MCQs - Life and works of Girish Karnad
1.What was the
profession of Girish Karnad?
A. Actor
B. Playwright
C. Musician
D. Politician
Answer: B.
Playwright
2. Girish
Karnad's debut play?
A. Yayati
B. Tughlaq
C. Hayavadana
D. Nagamandala
Answer: A. Yayati
3.Which play by
Girish Karnad won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 1994?
A. Taledanda
B. Hayavadana
C. Tughlaq
D. Yayati
Answer: A.
Taledanda
4. Girish Karnad
was born in which state?
A) Karnataka
B) Maharashtra
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Goa
Answer: B)
Maharashtra (Matheran, Bombay Presidency, now in Maharashtra)
5. Karnad’s
family belonged to which linguistic community?
A) Tamil Iyer
B)
Konkani-speaking Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin
C) Marathi
Deshastha Brahmin
D) Kannada
Vokkaliga
Answer: B)
Konkani-speaking Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin
6. Which
university did Karnad attend as a Rhodes Scholar?
A) Cambridge
B) Harvard
C) Oxford
(Magdalen College)
D) Yale
Answer: C) Oxford
(Magdalen College) (Studied PPE: Philosophy, Politics, Economics)
7. Karnad served
as the President of which prestigious debating society?
A) Cambridge
Union
B) Oxford Union
C) Harvard Debate
Council
D) Mumbai Press
Club
Answer: B) Oxford
Union (1962–63)
8. Before
becoming a full-time writer, Karnad worked with:
A) British
Council
B) Oxford
University Press (Chennai)
C) All India
Radio
D) The Hindu
newspaper
Answer: B) Oxford
University Press (Chennai) (1963–70)
9. In which year
was Girish Karnad awarded the Padma Shri?
A. 1974
B. 1984
C. 1994
D. 2004
Answer: A. 1974
10. Which of the
following awards has Girish Karnad not received?
A. Sahitya
Akademi Award
B. Padma Shri
C. Jnanpith Award
D. Booker Prize
Answer: D. Booker
Prize
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11. Girish Karnad’s
play based on the folk tale of the cobra?
A. Yayati
B. Bali: The
Sacrifice
C. Nagamandala
D. Tughlaq
Answer: C.
Nagamandala
12. Which Karnad
play uses Yakshagana (folk theatre) and explores mind-body duality?
A. Nagamandala
B. Hayavadana
C. Anjumallige
D. Odakalu Bimba
Answer: B.
Hayavadana
13. Nagamandala
(1988) is based on:
A. A Freudian
folk tale about a woman and a cobra
B. The life of
Tipu Sultan
C. A historical
battle in Vijayanagara
D. A modern
Bangalore urban legend
Answer: A. A
Freudian folk tale about a woman and a cobra
14. Agni Mattu
Male (The Fire and the Rain) adapts a story from:
A. Mahabharata
B. Ramayana
(Yavakrita’s tale)
C. Bhagavata
Purana
D.
Kathasaritsagara
Answer: B.
Ramayana
15. Karnad’s only
English-language play is:
A. Wedding Album
B. The Dreams of
Tipu Sultan
C. Boiled Beans
on Toast
D. A Heap of
Broken Images
Answer: B. The
Dreams of Tipu Sultan
16. Which Karnad
play critiques modern media through a Kannada writer’s English-language
success?
A. Odakalu Bimba
(A Heap of Broken Images)
B. Maduve Album
(Wedding Album)
C. Benda Kaalu on
Toast
D. Flowers
Answer: A.
Odakalu Bimba
17. Karnad’s
Samskara (1970) was an adaptation of:
A. U.R.
Ananthamurthy’s novel
B. A Panchatantra
fable
C. A Yakshagana
performance
D. A Jataka tale
Answer: A. U.R.
Ananthamurthy’s novel
18.Which award
did Karnad win in 1999, India’s highest literary honor?
A. Padma
Vibhushan
B. Sahitya
Akademi Award
C. Jnanpith Award
D. Dadasaheb
Phalke Award
Answer: C.
Jnanpith Award
19. Karnad acted
in which iconic TV series based on R.K. Narayan’s work?
A. Malgudi Days
(as Swami’s father)
B. Buniyaad
C. Chanakya
D. Tamas
Answer: A.
Malgudi Days
20. Rakshasa
Tangadi (2018) dramatizes which historical battle?
A. Battle of
Plassey
B. Battle of
Talikota (1565)
C. Battle of
Haldighati
D. Third
Anglo-Mysore War
Answer: B. Battle
of Talikota
21. Karnad
narrated the audiobook of which Indian president’s autobiography?
A. Pranab
Mukherjee
B. A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam’s Wings of Fire
C. R.
Venkataraman
D. K.R. Narayanan
Answer: B. A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam’s Wings of Fire
22. Girish Karnad’s
play based on Mahabharata?
A. Taledanda
B. Bali: The
Sacrifice
C. Yayati
D. Naga-Mandala
Answer: C. Yayati
23. Girish Karnad’s
play based on the life of 12th-century social reformer Basavanna and Veerashaiva movement?
A. Taledanda
B. Yayati
C. Hayavadana
D. Tale-Danda
Answer: D.
Tale-Danda
24. Which of
Karnad’s plays is an allegory of Nehruvian idealism, that was based on the life
of Mughal emperor?
A. Taledanda
B. Bali
C. Rakta Kalyana
D. Tughlaq
Answer: D.
Tughlaq
25.Which of the
following plays by Girish Karnad is based on the myth of the transposed heads?
A. Naga-Mandala
B. Hayavadana
C. Tughlaq
D. Taledanda
Answer: B.
Hayavadana
26.What was the
name of the autobiography written by Girish Karnad?
A. Aadaadtha
Manushya
B. Surangini
C. Dakshinayan
D. Anjumallige
Answer: A.
Aadaadtha Manushya
27. Karnad served
as the director of which prestigious institute (1974–75)?
A. National
School of Drama
B. Film and
Television Institute of India (FTII)
C. Sangeet Natak
Akademi
D. Nehru Centre
Answer: B. Film
and Television Institute of India (FTII)
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38. Where did
Karnad complete his Bachelor’s degree?
A) University of
Mumbai
B) Karnataka
University, Dharwad
C) University of
Delhi
D) University of
Madras
Answer: B)
Karnataka University, Dharwad (BA in Mathematics & Statistics, 1958)
39 His father,
Dr. Raghunath Karnad, worked in:
A) Indian
Railways
B) Bombay Medical
Services
C) Indian
Administrative Service (IAS)
D) University of
Oxford
Answer: B) Bombay
Medical Services
40. Karnad’s
family moved to Karnataka when he was:
A) 5 years old
B) 14 years old
C) 20 years old
D) Born in
Karnataka
Answer: B) 14
years old
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