Fun facts

The oldest language in the world is-

• English

• Hebrew

• Chinese

• Tamil

• Greek

First person to climb and reach the summit of Mt.Everest-

• Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

• Junko Tabei

• Bear Grylls

• Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler

Answer explanation

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing(or Tenzing Norgay) were the first people to officially climb Mt.Everest.(1953)

Junko Tabei is the first woman to reach the summit of Mt.Everest.(1975)

Bear became one of the youngest people at the time to reach the summit and doing so at the age of 23.(1998)

Messner and Peter Habeler were the first people to reach the summit without the use of supplemental oxygen.(1978)

The first person to go to space-

• Valentina V. Tereshkova

• Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

• Alan Bartlett Shepard

• Rakesh Sharma

Answer explanation

Valentina-First woman to go to space.

Yuri Gagarin-First person to go to space.

Alan Shepard-First American to go to space.

Rakesh Sharma-First Indian to go to space.

Developer of Microsoft Office-

• Bill Gates and

  Paul G. Allen

• Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes

• Jan Koum and Brian Acton

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Answer explanation

Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes founded Facebook in a Harvard dorm room. Whatsapp was founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California.

The largest animal in the whole world is-

• Goliath Beetle

• Chinese Salamander

• Ostrich

• Saltwater Crocodile

• The Antarctic blue whale

Answer explanation

Goliath Beetle is the heaviest insect in the world.

The Chinese Giant Salamander is the largest living amphibian.

The Ostrich is the largest living bird.

The largest living reptile is the Saltwater Crocodile.

Blue whale's tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their hearts as much as a car.

The longest cell-

• Cells of Ostrich egg

• Neurons

• Nerve cells

Answer explanation

Cells of Ostrich egg is the largest cell.

Nerve cells (also called neurons) are the longest cell.

Oldest civilization in the world is-

• Indus Valley civilization

  (Harappan civilization)

• Mesopotamian civilization

• The Chinese civilization

• The Persian civilization

Answer explanation

But new evidence suggests the Indus Valley Civilisation in India and Pakistan, famed for its well-planned cities and impressive crafts, predates Egypt and Mesopotamia. Already considered one of the oldest civilisations in the world, experts now believe it is 8,000 years old - 2,500 years older than previously thought.

The oldest fossil discovered-

• Hematite Tubes

• Stromatolites

• Pikaia

• “Seaweed-Like” Fossils

Answer explanation

Researchers from China uncovered “seaweed-like” fossils in 2016. The find was a surprise because the organisms trapped in the fossils were visible to the naked eye, which is unusual for such ancient multi-cellular life forms known as eukaryotes. About 167 fossils were found and dated to about 1.56 billion years ago.

Which water will turn into ice faster?

• Hot water

• Cold water

Answer explanation

Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.

Which sentence uses all the letters of the alphabet?

• "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

• "The five boxing wizards jump quickly" .

• “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes”.

• “My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit”.

Answer explanation

Here's another-

“Brown jars prevented the mixture from freezing too quickly.”