Today's #quizzytime: Which of these dry fruits could be considered 'non-veg' and why? Ans: Figs. While figs are treated as a fruit, they are actually inverted flowers, and their pollination process is actually quite a tragic story for fig wasps. A female wasp crawls inside the fig, but the opening is so small, it destroys her wings.

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?
Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

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

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?
Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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

Today's #quizzytime: Which Bengali gentleman was probably the person to popularize erotic entertainment for women worldover?
Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

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,

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.
Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

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?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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

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.

Quiz ends at 2. we will be taking 'gif' off the table. Not the correct answer

Today's #quizzytime : Who hatched a plan to stop the Earth from rotating?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

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?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

Today's #quizzytime: In 2014, the US government unintentionally kick-started a man's modelling career. How?

quiz ends at 2 pm . google if you like. 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.

Today's #quizzytime: What sound is highly effective in scaring away Somalian pirates?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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

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?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

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?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

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?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

Today's #quizzytime: What do Indian and Pakistan do to each other at 3 AM which recently won them a prize?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

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

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?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

Today's #quizzytime: These two photos point to a very mysterious discovery made in 2004 in France. What?

Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like. 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.

#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 ..