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Jai Ganesh

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Hi bobbym,

# 5600.  Name the English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography  (13 February 1766 – 29 December 1834).  His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a a prediction of a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production.. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man". As an Anglican cleric, he saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour., he wrote:

#5601. Name the  revolutionary Marxist theorist (5 April 1923 – 20 July 1995). He is probably remembered most of all for being a tireless rationalist populariser of basic Marxist ideas, for his books on late capitalism and Long-Wave theory, and for his moral-intellectual leadership in the Trotskyist movement. Despite critics claiming that he was 'too soft on Stalinism', he remained a classic rather than a conservative Trotskyist: writing about the Soviet bureaucracy but also why capitalism hadn’t suffered a death agony. His late capitalism was late in the sense of delayed rather than near-death. He still believed though that this system hadn’t overcome its tendency to crises.  He was co-founder, with Livio Maitan, of the International Institute for Research and Education, which was selected as the home of the  Study Centre after this death. Working together with the  Foundation, the IIRE plays a key role in expanding the circulation of s works.

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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.

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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 Answer #5600 (Thomas Robert Malthus) is correct! Good work!

#5602. Name the Swedish industrialist and inventor who pioneered the production of safety matches (1815–1888). He is most of all recognized to have improved the safety match and made it possible to commercially exploit it. The safety match had been invented and patented by the Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch (1788–1862) in 1844, but at that time, it was too difficult to produce it. In 1845, he started to experiment with these new type of matches in a small workshop he had rented.  In 1846 his younger brother Carl Frans (1823–1917) joined his small workshop. In 1847 they were ready to set up a production plant and bought an estate on the coast of Lake Vättern where they built a large match factory.

#5603. Name the American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon (April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937).  He was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done. He was an organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for Neoprene.

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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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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 Answer #5603 (Wallace Carothers) is correct! Good work!

#5604. Name the term / phrase in Physics : The lowest temperature at which a combustible liquid or solid produces sufficient vapor near its surface to generate an ignitable mixture with air.

#5605. Name the term / phrase in Physics / Chemistry : The particular temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a given substance are all at equilibrium with one another.  Alternatively, the temperature and pressure at which a substance can exist in equilibrium in the liquid, solid, and gaseous states.

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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 #5604 (Flashpoint or flash point) and #5605 (Triple point) are correct! Magnificent!

#5606. Name the Swedish chemist (10 September, 1797 – 15 October, 1858) who discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.  He discovered Lanthanum in 1839, when he partially decomposed a sample of cerium nitrate by heating and treating the resulting salt with dilute nitric acid.

#5607. Name the  Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor (10 February 1840 – 18 June 1905). He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite.

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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,

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#5608. Name the Swiss chemist and textile engineer (19 October 1872 – 13 July 1954) who in 1908 invented cellophane. He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1937.

#5609. Name the metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England (29 December 1813 – 29 June 1890). He created Parkesine, the first man-made plastic. (Parkesine is the trademark for the first man-made plastic, nitrocellulose.)

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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 Answer #5608 (Jacques E. Brandenberger) is correct! Good work!

#5610. Name the flame lamp used in photometry that burns amyl acetate.The lamp was invented in 1884 and he proposed its use as a standard flame for photometric purposes with a luminous intensity unit of the HK. The lamp was specified as having a 40 mm flame height and an 8 mm diameter wick. provided the German, Austrian, and Scandinavian standard for luminosity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The unit of light intensity was defined as that produced by the lamp burning amyl acetate with a 40 mm flame height.

#5611. The erg is a unit of energy and work equal to 10−7 joules. It originated in the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units. It has the symbol erg. What is the origin of the word 'erg'?

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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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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

Please note, the Questions are numbered #5610 and #5611.(A mistake in numbering from #5604, #5605 to #5610, #5611 have erroneously been carried forwarded).

#5612. Name the term which describes how cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), possibly from anthropogenic pollution, may increase cloud lifetime and hence increase the amount of solar radiation reflected from clouds. Because it does not directly interact with incoming or outgoing radiation, it has an indirect effect on climate. Aerosol particles act as CCNs creating more droplets of a smaller size. These take more time to coalesce to raindrop size (>100μm), reducing precipitation efficiency and hence increasing the lifetime of the cloud. 

#5613. Name the vehicle emissions control device that converts toxic pollutants in exhaust gas to less toxic pollutants by catalyzing a redox reaction (oxidation or reduction). They are used with internal combustion engines fueled by either petrol (gasoline) or diesel—including lean-burn engines.

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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;

Do you want to continue with the numbers of the questions as they are?

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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,

Let the numbers be continued from #5612, #5613....

The Answer #5613 is correct! Good work!

#5614. Name the physician, poet and political radical, was one of the chief architects of the Society of United Irishmen (1754 – 5 February 1820). He is known as the first to refer in print to Ireland as "the emerald isle" in his poem "When Erin first rose".

#5615. Who are ' Magyars '?

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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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Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5615 is correct! Good work!

#5616.Name the American businessman and CEO of Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS), one of the internet's first search engines and most visited web sites in the world until the company's $12.5B acquisition by Telefónica subsidiary Terra Networks in 2000. Prior to the acquisition, he served as the company's only President and CEO since its inception in 1995 and with just $2M in venture capital funding led Lycos to the fastest IPO in history in 1996 and then to membership in the Nasdaq 100. Lycos became one of the first profitable internet businesses in the world, beating earnings estimates for 19 consecutive quarters.

#5617.  Name web search engine currently owned by Lycos. It was launched in May 1996 by Wired magazine. In the 1990s, it was one of the most popular search engines on the World Wide Web. It became a popular tool with search results served by the Inktomi database and directory results provided originally by LookSmart and then DMOZ since mid-1999. It also used search data from Direct Hit for a period, which was a tool that used click-through data to manipulate results. It was launched using a "new links" strategy of marketing, claiming to update its search database more often than its competitors. It also offered free webpage hosting, but only for a short time, and it was taken down without any notice to its users. It was one of the first search engines to offer the ability to search within search 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.

bobbym

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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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5616 (Bob Davis) is correct! Excellent!

#5618. LFT LCDs are used in appliances including television sets, computer monitors, mobile phones,  video game systems, personal digital assistants, navigation systems and prokectors. What are LFT LCDs?

#5619. With reference to a CPU, what do MIPS stand for?

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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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Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

The question  #5618 ought to have been 'TFT - LCD' and the Answer 'Thin film transistor - liquid crystal display'. A typographic error. Regretted.

The Answer #5619 is correct! Excellent!

#5620.  What does MIME signify? (Internet jargon)

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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

Posts: 48,406

Re: General Quiz

Hi bobbym,

#5621. In which country did Bindibu Expedition took place? (1957 - 1965)

#5622. Name the City of Winds.

Last edited by Jai Ganesh (2015-08-21 23:14:44)

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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,

Good attempt,  bobbym!

#5623.  In which year was the first modern environmental Earthh day obsrrve?

#5624.  What does the acronym IRENA signify? (Environmental Organization)

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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.