Iconic Animals, Rare Plants, Indian Scientists & Leaders as Authors – Review Flashcards

Fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering iconic animals and their countries, rare plants and their origins, notable Indian scientists, and world leaders with their famous books, plus a few extra facts from the lecture notes.

The Javan rhinoceros, the rarest living rhino, is iconic to .

Indonesia

The Giant Panda, found in dense bamboo forests, is iconic to .

China

The Mountain Gorilla, a chest-beating ape, is iconic to .

Uganda

The Cuban greater funnel-eared bat inhabits only a cave in .

Cuba

The Koala, a pouch-carrying marsupial that sleeps up to 20 hours, is iconic to .

Australia

The Greater bamboo lemur (broad-nosed gentle lemur) is iconic to .

Madagascar

The Moose, largest member of the deer family, symbolizes , ‘the land of the maple leaf’.

Canada

The Jaguar, national animal of the country home to Chichén Itzá, is iconic to .

Mexico

The Candelabra tree with poisonous milky latex is native to .

South Africa

The Ghost orchid, a leafless orchid, is found in Florida and .

Cuba

The Dragon blood tree, umbrella-shaped with red resin, is native to Socotra Island in .

Yemen

The Titan arum, a corpse-smelling giant flower, is native to Sumatra Island in .

Indonesia

The Quiver tree with tangled branches is found mostly in .

Namibia

The Kadupul flower that blooms for only one night is native to .

Sri Lanka

The Suicide palm that flowers once every 100 years and then dies is found only in .

Madagascar

The Welwitschia, a living-fossil plant, is found in the Desert.

Namib Desert

The endangered Jellyfish tree grows on the island of in Seychelles.

Mahé

The word “Kadupul” means “the flower from .”

heaven

The astrophysicist who designed ultra-light aircrafts was .

Venkataraman Radhakrishnan

The plant physiologist who built sensitive instruments for plant responses was .

Jagadish Chandra Bose

The mathematician famous for the analytical theory of numbers was .

Srinivasa Ramanujan

The ‘Father of the Indian Space Programme’ who founded ISRO was .

Vikram Sarabhai

The 1983 Physics Nobel laureate for the theory of black holes was .

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

The nuclear physicist who advanced quantum theory and cosmic radiation was .

Homi J. Bhabha

The physicist who worked with Einstein on Bose–Einstein Condensate was .

Satyendra Nath Bose

The chemist regarded as the father of chemical science in India was .

Prafulla Chandra Ray

The Hardy–Ramanujan number is .

1729

The Audacity of Hope was written by .

Barack Obama

The Second World War (book) was written by .

Winston Churchill

My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of .

Mahatma Gandhi

The Bird of Time was written by .

Sarojini Naidu

Turning Points was authored by .

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Long Walk to Freedom is the autobiography of .

Nelson Mandela

The Insider was written by .

P. V. Narasimha Rao

Midnight Diaries was authored by .

Boris Yeltsin

The Discovery of India was written by .

Jawaharlal Nehru

Sir Winston Churchill received the 1953 Nobel Prize for .

Literature

A marsupial is an animal whose young develop in a .

pouch

The Nilgiri tahr is the state animal of .

Tamil Nadu