Math-Sci-Tech Trivia Quiz

[Gokul43201]

Math, Science & Technology Related Trivia Questions

Rules :

# answer without googling - makes it more fun and broadens participation
# only one answer allowed per person - same reasons as above

1. Greek Myth : At the time of creation, everything sprang from an unordered and formless primordial space, which was an amalgam of all things to come. What was this space called ?

2. Some of the rules of this school :
- to abstain from beans
- never to walk on highways
- never to break bread

Which school ?

3. WWI : On April 1 1915, a French pilot attached a machine gun to the front of his cockpit and bolted steel wedges on his propeller blades to deflect bullets. This was the first time mounted armament was used in a war-plane.

Name the pilot.

4. When awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, he made the disgruntled remark : "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Who ?

5. What is the noun form of the adjective "state-of-the-art" ? (Sorry for throwing in a language based question)

6. This last one's easy : Whose epitaph reads "He lies here, somewhere" ?

(More on their way...if requested.)

 

[DarkEternal]

i believe 4 is rutherford

 

[Janitor]

My guesses:

1. chaos (or kaos or however one would transliterate it)
2. [ANSWER RESCINDED BY EDIT PER REQUEST]
Should DarkEternal be wrong on 4, maybe Linus Pauling is the right anwer.

 

[Gokul43201]

DarkEternal - correct

Janitor, you are breaking rule #2, rescind one guess before it is seen - both are correct

 

[Janitor]

only one answer allowed per person - same reasons as above

Whoops! Sorry. I didn't read the rules carefully enough.

It won't happen again, I promise.

 

[Gokul43201]

More will follow once the above 6 are answered...patience, Pilutor !

Your request has been noted and will be fulfilled.

 

[recon]

Number 6 sounds like some kind of a statement a scientist would make. My guess would be Heisenberg.

 

[humanino]

3 would be... Roland Garros !
Is it not ?

 

[Gokul43201]

Recon - correct- it's apt that Heisenberg's epitaph is written with "Uncertainty"

humanino - correct - that would be too easy for you parisians. Roland Garros, was also the first European to fly across the Mediterranean; and the tennis stadium in Paris (the venue of the French Open) is named after him.


Okay, folks - 2 and 6 are still up for grabs. Any guesses, anybody ?

Edit : Correction (thanks to The Bob) : It's 2 and 5 that are still open - please feel free to shoot in the dark. There ain't no guillotine for that here.

 

[The Bob]

Okay, folks - 2 and 6 are still up for grabs. Any guesses, anybody ?

What about 5?

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Entropy]

5. Prototype?

 

[Gokul43201]

Nice guess Entropy, but 'prototype' is a different word altogether...whereas I'm looking for the noun form of the given adjective.

 

[Math Is Hard]

2. Cambridge?

Just taking a stab...

 

[Gokul43201]

2. Cambridge?

Just taking a stab...

Well...you missed.

2. Let me throw in a BIG clue here : this school is way older than Cambridge...and I don't believe it exists anymore.

5. This one's pretty strightforward if you just think about it - make a sentence with the noun.

 

[jcsd]

2. That bunch of hippy triangle lovers - the Pythagorean school. Despite the fact that they favoured not eating meat (there was a sliding scale of good food and bad food), they had particular hatred for beans, IIRC it was because they came from the Earth (and therefore were close to Hades).

 

[Gokul43201]

Okay, jcsd with #2. That leaves only #5 to be cracked.

For this one, it's a free for all, including those that have already guessed before.

I can't decide whether I should put the next set of questions here, or start a new thread - ideas ?

 

[jcsd]

6. the state of the art?

 

[Gokul43201]

Awright... jcsd mopping up the plate with that one. The noun form simply lacks the hyphens.

 

[Gokul43201]

To, summarize, here's the answers :

1. Greek Myth : At the time of creation, everything sprang from an unordered and formless primordial space, which was an amalgam of all things to come. What was this space called ?

Chaos, what else ?

2. Some of the rules of this school :
- to abstain from beans
- never to walk on highways
- never to break bread

Which school ?

The Pythagorean School They were really a bunch of wackos, eh ?

3. WWI : On April 1 1915, a French pilot attached a machine gun to the front of his cockpit and bolted steel wedges on his propeller blades to deflect bullets. This was the first time mounted armament was used in a war-plane.

Name the pilot.

Rolland Garros of the French Open tennis stadium fame.

4. When awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, he made the disgruntled remark : "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Who ?

Lord Rutherford of the alpha-particle, Gold Film experiment.

5. What is the noun form of the adjective "state-of-the-art" ?

state of the art, a compound noun ?

6. This last one's easy : Whose epitaph reads "He lies here, somewhere" ?

Werner Heisenberg, of the Uncertainty Principle.

More questions in new thread titled Math-Sci-Tech Trivia, Round II