Class 2 GK Worksheet: National Symbols of India
Remember (Symbol and title): Animal – tiger, bird – peacock, flower – lotus, fruit – mango, tree – banyan, river – Ganga, aquatic animal – river dolphin, heritage animal – elephant. Anthem – Jana Gana Mana (written by Rabindranath Tagore), song – Vande Mataram, motto – Satyameva Jayate, emblem – the Lion Capital of Ashoka from Sarnath. Flag: saffron on top, white in the middle, green at the bottom; the Ashoka Chakra has 24 spokes.
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- 1.True or false: “Jana Gana Mana” is India’s national motto. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🇮🇳 How many coloured bands (stripes) does the Indian flag have?
- 3.True or false: “elephant” is India’s national heritage animal. (a) False (b) True
- 4.True or false: “lotus” is India’s national flower. (a) False (b) True
- 5.📜 What does “Satyameva Jayate” mean? (a) might is right (b) unity is strength (c) truth alone wins (d) work is worship
- 6.🇮🇳 What is India’s national animal? (a) peacock (b) tiger (c) Lion Capital of Ashoka (d) Ganga
- 7.🇮🇳 “tiger” is India’s ___. (a) national aquatic animal (b) national fruit (c) national animal (d) national bird
- 8.🙏 Who is called the Father of the Nation in India? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Mahatma Gandhi
- 9.🇮🇳 How many spokes does the Ashoka Chakra on our flag have?
- 10.📅 On which date is India’s Independence Day? (a) 14 November (b) 2 October (c) 26 January (d) 15 August
- 11.🇮🇳 What do we call our three-coloured national flag? (a) Kamal (b) Ashoka (c) Ganga (d) Tiranga
- 12.🇮🇳 Which colour is at the top of the Indian flag? (a) green (b) saffron (c) white (d) navy blue
- 13.🇮🇳 “Satyameva Jayate” is India’s ___. (a) national flower (b) national heritage animal (c) national motto (d) national fruit
- 14.🎵 Who wrote our national anthem, Jana Gana Mana? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
- 15.🇮🇳 “Vande Mataram” is India’s ___. (a) national anthem (b) national motto (c) national flower (d) national song
- 16.🇮🇳 “Ganga” is India’s ___. (a) national heritage animal (b) national motto (c) national river (d) national emblem
- 17.🇮🇳 What is India’s national anthem? (a) Jana Gana Mana (b) Satyameva Jayate (c) elephant (d) Vande Mataram
- 18.🇮🇳 “Lion Capital of Ashoka” is India’s ___. (a) national heritage animal (b) national bird (c) national emblem (d) national river
- 19.🇮🇳 “banyan” is India’s ___. (a) national fruit (b) national song (c) national tree (d) national heritage animal
- 20.True or false: “tiger” is India’s national bird. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🇮🇳 What is India’s national song? (a) Vande Mataram (b) lotus (c) Ganga (d) river dolphin
- 22.🇮🇳 What is India’s national heritage animal? (a) banyan (b) river dolphin (c) lotus (d) elephant
- 23.🦁 How many lions stand back to back on the Lion Capital of Ashoka?
- 24.🇮🇳 What is India’s national flower? (a) mango (b) Lion Capital of Ashoka (c) Vande Mataram (d) lotus
- 25.🇮🇳 What is India’s national fruit? (a) river dolphin (b) mango (c) Vande Mataram (d) peacock
- 26.🎵 About how many seconds does it take to sing the full national anthem?
- 27.True or false: “Satyameva Jayate” is India’s national heritage animal. (a) True (b) False
- 28.True or false: “Satyameva Jayate” is India’s national animal. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🇮🇳 What is India’s national bird? (a) Satyameva Jayate (b) banyan (c) elephant (d) peacock
- 30.🦁 Our national emblem, the Lion Capital, comes from which place? (a) Jaipur (b) Agra (c) Sarnath (d) Mumbai
- 31.🇮🇳 “elephant” is India’s ___. (a) national aquatic animal (b) national emblem (c) national heritage animal (d) national bird
- 32.True or false: “Vande Mataram” is India’s national tree. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🇮🇳 “lotus” is India’s ___. (a) national flower (b) national song (c) national anthem (d) national motto
- 34.True or false: “tiger” is India’s national fruit. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🇮🇳 “mango” is India’s ___. (a) national animal (b) national aquatic animal (c) national fruit (d) national song
- 36.True or false: “elephant” is India’s national flower. (a) False (b) True
- 37.📅 On which date is India’s Republic Day? (a) 15 August (b) 26 January (c) 5 June (d) 2 October
- 38.True or false: “lotus” is India’s national song. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🇮🇳 Which colour is in the middle of the Indian flag? (a) white (b) red (c) green (d) saffron
- 40.🇮🇳 Which colour is at the bottom of the Indian flag? (a) navy blue (b) saffron (c) white (d) green
Answer key
- False
- 3
- True
- True
- truth alone wins
- tiger
- national animal
- Mahatma Gandhi
- 24
- 15 August
- Tiranga
- saffron
- national motto
- Rabindranath Tagore
- national song
- national river
- Jana Gana Mana
- national emblem
- national tree
- False
- Vande Mataram
- elephant
- 4
- lotus
- mango
- 52
- False
- False
- peacock
- Sarnath
- national heritage animal
- False
- national flower
- False
- national fruit
- False
- 26 January
- False
- white
- green
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