WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ!

(Passing requires only 3 correct answers out of 10!)




1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last ?




2) Which country makes Panama hats ?




3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?




4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?




5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ?




6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?




7) What was King George VI's first name ?




8) What color is a purple finch ?




9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?




10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?






Remember, you need only 3 correct answers to pass.



Check your answers below.

















ANSWERS




1) How long did the Hundred Years War last ?
116 years




2) Which country makes Panama hats ?
Ecuador




3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?
Sheep and Horses




4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?
November




5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ?
Squirrel fur




6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?
Dogs




7) What was King George VI's first name ?
Albert




8) What color is a purple finch ?
Crimson




9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?
New Zealand




10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?
Orange (of course!)




What do you mean, you failed?!!




Me, too...!!!

(And if you try to tell me you passed, you lie!)




Pass this on to some "brilliant" friends, so that they may feel useless too!

WE DID NOT LEARN THIS IN SCHOOL

WE DID NOT LEARN THIS IN SCHOOL

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. ? (Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears Org never stop growing.

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes) .. (Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that also)

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age..

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.





The above two Photos are of the two rivers flowing in southern part near Cape Town , South Africa .

These two river flow together and finally settle down in the Ocean. The taste of one river water is extremely sweet whereas the taste of other river is extremely opposite (that is bitter) but they never mix. There is no physical barrier in between these rivers which stops them from mixing together but it is the will & order of God.

This came to know in the starting of 20th century only where as Almighty God has mentioned the nature of these two rivers in Holy Quran 1400 years back .

Now you know more than you did before!!

10 Amazing facts about moms in nature

10 Amazing facts about moms in nature



A long time to be pregnant!
Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months, 11 days.



That was quick!
Possums have one of the shortest pregnancies at 16 days. The shortest human pregnancy to produce a healthy baby was 22 weeks, 6 days -- the baby was the length of a ballpoint pen.



Whoa, big family!
A female oyster produces 100 million young in her lifetime, the typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year, and it is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years. Michelle Druggar holds the record for largest human family, having given birth to 17 children.



Never grow up.
Chimpanzees have the longest childhoods (apart from humans), staying with their mothers for up to 7 years. These days human children have been taking longer and longer to leave home -- with more than 50% of adults under 24 still living with mom and dad. In 2006, the phenomenon was so big that it became the premise for a Hollywood movie called "Failure to Launch."



Got milk?
Whale Calves nurse for 7 to 8 months and are weaned when they reach 52 feet (16 m) in length. At that time they weigh about 23 tons (20,900 kg). During the nursing period, calves consume 100 gallons of the fat-rich mother's milk each day. By comparison, human babies consume a little over 3 cups of their mother's milk on a daily basis.



Male mommies.
Male seahorses can actually give birth to offspring. While this is normally impossible for human beings, Thomas Beatie, who had his gender legally changed from female to male, is currently the world's first pregnant man.



That's a lot of kids!
Tiger sharks can have anywhere from 10 to 80 young in one birth. The largest number of human children that have survived from one birth are the McCaughey septuplets (in birth order, Kenneth Robert, Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Nathan Roy, Brandon James, Joel Steven), who were born in Des Moines, IA in 1997.



A very...close knit family.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930. Inbreeding in humans significantly increases the chances of genetic defects, and is widely shunned. However, marrying aunts, uncles and cousins is still very common among European royal families -- even the Queen of England and her husband Phillip are second cousins once removed.



More than one womb?
Kangaroos have two wombs. While rare, this does occur in humans -- and there have been cases of mothers with two wombs giving birth to triplets.



That's an, um, unique birthing position
Giraffes are born with the mother standing up, on the lookout for predators. That means a long drop of 5 to 7 feet to the ground -- long enough to break the baby's umbilical cord. Ancient drawings show human women giving birth standing up as well, and contemporary mothers interested in natural birth sometimes opt for this position (though there's always someone there to catch the baby!).

Top 10 Most Expensive Accidents in History

Top 10 Most Expensive Accidents in History

An accident is defined as "an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm, injury, damage, or loss". Our aim is to list the top 10 most expensive accidents in the history of the world as measured in dollars.

This includes property damage and expenses incurred related to the accident such as cleanup and industry losses. Many of these accidents involve casualties which obviously cannot be measured in dollar terms. Each life lost is priceless and is not factored into the equation. Deliberate actions such as war or terrorism and natural disasters do not qualify as accidents and therefore are not included in this list.

#10. Titanic

$150 Million



The sinking of the Titanic is possibly the most famous accident in the world. But it barely makes our list of top 10 most expensive. On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage and was considered to be the most luxurious ocean liner ever built. Over 1,500 people lost their lives when the ship ran into an iceberg and sunk in frigid waters. The ship cost $7 million to build ($150 million in today's dollars).


#9. Tanker Truck vs Bridge

$358 Million



On August 26, 2004, a car collided with a tanker truck containing 32,000 liters of fuel on the Wiehltal Bridge in Germany. The tanker crashed through the guardrail and fell 90 feet off the A4 Autobahn resulting in a huge explosion and fire which destroyed the load-bearing ability of the bridge. Temporary repairs cost $40 million and the cost to replace the bridge is estimated at $318 Million.

#8. MetroLink Crash

$500 Million



On September 12, 2008, in what was one of the worst train crashes in California history, 25 people were killed when a Metrolink commuter train crashed head-on into a Union Pacific freight train in Los Angeles. It is thought that the Metrolink train may have run through a red signal while the conductor was busy text messaging. Wrongful death lawsuits are expected to cause $500 million in losses for Metrolink.


#7. B-2 Bomber Crash

$1.4 Billion



Here we have our first billion dollar accident (and we're only #7 on the list). This B-2 stealth bomber crashed shortly after taking off from an air base in Guam on February 23, 2008. Investigators blamed distorted data in the flight control computers caused by moisture in the system. This resulted in the aircraft making a sudden nose-up move which made the B-2 stall and crash. This was 1 of only 21 ever built and was the most expensive aviation accident in history. Both pilots were able to eject to safety.



The crash was captured on video. It shows one B-2 Bomber successfully taking off followed by the B-2 Bomber which crashes. The crash starts at 2:00

#6. Exxon Valdez

$2.5 Billion



The Exxon Valdez oil spill was not a large one in relation to the world's biggest oil spills, but it was a costly one due to the remote location of Prince William Sound (accessible only by helicopter and boat). On March 24, 1989, 10.8 million gallons of oil was spilled when the ship's master, Joseph Hazelwood, left the controls and the ship crashed into a Reef. The cleanup cost Exxon $2.5 billion.

#5. Piper Alpha Oil Rig

$3.4 Billion



The world's worst off-shore oil disaster. At one time, it was the world's single largest oil producer, spewing out 317,000 barrels of oil per day. On July 6, 1988, as part of routine maintenance, technicians removed and checked safety valves which were essential in preventing dangerous build-up of liquid gas. There were 100 identical safety valves which were checked. Unfortunately, the technicians made a mistake and forgot to replace one of them. At 10 PM that same night, a technician pressed a start button for the liquid gas pumps and the world's most expensive oil rig accident was set in motion.

Within 2 hours, the 300 foot platform was engulfed in flames. It eventually collapsed, killing 167 workers and resulting in $3.4 Billion in damages.


#4. Challenger Explosion

$5.5 Billion



The Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after takeoff due on January 28, 1986 due to a faulty O-ring. It failed to seal one of the joints, allowing pressurized gas to reach the outside. This in turn caused the external tank to dump its payload of liquid hydrogen causing a massive explosion. The cost of replacing the Space Shuttle was $2 billion in 1986 ($4.5 billion in today's dollars). The cost of investigation, problem correction, and replacement of lost equipment cost $450 million from 1986-1987 ($1 Billion in today's dollars).


#3. Prestige Oil Spill

$12 Billion



On November 13, 2002, the Prestige oil tanker was carrying 77,000 tons of heavy fuel oil when one of its twelve tanks burst during a storm off Galicia, Spain. Fearing that the ship would sink, the captain called for help from Spanish rescue workers, expecting them to take the ship into harbour. However, pressure from local authorities forced the captain to steer the ship away from the coast. The captain tried to get help from the French and Portuguese authorities, but they too ordered the ship away from their shores. The storm eventually took its toll on the ship resulting in the tanker splitting in half and releasing 20 million gallons oil into the sea.

According to a report by the Pontevedra Economist Board, the total cleanup cost $12 billion.


#2. Space Shuttle Columbia

$13 Billion



The Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space worthy shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. It was destroyed during re-entry over Texas on February 1, 2003 after a hole was punctured in one of the wings during launch 16 days earlier. The original cost of the shuttle was $2 Billion in 1978. That comes out to $6.3 Billion in today's dollars. $500 million was spent on the investigation, making it the costliest aircraft accident investigation in history. The search and recovery of debris cost $300 million.

In the end, the total cost of the accident (not including replacement of the shuttle) came out to $13 Billion according to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

#1. Chernobyl

$200 Billion



On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed the costliest accident in history. The Chernobyl disaster has been called the biggest socio-economic catastrophe in peacetime history. 50% of the area of Ukraine is in some way contaminated. Over 200,000 people had to be evacuated and resettled while 1.7 million people were directly affected by the disaster. The death toll attributed to Chernobyl, including people who died from cancer years later, is estimated at 125,000. The total costs including cleanup, resettlement, and compensation to victims has been estimated to be roughly $200 Billion. The cost of a new steel shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear plant will cost $2 billion alone. The accident was officially attributed to power plant operators who violated plant procedures and were ignorant of the safety requirements needed.

Odd but true facts

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK?
It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down ontinuously
from the bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents
daily.

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and
nervous
system.
A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales. (yucks)

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.
That's the opposite of the norm.

15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand.

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

20. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but
was
talked out of it by her doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
andBudweiser, in that order.

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the
left
hand.

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into
its
eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives
the
result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in
"mt".

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat
your fingers off".

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

38. European women didn't wear underwear until the 1900's.

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is
saying"yes" in
Sri Lanka.

46. There are more chickens than people in the world.

47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the
fastest.

49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse
order
is "subcontinental".

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

51. Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed.

52. In Pakistan, it's rude to show your feet.

53. 90% of those read till this line are very free... . are you?

Some useless fact

- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
- If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
- The average human swollows 8 spiders in their lifetime at night while they sleep.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
- All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- China has more people who speak English than the United States.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

AMAZING SCIENCE FACTS

AMAZING SCIENCE FACTS

	Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
	Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
	The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
	Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
	The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
	100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.
	90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument &Cellophane is invented.
	80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.
	70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride ) were invented.
	60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.
	50 years ago: Velcro was invented.
	40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.
	30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.
	20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Pluto's moon, Charon, discovered.
	10 years ago: First patent for a genetically- engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.
	5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo

VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE THINGS

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side

2.If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4.Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5.The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.

6.The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7.The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8.The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9.Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10.The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11.Dalmatians are born without spots.

12.Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13.The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings)

14.Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left

15.The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids

16.The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee

17.Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks

18.The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones

19.Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die

20.Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart

21.The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate

22.When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red

23.When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red

24.The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor

25.The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney

26.Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros

27.Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan

28.It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it

29.The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples

30.There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower

31.The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting

32.Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death

33.It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body

34.The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game

36.The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air

37.Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die

38.In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).

39.Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

40.The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot

41.Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

42.The average person laughs 13 times a day

43.Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44.Women blink nearly twice as much as men

45.German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog

46.Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump

47.Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

48.Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death

49.If a statue in the park of a person 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 cause.

50.The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!