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

Answer key

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

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