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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 500 · 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 Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Idgah (d) Ramcharitmanas
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  3. 3.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Krishna (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  4. 4.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Gitanjali (b) the Ramayana (c) Meghaduta (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  5. 5.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in English. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Tulsidas (d) Vishnu Sharma
  7. 7.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Ramayana (b) the Mahabharata (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Sanskrit
  9. 9.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Tulsidas (b) Premchand (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  10. 10.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  11. 11.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  12. 12.True or false: The Jungle Book was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Valmiki (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Rudyard Kipling
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Valmiki (c) Tulsidas (d) Rudyard Kipling
  17. 17.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) recipes (c) animal stories (d) maps
  18. 18.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  19. 19.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) English (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Tamil
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  23. 23.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Kalidasa
  25. 25.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Thiruvalluvar
  27. 27.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Arjuna (b) Rama (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  28. 28.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Godan was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Idgah (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) Meghaduta
  34. 34.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Valmiki (c) Kalidasa (d) Tulsidas
  35. 35.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) Gitanjali
  37. 37.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Gitanjali (d) Meghaduta
  38. 38.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  39. 39.True or false: Premchand wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi

Answer key

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

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