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Today's #quizzytime: Which Indian cuisine came about due to the combination of child marriage and then the oppression the widows faced when their husbands died?
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Ans: Child marriage in Bengal lead to early widowhood. The strict rules and regulations of Bengali culture did not allow these widows to consume onion, garlic or any sort of non-vegetarian food. Even masoor dal was prohibited. Within these limitations Bengali veg cuisine emerged.
The concept of utilizing everything, from stems to shoots and roots was a result of this situation. The widows creatively used leftover peels of vegetables for making dishes that Bengalis love to devour today. These include alur khosha bhaja
Today's #quizzytime: Which dictator hated intellectuals so much he killed everyone wearing glasses, hacked journalists apart and fed them to sharks, banned medicine and used witch doctors and finally destroyed boats, the railways, and mined roads to stop people from fleeing?
It's not Pol Pot
Ans: Francisco Macias Nguema was born into a poor peasant family in the then-Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea, the son of a witch doctor from neighboring Gabon. When Equatorial Guinea gained independence in 1968, he was elected president.
Today's #quizzytime: Admiral Hopper who won the the Data Processing Management Association Computer Sciences Man of the Year Award also coined a term commonly used by programmers today. What was it?
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Ans: Debug. A mathematics genius and computer pioneer, Grace Hopper created computer programming technology that forever changed the flow of information and paved the way for modern data processing. In 1943, wanting to aid her country during World War II, Hopper joined the
United States Navy. She was soon assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University, where she began her legacy of groundbreaking computer programming with the Mark I, a precursor to electronic computers.
Today's #quizzytime: Which Bengali gentleman was probably the person to popularize erotic entertainment for women worldover?
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Ans: One of the best known American brand name was created by Desi boy Somen 'Steve' Banerjee. Having left India possibly in the late 1960s, Banerjee arrived in the USA via Canada, ultimately settling in Playa Del Rey, California, near Los Angeles.
His early business ventures were a Mobil gas station and a failed backgammon club. But his luck turned in 1975, when he bought Destiny II for a song. In 1979 he renamed it ‘Chippendales’, and launched a ‘Male Exotic Dance Night for Ladies Only’ the first such spectacle in the USA
Today's #quizzytime: If you were in a train that plunged into a river, hit by a bus, blown out of an airplane, your car erupted into flames while driving – twice, and once plunged 300 feet off a cliff...and then you won a massive lottery...who would you be?
Ans: Born in Croatia, Frane Selak has often been labeled the world’s luckiest unlucky man. In 1962, Frane Selak kicked off his decades of ducking death when a train in which he was riding skidded off the rails, and plunged down a canyon into an icy river. 17 passengers drowned,
But Selak got away with a broken arm and hypothermia from immersion in the cold water. In 1963, on his first and only plane ride, Selak was blown out of malfunctioning door, but again managed to escape death: he landed on a haystack. The plane crashed, killing nineteen people.
Today's #quizzytime: Which product was sold only in prison, but became such a hit with ex convicts and their visitors, that the company starting selling it to the general public.
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Ans: The Whole Shabang is a brand of chips initially only sold at Canadian prison commissary stores. However, ex-inmates began looking for the product once released from prison but couldn't find it, leading to a grey market for The Whole Shabang through sites such as eBay.
By 2016, demand from ex-inmates—including those who served as little as 60 days in a county jail as well as prison visitors—prompted Keefe to spin off The Whole Shabang from their Moon Lodge line and offer them online to the general public. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole…
Today's #quizzytime: What if I told you that there was a worldwide plague in 2005, spreading through contact? Some people banded together to quarantine and restrict the spread. Others willfully spread it. Where did this take place?
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Ans: In 2005 players on 'World of Warcraft' found themselves besieged by a virulent virtual plague nobody knew how to cure or combat. The plague spread unchecked killing thousands of players’and experts have since used it as a research model for epidemics & bio-terrorism
Known as the Corrupted Blood Incident, the plague’s genesis can be traced to a September 13th update that introduced an ancient blood god called Hakkar the Soulflayer. Any player who got too close to Hakkar while he was in the throes of death would be afflicted.
Today's #quizzytime: What If I told you that there is a 3 letter word which you have been pronouncing wrong all your life? The inventor wrote the pronunciation in the report where he coined it...but we all ignored it. And yes you have certainly said it.
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we will be taking 'gif' off the table. Not the correct answer
Ans: UFO (yoo-fo). Edward J. Ruppelt coined the term in his book 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects'. "Obviously the term “flying saucer” is misleading when applied to objects of every conceivable shape and performance....
Today's #quizzytime : Who hatched a plan to stop the Earth from rotating?
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Ans: During the cold war the Pentagon came up with a bonkers plan to cause the Soviet nukes to miss America- stop the Earth from rotating. There was actually a method to the madness. Launching a missile to hit a target 1000s of miles away involves calculating planetary rotation.
You have to aim for where the target WILL be, in say 30 minutes. PROJECT RETRO was a research effort into what it would take to pause the planet’s spinning so that the target would not move at all. The United States Air Force floated the idea of using rocket engines –
Today's #quizzytime: A bodyguard left the man he was guarding and went to a bar to get a drink because he was bored. The man got shot a few minutes later. Who was this bodyguard?
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Ans: Security for American Presidents was once quite a lax affair. Abraham Lincoln often roamed around without any bodyguards. On the night of April 14, 1865, he had just one - Washington Metropolitan Police Officer John Frederick Parker.
Parker escorted President Lincoln and his wife to their box seats in Ford’s Theater. He grabbed a seat in the hallway behind Lincoln, but was unable to see the play from there. So he abandoned his post to watch from downstairs. The play bored him, however....
Today's #quizzytime: In 2014, the US government unintentionally kick-started a man's modelling career. How?
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Ans: In June 18, 2014, Stockton Police Department arrested Jeremy Meeks for felony weapon charges". They posted his mugshots on their Facebook page. Within 24 hours Meeks' photo had acquired more than 15,000 "likes" and 3,700 comments, mostly from women enamored with his looks.
The next day, news and entertainment site Buzzfeed recognized Meeks' mugshot as a "meme". Twitter fans created the hashtag "#feloncrushfriday" in honor of Meeks' mugshot. As of April 2021, the post has received 95,000 "likes", 24,000 comments, and 11,000 shares.
Today's #quizzytime: What sound is highly effective in scaring away Somalian pirates?
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Ans: Britney Spear's hits, including Oops! I Did It Again and Baby One More Time, are employed by British naval officers to scare off pirates along the east coast of Africa.The thought is that Britney Spears is synonymous with Western culture, and Somali pirates hate
Western culture, so therefore, it deters them. And that's half the story. While Britney Spears might be the music that irritates Somali pirates most, Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) defense systems have been in use for a while.
Today's #quizzytime : In movies, when setting off an explosion, the villain/hero walks away from the spilled gasoline and does something that looks really badass which simply doesn't work in real life. What?
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Ans: Flicks his cigarette through the air, and the sparking tip ignites a trail of gasoline, flames race along the surface, and the payoff explosion is as glorious as we’d hope for. Researchers tried 2000 times to ignite gasoline with a cigarette; failed 100% of the time.
When a cigarette is not being “dragged”, the temperature drops considerably. Furthermore, gasoline is dangerous due to the flammability of the fumes, not the liquid itself. When it isn’t in a contained space, it would be nearly impossible for the lit cigarette to ignite fumes.
Today's #quizzytime: A country once asked it's people to speak freely and openly criticize the ruling party. They did. What was the outcome of this campaign, named after Nature?
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Ans: From 1956 to 1957 The Communist Party of China (CPC) encouraged citizens to express openly their opinions of the communist regime in 'The Hundred Flowers Campaign'.
Following this, CPC Chairman Mao Zedong conducted a crack down against those who were critical of it. Citizens were rounded up in waves by the 100 of 1000s, publicly criticized, & condemned to prison camps for re-education through labor or execution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_F…
Today's #quizzytime: One man is on a mission to change a phrase in Wikipedia he finds 'poor wording'. If you use it, chances are he will catch it in his nightly trawl and change it. What is this phrase?
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Ans: Every Sunday night, Bryan Henderson sits down at his computer, searches Wikipedia for the phrase “comprised of” and changes it to either “composed of” or “consists of.” He has done this 47,000 times since 2007. He has also written a 6,000-word essay on why he does this.
Not everyone has welcomed his mission. In the essay he mentions that he once “attracted a stalker, a single editor who reverted about 30 [‘comprised of’ edits] in a row in the same order in which I made them.” medium.com/backchannel/me…
Today's #quizzytime: Which invention found commonly in corporate offices came about because the inventor HATED being chivalrous?
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Ans: The story goes that Theophilus Van Kannel hated chivalry. He despised trying to walk in or out of a building, and locking horns with other men in a game of “oh you first, I insist.” But most of all, Theophilus Van Kannel hated opening doors for women.
He set about inventing his way out of social phobia. And that’s how, in 1888, Theophilus Van Kannel was awarded US Patent #387571 A for a “storm-door structure,” which would soon become known as the revolving door. slate.com/blogs/the_eye/…
Today's #quizzytime: Which business opened by a mob boss in 1959 as a front for selling heroin, ended up being even more popular and profitable than drugs?
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Ans: New York’s Ray’s Pizza. While the name became famous, its real business wasn’t pepperoni and cheese — it was heroin. Ralph “Raffie” Cuomo used recipes his mother had brought from Italy and the restaurant became synonymous with he best pies in the city.
Detectives knew it was used for drug deals as well but could not prove it. One night they watched as Cuomo put a white shopping bag — filled with narcotics, they believed — in the trunk of his car and invited D’Arco and a fellow Luchese mobster over to look.
Today's #quizzytime: Beneath the snow on the North and South poles you may find thousands of thin copper needles. Where have they come from?
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Ans: During the cold war USA launched half a billion whisker-thin copper wires into orbit in an attempt to install a ring around the Earth. It was called Project West Ford & it was to protect USA's long-range communications from the Russians by moving it from undersea to space.
Because the copper wires were so light, project leaders assumed that they would re-enter the atmosphere within several years, pushed Earthward by solar wind. Most of the needles likely met this fate. Many now lie beneath snow at the poles.
Today's #quizzytime: What do Indian and Pakistan do to each other at 3 AM which recently won them a prize?
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Ans: The governments of India and Pakistan were awarded the Ig Noble peace prize this year, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.
It began when the bell of the Indian Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan was rung at 3 am. Since the Indian side felt this was done by Pakistan's security agencies, the doorbell of the Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner in Delhi was also rung at 3 am a few days later.
Today's #quizzytime: According to legend a craftsman invented a unique material. He showed it to the Emperor who asked if anyone else knew the secret, and on hearing no - had the craftsman executed as he was afraid it would devalue gold. What was this material now lost to us?
Ans: Flexible glass is said to be a legendary lost invention dating to the reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. The glass-maker threw a glass cup with all his might on the floor & calmly picked it up showing that it was only dented, using a hammer to beat it back into shape
The glass-maker was confident that he had impressed the emperor, and was waiting to be rewarded. When the emperor asked if anybody else knew how to make this kind of flexible glass, the craftsman answered with a negative.
Today's #quizzytime: In 2017 a man sued a woman for the equivalent of 1125 Rs. for something that he felt was "a threat to civilised society". He got the money when a TV channel got involved. What was this heinous crime?
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Ans: A Texas man filed a lawsuit against a woman for the cost of a movie ticket (and pizza slice) after she texted during their cinema date. He said she walked out of the screening of Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 when he complained about her persistent phone use.
Mr Vezmar filed the petition seeking $17.31 (£13.30), arguing his date's behavior was "a threat to civilised society". Crystal Cruz initially refused to reimburse him because "he took me out on a date". However, she relented after a TV programme reunited them at the same cinema.
Today's #quizzytime: These two photos point to a very mysterious discovery made in 2004 in France. What?
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Ans: They found a secret theater in the catacombs of Paris. Officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing.
The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".
#Quizzytime: During a battle the British Admiral in charge sent a message telling the ships to retreat. Nelson put a telescope to a previously injured eye and said he did not see it- refusing to retreat. This is well known today, but not as history. How do you know this incident?
Ans: The phrase to turn a blind eye is often attributed to an incident in the life of Admiral Horatio Nelson. Nelson was blinded in one eye early in his Royal Navy career. During the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 the cautious Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, sent a signal to ..
Nelson's forces ordering them to discontinue the action via a system of flags. When this order was brought to the more aggressive Nelson's attention, he lifted his telescope up to his blind eye, saying, "I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal,"
Today's #quizzytime: If you were to moon the mom of a certain Hollywood actor, far from being offended she will tell you something interesting about yourself. Who is the actor, his mom, and what would she tell you?
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Ans: Jacqueline Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone is am astrologer, psychic and the foremost American Rumpologist. (Yes it's exactly what you're thinking). If you send her a picture of your ass and 600$ she will predict your future.
Rump reading is an art practiced in ancient Babylon, India (acc to her website), Greece, and Rome. It is the art of reading the lines, crevices, dimples, and folds of the buttocks to divine the individual's character and gain an understanding of past events and predict the future
