Trivia quiz

by Ben Reilly Sat Mar 16, 2013 3:04 pm

Thought it might be fun to pose and answer questions. Here's my offering:

What do the circular saw, Kevlar, pyrotechnic flares, windshield wipers and the COBOL computer language have in common?

by Lurker Sat Mar 16, 2013 3:25 pm

Well, to be honest I couldn't figure this out on my own. I had to Google it.

Spoiler alert:

https://www.facebook.com/robert.rowe.9085/posts/443323535703838

by Ben Reilly Sun Mar 17, 2013 6:20 pm

Good show nonetheless! All were invented by women.

This one could be a stumper:

What can you see with your naked eye that everyone else would need a microscope to see?

by Lurker Sun Mar 17, 2013 9:00 pm

You're right, I'm stumped. I can see my floaters and nobody else could see them without an optical instrument. Wink

by veya_victaous Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:53 pm

I am gonna go with lurker and say the things that live in your own tears.

by Ben Reilly Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:31 pm

Yep, eye floaters are microscopic and the only way to see them unaided is that they're in your eyes :-)

by JohnEAngel Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:07 pm

well i always wondered if those things had a name. the kind of look like some type of amoeba to me. i can't seem to look directly at one.

by JohnEAngel Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:08 pm

Lurker wrote:You're right, I'm stumped. I can see my floaters and nobody else could see them without an optical instrument.

when i first read this i thought you were talking about another kind of floater. cheers

by Ben Reilly Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:11 pm

Yeah, Wikipedia has a whole article on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

I remember when I was 4 or 5, I first starting noticing them and ended up getting my parents to take me to the eye doctor Smile

by DrSchool Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:37 am

I remember telling my parents that I could see atoms in my eyes. They said atoms were too small, and it isn't possible, so I said I can see the individual cells in my eyes. They didn't believe me, but I was sure I had some sort of special seeing ability. Now I finally know what it is/was.

by DrSchool Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:45 am

1. Where do flies go in the winter? (in cold locations)
2. What were the names of these two popular films: the remake from 1991 of the original film from 1950, with the same title, which starred Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor as father and daughter. What's the title?
3. How did we get the $ symbol?

by Ben Reilly Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:32 pm

I don't know 1 or 3; I'll take a stab at 2 though: Father of the Bride?

by veya_victaous Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:20 pm

#1 cocoons, sort of

the flies die but the maggots form coccons as part of the metamorphosis life cycle. in winter those in cocoon stage simply stay in cocoon stage until it get warm enough again. If you have pet Lizards or Frogs you can buy fly cocoons that you keep in the fridge/freezer and just drop a few in the tank, after a little while the flies pop out of their coccons (and normally get eaten before they get much chance to fly about)

by JohnEAngel Sun Mar 24, 2013 5:30 am

be born to get eaten. how awesome is that? Smile

by DrSchool Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:18 pm

1. The thing i read said they hibernate.
2.ben is right
3. It is a combination of the u on top of an s. 12.50 us became 12.50$, but with 2 lines instead of the one line we use today

by Ben Reilly Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:42 am

Interesting! You still see the double line used occasionally.

What was the first home computer to have the RAM and processing power needed to compute a manned mission to the moon?

by DrSchool Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:16 am

Apple 2c+

by Ben Reilly Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:05 pm

I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that the Commodore 64, with roughly a megahertz processor and 64K RAM (of course) could've done a mission to the moon.

by Ben Reilly Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:07 pm

Aw hell, the Com 64 could have done the Apollo 11 mission with a bunch of RAM tied behind its processor:

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/07/20/how-powerful-was-the-apollo-11-computer/

by DrSchool Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:32 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwae6ruFCLI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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