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Rules Infinite Bounce

Infinite Pounce

+10/0 on bounce and pass

+10/-10 on a pounce


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Question 1In the 1940s the German government prohibitedGerman citizens from accepting the Nobel Prize.

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II,Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved thegold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue(1914) and James Franck (1925) in _____ _____ toprevent the Nazis from confiscating them. It wassubsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the

jarone of perhaps hundreds on the shelvingcontained common chemicals.

After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solutionundisturbed and precipitated the gold out of _____

_____. They re-cast the medals and again presented

them to Laue and Franck.


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Aqua Regia


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Question 2

Lincos (an abbreviation of theLatin phrase linguacosmica) is a language first described in 1960 by Dr.Hans Freudenthal in his book Lincos: Design of aLanguage for _________, Part 1.

Freudenthal considered that such a language should beeasily understood by people not acquainted with anyregular syntax or language that we know.

Ever since 1999, in a remote location in Ukraine, the

language is being used to discuss topics regardingPhysics, Basic mathematics and astronomy, over andover again.

What is this language actually used for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin


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Contacting ET/ Cosmic Intercourse


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Question 3

The Nokia ringtone is an extremely famous one

The music was not only made to be catchy, but alsorepetitive for a particular reason.

Some very clever audio engineers who knew how tospeak the _____, and not just write it as dots anddashes probably came up with the tune at Nokia.

What is so special about the tune?


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Morse code for SMS and Connecting People inNokias Tune.


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Question 4 ( Image on next slide )

This bird inhabits the upper canopy of rainforests andhas a small wingspan and larg tail.

Its name refers to the ____ of Ancient Greekmythology. These were wind spirits that took thedead to Hades, and were said to have a body like aneagle and the face of a human.

So the bird was called so, and was named by Linnaeus

himself.

They even inspired Fawkes the Phoenix from theHarry Potter series.


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Harpy Eagle


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Question 5

Scientists from MIT recently created a new kind ofpreviously unobserved form of matter, by making useof a phenomenon called the Rydberg blockade, toallow photons to interact and bind with molecules.

Such a great discovery of a photonic molecule hascaptured headlines everywhere since real life Xswere not far away, due to light-matter interaction.X

was once voted as the most popular sci-fi deviceever.

What is X, that could be realised due to such aphotonic molecule?


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Lightsaber from Star Wars


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Question 6 X and the blank please?

Santiago Cajal was a great medical scientist who wasknown for his legendary drawings and is credited forthe discovery of the ____.

When he put some tissue under a microscope andstained it, he managed to get a drawing of ____ andcalled a part of it X, (Latin word for tree), because itreally looked like a tree.

(Image on next slide)

So what is the branched projection X, which forms amajor part of the ____, and conducts most of the

electrochemical stimulation.


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Dendrite (dendron means tree in Latin) andNeuron


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Question 7 Which famous award? "Why five words? It doesn't..." - Jerry Seinfeld

(Outstanding Comedic Performance for his webseries Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee).

Andrew Mason - "Its short for Group Coupon."

Groupon won the Breakout of the Year Award andAwards for a Retail website.

"Person of the Year. Ironic" - The Person of the YearAward went to IBM supercomputer Watson.

"It's pronounced 'Jif' not 'Gif.'" - Steve Wilhite,inventor of the .GIF file (Lifetime Achievement).

"Anyone want a free X?" -- The Onion (Best Humor

Site).


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Webby Awards


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Question 8

Bars of aluminium were displayed alongside FrenchCrown jewels, and Napoleon used to give his mostimportant guests aluminium cutlery, and the lessworthy ones got to dine with just mere silver. Thatshow expensive it was!

We all know aluminium is very cheap now, and this isbecause of the change in aluminium production

process.

The invention of what caused this massive andpermanent decline in its value?

(Image on the next slide)


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This is the first dynamo/motor invented byZenobe Gramme. Its called the Grammemachine.

Thus using abundant amounts of electricity hasbrought down aluminium production process.


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Question 9

In Euclidean geometry, the _______ ____ theoremsays that, if a point P is chosen inside rectangle ABCD,then,

The theorem also applies to points outside therectangle, although the proof is harder to visualize inthis case. This theorem is named as such becausewhen the involved line segments are drawn, theysomewhat resemble the _______ ____

(Image in next slide)


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British Flag theorem


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Question 10

In an acidic solution (usually lemon juice), the

lawsone molecule can react via a process called

Michael addition with keratin to create a stain.

The lawsone molecule is also known as hennatonic

acid and is naturally obtained from leaves of the only

plant from lawsonia genus.

What simple traditional process are we describing

chemically?


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Mehndi


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Audience Questions!


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What is this a recording of?

Filtered and remastered version of a recording isbeing played


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Thomas Alva Edison recording on the

Phonograph.He recorded a brass instrument,laughter, and Mary had a little Lamb.

What is this called?


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What is this called?


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Blue Screen of Death


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What did he develop?

In the mid-1970s a professor at the Department ofInterior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts andCrafts in Budapest built as a teaching tool to help hisstudents solve the structural problem of moving the

parts independently without the entire mechanismfalling apart.

The professor soon discovered a better use for it and

later obtained a patent for it. It later became widelyrecognized and even competitive sports developedaround it.


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