101 Arabian Nights was translated into Sanskrit by Jagadbandu Pandit
102 The first recipient of Bharatiya Gnanpith Award was G.Shankara Kurup
103 The language in which Samuel Becket wrote most of his plays was French
104 Dr.Masti Venkatesha Iyenger won the Gnanpith Award for his book Chikaveerarajendra
105 The famous singer who collapsed and died on the stage during a performance was Leonard Warren
106 `A thing of beauty is joy forever’ was said by Keats
107 The 1966 Gnanpith Award was won by Tara Shankar Nandopadhyaya
108 The 1967 Gnanpith Award was won by Uma Shankar Joshi & Dr.K.V.Puttappa
109 The 1968 Gnanpith Award was won by Sumitra Nandhanpant
110 In 1982,Arun Shourie won the Ramon Magsaysay
111 The Music instrument that Ravishankar plays is Sitar
112 Anandmath was written by Bankim chandra
113 The Classic `Around the World in 80 days’ was written by Jules Verne
114 Babar’s Autobiography “Babarnama” is written in the language Turkish
115 Who is consideblack as the most famous playwright in English after William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw
116 The popular comedian Charlie Chaplin was from Britain
117 Panchatanra was written by Vishnu Sharma
118 The world’s smallest theatre Picolo is in Hamburg,West Germany
119 The seating capacity of the World’s smallest theatre Picolo is Thirty
120 The first Russian author to receive the Nobel Prize was Ivan Atseyevich
121 The Heroine of the famous classic `Gone with the Wind’ was Sarlet O’Hara
122 The title of Dr.Salim Ali’s autobiography is Fall of Sparrow
123 The first actress of Indian screen was Kamalabai Gokhale
124 Tansen,the famous musician was once defeated by another musician whose name was Baiju Bawra
125 Pablo Picasso derived his surname from His mother
126 The 1992 Bhartiya Gnanpith Award was won by Naresh Mehta
127 The 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke Award was won by Kavi Pradeep
128 The Three Musketeers was written by Alexander Dumas
129 Sarojini Naidu is more popularly known as Nightingale of India
130 The author of the book `Cricket My style’ was Kapil Dev
131 The book “Unto this Last” was written by John Ruskin
132 K.L. Saigal was a famous Singer
133 Bharat natyam originated in Tamilnadu
134 Late Mahadevi Verma received the Jnanpith Award for her book Yama
135 The recipient of the Dada Saheb phalke Award for 1997 was Shivaji Ganesan
136 The first novel written by R.K.Narayan was Swami & his friends
137 The lady who is Story writer,film actress,film Producer,singer,film director and music Director and who hails from Andhra Pradesh is P.Bhanumathi
138 Father and son who won the Dada Saheb Phalke Award was Prithvi Raj Kapoor & Raj Kapoor
139 `Life of Mahatma Gandhi’ was written by Louis Fisher
140 The instrument used by Amir Khusro was Sarod
141 The real name of the famous writer Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens
142 Harsha Charita was written by Bana Bhatta

 

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