The Knowledge Book -7 Answer Key

ANIMALS AND PLANTS

Page 5 1. Penguins 2.Ostriches 3. Emus 4. Kiwis 5. Rheas 6. Cassowarys

Page 6 1. Pre-historic animals 2. Dinosaurs 3. Dodo 4. Moa 5. Steller’s sea cow 6. Tasmanian wolf 7.
Quagga

Page 7 1. Dalmatians 2. Pomeranian 3. Chihuahua 4. Alsatian 5. German Shepherd 6. Great Dane 7.

Husky 8. St. Bernard 9. Rajapalayam 10. Golden retriever 11. Laika 12. Chow Chow 13. Puli 14. St.
Bernard 15. Dingo

Page 8 1. Elephant 2. Koolokamba 3. Male 4. Forty 5. 7–9 metres 6. Opposum 7. Snail 8. Tapir 9.
Sonar 10. Queen 11. Beaver 12. Male Gorillas 13. Seahorse 14. Dolphin 15. Squid 16. Coughs 17.
Puffin 18. African 19. Tibet 20. Squirrel like rodent

Page 9 1. Sandalwood 2. Banyan 3. Laburnum 4. Coconut 5. Teak 6. Deodar 7. Tamarind 8. Mango

9. Neem 10. Peepal 11. Nursery 12. Plantation 13. Grove 14. Farm 15. Paddy field 16. Orchard 17.
Vineyard 18. Green house

Page 10 1. Sericulture 2. Apiculture 3. Arboriculture 4. Agriculture 5. Aquaculture 6. Floriculture

7. Horticulture 8. Pisciculture 9. Silviculture 10. Lac-culture 11. Olericulture 12. Cell culture

Page 11 1. Prairies 2. Savannahs 3. Pampas 4. Steppes 5. Velds 6. Farmlands 7. Prairies 8. Pampas 9.

Prairies 10. Pampas

Page 12 1. haemoglobin 2. chlorophyll 3. melanin 4. brownish red 5. xanthophyll 6. anthocyanin 7.

carotene 8. brown 9. blue 10. yellow 11. iris 12. pupil 13. colour blind 14. yellow sand 15. oils 16.
pollution

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Page 13 1. E 2. A 3. T 4. S 5. H 6. M 7. B 8. I 9. P 10. N

Page 14 1. Autobiography 2. Biography 3. Character 4. Couplet 5. Drama 6. Fiction 7. Gothic novel 8.

Non-fiction 9. Novel 10. Tragedy 11. Epic 12. Elegy 13. Fable 14. Satire 15. Sonnet 16. Plot 17.
Lyric 18. Criticism 19. Rhetoric 20. Metaphor

Page 15 1. Winston Churchill 2. Winston Churchill 3. George Bernard Shaw 4. Shelley 5. Bertrand
Russell 6. Oliver Goldsmith 7. Pope 8. Confucius 9. Mahatma Gandhi 10. Shakespeare

Page 16 1. Earth 2. Book 3. Turkish (Kehveh) 4. Tongue 5. Kick- back 6. White robed 7. Dusty 8.
Walking hospital 9. Alone 10. Hood 11. Word play 12. Counting by heads 13. Big wind 14. Man of the
forest 15. Attendant

Page 17 1. (e) 2. (h) 3. (l) 4. (g) 5. (j) 6. (i) 7. (k) 8. (m) 9. (n) 10. (o) 11. (f) 12. (a) 13. (b)
14. (c) 15. (d)
Page18 1. Anon 2. Samuel Johnson 3. Satire 4. Palindrome 5. Abstemious or Facetious 6. Bookworm 7.
Calligraphy 8. An exact copy 9. A pepper 10. Anagram 11. Sphinx 12. Connoisseur 13. Pottery 14.
Postpone 15. Fleece 16. Excavation 17. Smith 18. Herbs 19. Please reply 20. Common sense

Page19 1. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation 2. United Nations International
Children's Emergency Fund 3. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development 4. United
Nations Fund for Population Activities 5. United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan 6. United
Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development 7. United Nations Industrial
Development Organisation 8. United Nations Relief and Works Agency of Palestine Refugees in the Near
East 9. United Nations Office for Project Services 10. Union for the Total Independence fo Angola 11.
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 12. United Nations Conference of Trade and
Development 13. United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan 14. United Nations Iraq–
Kuwait Observer Mission 15. United Nations Institute for Training and Research 16. United Nations
University 17. United Nations Information Centre 18. United Nations Atomic Energy Commission 19.
United Nations Development Programme

Page 20 1. detergent 2. pungent 3. junction 4. invigilator 5. convoy 6. cantonment 7. browsing 8. window

shopping 9. mezzanine 10. blonde 11. monopoly 12. niche 13. itinerary 14. schedule 15. hazard 16.
dog-leg 17. compliment 18. sculpture

Page 211. Hospital 2. Danger 3. Peace 4. Prosperity 5. Olympic Games 6. Surrender 7. Safety and all
clear 8. Mourning 9. Resentment 10. Judaism 11. Bahai’s Faith 12. Buddhism 13. Islam 14. Christianity
15. Hinduism 16. Shintoism 17. Zoroastrianism 18. Sikhism 19. wisdom

Page 22 1. (g) 2. (n) 3. (r) 4. (a) 5. (j) 6. (p) 7. (b) 8. (q) 9. (o) 10. (d) 11. (l) 12. (c) 13. (f)
14. (s) 15. (t) 16. (e) 17. (m) 18. (k) 19. (i) 20. (h)

SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Page 24 1. Prakash Padukone 2. Indira Gandhi 3. Vijay Amritraj 4. Dhyan Chand 5. New Zealand 6.
Yasin Merchant 7. Milkha Singh 8. Geet Sethi 9. 1928 10. Ravi Shastri 11. Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
12. Sunil Gavaskar 13. Vijay Amritraj 14. P.T. Usha 15. Mohammad Azharuddin 16. Karnam
Malleshwari 17. Mihir Sen 18. Ramanathan Krishnan 19. Sachin Tendulkar 20. Rahul Dravid

Page25 1. Greece 2. France 3. USA 4. England 5. Sweden 6. Belgium 7. France 8. The Netherlands 9.
USA 10. Germany 11. England 12. Finland 13. Australia 14. Italy 15. Japan 16. Mexico 17. Germany
18. Canada 19. Russia 20. USA 21. South Korea 22. Spain 23. USA 24. Australia 25. Greece 26 China
27. England

Page 26 1. Muhammad Ali 2. The Flying Sikh 3. Boris Becker 4. Emil Zatopeck 5. P.T. Usha 6. Greg
Norman 7. Vivian Richards 8. Imran Khan 9. Ian Thorpe 10. Florence Griffith Joyner 11. Jesse Owens
12. Lothar Matthaus 13. Pete Sampras 14. Clive Lloyd 15. Lence Kluesner 16. Wilt Chamberlain 17.
Navjot Singh Sidhu 18. Glenn McGrath 19. Shoaib Akhtar 20. Donald Bradman

Page 27 1. Bye runs 2. Leg bye 3. Cover point 4. Drive 5. No ball 6. Hat trick 7. Hit wicket 8. Maiden
over 9. Run-out 10. Wide 11. Short leg 12. Googly 13. Follow on 14. LBW 15. Duck
Page 28 1. Carl Lewis 2. Muhammad Ali 3. Wasim Akram 4. Baichung Bhutia 5. Michael Jordan 6.
Anna Kournikova 7. Leander Paes 8. Alan Donald

Page 29 1. (e) 2. (j) 3. (a) 4. (p) 5. (o) 6. (n) 7. (b) 8. (m) 9. (f) 10. (d) 11. (g) 12. (c) 13. (h)
14. (i) 15. (l) 16. (k)

Page 30 1. Brazil 2. Every four years 3. Gymnastics 4. The New Zealand team 5. Squash 6. Every four
years 7. Swimming strokes 8. Skiing 9. Badminton 10. Rugby 11. Football 12. Tennis 13. Golf 14.
The player is sent off 15. 18 16. Sumo wrestling 17. Baseball 18. Ice hockey 19. Badminton 20. Golf

Page 31 1. Gymnastic exercise for women 2. Boxing 3. 20 4. Motot Racing 5. Fencing 6. Golf 7. Football
8. Polo 9. The high Jump 10. Surfing 11. Javed Miandad 12. Six 13. Baseball 14. Oval 15. Black Pearl
16. Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro 17. Fifteen 18. Golf 19. Sixteen 20. Polo

Page 32 1. Bharata Natyam 2. Kathakali 3. Kathak 4. Kuchipudi 5. Manipuri 6. Odissi

Page 33 1. M.S. Subbulakshmi 2. Pandit Ravi Shankar 3. Zakir Hussain 4. Amjad Ali Khan 5. Lata
Mangeshkar 6. Dev Anand 7. Hari Prasad Chaurasia 8. Uday Shankar

Page 341. Carnatic 2. Hindustani 3. Ghazal 4. Raja Ravi Verma 5. Bihar 6. M.S. Subbulakshmi 7.
Naushad Ali 8. R.K. Narayan 9. Delhi 10. Kagaz ke Phool 11. Hum Log 12. Pandit Ravi Shankar 13.
Kathak 14. Guitar 15. Illyaraja 16. Nirad C. Chaudury 17. Hand gesture or mudra 18. Andhra Pradesh
19. Mumbai 20. Bhupen Hazarika

INDIA—PEOPLE, PLACES AND PRACTICES

Page 35 1. Rakesh Sharma 2. Rabindranath Tagore 3. Vinoba Bhave 4. S.V. Krishnamoorthy 5. Sakumar
Sen 6. Hiralal J. Kania 7. R.D. Katari 8. S. Mukherjee 9. K. M. Carriappa 10. G. Sankara Kurup 11.
Gautam Kaji 12. MG Ramachandran 13. C.K. Naidu 14. Lala Amarnath 15. Dada Bhai Naoroji

Page 361.Arunachal Pradesh 2. Mizoram 3. Dimapur 4. Shillong 5. Tipi 6. Udaipur 7. Melhite Kenye 8.
Maniram Dewan 9. Dr. Mamoni Raisom Goswami 10. Heikru Hitongba 11. Sagol Kangjei(Polo) 12. Dr.
Bhupen Hazarika

Page 37 1.Bhatrat Ratna 2. Padma Vibhushan 3. Padma Bhushan 4. Padma Shri 5. Param Vir Chakra
6. Mahavir Chakra 7. Vir Chakra 8. Dada Saheb Phalke Award 9. Sangeet Natak Academy Award
10. Sahitya Academy Award 11. Jnanpith Award 12. Nehru Award for International Understanding
13. Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puruskar 14. Arjun Award

Page 381. Jantar Mantar 2. Hindola Mahal 3. Pragati Maidan 4. Dal Lake 5. Victoria Memorial 6.
Elephanta Caves 7. Bodh Gaiya 8. Tower of Victory 9. Gandhi Sadan 10. Anand Bhavan 11. Char Minar
12. Tirupati

Page 391. Jwala Ji 2. Amarnath 3. Hardwar 4. Sanchi 5. Vrindavan 6. Vaishnodevi 7. Allahabad 8.

Ajmer 9. Belur Math 10. Pushkar 11. Hazrat Bal in Kashmir 12. Varanasi 13. Sravanabelagola 14. Ganga
Sagar Mela 15. Dwarka

Page 40 1. Bandhana 2. Kalamkari 3. Chikan 4. Zardosi 5. Madhubani paintings 6. Silver filigree

7. Mennakari 8. Dokra metal craft 9. Terracotta 10. Marwahi shilp 11. Ikat 12. Phulkari
 Page 41 1.13th April 1919 2. 31st August 1920 3. 6th April 1919 4. 5th February 1922 5. 8th April
1929 6. 23rd March 1931 7. 26th January 1930 8. 12th January 1930 9. August 1942 10. 16th August
1946 11. 15th August 1947 12. 26th November 1949 13. 30th December 1906 14. 22nd July 1947 15.
28 December 1885

Page 42 1. Surat 2. The Quit India Movement 3. Nathu Ram Godse 4. Lord Canning 5. Siraj-ud-daulah
6. A.O. Humes 7. Le Corbusier 8. Tantia Tope 9. Hugh Rose 10. Subhash Chandra Bose 11. W.C.
Bonerjee 12. Non-violence 13. Azad Hind Fauz 14. Forward Block 15. Bahadur Shah Zafar

Page 43 1.Mt. Abu 2. Madurai 3. Konark 4. Bodh Gaya 5. New Delhi 6. Tirupati 7. Gujarat 8. Himachal
Pradesh 9. Jammu 10. Kashmir 11. Bhubaneshwar 12. Puri 13. Gujarat 14. Kolkata 15. Palitana, Gujarat

Page 44 1. Verghese Kurien 2. Alaque Padamsee 3. R.K. Narayan 4. Hema Malini 5. Shakuntala Devi 6.
APJ Abdul Kalam 7. Salim Ali 8. Shivaji 9. M. S. Swaminathan 10. Tipu Sultan 11. Rani Laxmi Bai 12.
J.R.D. Tata 13. Sachin Tendulkar 14. Sarojini Naidu 15. Kalidas 16. Bhagat Singh 17. Acharya Rajneesh
18. Dada Saheb Phalke 19. Indira Gandhi 20. Jamashedji Tata

WORLD—PEOPLE, PLACES AND PRACTICES

Page 46 1. King Khalid International Airport (Saudi Arabia) 2. Deutsche Bank AG 3. Taipei 101 (Taiwan)
4. Windsor Castle 5. Cathedral Church (New York) 6. Balisca of St. Peter (Vatican City) 7. Mahabharta
8. International Exposition Centre (Cleveland) 9. United States Library of Congress (Washington DC) 10.
Steel Tower Near Yokohama (Japan) 11. American Museum of Natural History (New York) 12. Grand
Central Terminal (New York City) 13. Angkor Wat (Cambodia) 14. Great Wall of China 15. Hinduism

Page 47 1. Godwin Austin 2. Great Australian 3. Atlantic 4. Superior (North America) 5. New Guinea 6.
India 7. Mongefossen (Venezuela) 8. Amazon 9. Africa 10. Central Africa 11. India 12. Canada 13.
Saturn 14. USA 15. Emu

Page 481. (k) 2. (m) 3. (h) 4. (n) 5. (c) 6. (o) 7. (j) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (d) 11. (l) 12. (f) 13. (e)
14. (i) 15. (g)

Page 491. Imran Khan 2. Walt Disney 3. Lord Baden Powell 4. Dilip Kumar 5. Benazir Bhutto 6. Salim
Ali 7. Medha Patkar 8. George W. Bush 9. Lara Dutta 10. Satyajit Ray 11. Amjad Ali Khan 12. Shankar
13. Thomas Cook 14. Maria Montessory

Page 50 1. Sir Isaac Newton 2. Nicolaus Copernicus 3. Galileo Galilei 4. Herschel 5. Johannes Kepler
6. Edmond Halley 7. Edwin Powell 8. Aryabhata 9. Ptolemy 10. Christian Johann Doppler

Page 511. Julius Caesar 2. Confucius 3. Marco Polo 4. George Stephenson 5. Leonardo Da Vinci 6.
Jesus Christ 7. Florence Nightingale 8. Helen Keller 9. Charles Darwin 10. Walt Disney 11. Socrates
12. Martin Luther King

Page 52,531.Ayatollah Khomeini 2. Yasser Arafat 3. Saddam Hussain 4. Martin Luther King Jr. 5. John
F. Kennedy 6. Fidel Castro 7. Franklin D. Roosevelt 8. Dalai Lama 9. V.I. Lenin 10. Mussolini 11.
Babur 12. Harun-al-Rashid 13. Josef Stalin 14. Ching Kai Shek 15. Hirohito
Page 54 1. Pope 2. Aristophanes 3. Hippocrates 4 Nicolaus Copernicus 5. Charles Babbage 6. Homer
7. Geoffry Chaucer 8. Herodotus 9. John Ray 10. Adam Smith 11. Louis Daguerre 12. Isaac Newton
13. Susruta 14. Otto Hahn 15. Gallon 16. Aeschylus 17. Alexander Graham Bell 18. Edward Jenner 19.
George Stephenson 20. John Bell

Page 55 1. 24 Oct 1945 2. Olive Branch 3. New York 4. 30 Oct 1945 5. New York 6. 6 7. General
Assembly 8. General Assembly 9. Secretary General 10. San Francisco 11. 50 12. 191 13. 6 14. China,
France, Russia, UK, USA 15. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Page 56 1. USA 2. Germany 3. France 4. Britain 5. Japan 6. USA 7. Germany 8. Russia 9. China 10.
Tibet (Now China) 11. Japan 12. China 13. USA 14. Russia 15. Switzerland 16. USA 17. Iceland 18.
Belgium 19. Singapore 20. Brazil

Page 57 1.Greenland 2. Inuits, Eskimos 3. New Guinea 4. Great Sandy Island 5. Australia 6. Cyprus

7. Christmas Island 8. Kiritimati Atoll 9. Mauritius 10. Honshu 11. Hawaii 12. Sri Lanka 13. Cuba

14. Madagascar 15. Iceland

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Page 581. Carbohydrate 2. Protein 3. Fat 4. Minerals 5. Vitamins 6. Fibres 7. Water 8. Vitamin A 9.
Vitamin C 10. Vitamin D 11. Vitamin E 12. Vitamin K

Page 591. 70-75 2. liver 3. 98.6°F or 37°C 4. liver 5. arteries 6. veins 7. endocrine glands 8. pancreas
9. kidney 10. nerves 11. voluntary 12. involuntary 13. leucocytes 14. skull 15. spleen

Page 60 1. air cleaner 2. air compressor 3. air conditioner 4. air force 5. air lock 6. air brush 7. airline 8.
air mail 9. airport 10. air bladder 11. aircraft carriers 12. air-borne troops

Page 611. Plate and window glass 2. Fused Silica 3. Safety glass 4. Pyrex 5. Wire glass 6. Photochromic
glass 7. Glass ceramics 8. Optical fibre 9. Fibre glass 10. Bullet resisting glass

Page 62 1. Microprocessor 2. Central Processing Unit 3. Micro- controller 4. Microcomputers 5. Semi-

conductors 6. Transistor 7. RAM 8. Buses 9. Integrated Circuits 10. Clean rooms

Page 63 1. Mars 2. Mercury 3. Venus 4. Jupiter 5. Saturn 6. Neptune 7. Pluto 8. Earth 9. Inner planets
10. Outer planets

Page 64 1. (e) 2. (k) 3. (h) 4. (g) 5. (i) 6. (l) 7. (j) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (c) 11. (d) 12. (f)

Page 65 1. Milky Way 2. Galaxy 3. Quasar 4. Eclipse 5. Meteorite 6. Universe 7. Nebula 8. Telescope
9. Asteroid 10. Orbit 11. Planet 12. Star 13. Comet 14. Solar System 15. Black Hole

Page 66 1. convex 2. heat 3. higher 4. refraction 5. conduction 6. transparent 7. umbra 8. echo 9.

radiation 10. sun 11. kinetic 12. heat 13. length 14. concave 15. infrasonic 16. milk 17. ozone 18.
hydrogen
Page 67 1. Paper chase 2. Paper clip 3. Paperless 4. Paper-thin 5. Paper tiger 6. Paper trail 7. Paper work
8. White paper 9. Paper round 10. Paper weight 11. Paper towel 12. Paper money

Page 68 1. Carbon dioxide 2. Diamond 3. Graphite 4. Charcoal 5. Animal Charcoal 6. Lamp back 7.
CO2 8. Vinegar 9. Urea 10. Carbohydrates 11. Chalk 12. Chloroform 13. Carbon monoxide 14.Coal

Page 69 1. Michael Faraday 2. Benjamin Franklin 3. Thomas Alva Edison 4. Thales 5. Charles Augustin
de Coulomb 6. Count Volta 7. Andre Marie Ampere 8. Joseph Henry

MIXED BAG

Page 70 1. Diamond 2. Emerald 3. Amber 4. Aquamarine 5. Alexandrite 6. Amethyst 7. Cornelian 8.

Corundum 9. Onyx 10. Opal 11. Ruby 12. Sapphire 13. Pearl 14. Garnet

Page 71 1. Violin, Stringed 2. Clarinet, Wind 3. Oboe, Wind 4. Piano, Keyboard 5. Bass, Stringed 6.
Flute, Wind 7. Guitar, Stringed 8. Trumpet, Wind 9. Drum, Percussion 10. Pipe Organ, Keyboard 11.
Xylophone, Percussion 12. Lute, Stringed

Page 72 1. Bengal Gazette 2. Times of India 3. Mumbai Samachar 4. Over 50,000 5. 16 November 6.
Kesari 7. Press Trust of India, United News of India 8. UNIVARTA 9. Bhasha 10. Hindustan Samachar
11. Press Information Bureau 12. Supplement 13. Editorial 14. James Hicky

Page 73 1. Bible 2. Bible 3. Christianity 4. Elijah and Enoch 5. Christianity 6. Christianity 7. Bethlehem
8. Nazareth 9. Noah 10. Gabriel 11. Carols 12. Apostles 13. Cain and Abel 14. Joseph 15. Latin

Page 74 1. Madhya Pradesh 2. 1911 3. Hyderabad 4. Venice 5. Leveret 6. Karl Landsteiner 7. Joseph
Priestly 8. London 9. Vitamin K 10. Meerut 11. William Harvey 12. Tram Cars 13. Kumbh Mela 14.
Albania 15. F.W. De Klerk 16. T.E. Lawrence 17. Vitamin C 18. Talmud 19. Amarkot 20. Karl Marx

Page 75 1. Zeus, Jupiter 2. Hera, Juno 3. Aphrodite, Venus 4. Demeter, Ceres 5. Artemis, Diana 6.
Athene, Minerva 7. Hestia, Vesta 8. Apollo, Apollo 9. Ares, Mars 10. Hephaestus, Vulcan 11. Hermes,
Mercury 12. Poseidon, Neptune

Page 76 1. J.R.D. Tata 2. Wiley Post 3. Boutros Boutros Ghali 4. Pele 5. Aditya Paudwal 6. Jaspal Rana
7. Dr. P.V. Venugopal 8. Capt. Sudamini Deshmukh 9. 27 years 10. C.N. Annadurai 11. Charles Freer
Andrews 12. Vishwanathan Anand 13. Sheikh Abdullah 14. Dev Anand 15. Amrita Pritam

Page 77 1. Christianity 2. Islam 3. Hinduism 4. Buddhism 5. Sikhism 6. Judaism 7. Bahai Faith 8.

Jainism 9.Taoism 10. Shintoism 11. Zoroastrianism 12. Confucianism

Page 78 1. Kalipuja 2. Chapchar Kut 3. Hemis 4. Rath Yatra 5. Carnival 6. Hola Mohalla 7. Dussehra
8. Kumbh Mela