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Which is the fifth
currency in the
1
world to have a distinct
sign representation?
ARPITA SAHA, Class V,
Sri Shikshayatan School,
Calcutta
Which Indian Prime
Minister was the
2
son of another former
3
In 2006, Naypyidaw
was proclaimed
the capital of which
country?
AMIT DHAR, Class IV, South
Suburban School, Calcutta
wrote The
Panchatantra?
4 Who
1 2
4
3 5
QUESTION
OF THE WEEK
5. Who is the author of
the novel The Pickwick
Papers?
MADHAVI CHANDRAN,
Class V, St Theresa’s High
School, Cochin, Kerala
KQFACT: Water is called the
“universal solvent” because it
dissolves more substances than
any other liquid
B
1. Identify this
flower
Who is
the director
of the 2005
film Water?
What is
the study of
water
called?
Which is
the largest
inland body of
water in the
world?
2. Name this
building
locks
He discovered Ganymede, the largest satellite of Jupiter:
DONA BISWAS, CLASS VII, BELTALA GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, CALCUTTA
International Women’s Day is celebrated in this month:
SANGITA DEB, CLASS III, G.D. BIRLA GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, CALCUTTA
This is the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures:
DOLLY DEY, CLASS III, G.S.S. GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, CALCUTTA
This month is named after Emperor Augustus:
RINU RAO, CLASS III, LOYOLA SCHOOL, JAMSHEDPUR, JHARKHAND
The invention of paper can be traced back to this country:
SOHAM DUTTA, CLASS VI, NORTH POINT ACADEMY, CALCUTTA
To complete this race, you have to run 42.195 kilometres:
MANISH KUMAR MAJUMDAR, CLASS V, HAPPY HOME SCHOOL, BHADRAK, ORISSA
The famous Calangute beach is in this state:
UMA CHATTERJI, CLASS VIII, B.D. MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, CALCUTTA
T
What is
the
chemical
formula of
water?
which
industry
consumes almost
70 per cent of the
freshwater available
for global use?
SOHOM MANNA, Class IV,
Hindu School, Calcutta
mental
I
t is a wonder how water, a colourless and tasteless liquid, can acquire so many
forms and play so many roles. Put it on high flame and it will turn into vapour;
freeze it and it will become ice. Water is all around us, not just in oceans and
polar ice caps, but also in the human body. Did you know that about 70 per cent
of the fat-free mass of the human body is made up of water and that is why the
body requires between one and seven litres of water per day to avoid dehydration?
he tailed jay butterfly here is
sucking dissolved inorganic
salts (mainly sodium) from the
top soil. If the soil is not naturally wet,
the butterfly will squirt water from its
abdomen to wet it so as to dissolve the
existing salts!
This kind of feeding is called “mud
puddling” and is done by males of
many species of butterflies. The
newly-hatched adult male and female
butterflies have sufficient sodium in
cub
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soil sucker
their bodies. But
the male injects
quite a bit of
salts into the female
during
mating, giving
rise to a deficiency of salts in its
own body. Then
ANSWERS: Question Marks 1. Agriculture 2. H20 3. Hydrology 4. Deepa Mehta 5. Caspian Sea
Mental Blocks 1. Galileo 2. March 3. Mercury 4. August 5. China 6. Marathon 7. Goa Top Five 1. Indian
rupee 2. Rajiv Gandhi 3. Myanmar or Burma 4. Vishnu Sharma 5. Charles Dickens Pic Clues 1. Pansy 2. The
Mysore Palace
Prime Minister?
DEBASHISH LAHIRI,
Class VII, South Point School,
Calcutta
? [email protected]
PIC: YUWARAJ GURJAR
it resorts to mud puddling to replenish
the lost salts.
The chewing apparatus of the
adults of butterflies and moths, which
assists in cutting and devouring huge
amounts of plant matter in the caterpillar stage, metamorphoses into a
long cylindrical tube called the proboscis. The adults, unlike caterpillars,
subsist on a purely liquid diet.
Sanctuary Features
HOCUS FOCUS
BY
HENRI BOLTINOFF