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The basics

In touch typing, the left index finger rests on which key?

AnswerF

The home row puts the left index on F and the right on J.

What is another name for the square knot?

AnswerReef knot

Sailors call the square knot a reef knot.

Going deeper

Who popularized the 10,000-hour rule in the book Outliers?

AnswerMalcolm Gladwell

Gladwell popularized it in 2008.

What is the basic three-ball juggling pattern called?

AnswerCascade

The three-ball cascade is the first pattern most jugglers learn.

Who created the Pomodoro Technique?

AnswerFrancesco Cirillo

Francesco Cirillo developed it in the late 1980s.

Expert level

The Pomodoro Technique is named after what?

AnswerA tomato-shaped kitchen timer

Pomodoro is Italian for tomato.

Who described the forgetting curve?

AnswerHermann Ebbinghaus

Ebbinghaus studied memory decay in the 1880s.

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