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Jai Ganesh

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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

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The Answer #54001 is correct. Splendid!

#5402. Various authors have credited the invention of it to Cornelis Drebbel, Robert Fludd, Galileo Galilei or Santorio Santorio. It was not a single invention, however, but a development.Name the device. (Philo of Byzantium and Hero of Alexandria knew of the principle that certain substances, notably air, expand and contract and described a demonstration in which a closed tube partially filled with air had its end in a container of water. The expansion and contraction of the air caused the position of the water/air interface to move along the tube.)

#5403. What was invented by  John Bardeen,  Walter Brattain, and  William Shockley? (The term was coined by John R. Pierce as a contraction of the term transresistance).

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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Re: General Quiz

Hi ganesh;

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers, #5402 and #5403, are correct! Stupendous!

#5404. Who is the author of "Self-Reliance", an essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist? It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

#5405. Who is the author of The Diary of a Young Girl? It is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5404 (Ralph Waldo Emerson) and #5405 (Anne Frank) are both correct. Magnificent!

#5406. Name the novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

#5407. Name the Swedish Nobel laureate economist, sociologist, and politician (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987). In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." He is best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which culminated in his book 'An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy'.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers :

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The Answer #5399 is correct. Excellent, bobbym!

#5408. What does the acronym ATLAS experiment signify? (It one of the seven particle detector experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, LHCf and MoEDAL) constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. )

#5409. What does the acronym BRICS signify? (It is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies.)

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi ganesh;

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5409 is 80% correct. Excellent!

#5410.  What are substances (mostly salts) that have a strong affinity for moisture and will absorb relatively large amounts of water from the atmosphere if exposed to it, forming a liquid solution? (These salts include calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, zinc chloride, potassium carbonate, potassium phosphate, carnallite, ferric ammonium citrate, potassium hydroxide, and sodium hydroxide.)

#5411. Name the term in chemistry : The migration of a salt to the surface of a porous material, where it forms a coating. The essential process comprises the dissolving of an internally-held salt in water, or occasionally in another solvent. The water, with the salt now held in solution, migrates to the surface : where the water evaporates, leaving a coating of the salt.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

Excellent, bobbym! The Answer #5410 is correct.

#5412. Which chemical compound is Barytes, or barite?

#5413. Which chemical compound is  Glauber's salt?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5413 and #5413 are correct. Marvelous!

#5414. Name the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. It is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts and written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.

#5415.  Name the branch of astronomy concerned with the moon, its physical characteristics, nature, origin, etc

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

Good attempt (#5414), bobbym!

#5416. Name the unit of speed equal to one nautical mile (1.852 km) per hour, approximately 1.151 mph.It is a non-SI unit that is "accepted for use with the SI". Worldwide, the knot is used in meteorology, and in maritime and air navigation.

#5417. Name the metric (but not SI) unit of pressure exactly equal to 100000 Pa. It is about equal to the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level. It introduced by the British meteorologist William Napier Shaw in 1909, while he was the director of the Meteorological Office in London.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5416 is correct (knot). Excellent!

. The unit millibar is acceptable. Good work!

The bar is legally recognized in countries of the European Union.

#5418. Name the politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."

#5419. 'The Eye of the Storm' is the ninth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner. It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to farewell her in her final moments upon her deathbed. Name the writer.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5418 Lew Wallace is correct. Marvelous!

#5420.Name the Danish physicist  (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. The centimetre-gram-second system (CGS) unit of magnetic induction is named for his contributions to the field of electromagnetism.

#5421.  Name the German chemist (2 August 1776 – 18 August 1835). While studying compounds of zinc, he discovered the element cadmium in 1817; cadmium is a common impurity of zinc compounds, though often found only in minute quantities. He was also the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5420 (Hans Christian Ørsted) and #5421 (Friedrich Stromeyer) are correct. Stupendous!

#5422. In chemistry, of an element, it is a measure of its combining power with other atoms when it forms chemical compounds or molecules. What does the term denote?

#5423.  In physics, (of a fluid) 'It is a measure of its resistance to gradual deformation by shear stress or tensile stress'. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness". What does the term denote?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

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Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5422 (Valence) and #5423 (Viscosity) are both correct. Excellent!

#5424. Name the Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate (23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981). In 1935 he published his theory of mesons, which explained the interaction between protons and neutrons, and was a major influence on research into elementary particles. He was an editor of 'Progress of Theoretical Physics', and published the books 'Introduction to Quantum Mechanics' (1946) and 'Introduction to the Theory of Elementary Particles' (1948).

#5425. Name the  Scottish obstetrician and an important figure in the history of medicine (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870). He discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: General Quiz

Hi;

---

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answers : #5424 - Hideki Yukawa and #5425 - James Young Simpson.

The Answer #5424 is correct. Keep it up!

#5426. Name the  German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity (December 26, 1838 – October 8, 1904).

#5427. Name the English chemist (30 November 1761 - 22 February 1815). He is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1803. He also contributed to the proof of the identity of diamond and charcoal. The mineral tennantite is named after him.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.