Check your knowledge around famous teachers and their legacies

This is a contribution post by Anuradha Sowmyanarayanan

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On Teachers’ Day, we celebrate Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second president of India who was born in 1888. Here’s an interesting quiz you can use to brush up on your knowledge of amazing teachers around the world and the legacies they’ve left us with.

1. Acharya Devo bhava means you be blessed with a teacher in the form of God. These words are from:

1. Rig veda
2. Yajur veda
3. Sama veda
4. Athrvana veda

2. Dr.  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born on September 5^th, 1888. From which year on wards his birthday has been celebrated as Teachers’ day?

1. 1962
2. 1970
3. 1945
4. 1967 

3. The mediocre teacher tells

The good teacher explains

The superior teacher demonstrates

The great teacher inspires

These are the words of…

1. William Butler Yeats
2. Brian Tracy
3. William A Ward
4. William Blake

4. Guru-Shishya tradition is an age-old teaching practice in India, which emphasizes on

1. Reading & writing
2. Art & craft
3. Value system
4. Social responsibilities             

5. Identify the student / shishya who learned the art of archery without the presence of his Guru but with contemplation alone

1. Eklayva
2. Arjuna
3. Indrajit
4. Karna

6. In the field of sports Government of India honours the best coach with an award. Select the name of the award

1. Rajiv Khel Ratna
2. Bharat Ratna
3. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna
4. Dhornacharya

7. Meritorious teachers are being honoured by the president of India every year which counts to 47 teachers throughout the country. Name the award

1. Raman Magsaysay
2. National award for teachers
3. Vyas Samman
4. Jnanpith

8. “Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have sublime faith in mankind” from whose poem are these lines:

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Robert Browing
3. Dom Moraes
4. Abraham Lincoln

9. Which is the world’s largest Teacher Training program

1. NPTT
2. B.Ed
3. M.Ed
4. NISHTHA

10. A book written by Srijan Pal Singh in memory of his teacher, Identify the title of the book.

1. A letter to my teacher
2. Because I had a teacher
3. What can I give? Life lessons from my teacher – Dr. A. P. J.  Abdul Kalam
4. What teachers make: In praise of the greatest job in the world.

Check your answers!

1. 2
2. a
3. 3
4. 3
5. 1
6. 4
7. 2
8. 4
9. 4
10. 3

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Anuradha Sowmyanarayanan is a tutor, blogger, poet, book reviewer and passionate reader. Her interest in reading and writing paved the way for her blog in 2016. Book Food Language is an amalgamation of the three elements.

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