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Books and Authors covers notable works of literature, history, politics, religion, science and biography, together with their authors, original titles, genres and subjects. It includes major Urdu, English and world writers, while separating a book's author from its translator, editor, narrator or historical subject.

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Hard
  • A. 20 Dec 1790
  • B. 27 Dec 1797
  • C. 21 Dec 1799
  • D. 25 Oct 1802

Explanation: Mirza Ghalib was born on 27 December 1797 in Agra and later became one of the most celebrated Urdu and Persian poets.

Correct answer: 27 Dec 1797
Fairly easy
  • A. Henry Kissinger
  • B. Ronald Reagan
  • C. Barack Obama
  • D. Donald Trump

Explanation: Diplomacy is a major work on international relations by Henry Kissinger, published in 1994.

Correct answer: Henry Kissinger
Fairly easy
  • A. Pro.Muhammad Younas
  • B. Mario Puzo
  • C. Mohsin Hamid
  • D. W. E.Hunter

Explanation: Mario Puzo wrote The Godfather, the 1969 novel about the Corleone crime family.

Correct answer: Mario Puzo
Fairly easy
  • A. Carl Bernstein
  • B. Christiane Amanpour
  • C. Michael Wolff
  • D. Bob Woodward

Explanation: Michael Wolff wrote Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, based on his account of the Trump administration.

Correct answer: Michael Wolff
Hard
  • A. Angie Thomas
  • B. Aysha jalal
  • C. Emily Fridlund
  • D. Margaret Wilkerson

Explanation: Emily Fridlund wrote History of Wolves, her 2017 debut novel about a teenage girl confronting troubling events in a rural Minnesota…

Correct answer: Emily Fridlund
Easy
  • A. Jonathan Swift
  • B. Thomas Hardy
  • C. Charles Dickens
  • D. William Shakespeare

Explanation: Jonathan Swift wrote *Gulliver’s Travels*, published in 1726 as a satire presented through imaginary voyages.

Correct answer: Jonathan Swift
Easy
  • A. Mohsin Hamid
  • B. John Donne
  • C. Oscar Wilde
  • D. Eugene O,neill

Explanation: Oscar Wilde wrote *The Importance of Being Earnest*, a celebrated comedy of manners first performed in 1895.

Correct answer: Oscar Wilde
Hard
  • A. Leipzig
  • B. Geneva
  • C. London
  • D. Rome

Explanation: Shah Jo Risalo, the collection of poetry by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, was first published in Leipzig, Germany.

Correct answer: Leipzig
Moderate
  • A. Svetlana Alexievich
  • B. Mo Yan
  • C. Patrick Modiano
  • D. Kazuo Ishiguro

Explanation: Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature and is known for novels such as *The Remains of the Day* and *Never Let Me Go*.

Correct answer: Kazuo Ishiguro
  • A. Arabic Dictionary
  • B. Arabic prose
  • C. Arabic written script
  • D. None.Exploring Local Private K-12 Schools

Explanation: Al-Munjid is a well-known Arabic dictionary, compiled by the Jesuit scholar Louis Ma‘luf and later expanded as a linguistic and…

Correct answer: Arabic Dictionary
  • A. Al farabi
  • B. Karl Marx
  • C. Al Ghazali
  • D. Thomas hobbes

Explanation: Al-Ghazali is associated with the classic work commonly translated as The Revival or Renaissance of the Religious Sciences, known in…

Correct answer: Al Ghazali
  • A. Shakespeare
  • B. R.K.Layman
  • C. George Orwell
  • D. None of these

Explanation: George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian novel published in 1949 about totalitarian surveillance and political control.

Correct answer: George Orwell