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