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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 369 · 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) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  3. 3.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Idgah (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) The Jungle Book
  4. 4.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  5. 5.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  7. 7.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Godan
  9. 9.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  11. 11.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Rama
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  14. 14.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) Awadhi
  16. 16.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  19. 19.True or false: Premchand wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Hindi (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Bengali
  23. 23.True or false: Godan was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  25. 25.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Godan
  26. 26.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Hanuman (d) Ravana
  28. 28.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Panchatantra (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  29. 29.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Tirukkural
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) animal stories (d) maps
  37. 37.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?

Answer key

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

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