General Knowledge Questions&answers(mega Collection)!

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[DOUBLEPOST=1351388187][/DOUBLEPOST]Q: Which composer wrote The Water Music?

A: Handel

Q: What colour does acid turn Litmus paper?
A: Red

Q: What's the largest Scandinavian country?
A: Sweden

Q: What was Mickey Mouse's original name?
A: Mortimer Mouse

Q: Which metal do you get from bauxite?
A: Aluminium

Q: Which animal produces the biggest baby?
A: Blue Whale

Q: In Pop music, which two herbs go with 'Parsley & Sage'?
A: Rosemary and Thyme - Scarborough fair

Q: What was the name of the Benedictine monk who legend has it invented Champagne?
A: Dom Perignon

Q: In which Country is Auschwitz (Birkenau)?
A: Poland

Q: Who was Leonardo di Caprio's co-star in Titanic?
A: Kate Winslett

Q: Acid rain is composed mainly of the oxides of two elements. Give either.
A: Sulphur or Nitrogen

Q: What sort of creature is a bustard?
A: A bird

Q: What is calcium carbonate normally known as?
A: Chalk

Q: Who commanded the Allied forces, which invaded Europe on D-Day?
A: Dwight Eisenhower

Q: Who holds the record as being Britain's youngest ever Formula 1 Driver?
A: Jensen Button

Q: What word do we use to describe the Asexual reproduction of a genetic carbon copy of an animal or plant?
A: Clone

Q: Which chemical element has the shortest name - 3 letters?
A: Tin

Q: What is the state capital of Alaska?
A: Juneau

Q: How many holes are there in a ten pin bowling ball?
A: 3

Q: Which land did Puff The Magic Dragon live in?
A: Honalee


[DOUBLEPOST=1351388208][/DOUBLEPOST] No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

* The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficien at waking you up in the morning
* The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
* The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
* Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
* The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
* The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
* Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
* Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
* The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
* During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
* The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
* The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
* Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
* The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died, Ever.[DOUBLEPOST=1351388232][/DOUBLEPOST] The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
*Banging your head against a wall uses an average of 900 calories an hour.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death
* "I am ." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* Every time you lick a stamp,you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30's lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.
* You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

* If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,dogs only have about ten.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing[DOUBLEPOST=1351388270][/DOUBLEPOST] The Bible, the world's most-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

* Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
* More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
* In the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (up until the end of 2003) have visited a tortilla chip that appears to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it?
* Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
* There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
* Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
* After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
* There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
* The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
* The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
* Maine is the only American state whose name is just one syllable.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* There are only three words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, and stupendous.
* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
* The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.

* A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
* The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
* A person with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet
* The loudest sound produced by any animal is 188 decibels. The animal is the African Elephant.
* In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
* The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
* No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
* Chocolate can kill dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.
* There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.

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ABOUT AFGHANISTAN:

Afghanistan


Officially Islamic State of Afghanistan
Country, south-central Asia.
Area: 251,825 sq mi (652,225 sq km). Population (2002 est.: 27,756,000). Capital: Kabul. About two-fifths of the people belong to the Pashtun ethnic group; other ethnic groups include Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Ḥazāra. Languages: Pashto, Persian (both official). Religion: Islam (official). Currency: afghani. Afghanistan has three distinctive regions: the northern plains are the major agricultural area; the southwestern plateau consists primarily of desert and semiarid landscape; the central highlands, including the Hindu Kush, separates these regions. Afghanistan has a developing economy based largely on agriculture; its significant mineral resources remain largely untapped because of the Afghan War of the 1980s and subsequent fighting. Traditional handicrafts remain important; woolen carpets are a major export. The area was part of the Persian Achaemenian Empire in the 6th century BC and was conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. Hindu influence entered with the Hephthalites andSāsānians; Islam became entrenched during the rule of the Ṣaffārids, с AD 870. Afghanistan was divided between the Mughal Empire of India and the Safavid empire of Persia until the 18th century, when other Persians under Nādir Shah took control. Britain fought several wars in the area in the 19th century. From the 1930s the country had a stable monarchy, which was overthrown in the 1970s. Marxist reforms sparked rebellion, and Soviet troops invaded. Afghan guerrillas prevailed, and the Soviets withdrew in 1989. In 1992 rebel factions overthrew the government and established an Islamic republic. In 1996 the Taliban militia took power and enforced a harsh Islamic order. The militia's unwillingness to extradite extremist leader Osama bin Laden and members of his al-Qaeda organization following theSeptember 11 attacks in 2001 led to military conflict with the U.S. and allied nations, the overthrow of the Taliban, and the establishment of an interim government.

Afghanistan was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in 1979. The USSR was forced to withdraw 10 years later by anti-communist mujahidin forces supplied and trained by the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others. Fighting subsequently continued among the various mujahidin factions, but the fundamentalist Islamic Taliban movement has been able to seize most of the country. In addition to the continuing civil strife, the country suffers from enormous poverty, a crumbling infrastructure, and widespread live mines.

STATISTICAL DATA:

Official Name:

Islamic State of Afghanistan

National Name:
Dawlat Islami Afghanistan

Location:
Southern Asia, north of Pakistan

Population:
22,664,136

Area:
250,000 sq. mi.; 647,500 sq. km

Capital:
Kabul

Monetary Unit:
Afghani

Major Cities:
Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazare Sharif

Languages:
Pushtu, Dari Persian, other Turkic and minor languages

Religions:
Islam

Neighboring Countries:
Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, Pakistan


Conventional long form: Islamic State of Afghanistan
Local long form: Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan
Local short form: Afghanestan
Former: Republic of Afghanistan
Area : 652,262 sq.km.
Population : 25,824,882
Capital : Kabul
Currency : Afghani, Pul
Ethnic Group : Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch

Language : Pashto, Dari (Farsi), Afghan Persian, Turkic (Uzbek, Turkmen), Baluchi, Pashai, Pahlawi, Bilingualism

National Day (y/m/d) : 4/27 (Victory of the Muslim Nation); 5/4 (Remembrance Day for Martyrs and Disabled); 8/19 (Independence Day)

Independent Day : 1919/8/19 (From UK control over Afghan foreign affairs)

Continent : Asia

Religion : Sunni Muslim, Shiite Muslim, Norestan

The nomadic population in Afghanistan was estimated to be about 2.5 million people. During the war with the Soviets the number of Afghan refugees outside the country escalated dramatically, with as many as 2.5 million to 3 million refugees in Pakistan and another 1.5 million in Iran. About 150,000 Afghans were able to migrate permanently to other countries, including the United States, Australia, and various European countries.

Afghanistan divided in 32 Provinces :

Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Bamian, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghowr, Helmand, Herat, Jowzjan, Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khowst, Konar, Kondoz, Laghman, Lowgar,Nangarhar, Nimrozi, Norestan, Oruzgan, Paktia, Paktika, Parvan, Samangan, Sar-e Pol, Takhar, Vardak, Zabol

Afghanistan is an extremely poor, landlocked country, highly dependent on farming and livestock raising (sheep and goats). Economic considerations have played second fiddle to political and military upheavals during two decades of war, including the nearly 10-year Soviet military occupation (which ended 15 February 1989). During that conflict one-third of the population fled the country, with Pakistan and Iran sheltering a combined peak of more than 6 million refugees. In early 1999, 1.2 million Afghan refugees remained in Pakistan and about 1.4 million in Iran. Gross domestic product has fallen substantially over the past 20 years because of the loss of labor and capital and the disruption of trade and transport. The majority of the population continues to suffer from insufficient food, clothing, housing, and medical care. Inflation remains a serious problem throughout the country. International aid can deal with only a fraction of the humanitarian problem, let alone promote economic development. The economic situation did not improve in 1998-99, as internal civil strife continued, hampering both domestic economic policies and international aid efforts. Numerical data are likely to be either unavailable or unreliable. Afghanistan was by far the largest producer of opium poppies in 1999, and narcotics trafficking is a major source of revenue.

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DO U KNOW THAT

* Paleontology is the science of history of life.
* Mahavira(founder of jainism)and gautama buddha (founder of buddism) were contemporaries and flourished in india in the 6th century B.C.
* The three pyramids of eqypt were built from 2700 to 2500 B.C.,these are tombs of khufu,khafra and menkaura.
* The great wall of china was completed in 204 B.C.it is 1500 miles long.Its average height is 25 feet and about 12 feet wide at the top.
* The city rome was founded in 753 B.C. by romolus.
* Christianity emerged as the distinct sect in the second half of the first century A.D.
* The light of islam dawned in the 7th century A.D. when in 611 A.D. The Holy Prophet of Islam Muhammad (P.B.U.H) announced the revelation from the one true Allah.
* The muslim rule of spain lasted from 711 to 1492 A.D.
* The earth is calculated to b 4540 million years old.
* The statue of liberty (newyork) was installed in 1886.It is 151 feet one inch high from the base to torch.
* The world is divided into 24 time zones,each 15` longtitude wide. the longitudinal meridian passing through greenwich,England is the starting point and is called the prime meridian.
* Christopher columbus discovered bahamas on 12 oct 1492 A.D.
* Ostrich is the largest bird in the world.
* Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of oil in the world.
* The world famous golden gate bridge is located in San francisco(usa).
* Russia invaded afghanistan on dec 27,1979.
* Hongkong was returned to china on july 1,1997.
* Eritrea became an independent state on may 24,1993.
* The normal temperature of human body is 98.6 F.
* A billion contain 1000 million. It has 9 zeroes. similarly a trillion has 12 zeroes,a quadrillion 15 zeroes,a quintillion 18 zeroes and a decillion 33 zeroes.
* One inch is equal to 2.5400 cms and one mile is equal to 1.6093 kms.
* About half of the world population speaks indo-european languages. The Indo-European branch to which english belongs is germanic.
* Air is composed of nitrogen (78.08%),oxygen (20.95%),argon (0.94%) and carbon dioxide (0.03%).
* The original inhabitants of USA are known as Red Indians.
* Out of the 193 sovereign independent nations of the world 147 are republics and other 46 are under personal rules (14 kings,1 emperor,3 queens,7 hereditary sheikhs,1 grand duke,2 sultans,1 constitutional monarch etc).
* Gwadar became a part of pakistan on september 9,1958.
* All india mulim league was formulated on december 30,1906 and first president was Sir Agha Khan.
* Hygrometer is instrument used for measuring humidity of air.
* Heliscope is used for viewing the sun.
* Asian development bank was established in 1966 with headquarter located at manila(philipine)
* China has the largest population,russia has largest land area and vatican city has smallest population and land area in the world
* Afghanistan got independence on 19th aug 1919.
* Lord clive was the first and lord mountbatten was the last british ruler of india.
* Air conditioner invented by "willis H. carrier"u.s. in 1902.
* Camera(photographic) has been invented by "Joseph N. Niepce"france in 1822.
* Largest continent of the world is "asia" and smallest is "australia".Largest ocean of the world is "pacific ocean"and smallest ocean is "indian ocean".The Sahara is the largest desert of the world.
* Kazakhstan is the largest muslim country in landarea in the world.it has an area of 1,049,000 sq.miles.Maldives is the smallest muslim country in land area of 115 sq. miles.
* Indonesia is the most populous muslim country and maldives is less populous muslim country.
* Antarctica is the uninhabited continent of the world which is without any regular population.
* Seoul (south korea) is the most populous city of the world.
* The lake baikal of russia has the maximum depth of 5315 feet.

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Intersting Facts:

"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.

"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.

"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.

"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.

"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.

"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.

""Kemo Sabe, meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."

The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.

"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.

"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.

"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.

"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.

"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").

"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

1 in every 3 people in the country of Israel use a cell phone.

In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).

A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.

A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second

A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.

A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.

A bat is the only mammal that flies.

A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell

A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.

A beaver's teeth never stop growing.

A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.

A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.

A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.

A broken clock is right at least twice a day.

A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

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Army Rulers of Pakistan since 1947.

Supreme Commander India & Pakistan:
1947.08.15 F.M. Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck

Commander in Chief:
1947.08.15 Gen. Sir Frank Walter Messervy.
1948.02.11 Gen. Sir Douglas David Gracey.
1951.01.17 F.M. Al-Haj H.E. Mohammed Ayub Khan.
1958.10.27 Gen. Muhammad Musa.
1966.09.18 Gen. Agha Muhammad Yahya khan.
1971.12.20 Lt-Gen. Gul Hassan Khan.

Chief of the Army Staff:
1972.03.03 Gen. Tikka Khan.
1976.03.01 Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
1988.08.17 Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg.
1991.08.16 Gen. Asif Nawaz Janjua.
1993.01.12 Gen. Abdul Waheed Kakar.
1996.01.12 Gen. Jehangir Karamat.
1998.10.17 Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf.[DOUBLEPOST=1359256623][/DOUBLEPOST]Verb



The following is the information about the function of verb in English Grammar.

More about Verb

Keep the following principles in your mind when you speak English as given below:

 Verb shows an action and it is considered as an essential part of any sentence.

 Try to use the correct form of Verb while speaking.

 Use simple form of Verb.

 Try to understand and to expound people what you are going to say.

 Use 1st form of Verb in Present tenses somehow with some differences.

 Use 2nd form of Verb in Past Simple Tense.

 Use 3rd form of Verb with the helping verbs has and have in all Perfect Tenses.


 Try to remember all forms of Verb and keep your vocabulary active.

 Finite Verb is also used in Present Tense.

 Gerund and Participle are alike but different in translation.

 Verb are of different kinds.

 Main Verb consists of two parts Transitive and Intransitive Verb.

 Transitive Verb always takes an object and it’s passive voice is possible.

 Intransitive Verb doesn’t have any object and it’s passive voice is impossible.

 Intransitive is called Irregular and Strong and Transitive is called Regular and Weak verb, respectively.

 Auxiliary Verbs are often called helping Verbs and they are of too different kinds.

 To Be, To Do and To Have are auxiliary Verbs sometimes they are used as helping verbs and sometimes they are used as main verbs when Have shows possession, Do comes in a Sentence as main verb as; ( I do my work with my complete attention) and To be Verbs show the state or existence of something in present time, past and future as well, as: (I am a boy = State while I am at DOMINO = existence).

 Modals are also a kind of verb that are made by us according to our use in speaking and it is used with the 1st form of verb and shows some natured or materialistic happenings.

 Can Could, May Might, Shall Should, Will Would, Must and Ought are modals

 Can shows capability to do some work in itself.

 Should is used for moral or immoral treatments or suggestions.

 Must shows some action is very necessary to do.

 Ought only emphasis on moral activities.

 May is commonly used in Aorist condition.

 May shows Condition, Permission, Purpose, Possibility and Entreaty as well.

 All modals are taken in Direct and Indirect speech and are commonly used in Narration.

 (N.B) Need and Dare are only two semi auxiliary verbs in English Grammar.

 (N.B) for understanding the Verb it is a Key Point to memorize the form of Verbs

 (N.B) Verb is work and work we do according to the time and before speaking about verb it is necessary to keep in mind that what is the exact time of work we do and if you know about the time verb will be very much easy to understand and also we describe verb in different tenses and tense is Latin “Tempus” means time so, verb and time always come together.

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Countries and their Capitals

Hi every one,

Here lie the names of the countries of the world along with their capitals:

Name of country: Capital

Afghanistan Kabul
Albania Tirane
Algeria Algiers
Andorra Andorra la Vella
Angola Luanda
Argentina Buenos Aires
Armenia Yerevan
Aruba Oranjestad
Australia Canberra
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
Bahamas Nassau
Bahrain Manama
Bangladesh Dhaka
Barbados Bridgetown
Belarus Minsk
Belgium Brussels
Benin Porto Novo
Bermuda Hamilton
Bhutan Thimphu
Bolivia Sucre
Bosnia-Herzegovina Sarajevo
Botswana Gaborone
Brazil Brasilia
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria Sofia
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Burma (Myanmar) Yangon (Rangoon)
Burundi Bujumbura
Cambodia Phnom Penh
Cameroon Yaounde
Canada Ottawa
Chad Ndjamena
Chile Santiago
China Beijing (Peking)
Colombia Bogota
Comoros Moroni
Congo(formerly Zaire) Brazzaville
Costa Rica San Jose
Croatia Zagreb
Cuba Havana
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Prague
Denmark Copenhagen
Ecuador Quito
Egypt Cairo
El Salvador San Salvador
Eritrea Asmara
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
Fiji Suva
Finland Helsinki
France Paris
Georgia Tbilisi
Germany Berlin
Ghana Accra
Greece Athens
Guatemala Guatemala City
Guinea-Bissau Bissau
Hong Kong Victoria (Hong Kong Island)
Hungary Budapest
Iceland Reykjavik
India New Delhi
Indonesia Jakarta
Iran Tehran
Iraq Baghdad
Ireland Dublin
Italy Rome
Japan Tokyo
Jordan Amman
Kazakhstan Astana
Kenya Nairobi
Korea, North Pyongyang
Korea, South Seoul
Kuwait Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
Lebanon Beirut
Libya Tripoli
Luxembourg Luxembourg
Macedonia Skopje
Madagascar Antananarivo
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Maldives Male
Mali Bamako
Malta Valletta
Mauritania Nouakchott
Mauritius Port Louis
Mexico Mexico City (Federal District)
Monaco Monaco
Mongolia Ulan Bator
Morocco Rabat
Mozambique Maputo
Namibia Windhoek
Nepal Kathmandu
Netherlands Amsterdam
New Zealand Wellington
Nicaragua Managua
Niger Niamey
Nigeria Abuja
Norway Oslo
Oman Muscat
Pakistan Islamabad
Panamá Panama City
Peru Lima
Philippines Manila
Poland Warsaw
Portugal Lisbon
Qatar Doha
Romania Bucharest
Russia Moscow
Rwanda Kigali
Saudi Arabia Riyadh
Senegal Dakar
Sierra Leone Freetown
Singapore Singapore
Slovakia Bratislava
Somalia Mogadishu
South Africa Pretoria (administrative capital), Cape Town (legislative capital)
Spain Madrid
Sri Lanka Colombo
Sudan Khartoum
Sweden Stockholm
Switzerland Bern
Syria Damascus
Taiwan Bangkok
Tajikistan Dushanbe
Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Thailand Bangkok
Tunisia Tunis
Turkey Ankara
Turkmenistan Ashkhabad
Uganda Kampala
Ukraine Kyiv (Kiev)
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom London
Uzbekistan Tashkent
Vietnam Hanoi
Yemen Sana'a
Zimbabwe Harare (formerly Salisbury)

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QUIZ: Around the world


1) What is common to the capitals of the following countries:
Kuwait, Djiboutil Nauru and San Marino?

2) Which country was previously known as the United Colonies?

3) Both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans bound two South American countries, one of them is Colombia, which is the other one?

4) With which European country would you generally associate tulips?

5) Name the large island at the southern tip of Italy.

6) In which continent are the Prince Charles Mountains?

7) In 1590, when the Portuguese first sighted the island of Taiwan, what did they name it?

8) If you wanted to visit the Black Forest, which country would you visit?

9) Name the second largest US state in terms of area.

10) Name a European county and its capital that begin with the letter ‘S’.

Answers

1) The countries and their capitals share the same name, e.g. the capital of Kuwait is Kuwait City

2) The United States of America

3) Chile

4) The Netherlands, (or Holland)

5) Sicily

6) These are almost completely ice-capped mountains in Antarctica

7) Formosa, which means beautiful

8) Germany

9) Texas, whose capital is Austin

10) Sweden, its capital is Stockholm

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Interesting Facts About Food

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FOOD

Dumplings are eaten in various forms around the world.

Chinese won ton, Italian ravioli, Jewish kreplach, and Polish pierogi
are types of dumplings filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables.

Frankfurters were named after Frankfurt (am Main), Germany.

Experts believe these sausages were first made in Germany during the Middle Ages.

About 1900, an American vendor selling cooked frankfurters supposedly
called them "hot dachshund sausages" because they resembled the long-bodied dog.
Later, the term hot dog came to be used.

Hamburger was originally called Hamburg steak. It was named after Hamburg, Germany.

Hundred-Year-Old Eggs, a delicacy in China, are preserved duck eggs.
They are cured in the shell for about six months in a mixture of ashes,
lime, salt, and tea. The curing makes the eggs taste like cheese.

Ice Cream Cones were first served at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
A thin, crisp waffle was rolled into a handy holder for a scoop of ice cream.

Pancakes are probably the oldest prepared food. The first pancakes were
a mixture of pounded grain and water spread on a hot stone.
Today, people enjoy such pancake variations as French crepes,
Hungarian palacintas, Indian dosa, Italian cannelloni, Jewish blintzes,
and Russian blini.Pizza, an international favorite, originated in Italy.

Pizza is the Italian word for pie.Pretzels were first made by monks in
southern Europe as a reward for students who learned their prayers.
The crossed ends of a pretzel represent praying hands.

Raw Fish is a favorite food of many people. The Japanese enjoy sashimi,
thin slices of raw seafood. Seviche is a popular Latin-American appetizer
of raw fish in lime juice. Swedes prepare gravad lox, fresh salmon with dill.

Sandwiches were named after the Earl of Sandwich, an English nobleman
of the 1700's. While playing cards, he ordered a servant to bring him
two slices of bread with a piece of roast meat between them..

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Weird Facts

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.


Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the
flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.


A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

All polar bears are left handed.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.[

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Top 20 achivements of 20th century

Following are the top 20 achivements of 20th century, that changed the world.

1. Electrification
2. Automobile
3. Airplane
4. Water Supply and Distribution
5. Electronics
6. Radio and Television
7. Agricultural Mechanization
8. Computers
9. Telephone
10. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
11. Highways
12. Spacecraft
13. Internet
14. Imaging
15. Household Appliances
16. Health Technologies
17. Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies
18. Laser and Fiber Optics
19. Nuclear Technologies
20. High-performance Materials[DOUBLEPOST=1359257299][/DOUBLEPOST]
The word 'art' is derived from the Latin for skill

Ada Lovelace Who wrote the world's first computer program.

Chess is originated from India.

Endocrine system systems controls hormones.

Abraham Lincoln the US president was shot 5 days after the end of the American Civil War.

Polo has periods of play called 'chukkas'.

Britannica encyclopedia was first published in 1768.

The word 'science' comes from the Greek for to know?

The language with the most native speakers is Mandarin Chinese.

carburettor mixes air and petrol (gas) for the internal combustion engine.

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Top 20 achivements of 20th century

Following are the top 20 achivements of 20th century, that changed the world.

1. Electrification
2. Automobile
3. Airplane
4. Water Supply and Distribution
5. Electronics
6. Radio and Television
7. Agricultural Mechanization
8. Computers
9. Telephone
10. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
11. Highways
12. Spacecraft
13. Internet
14. Imaging
15. Household Appliances
16. Health Technologies
17. Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies
18. Laser and Fiber Optics
19. Nuclear Technologies
20. High-performance Materials[DOUBLEPOST=1359257299][/DOUBLEPOST]
The word 'art' is derived from the Latin for skill

Ada Lovelace Who wrote the world's first computer program.

Chess is originated from India.

Endocrine system systems controls hormones.

Abraham Lincoln the US president was shot 5 days after the end of the American Civil War.

Polo has periods of play called 'chukkas'.

Britannica encyclopedia was first published in 1768.

The word 'science' comes from the Greek for to know?

The language with the most native speakers is Mandarin Chinese.

carburettor mixes air and petrol (gas) for the internal combustion engine..