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