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