Rejuvenation Treatment Trivia Quiz

Answer: Russia

Finland has borders with three countries; Sweden to the west; Norway to the north, and Russia to the east. The border with Russia is the longest, 1,340 kilometers. Finland has two tripoints, one to the west, where Sweden, Norway and Finland meet, and another one to the east, where Finland, Norway and Russia meet.

The western tripoint is marked by a three-country-cairn, called Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki in Finnish, Treriksrřysa in Norwegian, Treriksröset in Swedish and Golmma riikka urna in Sami.

The eastern tripoint is marked by another cairn on the Muotkavaara Hill and it is only accessible from the Norwegian side since both the Finnish and the Russian borders are no man's land for the public.

Answer: Q and Y

The Braille system allows blind and visually impaired people to read and write through the sense of touch and a combination of raised dots that represent letters, numbers, symbols and whole phrases. It was developed by Frenchman Louis Braille in the 1820s and at first it involved only the French language. Nowadays, the Braille system is available in many languages and has special electronic applications for its wider use. The Braille system uses a "cell" of six dots organized in a 2x3 grid. The first ten letters of the English alphabet use combinations of the top four dots, the next ten letters add another dot and the next six add the sixth dot.

The numbers are made by using the symbol for "number" and a combination of the first ten letters.

In this context, the letters q and y are the only letters in the braille alphabet that are made with five dots; the letter a is made with one dot and the letter b with two dots.

Answer: PA

The Library of Congress is the official library of the American Congress and the de facto National Library of the United States. It serves the research needs of the Congress but also aspires to address the general public with its vast pool of information in books, manuscripts, recordings, newspapers, magazines, publications, photographs and maps.

It is considered one of the largest libraries of the world and its contents come from all over the world and more than 450 languages. Its classification system was developed especially for the Library of Congress and uses the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Therefore, in Class P - Language and Literature, Subclass PA includes Greek and Latin Language and Literature, PD is Germanic and Scandinavian Languages, PJ is Oriental Languages and Literature and PQ is French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature.

Answer: True

A light-year is a unit of distance which measures astronomical distances. It measures the distance light travels in a vacuum in one earth year, that is in 365.25 days. In 1838, the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel measured for the first time the distance between earth and a star other than the Sun, specifically the distance from the binary star 61 Cygni.

He measured that distance as 10.3 light-years. This measurement provided time-relevance; for example, if we know that 61 Cygni is 10.3 light-years from Earth it means that we always see the star as it was ten years ago.

This attribute of the light-year often leads to the confusion that it measures time and not distance. A few interesting examples of light-year distances are: Earth to the Moon is 1.3 light seconds, Earth to the Sun is 8.3 light minutes, Earth to Alpha Centauri (closest star other than the Sun) is 4.4 light years and earth to the Andromeda galaxy (closest galaxy to the Milky Way) is 2.5 million light years.

Answer: 44

The International Telecommunications Union is a United Nations agency responsible for all matters that involve telecommunications between nations and any type of information or technology that pertains to communications. It is based in Geneva, Switzerland and its parent organization is the United Unions Economic and Social Council, one of the six principal organs of the UN.

The country calling codes are number prefixes that enable telecommunications by "international direct dialing" between countries.

A double 0 or a plus sign (+) usually prefixes the country code which can be either one, two, or three digits. To dial a British number one needs to dial +44. The number for Greece is +30, for Germany +49, and for Japan +81.

Answer: Georges Pompidou

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (1911 - 1974) was a French politician and the President of France between 1969 and his death, in 1974. He had also served as premier of the Fifth French Republic from 1962 to 1968. A brilliant teacher, he worked on many state initiatives on education until he met Charles De Gaulle and became a close friend, advisor and head of General De Gaulle's Private Office.

He had a paramount role in the negotiations for the independence of Algeria as De Gaulle's unofficial spokesperson.

After De Gaulle's resignation in 1969 and the following June elections Georges Pompidou became President of the French Republic. In 1973 Pompidou was diagnosed with Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia, a type of cancer, and he died in 1974 while still in office.

The high-tech arts and culture center in the Beaubourg Area of Paris built in the early 1970s by architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano was named the Pompidou Center (Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in French) in his honor. French President Sadi Carnot also died while in office, assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Lyon in 1894.

Answer: 303

In the U.S., Canada, and France a centillion is a number that constitutes one (1) followed by 303 zeros. In Great Britain and Germany, a centillion is one (1) followed by 600 zeros. The centillion belongs to the large numbers. These are numbers above the trillion used mainly in science computations and almost never in everyday life.

The largest such number ending in -illion is the centillion and it derives from the Latin words centum (100) and the back-formation -illion which in turn comes from the ending of million.

In everyday language use a centillion, or any number more than a trillion, like a zillion, gazillion, etc., is used for emphasis, to indicate a grossly large number.

Answer: Words a foot and a half long

The word sesquipedalia comes from the Latin words "sesqui" meaning "one and a half" and "ped, pes" meaning "foot." The Latin word "verba" means word. The expression comes from Horace's work "Ars Poetica," a 1st century BCE poetic work in the form of an epistle, a letter, in which Horace gives advice to poets and writers on the art of writing poetry.

In an excerpt from this work, he describes how an author "proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba" ("he holds out his holy-oil ampoules and his foot-and-a-half-long words") which is a metaphor for the needlessly pretentious and elaborate words and style in writing.

Answer: Dollar

All these countries share the name "dollar" as their currency. The word "dollar" comes from the Early Flemish word "daler" which comes from the German "thaler," short for Joachimsthaler, a coin that comes from the silver mine of Joachimsthal (Joachim's valley), present-day Jáchymov in the Czech Republic.

A coin named "daalder" was introduced to the New World by Dutch immigrants in the 17th century and it was favorably used as the currency in North America because it did not have a connection to the British or the British money.

In 1786 it was adopted as a unit by the Continental Congress. Nowadays more than 20 countries worldwide use the name "dollar" for their currency.

Answer: False

The "Anemoi" (winds) are the ancient Greek wind gods. Each of them is named according to the cardinal direction it blows from, and seasonal or weather phenomena. The main winds are four, as many as the cardinal directions; Boreas (North) and god of winter, Zephyrus (West), god of the spring, Notus (South) god of the summer and Eurus (East), god of the fall and bringer of storms. They are the sons of Eos, goddess of the dawn, and Astraeus, god of dusk. Lesser winds are Kaikias (NE), Apeliotes (SE), Lips (SW) and Skiron (NW).
In the works of Homer, the god Aeolus controls the winds from his home on the floating island of Aeolia, recognized as one of the Lipari islands in Sicily. When Odysseus left the island of Polyphemus, Aeolus gave him a favorable wind to lead him home and contained the rest of the winds in a sack which he gave him with the instructions to let the winds free once he arrived to Ithaca. His crew believed that the god had given Odysseus a treasure and opened the bag letting all the winds out and creating a roaring storm which took Odysseus even further away from home.
Hephaestus is an Olympian god, son of Zeus and Hera, who controls fire and volcanoes.