Fascinating Facts and Knowledge Nuggets: A Quick Read
Join us on our Quiz of the Day adventure, where every question uncovers fascinating facts and delivers bite-sized knowledge nuggets just for you! Ready to dive into the answers from this week’s exciting lineup of questions? Let’s explore what you’ve learned!
Quiz 1 : What is Orthorexia?
Ans. Orthorexia nervosa is perhaps best summarized as an obsession with healthy eating with associated restrictive behaviors. However, the attempt to attain optimum health through attention to diet may lead to malnourishment, loss of relationships, and poor quality of life.
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Quiz 2: What happened to Comedian?
The artwork ‘Comedian’ by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun bought this artwork for 6.2 million dollars and did what with it?
Ans. He ate it.
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Quiz 3: Which languages are spoken by the majority of the population in Argentina and Brazil?
Ans. Spanish is spoken by the majority of the population in Argentina and Portuguese by the majority of the population in Brazil.
Quiz 4: What is the Richter scale?
Ans. The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale or Richter’s magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes.
Charles Richter, in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, developed this scale and presented it in Richter’s landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the “magnitude scale”.
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Quiz 5: Where do you expect to find the Sargasso Sea?
Ans. The Sargasso Sea is a large, open ocean area in the Atlantic Ocean that is defined by ocean currents and is unique in several ways unlike other seas, the Sargasso Sea has no land boundaries. The Sargasso Sea is named after the genus of free-floating seaweed called Sargassum that gives the sea its characteristic brown colour.
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Quiz 6: Name the space craft which has come closest to the Sun, ever?
Ans. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. On Christmas Eve in 2024, the car-sized spacecraft came within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface marking humanity’s closest approach ever.
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Quiz 7: What is the Tibetan name of the river Brahmaputra?
Ans. Yarlung Zangbo
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