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