Quizzing isn’t for everyone, they say. A fair assessment given how scared and conscious people get when asked questions without any context. Nobody wants to be in a place where they are not in command. Besides, what’s the point of knowing who was Time magazine’s couple (Mr. & Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek) of the year in 1937? But then, some of us don’t aim to know something with a fixed return in sight. We read about and learn utterly useless pieces of information, for the sake of knowing. It gives me a strange but valid calmnesss to be aware of my own failures when compared to the age (25) at which Napolean conquered Italy. Or how cassowaries are a living proof that dinosaurs once roamed this planet, not very differently—in manner—from the chickens we relish. Or why v is the only English letter that doesn’t stay silent in any of the thousands of words used. And, for good measure, when exactly the Church replicated the Caliphate in banning chess (too distracting, apparently). Many such tiny explosions of recorded facts and debatable truths.
Some of the better questions (Part 1)
Some of the better questions (Part 1)
Some of the better questions (Part 1)
Quizzing isn’t for everyone, they say. A fair assessment given how scared and conscious people get when asked questions without any context. Nobody wants to be in a place where they are not in command. Besides, what’s the point of knowing who was Time magazine’s couple (Mr. & Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek) of the year in 1937? But then, some of us don’t aim to know something with a fixed return in sight. We read about and learn utterly useless pieces of information, for the sake of knowing. It gives me a strange but valid calmnesss to be aware of my own failures when compared to the age (25) at which Napolean conquered Italy. Or how cassowaries are a living proof that dinosaurs once roamed this planet, not very differently—in manner—from the chickens we relish. Or why v is the only English letter that doesn’t stay silent in any of the thousands of words used. And, for good measure, when exactly the Church replicated the Caliphate in banning chess (too distracting, apparently). Many such tiny explosions of recorded facts and debatable truths.