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Math, Science & Technology Related Trivia Questions
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# 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.)
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.)