General knowledge

Strange Facts

1. 
   The North Atlantic gets 1 inch wider every year.
   
2. 
   It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
   
3. 
   The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
   
4. 
   The first ten feet of the ocean hold as much heat as the Earth’s entire atmosphere.
   
5. 
   Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.
   
6. 
   The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy.
   
7. 
   The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.
   
8. 
   It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.
   
9. 
   Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
   
10. 
    The rocket engine has to supply its own oxygen so it can burn its fuel in outer space.
    
11. 
    The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
    
12. 
    Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
    
13. 
    Everyone’s tongue print is different.
    
14. 
    Moths have no stomach.
    
15. 
    Hummingbirds can’t walk.
    
16. 
    On average, our bodies constantly resist an atmospheric pressure of about 1 kilogram per square inch.
    
17. 
    Cheetah’s can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.
    
18. 
    The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F (58°C) in Libya in 1922.
    
19. 
    Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.
    
20. 
    The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.
    
21. 
    The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.
    
22. 
    Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
    

Strange Laws

Strange Laws

1. 
   It is a law offence to put livestock like cattles or pets on a school bus in Florida.
   
2. 
   In Virginia a law code of 1930 prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person, but it is not same on political candidates according to a statue by code of 1930.
   
3. 
   In the state of Colorado, a pet cat, if loose, must have a tail-light !
   
4. 
   In Georgia, it’s against the law to spread a false rumor.
   
5. 
   In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.
   
6. 
   In Texas, it is a “hanging offense” to steal cattle.
   
7. 
   In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned.
   
8. 
   In Kentucky, it is illegal for a merchant to force a person into his place of business for the purpose of making a sale.
   
9. 
   In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.
   
10. 
    In New Jersey, cabbage can’t be sold on Sunday.
    
11. 
    In Singapore, to maintain clinliness it is illegal to chew gum.
    
12. 
    In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder.
    
13. 
    In Washington State, you can’t carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.
    
14. 
    In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.
    
15. 
    In Texas, it’s against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.
    
16. 
    A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia.
    
17. 
    In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.
    
18. 
    In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.
    
19. 
    In Arkansas it is against the law to mispronounce the name of the that State.
    
20. 
    In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.
    

Trivia Questions to Test Your IQ

Trivia Questions To Test Your IQ

General knowledge quiz questions are the best way of testing your IQ level. So, here we give you an opportunity to answer the below mentioned trivia questions to test your IQ.

Below mentioned are some of the easy general knowledge questions. Try to answer these questions and is unable to answer them, go to the end of this page for answers.

Questions:

1.    What does `The Cherry Orchard’ has in common with old editions of `Startrek’?

2.    In Australia, how is the date of Mothers’ Day calculated?

3.    Which President of the USSR encouraged the policy of Glassnost?

4.    What was built by inmates taken from Changi Prison Camp?

5.    What is the world’s largest desert?

6.    Nino Culotto was his pen-name. What was his REAL name?

7.    What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?

8.    Who wrote `The Entertainer’, music made famous by the film,`The Sting’?

9.    In Greek legend, what was eaten on the island of Jerba?

10.    What was the name of Ulysses’ son, who grew to manhood in his absence?

11.    Which Knight caused the death of the Lady of Shallott?

12.    What monument occupies centre stage in Trafalgar Square?

13.    Which book catapulted Germaine Greer to fame?

14.    What was the classical standard language of ancient India?

15.    Who directed and starred in films such as `The little Tramp’?

16.    Name the three types of classical architectural column.

17.    Who was Doctor Zhivago’s great love?

18.    Name the commoner who ruled England in 1658-59.

19.    Which ghost ship is the theme of an 1841 opera by Richard Wagner?

20.    What career did the Duke of Wellington pursue after the Battle of Waterloo?

21.    Which popular hymn was composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan of Opera Fame?

22.    What is the literal meaning of `pince-nez’. glasses?

23.    Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France’s Unknown Soldier?

24.    What type of puppets are t hose whose movements are controlled by strings?

25.    Which drug is best known for its use in preventing malaria?

26.    Identify the 15th century British war fought by the Houses of Lancaster and York

27.    Which sea is so named because it is too salty to maintain life?

28.    What is the most indispensable instrument in astronomy?

29.    Which literary doctor owns a parrot called `Polynesia’?

30.    Name the Australian singer whose first hit, in the 1960s, was `I Remember You’.`Four On The Floor’ pertain? 31.    What is Sydney’s equivalent to San Francisco’s `Bay To Breakers’ footrace’?

32.    Which independent island is Australia’s nearest neighbour to the west?

33.    At the end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’, which of the principals are dead?

34.    What is the name of Greg Norman’s business?

35.    Name a state of U.S.A. beginning with `B’.

36.    Whom did Yoko Ono marry only to lose to an assassin?

37.    Wo dubbed Australia `The Lucky Country’ in one of his novels?

38.    Which biblical event supports the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number?

39.    How much was 240 pence in predecimal currency

40.    Which comic- strip drake is a multi-billionaire?

41.    What was the first event decided at the 1896 Olympics?

42.    Which is the only continent occupied by one nation?

43.    What inspired the convex golden disc as the Order of Australia?

44.    How long does it take for light to reach the Earth from sun?

45.    How long is a blink of a human eye?

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