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