2. X comes from Middle French, which comes directly from a
Latin word Y ."a X" literally means "little mouse,"
So called because the shape and movement of some X were
thought to resemble mice and also due to the medieval
belief of mice working in place of X. The analogy was also
made in Greek, where mys is both "mouse" and “X”. Give X
Q1
8. Q3
• This 1833 poem, considered a literary landmark, gives
a statue its popular name. The poem is in first person
and reads as an ode to a great city. Legend has it that
while this statue stands in the city, the city will never
be taken by enemy armies. Quite in line with that,
during a 900 day long bloody siege during WW2, the
city was never taken. The statue was built from an
enormous stone called the ‘Thunder Stone’. In 1770,
the stone was moved to the city center, and it formed
the pedestal for the statue. The stone is often referred
to as the “largest stone ever moved by man”. Owing to
censorship only the prologue was published during the
poet’s lifetime. Name the poet and statue.
10. ANSWER
• The Bronze Horseman, by Aleksandr Pushkin.
(Statue of Peter the Great, in St. Petersburg.)
11. Q4
While X is celebrated for his prose, he actually enjoyed a parallel existence in
the realm of insect study. His obsessive passion for butterflies is not well known,
but shouldn’t be understated. As X expressed it in an interview in 1967: “It is
not improbable that had there been no revolution in ______, I would have
devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology [the study of butterflies] and never
written any novels at all.” Between 1942 and 1948, X was a Researcher Fellow in
the Harvard University Comparative Zoology department. The university
allowed him to have a little shop furnished with scientific equipment to pursue
his taxonomic research. Nabokov was already a practiced expert of Blue
Butterflies and focused his classification theory on one specific point: the study
of male butterfly genitalia. By doing so, X could observe new physiognomic
differences between identical-looking butterflies and reevaluate their belonging
to one species or another. Each specimen was indexed and placed in a small
wooden cabinet. ID X
14. Q5
• Rudyard Kipling
• H. G. Wells
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• P. G. Wodehouse
• G. K. Chesterton
• Jerome K. Jerome
• A. A. Milne
• E. W. Hornung
• Henry Justice Ford
• A. E. W. Mason
• Walter Raleigh
• E. V. Lucas
• Maurice Hewlett
17. Q6
• X came to prominence in the 1930s, first working
on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably
writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby
Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award. When
television became the new popular medium, he decided to try
his hand in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I
met Patty Duke one day at lunch. So I produced The Patty
Duke Show, and I did something nobody else in TV ever did.
For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the
series."He went on to work in television, where his works
spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty
Duke Show(1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie(1965–70) and Hart
to Hart (1979–84) though he later became extremely famous
when he tried his hand in something else.
20. Q7
• X is Hailed by many as the greatest novelist of
19th Century. He was sentenced to death by firing
squad by paranoid Tsarist regime for participating
in socialist circles, and was in front of the firing
squads when orders for stay of his execution
arrived and he was sentenced to harsh exile and
incarceration in Siberia instead. He would later
become one of the most eminent critics of
socialism and is widely regarded for the amazing
psychological depth present in his works
23. Q8
• X is a famous Persian work of poetry written
by Omar Khayyam which talks about life. It has
been translated by several people, the most
notable translation being that by Edward
FitzGerald. He translated it in the rhyme
scheme aaba bbcb ccdc… and so on. This form
of rhyming was named after the same and is
used by Robert Frost in Stopping by Woods on
a Snowy Evening.
26. Q9
• One of the most successful Victorian
playwrights who lived near the end of the
century. He also became the source of scandal
which resulted in his fall from stardom. He
was imprisoned as a result of his homosexual
affair with Alfred Douglas. Later from prison
he wrote a letter to his young lover, today that
letter is published under which name? Also
name the literary giant
29. Q10
• X has an adjective associated with his name in
the English language which refers to
nightmarishly bizarre or illogical nature of an
event or a thing . ID X and the adjective
32. Q11
• One of the most famous of Romantic poets
whose tomb stone on his request contains the
inscription “Here lies the one whose name
was writ in water.” He died believing that he
had failed to create a place for himself among
the great poets. Another interesting part of his
life was his bitter sweet love affair and the
love letters he wrote are widely read
35. Q12
• 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.
38. Q13
• “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.
41. Q14
• Identify the book from the excerpt: "X had
been born too late and too mediocre. Some
men are born mediocre, some men achieve
mediocrity and some men have mediocrity
thrust upon them. With X it was all three.
Even among men lacking all distinction he
inevitably stood out as a man lacking more
distinction than all the rest and people who
met him were always impressed by how
unimpressive he was."
47. Q16
• X based his fictional creation Y on a number of
individuals. Among those types were his
brother Peter. Aside from X's brother, a number of others
also provided some aspects of Y's make up,
including Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill
"Biffy" Dunderdale]
• The name Y came from that of the American ornithologist Y,
a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field
guide Birds of the West Indies. X, a
keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Y's guide and he
later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me
that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very
masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second Y
was born"
50. Q17
• Jeffrey Sing-Song
• Obadiah Blue Hat
• Betty Blueskin
• Penelope Firebrand
• Count Kidney Face
• Sir Fopling Tittle-Tattle
• Jonathan Problematick
• Hubble Bubble
• A Ministering Friend of the People Called
Quakers
53. Q18
• X is a collection of poems by William
Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first
published in 1798 and generally considered to
have marked the beginning of the
English Romantic movement in literature. The
immediate effect on critics was modest, but it
became and remains a landmark, changing
the course of English literature and poetry.
56. Q19
• Paulo Coelho declared that X had damaged the
20th century novel by reducing it to “pure
style.”“There is nothing there,” Mr. Coelho said.
“If you dissect ‘Y,’ it gives you a tweet.” to which
Stuart Kelly responded, “Coelho is, of course,
entitled to his dumb opinion,”. She wrote in a
much re-tweeted post on the Guardian’s books
blog, “just as I am entitled to think Coelho’s work
is a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil
mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and
verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I
threw out yesterday.”. Give Y
59. Q20
• X is set in a fictional world parallel to ours, but Y does not reveal
that until the second half of the book. Thus, there are several
untrue historic "facts" used in setting of the novel. In the novel,
American president John F. Kennedy survives the Dallas
assassination but is shot alongside his brother Robert Kennedy later
on; the Watergate scandal is represented as a novel starring a
fictional president Richard Nixon. Rushdie also deliberately
miscredits some classic rock songs, such as The Rolling Stones' "(I
Can't Get No) Satisfaction", which he credits to John Lennon, or Roy
Orbison's "Pretty Woman" which he credits to The Kinks. The
character named Jesse Garon Parker represents Elvis Presley in
every way, while The Who are presented under their original
name The High Numbers. Give X
