A hub quiz I did here at Nalbari, Assam on 31.07.2015. Feel free to leave a comment. :)

1. LIT QUIZB Y
B I S W A J I T S A R M A
N A L B A R I C O L L E G E
3 1 S T O F J U L Y , 2 0 1 5

2. • You’re about to listen to two songs, one released in 1973 by
David Bowie and other one in 2003 by the band Radiohead.
• What or who connects these two songs?

3. • 1984 by George Orwell.
• The first song, titled Big Brother by David Bowie, was inspired by and written for a musical
adaptation of the novel, but Orwell's estate refused permission.
• The second one, titled 2+2+=5 by Radiohead, is a reference to the novel, where Big Brother
teaches individuals to reject what they once knew to be true.Where 2+2=4, he was teaching
them that 2+2=5.

4. • X started his career writing funny stories. Under the name Jovial Bob ___, he was the
author of dozens of joke books in the 1970s and ’80s and also created a humor
magazine. Influenced by the surprise twists of Ray Bradbury’s novels and devoted to
comic books, he came to appreciate the way some writers were able to combine
humor with the macabre.
• He found early success with a teenage horror series called “Fear Street.” X said, when
the co-owner of Parachute Press, Joan Waricha, persuaded him to aim at a younger
demographic, this famous book series was born.After this, for three consecutive years,
he was named the best-selling author in America by USA Today. For a time Scholastic,
the publisher of his books, was selling four million copies a month.
• Stephen King wrote of X,“He’s largely unknown and uncredited. But of course, John the
Baptist never got the same press as Jesus, either.”
• Identify X and his famous book series.

5. • R. L. Stine (known as Stephen King of children’s literature).
• Goosebumps series.

6. • He is regarded as one of the finest Hindustani poets of the 20th century. A contemporary
of Dr Harivanshrai Bachchan, he was also a dramatist, litterateur, and ghazal writer. He is
most remembered for bringing the Hindi ghazal to the fore with his celebrated collection
Saaye Mein Dhoop.
• One of his poems “Ho Gayi hai Peer Parvat Si” was sung often by Arvind Kejriwal during
the Anti Corruption Movement (2011–2012).
• Just identify him.

7. • Dushyant Kumar.

8. • This author gave various stories about the origins of his first novel. But the
most common account he gave was what he said to The Paris Review in 1974:
“I was lying in bed in my four-room apartment on theWest Side when suddenly this
line came to me:‘It was love at first sight.The first time he saw the chaplain,
Someone fell madly in love with him.’ I didn’t have the name ____(name of the
protagonist)____.The chaplain wasn’t necessarily an army chaplain—he could have
been a prison chaplain. But as soon as the opening sentence was available, the book
began to evolve clearly in my mind—even most of the particulars … the tone, the
form, many of the characters, including some I eventually couldn’t use.All of this
took place within an hour and a half. It got me so excited that I did what the cliché
says you’re supposed to do: I jumped out of bed and paced the floor.”
• The author and the book please, which was adapted into a film of the same
name in 1970.

9. • Joseph Heller
• Catch-22

10. • The title of this novel, published in 1954 early in the Cold War, has two meanings, both
charged with religious significance.The first is a reference to a line from King Lear, "As
flies to wanton boys, are we to gods." The second is a reference to the Hebrew name
Ba'alzevuv, or in its Greek form Beelzebub, who is synonymous with Satan.
• In addition to science, mythology, and the sociopolitical context of the Cold War, the
novel was heavily influenced by previous works of speculative fiction. In particular, R. M.
Ballantyne's 1857 novel The Coral Island, which tells the story of three boys stranded on a
desert island.The author, who found Ballantyne's interpretation of the situation naive and
improbable, likely intended his novel to be an indirect critique of The Coral Island.
• A continuing controversy surrounding the political message of the novel and its view of
human nature has led some readers to challenge its status as a book suitable for
children.Among literary critics of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries,
however, the novel has been revisited less as an allegory of human evil than as a literary
expression of Cold War ideology.
• Which novel and author?

11. • Lord of the Flies
• William Golding

12. • This is a poem titled “Anus Mirabilis” by
the well known poet Phillip Larkin.
• Just identify the two real-life events,
marked as X – related to literature – and
Y – not related to literature – which,
according to him was when sexual
intercourse began.
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of ___X___
And the ___Y___.
Up to then there'd only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.
Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.
So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the ___X___
And the ___Y___.

13. • X – “Chatterley ban” referring to the infamous trial of the Crown versus
Penguin Books for the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
• Y – “Beatles' first LP” referring to the obvious.
“Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) –
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.”

14. • Main Naahin Maakhan Khaayo is a popular Indian bhajan, set to Raga Ramkali.
Written in Braj Bhasha, it epitomizesVātsalya Rasa describing an episode from
the lilas of Krishna.The bhajan was popularised by singers like Lata Mangeshkar,
Anup Jalota and Kundan Lal Saigal.
• Attached here is the audio of K.L. Saigal’s version of the bhajan.
• Which 15th century mystic-poet is the writer of the bhajan, who was also the
subject of the film from which this version of the bhajan taken from?

15. • Surdas (known for his devotional lyrics dedicated
to Lord Krishna and his book 'Sur Sagar‘).

16. • __ ___ _________ __ _____ :The GreatWorks of
Physics and Astronomy is a compilation of scientific
texts edited and with commentary by Stephen
Hawking.The book includes texts written by Isaac
Newton,Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Johannes
Kepler, and Nicolaus Copernicus, as well as some of
their works and achievements. It also includes five
critical essays and a biography of each featured
physicist, written by Hawking himself.
• The title of the book alludes to well known English
phrase, attributed to Bernard of Chartres in the 12th
century. But its best known usage was in 1976.
• Either give me the phrase or fill in the blanks with the
title of the book.

17. • The phrase is Standing on the shoulders of giants, best-known use of this
phrase was by Isaac Newton in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke, in 1676:

18. • Photo taken at the award ceremony of Nobel Prize in 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden.
• The woman on your right won the award that year, whereas the other woman won
it couple of years back.The latter strongly supported the former’s nomination for
the Nobel Prize.
• Identify both of them.

19. • Pearl Buck (r).
• Selma Lagerlöf, who was the first woman to win the
Nobel Prize in 1909.

20. • He was an accomplished playwright and poet. He started writing poetry at
age eleven. Besides composing poetry in conventional meters, he introduced a
new meters called vainayak.
• His three musical dramas ‘Usshaap’,‘Sanyastakhadga’ and ‘Uttarkriya’, written
during his internment at Ratnagiri, are notable for their dialogues and
dramatic content.‘Sanyastakhadga’ - set in the time of Gautam Buddha - was
also performed on stage in 1931 at Mumbai.
• Here, you can listen to the man himself recounting the background of his own
play Sanyastakhadga.
• Who is this legendary figure from Indian history?

21. • (Vinayak) Veer Savarkar.

22. • Connect these two novels, which are set in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Oru Sankeerthanam Pole by Perumbadavam Sreedharan.
The Master of Petersburg by J. M. Coetzee.

23. • Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Oru Sankeerthanam Pole deals with the life of the Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his
love affair with Anna.
The Master of Petersburg features Dostoyevsky as its protagonist.

24. • In 1981, this person was 29 years old and a student at
Nanjing University. In the summer while traveling on a
guided tour in Turfan, he was seized with the idea to
return home overland from China via Tibet.The country
was on the verge of relaxing its rules towards foreign
visitors, but in 1981 he still needed police permission to
travel anywhere in China, even major cities, let alone
sensitive areas likeTibet. Based on this experience, he
went on to write a travel book titled From Heaven Lake:
TravelsThrough Sinkiang andTibet.The book was probably
his first popular success and won theThomas Cook
Travel Book Award in 1983.
• Identify the author of this observant and delightfully
written travel book?

25. • Vikram Seth.

26. • “I was 37 then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover
on approach to Hamburg airport. Cold November rains drenched the earth, lending
everything the gloomy air of a Flemish landscape: the ground crew in waterproofs, a flag
atop a squat airport building, a BMW billboard. So - Germany again. Once the plane was
on the ground, soft music began to flow from the ceiling speakers: a sweet orchestral
cover version of the ______ “___________”.The melody never failed to send a
shudder through me, but this time it hit me harder than ever. I bent forward, my face in
my hands to keep my skull from splitting open. Before long one of the German
stewardesses approached and asked in English if I were sick.”
• Thus begins the English translated version which famous 1987 novel by which
author? Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music and
pop music.

27. • Norwegian Wood by
Haruki Murakami.
• The blanks are –
Beatles’“NorwegianWood”.

28. • This is a song sung by Tarali Sarma from an Assamese music album (audio CD) titled
‘XuwoniTora’ released in 2011.The album has twelve songs by popular singers like
Pulak Banerjee,Tarali Sarma, Debajit Choudhury, Zublee Baruah, and many promising
artists and two poem recitations by Anupjyoti Choudhury, all written by X, one of the
most illustrious and outstanding personality of modern Assamese literature and
language.
• He wrote and published only one novel ‘Gaone-Nagare’ and ‘Deepawali’ is his only
story book.
• Identify X, an author of about 98 books, covering many literary genres.

29. • Dimbeswar Neog.

30. • This English phrase was expressed in print as early as 1390, when Geoffrey Chaucer,
expressed it rather differently in “The Parson’s Tale,” the poetic conclusion to “The
Canterbury Tales”.
• It wasn’t until the 19th century, however, that the modern incarnation of this
phrase was written by Robert Southey in the motto to his poem “The Curse of
Kehama” (1810): “Curses are like young _____: they always ______ ____ __ _____.”
• The poetic turn of the phrase entered the political arena after it was famously used
by Civil Rights-era activist Malcolm X, who delivered a 1963 speech titled “God’s
Judgment of White America”, in which he responded to the news of President John
F. Kennedy’s assassination with the retort that, “______ ____ ____ __ _____ never
did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.”
• Which phrase?

31. • Chickens coming home to roost.

32. • After Akashvani Guwahati was established in 1948, the programme "Okonir
Mel" (অকনিৰ মেল) became very popular and was one of its signature
programmes. People still remember the show. Much of its popularity's
credit, however, should be given to its host, whose insightful thoughts and
knowledge attracted young and older listeners alike.
• Just name the host, who was one of the greatest scholars of Assam and also
a fine author.

33. • Birinchi Kumar Barua
(বিবিবি কুমাি িিুৱা).

34. • “All I wanted was to get away from the tremendous heat and rest in peace.The world about me
was divided sharply down the middle into two halves. Both these halves were pitch black, but one
was scorching hot and the other was not……My face hurt most. I slowly put a hand up to feel it.
It was very sticky. My nose didn’t seem to be there…..And then the machine guns started off. I
knew right away what it was.There were about 50 rounds of ammunition left in each of my eight
guns and, without thinking, I had crawled away from the fire out in front of the machine, and they
were going off in the heat. I could hear them hitting the sand and stones all round, but I didn’t feel
like getting up and moving right then, so I dozed off.”
• A well known author wrote the above extract about his experience when he crash landed
a fighter plane, which he was flying for 80th Squadron of the RAF in 1940. He claimed that
this event directly led to his becoming a writer. This was not just because his first
published piece of writing was a semi-fictionalised account of the crash, but also
because he suspected that the brain injuries which he received there had materially
altered his personality and inclined him to creative writing.
• Identify the author.

35. • Roald Dahl.

36. • A landmark novel of Assamese literature, it was the first novel of its author. It was
serially published in the then well known magazine ‘Prakash’ from 1979 to 1980 and in
1981 it was released in the market as a book. In the 1990s (not sure about which year),
it was adapted into a TV serial aired on Doordarshan Gauhati and achieved remarkable
success.
• When asked about the inspiration behind his novel, the author said, “অসমীয়া সাহিত্যৰ
ভঁ ৰালত্ অসমৰ কাৰহি সমাজ সম্বহলত্ কাহিনীমূলক সাহিত্যৰ অভাৱ অনুভৱৰ বিদনাৰ
গভীৰত্া, ডঃিীৰৰন্দ্ৰ কুমাৰ ভট্টাচাৰ্যৰ ‘ইয়াৰুইংগম’(১৯৬০)আৰু লুৰম্বৰ দাইৰ ‘পৃহিৱীৰ
িাঁহি’(১৯৬৩)ত্ প্ৰকাহিত্ জনজীৱনৰ কাহিনী, অসমৰ সমসামহয়ক পহৰহিহত্ৰ লগৰত্ অসমৰ
পািাৰ-ভভয়াম সম্প্ৰীহত্ক সাহিত্য-সংস্কৃ হত্ৰয় ব্ৰহ্মপুত্ৰৰ জলধাৰাৰ দৰৰই এৰকটা ৰুপত্ প্ৰৱাহিত্
কহৰ ৰাহিি পাৰৰ -এই শ্বাশ্বত্ সত্যৰ উপলহিৰয় সঞ্চাৰ কৰা বপ্ৰৰণাৰত্ সৃহি ভিহিল
‘________। আৰু কাৰহি আংলঙৰ মাটি আৰু মানুিক িহিজয গত্ৰ ভসৰত্ পহৰচয় ঘৰটাৱাৰ
সৰপান ত্ািাহনিনৰৰই । বসই সৰপান িাস্তৱত্ ৰুপান্তৰ ঘৰটাৱা মাধযৰমই ‘_________’।’’
• Identify this well known Assamese writer and the novel.

37. • ৰংমিমিৰ হ াঁমহ (Rongmilir Hahi)
• ৰংবং তেৰ ঙ (RongbongTerang)

38. • This is a short clip from a six-episode TV mini-series aired on BBCTwo earlier this
year. The mini-series is based on two critically acclaimed British novels by an
eminent writer, both parts of a trilogy, with the final part The Mirror and the Light to
be released sometime later this year.
• The protagonist was played by actor Mark Rylance, who was highly praised for his
sheer brilliance in portraying the character.
• Three questions –
1. Identify the author, who has achieved an unique accomplishment.
2. Name the protagonist.
3. Name the two novels, on which the series is based.

39. 1. Hillary Mantel.
2.Thomas Cromwell, who was a powerful minister in the court of King HenryVIII.
3.Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies. Mantel is the first woman to receive
the Booker Prize twice, as both these novels won the award.

40. • This statue in Central Park, NewYork, commemorates which literary work
by which author? A film based on the work won the 1939 Academy Award
for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

41. • The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.

42. • “আঞ্চহলক উপনযাস িুহলৰল Xৰ সুহিিযাত্ Y উপনযাস সমুিলল মনত্ পৰৰ।Y অঞ্চলৰ প্ৰকৃ হত্ৰয়
বসই অঞ্চলৰ অহধিাসী িা ত্াৰ লগত্ বকাৰনা প্ৰকাৰৰ জহিত্ হকিুমান চহৰত্ৰৰ(মূিয িা বগৌণ)
জীৱনৰ িাৱ-ভাৱ, ধযান-ধাৰণা, চলন-ফু ৰণ,মাত্-কিা ইত্যাহদ বকৰনলক প্ৰভাৱাহম্বত্ কৰৰ বসই
কিা বসই উপনযাসৰিাৰত্ বদিুউৱা ভিৰি।ৰসইৰিাৰ উপনযাসত্ অঞ্চলৰটাৰ প্ৰভাৱ ইমান দৃঢ় আৰু
সুদূৰপ্ৰসাৰী ভাৰৱ হচহত্ৰত্ ভিৰি বৰ্, বকাৰনা চহৰত্ৰই ত্াৰ পৰা আঁত্হৰ িাহকি বনাৱাৰৰ।সািযক
আঞ্চহলক উপনযাস িুহল দািী কহৰিলল ি’বল উপনযাসিনত্ অঞ্চলৰটাৰ লয়লাস, গহত্ভংগী ধৰণ-
কৰণ সমস্তই সামহিক ৰুপত্ পহৰসফু ট ভি কলাৰ পৰ্যায়লল উঠিি লাৰগ, পাঠকৰ মানসপটত্
জীৱন্ত ভি বৰাৱালক হচহত্ৰত্ ি’ি লাৰগ।”
• The above excerpt has been taken from the famous book ‘স্বৰাৰজাত্তৰ অসমীয়া উপনযাসৰ
সমীক্ষা’ written by Dr. Prafulla Borkotoky. In the book, he wrote this excerpt when
discussing about provincial or regional novels, what we call আঞ্চহলক উপনযাস in Assamese. In
it, the author mentions the famous English novelist X, who set almost all his major novels in
the area that he namedY.
• Give me X – one of the earliest and most famous regional novelists – and his creationY.

43. • X – Thomas Hardy
• Y – Wessex

44. • Which popular and widely used adage originated as the caption to a
cartoon created by Peter Steiner and published by The NewYorker on
July 5, 1993, what is now the most popular and well-known panel ever
produced for the magazine?
• The cartoon has also inspired a play by Alan David Perkins.

45. • On the Internet,
nobody knows you're a
dog.

46. • When she was in the University of Minnesota as a Fulbright fellow, she came
in contact with the Native Americans. She learned about their culture,
heritage and especially their Oral tradition.This exposure inspired her to
record the Oral tradition of her own community.After returning from the
University of Minnesota, she worked on the Oral tradition for about twelve
years. She collected the myths, folktales, folklore, rituals, law, custom, belief
systemThis ethnographic work was published in 1999 as the ‘_______ Oral
Tradition’ from Bhasha Publications in 2000.This book is the most authentic
document about the _______ community.
• Born in October 1945 at Jorhat,Assam, identify this author of repute.

47. • Sahitya Akademy Award winner (2013)
Temsula Ao.
• The community is Ao-Naga.

48. • Bassam Al-Baghdadi, a writer who lives in Sweden, wrote an unofficial
Arabic translation of this famous and controversial book. Rather
surprisingly, the pdf of the translation was downloaded ten million times,
with 30 percent going to Saudi Arabia. Bassam said that there were over
1,000 downloads on the very first day after he uploaded it, and the
numbers only climbed as the translation was picked up and shared on the
blogs, websites and forums.The book has prompted unprecedented
controversy and debate in the Arab and Islamic worlds.The translator
received death threats and accusations. He was forced to close his social
media accounts and stop posting for a while.
• Which book is this being talked about?

49. • The God Delusion by Richard Dawson.

50. • Created in 1976 by writer Bill Mantlo, who
also gave Marvel the Micronauts and ROM,
with artist Keith Giffen, this character made
a much-overlooked debut in a small story
within Marvel Preview #7.
• The character’s first full appearance in the
Marvel Universe came inThe Incredible
Hulk #271 issue, which bears the title, “Now
Somewhere in the Black Holes of Sirius Major
There Lived aYoung Boy Name of _____
_______!”
1. Which character?
2. What is the title a direct reference to?

51. 1. Rocket Racoon.
2. The title “Now Somewhere in the Black Holes of Sirius MajorThere
Lived aYoung Boy Name of Rocket Raccoon!” is a direct reference to
the first line of the Beatles song “Rocky Raccoon” – which
partially inspired the character - “Now somewhere in the black
mountain hills of Dakota, there lived a young boy named Rocky
Raccoon”

52. • From a 1967 Joan Baez album titled ‘Joan’, this song is based on
a poem titled ‘Annabel Lee’.
• This poem is the last complete poem composed by which well
known poet, who died in 1949?

53. • Edgar Allen Poe.

54. • In 1988, this writer, who had already written a trilogy and screenplay for a
film, came across a missing-person notice in a Paris newspaper from
December 1941.The mystery of 15-year-old Dora Bruder prompted him to
write a novel, Honeymoon (1990), in which he imagined her escape and life
after the war. He then began to research what had actually happened to her,
patiently sifting through every bureaucratic scrap for clues. He found only one
other official mention, on a list of names deported to Auschwitz. His account
of the search, Dora Bruder (1997), is profoundly moving in its generosity and
futility.
• Identify this writer, who had this to say about his literary works, “I always have
the impression that I write the same book, which means that it’s already 45 years
that I’ve been writing the same book in a discontinuous manner.”

55. • Patrick Modiano.

56. • This novel titled ‘Arunimar Swadesh’ is written
by Arupa Patangia Kalita - presently one of the
finest Assamese prose writers and Sahitya
Akademy Award winner in 2014.
• Which gruesome chapter of modern Assam
history inspired this novel?

57. • The secret killings of Assam (1998–2001).

58. • In this scene of the 2001 film In the Bedroom, actor TomWilkinson quotes
the poem ‘My LostYouth’ written by which poet, who was probably the
most popular American poet of his time, and known for his poems that
appealed to the general population?

59. • HenryWadsworth Longfellow.

60. • Paul Celan was Europe's most compelling postwar poet and one of the major
German-language poets. Celan drown himself in the Seine river in 1970.
• On October 22, 1960, he gave a famous speech titled ‘The Meridian’ in
Darmstadt, Germany, on the occasion of receiving the Georg Buchner
Prize. Here are some lines from the speech, “Is it on such paths that poems take
us when we think of them? And are these paths only detours, detours from you to you?
But they are, among how many others, the paths on which language becomes voice.
They are encounters, paths from a voice to a listeningYou, natural paths, outlines for
existence perhaps, for projecting ourselves into the search for ourselves …Poetry is a
____ __ _________.”
• How is the last line from the above excerpt from the speech has been
immortalized in the world of music?

61. • A Sort of Homecoming, the song by U2.
• The line “Poetry is a sort of homecoming”
inspired the song.

62. • Excerpt from the autobiography of author X, titled ‘An Autobiography’.
Peter Saunders, the original producer:“Fourteen months I am going to give it,”
To which X replied:“It won’t run that long. Eight months perhaps.Yes, I think
eight months.”
• What were they talking about? Also, identify X.

63. • The Mousetrap, they did not expect it to run for as long as it
has. It is now the longest running show (of any type) of the modern era.
• X – Agatha Christie.

64. • It is believed that the plot of this literary work was based on an event in the
writer’s own life. In 1870 a woman named Laura Kieler had sent the writer a book
called Brand’s Daughters, and he had taken an interest in the pretty, vivacious girl,
nicknaming her “skylark.” He invited her to his home, and for two months in the
summer of 1872, she visited his home constantly.When she married, a couple of
years later, her husband fell ill and was advised to take a vacation in a warm
climate–and Laura, secretly borrowed money to finance the trip (which took place
in 1876). Laura falsified a note, the bank refused payment, and she told her husband
the whole story. He demanded a separation, removed the children from her care,
and only took her back after she had spent a month in a public asylum.
• Identify this acclaimed literary work, which Halvdan Koht, an early biographer of
the writer, described that it “exploded like a bomb into contemporary life” and
“pronounced a death sentence on accepted social ethics”. Name the writer, too,
who was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times.

65. • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen.

66. • Somewhere on his list of books, you will find Lecherous Limericks (1976), Limericks:
Too Gross (1978), A Grossery of Limericks (1981), and ______ Laughs Again: MoreThan
700 Jokes, Limericks, and Anecdotes (1993). In two of these volumes, he sparred with
popular poet and Dante translator John Ciardi, each writing dirty poems.They
would each write a gross of poems, sometimes making fun of one another. Here's a
limerick he wrote about Ciardi: “To make friends with the lumpish John Ciardi
Needs a spirit uncouth, rough, and hardy.
When in line for a bit
Of amusement and wit—
Did he get it?Why, no, he was tardy.”
• Not all of his limericks consisted of sex jokes, however. In 1984, he released a
limerick’s book for children.
• Who is the writer of these dirty little ditties?

67. • Isaac Ahimov.

68. • This monument was commissioned in 1891 by
the Société des Gens de Lettres to honor one of
France's greatest authors, almost half a century
after the writer's death.The sculptor, who was
selected for the project, spent seven years
preparing for it, studying the writer’s life and work,
posing models who resembled him, and ordering
clothes to his measurements.What he finally
produced in 1897 was a revolutionary monument.
However, this overly innovative monument caused
such an outrage when it was unveiled in 1898 that
the commission was cancelled. He never saw his
monument cast in bronze.And so he kept the
statue, returned the money, and refused all offers
to buy it. It was not until 1939 that a bronze cast
was erected in Paris.
• Identify the sculptor and the author.

69. • Auguste Rodin.
• Honoré de Balzac.

70. • He was 27 when he quit his job writing for President Johnson to write his debut novel,
which went on sold more than 10 million copies and turned him into a millionaire. He was
inspired to write this novel after having spent summers on Nantucket, and he returned
there again and again for topics for his other books, including "The Deep" in 1976, "The
Island" in 1979 and "Beast."
• Identify this writer pictured here and his most famous book.Also, tell me where is this
particular photograph of his has been taken from (not looking for answers like some blogs,
website, etc)?

71. • Peter Benchley, Jaws.
• That’s from his cameo in the film based on his book.

72. • Listen to this wonderful audio clip.
• We can hear a famous Assamese author reading the opening passage
of one his novels, which according to many critics, is his greatest
literary creation.
• Name this classic Assamese novel and the author.

73. • Surujmukhir Swopno/সুৰুযিুখীৰ স্বপ্ন
• Syed Abdul Malik/চৈয়দ আব্দুি ি মিক

74. • Whose often-noted remark about his name: “_____ means
mirror in German, so my name co-mixes languages to form a
sentence: ___ mirrors man.”?

75. • Art Spiegelman, best known for his book Maus, first
graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.

76. THE END
F E E L F R E E TO P O I N T O U T A N Y M I S TA K E S ,
I F YO U S E E A N Y.