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