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