Date: 1/11/2014 11:54:37
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 620228
Subject: 20 Questions

the answers are in black.

1) When a paper plane flies, what is drag?
2) Are minerals made of rocks, or are rocks made of minerals?
3) In your body, the cells that divide the fastest are related to what? Is it a) hair, b) eyesight or c) blood?
4) The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for creating what colour of light emitting diodes (LEDs)?
5) Which planet has a moon called Ganymede?

1) Drag is a force that acts in the opposite direction to the moving paper plane. It is caused by air hitting the plane and slowing it down.
2) Rocks are made of minerals.
3) a) Cells related to hair divide fastest.
4) The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for creating blue LEDs.
5) Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter, and is the largest moon in our solar system.

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6) Which famous physicist said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”?
7) What are the two upper chambers of the heart called?
8) Which of these clouds forms highest? Is it a) cumulus, b) cirrus or c) stratus?
9) The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for discovering brain cells that do what?
10) Have people ever walked on Mars?

6) Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.
7) The two upper chambers of the heart are called atria. There’s the right atrium and the left atrium.
8) a) Cirrus clouds form higher than cumulus or stratus clouds.
9) The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for discovering cells that create a positioning system in the brain that allows us to know where we are.
10) No, people have never walked on Mars. Instead, we explore it with robots such as Curiosity.

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11) If molten rock erupts from volcanoes, what comes out of a cryovolcano?
12) How many sides does a nonagon have?
13) What is a circadian rhythm? Is it a) a loud thudding of the heart, b) a sound made by cicadas, or c) a biological process that follows a 24 hour cycle?
14) What is a turtle’s plastron?
15) True or false? Baleen, the filter-feeder system in whales, is made mostly of the same protein that makes up the shells of crustaceans.

11)Volatile materials such as water or methane come out of a cryovolcano.
12) A nonagon is a nine-sided polygon.
13) c) A circadian rhythm is a biological process that follows a 24 hour cycle.
14) A turtle’s plastron is the shell covering its entire underside.
15) False. The baleen in whales is made up mostly of the protein keratin, while the shell of crustaceans is mostly made of the protein chitin.

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16) Where in your body would you find your sphenoid bone?
17) The microbe Thiomargarita namibiensis holds the record for being what? Is it a) the fastest single celled organism, b) the most common organism, or c) the most massive bacterium?
18) What period came before the Cretaceous period?
19) What are the three most common elements in the Milky Way galaxy?
20) What do cosmologists study?

16) The sphenoid bone is in your skull, behind your eyes.
17) Thiomargarita namibiensis holds the record for being the most massive bacterium. It can grow as long as 0.75 mm and as wide as 0.3 mm.
18) The Jurassic period came before the Cretaceous period.
19) The three most common elements in the Milky Way galaxy are hydrogen, helium and oxygen.
20) Cosmologists study the origins, growth, structure, and end of the universe as a whole.

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Date: 1/11/2014 11:57:13
From: buffy
ID: 620231
Subject: re: 20 Questions

I’d check out replication speed of corneal endothelial cells wrt Q3. They can be seen dividing under the microscope.

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Date: 1/11/2014 11:59:59
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 620235
Subject: re: 20 Questions

I’m pretty sure the answer to 6 is BC.

No, not the Brian Cox one.

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Date: 1/11/2014 12:01:43
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 620238
Subject: re: 20 Questions

i saw that one rev after i had posted it. i sighed.

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Date: 1/11/2014 12:02:06
From: stumpy_seahorse
ID: 620239
Subject: re: 20 Questions

1) i’d think high heels and fishnets would be detrimental to the flight of a paper plane…

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Date: 1/11/2014 12:05:05
From: btm
ID: 620243
Subject: re: 20 Questions

You might want to review your answer to Q8. The answer is right, but the letter is wrong.

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Date: 1/11/2014 12:06:46
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 620244
Subject: re: 20 Questions

they are just copied from the csiro newsletter.

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Date: 1/11/2014 12:06:54
From: Dropbear
ID: 620245
Subject: re: 20 Questions

The Rev Dodgson said:


I’m pretty sure the answer to 6 is BC.

No, not the Brian Cox one.

Lol :)

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Date: 1/11/2014 12:08:07
From: roughbarked
ID: 620246
Subject: re: 20 Questions

ChrispenEvan said:


they are just copied from the csiro newsletter.

Typos are easily made by anyone without proofreading.

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Date: 1/11/2014 14:44:48
From: SCIENCE
ID: 620304
Subject: re: 20 Questions

I got 21 correct!

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Date: 1/11/2014 14:47:59
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 620306
Subject: re: 20 Questions

SCIENCE said:


I got 21 correct!

I’d expect nothing less.

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Date: 1/11/2014 14:53:44
From: roughbarked
ID: 620309
Subject: re: 20 Questions

SCIENCE said:


I got 21 correct!

How did you go at maths?

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Date: 1/11/2014 15:03:04
From: SCIENCE
ID: 620310
Subject: re: 20 Questions

roughbarked said:


SCIENCE said:

I got 21 correct!

How did you go at maths?

Here’s the 21st question!

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Date: 1/11/2014 16:33:18
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 620340
Subject: re: 20 Questions

> 6) Which famous physicist said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”?

> 6) Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.

Albert Einstein is more famous for his quotable quips than for his work.

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Date: 1/11/2014 16:36:00
From: Bubblecar
ID: 620341
Subject: re: 20 Questions

>“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

Not when you’re doing a quiz.

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Date: 1/11/2014 16:49:31
From: Neophyte
ID: 620347
Subject: re: 20 Questions

mollwollfumble said:


> 6) Which famous physicist said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”?

> 6) Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.

Albert Einstein is more famous for his quotable quips than for his work.

Only since the internet came along

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Date: 1/11/2014 17:22:48
From: Thomo
ID: 620355
Subject: re: 20 Questions

Bubblecar said:


>“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

Not when you’re doing a quiz.

LOL

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Date: 1/11/2014 17:25:15
From: AwesomeO
ID: 620357
Subject: re: 20 Questions

mollwollfumble said:


> 6) Which famous physicist said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”?

> 6) Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.

Albert Einstein is more famous for his quotable quips than for his work.

Did he really say that? I take Internet quotes of AI with a grain of salt now. And he seems to be a poster child of the religious and the not who both take quotes of his as vindication of thier position.

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Date: 1/11/2014 17:30:38
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 620360
Subject: re: 20 Questions

yep.

Berlin, 1929. The poet and journalist George Sylvester Viereck has charmed an interview out of an initially reluctant superstar physicist¹. He asks: “How do you account for your discoveries? Through intuition or inspiration?” Albert Einstein replies:

“Both. I sometimes feel I am right, but do not know it. When two expeditions of scientists went to test my theory I was convinced they would confirm my theory. I wasn’t surprised when the results confirmed my intuition, but I would have been surprised had I been wrong. I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination, which I think is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

More of the story

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Date: 1/11/2014 17:32:58
From: roughbarked
ID: 620361
Subject: re: 20 Questions

AwesomeO said:


mollwollfumble said:

> 6) Which famous physicist said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”?

> 6) Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.

Albert Einstein is more famous for his quotable quips than for his work.

Did he really say that? I take Internet quotes of AI with a grain of salt now. And he seems to be a poster child of the religious and the not who both take quotes of his as vindication of thier position.

No. His quote was about curiosity.

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Date: 1/11/2014 17:39:04
From: roughbarked
ID: 620365
Subject: re: 20 Questions

So, both imagination and curiosity eh.

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Date: 1/11/2014 17:51:32
From: dv
ID: 620370
Subject: re: 20 Questions

I got 16/20

Here are the ones I got wrong:
3) In your body, the cells that divide the fastest are related to what? Is it a) hair, b) eyesight or c) blood?
I guessed blood.

8) Which of these clouds forms highest? Is it a) cumulus, b) cirrus or c) stratus?
I guessed stratus.

9) The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for discovering cells that create a positioning system in the brain that allows us to know where we are.
I couldn’t remember at all. Once I read the answer I remembered reading something like that.

17) The microbe Thiomargarita namibiensis holds the record for being what? Is it a) the fastest single celled organism, b) the most common organism, or c) the most massive bacterium?
I guessed a).

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