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I knew that French fries were not invented in France. Others I didn't. McDonald's left Sri Lanka last year after some dispute with the local agent.

I knew 2,3,4,6, and Jim Carrey only in 7. So that's half a mark. I knew all Greek gods. I knew the answer for q6 from some online work I used to do. I used to write reviews about online slot machines for some very famous online slot websites. lol. There were a few slot machines with the Toucan...

This is a hard question to answer. :) What some people talk about today is that Robert Knox reported the locals to have certain virtues but they don't seem to have them today. e.g. "Of all Vices they are least addicted to stealing, the which they do exceedingly hate and abhor, so that there are...

Robert Knox's book "An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon" is a source of information about colonial Sri Lanka. Today people quote from it to show how resourceful Sri Lankans were yet how foolishly they acted about their own culture. Robert Knox's life in Sri Lanka also gave the idea for...

I knew 3 and 6.

I knew q4.

I scored for q1 and q3. q1 I just guessed, my first guess, within seconds! lol.

Thanks Lee, Yes now it's back, this is a tough island to live on.

I knew 3,4,7,8,10. 4 I got from the word "myco" because many cream tubes prescribed for fungi start with myco. 10 I guessed based on Mongolia is part of China, and if China celebrates something Mongolia should do too.

Power cut from 11 am. For the whole island! The reason authorities give is that a monkey had fallen on a power cable somewhere in Colombo suburbs. But I don't buy it, honestly, because they can just turn off that transformer and reconnect the rest of the country. Until around 7pm that too! lol.

I am going to. Research was published just 3 days ago, so I still didn't get a chance. I must wait for the new gas fill because the current cylinder is running very low I think.

The bold text in the first two lines sum it up. The rest is the longer version of it. lol.

"A small amount of alcohol on a scorpion will drive it insane and cause it to sting itself to death." I read that this is a myth. Didn't get a chance to experiment though. There's no alcohol when I see a scorpion, and there's no scorpion when I have alcohol. :D

I knew 2 and 4.

A group of Italian scientists have concluded in a research that the best way to boil an egg to the perfect texture takes 32 minutes. It's done by placing the egg in boiling water and cold water alternately, 2 minutes in each. ++++++++++++ https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00334-w...

"We will decide on the content of your email after a comprehensive deliberation, and get back to you." That's one way of buying time 😅

I knew q3. One of my all-time favourite quotes is from Christopher Marlow's Doctor Faustus: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss."

I knew 4&7. In that Olympics Susanthika Jayasinghe, a Sri Lankan girl, won the bronze medal for 200m. The medal got upgraded to silver after Marion Jones was stripped of her medals. It was one of the only 2 Olympic medals Sri Lanka has ever won, and the latest, after Duncan White's silver medal...

I knew 3&7.