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1. 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' were written by whom? — Arthur Conan Doyle
2. 'A Brief History of Time' is a popular science book by which physicist? — Stephen Hawking
3. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' is a dystopian social science fiction novel by which author? — George Orwell
4. 'Animal Farm' is a satirical novella by which author? — George Orwell
5. Who wrote the novel 'The Guide'? — R.K. Narayan
6. The famous book 'The Republic' is attributed to which Greek philosopher? — Plato
7. 'The Catcher in the Rye' is a novel by: — J.D. Salinger
8. 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy was written by: — J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Who penned the classic play 'Romeo and Juliet'? — William Shakespeare
10. 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was written by: — Mark Twain
11. Who is the author of the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'? — Jane Austen
12. 'Sense and Sensibility' is a novel by: — Jane Austen
13. Who wrote the famous novel 'Moby Dick'? — Herman Melville
14. 'Frankenstein' is a novel by which author? — Mary Shelley
15. 'Jane Eyre' is a novel by which author? — Charlotte Brontë
16. 'The Great Gatsby' is a novel by which American author? — F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. 'War and Peace' is a renowned novel by which Russian author? — Leo Tolstoy
18. Who is the author of the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'? — Harper Lee
19. 'My Experiments with Truth' is the autobiography of which prominent Indian leader? — Mahatma Gandhi
20. Who wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'? — Adam Smith
21. 'The Alchemist' is a novel by which Brazilian author? — Paulo Coelho
22. Who is credited with writing the ancient Indian treatise 'Arthashastra'? — Chanakya
23. 'The Kite Runner' is a novel by which Afghan-American author? — Khaled Hosseini
24. 'Don Quixote' is a seminal novel by which Spanish writer? — Miguel de Cervantes
25. 'The Discovery of India' was written by whom? — Jawaharlal Nehru
26. Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'? — Gabriel García Márquez
27. 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' is a famous work by: — Mark Twain
28. Which book is famously associated with Swami Vivekananda? — Karma Yoga
29. Which book is famously associated with the Indian independence movement and written by Jawaharlal Nehru? — Discovery of India
30. Which work is attributed to Kalidasa? — Meghaduta
31. Who wrote the historical novel 'Malgudi Days'? — R.K. Narayan
32. Which Indian poet is known for his work 'The Golden Threshold'? — Sarojini Naidu
33. 'Wings of Fire' is the autobiography of which Indian personality? — APJ Abdul Kalam
34. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a novel by: — Oscar Wilde
35. Who is the author of 'The Jungle Book'? — Rudyard Kipling
36. Who wrote the novel 'The God of Small Things'? — Arundhati Roy
37. Who authored the famous play 'Oedipus Rex'? — Sophocles
38. Who authored 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'? — Douglas Adams
39. Who wrote the influential book 'The Prince'? — Niccolò Machiavelli
40. Which Indian author wrote the epic poem 'Ramcharitmanas'? — Tulsidas
41. Who is the author of 'The Mahabharata'? — Vyasa
42. Who wrote the famous Indian epic 'Mahabharata'? — Vyasa
43. 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are epic poems attributed to: — Homer
44. Who wrote the influential book 'The Communist Manifesto'? — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
45. Who wrote the collection of fables known as 'Panchatantra'? — Vishnu Sharma
46. Who wrote the epic poem 'The Ramayana'? — Valmiki
47. 'Gitanjali', a collection of poems, won Rabindranath Tagore the Nobel Prize. Who translated it into English? — William Butler Yeats
48. Who wrote the novel 'A Tale of Two Cities'? — Charles Dickens
49. 'The Canterbury Tales' is a collection of stories by which English poet? — Geoffrey Chaucer
50. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'? — John Milton
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