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The Ramayana and Mahabharata are two great epics of India. In the 21 century, India has taken some progressive steps of development
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Answer the following questions to see how much you know about them. and growth.
Answer the following questions and see how India has progressed over the
1. Who wrote down the epic Mahabharata while sage Vyas
was dictating? years.

2. What was the real name of Valmiki, the writer of 1. In which city was India’s first metro railway introduced
Ramayana? in the year 1984?
2. Today Indian General elections and State elections are
3. According to the Mahabharata, the hundred Kaurava
brothers had only one sister. Name her. conducted using EVMs. What does EVM stand for?
3. What is the name of the international marketing
4. In the Ramayana, what was the name of King Dashratha’s campaign introduced by the government of India to

wife who persuaded him to make Bharatha the king? promote tourism in India?

5. In the Ramayana, which bird tried to prevent Ravana 4. Who designed the new currency sign for the Indian
from carrying Sita away? rupee as adopted by the government on 15 July, 2010?
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6. Name the sister of Krishna and Balaram. 5. Name the six-lane, 165 km long expressway that connects
Greater Noida with Agra in Uttar Pradesh.
7. Who assumed the form of a golden deer to help Ravana
kidnap Sita? 6. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) was India’s first
interplanetary mission to reach Mars. How is it more
8. In the Mahabharata, who was born to Kunti and Surya, popularly known as in India?

the Sun God but brought up by a low caste charioteer
and his wife. 7. What is the name of the ‘Clean India movement’
introduced by the government as a mass cleanliness
9. In the battle of Kurukshetra, name the brave boy who movement across the nation?
knew the secret of entering the ‘Chakravyuooh’.
8. Name the fastest train introduced by Indian Railways
10. He was a member in the court of Dhritrashtra. He which runs between Delhi and Agra at a speed of about
was gifted with the power of seeing events happening 180 km/hrs.

elsewhere in the world. Name him.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan Incredible India Kolkata
Yamuna Expressway Mangalyaan Electronic Voting Machine
Kaikeyi Dussala Info-bites Gatimaan Express D.Udaya Kumar

Sanjay Ganesh
Ratnakar Jatayu The Mahabharata is the largest
epic in the world. It has more than
Karna Abhimanyu 74,000 verses, long prose passages
Maricha Subhadra and about 1.8 million words in
total. It is the story of the Bharata
dynasty.

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