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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 487 · 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.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  2. 2.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Sanskrit
  3. 3.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) English (d) Awadhi
  5. 5.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Valmiki (d) Rudyard Kipling
  7. 7.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Gitanjali (c) the Mahabharata (d) The Jungle Book
  10. 10.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Mowgli
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  13. 13.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  15. 15.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  16. 16.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Arjuna
  17. 17.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  18. 18.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Bengali (c) English (d) Tamil
  19. 19.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) the Mahabharata (d) Idgah
  22. 22.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Wings of Fire (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  23. 23.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) war songs (c) maps (d) animal stories
  24. 24.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Bengali (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Bengali (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Sanskrit
  26. 26.Which of these did Lewis Carroll write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Wings of Fire (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) Gitanjali
  27. 27.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Meghaduta (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Panchatantra
  31. 31.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Tulsidas
  32. 32.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  33. 33.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Ravana (b) Rama (c) Hanuman (d) Krishna
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  35. 35.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  38. 38.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Godan (b) the Ramayana (c) the Mahabharata (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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