Famous Books and Authors – Welcome to AniCow! In today’s class you are going to learn about all the important and famous books and their authors questions answers which are repeated in every exams.
Here we have covered all the important books with their authors name which are important for every exams like A Century is not Enough, Playing it My Way, The Namesake, Swami and his Friends, Ace Against Odds, Wings of Fire, A Suitable Boy, Half Girlfriend, The God of Small Things, Midnight’s Children, India wins Freedom, Gitanjali, My Experiments with Truth, and many more.
Famous Books and Authors GK Questions Answers
Q. ‘The Test of My Life’ is written by?
a. V.V.S. Laxman
b. Rahul Dravid
c. Ravindra Jadeja
d. Yuvraj Singh
Ans. d
Q. ‘The Race of My Life’ is written by?
a. P.T. Usha
b. Usain Bolt
c. Milkha Singh
d. Sachin Tendulkar
Ans. c
Q. ‘A Century is Not Enough’ is written by?
a. Harbhajan Singh
b. Sourav Ganguly
c. Navjot Singh Sidhu
d. Sachin Tendulkar
Ans. b
Q. ‘Playing it My Way’ is a book written by?
a. Rahul Dravid
b. Lala Amarnath
c. Sunil Gavaskar
d. Sachin Tendulkar
Ans. d
Q. ‘281 and Beyond’ is an autobiography of?
a. Virendra Sehwag
b. Brain Lara
c. V.V.S. Laxman
d. Shubman Gill
Ans. c
Q. Who is the writer of ‘Glimpses of World History’?
a. Kiran Desai
b. Khushwant Singh
c. Jawaharlal Nehru
d. Salman Rushdie
Ans. c
Q. Who is the author of ‘The Namesake’?
a. Arundhati Roy
b. Jhumpa Lahiri
c. Mulk Raj Anand
d. Vikram Seth
Ans. b
Famous Books and their Authors for Competitive Exams
Q. Who is the writer of the novel ‘Untouchable’?
a. Ravinder Singh
b. Mulk Raj Anand
c. Premchand
d. Amish Tripathi
Ans. b
Q. ‘Ace Against Odds’ is the autobiography of?
a. Lakshya Sen
b. Saina Nehwal
c. Sania Mirza
d. Mary Kom
Ans. c
Q. ‘Swami and His Friends’ is written by?
a. Nirad Chaudhary
b. R.K. Narayan
c. Amitav Ghosh
d. E.M. Forster
Ans. b
Q. ‘Straight From The Heart’ is an autobiography of?
a. M.S. Dhoni
b. Kapil Dev
c. Shoaib Akhtar
d. Shane Warne
Ans. b
Q. ‘Cricket My Style’ is written by?
a. Sunil Gavaskar
b. Imran Khan
c. Kapil Dev
d. Ajit Agarkar
Ans. c
Q. ‘Wings of Fire’ is the autobiography of?
a. Narendra Modi
b. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
c. Jawaharlal Nehru
d. Sachin Tendulkar
Ans. b
Q. ‘Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India’ is written by?
a. Sourav Ganguly
b. Amit Shah
c. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
d. Manmohan Singh
Ans. c

Famous Authors and their Books Quiz
Q. ‘A Suitable Boy’ is the notable novel by?
a. Shashi Tharoor
b. Amitav Ghosh
c. Vikram Seth
d. Ram Sharan Sharma
Ans. c
Q. ‘An Unsuitable Boy’ is the autobiography of?
a. Ranbir Kapoor
b. Karan Johar
c. Vikram Seth
d. Shahrukh Khan
Ans. b
Q. ‘Malgudi Days’ is a collection of short stories by?
a. Milkha Singh
b. Amish Tripathi
c. Jhumpa Lahiri
d. R.K. Narayan
Ans. d
Q. ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ and ‘The Secret of Nagas’ are written by?
a. Chetan Bhagat
b. Ruskin Bond
c. Sushil Kumar
d. Amish Tripathi
Ans. d
Q. ‘Train to Pakistan’ is a creation by?
a. Jhumpa Lahiri
b. Ravinder Singh
c. Sarabjit Singh
d. Khushwant Singh
Ans. d
Q. ‘Half Girlfriend’, ‘2 States’ and ‘The Three Mistakes of My Life’ are creations of?
a. Chetan Bhagat
b. John Abraham
c. Amish Tripathi
d. Sonu Sood
Ans. a
Famous Books with their Authors Questions Answers
Q. ‘The Blue Umbrella’ and ‘The Tunnel’ are written by?
a. Kiran Desai
b. R.K. Narayan
c. Karan Johar
d. Ruskin Bond
Ans. d
Q. Who is the author of the book ‘The Buddha and His Dhamma’?
a. B.R. Ambedkar
b. Jawaharlal Nehru
c. Ashoka
d. Mahatma Gandhi
Ans. a
Q. ‘Galpaguchchha’ is a collection of short stories by?
a. Rabindranath Tagore
b. Arundhati Roy
c. Taslima Nasreen
d. Vikram Seth
Ans. a
Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Roads to Mussoorie’?
a. Ruskin Bond
b. Chetan Bhagat
c. Amish Tripathi
d. Munshi Premchand
Ans. a
Q. ‘The God of Small Things’ is a famous novel by?
a. Kiran Desai
b. Mulk Raj Anand
c. Arundhati Roy
d. Vikram Seth
Ans. c
Q. ‘Gaban’, ‘Poos Ki Raat’, ‘Godaan’ and ‘Kafan’ are creations by?
a. Premchand
b. Amrita Pritam
c. Mahadevi Verma
d. Ashapurna Devi
Ans. a
Q. ‘Unbreakable’ is an autobiography by?
a. P.T. Usha
b. Yuvraj Singh
c. Mary Kom
d. Taslima Nasreen
Ans. c
Q. ‘Goal’ is an autobiography by?
a. Sunil Chhetri
b. Cristiano Ronaldo
c. Major Dhyanchand
d. Kapil Dev
Ans. c
Famous Books and Authors Quiz
Q. ‘Gitanjali’, ‘Chokher Bali’, ‘Kabuliwala’, ‘Noukadubi’ and ‘Gora’ are creations of?
a. Vikram Seth
b. Ashapurna Devi
c. Mahasweta Devi
d. Rabindranath Tagore
Ans. d
Q. Who among the following wrote ‘India Wins Freedom’?
a. Jawaharlal Nehru
b. B.R. Ambedkar
c. Abdul Kalam Azad
d. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Ans. c
Q. ‘My Truth’ is written by?
a. Jawaharlal Nehru
b. Indira Gandhi
c. Motilal Nehru
d. Mahatma Gandhi
Ans. b
Q. ‘My Experiments with Truth’ is written by?
a. Barack Obama
b. Nelson Mandela
c. Mahatma Gandhi
d. Sarojini Naidu
Ans. c
Q. ‘Discovery of India’ is a book by?
a. Indira Gandhi
b. Jawaharlal Nehru
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. Aurobindo Ghosh
Ans. b
Q. The novel ‘Midnight’s Children’ is written by?
a. Vikram Seth
b. Chetan Bhagat
c. Salman Rushdie
d. Amitav Ghosh
Ans. c
Q. Who is the author of the book ‘Essays on Gita’?
a. Aurobindo Ghosh
b. Bhagat Singh
c. R.K. Laxman
d. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Ans. a
Q. ‘The Argumentative Indian’ is written by?
a. Amartya Sen
b. Amit Shah
c. Mahatma Gandhi
d. Durjoy Datta
Ans. a