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