With a little brainpower, decipher the movie names based on their emojis. Can you figure out all the movies?
A fun way to write names of movies is with pictures. Like in the game below. Encoded below are the names of six popular films into emoji clues. Guess what the pictures are to figure out the name of the movie. How many have you watched?
Did you know that some parts of our body have seemingly no purpose at all? Find out what they are.
Vestigial organs or structures are body parts or features that don’t appear to have any purpose. They exist because they were probably useful at some point of time but, due to evolution, they lost their purpose somewhere along the way. In other words, they are currently useless.
Scroll down to read about some organs/features that fall under this category. Keep in mind that, though they are considered vestigial, there is still debate around whether they are completely unnecessary or not.
So many different sports, and just as many renowned stadiums across the world. How many do you know?
Football, basketball, cricket, hockey, more… these sports become so much more fun when we watch them in the stadium. Between the tension of which team wins, the food stalls, the adrenalin rush of the players and more, the frenzy is fascinating. How much do you know about famous stadiums from around the world? Try your hand at this memory game to find out.
The pizza is from Italy and the dosa is from India. So, what’s from Spain and China? Click on these hotspots to find out.
Do you love pizzas? What about burgers? Or, maybe some Dim Sum? Click on these hotspots to see what you can taste when you are travelling in these countries.
If you have a sharp eye, this game is for you. Can you find all the figures in the image?
Do you have a sharp eye? Here is the perfect activity to test how good your vision is. The image below is of a collection of Lego figures gathered together; they may all look the same but, if you take a closer look, you can tell they’re mostly quite different from one another.
Find specific Lego characters based on the list below. Can you find them all?
From nature, news to history, these questions are sure to test your quizzing quotient.
Here are another set of questions to challenge your mastery over general knowledge and current affairs. Are you up to it?
The European Golden Shoe or European Golden Boot is one of the most coveted awards in the world of football. Here is a word search based on players who have won it more than once.
With Premier League and ISL matches going on, this seems a good time to talk about awards in football. Most of us know about the Ballon d’Or but did you know that there’s also an award called the European Golden Shoe or European Golden Boot? This is an award presented to the player who scored the most goals in league matches in the top division of every European national league. Sculpted like a football boot, the award was originally called Soulier d’Or and was instituted in the 1967-68 season. These players have won it more than once.
Six times
Lionel Messi: The Argentinean is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
Four times
Cristiano Ronaldo: The Portuguese forward is the first European male footballer to have scored 100 international goals.
Twice
Eusebio: Nicknamed the Black Panther, Eusebio was known for his speed, technique, athleticism and his ferocious right-footed shot.
Gerd Muller: Known as Der bomber (the bomber), the German scored 68 goals in 62 international games.
Dudu Georgescu: The Romanian player was regarded as one of the best strikers in the country and was nominated thrice for the Ballon d’Or.
Fernando Gomes: The striker from Portugal was the recipient of 50 caps for Portugal.
Ally McCoist: The Scot is a member of the Scottish Football Hall of Fame and had 61 international caps.
Mario Jardel: The Brazilian footballer was famous for his headers and scored 266 goals in 274 matches for European clubs.
Thierry Henry: The Frenchman is considered one of the greatest strikers of all time and was the runner up for the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2003 and 2004.
Diego Forlan: The Uruguayan forward was the join top scorer at the 2010 World Cip and won the Golden Ball as the tournament’s Best Player.
Luis Suarez: Also from Uruguay, he was won 19 trophies in his career and is nicknamed El Pistolero or the Gunman.
Here’s a word search with these names. How many can you find in this grid?
Uncover these lost and found treasures, as you play this game. The faster you solve this, the sooner you will get to know how it looked.
Various sites in Egypt have thrown up fabulous discoveries that throw light on the history of ancient civilisations. Numerous artefacts that are of cultural significance to the country have been discovered over the years. Here are a few of them.
Discovered in 1954, it is an intact full-size vessel from ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid around 2500 BC. The ship is now preserved in the Giza Solar boat museum.
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Also known as the Pyramid of Khufu, it is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. The pyramid was built as a tomb around 2560 BC.
The unfinished obelisk
It is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt. However, the reason it is unfinished is because, once they began to carve it out of bedrock, cracks appeared in the granite and the project had to be abandoned.
Abu Simbel
It is a village in the Egyptian part of Nubia and has as many as 2600 inhabitants. It is best known as the site of the Abu Simbel temples, which were built by King Rameses II.
In a multilingual country like India, there are over 400 languages that people call their ‘mother tongue’. Can you recognise a few popular ones based on their script?
The United Nations has declared that every year, February 21 will be observed as International Mother Language Day. This declaration recognises that “languages and multilingualism can advance inclusion, and the Sustainable Development Goals’ focus on leaving no one behind.”
In countries like France and Germany, people commonly speak one language – French and German, respectively. In countries like India, its people speak not one, or two or three – but 427 languages!
In fact, India has the world’s fourth-highest number of languages, after Nigeria (524), Indonesia (710) and Papua New Guinea (840).
While the Constitution of India does not give any language the status of a national language, the official language of our country is Hindi in Devanagari script.
Below are a few commonly spoken languages across India and its states. Can you match the script to the right language? Drag the scripts at the bottom (on the green) to the names of the languages (on the orange).
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This weekend, add loads of shades and give this picture a colourful twist. Get going.
