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