GK Quiz - Language & Literature

 GK Quiz - Language & Literature

Q1. Which of the following languages uses the Cyrillic script?

a) Chinese

b) Russian

c) Arabic

d) Japanese

Answer: b) Russian

Q2. What is the official language of Brazil?

a) Portuguese

b) Spanish

c) French

d) Italian

Answer: a) Portuguese

Q3. Who wrote the novel "The Stranger", which follows the story of Meursault, a French Algerian who commits a senseless murder?

a) Albert Camus

b) Jean-Paul Sartre

c) Samuel Beckett

d) Franz Kafka

Answer: a) Albert Camus

Q4. Which Indian author wrote the novel "Midnight's Children", which tells the story of Saleem Sinai and India's transition to independence?

a) Salman Rushdie

b) Arundhati Roy

c) Jhumpa Lahiri

d) Vikram Seth

Answer: a) Salman Rushdie

Q5. Which German author wrote the novel "The Tin Drum", which follows the story of Oskar Matzerath and his refusal to grow up in Nazi Germany?

a) Thomas Mann

b) Franz Kafka

c) Günter Grass

d) Hermann Hesse

Answer: c) Günter Grass

Q6. Which language is spoken by the most people in the European Union?

a) English

b) German

c) French

d) Spanish

Answer: a) English

Q7. Which of the following languages is not a Romance language?

a) Spanish

b) Portuguese

c) German

d) Italian

Answer: c) German

Q8. Which language is spoken by the most people in Africa?

a) English

b) French

c) Arabic

d) Swahili

Answer: d) Swahili

Q9. Who wrote the novel "The Brothers Karamazov", which explores themes of faith, morality, and family relationships?

a) Fyodor Dostoevsky

b) Leo Tolstoy

c) Anton Chekhov

d) Ivan Turgenev

Answer: a) Fyodor Dostoevsky

Q10. Which Irish author wrote the novel "Ulysses", which follows the story of Leopold Bloom on a single day in Dublin?

a) James Joyce

b) W.B. Yeats

c) Samuel Beckett

d) Oscar Wilde

Answer: a) James Joyce

Q11. Which American author wrote the novel "Beloved", which explores themes of slavery, motherhood, and memory?

a) Toni Morrison

b) Alice Walker

c) Maya Angelou

d) Zora Neale Hurston

Answer: a) Toni Morrison

Q12. Which of the following languages uses the Greek alphabet?

a) Russian

b) Chinese

c) Korean

d) Greek

Answer: d) Greek

Q13. Which language is most closely related to English?

a) French

b) German

c) Spanish

d) Italian

Answer: b) German

Q14. Which language is spoken by the most people in South America?

a) Spanish

b) Portuguese

c) English

d) French

Answer: a) Spanish

Q15. Which of the following languages uses the Devanagari script?

a) Hindi

b) Arabic

c) Mandarin Chinese

d) Russian

Answer: a) Hindi