Exercise your grey cells and see how many of these questions you can answer.
News of what’s happening around you or just general information … a quiz is a great way to brush up your knowledge of the world. Try your hand at these questions and see how many you get right.
With stunning stats, incredible skill and astonishing consistency, I am considered one of the best football players in history. Get to know me better!
This puzzle is a riot of colours! You’ll need a keen eye to get this one right.
Each of the three patterns below is missing a part. From the options – given next to each – pick the right piece that will fit the pattern correctly. Drag and drop the right piece into the blank space on the pattern.
Children’s theatre festivals provide not only a platform to have a good time but also gives an opportunity to showcase one’s talent and provide an outlet for one’s energy. Whether you are part of the audience or the crew, theatre is a great source of entertainment.
Theatre is not only entertaining but also has many benefits that include emotional, social, physical and even academic ones. According to studies, it has been proved that participation in performing arts has positive personal and academic outcomes. It not only improves your development but also enhances cognitive, motor and social skills.
Now let’s take a look at various children’s theatre festivals around the world.
If the people of India are called Indians, what are the people of The Netherlands called? Take this quiz and find out.
Almost every country in the world has a ‘demonym’, which is basically what the people of that country are called. For instance, ‘Indian’ for India, ‘Australian’ for Australia, ‘German’ for Germany, ‘Brazilian’ for Brazil, and so on.
Some demonyms, though, are not so straightforward. This quiz is based on such irregular demonyms. Happy guessing!
Match the river to its country. Play this memory game to know more.
Rivers have been useful to us since time immemorial. They are the source of drinking water, help in obtaining food, help in fertilizing lands and are also a way to transport goods from one place to another. Rivers also provide an important habitat for wildlife. They play an essential role in the ecology of rainforests and wetlands. Now that you know about the importance of rivers, why not play this game? Match the river to its country.
Have you been feeling a lack of purpose lately too? Doesn’t everything seem a little dull and boring lately…? Well here’s my take on things…
Hello friends! We’re in the second month of the New Year and everything still feels old. Stale. Been there done that. I’m finding this year really hard. Harder than last year even. I honestly thought I’d be back at school by now. Back at the cricket nets, back to eating out and going to movies. But, nope, still doing online school from the sofa.
Scroll through the slides for a little update.
Floating above the Earth is the world’s biggest camera, clicking pictures of our celestial neighbourhood. Look up a few photos clicked by the Hubble telescope.
Ever wondered what lies beyond, not just Earth, but our solar system itself? Thanks to a man-made technology floating above the Earth, we can not just learn but also see what lies billions of kilometres away.
The Hubble is a Cassegrain reflector telescope that orbits about 547 kilometres above the Earth, travelling at a speed of about 27,300 kilometres per hour. Launched in 1990, it gets a clear view of the universe free from the blurring and absorbing effects of the atmosphere. Because of this, it has been able to beam thousands of celestial images back to Earth.
Below are a few photos taken by Hubble which have broadened our knowledge of space and celestial objects. As you browse them, try moving the tiles in each picture to the right place.
Description: Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603 (pictured here). This is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603, a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way about 20,000 light-years away, reveals stages in the life cycle of stars.
Description: In the last century alone, this NGC 6946 galaxy has experienced 10 observed supernovae, earning its nickname as the Fireworks Galaxy.
Description: This Hubble image shows a close-up view of a galaxy named NGC 2770. NGC 2770 is intriguing because, over time, it has hosted four different observed supernovae (not visible here). Supernovae form in a few different ways but always involve a dying star. These stars become unbalanced, lose control, and explode violently, briefly shining as brightly as an entire galaxy before slowly fading away.
Description: NGC 1614 is an eccentrically shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. NGC 1614 is the result of an active galactic merger, which creates its peculiar appearance, including a tidal tail. The cosmic collision also drives a burst of star formation that started in the core and has slowly spread outward through the galaxy.
Description: Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as “intermediate-mass”, which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that passed too close. Weighing in at about 50,000 times the mass of our Sun, the black hole is smaller than the supermassive black holes (at millions or billions of solar masses) that lie at the cores of large galaxies, but larger than stellar-mass black holes formed by the collapse of a massive star.
Information and photos: NASA
Do you have a sharp eye? Find out with this spot the difference game. Try it out now!
A gym is a place people go to for exercise and fitness. It has many types of equipment that help you exercise and train your body to get fit. Gyms are a type of fitness centre and often host different kinds of activities including group activities such as Zumba, aerobics and so on.
Here is a game for you to train your eyes to be sharp. Take a look at these images of the gym below and see if you can spot the differences.
Army, Navy, Air Force… what more do you know about these three wings of our armed forces? Check out this crossword.
How many of you saw the Armed Forces marching down the Rajpath in New Delhi on Republic Day? There are a bunch of terms associated with the military groups and the tools they use. This crossword will tell you more.
