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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Trivia Time!! 1


Here are today's three trivia questions... Do comment the answers!!
The answers would be posted on 16th April, 2021 (Friday).
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1. Which is the longest word in English and what does it mean?

2. Which is the most populated city in the world as per 2021?

3. What is the value of pi?


Answers:

1. The longest word in English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters!
It is a technical word referring to a lung disease more commonly called silicosis.

2. The most populated city in the world as per 2021 is Tokyo with its population as almost 14 million.

3. Pi is an irrational number and its exact value isn't known to man yet! 
Its approximate value is taken as (22/7) or 3.14 only for easy mensuration calculations.

8 comments:

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    1. 2. Tokyo is the most populated city. China is the most populous country.
      3. 22/7 isn't the exact value of pi, its just an approximate value.

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  2. 1) pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    2) Tokyo
    3) 3.14
    Nice questions

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    1. Happy to know you like my work!๐Ÿ˜Š
      Your first two answers are correct! Well done๐Ÿ‘
      3) 3.14 is just the approximate value of pi.

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  3. Actually the longest word is not this...
    It is a type of protein and it's short for is Titin.
    For the longest word till now, click on the link below...

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_protologisms/Long_words/Titin

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    1. Great! Didn't know that! Because according to the Oxford Dictionary it shows that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word.

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  4. BTW, nice questions, I had to google some!

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