FACTUAL RIDDLES XXVI

1. What's an APTONYM?

2. What's an AMANUENSIS? 

3. What is SCHADENFREUDE?

4. What are mauve, taupe, ecru, and aubergine? 

5. Which is correct: RIGAMAROLE or  RIGMAROLE?

6. What are two words that sound exactly the same but have no common letters?

7. Two famous Americans share the same name: One an architect, the other an aviator. Who are they? 

8. What are the two main branches of Islam? What is the main difference between them? 

9. What was the name of the bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb?

10. Who is officially credited as the inventor of baseball?

Answers:

1. A particularly apt given name. Example: Olympic sprinter, Usain Bolt

2. A secretary

3. Joy at the misfortune of others

4. Colors 

5. RIGMAROLE

6. YOU - EWE

7. Frank Lloyd Wright and Wilbur (or Orville) Wright 

8. Sunni and Shiite - Their main difference is their belief surrounding who should have succeeded the Prophet Muhammad in 632 A.D. 

9. Enola Gay (after the pilot's mother) 

10. Abner Doubleday