- Calvin's Quiz #453 - 1 Update
- QFTCI16 Game 6, Rounds 2-3: experiments, before-and-afters - 1 Update
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Aug 21 02:34AM -0500 In article <d710e866-6526-4e2b-a8f4-f76a1e82e691@googlegroups.com>, 334152@gmail.com says... > 1 Despite being only 26.6 seconds in length it is probably the most scrutinised piece of film of all time. What did Abraham Zapruder famously record? assassination of JFK > 2 Which (fictional) race of extra-terrestrial mutants hails from the planet Skaro? > 3 Which 1983 musical romantic comedy did Barbra Streisand direct, co-write, co- produce and star in? > 4 Marlee Matlin won a best actress Oscar for her role in which 1986 film? Children Of A Lesser God > 5 Which American newspaper is sometimes known as the "old gray lady"? New York Times > 6 In what modern day country is Mount Ararat located? Turkey -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Aug 21 02:29AM -0500 In article <5Y-dnUEm64nIsyvKnZ2dnUU7-SHNnZ2d@giganews.com>, msb@vex.net says... > forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside > the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or > describe it. Doppler > or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a > 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and > hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion? atoms have a positively charged nucleus > color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac > Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism > to settle this question? it returned the refracted light to white light > but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's > ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he > use a large pendulum to provide this proof? the pendulum swung while the earth roted under it. > 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot > in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why? to show that maggots would not form if flies had no contact with the meat > the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground. > Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have > proved? that acceleration of an object due to gravity is independent of the object's mass > never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between > the two places and some measurements he could make himself, > what did he calculate? circumference of the earth > hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart; > but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart > on their own. What had kept them together? vaccuum > were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using > a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks. > What was Milgram actually trying to measure? obedience to authorithy > into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical > voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops > stopped moving. What was he measuring? charge of the electron > The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last > #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and > it did win one. Katy Perry Como > and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as > in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015 > they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. James Taylor Swift > history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different > teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World > Series with. Branch Rickey Henderson > The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to > Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in > English, or at least in something like English. Henry James Joyce > in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center, > Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for > Literature; and he died in 1951. Upton Sinclair Lewis -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
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