General Knowledge

[Pras]

Guys what about starting a new topic about general knowledge ??

science, phisics etc. ??

to start with, i'll ask a simple question : i think most of you guys know the answer, but maybe one or two hubbers will lear something :wink:

- do you know why there are 365 days in a year ??

ps : don't worry that one is really simple but, we'll go on with interresting things :wink: ... i hope we will :roll:

[saji]

Hmmm, No takers yet?

Looks like everybody are more interested in MIL/DIL or Hindi/Tamil stuff.

[Pras]

thanks for your reply saji :lol2:

okay, maybe something else will help !

do you guys know about the golden proportion ? 1.618 ??

just measure how tall you are and the length between your belly button and your feet. Divide the first by the second, you'll get 1.618 !

here are sone facts :

http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/golden/golden1.html

[blahblah]

Pras, you need more than that you get our attention.Try Dravidian 1.618 Aryan or Hindi 1.618 Tamil. :lol: :lol:

Haven't you seen the advanced search links in search engines?Include the key words Pal. :lol:

[Pras]

i am not an intelligent guy :oops: ... tell me what you know, i'll listen to you :roll:

[scorpio]

Pras,

There are 365 risings and settings of the sun before the same season returns and the constellations are in exactly the same position in the sky. That's why we have 365 days in a year. Correct-aa??

On the magic proportion, I came to know only when I read Dan Brown's novel- The Da Vinci Code. Quite amazing.

BTW, Yaar athu unga avtaar-la? Vikram maathiri theriyuthu!

[Shekhar]

If the knowledge is so special, that people generally do not know, why it is called General Knowledge? :) :)

[scorpio]

Oh Shekhar,

You NEVER change!

[Roshan]

If the knowledge is so special, that people generally do not know, why it is called General Knowledge? :) :)

OK Shekhar.. tell me is common sense a common thing ? :lol2:

[Pras]

ya that's vikram :D


another question, i don't really know the answer for this one : where do come seconds, minuts and hours ??

[swathy]

hey its really very interesting thread. any viewers of child genius ( star world sunday 9pm) here.

[swathy]

Nowadays lot of TV channels has started quiz programmes. Did u notice the titles of such programs.

Crorepathi,Vasool rani,Thanga vettai,Jackpot - all are based on the money they give.

Well why can't we play the same here.

Nothing But Win

(Howz the title?)

No prize no gold no gifts but u will declared as winner.

If u answer correct, u r eligible to post next question.

Please don't focus more on cinema. we have lot of fields like

History
mythology
physics
IT
Current affairs
Music
Science
Literature
and others.

Let me start with an easy question.

Question: What is the other name of the King Rajaraja chozhan?
a.Kulothunga chozhan
b.Vikrama chozhan
c.Arulmozhi varman
d.Mahendra varman

If you are 100% correct,post your question.

[Sandeep]

Arunmozhivarman

100% sure for google never lies ;)

[swathy]

Arunmozhivarman

100% sure for google never lies ;)

:lol:

not arunmozhi but arulmozhi

anyway congrats!!! :thumbsup:

post your question. please ask easy question

[nilavupriyan]

my question!

1)why do india celebrate feb.28th as science day?

[Sandeep]

Why do we blink our eyes?

[swathy]

onthat day in 1928, Sir C.V. Raman announced the discovery of the Raman Effect. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. am i right?

[nilavupriyan]

onthat day in 1928, Sir C.V. Raman announced the discovery of the Raman Effect. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. am i right?

right!

[nilavupriyan]

who killed general dyer(the person responsible for jallian wallah bagh incident)?

[hi]

Why do we blink our eyes?

to keep foreign bodies away from.. entering our eyes...

[swathy]

Why do we blink our eyes?

mm to keep away from dust particles. to make it wet or what to say not to make it dry.

[Sandeep]

Swathy 10 marks, hi 5

[swathy]

who killed general dyer(the person responsible for jallian wallah bagh incident)?

i have a person in mind but still. clue please

[nilavupriyan]

he is a singh

[Sandeep]

i have a person in mind but still. clue please

There was movie about him . Shaheed ***** *****. I think Raj Babbar played the role.

An ardent follower of Bhagat Singh and was also known as Ram Mohammad Singh Azad.

[swathy]

i have a person in mind but still. clue please

There was movie about him . Shaheed ***** *****. I think Raj Babbar played the role.

An ardent follower of Bhagat Singh and was also known as Ram Mohammad Singh Azad.

hey sorry i dunno

sandeep do u mean Ram Mohammad Singh Azad is the correct answer.

[nilavupriyan]

uddham singh is right answer!

next question!

who is selected as "the man of the year" in 1982 by TIME magazine?

interesting question!

[Sandeep]

sandeep do u mean Ram Mohammad Singh Azad is the correct answer.

As Nilavu said Udham Singh is the right answer.

He was born as Sher Singh and during is world travel as a revolutionist took varioous names like Ram Mohammad Singh Azad and Frank Brazil of Proto Rice

[Sandeep]

uddham singh is right answer!

next question!

who is selected as "the man of the year" in 1982 by TIME magazine?

interesting question!

Thats a beauty Nilav. I had learned it in my Computers history text book. ;)

It was PC

[nilavupriyan]

right!

computer is selected as the "man of the year" in 1982 by TIME magazine!

10/10 sandeep!

[P_R]

uddham singh is right answer!

next question!

who is selected as "the man of the year" in 1982 by TIME magazine?

interesting question!

He has changed very much since then. And his influence has grown manifold. He is highly calculative , sometimes astoundingly brilliant and sometimes irritatingly stupid and has a very blank look.

[nilavupriyan]

next ..easy question!

who is the first asian to win nobel prize for any category?

[P_R]

right!

computer is selected as the "man of the year" in 1982 by TIME magazine!

10/10 sandeep!

oops didn't see it was answered before I finished typing my prev post :-)

[nilavupriyan]

uddham singh is right answer!

next question!

who is selected as "the man of the year" in 1982 by TIME magazine?

interesting question!

He has changed very much since then. And his influence has grown manifold. He is highly calculative , sometimes astoundingly brilliant and sometimes irritatingly stupid and has a very blank look.

better than my text book definition! :D :D

[swathy]

next ..easy question!

who is the first asian to win nobel prize for any category?

Is it Ravindranath Tagore?

[nilavupriyan]

next ..easy question!

who is the first asian to win nobel prize for any category?

Is it Ravindranath Tagore?

yeah!

10 marks

[Sandeep]

Ok swathy now its your turn



If u answer correct, u r eligible to post next question.

[swathy]

Name the substance that gives the skin its color?

[Sandeep]

Vitamin D

[swathy]

Name the substance that gives the skin its color?

I mean the pigment

[swathy]

Sandeep shall I answer or wait someone to answer?

[Sandeep]

Go ahead with the answer

[nilavupriyan]

malonine or something

[swathy]

Melanin: A skin pigment (substance that gives the skin its color). Dark-skinned people have more melanin than light- skinned people. Melanin also acts as a sunscreen and protects the skin from ultraviolet light.

[swathy]

i think we can give 5 marks to nilavu. now u can post ur question

[Sandeep]

Hey give him 10/10 CBSE as decided that spealing is no more a problem in non language subjects. :lol:

[swathy]

ok fine 10 marks. nilavuji post ur question

[nilavupriyan]

whose painting collection is called sufi paintings?

[swathy]

Mughal Paintings

[Sandeep]

is it MF Hussain?

[nilavupriyan]

no

[swathy]

illai illai sorry MF Husain . am i right?

[swathy]

is it MF Hussain?

now its ur turn

[Sandeep]

Nalavu is M.F.Hussain correct?

[nilavupriyan]

correct

[Sandeep]

Ok why are some people Left handed?

[swathy]

something related to brain im not sure . left hemisphere or what im sorry

[Sandeep]

spite it out swathy you are on correct path :).

[swathy]

left-handers seem to have a left-hemispheric brain specialization for language abilities.

hey better u explain

[Sandeep]

Commonly Left side of brain is dominant over right side (left brain handles right side of body and vice sersa). But in a minority right side of brain is dominant over left and hence they are lefties.

[swathy]

great. next question pls

[Sandeep]

The sale of _____ is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."

[hi]

The sale of _____ is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."

chewing gum :D

[swathy]

Chewing gum

[Sandeep]

hi gets 10, now your question

[swathy]

hey here the time is now 3.30 . first time i have forgotten to take lunch.

[Alien]

hey here the time is now 3.30 . first time i have forgotten to take lunch.
I donno how to answer ! :roll:
:lol: jus kidding :D

[swathy]

hey here the time is now 3.30 . first time i have forgotten to take lunch.
I donno how to answer ! :roll:
:lol: jus kidding :D


:D

[swathy]

no question from hi. so iam posting now.

Below listed books describes aboutt kings chozhas and pallavas. Arrange them in order by dates the incidents occurred.

1.Ponniyin selvan
2.Sivagami sabadham
3.Parthiban Kanavu


hope u ppl can understand my question

[Arthi]

no question from hi. so iam posting now.

Below listed books describes aboutt kings chozhas and pallavas. Arrange them in order by dates the incidents occurred.

1.Ponniyin selvan
2.Sivagami sabadham
3.Parthiban Kanavu


hope u ppl can understand my question


I guess the answer is
Parthiban kanavu
Sivagamiyin sabadham
Ponniyin selvan

Doubt about sivagamiyin sabadam

[nilavupriyan]

correct answer:

ponniyin selvan is the latest release

parthiban kanavu is just before few years

and sivakamiyin sabatham?????...i know only mangamma sabatham acted by kamal :lol:

just kidding guys!

arthi has given the right answer i guess! :roll:

[Arthi]

I read ponniyin selvan and parthiban kanavu but n ot Sivagamiyin sabhatham... so am not sure about my answer.

But parthiban kanavu should come b4 ponniyin selvan.

[Arthi]

correct answer:

ponniyin selvan is the latest release

parthiban kanavu is just before few years

and sivakamiyin sabatham?????...i know only mangamma sabatham acted by kamal :lol:

just kidding guys!

arthi has given the right answer i guess! :roll:

wow good sense of humour... :)
U r interested in Cinema, adhukkunu Evvalvaa :lol:

[nilavupriyan]

parthiban kanavu is first for sure

ponniyin selvan must be last

so sivakamiyin sabathan must in the middle.....i guess..

arthi is right!

[Arthi]

Hi nilavupriyan
We two are discussing here, but where is swathy??

If the answer is right, u put forward ur question.

[nilavupriyan]

ok...this is my question!

who is the author of the book "may it please your honour"?

[Sanguine Sridhar]

Nathuram Vinayak Godse

[ssanjinika]

Hey isnt that the Godse book??The one where he defends or rather given an explaination as to why he shot Gandhiji?

[nilavupriyan]

right becham!...u put ur question now!

[Sanguine Sridhar]

Enn bathil solla thaan theriyum...verra yaaravadhu kelungga

[swathy]

no question from hi. so iam posting now.

Below listed books describes aboutt kings chozhas and pallavas. Arrange them in order by dates the incidents occurred.

1.Ponniyin selvan
2.Sivagami sabadham
3.Parthiban Kanavu


hope u ppl can understand my question


I guess the answer is
Parthiban kanavu
Sivagamiyin sabadham
Ponniyin selvan

Doubt about sivagamiyin sabadam


correct answer is

1.Sivagami sabatham
2.Parthiban Kanavu
3.Ponniyin selvan

[swathy]

Name the river that originates in Tibet, flows through himalayas and joins Ganga

[buddysathi]

Brahmaputra?!

[swathy]

right. u can post ur question

[buddysathi]

What's the name of Dan Brown's next book..?

[swathy]

no idea :roll:

[nilavupriyan]

dan brown's next book

"the solomon key"....a continuation of "da vinci code"

or is it already released?.. :roll:

[swathy]

Nilavu no response from buddysathi

better u post ur question.

koncham easya kelungalen.

mm ettu kal poochikku yethanai kal

padaiyappa tamil padama english padama

ipdi ketta i'll answer well :D

[nilavupriyan]

ok ...easy question..

expand a.p.j of a.p.j abdul kalam!

[swathy]

Dr. Abul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

[swathy]

expand MGR

[nilavupriyan]

Marudur Gopalamenon Ramachandran

[buddysathi]

Hey Nilavu!! even I donno Dan Brown's next book name..only knew it was a sequel to Da vinci code.. thx for the answer "Solomon Key"

[Alan]

Nice thread, Pras.

Ok since no questions were asked, I'll put mine.

What drug is obtained from Poppy?

[dev]

Opium, I guess

[Alan]

That's correct, Dev! Post your Q now.

[swathy]

since no response from dev, let me post mine


who is the author of seera puranam?

[hi]

since no response from dev, let me post mine


who is the author of seera puranam?

Umaru Pulavar

[swathy]

gr8. post ur question

[hi]

What human organ has its own immune system that is separate from the "normal" one?

[Anoushka]

Human Brain???

[swathy]

hi - no response from u. is it correct or not

[Arthi]

Shall I ask one Question?

Hindus have 108 tirupathis, out of this which is the first tirupathi?

[Anoushka]

What modern country is home to the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon?

[swathy]

welcome aarthi

aiyoda

108 thirupathisa i know only one thirupathy

that is in Andhra

[Arthi]

Hi Anou, Swathy Vankkam

Plz En Q Answer pannuga
Anou: For a change Enniki Enga Ungalukku Vanakkam :), Have a nice day

[swathy]

What modern country is home to the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon?

Baghdad

just guess :D

[swathy]

Plz En Q Answer pannuga


Naan enna vachitta vanjinam pandren

therinja solla mattena

[Arthi]

The answer

Theradha Vinai Anaithum
Theekum Kovil
Thiruvarangam(Srirangam) Enath thigazhum Kovil thanE

[swathy]

The answer

Theradha Vinai Anaithum
Theekum Kovil
Thiruvarangam(Srirangam) Enath thigazhum Kovil thanE

great. now srirangam is floating toooo bad.

next ques pls.

easy questiona keluma

[swathy]

What modern country is home to the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon?

Baghdad

just guess :D


Anou pls tell us the correct answer

[Anoushka]

The answer is Iraq (I asked for country) you were close enough :)

[swathy]

The answer is Iraq (I asked for country) you were close enough :)

chey just miss . ok no response from aarti better u post next question

[Pras]

Hey that's a great thread ! :mrgreen:
Thanks swathy for keeping it alive ;)

I'll come often to see and participate in your game :D

[swathy]

welcome Pras :)

[swathy]

ok. i'll post the next question. very easy one.


Expand SAARC

[Arthi]

South Asian Association Regional Co-operation

Doubt abt C

[buddysathi]

South Asian Association Regional Co-operation

Doubt abt C

Correct thaan.. "for" vituteenga..South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation

[Arthi]

Ok Ennoda Gife-a Courier-la Anuppi Vaiyunga collect Pnnikkaren.

Ask Next Question? will try

[swathy]

SOUTH ASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION

10 marks for arthi.

post ur question

[swathy]

Ok Ennoda Gife-a Courier-la Anuppi Vaiyunga collect Pnnikkaren.

Ask Next Question? will try

If u answer correct, u r eligible to post next question.

u pls post ur question

[swathy]

oops no response. ok i'll post again.


who is the present chief minister of

1.Arunachal Pradhesh.
2.Assam
3.Chattisgarh
4.Goa
5.Sikkim

[nilavupriyan]

oops no response. ok i'll post again.


who is the present chief minister of

1.Arunachal Pradhesh.
2.Assam
3.Chattisgarh
4.Goa
5.Sikkim

swathy...make the questions interesting....chief ministers for states????....the thread will look like a 10th standard history book!...

anyway from next question make some interesting factors as questions please! :D

[Arthi]

1.Which cartoon family lives in Bedrock?

Swathy am very week in politics?

[buddysathi]

Flintstones?

[Arthi]

buddysathi :clap:
Which cartoon character is famous for the line, "What's up, Doc?

[nilavupriyan]

scooby doo?

[Arthi]

Asathereenga Ellarum....

Shall i ask one more cartoon Ques?

[nilavupriyan]

Asathereenga Ellarum....

Shall i ask one more cartoon Ques?

i watch only tom and cherry! :D

[Pras]

scooby doo?

:shock:


what's up doc is bugs bunny ! ;)

[nilavupriyan]

scooby doo?

:shock:


what's up doc is bugs bunny ! ;)

i just told what i know :lol:

i havent watched scooby doo or bugs bunny..i only like tom and jerry :D

[Alan]

Why no question?

Ok, easy one here.

Who is the first test tube baby in the world?

[Cindy]

Loiuse Brown.

[swathy]

oops no response. ok i'll post again.


who is the present chief minister of

1.Arunachal Pradhesh.
2.Assam
3.Chattisgarh
4.Goa
5.Sikkim

swathy...make the questions interesting....chief ministers for states????....the thread will look like a 10th standard history book!...

anyway from next question make some interesting factors as questions please! :D


ok fine i'll change the question.

How many people watch Indian films per day?

[swathy]

clue : xx millions

[nilavupriyan]

78 million?

[swathy]

mm no 15 million.

u pls post ur question

[nilavupriyan]

whats "pigeon's blood"?

[swathy]

iam not sure whether iam right or not. i guess it to be the color of rubies. something related to rubies.

[nilavupriyan]

iam not sure whether iam right or not. i guess it to be the color of rubies. something related to rubies.

u are right!

it denotes a ruby!

put ur question now?

[swathy]

what is Ombrophobia?

[Shakthiprabha.]

phobia is ofcourse fear

ombrophobia is rain-fear.

My question...

WHAT IS ORNITHOLOGY?

[hi]

phobia is ofcourse fear

ombrophobia is rain-fear.

My question...

WHAT IS ORNITHOLOGY?

The branch of zoology that studies birds :)

[swathy]

phobia is ofcourse fear

ombrophobia is rain-fear.

My question...

WHAT IS ORNITHOLOGY?

welcome shakthi

ORNITHOLOGY is study of birds.

my ques: which is the heaviest satellite built by ISRO so far?

[Scale]

Answer : President APJ Abdul Kalam who worked for 20 years.

1950-kg EDUSAT google :clap:

[swathy]

Answer : President APJ Abdul Kalam who worked for 20 years.

1950-kg EDUSAT google :clap:


smart answer

:D

The 2950 kg INSAT-3A is the heaviest satellite built by ISRO

anyone interested to post next quest

[swathy]

again no question. ok i'll only ask

easy one

Ilaiyaraja's 100 th film?

[Pras]

moodupani ?

[Pras]

one particular musician used mathematics in his compositions ... who is it ?

[swathy]

one particular musician used mathematics in his compositions ... who is it ?

clue please

[Sanguine Sridhar]

one particular musician used mathematics in his compositions ... who is it ?
Beethovan???? :? cauze he is deaf :? :?

[swathy]

aaha i guessed it to be

i should have told

bechkam post ur question

[swathy]

no post from beck

again from my side

Name the book written by Akilan that won Gnanapeeth award?

[P_R]

no post from beck

again from my side

Name the book written by Akilan that won Gnanapeeth award?

Jnaanapeeth is kind of lifetime achievement award isn't it ? It is giving for a whole body of work. Do they single out one particular work ?

If so I am guessing ChithirappAvai :P

[swathy]

[quote="Prabhu RamJnaanapeeth is kind of lifetime achievement award isn't it ? It is giving for a whole body of work. Do they single out one particular work ?

If so I am guessing ChithirappAvai :P[/quote]


oops no idea prabhu . as of my knowledge akhilan got this award for this particular novel.

he is the only tamilian to get this award. totally 6 kannadigas has got this award.

[P_R]

he is the only tamilian to get this award. Slightly rusty are we ? Jayakanthan got it this year :-)


totally 6 kannadigas has got this award. :shock: My God. I know only four
Masti Venkatesa Iyengar
Girish Karnad
U.R.Ananthamoorthy
Shivram Karanth
?
?
Hey that's two questions I have generated

[nilavupriyan]

many tamilians actually deserved though

pudhumaipithan
ashokamithran ....they deserve!

[Shakthiprabha.]

Kuvempu (kanndiga winner)

is one of them.

[Anoushka]

V.K.Gokak & B.R.Bendre are another Kannada writers who got it.. Totally seven! :)

[swathy]

he is the only tamilian to get this award. Slightly rusty are we ? Jayakanthan got it this year :-)

oops sorry :cry: :cry:

[Pras]

one particular musician used mathematics in his compositions ... who is it ?
Beethovan???? :? cauze he is deaf :? :?


nop, JS Bach, composition : Inventions and Sinfonia

[swathy]

what is dipsomania?

[Alan]

Alcohol Mania- uncontrollable desire to drink.

When was the last time an Indian won a Nobel Prize in Literature?

[P_R]

Alcohol Mania- uncontrollable desire to drink.

When was the last time an Indian won a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Tagore. Don't think Naipaul counts :P

[P_R]

Which was the last B/W film to win the Best Film Oscar ?

[Bärlin]

When you are on the North Pole and an Ice Bear nears you. From which direction is he comming from?

[P_R]

[tscii:970e37de96]
When you are on the North Pole and an Ice Bear nears you. From which direction is he comming from?
If you are on the North Pole then I guess every direction is South. So the polar bear comes from the South.[/tscii:970e37de96]

[Eelavar]

Who here know the father of todays modern technologies ??

Please don't answer me Albert Einstein ...

For me it's undoubtly Nikola Tesla. The greatest inventor of our time.

AC current is him...
Without AC current your computer cannot work as it work now..
AC current is needed if you want furnish electric for a town...

Nikola Tesla the hidden scientist at his death was robbed by FBI..

I don't think that without his research the world will be as it now..

What is astonishing is that Nikola Tesla met Swami Vivekananda at NY.

Tesla used many Indian and Vedic concepts... like ether, prana, etc

There is many web who talk about him, do a little research..

[swathy]

Thanks eelavar for the information. :-)

next question easy one

What is the top layer of our skin ,that doesn't contain any blood vessels, called?

[Badri]

Which was the last B/W film to win the Best Film Oscar ?

Ok, if you dont want to count the B&W footage in Schindler's List, then it was The Apartment (1960), directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacClaine.

[dev]

next question easy one

What is the top layer of our skin ,that doesn't contain any blood vessels, called?

Epidermis?

[swathy]

u r correct Dev.

[Alan]

Alcohol Mania- uncontrollable desire to drink.

When was the last time an Indian won a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Tagore. Don't think Naipaul counts :P
READ THE QUESTION PROPERLY BEFORE JUMPING AT THE ANSWER . The question is 'WHEN" not 'WHO"

SO YOUR ANSWER IS WRONG. tHE ANSWER IS 1932. YES, I KNOW NAIPUL DOESN'T COUNT.

[P_R]

Alcohol Mania- uncontrollable desire to drink.

When was the last time an Indian won a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Tagore. Don't think Naipaul counts :P
READ THE QUESTION PROPERLY BEFORE JUMPING AT THE ANSWER . The question is 'WHEN" not 'WHO"

SO YOUR ANSWER IS WRONG. tHE ANSWER IS 1932. YES, I KNOW NAIPUL DOESN'T COUNT. STOP FLAUNTING YOUR SMART FART BRAINS, OK?

Humble Apologies Alan !

Sorry for assuming the question was more interesting than it actually was.

[P_R]

Which was the last B/W film to win the Best Film Oscar ?

Ok, if you dont want to count the B&W footage in Schindler's List, then it was The Apartment (1960), directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacClaine.

Welcome Back Badri.

Well I do want to count the B/W footage in Schindler's list, after all there was so much of it :-)

btw 'The Apartement' eh ? I didn't know that.

[P_R]

Clarence Nash once said, "I am the world's most famous quack ?".
Who is he ?

[Alan]

Alcohol Mania- uncontrollable desire to drink.

When was the last time an Indian won a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Tagore. Don't think Naipaul counts :P
READ THE QUESTION PROPERLY BEFORE JUMPING AT THE ANSWER . The question is 'WHEN" not 'WHO"

SO YOUR ANSWER IS WRONG. tHE ANSWER IS 1932. YES, I KNOW NAIPUL DOESN'T COUNT. STOP FLAUNTING YOUR SMART FART BRAINS, OK?

Humble Apologies Alan !

Sorry for assuming the question was more interesting than it actually was.



I'm sorry I lost my temper, Prabhu Ram. Please forgive me, Prabhu Ram.
I'm ready to fall at your feet and seek forgiveness.
--------------------

[P_R]

I'm sorry I lost my temper, Prabhu Ram. Please forgive me, Prabhu Ram. I'm ready to fall at your feet and seek forgiveness.
Thank You for your flattering sincerety.

That is, two out of three magic words done. Your turn.

[Alan]

Please forgive me.

[Lambretta]

I'm sorry I lost my temper, Prabhu Ram. Please forgive me, Prabhu Ram.
I'm ready to fall at your feet and seek forgiveness.
--------------------
:shock: :? Appa-da! Idhu *konchum* over-aa theriyidhu! :P :lol:

[P_R]

Please forgive me. :lol:
Here ends the digression.

[Sundar12345]

Can someone clear my doubt about the earth's magnetism? How is it the gravity caused and where does the magnetic force lie int he earth? How does it hold all non-magnetic substances on its surface? God Iam going mad.

[Alan]

I'm sorry I lost my temper, Prabhu Ram. Please forgive me, Prabhu Ram.
I'm ready to fall at your feet and seek forgiveness.
--------------------
:shock: :? Appa-da! Idhu *konchum* over-aa theriyidhu! :P :lol:

That was mostly to win him over, Lamby. :wink:

[Alan]

PrabhuRam, what is the answer to your question?

[P_R]

PrabhuRam, what is the answer to your question?

Q: Clarence Nash once said, "I am the world's most famous quack ?". Who is he ?
A: Clarence Nash is the voice of Donald Duck.

[Alan]

Next Q: Whoose famous words were:"A Diamond is a girl's best friend"?

[Lambretta]

Next Q: Whoose famous words were:"A Diamond is a girl's best friend"?
Um....Marylin Monroe's??(apologies if I'm wrong!)........I rem. watching this movie based on her true life, she sings this song "A kiss on the hand is continental but diamonds r a girl's best friend...."

[malsi]

Who said : " Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any."

a) Nicole Kidman
b) Tiger Woods
C) Paris Hilton
d) Samuel L.Jackson
e) Stephen King

[Alan]

Your answer is rite, Lamby.

Emmm.........regarding your question , malsi wild guess here.
C) Paris Hilton?

[Lambretta]

Emmm.........regarding your question , wild guess here.
C) Paris Hilton?
Yea cud very much be her! :wink: :lol:

[Alan]

are you online now, lambretta?

[Lambretta]

Your answer is rite, Lamby.
Ohh....glad abt tat!! :wink: :D 8-)

[Lambretta]

are you online now, lambretta?
Um....I am at this moment atleast.......! :)

[Alan]

malsi, what's the correct answer?

[Alan]

malsi, what is the correct answer?

I hope its ok to post the next question?

Next Q: Who famously said,

I've always preferred Malai Kofta to Sambhar?

[malsi]

ok..the answer is Samuel L Jackson...ho ho ho :)

[Querida]

Ha ha ha Malsi!

Who is it Alan?

By the way Alan if no one answers your question correctly can i ask the next question please?

[Alan]

LOL! The answer is me, Alan........lol!

ok, next question; a serious one.

The longest running play in the world.

[malsi]

dilwale dulhania le jayenge ??

[Lambretta]

LOL! The answer is me, Alan........lol!
Ohh......! :o And I first made a wild guess at chef Sanjeev Kapoor! :P :lol:
:D

[Lambretta]

dilwale dulhania le jayenge ??
Malsi, u watch Hindi movies too?? So u know/understand Hindi?

PS- sorry for the digr.! :D

[shambhavi]

is it agatha christies "mouse trap"?

[Querida]

Is it Phantom of the Opera?

[Alan]

The applaude goes to shambhavi!
Yes, it is indeed the mouse-trap by Agatha Christie!

[Thiru]

Is it Phantom of the Opera?

Speaking of Phantom of the Opera, it just surpassed Cats in being the longest running play in Broadway... 7486 shows as of Jan 9th..

[Querida]

wow really? Thanx Thiru for sharing that!

Shambhavi congrats! Your turn :D

[karuvaadu]

What are the first names of the parents of the current Pope Benedikt XVI, previously known as Kardinal Josph Ratzinger?

[Sundar12345]

I think It is Joseph and Mary.

[karuvaadu]

Did you know that?

Yes, Joseph and Maria thus should have been named Jesus actually. :lol:

Who was the first to define the dual system?

0=0000
1=0001
2=0010
3=0011
4=0100
5=0101
6=0110
7=0111
8=1000

[Sundar12345]

:huh: No idea

[Shakthiprabha.]

leibniz

long long ago.. I guess. centuries back he invented binary system.

[Lambretta]

Ok.....here's a little test of English proficency & GK about motoring in our country :D :

What is the word used to describe:

1) An official representative of a country to a foreign country.

2) Indication/announcement of an important news/event.


Now both these names incidentally happen to be the names of 2 popular cars in our country! So I'm sure the 1st one esp. shudn't be a problem to guess if u've lived in India most of/all ur life! :wink:
Let's see who can get these right first! :D

[Shakthiprabha.]

1. ambassador
2. fiat

[Alan]

WEll done, Shakthi Mam! Now, your turn!

[Lambretta]

1. ambassador
2. fiat
1 out of 2 right, SP!! :lol:
The 2nd answer is HERALD! :wink: I thot those of u here who knew me wud know this! :lol: :D

FIAT actually is an abbreviation- Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torin (Italian Factory of Automobiles at Turin, which is a city in Italy)......but there's also a single word Fiat, which means an official order/authorisation for something (origin from Latin, meaning "let it be done").

Neways, tats it for boring yall to death abt cars I guess (for the time being atleast!)

[P_R]

Polar bears are carnivores. But they do not eat penguins. Why ?

[karuvaadu]

SB,
Leibniz is correct!

Who invented Soccer (Football)?

[Ronnie The Dutch]

Polar bears are carnivores. But they do not eat penguins. Why ?
This is too easy! But they would eat penguins if they had the chance. For example in a Zoo :lol:

The half of european jewish descended from 4 jewish mothers only as mitochonrial DNA reveals, i read today in BBC!

[Lambretta]

*DIGR*
The half of european jewish descended from 4 jewish mothers only as mitochonrial DNA reveals, i read today in BBC!
Did it say y & how?? :? Did they also practise female infanticide, thus resulting in less female to male ratio?? Or did the Nazis selectively finish off more of the female Jewish population than the males for sum reason?? :huh: :roll:
I thot they didn't show partiality in killing as it long as it was jews.....?

[Ronnie The Dutch]

Lambrettta, this is the link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4611592.stm

Regarding female infanticide I don't know. But I think they did not kill the girls because from what I know is that to be a jew your mother must be a jew. Perhaps it is to guard the women because they never played a big role in their culture starting with Abraham and Sarah. It had always been a men's world.

[Lambretta]

Lambrettta, this is the link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4611592.stm

Regarding female infanticide I don't know. But I think they did not kill the girls because from what I know is that to be a jew your mother must be a jew. Perhaps it is to guard the women because they never played a big role in their culture starting with Abraham and Sarah. It had always been a men's world.
Hmm.....tks for the info. tho, quite interesting.

[Alan]

Polar bears are carnivores. But they do not eat penguins. Why ?
what's the answer?

[Ronnie The Dutch]

Polar bears are carnivores. But they do not eat penguins. Why ?
what's the answer?

Have you seen any penguins arround North Pole? Or any Polar bears in the Antarctic region?

Chinese invented Football FIFA has accepted! Prevoiusly the English said that it was them.

[Alan]

ooooppppppppppps!!!

[Lambretta]

Chinese invented Football FIFA has accepted! Prevoiusly the English said that it was them.
:shock: Oh dear......I suppose this came as one big blow for the English, eh?! 'wonder if the Brit chaps cud say now "The Sun never sets on the British Empire".....? :)

[NOV]

1250 Magnifying glass Roger Bacon English
1450 Printing press Johann Gutenberg German
1504 Pocket watch Peter Henlein German
1590 Compound microscope Zacharias Janssen Dutch
1593 Water thermometer Galileo Italian
1608 Telescope Hans Lippershey Dutch
1625 Blood transfusion Jean-Baptiste Denys French
1629 Steam turbine Giovanni Branca Italian
1642 Adding machine Blaise Pascal French
1643 Barometer Evangelista Torricelli Italian
1650 Air pump Otto von Guericke German
1656 Pendulum clock Christiaan Huygens Dutch
1661 Methanol Robert Boyle Irish
1668 Reflecting telescope Isaac Newton English
1671 Calculating machine Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German
1698 Steam pump Thomas Savery English
1701 Seed drill Jethro Tull English
1710 Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori Italian
1712 Steam engine Thomas Newcomen British
1714 Mercury thermometer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German
1717 Diving bell Edmund Halley English
1725 Stereotyping William Ged Scottish
1745 Leyden jar (condenser) E.G. von Kleist German
1752 Lightning rod Benjamin Franklin American
1758 Achromatic lens John Dollond British
1759 Marine chronometer John Harrison British
1764 Spinning jenny James Hargreaves British
1769 Spinning frame R. Arkwright English
1769 Steam engine (with separate condenser) James
Watt British
1769 Automobile Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot French
1775 Submarine David Bushnell American
1780 Steel pen Samuel Harrison English
1780 Bifocal lens Benjamin Franklin American
1783 Balloon Joseph Michel Montgolfier and
Jacques ?tienne Montgolfier French
1784 Threshing machine Andrew Meikle British
1785 Power loom Edmund Cartwright British
1786 Steamboat John Fitch American
1788 Flyball governor James Watt British
1791 Gas turbine John Barber British
1792 Illuminating gas William Murdock Scottish
1793 Cotton gin Eli Whitney American
1795 Hydraulic press Joseph Bramah English
1796 Lithography Aloys Senefelder German
1796 Smallpox vaccination Edward Jenner British
1799 Fourdrinier machine (papermaking) Louis Robert
French
1800 Jacquard loom Joseph Marie Jacquard French
1800 Electric battery Count Alessandro Volta
Italian
1801 Pattern loom Joseph Marie Jacquard French
1804 Screw propeller John Stevens American
1804 Solid-fuel rocket William Congreve British
1804 Steam locomotive Richard Trevithick British
1805 Electroplating Luigi Gasparo Brugnatelli
Italian
1810 Food preservation (by sterilization and
exclusion of air)
Fran?ois Appert French
1810 Printing press Frederick Koenig German
1814 Railroad locomotive George Stephenson British
1815 Safety lamp Sir Humphry Davy British
1816 Bicycle (no pedals) Karl D. Sauerbronn German
1819 Stethoscope Ren?-Th?ophile-Hyacinthe La?nnec
French
1820 Hygrometer J.F. Daniell English
1820 Galvanometer Johann Salomo Cristoph Schweigger
German
1821 Electric motor Michael Faraday British
1823 Silicon J?ns Jakob Berzelius Swedish
1823 Electromagnet William Sturgeon British
1824 Portland cement Joseph Aspdin British
1827 Friction match John Walker British
1829 Typewriter1 W.A. Burt American
1829 Braille printing Louis Braille French
1830 Platform scales Thaddeus Fairbanks American
1830 Sewing machine Barth?lemy Thimonnier French
1831 Phosphorus match Charles Sauria French
1831 Reaper Cyrus Hall McCormick American
1831 Dynamo Michael Faraday British
1834 Electric streetcar Thomas Davenport American
1835 Pistol (revolver) Samuel Colt American
1837 Telegraph Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Sir Charles Wheatstone American
British
1838 Morse code Samuel Finley Breese Morse American
1839 Photography Louis Jacques Mand? Daguerre and
Joseph Nic?phore Niepce William Henry Fox Talbot
French
British
1839 Vulcanized rubber Charles Goodyear American
1839 Steam hammer James Nasmyth Scottish
1839 Bicycle (with pedals) Kirkpatrick MacMillan
British
1845 Pneumatic tire Robert William Thompson
American
1846 Rotary printing press Richard March Hoe
American
1846 Nitroglycerin Ascanio Sobrero Italian
1846 Guncotton Christian Friedrich Sch?nbein German
1846 Ether Crawford Williamson Long American
1849 Reinforced concrete F.J. Monier French
1849 Safety pin Walter Hunt American
1849 Water turbine James Bicheno Francis American
1850 Mercerized cotton John Mercer British
1851 Breech-loading rifle Edward Maynard American
1851 Opthalmoscope Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Helmholtz German
1852 Nonrigid airship Henri Giffard French
1852 Elevator (with brake) Elisha Graves Otis
American
1852 Gyroscope Jean Bernard L?on Foucault French
1855 Hypodermic syringe Alexander Wood Scottish
1855 Safety matches J.E. Lundstrom Swedish
1856 Bessemer converter (steel) Sir Henry Bessemer
British
1858 Harvester Charles and William Marsh American
1859 Spectroscope Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen German
1860 Gas engine Jean-Joseph-?tienne Lenoir French
1861 Web-fed newspaper printing press Richard March
Hoe
American
1861 Electric furnace Wilhelm Siemens British
1861 Machine gun date Richard Jordan Gatling
American
1861 Kinematoscope Coleman Sellers American
1865 Antiseptic surgery Joseph Lister English
1866 Paper (from wood pulp, sulfite process)
Benjamin Chew
Tilghman American
1866 Dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel Swedish
1868 Dry cell Georges Leclanch? French
1868 Typewriter Carlos Glidden and
Christopher Latham Sholes American
1868 Air brake George Westinghouse American
1870 Celluloid John Wesley Hyatt and Isaiah Hyatt
American
1871 Continuous current dynamo Z?nobe-Th?ophile
Gramme
Belgian
1874 Quadruplex telegraph Thomas Alva Edison
American
1876 Telephone2 Alexander Graham Bell
Antonio Meucci American
Italian
1877 Internal-combustion engine (four-cycle)
Nikolaus August
Otto German
1877 Talking machine (phonograph) Thomas Alva Edison
American
1877 Microphone Emile Berliner American
1877 Electric welding Elihu Thomson American
1877 Refrigerator car G.F. Swift American
1878 Cream separator Carl Gustav de Laval Swedish
1878 Cathode ray tube Sir William Crookes British
1879 Cash register James J. Ritty American
1879 Incandescent filament lamp Thomas Alva Edison
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan American
British
1879 Automobile engine (two-cycle) Karl Benz German
1879 Arc lamp Charles Francis Bush American
1880 Linotype Ottmar Mergenthaler American
1884 Steam turbine C.A. Parsons English
1884 Rayon (nitrocellulose) Comte Hilaire Bernigaud
de Chardonnet
French
1884 Multiple-wheel steam turbine Sir Charles
Algernon Parsons
British
1884 Nipkow disk (mechanical television scanning
device) Paul
Gottlieb Nipkow German
1884 Fountain pen Lewis Edson Waterman American
1885 Graphophone (dictating machine) Chichester A.
Bell and
Charles Sumner Tainter American
1885 AC transformer William Stanley American
1887 Air-inflated rubber tire J.B. Dunlop Scottish
1887 Gramophone (disk records) Emile Berliner
American
1887 Gas mantle Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach
Austrian
1887 Mimeograph Albert Blake Dick American
1887 Monotype Tolbert Lanston American
1888 Adding machine (recording) William Seward
Burroughs
American
1888 Kodak camera George Eastman American
1889 Steam turbine C.G. de Laval Swedish
1890 Rayon (cuprammonium) Louis Henri Despeissis
French
1891 Glider Otto Lilienthal German
1891 Motion picture camera (kinetograph) Thomas Alva
Edison
William K. L. Dickson American
British
1891 Motion picture viewer (kinetoscope) Thomas Alva
Edison
William K. L. Dickson American
British
1891 Synthetic rubber Sir William Augustus Tilden
British
1892 AC motor Nikola Tesla American
1892 Three-color camera Frederick Eugene Ives
American
1892 Rayon (viscose) Charles Frederick Cross
British
1892 Vacuum bottle (Dewar flask) Sir James Dewar
British
1893 Photoelectric cell Julius Elster Hans F. Geitel
German
1893 Diesel engine Rudolf Diesel German
1893 Gasoline automobile Charles Edgar Duryea and
J. Frank Duryea American
1894 Motion picture projection Louis Jean Lumi?re
and Auguste
Marie Lumi?re
Charles Francis Jenkins French

American
1895 X-ray Wilhelm Konrad R?ntgen German
1895 Rayon (acetate) Charles Frederick Cross
British
1895 Wireless telegraph Marchese Guglielmo Marconi
Italian
1896 Experimental airplane Samuel Pierpont Langley
American
1898 Sensitized photographic paper Leo Hendrik
Baekeland American
1900 Rigid dirigible airship Graf Ferdinand von
Zeppelin
German
1902 Radiotelephone Valdemar Poulsen
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Danish
American
1903 Airplane Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright
American
1903 Windshield wipers Mary Anderson American
1903 Electrocardiograph Willem Einthoven Dutch
1905 Diode rectifier tube (radio) Sir John Ambrose
Fleming
British
1906 Gyrocompass Hermann Ansch?tz-K?mpfe German
1907 Bakelite Leo Hendrik Baekeland American
1907 Triode amplifier tube (radio) Lee De Forest
American
1908 Cellophane Jacques Edwin Brandenberger Swiss
1908 Two-color motion picture camera C. Albert Smith
British
1909 Salvarsan Paul Ehrlich German
1910 Hydrogenation of coal Friedrich Bergius German
1910 Gyroscopic compass and stabilizer Elmer Ambrose
Sperry
American
1911 Air conditioning W.H. Carrier American
1911 Vitamins Casimir Funk Polish
1911 Cellophane Jacques Edwin Brandenberger Swiss
1911 Neon lamp Georges Claude French
1912 Mercury-vapor lamp Peter Cooper Hewitt
American
1913 Ramjet engine Ren? Lorin French
1913 Multigrid electron tube Irving Langmuir
American
1913 Cracked gasoline William Meriam Burton
American
1913 Heterodyne radio receiver Reginald Aubrey
Fessenden
American
1915 Automobile self-starter Charles Franklin
Kettering
American
1916 Browning gun (automatic rifle) John Moses
Browning American
1916 Gas-filled incandescent lamp Irving Langmuir
American
1916 X-ray tube William David Coolidge American
1919 Mass spectrograph Sir Francis William Aston
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster British
American
1922-26 Sound motion pictures T.W. Case American
1922 Insulin Sir Frederick Grant Banting Canadian
1923 Autogiro Juan de la Cierva Spanish
1923 Television iconoscope Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
American
1924 Quick-frozen food Clarence Birdseye American
1925 Television image dissector tube Philo Taylor
Farnsworth
American
1926 Aerosol can Erik Rotheim Norwegian
1926 Liquid-fuel rocket Robert Hutchings Goddard
American
1928 Penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming British
1930 Bathysphere (Charles) William Beebe American
1930 Freon (low-boiling fluorine compounds) Thomas
Midgley and
coworkers American
1930 Modern gas-turbine engine Sir Frank Whittle
British
1930 Neoprene (synthetic rubber) Father Julius
Arthur Nieuwland and
Wallace Hume Carothers American
1931 Cyclotron Ernest Orlando Lawrence American
1931 Differential analyzer (analogue computer)
Vannevar Bush
American
1932 Phase contrast microscope Frits Zernike Dutch
1932 Van de Graaff generator Robert Jemison Van de
Graaff
American
1933 Frequency modulation (FM) Edwin Howard
Armstrong American
1935 Buna (synthetic rubber) German scientists
German
1935 Radiolocator (radar) Sir Robert Watson-Watt
British
1935 Cortisone Edward Calvin Kendall
Tadeus Reichstein American
Swiss
1935 Electron microscope German scientists German
1935 Sulfanllamide Gerhard Domagk German
1935 Nylon Wallace Hume Carothers American
1936 Twin-rotor helicopter3 Heinrich Focke German
1937 Snowmobile Armand Bombardier Canadian
1938 Ballpoint pen Georg and Ladislao Biro
Hungarian
1939 DDT Paul M?ller Swiss
1939 Helicopter4 Igor Sikorsky American
1940 Betatron Donald William Kerst American
1941 Turbojet aircraft engine Sir Frank Whittle
British
1942 Guided missile Wernher von Braun German
1942 Nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi American
1942 Xerography Chester Carlson American
1944 V-2 (rocket-propelled bomb) German scientists
German
1945 Atomic bomb U.S. government scientists
American
1945 Streptomycin Selman A. Waksman American
1946 Electronic digital computer John Presper
Eckert, Jr., and
John W. Mauchly

[Ronnie The Dutch]

Well NOV,

"steam engine" is an invention by Heron about 1800 :! years ago. It was a ball with two valves. But that was not an engine but the first "motor". He made it as a toy and did not see the real advantage of it.

And X-ray was first detected by Roentgen, a german. He died very porr because he patented it.

Submarine - Americans
Radar- british
Tanks - british
Zip - Germans
Paper-clip Germans
Benzin - Eilhard Mitscherlich, German
Dieselmotor - Rudolf Diesel, German
Edamer cheese - dutch
America - a Norwegian
Steel - Germans (2000 years ago)
Ski - Norwegians
Gas chamber - Germans
Organized murdering - Germans
Helicopter - Germans

It seems the Germans have contributed much to the world than any other civilisation. And we Dutch not that much. But this time in Football we'll kill them.

Katamaran?
Pappadam?
Vadai?

[Lambretta]

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every "F " in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
(SEE BELOW)






HOW MANY "F"s?




...................... 3?


WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !


The reasoning behind is:

The brain cannot process "OF".

Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!


Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.
Three is normal, four is quite rare.

[dev]

& wht abt 5?... I counted 5... 8-)

[gaddeswarup]

I too got 5 right but it seemed familiar. Then I realized that I tried it a few months ago and got only 3 right then.
For fun and speculation try:
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~cmj/projects/McGurk/download.html
Swarup

[swathy]

I read all 6 :-)

[Nerd]

For fun and speculation try:
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~cmj/projects/McGurk/download.html
Swarup

That was freaking awesome :lol:

[gaddeswarup]

McGurk effect is also discussed in "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker on page 159 of chapter 6. But at the moment, I do not understand well Pinker's explanation; it seemed more involved than the one in the above URL. Pinker is very readable in some places and some passages are obscure. On the whole it seems to be an interesting book.
Swarup

[Lambretta]

& wht abt 5?... I counted 5... 8-)
Umm.......sorry theriyathu...in fact I got this in a fwded mail! :lol:

[swathy]

& wht abt 5?... I counted 5... 8-)
Umm.......sorry theriyathu...in fact I got this in a fwded mail! :lol:


i too got in a fwd mail :-)

[Shakthiprabha.]

Hey i counted 5.

Where is the sixth one?????????

3 'of
1 'finsihed'
1 'files'

:huh: :oops:

[Shakthiprabha.]

aaaaaaaaaaaa scientific 'f'

:sad:

I missed that :oops:

[Lambretta]

:D