Organizer: English Department & NSS Unit of St. Stephen’s College, Uzhavoor, Kerala
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Dr.Stephen Mathew (Principal)
Fr.Jins Nellikkattil (Bursar)
Ms.Lijiyamol Thankachan (HOD English)
Ms.Tina Jose
Sri.Kurian V.John
(NSS Programme Officers)
Who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 in the Fiction category?*
1 point
Joshua Cohen
Arundhati Roy
Maya Angelou
Sophie Lauren
Where is the Walk of Ideas situated?*
1 point
Paris
Berlin
Milan
Vienna
Who set up the printing press in England for the first time?*
1 point
William Caxton
Johannes Gutenberg
Dirk Martens
Gary Starkweather
Which city is the world book capital selected in 2023?*
1 point
Alexandria
Aleppo
Accra
Aden
How is World Book and Copyright Day celebrated uniquely in UK?*
1 point
With a street festival
By holding readings
Through World Book Night
By hosting a book festival
Who is behind the organization of this event?*
1 point
UNICEF
UNHRC
UNESCO
UNISDR
Which book with a numeric title appeared in The Times’ All-Time 100 Novels list?*
1 point
Catch – 22
3 Men in a Boat
1984
The Tale of 3 Musketeers
Who established the word “audiobook” as a standard term?*
1 point
The Internet
Amazon
Audio Publishers Association
Audio Sellers Association
From which book do we get the famous epigraph “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”?*
1 point
Hamlet
Ikigai
To Sir with Love
To Kill a Mockingbird
Which Shakespearean character stated that life is a tale told by an idiot?
*
1 point
Hamlet
Macbeth
Lear
Richard II
As part of the Nobel Prize, from whom does the Nobel Laureate receive the Diploma?*
1 point
No one
The King of Sweden
Nobel Prize committee
The previous winner
Which is considered the best-selling book of all time?*
1 point
Don Quixote
The Mouse Trap
The Bible
The Alchemist
When was the World Digital Library launched?
1 point
2000
2006
2007
2009
Which country printed the world’s first book?*
1 point
India
Germany
China
England
Which country first banned “Satanic Verses”?*
1 point
Iran
UAE
Pakistan
India
What was the original date of celebrating World Book and Copyright Day?*
1 point
7 October 1926
7 October 1927
21 October 1921
6 October 1926
How was the library at Nalanda University destroyed?*
1 point
Sacked by Turkic Muslim invaders
Students burned the books
Akbar called for the burning of the university
None of the above
Who won the first Booker Prize in 1969?*
1 point
V.S. Naipaul
Bernice Reubens
P.H. Newby
John Berger
Who said ”There is no friend as loyal as a book”?*
1 point
Ernest Hemingway
Stephen King
J.K. Rowling
Francis Bacon
During Queen Elizabeth’s reign, what were copyright privileges better known as? *
1 point
Copyright
Monopolies
No such name
Patents
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