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India’s neighboring countries

Facts on the neighboring countries of India.

At a Glance

1. India shares its borders with China, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.

2. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has been formed for the purpose of peace, stability, and economic progress in the region through mutual cooperation.

3. India and China have had links since ancient times. The Panchsheel Pact represented an important stage in our relationship. A border dispute led to a war with China in 1962. A long time after the war, relations between the two countries have begun to improve.

4. India and Pakistan are parts of what was formerly one country. We share a common tradition and culture. But we have had major wars and recently there was the Kargil conflict. This has severed relations between the two countries. We are still trying to develop and maintain a friendly relationship with Pakistan.

5. India helped the people of Bangladesh achieve their freedom from Pakistan’s domination. Strong political, economic, and cultural ties have been formed and kept up with Bangladesh.

6. India and Sri Lanka have ancient, mythological, historical, and cultural ties. There has been some problem concerning people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka but our political and trade relations have been good all along.

Country	Capital
Bangladesh	Dhaka
Bhutan	Thimphu
India	New Delhi
Maldives	Male
Nepal	Kathmandu
Pakistan	Islamabad
Sri Lanka	Colombo

Indian Dances

Classical Dances of India
Dance	State
Bharat Natyam	Tamil Nadu
Bihu	Assam
Bhangra	Punjab
Chhau	Bihar, Orissa, W. Bengal and Jharkhand
Garhwali	Uttaranchal
Garba	Gujarat
Hattari	Karnataka
Kathak	North India
Kathakali	Kerala
Kutchipudi	Andhra Pradesh
Khantumm	Mizoram
Karma	Madhya Pradesh
Laho	Meghalaya
Mohiniattam	Kerala
Mando	Goa
Manipuri	Manipur
Nati	Himachal Pradesh
Nat-Natin	Bihar
Odissi	Orissa
Rauf	Jammu & Kashmir
Yakshagan	Karnataka

Flags

              Aus

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              Bangladesh

             Bhutan

           Canada

           China

           Denmark

             France

             Mauritius

             Pakistan

            Saudi Arabia

             Sri Lanka

           Britain

           United States

Sports

National sports of countries

Sri Lanka	Volleyball
Afghanistan	Buzkashi
Bhutan	Archery
China	Table Tennis
Norway Cross-country	Skiing
Switzerland	Shooting, Gymnastics
Turkey	Wrestling
United States	Baseball
Japan	Ju- Jitsu (Judo)
Australia	Cricket and Tennis
Scotland	Rugby Football
Spain	Bull Fighting

England                Cricket & Rugby Football
Russia                   Chess & Football
Malaysia              Badminton

Names of Continents of the world

Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. 

Names of oceans of the world

(oceans by size) 

 #1 Pacific (155,557,000 sq km) larger map 

 #2 Atlantic (76,762,000 sq km) larger map 

 #3 Indian (68,556,000 sq km) larger map 

 #4 Southern (20,327,000 sq km) larger map 

 #5 Arctic (14,056,000 sq km) larger map 

(greatest depths in the oceans) 

 Mariana Trench, Pacific 35,827 ft

 Puerto Rico Trench, Atlantic 30,246 ft 

 Java Trench, Indian 24,460 ft 

 Arctic Basin, Arctic 18,456 ft 

 Southern Ocean, 23,737 ft 

Books and authors

Adam Bede

George Eliot

A Suitable Boy                                  Vikram Seth

A Tale of Two Gardens                   Octavio Paz
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventures of Tom Sawyer           Mark Twain

Born Free	Joy Adamson
Bubble	Mulk Raj Anand
Castle	Franz Kafka
Emma	Jane Austen
King Lear	Shakespeare

Born free- Joy Adamson-        a child when born is free from worries, he is joyous, & then he gets the tag of a dumb son

Das Kapital- karl marx-            Das are everywhere in capital of the country, which is actually a kala mark on the country’s name

Expanding universe-    AS Eddington- you are expanding universe by adding tons of mud on ass.

Godan- Prem Chand-  Gawu daan prem se chand pe

Hamlet- shakespere     Helmet full of shake of pear

Malgudi days   - R.K. Narayan – Mall guddi bought by Narad muni saying narayan narayan

Mill on floss- George Eliot       -           A mill is be

Great personalities of India

Persons - Sobriquets

Abdul Gaffar Khan	Badshan Khan; Frontier Gandhi
C R Das	Deshabandhu
Bal Gangadhar Tilak	Lokmanya
Dadabhai Narorji	Grand Old Man of India
Rabindranath Tagore	Gurudev
Subhash Chandra Bose	Netaji
Vallabhai Patel	Man of Iron
Sarojini Naidu	Nightingale of India
Lal Bahadur Shastri	Man of Peace
Lala Lajpat Rai	Punjab Kesari

Historical buildings & Monuments, Famous places of India

Agra Fort, Agra

Aga Khan Palace: Pune

Ajanta Caves: Aurangabad, Maharashtra. 

Charminar: Hyderabad,

Ellora Caves: Aurangabad, Maharashtra

Golconda Fort: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. 

Hampi:  Karnataka.

Jantar Mantar: New Delhi

Kalibangan: Rajasthan.

Nalanda: Bihar

Famous places of world

Grand Canyon: United states

Great Barrier Reef: Australia

Chichen Itza: Mexico

Machu Picchu: Peru

Pyramids: Egypt

Facts about solar system

·        That the Sun makes up 99.86% of the Solar System's mass! That means that all the planets put together (including Jupiter) as well as all the asteroids only make up about 0.14% of the Solar System's mass

·        That Jupiter's magnetic field is so massive that it pours billions of Watts into Earths magnetic field every day!

·        That a massive body 100km wide travelling at over 512,000km/h crashed into Mercury to form the Caloris Basin. The impaact was so great it sent shockwaves round Mercury creating its hilly lineated terrain.

·        That just a pinhead of the Sun's raw material could kill someone up to 160 kilometres away!

·        That the length of a Plutonian year is 248 of our years! That means that one orbit of the Sun takes about 2 and a half Earth centuries. That's a quarter of a Millenium!

·        That Olympus Mons (on Mars) is the largest Volcanic mountain in the Solar System. It is 600 km across and 27 km high! And you thought Mount Everest (about 8 and a half km high) was tall! To see a great overhead picture of it click here.

·        That a Supernova explosion produces more energy in its first ten seconds than the Sun during the whole of its 10 billion year lifetime and that for a brief period, it creates more energy than the rest of a galaxy put together!!

·        That the comet with the longest ever recorded tail is the Great Comet of 1843. Its tail stretched over 800 million kilometres! This is about the same distance the Earth is from Jupiter!

·        That the energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun!

·        That almost all of the heavier elements in your body (eg calcium, iron, carbon) were made somewhere in supernovae explosions!

·        That some rocks found on Earth are actually pieces of Mars!

·        That Saturn has such a low density that it would float if put in water!

·        That due to the fact that water expands when heated, the Atantic ocean increses in width by 3cm every year!

·        That some volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io eject material at speeds of up to 1km/second! This is about 20 times faster than the volcanoes here on Earth can manage it!

·        That the amount of the Sun's energy reaching the Earth's atmosphere (known as the Solar constant) is equivalent to 1.37 kw of electricity per square metre!

AD: anno Domini; in the year of Lord Christ

AM: ante meridiem; before noon

ATM: Automatic Teller Machine

BC: Before Christ; Board of Control; British Columbia; Battery Commander

NCR: National Capital Region

NEP: National Education Policy

CM: Command Module; Chief Minister

CPU: Central Processing Unit

Pin Code: Postal Index Number Code

DTH: Direct to Home

EDUSAT: Education Satellite

PTO: Please Turn Over

EU: European Union

GPS: Global Positioning System

HDTV: High Definition Television

UFO: Unidentified Flying Object

ISO: International Standardisation Organisation

ISP: Internet Service Provider

Inventions & discoveries

Baird—Television.

Binet—Intelligence Test.

Carothers—Nylon plastics.

Marconi—Wireless telegraphy; radio.

Nobel—Dynamite.

Priestley—Discovery of Oxygen

Rontgen—Discovery of X-rays.

Galileo—Telescope.

James Watt—Steam engine (patented in 1769).

Waterman—Fountain pen.

Salk, Jonas E.—Anti-polio Vaccine.

Class 3

·        No of questions: 20

Syllabus

o   Our Neighboring Countries, Music and Dance, Flags of Various Countries, India

o   Sports, Continents and Oceans, Books and Authors, Great Personality of India

o   Historical Buildings and Monuments, , Famous-Places of the World & India

o   Means of Livelihood, Our Solar System, Abbreviations, Extremes, Inventions, Misc

Class III

1. Which of the following state doesn’t touch our neighboring countries?

a. Gujarat                       b. Uttaranchal     c. Bihar              d. Chhattisgarh

2. The National emblem of Australia is

a. Lion                           b. Kangaroo       c. Elephant         d. Tiger

3.  Which planet has maximum number of the satellites?

a. Jupiter                        b. Mars              c. Saturn                        d. Uranus

4.  How many players are there in a game of Base ball?

a. 11                             b. 7                   c. 8                   d. 9

5.  Which of the following continent has maximum number of countries in it?

a. Europe                       b. Africa             c. Asia               d. North America

6. Mariana Trench, the greatest depth, is in which Ocean?

a. Indian                                    b. Arctic             c. Atlantic           d. Pacific

7. The book Jungle book was written by-

a. Rudyard Kipling            b. J.K. Rowling    c. C. Mark          d. J. Arthur

8. ‘Nati’ folk dance belongs to which state of India?

a. Gujarat                       b. Kerala                        c. Himachal Pradesh         d. Orissa

9. Elephanta caves are in which state of India?

a. Kerala                                    b. Maharashtra    c. Andhra Pradesh            d. Tamil Nadu

10. Red Square is in which country?

a. U.S.A.                                    b. Japan            c. Britain                        d. Russia

11. Which is the largest country in the world?

a. China                         b. Russia                        c. Canada                       d. U.S.A.

12. The highest waterfall in the world is-

a. Angel                         b. Tugela           c. Catarata                     d. Browne Falls

13. North Pole was discovered by-

a. Tasman                      b. John Cabot     c. Captain cook               d. Robert Peary

14. Small pox vaccination was invented by-

a. Koch                          b. Jenner                        c. Harvey                                   d. Salk

15. Tallest man made building in the world is-

a. Taipei 101                   b. Petronas tower            c. Burja Khalifa                d. Willis Tower

16. Ob, the third largest river of the world belongs to which country?

a. U.S.A.                                    b. Russia                        c. China                         d. Japan

17. Abbreviation ‘PhD’ stands for-

a. Doctor of Philosophy    b. Doctor of Psychology c. Professor of Diet d. Professor of Designing

18. A red ball on white rectangle based flag represent which country?

a. Japan                         b. Korea            c. China                         d. Indonesia

19. Which wrestler of India won silver medal in 2012 Olympics?

a. Vijender Kumar                        b. Rajesh Kumar  c. Sushil Kumar                d. Yogendra Kumar

20. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is famous to play which musical instrument?

a. Tabla                         b. Veena                        c. Shehnai                                  d. Sarod