1. Titanic ticket: The Titanic ship sank long back and only very few people survived in that mishap, among them, Lillian Aapland (a female), was one. At That time, she was only 5 years old and was traveling along with her parents and four brothers. The family members travelled in third class. She preserved only one ticket and also one old clock which was not working since that ship sinking time. She died in the year 2006. When these precious items were auctioned in London, the ticket was sold out for 33,000 pounds and the clock was sold for 31,000 pounds. 2. Mosquitoes show much interest to bite the persons who just ate the banana, compared to others. 3. Astronauts can’t weep heartfully, if the situation demands, as there is no gravity in the space, the tears can’t flow freely. 4. There is no problem of constipation for the children, who were born in the aero planes. 5. The famous scientist, Charles Darwin, tried his level best to create “flying –monkeys’’, as the off springs of hawks(falcons) and chimpanges,by making them to have sexual contact with each other. 6. ABout some famous wars in History: A. War of Waterloo: That took place in the year 1815, between the forces of England under the command of Duke of Ellington and the forces of France under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon lost the battle, mainly due to his negligence and egoism (once he called the British as “They are experts in doing business but not battles”. B. American civil war: This took place between the forces of northern and southern America. Northern American forces under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln (at that time, he was president of … [Read more...]
General knowledge and quiz questions
1. Titanic ship was sunk in the sea in its first voyage itself on; April 15, 1915. The probable cause was over-speed of the ship, exceeding the limit, as the captain and crew were unnecessarily provocated by the comments of others. The unbelievable thing is: 14 years back i.e. in the year1901, Morgan Burt son wrote a novel with the title “sinking of ship”, accidentally the name of that ship was “Titan”. This present Titanic ship was built by “Belfast” ship- Building Corporation. This ship was equal to the size of 32 boats and the notable point was that the Titanic was built in such away that it can’t be sunk at all. The shipping corporation built two more ships along with Titanic ship. 2. Father of Indian Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. At that time, the person present very closely to that spot was –Job Simpson- the B.B.C. correspondent (the direct witness). Einstein, a world famous scientist praised and commented about Gandhiji as, “future generations may not believe that such a person in flesh and blood was lived and moved on this earth”. 3. Life spans of animals and birds: Cobra lives up to 28 years. Cow’s life span-16 years. Frog’s life span-10 years. Ziraphi lives up to -33years. Bat’s life’s is 2 Years. Tortoise lives up to-175 years. 4. The word “chromosome” is coined by—W. Valdiyar. 5. The word “Genetics” is coined by-W. Batson. 6. The word “gene” was first of all used by-W.L. Johansen 7. Electron microscope was invented by-Knoll … [Read more...]




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