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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 133 · 40 questions
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Remember (Book and writer): Ramayana – Valmiki, Mahabharata – Ved Vyasa, Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas, Meghaduta – Kalidasa, Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore, Tirukkural – Thiruvalluvar. Godan and Idgah – Premchand, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, Wings of Fire – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata and has 18 chapters; there were 5 Pandava brothers.

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  1. 1.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  2. 2.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Ramayana
  3. 3.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  4. 4.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  8. 8.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Idgah
  10. 10.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  12. 12.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Alice in Wonderland
  13. 13.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Tirukkural
  15. 15.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  17. 17.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Baloo (c) Bagheera (d) Shere Khan
  18. 18.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  19. 19.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  20. 20.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Idgah
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Valmiki (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  25. 25.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  27. 27.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  29. 29.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) English
  31. 31.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  33. 33.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Bhima (c) Karna (d) Rama
  34. 34.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Vishnu Sharma
  37. 37.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Valmiki (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Thiruvalluvar
  39. 39.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Meghaduta (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. Awadhi
  2. the Ramayana
  3. 18
  4. False
  5. Tamil
  6. Kalidasa
  7. English
  8. False
  9. Idgah
  10. True
  11. Krishna
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. False
  14. the Mahabharata
  15. True
  16. 5
  17. Mowgli
  18. Wings of Fire
  19. Ramcharitmanas
  20. Gitanjali
  21. Valmiki
  22. Sanskrit
  23. Premchand
  24. Hindi
  25. False
  26. Sanskrit
  27. False
  28. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  29. 18
  30. English
  31. True
  32. animal stories
  33. Rama
  34. True
  35. False
  36. Vishnu Sharma
  37. False
  38. Thiruvalluvar
  39. The Jungle Book
  40. English

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