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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 220 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) Tirukkural (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  4. 4.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) maps (c) war songs (d) recipes
  5. 5.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  12. 12.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Valmiki (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  14. 14.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Rama
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Bengali (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  17. 17.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Idgah (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Alice in Wonderland
  18. 18.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) Tirukkural
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Premchand (d) Kalidasa
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Bengali
  24. 24.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Gitanjali (d) Alice in Wonderland
  25. 25.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  28. 28.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Valmiki wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Valmiki (c) Premchand (d) Thiruvalluvar
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Idgah (d) Tirukkural
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Rudyard Kipling
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Valmiki
  36. 36.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  37. 37.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Godan (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Gitanjali (d) the Panchatantra
  38. 38.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi

Answer key

  1. the Mahabharata
  2. Ramcharitmanas
  3. 5
  4. animal stories
  5. False
  6. Tulsidas
  7. True
  8. False
  9. Gitanjali
  10. Sanskrit
  11. English
  12. True
  13. Valmiki
  14. False
  15. Krishna
  16. Tamil
  17. Idgah
  18. False
  19. Tirukkural
  20. Kalidasa
  21. Sanskrit
  22. False
  23. Hindi
  24. Alice in Wonderland
  25. False
  26. True
  27. Bengali
  28. False
  29. False
  30. True
  31. 18
  32. Lewis Carroll
  33. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  34. Vishnu Sharma
  35. Ved Vyasa
  36. 18
  37. the Panchatantra
  38. True
  39. True
  40. Sanskrit

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