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.