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Jai Ganesh

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Hi bobbym,

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#5526. Name the Jewish German-Hungarian engineer  (December 2, 1906 – December 7, 1977) who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33-1/3 rpm phonograph disc, the standard for incorporating multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single disc for two generations. The LP was introduced by Columbia's Goddard Lieberson in 1948. Lieberson was later president of Columbia Records from 1956–71 and 1973–75.

#5527.  Name the American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as high as 885 km/h (550 mph).

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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;

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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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Hi bobbym,

Both the Answers, #5526 (Peter Carl Goldmark) and #5527 (Robert Hutchings Goddard ), are correct! Exemplary!

#5528. Name the French physicist  (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975). In 1939, she discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. She was a student of Marie Curie. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie. She died of cancer in 1975.

#5529. Name the German chemist (December 26, 1838 – October 8, 1904) who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity. In 1886, he was provided with a new mineral from the Himmelsfürst mine near Freiberg. The mineral, called argyrodite, was found by chemists to contain silver and sulfur. When he subsequently analyzed the mineral, he found that the individual components only added up to about 93–94% of its total mass, leading him to suspect that a new and previously unknown element must be present. After additional chemical purification steps over several months, he isolated the pure element, germanium, on February 6, 1886 and published his results.

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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;

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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 mathaholic and bobbym,

The Answers : #5528 - Marguerite Perey and #5529 - Clemens Winkler.

The Answers #5528 and #5529 are both correct. Magnificent, mathaholic!

The Answer #5529 is correct. Excellent, bobbym!

#5530. Name the French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium (18 April 1838 – 28 May 1912). His chief work, however, was in spectroscopy and its application to rare earth elements. He analysed spectra of 35 elements, using the Bunsen burner, electric spark or both to induce luminescence and in this way discovered the lanthanides samarium (1880), dysprosium (1886) and europium (1890). He also isolated gadolinium in 1885, the element which was previously discovered in 1880 by J.C. Galissard de Marignac.

#5531. Name the French chemist born in Dijon, France (12 February 1777–27 September 1838). He was acknowledged by Humphry Davy and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac as the true discoverer of iodine. He went into manufacturing high-quality iodine and its salts in 1822. In 1831 he was awarded 6,000 francs as part of the Montyon Prize by L'Academie royale des sciences for the medicinal value of this element.

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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

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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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Hi bobbym,

The Answers :- #5530 - Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, also called François Lecoq de Boisbaudran and #5531 - Bernard Courtois, also spelled Barnard Courtois.

#5532.  Name the Russian physician, playwright and author (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. He renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced his Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.

#5533.  Name the writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English  (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924). He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent), he was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit. His notable works : The math of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911).

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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;

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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 - #5532 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and #5533 - Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski).

The Answer #5532 is correct! Neat work!

#5534. Name the English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

#5535.  Name the English writer (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) , remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, as the greatest art critic of his age, and as a drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He was also a painter. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Notable works - Characters of Shakespear's Plays, Table-Talk, Liber Amoris, The Spirit of the Age, Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy, The Plain Speaker.

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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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bumpkin

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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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Hi bobbym,

The Answers : #5534 - Edward FitzGerald and #5535 - William Hazlitt.

The Answer #5534 is correct! Excellent!

#5536.  Name the major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906). He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.

#5537. Name the Irish classical scholar and poet  (13 December 1798 - 14 July 1876) . As a commentator on Virgil, he will always deserve to be remembered, notwithstanding the occasional eccentricity of his notes and remarks. The first fruits of his researches were published at Dresden in 1853 under the quaint title Notes of a Twelve Years Voyage of Discovery in the first six Books of the Eneis. These were embodied, with alterations and additions, in the Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis (1873-1892), of which only the notes on the first book were published during the author's lifetime. As a textual critic  He was exceedingly conservative. His notes, written in a racy and interesting style, are especially valuable for their wealth of illustration and references to the less-known classical authors.

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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;

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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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Hi bobbym,

The Answers : #5536 - Henrik Ibsen and #5537 - James Henry.

#5538. What does the abbreviation OECD signify? (An international economic organisation of 34 countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is a forum of countries describing themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seeking answers to common problems, identify good practices and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members.)

#5539. What does the abbreviation OPCW signify? (An intergovernmental organisation, located in The Hague, Netherlands. The organisation was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.)

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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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bumpkin

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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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Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5538 - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development;   #5539 - Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

The Answer #5539 you have given is close and acceptable. Good work!

#5540. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth. Which date and year was this accomplished?

#5541. Name the French philosopher  (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857). He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Influenced by the utopian socialist Henri Saint-Simon, he developed the positive philosophy in an attempt to remedy the social malaise of the French Revolution, calling for a new social doctrine based on the sciences. He was a major influence on 19th-century thought, influencing the work of social thinkers such as Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot.

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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

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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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Hi bobbym,

Good work, bobbym (#5540)!

#5542. Name the American professor and author  (April 15, 1927 – March 28, 1994).  He wrote about the culture and personalities of the American music industry both in books and as a contributor to magazines. He is best known for his bestselling book on Lenny Bruce and his controversial biographies of Elvis Presley and John Lennon.

#5543. Name the Dane  (July 4, 1907 Frederiksberg, Denmark — July 27, 2003 Mumbai) who co-founded the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T). He was educated at the University of Copenhagen (and what is now the Technical University of Denmark). He came to India in 1937 as a chemical engineer working for F. L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen. Partnering with his former schoolmate and fellow employee Søren Kristian Toubro, he set up Larsen & Toubro in 1938. The idea of L&T was conceived during a holiday in Matheran, a hill station near Bombay. He was a risk-taker while Toubro was more conservative. Larsen and Toubro saw opportunities in India at time, when few Europeans had realised the country's potential for industrial growth.

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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;

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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 : #5542 - Albert Harry Goldman and #5543 -  Henning Holck-Larsen.

#5544. Name the term used to describe a type of pain related to the gallbladder that occurs when a gallstone transiently obstructs the cystic duct and the gallbladder contracts. 

#5545. Name the term biology : More commonly known as self-digestion, it refers to the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes. It may also refer to the digestion of an enzyme by another molecule of the same enzyme.

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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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bumpkin

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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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Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5544 (Biliary colic) s correct! Marvelous!

#5546.  Name the balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (31 January 1769 – 18 August 1823). He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.

#5547. Name the merchant and alchemist in Hamburg, Germany  (c. 1630 – c.1692 or c. 1710). He discovered phosphorus around 1669.

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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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bumpkin

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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 #5547 (Hennig Brand) is correct! Illustrious!

#5548. Name the English chemist (16 August 1863 – 1 May 1949). He undertook much of the pioneering work into the development of silicon polymers (silicones) at Nottingham. He pioneered the study of the organic compounds of silicon (organosilicon) and coined the term silicone.  His research formed the basis for the worldwide development of the synthetic rubber and silicone-based lubricant industries.

#5549. Name the English inventor who patented the first typewriter in 1714 (c. 1683–1771). He worked as a waterworks engineer for the New River Company, and submitted two patents during his lifetime. One was for a coach spring, while the other was for a "Machine for Transcribing Letters". The machine that he invented appears, from the patent, to have been similar to a typewriter, but nothing further is known.
In 1706 he obtained a patent (No. 376) for an improvement in carriage springs, and also in 1714 another patent (No. 395) for an apparatus "for impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another, so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print, very useful in settlements and public records". The patent contains no description of the apparatus, but it has been regarded as the first proposal for a typewriter.

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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

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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.