1. MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'. 2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened. 3. BUS is the
short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. 4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks). 5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the prefix
'with' was dropped...
6. NEWS refers to
information from Four directions N, E, W and S... 7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day'
during each Day's business. 9. QUEUE comes from
'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen.
Someone made the comment Queen's Quest... 10. TIPS come
from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from
servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written
'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips. 11. JEEP is
a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II
(1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into
JEEP later. 12. Coca-Cola was originally green. 13. The most common name
in the world is Mohammed... 14. The name of all the continents end with the
same letter that they start with... 15. The strongest muscle in the body is
the tongue. 16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row ! of the keyboard. 17. Women blink nearly twice as
much as men! 18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. 19. It
is impossible to lick your elbow. 20. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze
because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. 21. It is
physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. 22. The "sixth sick
sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the
English language. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to
suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
23. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history... o Spades - King David o Clubs - Alexander the Great, o
Hearts - Charlemagne o Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
24. Horse Statue in
a Park... * If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front
legs in the air, the person died in battle. * If the horse has one front leg
in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle * If the
horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
25. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common? Ans.. - All invented by women. 26. A
crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 27. A snail can sleep for three
years. 28. All polar bears are left handed. 29. Butterflies taste with
their feet. 30. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 31. In the
last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 32. On average,
people fear spiders more than they do death. 33. Shakespeare invented the
word 'assassination' and 'bump'. 34. Stewardesses is the longest word typed
with only the left hand. 35. The ant always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated. 36. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 37. The
human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt
blood 30 feet. 38. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could
have over million descendants. 39. Wearing headphones for just an hour will
increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. 40. The cigarette lighter was
invented before the match. 41. Most lipstick contains fish
scales. --"Our hearts are the mirror of what we think
& do. We like to have all good things happening to us. But do we do
our best to everyone? What we get depends upon what we
give!" |