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GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 875 · 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.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Tirukkural (c) the Ramayana (d) the Mahabharata
  2. 2.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Bhima (b) Karna (c) Rama (d) Arjuna
  3. 3.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Hanuman (b) Ravana (c) Rama (d) Krishna
  5. 5.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🗣️ In which language was the Panchatantra first written? (a) English (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Hindi
  7. 7.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) Hindi (b) Sanskrit (c) Awadhi (d) English
  9. 9.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Tirukkural. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🗣️ In which language was Wings of Fire first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  11. 11.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  12. 12.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  13. 13.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Meghaduta (b) the Mahabharata (c) Gitanjali (d) Wings of Fire
  15. 15.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Wings of Fire (c) the Ramayana (d) Gitanjali
  16. 16.📚 Who wrote Wings of Fire? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Thiruvalluvar (d) Kalidasa
  17. 17.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) The Jungle Book (c) Ramcharitmanas (d) the Mahabharata
  18. 18.📚 Who wrote the Ramayana? (a) Ved Vyasa (b) Tulsidas (c) Valmiki (d) Kalidasa
  19. 19.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  20. 20.True or false: Godan was first written in Tamil. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: Tirukkural was first written in Hindi. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Jungle Book. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) Alice in Wonderland (b) the Panchatantra (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Ramayana
  25. 25.True or false: the Ramayana was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: Premchand wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.📚 Who wrote Meghaduta? (a) Kalidasa (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Valmiki
  29. 29.True or false: Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  31. 31.True or false: the Panchatantra was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Kalidasa (b) Ved Vyasa (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Valmiki
  33. 33.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Sanskrit. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: Tulsidas wrote Gitanjali. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Premchand (b) Lewis Carroll (c) Tulsidas (d) Ved Vyasa
  36. 36.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) Idgah (b) the Ramayana (c) Gitanjali (d) Ramcharitmanas
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote Idgah? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Premchand (c) Vishnu Sharma (d) Valmiki
  38. 38.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Gitanjali (c) Godan (d) Alice in Wonderland
  39. 39.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Bengali (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  40. 40.True or false: Gitanjali was first written in English. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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