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Monday, October 4, 2010

Few things to improve our General Knowledge

There are some things you may not know......  

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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3. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
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4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to Suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
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14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from History. "Spades" - King David; "Clubs" - Alexander the Great;  " Hearts" - Charlemagne; "Diamonds" - Julius Caesar.
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15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
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18. Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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20. A snail can sleep for three years.
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21. All polar bears are left handed.
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22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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29. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
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33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
 
 
 
Need some more Brain Teasers ???
 
 
 
 
Qs:    How can you drop a rock egg on to a concrete floor without cracking it?
Ans:   Concrete Floors are very hard to Crack

Qs:    If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take for four men to build it?
Ans:   No time at all as it is already built.
         

Qs:   If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
Ans:   Very large hands.         

Qs:    How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
Ans:   It is not a problem as you will never find an elephant with one hand.
          
Qs:    How can a man go eight days without sleeping?
Ans:   No problem. He sleeps at night.          

Qs:    If you throw a Red stone into the Blue sea what will it become?
Ans:   It will wet or sink; as simple as that.          

Qs:    What looks like a half apple?
Ans:   The other half.          

Qs:    What can you never eat for breakfast?
Ans:   Dinner.

Qs:    What happened when the wheel was invented?
Ans:   It created a revolution .

Qs:    In which State is Bay of Bengal
Ans:   IN a liquid state .


Interviewer:  I shall ask you ten easy questions or one difficult question.
                          Think well before you make up your mind.
 
The candidate thought for a while and said: My choice is one really difficult question.

Interviewer:  Well, Good luck to you. You have made your own choice. Now tell me this. Which comes first, Day or Night?

The candidate was really jolted into reality as his selection depended upon the correctness of his answer. But he thought for a while and said, "It is the day, Sir."
 
The Interviewer asked, "How?"
 
The candidate replied: "Sorry sir. You promised me that you will not ask me a second difficult question.
 
 
 
 
Why not some Question & Answers:
 
1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
 
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
 
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
 
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
 
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
 
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
 
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
 
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
 
9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
 
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
 
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
 
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
 
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
 
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
 
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
 
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?
 
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
 
 
 
 
ANSWERS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.  Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .

2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports

4. Satellite Television Asian Region

5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India

6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen

7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)

9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

11. South Korea ..

12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)

13. Geoffrey Boycott

14. John Traicos

15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..

17. Polo 

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