<section><h2>Grade 5: Global Jigyasa Weekly Quizzes: 10th October '25</h2><p><p><span style="font-size:18px;">Happy Quizzing! ❓🌍</span></p><p><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:18px;">Students of Grade 5, we hope you enjoy attempting this GK quiz with 10 questions. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:18px;">Each question❓has 4 options 🔠 of which 1 is correct✅ ! These questions are related to the happenings of the world🌍 in the past week. Keeping abreast with current affairs is very important - we must all have Global Jigyasa! </span></p><p><span style="font-size:18px;"> </span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:18px;">Stay updated! 🧠 Stay enlightened! ✨</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;"><strong></strong><strong></strong></p></p></section><section><h2><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Name the Dutch city in which its headquarters have been situated since 1997.</span></p></h2><p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px;">Hint: Capital city of Netherlands </span></p></p></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">Identify the ocean. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">- This ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">- It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">- This ocean</span><span style="font-size:18px;"> is home to the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth. </span></p><br /></h3><p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px;">Hint: Hurricane Patricia, one of the strongest hurricanes, occurred in this ocean. </span></p></p></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">This dam has been the world's largest hydroelectric dam in terms of installed capacity since 2012 generating up to 22,500 megawatts (MW) of power.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">It is built across the Yangtze River in the Hubei province, central China. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">It is located downstream from the area known as the Three Gorges.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">Look at the options given below and try to identify the name of the dam. </span></p><br /></h3><p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12px;">Hint: First word of your answer rhymes with ‘tree’ </span></p><br /></p></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr"><g-bubble jscontroller="QVaUhf" data-ci="" data-du="200" data-tp="5" jsaction="R9S7w:VqIRre;" jsshadow="" id="ow19" __is_owner="true"><span style="font-size:18px;">Angkor Wat, a</span></g-bubble><span style="font-size:18px;"> UNESCO World Heritage site is the largest religious monument in the world according to Guinness World Records and was originally built in the 12th century as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu. It is located in Southeast Asia, near the city of Siem Reap in a country famous for its rich history and ancient temples. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">Can you identify the country it is located in? </span></p></h3><p><span style="font-size:12px;">Hint: It is an Asian Country </span></p></section><section><h3><span style="font-size:18px;"></span><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">Jamini Roy, a renowned Indian painter, was honored by the Government of India with the third-highest civilian award in 1954. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">This award is preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, and followed by the Padma Shri. What is the name of this award?</span></p></h3><p><p>Hint: Order of the awards - </p><p>1) Bharat Ratna </p><p>2) Padma Vibhushan </p><p>3) ____________________</p><p>4) Padma Shri </p></p></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">Guess this endangered species for which India and Nepal have strengthened their anti-poaching efforts by establishing protected parks and reserves because only 3600 are remaining in the wild. </span><br /><span style="font-size:18px;">1. I am a large mammal found mainly in northeastern India and Nepal.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">2. I have a single horn on my head, unlike my African relatives who have two.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">3. My skin looks like thick, grey armor plates, but I am known to enjoy wallowing in mud to cool off.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">4. I am an endangered species, often living in grasslands and near Brahmaputra river basin, and I am also called the "one-horned" version of my species.</span></p></h3><p><span style="font-size:18px;"></span></p></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">In which year was Flipkart Private Limited, an Indian e-commerce company headquartered in Bangalore and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company, founded? </span></p></h3><p></p></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">The previously used official currency of Vietnam was French Indochinese currency and was also the currency of the predecessor states of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. If you had to travel to the country today what is the official currency that you will use: a currency which has been in use since May 3, 1978, and is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam? </span></p><div><br /></div></h3><p><span style="font-size:12px;">Hint: the currency rhymes with the word ' pong' </span></p></section><section><h3><p><span style="font-size:18px;">The United Kingdom (UK) is a country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. It is made up of four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:18px;">Look at the options given below. Which of the following statements accurately describes the United Kingdom?</span></p></h3><p></p></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px;">Imagine you were born on 26th December in the year when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (commonly known as the Soviet Union), a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia dissolved. In that case how old will your turn on 26th December 2024? </span></p><br /><span style="font-size:18px;"></span></h3><p><span style="font-size:12px;">Hint: Soviet Union dissolved in the year 1991 </span></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong> </strong></h2><h2>Thank you so much for attempting the quiz.<a href="https://rzp.io/l/qd-aigjq"></a></h2></h2><p><strong></strong>Stay updated😎! Stay enlightened😇!</p></section><section><h3><h2> </h2></h3></section>