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- Q: Which country has the top-level domain .sa?
A: Saudi Arabia. Manager: Saudi Network Information Centre (SaudiNIC). - Q: According to the Church of England, what is legally permitted only between the hours of 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM?
A: A church wedding ceremony. While the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 changed civil laws in England and Wales to allow civil weddings to take place 24 hours a day, that statutory change did not alter ecclesiastical law. - Q: According to Mattel, what is Barbie’s last name?
A: Roberts, making her full name Barbara Millicent Roberts. - Q: All PCs have a BIOS. What does BIOS stand for?
A: Basic Input/Output System. It runs a test called a POST (Power-On Self-Test) to ensure hardware like the RAM, CPU, and keyboard work properly, finds your main drive and hands control over to your operating system, like Windows or macOS. - Q: On what can you see Lenny Bruce, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Marx, and H. G. Wells?
A: album cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. These historical figures are all part of the crowded collage of faces standing behind the band. - Q: Which German health and beauty brand derives its name from Latin for as snow-white?
A: Nivea. The name was chosen in 1911 because of the pure, snow-white colour of their newly invented water-and-oil moisturising cream emulsion. - Q: According to the traditional nursery rhyme, on what day of the week did Solomon Grundy die?
A: Saturday. Monday: Born, Tuesday: Christened, Wednesday: Married, Thursday: Took ill, Friday: Grew worse, Saturday: Died, Sunday: Buried. - Q: What is the only day of the week in English that kept its original Roman name from a classical planet?
A: Saturday. While the Anglo-Saxons renamed the other English weekdays after Germanic and Norse gods (like Tuesday for Tiw and Wednesday for Woden), Saturday kept its direct Roman planetary designation because there was no direct Germanic equivalent for the god Saturn. - Q: What do “dasypygal” people have?
A: Hairy buttocks. The word is derived from the Ancient Greek roots dasús (meaning hairy, shaggy, or dense) and pugē (meaning rump or buttocks). - Q: Defecolagnia is sexual arousal derived from the act of what?
A: Defecation (having a bowel movement). An intense and persistent sexual interest, urge, fantasy, or behaviour where an individual experiences sexual pleasure or excitement from either their own bowel movements or witnessing someone else’s.