Category: Quiz
Identify this late-19th-century/early-20th-century inventor. He created some famous cameras, steganography techniques and also what some call the first electronic ‘search engine’ for searching for documents.
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This term has its origins in an old kind of memory (pictured below). The term remains popular in programming (well, debugging) circles with a very similar meaning to how it originated, although the technology has moved on. (Variants of the term are often used, however, to mean things that have nothing to do at all about the origin, especially among management types). What term?
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‘Core Dump’. Core dumps would dump the state of ferrite core memory (pic) to allow programmers to debug causes for crash.
What’s the connection? Don’t look too deep.
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Jonathon Coulton singing ‘Still Alive’ the end credits song of Portal, and Lisa Miskovsky’s official music video of her song ‘Still Alive’, used in the game Mirror’s Edge. Two wonderful tracks in two amazing games, coincidentally sharing the same name!
Geek overload in this one. Name the set -
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Maia Weinstock’s Scitweeps - set of lego minifigs of science personalities with twitter accounts :)
Famous video, famous experiment. What did this experiment confirm?
Yep, the audio is muted out.
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The famous footage of the Apollo 15 astronaut that dropped a hammer & feather on the moon to prove Galileo’s theory that in the absence of atmosphere, objects will fall at the same rate regardless of mass. – Quoting Manish
What do astronomers and sky watchers refer to this disparity in visibility as?
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Light Pollution or Bortle Dark-Sky Scale
Super famous educator. Who he?
P.S: As you might have noticed, Gremlins have started to win over us. But, we are working on a rail gun that should solve all our problems :P
Until then, questions will be kept open longer based on how late it was posted :)
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Salman Khan of Khan academy fame.
Identify and connect.
Eye candy. Yay!
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Alesia Glidewell is the body and voice model for Chell in Portal – Quoting Thejas V R
OK the snide remark in the title was wholly unnecessary.
Identify the award:
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The ‘pwnie’ awards, handed out every year for people who’ve made good/bad achievements in security research.
Who made these watches and coffee makers?
well, yes, name the “biggest” company involved. Bonus cookie points if you name the common “technology” these two used.
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Well, yes, Microsoft made watches and coffee makers (Software for it). It was called SPOT: Smart Personal Objects Technology. Good old glory days of tech randomness :D