General Knowledge for kaun banega crorepati

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General Knowledge for kaun banega crorepati

  • Moped – is the short term for Motorized Pedaling.
  • POP MUSIC is Popular Music shortened.
  • BUS is the short term for ‘Omnibus’ that means everybody.
  • FORTNIGHT comes from ‘Fourteen Nights’ (Two Weeks).
  • DRAWING ROOM was actually a ‘withdrawing room’ where people withdrew
  • After Dinner. Later the prefix ‘with’ was dropped…
  • NEWS refers to information from four directions N, E, W and S…
  • AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from Agricultural Marketing.
  • JOURNAL is a diary that tells about ‘Journey for a day’ during each Day’s business.
  • QUEUE comes from ‘Queen’s Quest’.
  • Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen’s Quest…
  • TIPS come from ‘To Insure Prompt Service’. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written ‘To Insure Prompt Service’. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.
  • JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named ‘General Purpose Vehicle (GP)’.GP was changed into JEEP later.
  • Coca-Cola was originally green.
  • The most common name in the world is Mohammad…
  • The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
  • The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row! Of the keyboard.
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
  • You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
  • It is impossible to lick your elbow.
  • People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart
  • Stops for a millisecond. .
  • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
  • The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
  • Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
  • Spades – King David
  • Clubs – Alexander the Great
  • Hearts – Charlemagne
  • Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
  • Horse Statue in a Park…
  • If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
  • If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
  • If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  • A snail can sleep for three years.
  • All polar bears are left handed.
  • Butterflies taste with their feet.
  • Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
  • In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  • On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  • Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
  • Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  • The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
  • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
  • Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  • The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales.