Hebrew Language Academy Offers Word for 'Gibberish'

The Hebrew Language Academy has provided an official Hebrew word for 'gibberish,' answering a question posed in a recent quiz. The word is 'kashkeshet' (קשקשת).

The quiz, which covered a range of trivia, included questions on music, history, science, and pop culture. Among the questions were who wrote the duet 'Islands in the Stream,' when the passenger pigeon went extinct, and the Roman numeral for XL. It also asked about the author of the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and the number of women who had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry before Ada Yonath, an Israeli scientist who passed away recently and was the only Israeli woman to win a Nobel Prize.

Other questions touched upon the Israeli scientist with over a million Instagram followers, the animal species Bonobo, Lionel Messi's World Cup appearances, the namesake of the Thelma Yellin school, the US president during the dot-com bubble, the ghosts in the video game Pac-Man, the founding of the Seleucid dynasty, and the year the Norwegian dynasty was founded.

The answers provided were: the Bee Gees for the song, 1914 for the passenger pigeon's extinction, 'H-Day' for Sweden's switch to right-side driving, forty for XL, Jeff Kinney for 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' three women before Ada Yonath for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor Yuval Noah Harari for the Instagram followers, a pygmy chimpanzee for Bonobo, six World Cups for Messi, the cellist Thelma Yellin, Bill Clinton for the dot-com bubble, Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde for the Pac-Man ghosts, 2,338 years ago for the founding of the Seleucid dynasty, and 1905 for the founding of the Norwegian dynasty.