Monday, January 16, 2012

General Knowledge 030

1. Which was the first thirty minute cartoon to be aired on television during the prime time?


    Answer: Flintstones


2. The first Shatabdi train was started in 1988 to commemorate whose centenary birthday?


    Answer: Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru


3. What is being displayed in the picture below?


     
    Answer: The wearing of the five classes of Legion of Honor (1 - Chevalier ; 2 - Officier ; 3 - Commandeur ; 4 - Grand Officier ; 5 - Grand Croix.)


4. Name the tree displayed in the below picture and also give its significance.




    Answer: It is the Baobab Tree or the "Upside down tree", the national tree of Madagascar. (It is named so after an Arabic legend which claims that a devil pulled out the tree and planted it upside down. The tree is capable of storing water and have usual root like branches.)


5. What does the illumination of a special green colored light in the night, above the Big Ben's clock faces signify?


    Answer: It signifies that the British Parliament is in session.


DID YOU KNOW?


It is not the clock tower which is the Big Ben but the largest bell in the clock that is called the Big Ben. It is not visible from the outside of the tower.

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