Quiz
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Category: Quiz
ID the bot in the pic please. It was just in the news announcing an attempt to do something unheard off pretty soon :)
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The Panasonic Evolta. Panasonic just announced that the Evolta is going to try and run the Ironman Triathlon :-o
What’s happening here?
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John Preskill shows off the book he won in a bet against Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne (not in pic) about the black hole information paradox
Guest question from %gqh% shrik. Thanks Saar!
Tribute to a great man. Identify.
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Michael Hart of Gutenberg Project. R.I.P.
Fun question.
What is this?
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Moeny shredding alarm clock which will well, shred your money if the alarm isn’t turned off in time. –krudebox
Though it shares it’s name with one.
Simple… Identify the gizmo.
Guest question from %gqh% Rogi.
Hint: Think about four different color buttons.
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Edmund Berkeley’s Simon
Guest question from %gqh% Rahulk. Thanks Sire!
Connect
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It was either named after (1) or (2). What?
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Erlang –
Identify the animal in (1) [two examples] that became famous because of (2). Pseudobonus points for full story. Points will be given for the ‘original’ name as well as any decently close approximations!
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Heikegani were used by Carl Sagan in his popular science television show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage as an example of unintentional artificial selection
Obscure software question, here we go - identify (1) named after (2)
PS: Sorry for the delay folks. Question stays up longer!
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GNU Octave
Kinda continuing from the theme of the previous question - connect:
Click for big. This is not an exhaustive list :)
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Wilhelm Schlenk, Florence - Italy, Emil Erlenmeyer and Ernst Wilhelm Buchner - typical ‘flasks’ in chem labs around the world are named after these :)