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SYLLABUS
FA 1 – MODULES 1-3
FA 2 – MODULES 4-6
SA 1 – MODULES 1-6
FA 3 – MODULES 7-9
FA 4 – MODULES 10-12
SA 2 – MODULES 7-12
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MODULE 1: BIRD FACTS
A. Fill in the blanks with names of birds.
1. …………… is the largest bird.
Answer: Ostrich
2. …………… is the smallest bird.
Answer: Hummingbird
3. …………… feeds on dead body.
Answer: Vulture
4. …………… is the national bird of USA
Answer: Bald headed eagle
5. …………… is found in New Zealand.
Answer: Kiwi
6. …………… is found in Antarctica.
Answer: Penguin
7. …………… is the national bird of India.
Answer: Peacock
8. …………… is the bird used to carry massages in the ancient time.
Answer: Pigeon
9. …………… is the fastest bird.
Answer: Peregrine falcon
10. …………… can see at night also.
Answer: Owl
B. Write animal gender.
1. lion- lioness
2. tiger - tigress
3. bull - cow
4. dog - bitch
5. boar - sow
6. fox - vixen
7. cock - hen
8. stag - doe
9. horse - mare
10. drake - duck
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MODULE 2: HUMAN BODY, HEALTH AND HYGIENE
A. Fill in the blanks with names of organs.
1. …………… covers the muscles of the body.
Answer: Skin
2. …………… regulates the cholesterol, blood clotting and hormonal balance.
Answer: Liver
3. …………… are the vital organs for the breathing.
Answer: Lungs
4. …………… cleans waste from the blood and regulates water in the body.
Answer: Kidney
5. …………… pumps the blood through the circulatory system.
Answer: Heart
6. …………… helps us to distinguish between different tastes.
Answer: Tongue
7. …………… is to leg as thumb is to hand.
Answer: Toe
8. …………… gives the sense of smell.
Answer: Nose
9. …………… is located in the skull.
Answer: Brain
10. …………… give the sense of sight.
Answer: Eyes
B. Fill in the blanks with correct words.
1. Children must sleep for at least …………… everyday.
Answer: 8 hours
2. We should …………… our nails regularly.
Answer: trim
3. We must take a bath …………….
Answer: daily
4. We should …………… our hair daily.
Answer: comb
5. We must wash our …………… before and after every meal.
Answer: hands
6. …………… is a vigorous exercise.
Answer: Dancing
7. …………… keeps us cheerful.
Answer: Laughing
8. We should use …………… water for drinking and cooking.
Answer: clean and safe
9. We should watch the television from some distance to keep our …………… safe.
Answer: eyes
10. We should …………… our teeth every morning.
Answer: brush
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MODULE 3: CURRENT AFFAIRS – REVISION
1. What is the busiest seaport in India?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mumbai
2. What is the full form of MHA?
Answer: Ministry of Home Affairs
3. What is the full form of MHRD?
Answer: Ministry of Human Resource Development
4. Which state is the largest producer of Wheat?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
5. Which state is the largest producer of rice?
Answer: West Bengal
6. Which is the oldest language in India?
Answer: Tamil
7. How old is Tamil?
Answer: About 5000 years old
8. What is the oldest language in the world?
Tamil
9. What is the second oldest language in the world?
Answer: Sanskrit
10. What is CAB?
Answer: Citizenship Amendment Bill
11. What is NRC?
Answer: National Register of Citizens
12. What is CAA?
Answer: Citizenship Amendment Act
13. When was the first Citizenship Act passed?
Answer: 1955
14. Who is known as Golden Girl?
Answer: PT Usha
15. Which is the tallest statue in the world?
Answer: Statue of Unity
16. What is the full form of LG?
Answer: Letter Grade
17. What is the full form of WG?
Answer: Word Grade
18. Which is the largest mall in India?
Answer: Lulu Mall, Kochi
19. What is the area of Lulu Mall?
Answer: 25 lakh square feet
20. What is the full form of CEC?
Answer: Chief Election Commissioner
21. What is the full form of NBS?
Answer: National Book Stall
22. Who is the father of Biology?
Answer: Aristotle
23. Who is the father of Bacteriology?
Answer: Louis Pasture
24. How many Lok Sabha constituencies are there in India?
Answer: 543
25. How many Lok Sabha constituencies are there in UP?
Answer: 80
26. What is the full form of SEZ?
Answer: Special Economic Zone
27. What is the full form of GDP?
Answer: Gross Domestic Product
28. Which teams are the semi-finalists of ICC World Cup 2019?
Answer: India, New Zealand, Australia and England
29. Who won the ICC World Cup in 2015?
Answer: Australia
30. Who are called Kiwis?
Answer: People of New Zealand
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MODULE 4: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A. Inventions and inventors
1. Marie Curie - Radium
2. Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
3. James Watt - Steam engine
4. J.L Baird - Television
5. Colt - Revolver
6. L E Waterman - Fountain pen
7. Thomas Alva Edison - Electric lamp
8. Rudolf Diesel - Diesel engine
9. J.B Dunlop - Bicycle tyre
10. E. Torricelli - Barometer
B. Fill in the blanks.
1. …………… convert input into information.
Answer: Computers
2. The mouse is an …………… device.
Answer: input
3. The …………… processes the data.
Answer: CPU
4. A printer is an …………… device.
Answer: output
5. …………… is the inventor of computer.
Answer: Charles Babbage
6. The keyboard has many …………….
Answer: keys
7. Keyboard is used to enter …………….
Answer: information
8. Computer has its own …………… because it cannot understand ours.
Answer: language
9. CD is a …………… storage device.
Answer: secondary
10. The …………… shows words and pictures.
Answer: monitor
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MODULE 5: FAMOUS PLACES
A. Fill in the blanks with historical places.
1. …………… are the Buddhist monasteries having unique paintings.
Answer: Ajanta caves
2. …………… in Madhya Pradesh is famous for Hindu temples.
Answer: Khajuraho
3. …………… is a cave temple famous for the temple of Kailash.
Answer: Ellora caves
4. …………… is famous for indiscriminate firing by General Dyer on April 13, 1919.
Answer: Jallianwala Bagh
5. …………… reveals existence of the Indus valley.
Answer: Lothal
6. …………… is considered as the oldest University of the world.
Answer: Nalanda
7. …………… is the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi.
Answer: Rajghat
8. …………… preached his first sermon at Sarnath.
Answer: Sarnath
B. Hill stations and states.
1. Shimla - Himachal Pradesh
2. Ooty- Tamil Nadu
3. Mahabaleshwar - Maharashtra
4. Srinagar - Jammu and Kashmir
5. Amarkantak - Chhattisgarh
6. Missouri- Uttrakhand
7. Shillong - Meghalaya
8. Panchmarhi - Madhya Pradesh
9. Mount Abu - Rajasthan
10. Darjeeling - West Bengal
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MODULE 6: ABBREVIATIONS
AIR- All India Radio
PTO – Please Turn Over
BSNL – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
UNO – United Nations Organisation
AD - Anno Domini
BC – Before Christ
AM – Ante Meridiem
PM – Post Meridiem
ASAP – As Soon As Possible
ATM – Automated Teller Machine.
PNB – Punjab National Bank
SMS - Short Messaging Service.
VIP – Very Important Person
UKG – Upper Kinder Garten
LKG - Lower Kinder Garten
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MODULE 7: SOBRIQUETS OF INDIAN CITIES
City of Chillies – Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
City of Sages – Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
The City Beautiful – Chandigarh
City of Destiny – Visakhapatnm, Andhra Pradesh
Leather City – Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Green City – Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat
Tea City of India – Dibrugarh, Assam
Motor City of India – Chennai, Tamil Nadu
The Silk City of India – Bhagalpur, Bihar
City of Prime Ministers – Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Brown City of India – Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
White City of India – Udaipur, Rajasthan
Evergreen City of India – Thiruvananthapurm, Kerala
City of Oranges – Nagpur, Maharashtra
Sandalwood City – Bengaluru, Karnataka
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MODULE 8: PLANT FACTS
A. Fill in the blanks with names of trees.
1. …………… tree has got no wood.
Answer: Banana
2. …………… tree provides us shade.
Answer: Banyan
3. …………… trees are found mainly in coastal areas.
Answer: Coconut
4. …………… wood is used to make furniture.
Answer: Teak
5. …………… is the tallest grass.
Answer: Bamboo
Fill in the blanks with suitable words.
1. …………… provide water to the plant.
Answer: Roots
2. Plants make their food in the presence of …………….
Answer: sunlight
3. …………… is a desert plant.
Answer: Cactus
4. Plants that take support to grow are called …………….
Answer: climbers
5. The …………… is a big bushy plant but smaller then a tree.
Answer: shrub
6. …………… is a plant whose leaves, flowers and seeds are used in medicines.
Answer: Herb
7. …………… is a plant that grows along the ground.
Answer: Creeper
8. …………… is a plant that grows thick with several hard stems.
Answer: Bush
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MODULE 9: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
1. Which star is at the centre of our Solar System?
2. How many stars are in the Milky Way?
3. How much time do sun rays take to reach earth?
4. Which planet is nearest to the earth?
5. Which planet is known as the Morning Star or the Evening Star?
6. Which is the largest planet in our Solar System?
7. Which planet has the most moons?
8. Which planet is closest to the sun?
9. Which is the hottest planet in the Solar System?
10. What is the Blue Planet in the Solar System?
11. Which planet has the most volcanoes?
12. When the Halley’s Comet will be visible from Earth again?
13. Which planet spins backwards relative to the others?
14. When was the first manmade object sent into space?
15. Who was the first person to reach space?
16. Who was the first woman to reach space?
17. How many days does the Moon take to orbit the Earth?
18. Who was the first person to set foot on the Moon?
19. What is the average surface temperature of the Moon?
20. What is the equatorial Circumference of Earth?
21. How many natural satellites of Earth are there?
22. Which planet has approximately the same landmass as Earth?
23. When was the Pluto reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet?
Answers:
1) Sun
2) more than 100 billion.
3) 8 minutes
4) Mercury
5) Venus
6) Jupiter
7) Jupiter with 66 moons
8) Mercury
9) Venus
10) Earth
11) Venus
12) 2061
13) Venus
14) 1957
15) Yuri Gagarin, in 1961
16) Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963
17) 27.3 days
18) Neil Armstrong
19) 107 degrees Celsius during the day and -153 degrees Celsius at night
20) 40,030 km
21) one, Moon
22) Mars
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MODULE 10: CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. Who is the Prime Minister of India?
2. Who is the President of India?
3. Who is the Home Minister of India?
4. Who is the Finance Minister of India?
5. Who is the Defence Minister of India?
6. Who is the Railway Minister of India?
7. Who is the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
8. Who is the Finance Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
9. Who is the Governor of Uttar Pradesh?
10. Who is the Chief Minister of Delhi?
11. Who is the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi?
12. Who is the Chief Minister of West Bengal?
13. Who is the Chief Minister of Uttaranchal?
14. Who is the Chief Minister of Rajasthan?
15. Who is the Chief Minister of Bihar?
16. Who is the Chief of the Defence Staff in India?
17. Who is the Chairman of SBI?
18. Who is the Chief Justice of India?
19. Who is the Chief Judge of the Allahabad High Court?
20. Who is the Vice-President of India?
ANSWERS
1) Mr Narendra Modi
2) Mrs. Draupadi Murmu
3) Mr Amit Shah
4) Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman
5) Mr Rajnath Singh
6) Mr Ashwini Vaishnav
7) Yogi Adityanath
8) Mr Suresh Khanna
9) Mrs Anandiben Patel
10) Mr Arvind Kejriwal
11) Mr Vinay Kumar Saxena
12) Ms Mamata Banerjee
13) Mr Pushkar Singh Dami
14) Mr Ashok Gehlot
15) Mr Nitish Kumar
16) General Anil Chauhan
17) Mr Dinesh Kumar Khara
18) Justice DY Chandrachud
19) Justice Pritinker Diwaker
20) Mr Jagdeep Dhankar
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MODULE 11: GENERAL AWARENESS
1. How many days do we have in a week?
Answer: Seven
2. How many days are there in a year?
Answer: 365 (not a leap year)
3. How many colors are there in a rainbow?
Answer: 7
4. Which animal is known as the ‘Ship of the Desert?’
Answer: Camel
5. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
Answer: 26
6. How many consonants are there in the English alphabet?
Answer: 21
7. How many sides are there in a triangle?
Answer: Three
8. In which direction does the sun rise?
Answer: East
9. What do you call a type of shape that has five sides?
Answer: Pentagon
10. Which month of the year has the least number of days?
Answer: February
11. Which is the largest flower in the world?
Answer: Rafflesia
12. Which are the vowels in the English alphabet series?
Answer: A, E, I , O, U
13. How many zeros are there in one hundred thousand?
Answer: Five
14. How many hours are there in two days?
Answer: 48 hours (24+24)
15. How many months of the year have 31 days?
Answer: 7 (January, March, May, July, August, October and December)
16. How many weeks are there in one year?
Answer: 52
17. Which are the colours in a rainbow?
Answer: Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
18. Which animal is called King of Jungle?
Answer: Lion
19. How many bones does an adult human have?
Answer: 206
20. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong
21. How many primary colours are there?
Answer: Three (red, yellow, blue)
22. Which way is anti-clockwise, left or right?
Answer: Left
23. How many equal sides does an isosceles triangle have?
Answer: 2
24. How many millimetres are there in 1cm?
Answer: 10
25. How many days are there in the month of February in a leap year?
Answer: 29 days
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MODULE 12: EXTREMES IN INDIA
Largest Dam - Bhakra Dam (over Sutlej river in Punjab)
Highest Waterfall - Kunchikal waterfall (in Karnataka)
Largest Port - Mumbai
Highest Airport - Leh (Laddakh)
Largest Zoo - Zoological Garden (in Kolkata)
Longest Dam - Hirakud Dam (over Mahanadi river in Odisha)
Largest Museum - National Museum (in Kolkata)
Largest Forest Area (State) - Madhya Pradesh
Largest State (in Area) - Rajasthan
Largest State (in Population) - Uttar Pradesh
Smallest State (in Area) - Goa
Smallest State (in Population) - Sikkim
Largest Salt Water Lake - Chilka Lake (in Odisha)
Highest Civilian Award Bharat Ratna
Largest Gurudwara - Golden Temple, Amritsar (in Punjab)
Largest Church - Saint Cathedral (in Goa)
Longest Beach - Marina Beach (in Chennai)
Highest Battle Field- Siachin