Peter Parker is the original name of which fictional superhero?
1.Phantom
2.Batman
3.Superman
4.Spiderman
The 'Cannes Award'is given for excellence in which of the following fields?
1.Films
2.Journalism
3.Economics
4.Literature
Which novel of Rabindranath Tagore makes a critique of the Swadeshi movement ?
1.Chokherbali
2.Ghare Baire
3.Chaturanga
4.Char Adhyay
Which of the following is the Booker Prize winner novel of Arundhati Roy?
1.Heat and Dust
2.Midnight's Children
3.Last Orders
4.The God of Small Things
Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?
1.E.M. Forster
2. Nirad C. Chaudhari
3.G.B. Shaw
4.M. K. Gandhi
Who painted the master piece "Hamsa Damayanti"?
1.Anjolie Ela Menon
2.Abanindranath Tagore
3.Amrita Shergill
4.Raja Ravi Varma
Who translated 'Neel Darpan' ?
1.Rev. James Long
2.William Cary
3.Satish Chandra Mukherhjee
4. Michael Madhusudan Dutta
Who wrote 'A Haunted House'?
1.Bret Harte
2.James Joy,ce
3.Thomas Hardy
4.Virginia Woolf
With which of the following activities, Golden Globe Awards are associated?
1.Social work
2.Films
3.Journalism
4.Women education
With which of the following was Satyajit Ray associated?
1.Direction of films
2. Classical music
3.Classical dance
4.Journalism
'Satyameva Jayate', engraved on the Indian emblem is taken from
1. Rig Veda
2. Bhagavad Gita
3.Mundakopanished
4.Matsyapurana
A much acclaimed book "The immortals of Meluha" has been authored by -
1.Amish Tripathi
2.Naresh Mehta
3.Javed Akhtar
4.Karan Thapar
Arogya Niketan' is composed by -
1.Tarashankar Bandyopadhyaya
2.Kalidas Nag
3.Gokul Nag
4.Subodh Ghosh
Bernard Shaw is the author of the drama -
1.Death of a Salesman
2.Arms and the Man
3.Twelfth Night
4.Murder in the Ca thedral
Bihu is a folk dance from
1.Assam
2.Karnataka
3.Kerala
4.Tamil Nadu
Byomkesh Bakshi' Character was created by -
1.Banaful
2.Satinath Bhaduri
3.Sharadindu Bandyopadhyaya
4.Manik Bandyopadhyaya
Crime and Punishment' was written by-
1.Henry James
2.Joseph Conrad
3.Dostoevsky
4.Boris Pasternak
Desdemona' is a character of the drama -
1.The Tempest
2. King Lear
3.Othello, The Moor of Venice
4.Romeo and Juliet
Firoja Begum is associated with-
1.Acting
2.Nazrul-Geeti
3.Social Service
4.Politics
Goodbye Shahzadi" is a book written by
1.Shyam Bhatia
2.Janardan Thakur
3.Ashok Mehta
4.Dhirendra Sharma
Hemis Gumpa festival which is internationally known is of which state :
1.Rajasthan
2.Himachal Pradesh
3.Jammu and Kashmir
4.None of the above is correct
India Wins Freedom" is the autobiography of
1. Abul Kalam Azad
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Zakir Hussain
4.Syed Ahmad Khan
Kala Kshetram is a centre of dance and performing arts established by-
1.Rukmini Devi
2.Sonal Man Singh
3.Sutapa Tulukdar
4. Birju Maharaj
Kuchipudi is a dance drama of which of the following States?
1.Andhra Pradesh
2.Kerala
3.Karnataka
4.Tamil Nadu
Kuchipudi is a dance-drama associated with the State of -
1.Odisha
2.Andhra Pradesh
3.Manipur
4.Assam
Neel Darpan is a play based on the story of Indigo Rebellion of Bengal of 1860-61. Who authored it?
1.Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
2.Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh jointly
3.Madhusudan Dutta
4.Dinabandhu Mitra
odfather' was written by -
1.V.S.Naipal
2.Guntr Grass
3.Mario Pujo
4.Erichj Segal
Odissi is connected with
1.Andhra Pradesh
2.Madhya Pradesh
3.Orissa
4.Sikkim
Pongal is famous festival of -
1.Andhra Pradesh
2.Karnataka
3.Kerala
4.Tamil Nadu
R.K.Laxman of India is a well known:
1.Novelist
2.Painter
3.Cartoonist
4. Bird watcher and specialist of bird life
Rukmini Devi is associated with
1.Dancing
2.Music
3.Theatre
4.Painting
Sanjukta Panigrahi was famous for the dance -
1.Odissi
2.Manipuri
3.Kaththak
4.Bharatnatyam
Soj-e-Vatan is the book written by -
1.Premchand
2.Mahadevi Verma
3.Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
4.Sumitranandan Pant
Syed Mustafa Siraj has created this detective character -
1.Kakababu
2.Colonel
3.Kikira
4.Bhaduri-mosai
The book 'Great Soul:Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India' was in news some time back and was banned in some Indian States including Gujarat.The author of the book is -
1.Michael Ondaatje
2.Joseph Lelyveld
3.Jack Welch
4.Duncan Green
The book "Unto the last", which influenced Gandhiji, was authored by
1.Boris Yeltsin
2.John Ruskin
3.Pushkin
4.Ruskin Bond
The composer of 'Paradise Regained' is -
1.Wordsworth
2.Coleridge
3.Shakespeare
4.Milton
The Last Word" is a book written by
1.Hanif Kureishi
2.Javed Akhtar
3.Vikram Seth
4.Anita Desai
The play 'Nathabati Anathabot' was directed by -
1.Sambhu Mitra
2.Shamoli Mitra
3.Tripti Mitra
4.Kumar Ray
Which of the following awards is given for excellence in literature?
1.Jnanpith Award
2.Dhanwantri Award
3.Dada Saheb Phalke Award
4.Borlaug Award
Which of the following books is authored by V.S. Naipaul?
1.A House for Mr.Biswas
2. Tender Hooks
3.Witness the Night
4.The Rediscovery of India
Which of the following books is written by Anita Desai?
1.The Village By the Sea
2.Magic Seeds
3.My God Died Young
4.None of the these
Which of the following books is written by Kiran Desai?
1. Tale of Two Cities
2.The Inheritance of Loss
3.3 Mistakes of My Life
4.A Tale of Two Sisters
Which of the following folk dances is associated with Rajasthan?
1.Rauf
2.Jhora
3.Veedhi
4.Suisini
Which of the following is a famous Assamese festival?
1.Makar Sakranti
2.Yugadi
3.Onam
4.Rongali Bihu
Which of the following is Maharashtra's famous form of folk theatre?
1.Naat
2.Tamasha
3.Nautanki
4.Ras
Which one of these is not a dance of Uttarakhand?
1.Jagar
2.Chanchari
3.Terahtali
4.Thadia
Who among the following has written the book Joseph Anton?
1.Vikram Seth
2. V.S. Naipaul
3.Salman Rushdie
4.Amitav Ghosh
Who among the following is a well known Cine Actor/Actress of India cinema?
1.Priyanka chopra
2.Anjali Bhagat
3.Zaheer Khan
4.Sania Mirza
Who among the following is not the recipient of Jnanpeeth Award?
1.Tarashankar bandopadhyay
2.Firaq Gorakhpuri
3.Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
4.Maithilisharan Gupt
Who among the following wrote the book Ayodhya : 6 December 1992?
1.Jaswant Singh
2.Chandra Shekhar
3.P.V. Narasimha Rao
4.Arun Shourie
Who amongst the following has written the book "Sandy Storms"?
1.Sandeep Patil
2.Kapil Dev
3.Rahul Dravid
4.Sachin Tendulkar
Who amongst the following is the author of the Book "A Bend in the River"?
1.Walter Scott
2.V.S.Naipaul
3. Arun Shourie
4.Daniel Defoe
Who amongst the following is the author of the book "Development as Freedom"?
1.Y.V.Reddy
2.Manmohan Singh
3.C.Rangarajan
4.Amartya Sen
Who amongst the following is the author of the book "We The People"?
1.Arun Gandhi
2.Nani Palkhiwala
3.Khushwant Singh
4.Janardan Thakur
Who is the author of the book "Two Lives"?
1.Vikram Seth
2.James Patterson
3.Ved Mehta
4.Khushwant Singh
Who is the author of the book "Two Lives"?
1.Vikram Seth
2.James Patterson
3.Ved Mehta
4.Khushwant Singh
Who is the author of the famous book 'A Better India : A Better World'
1.Azim H. Premji
2.Rajiv Sikri
3.N. R. Narayana Murthy
4.Prema Mahajan
Who was the Director of 'Aparajito'?
1.Sandip Ray
2.Satyajit Ray
3.Sukumar Ray
4.Tapan Singha
Who was the first lady to be awarded Gnanpitha Award in India?
1.Mahadevi Verma
2.Amrita Pritam
3.Mahasweta Devi
4.Ashapurna Devi
Who was the first recipient of Nehru Award for International Understanding?
1.Dr.Jonas Salk
2.U.Thant
3.Mother Teresa
4.Martin Luther King`
Who was the first winner of Dada Saheb Phalke Award?
1.B.N.Sarkar
2. Kanan Devi
3.Prithvi Raj Kapoor
4.Devika Rani
Who was the painter of the famous 'Bharatmata' ?
1.Gaganendranath Tagore
2.Abanindranath Tagore
3.Nandalal Bose
4.Jamini Roy
Who wrote 'Nil Darpan'?
1.Madhusudan Dutta
2.Dinabandhu Mitra
3.Harish Chandra Mukherjee
4.Kali Prasanna Singha
Who wrote the book The Story of the Integration of the Indian States?
1.V.P. Menon
2.Krishna Menon
3.B.N.Ranu
4.C. Rajagopalachari