1. First manned flight was in Dec 1903 by Orville and Wilbur Wright. They flied for 12 seconds covering 120 feet.

2. Franklyn Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) is the only man elected 4 terms of US Presidentship from 1933 to 1945.

3. April 18, 1991, Kerala become India's first fully literate state.

4. The Big Apple is New York's nickname.

5. Adam's bridge : A submerged bridge of sand and rock between India and Sri Lanka.

6.Opisometer can measure the length of curves on a map.

7.Major Somnath Sharma, 4 th battalion , Kuamon Regiment got the first Param Vir Chakra - the highest gallentary award of India - in 1948.