Some sample questions from this category:
* What did Kipling's parents name him?
* Kipling's home in Vermont was named Naulakha. What is the derivation of that name?
* Mahbub Ali is a horse trader featured in the story 'Kim'. What Ballad by Kipling also features Mahbub Ali?
* In 'Captains Courageous', Harvey Cheyne's millionnaire father and his mother make a dash by rail, in their private railroad carriage, to be reunited with Harvey. From where to where did the journey take them?
* On 6th March 1899 Rudyard's daughter Josephine died at the age of six from pneumonia. Where did she die?
* In the poem 'Bobs' who is Bobs Bahadur?
* In the poem 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' what is said to be enough to pay for all the school expenses of any Kurrum Valley scamp?
* In the story the 'Maltese Cat' , what did the Maltese Cat say his employment was before becoming a polo pony?
* In the story 'With the Night Mail'( a story of 2000 AD !) the reporter , Kipling, was to fly with Postal Packet 162. What was the route of this packet?
* In the story 'the Miracle of Puran Bhagat', Sir Purun Dass is awarded the K.C.I.E. . What is the correct title of that honour?
* In one of his Ballads, Kipling lets the main character assert that 'Four things greater than all things are'. What are those four things he refers to?
* In 'the Maltese Cat' , on which polo ground was that match supposedly played?
* Of which city did Kipling write....'is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.'?
* After seven years with the Pioneer newspaper of India, Kipling took leave and went on travels. These he wrote about under the title 'Letters of Marque'. In which two-volumed book were 'Letters of Marque' published?
* In his report titled 'City of Dreadful Night', to which city did Kipling apply that title?
* In which two-volumed book does the story 'City of Dreadful Night' appear?
* Where does Kipling write that his first encounter with the United States Cavalry took place?
* In the poem 'A Smuggler's Song' from Puck of Pook's Hill, what should be done by those who wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet because "the Gentlemen" go by?
* The expression 'White Man's Burden' is taken from Kipling's first line of a poem, the line being 'Take up the White Man's burden'. To whom did he address that line and poem?
* A recent biography of Kipling, by Marghanita Laski, bears the title 'From Palm to Pine'. Which of Kipling's works provides that title?
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