General knowledge questions about Presidents, Museums, Railway platforms, Airports and Seaports. 1. George Washington was the first president of United States of America and he chose Thomas Jefferson, as his first secretary. Later on Jefferson became the second president of America. 2. High fruit juice taking country: Canada. 3. Samudra Gupta: The famous Indian Gupta king is also called as “Indian Napoleon”. 4. The oldest capital in the world: Damascus (Syria). 5. The longest railway platform in the world: Kharagpur (West Bengal in India). 6. The longest underground railway track in the world: In London city - 418 km. 7. The biggest airport (in area) in the world: King Abdul Aziz International Airport (Jeddah). 8. The airport with heaviest traffic in the world: Chicago International Airport. 9. The biggest railway station (in area) in the world: “Grand central terminal” (New York City). 10. The port with heaviest traffic in the world: “Rotterdam” (in Netherlands). The biggest port (in area) in the world: New York Port. 11. Herring pond is North Atlantic Ocean. The smallest ocean is Arctic Ocean. 12. Oxford Dictionary: It was first printed in 1928 A.D. 13. The biggest airliner establishment in the world: “Aeroflot” (Russia). 14. The oldest museum in the world: Oxfam- England. The biggest museum in the world: American Museum of Natural History- New York. 15. The biggest zoo in the world: “Yetosha Reserve” (Namibia). 16. The biggest park in the world: Wood Buffalo National Park. 17. It is said that, the Queen Elizebath-1, used to take bath: Once in 3 months. 18. Some of the great … [Read more...]
Trivia about Movies and museum
1. Warner Brothers: The famous Hollywood movie producing company, once searching for a new actor to act as hero in one of their pictures. Jack Warner, one of the producers, saw the footage of the screen test of a new actor and immediately got angry with “Mervin Leroy”, who conducted that screen test and made the following adverse comments, like: “Why have you wasted 500 dollars (in those days) on this big monkey (new actor)? Had you not noticed his big ears, before focusing camera on him? His legs and hands are also quite big and face is not good to look at". Believe it or not, later on the same hero became super star in Hollywood cinema field and shined like anything. His name was “Clark Gable”. And people used to call him as “king”. Such were the ways of the super power (fate). 2. Longest bridge constructed on the sea: It was opened for traffic on 1st May 2000 in China. Its length is 36 kilometers and unites the two cities “Shanghai and Hyangjha”. 3. “Tug of war” game in Olympics: This game was allowed to play in Olympics from 1900 - 1920 only. Later on it was removed from Olympics. 4. Carrot ant its color: Up to 18th century the carrot was either in violet (purple) or white in color. The present day orange colored carrots, first of all are cultivated by the farmers of Holland. Moreover “Orange” is the national color of Holland.5. Salarjung museum: The world famous museum situated in Hyderabad city in India. It is having 48000 things of fine arts, 54000 of different varieties of printed books of yester years. These are secured and collected from 41 countries.This museum was established by, the 3rd Salarjung, namely “Nawab Meer … [Read more...]
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