Go for Gold!
With the Summer Olympics about to begin, join in the festivities with these colouring sheets.
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The Olympics: Crossword
How much do you know about the Olympic Games that begin later this week? Try this crossword to find out.
Did you know that the first Olympics Games was hosted in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece, in 1896? The Winter Olympics was created primarily to showcase snow and ice sports.
With the most famous sporting event in the world set to begin on July 23, here is a crossword on the various aspects of the Olympic Games. Play on.
Snakesssss Ahoy!
Find out more about this elusive, mysterious, misunderstood, yet fascinating, species.
Quiz Whizz – July 18, 2021
Brush up on your general knowledge skills with this interactive video quiz.
Here’s an interesting way to brush on your general knowledge skills. Try out the interactive video below to see how many answers you know.
Money talk
The newly designed Indian banknotes are colourful and come in a variety of denominations. Can you guess the value of each?
The Indian rupee (₹) is the official currency of India. ₹1 is the lowest denomination in use, while ₹2000 is the highest.
On November 8, 2016, the Government of India announced the demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes and introduced a newly redesigned series of ₹500 and ₹2,000 banknotes. Since then, notes of other denominations have been redesigned and replaced too.
Below are six of the redesigned notes. Can you guess the denomination (value) of each note?
Which planet are you?
Where is your place in space? Take this quiz and find out which planet your personality matches with best.
Hello, Earthling! Have you ever wondered which of the solar system’s planets resembles your personality? Choose your favourite colours in this for-fun-only quiz and find out now.
Musically noted
Learn about the different types of western musical notes with the help of this word search.
When learning about music for the first time, one of the first places to start is learning about the types of musical notes. Each note has a special name and a measured time, referred to as beats. It is also important to know what they look like so that you are able to ‘read’ music as you learn. Different languages and styles of music have different music notes and scales. The following is for western music.
Solve the following word search to learn a little bit about some of the music notes.
Week of winners
What an action-packed week it was! With not one but three major sports tournaments hosting their finals. Find out more…
The past week was a feast for sports fans! There were not one but three major tournaments’ finals taking place: 2021 Copa America (international men’s football championship for South American countries); UEFA Euro 2020, a football tournament contested by European nations; and 2021 Wimbledon Championships, a Grand Slam tennis tournament.
Can you guess the winners of each of the tournaments?
Bonus challenge
Below is the image of the winning team of Euro 2020 with their trophy. The second image has been modified and has 6 differences. Click on the differences in the second image and see how many you can find.
Photo: AP
Literally awesome
Just like time, language is never static. It keeps changing and growing. Some of the words we use today had very different meanings in the past.
English is a living language. That means it is continually growing, changing and evolving. In the process, new words are created, while old words stop being used or take on new meanings. Many words we use today had different meanings in the past.
Awe referred to fear or dread but later morphed into a reverential wonder and literally meant something that was actually happening but is today used for emphasis.
Let’s take a look at some of them. Drag and drop the meanings into the boxes given beside the word. How many did you get right?
Out of Africa – 2
Time to explore the vast and marvellous continent of Africa once more. Check out this quiz to see how much you know.
And we’re back in the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent. Whether it’s geographical features, ethnic races, climate and temperature zones, species of flora and fauna, Africa has a mindboggling variety. Test your knowledge about the continent and its countries with this quiz.