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Book Quiz-Quiz related to Quiz and English Writers

Posted by admin on 25th May 2011

1. What was the first book in English to be printed in England?

2. Which 2 books do castaways automatically receive on ?Desert island discs??

3. Who was responsible for the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet?

4. Who created Miss Marple?

5. Which book had to be owned by every member of his country?s adult population?

6. Which religious sect published ?The Truth That Leads To Eternal Life?

7. Who wrote the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

8. In which decade did Guinness start to publish its book of Records annually?

9. Who wrote The Thorn Birds?

10. What was Jeffrey Archers first successful novel?
Answers :

1. The Canterbury tales

2. The Bible & Complete Works of Shakespeare

3. Rosemary Conley

4. Agatha Christie

5. Chairman Mao?s Little Red Book

6. Jehovah?s Witness

7. Douglas Adams

8. 1960s

9. Colleen mccullogh

10. Not a penny more, not a penny less
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Quiz Based on Books

Posted by admin on 15th February 2011
Name of the Book
Author
MACBETH SHAKESPEARE
MY EXPERIMENT WITH TRUTH MAHATHMA GANDHI
THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
GLIMPSES 0F WORLD HISTORY JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
ROBINSON CRUSOE DANIEL DEFOE
THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS SIGMUND FREUD
TIME MACHINE H.G WELLS
SHAKUNTALAM KALIDAS
THE VENDOR OF SWEETS R.K NARAYAN
THE TEMPEST SHAKESPEARE
A BEND IN THE RIVER V.S NAIPAUL
A FAREWELL TO ARMS ERNEST HEMINGWAY
ARTHASASTRA KAUTILYA
APPLE CART G.B SHAW
A SUITABLE BOY VIKRAM SETH
ANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL
ANAND MATH BANKIM CHANDRA
ALICE IN WONDERLAND LEWIS CAROL
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA G.B SHAW
COOLIE MULK RAJ ANAND
DOUBLE HELIX J.D WATSON
DAS KAPITAL KARL MARX
GATHERING STORM WINSTON CHURCHILL
HAMLET SHAKESPEARE
HARSHA CHRITHA BANA BHATT
GULLIVERS TRAVELS JONATHAN SWIFT
INVISIBLE MAN H.G WELLS
KAMA SUTRA VATSYAYAN
MAHABHARATA VYASA
JUNGLE BOOK RUDYARD KIPLING
KING LEAR SHAKESPEARE
INDIA WINS FREEDOM ABUL KALAM AZAD
MAN EATERS OF KUMAON JIM CORBETT
MEGHDOOT KALIDAS
MEIN KAMPF ADOLF HITLER
MY TRUTH INDIRA GANDHI
ODAKKUZHAL G.SHANKARA KURUPPU
OLD MAN AND THE SEA ERNEST HEMINGWAY
ORIGIN OF SPECIES CHARLES DARWIN
OTHELLO SHAKESPEARE
PANCHTANTRA VISHNU SHARMA
WEALTH OF NATIONS ADAM SMITH
A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND NIRAD.C.CHAUDARI
A PASSAGE TO INDIA E.M FOSTER
A TALE OF TWO CITIES CHARLES DICKENS
ANNA KARENINA TOLSTOY
BY GODS DECREE KAPIL DEV
ETERNAL INDIA INDIRA GANDHI
FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT COLLINS AND LAPIERRE
GITANJALI RABINDRA NATH TAGORE
THE GUIDE R.K NARAYAN
THE JUDGEMENT KULDIP NAYAR
LES MISERABLES VICTOR HUGO
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT ROUSSEAU
MARRIAGE AND MORALS BERTRAND RUSSEL
MERCHANT OF VENICE SHAKESPEARE
MOTHER MAXIM GORKY
MOTHER INDIA KATHERINE MAYO
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
OLIVER TWIST CHARLES DICKENS
ODYSSEY HOMER
OUR FILMS, THEIR FILMS SATYAJIT RAY
ORU DESATHINTE KATHA S.K POTTEKATT
GORA TAGORE
WAKE UP INDIA ANNIE BESANT
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS ARUNDHATI ROY
LAJJA TESLIMA NASREEN
TRAIN TO PAKISTAN KHUSWANTH SINGH
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDER DUMAS
MY PRESIDENTIAL YEARS R. VENKATARAMAN
RANDAMOOZHAM M.T VASUDEVAN NAIR
UMMACHU UROOB
ODE TO THE WEST WIND SHELLY
ARABIPPONNU M.T VASUDEVAN NAIR && N.P MUHAMMAD
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ANN FRANK
AS I SEE KIRAN BEDI
WINGS OF FIRE APJ ABDUL KALAM
DOLLS HOUSE WRITTEN BY HENRIK IBSEN
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME STEPHEN HAWKING
AKBARNAMA ABDUL FAZAL
AS YOU LIKE IT SHAKESPEARE
BLACK HOLES AND BABY UNIVERSE STEPHEN HAWKING
CHEMMEEN THAKAZHI SIVA SANKARA PILLAI
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM DALAI LAMA
FRENCH REVOLUTION THOMAS CARLYLE
JULIUS CAESAR SHAKESPEARE
JURASSIC PARK MICHAEL CRICHTON
MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN SALMAN RUSHDIE
MOONWALK MICHAEL JACKSON
MY STORY JACKIE CHAN
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
POST OFFICE RABINDRA NATH TAGORE
ROMEO AND JULIET SHAKESPEARE
SUNNY DAYS SUNIL GAVASKAR
SWAMI AND FRIENDS R.K NARAYAN
THE ADVENTURES OF SHELOCK HOLMES CONAN DOYLE
THE FIFTH HORSEMAN LARRY COLLINS AND DOMNIQUE LAPIERRE
THE GOLDEN GATE VIKRAM SETH
THE MOORS LAST SAY SALMAN RUSHDIE
VANITY FAIR WILLIAM THACKERAY
YESTERDAY AND TODAY KPS MENON
ZORBA THE GREEK NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
THE PROPHET KHALIL GIBRAN
FASTING , FEASTING ANITA DESAI
THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS KIRAN DESAI
AUTHOR OF “MALABAR MANUEL” WILLIAM LOGAN
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE WINSTON CHURCHILL
A VILLAGE BY THE SEA ANITA DESAI
BUSINESS @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT BILL GATES
DAVID COPPERFIELD CHARLES DICKENS
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Charles Darwin,HMS Beagle and the Origin of Species

Posted by admin on 9th November 2010

British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) began drafting Origin of Species in 1842, just six years after returning from his fateful five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle (1831-36). Heavily influenced by Sir Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-1833, a three volume work) and Thomas Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Origin of Species was ultimately published in 1859.

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin’s book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.