ANSWERS - ROUND 4

END OF DAZE 2010

Oru Cheriya Theme

1. One half of a famous pair is missing. What

connects? (1+1)

?

Answer

• Leon Cooper who lends his name to the Cooper Pair

• The other two are John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer. These three developed the famous BCS Theory of Superconductors .

2. The 2009 version is the connect.(2)

Answer The 2009 Lincoln pennies

Four different coins showing scenes from Abraham Lincoln's life in honor of the bicentennial of his birth were minted in 2009.

These four designs are:

• Birth and early childhood in Kentucky: this design features a log cabin and Lincoln's birth year 1809.

• Formative years in Indiana: this design features a young Lincoln reading while taking a break from rail splitting.

• Professional life in Illinois: this design features a young professional Lincoln standing before the Springfield Illinois State Capitol.

• Presidency in Washington, D.C.: this design features the half completed Capitol dome.

3. The guy who connects, not the guy who’s missing. (2)

Answer Escher is missing, but I wanted the author.

4. Zimble. Who he? (1)

Answer

Fred Hoyle

5.

• Enter theme (3)

Theme Answer

• Sheldon Cooper was named after Leonard Cooper

• Penny

• Leonard Hofstadter is named after Nobel Prize Laureate Robert Hofstadter, who is the father of Douglas.

• Fred Hoyle, of course, coined the term “Big Bang”