1. Question 1. What Is Onomatopoeia ?

Answer :
It means making a word by using a sound that suggests the object.
2. Question 2. What Is Epic ?
Answer :
Epic is a long narrative poem.

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3. Question 3. Name Two Of The Poems Termed As “ Epic ” ?
Answer :
Mahabharatha and Iliad.
4. Question 4. What Is Epic Narrative ?
Answer :
Some poems which seem to be epic in style and narration are epic narratives .

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5. Question 5. What Is Simple Narrative ?
Answer :
It is direct telling of a simple story in the form of poem.

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6. Question 6. Who Is The Author Of Malgudi Days ?
Answer :
R.K.Narayan
7. Question 7. Which Politican Of Indiawrote The Novel “ The Insider ” ?
Answer :
P.V.Narasimha Rao.

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8. Question 8. Who Ever The Three Sisters Who Became Famous English Novelists ?
Answer :
The Bronte sisters.
9. Question 9. How Was The Vice Chancellor Of Bangalore University. He Was An
Eminet Poet And Won Jnanapeeth Award. Who Is He ?
Answer :
V.K. Gokak

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10. Question 10. Who Wrote The Famous Book “ The Mother ” ?
Answer :
Maxim Gorky.
11. Question 11. What Is Etymology ?
Answer :
It is branch of linguistics dealing with the tracing of a word or words back as far as
possible to find out the origin.

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12. Question 12. What Is An Ode ?
Answer :
It is a long poem written on a public occasion. The expression will be as addressing
some person or personified thing.

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13. Question 13. Who Wrote The Just So Stories ?
Answer :
Rudyard Kipling.
14. Question 14. Who Wrote The Autobiography “ Against The Grain ” ?
Answer :
Boris Yeltsin.
15. Question 15. Who Is A “ Dog In The Manger ” ?
Answer :
Some one who keeps what he does not want in order that no one else shall enjoy it.

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16. Question 16. Which Two Languages Are Regarded As The Origin Of The English
Language ?
Answer :
Greek and Latin
17. Question 17. In The English Language What Does The Linguistic Term Hybrid
Mean ?
Answer :
A word that is composed of parts from two or more languages. Eg automobile

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18. Question 18. What Is Verse Essay ?
Answer :
This is a type of poem that provokes thought on a topic of interest.
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19. Question 19. What Are The Two Types Of Verse Essay ?
Answer :
They are didactive verse and satires.
20. Question 20. What Is Lyric ?
Answer :
Lyric is a short poem. It expresses feelings and moods.

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21. Question 21. What Are The Name Of The Essay Written By The Great Poet
P.b.shelley That Caused Him To Be Thrown Out Of Oxford University ?
Answer :
Necessity of atheism.
22. Question 22. Who Wrote “ Chithirapavai ”, The Jnanathapith Award Winner Of
1975 ?
Answer :
P. V. Akilandan
23. Question 23. What Was The Name Of The Nine Year Old Girl Who Wrote The Book ‘
The Young Visitors ’ ?
Answer :
Daisy Ashford.

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24. Question 24. Which Book Helped To Start A Civil War ?
Answer :
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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25. Question 25. What Is Op Art ?
Answer :
It is a form abstract art, which tries to produce optical illusions.
26. Question 26. Which Is The Famous Novel Still Considered To Be The Greatest ?
Answer :
 ‘ War and peace ’ by Leo Tolstoy.
27. Question 27. What Is A Grangerized Book ?
Answer :
A book with some blank pages, which can be illustrated with prints of pictures, cut
out of other books.
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28. Question 28. What Is Epigram ?
Answer :
An epigram is a short poem. It does not exceed more than six lines. It express a witty
climax.
29. Question 29. What Is Dramatic Poetry ?
Answer :
Some dramas contain much poetry as in the dramas of shakespeare. Such a method
of writing poetry is dramatic poetry.
30. Question 30. What Is Dramatic Lyric ?
Answer :
A poem in which the poet speaks in the voice of another personality is a dramatic
lyric.
31. Question 31. Who Is The Author Of The Book “ Death Of A City ” ?
Answer :
Amrita Preetam.
32. Question 32. What Is Ballad ?
Answer :
It is poem of simple language and is presented with music accompanied to dance.
33. Question 33. What Is A Dictionary ?
Answer :
A dictionary is a book of alphabetically listed words in a language with etymologies,
pronunciations, definitions etc.

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34. Question 34. Who Is Author Of The Banned Book “ Workshipping False Gods ” ?
Answer :
Arun Shourie
35. Question 35. In Printing The Right Hand Page Of A Book Is Called Recto. What Is
The Left - Hand Page Called ?
Answer :
Verso.
36. Question 36. What Is The Concluding Part Of A Liberary Work Called ?
Answer :
An Epilogue

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37. Question 37. Which Sanskrit Word Has “ Veda ” Been Derived From ?
Answer :
Vid, meaning to know.
38. Question 38. What Is A Lexicon ?
Answer :
A lexicon is the specical vocabulary of a particular author, field of study etc.
39. Question 39. Who Is Lexicographer ?
Answer :
A person who writes dictionaries is a lexicographer.
40. Question 40. Who Won The Prestigious Onassis Award Of Greece For One Of Her
Plays ?
Answer :
Manjula Padmanabha.

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41. Question 41. Which British Prime Minister Won Nobel Prize For Literature ?
Answer :
Winston Churchill
42. Question 42. Arundhati Roy Won Booker Prize For Her First Book. Which Is That
Book ?
Answer :
The god of small things.

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43. Question 43. Who Is The Author Of The Controversial Book “ It Takes A Village ” ?
Answer :
Hillary Clinton.
44. Question 44. Name The Indian Language In Which Early Buddhist Literature Was
Written?
Answer :
Pali
45. Question 45. What Is Lexicography ?
Answer :
The act of writing or compiling words and their meanings for the creation of a
dictionary is lexicography.
46. Question 46. Which Is The Mother Language Of Malayalam ?
Answer :
Tamil
47. Question 47. Which Italian Poet Said, “ Nature Is The Art Of God ” ?
Answer :
Dante
48. Question 48. What Is Poem Of Fourteen Lines Called ?
Answer :
Sonnet
49. Question 49. Who Is The American Writer Won The Pulitzer Prize For Her Novel ‘
The Good Earth ’ ?
Answer :
Pearl S. Buck
50. Question 50. Who Is The American Author Of The Famous Novel “ Portrait Of A Lady
”?
Answer :
Henry James.
51. Question 51. Who Is The First Recipient Of The Prestigious Jnanapeeth Award ?
Answer :
Sankara Kurup
52. Question 52. Who Is The First Indian To Win Nobel Prize ?
Answer :
Ravindranath Tagore.
53. Question 53. What Are The Names Of The Three Musketeers In Alexander Dumas’s
Book ?
Answer :
Athos, porthos and aramis.
54. Question 54. What Is The Name Of Gulliver In Swift’s Book Gulliver’s Travels ?
Answer :
Lemuel
55. Question 55. Who Is The First Kannada Poet Who Won Jnanapeeth Award ?
Answer :
Dr. K.V. Puttappa
56. Question 56. Who Is The Miserly Hero Of Charles Dickens’s Book ‘a Chritmasc Carol
’?
Answer :
Ebenezer Scrooge
57. Question 57. Which Ancient Dravidean Language In India Is Still Used ?
Answer :
Tamil
58. Question 58. Which Dictionary Of Malayalam - English Type Is Considered As The
First Authoritative And Authentic One ?
Answer :
It is Gundert Nikhantu ( dictionary ) prepared by Dr. Herman Gundert.
59. Question 59. What Is Orthography ?
Answer :
Any method of speeling is termed by this word.
60. Question 60. What Is Transliteration ?
Answer :
It is way of writing or speeling a word using the alphabet of another language.
61. Question 61. How Many Writers In Kannda Have Received Jnanapeeth Award Till
1998 ?
Answer :
Six
62. Question 62. Who Was The Creator Of The Character “ Tarzan ” ?
Answer :
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
63. Question 63. The Author Of Ashtadhyayi ?
Answer :
Panini
64. Question 64. Shakespear’s Last Play ?
Answer :
The tempest.
65. Question 65. When Was First Crossword Puzzle Published ?
Answer :
In 1913 in new york sunday world.
66. Question 66. Which Is The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper In The
World ?
Answer :
Post och Inrikes Tidningar, since 1645 in sweden.
67. Question 67. What Is An Abbrevation ?
Answer :
An abbrevation is a shortened form a long word or a group of words.
68. Question 68. What Is Slang ?
Answer :
Slang is an informal use of language and it is short - lived. It is generally a use of
language related to some work, way of life etc.. In slang, words are coined and new
meanings are given to words.
69. Question 69. In Which Century Did Omar Khayyam Write His “ Rubaiyat ” ?
Answer :
Omar Khayyam wrote “ Rubaiyat ” in eleventh century.
70. Question 70. He Was A Doctor Turned Detective Writer, Finally He Gave Up His
Pratice And Became A Full Time Writer. Who Is He ?
Answer :
ISir Arthur Conan Doyle.
71. Question 71. “ What Is The Name ” ? Who Said This ?
Answer :
Shakespeare.
72. Question 72. Who Is Author Of “ Endymion ” ?
Answer :
Keats wrote “ endymion ” at the age of 24.
73. Question 73. Who Wrote The Famous Hindi Poem ‘ A Mere Vatan Ki Logo ’ ?
Answer :
Pradeep.
74. Question 74. She Was Called The Night Angle Of India. She Was A Poet Besides A
Politican Mention Her Name?
Answer :
Sarojini Naidu
75. Question 75. Sappho Was A Greek Poetess. She Lived In About 600 B.c. On Which
Island Did She Live ?
Answer :
Lesbos.
76. Question 76. A Dog Is One Of The Characters Of The Shalespearean Play. Name
The Play ?
Answer :
Two gentlemen of verona.
77. Question 77. His Own Is The Pseudonym Of The British Author. Who Is The Author ?
Answer :
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
78. Question 78. Men Are April When They Woo, December When They Wed. This Is A
Dialogue In One Of The Plays Of Shakespeare. Name The Play ?
Answer :
As you like it.
79. Question 79. What Is Dialect ?
Answer :
 Dialect is the form of a spoken language peculiar to a region, community, social
group, occupational group etc.
80. Question 80. What Is Colloquial Language ?
Answer :
Colloquial language is the informal use of language in which words, phrases, idioms
and everything is designated the form of informal speech and writing.
81. Question 81. What Is Coinage ?
Answer :
Coinage is used for a word or expression invented.
82. Question 82. Who Is A Grammarian ?
Answer :
A grammarian is a specialist or expert in grammar.
83. Question 83. What Is Length Of The Longest Word ?
Answer :
It consists of 100 letters.
84. Question 84. His Works Demonstrate His Brilliant Wit. He Won Nobel Prize For
Literature In 1925. Who Was He ?
Answer :
George Bernard Shaw.
85. Question 85. Pearl S. Buck Won Nobel Prize In 1938. What Are Her Earlier Name ?
Answer :
Pearl Sydenstricker
86. Question 86. Mention One Of The Famous Novels Of Jane Austen ?
Answer :
Pride and Prejudice
87. Question 87. In Which Country Did The Famous Dramatic Genre Called Commedia
Dell Arte Originate ?
Answer :
Italy
88. Question 88. Who Coined The Word “ Wive ” And What Does It Mean ?
Answer :
Shakespeare coined this term and it means to marry.
89. Question 89. The Pen Name Of English Novelist Who Wrote “ Animal Farm ” Is
George Orwell. What Is The His Original Name ?
Answer :
Eric Arthur Blair.
90. Question 90. Which Country Does Aeschylus Belong To ?
Answer :
 Greece.
91. Question 91. Which First Play Written By George Bernard Shaw ?
Answer :
Widowers Houses.
92. Question 92. Who Is Known As The Father Of English Poetry ?
Answer :
Geoffrey Chaucer.
93. Question 93. “ Water Water Everywhere, Not A Drop To Drink ”. Who Wrote These
Famous Words In One Of His Poems ?
Answer :
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
94. Question 94. Where Does The Longest Word Come From ?
Answer :
The book Finnegans wake by James Joyce.
95. Question 95. How Long Is The Word Second To The Longest One ?
Answer :
45 letters long.
96. Question 96. What Is The Length Of The Word Third To The Longest ?
Answer :
29 letters long.
97. Question 97. What Is The Length Of The Forth And Fifth Words Compared To The
Longest One ?
Answer :
28 letters and 27 letters respectively.
98. Question 98. What Is The Prize Given Every Year To The Author Of The Best
American Book For Children ?
Answer :
Newberg Medal
99. Question 99. Which Country Has The Most Languages ?
Answer :
India
100. Question 100. Which Country Has More Daily Newspapers ?
Answer :
United States of America.
101. Question 101. The Author Of “ Black Beauty ” Was A Campaigner Against
Cruelty To Horses. What Was Her Name ?
Answer :
Anna Sewell.
102. Question 102. Who Is The Author Of The Kannada Novel “ Parva ” The Story
Related To Mahabharatha ?
Answer :
S.L. Byrappa
103. Question 103. Name The First Woman Jnanapeeth Award Winner In India ?
Answer :
Ashapoorna Devi
104. Question 104. Which English Dramatist And Poet Was Born At Stratford - Upon
- Avon In 1564 ?
Answer :
William Shakespeare.
105. Question 105. Shakespear Of India ?
Answer :
Kalidasa 
106. Question 106. Who Invented The Fictional Detective, Hercule Poirot ?
Answer :
Agatha Christie. 
107. Question 107. William Sydney Porter Was A Famous American Short Story
Writer. What Pen Name Did He Use ?
Answer :
O’Henry
108. Question 108. What Is Blank Verse ?
Answer :
It is a sequence of Iambic pentametres. But this is unrhymed.
109. Question 109. What Is Quatrain ?
Answer :
A quatrain is a stanza of four line in a poem. They can be rhymed or unrhymed.
110. Question 110. What Is Terza Rima ?
Answer :
It is Iambic pentametre ryhming aba beb cdc ded etc.
111. Question 111. Which Is The Autobiography Of Adolf Hitler ?
Answer :
Mein Kampf ( My life ).
112. Question 112. Which Are The Two Long Poems Written By William
Shakespeare ?
Answer :
They are “ Venus and Adonis ” and “ The Rape of Lucrece ”. 
113. Question 113. Who Wrote This Epitaph For His Own Grave ‘ Casta Cold Eye, On
Life And Death, Horesman Pass By ’ ?
Answer :
W.A. Yeats.
114. Question 114. Who Wrote The Book “ Life Divine ” ?
Answer :
Aravinda.
115. Question 115. How May Sonnets Are There In Shakespeare’s Credit ?
Answer :
There are one hundred and fifty four sonnets in his credit. 
116. Question 116. Which Literary Work Of Salman Rushdhi Recently Provoked The
Leaders Of Muslim Sect In Iran ?
Answer :
MSatanic Verses.
117. Question 117. What Is A Sonnet ?
Answer :
A poem of fourteen Iambic pentametre lines is a sonnet.
118. Question 118. What Is Elizabethan English ?
Answer :
English language used during the period of elizabeth I of england is called
elizabethan english.
119. Question 119. What Does Victorian English Mean ?
Answer :
The english language used during the period of queen Victoria.
120. Question 120. What Is The Name Of The Villainous Pirate In Treasure Island
By R.l. Stevenson ?
Answer :
Long John Silver.
121. Question 121. Who Was The Boy Brought Up By Wolves In Rudyard Kiplings “
The Jungle Book ” ?
Answer :
Mowgli
122. Question 122. What Is The Anthology Of 400 Tamil Poems On Valour By
Various Poets Of Sanga Age Called ?
Answer :
Purananooru
123. Question 123. Which Composer Wrote Rhapsody In Blue ?
Answer :
 George Gershwin
124. Question 124. Who Holds The Records For Fastest Speed In Hindi Shorthand ?
Answer :
Ajay Gosh, a chief reporter of rajya sabha, has created a national record in hindi
shortland with a speed of 230 wpm. His achievement has been entered in the
limca book of records.
125. Question 125. Widely Spoken Language ?
Answer :
English
126. Question 126. What Is American English ?
Answer :
The english language spoken by the americans is termed as american english. 
127. Question 127. What Is Known As English Sonnet ?
Answer :
Shakespearean sonnet is called english sonnet.
128. Question 128. What Are Triplets ?
Answer :
Lines rhyming in sets of three in any metre are termed triples.
129. Question 129. What Is Doggerel ?
Answer :
This term is used to identify verse of loose and irregular measure.
130. Question 130. What Is Heroic Couplet ?
Answer :
Lines rhyming in pairs and are the iambic pentametre lines are termed by this word.
131. Question 131. What Is The Biggest Dictionary In The World ?
Answer :
“ Britanica of english language ”.
132. Question 132. Which Is The Most Widely Used Dictionary Of American
Language ?
Answer :
Webster’s Dictionary.
133. Question 133. What Was The Psuedonym Used By H.h.munro ?
Answer :
Saki ( 1870 - 1960 ) he began his career writing political satires for the ‘ west minister
gazette ’.
134. Question 134. What Is Postscript ?
Answer :
It is a part added to a letter after the signature.
135. Question 135. Who Wrote The Great Treasury Of Tales In Sanskrit Called
Kathasarithsagara ?
Answer :
Somadeva
136. Question 136. What Was The Name Of Sindbad The Sailor’s Enormous Bird ?
Answer :
The roc
137. Question 137. Which Literary Character Said “ If Everybody Minded Their Own
Business The World Would Go Round A Great Deal Faster Than It Does ” ?
Answer :
The duchess in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol.
138. Question 138. In A Play Or Story, What Is Peripeteia ?
Answer :
A sudden change of fortune, unexpected reversal of circumstances, eg., the down fall
of antonio in ‘ The merchant of venice ’ .
139. Question 139. What Is A Parenthesis ?
Answer :
A word or a pharse inserted into a sentence, usually within bracket or between
commas or hypens. It adds to the information of description but without it the
sentence would still get grammatically complete.
140. Question 140. What Is A Holograph ?
Answer :
A single word which describes a document written in the handwriting of the person.
141. Question 141. Who Is A Ghost - Writer ?
Answer :
A person who writes a book, speech or an article on behalf of another. The credit is
being given to the person for whom it is written.
142. Question 142. Who Is A Freelance Writer ?
Answer :
A writer who is not on the taff, or on contract of any particular organisation and may
take assignments as he wishes.
143. Question 143. What Is Gobbledygook ?
Answer :
The use of long, involved and complicated word where simple ones would do eg.
using the word “ terminological inexactitude ” where the simple wordlie would
surface.
144. Question 144. What Is An Epigram ?
Answer :
 A short poem or a verse, or a pointed statement on a subject ending in a witty
thought.
145. Question 145. From Which Language Does The Word “ Algebra ” Come ?
Answer :
Arabic - al - jabr - which means the reduction.
146. Question 146. By What Persian Name Is The Essential Oil Of Flowers Used In
Perfumery Known ?
Answer :
Attar - a word with the persian derived from arabic.
147. Question 147. What Is The German Word For Germany ?
Answer :
Deutschland.
148. Question 148. How Did The Word In “ Juggernaut ” Come Into The English
Language ?
Answer :
It is corruption of jugganath, one of the forms of lord vishnu.
149. Question 149. What Does The Name “ Eskimo ” Mean ?
Answer :
Eater of raw flesh.
150. Question 150. What Is The Origin Of The Word Robot ?
Answer :
It comes from the Czechoslovakian word ‘ Robota ’ meaning compulsory or forced
labour.
151. Question 151. How Was The Name ‘ Bihar ’ Formed ?
Answer :
From ‘ Vihara ’ which is the term of buddist monastery.
152. Question 152. Who Is The Author Of The Remark, The Difference Between
Journalism And Literature Is That Journalism Is Unreadable And Literature Is Not
Read ?
Answer :
Oscar wilde.
153. Question 153. What Is The “ Nadu ” In Tamil Nadu ?
Answer :
Nadu
154. Question 154. ‘ Good Grief Is The Main Title Of The Biography Of A Popular
Cartoonist. Whose Biography Is It ?
Answer :
Charles M. Schulz, creator of peanuts.
155. Question 155. In South Africa What Is The Literal Meaning Of The Word ‘
Apartheid ’ ?
Answer :
‘ Apartness ’ and the term is used form racial segregation and discrimination. 
156. Question 156. The Word ‘ Tip ’, The Sense Of A Gratuity For A Service
Rendered, Is An Abbreviation. For What Did The T-i-p Stand ?
Answer :
To insure prompyness. A small sum was put into a box or given in coffee shop from
old days. This money was given to insure prompt service.
157. Question 157. Of Which Word Is ‘ Bus ’ An Abbreviation ?
Answer :
“ Omnibus ” - in latin it means for all.
158. Question 158. From Where Did The Word ‘ Academy ’ Originate ?
Answer :
From the greek word ‘ Akademeia ’ or ‘ Akademia ’ , the name of the gymnasium or
school founded by plato.
159. Question 159. In The Word “ Petroleum ”, To What Does The “ Petro ” Refer ?
Answer :
Stone rock, from the greek word “ petros ” ( stone ) are “ petra ” ( rock ).
160. Question 160. Which Foreign Poet Is So Far The Only Honorary Fellow Of The
Sahitya Academy ?
Answer :
Leopold Segar Senghor.
161. Question 161. What Is Latin Word From Which The Word Salary Originated ?
Answer :
‘ Salarium ’ which was the money paid to roman soldiers.
162. Question 162. Which Is The Longest Poem In The World ?
Answer :
The mahabharata an ancient epic has been labelled the longest poem in the world
because of the fact that it 220,000 lines in length covering a total of 5,400
pages spread over 18 large volumes. This stupendous work was written between the
years 400 B.C and 150 B.C.