  • Heliodorus
  • None of the above
Which of the following English films was the first one to be dubbed in Hindi? 
  • Universal Soldier
  • Aladdin
  • Cliffhanger
  • Speed
Who is the Author of the book 'One Day Wonders'?
  • Richard
  • Clive Lloyd
  • Sunil Gavaskar
  • Imran Khan
Which of the following books is written by Rabindranath Tagore?
  • Rakta Karabi
  • Chidambara
  • Anand Math
  • Durgesh Nandini
Author of the book Oedipus Rex.
  • Charles Dickens
  • Sophocles
  • Jane Austen
  • Louisa May Alcott
'India Discovered' was written by 
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • John Keay
  • P. D. Tandon
The only Indian woman who became President of the World Health Organisation, so far is/was
  • Smt. Kamala Devi Chattopadhyaya
  • Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
  • Smt. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
  • Dr. Sushila Nayar
Author of the books Little Men and Little Women.
  • William Shakespeare
  • Louisa Mary Alcott
  • Miguel de Cervantes
  • George Orwell
Who is the Director-General of UNESCO?
  • Audrey Azoulay
  • Irina Bokova
  • Dr. H.T. Mahler
  • Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Which of the book was written by Graham Greene?
  • The Power and Glory
  • O' Jerusalem
  • of Human Bondage
  • Crisis in India
Author of the 'Jungle Book'.
  • Thomas Paine
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Juan Matapang Cruz
  • S.K. Pachauri
Who donated the land far U.N. Secretariat building?
  • Henry Ford
  • Roosevelt
  • John D. Roclcefeller
  • Hilton
Salman Rushdie wrote
  • Shalimar - The Clown
  • My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir
  • The Sea
  • The Accidental
Who is the Author of the Book  "A Beautiful Truth"? 
  • Kripalani
  • Colin McAdam
  • Rajendra Prasad
  • Indira Gandhi
"Seditious fakir striding half-naked up the step of the Viceroy's Palace there, to negotiate and parley on equal terms with the representative of the King Emperor". This was the statement on __________ 
  • Einstein
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Acharya Vinoba
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
Who has written the book named "God and the Bible"?
  • Dipendera Singh
  • Mathew Arnold
  • L. Ramadas
  • Savitha Ambedkar
Who is the permanent representative of India to the United Nations in 2015?
  • Nirupam Sen
  • Kamalesh chandra
  • Asoke Kumar Mukerji
  • Hardeep Singh Pun
"The Proper Study of Mankind is Man" - Who wrote this?
  • Shakespeare
  • Milton
  • Oscar Wild
  • Alexander Pope
Who wrote the Book "Gandhi and Stalin"?
  • Raj Narayan
  • V. S. Naipaul
  • Louis Fisher
  • Anita Desai
Who is the President of World Bank?
  • James Wright
  • David R. Malpass
  • Philip Hanlon
  • James O. Freedman
The Book "Space Today" was written by
  • K. A. Abbas
  • Mohan Sundarajan
  • Morgan
  • Naresh Mehta
An auto biography "Years of Pilgrinage" was written by
  • Raja Ramanna
  • Kushwant Singh
  • Mahesh Yogi
  • Savitha Ambedkar
"The True History of the Kelly Gang" was written by
  • Immanual Kerf
  • Peter Carey
  • Ibsen
  • Daniel Patric Moynihan
'Straight From Heart' (Autobiography) was written by 
  • Kapil Dev
  • E. Alkazi
  • Deshpande
  • None of these
'An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire was written by  
  • Arundhati Roy
  • Shobha De
  • Vikram Seth
  • Dr. Radhakrishnan
The Book 'Freedom at Midnight' was written by
  • J. D. Watson
  • Ramdhari Dinkar
  • Larry Collins
  • Charles Dickens
In 1943, Franklin D.Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, met at Teheran primarily
  • To discuss the strategy to be adopted by the Allies to invade Germany
  • To consider a common plan of action by the Allied forces against the Axis powers
  • For creating an effective instrument for maintaining international peace
  • To work out a common line of action against Japan
"Back to Methuselah" was written by
  • Bernard Show
  • Gunnar Myrdal
  • Manohar Malgonkar
  • Jules Verne
Prof. Judith Brown wrote
  • Das Kapital
  • Nehru - A Political Life
  • Death of a City
  • Death in Venice
The "Bionic man " was created by 
  • Prior Mordin
  • George Winter
  • Martin Caidens
  • Stephen Martin
The book 'Infinite Justice' was written by 
  • Indira Goswami
  • Kushwant Singh
  • Arundhati Roy
  • None of these
Who is the author of "The Genius of India"?
  • Dr. Karan Singh
  • Guy Sorman
  • Patric White
  • S. K. Ray
'Portnoy's Complaint' was written by 
  • K. M. Munshi
  • P. Ramamoorthy
  • Philip Roth
  • H. G. Wells
The character "Rebecca Randall" was created by 
  • James Holland
  • Allarenarles
  • Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Bill Owen
The Hero "Arthus Kipps" was created by 
  • Marcal Pagnol
  • H. G. Wells
  • M. Reynolds
  • H. K. Browne
Who is the Author of the book 'India 2020'? 
  • R. K. Narayan
  • Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Sidney Shelton
  • Nibal Singh
'The White Tiger' was written by 
  • Aravind Adiga
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Faust
  • None of these
The book "The Sense of an Ending" which won Man Booker Prize in 2011 was written by 
  • Louis Fischer
  • Sarojini Naidu
  • Julian Barnes
  • Charles Dickens
Who won the Man Booker Prize 2015 for his novel "A Brief  History of Seven Killings"? 
  • Richard Flanagan
  • Julian Barnes
  • Howard Jacobson
  • Marlon James
The Novel 'Things Fall Apart' was written by 
Who wrote the book "The Hidden Glory of India"? 
  • R.K. Narayan
  • Steven J. Rosen
  • Kushwant Singh
  • Arundhati Roy
The first recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding was.
  • Khan Abdul Gaffar khan
  • Yehudi Menuhin
  • Martin Luther King
  • U. Thant
Which of the following was one of the main objectives of Bharatiya Gnanpith?
  • To encourage translation of works of Indian authors in foreign languages
  • To depute Indian authors to foreign countries
  • To encourage creation contemporary literature
  • Collecting and preserving documents of historical importance
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