Questions : Some Great People

 Some Great People

Shivaji

Q.1. Shivaji was a great __________ ruler.

Q.2. When was Shivaji born and where?

Q.3. What were the names of Shivaji’s parents?

Q.4. What made Shivaji brave and fearless?

Q.5. Shivaji was conferred with the title of ____________.

Q.6. What were the qualities of Shivaji?

Rani Laxmi Bai

Q.1. Rani Laxmi Bai was the queen of ___________.

Q.2. When Rani Laxmi Bai fought the British?

Q.3. What was the childhood name of Rani Laxmi Bai?

Q.4. What Rani Laxmi Bai learnt in her childhood?

Q.5. Who was the husband of Rani Laxmi Bai?

Q.6. How did Rani Laxmi Bai die?

Sarojini Naidu

Q.1. When and where was Sarojini Naidu born?

Q.2. When did Sarojini Naidu become the president of the Indian National Congress?

Q.3. Which post was held by Sarojini Naidu after Independence?

Q.4. Which title was given to Sarojini Naidu?

Q.5. When did Sarojini Naidu die?

Rabindranath Tagore

Q.1. When and where was Rabindranath Tagore born?

Q.2. What was the profession of Rabindranath Tagore?

Q.3. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize?

Q.4. Rabindranath Tagore was given the Nobel Prize for what?

Q.5. Who wrote our National Anthem?

Q.6. Which university was founded by Rabindranath Tagore?

Q.7. Which title was given to Rabindranath Tagore?

Questions : My Country

My Country

Q.1. Name any three countries around India.

Q.2. Name the state famous for its history.

Q.3. Name the state famous for its minerals.

Q.4. Name the state famous for peace.

Q.5. Name the state famous for freedom fighters.

Q.6. Name the state famous for silk.

Q.7. Name the state famous for its beauty.

Q.8. Which are the national symbols of our country?

Q.9. Why is our national flag known as tricolor?

Q.10. Which colors are there on our national flag?

Q.11. What do the three colors stand for in our national flag?

Q.12. Apart from color, what else is present in our national flag?

Q.13. How many spokes are there in the chakra of the national flag?

Q.14. Name our national flower?

Q.15. Where is our national flower found?

Q.16. Which is our national animal?

Q.17. Name our national bird?

Q.18. Name our national tree?

Q.19. Where is the biggest and the oldest Banyan tree found?

Q.20. Which is our national fruit?

Q.21. Which is our national song?

Q.22. Who wrote our national song?

Q.23. Which is our national emblem?

Q.24. Our national emblem is taken from where?

Q.25. Which is our national anthem?

Q.26. Who composed our national anthem?

Q.27. Name the highest mountains in the world?

Q.28. Name the most sacred river of India?

Q.29. Where is Taj Mahal located?

Q.30. Where is Gateway of India located?

 

Questions : Directions and Maps

 Directions and Maps

Q.1. What should be known to go somewhere?

Q.2. What helps us to know the location of a place?

Q.3. How can we know the directions of a place?

Q.4. Name the four major directions.

Q.5. What is a map?

Q.6. How is a map helpful?

Q.7. What are the big pieces of land in a map called?

Q.8. Name the seven continents?

Q.9. Name the continent which is also a country?

Q.10. Name the continent where no one lives?

Questions : Our Earth

Our Earth

Q.1. Where do we live?

Q.2. Describe the features of the Earth?

Q.3. We live on the Earth along with whom?

Q.4. What is the position of Earth from the Sun?

Q.5. What is a globe?

Q.6. Which color denotes water on the globe?

Q.7. Which color is visible on Earth from space?

Q.8. Earth is also called the _______ planet.

Q.9. What covers the Earth like a blanket?

Q.10. What is present in the atmosphere?

Q.11. ________, ______ and ________ are necessary for life on the Earth.

Q.12. What are features?

Q.13. What are the different landforms present on Earth?

Q.14. What is a plain?

Q.15. Where and why do most people live on Earth? 

Q.16. What is a hill?

Q.17. What are mountains?

Q.18. What is found on the mountain peaks?

Q.19. What is a valley?

Q.20. What is a plateau? Give the other name for a plateau?

Q.21. What is an island?

Q.22. What is a desert?

Q.23. Name the most useful animal in the desert areas?

Q.24. What is a forest?

Q.25. Who lives in the forest?

Q.26. Name some water bodies on the earth.

Q.27. What are streams?

Q.28. Streams have ________ _________. We can drink this water.

Q.29. What are rivers?

Q.30. Which kind of water do rivers have?

Q.31. What is a lake?

Q.32. What is a pond?

Q.33. What covers most of our earth?

Q.34. What is the difference between sea and ocean?

Q.35. What kind of water do the seas and oceans have? 

Q.36. Why have human beings changed the Earth?

Q.37. What are the man made changes on the Earth?

 

Questions : Celebrating National Festivals

 Celebrating National Festivals

Q.1. India is called a land of __________.

Q.2. Which are national festivals?

Q.3. Name five national festivals which India celebrates.

Q.4. Who organizes the National Festivals?

Q.5. When is Republic Day celebrated?

Q.6. Why is Republic Day celebrated?

Q.7. How is Republic Day celebrated?

Q.8. When is Independence Day celebrated?

Q.9. How is Independence Day celebrated?

Q.10. Why is Independence Day celebrated?

Q.11. When is Gandhi Jayanti celebrated?

Q.12. Who is the ‘Father of Our Nation’?

Q.13. Why is Gandhi Jayanti celebrated?

Q.14. When is Children’s Day celebrated?

Q.15. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?

Q.16. How did children call our first Prime Minister?

Q.17. Why is Children’s Day celebrated?

Q.18. When is Teacher’s Day celebrated?

Q.19. Why is Teacher’s Day celebrated?

Questions : Celebrating Harvest Festivals

 Celebrating Harvest Festivals

Q.1. When does a harvest happen?

Q.2. What happens in a harvest?

Q.3. What are harvest festivals?

Q.4. Name five harvest festivals?

Q.5. Where is Onam celebrated?

Q.6. Why is Onam celebrated?

Q.7. How is Onam celebrated?

Q.8. When is Baisakhi celebrated?

Q.9. Name the main cereal crop of Haryana and Punjab.

Q.10. How is Baisakhi celebrated?

Q.11. Name the famous folk dance of Haryana and Punjab?

Q.12. Where is Pongal celebrated?

Q.13. Who celebrates Pongal?

Q.14. When is Pongal celebrated?

Q.15. How is Pongal celebrated?

Q.16. Where is Bihu celebrated?

Q.17. When is Lohri celebrated?

Q.18. How is Lohri celebrated?

Q.19. Where is Lohri celebrated?

Q.20. Name a festival which is religious as well as harvest festival.

 

Questions : Celebrating Religious Festivals

 Celebrating Religious Festivals

Q.1. How is a celebration of a festival helpful?

Q.2. What is the effect of the festival?

Q.3. Which festival is known as the ‘Festival of Lights’?

Q.4. How is Diwali celebrated?

Q.5. Which festival is known as the ‘Festival of Colors’?

Q.6. How is Holi celebrated?

Q.7. What is marked by the bonfire in holi?

Q.8. Who celebrates Eid?

Q.9. When is Eid celebrated?

Q.10. How is Eid celebrated?

Q.11. Who celebrates Christmas?

Q.12. When is Christmas celebrated?

Q.13. Why is Christmas celebrated?

Q.14. How is Christmas celebrated?

Q.15. Who celebrates Gurupurab?

Q.16. When and why is Gurupurab celebrated?

Q.17. How is Gurupurab celebrated?

Questions : How we Travel

 How we travel

Q.1. What is Travelling?

Q.2. How early humans travelled?

Q.3. How early humans carried their loads in the beginning?

Q.4. Name four animals which were used to carry loads.

Q.5. How early humans got the idea of the wheel?

Q.6. How early humans first used the wheel?

Q.7. Which vehicles were invented after the invention of the wheel?

Q.8. Name six means of transport in cities and towns.

Q.9. Trains move on what?

Q.10. Why is the term Railways used?

Q.11. What is used to transport coal and vehicles?

Q.12. Which fuel is used to run trains?

Q.13. What is a Railway Station?

Q.14. Name two vehicles that fly in the air.

Q.15. Which is the fastest means of transport?

Q.16. What is an airport?\

Q.17. Who flies an aeroplane?

Q.18. Name two vehicles that move in water.

Q.19. What is used to move things and people in the desert?

Q.20. Name four animals which are used to transport loads and people.

Questions : Clothes

 Clothes

Q.1. Why do we wear clothes?

Q.2. We wear different kinds of clothes in _________ __________.

Q.3. Which kind of clothes do we wear in summer?

Q.4. What is the property of cotton clothes?

Q.5. What is the source of cotton?

Q.6. How are cotton clothes made?

Q.7. What is a loom?

Q.8. Which kind of clothes do we wear in winter?

Q.9. What is the source of wool?

Q.10. Name four clothes made from wool.

Q.11. What do we wear in the rainy season?

Q.12. What do we use in the rainy season?

Q.13. What is the source of silk?

Q.14. What is a cocoon?

Q.15. How is a silk cloth made?

Q.16. Name three synthetic clothes.

Q.17. What are uniforms?

Q.18. Name five people having uniforms.

Q.19. What is a costume?

Questions : A good home

 A good home

Q.1. What is a home?

Q.2. Which activities do we do in a house?

Q.3. What are the qualities of a good house?

Q.4. Why do we need large windows?

Q.5. What is done to prevent mosquitoes from entering the windows?

Q.6. Why are the rays of sun important for us?

Q.7. Which pests are found in a dirty house?

Q.8. What causes us to fall ill?

Q.9. What is the use of ventilators?

Q.10. What are ventilators?

Q.11. What is ventilation?

Q.12. What do we do to keep our house clean?

Q.13. Name the rooms present in a house.

Q.14. What is a bedroom?

Q.15. What is a drawing room?

Q.16. What is a storeroom?

Q.17. We eat in which room?

Q.18. What is the name of the room to take a bath?

Q.19. Where do we cook our food?

Questions : Houses

 Houses

Q.1. Where did ancient people live?

Q.2. What is the use of a house?

Q.3. Which material was used by primitive men to build their houses?

Q.4. Which material was used by primitive men after sometime to build their houses?

Q.5. Name five materials used by us to build our house.

Q.6. Which are the two types of houses?

Q.7. What are Pucca houses?

Q.8. What are Kutcha houses?

Q.9. Name the houses built by people living in the plains.

Q.10. Which kind of house do people living in mountains have?

Q.11. Who are nomads?

Q.12. Which house is built by nomads?

Q.13. What material is used to build the house of nomads?

Q.14. What are igloos?

Q.15. What are houseboats?

Q.16. What is a caravan?

Q.17. What kinds of houses do people make in regions where it rains a lot?

Questions : Food

 Food

Q.1. What are our basic needs?

Q.2. Why is food necessary for us?

Q.3. How do plants obtain their food?

Q.4. Which food is called body-building food?

Q.5. Name some body-building food.

Q.6. What are energy giving foods?

Q.7. Name some energy giving foods.

Q.8. What are protective foods?

Q.9. Protective foods are rich in what?

Q.10. Name some protective foods.

Q.11. Name the complete food.

Q.12. Which is the best food for a baby?

Q.13. What is a diet?

Q.14. What is a balanced diet?

Q.15. What is the use of water in our diet?

Q.16. Which kind of water should we drink?

Q.17. What is the use of cooking?

Q.18. What are the four main methods of cooking?

Q.19. Name the three meals of the day.

Q.20. What is breakfast?

Q.21. What is taken in breakfast?

Q.22. What is lunch?

Q.23. What is dinner?

Q.24. What do we take in lunch and dinner?

Q.25. Who are vegetarians?

Q.26. Who are non-vegetarians?

Questions : Keeping our Neighbourhood Clean

 Keeping Our Neighbourhood Clean

Q.1. What do we feel about a clean neighbourhood?

Q.2. How do we keep our neighbourhood park clean?

Q.3. What care should be shown to the plants by us?

Q.4. What is a pollutant?

Q.5. Where should we not throw garbage, plastics and waste?

Q.6. How is plastic harmful to us?

Q.7. What is waste?

Q.8. What can we recycle?

Q.9. How is recycling helpful?

Q.10. What can we do to save our surroundings?

Questions : People in Neighbourhood

 People in Neighbourhood

Q.1. What is an occupation?

Q.2. Name fifteen different kinds of people doing different occupations.

Q.3. Who treats and cares for the sick?

Q.4. What do firefighters do?

Q.5. Who controls the traffic?

Q.6. What do policemen do?

Q.7. Who delivers letters?

Q.8. Who is a plumber?

Q.9. Who bakes cakes and biscuits?

Q.10. Who is a librarian?

Q.11. Who collects garbage?

Q.12. Who is a dentist?

Q.13. Who does decorations with flowers?

Q.14. Who repairs electric fittings?

Q.15. Who makes furniture?

Q.16. Who mends shoes?

Q.17. Who stitches our clothes?

Q.18. How are our needs fulfilled?

Q.19. Which tool is used by firefighters?

Q.20. Which tools are used by policemen?

Q.21. Which tool is used by a postman?

Q.22. What is used by dentists for his patients?

Q.23. What is used by a teacher to teach his students?

Questions : Neighbourhood Places

 Neighbourhood Places

Q.1. What is a neighbourhood?

Q.2. Who are neighbours?

Q.3. What is a characteristic of a good neighbourhood?

Q.4. Name some places in our neighbourhood?

Q.5. What is a market?

Q.6. What is a playground?

Q.7. What is a bank?

Q.8. What is a Post Office?

Q.9. How do our letters reach us?

Q.10. What is a fire station?

Q.11. How can the fire brigade help us?

Q.12. Which number do we dial to call the fire brigade?

Q.13. What is a hospital?

Q.14. Who are patients?

Q.15. Who is a nurse?

Q.16. What is an ambulance?

Q.17. Which number do we dial to call an ambulance?

Q.18. What is a police station?

Q.19. What do the police do?

Q.20. What is the work of a traffic policeman?

Q.21. Name some places of worship.

Q.22. Where do Hindus go to pray?

Q.23. Which is the holy book of Hindus?

Q.22. Where do Muslims go to pray?

Q.23. Which is the holy book of Muslims?

Q.22. Where do Christians go to pray?

Q.23. Which is the holy book of Christians?

Q.22. Where do Sikhs go to pray?

Q.23. Which is the holy book of Sikhs?

Questions : School

 School

Q.1. What is a school?

Q.2. What a school comprises?

Q.3. What do you learn at school?

Q.4. What do we learn by playing together?

Q.5. How can we get the most out of our school?