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WorksheetsSpecial Round (SBVQC)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
These creatures were massive sharks, so huge they were at least 20-50 times larger than today's great whites. They went extinct in the Pliocene era about 2.6 million years ago. This was a point at which the planet entered a cold phase,but recent research believes the great white shark sped up their extinction.Who is this one of the most extinct creatures found in the ocean?
Mosasaurus
Caribbean monk seal
Steller's sea cow
Megalodon
Russia has launched the world's first floating nuclear power at a ceremony in the port of the far northern city of Murmansk where it supplies heat and power to the town.State-owned atomic energy corporation Rosatom owns the nuclear power plant. It is named after a Russian polymath, scientist and writer,who made important contributions to literature,education, and science.Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. Name this scientist.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Alexei Vyushin
Mikhail Lomonosov
Evgeny Koratayev
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a concept focused on a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircrafts and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. This is not necessarily framed as a triangle but some writers gave different boundaries and vertices to the triangle. According to the Gaddis Argosy article the boundaries of the triangle are delineated giving its vertices as;
Miami,Puerto Rico,Bermuda
Florida,Bermuda,Mexico
Bermuda,Cuba,Puerto Rico
Florida, Haiti,Bermuda
Roshan Abeysundara is a Sri Lankan airman and swimmer,who also currently holds the Asian record for swimming across the Palk Strait as of April 2021.Covering distance of about 59.3 km with a record timing of 28 hours and 19 minutes he also broke the 50 year old Asian record for completing Palk Strait expedition within a short time surpassing the record of 51 hours set in 1971 by a fellow Sri Lankan swimmer. Who held this record before Roshan Abeysundara?
T.H.K.S.I De Silva
Geoffrey Charles Marks
V.S.Kumar Anandan
Julian Bolling
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Ederle won a gold medal becoming an Olympic champion and a world record-holder in five events. On August 6,1926,she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Her successful Channel swim only took 14 hours and 34 minutes to complete.Among other nicknames, the press sometimes called her "Queen of the Waves". Who is this American swimmer?
Helen Wainwright
Lillian Cannon
Florence Chadwick
Gertrude Ederle
These whales weight up to 40 tons which is more than five elephants! and guess what? They do not possess teeth but loves to sing that they even pass their songs along to the family and pack Members can you name this will this whale?
Sperm whale
Hump whale
Southern right whale
Blue whale
Far beneath the waves are the mountains canyons plains and valleys that make up the ocean floor this underwater landscape is home to as fantastic diversity diversity of wild creatures. Scientists known as oceanographers make maps of the ocean floor using which instrument?
Sonar
Radar
Breton plotter
Marine chronometer
These pipefish have an upright is S shaped body and prehensile tail ;the prehensile tail allowed them to grasp seaweeds as they often hide within them.They eat small crustaceans such as shrimps and suck them into their tubular mouths. What are these fish called?
Anglerfish
Seahorse
Butterflyfish
Clownfish
James Cook, born in a town of England joined the British royal navy in 1755. He was quickly rose by ranks and was given command of his first ship in 1759. He mastered the skills of navigation and were put into good use when he was asked to sail to Tahiti in the southern seas to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the sky. Name his first choice of ship in this event?
Titanic
Golden Hind
The Queen Mary
Endeavor
Name the long running anime series with stars a boy who wants to be the next pirate king?
Bleach
One Piece
Spirited Away
Naruto
