On October 24,1945 the required majority of 29 nations ratified the UN Charter.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,the first Prime Minister of India wrote both 'Discovery of India' and 'Glimpses of World History'.

River Nile flows in the city of Alexandria in Egypt.

Mohini Attam is a dance form of Keralites.

London,England shall host the next Summer Olympic games in 2012 from 27 July to 12 August.

Stephen Hawking is a British Scientist and a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and Dr. C. V. Raman were the first three recipients of 'Bharat Ratna' in 1954.

The study of origin and history of words is called etymology.

Academy Awards are better known as Oscar Awards and they are the highest awards given in film field.

Scotland has the name of 'Land of Cakes'.

The instrument used to note the BP of a person is Sphygmomanometer.

Sunderbans made West Bengal famous.

Fire temple

Amartya Sen is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998

Tagore penned the lines of Jana-Gana-Mana.

Rakesh Sharma is India's 1st and World's 138th Cosmonaut to go to space on 3 April,1984

Alexander Fleming

Hippocrates is the Greek physician who gave the 'Hippocratic oath' followed by doctors.

Great Britain was the first country to introduce Penny Post.

Beethovan was a German musician and composer who died at 40 but gave everlasting songs,concerts and sonatas.

 Netherlands has the office of the International Court of Justice.

MSF volunteers give health care in 80 countries with its headquarters at Belgium

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Gitanjali in 1913.

Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the first woman President of UN General Assembly in 1953.

Roger Federer won the title.