March 12, 1993 - Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.

March 12,1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

March 16, 1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

March16, 1926 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

March 16, 1966 - Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.

March 17 , # 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

1995 to 1998?: Fry goes roughly three years without getting time off

1997: Fry's dog, Seymour, is born.

1997: Applied Cryogenics experiences their most recent power failure.

circa 1997: date on the last existing can of anchovies ("Angry Norwegian Anchovies" brand)

August 1997: Fry meets his dog, "Seymour Asses"

July 1998: The summer from "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer". Seymour swims in toppings.

1999 or earlier: The evil brainspawn begin constructing the Infosphere. The Nibblonians forsee its completion and realise their need to cryogenically freeze Fry so that he can ultimately defeat them.

March 28, 1999: In real life, the first episode of Futurama is aired

1999: Fry spills a can of beer, disrupting the transmission of the series finale of Single Female Lawyer

Evening of December 31, 1999: Nibbler orders a pizza to be delivered to Applied Cryogenics, using the pseudonym I. C. Weiner.

11:35pm, December 31, 1999: Fry leaves on his last pizza delivery.

At this point the time-stream diverges. As is well recorded, Nibbler is hidden underneath the desk that Fry will sit at as the new millennium rolls in, intending to deliberately make Fry fall in the cryogenics tube, so that in the future (specifically, the episode "The Why Of Fry") he can defeat the brainspawn on behalf of all intelligent life. In one timeline (timeline A) this goes ahead as planned. In timeline B, a Fry arrives from the future, sent back in time by the brains, just in time to deliver to Nibbler the dire warning, "Scootie-Puff Junior sucks!" This will have significant consequences, as we shall see in the year 3002 or so. Either way, Nibbler's plan proceeds as envisaged:

12:00:0?am, January 1, 2000: Philip J. Fry falls backwards into a cryogenic chamber, which automatically freezes him for a thousand years

lunchtime, January 1, 2000: Fry's father calls him, wondering where he is.

July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin land on the Moon. The original landing site will have been lost for centuries by the year 3000.

1973: Computers will double in speed between now and 3000, according to Richard Nixon in 3000 - probably something of an understatement

1973: Muhammed Ali faces an 80ft-tall mechanical Joe Frazier. The entire Earth is destroyed, according to George Foreman, whose memory is not, apparently, what it was

1974: birth of Philip J. Fry

1975: In Leela's dream, the Yellow Brick Road is renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard

1984 or later: Stricken with incurable boneitis, "that guy" (Steve Castle) is frozen. We know he's from the 1980s, but he has also certainly seen Apple's "1984" advert

1985: The New York Mets win the World Championship. Shea Stadium has a banner proclaiming: "Home of the 1969 & 1985 World Champion Mets". Note: This obliquely suggests that the Mets won't win the World Championship again for over a thousand years!

1988: What Hermes Conrad will later describe as a "legendary Jamaican bobsled team" first competes in the Winter Olympics

between 1990 and 1996: Applied Cryogenics experiences their penultimate power failure

1994 or 1995: Fry scrawls a picture of himself on a rocket

1900s: Gwen's family starts making candy hearts from bone meal and earwig honey

20th century?: The Stupid Ages? Fry's era is referred to as the Stupid Ages more than once in the series. No dates are given, but the 20th century seems stupid enough to me.

July 9, 1947: Emerging from a time-warp, the Planet Express ship crash-lands near Roswell, New Mexico

July 10, 1947: Planet Express returns through the time-warp, leaving behind Bender's head

1951: Pete's TVs: "letting people watch news reports in our window since 1951"

August 9, 1960: David Duchovny is supposedly born; Duchovny is in fact the individual who will later be known as Calculon; his birth date might be a lie.

1960: The 1960 Presidential elections are fixed by John F. Kennedy, according to Richard Nixon

September 8, 1966: The first episode of the original series of Star Trek is aired

1969: The New York Mets win the World Championship.

Army of 2.5 million officials starts task of Indian census of a billion people

indefatigable: untiring.

This capital of Latvia is sometimes known as the "Paris of the Baltic."

* Riga

Anything with a question mark in the date is probable, but not known for definite. A tilde (~) indicates that the date is approximate.

Only relatively few episodes have specific dates attached to them, but dates for the rest of them can be guessed at with a fair degree of certainty. For this purpose, I have made the simple assumption that the chronological order in which episodes occur is the same as the order of production code. There were four production seasons of roughly 18 episodes apiece. Space Pilot 3000 (1ACV01) is the first, The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings (4ACV18) is the last. This system enables all the episodes to be placed on the timeline, with only a little uncertainty and only one episode (Roswell That Ends Well) definitely out of sequence.

A slight anomaly is that this results in about 20 episodes taking place between January 1 and February 14, 3002. Hey ho. There are a few other interesting notes which you'll find as you read.

17 years before the Big Bang: Nibblonian civilisation is born

~28,997,001 BC or earlier: Emperor Nimbala rules Zuben 5. He will be seen in the year 3000 as a mummy in a tiny sarcophagus

1410 AD: Origins of banking industry regulations

1776: The United States of America are founded

1788: Steamboat invented

1793: Cotton gin invented

19th century: Light bulb, steamboat and cotton gin invented, according to Leela. Note that she's wrong on two of the three counts; the steamboat and the cotton gin are both from the 18th century. See above.

1820 to 1887: Golden Age Of Muttonchops

1874: Light bulb invented

Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawensi, and Shira, is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania. Although it does not have the highest elevation, Kilimanjaro is the tallest free-standing mountain rise[1] in the world,[2] rising 4,600 m (15,100 ft) from its base, and includes the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters (19,340 ft), providing a dramatic view from the surrounding plains.

McKinley, Mt- Norht Pk 20,320 feet (North America)

South America, the planet's 4th largest continent, includes (12) countries and (3) major territories. It contains the massive Amazon River and surrounding basin - the largest tropical rain forest in the world; the toothy-edged Andes Mountains, that stretch the entire length of the continent, and some of the most diverse and spectacular landforms on the planet.

Argentina's Aconcagua (22,835'/6960m) is famous as the highest peak in the western hemisphere, but Andean peaks rise to over 20,000'/6100m in Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador as well, and Colombia (18865'/5750m) and Venzuela (16427'/5007m) are not far behind. Make no mistake, these are big, glaciated, and serious mountains for almost their entire length.

The tallest Mountain in Antarctica is Vinson Massif rising 4,892 metres (16,050 feet) above sea level

The lowest point in Antarctica is within the Bentley Subglacial Trench, which reaches 2,555 meters below sea level. This is also the lowest place on earth not covered by ocean (although it is covered by ice)

Extreme point of Europe: Northernmost point — Cape Fligely, Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, Russia (81° 48′ 24″ N)

The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent but the sixth-largest country in the world. The population of Australia is concentrated along the eastern and southeastern coasts. The geography of the country is extremely diverse, ranging from the snow capped mountains of Tasmania to large deserts, tropical and temperate forests.

Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast. Highest point is Mount Kosciuszko

APPSC Examination held on 9.3.2008 General Studies random questions (APRO Paper)

1. Jean Paul Satre was famous for:
2. Panchayat Raj System was introduced in the year :
3. Which amendment of the Constitution gave priority to Directive Principles over Fundamental Rights?
4. What is the main objective of the Rural Development Programmes?
5. Identical twins are born when:
6.  What are the primary colours?
7. Khalsa was founded by:
8. Blue colour of sky is due to:
9. Today Mal was associated with:
10. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award is given for outstanding performance in:
11. Tripitakas are the sacred books of the
12. Mohini Attam is a dance form which originated in:
13. Red blood corpuscles are produced in:
14. Mountain is to the Himalayas as ocean is to:
15. Protestant reformation was directed against:
16. Khasis are an important tribe in India. Where most of them live?
17. The famous Kanha Wild Life Sanctuary is located in the state of:
18. Planning does not entail:
19. A bat is a/an:
20. Genetic engineering is a branch of:
21. Material most commonly used in nuclear power plants is
22. Which of the following is not an infectious disease?
23. The capital of the Kushanas was:
24. Rajatarangini is a historical book of the
25. The Golden temple at Amritsar has built at the site where:
26. The world famous painting ‘Mona Lisa’ is the work of
27. The President’s rule can be imposed in a state for a maximum period of:
28. Judicial review signifies that the Supreme Court :
29. The structure of the Indian Constitution is:
30. Which one of the following writs literally means ‘we command’?
31. Money bill can originate in
32. Parliament of India is a
33. Which of the following is the chief source of political power in India?
34. The cabinet secretariat functions under the direct control of the :
35. Which writ is sought to be issued to prohibit action?
36. Which nation has adopted the system of Administrative Law
37. The constituents of India’s Parliament are Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and
38. Who decides whether a bill is Money Bill or not?
39. The special status of Jammu and Kashmir implies that it has:
40. The Preamble can also be amended under:
41. The cause of inflation is:
42. Which of the following is not a bar to public service
43. Which of the following is called the Magna Carta of Indian liberties?
44. Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court does not involve?
45. What is the most remarkable aspect of Indian industry since independence?
46. The community development programme was launched in:
47. Globalisation of Indian economy means:
48. Devaluation of currency leads to
49. A growing country is one with
50. Which is not the main source of state revenue?
51. What are the grass-lands of South America called?
52. Ecitement in human body is caused by:
53. Goitre is caused by the deficiency of
54. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a great treatise on
55. By whose efforts, Buddhism became the global religion?
56. Tides in the Ocean are caused due to:
57. Light year is the
58. Which organ is associated with the production of insulin in the human body?
59. Buddhism disappeared from the land of its birth primarily because of
60. Article VI of GATT (WTO) is related with:

101. The Albatross has the largest wing span of any sea bird.

102. The Rafflesia is the biggest flower in the world.

103. What is the Indian name for the gooseberry fruit – Amla

104. What is a shooting star – A flowering plant

105. What is the Bo tree popularly known as in India – Peepal

106. The world’s oldest tree is the bristlecone pine tree in California. It is over 4,800 years old.

107. The tallest grass in the world is the thorny bamboo of India. It can reach a height of 120 ft.

108. Helium is the lightest gas in the world.

109. One drop of blood contains about 100 million red blood corpuscles (cells)

110. The board game of monopoly was invented by Charles Darrow

111. The national sport of USA is baseball

112. The total distance covered in a marathon race is 42.2 km.

113. The world’s largest stadium is the Strahov Stadium at Prague in Czech Republic

114. Scrabble, the word game, was invented by Alfred Brutts

91. Which animal can turn its head around completely and thus can see backward – Owl

92. Which animal does not have teeth at all – Turtle

93. For how many days a camel survive without water – 2 weeks

94. Which is the smallest mammal – Pygmy shrew

95. For how many years does a butterfly live – 1 week

96. The Humming bird is the world’s lightest bird.

97. The Bombay duck is not a duck. It is a fish, found in the sea near Mumbai.

98. The seahorse is not a horse. It is a fish.

99. If a starfish is cut into large pieces, each piece will grow into a whole fish.

100. The female of a whale is known as a cow.

81. With microfinance 10 crore women are benefited across the world. They are provided $ 25 billion by loans/

82. DTH – Direct To Home

83. The population density of Andhra Pradesh is 277 persons per square kilometer.

84. H1N1 virus causing swine flu is medically called – influenza

85. Which vitamin is known as Beauty vitamin – Vitamin E

86. The number of netizens as per Internet World Stats – 1,596,270,108 (India – 8.1 crore – 4th place in the world)

87. The Ostrich is not only the biggest bird but it also lays the biggest eggs.

88. The spin-tailed swift is the fastest bird. It flies at a speed of 170 km/ hour

89. Cuckoo is the only bird that never builds a nest. There are 127 kinds of this bird in the world.

90. Baby Zebras can stand and walk within an hour of their birth.