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Just Awareness 6 JUST AWARENESS 6 1. Save the Home Planet 2. Terms of Environment 3. A change for the better 1. Atmosphere 2. Algal Blooms Air Pollution Global Warring 3. Carbon Credit Trumpeter Swan Swamp Sparrow 4. Abatement 5. Eco-system Use Dustbin Save trees 6. Green Design Great Blue Heron Wilson’s Snipe 7. Biodegradable Waste 8. Deforestation Plastic Recycling Save Planet Killdeer Osprey Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 4. Carnivorous 5. Life in a Pond 6. Life in Desert 1. Coyote 1. Lotus 1. Kangaroo rat 2. Egret 2. Monitor Lizard 2. Arctic Fox 3. Sweet Flag 3. Histeridae 3. Lion 4. Kit Fox 4. Frogs 5. Camel 4. Jaguar 5. Azolla Pinnata 6. Black-tailed 5. Cheetah 6. Catfish Jackrabbit Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 7. Fabulous Animals Facts 9. Indian History 1O. Renamed Indian Cities 1. Aphid 1. Battle of Panipat 7. Jahangir 1. Guwahati 2. Battle of Plassey 8. Magadhi Prakrit 2. Thiruvananthapuram 2. Walrus 3. Battle of Buxar 9. Edicts 3. Pune 3. King Cobra 4. Patliputra 10. Abul Fazal 4. Varansi 4. Hippopotamus 5. Alauddin Khilji 11. Hindu 5. Kozhikode 5. Golden Eagle 6. Prince Khurram 12. 1024 6. Vadodara 6. Merino 7. Mumbai 7. Wild Boar 8. Kochi 8. Emu 9. Kolkata Page 17 Page 19 10.Chennai Page 2O 11. National Parks and Sanctuaries 12. India Kaleidoscope 13. Ports of India 1. Kanha National Park 1. Amritsar (Punjab) 1. Kolkata Port 2. Ladakh (Kashmir) 2. Sariska Tiger Reserve 2. Port Pipavav 3. Meghalaya 3. Sunderbans National Park 4. Agra (Uttar Pradesh) 3. Nhava Sheva 5. Rishikesh (Uttarakhand) 4. Dudhwa National Park 4. Tuticorin Port 6. Gujarat 5. Keoladeo National Park 7. Dal Lake (Kashmir) 5. Mormugao Port 8. Delhi 6. Visakhapatnam 6. Simplipal National Park 9. West Bangal 7. Kaziranga National Park 10. Karnataka 7. Paradip Port 11. Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) 8. Ennore Port 8. Jim Corbett National Park 12. Jaipur (Rajsthan) Delhi Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 14. Odd One Out 15. Woman Participation in Politics 16. States of India 1. Samsung 10. Scenery 1. Assam 8. Madhya Pardesh 2. Wifi 11. Rajdhani 2. Gujarat 9. Kerala 3. Assam 12. Bengali 4. Bandra 13. January Mayawati Mamta Banerjee 3. Karnataka 10. Haryana 5. Moon 14. Vishal Bhardwaj 6. Morning 15. Ludo 4. Odisa 11. Maharashtra 7. Radio 8. Car Rabri Devi Sushma Swaraj 5. Tamilnadu 12. Jharkhand 9. Cricket 6. Bihar Sheila Dixit Jayalalithaa 7. Andra Pradesh Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 17. Major Awards 19. Great Indian Writers 2O. Library Vocabulary 1. (Satyavati Charitam Telugu) 2. Mrityunjay (Marathi) 3. Mahabharat (Sanskrit) Paramvir Chakra Mahavir Chakra 4. Kulliat (Urdu) 5. Anandamath (Bengali) 6. Pinjar (Punjab) Vir Chakra Ashok Chakra Page 27 Page 29 Page 33 4 22. Great Fictional Characters 24. Define the Words 28. Indian Artists 1. Patriot 6. Cemetery 2. Atheist 7. Fatalist 3. Refugee 8. Optimist Shaktimaan Harry Potter Comman Man Ranvir Singh Gulzar Remo D’souza 4. Aerodrome 9. Emigrant 5. Census 10. Somnambulist Mr. Been Alice in Wonderlan James Bond Bismillah Khan Ramanand Sagar Dilip Kumar Mowgli Oliver Twist Birju Maharaj Yamini Reddy Page 32 Page 34 Page 38 29.Airlines - Fly High 30. Phobias 1. Acrophobia 7. Nyctrophobia 2. Bibliophobia 8. Ombrophobia Karan Johar Kiran Bedi Diljit Dosanjh International Domestic Domestic 3. Claustrophobia 9. Electrophobia 4. Insectophobia 10. Bacteriophobia Amjad Ali Khan Zakir Hussain Tyeb Mehta International International International 5. Enochlophobia 11. Hemophobia 6. Trypanphobia 12. Ornithophobia Bhimsen Joshi Kangana Ranaut Domestic International Page 39 Page 4O Page 41 31. Indian Sportspersons 34. Major Awards in Entertainment 37. Space Objects 1. Meteor 4. Comet Jwala Gutta Achanta Sharath Kamal Deepika Kumari Srinath Harbhajan Singh EAS Prasanna 2. Milky 5. Nebula 3. Asteriods Jeev Milkha singh Anjali Bhagwat Pankaj Advani Anil Kamble Ishant Sharma Ravi Chandra Ashwin Rohit Sharma Vijendra Singh Somdev Devvarman Ashish Nehra Kapil Dev Zaheer Khan Page 41 Page 45 Page 48 5 39. Branches of Science 42. Our Body 1. Saliva 2. Capillaries 3. Femur 4. Cells 5. Liver 6. Skull 7. larynx 8. Venis 9. Protein 10. Organ 11. Keratin Page 53 44. Famous Historical People Queen Victoria Richard Nixon Vladimir Lenin Winston Churchill Abraham Lincoln Martin Luther Kind Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Florence Nightingale Page 50 Page 55 45. Countries with Independence Date 46. National Names of Countries 47. The World's Tallest Buildings 1. June 12, 1992 1. Rzeczpospolita Polska 2. June 2, 1946 2. Stato della citta del vaticano 3. July 9, 1816 3. Turkiye al-kuwait 4. February 11, 1929 4. Republica Feberavita do Brasil Burj Khalifa Shanghai Tower Makkah Clock Royal Tower 5. August 14, 1947 5. Dawlat al-kuwait 6. April 24, 1916 6. Bharat 7. April 18, 1980 7. Islami Jumhuriyah-yi-Pakistan 8. November 11, 1918 8. Eesti Vabariik One World Trade Centre CTF Finace Centre Taipei 101 9. September 16, 1810 9. Kongeriget Danmark 10. July 1, 1867 10. Republika Hrvatska 11. September 7, 1822 11. Jumhouria al-lubnaniya 12. July 9, 1776 12. Bundesrepulita Deutschland Shanghai World Financial Centre International Commerce Centre Pertonas Towers Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 6 48. Highest Peaks of the World 49. The World's Billionaires 53. Seven wonders of the worlds 1. Mt. Elbrus 2. Mt. Kilimanjaro Carlos Slim Christry Walton Mark Zuckerberg The Great Wall of China Christ the Redeemer Statrue, Brazil Machu Picchu, Peru 3. Mt. Mckinley 4. Mt. Aconcagua 5. Mt. Kosciuszko Michele Ferrero Mukesh Ambani Tadashi Yanai Chichen Itzen, Mexico The Roman Colosseum, Italy Taj Mahal, India 6. Mt. Pico Bolivar 7. Mt. Ras Dashen 8. Mt. Vison Massif Miuccia Prada Larry Page Anne Cox Chambers Petra, Jordan Page 60 Page 61 Page 65 54. Brain Teasers 56. Number Crossword Puzzle 1. A Candle. 2. No problem. He sleeps at Night. 3. Age. 4. A Piano. 5. Brain. 6. All of them. Every month has 28 days. 7. Secret. 8. The two that you took. 9. A doorbell. 10. Stop imagining. Page 66 Page 68 7.
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