Is It, or Isn't It? Trivia Quiz

Answer: No

Coffee is made from a seed. Yes! Coffee is made from roasted coffee "beans", which are the seeds of berries from the genus Coffea which is native to Ethiopia and Sudan. Now produced in 70 near equatorial countries, coffee berries are plucked, processed, and dried.

These dried coffee seeds, now called beans, are roasted then ground and brewed with near-boiling water to produce coffee as we know it.

Answer: No

Sushi translates as "sour-tasting". Sushi is a Japanese dish of vinegared rice mixed with some sugar and salt, and combined with a variety of ingredients such as seafood and vegetables. Western versions include meat and fruit. Styles of sushi and its presentation are widely varied but the key ingredient is "sushi rice". Sushi in contemporary usage has lost its original context.

Answer: No

Caffeine does have a slight diuretic effect. That is, it causes you to lose water. However the water loss is less than the amount of water the caffeine is dissolved in (cola drinks, coffee tea and the like).
Caffeinated drinks can cause headaches and insomnia in some but not all people. Also, if you're pregnant, high caffeine consumption increases the risk of preterm birth or miscarriage.
Even in chocolate bars the water content of the chocolate offsets the effect of the caffeine

Answer: Yes

The First "Star Wars" (later "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope") movie was released in October 1977.
Capital punishment in France was banned by Article 66-1 of the Constitution of the French Republic on 19 February 2007 but the death penalty was declared illegal on 9 October 1981 by President Mitterand. Up to 1981, the French penal code prescribed
Article 12: "Any person sentenced to death shall have his head cut off."
Article 13: "By exception to article 12, when the death penalty is handed down for crimes against the safety of the State, execution shall take place by firing squad."
Used since the French Revolution, the last execution was by guillotine on Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian citizen convicted murder in France, was put to death in September 1977 in Marseilles.

Answer: Yes

You only get points for this question if you answered the question BEFORE you tried it!
A hum is a sound made by making a voiceless tone, forcing the sound to emerge from the nose.
Many social animals produce indistinct sounds (like humming) when they are participating in daily activities. These sounds let others in the group members know that they are part of the group and there is no danger; if there are any signs of danger an animal stops moving, and ceases producing sounds.
Other animals follow suit and soon all the group is silent and is looking for potential danger. Extrapolating, for humans, as social animals, silence can be a danger sign. Hence humming and by extension, singing, relaxes humans.

Answer: Yes

Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun. It was discovered in 1930 and became a dwarf planet in 2006, a period of 76 years when it would have made one third of an orbit around the sun. Unlike the eight solar planets that have almost circular orbits, Pluto's is elliptical. Between 1979, and 1999, Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune, the eighth planet.

Answer: A banana is a berry. A strawberry is not

A strawberry isn't a true berry. Neither is a raspberry or a blackberry. Most people think of berries as small, pulpy fruit that can be picked off a plant, but classification is complex, Three layers are necessary: the exocarp (outer skin), mesocarp (flesh in the middle) and endocarp (innermost section, which is the seed-holder). The same layered structure appears in other berries, including the banana, watermelon, eggplant, grape and orange. Their exocarps are tougher and thicker, taking the form of a peel or a rind.
Note that a strawberry has its seeds on the outside.
Also bananas do not grow on trees but they grow on giant herbs.

Answer: Yes

Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, typically portrayed as a personified egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The rhyme dates back to the 18th Century at least. The absence of physical description may have been because the character may have been prescribed as a riddle.

A popular theory is the character is King Richard III of England who is depicted as humpbacked in history and especially in Shakespeare's play. This king was defeated at Bosworth Field in 1485.

Answer: No

Depending on the version used, in Genesis 2:16-17, the so called "apple" is "fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil". Apple is not prescribed. Given that apples grow in more temperate climates than the Middle East where the Garden of Eden was, the "apple" was likely to have been a pomegranate. In some Bible versions (Genesis 30:14), the Hebrew word for mandrakes dudaim is translatable as "love apples".

In Proverbs 25:11, we can observe, "a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver".

The phrase 'the apple of your eye' is seen in Deuteronomy 32:10, Psalm 17:8 Proverbs 7:2, and Zechariah 2:8.

Answer: No

The water loss (dehydration) of the body after death causes retraction of the skin including around hair and nails. This creates an illusion that both have grown.
Most of our cells lose their form and die within a few hours to a few days.Skin cells last the longest as they have contact with the external environment. As such they will extract all that they can from the air through osmosis postponing cell death. This process ensures skin cells stay alive for several days after the body begins to die.