A small Literary Quiz by Arun Kandikonda (PGP 2012-14) conducted as part of the opening session of the Literary Club of IIM Kashipur

1. Literary Quiz
Our high respect for a well read
person is praise enough for literature

2. 1) What are these?
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The Champawat X
The Chowgarh X
The Bachelor of Powalgarh
The Kanda X
The Pipal Pani X
The Thak X
The Mohan X

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4. Man Eaters of Kumaon

5. 2) This is a Movie on a book of the
same name by?

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7. Ruskin Bond

8. 3. Author?

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11. 4) Again, who is the author?

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14. 5)

16. • This picture shows every single death of a
main character in the series.

17. 6)
• ______ is a Persian word and it was given as
an honorary title to a person who has
achieved a mastery over languages, especially
in British India. It became a surname to those
people whose ancestors had received this
title.
• Which Indian author who is arguably one of
the most famous, holds this title?

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19. ‘Munshi’ Premchand

20. 7) Name the book. Also Id the writer of
the Foreword.

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23. 8) Why is this question in a lit quiz?
That is the question!
• ________ works by using tiny microcapsules that
are suspended in liquid placed within a film-like
layer. The microcapsules, which are about the
same width as human hair, contain both
positively charged white particles and negatively
charged black particles.
• Applying a negative electrical field causes the
white particles to come to the surface.
Conversely, applying a positive electrical field
causes the black particles to come to the surface.

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25. E-ink m/

26. 9) Minimalist depiction of which
children’s classic?

29. 10)

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31. • Chetan Bhagat

32. 11) Id the region from this map of Vedic India

34. Meluha

35. 12) Book Based on the life of?

38. 13)
• If you were reading a popular book whose title
translated to ‘My Fight’ in English, chances are
you’d be reading this book?

40. Mein Kampf

41. 14)
• When the voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still.
• "Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down
And the dews of night arise;
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away
Till the morning appears in the skies."
• "No, no, let us play, for it is yet day
And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly
And the hills are all cover'd with sheep."
• "Well, well, go & play till the light fades away
And then go home to bed."
The little ones leaped & shouted & laugh'd
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44. Connect