Q 01/05

Stephen Hawking ran his speech-generating device in later life by twitching which part of his body?

A) His eyebrow

B) His cheek

C) His thumb

D) His jaw

Answer · why

B) His cheek

His cheek took over in 2005, once he had lost the use of the hand that used to press a switch. Each small movement picked words on a screen at a rate ...

Q 02/05

Which Looney Tunes character, long voiced by Mel Blanc, closes cartoons with a stuttered farewell?

A) Bugs Bunny

B) Daffy Duck

C) Porky Pig

D) Sylvester

Answer · why

C) Porky Pig

Porky Pig got his stutter from his first voice actor, Joe Dougherty, who really did stutter. Recording sessions ran so long that the studio replaced h...

Q 03/05

Which British king turned to speech therapist Lionel Logue for help with a severe stammer?

A) Edward VII

B) George V

C) Edward VIII

D) George VI

Answer · why

D) George VI

George VI engaged Logue in 1926, while still Duke of York, after a speech at Wembley became an ordeal for him and his listeners. Their work together i...

Q 04/05

American Sign Language is most closely related to the sign language of which European country?

A) France

B) Britain

C) Germany

D) Italy

Answer · why

A) France

France is the link: Laurent Clerc, who taught in the sign language of Paris, co-founded the first American school for the deaf in 1817. British signer...

Q 05/05

Which horseshoe-shaped bone is the only one in the human body not connected to any other?

A) Vomer

B) Stapes

C) Hyoid

D) Patella

Answer · why

C) Hyoid

Hyoid is the name of the floating bone, held between the chin and the thyroid cartilage by muscles and ligaments alone. It rises and moves forward wit...