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eating of what is
called omophagia?
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JANAK YADAV, Class VIII,
Salkia Vikram Vidyalaya,
Howrah
Who is the author of
the novel ‘In
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Custody’?
NAVEEN KUMAR, Class VII,
Sacred Heart School,
Kharagpur, West Bengal
I
magine a world without lights, radio, television, telephones or computers.
This would mean no electricity. The modern world is totally dependent on
electricity. It is hard to believe that this miraculous form of energy was out of
our reach till about two centuries ago. And that its usage was discovered only
recently.
SUSMIT CHAKRABORTY,
Class VII, Happy Convent,
Dhubri, Assam
4
In 1847, which
American inventor
was born in Scotland?
who
invented the
Voltaic Pile
and was the
first to discover
a practical way
to generate
electricity?
SHIVAM TIRWA, Class VIII,
S.U.M.I. School, Darjeeling
QUESTION
OF THE WEEK
SHAMBADITYA DAS, Class
VIII, St Xavier’s School,
Malda, West Bengal
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which
Italian physician
made frog muscles
twitch by jolting
them with a spark
from an electrostatic
machine and
demonstrated the
electric basis of
nerve impulses?
2. Name this
actor
locks
This is the oldest metal discovered by man:
ZAHTAB ZEYA, CLASS VIII, LING LIANG HIGH SCHOOL, CALCUTTA
This is called vegetable gold:
ABHISHEK SHAW, CLASS VIII, SALKIA VIKRAM VIDYALAYA, HOWRAH
C. V. Raman won the Nobel Prize in this category:
NIDHI CHANDAK, CLASS IV, MAHESHWARI GIRLS’ SCHOOL, CALCUTTA
This planet takes 248 years to complete one revolution:
PRERANA DASGUPTA, CLASS VI, BALLYGUNGE SHIKSHA SADAN, CALCUTTA
This volcano is ‘the lighthouse of the Mediterranean’:
MOHAMMAD AKRAM KHAN, CLASS VIII, ST MICHAEL’S SCHOOL, DURGAPUR
This is the name given to a squirrel’s home:
SRIJATA GHOSH, CLASS VIII, VIDYA BHARATI GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, CALCUTTA
This is the capital of Greenland:
T. BANERJEE, CLASS VII, S.S.M. SCHOOL, ALIPURDUAR
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1. Identify this
cricketer
In 600 BC
what was Thales of
Miletus describing
when he wrote
about amber being
charged by
rubbing?
In 1879, where
was the first
commercial power
station using Charles
Brush generator?
KQFACT: Benjamin Franklin
generated electricity in his house
by means of an iron rod. He went
on to study its effects upon bells
and concluded that clouds were
generally negatively charged.
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4
3 5
Who discovered
that electricity comes
in two forms and
called them resinous
and vitreous, which
were later renamed
as positive and
negative?
ith winter round the corner,
many birds take off in tens
and hundreds to move away
to warmer grounds. Pintails fly away
to Baluchishtan, Afghanistan, the
Indus Valley, the sub-Himalayan region and occasionally to Maldives,
where they spend the rest of the year
before moving towards Southeast
Asia, Central Africa and parts of
America, during the cold winters. Pintails, anas acuta are large birds — 56-
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ANSWERS: Question Marks 1. Alessandro Volta 2. Charles Francois du Fay 3. San Francisco, USA
4. Static electricity 5. Luigi Galvani Mental Blocks 1. Copper 2. Saffron 3. Physics 4. Pluto 5. Stromboli 6.Drey
7. Nuuk Top Five 1. Raw flesh 2. Anita Desai 3. Marathon 4. Alexander Graham Bell 5. Tony Lock
Pic Clues 1. Suresh Raina 2. Will Smith
3
In which event did
Spiridon Louis come
first at the 1896 Athens
Olympics?
5. In 1956, when Jim
Laker took 19 wickets
in a Test match who
took the only other
Australian wicket?
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74 cm, with a slim body that ends in a
pointy tail. They have long necks, especially prominent when the birds are
in flight. Pintails are sociable and seen
in larger numbers. They are commonly found near reedy jheels, brackish lagoons and estuaries. During winter,
dark marks can be seen on the flanks.
Body marks are different for both
males and females during the breeding season.
— Sanctuary Features
HOCUS FOCUS
BY
HENRI BOLTINOFF