Blennophobia, Anne Boleyn, Nineveh, Virginia......Queen Elizabeth I

1. The first glass mirrors in Europe were made in Venice,in about 1300.
2. Blennophobia is a fear of slime 
3. Anne Boleyn ,queen of England had eleven fingers
4. The capital of Assyrian Empire was Nineveh
5. The smallest unit of length measurement is femtometre
6. The American state of Virginia is named after Queen Elizabeth I
7. Sunlight gives sea its blue colour because pure sea water is colourless, but the surface water absorbs all but blue rays of the sun 
8. Smoke rises from a chimney in the Vatican, to declare that a new pope has been elected
9. Lightest weight category in boxing is Light flyweight
10. The flower convallaria is better known as the Lily of the valley.

Distinguished Inventors of 19th century

  JAMES GLAISHER(1809-1903)  

was an English meteorologist, during the 19th century, took great risks when they ascended to extraordinary heights to discover more about the atmosphere. GLAISHER went to almost 12 km(7.5 miles) into the troposphere without oxygen or protective clothing.Such a research led to the discovery that air becomes cooler with altitude.

 FERDINAND Von  ZEPPELIN(1838-1917)

In 1900, he devised  the first airship, a 128-m(420-ft) rigid craft named the LZ1. During  World War I , some 100 Zeppelins were built for military use.

 FRITZ HABER(1868-1934)

was an German chemist, who developed a process for making the alkali ammonia in 1908, which is used to make fertilizers and explosives. The Haber process involves reacting nitrogen from the air 

with hydrogen at high temperature and pressure, later on he devised a way of making nitric acid by heating ammonia in air.

 LINUS PAULING(1901-1994) 

was an American chemist,who won 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on chemical bonds and the structure of molecules.He calculated the energies needed to make a bonds,the angles at which bond forms and the distance between the atoms. He also won the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to stop the testing of nuclear weapons.

 

Sebastopol ,Cremona, Fresco,Emmett .....

• Dorothy Perkins, Grandpa Dickson and Iceberg are varieties of Roses 
• Metal from guns captured at Sebastopol (1855) was used to make Victoria Crosses till 1942
• Cremona is the Italian town where the greatest violins are made 
• Fresco is the technique of painting directly on to wet plaster on walls. 
• England and Australia play for the Ashes 
• Emmett is an ant 
• Glasgow is the Scottish city which boasts an Underground system 
• There are about 33,000 known human illnesses 
• To escape immediate burns from 1-megaton nuclear explosion you should be at least 20 miles away 
• Another name for the country Chosun Minchu-Chui Inmin Konghwa-Guk is KOREA 

Paris,Morphine, Worlds longest rail journey

1. The rocking chair was invented by Benjamin Franklin 
2. Dutch was the first European Nation to drink Tea 
3. Rank of Squadron-Leader of air force is equivalent to Major of army  
4. The Moscow to Peking run on the Trans Siberian Railway is the worlds longest rail journey that can be made without changing trains
5. Hot air balloons was the first vehicle to take people into the air 
6. Wrestling is the sport in which you can be held for half nelson 
7. The drug Morphine was named after 'Morpheus',the Greek God of Dreams 
8. S muck is a group of Jellyfish 
9. Paris is nicknamed the City of Light 
10. Canadian city "Ottawa" was earlier called By town

Treasures of PARIS : Arc de Triomphe , Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower

the Arc de Triomphe: Commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to honor those who died during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, the Arc de Triomphe stands in the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle, at the western end of the famous Champs-Elysées    







Notre Dame: One of Paris' most popular attractions, Notre Dame de Paris is a Gothic cathedral built in the 12th and 13th centuries. It was the site of Joan of Arc's canonization and the coronation of Napoleon I. It is perched on the Ile de la Cité, Paris' military and political center during the Middle Ages.







the Eiffel Tower: When Paris hosted a World's Fair in 1889, some 100 artists submitted plans for a monument to serve as the entrance. Organizers chose Gustave Eiffel's tower, which reached 1,000 feet above Paris. First greeted with skepticism, it is now seen as an architectural wonder.

Brain Teasers III : Spitfire, Sargasso Sea , Medoc

1. How many fluid ounces make an
American pint  (1 US pint = 473.176473 milliliters) 
2. Which sea has no coast ?
3. How old was Major Yuri Gagarin on his first space flight ?
4. What is the principle food of reindeer and caribou ?       
5. Which famous fighter plane did R.j Mitchell design in 1936 ?
6. In 1700 BC there was one great city  in Africa outside Egypt.What was it  ?
7. Who was the first professional cricketer to captain England ? 
8. Which sea is really the world's largest lake ?
9. If you were standing in a diamond, what would you be playing ?
10. What is particularly prominent in the proboscis monkey ?                  
11. Who invented braille(language for the blind people) ?
12. Which is Britain 's longest cycling race ?
13.  From which district in France do the majority of fine clarets come ?
14. How many miles of arteries, veins and capillaries does the human body contain ? 
15. What does an armadillo's  (New World placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. ) flesh taste like ?                      
16. Tarom Airlines belong to which country ?

ANSWERS:

1. Sixteen 
2. The Sargasso Sea                                               
3. Twenty-seven                                                                                 
4. Reindeer Moss 
5. The Spitfire                                                        
6. Carthage 
7. Len Hutton                 
8. The Caspian Sea                                              
9. Baseball !!
10. Its nose 
11. Louis Braille                                                                                         
12. The Milk Race 
13. Medoc 
14. Approximately 60,000
15. Pork               
16. Romania 

Brain Teasers II :Andromeda , Nikita Khrushchev ,King Faisal

1. Who are the worlds greatest cheese-eaters ?
2. Which Saudi Arabian King was assassinated in 1975 ?
3. How many moons has the planet Mercury ?         external link : http://universeandplanets.blogspot.com/2011/05/information-about-mercury-planet.html
4. From whom did John F. Kennedy accept his dog Pushinka ?  
5. Where can the largest cannon in the world be seen ? 
6. Who was Julius Caesar's third wife ?        
7. Of what is Widgeon a wild variety ?
8. Which wedding anniversary is paper ? 
9. Which Italian cathedral has 4,440 statues ?
10. In which century were the Wars of Roses fought ? 
11. Which is the nearest galaxy to our own ? 
12. Which war reporter did Louis Botha capture during the Boer War ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Botha    

         

   Answer : 

1. The French 
2. King Faisal ....pic source :http://www.the-saudi.net/al-saud/faisal.jpg
3. None 
4. Nikita Khrushchev 
5. The Kremlin......pic source :http://img2.allvoices.com/thumbs/image/609/480/71038672-cannon.jpg
6. Calpurnia 
7. Duck 
8. The first 
9. Milan 
10. The fifteenth Century 
11. Andromeda 
12. Winston Churchill

Capital of Switzerland = Bern /Berne

Yankee Stadium, Thomas Coryat, Dead sea

1. What is M M M minus MD ?
2. Which Italian habit did Thomas Coryat Introduce to England in 1608 ? 
3. What is the motto of USA ? 
4. Which class of creatures contains more than two thirds of all known species ? 
5. Which drink comes in Jeroboams ? 
6. Purl ,fisherman's ,cable are example of what ? 
7. Which two countries border the dead sea ? 
8. How far can a giant tortoise crawl in 1 minute ? 
9. What is the capital of Switzerland ?
10. What is called ' The House that Ruth Built '? 

    ANSWERS 

1. M.D (Roman numerals : 3000 minus 1500 equals 1500.)
2. Eating with a fork instead of fingers.
3. 'In god we trust'
4. Insects 
5. Champagne
6. Knitting stitches 
7. Israel and Jordan
8. About 5 yards 
9. Berne
10. Yankee Stadium , New York