General Knowledge MCQs
Topic Notes: General Knowledge
MCQs and preparation resources for competitive exams, covering important concepts, past papers, and detailed explanations.
Plato
- Biography: Ancient Greek philosopher (427–347 BCE), student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, founder of the Academy in Athens.
- Important Ideas:
- Theory of Forms
- Philosopher-King
- Ideal State
1
Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but troubled hacker, appears in which crime novel?
Answer:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander is a key character in Stieg Larsson’s 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'.
2
Arthur Dent is the bewildered human in which humorous sci-fi book?
Answer:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Arthur Dent is swept off Earth in Douglas Adams’ 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy'.
3
Ender Wiggin is trained as a child military prodigy in which science-fiction novel?
Answer:
Ender’s Game
Ender Wiggin is the young strategic genius in Orson Scott Card’s 'Ender’s Game'.
4
Lyra Belacqua (also called Lyra Silvertongue) is the heroine of which fantasy series?
Answer:
His Dark Materials
Lyra is the central character in Philip Pullman’s 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
5
Billy Pilgrim, who becomes 'unstuck in time', is the protagonist of which novel?
Answer:
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim is the time-jumping hero of Kurt Vonnegut’s 'Slaughterhouse-Five'.
6
Jake Barnes, a war veteran and journalist, narrates which Hemingway novel?
Answer:
The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes narrates the lives of the 'lost generation' in 'The Sun Also Rises'.
7
Emma Bovary, dissatisfied with her provincial life, is the heroine of which novel?
Answer:
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary is the title character of Gustave Flaubert’s 'Madame Bovary'.
8
Dorothea Brooke is a key character in which George Eliot novel?
Answer:
Middlemarch
Dorothea Brooke’s idealism is central to 'Middlemarch'.
9
Who is the unreliable narrator obsessed with a young girl in Nabokov’s 'Lolita'?
Answer:
Humbert Humbert
Humbert Humbert narrates his disturbing obsession in 'Lolita'.
10
George Milton is the caretaker and friend of which character in 'Of Mice and Men'?
Answer:
Lennie Small
George Milton travels and works with the mentally disabled Lennie Small.