My Lips are Sealed! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Old English

Mwuuaah. The word 'kiss' comes from the Old English word, 'cyssan'. It is an onomatopoeic word because it is derived from the sound which is produced when two people kiss.

Answer: Biting off parts of each other

A very passionate kiss between two South Pacific Trobriand Islanders usually ends with each of them biting each others eyelashes (and then choking to death). The shorter the eyelashes, the more popular you are but truly a painful way of becoming popular.

Answer: x

Those little 'x's put at the end of letters and emails depict a kiss because it's shape represents two lips making contact. Another theory says that in older days, illiterate people used to put a cross in place of signature and kissed the place to show sincerity and affection.(But why maths teachers feel the need to put all those kisses on their pupil's work is unknown. Guesses?)

Answer: Devil's bottom

To be declared 100% gross and completely evil, medieval witches supposedly needed to kiss Devil's bottom as a part of their training. It is also known as Osculum Infame or Shameful Kiss. It is exactly the opposite of human kissing as they kiss the 'other mouth'.

Answer: Bride

The wedding kiss is believed to have its roots in Roman times when kisses signified an end of a contract. Though not necessary, but it is a delightful way of making a happy start to a wonderful life ahead.

Answer: Tsonga People

The Europeans arrived in the Tsonga's lands in Mozambique in the early twentieth century. When the native people saw first Europeans kissing in 1927, they were genuinely disgusted, and were reported as saying, 'Look at these people! They suck each other! They eat each other's saliva and dirt!' (according to Karen Harvey's "The Kiss in History").

Answer: Pins

When the first steam trains began operating in Britain, women were advised to put pins between their lips so that strange men didn't try to kiss them when trains passed through tunnels.

Note: Do not try this at home.

Answer: 6th July

6th July was first selected as the national kiss day in Britain before subsequently being declared worldwide as International Kissing day. But the king of all, the day of love, 14th February is celebrated worldwide as Valentine's Day.

Answer: Philematology

Philematology is particularly studied as a branch of psychology and athropology. Some famous philematologists include Ernest Crawley, Charles Darwin and Edward Burnett Tylor. Studies of kissing have helped to demonstrate both the physical and mental health benefits from human kissing as well as examine the role of the kiss among other animal species

Answer: Don Juan

The film 'Don Juan' had the distinction of having most number of screen kisses between co-stars John Barrymore and Mary Astor. It had a whopping 127 number of kisses. 'Kiss' as the name suggests has a distinction of having the longest screen kiss. Films 'Murder' and 'Kamasutra' were based around coitus rather than kissing.