Trivia Time

1. MOPED is the short term used for 'Motorized Pedaling'.

2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.

3. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' which means everybody.

4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).

5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped.

6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S.

7. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back when people were waiting to see the Queen, someone made a comment 'Queen's Quest'.

8. TIPS comes from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.

9. JEEP is a vehicle with an unique gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.

10. Coca-Cola was originally green.

11. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

12. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

13. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

14. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

15. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

16. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

17. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

18. The "sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

19. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
>> Spades - King David.
>> Clubs - Alexander the Great.
>> Hearts - Charlemagne.
>> Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

20. Horse Statue in a Park significance:
>> If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
>> If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
>> If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

21. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

22. A snail can sleep for three years.

23. Butterflies taste with their feet.

24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

25. On an average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

26. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

27. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

28. The cigarette lighter was invented before the matchbox.