Cassia Quiz- AV

2015

Explain the adjacent figureAnswer:ANALEMMA, the track on the earth where the sun is at 90 degrees during one year. It is NOT a straight line since the earth’s orbit around the sun is not circular but elliptical and the earth moves faster or slower around the sun at different times

Blue BananaThe adjacent figure is called the Blue Banana of Europe. What does it represent?

ANSWER:It is the area showing the most highly populated areas in Europe, from Manchester to Milan, and it represents the true “heart” of Europe.

Artificial Tree?What is the mechanical gadget in the picture actually do?

ANSWER: It is a Wind Turbine. Each Tree-shaped Turbine can generate 3kW of power

What Letter is this • AUDIO CLUE

• Play Taylor Swift’s “Dear John”

A "Dear John letter" (Dear Jane for females) is a letter written to a husband or boyfriend by his significant other to inform him their relationship is over, usually because the author has found another lover.

Maths QuestionMary Boole, the wife of George Boole was a mathematician in her own right and invented the practice of constructing straight-line envelopes of mathematical curves using colored thread through a pattern of holes pricked in cardboard.

What is this method called?

BONUS for Audience: What did her husband George Boole invent?

Maths Question

• “Now I live a drear existence in ragged suitsAnd cruel taxation suffering”

• This statement is a mnemonic for a very well known number. Which one?

Pi

Maths QuestionOn which mathematical concept is the construction of this tree based upon?

Named the Pythagoras Tree by Dutch mathematician Albert Bosman in 1942

Science Question

• His magical all-seeing eyeenabled cloud-bound planes to fly

• but now by some ironic twistit spots the speeding motorist

This Inventor wrote this poem ( only a part of it is shown) after he was arrested for speeding

What had he invented?

And Name the Inventor

RADARSir Robert Watson-Watt

Maths QuestionWhat is curious about the adjacent Magic Square?

It works even upside down since

( all numbers are symmetric)

LiteratureWhich famous literary event is captured in the painting shown?

The death of Sherlock Holmes and Prof Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls

TECHNOLOGY/LITERATURE

• I got Joe, after Laurine nearly got me. You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it’s got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get. It’s hooked in to the tank, which has the Carson Circuit all fixed up with relays. Say you punch ‘Station SNAFU’ on your logic. Relays in the tank take over an’ whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin’ comes on your logic’s screen. Or you punch ‘Sally Hancock’s Phone’ an’ the screen blinks an’ sputters an’ you’re hooked up with the logic in her house an’ if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection.

This is an extract from a 1946 story by Sci-Fi writer Murray Leinster, called A Logic called Joe.

What is the thing the paragraph describes?

ANS: The Internet

HistoryThis is a picture from World War 2

What place does it show?

ANS: Nagasaki, before and after it was bombed

TECHNOLOGY/FILMS

• IT'S SHOWTIME • TALK TO THE HAND "hello

world" • YOU HAVE BEEN

TERMINATED

Shown alongside is a programme that when executed prints out the message string “hello world”

In which language has the program been written?

Ans: ArnoldC, a programming language that uses statements made by Arnold Schwarzenegger in movies

History

• Extract from a Patent• The statue is that of a female figure standing

erect upon a pedestal or block, the body being thrown slightly over to the left, so as to gravitate upon the left leg, the whole figure being thus in equilibrium, and symmetrically arranged with respect to a perpendicular line or axis passing through the head and left foot. The right leg, with its lower limb thrown back, is bent, resting upon the bent toe, thus giving grace to the general attitude of the figure. The body is clothed in the classical drapery, being a stola, or mantle gathered in upon the left shoulder and thrown over the skirt or tunic or under-garment, which drops in voluminous folds upon the feet. The right arm is thrown up and stretched out, with a flamboyant torch grasped in the hand. The flame of the torch is thus held high up above the figure.

What is the article that is being patented?

Ans: The Statue of Liberty. Patent application by Auguste Bartholdi in 1879.

Geography /TriviaThe map in the picture shows the Triple Divide Peak in the Rocky Mountains connected to three different oceans/seas/

What do these lines represent?

ANS: Water flows. A drop of water on this peak can go to any of the three seas, since the peak is a part of three watersheds.

Humor/ Trivia• A very large room for

calculating Greatest Common Measure.

• To this a small one might be attached for Least Common Multiple

• A piece of open ground for keeping Roots

• It would be advisable to keep Square Roots by themselves

• A room for reducing Fractions to their Lowest Terms.

The following facilities were suggested for a school of Math at Oxford. Who made the suggestion?

Ans: Lewis Carroll

Music

• Scrambled eggsHave an omelette with some Muenster cheesePut your dishes in the wash bin pleaseSo I can clean the scrambled eggs

• Join me doThere’s a lot of eggs for me and youI’ve got ham and cheese and bacon tooSo go get two and join me do

• Fried or sunny sideJust aren’t rightThe mix-bowl begsQuick, go get a pan, and we’ll scramble up some eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs

• Scrambled eggsGood for breakfast, dinner time or brunchDon’t buy six or twelve, buy a bunchAnd we’ll have a lunch on scrambled eggs

These were the working lyrics of a song that is now part of English music folklore.

Which song?

ANS: Yesterday, by the Beatles

ArtThe picture is allegorical painting Taste, Hearing and Touch, completed in 1620 by the Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder.

What is the name of the strange bird in the picture?

ANS: Sulphur Crested cockatoo

Audience: Why is the bird special?

It is an Australian bird, Apparently it was captured during one of the first Dutch visits to pre-European Australia, perhaps by Willem Janszoon in 1606, who would have carried it to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and then to Holland in 1611.