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 Pinnacle  Static GK 
 Sol.1230.(d)  Haruki  Murakami.  Some 
 more  Popular  Books  by  him  -  "Kafka  on 
 the  Shore",  "Norwegian  Wood",  "1Q84", 
 "After  Dark",  "A  Wild  Sheep  Chase",  "The 
 Elephant Vanishes" etc. 
 Q.1231.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Coward  And  The 
 Sword’? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rushad Rana  (b) Jimmy Shergill 
 (c) Uday Chopra  (d) Jugal Hansraj 
 Sol.1231.(d)  Jugal  Hansraj  .  His  other 
 prominent  book  is  ‘Cross  Connection: 
 The  Big  Circus  Adventure’  (2018).  Uday 
 Chopra  (‘Dhoom  Redux  893’).  Rashad 
 Rana and Jimmy Shergil (Actor). 
 Q.1232.  Which  of  the  following  is  'George 
 David  Roberts’  thriller  novel  that  is  based 
 on his own experience in Mumbai? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Area of Darkness  (b) Amrit Aur Vish 
 (c) Shantaram  (d) Kurukshetra 
 Sol.1232.(c)  Shantaram.  George  David 
 Roberts  -  ‘The  Mountain  Shadow’,  ‘The 
 Spiritual  Path’,  ‘Shantaram  Part  Two’,  etc. 
 ‘Area  of  Darkness’  (V.S.  Naipaul),  ‘Amrit 
 Aur  Vish’  (Amritlal  Nagar)  and 
 ‘Kurukshetra’ (Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'). 
 Q.1233.  Which  Indian  cartoonist’s 
 autobiography  is  titled  ‘The  Tunnel  of 
 Time’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Ajit Ninan  (b) RK Laxman 
 (c) OV Vijayan  (d) Mario Miranda 
 Sol.1233.(b)  RK  Laxman.  Most  famous 
 books:  OV  Vijayan-  Thalamurakal 
 (Generations;  1997),  Mario  Miranda-  The 
 Life  of  Mario  1950  and  Ajit  Ninan-  “Like 
 That Only”. 
 Q.1234.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  author  of  the  famous  work  “Sangita 
 Ratnakara” ? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Sharngadeva  (b) Lochan Kavi 
 (c) Jaidev  (d) Ramamatya 
 Sol.1234.(a)  Sharngadeva.  Authors  and 
 their  books:  Lochan  Kavi  -  “Raga 
 Tarangini”.  Jaidev  -  “Gita  Govinda”,  and 
 “Love  Song  of  the  Dark  Lord”. 
 Ramamatya - “Swaramela Kalanidhi”. 
 Q.1235.  Among  the  following,  whose 
 autobiography  is  ‘Daughter  of  Destiny:  An 
 Autobiography’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Kamala Das  (b) Urvashi Butalia 
 (c) Malala Yousafzai  (d) Benazir Bhutto 
 Sol.1235.(d) Benazir Bhutto  .  Urvashi 
 Butalia-  ‘The  Other  Side  of  Silence: 
 Voices  from  the  Partition  of  India’.  Malala 
 Yousafzai-  ‘I  Am  Malala:  The  Girl  Who 
 Stood  Up  for  Education  and  Was  Shot  by 
 the Taliban’. Kamala Das- ‘My Story’. 
 Q.1236.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 autobiography of the international athlete 
 Maria Sharapova? 
 SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Open 
 (b) Unbreakable 
 (c) But Seriously 
 (d) Unstoppable: My Life So Far 
 Sol.1236.(d)  ‘Unstoppable:  My  Life  So 
 Far’  (Maria  Sharapova),  ‘But  Seriously’ 
 (John  McEnroe),  ‘Unbreakable’  (Mary 
 Kom), and ‘Open’ (Andre Agassi). 
 Q.1237.  Whose  memoir  is  titled  ‘My  Life 
 in Full: Work, Family and Our Future’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Shobhana Bhartia 
 (b) Renuka Ramnath 
 (c) Indra Nooyi 
 (d) Kiran Majumdar Shaw 
 Sol.1237.(c)  Indra  Nooyi.  Kiran 
 Majumdar  Shaw  -  ‘Ale  and  Arty’, 
 ‘Shobhana  Bhartia:  (Penguin  Petit)’  by 
 Gunjan Jain. 
 Q.1238.  The  historical  ?ction  novel  ‘The 
 King Within’ is authored by: 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Krishna Sobti  (b) Indu Sundaresan 
 (c) Nandini Sengupta (d) Kiran Nagarkar 
 Sol.1238.(c)  Nandini  Sengupta  -  ‘The 
 Poisoned  Heart’,  ‘The  Ocean’s  Own’,  ‘The 
 Blue  Horse  and  Other  Amazing  Animals 
 from  Indian  History’,  ‘Babies  from  the 
 Heart:  A  Complete  Guide  to  Adoption’, 
 etc. 
 Q.1239.  Which  of  the  following  pairs  of 
 authors  and  autobiographies  is 
 CORRECTLY matched? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Jahangir – Baburnama 
 (b) Satyajit Ray – Living Shadows 
 (c) JB Kripalani – My Times 
 (d) Aribam Syam Sharma – Jakhan 
 Choto Chilam 
 Sol.1239.(c)  ‘My  Times’  (JB  Kriplani)  , 
 ‘Baburnama’  (Babur),  ‘Living  Shadows’ 
 (Cornelia  Funke),  ‘Jakhan  Choto  Chilam’ 
 (Satyajit  Ray),  and  ‘Tuzk-e-Jahangiri’ 
 (Jahangir). 
 Q.1240.  ‘Finding  My  Way’  is  a  famous 
 autobiography  written  by  which  of  the 
 following  Gond  artists  of  India  with  the 
 help of Mukul S Anand? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Venkat Raman Singh Shyam 
 (b) Dhavat Singh Uikey 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam 
 (d) Jangarh Singh Shyam 
 Sol.1240.(a)  Venkat  Raman  Singh 
 Shyam  and  Mukul  S  Anand.  Dhavat  Singh 
 Uikey-  ‘Where  has  the  Tiger  Gone?’, 
 Bhajju  Shyam  -  ‘The  Nightlife  of  Trees’, 
 and  ‘Jangarh  Singh  Shyam:  The 
 Enchanted Forest’ - Aurogeeta Das. 
 Q.1241.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 debut  novel  of  Indian  novelist  Chetan 
 Bhagat,  who  received  the  Society  Young 
 Achievers  Award  and  the  Publisher’s 
 Recognition award for his works? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) The Three Mistakes of My Life 
 (b) Five Point Someone 
 (c) Revolution 2020 
 (d) What Young India Wants 
 Sol.1241.(b)  Five  Point  Someone  (His 
 ?rst  novel  published  in  2004;  3  Idiots 
 movie  was  based  on  it  ).  Movies  based 
 on  his  novels:  Hello  in  2008  (  One  Night 
 at  the  Call  Center),  Kai  Po  Che!  in  2013 
 (The  3  Mistakes  of  My  Life;  won  59th 
 Filmfare  award  for  best  screenplay);  2 
 States  in  2014  (his  novel  of  the  same 
 name)  and  Half  Girlfriend  in  2017  (his 
 novel of the same name). 
 Q.1242.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Narcopolis’? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jeet Thayil  (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) David Davidar   (d) Anees Salim 
 Sol.1242.(a)  Jeet  Thayil.  Books  of  Jeet 
 Thayil  -  ‘The  Book  of  Chocolate  Saints’, 
 ‘Low’,  ‘English:  Poems’,  ‘These  errors  are 
 correct’,  ‘Names  of  the  Women’, 
 ‘Collected Poems’, etc. 
 Q.1243.  Which  of  the  following  novels  is 
 set  in  the  background  of  life  in  New  Delhi 
 after  the  declaration  of  Emergency  in  the 
 1970’s ? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/ 2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Such a Long Journey 
 (b) The Heart Has its Reasons 
 (c) Rich Like Us 
 (d) The House of Blue Mangoes 
 Sol.1243.(c)  ‘Rich  Like  Us’-  Nayantara 
 Sahgal,  ‘  Such  a  Long  Journey.’  -  Rohinton 
 Mistry,  ‘The  Heart  Has  Its  Reasons’- 
 Maria  Duenas,  and  ‘The  House  of  Blue 
 Mangoes: A Novel’- David Davidar. 
 Q.1244.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 authored  the  famous  novel  ‘To  kill  a 
 mockingbird’? 
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 Pinnacle  Static GK 
 Sol.1230.(d)  Haruki  Murakami.  Some 
 more  Popular  Books  by  him  -  "Kafka  on 
 the  Shore",  "Norwegian  Wood",  "1Q84", 
 "After  Dark",  "A  Wild  Sheep  Chase",  "The 
 Elephant Vanishes" etc. 
 Q.1231.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Coward  And  The 
 Sword’? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rushad Rana  (b) Jimmy Shergill 
 (c) Uday Chopra  (d) Jugal Hansraj 
 Sol.1231.(d)  Jugal  Hansraj  .  His  other 
 prominent  book  is  ‘Cross  Connection: 
 The  Big  Circus  Adventure’  (2018).  Uday 
 Chopra  (‘Dhoom  Redux  893’).  Rashad 
 Rana and Jimmy Shergil (Actor). 
 Q.1232.  Which  of  the  following  is  'George 
 David  Roberts’  thriller  novel  that  is  based 
 on his own experience in Mumbai? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Area of Darkness  (b) Amrit Aur Vish 
 (c) Shantaram  (d) Kurukshetra 
 Sol.1232.(c)  Shantaram.  George  David 
 Roberts  -  ‘The  Mountain  Shadow’,  ‘The 
 Spiritual  Path’,  ‘Shantaram  Part  Two’,  etc. 
 ‘Area  of  Darkness’  (V.S.  Naipaul),  ‘Amrit 
 Aur  Vish’  (Amritlal  Nagar)  and 
 ‘Kurukshetra’ (Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'). 
 Q.1233.  Which  Indian  cartoonist’s 
 autobiography  is  titled  ‘The  Tunnel  of 
 Time’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Ajit Ninan  (b) RK Laxman 
 (c) OV Vijayan  (d) Mario Miranda 
 Sol.1233.(b)  RK  Laxman.  Most  famous 
 books:  OV  Vijayan-  Thalamurakal 
 (Generations;  1997),  Mario  Miranda-  The 
 Life  of  Mario  1950  and  Ajit  Ninan-  “Like 
 That Only”. 
 Q.1234.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  author  of  the  famous  work  “Sangita 
 Ratnakara” ? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Sharngadeva  (b) Lochan Kavi 
 (c) Jaidev  (d) Ramamatya 
 Sol.1234.(a)  Sharngadeva.  Authors  and 
 their  books:  Lochan  Kavi  -  “Raga 
 Tarangini”.  Jaidev  -  “Gita  Govinda”,  and 
 “Love  Song  of  the  Dark  Lord”. 
 Ramamatya - “Swaramela Kalanidhi”. 
 Q.1235.  Among  the  following,  whose 
 autobiography  is  ‘Daughter  of  Destiny:  An 
 Autobiography’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Kamala Das  (b) Urvashi Butalia 
 (c) Malala Yousafzai  (d) Benazir Bhutto 
 Sol.1235.(d) Benazir Bhutto  .  Urvashi 
 Butalia-  ‘The  Other  Side  of  Silence: 
 Voices  from  the  Partition  of  India’.  Malala 
 Yousafzai-  ‘I  Am  Malala:  The  Girl  Who 
 Stood  Up  for  Education  and  Was  Shot  by 
 the Taliban’. Kamala Das- ‘My Story’. 
 Q.1236.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 autobiography of the international athlete 
 Maria Sharapova? 
 SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Open 
 (b) Unbreakable 
 (c) But Seriously 
 (d) Unstoppable: My Life So Far 
 Sol.1236.(d)  ‘Unstoppable:  My  Life  So 
 Far’  (Maria  Sharapova),  ‘But  Seriously’ 
 (John  McEnroe),  ‘Unbreakable’  (Mary 
 Kom), and ‘Open’ (Andre Agassi). 
 Q.1237.  Whose  memoir  is  titled  ‘My  Life 
 in Full: Work, Family and Our Future’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Shobhana Bhartia 
 (b) Renuka Ramnath 
 (c) Indra Nooyi 
 (d) Kiran Majumdar Shaw 
 Sol.1237.(c)  Indra  Nooyi.  Kiran 
 Majumdar  Shaw  -  ‘Ale  and  Arty’, 
 ‘Shobhana  Bhartia:  (Penguin  Petit)’  by 
 Gunjan Jain. 
 Q.1238.  The  historical  ?ction  novel  ‘The 
 King Within’ is authored by: 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Krishna Sobti  (b) Indu Sundaresan 
 (c) Nandini Sengupta (d) Kiran Nagarkar 
 Sol.1238.(c)  Nandini  Sengupta  -  ‘The 
 Poisoned  Heart’,  ‘The  Ocean’s  Own’,  ‘The 
 Blue  Horse  and  Other  Amazing  Animals 
 from  Indian  History’,  ‘Babies  from  the 
 Heart:  A  Complete  Guide  to  Adoption’, 
 etc. 
 Q.1239.  Which  of  the  following  pairs  of 
 authors  and  autobiographies  is 
 CORRECTLY matched? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Jahangir – Baburnama 
 (b) Satyajit Ray – Living Shadows 
 (c) JB Kripalani – My Times 
 (d) Aribam Syam Sharma – Jakhan 
 Choto Chilam 
 Sol.1239.(c)  ‘My  Times’  (JB  Kriplani)  , 
 ‘Baburnama’  (Babur),  ‘Living  Shadows’ 
 (Cornelia  Funke),  ‘Jakhan  Choto  Chilam’ 
 (Satyajit  Ray),  and  ‘Tuzk-e-Jahangiri’ 
 (Jahangir). 
 Q.1240.  ‘Finding  My  Way’  is  a  famous 
 autobiography  written  by  which  of  the 
 following  Gond  artists  of  India  with  the 
 help of Mukul S Anand? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Venkat Raman Singh Shyam 
 (b) Dhavat Singh Uikey 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam 
 (d) Jangarh Singh Shyam 
 Sol.1240.(a)  Venkat  Raman  Singh 
 Shyam  and  Mukul  S  Anand.  Dhavat  Singh 
 Uikey-  ‘Where  has  the  Tiger  Gone?’, 
 Bhajju  Shyam  -  ‘The  Nightlife  of  Trees’, 
 and  ‘Jangarh  Singh  Shyam:  The 
 Enchanted Forest’ - Aurogeeta Das. 
 Q.1241.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 debut  novel  of  Indian  novelist  Chetan 
 Bhagat,  who  received  the  Society  Young 
 Achievers  Award  and  the  Publisher’s 
 Recognition award for his works? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) The Three Mistakes of My Life 
 (b) Five Point Someone 
 (c) Revolution 2020 
 (d) What Young India Wants 
 Sol.1241.(b)  Five  Point  Someone  (His 
 ?rst  novel  published  in  2004;  3  Idiots 
 movie  was  based  on  it  ).  Movies  based 
 on  his  novels:  Hello  in  2008  (  One  Night 
 at  the  Call  Center),  Kai  Po  Che!  in  2013 
 (The  3  Mistakes  of  My  Life;  won  59th 
 Filmfare  award  for  best  screenplay);  2 
 States  in  2014  (his  novel  of  the  same 
 name)  and  Half  Girlfriend  in  2017  (his 
 novel of the same name). 
 Q.1242.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Narcopolis’? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jeet Thayil  (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) David Davidar   (d) Anees Salim 
 Sol.1242.(a)  Jeet  Thayil.  Books  of  Jeet 
 Thayil  -  ‘The  Book  of  Chocolate  Saints’, 
 ‘Low’,  ‘English:  Poems’,  ‘These  errors  are 
 correct’,  ‘Names  of  the  Women’, 
 ‘Collected Poems’, etc. 
 Q.1243.  Which  of  the  following  novels  is 
 set  in  the  background  of  life  in  New  Delhi 
 after  the  declaration  of  Emergency  in  the 
 1970’s ? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/ 2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Such a Long Journey 
 (b) The Heart Has its Reasons 
 (c) Rich Like Us 
 (d) The House of Blue Mangoes 
 Sol.1243.(c)  ‘Rich  Like  Us’-  Nayantara 
 Sahgal,  ‘  Such  a  Long  Journey.’  -  Rohinton 
 Mistry,  ‘The  Heart  Has  Its  Reasons’- 
 Maria  Duenas,  and  ‘The  House  of  Blue 
 Mangoes: A Novel’- David Davidar. 
 Q.1244.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 authored  the  famous  novel  ‘To  kill  a 
 mockingbird’? 
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 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Mary Shelley  (b) George Orwell 
 (c) Harper Lee  (d) Charles Dickens 
 Sol.1244.(c)  Harper  Lee  -  ‘Go  Set  a 
 Watchman’,  etc.  .Mary  Shelley-  ‘The  Last 
 Man’,  ‘Mathilda’,  ‘Frankenstein,  A 
 Longman  Cultural  Edition’,  etc.  George 
 Orwell-  ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal 
 Farm:  A  Fairy  Story’,  ‘Homage  To 
 Catalonia’, etc. 
 Q.1245.  ‘Born  in  India  Made  in  England’ 
 is  an  autobiography  of  Balraj  Khanna.  For 
 which  of  the  following  art  forms  is  he 
 known? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Theatre  (b) Music 
 (c) Sculpture  (d) Painting 
 Sol.1245.(d) Painting. 
 Q.1246.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  the  great 
 Indian  santoor  player  Shiv  Kumar  Sharma 
 in 2002? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) The Life of a Musician 
 (b) That Long Silence 
 (c) Journey with a Hundred Strings: My 
 Life in Music 
 (d) Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us 
 Sol.1246.(c)  ‘The  Life  of  a  Musician’  - 
 Book  By  Ferguson  Lennox,  ‘That  Long 
 Silence’  -  Novel  By  Shashi  Deshpande, 
 ‘Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us’ - Book 
 by Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan. 
 Q.1247  .  ‘Drawing  From  the  City’  is  a 
 visual  autobiography  of  which  of  the 
 following Indian folk artists? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Teju Behun  (b) Jamini Roy 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam    (d) Baua Devi 
 Sol.1247.(a)  Teju  Behun.  Jamini  Roy 
 Famous  Paintings-  Three  Pujarins, 
 Yashoda  and  Krishna  etc.  Bhajju  Shyam 
 received  international  recognition  for  his 
 book The London Jungle Book in 2004. 
 Baua Devi is a Mithila painting artist. 
 Q.1248  .Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel “Mrignayani” ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Chatursen Shashtri 
 (b) Sumitranandan Pant 
 (c) Rangeya Raghav 
 (d) Vrindavan Lal Verma 
 Sol.1248.(d)  Vrindavan  Lal  Verma  . 
 Famous  Novels  by  him-  ‘Gadh  Kundar’, 
 ‘Virata  ki  Padmini’  ‘Musahibju’,  ‘Jhansi  ki 
 Rani’,  ‘Kachnar’,  ‘Madavji  Sindhia’,’Tute 
 Kante’, ‘Bhuvan Vikram’, ‘Ahilya Bai’ etc. 
 Q.1249  .  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘A Movable Feast’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ernest Hemingway (b) William Faulkner 
 (c) George Orwell  (d) Roald Dahl 
 Sol.1249.(a)  Ernest  Hemingway  -  ‘The 
 Old  Man  and  the  Sea’,  ‘A  Farewell  to 
 Arms’  etc.  William  Faulkner  -  ‘A  Fable’, 
 ‘The  Reivers’  etc.  George  Orwell  - 
 ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal  Farm’  etc. 
 Roald  Dahl-  ‘Matilda’,  ‘Charlie  and  the 
 Chocolate Factory’ etc. 
 Q.1250.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  former 
 English  footballer,  David  Beckham 
 published in 2003 ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) A Shot at History 
 (b) The Greatest: My own Story 
 (c) My Side 
 (d) Standing my Ground 
 Sol.1250.(c)  ‘My  Side’  .  Personality  and 
 their  autobiography:  Muhammad  Ali  - 
 ‘The  Greatest:  My  own  Story’,  Mathew 
 Hayden - ‘Standing My Ground’. 
 Q.1251.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Secret  of  the 
 Veda’ ? 
 SSC CGL 11/04/2022(Morning) 
 (a) Sri Aurobindo  (b) Annie Besant 
 (c) Swami Vivekananda  (d) J Krishnamurti 
 Sol.1251.(a)  Sri  Aurobindo  life 
 philosophy  is  a  synthesis  of  idealism, 
 realism,  naturalism  and  pragmatism. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  by  Sri 
 Aurobindo  are  -  ‘The  Life  Divine’,  ‘Integral 
 Yoga’,  ‘Hidden  Forces  of  Life’,  ‘The  Future 
 Evolution  of  Man’,  ‘Powers  Within’, 
 ‘Rebirth  and  Karma’,  ‘The  Human  Cycle’, 
 ‘The  Mind  of  Light’,  ‘The  Yoga  on  Sleep 
 and Dreams’ etc. 
 Q.1252.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Social Harmony’? 
 SSC CGL  11/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) HD Deve Gowda (b) PV Narsimha Rao 
 (c) Narendra Modi   (d) Manmohan Singh 
 Sol.1252.(c) Shri Narendra Modi  . Books 
 by  Shri  Narendra  Modi  -  ‘Exam  Warriors’, 
 ‘Abode  of  Love’,  ‘Sabka  Saath,  Sabka 
 Vikas’,  ‘Nayan  he  Dhanya  Re’,  ‘Sangharsh 
 Ma  Gujarat’,  ‘Sakshibhav’,  ‘Aapatkal  Mein 
 Gujarat’, ‘Mann ki Baat’, etc. 
 Q.1253.  Which of the following is a book 
 written by Avni Doshi? 
 SSC CGL 13/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) In Other Words 
 (b) Burnt Sugar 
 (c) Unaccustomed Earth 
 (d) Interpreter of Maladies 
 Sol.1253.(b)  Burnt Sugar.  Other books  - 
 ‘  Girl in white Cotton’. 
 Q.1254.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘Myth  =  Mithya  : 
 Decoding Hindu Mythology’? 
 SSC CGL  13/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor  (b) Devdutt Pattanaik 
 (c) Vikram Seth        (d) Amitav Ghosh 
 Sol.1254.(b)  Devdutt  Pattanaik  .  More 
 famous  books  by  him  are  ‘Jaya’,  ‘My 
 Gita’,  ‘Krishna's  Secret’,  ‘7  Secrets  of 
 Shiva’,  ‘Devlok  with  Devdutt  Pattanaik’, 
 ‘How  To  Take  Decisions’,  ‘Sita’,  ‘My 
 Hanuman Chalisa’, ‘How to become Rich’. 
 Q.1255.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the epic poem ‘Kamayani’ ? 
 SSC CGL  18/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaishankar Prasad 
 (b) Gopala Sarana Sinha 
 (c) Mahadevi Varma 
 (d) Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi 
 Sol.1255.(a)  Jaishankar  Prasad  most 
 famous  dramas  include  ‘Skandagupta', 
 ‘Chandragupta’  and  ‘Dhruvaswamini’. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  are  ‘Titli’, 
 ‘Kankal’, ‘Inderjaal’, ‘Ajatshatru’, ‘Mamta’. 
 Q.1256.  Who  among  the  following 
 science  ?ction/  popular  science  writers 
 wrote  ‘2001  :  A  Space  Odyssey’  and  held 
 the  position  of  a  Professor  at  the 
 Physical  Research  Laboratory, 
 Ahmedabad? 
 SSC CGL 18/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Isaac Asimov       (b) Arthur C Clarke 
 (c) Jules Verne          (d) HG Wells 
 Sol.1256.(b)  Arthur  C  Clark  -  ‘Rama 
 Series’, 'Childhood Ends’, ‘City and the 
 Stars’, ‘Fountains of Paradise’. 
 Q.1257.  Which  of  the  following  sages  of 
 ancient  India  wrote  the  ‘Mimamsa  - 
 sutras’ ? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaimini  (b) Charaka 
 (c) Badarayana  (d) Panini 
 Sol.1257.(a)  Jaimini  .  Author  and  books: 
 Charak  -  ‘Charaka  Samhita’,  Badarayana  - 
 ‘Brahma Sutras’. 
 Q.1258.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘The Coalition Years’? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Giani Zail Singh     (b) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (c) Pranab Mukherjee (d) KR Narayanan 
 Sol.1258.(c)  Pranab  Mukherjee  -  ‘The 
 Dramatic  Decade:  The  Indira  Gandhi 
 Years’,  ‘The  Turbulent  Years’,  ‘Thoughts 
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 Sol.1230.(d)  Haruki  Murakami.  Some 
 more  Popular  Books  by  him  -  "Kafka  on 
 the  Shore",  "Norwegian  Wood",  "1Q84", 
 "After  Dark",  "A  Wild  Sheep  Chase",  "The 
 Elephant Vanishes" etc. 
 Q.1231.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Coward  And  The 
 Sword’? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rushad Rana  (b) Jimmy Shergill 
 (c) Uday Chopra  (d) Jugal Hansraj 
 Sol.1231.(d)  Jugal  Hansraj  .  His  other 
 prominent  book  is  ‘Cross  Connection: 
 The  Big  Circus  Adventure’  (2018).  Uday 
 Chopra  (‘Dhoom  Redux  893’).  Rashad 
 Rana and Jimmy Shergil (Actor). 
 Q.1232.  Which  of  the  following  is  'George 
 David  Roberts’  thriller  novel  that  is  based 
 on his own experience in Mumbai? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Area of Darkness  (b) Amrit Aur Vish 
 (c) Shantaram  (d) Kurukshetra 
 Sol.1232.(c)  Shantaram.  George  David 
 Roberts  -  ‘The  Mountain  Shadow’,  ‘The 
 Spiritual  Path’,  ‘Shantaram  Part  Two’,  etc. 
 ‘Area  of  Darkness’  (V.S.  Naipaul),  ‘Amrit 
 Aur  Vish’  (Amritlal  Nagar)  and 
 ‘Kurukshetra’ (Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'). 
 Q.1233.  Which  Indian  cartoonist’s 
 autobiography  is  titled  ‘The  Tunnel  of 
 Time’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Ajit Ninan  (b) RK Laxman 
 (c) OV Vijayan  (d) Mario Miranda 
 Sol.1233.(b)  RK  Laxman.  Most  famous 
 books:  OV  Vijayan-  Thalamurakal 
 (Generations;  1997),  Mario  Miranda-  The 
 Life  of  Mario  1950  and  Ajit  Ninan-  “Like 
 That Only”. 
 Q.1234.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  author  of  the  famous  work  “Sangita 
 Ratnakara” ? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Sharngadeva  (b) Lochan Kavi 
 (c) Jaidev  (d) Ramamatya 
 Sol.1234.(a)  Sharngadeva.  Authors  and 
 their  books:  Lochan  Kavi  -  “Raga 
 Tarangini”.  Jaidev  -  “Gita  Govinda”,  and 
 “Love  Song  of  the  Dark  Lord”. 
 Ramamatya - “Swaramela Kalanidhi”. 
 Q.1235.  Among  the  following,  whose 
 autobiography  is  ‘Daughter  of  Destiny:  An 
 Autobiography’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Kamala Das  (b) Urvashi Butalia 
 (c) Malala Yousafzai  (d) Benazir Bhutto 
 Sol.1235.(d) Benazir Bhutto  .  Urvashi 
 Butalia-  ‘The  Other  Side  of  Silence: 
 Voices  from  the  Partition  of  India’.  Malala 
 Yousafzai-  ‘I  Am  Malala:  The  Girl  Who 
 Stood  Up  for  Education  and  Was  Shot  by 
 the Taliban’. Kamala Das- ‘My Story’. 
 Q.1236.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 autobiography of the international athlete 
 Maria Sharapova? 
 SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Open 
 (b) Unbreakable 
 (c) But Seriously 
 (d) Unstoppable: My Life So Far 
 Sol.1236.(d)  ‘Unstoppable:  My  Life  So 
 Far’  (Maria  Sharapova),  ‘But  Seriously’ 
 (John  McEnroe),  ‘Unbreakable’  (Mary 
 Kom), and ‘Open’ (Andre Agassi). 
 Q.1237.  Whose  memoir  is  titled  ‘My  Life 
 in Full: Work, Family and Our Future’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Shobhana Bhartia 
 (b) Renuka Ramnath 
 (c) Indra Nooyi 
 (d) Kiran Majumdar Shaw 
 Sol.1237.(c)  Indra  Nooyi.  Kiran 
 Majumdar  Shaw  -  ‘Ale  and  Arty’, 
 ‘Shobhana  Bhartia:  (Penguin  Petit)’  by 
 Gunjan Jain. 
 Q.1238.  The  historical  ?ction  novel  ‘The 
 King Within’ is authored by: 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Krishna Sobti  (b) Indu Sundaresan 
 (c) Nandini Sengupta (d) Kiran Nagarkar 
 Sol.1238.(c)  Nandini  Sengupta  -  ‘The 
 Poisoned  Heart’,  ‘The  Ocean’s  Own’,  ‘The 
 Blue  Horse  and  Other  Amazing  Animals 
 from  Indian  History’,  ‘Babies  from  the 
 Heart:  A  Complete  Guide  to  Adoption’, 
 etc. 
 Q.1239.  Which  of  the  following  pairs  of 
 authors  and  autobiographies  is 
 CORRECTLY matched? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Jahangir – Baburnama 
 (b) Satyajit Ray – Living Shadows 
 (c) JB Kripalani – My Times 
 (d) Aribam Syam Sharma – Jakhan 
 Choto Chilam 
 Sol.1239.(c)  ‘My  Times’  (JB  Kriplani)  , 
 ‘Baburnama’  (Babur),  ‘Living  Shadows’ 
 (Cornelia  Funke),  ‘Jakhan  Choto  Chilam’ 
 (Satyajit  Ray),  and  ‘Tuzk-e-Jahangiri’ 
 (Jahangir). 
 Q.1240.  ‘Finding  My  Way’  is  a  famous 
 autobiography  written  by  which  of  the 
 following  Gond  artists  of  India  with  the 
 help of Mukul S Anand? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Venkat Raman Singh Shyam 
 (b) Dhavat Singh Uikey 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam 
 (d) Jangarh Singh Shyam 
 Sol.1240.(a)  Venkat  Raman  Singh 
 Shyam  and  Mukul  S  Anand.  Dhavat  Singh 
 Uikey-  ‘Where  has  the  Tiger  Gone?’, 
 Bhajju  Shyam  -  ‘The  Nightlife  of  Trees’, 
 and  ‘Jangarh  Singh  Shyam:  The 
 Enchanted Forest’ - Aurogeeta Das. 
 Q.1241.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 debut  novel  of  Indian  novelist  Chetan 
 Bhagat,  who  received  the  Society  Young 
 Achievers  Award  and  the  Publisher’s 
 Recognition award for his works? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) The Three Mistakes of My Life 
 (b) Five Point Someone 
 (c) Revolution 2020 
 (d) What Young India Wants 
 Sol.1241.(b)  Five  Point  Someone  (His 
 ?rst  novel  published  in  2004;  3  Idiots 
 movie  was  based  on  it  ).  Movies  based 
 on  his  novels:  Hello  in  2008  (  One  Night 
 at  the  Call  Center),  Kai  Po  Che!  in  2013 
 (The  3  Mistakes  of  My  Life;  won  59th 
 Filmfare  award  for  best  screenplay);  2 
 States  in  2014  (his  novel  of  the  same 
 name)  and  Half  Girlfriend  in  2017  (his 
 novel of the same name). 
 Q.1242.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Narcopolis’? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jeet Thayil  (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) David Davidar   (d) Anees Salim 
 Sol.1242.(a)  Jeet  Thayil.  Books  of  Jeet 
 Thayil  -  ‘The  Book  of  Chocolate  Saints’, 
 ‘Low’,  ‘English:  Poems’,  ‘These  errors  are 
 correct’,  ‘Names  of  the  Women’, 
 ‘Collected Poems’, etc. 
 Q.1243.  Which  of  the  following  novels  is 
 set  in  the  background  of  life  in  New  Delhi 
 after  the  declaration  of  Emergency  in  the 
 1970’s ? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/ 2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Such a Long Journey 
 (b) The Heart Has its Reasons 
 (c) Rich Like Us 
 (d) The House of Blue Mangoes 
 Sol.1243.(c)  ‘Rich  Like  Us’-  Nayantara 
 Sahgal,  ‘  Such  a  Long  Journey.’  -  Rohinton 
 Mistry,  ‘The  Heart  Has  Its  Reasons’- 
 Maria  Duenas,  and  ‘The  House  of  Blue 
 Mangoes: A Novel’- David Davidar. 
 Q.1244.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 authored  the  famous  novel  ‘To  kill  a 
 mockingbird’? 
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 (a) Mary Shelley  (b) George Orwell 
 (c) Harper Lee  (d) Charles Dickens 
 Sol.1244.(c)  Harper  Lee  -  ‘Go  Set  a 
 Watchman’,  etc.  .Mary  Shelley-  ‘The  Last 
 Man’,  ‘Mathilda’,  ‘Frankenstein,  A 
 Longman  Cultural  Edition’,  etc.  George 
 Orwell-  ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal 
 Farm:  A  Fairy  Story’,  ‘Homage  To 
 Catalonia’, etc. 
 Q.1245.  ‘Born  in  India  Made  in  England’ 
 is  an  autobiography  of  Balraj  Khanna.  For 
 which  of  the  following  art  forms  is  he 
 known? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Theatre  (b) Music 
 (c) Sculpture  (d) Painting 
 Sol.1245.(d) Painting. 
 Q.1246.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  the  great 
 Indian  santoor  player  Shiv  Kumar  Sharma 
 in 2002? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) The Life of a Musician 
 (b) That Long Silence 
 (c) Journey with a Hundred Strings: My 
 Life in Music 
 (d) Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us 
 Sol.1246.(c)  ‘The  Life  of  a  Musician’  - 
 Book  By  Ferguson  Lennox,  ‘That  Long 
 Silence’  -  Novel  By  Shashi  Deshpande, 
 ‘Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us’ - Book 
 by Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan. 
 Q.1247  .  ‘Drawing  From  the  City’  is  a 
 visual  autobiography  of  which  of  the 
 following Indian folk artists? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Teju Behun  (b) Jamini Roy 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam    (d) Baua Devi 
 Sol.1247.(a)  Teju  Behun.  Jamini  Roy 
 Famous  Paintings-  Three  Pujarins, 
 Yashoda  and  Krishna  etc.  Bhajju  Shyam 
 received  international  recognition  for  his 
 book The London Jungle Book in 2004. 
 Baua Devi is a Mithila painting artist. 
 Q.1248  .Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel “Mrignayani” ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Chatursen Shashtri 
 (b) Sumitranandan Pant 
 (c) Rangeya Raghav 
 (d) Vrindavan Lal Verma 
 Sol.1248.(d)  Vrindavan  Lal  Verma  . 
 Famous  Novels  by  him-  ‘Gadh  Kundar’, 
 ‘Virata  ki  Padmini’  ‘Musahibju’,  ‘Jhansi  ki 
 Rani’,  ‘Kachnar’,  ‘Madavji  Sindhia’,’Tute 
 Kante’, ‘Bhuvan Vikram’, ‘Ahilya Bai’ etc. 
 Q.1249  .  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘A Movable Feast’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ernest Hemingway (b) William Faulkner 
 (c) George Orwell  (d) Roald Dahl 
 Sol.1249.(a)  Ernest  Hemingway  -  ‘The 
 Old  Man  and  the  Sea’,  ‘A  Farewell  to 
 Arms’  etc.  William  Faulkner  -  ‘A  Fable’, 
 ‘The  Reivers’  etc.  George  Orwell  - 
 ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal  Farm’  etc. 
 Roald  Dahl-  ‘Matilda’,  ‘Charlie  and  the 
 Chocolate Factory’ etc. 
 Q.1250.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  former 
 English  footballer,  David  Beckham 
 published in 2003 ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) A Shot at History 
 (b) The Greatest: My own Story 
 (c) My Side 
 (d) Standing my Ground 
 Sol.1250.(c)  ‘My  Side’  .  Personality  and 
 their  autobiography:  Muhammad  Ali  - 
 ‘The  Greatest:  My  own  Story’,  Mathew 
 Hayden - ‘Standing My Ground’. 
 Q.1251.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Secret  of  the 
 Veda’ ? 
 SSC CGL 11/04/2022(Morning) 
 (a) Sri Aurobindo  (b) Annie Besant 
 (c) Swami Vivekananda  (d) J Krishnamurti 
 Sol.1251.(a)  Sri  Aurobindo  life 
 philosophy  is  a  synthesis  of  idealism, 
 realism,  naturalism  and  pragmatism. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  by  Sri 
 Aurobindo  are  -  ‘The  Life  Divine’,  ‘Integral 
 Yoga’,  ‘Hidden  Forces  of  Life’,  ‘The  Future 
 Evolution  of  Man’,  ‘Powers  Within’, 
 ‘Rebirth  and  Karma’,  ‘The  Human  Cycle’, 
 ‘The  Mind  of  Light’,  ‘The  Yoga  on  Sleep 
 and Dreams’ etc. 
 Q.1252.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Social Harmony’? 
 SSC CGL  11/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) HD Deve Gowda (b) PV Narsimha Rao 
 (c) Narendra Modi   (d) Manmohan Singh 
 Sol.1252.(c) Shri Narendra Modi  . Books 
 by  Shri  Narendra  Modi  -  ‘Exam  Warriors’, 
 ‘Abode  of  Love’,  ‘Sabka  Saath,  Sabka 
 Vikas’,  ‘Nayan  he  Dhanya  Re’,  ‘Sangharsh 
 Ma  Gujarat’,  ‘Sakshibhav’,  ‘Aapatkal  Mein 
 Gujarat’, ‘Mann ki Baat’, etc. 
 Q.1253.  Which of the following is a book 
 written by Avni Doshi? 
 SSC CGL 13/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) In Other Words 
 (b) Burnt Sugar 
 (c) Unaccustomed Earth 
 (d) Interpreter of Maladies 
 Sol.1253.(b)  Burnt Sugar.  Other books  - 
 ‘  Girl in white Cotton’. 
 Q.1254.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘Myth  =  Mithya  : 
 Decoding Hindu Mythology’? 
 SSC CGL  13/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor  (b) Devdutt Pattanaik 
 (c) Vikram Seth        (d) Amitav Ghosh 
 Sol.1254.(b)  Devdutt  Pattanaik  .  More 
 famous  books  by  him  are  ‘Jaya’,  ‘My 
 Gita’,  ‘Krishna's  Secret’,  ‘7  Secrets  of 
 Shiva’,  ‘Devlok  with  Devdutt  Pattanaik’, 
 ‘How  To  Take  Decisions’,  ‘Sita’,  ‘My 
 Hanuman Chalisa’, ‘How to become Rich’. 
 Q.1255.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the epic poem ‘Kamayani’ ? 
 SSC CGL  18/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaishankar Prasad 
 (b) Gopala Sarana Sinha 
 (c) Mahadevi Varma 
 (d) Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi 
 Sol.1255.(a)  Jaishankar  Prasad  most 
 famous  dramas  include  ‘Skandagupta', 
 ‘Chandragupta’  and  ‘Dhruvaswamini’. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  are  ‘Titli’, 
 ‘Kankal’, ‘Inderjaal’, ‘Ajatshatru’, ‘Mamta’. 
 Q.1256.  Who  among  the  following 
 science  ?ction/  popular  science  writers 
 wrote  ‘2001  :  A  Space  Odyssey’  and  held 
 the  position  of  a  Professor  at  the 
 Physical  Research  Laboratory, 
 Ahmedabad? 
 SSC CGL 18/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Isaac Asimov       (b) Arthur C Clarke 
 (c) Jules Verne          (d) HG Wells 
 Sol.1256.(b)  Arthur  C  Clark  -  ‘Rama 
 Series’, 'Childhood Ends’, ‘City and the 
 Stars’, ‘Fountains of Paradise’. 
 Q.1257.  Which  of  the  following  sages  of 
 ancient  India  wrote  the  ‘Mimamsa  - 
 sutras’ ? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaimini  (b) Charaka 
 (c) Badarayana  (d) Panini 
 Sol.1257.(a)  Jaimini  .  Author  and  books: 
 Charak  -  ‘Charaka  Samhita’,  Badarayana  - 
 ‘Brahma Sutras’. 
 Q.1258.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘The Coalition Years’? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Giani Zail Singh     (b) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (c) Pranab Mukherjee (d) KR Narayanan 
 Sol.1258.(c)  Pranab  Mukherjee  -  ‘The 
 Dramatic  Decade:  The  Indira  Gandhi 
 Years’,  ‘The  Turbulent  Years’,  ‘Thoughts 
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 Q.1259. ‘  Si-yu-ki’ or ‘The Records of the 
 Western World’ was written by: 
 SSC CGL  20/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Marco Polo  (b) Fa-Hien 
 (c) Abdur Razzak          (d) Hiuen Tsiang 
 Sol.1259.(d)  Hiuen  Tsiang.  Author  and 
 books:  Marco  Polo  -  “The  Description  of 
 the  World  '',  “Travels  in  the  Land  of  Kubilai 
 Khan ''. 
 Q.1260.  Which  of  the  following  books 
 was written by Jawaharlal Nehru? 
 SSC CGL 21/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) A bunch of Old letters. 
 (b) Riddles in Hinduism 
 (c) Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah 
 (d) Waiting For A Visa : Autobiographical 
 Notes 
 Sol.1260.(a)  A  bunch  of  Old  letters  . 
 ‘Riddles  in  Hinduism’,  ‘Ranade,  Gandhi 
 and  Jinnah’,  ‘Waiting  For  A  Visa  : 
 Autobiographical  Notes’  were  written  by 
 B.R Ambedkar. 
 Q.1261.  The  book  titled  'My  Journey: 
 Transforming  Dreams  into  Actions'  is  an 
 autobiography of: 
 SSC MTS 05/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Pratibha Patil 
 (b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee 
 (c) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (d) Lal Krishna Advani 
 Sol.1261.(c)  APJ  Abdul  Kalam.  Books  - 
 “Wings  of  Fire”,  “Ignited  Minds”,  “Turning 
 Points”. 
 Q.1262.  Which of the following is a book 
 by  former  Prime  Minister  of  India,  Indira 
 Gandhi ? 
 SSC MTS 06/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Discovery of India 
 (b) Wings of Fire 
 (c) My Experiments with Truth 
 (d) My Truth 
 Sol.1262.(d)  My  Truth.  Her  other  books  - 
 “Freedom’s  Daughter”,  "Remembered 
 Moments". 
 Q.1263.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'The Best Thing About You is You'? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021  (Morning) 
 (a) Amitabh Bachchan   (b) Anil Kapoor 
 (c) Anupam Kher             (d) Annu Kapoor 
 Sol.1263.(c) Anupam Kher. 
 Q.1264.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Testaments’  ? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jokha Alharthi   (b) Andrew Sean Greer 
 (c) Anna Burns  (d) Margaret Atwood 
 Sol.1264.(d)  Margaret  Atwood  .  ‘The 
 Testaments’  is  a  sequel  to  ‘The 
 Handmaid  Tales’.  The  Testaments  was 
 joint  winner  of  the  2019  Booker  Prize, 
 alongside  Bernardine  Evaristo's  novel 
 “Girl, Woman, Other”. 
 Q.1265.  'Boy  :  Tales  of  Childhood'  is  an 
 autobiographical book by ______. 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Mark Twain    (b) Ruskin Bond 
 (c) Roald Dahl      (d) Lewis Carroll 
 Sol.1265.(c)  Roald  Dahl.  Lewis  Carroll  : 
 ‘Alice's  Adventures  in  Wonderland’  (1865) 
 and  ‘Through  the  Looking-Glass’,  and 
 ‘What Alice Found There’ (1872). 
 Q.1266.  Which  of  the  following  works 
 was written by Bernardin Evaristo? 
 SSC MTS 08/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ducks, Newburyport 
 (b) 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This 
 Strange World 
 (c) An Orchestra of Minorities 
 (d) Girl, Woman, Other 
 Sol.1266.(d)  ‘Girl,  Woman,  Other’.  Other 
 novels:  “  Mr  Loverman”,  “Blonde  Roots”, 
 “Soul  Tourists”,  “Lara”,  “Hello  Mum” 
 (book). 
 Q.1267.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'The Tales of Beedle The Bard' ? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Lewis Carroll  (b) EB White 
 (c) Roald Dahl  (d) JK Rowling 
 Sol.1267.(d)  JK  Rowling.  Other  novels: 
 “  Harry  Potter  and  the  Philosopher's 
 Stone”,  “The  Ink  Black  Heart’’,  “Troubled 
 Blood”. 
 Q.1268.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  titled  'Speaking  Truth 
 to Power: My Alternative View' ? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subramanian Swamy 
 (b) Mani Shankar Aiyar 
 (c) P Chidambaram 
 (d) Arun Shourie 
 Sol.1268.(c)  P  Chidambaram  .  Other 
 books:  “  Fearless  in  Opposition”, 
 “Standing  Guard”,  Undaunted  -  “Saving 
 the Idea of India”. 
 Q.1269.  Who wrote the book ‘Kundalini: 
 The  Mother  of  the  Universe’,  which 
 Includes  an  English  translation  of  ‘Lalita 
 Sahasranama’? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rishi Singh Gherwal 
 (b) Rabindranath Tagore 
 (c) Vikram Seth 
 (d) Dr. S Radha Krishnan 
 Sol.1269.(a)  Rishi  Singh  Gherwal  .  Other 
 books:  “Patanjali's  Raja  Yoga”,  “Yoga 
 Vasistha  Or  Heaven  Found”,  “A  Treatise 
 on Yoga”. 
 Q.1270.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book 'Kanthapura' ? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Nirad Choudhuri 
 (b) Sitakanta Mohapatra 
 (c) Raja Rao 
 (d) Kamala Das 
 Sol.1270.(c)  Raja  Rao  .  It  is  the  story  of 
 how  Gandhi's  struggle  for  independence 
 from  the  British  came  to  a  typical  village, 
 Kanthapura, in South India. 
 Q.1271.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  Hindi  poetry  book 
 ‘Chheelate Hue Apne Ko' ? 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Nand Kishore Acharya (b) Javed Akhtar 
 (c) Rahat Indori  (d) Gulzar 
 Sol.1271.(a)  Nand  Kishore  Acharya. 
 Other  famous  books  by  him-  ‘Sanskriti  ka 
 Vyakarna’,  ‘Sabhyata  ka  Vikalp’,  ‘Gulam 
 Badshah’,  etc.  He  was  awarded  Sahitya 
 Akademi Award 2019 in Hindi literature. 
 Q.1272.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘150  Years  of 
 Celebrating  the  Mahatma  –  the  South 
 African Legacy'? 
 SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Daniel Woodrell     (b) Fareed Zakaria 
 (c) Fakir Hassen          (d) Frederic Tuten 
 Sol.1272.(c)  Fakir  Hassen  .  Gandhiji 
 returned  to  India  on  9  January  1915  from 
 South Africa. 
 Q.1273.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  titled  ‘A  Woman  Is  No 
 Man’? 
 SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Etaf Rum  (b) Jokha Alharthi 
 (c) Margaret Atwood (d) Andrew Sean Greer 
 Sol.1273.(a)  Etaf  Rum  .  Another  book  by 
 him -  ‘  Evil Eye’. 
 Q.1274.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘Being Gandhi’? 
 SSC MTS 27/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Ashis Ray              (b) Paro Anand 
 (c) Nirupama Yadav  (d) V Pattabhi Ram 
 Sol.1274.(b)  Paro  Anand.  She  won  the 
 Sahitya  Akademi  Bal  Sahitya  Puraskar  in 
 2017  for  her  anthology  Wild  Child  and 
 Other  Stories  (now  published  as  "Like 
 Smoke: 20 Teens 20 Stories''). 
 Q.1275.  ‘  Bhavartha  Dipika’  and 
 ‘Amritanubhava’ are the sacred books of 
 the people of ______. 
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 Sol.1230.(d)  Haruki  Murakami.  Some 
 more  Popular  Books  by  him  -  "Kafka  on 
 the  Shore",  "Norwegian  Wood",  "1Q84", 
 "After  Dark",  "A  Wild  Sheep  Chase",  "The 
 Elephant Vanishes" etc. 
 Q.1231.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Coward  And  The 
 Sword’? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rushad Rana  (b) Jimmy Shergill 
 (c) Uday Chopra  (d) Jugal Hansraj 
 Sol.1231.(d)  Jugal  Hansraj  .  His  other 
 prominent  book  is  ‘Cross  Connection: 
 The  Big  Circus  Adventure’  (2018).  Uday 
 Chopra  (‘Dhoom  Redux  893’).  Rashad 
 Rana and Jimmy Shergil (Actor). 
 Q.1232.  Which  of  the  following  is  'George 
 David  Roberts’  thriller  novel  that  is  based 
 on his own experience in Mumbai? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Area of Darkness  (b) Amrit Aur Vish 
 (c) Shantaram  (d) Kurukshetra 
 Sol.1232.(c)  Shantaram.  George  David 
 Roberts  -  ‘The  Mountain  Shadow’,  ‘The 
 Spiritual  Path’,  ‘Shantaram  Part  Two’,  etc. 
 ‘Area  of  Darkness’  (V.S.  Naipaul),  ‘Amrit 
 Aur  Vish’  (Amritlal  Nagar)  and 
 ‘Kurukshetra’ (Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'). 
 Q.1233.  Which  Indian  cartoonist’s 
 autobiography  is  titled  ‘The  Tunnel  of 
 Time’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Ajit Ninan  (b) RK Laxman 
 (c) OV Vijayan  (d) Mario Miranda 
 Sol.1233.(b)  RK  Laxman.  Most  famous 
 books:  OV  Vijayan-  Thalamurakal 
 (Generations;  1997),  Mario  Miranda-  The 
 Life  of  Mario  1950  and  Ajit  Ninan-  “Like 
 That Only”. 
 Q.1234.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  author  of  the  famous  work  “Sangita 
 Ratnakara” ? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Sharngadeva  (b) Lochan Kavi 
 (c) Jaidev  (d) Ramamatya 
 Sol.1234.(a)  Sharngadeva.  Authors  and 
 their  books:  Lochan  Kavi  -  “Raga 
 Tarangini”.  Jaidev  -  “Gita  Govinda”,  and 
 “Love  Song  of  the  Dark  Lord”. 
 Ramamatya - “Swaramela Kalanidhi”. 
 Q.1235.  Among  the  following,  whose 
 autobiography  is  ‘Daughter  of  Destiny:  An 
 Autobiography’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Kamala Das  (b) Urvashi Butalia 
 (c) Malala Yousafzai  (d) Benazir Bhutto 
 Sol.1235.(d) Benazir Bhutto  .  Urvashi 
 Butalia-  ‘The  Other  Side  of  Silence: 
 Voices  from  the  Partition  of  India’.  Malala 
 Yousafzai-  ‘I  Am  Malala:  The  Girl  Who 
 Stood  Up  for  Education  and  Was  Shot  by 
 the Taliban’. Kamala Das- ‘My Story’. 
 Q.1236.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 autobiography of the international athlete 
 Maria Sharapova? 
 SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Open 
 (b) Unbreakable 
 (c) But Seriously 
 (d) Unstoppable: My Life So Far 
 Sol.1236.(d)  ‘Unstoppable:  My  Life  So 
 Far’  (Maria  Sharapova),  ‘But  Seriously’ 
 (John  McEnroe),  ‘Unbreakable’  (Mary 
 Kom), and ‘Open’ (Andre Agassi). 
 Q.1237.  Whose  memoir  is  titled  ‘My  Life 
 in Full: Work, Family and Our Future’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Shobhana Bhartia 
 (b) Renuka Ramnath 
 (c) Indra Nooyi 
 (d) Kiran Majumdar Shaw 
 Sol.1237.(c)  Indra  Nooyi.  Kiran 
 Majumdar  Shaw  -  ‘Ale  and  Arty’, 
 ‘Shobhana  Bhartia:  (Penguin  Petit)’  by 
 Gunjan Jain. 
 Q.1238.  The  historical  ?ction  novel  ‘The 
 King Within’ is authored by: 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Krishna Sobti  (b) Indu Sundaresan 
 (c) Nandini Sengupta (d) Kiran Nagarkar 
 Sol.1238.(c)  Nandini  Sengupta  -  ‘The 
 Poisoned  Heart’,  ‘The  Ocean’s  Own’,  ‘The 
 Blue  Horse  and  Other  Amazing  Animals 
 from  Indian  History’,  ‘Babies  from  the 
 Heart:  A  Complete  Guide  to  Adoption’, 
 etc. 
 Q.1239.  Which  of  the  following  pairs  of 
 authors  and  autobiographies  is 
 CORRECTLY matched? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Jahangir – Baburnama 
 (b) Satyajit Ray – Living Shadows 
 (c) JB Kripalani – My Times 
 (d) Aribam Syam Sharma – Jakhan 
 Choto Chilam 
 Sol.1239.(c)  ‘My  Times’  (JB  Kriplani)  , 
 ‘Baburnama’  (Babur),  ‘Living  Shadows’ 
 (Cornelia  Funke),  ‘Jakhan  Choto  Chilam’ 
 (Satyajit  Ray),  and  ‘Tuzk-e-Jahangiri’ 
 (Jahangir). 
 Q.1240.  ‘Finding  My  Way’  is  a  famous 
 autobiography  written  by  which  of  the 
 following  Gond  artists  of  India  with  the 
 help of Mukul S Anand? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Venkat Raman Singh Shyam 
 (b) Dhavat Singh Uikey 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam 
 (d) Jangarh Singh Shyam 
 Sol.1240.(a)  Venkat  Raman  Singh 
 Shyam  and  Mukul  S  Anand.  Dhavat  Singh 
 Uikey-  ‘Where  has  the  Tiger  Gone?’, 
 Bhajju  Shyam  -  ‘The  Nightlife  of  Trees’, 
 and  ‘Jangarh  Singh  Shyam:  The 
 Enchanted Forest’ - Aurogeeta Das. 
 Q.1241.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 debut  novel  of  Indian  novelist  Chetan 
 Bhagat,  who  received  the  Society  Young 
 Achievers  Award  and  the  Publisher’s 
 Recognition award for his works? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) The Three Mistakes of My Life 
 (b) Five Point Someone 
 (c) Revolution 2020 
 (d) What Young India Wants 
 Sol.1241.(b)  Five  Point  Someone  (His 
 ?rst  novel  published  in  2004;  3  Idiots 
 movie  was  based  on  it  ).  Movies  based 
 on  his  novels:  Hello  in  2008  (  One  Night 
 at  the  Call  Center),  Kai  Po  Che!  in  2013 
 (The  3  Mistakes  of  My  Life;  won  59th 
 Filmfare  award  for  best  screenplay);  2 
 States  in  2014  (his  novel  of  the  same 
 name)  and  Half  Girlfriend  in  2017  (his 
 novel of the same name). 
 Q.1242.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Narcopolis’? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jeet Thayil  (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) David Davidar   (d) Anees Salim 
 Sol.1242.(a)  Jeet  Thayil.  Books  of  Jeet 
 Thayil  -  ‘The  Book  of  Chocolate  Saints’, 
 ‘Low’,  ‘English:  Poems’,  ‘These  errors  are 
 correct’,  ‘Names  of  the  Women’, 
 ‘Collected Poems’, etc. 
 Q.1243.  Which  of  the  following  novels  is 
 set  in  the  background  of  life  in  New  Delhi 
 after  the  declaration  of  Emergency  in  the 
 1970’s ? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/ 2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Such a Long Journey 
 (b) The Heart Has its Reasons 
 (c) Rich Like Us 
 (d) The House of Blue Mangoes 
 Sol.1243.(c)  ‘Rich  Like  Us’-  Nayantara 
 Sahgal,  ‘  Such  a  Long  Journey.’  -  Rohinton 
 Mistry,  ‘The  Heart  Has  Its  Reasons’- 
 Maria  Duenas,  and  ‘The  House  of  Blue 
 Mangoes: A Novel’- David Davidar. 
 Q.1244.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 authored  the  famous  novel  ‘To  kill  a 
 mockingbird’? 
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 (a) Mary Shelley  (b) George Orwell 
 (c) Harper Lee  (d) Charles Dickens 
 Sol.1244.(c)  Harper  Lee  -  ‘Go  Set  a 
 Watchman’,  etc.  .Mary  Shelley-  ‘The  Last 
 Man’,  ‘Mathilda’,  ‘Frankenstein,  A 
 Longman  Cultural  Edition’,  etc.  George 
 Orwell-  ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal 
 Farm:  A  Fairy  Story’,  ‘Homage  To 
 Catalonia’, etc. 
 Q.1245.  ‘Born  in  India  Made  in  England’ 
 is  an  autobiography  of  Balraj  Khanna.  For 
 which  of  the  following  art  forms  is  he 
 known? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Theatre  (b) Music 
 (c) Sculpture  (d) Painting 
 Sol.1245.(d) Painting. 
 Q.1246.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  the  great 
 Indian  santoor  player  Shiv  Kumar  Sharma 
 in 2002? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) The Life of a Musician 
 (b) That Long Silence 
 (c) Journey with a Hundred Strings: My 
 Life in Music 
 (d) Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us 
 Sol.1246.(c)  ‘The  Life  of  a  Musician’  - 
 Book  By  Ferguson  Lennox,  ‘That  Long 
 Silence’  -  Novel  By  Shashi  Deshpande, 
 ‘Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us’ - Book 
 by Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan. 
 Q.1247  .  ‘Drawing  From  the  City’  is  a 
 visual  autobiography  of  which  of  the 
 following Indian folk artists? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Teju Behun  (b) Jamini Roy 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam    (d) Baua Devi 
 Sol.1247.(a)  Teju  Behun.  Jamini  Roy 
 Famous  Paintings-  Three  Pujarins, 
 Yashoda  and  Krishna  etc.  Bhajju  Shyam 
 received  international  recognition  for  his 
 book The London Jungle Book in 2004. 
 Baua Devi is a Mithila painting artist. 
 Q.1248  .Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel “Mrignayani” ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Chatursen Shashtri 
 (b) Sumitranandan Pant 
 (c) Rangeya Raghav 
 (d) Vrindavan Lal Verma 
 Sol.1248.(d)  Vrindavan  Lal  Verma  . 
 Famous  Novels  by  him-  ‘Gadh  Kundar’, 
 ‘Virata  ki  Padmini’  ‘Musahibju’,  ‘Jhansi  ki 
 Rani’,  ‘Kachnar’,  ‘Madavji  Sindhia’,’Tute 
 Kante’, ‘Bhuvan Vikram’, ‘Ahilya Bai’ etc. 
 Q.1249  .  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘A Movable Feast’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ernest Hemingway (b) William Faulkner 
 (c) George Orwell  (d) Roald Dahl 
 Sol.1249.(a)  Ernest  Hemingway  -  ‘The 
 Old  Man  and  the  Sea’,  ‘A  Farewell  to 
 Arms’  etc.  William  Faulkner  -  ‘A  Fable’, 
 ‘The  Reivers’  etc.  George  Orwell  - 
 ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal  Farm’  etc. 
 Roald  Dahl-  ‘Matilda’,  ‘Charlie  and  the 
 Chocolate Factory’ etc. 
 Q.1250.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  former 
 English  footballer,  David  Beckham 
 published in 2003 ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) A Shot at History 
 (b) The Greatest: My own Story 
 (c) My Side 
 (d) Standing my Ground 
 Sol.1250.(c)  ‘My  Side’  .  Personality  and 
 their  autobiography:  Muhammad  Ali  - 
 ‘The  Greatest:  My  own  Story’,  Mathew 
 Hayden - ‘Standing My Ground’. 
 Q.1251.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Secret  of  the 
 Veda’ ? 
 SSC CGL 11/04/2022(Morning) 
 (a) Sri Aurobindo  (b) Annie Besant 
 (c) Swami Vivekananda  (d) J Krishnamurti 
 Sol.1251.(a)  Sri  Aurobindo  life 
 philosophy  is  a  synthesis  of  idealism, 
 realism,  naturalism  and  pragmatism. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  by  Sri 
 Aurobindo  are  -  ‘The  Life  Divine’,  ‘Integral 
 Yoga’,  ‘Hidden  Forces  of  Life’,  ‘The  Future 
 Evolution  of  Man’,  ‘Powers  Within’, 
 ‘Rebirth  and  Karma’,  ‘The  Human  Cycle’, 
 ‘The  Mind  of  Light’,  ‘The  Yoga  on  Sleep 
 and Dreams’ etc. 
 Q.1252.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Social Harmony’? 
 SSC CGL  11/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) HD Deve Gowda (b) PV Narsimha Rao 
 (c) Narendra Modi   (d) Manmohan Singh 
 Sol.1252.(c) Shri Narendra Modi  . Books 
 by  Shri  Narendra  Modi  -  ‘Exam  Warriors’, 
 ‘Abode  of  Love’,  ‘Sabka  Saath,  Sabka 
 Vikas’,  ‘Nayan  he  Dhanya  Re’,  ‘Sangharsh 
 Ma  Gujarat’,  ‘Sakshibhav’,  ‘Aapatkal  Mein 
 Gujarat’, ‘Mann ki Baat’, etc. 
 Q.1253.  Which of the following is a book 
 written by Avni Doshi? 
 SSC CGL 13/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) In Other Words 
 (b) Burnt Sugar 
 (c) Unaccustomed Earth 
 (d) Interpreter of Maladies 
 Sol.1253.(b)  Burnt Sugar.  Other books  - 
 ‘  Girl in white Cotton’. 
 Q.1254.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘Myth  =  Mithya  : 
 Decoding Hindu Mythology’? 
 SSC CGL  13/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor  (b) Devdutt Pattanaik 
 (c) Vikram Seth        (d) Amitav Ghosh 
 Sol.1254.(b)  Devdutt  Pattanaik  .  More 
 famous  books  by  him  are  ‘Jaya’,  ‘My 
 Gita’,  ‘Krishna's  Secret’,  ‘7  Secrets  of 
 Shiva’,  ‘Devlok  with  Devdutt  Pattanaik’, 
 ‘How  To  Take  Decisions’,  ‘Sita’,  ‘My 
 Hanuman Chalisa’, ‘How to become Rich’. 
 Q.1255.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the epic poem ‘Kamayani’ ? 
 SSC CGL  18/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaishankar Prasad 
 (b) Gopala Sarana Sinha 
 (c) Mahadevi Varma 
 (d) Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi 
 Sol.1255.(a)  Jaishankar  Prasad  most 
 famous  dramas  include  ‘Skandagupta', 
 ‘Chandragupta’  and  ‘Dhruvaswamini’. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  are  ‘Titli’, 
 ‘Kankal’, ‘Inderjaal’, ‘Ajatshatru’, ‘Mamta’. 
 Q.1256.  Who  among  the  following 
 science  ?ction/  popular  science  writers 
 wrote  ‘2001  :  A  Space  Odyssey’  and  held 
 the  position  of  a  Professor  at  the 
 Physical  Research  Laboratory, 
 Ahmedabad? 
 SSC CGL 18/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Isaac Asimov       (b) Arthur C Clarke 
 (c) Jules Verne          (d) HG Wells 
 Sol.1256.(b)  Arthur  C  Clark  -  ‘Rama 
 Series’, 'Childhood Ends’, ‘City and the 
 Stars’, ‘Fountains of Paradise’. 
 Q.1257.  Which  of  the  following  sages  of 
 ancient  India  wrote  the  ‘Mimamsa  - 
 sutras’ ? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaimini  (b) Charaka 
 (c) Badarayana  (d) Panini 
 Sol.1257.(a)  Jaimini  .  Author  and  books: 
 Charak  -  ‘Charaka  Samhita’,  Badarayana  - 
 ‘Brahma Sutras’. 
 Q.1258.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘The Coalition Years’? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Giani Zail Singh     (b) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (c) Pranab Mukherjee (d) KR Narayanan 
 Sol.1258.(c)  Pranab  Mukherjee  -  ‘The 
 Dramatic  Decade:  The  Indira  Gandhi 
 Years’,  ‘The  Turbulent  Years’,  ‘Thoughts 
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 Q.1259. ‘  Si-yu-ki’ or ‘The Records of the 
 Western World’ was written by: 
 SSC CGL  20/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Marco Polo  (b) Fa-Hien 
 (c) Abdur Razzak          (d) Hiuen Tsiang 
 Sol.1259.(d)  Hiuen  Tsiang.  Author  and 
 books:  Marco  Polo  -  “The  Description  of 
 the  World  '',  “Travels  in  the  Land  of  Kubilai 
 Khan ''. 
 Q.1260.  Which  of  the  following  books 
 was written by Jawaharlal Nehru? 
 SSC CGL 21/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) A bunch of Old letters. 
 (b) Riddles in Hinduism 
 (c) Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah 
 (d) Waiting For A Visa : Autobiographical 
 Notes 
 Sol.1260.(a)  A  bunch  of  Old  letters  . 
 ‘Riddles  in  Hinduism’,  ‘Ranade,  Gandhi 
 and  Jinnah’,  ‘Waiting  For  A  Visa  : 
 Autobiographical  Notes’  were  written  by 
 B.R Ambedkar. 
 Q.1261.  The  book  titled  'My  Journey: 
 Transforming  Dreams  into  Actions'  is  an 
 autobiography of: 
 SSC MTS 05/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Pratibha Patil 
 (b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee 
 (c) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (d) Lal Krishna Advani 
 Sol.1261.(c)  APJ  Abdul  Kalam.  Books  - 
 “Wings  of  Fire”,  “Ignited  Minds”,  “Turning 
 Points”. 
 Q.1262.  Which of the following is a book 
 by  former  Prime  Minister  of  India,  Indira 
 Gandhi ? 
 SSC MTS 06/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Discovery of India 
 (b) Wings of Fire 
 (c) My Experiments with Truth 
 (d) My Truth 
 Sol.1262.(d)  My  Truth.  Her  other  books  - 
 “Freedom’s  Daughter”,  "Remembered 
 Moments". 
 Q.1263.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'The Best Thing About You is You'? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021  (Morning) 
 (a) Amitabh Bachchan   (b) Anil Kapoor 
 (c) Anupam Kher             (d) Annu Kapoor 
 Sol.1263.(c) Anupam Kher. 
 Q.1264.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Testaments’  ? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jokha Alharthi   (b) Andrew Sean Greer 
 (c) Anna Burns  (d) Margaret Atwood 
 Sol.1264.(d)  Margaret  Atwood  .  ‘The 
 Testaments’  is  a  sequel  to  ‘The 
 Handmaid  Tales’.  The  Testaments  was 
 joint  winner  of  the  2019  Booker  Prize, 
 alongside  Bernardine  Evaristo's  novel 
 “Girl, Woman, Other”. 
 Q.1265.  'Boy  :  Tales  of  Childhood'  is  an 
 autobiographical book by ______. 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Mark Twain    (b) Ruskin Bond 
 (c) Roald Dahl      (d) Lewis Carroll 
 Sol.1265.(c)  Roald  Dahl.  Lewis  Carroll  : 
 ‘Alice's  Adventures  in  Wonderland’  (1865) 
 and  ‘Through  the  Looking-Glass’,  and 
 ‘What Alice Found There’ (1872). 
 Q.1266.  Which  of  the  following  works 
 was written by Bernardin Evaristo? 
 SSC MTS 08/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ducks, Newburyport 
 (b) 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This 
 Strange World 
 (c) An Orchestra of Minorities 
 (d) Girl, Woman, Other 
 Sol.1266.(d)  ‘Girl,  Woman,  Other’.  Other 
 novels:  “  Mr  Loverman”,  “Blonde  Roots”, 
 “Soul  Tourists”,  “Lara”,  “Hello  Mum” 
 (book). 
 Q.1267.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'The Tales of Beedle The Bard' ? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Lewis Carroll  (b) EB White 
 (c) Roald Dahl  (d) JK Rowling 
 Sol.1267.(d)  JK  Rowling.  Other  novels: 
 “  Harry  Potter  and  the  Philosopher's 
 Stone”,  “The  Ink  Black  Heart’’,  “Troubled 
 Blood”. 
 Q.1268.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  titled  'Speaking  Truth 
 to Power: My Alternative View' ? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subramanian Swamy 
 (b) Mani Shankar Aiyar 
 (c) P Chidambaram 
 (d) Arun Shourie 
 Sol.1268.(c)  P  Chidambaram  .  Other 
 books:  “  Fearless  in  Opposition”, 
 “Standing  Guard”,  Undaunted  -  “Saving 
 the Idea of India”. 
 Q.1269.  Who wrote the book ‘Kundalini: 
 The  Mother  of  the  Universe’,  which 
 Includes  an  English  translation  of  ‘Lalita 
 Sahasranama’? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rishi Singh Gherwal 
 (b) Rabindranath Tagore 
 (c) Vikram Seth 
 (d) Dr. S Radha Krishnan 
 Sol.1269.(a)  Rishi  Singh  Gherwal  .  Other 
 books:  “Patanjali's  Raja  Yoga”,  “Yoga 
 Vasistha  Or  Heaven  Found”,  “A  Treatise 
 on Yoga”. 
 Q.1270.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book 'Kanthapura' ? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Nirad Choudhuri 
 (b) Sitakanta Mohapatra 
 (c) Raja Rao 
 (d) Kamala Das 
 Sol.1270.(c)  Raja  Rao  .  It  is  the  story  of 
 how  Gandhi's  struggle  for  independence 
 from  the  British  came  to  a  typical  village, 
 Kanthapura, in South India. 
 Q.1271.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  Hindi  poetry  book 
 ‘Chheelate Hue Apne Ko' ? 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Nand Kishore Acharya (b) Javed Akhtar 
 (c) Rahat Indori  (d) Gulzar 
 Sol.1271.(a)  Nand  Kishore  Acharya. 
 Other  famous  books  by  him-  ‘Sanskriti  ka 
 Vyakarna’,  ‘Sabhyata  ka  Vikalp’,  ‘Gulam 
 Badshah’,  etc.  He  was  awarded  Sahitya 
 Akademi Award 2019 in Hindi literature. 
 Q.1272.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘150  Years  of 
 Celebrating  the  Mahatma  –  the  South 
 African Legacy'? 
 SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Daniel Woodrell     (b) Fareed Zakaria 
 (c) Fakir Hassen          (d) Frederic Tuten 
 Sol.1272.(c)  Fakir  Hassen  .  Gandhiji 
 returned  to  India  on  9  January  1915  from 
 South Africa. 
 Q.1273.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  titled  ‘A  Woman  Is  No 
 Man’? 
 SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Etaf Rum  (b) Jokha Alharthi 
 (c) Margaret Atwood (d) Andrew Sean Greer 
 Sol.1273.(a)  Etaf  Rum  .  Another  book  by 
 him -  ‘  Evil Eye’. 
 Q.1274.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘Being Gandhi’? 
 SSC MTS 27/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Ashis Ray              (b) Paro Anand 
 (c) Nirupama Yadav  (d) V Pattabhi Ram 
 Sol.1274.(b)  Paro  Anand.  She  won  the 
 Sahitya  Akademi  Bal  Sahitya  Puraskar  in 
 2017  for  her  anthology  Wild  Child  and 
 Other  Stories  (now  published  as  "Like 
 Smoke: 20 Teens 20 Stories''). 
 Q.1275.  ‘  Bhavartha  Dipika’  and 
 ‘Amritanubhava’ are the sacred books of 
 the people of ______. 
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 SSC MTS 27/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Haryana                  (b) Gujarat 
 (c) Maharashtra          (d) Rajasthan 
 Sol.1275.(c)  Maharashtra  .  Author  of  the 
 book  ‘Bhavartha  Dipika’  and 
 ‘Amritanubhava’ is Sant Dyaneshwar. 
 Q.1276.  The  ?rst  printed  edition  of  the 
 Ramcharitmanas  by  Tulsidas  was 
 published from ______ in 1810. 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Delhi  (b) Calcutta/Kolkata 
 (c) Madras/Chennai (d) Bombay/Mumbai 
 Sol.1276.(b)  Calcutta (Kolkata). 
 Q.1277.  Willy  Wonka  is  a  ?ctional 
 character  from  the  children's  story  book 
 '______'. 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 
 (b) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 
 (c) Matilda 
 (d) Charlotte's Web 
 Sol.1277.(b)  Charlie  and  the  Chocolate 
 Factory  written  by  Roald  Dahl.  Charlotte's 
 Web (E. B White), Matilda (Roald Dahl). 
 Q.1278.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Anarchy:  The 
 Relentless  Rise  of  the  East  India 
 Company’? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Shoshana Zuboff (b) Sumit Sarkar 
 (c) Shashi Tharoor     (d) William Dalrymple 
 Sol.1278.(d)  William  Dalrymple  .  More 
 famous  books  by  him  are-  ‘Kohinoor:  The 
 Story  of  the  World’s  Most  Infamous 
 Diamond’,  ‘Return  of  a  King’,  ‘The  Last 
 Mughal’,  ‘Nine  Lives’,  ‘White  Mughals’, 
 ‘From the Holy Mountain’. 
 Q.1279.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘Vishesh: Code To Win’ ? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 
 (b) Chetan Anand 
 (c) Nirupama Yadav 
 (d) Ashish Ray 
 Sol.1279.(c)  Nirupama  Yadav  .  Books 
 and  author:  ‘One  Day  Cricket’  -  Ashis  Ray. 
 ‘Vishesh  Code  To  Win’  -  biography  of 
 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 
 Q.1280.  Who  wrote  the  book  'The  Quest 
 for Equity in Development'? 
 SSC CGL 17/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Amartya Sen 
 (b) Montek Singh Ahluwalia 
 (c) Raghuram Rajan 
 (d) Manmohan Singh 
 Sol.1280.(d)  Manmohan Singh. 
 ‘  Changing India’ was written by him. 
 Q.1281.  Who  among  the  following  wrote 
 ‘The  Light  of  Asia:  The  Poem  that 
 De?ned  the  Buddha’  that  will  narrate  the 
 phenomenal poem ‘The Light of Asia’? 
 SSC CGL 17/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor   (b) Salman Rushdie 
 (c) Chetan Bhagat    (d) Jairam Ramesh 
 Sol.1281.(d)  Jairam  Ramesh  .  The  Light 
 of  Asia  is  a  biblio-biography  of  Edwin 
 Arnold’s  palpably  fresh  grasp  of  a 
 complex  philosophy  and  a  worthy 
 contribution to modern Buddhist studies. 
 Q.1282.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book, 
 'Men in White - A Book of Cricket' ? 
 SSC CGL 18/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Boria Mazumdar  (b) Mukul Kesavan 
 (c) Harsha Bhogle     (d) Sanjay Manjrekar 
 Sol.1282.(b)  Mukul  Kesavan.  Other 
 books  -  “  Secular  Common  Sense”, 
 “Looking  through  Glass”,  “Homeless  on 
 Google Earth”. 
 Q.1283.  Who  authored  the  book 
 ‘Reporting  India:  My  Seventy-Year 
 Journey as a Journalist’? 
 SSC CGL 24/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Khushwant Singh (b) Anjan Sundaram 
 (c) Chetan Bhagat      (d) Prem Prakash 
 Sol.1283.(d)  Prem  Prakash  .  Other  books 
 -  ‘Three  Paths  of  Devotion’,  ‘Universal 
 Yoga’, ‘Song of the Guru Gita’. 
 Q.1284.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 ‘Hit Refresh' ? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Kazi Nazrul Islam 
 (b) Jagmohan Bhanver 
 (c) Aishwarya Rai 
 (d) Satya Nadella 
 Sol.1284.(d)  Satya  Nadella.  “Hit  Refresh: 
 The  Quest  to  Rediscover  Microsoft's  Soul 
 and  Imagine  a  Better  Future  for 
 Everyone”  is  a  non?ction  book  by  Satya 
 Nadella  and  co-authors  Jill  Tracie 
 Nichols  and  Greg  Shaw,  with  a  foreword 
 by Bill Gates, published in 2017. 
 Q.1285.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘A Fine Balance’? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Amitav Ghosh     (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) Rohinton Mistry  (d) Arvind Adiga 
 Sol.1285.(c)  Rohinton  Mistry.  ‘A  Fine 
 Balance’  published  in  1995.  Set  in  an 
 unidenti?ed  city  in  India,  initially  in  1975 
 and  later  in  1984  during  the  turmoil  of 
 The Emergency. 
 Q.1286.  Who among the following is the 
 author of the book 'Cross Connection: 
 The Big Circus Adventure'? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Aditya Chopra      (b) Rajkumar Rao 
 (c) Harman Baweja   (d) Jugal Hansraj 
 Sol.1286.(d)  Jugal  Hansraj  .  Another 
 book  by  him  -  ‘The  Coward  and  The 
 Sword’. 
 Q.1287.  The  book  'Indian  Parliamentary 
 Diplomacy  -  Speaker's  Perspective'  is 
 authored by ______. 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Om Birla         (b) Meira Kumar 
 (c) Shivraj Patil   (d) Balram Jhakar 
 Sol.1287.(b)  Meira  Kumar  .  She  is 
 Former Lok Sabha speaker. 
 Q.1288.  Sarbpreet Singh is the author of 
 which of the following books? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021  (Afternoon) 
 (a) Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories 
 from 1984 
 (b) Grandparents’ Bag of Stories 
 (c) 40 years with Abdul Kalam - Untold 
 Stories 
 (d) The Wrong Family 
 Sol.1288.(a)  'Night  of  the  Restless 
 Spirits'  which  is  based  on  recounting  of 
 the  Sikh  massacre  of  1984  ,  is  authored 
 by  Sarbpreet  Singh,  a  writer,  podcaster, 
 and  commentator.  ‘Grandparents’  Bag  of 
 Stories’  written  by  Sudha  Murty.  ‘40  years 
 with  Abdul  Kalam  -  Untold  Stories’  written 
 by  A. Sivathanu Pillai.  ‘The Wrong 
 Family’  is written by Tarryn Fisher. 
 Q.1289.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'My Master' ? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Swami Vivekananda 
 (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
 (c) Sri Aurobindo 
 (d) Rabindranath Tagore 
 Sol.1289.(a)  Swami Vivekananda. Other 
 books  -  ‘Meditation  and  Its  Methods’, 
 ‘Jnana  Yoga’,  ‘Work  and  Its  Secret’, 
 ‘Thoughts of Power’. 
 Q.1290.  Who  authored  the  book  'Jinnah: 
 His  Successes,  Failures  and  Role  in 
 History' ? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Khushwant Singh  (b) Intizar Husain 
 (c) Ishtiaq Ahmed       (d) Ishrat Husain 
 Sol.1290.(c)  Ishtiaq  Ahmed  (  Swedish 
 political  scientist  and  author  of  Pakistani 
 descent).  Other  books  -  ‘  The  Pakistan 
 Garrison  State’,  ‘The  Punjab  Bloodied 
 Partitioned and Cleansed’. 
 Q.1291.  Who among the following is the 
 author of ‘The Brahma Sutra – The 
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 Sol.1230.(d)  Haruki  Murakami.  Some 
 more  Popular  Books  by  him  -  "Kafka  on 
 the  Shore",  "Norwegian  Wood",  "1Q84", 
 "After  Dark",  "A  Wild  Sheep  Chase",  "The 
 Elephant Vanishes" etc. 
 Q.1231.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Coward  And  The 
 Sword’? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rushad Rana  (b) Jimmy Shergill 
 (c) Uday Chopra  (d) Jugal Hansraj 
 Sol.1231.(d)  Jugal  Hansraj  .  His  other 
 prominent  book  is  ‘Cross  Connection: 
 The  Big  Circus  Adventure’  (2018).  Uday 
 Chopra  (‘Dhoom  Redux  893’).  Rashad 
 Rana and Jimmy Shergil (Actor). 
 Q.1232.  Which  of  the  following  is  'George 
 David  Roberts’  thriller  novel  that  is  based 
 on his own experience in Mumbai? 
 SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Area of Darkness  (b) Amrit Aur Vish 
 (c) Shantaram  (d) Kurukshetra 
 Sol.1232.(c)  Shantaram.  George  David 
 Roberts  -  ‘The  Mountain  Shadow’,  ‘The 
 Spiritual  Path’,  ‘Shantaram  Part  Two’,  etc. 
 ‘Area  of  Darkness’  (V.S.  Naipaul),  ‘Amrit 
 Aur  Vish’  (Amritlal  Nagar)  and 
 ‘Kurukshetra’ (Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'). 
 Q.1233.  Which  Indian  cartoonist’s 
 autobiography  is  titled  ‘The  Tunnel  of 
 Time’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Ajit Ninan  (b) RK Laxman 
 (c) OV Vijayan  (d) Mario Miranda 
 Sol.1233.(b)  RK  Laxman.  Most  famous 
 books:  OV  Vijayan-  Thalamurakal 
 (Generations;  1997),  Mario  Miranda-  The 
 Life  of  Mario  1950  and  Ajit  Ninan-  “Like 
 That Only”. 
 Q.1234.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 the  author  of  the  famous  work  “Sangita 
 Ratnakara” ? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Sharngadeva  (b) Lochan Kavi 
 (c) Jaidev  (d) Ramamatya 
 Sol.1234.(a)  Sharngadeva.  Authors  and 
 their  books:  Lochan  Kavi  -  “Raga 
 Tarangini”.  Jaidev  -  “Gita  Govinda”,  and 
 “Love  Song  of  the  Dark  Lord”. 
 Ramamatya - “Swaramela Kalanidhi”. 
 Q.1235.  Among  the  following,  whose 
 autobiography  is  ‘Daughter  of  Destiny:  An 
 Autobiography’? 
 SSC CHSL 03/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Kamala Das  (b) Urvashi Butalia 
 (c) Malala Yousafzai  (d) Benazir Bhutto 
 Sol.1235.(d) Benazir Bhutto  .  Urvashi 
 Butalia-  ‘The  Other  Side  of  Silence: 
 Voices  from  the  Partition  of  India’.  Malala 
 Yousafzai-  ‘I  Am  Malala:  The  Girl  Who 
 Stood  Up  for  Education  and  Was  Shot  by 
 the Taliban’. Kamala Das- ‘My Story’. 
 Q.1236.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 autobiography of the international athlete 
 Maria Sharapova? 
 SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Open 
 (b) Unbreakable 
 (c) But Seriously 
 (d) Unstoppable: My Life So Far 
 Sol.1236.(d)  ‘Unstoppable:  My  Life  So 
 Far’  (Maria  Sharapova),  ‘But  Seriously’ 
 (John  McEnroe),  ‘Unbreakable’  (Mary 
 Kom), and ‘Open’ (Andre Agassi). 
 Q.1237.  Whose  memoir  is  titled  ‘My  Life 
 in Full: Work, Family and Our Future’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Shobhana Bhartia 
 (b) Renuka Ramnath 
 (c) Indra Nooyi 
 (d) Kiran Majumdar Shaw 
 Sol.1237.(c)  Indra  Nooyi.  Kiran 
 Majumdar  Shaw  -  ‘Ale  and  Arty’, 
 ‘Shobhana  Bhartia:  (Penguin  Petit)’  by 
 Gunjan Jain. 
 Q.1238.  The  historical  ?ction  novel  ‘The 
 King Within’ is authored by: 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Krishna Sobti  (b) Indu Sundaresan 
 (c) Nandini Sengupta (d) Kiran Nagarkar 
 Sol.1238.(c)  Nandini  Sengupta  -  ‘The 
 Poisoned  Heart’,  ‘The  Ocean’s  Own’,  ‘The 
 Blue  Horse  and  Other  Amazing  Animals 
 from  Indian  History’,  ‘Babies  from  the 
 Heart:  A  Complete  Guide  to  Adoption’, 
 etc. 
 Q.1239.  Which  of  the  following  pairs  of 
 authors  and  autobiographies  is 
 CORRECTLY matched? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Jahangir – Baburnama 
 (b) Satyajit Ray – Living Shadows 
 (c) JB Kripalani – My Times 
 (d) Aribam Syam Sharma – Jakhan 
 Choto Chilam 
 Sol.1239.(c)  ‘My  Times’  (JB  Kriplani)  , 
 ‘Baburnama’  (Babur),  ‘Living  Shadows’ 
 (Cornelia  Funke),  ‘Jakhan  Choto  Chilam’ 
 (Satyajit  Ray),  and  ‘Tuzk-e-Jahangiri’ 
 (Jahangir). 
 Q.1240.  ‘Finding  My  Way’  is  a  famous 
 autobiography  written  by  which  of  the 
 following  Gond  artists  of  India  with  the 
 help of Mukul S Anand? 
 SSC CHSL 07/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Venkat Raman Singh Shyam 
 (b) Dhavat Singh Uikey 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam 
 (d) Jangarh Singh Shyam 
 Sol.1240.(a)  Venkat  Raman  Singh 
 Shyam  and  Mukul  S  Anand.  Dhavat  Singh 
 Uikey-  ‘Where  has  the  Tiger  Gone?’, 
 Bhajju  Shyam  -  ‘The  Nightlife  of  Trees’, 
 and  ‘Jangarh  Singh  Shyam:  The 
 Enchanted Forest’ - Aurogeeta Das. 
 Q.1241.  Which  of  the  following  is  the 
 debut  novel  of  Indian  novelist  Chetan 
 Bhagat,  who  received  the  Society  Young 
 Achievers  Award  and  the  Publisher’s 
 Recognition award for his works? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) The Three Mistakes of My Life 
 (b) Five Point Someone 
 (c) Revolution 2020 
 (d) What Young India Wants 
 Sol.1241.(b)  Five  Point  Someone  (His 
 ?rst  novel  published  in  2004;  3  Idiots 
 movie  was  based  on  it  ).  Movies  based 
 on  his  novels:  Hello  in  2008  (  One  Night 
 at  the  Call  Center),  Kai  Po  Che!  in  2013 
 (The  3  Mistakes  of  My  Life;  won  59th 
 Filmfare  award  for  best  screenplay);  2 
 States  in  2014  (his  novel  of  the  same 
 name)  and  Half  Girlfriend  in  2017  (his 
 novel of the same name). 
 Q.1242.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Narcopolis’? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jeet Thayil  (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) David Davidar   (d) Anees Salim 
 Sol.1242.(a)  Jeet  Thayil.  Books  of  Jeet 
 Thayil  -  ‘The  Book  of  Chocolate  Saints’, 
 ‘Low’,  ‘English:  Poems’,  ‘These  errors  are 
 correct’,  ‘Names  of  the  Women’, 
 ‘Collected Poems’, etc. 
 Q.1243.  Which  of  the  following  novels  is 
 set  in  the  background  of  life  in  New  Delhi 
 after  the  declaration  of  Emergency  in  the 
 1970’s ? 
 SSC CHSL 08/06/ 2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Such a Long Journey 
 (b) The Heart Has its Reasons 
 (c) Rich Like Us 
 (d) The House of Blue Mangoes 
 Sol.1243.(c)  ‘Rich  Like  Us’-  Nayantara 
 Sahgal,  ‘  Such  a  Long  Journey.’  -  Rohinton 
 Mistry,  ‘The  Heart  Has  Its  Reasons’- 
 Maria  Duenas,  and  ‘The  House  of  Blue 
 Mangoes: A Novel’- David Davidar. 
 Q.1244.  Who  among  the  following  has 
 authored  the  famous  novel  ‘To  kill  a 
 mockingbird’? 
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 (a) Mary Shelley  (b) George Orwell 
 (c) Harper Lee  (d) Charles Dickens 
 Sol.1244.(c)  Harper  Lee  -  ‘Go  Set  a 
 Watchman’,  etc.  .Mary  Shelley-  ‘The  Last 
 Man’,  ‘Mathilda’,  ‘Frankenstein,  A 
 Longman  Cultural  Edition’,  etc.  George 
 Orwell-  ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal 
 Farm:  A  Fairy  Story’,  ‘Homage  To 
 Catalonia’, etc. 
 Q.1245.  ‘Born  in  India  Made  in  England’ 
 is  an  autobiography  of  Balraj  Khanna.  For 
 which  of  the  following  art  forms  is  he 
 known? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Theatre  (b) Music 
 (c) Sculpture  (d) Painting 
 Sol.1245.(d) Painting. 
 Q.1246.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  the  great 
 Indian  santoor  player  Shiv  Kumar  Sharma 
 in 2002? 
 SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) The Life of a Musician 
 (b) That Long Silence 
 (c) Journey with a Hundred Strings: My 
 Life in Music 
 (d) Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us 
 Sol.1246.(c)  ‘The  Life  of  a  Musician’  - 
 Book  By  Ferguson  Lennox,  ‘That  Long 
 Silence’  -  Novel  By  Shashi  Deshpande, 
 ‘Abba - God’s greatest Gift to Us’ - Book 
 by Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan. 
 Q.1247  .  ‘Drawing  From  the  City’  is  a 
 visual  autobiography  of  which  of  the 
 following Indian folk artists? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Teju Behun  (b) Jamini Roy 
 (c) Bhajju Shyam    (d) Baua Devi 
 Sol.1247.(a)  Teju  Behun.  Jamini  Roy 
 Famous  Paintings-  Three  Pujarins, 
 Yashoda  and  Krishna  etc.  Bhajju  Shyam 
 received  international  recognition  for  his 
 book The London Jungle Book in 2004. 
 Baua Devi is a Mithila painting artist. 
 Q.1248  .Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the novel “Mrignayani” ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Chatursen Shashtri 
 (b) Sumitranandan Pant 
 (c) Rangeya Raghav 
 (d) Vrindavan Lal Verma 
 Sol.1248.(d)  Vrindavan  Lal  Verma  . 
 Famous  Novels  by  him-  ‘Gadh  Kundar’, 
 ‘Virata  ki  Padmini’  ‘Musahibju’,  ‘Jhansi  ki 
 Rani’,  ‘Kachnar’,  ‘Madavji  Sindhia’,’Tute 
 Kante’, ‘Bhuvan Vikram’, ‘Ahilya Bai’ etc. 
 Q.1249  .  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘A Movable Feast’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ernest Hemingway (b) William Faulkner 
 (c) George Orwell  (d) Roald Dahl 
 Sol.1249.(a)  Ernest  Hemingway  -  ‘The 
 Old  Man  and  the  Sea’,  ‘A  Farewell  to 
 Arms’  etc.  William  Faulkner  -  ‘A  Fable’, 
 ‘The  Reivers’  etc.  George  Orwell  - 
 ‘Nineteen  Eighty-Four’,  ‘Animal  Farm’  etc. 
 Roald  Dahl-  ‘Matilda’,  ‘Charlie  and  the 
 Chocolate Factory’ etc. 
 Q.1250.  Which  of  the  following 
 autobiographies  is  written  by  former 
 English  footballer,  David  Beckham 
 published in 2003 ? 
 SSC CHSL 10/06/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) A Shot at History 
 (b) The Greatest: My own Story 
 (c) My Side 
 (d) Standing my Ground 
 Sol.1250.(c)  ‘My  Side’  .  Personality  and 
 their  autobiography:  Muhammad  Ali  - 
 ‘The  Greatest:  My  own  Story’,  Mathew 
 Hayden - ‘Standing My Ground’. 
 Q.1251.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Secret  of  the 
 Veda’ ? 
 SSC CGL 11/04/2022(Morning) 
 (a) Sri Aurobindo  (b) Annie Besant 
 (c) Swami Vivekananda  (d) J Krishnamurti 
 Sol.1251.(a)  Sri  Aurobindo  life 
 philosophy  is  a  synthesis  of  idealism, 
 realism,  naturalism  and  pragmatism. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  by  Sri 
 Aurobindo  are  -  ‘The  Life  Divine’,  ‘Integral 
 Yoga’,  ‘Hidden  Forces  of  Life’,  ‘The  Future 
 Evolution  of  Man’,  ‘Powers  Within’, 
 ‘Rebirth  and  Karma’,  ‘The  Human  Cycle’, 
 ‘The  Mind  of  Light’,  ‘The  Yoga  on  Sleep 
 and Dreams’ etc. 
 Q.1252.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘Social Harmony’? 
 SSC CGL  11/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) HD Deve Gowda (b) PV Narsimha Rao 
 (c) Narendra Modi   (d) Manmohan Singh 
 Sol.1252.(c) Shri Narendra Modi  . Books 
 by  Shri  Narendra  Modi  -  ‘Exam  Warriors’, 
 ‘Abode  of  Love’,  ‘Sabka  Saath,  Sabka 
 Vikas’,  ‘Nayan  he  Dhanya  Re’,  ‘Sangharsh 
 Ma  Gujarat’,  ‘Sakshibhav’,  ‘Aapatkal  Mein 
 Gujarat’, ‘Mann ki Baat’, etc. 
 Q.1253.  Which of the following is a book 
 written by Avni Doshi? 
 SSC CGL 13/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) In Other Words 
 (b) Burnt Sugar 
 (c) Unaccustomed Earth 
 (d) Interpreter of Maladies 
 Sol.1253.(b)  Burnt Sugar.  Other books  - 
 ‘  Girl in white Cotton’. 
 Q.1254.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘Myth  =  Mithya  : 
 Decoding Hindu Mythology’? 
 SSC CGL  13/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor  (b) Devdutt Pattanaik 
 (c) Vikram Seth        (d) Amitav Ghosh 
 Sol.1254.(b)  Devdutt  Pattanaik  .  More 
 famous  books  by  him  are  ‘Jaya’,  ‘My 
 Gita’,  ‘Krishna's  Secret’,  ‘7  Secrets  of 
 Shiva’,  ‘Devlok  with  Devdutt  Pattanaik’, 
 ‘How  To  Take  Decisions’,  ‘Sita’,  ‘My 
 Hanuman Chalisa’, ‘How to become Rich’. 
 Q.1255.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the epic poem ‘Kamayani’ ? 
 SSC CGL  18/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaishankar Prasad 
 (b) Gopala Sarana Sinha 
 (c) Mahadevi Varma 
 (d) Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi 
 Sol.1255.(a)  Jaishankar  Prasad  most 
 famous  dramas  include  ‘Skandagupta', 
 ‘Chandragupta’  and  ‘Dhruvaswamini’. 
 Some  of  the  famous  books  are  ‘Titli’, 
 ‘Kankal’, ‘Inderjaal’, ‘Ajatshatru’, ‘Mamta’. 
 Q.1256.  Who  among  the  following 
 science  ?ction/  popular  science  writers 
 wrote  ‘2001  :  A  Space  Odyssey’  and  held 
 the  position  of  a  Professor  at  the 
 Physical  Research  Laboratory, 
 Ahmedabad? 
 SSC CGL 18/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Isaac Asimov       (b) Arthur C Clarke 
 (c) Jules Verne          (d) HG Wells 
 Sol.1256.(b)  Arthur  C  Clark  -  ‘Rama 
 Series’, 'Childhood Ends’, ‘City and the 
 Stars’, ‘Fountains of Paradise’. 
 Q.1257.  Which  of  the  following  sages  of 
 ancient  India  wrote  the  ‘Mimamsa  - 
 sutras’ ? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) Jaimini  (b) Charaka 
 (c) Badarayana  (d) Panini 
 Sol.1257.(a)  Jaimini  .  Author  and  books: 
 Charak  -  ‘Charaka  Samhita’,  Badarayana  - 
 ‘Brahma Sutras’. 
 Q.1258.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘The Coalition Years’? 
 SSC CGL 19/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Giani Zail Singh     (b) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (c) Pranab Mukherjee (d) KR Narayanan 
 Sol.1258.(c)  Pranab  Mukherjee  -  ‘The 
 Dramatic  Decade:  The  Indira  Gandhi 
 Years’,  ‘The  Turbulent  Years’,  ‘Thoughts 
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 Q.1259. ‘  Si-yu-ki’ or ‘The Records of the 
 Western World’ was written by: 
 SSC CGL  20/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Marco Polo  (b) Fa-Hien 
 (c) Abdur Razzak          (d) Hiuen Tsiang 
 Sol.1259.(d)  Hiuen  Tsiang.  Author  and 
 books:  Marco  Polo  -  “The  Description  of 
 the  World  '',  “Travels  in  the  Land  of  Kubilai 
 Khan ''. 
 Q.1260.  Which  of  the  following  books 
 was written by Jawaharlal Nehru? 
 SSC CGL 21/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) A bunch of Old letters. 
 (b) Riddles in Hinduism 
 (c) Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah 
 (d) Waiting For A Visa : Autobiographical 
 Notes 
 Sol.1260.(a)  A  bunch  of  Old  letters  . 
 ‘Riddles  in  Hinduism’,  ‘Ranade,  Gandhi 
 and  Jinnah’,  ‘Waiting  For  A  Visa  : 
 Autobiographical  Notes’  were  written  by 
 B.R Ambedkar. 
 Q.1261.  The  book  titled  'My  Journey: 
 Transforming  Dreams  into  Actions'  is  an 
 autobiography of: 
 SSC MTS 05/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Pratibha Patil 
 (b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee 
 (c) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (d) Lal Krishna Advani 
 Sol.1261.(c)  APJ  Abdul  Kalam.  Books  - 
 “Wings  of  Fire”,  “Ignited  Minds”,  “Turning 
 Points”. 
 Q.1262.  Which of the following is a book 
 by  former  Prime  Minister  of  India,  Indira 
 Gandhi ? 
 SSC MTS 06/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Discovery of India 
 (b) Wings of Fire 
 (c) My Experiments with Truth 
 (d) My Truth 
 Sol.1262.(d)  My  Truth.  Her  other  books  - 
 “Freedom’s  Daughter”,  "Remembered 
 Moments". 
 Q.1263.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'The Best Thing About You is You'? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021  (Morning) 
 (a) Amitabh Bachchan   (b) Anil Kapoor 
 (c) Anupam Kher             (d) Annu Kapoor 
 Sol.1263.(c) Anupam Kher. 
 Q.1264.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Testaments’  ? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jokha Alharthi   (b) Andrew Sean Greer 
 (c) Anna Burns  (d) Margaret Atwood 
 Sol.1264.(d)  Margaret  Atwood  .  ‘The 
 Testaments’  is  a  sequel  to  ‘The 
 Handmaid  Tales’.  The  Testaments  was 
 joint  winner  of  the  2019  Booker  Prize, 
 alongside  Bernardine  Evaristo's  novel 
 “Girl, Woman, Other”. 
 Q.1265.  'Boy  :  Tales  of  Childhood'  is  an 
 autobiographical book by ______. 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Mark Twain    (b) Ruskin Bond 
 (c) Roald Dahl      (d) Lewis Carroll 
 Sol.1265.(c)  Roald  Dahl.  Lewis  Carroll  : 
 ‘Alice's  Adventures  in  Wonderland’  (1865) 
 and  ‘Through  the  Looking-Glass’,  and 
 ‘What Alice Found There’ (1872). 
 Q.1266.  Which  of  the  following  works 
 was written by Bernardin Evaristo? 
 SSC MTS 08/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ducks, Newburyport 
 (b) 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This 
 Strange World 
 (c) An Orchestra of Minorities 
 (d) Girl, Woman, Other 
 Sol.1266.(d)  ‘Girl,  Woman,  Other’.  Other 
 novels:  “  Mr  Loverman”,  “Blonde  Roots”, 
 “Soul  Tourists”,  “Lara”,  “Hello  Mum” 
 (book). 
 Q.1267.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'The Tales of Beedle The Bard' ? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Lewis Carroll  (b) EB White 
 (c) Roald Dahl  (d) JK Rowling 
 Sol.1267.(d)  JK  Rowling.  Other  novels: 
 “  Harry  Potter  and  the  Philosopher's 
 Stone”,  “The  Ink  Black  Heart’’,  “Troubled 
 Blood”. 
 Q.1268.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  titled  'Speaking  Truth 
 to Power: My Alternative View' ? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subramanian Swamy 
 (b) Mani Shankar Aiyar 
 (c) P Chidambaram 
 (d) Arun Shourie 
 Sol.1268.(c)  P  Chidambaram  .  Other 
 books:  “  Fearless  in  Opposition”, 
 “Standing  Guard”,  Undaunted  -  “Saving 
 the Idea of India”. 
 Q.1269.  Who wrote the book ‘Kundalini: 
 The  Mother  of  the  Universe’,  which 
 Includes  an  English  translation  of  ‘Lalita 
 Sahasranama’? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Rishi Singh Gherwal 
 (b) Rabindranath Tagore 
 (c) Vikram Seth 
 (d) Dr. S Radha Krishnan 
 Sol.1269.(a)  Rishi  Singh  Gherwal  .  Other 
 books:  “Patanjali's  Raja  Yoga”,  “Yoga 
 Vasistha  Or  Heaven  Found”,  “A  Treatise 
 on Yoga”. 
 Q.1270.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book 'Kanthapura' ? 
 SSC MTS 12/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Nirad Choudhuri 
 (b) Sitakanta Mohapatra 
 (c) Raja Rao 
 (d) Kamala Das 
 Sol.1270.(c)  Raja  Rao  .  It  is  the  story  of 
 how  Gandhi's  struggle  for  independence 
 from  the  British  came  to  a  typical  village, 
 Kanthapura, in South India. 
 Q.1271.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  Hindi  poetry  book 
 ‘Chheelate Hue Apne Ko' ? 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Nand Kishore Acharya (b) Javed Akhtar 
 (c) Rahat Indori  (d) Gulzar 
 Sol.1271.(a)  Nand  Kishore  Acharya. 
 Other  famous  books  by  him-  ‘Sanskriti  ka 
 Vyakarna’,  ‘Sabhyata  ka  Vikalp’,  ‘Gulam 
 Badshah’,  etc.  He  was  awarded  Sahitya 
 Akademi Award 2019 in Hindi literature. 
 Q.1272.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘150  Years  of 
 Celebrating  the  Mahatma  –  the  South 
 African Legacy'? 
 SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Daniel Woodrell     (b) Fareed Zakaria 
 (c) Fakir Hassen          (d) Frederic Tuten 
 Sol.1272.(c)  Fakir  Hassen  .  Gandhiji 
 returned  to  India  on  9  January  1915  from 
 South Africa. 
 Q.1273.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  titled  ‘A  Woman  Is  No 
 Man’? 
 SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Etaf Rum  (b) Jokha Alharthi 
 (c) Margaret Atwood (d) Andrew Sean Greer 
 Sol.1273.(a)  Etaf  Rum  .  Another  book  by 
 him -  ‘  Evil Eye’. 
 Q.1274.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘Being Gandhi’? 
 SSC MTS 27/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Ashis Ray              (b) Paro Anand 
 (c) Nirupama Yadav  (d) V Pattabhi Ram 
 Sol.1274.(b)  Paro  Anand.  She  won  the 
 Sahitya  Akademi  Bal  Sahitya  Puraskar  in 
 2017  for  her  anthology  Wild  Child  and 
 Other  Stories  (now  published  as  "Like 
 Smoke: 20 Teens 20 Stories''). 
 Q.1275.  ‘  Bhavartha  Dipika’  and 
 ‘Amritanubhava’ are the sacred books of 
 the people of ______. 
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 SSC MTS 27/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Haryana                  (b) Gujarat 
 (c) Maharashtra          (d) Rajasthan 
 Sol.1275.(c)  Maharashtra  .  Author  of  the 
 book  ‘Bhavartha  Dipika’  and 
 ‘Amritanubhava’ is Sant Dyaneshwar. 
 Q.1276.  The  ?rst  printed  edition  of  the 
 Ramcharitmanas  by  Tulsidas  was 
 published from ______ in 1810. 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Delhi  (b) Calcutta/Kolkata 
 (c) Madras/Chennai (d) Bombay/Mumbai 
 Sol.1276.(b)  Calcutta (Kolkata). 
 Q.1277.  Willy  Wonka  is  a  ?ctional 
 character  from  the  children's  story  book 
 '______'. 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 
 (b) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 
 (c) Matilda 
 (d) Charlotte's Web 
 Sol.1277.(b)  Charlie  and  the  Chocolate 
 Factory  written  by  Roald  Dahl.  Charlotte's 
 Web (E. B White), Matilda (Roald Dahl). 
 Q.1278.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author  of  the  book  ‘The  Anarchy:  The 
 Relentless  Rise  of  the  East  India 
 Company’? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Shoshana Zuboff (b) Sumit Sarkar 
 (c) Shashi Tharoor     (d) William Dalrymple 
 Sol.1278.(d)  William  Dalrymple  .  More 
 famous  books  by  him  are-  ‘Kohinoor:  The 
 Story  of  the  World’s  Most  Infamous 
 Diamond’,  ‘Return  of  a  King’,  ‘The  Last 
 Mughal’,  ‘Nine  Lives’,  ‘White  Mughals’, 
 ‘From the Holy Mountain’. 
 Q.1279.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of ‘Vishesh: Code To Win’ ? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 
 (b) Chetan Anand 
 (c) Nirupama Yadav 
 (d) Ashish Ray 
 Sol.1279.(c)  Nirupama  Yadav  .  Books 
 and  author:  ‘One  Day  Cricket’  -  Ashis  Ray. 
 ‘Vishesh  Code  To  Win’  -  biography  of 
 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 
 Q.1280.  Who  wrote  the  book  'The  Quest 
 for Equity in Development'? 
 SSC CGL 17/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Amartya Sen 
 (b) Montek Singh Ahluwalia 
 (c) Raghuram Rajan 
 (d) Manmohan Singh 
 Sol.1280.(d)  Manmohan Singh. 
 ‘  Changing India’ was written by him. 
 Q.1281.  Who  among  the  following  wrote 
 ‘The  Light  of  Asia:  The  Poem  that 
 De?ned  the  Buddha’  that  will  narrate  the 
 phenomenal poem ‘The Light of Asia’? 
 SSC CGL 17/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Shashi Tharoor   (b) Salman Rushdie 
 (c) Chetan Bhagat    (d) Jairam Ramesh 
 Sol.1281.(d)  Jairam  Ramesh  .  The  Light 
 of  Asia  is  a  biblio-biography  of  Edwin 
 Arnold’s  palpably  fresh  grasp  of  a 
 complex  philosophy  and  a  worthy 
 contribution to modern Buddhist studies. 
 Q.1282.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book, 
 'Men in White - A Book of Cricket' ? 
 SSC CGL 18/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Boria Mazumdar  (b) Mukul Kesavan 
 (c) Harsha Bhogle     (d) Sanjay Manjrekar 
 Sol.1282.(b)  Mukul  Kesavan.  Other 
 books  -  “  Secular  Common  Sense”, 
 “Looking  through  Glass”,  “Homeless  on 
 Google Earth”. 
 Q.1283.  Who  authored  the  book 
 ‘Reporting  India:  My  Seventy-Year 
 Journey as a Journalist’? 
 SSC CGL 24/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Khushwant Singh (b) Anjan Sundaram 
 (c) Chetan Bhagat      (d) Prem Prakash 
 Sol.1283.(d)  Prem  Prakash  .  Other  books 
 -  ‘Three  Paths  of  Devotion’,  ‘Universal 
 Yoga’, ‘Song of the Guru Gita’. 
 Q.1284.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 ‘Hit Refresh' ? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Kazi Nazrul Islam 
 (b) Jagmohan Bhanver 
 (c) Aishwarya Rai 
 (d) Satya Nadella 
 Sol.1284.(d)  Satya  Nadella.  “Hit  Refresh: 
 The  Quest  to  Rediscover  Microsoft's  Soul 
 and  Imagine  a  Better  Future  for 
 Everyone”  is  a  non?ction  book  by  Satya 
 Nadella  and  co-authors  Jill  Tracie 
 Nichols  and  Greg  Shaw,  with  a  foreword 
 by Bill Gates, published in 2017. 
 Q.1285.  Who  among  the  following  is  the 
 author of the book ‘A Fine Balance’? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Amitav Ghosh     (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) Rohinton Mistry  (d) Arvind Adiga 
 Sol.1285.(c)  Rohinton  Mistry.  ‘A  Fine 
 Balance’  published  in  1995.  Set  in  an 
 unidenti?ed  city  in  India,  initially  in  1975 
 and  later  in  1984  during  the  turmoil  of 
 The Emergency. 
 Q.1286.  Who among the following is the 
 author of the book 'Cross Connection: 
 The Big Circus Adventure'? 
 SSC CHSL 15/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Aditya Chopra      (b) Rajkumar Rao 
 (c) Harman Baweja   (d) Jugal Hansraj 
 Sol.1286.(d)  Jugal  Hansraj  .  Another 
 book  by  him  -  ‘The  Coward  and  The 
 Sword’. 
 Q.1287.  The  book  'Indian  Parliamentary 
 Diplomacy  -  Speaker's  Perspective'  is 
 authored by ______. 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Om Birla         (b) Meira Kumar 
 (c) Shivraj Patil   (d) Balram Jhakar 
 Sol.1287.(b)  Meira  Kumar  .  She  is 
 Former Lok Sabha speaker. 
 Q.1288.  Sarbpreet Singh is the author of 
 which of the following books? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021  (Afternoon) 
 (a) Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories 
 from 1984 
 (b) Grandparents’ Bag of Stories 
 (c) 40 years with Abdul Kalam - Untold 
 Stories 
 (d) The Wrong Family 
 Sol.1288.(a)  'Night  of  the  Restless 
 Spirits'  which  is  based  on  recounting  of 
 the  Sikh  massacre  of  1984  ,  is  authored 
 by  Sarbpreet  Singh,  a  writer,  podcaster, 
 and  commentator.  ‘Grandparents’  Bag  of 
 Stories’  written  by  Sudha  Murty.  ‘40  years 
 with  Abdul  Kalam  -  Untold  Stories’  written 
 by  A. Sivathanu Pillai.  ‘The Wrong 
 Family’  is written by Tarryn Fisher. 
 Q.1289.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'My Master' ? 
 SSC CHSL 16/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Swami Vivekananda 
 (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
 (c) Sri Aurobindo 
 (d) Rabindranath Tagore 
 Sol.1289.(a)  Swami Vivekananda. Other 
 books  -  ‘Meditation  and  Its  Methods’, 
 ‘Jnana  Yoga’,  ‘Work  and  Its  Secret’, 
 ‘Thoughts of Power’. 
 Q.1290.  Who  authored  the  book  'Jinnah: 
 His  Successes,  Failures  and  Role  in 
 History' ? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Khushwant Singh  (b) Intizar Husain 
 (c) Ishtiaq Ahmed       (d) Ishrat Husain 
 Sol.1290.(c)  Ishtiaq  Ahmed  (  Swedish 
 political  scientist  and  author  of  Pakistani 
 descent).  Other  books  -  ‘  The  Pakistan 
 Garrison  State’,  ‘The  Punjab  Bloodied 
 Partitioned and Cleansed’. 
 Q.1291.  Who among the following is the 
 author of ‘The Brahma Sutra – The 
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 Philosophy of Spiritual life’? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 
 (b) Indira Gandhi 
 (c) Sarojini Naidu 
 (d) Rajendra Prasad 
 Sol.1291.(a)  Sarvepalli  Radhakrishnan  . 
 Other  books  -  ‘  The  Hindu  view  of  life’, 
 ‘The Pursuit of Truth’. 
 Q.1292.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'Poskem' ? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Rohit Bal 
 (b) Manish Malhotra 
 (c) Sabyasachi Mukherjee 
 (d) Wendell Rodricks 
 Sol.1292.(d)  Wendell  Rodricks  has 
 authored  two  books  -  ‘Moda  Goa:  History 
 and  Style’.  ‘Poskem  :  Goans  in  the 
 Shadow  on  your  Kindle  in  under  a 
 minute’. 
 Q.1293.  Who  among  the  following  had 
 authored  ‘Buddha  Gaya:  The  Hermitage 
 of Sakya Muni’ in 1878 ? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Alexander Cunningham 
 (b) Rajendralala Mitra 
 (c) HH Cole 
 (d) John Marshall 
 Sol.1293.(b)  Rajendralala  Mitra.  More 
 books  by  him  are  ‘The  Chandogya 
 Upanishad’,  ‘Antiquities  Of  Orissa’,  ‘The 
 Sanskrit Buddhist literature of Nepal’ etc. 
 HH  Cole  -  appointed  as  the  Curator  of 
 Ancient Monuments in 1880. 
 Q.1294.  Who among the following is the 
 author of the epic story 'Manucharitra'? 
 SSC CHSL 12/08/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Banbhatt             (b) Ponna 
 (c) Chand Bardai  (d) Allasani Peddana 
 Sol.1294.(d)  Allasani  Peddana  .  He  was 
 a  Telugu  poet  and  one  of  the 
 Ashtadiggajalu  in  the  Vijayanagara 
 Empire. 
 Q.1295.  Who is the author of the book ‘A 
 Better India: A Better World’? 
 SSC CPO 23/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Gurcharan Das (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) Ratan Tata        (d) NR Narayana Murthy 
 Sol.1295.(d)  NR  Narayana  Murthy.  Other 
 books  -  ‘A,  Clear  Blue  Sky’,  ‘Mere 
 Business Mantra’. 
 Q.1296.  Kamban  wrote  the  Ramayana  in 
 which of the following languages? 
 SSC CPO 24/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Malayalam  (b) Kannada 
 (c) Tamil  (d) Telugu 
 Sol.1296.(c)  Tamil.  Ramavataram  , 
 popularly  referred  to  as  Kamban 
 Ramayanam,  is  a  Tamil  epic  written  by 
 the  Tamil  poet  Kambar  during  the  12th 
 century.  It  is  Based  on  Valmiki's 
 Ramayana which is in Sanskrit. 
 Q.1297.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 ‘Crossed  Swords:  Pakistan,  Its  Army  and 
 the War Within’ ? 
 SSC CPO 25/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) SD Muni  (b) Shashi Tharoor 
 (c) JN Dixit  (d) Shuja Nawaz 
 Sol.1297.(d)  Shuja  Nawaj.  Other  books  - 
 ‘  The  Battle  for  Pakistan’,  ‘The  Inner 
 World’, ‘FATA?A Most Dangerous Place’. 
 Q.1298.  ‘Those  Days’  is  the  translated 
 version  of  a  Sahitya  Akademi  Award 
 winning  historical  novel  originally  written 
 by: 
 SSC CPO 25/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Nandita Das 
 (b) Sunil Gangopadhyay 
 (c) Sumitranandan Pant 
 (d) Bhartendu Harishchandra 
 Sol.1298.(b)  Sunil  Gangopadhyay  .  He 
 got  Sahitya  Academy  Award  for  ‘Those 
 Days’ Novel in 1985.  Books -  ‘East-west’, 
 ‘Kakababu samagra’. 
 Q.1299.  ‘Aatish-i-Chinar’  (‘Flames  of 
 Chinar’)  is  the  autobiography  of  which 
 politician ? 
 SSC CHSL 12/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) M Hidayatullah 
 (b) APJ Abdul Kalam 
 (c) Benazir Bhutto 
 (d) Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah 
 Sol.1299.(d)  Sheikh  Muhammad 
 Abdullah.  His  fearlessness  earned  him 
 the title of ‘Sher-e-Kashmir’. 
 Q.1300.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'Bridgital  Nation  –  Solving  Technology's 
 People Problem'? 
 SSC CHSL 16/10/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Nandan Nilekani     (b) Ratan Tata 
 (c) N Chandrasekaran (d) Narayana murthy 
 Sol.1300.(c)  N  Chandrasekaran  .  Author 
 and  books:  Nandan  Nilekani  -  ‘Imagining 
 India',  Narayana  murthy  -  ‘A  Better  India: 
 A Better World', Ratan Tata - ‘The Wit and 
 Wisdom of Ratan Tata’. 
 Q.1301.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 ‘Reset:  Regaining  India's  Economic 
 Legacy’ ? 
 SSC CHSL 16/10/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Suketu Mehta 
 (b) Abhijeet Banerjee 
 (c) Subramanian Swamy 
 (d) Raghuram Rajan 
 Sol.1301.(c)  Subramanian  Swamy.  Other 
 books  -  ‘  2G  Spectrum  Scam’,  ‘Human 
 Rights  and  Terrorism  in  India’,  ‘Sri  Lanka 
 in Crisis: India's Options’. 
 Q.1302.  Who  is  the  author  of  ’Ben-Hur  :  A 
 Tale of the Christ’? 
 SSC CHSL 20/10/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Lewis Carroll  (b) Jules Verne 
 (c) Ben Jonson    (d) Lew Wallace 
 Sol.1302.(d)  Lew  Wallace.  Other  books  - 
 ‘  The  Prince  of  India’,  ‘Fair  God  or  the  Last 
 of the 'Tzins’. 
 Q.1303.  Which  of  the  following  books 
 was  translated  as  ‘The  Razmnama’  (Book 
 of Wars) during the reign of Akbar? 
 SSC CHSL 20/10/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Ramayana  (b) Babur Nama 
 (c) Mahabharata  (d) Akbar Nama 
 Sol.1303.(c)  Mahabharata.  Books  and 
 authors:  ‘  Ramayana’  -  Valmiki,  ‘Akbar 
 Nama’ - Abul Fazal, ‘Babur Nama’ - Babur. 
 Q.1304.  Which  Nobel  laureate  wrote  the 
 book  ‘India:  A  Million  Mutinies  Now’  and 
 Role in   History'? 
 SSC CHSL 26/10/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul 
 (b) Olga Tokarczuk 
 (c) Peter Handke 
 (d) Patrick Modiano 
 Sol.1304.(a)  Vidiadhar  Surajprasad 
 Naipaul  .  Other  novels - ‘  A House for Mr 
 Biswas’,  ‘A  Bend  in  the  River’,  ‘Miguel 
 Street’, ‘In a Free State’. 
 Q.1305.  Who  is  the  author  of  the  book 
 'Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa'? 
 SSC CGL 06/03/2020 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Krishna Sobti  (b) Rita Kothari 
 (c) Sugathakumari  (d) Mahasweta Devi 
 Sol.1305.(d)  Mahasweta  Devi- 
 ‘Imaginary  Maps’,  ‘Hazaar  Chaurasi  ki 
 Maa,’  ‘Breast  Stories’,  ‘Chotti  Munda  and 
 His Arrow’, ‘Five Plays’, etc. 
 Famous Personality 
 Q.1306.  Which  of  the  following  is  an 
 autobiography  of  a  Bengali  illiterate 
 woman  who  secretly  acquired  literacy 
 skills  to  read  sacred  texts  in  an  age  when 
 girls  and  women  were  denied  education 
 and  deemed  ?t  only  for  household 
 chores ? 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Jina Amucha by Baby Kamble 
 (b) Amar Jiban by Rassundari Devi 
 (c) Smritichitre by Lakshmibai Tilak 
 (d) Ente Katha by Kamala Das 
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