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

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Bengali
  3. Krishna
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. the Mahabharata
  7. Wings of Fire
  8. Rudyard Kipling
  9. False
  10. Sanskrit
  11. Vishnu Sharma
  12. Tirukkural
  13. Mowgli
  14. Sanskrit
  15. Rama
  16. English
  17. Ved Vyasa
  18. The Jungle Book
  19. Gitanjali
  20. False
  21. True
  22. Ramcharitmanas
  23. Lewis Carroll
  24. animal stories
  25. 5
  26. the Mahabharata
  27. 18
  28. False
  29. False
  30. English
  31. Rabindranath Tagore
  32. Tulsidas
  33. True
  34. False
  35. True
  36. False
  37. False
  38. English
  39. False
  40. True

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