To enhance the students' learning- scientific and historical facts are shared with them on a regular basis. This trivia not only increases their general knowledge but also
adds to their awareness level. Absorbing information in this way is not only easy and fun , but also broadens the students' mental horizon in a diversified manner.
PRIMARY CAMPUS GR
PUSHKAR FAIR
The Pushkar Fair is a huge cattle market and camel fair held at Pushkar in Rajasthan during the full moon of the month of Kartik.
PONGAL
Most of the Hindu festivals follow the lunar calendar (moon) and hence the date of the festival changes every year. E.g Diwali. But, Pongal follows the Solar Calendar and it falls on the same day every year for 80 years.
NATIONAL SONG
Vande Mataram, India’s national song, was composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and was part of his novel Anandamath (1882)
NATIONAL FLAG
The first Indian national flag was hoisted on August 7, 1906, at Parsee Bagan Square in Kolkata. The flag had three major colors namely red, yellow, and green.
BEES
Bees can fly higher than 29,525 feet above sea level. That’s higher than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.
EIFFEL TOWER
The Eiffel Tower can grow more than six inches during the summer. The high temperatures make the iron expand.
DRIEST PLACES ON EARTH
The driest place on Earth is near the ocean. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on Earth.
MOON
Earth has just one moon whereas Jupiter has 67 moons.
BUMBLEBEE
The Bumblebee Bat is the world’s smallest mammal. It weighs less than two grams.
STARFISH
Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
VERNAL EQUINOX
The first day of spring, the vernal equinox, has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. The term verbal is Latin for “spring” and equinox is Latin for “equal night”.
For the Japanese, the opening of the cherry blossom, Japan’s national flower, in March or April signals the start of spring.
BLACK HOLE
A black hole is created when big stars explode. Its gravitational force is so strong that nothing can escape from it – luckily the closest black hole is about 10,000 light-years from Earth.
CHESS
It is claimed that the game of chess originated in India some 1,500 years ago. It is said to be based on the 7th-century war game called chaturanga.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
Alabama was the first state in the US to have recognised Christmas as an official holiday!
JINGLE BELLS
On the 16 December 1965, the song 'Jingle Bells' made history by becoming the first song to be played in space during NASA’s Gemini 6A space flight.
PLANETS
Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.
ASTRONAUT
Astronaut is a compound word derived from the two Ancient Greek words “Astro,” meaning “star,” and “naut” meaning “sailor.” So, astronaut literally means “star sailor.”
DIWALI CELEBRATIONS IN GOA
In Goa, a predominantly Christian state, Diwali is celebrated with much festivities. However, Goans celebrate Lord Krishna during Diwali and to commemorate the day when Lord Krishna killed Narakasura.
DHINGA GAVAR
Famous festival of Rajasthan also known as festival of deception, celebrates womanhood. They patrol the streets of Jodhpur whole night and protect the statue of Dhinga Gavar.
THE MOON
The moon is drifting away from Earth.
Every year the moon is drifting away from Earth by 3.8 cm. Scientists do believe that eventually, the Moon will move out of the field of Earth's Gravity
FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON
The footprints on the moon will stay there for the next 100 million years.
Because the moon has no atmosphere, it has no wind to erode the surface and no water to wash away the footprints.
The part of the body that has no blood is the cornea of the eye. It receives oxygen directly from the air.
The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear. The staples (or stirrup) bone is only 2.8 millimetres long.
MONSOON
The name ‘monsoon’ is believed to be derived from the Arabian word ‘mausim. ‘ Mausim means a shift in season or wind.
MAWSYNRAM
Mawsynram in Meghalaya, is the wettest place in India. The region receives annual rainfall of almost 12 metres.
It takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for sunlight to reach us.
The highest point above the sea level of Earth’s surface is Mount Everest and the deepest point below the sea level is Mariana Trench.
WHL0137-LS
WHL0137-LS, also known as Earendel, is reported as the farthest individual star ever discovered, its light having taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth.
NEOWISE
A comet called ‘NEOWISE’ provided excellent light shows for the people all over the world. It was the brightest comet to appear above the northern hemisphere in 25 years.
PONGAL FESTIVAL
The Pongal festival is named after the ceremonial which means "to boil, overflow" and refers to the traditional dish prepared from the new harvest of rice boiled in milk with jaggery (raw sugar).
MAKAR SANKRANTI
According to legends, Lord Sun never got along with his son, Lord Shani. However, on the day of Makar Sankranti, Lord Sun visits Shani and finally forgives him. Thus, Makar Sankranti is marked as a day of forgiveness, forgetting past quarrels and say only words of love.
VOYAGER 1 SPACECRAFT
VOYAGER 1 SPACECRAFT is the first human made object to go beyond the solar system. Currently it is 14.1 billion miles from the Earth.
FIRST COMPUTER MOUSE
The first computer mouse was made in 1964 by Doug Engelbart. It was rectangular and made from wood.
MIDDLE DEPARTMENT
The human eye is so sensitive that, if the Earth were flat and it was a dark night, a candle’s flame could be seen from 30 miles away.
The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are called “phosphenes.”
AIRPLANE FOOD QUALITY
The reason why everyone complains about the quality of airplane food is that your sense of taste and smell decreases up to 50% during high altitude flights.
The brain takes about 0.6 seconds to choose the right word for a term.
SPONGEBOB
The inventor of “Spongebob” Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biologist, which is why he chose the deep sea as the setting for his cartoon series.
MONOWI
There is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, Bartender, and Librarian.
STATUTES OF LIBERTY
There is a Statue of Liberty in Paris that faces the Statue of Liberty in America, showing friendship between the two countries.
BENEFITS OF A HUG
Hugging your cat has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, especially for people who are dealing with illness, depression, PTSD, and other ailments.
TWITTER LOGO
The bird on the Twitter logo is named "Larry." He was named after the basketball player Larry Bird, who played for the Boston Celtics.
When you sneeze, the particles ejected out of your nostrils are traveling at 100 miles per hour. This is faster than the maximum run speed of a cheetah which is roughly 70-75 miles per hour.
Honey is the only type of food that does not rot. As a matter of fact, a jar of honey will remain completely edible to humans for over 3000 years.
The “Guinness Book of World Records” holds the record for being the book that is most often stolen from public libraries.
Someone who suffers from "anatidaephobia" believes that somewhere, somehow a duck or goose is constantly watching them.
The Incredible Hulk was initially supposed to be gray, but according to Stan Lee, an issue with the printer turned the Hulk green.
SENIOR DEPARTMENT
APPLE I-PHONE
Apple were originally designing an apple shaped flip phone -before the first iPhone- -Before the original design for an iPhone, Apple patented a phone design in the shape of an actual apple. It was a flip phone that, when closed, would look like the Apple logo.
ATOM COUNT
It is hard to grasp just how small the atoms that make up your body are until you take a look at the sheer number of them. An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
SINGULAR- PLURAL
There are many nouns which have different meanings as singular and plural.
For example:
Air – atmosphere
Airs – affected manners
Blind – unable to see because of injury, disease, or a congenital condition.
Blinds – a screen for a window, especially one on a roller or made of slats.
Character– the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.
Characters- People in a novel, play, or film
WATER INTEGRATOR — a computer that ran on water
Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov built the world’s first computer in 1936 that solved differential equations in partial derivatives. The amazing fact is that the machine was driven by water.
ALOE VERA
The clear gel of Aloe Vera can heal wounds and burns by forming a protective coating on the affected area.
By ASHIRA SEHGAL (X-B)
TREES
Trees help to maintain the balance in nature. A single tree can absorb approximately one ton of Carbon dioxide during its lifetime.
AASHIRA SEHGAL X-B
THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA
The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never straight. Known for its four-degree lean, this Italian bell tower was constructed in the 12th century. When construction on the second storey started, the tower started to lean, due to the unstable ground it was built on.
Mishita Gogia IX B
THE FIRST EVER VCR
When the first VCR (Video Camera Recorder) was made in 1956, it was the size of a piano.
Mishita Gogia IX B
More time passed between the start and end of construction on the Great Wall of China than Between the start of Christianity and today.
Prachi IX B
GIRIH TILES
Girih Tiles, used By Islamic Architects for Hundreds of Years, are Mathematically similar to Penrose Tiling discovered in the 1970s.
Prachi IX B
SCIENTIFIC TRIVIA: DID YOU KNOW?
Our brain uses approximately 20% of the total Oxygen pumped around the body. About 750 ml of blood pumps through the brain every minute. Each half of the brain controls the opposite half of the body.
Ashira Sehgal IXB
