Blood Relations Questions for Class 5 with Answers

Blood relations questions describe how people in a family are related and ask how two of them are connected: "Arjun is the father of Dev. Dev is the brother of Nisha. How is Arjun related to Nisha?" They look tricky, but a quick family-tree sketch makes almost all of them easy.

What your child should know

• Know the basic words: father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother, cousin.
• A father's or mother's brother is an uncle; their children are cousins.
• Children with the same parents are siblings.
• Draw a family tree: generations on separate rows, siblings side by side.

5 Blood relations questions with answers

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Q1. Meera and Tara have the same parents. Meera is a girl. How is Meera related to Tara?

A) Sister
B) Mother
C) Aunt
D) Grandmother

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Answer: A) Sister

Children with the same parents are siblings, so Meera is Tara's sister.

Q2. Riya is the daughter of Mohan. How is Mohan related to Riya?

A) Brother
B) Father
C) Uncle
D) Grandfather

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Answer: B) Father

Since Riya is Mohan's daughter, Mohan is her father.

Q3. Priya is the sister of Raj. Raj is the father of Simran. How is Priya related to Simran?

A) Aunt
B) Mother
C) Sister
D) Grandmother

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Answer: A) Aunt

Priya is the sister of Simran's father, so she is Simran's aunt.

Q4. Kabir is the son of Anita. Anita is the daughter of Sushma. How is Sushma related to Kabir?

A) Mother
B) Paternal grandmother
C) Maternal grandmother
D) Aunt

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Answer: C) Maternal grandmother

Sushma is the mother of Kabir's mother, so she is his maternal grandmother.

Q5. Rohan says, 'The woman in the photograph is the daughter of my father's only sister.' How is the woman related to Rohan?

A) Sister
B) Cousin
C) Aunt
D) Mother

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Answer: B) Cousin

Rohan's father's sister is his aunt, and her daughter is his cousin.

How to practise blood relations at home

• Draw your own family tree together and ask relation questions about it.
• Use "my mother's brother's son is my…?" puzzles at dinner.
• Always sketch before answering. Most mistakes come from solving in your head.

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