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In the news this week, the Large

Hadron Collider has switched from

colliding protons to colliding ions ofwhich element ?

Lead


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1) Who worked here?

2) In which township was this

lab found?

3) What 'title' did the person get

with reference to the town?4) What is the new name of the

township?

5) What is the motto of the

township now?


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Identify this game and connect with the

fictional character Lee Jordan.


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Who gave this and what is it called?

Briefly, the story runs as follows: Uncle Joe and Uncle Jim are walking to the barber

shop. There are three barbers who live and work in the shopAllen, Brown, and

Carrbut not all of them are always in the shop. Carr is a good barber, and UncleJim is keen to be shaved by him. He knows that the shop is open, so at least one of

them must be in. He also knows that Allen is a very nervous man, so that he never

leaves the shop without Brown going with him.

Uncle Joe insists that Carr is certain to be in, and then claims that he can prove it

logically. Uncle Jim demands the proof. Uncle Joe reasons as follows.

Suppose that Carr is out. If Carr is out, then if Allen is also out Brown would have to

be insince someone must be in the shop for it to be open. However, we know

that whenever Allen goes out he takes Brown with him, and thus we know as a

general rule that if Allen is out, Brown is out. So if Carr is out then the statements

"if Allen is out then Brown is in" and "if Allen is out then Brown is out" would both

be true at the same time.Uncle Joe notes that this seems paradoxical; the hypotheticals seem

"incompatible" with each other. So, by contradiction, Carr must logically be in.

And explain the paradox.


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Very easy one. posted this to show greatness of indians.This

carving of a pre-historic creature can be found at the AngkorV

attemple.(built by indians only) It has amazed historians because

this temple was built only in the 12th century but depicts a

creature that lived over 150 million years ago. People still

wonder how the people living almost 800 years back knew about

this creature.Now, Identify this creature.


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In a topological space born and raised

On the real number line was where I spent most of

my daysAdding, subtracting, relaxing in Q

Avoiding epsilon, delta and even the number two

When a couple of points

Who were up to no goodStarted making trouble in my neighborhood

I got in one little fight and epsilon started to fear

And said "I'm calling up _____ to map you outta

here!"

Fill the blank.


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X, like other types of radar, consist of a radiotransmitter and receiver. They send out a radio

signal, then receive the same signal back as it

bounces off the target object. However, due to

Doppler effect, if the object is moving, thefrequency of the radio waves is different when

they come back, and from that difference the X

tries to calculate speeds. Solve forX.


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It was invented by Swiss chemist Jacques E.

Brandenberger while employed by Blanchisserie et

Teinturerie de Thaon. In 1900, inspired by seeing a wine

spill on a restaurant's tablecloth, he decided to create acloth that could repel liquids rather than absorb them.

His first step was to spray a waterproof coating on to

fabric, and he opted to try viscose. The resultant coated

fabric was far too stiff, but the clear film easilyseparated from the backing cloth, and he abandoned

his original idea as the possibilities of the new material

became apparent.

Think again before reading the next line.By 1912 he had constructed a machine to manufacture

the film, which he had named _______, from the words

cellulose, which he used in the recipe and diaphane

("transparent").


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Also known as induced

dipoleinduced dipoleforces; till a few

moments ago I thought

these forces were

named after the cityuntil I realized that the

surname of the guy in

the photo, whodiscovered them was

______.


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Something in this picture caused a lot of ripples among

mathematicians. Some very clever mathematicians

worked on supercomputers and then declared that it

was wrong while laymen stared at it for a few secondsand proclaimed that it was obviously wrong.

Why was it obvious?

Why did the picture cause momentary anxiety?


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a frog

a moose

a buffalo

a dragon (with its head and mouth to the

right and body and wings to the left)

a Yin Yang symbol.

And probably a few more.Few more include

angel

Hazrat Ali

toadstoolthe rabbit is holding a pot and brewing up

some medicine.


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It was Faraday who gave us

the first ever proper sample

although there were a lot of

semi success attempts by

alchemists.


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What is this?


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Adi Shankara when asked how one should live,

he replies i.e.

like a drop of water on a lotus petal (not sticking

onto the petal).

What did this observation inspire?


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After returning from war, this guy chose to work on perfecting

technologies that had already been established. invented a telegraph

that used a needle to point to the right letter, instead of using Morse

code. Based on this invention, he founded the company Telegraphen-

Bauanstalt von _______ & Halske on 1 October 1847, with the

company taking occupation of its workshop on 12 October. After his

death, the company was led by his brothers and his four sons. The

company is still one of the largest electrotechnological firms of the

world.

This guy also was responsible for the world's first electric elevator. His

company produced the tubes with which Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

investigated x-rays. On 14 December 1877 he received German patent

No. 2355 for an electromechanical "dynamic" or moving-coil

transducer, which was adapted by A. L. Thuras and E. C. Wente for the

Bell System in the late 1920s for use as a loudspeaker.

Due to his contribution to the development of electrical engineering,

his name has been adopted as a SI unit.

Idhim.


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X (Valeriana officinalis), in pic is a hardy perennial

flowering plant, with heads of sweetly scented pink or

white flowers which bloom in the summer months. It wasused as a perfume in the sixteenth century.

These plants contain the acid Y which is used in the

cosmetics industry.

Gimme X(common name) and Y(both IUPAC andcomman name).


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____ means "prescription". This symbol originated in

medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation of the Late

Latin verb recipe, the imperative form of recipere, "to

take" or "take thus". Literally, the Latin word recipe

means simply "command Take...." and medieval

prescriptions invariably began with the to "take" certain

materials and compound them in specified ways. Today,

when a medical practitioner writes a prescription

beginning with ____, he or she is completing the

command.

Folk theories about the origin of _____ note its

similarity to the Eye of Horus, or to the ancient symbol

for Zeus or Jupiter, (), gods whose protection may

have been sought in medical contexts.

Fill in the blank.


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X was the penultimate novel published by Y in his lifetime, in

2004. It stated that global warming was a myth, and this radical

new idea caught on like wildfire. 1.5million copies ofX were

published, and X caught the attention of Al Gore. Gore is quoted

as saying "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you goto the doctor [...] if your doctor tells you you need to intervene

here, you don't say 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that tells

me it's not a problem'". Id X and Y.


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It reads

"Here, where stood the house of Domenico Maria Novara,

professor of the ancient Studium of Bologna.

_______________, the Polish mathematician and astronomerwho would revolutionize concepts of the universe, conducted

brilliant celestial observations with his teacher in 14971500.

Placed on the 5th centenary of [_________'] birth by the City,

the University, the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of

Bologna, the Polish Academy of Sciences. 1473 - 1973."


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He deliberately drew the (alpha)-helix as left-handed to drive

home the message that each of the three individual helices inthe adjacent figure representing the triple-helix of collagen was

left-handed. He encouraged the students to imagine a single left-

handed -helix, and then to imagine stretching it along the

helical axis so that the number of residues per turn became

three, resulting in the conformation of an individual left-handedcollagen helix.

This man, widely acknowledged as one of the most important

Indian scientists of the 20th century was regarded by leading

scientists including Professor Linus Pauling and Professor Francis

Crick as a Nobel Prize caliber scientist of great reputation.

What is his name?


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C ti f?


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Cross section of?


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This one is very easy..ID


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In the animated TV series, Pokmon, (season 1, episode 17: Island of

the Giant Pokmon), a theme park of giant Pokmon reflects this

concept. It is a biological phenomenon in which the size of animals

isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to their

mainland relatives.

Large mammalian carnivores are often absent on islands, due to their

large range requirements and/or difficulties in over-water dispersal. In

their absence, the ecological niches for large predators may be

occupied by birds or reptiles, which can then grow to larger-than-

normal size. For example, on prehistoric Gargano Island in the

Miocene-Pliocene Mediterranean, on islands in the Caribbean like

Cuba, and on Madagascar and New Zealand, some or all apex

predators were birds like eagles, falcons and owls, including some of

the largest known examples of these groups. However, birds and

reptiles generally make less efficient large predators than advanced

carnivorans.


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The Scientific Research Society is a non profit honor society which was


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The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit honor society which was

founded in 1886 at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a

handful of graduate students. Members elect others on the basis of

their research achievements or potential. It is neither a fraternity nor a

sorority, and today is open to all qualified individuals who areinterested in science and engineering.

Today the Society comprises nearly 60,000 scientists and engineers.

More than 200 winners of the Nobel Prize have been its members,

including Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Linus Pauling, Francis Crick and

James Watson.The Society's motto is "Spoudon Xynones," which translates as

"Companions in Zealous Research."

Just name this society.


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X is a nickname for any fixed-wing aircraft that briefly provides a nearly

weightless environment in which to train astronauts, conduct research

and film motion pictures. Versions of such airplanes have in the past

been operated by NASA Reduced Gravity Research Program, where the

unofficial nickname originated. NASA has adopted the officialnickname Weightless Wonder for publication

ID X


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This superhuman started solving equations at

the age of 2, University problems at the age of 8,is the youngest ever to participate in the IMO (at

the age of10) and won a bronze; in the next 2

years he won a silver and gold respectively

(youngest gold medalist too). He received his

bachelor's and master's degree at the age of17,

PhD at 20 and Field's medal at 24. Australian of

the year a few years ago, he along with Ben J.

Green presented a proof that there exist

arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primenumbers.

Id him.


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Okay...this guy, in 1771, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs

twitched when struck by a spark. This was one of the first forays into the study of

bioelectricity, a field that still today studies the electrical patterns and signals of

the nervous system. He was cutting the frogs legs as an experiment trying to

prove that a frogs testicles were actually in their legs. He was quickly provedwrong by other biologists at the University of Pavia.

He called it 'animal electricity' to describe the force that activated the muscles of

his specimens. Along with contemporaries, he regarded their activation as being

generated by an electrical fluid that is carried to the muscles by the nerves. The

phenomenon was dubbed Xsm, after X, on the suggestion of his peer and

sometime intellectual adversary Alessandro Volta.

Volta's investigations led shortly to the invention of an early battery, but not by X,

who did not perceive electricity as separable from biology. X did not see electricity

as the essence of life, which he regarded vitalistically. X believed that the animal

electricity came from the muscle. X's associate Alessandro Volta, in opposition,

reasoned that the animal electricity was a physical phenomenon, a metallic

electricity.

On the facade of the house, now a seat of a bank, there is a medallion with the

face ofX and double inscription in Italian and Latin which says 'I received the

newborn X; I cried him dead / He held together both the electric poles'.

The pic shows X's experiment on frog legs.

Phew! Okay, now idX

and gimme a few stuff he lent his name to.


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Looks like I am getting very bored...

All songs written and composed by B. Boyd, M. Einziger, A. Katunich,

G. Koppell and J. Pasillas..

No. Title1. "Redefine"

2. "Vitamin"

3. "New Skin"

4. "Idiot Box"

5. "Glass"

6. "Magic Medicine"

7. "A Certain Shade of Green"

8. "Favorite Things"

9. "Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)"

10. "Nebula"

11. "Deep Inside"12. "Calgone/Segue 1"

Total length: 55:43

What is the name of the album?


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Excuse for the small image. Identify this 'machine' from the

Incredible Machines game.


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Identify the 3 men in the photo. When was it

taken?

What did NASA name after the guy on the left?


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Who made this map?


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This is easy.

This guy in the image was the son of a

saddle maker. When he was 3, he

accidentally poked himself with a

scratching awl, one of his father's

workshop tools. The injury wasn't

thought to be serious until it got infected

because of sympathetic ophthalmia.

What is his name?


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" [The guy in the pic] is

programmed with a powerful

algorithm for finding

incongruous associations. "-Dennis Flanagan, American

Scientist Magazine.

who?


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This is from a youtube video as you


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This is from a youtube video as you

can see.

Identify this man


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And what is being tested?


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What is the name of the character on

the left?


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Identify the colour.


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Identify the colour.

Hint: Lynx Vaughan Gaede and Lamb

Lennon Gaede


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The FIA named her as the world's most

dangerous woman. She played a major role in

Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program.

Now what 'nickname' did she get and who is

she?


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Pierre-Simon Laplace summarized and extended

the work of his predecessors in his five volume

Mcanique Cleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799

1825). This work translated the geometric studyof classical mechanics to one based on calculus,

opening up a broader range of problems.

He is remembered as one of the greatest

scientists of all time, sometimes referred to as aFrench Newton or Newton of France, with a

phenomenal natural mathematical faculty

superior to any of his contemporaries.

This guy gave us many things which include a

few equations for tidal flow described as abarotropic two-dimensional sheet flow.

Now, what is named in honour of him?


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This guy did his BS and PhD at MIT in electrical

engineering. Following graduation, he took a

position at MIT as an Assistant Professor and

focused his research on acoustics. He has a few

significant patents. He remained as a prof till2000.

Who is he?

Answer the following:


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1. What is this?

2. When was it displayed and why?


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Scientific term?

This is the Swiss Re Building, 30 St Mary Axe,


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This is the Swiss Re Building, 30 St Mary Axe,

City of London. What name did it acquire due to

its unique shape and unorthodox layout?

What spice do we get from this


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What spice do we get from this

flower?

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