Crossed Hemispheres Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

Philately means the study of stamps. Most casual stamp collectors just collect stamps without bothering about minor details, which is not the same as philately. Philatelists may or may not collect stamps, but they study stamps--their histories and the like.

Answer: The North Pole

It may sound strange, but it's true. While conditions like frostbite can happen, it is nearly impossible to catch a cold in the North Pole. This is because it is too cold in the North Pole's winter for the cold virus and bacteria to survive.

Answer: A language

Ubykh was once spoken by about 50,000 people in The Crimea. The Ubykh people migrated to Turkey in the 1860s and took their language along with them. By 1982, only one man spoke it and he was 84 years old. He died in 1992, taking his knowledge of the language to his grave with him.

Answer: Baseball

The term originated in the United States of America, as early as 1848. The baseball parks were often designed so that the afternoon or evening sun did not shine in the players' eyes. That way, the left-handed pitchers could throw with their south side arm.

Answer: Angus Fraser

Fraser was the only one born in England, in Lancashire, in 1965. Caddick was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1968 and began playing for England in 1993. He played test cricket for ten years, ending his career in 2003, his last opponents being Australian. Bob Woolmer was born in 1948 in Kanpur, India.

He tragically died at the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies. He was Pakistan's coach at that time. Nasser Hussain was born in Madras (now Chennai), India in 1968 and became England's captain in 1999 and held that post till 2003, retiring from test cricket in 2004.

Answer: Sheep

A sheep named Dolly was the first animal to be cloned. Dolly was cloned by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dolly was born on 5 July 1996, but sadly died on 14 February 2003 due to a lung disease. After Dolly, several attempts had been made to clone animals but many died before birth or soon after birth.

The cloned animals were many a times found to be born with severe abnormalities.

Answer: Brazil

Capoeira is primarily a martial art that is of Brazilian origin. Besides being of Brazilian origin, it also has African roots. It involves difficult gymnastic moves used in fighting and self defence. Because African slaves in Brazil were forbidden to fight, they disguised the Capoeira training to make the moves look like a dance.

Answer: Chewing gum

A pack of Wrigley's chewing gum was the first bar coded item to be sold in 1974.
Bar codes were first received with slow acceptance. Even the creators of bar codes, Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland, felt that the idea would not catch on.

Answer: Istanbul

The city of Istanbul in Turkey lies in the two continents of Europe and Asia. The city is split between Europe and Asia by a narrow channel called the Bosporus. Ankara is the capital of Turkey and it belongs to the Asian part of Turkey. Muscat is the capital of Oman, and Oman is on the southeast coast of the Arabian peninsula, far away from Europe. Damascus is the Syrian capital, and Syria borders Turkey in the south.

Answer: True

Indeed, Budapest is actually split across the Danube River. On one bank of the river is the old royal capital filled with ancient buildings. Across the water lies the heart of modern business and political life, where government buildings are found.