General knowledge of the day:  1. First cell phone call in India was made on: July 31, 1995. It was made by West Bengal chief minister in Kolkata by using Nokia mobile.  2. First Indian mobile ringtone: Saare Jahaan Se Acchha  3. First camera cellphone in India: Nokia 7650  4. Cleanest city in India: Chandigarh. Mysore is in second place.  5. Twitter update: It crossed another milestone. Number of tweets on the site crossed 2,000 crore.  6. Editor death: Malayala Manorama chief editor K M Mathew died. Malayala Manorama is the largest circulated Malayalam newspaper and was established by Varghese Mappila. Mathew was the chief editor of daily from 1973 to till death. The Week and Vanitha are some other famous publications from Malayala Manorama group.  7. Who founded Wikileaks website: Julian Assange  8. On this day in history: August 2 1990: 1 lakh Iraq soldiers invaded Kuwait. 1922: Telephone inventor, Alexander Graham Bell died.  9. Test cricket ranking: Kumara Sangakkara grabbed world number one test batsman status from Virender Sehwag. Sachin Tendulkar is in fourth place. Dale Steyn is the world number one bowler in test cricket.  10. Richardson Owen Williams: He got Noble prize in 1928 for his work on Thermionic Emission. Thomas Alwa Edison first observed the emission of electrons from hot surface. But, Richardson stated that electrons can even escape from within solid if they have enough kinetic energy.  Note: Send your quiz questions and answers to Krishna@nalamothuonline.com to publish in this blog.    … [Read more...]