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

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Sanskrit
  3. Rama
  4. False
  5. 5
  6. Valmiki
  7. Rabindranath Tagore
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. Tamil
  10. Sanskrit
  11. 18
  12. False
  13. False
  14. True
  15. The Jungle Book
  16. Tirukkural
  17. False
  18. Lewis Carroll
  19. True
  20. False
  21. the Mahabharata
  22. Hindi
  23. Godan
  24. True
  25. False
  26. Tulsidas
  27. True
  28. Meghaduta
  29. False
  30. Sanskrit
  31. False
  32. Krishna
  33. animal stories
  34. False
  35. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  36. Bengali
  37. Premchand
  38. False
  39. Gitanjali
  40. Awadhi

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