Q.7. Known as the Father of fertilizer, this German Scientist born on May 12, 1803 devised the modern laboratory
oriented teaching method. Who is this Scientist who emphasised on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant
nutrients?
Q.8. The Internatinal Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12 since 1974. On this day The International Council of Nurses
prepares and distributes a kit which contains educational and public information materials for use by nurses everywhere.
Name the person whose birthday in 1820 was chosen to celebrate this day?
Q.9. When he was just 17, this person who was born in 1934 won a writer’s prize. His first novel called The Room on
the Roof is about an orphaned 17 year old Anglo-Indian boy, living in Dehradun, called Rusty who runs away from home
to live with his Indian friends to escape his strict guardian. Name this author who went on to become a Padma Bhushan
awardee.
Q.10. “2,000 men from Manipur were recruited in May 1917 to be deployed in France. Many died on the way to Italy
and later in France; graves have been discovered in France, Italy, Egypt and Yemen” Mayor Richard Quantrell recalled.
Name the ICS officer who raised the Manipur Labour Corps to help France during World War I
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