Social Science Questions & Answers

Nerve endings are what makes us feel ticklish. Our feet have the most nerve endings – so they’re the most ticklish of all!

The word ‘crustacean’ comes from the Latin crusta meaning a hard covering shell or crust. Apart from crabs, lobsters and shrimps, there are thousands of different crustaceans. They live in the sea, except for a few species such as the common woodlouse. Crustaceans differ greatly in size and shape. Many of them pass through remarkable changes of form (metamorphoses) before …

A female cat can be in season five times a year. It is only during these periods, which last about five days each, that the cat is fertile. Her mating call is a shrill caterwauling. The domestic cat, as a rule, goes in season for the first time between the ages of seven and twelve months. Her pregnancy generally lasts …

Daily soaps are a take-off from opera shows in South America, which were sponsored by soap manufacturers. They were then known as ‘soap operas’ – these inspired daily television shows, known as ‘daily soaps’ .

The roundness of an egg allows pressure to be applied from the outside which would break it if applied from the inside. Thus a helpless chick is protected until the moment it needs to break out from its shell. It can then do this with the gentlest of tapping. Eggs are hatched by an adult bird sitting on them, and …

Randall Rose and Stacy Wood, professors of marketing in the university of South Carolina, who have done research on the popularity of reality TV, say that the viewers’ desire to blend fact with fantasy can be a reason for the popularity of this genre of TV. The show’s popularity persists because the viewing experience is inherently different from that of …

The hill girls, Mildred and Patty, wrote “Good Morning to You” in 1893. The song was not a big hit until someone changed the words at a birthday party. Nobody knows who actually manipulated the words. But for birthdays, not many but four words is the all you need: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!“

The author responsible for this phenomenal output was Mrs Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie. She was born in Torquay and during the first world War she took a job as a hospital dispenser. While she carried out her duties, she learned much about various deadly poisons and the knowledge she gained was to stand her in good stead when, after the …

The Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the best feature film at the annual Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organizing committee, and the first was awarded to director Delbert Martin Mann Jr for his film “Marty”. The Palme d’Or was established as the film festival’s highest award until …

Wee folk refers to fairies and their kind. Medieval theologians suggest that wee folk may be a special group of demoted angels, spirits of the dead or fallen angels. Ancient texts say the entities are of a middle nature, i.e., between humans and angels, and that they can inter-marry with humans and bear half-human children. The consistent factor in all …