GK Practice Test: Question Set - 01
1. 'Man without society is either a beast or a God'. Who said this?
- (A) Plato
- (B) Gandhi
- (C) Aristotle
- (D) Henry
Maine
2. Who has written the famous book 'Mankind and Mother Earth'?
- (A) Arnold
Toynbee
- (B) Leo Tolstoy
- (C) John
Ruskin
- (D) Bertrand
Russel
3. The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by
- (A) Alexandra
Dumas
- (B) Charles Lamb
- (C) Charles
Dickens
- (D) Jonathan
Swift
4. Who directed the film 'Little Buddha'?
- (A) Richard
Attenborough
- (B) Bernardo
Bertolucci
- (C) Ben Johnson
- (D) Mani Kaul
5. The controversial documentary 'Hell's Angel' broadcasted by Channel 4 on Independent British Television Station is based on who among the following?
- (A) Joseph
Stalin
- (B) Adolf Hitler
- (C) Mother
Teresa
- (D) Saddam
Hussein
6. Who is the author of 'Tom Sawyer'?
- (A) Leo Tolstoy
- (B) Mark Twain
- (C) John Ruskin
- (D) William
Shakespeare
7. Who is the author of the book 'The Future of Freedom'?
- (A) Richard
Wolfee
- (B) Peter Hudson
- (C) Tamara
Lipper
- (D) Fareed
Zakaria
8. Who said the words, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to Death your right to say it'?
- (A) George
Bernard Shaw
- (B) Lenin
- (C) Voltaire
- (D) Peter Hudson
9. David Copperfield is the name of
- (A) Novel
- (B) Famous actor
- (C) Poem
- (D) Writer
10. 'Crime and Punishment' was written by
- (A) Fyodor
Dostoevsky
- (B) Vladimir
Nabakov
- (C) Lewis Carrol
- (D) Alexander
Solzhenitsyn