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RulesEach team (starting from team with the lowest

score), gets to pick a team to give the questionto along with the scoring.(+20/-10 or +10/-5)

The team that gets the question can attemptor pass. If they pass, the question is back tothe team that asked the question with thesame scoring

If they also pass, it goes to the next team

(clockwise) for +5/0

Each team cannot pick themselves, and can picka team only once.

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Answer follows…



American’s trying to shift from Feet to Meter (or Imperial System of Measurements to MetricSystem)



Choose your Team and Scoring



Question 22 – X and Y pleaseX has empathy, X can feel. X is alive.

Why does anyone care about _____'s shiny bluebattery packs when he seems to have created life?Couldn't X shut down pretty much any villain orcriminal in the world anytime he wanted to?

Obnoxious ______, who has issues maintaining anykind of relationship and spends his life playing atshiny metal god-man, just went out and made himself the perfect friend.

X is far away from being achieved, but for thosepeople who need to experience X now, can downloadan update onto their phones. This would allow themto listen to Paul Bettany (who voices X) instead of thefemale default voice for Y on their phones.



Answer follows…



X – Jarvis ; Y - Siri



Question 23 -What is the comic depicting?



Answer follows…



Newton and Leibnitz inventing Calculus.



Question 24 – X and Y please

The terms X and Y are both popularly attributed toAdmiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s.

While she was working on a Mark II Computer atHarvard University, her associates discovered a mothstuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation,whereupon she remarked that they were Y thesystem.

Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining theterm. The moth fit the already existing terminology,so it was saved. There is even a pic of this famousmoth.



Answer follows…



Debug and Debugging



Question 25

e = 2.71828….. the base to which natural logarithmsare taken, is one of the fundamental constants.

e stands for ______ constant which is named after a

famous mathematician.Who?



Answer follows…



Euler



Question 26

Called a little mouse by the Chinese, Elephant’s Trunkby the Swedes, a Spider Monkey by Germans and aSnail by Italians. We know it by a different name.

Hint: The Greeks made a shorthand out of the phraseEach-At and they made a new symbol.

What is it?



Answer follows…



The @ symbol!



Question 27 – X and Y ?

All animals produce Hydrochloric acid in theirstomachs to digest food. The only mammal that doesnot, is the X.

This is because it’s stomach has hardened folds and ituses strong contractions to digest food, along withthe help of some of the soil and dirt it ingests whileeating Y.

Yis it’s primary diet, and Y provides enough formicacid that X does not need any hydrochloric acid at all,using ingested formic acid instead.



Answer follows…



X – Anteater ; Y – Ants/Termites



Question 28 – Project by an internet Giant – What is it?



Answer follows…



Project Loon by Google



Steve Wozniak



Question 29 – X ?

X was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California byMarc Randolph and Reed Hastings.

The idea of X came to Hastings when he was forced

to pay $40 in overdue fines after returning “Apollo13” – the movie well past its due date.

So he decided to set up X, so that people never needto face the issue he did.



Answer follows…



Netflix



Question 30

Save the _____ League is a campaign taken up toprotect the _____, because they form a complexcommunity of living things.

____ family of trees has only 3 subfamilies: The Coast ____, the Giant Sequoia and the Dawn _____ (foundin China).

One of the winning entries for a recent competitionto increase public awareness, is shown (pic on nextslide).



The _____ Cathedral



Answer follows…

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