General knowledge

• (1861-1944) Renowned chemist; known for his study of nitrates; pioneer of chemical industry and pharmaceutical research in India; best remembered for his work The History of Hindu Chemistry.

  P.C Ray
• 1949) World-famous palaeobotanist (Palaeobotany is the study of fossil plants found in the layers of the earth and in certain types of rocks); founder of the Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow.

  Birbal sahni
• (1893-1956) Physicist; famous for his theory of thermal ionisation; the only scientist to be elected to the first Constituent Assembly.

  Meghnad Saha
• 1955) Renowned scientist;

  to him goes the credit of establishing a chain of national laboratories in India; a group of popular science awards is named after him.

  S.S Bhatnaga
• (1894-1974) Physicist-mathematician; worked with Einstein in a field known as Bose-Einstein statistics; helped to develop a branch of statistics known as Quantum Statistics.

  Satyendranath Bose
• (Born 1938) Astronomer; famous for his research on black holes; has substantially contributed to the popularisation of science; great writer on subjects related to science.

  Jayanath V. Narlikar
• The appendix gets infected and usually causes great pain

  Appendicitis
• Tubes carrying air from the windpipe to the lungs get infected, there is coughing and difficulty in breathing

  Bronchitis
• There is an uncontrolled growth of diseases cells in the body, this growth can be in any part of the body

  Cancer
• The crystalline lens of the eye becomes cloudy because of which a person cannot see clearly

  Cataract
• An infectious disease that became a pandemic in 2020

  Covid-19
• Lungs become red and swollen

  Pneumonia
• Paralysis among infants, causing loss of sensation and movement in some parts of the body

  Polio
• Infection of the gums causing the edge of the tooth sockets to bleed easily on brushing

  Pyorrhoea
• Stiffness and pain in joints or muscle

  Rheumatism
• Infection of the upper respiratory passages and bronchial tubes generally among small children; long coughing spells which may be followed by vomiting.

  whooping cough
• First satellite to orbit the earth in 1957

  Sputnik
• First earth creature sent into space in 1957

  Laika ( a dog )
• First man in space (1961), he was a soviet citizen

  Yuri Gagarin
• First American citizen in space (1961)

  Alan Shepherd
• First woman in space (1963), she too was a soviet citizen

  Valentina Tereshkova
• First person to walk in space (1965)

  Alexei Leonov
• American spacecraft and soviet spacecraft dock together, first docking in space (1975) name the spacecraft

  Apollo and soyuz
• First indian to travel in space (1984)

  Rakesh Sharma
• First woman to do a spacewalk (1984)

  Svetlana Savitskaya
• First indian-born woman in space (1997)

  Kalpana chawla
• A beautiful tree with red and orange flowers, often called the ‘flame of the forest’

  palash
• A small green herb, the source of menthol, used in medicine for stomach disorders

  Mint
• A tree with bitter-tasting leaves and fruit, but leaves have great antiseptic and antibacterial properties, used in making herbal soaps and a toothpastes

  Neem
• A yellowish substance used as seasoning while cooking, powerful antiseptic, often used in beauty creams

  Turmeric
• From its fruits we get the powerful painkiller opium

  Poppy
• The fruit of the oak tree

  Acorn
• A white liquid that oozes out of a rubber tree when it is given a cut

  Latex
• A tall grass like plant used by the Egyptians to make paper

  Papyrus
• The method of growing very small trees by continually cutting the roots and branches

  Bonsai
• A plant with thick stem for storing water and spines, usually grows in deserts

  Cactus
• belongs to the lizard family; can change colour according to the surface it sits on; has a very long tongue

  Chameleon
• A large water bird, it has a very bug pouch under its beak for storing food

  Pelican
• A fish when it senses danger, it swallos water quickly and inflates its body like a balloon, with all the spines sticking out

  Pufferfish
• This 9-11 feet tall animal, resembling the modern day elephant, became extinct about a thousand years ago

  Mammoth