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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 427 · 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.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  2. 2.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  3. 3.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Valmiki (d) Vishnu Sharma
  4. 4.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Premchand (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Thiruvalluvar
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  6. 6.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  8. 8.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Idgah (b) Gitanjali (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  9. 9.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  10. 10.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  12. 12.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Awadhi
  14. 14.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Bagheera (b) Mowgli (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  15. 15.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  18. 18.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: Premchand wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  23. 23.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Bengali
  25. 25.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Gitanjali (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  26. 26.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) English
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  32. 32.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Awadhi (d) Bengali
  33. 33.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Meghaduta (c) the Ramayana (d) Wings of Fire
  35. 35.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Karna (b) Rama (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Premchand (d) Rudyard Kipling
  40. 40.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Mahabharata

Answer key

  1. Awadhi
  2. Krishna
  3. Kalidasa
  4. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  5. Thiruvalluvar
  6. Tirukkural
  7. the Mahabharata
  8. Ramcharitmanas
  9. 18
  10. 5
  11. Sanskrit
  12. True
  13. Tamil
  14. Mowgli
  15. False
  16. False
  17. 18
  18. False
  19. True
  20. False
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Sanskrit
  23. False
  24. Hindi
  25. the Ramayana
  26. English
  27. Sanskrit
  28. True
  29. False
  30. Tulsidas
  31. Lewis Carroll
  32. English
  33. True
  34. Meghaduta
  35. Rama
  36. False
  37. True
  38. Sanskrit
  39. Premchand
  40. the Mahabharata

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