Category: Quiz
Recent pictures. Question is, from where?
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The photographs are from Joyland - a World of Warcraft + StarCraft themed adventure park in China.
Connect. We’re looking for the name of an organization.
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) so-called cornerstone missions - respectively named after Gaia, Max Planck, Rosetta and William Herschel
What’s going on here? Give us the name of the ’event’, please.
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Pac-manhattan - a ‘real life’ enactment of Pac-Man on the streets of New York.
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Who are these guys?
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Doom development team – John Carmack et al.
If you were doing something according to any of the below “styles”, what would you be doing?
The list is not exhaustive and 2 is just a hint.
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Quoting Sumanth Patlolla -
This happened much before Kinect. Identify.
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Sega Activator
The dude in 1 proposed 2 to explain something. Who is this dude? What are those funky curves known as?
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Quoting Anjul - This is Ptolemy who used these diagrams to explain the orbits of planets under his geocentric theory of the universe. Those funky curves are called deferents and epicycles.
Identify the controversy
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Elisha Gray and Graham Bell’s telephone invention controversy
There are two places marked on the map below (with the usual Google map markers). What is the significance of the two places, and the major geographical feature you see in the map?
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Amazon.com’s first page rendering engine was called Obidos, named after the town on the banks of the Amazon. This was phased out and replaced with Gurupa, another town on the banks of the Amazon and seemingly ‘upstream’ :)
Identify the lady in the pictures below:
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Stephanie Kwolek - scientist and inventor of Kevlar, while at DuPont.