General Knowledge
1- Real name of music director Illaiyaraja is ‘Gnanadesikan’ and born on 2 June 1943.
2- In 1988, Jackson released his first and only autobiography, Moonwalk, which took four years to complete and sold 200,000 copies.
3-Dr.Radhakrishnan was born in Thiruttani on 5-Sep-1888 and he was the first Vice-President of India (1952–1962).
4-Butterflies find their way with the use of their antennae, which have tiny knobs on the ends
5-Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan was born on 01-Oct-1928 and died on July 21, 2001.
6-The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
7-Leonardo DA Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
8- Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program written in C++ and available in 27 languages.
9-New York was once called as New Amsterdam.
10- Tipu Sultan was born on 20-Nov-1750. His father name is “Hyder Ali”.
11-Shahjahan was born on 5-Jan-1592. His father name is “Jahangir”.
12-The smell of young wine is called an “Aroma”.
13-Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on July 30′ 1947. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 22.
14-The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
15-Capital of ‘Norway’ is OSlo.
16-K.Balachander, in a career spanning over 4 decades, he has directed 101 movies, the most by any director in Tamil.
17-Sir R. K. Shanmukham Chetty became the first finance minister of India after it became independent in 1947.
18-Lata Mangeshkar’s first Hindi song was ‘Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya’ for the Marathi film, Gajaabhaau (1943).
19-Madras was renamed as ‘Chennai’ in the year 1997.
20-The first major newspaper in India “The Bengal Gazette” was started in 1780 under the British Raj.
21-“St. Peter’s Basilica” in Vatican City is world’s biggest church.
22-Serampore College (1818) first institution with university status.
23-A group of Parrots is called ‘Company’.
24-AVM’s first movie production is “Naam Iruvar” in 1947.
25-A young deer is called as ‘Fawn’.
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