#41 - General Knowledge Riddle
What was the duration for which the hundred years war lasted ?
It lasted from 1337 to 1453 i.e. 116 years.
What was the duration for which the hundred years war lasted ?
It lasted from 1337 to 1453 i.e. 116 years.
If an earthquake is 1 point higher on the Richter Scale than another earthquake which is actually 10 times stronger, how much stronger would an earthquake be if it was just half a point higher on the Richter scale?
The most common answer would be 5. But that’s totally incorrect. It will be the square root of 10 times stronger i.e. 3.16 times.
Can you tell a 3D object that actually has just two surfaces?
Did you think of paper?
Well that will be a wrong answer as a piece of paper has 6 surfaces as the edges are also counted as surfaces only no matter how thin they are.
The correct answer is a cone.
October Revolution is well know in russian history. Which month do they celebrate it ?
November, Their calandar was 13 days behind ours.
Why do we preferably have round manhole covers and not the square ones ?
Squares have longer diagonal length and thus they may fall inside if twisted. However such is not the case with a circle one.
There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing ?
Sucide
why number 8549176320 is one of a kind ?
All numbers(0-9) appears only once and all in alphabetical order
Ramanujan discovered 1729 as a magic number.
Why 1729 is a magic number ?
They can be expressed as the sum of the cubes of two different sets of numbers.
10^3 + 9^3 = 1729
and
12^3 + 1^3 = 1729
I know a ten letter word in the English language which can be typed using only the top rows of the computer keyboard.
Typewriter