There’s lots happening around the world. Here’s a quick glance at some events that occurred recently.
NASA achieves a milestone on Mars. Turkey deals with those who led a failed coup attempt in 2016. A peace proposal is made in Afghanistan. Click on the hotspots to check out news from around the world.
Question hour! Check out how much you know.
Time for some general knowledge. Check out the video to see how many of these questions you can answer.
With IPL season on its way, here is a game to test how much you know about this popular tournament.
The Indian Premier League is a professional Twenty20 cricket league, contested by eight teams based out of eight different Indian cities. The IPL started on September 23, 2007 and the Rajasthan Royals won the first IPL title. CSK is the only team in the IPL that has not changed its captain – Mahendra Singh Dhoni – since the beginning of IPL.
Now that you know, let’s play this game.
There are amazing man-made historical sites that take you back in time. Incredibly beautiful and mind-blowing, they givee you an impressive idea of the ancient world. Can you guess the names of these important sites?
Ancient civilisations have some breathtaking and incredible historical sites. Some of these sites are in ruins. The story they tell is the story of the world. Just by visiting these sites you get an idea of the history, the people and their culture. It is the story of humankind.
Now take a look at these pictures, read the description and guess the names of these sites.
Get cracking on the 6×6 grid by placing the right numbers in the empty boxes.
Are you a number lover? Then this is perfect for you. Try your hand at this popular game and see if you can ace it. A Sudoku is a grid consisting of columns, rows and blocks. This is a 6*6 grid.
How to play
The objective of the game is to fill the missing digits into the grid. Use digits 1 to 6 to fill this 6×6-grid.
In each column, row and block you can use a digit only once. Drag and drop the numbers (1-6) given beside the grid in their right places.
Sudoku Rules
1. Each row will, upon completion, contain all of the digits from 1 to 6.
2. Each column will, upon completion, contain all of the digits from 1 to 6.
3. Each coloured block will, upon completion, contain all of the digits from 1 to 6.
A fun crossword about famous pets.
Tintin, Dorothy, Ron, Harry, …. how much do you know about their pets? Check out this crossword to find out…
Pottery is a craft that involves turning clay into ceramic objects such as vases. Here’s a game for you to try out.
Have you tried your hand at pottery? Pottery items are made by forming a ceramic (often clay) body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln. In the process, all the water is removed from the clay. Clay gets turned into objects like vases, plates, pots and so on. Clay is placed on a wheel that continuously rotates and it is then shaped using your hands and water into the object you want to create.
Here’s a game for you. See if you can find the differences between the images below.
This is the weekend of chocolate bunnies, hot cross buns and Easter eggs. Watch this video to know more
Do you know where the different planets in our Solar System stand when compared with each other? Take this ‘comparison’ quiz.
Biggest, smallest, hottest, densest, closest, farthest – when we talk about the Solar System and the planets in it, we often refer to superlatives like these. For a change, how about taking it to the next level by comparing the planets with each other? Take this quick quiz where we pit two planets against each other in each criteria.
Discover the facts:
Which veggie is the most important of them all?
Read the conversation between some vegetables to see who the most important is. Afterwards, based on the text, take the quiz below.
Dinner was about to be served but there was a raging debate on the salad plate.
Tomato (singing): Hi ho, hi ho, I’m the super tomato. They love me cause I’m bright red. On pizzas, I make a tasty spread. As ketchup or as a spicy sauce. Indispensable in most meals. Whether salads or the main course.
Carrot: Hold it! So what if you are bright red? Though I often appear orange, my cousins have an array of colours — purple, yellow, red, and even white.
Tomato: But botanists classify me as a berry. I am not really a veggie.
Onion: That doesn’t make you any better than us. In fact, you are a misfit in our salad. And what about your dark secret? You were once looked upon with suspicion. If anybody drank your juice from a lead container, they would end up getting poisoned.
Tomato: But that is because the acid in me would dissolve the lead. Nobody uses lead containers now.
Carrot: I, Bugs Bunny’s favourite, have every reason to be considered the most important. I can prevent night blindness in humans as I am rich in vitamin A. And I make their skins glow.
Potato: Now, now, look who is pompous. It is common knowledge that too much of carrots can make the skin of humans appear yellow. I have my store of Vitamin C and other nutrients too. I should be considered the superhero on this plate.
Onion: Ha, ha, you are a shapeless champion. Those who eat you turn into shapeless couch potatoes too.
Potato: Only if they eat me as fries and chips and not when they boil or roast me. Did you know, in the Andes, they grow 4,000 varieties of potatoes? Purple, yellow, pink, red, blue, orange, pink with yellow spots and yellow with pink spots.
Spinach: Hear, hear. May I ask why you have so many eyes on you? To watch your weight or spy out on what’s going on?
Potato: Silly, those are not my eyes! They are actually my vegetative buds. My new shoots
can grow from them.
Spinach: Well, don’t forget, Popeye the Sailor Man has become legendary because many
children began eating me after watching him. I am rich in iron.
Chilli (getting angry): Will you all stop blowing your own trumpets? You may be rich in various nutrients, but humans can’t do without me. Even the poor can afford to eat me plain with their chapattis.
Cucumber: Keep your cool, everyone. We are all equally important to humans. We are all unique and, in our uniqueness lies variety: the spice of life.
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