Q 01/05

Which everyday hair-care word comes from a Hindi term for pressing the muscles, and first meant to massage?

A) Shampoo

B) Pomade

C) Conditioner

D) Lather

Answer · why

A) Shampoo

Shampoo entered English in 1762 as a word for a vigorous body rub. It took about another century to mean washing the hair.

Q 02/05

Janet Travell, a pioneer of treating muscle pain, was the first female personal physician to which US president?

A) Dwight D. Eisenhower

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Harry S. Truman

D) Richard Nixon

Answer · why

B) John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy appointed her after her treatments eased the severe back pain left by his wartime injuries and surgeries.

Q 03/05

Which breakfast-cereal pioneer of the Battle Creek Sanitarium wrote The Art of Massage and patented a massage apparatus?

A) Charles William Post

B) Sylvester Graham

C) Maximilian Bircher-Benner

D) John Harvey Kellogg

Answer · why

D) John Harvey Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg filled his Michigan health resort with mechanical slapping and vibrating machines, prescribing them for anaemia and weak nerves.

Q 04/05

Which country's traditional massage, mixing acupressure with assisted yoga poses, joined UNESCO's heritage list in 2019?

A) Thailand

B) Vietnam

C) Cambodia

D) Myanmar

Answer · why

A) Thailand

Thailand teaches the art at Bangkok's Wat Pho, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, where scholars had its techniques inscribed on stone tablets in the...

Q 05/05

Petrissage and tapotement, two of the five basic strokes of classic Western massage, are named in which language?

A) Swedish

B) Latin

C) French

D) German

Answer · why

C) French

French terms were attached to the strokes in 1868 by physician Johann Georg Mezger, who also coined the phrase Swedish massage system.