Unicus General Knowledge Olympiad Class 9 Sample Paper

Syllabus:

1. Financial Literacy

1. Assets
2. Liabilities
3. Income & expenses
4. Global financial institutions (World Bank and IMF)
5. Investment strategies like stocks, bonds, mutual funds, cryptocurrency, and digital wallets like bitcoin

2. Current Affairs

1. Human rights movements, renewable energy, and EV initiatives, international treaties, and agreements, etc.

3. Economics in Action

1. Basic principles of supply and demand
2. Market structure
3. Budgeting
4. Savings
5. Investments
6. Economic policies like trade tariffs and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

4. World Visionaries

1. Leaders in the news like Ursula von der Leyen (EU)
2. Emmanuel Macron (France)
3. Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil)
4. Liz Truss (UK)
5. Donald Trump(USA)
6. Vladimir Putin (Russia)
7. Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine), etc.

5. Powerful Phrases

1. Prominent Slogans like "Workers of the World Unite!" by Karl Marx
2. "Peace, Land, and Bread" by Vladimir Lenin
3. "Give me liberty or give me death!" by Patrick Henry
4. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." by Martin Luther King Jr.

6. Universal Efforts

1. Understanding movements like Fridays for Future
2. The anti-nuclear movement
3. Women's suffrage movement
4. Anti-apartheid movement

7. Cultural Echoes

1. Exploring manners and etiquettes across cultures, like bowing in Japan, greeting with a handshake in Western countries
2. Academy Awards, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award winners
3. Contemporary art movements such as abstract expressionism with artists like Jackson Pollock.
4. World music genres like K-pop and Latin American music and global dance forms such as Ballet and Salsa

8. Chronosphere

1. Cuban missile crisis and the Korean war
2. The decolonization movement in Asia and Africa
3. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991,
4. The great depression of 1929
5. The Vietnam War (1955-1975)
6. The Arab Spring (2010-2012), etc.

9. Food Safety and Standards

1. FDA food labeling
2. Nutritional content claims terms
3. GMO-free products

10. Demographic Flow

1. Population density
2. Aging populations
3. Employment and Social Security
4. Migration
5. Family planning
6. Demographic dividend

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