GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

• Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestly.
• The largest temple in the world is the Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
• Japanese art of flower arrangement is called Ikebana.
• Nile is the largest river in the world.
• The Tibet Plateau is the highest in the world.
• The largest animal on the land is animal and in the sea is the blue whale.
• Zoology is the scientific study of animals.
• Telephone was discovered by Alexander Graham Bell.
• Damascus is the oldest city ever known in the world.
• Greenland is the largest island.
• Cuba is known as world’s Sugar Bowl.
• Sahara is the largest desert in the world.
• The world’s largest ocean is the Pacific Ocean.
• James Cook discovered Australia.
• Sri Lanka was earlier called as Ceylon.
• Samba is the native dance of Brazil.
• India and South Korea celebrate their Independence Day on 15th August.
• Norway is known as the land of Midnight sun.
• J.K.Rowling is the writer of the Harry Potter Series.
• The city of New York is nicknamed as Big Apple.
• Bhutan is known as the Land of Thunderbolts.
• Jamaica principally exports Sugar.
• Frederick Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the Statue of Liberty in New York.
• November 14th is celebrated as Children’s day in India. It is has been a dedication to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who liked children.
• - The first person to climb the Mt. Everest was Edmund Hillary.
• - The first man to land on moon was Neil Armstrong. He landed on the moon in 1969.
• - Venice is known as the city of canals.
• - Alexander Eiffel built the Eiffel tower in Paris.
• - The famous Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.
• - Rear Admiral Robert.E.Peary was the first man to explore the North Pole while Cap. Ronald Amundson was the first man to explore the South Pole.
• - Tibet is generally termed as the Roof of the World.
• - The Nobel Prize was established in 1895. 
• - Louis Hennepin discovered the Niagara Falls.