GENERAL AWARENESS

CLASS V ( 2018 – 2019 ) TERM II

1.OUR COUNTRY - INDIA
Superlatives in India
1. The longest bridge above water: Bhupen Hazarika Setu, Assam ( Lohit river )
2. The largest freshwater lake: Wular Lake (J & K)
3. The highest dam: Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand ( Bhagirathi river )
4. The largest cave temple: Kailash Nath Temple (Ellora, Maharashtra)
5. The highest peak: Kangchenjunga ( 8586 m )
6. The longest tunnel: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel, ( J & K )
7. The longest corridor: Corridor of Ramanathaswamy temple of Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu)
8. The highest waterfall: Kunchikal Falls (Karnataka)
9. The highest gateway: Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri (U.P)
10. The longest river: The Ganga (2640 km. long)
11. The longest canal: Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan Canal (runs through Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan)
12. The longest railway platform: Gorakhpur, UP
13. The longest passenger train route: Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari ( Vivek Express )
14. The highest lake: Cholamu lake (North Sikim)
15. The largest saline water lake: Sambhar lake, Rajasthan
16. The longest dam: Hirakud Dam (Orissa)
17. The highest road: 86 km long road that connects Chisumle and Demchok villages in Ladakh
18. The largest artificial Lake: Govind Sagar (Bhakhra Nangal)
19. The highest airport: Leh Airport (Ladakh)
20. The largest planetarium : Birla Planetarium ( Kolkata )

Art forms
Art form State where the art form originated
1. Madhubani - Bihar
2. Phad - Rajasthan
3. Warli - Warli tribe, Western Ghats of India
4. Gond - Gondi tribe, Madhya Pradesh
5. Kalamkari - Andhra Pradesh
6. Tanjore/ Thanjavur - Andhra Pradesh
7. Cheriyal scrolls - Telangana
8. Kalighat - Bengal
9. Patachitra -Odisha and West Bengal
10. Miniature paintings - Rajasthan
 2. SPORTS ROUND-UP

International Stadiums
Stadium City Country
1. Adelaide Oval Adelaide Australia
2. Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Australia
3. Bangabandhu National Stadium Dhaka Bangladesh
4. Chittagong Stadium Chittagong Bangladesh
5. Lord’s London England
6. The Brit Oval London England
7. Eden Park Auckland New Zealand
8. John Davies Oval Queenstown New Zealand
9. Gaddafi Stadium Lahore Pakistan
10. Ayub National Stadium Quetta Pakistan
11. New Wanderers Stadium Johannesburg South Africa
12. Newlands Cape Town South Africa
13. R. Premadasa Stadium Colombo Sri Lanka
14. Colombo Cricket Club Ground Colombo Sri Lanka
15. Sabina Park Kingston Jamaica West Indies
16. Kensington Oval Bridgetown Barbados West Indies
17. Harare Sports Club Harare Zimbabwe
18. Bulawayo Athletic Club Bulawayo Zimbabwe
19. Sheikh Zayed Stadium Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
20. Sharjah Cricket Stadium Sharjah United Arab Emirates

Sports-Personalities
Personality Sport associated with Nationality
1. Jackie Joyner-Kersee Athletics American

2. Usain Bolt Athletics Jamaican

3. Milkha Singh Athletics Indian

4. Muhammad Ali Boxing American

5. Mary Kom Boxing Indian

6. Michael Jordan Basketball American

7. Sachin Tendulkar Cricket Indian

8. M S Dhoni Cricket Indian

9. Virat Kohli Cricket Indian

10. Pele Football Brazilian

11. Lionel Messi Football Argentinean

12. Cristiano Ronaldo Football Portuguese

13. Dhyan Chand Hockey Indian

14. Sir Steve Redgrave Rowing British

15. Michael Phelps Swimming American

16. Martina Navratilova Tennis Czech

17. Novak Djokovic Tennis Serb

18. Roger Federer Tennis Swiss

19. Rafael Nadal Tennis Spanish

20. Serena Williams Tennis American

3. GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE

Vocabulary (Some medical professionsals)

1. Dermatologist – Specialist who treats skin diseases

2. Cardiologist – Specialist who treats disorders of the heart and circulatory system.

3. Neurologist – Specialist who treats disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and the rest of the nervous system.

4. Ophthalmologist – Specialist who treats disorders of vision.

5. Orthopaedist-Specialist who deals with the skeletal structure of the body.

6. Psychiatrist – Specialist who treats mental and emotional disturbances.

7. Paediatrician – Specialist who looks after babies’ inoculations, diet plans, treats diseases associated with
children and babies.
 Proverbs
1. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
• Meaning: Be sure to take breaks from work and do something entertaining.

2. March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

• Meaning: Sometimes unpleasant things are required to bring good things.

3. Barking dogs seldom bite.

• Meaning: A person who often threatens rarely carries out his threats.

4. Beggars can't be choosers.

• Meaning: If you are in a bad situation or do not have much to offer you must be content with
whatever help you can get.

5. A broken watch is right two times a day.

• Meaning: A person who is wrong will eventually be right about something.

6. By hook or by crook
• Meaning: A thing to be achieved will be done in a straightforward way, but if it cannot, then
it will be achieved by any means necessary.

7. Don't judge a book by its cover.

• Meaning: Never judge something based on its outward appearance.

8. No man is an island.
• Meaning: We are all interdependent and influenced by each other.

9. One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel.

• Meaning: One bad person can influence many others to behave in a bad way.

10. Rome wasn't built in a day.

• Meaning: It takes time to create something impressive.

11. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at others.
• Meaning: Don't be a hypocrite.

12. This, too, shall pass.

• Meaning: Things will often return to normal after bad times.

13. To each, his own.

• Meaning: Mind your own business.

14. Walk the walk and talk the talk.

• Meaning: First do your task, then talk about it.

15. What goes around comes around.

• Meaning: Good acts will quite often reward you. Conversely, evil acts will quite often punish
you.
 4. ANIMAL AND PLANT KINGDOM

About Aquatic Animals ( Some Facts )

1. Some giant jellyfish have tentacles that can stretch one-third the length of a football field.
2. The world's smallest seahorse is smaller than a postage stamp.
3. Sea otters stash food between rolls of skin.
4. An octopus can have nearly 2,000 suckers on its arms.
5. Blue whales are the largest animals and have evolved from the hippopotamus. They can swim up to
eight km an hour, but on sensing danger, they can speed up to 48 km an hour. The best part about
blue whales is that they can sleep while swimming with half its brain functioning.
6. Electric eels are one of the 500 fishes that can produce electricity. The skin of the eel protects it from
its electric attack, but if the eel is wounded it could shock itself. The electric shock of an eel is
powerful enough to knock down a horse and can prove dangerous to a human. Some eels produce
enough electricity to light ten bulbs!
7. Jellyfish do not have bones, brain, heart, and head. Some species possess light-sensitive organs and
can glow in the dark.
8. Piranha have extremely sensitive organs that help them detect blood in oceans just like the sharks.
Piranhas are not only omnivorous but also cannibals.
9. Cuttlefish releases ink to escape from shark and large fishes. Cuttlefish was widely used as source of
ink in ancient times.
10. Walrus, being mammals, can easily stay under water for 30 minutes without having to come to the
surface to breathe. They are incredibly protective of one another and would rush to help any
walrus under attack.
About Insects ( Some Facts )
About Insects
1. Grasshopper is a plant-eating insect and has ears on its knees. It sings by rubbing its powerful back
legs.
2. Ladybird makes nasty chemicals on its knees. When attacked, it oozes chemicals and hits its
attacker with them.
3. Goliath beetle is the heaviest flying insect, weighing over 100 grams and growing to as much as 13
cm long. It is mainly found in Africa.
4. Housefly has only one pair of proper wings. It flies at over 7 km per hour.
5. Bee makes ten trips a day and visits 1000 flowers on each trip to collect nectar from the flowers. It
then changes the nectar into honey.
6. Queen Alexandra is the biggest butterfly, with 25 cm wide wings. It lives in the forests of New
Guinea.
7. Dragonflies are the fastest flying insects. They are known to travel at the speed of 35 miles an
hour.
8. Ants leave trails and communicate with each other using pheromones as chemical signals.
9. Some insects, such as gerridae (water striders), are able to walk on the surface of water.

10. An Ant has two stomachs. One of their stomachs is for holding food for their own consumption,
and the second one is to hold food to be shared with other ants. This process is known as
trophallaxis.
5.OUR WORLD
United Nations
• The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193
Member States.
• The name ‘United Nations’, was coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt who was
the 32nd President of the United States.
• UN headquarters are in New York city. Regional offices are in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi.
• Official languages of UN are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
• The main organs of the UN are
1. The General Assembly
2. The Security Council
3. The Economic and Social Council
4. The Trusteeship Council
5. The International Court of Justice
6. The UN Secretariat
All were established in 1945 when the UN was founded.
• The General Assembly is formed of the 193 Member States of the United Nations. They discuss
and work together on international issues such as development, peace and security, international
law, etc.
• The Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and
security. It has 15 Members, and each Member has one vote.
• The Economic and Social Council works towards development in the fields of – economic, social
and environmental.
• The Trusteeship Council is made up of the five permanent members of the Security Council --
China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States.
• The International Court of Justice is set in The Hague, Netherlands.
• The Secretariat carries out the day to day work of the UN in offices and duty stations around the
world. The head of the United Nations Secretariat is the Secretary-General.
• The current Secretary-General of the UN is Mr. AntónioGuterres of Portugal.
 Famous Speeches
11. The Gettysburg Address– Abraham Lincoln ( 16th President of the United States of America )
12. I Have a Dream… - Martin Luther King Jr. ( American activist and leader in the Civil Rights
movement )
13. Address to the World Parliament of Religions – Swami Vivekananda ( Indian Hindu monk who
brought Hinduism to the World’s platform as a major religion )
14. ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 32nd President of the United States
of America )
15. A Tryst with Destiny – Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India delivered this famous speech
on August 14, 1947
16. ‘Ask not what your country can do for you’ – John F Kennedy ( 35th President of the United States of
America )
17. Love Begins at Home – Mother Teresa (Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary )
18. Free at Last – Nelson Mandela( South African revolutionary who served as President of South Africa )

6.LITERATURE AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books and Authors
Book Author

1. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster

2. Godan - Munshi Premchand
3. Born Again on the Mountain - Arunima Sinha
4. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
5. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
6. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
7. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
8. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
9. God of Small things - Arundhati Roy
10. Wings of Fire - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
 Renowned Biopics
Name of the movie Name of the personality on whose life the movie has been made

1. The King’s Speech - King George VI, a British monarch

2. The Social Network - Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook

3. The Imitation Game - Alan Turing, British mathematician

4. The Theory of Everything - Stephen Hawking, famous physicist

5. Miracle - Herb Brooks, US Hockey Coach

6. October Sky - Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who takes up rocketry

7. The Last Emperor - Henry Pu Yi, the last emperor of China

8. The Man Who Knew Infinity - Srinivasa Ramanujan, famous Indian mathematician

7.EXPLORING SCIENCE
Inventions and Discoveries
1. Radium - Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

2. X-ray - Wilhelm Rontgen

3. Diesel Engine - Rudolf Diesel

4. Motion of Planets - Johannes Kepler

5. Blood Groups - Karl Landsteiner

6. North Pole - Robert Peary

7. Fountain Pen - Waterman

8. Computer - Charles Babbage

9. Cosmic Rays and - Homi J. Bhabha

Quantum Theory

10. Penicillin (First modern - Alexander Fleming

antibiotic)
 Facts About Space
1. Space is completely silent, There is no atmosphere in space so sound cannot travel or be heard.
2. Venus is the hottest planet with the surface temperature of 450 degree centigrade.
3. The footprints of astronauts on Moon will last over millions of years as there is no wind to blow off
or water to wash away the footprints.
4. One day on Venus is longer than its one year. Its axis rotation is 243 Earth days which is equal to
one Venus day and its revolution around the Sun takes 225 Earth days which is equal to one Venus
year.
5. If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space, they will permanently bond. This doesn’t
happen on Earth because of air.
6. Olympus Mons is a volcano on Mars with a height of almost 25 km. It is about two and a half times
taller than Mt. Everest.
7. Halley’s Comet, discovered by Edmond Halley, will next orbit by Earth by 2061. It was last seen in
1986 and is only seen once every 75 to 76 years.
8. In Milky Way galaxy, 200 – 400 billion stars are predicted. Space is estimated to have billions of
galaxies so stars in space are completely uncountable.