Is it Left or Right? Trivia Quiz

Answer: right

Although a former British colony, Canadians have been driving on the right since the 1920s.

Answer: left

Girl Guides shake their left hands while making the Girl Scout sign with their right hand. The left handshake symbolizes friendship because the left hand is closer to the heart.

Answer: right

Ancient ships had a steering oar on the right side of the ship rather than a centrally placed rudder. The word "starboard" comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for this side steering oar "steorbord" meaning "the side on which a vessel is steered".

Answer: right

The right hand is symbolically the hand of power and authority and therefore is of higher status. It is believed that power comes from the right hand of God. Ex15:6 "Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy"

Answer: left

This preference seems to date back to early civilizations which closely followed the directions and motions of the sun. The sun would rise in the east for societies in the northern hemisphere, and, if one was facing the sun at that time, the sun would swing right and southwards before setting in the west.

Therefore, by observing the direction of the sun, many cultures began to link the right side (east and south) with warmth and light while the left side was given the cold north and west - places where the sunlight either ended or never reached as strongly.

Answer: right

Back in Anglo-Saxon England, there was always a danger that kidnappers would abscond with the bride to steal her dowry. Therefore, the groom would stand to the right of the bride to keep his sword arm free. As a result of this tradition, the groom's guests would sit on the right side and the bride's on the left.

Answer: left

Graduation tassels hang to the right and are then moved to the left immediately upon receiving one's diploma or degree. This process symbolizes one's transition from student to graduate, a new passage in life.

Answer: right

If a man is itching on the right palm (left palm for woman) it is an omen that he will get unexpected monetary gain or favors.

Answer: left

The Incas thought left-handers were capable of healing and that they possessed magical abilities. One of their early monarchs, Llloque Yapanqui, was known as the "Unforgettable Left-handed One."

Answer: right

An established principle in sharee'ah: the right hand is used for clean practices like eating and shaking hands whereas the left hand is considered unclean, and is used for personal hygiene after going to the bathroom. Moreover, Muslims attribute the practice to the Prophet who commanded his people to eat with their right hands and forbade them to eat with their left hands.

He said "The Shaytaan (a devil) eats with his left hand and drinks with his left hand".