english quiz3

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Round 3 Visual Round

Name the Personality : 

Name the Personality *contemporary Indian writer *Has won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Prix Medicis Etrangere of France. * Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize * The Circle of Reason (1986) ,The Shadow Lines (1990) ,The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) ,The Glass Palace (2000) ,The Hungry Tide (2004) Sea of Poppies (2008) are some of his novels Who is he? AMITAV GHOSH

Who is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. : 

Who is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson

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MULK RAJ ANAND *His first main novel, Untouchable, published in 1935, was a chilling exposé of the day-to-day life of a member of India's untouchable caste. *Prominent among his novels are The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1940), The Sword and the Sickle (1942), all written in England, and Coolie (1945), The Private Life of an Indian Prince (1953) Who is this Prominent English writer ?

* “The Namesake” is her first novel.*her debut book, “The Interpreter of Maladies” won many prizes including theprestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2000.* 2002 - "Nobody's Business" selected as one of Best American Short Stories. : 

Name the Indian American Author? JHUMPA LAHIRI * “The Namesake” is her first novel.*her debut book, “The Interpreter of Maladies” won many prizes including theprestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2000.* 2002 - "Nobody's Business" selected as one of Best American Short Stories.

*wrote in Bengali and English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English* He was the author of “Chitra”, and many other short stories. : 

*wrote in Bengali and English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English* He was the author of “Chitra”, and many other short stories. RABINDRANATH TAGORE

JEFFREY ARCHER : 

JEFFREY ARCHER *At 29, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lincolnshire constituency of Louth, holding the seat for the Conservative Party in a by-election on 4 December 1969. * Paths of Glory is his latest novel released in 2009. *Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, is the first novel written by him. Who is he ?

IAN FLEMING : 

IAN FLEMING *British author and journalist. *best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling Bond's adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. *He wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Who was he?

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Who is this novelist who created the famous character of Mrs. Dalloway ? VIRGINIA WOOLF was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Her most famous works include the novels To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Identify this Greek mythological character. : 

Identify this Greek mythological character. *Name derived from Greek mythology which means numbness, sleep. *He was a hero from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. *He falls in love with a reflection in a pool, not realizing it was his own, and perishes there, not being able to leave the beauty of his own reflection. Narcissus

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Identify this character from a famous comic Asterix. *He is the only individual able to produce the "magic potion" upon which the Gauls rely for their strength. *Goscinny and Uderzo are the creators of Astriex Comic series. *Friend of both Asterix and Obelix. Getafix

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*His narratives highlight social context and provide a feel for his characters through everyday life. *He was also nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He won the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award. *He became a reporter for a Madras based paper called The Justice, dedicated to the rights of non-Brahmins being a Brahmin Iyer. R.K.NARAYAN

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*Contemporary writer, playwright, actor and movie director in Kannada language. He is the latest of seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honour conferred in India. *He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. *His plays, written in Kannada, have been widely translated into English and all major Indian languages. His plays are written neither in English, in which he dreamed of earning international literary fame, nor in his mother tongue Konkani. Instead they are composed in his adopted language Kannada. *His first play, "Yayati" (1961), ridicules the ironies of life through characters in Mahabharata Girish Karnad End of Round 3