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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 545 · 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.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Kalidasa (d) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  2. 2.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) the Panchatantra (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Gitanjali (b) The Jungle Book (c) the Ramayana (d) Meghaduta
  4. 4.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Mahabharata (c) Godan (d) the Panchatantra
  5. 5.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Tulsidas
  7. 7.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) Valmiki (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Rudyard Kipling
  8. 8.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) the Panchatantra (d) Ramcharitmanas
  9. 9.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) Tamil (d) English
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was The Jungle Book first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) English
  11. 11.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) English (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) English (c) Bengali (d) Hindi
  13. 13.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  18. 18.True or false: Valmiki wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) animal stories (b) recipes (c) maps (d) war songs
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  21. 21.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Baloo (b) Bagheera (c) Mowgli (d) Shere Khan
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Premchand (b) Thiruvalluvar (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Kalidasa
  24. 24.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Vishnu Sharma
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Tirukkural. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Valmiki (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Lewis Carroll
  28. 28.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Krishna (d) Ravana
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Bengali (d) Awadhi
  30. 30.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) Rudyard Kipling (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Ved Vyasa
  33. 33.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  34. 34.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Godan (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) The Jungle Book
  35. 35.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) the Panchatantra (d) Tirukkural
  36. 36.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  37. 37.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  38. 38.True or false: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Awadhi. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) Abhijnanashakuntalam (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra

Answer key

  1. Kalidasa
  2. Ramcharitmanas
  3. Meghaduta
  4. Godan
  5. True
  6. Vishnu Sharma
  7. Valmiki
  8. the Panchatantra
  9. Sanskrit
  10. English
  11. Sanskrit
  12. English
  13. True
  14. True
  15. True
  16. True
  17. 18
  18. False
  19. animal stories
  20. Ved Vyasa
  21. Mowgli
  22. False
  23. Kalidasa
  24. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  25. Sanskrit
  26. False
  27. Lewis Carroll
  28. Krishna
  29. Awadhi
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Rabindranath Tagore
  33. 5
  34. The Jungle Book
  35. the Mahabharata
  36. Hindi
  37. 18
  38. True
  39. False
  40. Wings of Fire

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