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

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Premchand
  3. Premchand
  4. 5
  5. Rudyard Kipling
  6. False
  7. Meghaduta
  8. Ramcharitmanas
  9. Sanskrit
  10. Tulsidas
  11. Rama
  12. Tirukkural
  13. Ved Vyasa
  14. True
  15. Sanskrit
  16. False
  17. the Mahabharata
  18. Vishnu Sharma
  19. Godan
  20. False
  21. Tamil
  22. 18
  23. the Mahabharata
  24. Alice in Wonderland
  25. Rabindranath Tagore
  26. True
  27. False
  28. animal stories
  29. English
  30. English
  31. False
  32. English
  33. True
  34. Krishna
  35. True
  36. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  37. 18
  38. False
  39. Wings of Fire
  40. False

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