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Do YOU know your logos? Tricky quiz will test your knowledge of well-known brands from their stripped-back signs Quiz challenges you to name popular brands based on their signature logos But there’s a twist, as the 12 well known signs have been slightly disfigured Challenge will put anyone’s knowledge of signs and logos to the absolute … Read more
How good is YOUR general knowledge? Tricky multiple choice quiz tests you on geography, history and culture A tricky new Playbuzz quiz puts the nation’s general knowledge to the test Creators collated 15 multiple choice questions including history and culture Claim many fail to answer all of them correctly, despite saying it’s ‘super easy’ By … Read more
MISCELLANY UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE by Tom Standage (Economist £8.99, 272 pp) This is what Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist, calls ‘a compendium of explanations’. It’s uncommon knowledge in two senses of the word: in the normal sense of ‘rare or infrequently encountered’, and also as in the meaning ‘exceptional and extraordinary’. In short, it’s … Read more
President Trump on Friday baffled observers while touring the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, where he bragged that he had a predisposition toward science because of his ‘super genius’ uncle. ‘You know my Uncle was a great — he was at MIT,’ the president said while standing next to health officials who are … Read more
Plenty of motorists are already perplexed by the number of different dashboard warning lights that pop up on their car’s display, but there a few new ones they are going to need to get their heads around sooner or later. That’s because a number of dashboard icons are reserved only for plug-in cars that you … Read more