Unicus General Knowledge Olympiad Class 6 Syllabus
Class 6
1. The World of Sports
- Terms in football, basketball, tennis, chess, etc,
- National games of countries
- Sports equipment
- Emerging sports e.g., e-sports
2. Canvas of Cultures
- Art and culture e.g. global cuisines like French baguettes, Japanese sushi, and Indian biryani, festivals such as Rio Carnival (Brazil), Diwali (India), and Chinese New Year.
- Dance forms like Flamenco (Spain), and Ballet (France), and music styles such as Jazz (USA) and Reggae (Jamaica)
3. World's Pinnacles
- Angel Falls in Venezuela is the tallest waterfall
- Lake Baikal is the deepest lake
- The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral system
- Greenland is the largest island
- The Amazon River holds the title of the largest river system by discharge
4. Minds Behind Marvels
- Inventions like rubber bands, xerography, velcro, and bubble wrap
5. The Past Unfolds
- Ancient Civilizations
- Impact of World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), The Cold War (1947-1991), The Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s), The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
6. Pens of Power
- Famous books that impacted the world
- International literary awards (e.g., Nobel Awards, Booker, etc.)
- Pulitzer prize
- Biographies of famous authors
7. Code Crackers
- Abbreviations like OMR, GSM, APIs, PIN, VPN, B2B, B2C, PDF, JPEG, KPIs, ROI, IPO, ETF, Rx, BMI, ECG, QR, OEM, SaaS, BPM, PSI, MVP
8. A Journey of Firsts
- First person in space (Yuri Gagarin)
- First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova)
- The first person to climb Mount Everest (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay)
- First satellite in space (Sputnik 1)
- First computer (ENIAC)
- First man-made object on the moon (Luna 2) etc.
9. Shaped by Earth
- Physical features of earth e.g Longitudes and latitudes
- World time zones
- GMT
- Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn
- Daylight Saving Time (DST)
- ITCZ
- Equatorial rainfall
- Auroras
10. Map of Marvels
- Important places in the world like Natural wonders e.g Great Barrier Reef, Amazon rainforest, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites