1. What is the most translated book in the world after the bible?
2. In hinduism, what is the "godhead" called?
3. For whom the bell tolls is an allusion to lines from what poem?
4. In what year was the first telephone cable completed across the Atlantic Ocean?
5. What word means the art of collecting ties?
6. According to the Koran, how many times a day should one pray?

#1. The Bhagavad-Gita

#2. Hari or Krsna.

#3. 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions', John Donne. (1623)

#4. The first transatlantic cable was completed on July 29, 1858. It worked for one month before breaking down.

#6. 5 times a day.

5- grabatology

Where did you find that Makebeleaffan? I looked everywhere I could think of and couldn't find it. good one.

I found this too for #1

Don Quixote http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~slenzo/files/yd2ktrivia.html

I also found your answer too, Spak,
The Bhagavad-Gita
Talia: I wonder if we should write and ask them about it; I've written before and received an answer once or twice, but I think they are tired of me disputing them

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All,

On #5 grabatology: I did some reason on this a few months ago and did not find the word in any dictionary (That includes Oxford Unabridged and some very recent unabridged dictionaries). My conclusion is that someone made this up and posted it on a trivia site.

If anyone can document that it is a real word, that is, published with that meaning other than on a web trivia site, I'd like to have the citation.

Cordially,

Russ

P.S. Tonight I'm visiting the site from my sister's home in Upstate N.Y.

I couldn't find 'grabatology' in any dictionary searches either. Although this site lists it as the word for a person who collects ties. http://www.absolutelycollegiate.com/HomePage/facts.htm

[This message has been edited by spak (edited 07-23-2000).]

On the subject of tie collecting,I asked this question a few months ago. Grabatology was indeed suggested but I believe that the correct name is based on the Latin word for a noose. Go search Latin dictioneries!

All,

I'm back home after two months of almost continuous travel, so here's my first input:

Tiffield suggests looking in a Latin dictionary. I have one. Here's what I found:

1. The only Latin word that begins with "grab" is "grabatus - A low couch, a camp-bed." Thus, the root is not Latin.

2. The Latin word for "noose" is "laqueus," thus there is no Latin relationship to the word.

My conclusion remains: Someone made this up.

Of course if we get it published in a magazine or book, then we would have coined it and it becomes a word. But I don't care for it as the term because it has no relation to the subject.

If we want to make up a word, let's try "laquetology." But even that is not very good as that could be "the study of nooses."

Cordially,

Russ