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Trivia quiz #1

Questions:

1. If you are suffering from logorrhea what is your ailment?

2. What Hindi (or Sanskrit) word does Mandarin, the official form of Chinese language with the most speakers in the world, originate from?

3. What was the first clinical use of cocaine?

4. What is a vyomanaut?

5. Every American President with a beard while in office has belonged to this political party. Which party am I talking about?

Answers:

1. You are excessively talkative and might often talk nonsense. We seem to know many people who suffer from logorrhea and hope the medical community finds a drug to cure this disease!

2. Surprisingly, the root word for Mandarin might actually be mantri.

3. Noted psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud used cocaine to treat morphine addiction. Needless to say this didn’t last very long as a form of treatment!

4. The Indian spacefarer who is the equivalent of an astronaut or cosmonaut. Reminds me of Captain Vyom!

5. The Republican Party


	


	



			
				


			

			
Amazing trivia #2 – এই সপ্তাহের আশ্চর্য তথ্য
		
	
	

		
This week’s trivia is completely pepper-related.


1. Did you know that black pepper is native to South India, but chili peppers originated in the Americas?


2. The Scoville scale measures the “hotness” of a chili pepper. It is named after Wilbur Scoville, an American who developed the scale.


3.  The hottest chili pepper in the world is the Bhut Jolokia pepper that grows in Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur.


4.  Indian defence scientists are creating a grenade using the Bhut Jolokia pepper.


5. There is a company that markets a weight-loss pill called Capsiplex made from hot peppers.


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Amazing trivia #1 – এই সপ্তাহের আশ্চর্য তথ্য
		
	
	

		
    

  1. Black Sabbath used to call themselves The Polka Tulk Blues Company.
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  2. Cappuccino gets its name from Capuchin monks, whose robes are light brown.
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  3. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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  4. The first registered domain name was symbolics.com, which was registered on March 15, 1985.
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  5. In Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho,’ the sound effects for the famous shower scene were created by repeatedly stabbing a casaba melon.
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(Source: mental_floss)


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