BIGGEST ECONOMIES 2010

RANK COUNTRY                GDP(Millions of US $)

1. USA                                14,657,800 
2. China                                5,878,257
3. Japan                                5,458,872       
4. Germany                           3,315,643
5. France                               2,582,527
6. UK                                    2,247,455
7. Brazil                                 2,090,314
8. Itlay                                   2,055,114
9. Canada                              1,574,051
10. India                                   1,537,966

Source: International Monetary Fund

HIGHEST EXTERNAL DEBT

1. USA                               $14.393 trillion 
2. UK                                 $9.088 trillion 
3. Germany                       $5.028 trillion 
4. France                           $5.021 trillion 
5. Netherlands                 $3.733 trillion  
6. Spain                             $2.410 trillion 
7. Italy                               $2.328 trillion 
8. Ireland                           $2.287 trillion 
9. Japan                             $2.132 trillion 
10. Luxembourg                 $1.994 trillion 

SOURCE : WORLD BANK(FEB 2011) 

POSTAGE STAMPS

FIRST CITIES AND COUNTRIES TO ISSUE POSTAGE STAMPS

• Great Britain                                         1 May 1840
• New York City ,USA                           1 Feb 1842
• Zurich ,Switzerland                                1 Mar1843
• Brazil                                                     1 Aug 1843 
• Geneva , Switzerland                              30 Sep 1843 
• Basle , Switzerland                                 1 Jul 1845
• USA                                                      1 Jul 1847 
• Mauritius                                                21 Sep 1847 
• Bermuda                                                1848
• France                                                   1 Jan 1849

TOP 10 :

CARBON DIOXIDE-EMITTING COUNTRIES (PER CAPITA)

COUNTRY                              Emission Per Capita 2007(TONNES)

1. Qatar                                                     58.01  

2. United Arab Emirates                             29.91

3. Bahrain                                                  28.23

4. Kuwait                                                   25.09

5. Luxembourg                                           22.35 

6.Trinidad and Tobago                               21.85

7. USA                                                      19.10

8. Australia                                                 18.75

9. Canada                                                   17.37

10. Saudi Arabia                                         14.79 

Khan of all the Mongols,Arctic tern,Channel Islands,Scottish mountains

1. Genghis Khan was named as Khan of all the Mongols in 1206.

2.  Benito Mussolini's only novel was entitled "The Cardinal's Mistress".

3. The Arctic tern is a remarkable life cycle, travelling from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back.

4. The Channel Islands(near the English Channel and coast of France) are Jersey ,Guernsey Alderney ,Sark.

5.Captain  Matthew Webb was the first man to swim the English Channel in 1875.

6.Scottish mountains "Grampians" separate the Highlands from Lowlands.

7. Famous Chemist and Tax-collector "Lavoisier" was a victim of the  guillotine in the French Revolution.

8. A very active "mole" can burrow around 100 yards in one night.

9. Bulls are not excited specifically by the color red because they are "color blind".

10. At "6 days" old Mary Stuart became the Queen of Scotland.

French President,Eskimo dogs,Spanish Armada,World Wildlife Fund,Sputnik I

1. The largest island in the Mediterranean is "Sicily".
2. The breed of Eskimo dogs is "huskies".
3. The first satellite in orbit was Sputnik I.
4. Lead shot was invented when a man climbed to the top of Bristol church in 1782 and poured molten lead into cold water on the ground.
5. Manchester's greatest orchestra is Halle Orchestra.
6. The wine Mosel comes from Germany.
7. Out of 163 recognized breeds of dog, 47 originated in the British Isles.
8. The Spanish Armada fleet tried to invade England in 1588. 
9. The giant Panda is the symbol of the World Wildlife Fund.
10. French President's term of office is 7 years.

Eleven Victoria Crosses,Longest Lived Hurricane,Oldest Breed of Cattle,Robot Lunar Crawler

1. Wey and Trent flow from south to north which is extremely unusual for British rivers.
2. Eleven Victoria Crosses were given for the defence of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War(1879).
3. "Ginger" was the longest lived hurricane in the North Atlantic.
4. The "Italian Chianina" is recognized as the oldest breed of cattle.
5. "Camembert Cheese" is produced by France.
6. The octane value for 2 star and 3 star petrol is 92 and 94 respectively.
7. The first Robot lunar crawler left on the moon by the Russians was "Lunokhod I".
8. 286,000 and more species of living flowering plants are know.
9. The last English monarch to be buried abroad was George I(at Leine Schloss, Hanover - his bones were transferred to Herrenhausen after the Second World War).
10. If a 20 metre thick layer of peat were buried under 3 km of sediment , the resultant seam of coal would be 2 metres thick.

Geo-stationary orbit,Non-migratory trout ,Worlds greatest snowfall,Techniques for high jumping,Act of Supremacy

1. El Nino(it was a warm current) during 1972-73 virtually destroyed the Peruvian anchovy industry.
2. British PM Stanley Baldwin held the office for a record of five times(1923-24,1924-29,1935-36 and two brief periods around the Abdication).
3. Elizabeth I introduced the Act of Supremacy(which made her head of the Church).
4. The second Russian astronaut to orbit the earth was Herman Titov.
5. Western Roll and Eastern cutoff are techniques for high jumping.
6. Hydrocyanic acid is often referred as Prussic acid in detective stories.
7. The father of Alexander the great was Philip II of Macedon.
8. The worlds greatest snowfall have occurred at the Rockies , North America.
9. 22,300  miles far out in space is the so-called geo-stationary orbit where telecommunication satellites are placed.
10. The two types of non-migratory trout found in England are Rainbow trout and Brown trout.

Time Zones of USA,Hydroponics,Thomas Cook,Ancient Apothecary

1. The stonefish is the most poisonous fish in the world.
2. A group of peacock is called Muster.
3. In China, the bride wears red color at her wedding.
4. The spooked wheel was introduced around the 1900 B.C .
5. In the solar system there are two Mount Olympuses, located in Greece and Mars.
6. According to ancient apothecary , 240 penny weights are equal to a lb weight.
7. The American submarine Nautilus, in 1958 was the first ship to reach North Pole.
8. The four different time zones of  USA are Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific.
9. Thomas Cook was the first British Company to arrange tourist excursions.
10. Hydroponics is the soil-less cultivation of plants.

White House,Caesarean Operation,Pluviometer,336 dimples

1. Jupiter, which completes a rotation on its axis in less than 10 earth hours, is the only planet in our solar system having the shortest day.
2. The instrument/device used to measure rainfall is pluviometer.
3. The width of a soccer goal is 24 feet.
4. A golf ball has 336 dimples.
5. In Basketball 19 feet is the distance between the free throw line and the basket.
6. Nubia region of Africa is partly submerged beneath Lake Nasser.
7. Caesarean Operation method is named after Julius Caesar because he was reputedly brought into the world by this method.
8. Mount Andrew Jackson is located in Antarctica.
9. The orange's originated in China.
10. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington,DC, is better known as WHITE HOUSE.

Marco Polo,Oldest Unchanged National Flag ,Eric the Red

1. The First World War was also called as 'the war to end all wars'.
2. The Second World War Hurricane was a fighter plane.
3. The Wisconsin state of America is the badger state.
4. Alfred Packer was the only man in the USA to be convicted of one particular crime i.e Cannibalism.
5. Red and Orange color 'advance' a picture towards a viewer.
6. The oldest unchanged national flag in existence is of Denmark's, which dates back to the thirteenth century.
7. Greenland was named by Eric the Red , the Norwegian explorer.
8. Marco Polo(Italian) went to China and became a diplomat for Kublai Khan.
9. The Dove bird is the symbol of peace.
10. The National Gallery of London is situated at Trafalgar Square.

Music City,Lancashire,British land carnivore,London's first airport

1. Bohea is a type of tea.
2. Green traffic lights presedes amber alone.
3. Nashville,Tennessee is the American city which is also known as Music City.
4. Since the invention of Coca-Cola, only seven men(no women) have known the formula.
5. The badger is the largest British land carnivore.
6. In 1919 London's first airport, at Hounslow, was opened.
7. Cotton textile is mainly associated with Lancashire.
8. Sheffield is the English city whose hallmark is a Tudor rose.
9. During the Stone Age, tools and weapons were usually made from Flint.
10. Colon town is situated on the panama canal.

Important Facts About India 2

1. PIN Code which stands for Postal Index Number was introduced in India in 1972.
2. STD stands for Subscriber Trunk Dialing was first introduced in India between Kanpur and Lucknow.
3. The Railway Board of India was established in 1905.
4. The Shipping Corporation of India was set up in 1961.
5. The Indian Constitution was modelled on the fedral pattern of the country known as Canada.
6. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(C.S.I.R) was set up in 1942.
7. The Atomic Energy Commission was set up in August,1948.
8. The Indian Constitution is essentially democratic and republican in character.It declares India to be a Sovereign Democratic Republic.
9. Solar Physical Observatory is situated at Kodaikanal.
10. The Space Commission was set up in June,1972.

Important Facts About India 1

1. On July 22,1947 the tri-color was adopted as India's National Flag.
2. The lion capital was adopted as the National Emblem by the Government of India on January 26,1950.
3. The unified Indian Calendar is based on the Saka Era.
4. Minimum age limit for becoming a member of Lok Sabha is 25 years.
5. Minimum age limit for becoming a member of Rajya Sabha is 30 years.
6. The Planning Commission was set up in 1950,its first chairman was Dr. Jawaharlal  Nehru.
7. Kavaratti is the administrated headquarter of Lakshadweep.
8. The length of the river Ganga is 1650 miles.
9. The river which flows between Vindhyas and Satpuras is Sone.
10. The State having deposits of nickel is Orissa.

AIM'S of INTERPOL

According to its constitution, these are Interpol's aims.

                           Article 2 

(1) To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between 

all criminal police authorities within the limits of the laws existing in the different

countries and in the spirit of "Universal Declaration of Human Rights".

(2) To establish and develop all institutions likely to contribute effectively to the 

prevention and suppression of ordinary law crimes.

                           Article 3

It is strictly forbidden for the Organization to undertake any intervention or activities

of a political, military, religious or racial character.

Founder of Interpol : Dr. Johann Schober(1874-1932)

The man who actively founded Interpol started as a policeman in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a young man and quickly made his way into the upper ranks.As he did so ,he encouraged the gathering of records of criminals of many different nations.

In 1918, he was made head of the Vienna police,but just then,the treaty ending World War I split the empire into several different independent countries.He remained in the new Austria and encouraged the police to accept the new government.

In 1921,Schober was elected prime minister of Austria,but he held the position for few months only.When he helped form the International Criminal Police Commission(ICPC) in 1923, the Austrian international records became the core of the new organization's criminal records.

Purchase of Alaska from Russia,American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin ....

1. American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin tested the electrical charge of a thunder storm.
2. American revolutionary hero Nathan Hale last words were,'I only regret that I  have but one life to lose for my country'.
3. The animal symbol 'elephant' represents the US Republican Party.
4. The Softball originated in USA.
5. $100 note is the largest note in general circulation in the USA.
6. The US state of Florida is nicknamed as ' the Sunshine state'.
7. In 1978 the US Open Tennis Championships moved from Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows.
8. The purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, for $7,200,000 was known as 'Sewald's Folly'.
9. Manhattan cocktail was invented by Lady Randolph Churchill(Winston Churchill's mother).
10. John F Kennedy was the thirty fifth president of USA.

Smallest state of USA,Louisiana purchase of 1803....

1. The smallest state of USA is Rhode Island.
2. Arthur Ashe was the first black man to win the US tennis championship.
3. New York was the first US state to require car licences in 1901.
4. Harvard is the oldest university in USA.
5. Bill Tilden was the only player to have won the United States Singles Tennis Championships at Forest Hills seven times.
6. C.C Magee invented the parking meter(in the USA) which was first used in 1935.
7. The metal known as columbium in the USA is called niobium in the UK.
8. Delaware, USA is also referred as Diamond state.
9. As a philanthropic experiment to give debtors from English prisons a chance, General Oglethrope founded the state of Georgia,USA in 1733.
10. US President Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana purchase of 1803.

Computer and Web Technology abbreviations 7

• MATX – Micro Advanced Technology Extended
• EEATX – Enhanced Extended Advanced Technology Extended
• DDR SDRAM – Double-Data-Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
• DDR RAM – Double-Data-Rate Random Access Memory
• GUI – Graphical User Interfaces
• CUI – Command User Interfaces 

Computer and Web Technology abbreviations 6

• WLAN – Wireless Local Area Network.
• Wi-fi – Wireless Fidelity
• TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
• e-SATA – External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
• WiMAX – Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
• JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
• GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
• ATX – Advanced Technology Extended
• UATX – Ultra Advanced Technology Extended
• FATX – Flex Advanced Technology Extended

Computer and Web Technology abbreviations 5

• MPU : Micro Processor Unit.
• NICNET : National Information Center Network.
• OMR : Optical Mark Reader.
• PC-DOT : Personal Computer Disk Operation System.
• PROM : Programmable Read Only Memory.
• SNOBOL : String Oriented Symbolic Language.
• UPS : Uninterpretable Power Supply.
• VDU : Visual Display Unit.
• VLSI : Very Large Scale Integrated.
• WWW : World Wide Web.

Computer and Web Technology abbreviations 4

• HLL : High Level Language.
• HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language.
• IBM : International Business Machine.
• IC : Integrated Circuit
• ISH : International Super Highway.
• LISP : List Processing.
• LLL : Low Level Language
• MICR : Magnetic Ink Character Recognizer.
• MIPS : Millions of Instructions Per Second.
• MOPS : Millions of Operations Per Second.

Computer and Web Technology abbreviations 3

• WAN : Wide Area Network .
• MAN : Metropolitan Area Network.
• CDMA : Code Division Multiple Access.
• GAIS : Gateway Internet Access Service
• E-Mail : Electronic Mail.
• CD : Compact Disc.
• LDU : Liquid Display Unit.
• CPU : Central Processing Unit.
• CAM : Computer Aided Manufacturing.
• CATScan : Computerized Axial Tomography Scan .

Computer and Web Technology abbreviations 2

• COBOL : Common Business Oriented Language.
• COMAL : Common Algorithmic Language.
• DOS : Disk Operating System.
• DTS : Desk Top System
• DTP : Desk Top Publishing.
• E-Commerce : Electronic Commerce.
• ENIAC : Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator
• FAX : Far Away Xerox.
• FLOPS : Floating Operations Per Second.
• FORTRAN : Formula Translation.

Computer and Web Technology abbreviations 1

• CDAC : Centre for Development of Advanced Parallel Computing.
• C-DOT : Center for Development of Telematrics.
• HTTP : Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• ROM : Read Only Memory
• RAM : Random Access Memory
• BIOS : Basic Input- Output System.
• MODEM : Modulation – Demodulation.
• CAD : Computer Aided Design.
• RABAN : Remote Area Business Message Network.
• LAN : Local Area Network

World's largest rodent,Largest hailstone,St. Bernard....

1. The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
2. The largest hailstone weighed over 1kg fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
3. Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
4. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
5. The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
6. Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan Malamute, the Bull Terrier, and the Toy Poodle.
7. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
8. Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
9. The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. It is an Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig; it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
10. The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers. 

Barbarossa,Mohammad Ali,Henry Cavendish....

1. Henry Cavendish measured the strength of electricity used in his experiments by shocking himself.
2. Soto and Rinzai are the two main branches of Zen Buddhism.
3. In 1974, Anders Svedlund of Sweden first rowed across Pacific Ocean, in 118 days.
4. It takes 5 seconds for a healthy heart to pump a gallon of blood if a normal person is running for a bus.
5. E.E Cummings, Walt Disney, Ernest Hemingway and Somerset Maugham were all ambulance Drivers in World War I.
6. The World War II German Invasion of Russia was code named Barbarossa.
7. The cockroach is also known as "Croton Bug"in New York,USA.
8. In 1967, Mohammad Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight title and barred from professional boxing because he refused to drafted into the US army.
9. British General Charles Gordon helped to abolish slavery in China and Sudan.
10. Until 1975 mules were part of the British Army.

GRE Reasoning : Analogy 4

1. Lotus is related to Cuticle in the same way Fish is related to Scales.
2. Boat is related to Oar in the same way as chain is related to Pedal.
3. Ostrich is related to Antelope in the same way as Egret is related to Buffalo.
4. Green Revolution is related to Plants in the same way as Silver Revolution is related to Animals.
5. Anthropology is related to Man in the same way as Anthology is related to Poems.
6. Auger is related to Carpenter in the same way as Awl is related to Cobbler.(synonyms)
7. Scrupulous is related to Principles in the same way as Ethical is related to Morals.
8. Coherent is related to Consistent in the same way as Irate is related to Angry.(synonyms)
9. Wince is related to Pain in the same way as Prostration is related to submissiveness.
10. Tapeworm is related Taeniasis in the same way as Plasmodium is related to Malaria.

Drawbacks of Security equipment

1. According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won't function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person's body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the cooler walls and floor.
2. If the room is too hot, the motion detector won't register a change in the radiated heat of that person's body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home's safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.

Shortest street in England,Norwegian parliament..

1. Meerschaum is the name of a pipe made from a natural block of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. The process of development from a caterpillar to a butterfly is called Metamorphosis.
3. The hippopotamus produces its own sun-tan lotion.
4. The leader of a flock of sheep is called bellwether.
5. Violin is the instrument which can play the highest note.
6. Chinook is a warm wind which blows in the western states of North America.
7. Somnambulists do sleep walk.
8. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of the Norwegian parliament.
9. 1813-1814 was the last time river Thames in London froze sufficiently hard for people to walk across it.
10. Queen Charlotte Street in Windsor, Berks is the shortest street in England.It is 51' 10'' long.

UNIDO, Average human Hair and Heart Beat....

1. UNIDO is United Nations Industrial Development Organisation,situated at Vienna in Austria.
2. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. 
3. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
4. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
5. In 24 hours, An average human heart beats 1,03,689 times.
6. An average human Hair grows 0.01715 inches in 24 hours.
7. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
8. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
9. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
10. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

1949 ENIAC computer,Anders Celsius

1. A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
2. An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
3. At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
4. Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.
5. The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth).

Dr. Eugene Shoemaker,European Space Agency's Olympus..

1. The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
2. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
3. The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
4. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
5. Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
6. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
7. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
8. Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.

Ships of the desert, 27% of all food production ends up in garbage cans

1. In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands count under the 10 wealthiest women in the world.
2. According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1.2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight.
3. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
   If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
   If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
4. Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.
5. The system of democracy was introduced 2 500 years ago in Athens, Greece. The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.

Largest Cinema, Largest Airport

1. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
3. Abraham Lincoln is credited to abolish the curse of slavery in America.
4. Fox theatre,Detroit, (USA) is the largest cinema in the world.
5. King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia is the largest airport in the world.
6. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
7. The State of Florida is bigger than England.
8. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
9. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
10. Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.

National flower of USA ,Motto of FBI..

1. Germany produces the greatest number of varieties of sausage, with over 2000 varieties.
2. Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity is the motto of FBI.
3. Planet Uranus was Discovered by William Herschel in 1781.
4. One and half million estimated man-hours of labour did the construction of Stonehenge take.
5. The Adriatic Sea separates Yugoslavia from Italy.
6. Corpses nowadays deteriorate less quickly than they used to because of the preservatives in food that was eaten while alive.
7. It takes 56 days for a new hair take to show up in the follicle of a hair plucked out with tweezers.
8. Malt is obtained when barley is soaked in water , allowed to sprout and dried in a kiln.
9. The official name of Statue of Liberty is ' Liberty Enlightening The World'.
10. There is no national flower of USA because Congress never having been able to agree on one.

Largest fortress,First hairsprings for watches..

1. Wind becomes hurricane at 73 miles per hour(1 mph= 1.6 km/h).
2. The word Hong Kong means Fragrant Habour.
3. In Meteorology the Torro scale measures Tornadoes.
4. Europe's largest fortress is Kremlin in Moscow.
5. The Sun is 330,000 times larger than the Earth.(accept within 10 per cent)
6. The patron saint of France is St Denis.
7. If the air is supersaturated it would have more than 100 % humidity.
8. Britain's first PM was Robert Walpole.
9. The first hairsprings for watches were made from Pig's hair.
10. In the nineteenth century China used bamboo as money.

GRE Reasoning : Analogy 3

1. Vicuna : Camel : : Repec : Violin  (Vicuna is an animal , similar to camel
   repec is a musical instrument , similar to violin)
2. USA : Congress : : Iran : Majlis (parliament of USA is called Congress and  that of Iran is called Majlis)
3. Foresight : Anticipation : : Insomnia : Sleeplessness (Synonyms)
4. Tanning : Leather : : Pyrotechnics : Fireworks
5. Salve : Ointment : : Sauterne :  Wine 
6. Nark : Spy : : Shyster : Lawyer
7. Pituitary : Brain : : Thymus : Chest (Pituitary is gland of brain , Thymus is gland of chest)
8. Novice : Learner : : Harbinger : Messenger (synonyms)
9. Knoll : Hill : : Eclogue : Poem (knoll is a small hill , eclogue is short poem)
10. Seismograph : Earthquakes : : Taseometer : Strains (first is device used to measure second)

GRE Reasoning : Analogy 2

1. Eccrinology : Secretions : : Selenography : Moon 
2. Archipelago : Islands : : Massif : Mountains 
3. Origami : Paper : Ikebana : Flowers(first is an art associated with second) 
4. Penology : Punishment : : Seismology : Earthquakes 
5. Igloos : Canada : : Rondavels : Africa 
6. Mastic : Gum : : Suet : Fat
7. Nautilus : Fish : : Teal : Duck 
8. Anaemia : Blood : : Anarchy : Government 
9. Misogamy : Marriage : : Misogyny(First is a hatred for the second)
10. Probe : Wound : : Anemograph : Force 

GRE Reasoning : Analogy 1

1. Painting : Artist : : Symphony : Composer           
2. Pongee(is a type of silk) : Silk : : Shallot(is a kind of boat) : Boat                             
3. Dawn : Dusk : : Inauguration : Valediction 
4. Tectonics(is the science of dealing with the art of building) : Buildings : : Taxidermy(is the art of stuffing animals) : Stuffing 
5. Legend  : Story : : Merlin : Hawk 
6. Annihilation : Fire : : Cataclysm : Flood 
7. Lemur(belongs to the family of monkey) : Monkey : : Rook(belongs to the family of crow) : Crow 
8. Vestry : Church : : Dispensary : Hospital 
9. Visitor(is given an invitation to attend an occasion) : Invitation : : Witness(is delivered a subpoena providing for attendence at the court) : Subpoena 
10. Mash : Horse : : Mast : Pig

Zloty, Mother Teresa, Leicester

1. Color of peridots(semi-precious stones) is green.
2. Zloty is the unit of currency of Poland.
3. Mother Teresa of Calcutta won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace.
4. The human race doubles its number after every 35 years. 
5. Quarantine is isolation because of sickness ,also it is a sort of red apple(also called Quarrender).
6. The Japanese art of sword fighting is called Kendo.
7. 39,44,44,512 is the number of 4-inch sausages that would be needed to circle the earth at the equator.
8. Uranus is the most distant planet just visible to the naked eye. 
9. The six main vitamins are A, B, C, D, E and K. 
10. Border , Leicester and Corriedale are all breeds of Sheep.
11. A average person eats about 50 tons of food in a lifetime. 

'big bang' theory, Red Crescent, The Old Bailey....

1. Georges Lemaitre was the man responsible for the 'big bang' theory.
2. .The moon takes 27.3 days to complete a full revolution of the earth.
3. Admiral Beaufort gave his name to a wind force scale.
4. An average healthy scalp sheds about 65 hairs in twenty-four hours. 
5. The Old Bailey is another name for London's Central Criminal Court. 
6. The equivalent of Red Cross in Muslim Countries is the Red Crescent. 
7. Canada owns the Queen Elizabeth islands in the Arctic.
8. Planets are the heavenly bodies which  the Greeks call 'wandering stars'.  
9. Carpet-Bagger is the American political term for an entrepreneur who began business in the devasted southern states with no more than could be carried in a carpet-bag.
10. Mount McKinley is the highest mountain of North America.

Manhattan Project(1942), American Admiral Robert E. Peary...

1. Scientists working on the Manhattan Project(1942) were researching on atomic bomb.
2. London's Underground system is powered by electricity.
3. A sand wedge is used for getting out of a bunker in golf.
4. Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.
5. The Olympic Games have been cancelled three times(1916,1940,1944) due to war.
6. The International Hydrographic Bureau does not recognize the Antarctic Ocean.
7. In 1937, the earth missed a major disaster by less than 3 seconds when it nearly collided with a minor planet called Hermes.
8. The first person to reach North Pole was American Admiral Robert E. Peary on 6 April 1909.
9. By 8 inches the level of sea drops each spring.
10. A average person eats about 50 tons of food in a lifetime. 

Interferometer, Orology, Yugoslavia, Crown Jewels....

1. Anaemia is caused to the deficiency of Iron.
2. Apollo II's landing module was called 'Eagle'.
3. Apollo 11's communal module was called Columbia.
4. Infra Dignitatem means Beneath one's dignity.  
5. The wavelength of light is measured by interferometer.
6. Orology is the scientific study of  mountains.
7. In Yugoslavia a pig is brought into the house for good luck on New Years Eve.
8. The planet surrounded by rings is Saturn.
9. The creatures which accompany sharks and ships is Pilot fish. 
10. In London the Crown Jewels are kept in the Tower of London.

Castel Gandolfo, Walther 7.65.....

1. The summer residence of Pope is Castel Gandolfo.
2. In an aeroplane flight the chances of death is highest while landing approach. 
3. Albatross is the only bird that can fly all day without once flapping its wings.
4. Troops of Great Britain, in 1814 set fire to the White House in the nineteenth century.
5. Blues and violets colors make a scene appear to recede on a picture.
6.  Adolf Hitler used Walther 7.65 pistol to commit suicide.
7. The only European country in which a wife does not take the name of her husband upon marriage is Spain.
8. The axis of the earth is moving and in 12,000 years the pole star will be replaced by VEGA. 
9. ALOHA is the Hawaiian word of greeting.
10. CHESHIRE is the oldest of the English cheeses.

Brain Teasers VII : Christopher Columbus, Heinrich Himmler

1. Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella financed Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.
2. The belt of forest running from Scandinavia to Japan is known as the Taiga.
3. The largest living creature without a backbone is giant Squid.
4. Bulls are not excited specifically by  the color red because they are color-blind.
5. Study of fossil fuels is called Palaeontology.
6. Whale's nostril is called blowhole.
7. The anaconda of South America is the largest and heaviest of all snakes.
8. Heinrich Himmler was head of Hitler's SS.
9. About 40,000 muscles are there in the trunk of an elephant.
10. SCUBA stands for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

Brain Teasers VI :Daimler, Albatross, Castel Gandolfo, Elias.......

1. Anemometer
measures wind speed.
2. Daimler was the first company to produce petrol-driven motor cars.
3. Walt Disney's middle name was Elias.
4. Currency used in Bahrain is Dinar.
5. The elephant has gestation period of 645 days.
6. World's largest newspaper in sheer bulk is Sunday edition of The New York Times.(The largest, published on 
7. 17 October 1965, consisted of 946 pages !!)
8. Travelling at the speed of light(3 * 10 ^8 m/s) it would take about 6 hours to reach Pluto. 
9. Tramways were invented by James Outram.
10. Its takes 2 hours for a pint of milk to lose half of its vitamin B when left in bright sunlight.(1 US pint = 0.473 L)

BRAIN TEASERS V: King Charles I,Pope Adrian,Colossus of Rhodes,Hercules,Graham Sutherland,

1. A nectarine is a  cross of two fruits that is peach and plum.
2. 70 milligrams of caffeine are there in the average cup of tea.
3. King Charles I was beheaded at Whitehall in 1649.
4. Giraffe is faster than a horse , can go longer without water than a camel and can see behind without moving its head !!
5. The statue of Colossus of Rhodes was of Apollo.
6. Spirogyra is the commonest type of algae.
7. Muhammad Ali is nicknamed as ' the Louisville Lip'.
8. Pope Adrian IV(Nicholas Breakspear) (1154-9), was the only English pope.
9. Joseph W. Swan invented electric light bulb in 1879.
10. Winston Churchill was the subject of the controversial portrait painted by Graham Sutherland.

Brain Teasers IV: Brazil, Hadrian, Franklin ......

1. There are 180 calories in half a pint of milk.
2. VMI - VMI is a very small pig ! 
3. The kidneys are affected by Bright's disease.
4. The shirts color of Mussolini 's fascists was black 
5. The most populous city south of equator is Sao Paulo, Brazil.
6. Barrister wear black because they are still in mourning for Queen Mary, who died in 1694.
7. Benjamin Franklin created the first pair of bifocal lenses.
8. Canary's pulse beats 1000 times a minute.
9. Feverfew is the bitter-tasting herb reputed to relive migraine headaches !!
10. Hadrian's Wall is 73.5 miles(118.28 km ) long.

INDIA : At Its Best

1. India is one of only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).
2. India is one of six countries that launches satellites.
3. The Bombay stock exchange lists more than 6,600 companies. Only the NYSE has more.
4. Eight Indian companies are listed on the NYSE; three on the NASDAQ.
5. By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world’s second largest after China.
6. India has the second largest community of software developers, after the U.S.
7. India has the second largest network of paved highways, after the U.S.
8. India is the world’s largest producer of milk, and among the top five producers of sugar, cotton, tea, coffee, spices, rubber, silk, and fish.
9. 100 of the Fortune 500 companies have R&D facilities in India.
10. Two million people of Indian origin live in the U.S.
11. Indian-born Americans are among the most affluent and best educated of the recent immigrant groups in the U.S.
12. Thirty percent of the R&D researchers in American pharmaceutical companies are Indian Americans.
13. Nearly 49% of the high-tech startups in silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. are owned by Indians or Indian-Americans.
14. India sends more students to U.S. colleges than any country in the world. In 2004-2005, over 80,000 Indian students entered the U.S. China sent only 65,000 students during the same time.
15. In a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, an Indian-American woman scientist, Dr. Ananda Chakrabaty, won the argument that persons may be granted patents for useful manufacture of living organisms. She defeated the U.S. Patent Office, that argued that living things may not be patented, thus establishing the legal foundation for the biotech industry, (Diamond vs. Chakrabaty, 1980). Dr. Chakrabaty invented a microbe that eats oil spills.

SOURCE : http://trak.in/tags/business/2007/08/02/15-little-known-facts-about-india-factfile-knowledge-economy-growth/

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Who is SONIA GANDHI? ( Every Indian Should Know This )

Who is Sonia Gandhi:
Ther...e is officially no Sonia Gandhi. Her real name in passport is neither Gandhi nor Sonia. Its Edvige Antonia Albina Maino. Sonia is a Russian name and not italian. However, Antonia is an italian name and her passport is italian. Though she has married Rajiv Gandhi* she never accepted change of title officially. ( recall the time of turmoil in indian politics when Sonia Gandhi was trying to be the prime minister, but ultimately ManMohan Singh became her toy)

*Rajiv Gandhi: Actually Rajiv Khan being the son of Firoz Khan and Indira Priyadarshani. Gandhi is an assumed title to sentimentally lure indians for their political benefit. They are muslims by religion.

Father:
Stefano Eugene Maino is socially the father of Sonia. Her father was a German(hitlers army). When Hitlers army went to russia they were captured and imprisoned. He was captured near St. Petersburgh and was imprisoned for 20 years. But he became a member of KGB and his imprisonment was limited to 4 years. When he came back from prison he gave russian name to his daughters. Social father because when she was born her father was in jail for 4 years. Biological father is unconfirmed.
Mother:
Paula Maino.
Family:
She had 2 sistersin Orbassano, italy
Birthplace
Sonia claims she was born in Besano, near Turin in italy. However, as per her birth certificate, She is actually born is Luciana, in the borders of Switzerland. A resort town for German soldiers during war.
Education:
She initially put forward to Indian Govt. that she studied in Cambridge University which proved to be fake. She submitted an affidavit that she studied english in Bell Education trust at Cambridge. Even this was proven to be fake and was found she never got any education after class five. She was a young girl with no formal education living five years in england. How did she support her livelihood for 5 years? Any wild guesses?
Citizenship:
She has not given off her italian citizenship. Indira Gandhi used her power to issue her an Indian Citizenship so that she can join Indian politics. She is holding an illegal citizenship in India. No action is being taken by Home Minister.
Religion:
Cristianity.
Bank Balance:
Rajiv Gandhi and his family owned 2 billion USD in Swiss Bank as of November,1991. Benefitiary of death of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi was Sonia Gandhi.
Family:
Sonia's sister Alexandria(or Anuska) has 2 shops in Italy selling antiques stolen from India. Sonia used her power to smuggle indian artifacts through Air India flights uninspected.
Sonia's son Rahul Gandhi, whose real name is Raul Vinci. He got admitted to Harvard in quota but was thrown off soon because he was incompetant. He has italian citizenship since his mother never gave up her citizenship. He cannot officially become the citizen of india or any politician in india as long as he doesnt give up his italian citizenship. Arrested in Boston airport for carrying 160,000 dollars cash, accompanied by Veronique (spanish). veronique is the daughter of Drug mafia leader. Rahul has also been accused for gang raping Sukanya Devi, whose petition to all courts in India have been rejected due to their political hold and the whereabouts of the family is unknown. However, the information is widely available online.

American War of Independence, Differential gear

• About 84 % of white people have rhesus- positive blood.
• Ceps , Morels and Chanterelles are edible fungi.
• Fixing a dye into cloth is called mordanting.
• Flowers in the modern gardens have "perfume" attribute which the native flowers of Australia lack
• Pearmain is variety of the apple fruit .
• Golf ball is made up of elastic threads wound under tension around a central core surrounded by plastic.                                                                                                                                                               
• The Differential gear enables the drive wheels of a car to turn a corner while on the same axle 

• France's extravagant support (£ 50,000,000) to the American War of Independence ,led to her bankruptcy and her own revolution. 

Petrol Prices

OIL : oil production in tonnes per annum

COUNTRY                           TONNES            
Saudi Arabia                           44,12,00,000
USA                                       35,35,00,000
Russian Federation                  32,33,00,000
Iran                                         18,66,00,000
Mexico                                    17,21,00,000

Countries with most rail track

COUNTRY          TOTAL KM(miles) OF TRACK

USA                      270,312 (167,970)
Russia                    152,000 (94,455)
Canada                  71,000   (43,125)
China                     69,400   (43,125)
India                      61,850   (38,435)

MAJOR REVOLUTIONS

 DATE                      REVOLUTION          VICTOR(S)                         LOSER(S)

1775-1783                 American                     American                               Britain

                                                                      colonies                   
1789                           French                         Jacobins                                Royalists      
1917                           Russian                        Bolsheviks                             Royalists
1945-1949                 Chinese                       Communists                           Nationalists