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01 The Persian epic Shahnama was written by Firdausi

02 Mohenjadaro literally means Mound of Corpes

03 The Classic "Measure for Measure"was written by William Shakespeare

04 The composer of Geet Govind was Jayadev

05By the middle of the 1st century,the city that was famous for fine arts

wasPataliputra

06 The first Cartoonist to win the B.D.Goenka Award was R.K.Laxman

07 The magazine started by M.Karunanidhi was Murasoli

08 Shakespeare's last play was The Tempest

09 Bismillah Khan is a famous Musician

10 Bismillah Khan specialises in Shahnai Vadan

11 The famous museum located in Hyderabad is Salarjung

12 Vinoba Bhave,author,started a famous movement known as Bhoodan Movement

13 Geetha Pravachan in Marathi was written by Vinoba Bhave

14 The ancient Buddhist Universi ty Nalanda was located in the state of Bihar

15 The architectural style in which Taj Mahal is built is Indo persian

16 Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for his book Gitanjali

17 Tamil Ramayanam was authoblack by Kambar

18 The oldest collection of stories in India is Kathasaritsagara

19 The instrument played by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan is Sarod

20 The Biography of Dr.Samuel Johnson was written by James Bosewell

21 Subramanya Bharthi was a noted Poet

22 K.V.Subbabba,who won the Magsaysay Award was from Heggodu,Karnataka

23 The heroine of the film ̀ Cleopatra' was Elizabeth Taylor

24"Bhagvatgeet"the movie which won the Lotus Award was made in which

LanguageSanskrit

25 The only Indian actor to have received the Oscar award is Satyajit Ray

26 Bhimsen Joshi is associated with Hindustani Music

27 The B.C.Roy Nat ional Award for the year 1981 was received by Dr.Harindranath Chattopadhyaya

28 National Anthem of India was written by Rabindranath Tagore

29 The first film of Ashok Kumar was Jeevanayya

30 The dancer who,inspite of losing one leg,dances and acts in f ilms is Sudha Chandran

31 The studio owned by Raj Kapoor and his family is R.K.Studios

32 The author cum adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence was famous for Lawrence of Arabia

33 William Wordsworth was also known as Nature's Poet

34 Robert Benchley acted in the film Author

35 A comedian who insublack his nose for Ten lakh dollars was Jimmy Durant

36 The earlier name of film star Devanand was Dharam Devanand

37 The real name of Dilip kumar is Yusuf Khan

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38 Bala Gandharva was a famous Stage actor

39 Bala Gandharva was so named by Bal Gangadhar Tilak

40 The lead role in Tamil film Nayakan was played by Kamala Hasan

41 Hollywood is located in California,USA

42 The book ̀Life Divine' was written by Aurobindo

43 The editor of the book ̀ Indian Cartoons' is Abu Abraham

44 Canterbury Tales was written by Chaucer

45 Orthography means the art of Correct Spelling

46 The book "Mad,Mad,Mad,World o f Ind ian Cinema" was writ ten by K.A.Abbas

47 The National Gallery of Modern Art is located at New Delhi

48 "Les miserables" was written by Victor Hugo

49 The first opera ever performed was Persi Dafni

50 The word "Opera" means Works

51 Henrik Isben's first play was Catalina

52 The only comedy written by Jean Racine was Les Plaideurs

53 `Rip Van Wrinkle' was written by Washington Irwing

54 The 1995 Jnana Peeth Award was won by M.T.Vasudevan Nair

55 The 1997 Booker Prize was won by Arundathi Roy

56 "Love's Labour Lost"was a play by Shakespeare

57 The Roman Magsaysay Award 1997 was won by Mahasweta Devi

58 The collect ion of Short Stories ent it led "Morta l Coi ls" was wri tten by Aldous Hexley

59 The play "Enemy of the People" was written by Hensik Isben

60 The first cinema theater was established at Pittsberg,Pensylvania

61 The first cinema theater was established in the year 1905 AD

62 In the play ̀ Macbeth',the king of Scotland is Duncan

63 Kesari,a Marathi daily was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak

64 The one eyed giant who appeablack in Greek mythology was Cyclops

65 "Ajax" was written by Sophocles

66 "Antigone" was written by Sophocles

67 "Aparajito", a Bengali film, was directed by Satyajit Ray

68 The Piano was discoveblack by Guidod Arezzo

69 Sense and Sensibility,was written by Jane Austin

70 Rabindranath Tagore was popularly known as Gurudev

71The author who used a new pen every time he sat down to write a poemwas

Alexander Dumas

72 The French author who could work only in a darkened room was Emil Zo la

73 The writer who was known as the ̀ Wizard of the North' was Walter Scott

74 The noble prize winning novel "The Good Earth" was written by Pearl S.Buck

75 Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck,the cartoon characters were created by Walt Disney

76 Pablo Picasso was from Spain

77 The Comic Character "Tarzan"was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs

78 Bernard Shaw wrote the "Far Fetched Fables" at the age of 93 years

79 The first full-length feature film was The Great Train Robbery

80 The first full-length feature film was made in the year 1903 AD

81 The Tansen Awards are given to Musicians

82 The Character 1Gulliver' was created by Jonathan Swift


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83 Gulliver's first name was Lumuel

84 Treasure Island was written by Robert Louis Stevenson

85 The person who is known as father of Carnat ic Class ical mus ic is Purandaradasa

86 `King Solomon's Ring' was written by konard Lorenz

87 The town which is known as the home of violin making is Cremona,Italy

88 Wilkie Collins was a famous Author

89 Raghuvamsu was written by Kalidasa

90 `The Lady of the Lake' was written by Walter Scott

91 The final book Caesar's Gallic War was written by Aulus Whiskers

92 The ̀ Riddle of the Sands' was written by Robert Erskine Childers

93 The Highest National Award given every year to the best book in india is Jnanapith Award

94 John Masefield was a famous Poet

95 The title of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography was My Experiments with Truth

96 `Malgudi Days' was written by R.K.Narayan

97 `Guide' was written by R.K.Narayan

98 The Novel ̀ Moon and Six Pence' was written by W.S.Maugham

99 `Kanthapura' was written by Raja Rao

100 `Das Capital' was written by Karl Marx

101 Arabian Nights was translated into Sanskrit by Jagadbandu Pandit

102 The first recipient of Bharatiya Gnanpith Award was G.Shankara Kurup

103 The language in which Samuel Becket wrote most of his plays was French

104 Dr.Masti Venkatesha Iyenger won the Gnanpith Award for his book Chikaveerarajendra

105The famous singer who collapsed and died on the stage during a

performance wasLeonard Warren

106 `A thing of beauty is joy forever' was said by Keats

107 The 1966 Gnanpith Award was won by Tara Shankar Nandopadhyaya

108 The 1967 Gnanpith Award was won byUma Shankar Joshi &

Dr.K.V.Puttappa

109 The 1968 Gnanpith Award was won by Sumitra Nandhanpant

110 In 1982,Arun Shourie won the Ramon Magsaysay

111 The Music instrument that Ravishankar plays is Sitar

112 Anandmath was written by Bankim chandra

113 The Classic ̀ Around the World in 80 days' was written by Jules Verne

114 Babar's Autobiography "Babarnama" is written in the language Turkish

115Who is consideblack as the most famous playwright in English after

William ShakespeareGeorge Bernard Shaw

116 The popular comedian Charlie Chaplin was from Britain

117 Panchatanra was written by Vishnu Sharma

118 The world's smallest theatre Picolo is in Hamburg,West Germany

119 The seating capacity of the World's smallest theatre Picolo is Thir ty

120 The first Russian author to receive the Nobel Prize was Ivan Atseyevich

121 The Heroine of the famous classic ̀ Gone w ith the Wind' was Sarlet O'Hara

122 The title of Dr.Salim Ali's autobiography is Fall of Sparrow

123 The first actress of Indian screen was Kamalabai Gokhale

124Tansen,the famous musician was once defeated by another musician

whose name wasBaiju Bawra

125 Pablo Picasso derived his surname from His mother

126 The 1992 Bhartiya Gnanpith Award was won by Naresh Mehta


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127 The 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke Award was won by Kavi Pradeep

128 The Three Musketeers was written by Alexander Dumas

129 Sarojini Naidu is more popularly known as Nightingale of India

130 The author of the book ̀ Cricket My style' was Kapil Dev

131 The book "Unto this Last" was written by John Ruskin

132 K.L. Saigal was a famous Singer

133 Bharat natyam originated in Tamilnadu

134 Late Mahadevi Verma received the Jnanpith Award for her book Yama

135 The recipient of the Dada Saheb phalke Award for 1997 was Shivaji Ganesan

136 The first novel written by R.K.Narayan was Swami & his friends

137The lady who is Story writer,film actress,film Producer,singer,film directorand music Director and who hails from Andhra Pradesh is

P.Bhanumathi

138 Father and son who won the Dada Saheb Pha lke Award was Pri thv i Ra j Kapoor & Raj Kapoor

139 `Life of Mahatma Gandhi' was written by Louis Fisher

140 The instrument used by Amir Khusro was Sarod

141 The real name of the famous writer Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens

142 Harsha Charita was written by Bana Bhatta

143 the full name of R.K.Narayan was

Rasipuram Krishna Swamy Ayyar

Narayan

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