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Read the clue about the flags and fill in the blanks witha correct options. 1. This flag has red, black and green [Lebanon/ Libya). Libya 2. The flag that has a suword on it audi Atalaia [Pakistan/ Saudi Arabia]. 3. The flag that has a red maple leaf on it [Canada/ United Kingdom). 4. This flag has a temple on it . [Indonesia/ Cambodia]. 5. The symbol on the is [map of eyprus/ Butterflyl. 6. The flag of has a [Red cross o a white background/ White cross on ared background] 7. There is a red circle on the flag of 'The Land of the Rising Sun'. This country is Llapan/ Chinaj. 8. This neighbour of India has a lion holding a sword on its Ouex Facts flag. [Nepal/ Sri Lanka]. The Dragon is a 9. Besides Switzerland, this country's flag is square in shaps mythical creature, yet the flag of Bhutan has ThaVatican /United States of America, a dragon in thecentre. 10. The only country in the world that has a flag with five sides [United Kingdom/Nepal MORE The modern United Kingdom flag was adopted on About1 January 1801. It is called the Union Flag or the . 11 World Pioneers

Column A with Column B. Match POSTAGE Column A Column B General a. Rabindranath Tagore 6 1. First Secretary of the UNO Prime Minister b. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (o 2. First woman of Britain

on thhe c. Babur 6 3. First man to step Moon MONEPENNYE Prasad President the USA d. Dr Rajendra 4. First of 3 to issue a e. Neil Armstrong 5. First country stamp Nobel Prize f. Trygue Lie 6. First Indian winner OUICK Facts George Washington y The 'Penny Black' was 7. First President of g. the first official postage independent India stamp depicting Queen h. Britain Victoria. It was issued 8. First Mughal Emperor and it on 1 May 1840 in India was dark coloured. i. Margaret Thatcher 2 Hence, the name 9. First Gouernor General Penny Black. Its cost of Pakistan was one pence. Mohammad Ali jinnah a 10. First Prime Minister of j.

along with Edwin the first person Nel Armstrong was of the MORE Moon. The third crew member Aldrin to land on the This mission was ADOut Michael Collins. 11 was Spaceflight Apollo America in 1969. United States of carried out by the

11 13 Great Personalities

Match Column A with Column B. Column A Column B Modern 1. Father of Dance a. Lala Lajpat Rai in India

2. Nightingale of India b. Birbal 3. Tiger of Mysore C. Salim Ali S 4. Lion of Punjab d. Tipu Sultan 3

5. Bird Man of India e. Uday Shankar 6. Wittiest of Akbar's f. Sarojini Naidu 2 Navaratnas 7. Braue Queen of Jhansi g. Milkha Singh OuIGK Facts who the British fought against is one 8. His birthday is celebrated h. (o of the greatest Indian as Children's Day playback singers. She received Bharat Nehru the 9. Flying Sikh . Jawaharlal Ratna' award. She holds j. Rani Laxmi Bai -t a record for singing the Famous Indian industrialist who 0. largest number of songs. founded

from Albania. She founded the MORE Teresa was originally Mother needs of the sick of Charitu' to tend to the poor, DOut"Missionariesand dying. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She mainly worked in the city of Kolkata. 14Know India

India is located in Asia. Tndia is the seuenth largest in country the world in The total orld in ore land area of India is 3.29 million sq. em. Tndia became the free from British rule on 15 The August capital city of India is New Delhi. India is a federal union comprising of and seven union territories. twenty-nine state The countries The Andaman and neighbouring of India are Bangladesh, Nicobar Islands are Bhutan, Myammar, China, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanhe located in the Andia has the Bay highest mountain in the f Bengal. Collect the Himalayas. range world callec information and pictures India is surrounded about these islands by water bodies on three sides-the= and Arabian Sea, the make a chart. Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. The name INDIA is deriued from the river Indus. is the LRupee (T) name of the Indian currency. India a OUwSK Facts has parliamentary system of Democracy The Constitution of The tiger is the National Animal, the peacock is the National Bird and India came into force the lotus is the National Flower of on 26 January 1950. Jana Gana Mana' is the National Anthem and 'Vande Mataram, the National Song of India.

MORE The climate of India could be termed as a monsoon tropical ADOut one. There are four seasons in our Summer country (March-June), South-west monsoon September), Post monsoon (October-November)(June and Winter (December-February). 15, Discover India

Replace the incorrect underlined words with correct words ep- box. from the help Amarnath, Gulmarg, Kurukshetra, Kashmir, 1. Hand embroidered woollen shauwls, phirans and stoles gardens, Qutub Minar, are made in Odisha. kaphmi Rajasthan, Gujarati, Sahyadris, Lotus

is a 2. Mahabaleshwar famous ski resort. Gulma is located in 3. Kumbhalgarh Fort Goa. Kajanth . 4. The Western Ghats are called Nilgiris in Solndi ice is at 5. A naturally formed Shivlingam worshipped Badrinath_in Kashmir. Amonbatn are forms. 6. Dandiya and Garba Punjab/ dance Cuiati at Battle Mahabharata took place Panipat. 7. The of Kuuuksutaa the in New Delhi is also called 8. The Bahai Temple OUGK Facts Qutub Minar is a tall Sun Temple. minaret built by tus Mina Qutub-ud-din Aibak in Aibak built the Charminar. Autub Qutub-ud-din 12th century AD. It is 9. and Kashmir. conical in shape are Mughal forts in 0. Shalimar and Nishat has five storeus

the of gardens built by are a group MORE Gardens with Persian Mughal of architecture the Islamic style beautiful Mughals in There are About it 'Charbagh. influence. They called canals inside the garden pools, fountains and