Q1 . Recipient of 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, this famous writer modestly told that Carl Sandburg, Isak Dinesen and Bernard Berenson deserved the prize. Who is he?

George Bernard Shaw
Pablo Neruda
Samuel Beckett
Earnest Hemingway

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Q2. Saraswati Samman for the year 2015 was awarded to

Veerappa Moily
Govind Mishra
Sugathakumari
Padma Sachdev

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Q3. Song Offerings is a volume of lyrics by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore rendered into English by the poet himself, for which he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Do you know who wrote the introduction to the second edition of Song of Offerings?

P B Shelley
Sarojini Naidu
W B Yeats
Alfred Tennyson

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Q4. Stalky & Co. is a collection of school stories. Who is the author?

R K Narayan
Ruskin Bond
Satyajit Ray
Rudyard Kipling

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Q5. Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by R. K. Narayan. Which famous English novelist suggested the title "Swami and Friends"?

George Orwell
James Joyce
Graham Greene
Aldous Huxley

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Q6. The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza is a satirical play about several political philosophies. Who is the author?

William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Henrik Ibsen
Ben Jonson

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Q7. The books titled "Runs n' Ruins" and "One Day Wonders" were written by a famous Indian cricketer. Who is he?

Sunil Gavaskar
Kapil Dev
Ravi Shastri
Chetan Sharma

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Q8. The famous movie Jurassic Park is based on the novel by the same name. Can you name the author?

Robin Cook
Isaac Asimov
Michael Crichton
Arthur Hailey

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Q9. The first Asian to win Nobel Prize for Literature was Rabindranath Tagore. Do you know the second Asian?

Leo Esaki
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Yasunari Kawabata
Kenzaburo Oe

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Q10. The first free English translation of the epic Mahabharata was done by

K M Ganguli
R K Narayan
S Radhakrishnan
Rabindranath Tagore

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