You’re sitting in a quiet room when, all of a sudden, your belly starts to rumble. There’s a name for that sound of liquid and gas moving through your digestive system. It’s called a borborygmus (the plural is borborygmi) and it comes from a Greek word that refers to “rumbling in the bowels,” because it sort of sounds like the rumbling in your body when you’re hungry.
Which boxer fought Muhammad Ali in the 1974 bout known as the “Rumble in the Jungle”?
A) George Foreman
B) Joe Frazier
C) Ken Norton
D) Leon Spinks
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