DAMAGE

What is the difference between 'damage' and 'damages'? Damage means loss or injury. Eg. The building suffered damage in the earthquake. Damages is a legal term that means financial compensation for loss or injury. Eg. After the aircrash, the surviving passengers claimed damages from the airline.

VOTING RIGHT

Members of the armed forces and police cannot vote in DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

HUMOUR

Lady : Sir, Everything in my house has been stolen except the T.V.

Police: Why did the thief leave the T.V?

Lady: I was watching the TV na.......!!!!!

OPERATION

The word Cesarian came from the name of Julius Ceaser, whose birth occurred by operation first time in history

FILM THEATRE

The first film theatre in India was opened at Bangalore - Kapali Theatre. Kapali Theatre is still running with old films

RELATION BETWEEN EARTH AND MOON

Interviewer: What's the relation between Earth & Moon?
Puneet: brother & sister
Interviewer: How?
Puneet: Earth dharti mata and Moon chanda mama

TROJAN HORSE

In the legendary Trojan War, the Greeks left a large hollow wooden horse at the gates of the city Troy, the Trojans took it inside, Greek soldiers hidden in the horse came out at night and opened the gates of the city allowing the Greek army to enter and conquer the Trojans. In computing Trojan horse is a programme that, while seemingly useful, steels passwords or does other damage to computers.

DALAI LAMA

"Dalai Lama" is a Mongolian word meaning "Great Ocean".

The word 'FOUR' is the only counting number which has the same number of letters as the digit it signifies .i.e. 4

Mahatma

Rabindranath Tagore gave the title MAHATMA to Gandhiji.

BANK TELLER

The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.

Like finger prints of human beings, zebras also have distinct stripes on their body which do not match with any other zebra

The first national anthem of Pakistan was written by a Hindu- in 1947- Jagannath Azad. In 1950 Pakistan accepted a new national anthem written by a Muslim

On June 27, 1967 the worlds first ATM was installed in Enfield, London.

The first e-mail was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. It was his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the e-mail service provider

The first Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore is the author of national anthem of two countries: Bangladesh and India. - sonar bangal and jana ganamana

KNOWLEDGE BANK 3

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, owns the famous A.C. Milan Football Club

KNOWLEDGE BANK 2

The term MALARIA came from MAL (bad) + AIRIA (air) because originally it was believed that MALARIA spreads due to polluted air.

knowledge bank 1

Jhonty rhodes of south africa was the only person who represented for his country in both Cricket and Football