General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-18 18:18:13

Hi bobbym,

#3995. Which nation did William Butler Yeats, the Nobel Laureate in 1923, hail from?

#3996. In which year did George Bernard Shaw (Great Britain) win the Nobel Prize (Literature)?

bobbym · 2014-05-18 18:47:50

Hi;

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-19 11:56:35

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #3995 (Irish) is perfect. Good work!

#3997. What is the term meaning moving upward, a warm wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side, driven by heating of the slope through insolation? (It is also known as an upslope flow. These winds typically occur during the daytime in calm sunny weather. A hill or mountain top will be radiatively warmed by the Sun which in turn heats the air just above.)

#3998. What is the term in meteorology and physical oceanography, which often refers to the transport of some property of the atmosphere or ocean, such as heat, humidity or salinity? (It is important for the formation of orographic clouds and the precipitation of water from clouds, as part of the hydrological cycle.)

ShivamS · 2014-05-19 12:02:24

By the way, most people don't even know who William Butler Yeats is.

bobbym · 2014-05-19 12:45:24

Hi;

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-19 23:57:10

Hi ShivamS and bobbym,

ShivamS :- The Answers #3996, #3997, and #3998 are all correct. Outstanding!

bobbym :-

The Answer #3998 (Advection) is perfectly right! Neat work!

#3999. What does the abbreviation I.L.E.W.G mean? (Space exploration)

#4000. What does the abbreviation I.M.E.I.No. mean? (Mobile)

bobbym · 2014-05-19 23:59:28

Hi;

ShivamS · 2014-05-20 00:29:50

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-20 00:34:47

Hi bobbym,

Partly correct, bobbym! Good work!

.

#4001. What are anticline and syncline?

#4002. What is an 'atoll'?

ShivamS · 2014-05-20 00:36:25

bobbym · 2014-05-20 00:37:05

Hi;

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-20 23:15:52

Hi ShivamS and bobbym,

The Answers #4001 and #4002 are correct. Splendid, ShivamS and bobbym!

#4003. Name the British medical scientist, entomologist, and epidemiologist; born in India, he studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London and then went to India to embark upon a career in the Indian Medical Service, where he focused his attention on malaria.

#4004. He one of the greatest bacteriologists who ever lived; he was born in Klausthal, in what is now Germany, and educated at Göttingen, where he studied medicine before going into practice. His first achievement was to isolate and identify the anthrax bacillus (1876). In 1882 he isolated and identified the tubercle bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and in 1883, while leading an expedition to Egypt and India, he identified the bacterium that causes cholera (Vibrio cholerae).
Name the eminent bacteriologist.

bobbym · 2014-05-20 23:21:06

Hi;

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-21 12:27:59

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #4004 is perfect (Robert Koch)! Neat work!

#4005. Name the Canadian medical scientist, doctor, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person that used insulin on humans.

#4006. Name the Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

ShivamS · 2014-05-21 12:29:19

bobbym · 2014-05-21 13:53:45

Hi ganesh;

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-22 01:30:13

Hi ShivamS and bobbym,

The Answers #4005 and #4006 are correct. Marvelous, ShivamS!

The Answer

The Answer #4006 is correct. Good work, bobbym!

#4007. What is an 'Arête'?

#4008 Name the Geographical term which refers 'highly viscous, mechanically weak and ductilely-deforming region of the upper mantle of the Earth'. It lies below the lithosphere, at depths between ~80 and ~200 km (~ 50 and 124 miles) below the surface.

bobbym · 2014-05-22 01:50:28

Hi;

ShivamS · 2014-05-22 01:57:47

Last edited by ShivamS (2014-05-22 01:58:10)

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-22 15:19:07

Hi bobbym and ShivamS,

Good work, bobbym (#4008)! Excellent, ShivamS (#4007 and #4008)!

#4009. What was the Nationality of Karl Landsteiner, who discovered human blood groups?

#4010. What was the Nationality of Sir Alexander Fleming who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945 in Medicine?

bobbym · 2014-05-22 20:25:15

Hi;

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-23 01:34:08

Hi bobbym,

The Answers #4009 and #4010 are perfect. Keep it up!

#4011. Amnesty International, London, Great Britain a worldwide organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners of conscience, was awarded the Nobel Prize (Peace). Which year was it awarded?

#4012. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded the Nobel Prize (Peace) in 1981. Where is its Headquarters?

ShivamS · 2014-05-23 01:38:29

bobbym · 2014-05-23 03:03:31

Hi;

Jai Ganesh · 2014-05-24 00:50:47

Hi ShivamS and bobbym,

The Answers #4011 and #4012 are correct. Magnificent, ShivamS!

The Answer

The Answer #4012 is correct. Excellent, bobbym!

#4013. What is defined as a horizontal angle measured clockwise from a north base line or meridian; also been more generally defined as a horizontal angle measured clockwise from any fixed reference plane or easily established base direction line?

#4014. What were the terms used before 1950 to describe the age of rocks formed before the appearance of life in the geologic sequence; the word is derived from the Greek meaning without and zoön meaning animal (or living being), it was first used to mean without life?

Math Is Fun Forum

#4001 2014-05-18 18:18:13

Re: General Quiz

#4002 2014-05-18 18:47:50

Re: General Quiz

#4003 2014-05-19 11:56:35

Re: General Quiz

#4004 2014-05-19 12:02:24

Re: General Quiz

#4005 2014-05-19 12:45:24

Re: General Quiz

#4006 2014-05-19 23:57:10

Re: General Quiz

#4007 2014-05-19 23:59:28

Re: General Quiz

#4008 2014-05-20 00:29:50

Re: General Quiz

#4009 2014-05-20 00:34:47

Re: General Quiz

#4010 2014-05-20 00:36:25

Re: General Quiz

#4011 2014-05-20 00:37:05

Re: General Quiz

#4012 2014-05-20 23:15:52

Re: General Quiz

#4013 2014-05-20 23:21:06

Re: General Quiz

#4014 2014-05-21 12:27:59

Re: General Quiz

#4015 2014-05-21 12:29:19

Re: General Quiz

#4016 2014-05-21 13:53:45

Re: General Quiz

#4017 2014-05-22 01:30:13

Re: General Quiz

#4018 2014-05-22 01:50:28

Re: General Quiz

#4019 2014-05-22 01:57:47

Re: General Quiz

#4020 2014-05-22 15:19:07

Re: General Quiz

#4021 2014-05-22 20:25:15

Re: General Quiz

#4022 2014-05-23 01:34:08

Re: General Quiz

#4023 2014-05-23 01:38:29

Re: General Quiz

#4024 2014-05-23 03:03:31

Re: General Quiz

#4025 2014-05-24 00:50:47

Re: General Quiz

Board footer