Office Pet Peeves

National Sickie Day falls on the first ______ of February.

• Sunday

• Monday

• Wednesday

• Friday

Answer explanation

The term was first coined by law firm ELAS almost a decade ago, after the company’s absence management team noted an increase in absences on the first Monday of February.

Cheat comes from the Old French escheat, a legal term for the state taking someone's property when he or she dies without heirs. This practice was resented, and it came to mean "confiscate unfairly."

• True

• False

"Air conditioning" was coined by a Textile mill owner who uses the term "air conditioning" in a patent claim he files to describe his technique for controlling the humidity and changing the air of textile factories.

• Stuart W. Cramer

• Thomas Moore

• Fred van der Weij

• Gustaf Dalén

The Most Expensive Executive Desk costs _____. It's called the Spiral Desk From Parnian Furniture Design & Manufacturing.

• $100,000

• $150,000

• $200,000

• $250,000

_______ was the first commercial email client. Its public release was on the 4th of July, 1996. However, it wasn’t the first email management program.

• GMail

• Hotmail

• Yahoo

• Yandex

It's a disorder in which certain sounds trigger emotional or physiological responses that some might perceive as unreasonable given the circumstance.

• Cibophobia

• Methyphobia

• capnophobia

• Misophonia

Tobey Maguire played as Theodore Lindsay "Ted" Templeton Jr./The Boss Baby, an infant with the mind of an adult, who works at Baby Corp and gains his intelligence and speaking ability from drinking a "Secret Baby Formula".

• True

• False

Who's the current host of " The Late Late Show"?

• Jimmy Kimmel

• James Corden

• Trevor Noah

• Jimmy Fallon

What is a group of Mice called?

• Shoal

• Nest

• Streak

• Kennel

Who is the real father of microscope?

• Zacharias Janssen

• Robert Hooke

• Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

• Galileo Galilei