Ch 1-10 Flashcards
general knowledge
Most marsupials are found in the continent of______
Australia
The koala spends 4 hours in a day eating, mainly leaves of the _____, and sleeps for the other 20 hours!
eucalyptus
The largest living marsupial is the _____ which is found across most of Australia. It stands 5 feet tall, with its tail adding another 3-4 feet to its length 4. The most common marsupial found in South Americis the opossum.
Red Kangaroo
The most common marsupial found in _____ the opossum.
South America
The _____ is a mouse-sized, tree-dwelling marsupial of South America. Its Spanish name means ‘little mountain monkey’ because it looks like one!
Monito del monte
The endangered numbat, or _____ is the symbol of Western Australia. It gets its popular name from its special diet and the distinctive patterns on its back.
Banded anteater
The ____, the only marsupial found in North America above Mexico, gets its name from the state named in honour of Queen Elizabeth I.
Virginia Opossum
Founded by Canadian activists, originally as a protest against nuclear weapon testing off the Alaskan coast, the most visible NGO
Greenpeace
Celebrated annually on 22 April since 1970, an occasion to celebrate our planet
Earth Day
1997 global treaty that mandated
governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; named for a Japanese city
Kyotoprotocol
Popular name of the landmark United Nations Conference on Environment & Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992
Earth Summit
Dipor Beel (Assam), Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan) and Bhoj Taal(Madhya Pradesh) are identified as wetlands protected under this Convention, signed in 1971
Ramsar
NGO founded in 1994 by Dr Iqbal Malik with which Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been associated
Vatavaran
Swedish meteorologist who was the first chairperson of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Bert Bolin
Created in 1964 by the IUCN, the world’s most comprehensive list of the conservation status of living species
Red List
Founder of the United Nations Environment Programme, which helps frame and implement environmental policies across the globe
Maurice Strong
Emblem of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), founded in 1961 to help conserve world biodiversity
Giant Panda
“Beep, Beep!” went this Plymouth speedster
Roadrunner
Heavyweight people carrier from ICML, which like Lamborghini made its fortune manufacturing tractors
Rhino
Famous breed of bulls that made Lamborghini a force to reckon with ______
Miura
Fastest MIG ever, part of the Indian Air Force once upon a time
Foxbat
This wild American horse made Ford’s fortune
Mustang
Spotted big cat of the road, mostly marked with an ‘X’
Jaguar
This fast-moving antelope wears a distinctive ‘bow-tie’
Impala
Fearsome predator of the sea, it earns its stripes hunting enemy aircraft
Tigershark
The most famous bug ever, designed by Porsche-
Beetle
Fastest falcon flying in from the Land of the Rising Sun
Hayabusa
Part-Australian and part-Indian, he made news by winning the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel, The White Tiger.
Aravind Adiga
Her first novel, The Namesake, was made into a film starring Irrfan Khan, Tabu and Kal Penn. The protagonist shares his name not only with a Russian-Ukranian author but also a crater on the planet Mercury!
Jhumpa Lahiri
A prolific writer of plays, stories and novels, she is perhaps best known for Fairly Weird Fairy Tale and, more recently, Being Gandhi.
Paro Anand
Knighted in 2007, he has been in the eye of a storm with The Satanic Verses and been 4. celebrated with the “Booker of Bookers” for Midnight’s Children.
Salman Rushdie
For her Hindi work Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand in English translation), she won the International Booker Prize in 2022. It is the first book originally written in any Indian language to win this award.
Geetanjali Shree
Originally from Kohima, this Norway resident writes deeply about the lived realities of people in Nagaland. Her well-known works include Bitter Wormwood and Son of the Thundercloud.
Easterine Kire
Daughter of another famous author, she won the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for her second novel The Inheritance Of Loss. She earlier authored Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard
Kiran Desai
When Chacha Chaudhary’s sidekick, the gigantic alien Sabu gets angry, a volcano erupts somewhere on ________ his home planet
Jupiter
The babysitter who Calvin fears in the his popular comic series Calvin and Hobbes
Rosalyn
The little feathered friend who often sits on Snoopy, while he lies atop his doghouse; the mechanic to Snoopy’s flying ace
Woodstock
The mutant rat, who learnt the art of Ninjutsu from Hamato Yoshi, and is sensei and father figure to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Splinter
Autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi who grew up during the Iranian Islamic revolution in the 1970s and 1980s
Persepolis
This goofy character created by Ram Waeerkar in 1983 can never keep a job because he adds his logic to his employers’ instructions and causes chaos!
Suppandi
The fearless Gaulish warrior with superhuman strength from a magic potion, who was created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
Asterix
The pen name of Belgian artist Georges Remi, creator of the investigative journalist Tintin, who cracks cases across the world with his canine sidekick Snowy
Herge
Diary of a Wimpy Kid features this selfish character who hates to take blame for his mistakes and fails miserably at getting popular in middle school
Greg Heffley
The typical American small town where Archie Andrews lives and has his adventures
Riverdale
The hero goes on a quest to discover the secret of immortality, and enemies become dees epics friends in this earliest work of literature from Mesopotamia. The Epic of _____
Gilgamesh
A powerful family, divided loyalties, a game of dice! And one mastermind behind the 4. In bloodiest battle of its time was this king of Gandhara
Shakuni
The name of this national epic of Persia, penned by Abu’l-Qasim Firdawsi, literally means ‘Book of Kings’.
Shahnama
In Dan Brown’s Inferno, a scavenger hunt featuring Harvard professor
Robert Longdon
This Indian nationalist-philosopher recounted the eternal tale of Satyavan and Savitri in the modern-day epic, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol.
Sri Aurobindo
Featuring the power play between two dynasties, resolved by legendary hero Minamoto Yoshitsune, Heike_______
Monogatari
A denizen of Springfield, this symbol for a working class man shares his first name with the legendary poet, to whom both the Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed.
Homer Simpson
Hero of the Geats, slayer of dragon and monster_______is the protagonist of this eponymous epic, which Tolkien in fact called an elegy.
Beowulf
Which board game originated when Elizabeth Phillips created
it to explain the single tax theory of Henry George and illustrate the negative aspects of a system where landholding
is concentrated with a few people?
monopoly
Well, well, well… The name of which game, invented by an unemployed architect named Alfred Butts, means ‘to scratch frantically’?
scrabble
Which 2,500-year-old Chinese game, played by two people using black and white ‘stones’, has 10761 different game possibilities and requires players to cover the board with one’s pieces?
Go
In which country was the quiz-based game Trivial Pursuit created in 1979 by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott?
Canada
Who is the lost ruler of Candyland, a popular racing game created in 1949 by Eleanor Abbott, which is suitable for children because it needs simple reading and counting skills?
King Kandy
Which board game originated in India as a moral teaching tool that took players through life, helped ‘up’ by virtues and brought ‘down’ by vices?
sankes & ladders
Which team game uses players’ drawings to solve word puzzles instead of verbal or written clues, with a time limit defining the play time?
Pictionary
In which detective game players must track down the mysterious criminal Mr X, as he moves through London, periodically revealing himself to his pursuers?
scotland yard
Created by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse, which game allows players to move their armies across a board representing the earth to achieve global domination?
Risk
How many different coloured marbles or pegs are used in a regular game of Chinese-Checkers, which was actually created in Germany in the late 19th century?
3
The “best play’ by both players in this game usually ends in a draw. Its familiar 3x3 grid may be scribbled on the back of a school kid’s notebook but it is also used to teach artificial intelligence!
tic tac toe
In this pastime of Russian origin, you have to quickly fit random right-angled polygons that descend from the screen top. It was featured in the closing ceremony of the 2014
Sochi Olympics.
tetris
This guess-based naval strategy game for two originated during World War I, and is named for a class of heavily armed and armoured warships.
Battleship
This 18th century Italian game is played with 28 tiles (made of materials likes ivory,
ebony, plastic, silver) and its two main categories are blocking and scoring. Don’t confuse it with a pizza delivery!
dominoes
In this immensely popular Japanese numerical puzzle, you need to fill a grid with digits 1 to 9 in each white cell such that the sum of each row/column matches the associated… Phew!
kakuro
Toymaker Jay Horowitz created this variation of Rubik’s Cube. Its tiles have digits instea of colours. To solve it, you have to ensure that each side has the numbers 1 to 9 without repeats.
sudoku cube
Chaturanga, an ancient Indian strategy game developed in the 6th century AD under the Guptas, is named after a Mahabharata battle formation of elephants, chariots, cavalry, and infantry. Which modern game has evolved from it?
chess
In this murder mystery game made by Hasbro, players must figure out who murdered the victim Dr Black, where, and with what weapon.
cluedo
Eukonkanto is said to have originated in Finland and, legend has it that a robber named Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen and his gang started it. It is commonly called
wife carrying
The sport of_______ or free running is said to have been created in France by Raymond Belle, and popularized by his son David Belle and his group called the Yamakasi.
parkour
On Spring Bank holiday in England, people gather on____________ hill near Gloucester, to roll wheels of_________
cooper`s - cheese
Also called Deep Water Soloing, _______is a form of rock climbing done
on sea cliffs or locations where a deep water-body can break the climber’s fall.
psicobloc
Famously seen in the Jackie Chan film Operation Condor, ______ was established as a sport in Rotorua (New Zealand), with players rolling downhill in a large plastic ball!
zorbing
The Scottish sport of_____ probably started because people used logs of wood as bridges to cross chasms. It sure needs strength and accuracy to lob a 20-foot tree trunk
Caber tossing
In Bossaball, which started on Spanish beaches, contestants play ______ while jumping on_____
beach volleyball - trampoline
_____________is an extreme sport where a personal jet-ski is attached with a long pipe to a board with pedal controls; the contestant can ‘fly’ in the air as well as dive into the water.
flyboarding
A five-star general in the US Army during World War II and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, he planned the successful invasion of France and Germany in “o 1944-45.
Eisen Hower
An advocate of peace and disarmament, he is known for his ‘gunboat diplomacy’, which involved sending the US 7th fleet led by nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to intervene in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
nixon
Statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, reformer and Nobel Peace laureate (1906), he hated a nickname, which ironically is his longest lasting legacy in the form of ‘teddy’ bears!
roosevelt
“All men are created equal” speaker, who led the US through its civil war, preserved the Union, abolished slavery, and modernized the economy.
lincoln
He was one of America’s Founding Fathers and principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
jefferson
The official workplace of the President of the United States.
Oval Office
Succeeding Franklin D. Roosevelt at the end of World War II, he ordered the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945.
Truman
A teenage courier during the Revolutionary War, his tenure
is noted for the removal of native Indian tribes from the continent and the first recorded attack on a President.
Jackson
The first President, he was also the first Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Washington
The 44th President, he is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
Obama
Two-time president of the Screen Actors’ Guild and famous negotiator for the end of the Cold War, he challenged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”,
Reagan
The Secret Service’s name for the Presidential state car, equipped with special night vision, blood bank and extremely strong armour.
The beast
