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