Books & Authors Quiz: Books by Sportspersons and Scientists

Playing It My Way is the autobiography of the batsman Sachin Tendulkar, published in 2014 soon after he retired, and it was written with the sports writer Boria Majumdar.

Wings of Fire was written by the aerospace scientist and eleventh President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam, along with Arun Tiwari, and it traces his life from a modest childhood at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu to his work on the satellite launch vehicle and the missile programme.

The British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time in 1988 to explain the Big Bang, black holes and the nature of time to readers without a background in physics, and it became one of the best-selling science books ever published.

The Race of My Life was written by the sprinter Milkha Singh, known as the Flying Sikh, together with his daughter Sonia Sanwalka, and it describes his childhood during Partition, his rise in Indian athletics and the fourth place in the 400 metres at the 1960 Rome Olympics that he…

Unbreakable is the autobiography of the boxer M C Mary Kom of Manipur, a multiple world champion and an Olympic bronze medallist at London in 2012, and the book describes her journey from a farming family in Manipur to the world stage while raising a family.

The shooter Abhinav Bindra, who won the ten metre air rifle gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and became independent India's first individual Olympic gold medallist, wrote this book with the sports journalist Rohit Brijnath.

Straight from the Heart is the autobiography of the all-rounder Kapil Dev, who captained India to its first cricket World Cup title in 1983 at Lord's and who was the first bowler to take four hundred Test wickets.

Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, setting out the theory that species change over generations through natural selection, in which individuals better suited to their surroundings leave more offspring.

The Aryabhatiya is a short Sanskrit work in verse, written by the astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata, which states an accurate approximation for pi, explains the daily rotation of the earth as the cause of the apparent motion of the stars, and gives the correct reason for eclipses.

Mind Master was written by the chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand with the writer Susan Ninan, and it sets out the lessons in concentration, preparation and handling defeat that Anand drew from his world championship matches.

Sunny Days was written by the opening batsman Sunil Gavaskar, whose nickname was Sunny, and it covers his early career including the record-breaking debut series in the West Indies.

Salim Ali, known as the Birdman of India, was the ornithologist whose surveys built the modern study of Indian birds, and The Book of Indian Birds is his best-known work, long used as a field guide.