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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 264 · 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.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Gitanjali (c) Meghaduta (d) Tirukkural
  2. 2.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Mahabharata (c) The Jungle Book (d) Alice in Wonderland
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  4. 4.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  7. 7.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) The Jungle Book
  8. 8.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  9. 9.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Baloo (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  10. 10.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Idgah (c) The Jungle Book (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  11. 11.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Hindi
  13. 13.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  14. 14.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  17. 17.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  18. 18.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Kalidasa (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  20. 20.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  23. 23.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Premchand
  26. 26.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Premchand
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  33. 33.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  36. 36.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Meghaduta (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  37. 37.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Tulsidas (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) Premchand
  39. 39.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) the Mahabharata (d) Ramcharitmanas
  40. 40.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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