Friday Quiz time
 

As usual, no Googling please for the first half an hour, no more than three answers per post and, to make life easier for the quizmaster, please do not quote the questions - just give the number and your answer.

1.What are the three parts of the spine called?

2.What is a molluscs tongue called?

3.What is measured in Scoville Units?

4.What is the largest volcano in our solar system?

5.Which satellite of Saturn is nicknamed "the Death Star"?

6.Why are a Blue Jays feathers blue?

7.What is a kernel module?

8.In Robotics, what does SLAM stand for?

9. Who is this famous scientist?http://www.strzelecki.co.uk/images/scientist.gif


10.What comes before Golf?

11.What is the Jupiter Process?

12.What is a variometer used for?

13. In computing what does the acronym RSVP stand for?

14. BHT - You probably find this in most breakfast cereals, what is it?

15.What 2 things is George Eastman famous for?

16. Who invented the first artificial refrigerator?

17. Automatonophobia is the fear of what?

18. And Epistaxiophobia is the fear of?

19. How long does it take for light to reach the Earth from the Sun?

20.How fast does the Earth travel through space?


Enjoy!

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2 radula

3 the 'heat' in peppers - due to capsain

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8 - Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping
10 - Foxtrot
19 - 8.3 minutes

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18) Fear of Nosebleeds?

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3 chilli heat

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17 fear of wind up contraptions

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9 Louis Pasteur

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Both correct

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12 to measure vertical velocity

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8. correct
10. correct
11. not quite

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17 ventriloquist dummies

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correct

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already gone

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5 mimas

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both incorrect I'm afraid

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Incorrect

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Yep Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.

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11 making steel from recycled steel

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Correct

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I'll give you that, better not be looking these up!

A patented process for making cast steel by melting wrought-steel scrap with about 2.0% ferrosilicon, up to about 0.5% ferromanganese, and about 3.0% aluminum, then casting in molds of a special composition.

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WHAT!!!! Variometer measures rate of climb ie vetical speed ie vertical velocity

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Not the type I'm talking about.

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4 sun?

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15) Founding the Kodak company and he invented something photographic ??

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Sorry, 8.317 minutes - I was going on the average I was taught at school, 8 minutes 18 seconds.

Anyhooo

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so its right but you wont award the point?

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No

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No it's not right, ever heard the phrase 'quiz master's answer is final?'

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First bit is right but what else?

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6 refraction of light on the feathers, l beleive theyre black arent they?

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Ok! Correct!

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ever heard of aeroplanes and gliders, they all have one!!

its a tunable transformer

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Correct, feathers are brown though.

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6 is it something to do with diffraction of light?

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4. ok if you dont include the sun, must be Olympus mons on mars

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Yes they do, but there's more than 1 instrument with the same name you know and that's not the one I was looking for, too easy.

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Yes but it's gone I'm afraid

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That is correct. Technically the Sun isn't a volcano.

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7 operating system

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incorrect

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15) part 2 = Rolls of film for his Kodak camera ????

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Yes!

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12 ok last try!!! a device that mesures the dfference to a previous captured value (eg last speed and current sped VERTICALLY ;), presure)

recorded on a graph

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diffraction and refraction are different things, though ;)

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1 cervical, thoracic, lumbar

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Nope sorry. No clues yet!

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he he he he he, dont wind up the quizmaster ;)

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Yep. Ah yes google time

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12 got it!! Barometer

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8 simultanious location amd mapping

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Ah good one ,thanks. I misread the first answer (dam those spellings) but as I've given it away now I can't go back (both yours and the other answer would really be incorrect).

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13 Resource reservation protocol

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12. nope
8. gone already

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What!!! i give up!!

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correct

7, 9, 12, 14, 16 and 20 to go.

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No you still get the point! It wasn't refraction or diffraction, it involves reflection (of blue light).

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no problem :)

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so why is refraction wrong? bending of light

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14 butylated hydroxytoluene (preservative)

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Therefore it's not due to diffraction or refraction that they are blue. Do you want the point or shall I give it to Homealone?

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14 butylated hydroxy toluene - which wasn't googled, but if it is what you had in mind, strz, why only breakfast cereal?

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Correct

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Already gone, did I say only?

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exactly!! transmitted light shows brown, reflected light shows blue ie the light has been refracted

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12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variometer

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Nope (hint:geology)

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:LOL: true :D

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12 measure magnetic forces googled

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At last, well it actually measures variance in magnetic force and not the actual force itself. It one of the ways they found that the Earths magnetic field has reversed before. From the mid-atlantic ridge outwards there are magnetic stripes of rock with reverse polarities.

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I make 7, 9 16 and 20 to be the ones left.

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it is Gary's point, not mine :)

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Any clues for 9?

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16) William Cullen ?

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Ok - radiation

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the point is that the are brown under transmitted light, ie light that has not hit surface. They are blue in reflected light due to refraction

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correct

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7. A functional sub-unit of the linux operating system

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Can you be a little more specific, it's not only Linux.

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9 max planck

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7 driver

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Yup (Planck he certainly wasn't a plank!)

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7. A functional sub-unit of the core code of an operating system...

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That is one type of module.

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typo was corrected b4 ;)

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Ok I'll give it to you.
A kernel module is a set of code that can be dynamically loaded and unloaded into the Operating System kernel at run-time.

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surely windows dll's arent kernels?:confused:

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20) 29.783 km/s (107,218 km/h)

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No their Dynamic Linked Librarys. Typically, a DLL provides one or more particular functions and a program accesses the functions by creating either a static or dynamic link to the DLL. A static link remains constant during program execution while a dynamic link is created by the program as needed. DLLs can also contain just data.

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about the speed you drive :D

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Correct!

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how many questions are left & you argue - oy vey :D

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but the calling progam could be the windows os?:confused:

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heyyyyyyyy, im trying to learn something, this is really interesting. Debates are what forums are for!:p:

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Ok here goes

1. Wicked_and_crazy 5 (7 -2 for arguing with every answer)

2. Marge

3. Angua and Foreverwar

5. Homealone

6.Cottydayler

So I declare wicked_and_crazy, who is exactly that, the winner, well done! :D

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picture quiz (eg scenes from adverts, or sit coms), music quiz with a twist or general knowledge?

preferences please

ill set up a poll

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Ho hum, late again! :dozey:

Cervical, Lumbar and one I can't remember!

Not sure of the name, but it's on Io. [ADDENDUM: Olympus Mons is extinct. The one on IO is active!]

Mimas?

They appear blue when light refracts off them.

Part of an Operating system like Unix.

Foxtrot (or a pint in the club bar!)

Measuring rate of change.

The first mass-market camera (the Box Brownie) and the roll film to go in it.

19. How long does it take for light to reach the Earth from the Sun?

Approximately 8 minutes 16 seconds.

In relation to what?

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

:)