1) Which is the longest word in the English Language? Pneumonoultramicroscopicsillcovalcanoconiosis-is, according to Oxford Dictionaries, 'an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.' According to Dicionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon, it is supposedly the longest word in a dictionary.
2) What is the study of languages called? Linguistics
3) What is the name of the Hurricane that struck the Atlantic Coast of the US in 2012 leading to heavy death and destruction? Sandy
4) On which day did flight MH-370 disappear? 03/08/2014
5) What was the aircraft associated with the MH-370 disaster? Boeing 777-200 ER
6) What is the orbital speed of the earth around the sun in kilometers per second? 30 kms per second or 108,000 kms per hour or 67,108 miles per hour.
7) Who discovered Neptune? J G Galle.
8) Which countries are separated by the 49th Parallel? The US and Canada
9) When was the first ATM opened in the world? It was in North London by Barclay's Bank on June 27, 1967.
10) Which is the worst plane disaster in India? The worst plane disaster in India was the 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight No.763 and Kazakhstan Airlines flight No 1907 on 11/12/1996. This disaster killed all 349 people on board on both flights.
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