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