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09/18/2010 01:22:18 PM · #1 |
Ok -- here's today's super quiz!!
FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. Which mammal lives the longest?
Answer hefalump
2. What would you measure with a pedometer?
Answer___distance walked_____
3. For what is As the chemical symbol?
Answer___arsenic_____
4. For what does the computer term RAM stand?
Answer____random acess memory____
5. Sharks have eyelids but they do not ___.
Answer_____blink___
GRADUATE LEVEL
6. What does neuroscience study?
Answer___the nervous system_____
7. Where in the human body would you find the scaphoid bone?
Answer____knee____
8. Read the formula in English: e=mc2.
Answer_____energy is equal to mass times the square of a constant___
9. Term for sciencelike activities that are based on false assumptions.
Answer____mythology (heh)____
10. What is a leveret?
Answer___baby hare_____
PH.D. LEVEL
11. Name a cetacean mammal.
Answer______dolphin__
12. This branch of anthropology deals with the distribution and characteristics of human racial groups.
Answer____don't know____
13. Popular term for the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Answer___ceta_____
14. What does the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) collide?
Answer___sub-atomic particles_____
15. What is the lightest metal under standard conditions?
Answer___aluminium_____
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09/18/2010 01:25:52 PM · #2 |
My answer set:
1. Homo sapiens
2. Steps, paces, distance walked
3. Arsenic
4. Random Access Memory
5. Sleep
6. Nervous system
7. Neck
8. Energy is equal to mass times the square of the speed of light (celeritas)
9. Pataphysics
10. PASS
11. Blue Whale
12. Ethnology
13. CERN
14. Protons
15. Hydrogen or Lithium |
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09/18/2010 01:43:48 PM · #3 |
1. some type of whales
2. number of steps
3. arsenic
4. random access memory
5. cry?
6. nervous system (CNS/PNS)
7. hand
8. energy is equal to mass multiplied by speed of light squared
9. experiments? haha
10. a small lever? =P
11. dolphin
12. ethnology (took a sociology class!)
13. I have no clue
14. Protons (I know this from watching Big Bang Theory haha)
15. random guess... aluminum? |
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09/18/2010 02:54:52 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by odriew:
7. hand |
Yeah, in the wrist. I think I was thinking of the hyoid bone ... :-( |
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09/18/2010 03:32:17 PM · #5 |
| All have been answered correctly by someone, except I think #9 would be pseudoscience. Sharks don't blink. The lightest metal is Lithium. The leveret is a young hare. The longest-lived mammal is the whale. The LHC collides protons I think. |
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09/18/2010 03:38:09 PM · #6 |
I thought humans now outlived whales on the average. Hydrogen is a metal chemically -- see its position in the Periodic Table -- although gaseous under "normal" conditions. Lithium is the lightest metal which is solid at room temperature.
Anyone (else) know what would be the densest element? |
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09/18/2010 04:11:29 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I thought humans now outlived whales on the average. Hydrogen is a metal chemically -- see its position in the Periodic Table -- although gaseous under "normal" conditions. Lithium is the lightest metal which is solid at room temperature.
Anyone (else) know what would be the densest element? |
Densest natural element is Uranium or perhaps Osmium (Os), twice as dense as lead?
Message edited by author 2010-09-18 16:13:25. |
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09/18/2010 04:42:20 PM · #8 |
| Osmium is the densest element. |
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09/18/2010 05:23:28 PM · #9 |
answers:
ANSWERS: 1. Whale. 2. Steps taken (distance walked). 3. Arsenic. 4. Random-access memory. 5. Blink. 6. The nervous system. 7. The wrist. 8. Energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared. 9. Pseudoscience. 10. A young hare. 11. Whale, porpoise, dolphin. 12. Ethnology. 13. CERN. 14. Either protons or lead nuclei. 15. Lithium.
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09/18/2010 05:27:55 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Osmium is the densest element. |
I thought it was Bushcronium?
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09/18/2010 06:42:31 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
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9. Pataphysics
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It's not Pataphysics, it's 'Pataphysics. (Yeah, with the apostrophe before the P) ;-Þ |
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09/18/2010 07:01:47 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
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9. Pataphysics
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It's not Pataphysics, it's 'Pataphysics. (Yeah, with the apostrophe before the P) ;-Þ |
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!
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09/18/2010 07:46:34 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
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9. Pataphysics
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It's not Pataphysics, it's 'Pataphysics. (Yeah, with the apostrophe before the P) ;-Þ |
I've never seen it spelled-out before -- I only knew the word from the Beatles song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" ... |
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09/19/2010 12:27:02 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Osmium is the densest element. |
And here I was thinking it was naquadah :/
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09/19/2010 12:56:16 AM · #15 |
Photo time.
The densest element it "Blondeium"
RAM is a Dodge truck
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09/19/2010 10:20:00 PM · #16 |
Here's my answers for the latest:
Today's super quiz:
Subject: LITERARY MATTERS
FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. Who was King Arthur's wife?
Guinevere
2. What split-personality character did Robert Louis Stevenson create?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
3. Who wrote, "If you can keep your head when all about you ..."?
Rudyard Kipling
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. In "Pygmalion," who states, "I want to speak like a lady"?
Eliza Doolittle
5. Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"?
Dante Alighieri
6. What is blank verse?
Unrhymed metrical verse, usually in iambic pentameter
PH.D. LEVEL
7. What is an epistolary novel?
A novel in the form of a collection of documents. Most often, they are letters; "epistles".
8. "Dragging the lazy languid line along" is an example of what?
Alliteration
9. Who was the "Moor of Venice"?
Othello |
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09/19/2010 11:10:48 PM · #17 |
I didn't look first ...
1. Guinevere
2. Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde
3. Kipling
4. She's called Eliza Doolittle in the "My Fair Lady" adaptation
5. Dante
6. Iambic pentameter
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8. Alliteration
9. Othello, in Shakespeare's play
4a. I think it was Galatea in the original Greek myth ...
Message edited by author 2010-09-19 23:13:22. |
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09/19/2010 11:36:03 PM · #18 |
| What is the origin of the word "jalopy"? |
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09/20/2010 12:43:16 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
4. She's called Eliza Doolittle in the "My Fair Lady" adaptation
4a. I think it was Galatea in the original Greek myth ... |
She was called Eliza Doolittle in the play, as well. "Galatea" was a name given, in the 18th century, to the animated sculpture created by Pygmalion, a sculptor from Cyprus, in Greek Myth. I'm not aware of what she was called originally.
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09/20/2010 12:44:43 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by franktheyank:
What is the origin of the word "jalopy"? |
Nobody knows...
R. |
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09/20/2010 01:27:52 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by franktheyank:
What is the origin of the word "jalopy"? |
Nobody knows...
R. |
Actually back in the 1910's through 20's there were a myriad number of auto manufacturers. The broken down ones were shipped to Mexico to have their parts reassembled into rube goldberg type contraptions for sale in the USA. They came from the Mexican port of Jalapa. Thus they were dubbed jalopies by the longshoremen. At least this is the story I heard on Car Talk a few years ago. |
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09/20/2010 02:52:35 AM · #22 |
1. Who was King Arthur's wife?
Answer__Guinevere______
2. What split-personality character did Robert Louis Stevenson create?
Answer__Jekyll/Hyde______
3. Who wrote, "If you can keep your head when all about you ..."?
Answer___Rudyard Kipling_____
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. In "Pygmalion," who states, "I want to speak like a lady"?
Answer___Eliza Dolittle_____
5. Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"?
Answer____Dante Alighieri___
6. What is blank verse?
Answer___Unrhymed metric verse_____
PH.D. LEVEL
7. What is an epistolary novel?
Answer___One written in a series of communications_____
8. "Dragging the lazy languid line along" is an example of what?
Answer____alliteration____
9. Who was the "Moor of Venice"?
Answer____Othello____ |
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09/20/2010 02:03:01 PM · #23 |
1. Herman Melville: New Bedford, Mass., and at sea.
Answer___moby dick_____
2. Pearl S. Buck: A small village in China and a larger town nearby.
Answer____don't know____
3. Ernest Hemingway: A village near Havana and at sea.
Answer___the old man and the sea_____
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. Charlotte Bronte: Gateshead Hall, Lowood Institution, Thornfield Hall, Moor House, Ferndean Manor.
Answer____wuthering heights____
5. George Orwell: Ruined London in the future region of Oceania.
Answer____1984____
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The old, decaying Pyncheon mansion.
Answer____don't know____
PH.D. LEVEL
7. Ernest Hemingway: Mountainous Italian battlefield of World War I.
Answer___the snows of kilimanjaro_____
8. Upton Sinclair: Chicago's stockyards and other urban sites.
Answer____don't know____
9. Charles Dickens: Coketown, a fictitious industrial city.
Answer____I don't know this one either, and I have a feeling I should probably be shot for that____ |
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09/20/2010 02:49:58 PM · #24 |
#8 is The Jungle
I think #7 is A Farewell to Arms |
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09/20/2010 04:12:55 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by franktheyank:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by franktheyank:
What is the origin of the word "jalopy"? |
Nobody knows...
R. |
Actually back in the 1910's through 20's there were a myriad number of auto manufacturers. The broken down ones were shipped to Mexico to have their parts reassembled into rube goldberg type contraptions for sale in the USA. They came from the Mexican port of Jalapa. Thus they were dubbed jalopies by the longshoremen. At least this is the story I heard on Car Talk a few years ago. |
Seems to be backed by the online etymology dictionary.
//www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jalopy
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