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