Trivia Time 5!!

 'Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe!'

Take the great inventor of the light bulb - Thomas Edison for example:

When a reporter asked him, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?"

To this, Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

Welcome back to my blog my trivia-buddies! Here are today's three trivia questions for you to reason on... And, as mentioned - Success is built on failures! So, do comment your answers too!

All the best!👍

1. What is the largest desert on earth?

2. Our bodies need iron! Where in the body is most of the iron found?

3. Which is the strongest fundamental force in the universe?

Answers

1. The Antarctic Desert is the largest desert on earth spread over 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles)! 98% of Antarctica is covered in ice!

➪Deserts aren't always those with really high temperatures. Deserts are characterised by aridity, extremes of temperature (either very high or very low), and high wind velocity.

2. Most of the iron in our body is present in the Red Blood Cells (RBCs) of our blood! A pigment called haemoglobin is mainly responsible for giving our blood the red colour and this haemoglobin constitutes most of the iron of our body! This iron-constituting pigment is responsible to the transport of oxygen from the lungs to all the tissues of the body.

➪Myoglobin is one more iron-and-oxygen binding protein found in the skeletal muscular tissue of our body and is distantly related to haemoglobin. It functions as an oxygen-storage unit, providing oxygen to the working muscles.

➪Small amounts of iron are also present in the immunocytes that are essential for the activation and proliferation of the immune cells.

➪Iron is also found in the liver as it performs a major role in iron homeostasis. It is the main organ for the production of the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin.

➪Iron is also stored in the form of ferritin and hemosiderin in the bone marrow, spleen, deodenum and other anatomic areas of the body.

3. Strong Nuclear Force is the strongest fundamental force in nature. It is the force that binds the fundamental particles of matter together to form larger particles. It holds together the quarks that make up protons and neutrons, and part of the strong force also keeps the protons and neutrons of an atom's nucleus together. The strong nuclear force is 6 x 10^39 times stronger than the gravitational force of the earth!

The strongest power of mankind is knowledge!

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