The Science Trivia Quiz

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Originally posted by bonkey

Absolutely not. Every negative integer is divisible by 1, -1, and itself which means that it would have at least three divisors.

jc

If that was to be true then there would be no prime numbers as every prime number would have a negative prime too, (7 =-7 / -1) (7 = 7 / 1) correct me there if my maths is wrong, so there would be four numbers which when divided make seven.

The reason that there are no negative primes is because by definition a prime number is a number that has no positive divisors besides one and itself.

Again long time since college, all corrections gladly accepted...

PhilipM.

Heres a few questions....

What was strange about the first glue issued in Britain in around 1750?

Why was there a delay in the invention of traffic lights?

Why did Coca Cola not sell very well when introduced to China? Victor..true ...but what was the meaning..

Who invented plastic? Victor

The Camera was invented in which country?

Dr. Edward Jenner invented a vaccine for which disease? Victor

Who were the first people to make and use paper? ciaran

What old English unit of area was originally the size that a yoke of oxen could plough in a day?Victor

What is the term given to the process by which butterflies change from a caterpillar to a flying adult?congoose

What kind of creature is an ibex?

The bikini was invented in 1946. What was it named after? ciaran/victor ..good addition

What is a Bombay duck?ciaran/victor

The first electronic watch using a battery was invented in which year?

What is the alternative name for a one-humped camel?congoose

Pottery was invented way back in the year... 7900B.C Victor



Come on there's A FEW more questions left
Google away, At least we all learn something new.
and You get your name by the question you get right...

Congoose

Theses are mostly guesses:

Originally posted by PhilipM.
Who were the first people to make and use paper?
The Chinese?

What old English unit of area was originally the size that a yoke of oxen could plough in a day?
A hectare?

What is the term given to the process by which butterflies change from a caterpillar to a flying adult?
Metamorphosis

What kind of creature is an ibex?
Um, I think they have horns anyway

What is the alternative name for a one-humped camel?
A dromedary!

Ciaran

Originally posted by PhilipM.
The Camera was invented in which country?
Japan? (just the sound of the word!)

Who were the first people to make and use paper?
Egyptians

What kind of creature is an ibex?
An ox I think.

The bikini was invented in 1946. What was it named after?
An island where a nuclear bomb was tested (or something like that).

What is a Bombay duck?
A fish?

Victor

What was strange about the first glue issued in Britain in around 1750?

Animal based?

Why was there a delay in the invention of traffic lights?

No electricity or light bulbs?

Why did Coca Cola not sell very well when introduced to China?

Poor translation of the name

Who invented plastic?

Dr. Leo Baekeland – Bakelite

The Camera was invented in which country?

Germany? - See http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0032i7

Dr. Edward Jenner invented a vaccine for which disease?

Smallpox

Who were the first people to make and use paper?

The Chinese

What old English unit of area was originally the size that a yoke of oxen could plough in a day?

Acre

What is the term given to the process by which butterflies change from a caterpillar to a flying adult?

Metamorphosis

What kind of creature is an ibex?

An antelope

The bikini was invented in 1946. What was it named after?

It was actually “invented” earlier (French artist in the 1930s), but named after Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.

What is a Bombay duck?

A small edible lizardfish

The first electronic watch using a battery was invented in which year?

1970?

What is the alternative name for a one-humped camel?

Dromedary

Pottery was invented way back in the year...

about 8,000 BC or earlier.

Tyrrial

oh he's good!

Victor

Originally posted by Tyrrial
oh he's good!

Ah, but am I right?

PhilipM.

If you got the question right it will say so in the original post. k.


more to come soon.

PhilipM.

Some More ...
1) What does the Grandfather Paradox state?
2) What is time dilation?
3) How can we measure that gravity slows time?
4) In Carl Sagan's sci-fi novel Contact, Jodie Foster travels to a different star system and back, without the passing of time. How?
5)What is a wormhole?
6) What is one reason a wormhole may be useless as a time machine?
7) What is the biggest obstacle to travelling through a wormhole?
8)What is the Chronology Protection Conjecture?
9) What is the arrow of time?

Woden

Originally posted by Dataisgod
New questions

Chemistry.

In aqueous solution which of these group 1 metal ions is the largest

a)Lithium
b)Sodium
c)Potassium
d)Cesium

Which of these has the highest boiling point/melting point

a)Lithium fluoride
b)Sodium chloride
c)Potassium bromide
d)Cesium iodide

Physics

The temperature below which a material becomes superconducting is known as?

The transition between fluid and superfluid for Helium-4 occurs at approximately 2.17K this is known as the what point?

Particles of integer spin (bosons) obey which statistics?

Particles of half-integer spin (fermions) obey which statistics?

In approximately what wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum does visible light occur?

Answers

1) Lithium
2) Lithium Flouride
3) The critical temperature
4) The lambda point
5) Bose-Einstein statistics
6) Fermi-Dirac statistics
7) bout 400-700nm

silverside

1) It points out that if time travel were possible, you could go back in time and kill your grandfather. Cen be got around by using a 'parallel universe' approach.

2) don't know the strict definition but if you go very fast time slows down.

3) has been experimentally shown by measuring signals from e.g. GPS satellites

4) ???

5) A shortcut through spacetime

6/7) Would get scrambled on the way through. Energy required to create one of usable size is enormous.

8) ???

9) just a concept (?) - how do you define the direction of time except by saying that entropy increases with increasing time, you can't remember things in the future, etc etc.

Victor

Originally posted by PhilipM.
Why was there a delay in the invention of traffic lights?

Can you give us some context here? Do you mean a delay in the 20th century or generally? In part the delay was due to lack of need before 1800 (not enough traffic), lack of vehicle speed before 1900, lack of electricity, light bulbs and suitable switching mechanism in the late 1900s and in part because no one thought of it ... it goes on.

Why did Coca Cola not sell very well when introduced to China? Victor..true ...but what was the meaning..

Happy mouth?

The Camera was invented in which country?

Read my link above, there is no one answer without clarifiaction of what a "camera" is?

What kind of creature is an ibex?

I said antelope but one reference says a goat, where does one draw the line? Of course the are (mostly) mountain types.

PhilipM.

Why was there a delay in the invention of traffic lights?

A pair of red and green gas lamps were installed outside The Houses of Parliament but it blew up and killed a passing policeman....I know silly question

Why did Coca Cola not sell very well when introduced to China? Victor..true ...but what was the meaning..



The Camera was invented in which country?
Answer France no arguement

What kind of creature is an ibex?

An antelope is not a mountain goat!
Mountain Goat is correct.

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bonkey

Coca Cola....

Are you thinking of "Bite the Wax Tadpole" ???

If so, its not entirely true...but close enough.

Check out Snopes (as usual) : http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp


The corrolary of this is that after enough such embarrassments, companies started spending significant money on making sure their slogan was not offensive in any language.

I believe Wang Computers spent $500,000 in developing their "internationally correct" slogan of "Wang Cares".

jc

(edited to correct süpendiong to spending.)

PhilipM.

Yup thats what I was thinking alright "Bite the wax tadpole".