1. "Land of thousand lakes" is Finland and “Italian of the East" is Telugu language. 2. Korea: It is known as the “Land of the Morning Calm”. 3. The man weighs more at the poles (north and the south) than at the equator. Because, the gravitational pull is less at the poles. 4. Color blindness (not able to pointing out clearly the red and green colors): It is very rare in men (women are more affected). 5. Yeast is added to raise the dough while making the bread. 6. In the word “Police”, the letter “L” denotes – the Law. 7. To an astronaut in the space craft, the sky color appears to be “Black”. 8. Peculiar tradition: Believe it or not, there are only 12 girls in that interior village, by name “Devda”, near “Jaisalmeer” town in the state of Rajasthan, in India. The population of that village is 2000 only. Rajputs are the dominating sect in that village (being 70% of the population). The last marriage of a girl, born in that village, took place105 years (in 1902 AD) back. Of the 12 girls, the oldest girl age is 10 years and the youngest infant age is 1 months only. The cause is that, they have been practicing that bad tradition of “killing” the just born infant girls, for the last so many years. The villagers say that they are killing the girls, as they could not give sufficient dowry to the sun-in-laws in the marriage of their daughters, due to their poverty. Now the trend is gradually changing, Recently ,10 years back(in 1997) the marriage of one girl (aged about 17 years a the time of marriage) born in that village took place. The cause of change in their thinking is mainly due to … [Read more...]
20 General knowledge questions
1. City of seven hills: Rome. 2. Dry ice: Carbon dioxide. 3. The planet nearest to Sun: Mercury. 4. The word “United nations” is first of all suggested by: Franklin D. Roosevelt. 5. The 191th country which has taken membership in U.N.O. is= East Timor. The 192nd country is= Monte Negros (which got itself separated from Serbia and formed as independent country). 6. The world famous emperor of France, Napoleon spent his last days in exile: in Elba Island situated in Mediterranean Sea. 7. The modern Olympic games were first held in the year 1896 and the number of countries participated were= 14. 8. Ring of fire is present in = Pacific Ocean. 9. The first person who reached the North Pole = Robert Pierre. 10. “Boston Tea Party” is related to the independence movement of America. 11. “World Ozone day” is celebrated on= 16th October. 12. Old name of Present Thailand country is= Siam. 13. “Venice of Japan” is = Hiroshima city. 14. The first woman who occupied the Delhi throne is= Rajia Sultana. 15. “Sitar”, a musical instrument (like violin) is invented by= Ameer Khusru. 16. “Laws of Heredity” were founded by= Gregory Mendel. 17. The old name of Istanbul is= Byzantine. 18. “East India Company” was established by= Lord Cole Bird of England. This company arrived in India in 1604 AD, to do business and later on occupied the whole country and ruled it up to 1947 and India became independent on- 15TH august 1947. 19. The language called “The Italian of the East” (beautiful for its style of speaking) is: “Telugu language” (one of the South Indian languages). 20. Land … [Read more...]
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