Monday, 7 November 2011

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.