172.

This is an extract from Darwin's book "The Voyage of the Beagle". What is the device he is referring to in the blank?

Having crossed the Peuquenes [Piuquenes], we descended into a mountainous country, intermediate between the two main ranges, and then took up our quarters for the night. We were now in the republic of Mendoza. The elevation was probably not under 11,000 feet [...]. At the place where we slept water necessarily boiled, from the diminished pressure of the atmosphere, at a lower temperature than it does in a less lofty country; the case being the converse of that of a _____________. Hence the potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard as ever. The pot was left on the fire all night, and next morning it was boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked.

172.

This is the book "Six Thinking Hats" by Eduardo de Bono. What term did he introduce?

171.

Identify this newsmaker.

170.

He was born on 15 January 1940 and christened Kisan Baburao. His father was an unskilled worker at Ayurvedh Ashram shops. He attended schooling in Mumbai, where he studied upto class seven. He had six siblings and in his childhood, he was taken care of by his aunt. He worked at a flower shop and gradually, he started his own shop and became a florist. He joined the Indian National Army in 1963 as a driver. During the Indo-Pak war of 1965, he was the only survivor in a cross border exchange of fire, while driving in the Khem Karan sector. He again met with an a road accident in 1970. He came to his own village in 1975 and solved many of the impending problems of his village. He formed Tarun Mandal and Pani Purvatha Mandal in his own village. The village is now lit by unconventional energy sources and has been pronounced a model village by World Bank Group.

Identify this man.

169.

CONNECT!!

168.

1) 2) 3) 4)

1) Whose car is this?

2)Where and when was this photograph taken?

3) A famous mountaineer, WW II veteran, what did he start?

4)Identify the logo.

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