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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 781 · 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 Gitanjali first written? (a) Awadhi (b) Bengali (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  2. 2.Which of these did Thiruvalluvar write? (a) the Ramayana (b) Tirukkural (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  3. 3.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Arjuna (d) Rama
  4. 4.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Hindi
  5. 5.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Ramayana (c) Tirukkural (d) the Panchatantra
  6. 6.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) recipes (b) animal stories (c) maps (d) war songs
  7. 7.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) Awadhi (b) English (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  8. 8.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Meghaduta (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) the Mahabharata
  9. 9.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  12. 12.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Hindi (c) English (d) Awadhi
  13. 13.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Ramayana
  14. 14.🗣️ In which language was Ramcharitmanas first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) Tamil
  15. 15.📚 Who wrote Godan? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  16. 16.True or false: Godan was first written in Hindi. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Gitanjali (c) The Jungle Book (d) the Ramayana
  19. 19.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Bengali. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote The Jungle Book? (a) Lewis Carroll (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Tulsidas
  21. 21.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  22. 22.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) the Panchatantra (c) Abhijnanashakuntalam (d) Alice in Wonderland
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) English (d) Tamil
  24. 24.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  25. 25.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Premchand (b) Tulsidas (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Valmiki
  27. 27.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Krishna (b) Rama (c) Ravana (d) Hanuman
  28. 28.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Godan (c) Tirukkural (d) Alice in Wonderland
  29. 29.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Hindi (c) Sanskrit (d) English
  30. 30.True or false: Premchand wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Wings of Fire (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) the Panchatantra (d) Idgah
  33. 33.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Meghaduta. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Wings of Fire was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Ramcharitmanas? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Premchand (d) Tulsidas
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Wings of Fire (c) Idgah (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  39. 39.True or false: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?

Answer key

  1. Bengali
  2. Tirukkural
  3. Rama
  4. Hindi
  5. the Mahabharata
  6. animal stories
  7. Sanskrit
  8. the Mahabharata
  9. True
  10. True
  11. 5
  12. English
  13. the Ramayana
  14. Awadhi
  15. Premchand
  16. True
  17. True
  18. Gitanjali
  19. False
  20. Rudyard Kipling
  21. English
  22. the Panchatantra
  23. Sanskrit
  24. 18
  25. True
  26. Ved Vyasa
  27. Krishna
  28. Wings of Fire
  29. Tamil
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Ramcharitmanas
  33. False
  34. False
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Tulsidas
  38. Idgah
  39. True
  40. 18

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