Fill in the Blank – GK Questions

'The Golden Gate' (1986) is composed of 590 14-line stanzas based on the Pushkin sonnet form.

Quasimodo is the deformed bell-ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral who falls in love with Esmeralda.

Emperor Harshavardhana is credited with writing three Sanskrit plays: Ratnavali, Priyadarsika, and Nagananda.

Ruskin Bond wrote 'The Room on the Roof' when he was 17. It was published in 1956.

Haruki Murakami published 'Norwegian Wood' in 1987. It is a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality.

Dandin, a 7th-century Sanskrit scholar, wrote 'Dashakumaracharita', which narrates the adventures of ten princes.

'Interpreter of Maladies' explores the lives of Indians and Indian expatriates navigating cultural displacement.

Satire is a literary technique used to provoke change or highlight societal flaws. Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' is a classic example.

Dante's 'Divine Comedy' is divided into three parts: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise).

Mirza Ghalib, one of the most prominent figures of Urdu poetry, compiled his ghazals in 'Diwan-e-Ghalib'.

Isabel Allende published her debut novel 'The House of the Spirits' in 1982. It blends historical events with magical elements, similar to the style of her distant relative's contemporary, García Márquez.

Thomas Gray completed 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' in 1750. It is one of the most famous poems in the English language, reflecting on death and the unfulfilled potential of the poor.

Nikolai Gogol published the first volume of 'Dead Souls' in 1842. It follows the protagonist Chichikov as he buys 'dead souls' (serfs who have died but are still registered).

Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi wrote 'Saraswatichandra' in four parts between 1887 and 1901. It is considered a masterpiece of Gujarati fiction.

The sonnet originated in Italy and was popularized in England by poets like Shakespeare and Petrarch. It traditionally features a 'volta' or turn in thought.

William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.

John Steinbeck published 'The Grapes of Wrath' in 1939. It highlights the harsh realities faced by migrant workers in California.

M.T. Vasudevan Nair wrote 'Randamoozham' in 1984. It won the Vayalar Award and is considered a masterpiece of modern Malayalam literature.

V.D. Savarkar wrote 'The Indian War of Independence' in 1909. It was one of the first works to describe the 1857 revolt as a coordinated national uprising rather than a mere sepoy mutiny.

The Prix Goncourt is a French literary prize, created in 1903, awarded to the author of 'the best and most imaginative prose work of the year'.