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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 508 · 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 Kalidasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Idgah (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Ramayana
  2. 2.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Valmiki (d) Premchand
  3. 3.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) the Mahabharata (d) Gitanjali
  4. 4.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  5. 5.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rabindranath Tagore
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Awadhi
  7. 7.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Mowgli (b) Bagheera (c) Shere Khan (d) Baloo
  8. 8.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Vishnu Sharma
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Karna (c) Bhima (d) Arjuna
  10. 10.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  12. 12.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.📚 Who wrote Tirukkural? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Tulsidas (d) Premchand
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Gitanjali first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  15. 15.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Gitanjali (d) the Mahabharata
  17. 17.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Tamil. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Hindi (d) English
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Tulsidas (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  23. 23.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Premchand
  27. 27.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Idgah. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Ravana (c) Krishna (d) Hanuman
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Tamil (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Sanskrit
  30. 30.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  33. 33.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Kalidasa (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Ved Vyasa
  34. 34.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Mahabharata. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Panchatantra
  37. 37.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) Wings of Fire
  38. 38.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  39. 39.True or false: Alice in Wonderland was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata

Answer key

  1. Abhijnanashakuntalam
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Ramcharitmanas
  4. 18
  5. Rabindranath Tagore
  6. Tamil
  7. Mowgli
  8. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  9. Rama
  10. True
  11. Hindi
  12. False
  13. Thiruvalluvar
  14. Bengali
  15. 5
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. True
  18. False
  19. English
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. False
  22. Awadhi
  23. False
  24. True
  25. True
  26. Premchand
  27. False
  28. Krishna
  29. Sanskrit
  30. True
  31. False
  32. 18
  33. Ved Vyasa
  34. False
  35. True
  36. The Jungle Book
  37. the Ramayana
  38. Vishnu Sharma
  39. False
  40. the Mahabharata

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