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