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• On Sept 8, 1983, Pandurang Hegde, the fiery activist, started
the _______ (to hug) movement. This movement started in
Gubbi Gadde, a small village near Sirsi in the (north) Uttara
Kannada district, has forced the forest department to change
the forest policy on felling of trees.
• He derived inspiration from Sunderlal Bahugana's Chipko
movement in Uttar Pradesh, in which villagers used to hug
trees to save them from being felled by the State. The
movement was started against monoculture in the Western
Ghats. Ubsu ("save"), Belesu ("grow") and Balasu ("rational
use") - is movement's popular slogan.
Which movement I am talking about?
7. • African Apple Snail
• Papaya Mealy Bug
• Cotton Mealy Bug
• Amazon Sailfin Catfish
• Orange Cup Coral
These are some common species found in India that are
specifically categorized as ________. These species establishes
outside of its natural past or present distribution, whose
introduction and/or spread threaten biological diversity.
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9. • Buzkashi is the national sport of Afghanistan, During
the rule of the Taliban regime, buzkashi was banned in
Afghanistan, as the Taliban considered the game
immoral. After the Taliban regime was ousted, the
game resumed being played.
• It is called Kokpar in Kazakhstan, Kokuboru in
Kyrgyzstan
What is so peculiar about this Sport? . (Image follows)
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12. • Queen Elizabeth
• Abraham Lincoln
• John F Kennedy
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Christian Dior
• Mahabharat characters Arjun and Bhim.
• ‘Taj Mahal’ and ‘Eiffel Tower’.
• President Pranab
• Suvra Mukharjee
Connect.
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14. • X are one of the most resilient known animals, with
individual species able to survive extreme conditions that
would be rapidly fatal to nearly all other known life forms,
such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme
pressures (both high and low), air deprivation, radiation,
dehydration, and starvation.
• They have been found everywhere: from mountain tops to
the deep sea and mud volcanoes, from tropical rain forests
to the Antarctic.
• They are the first known animals to survive in space.
• The name roughly means "slow stepper"
ID X
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16. X is associated with spring, especially through the
poems and songs of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath
Tagore, who likened its bright orange flame-like
flower to fire. In Santiniketan, where Tagore lived,
this flower has become an indispensable part of the
celebration of spring. The plant has lent its name to
the town of______, famous for the historic Battle of
Y fought there.
ID X & Y.
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18. • Although X trees in India, Pakistan, and Nepal are
government-owned and their harvest is controlled, many
trees are illegally cut down. Due to this Y's prices have risen
to $2,000 per kg recently.
• The high value of the species has caused its past
exploitation, to the point where the wild population is
vulnerable to extinction. It still commands high prices for its
essential Y, but due to lack of sizable trees it is no longer
used for fine woodworking as before
• It is considered sacred in some religions and is used in
different religious traditions.
What is X&Y.(Y is a product derived from X)
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20. 8
• __________ , a village located on the northern banks of Chilika Lake
in Odisha, was famous as ‘poachers’ village’ because of the
involvement of villagers in water bird poaching on a large,
commercial scale. It was no surprise therefore, when the census in
the year 2000, counted a mere 5,000 birds in these waters.
• Department Forest and Environment and many private agencies put
in efforts to reverse the situation. After many battles and years of
deliberation, managed to wean the poachers away from their trade
by giving them hope of a sustainable and peaceful livelihood from
tourism that the __________ Marshes held immense potential for.
The erstwhile poachers today actively patrol and protect their
marshes from bird poachers. Born naturalists, they monitor the bird
population, co-ordinate with the forest department, assist in
research.
FITB
22. 9
• In this song, X not only addresses environmental issues such as
deforestation and overfishing of the oceans, but also talks about
other moral issues, for example how children die because of a war.
• X addresses these issues primarily through questions. He begins
with very natural images, e.g. sunrise and rain. Thus he
immediately seems to set the focus on appearances of nature. But
he then contrasts this by the notion of killing fields, something very
man-made. This is a first hint at human destructive power. This is
not only limited to us humans, as one could assume at the first
moment, but also concerns nature. A killing field can be a place of a
war, and a place where we killed animals or destroyed nature in
order for personal wealth, space and belongings. A killing field (of a
war) looks often very devastated and desolate after the battle is
over. Nature might look like this, too.
Identify X and the song.
24. 10
• X was born at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas,
on May 27, 1999. He was named by Dan Van Coppenolle, a
local area counsellor who won a naming contest
sponsored by the zoo.He came up with the name after
listening to the song "Working Together for Freedom"
by Rita Marley.
• X was responsible for selling of a Cheeto for $99,900 on
ebay but has been in news since May 2016 for a
completely different reason. (Image follows)
ID X.
31. 13
• Apart from Switch Hit, Kevin Pieterson’s this shot
had caught eye of many wherein he flicks
deliveries from outside off stump through mid
wicket.
• The shot was hailed for its constrained use of
limbs in executing it. This shot was thus named
after a creature from natural world. (Image follows)
Name the creature or the shot.
34. 14
Former Urban development minister Venkaiah
Naidu said that the New Delhi Municipal
Corporation employs “40 trained young men to
do a particular job”.
Govt came up with this idea after protests from
animal rights activists and a court order?
Identify what is this particular job, they were
hired for?
35. 14
Men will make the screeching noises
similar to those of blacked faced
langur monkeys, to frighten red
faced macaque monkeys.
36. 15
• When Lord Shiva gifted, NANDI- the bull, to Goddess
Parvati Brothers, they killed it in greed in order to find out
some hidden treasure inside Nandi. Hearing the demise of
Nandi , Parvati become furious and cursed them that they
will never able to farm and will belong to X community.
• This Community is also mentioned in the epic
Mahabharata in the incident of Varnavaat.
• X is tribal community settled in Central India. They lived
highly drought prone and highly arid part of India.
ID X.
38. 16
They are introduced as:-
With lion lurking in the longgrass , dotted across a dusty
rectangle of dirt of the Savanna grasslands , bare chested
______in traditional clothing-plaid red fabrics and colourful
accessories made of father and beads .
• This tribe is the one of the most unusual and unlikely
cricket team.
• Their claim to fame was in 2013, when these people
decided to compete in the “Last man stands world
championship” in LORDS in London.
40. • On a rainy October of 2015, X looked out from his sea facing
apartment in Mumbai and the sight left him disturbed.
• 69 weeks later, he drew world’s attention by removing 4500
tonnes of trash , cleaning 52 toilets and removing trash from
creeks with local residents and fisherman.
• UN Environmental Programme called it world’s largest
clean-up in history. They awarded X “the champion of Earth”
at Cancun in Mexico, last December making him the first
Indian to achieve such a feet.
ID X and what is the incident.
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42. 18
The plant is associated with variety of superstitious
practices including magic rituals and witchcraft
from ancient times. In one superstition, people who
pull up this root will be condemned to hell, and the
X root would scream as it was pulled from the
ground, killing anyone who heard it. Both the genus
and common name of this plant refers to likeness
of this root to humans.
Name this plant.
45. 19
X is a sparrow-sized bird of the family Estrildidae.
Its another name is strawberry Finch. The species
name and the common name of X is derived from
the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. These birds
produce a distinctive low single note pseep call
that is often given in flight. The song is a series of
low notes and it help to make sleep for the
people who is suffering from insomnia.
ID X
47. 20
• Known as the X , there even is a “continent” made from the
plastic trash, floating in the Pacific Ocean. According to
some estimates, the patch can be as large as twice the size
of the US.
• It is located roughly
between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N and 42°N. The patch
extends over an indeterminate area of widely varying range
depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to
define the affected area.
ID X.
49. 21
• One of the most crucial non-human resources of the
Indian army is dogs. The duties of these K-9 recruits are
to sniff and identify dangers, and they begin training
right from when they are puppies.
• At the moment, German Shepherds, Great Swiss
Mountain dogs, and Labradors are three of the most
popular species recruited in the army. But ________
dogs will soon stand paw-to-paw with these breeds as
the Indian army is all set to recruit these Indian species.
FITB
53. 23
• X as a concept was introduced in Kyoto Protocol, Article
17 as central element in form of Clean Development
Mechanism.
• Under this system the power plants will be issued with
an allowance to release a certain amount of Y. The
individual plants which release less than their target
through clean practice and become more efficient can
trade their excess permit to other generators.
Give X and Y.
55. 24
________Camel or Swimming Camels are found only in Gujarat’s Bhuj
area. It has been recently recognized as a separate breed (one among
nine such breeds found in India) of camel for better conservation.
This camel is adapted to the extreme climate of Ran of Kachh where
shallow seas and high salinity is prevalent. _______ Camel can live in
both coastal and dry ecosystems. It grazes on saline / mangrove trees
and is tolerant to high saline water. It can swim up to three
kilometers into the sea in search of mangroves, their primary food.
The camel is distinct from other camels because of its rounded back,
long and thin legs and small feet. According to local beliefs, the
camels are unique and if you drink their milk, you will be cured of
diabetes.
Which breed of camel?
60. • This is a very popular image of this Crested Macaque clicked
through the camera of David Slecker, a British photographer.
Tell me the name of this Macaque and claim
to fame.
61. After work on possible viral causes of the decline, the culprit was
discovered by Dr. Lindsay Oaks and his team at The Peregrine
Fund in 2003 to be _________. ___________ is a common anti-
inflammatory drug administered to livestock and is used to treat
the symptoms of inflammation, fevers and/or pain associated
with disease or wounds. It was widely used in India beginning in
the 1990s. The drug is fatal to vultures, however, and a vulture is
exposed to a mortal dose of _________ if it eats from the carcass
of an animal that has been treated with _________ recently. A
simulation model demonstrated that if only 1% of carcasses were
contaminated by _________, Indian vulture populations would
fall by between 60% and 90% annually, and a study of carcasses
showed that about 10% were contaminated.