trivia questions

[thawoods]

1.- Correct
2.- Nope, La Paz. Kathmandu is like....the 20th lol
3.- Try the genus Homo. Homo habilis.
4.- Correct
5.- Correct


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1. What do you call the almost negligible layer identified between the crust and the mantle?
2. Who was the first woman to fly a plane?
3. Who was the first woman in space?
4. What antipodean city was the last to be hit by an earth-quake?
5. What is the other name for the Forbidden City?

1.- Mohorovičić discontinuity - /
2.- Therese Peltier - /
3.- Valentina Tereshkova - /
4.- Antipodal to me is inland China, a bit south of Xian and and I haven't heard of big EQ there, but I'm sure there's like 100000 small ones everyday anyway. - / well, antipodean, traditionally meant the area at the opposite end of the city of Greenwich or the places around that area, due to the fact that the prime meridian was set there. - x Christchurch
5.- the fuck do I know - Beijing


1.- Current atomic model? - electron cloud
2.- How many Pluto-like dwarf planets have been discovered in the solar system - 2? O-O
3.- Brightest star in the universe, as seen from earth? Sirius
4.- How many supercontinents have existed since earth stopped being a fire ball? - 3
5.- Nearest star to the sun? - proxima centauri

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1. Name all elements named after deities
2. What is the smallest fish?
3. the largest fish?
4. the wettest place on earth?
5. the driest place on earth?

[meridannight]

You have found a topic of debate that is sure. But I will have to go with the currently more or less dominant opinion, I'm afraid. Elbrus is closer to the European side than the Asian and thus can take the title.

Now, why I happen to personally agree with this concept?

The Caucasus are indeed a mountain border zone bewteen Europe and Asia. As per usual with mountain ranges, the divisoria de las aguas, the watershed is what determines the "border line" within the range and thus what lies to one side and to the other.

As you can see in the attachment and if you go to google maps a close it up, you'll see water courses flowing into Russia, and thus Elbrus lies well within the European side of the watershed.

Of course, if the Pinoy friend there would have said Mont Blanc, one can also point it out as correct, as for now Elbrus can still be somewhat debated until there is no full consensus.

Now, if you care to look up, when you have some time about Argentina-Chile border disputes, it will be obvious that even 200 years are not enough to make a full accord when a mountain range is used as a border (you wouldn't think it would be this way eh?)

Elbrus will forever be on the boundary, and that's why it will never be the highest summit of Europe. individually, you can think whatever you want. google maps doesn't matter in this debate, that's an artificial system that knows nothing of geosocial reality. and watershed lines, Argentina-Chile and whatever don't matter. we are not talking about de facto states with clearly determined borders. we are talking about at what point Europe ceases to be Europe on the Eurasian landmass. there will NEVER be a clear-cut line where you cross over. it will forever be fuzzy, just as it is now, and Elbrus will forever be in that fuzzy zone. on the border. not in Europe.

the mountain that Europeans call their own is Mont Blanc, not Elbrus. and that's why Mont Blanc is the highest summit in Europe. and why Elbrus is an unknown obscure quantity somewhere on the borderlands whose existence on European soil is questionable at best.

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Corrections

1.- Current atomic model? - electron cloud
2.- How many Pluto-like dwarf planets have been discovered in the solar system - 2? O-O
3.- Brightest star in the universe, as seen from earth? Sirius
4.- How many supercontinents have existed since earth stopped being a fire ball? - 3
5.- Nearest star to the sun? - proxima centauri

1.- Quantum Mechanical Model
2.- 4: Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris
3.- Yup
4.- More like 9 :3
5.- Yup

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1. Name all elements named after deities
2. What is the smallest fish?
3. the largest fish?
4. the wettest place on earth?
5. the driest place on earth?

1.- Cerium after Ceres, Helium after Helios, Thorium after Thor, Selenium after Selene, Iridium after Iris, Iron after "gods" generic..Etruscan me thinks, Mercury after..well, Mercury/Hermes, Palladium after Pallas Athena, Neptunium after Neptune/Poseidon, I would say Uranium but Uranus wasn't exactly a god..Plutonium over Pluto/Hades...yeah I think I'm done here?
2.- dunno
3.- Whale shark
4.- Mawsyrnam India
5.- Atacama Desert Chile

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And now for the questions.

1.- Where did writing first start?
2.- 3 reactions that carboxilic acids undergo?
3.- Name the enzymes needed to replicate the DNA double strand
4.- 5 modern capitals cities of Europe founded by Romans? (other than Roma!)
5.- What is the first State (as in with more or less modern bureaucratic structures) that existed?

[thawoods]

1.- Cerium after Ceres, Helium after Helios, Thorium after Thor, Selenium after Selene, Iridium after Iris, Iron after "gods" generic..Etruscan me thinks, Mercury after..well, Mercury/Hermes, Palladium after Pallas Athena, Neptunium after Neptune/Poseidon, I would say Uranium but Uranus wasn't exactly a god..Plutonium over Pluto/Hades...yeah I think I'm done here?
2.- dunno
3.- Whale shark
4.- Mawsyrnam India
5.- Atacama Desert Chile

1. you forgot vanadium - vanadis, and tellurium - tellus/terra
4. not Meghalaya, Cherapunji, India?

[thawoods]

And now for the questions.

1.- Where did writing first start? - hmmm... with the Egyptians?
2.- 3 reactions that carboxilic acids undergo? - hydrolysis, x ,x
3.- Name the enzymes needed to replicate the DNA double strand - adenine, guanine, tyrosine
4.- 5 modern capitals cities of Europe founded by Romans? (other than Roma!) - I am certain of Paris and London
5.- What is the first State (as in with more or less modern bureaucratic structures) that existed?

- the state of Delaware, jk

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1. Name planets that have the possibility of generating lightning.
2. How long does it take for sun-light to reach the earth?
3. What is the largest asteriod?
4. What moons are actually asteroids?
5. Who officially discovered Uranus?

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[MENTION=19258]thawoods[/MENTION]

At least we agree it's India! To be honest I haven't checked that bit for a while, so I might be wrong.

Corrections

1.- Mesopotamia! Cuneiform writing, Sumerians, etc.
2.- Fischer Esterification, Electrophilic Substitution at the hydroxyl oxygen, ES at the carbonyl.
3.- DNA helicase, DNA polymerase, DNA gyrase, DNA topoisomerase, RNA primase, DNA ligase.
4.- Paris, London, Vienna, Belgrade, Ljubljana.
5.- The Roman Republic and later Empire gaves us the first example of a incipient but more or less modern state apparatus

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Q&A

1.- Everyone with an atmosphere? lol Venus, Earth, the 2 gas giants for sure and I'm sure the 2 ice giants too. I'm podering about Mars, tho.
2.- App 8 min...(you're not gonna ask me for the seconds are you?)
3.- Damn it. It was Ceres, but that's deemed a dwarf planet now...I dunno which one comes next.
4.- Phobos and Deimos...and damn it, like a hundred out of the hundreds of Jupiter's. Dunno about the specific names for those meh.
5.- Willliam Herschel in 1700+ something, although it has been seen since forever.


1.- What element (clue: transition metal) does not follow the usual order of electron placement in orbitals?
2.- Lousest sound ever heard?
3.- Largest earthquake ever registered?
4.- Most destructive hurricane recorded?
5.- Name 5 former soviet socialist republics (not including Russia)

[meridannight]

4.- Paris, London, Vienna, Belgrade, Ljubljana.

what the hell are you talking about? are you even checking your historical facts?

Paris existed before it came into contact with the Romans. it was founded by a tribe Parisii, the Celts, not Romans. the Romans conquered that area in 52 BCE and expanded it and they have had a significant influence over it.

Lutetia (also Lutetia Parisiorum in Latin, Lukotekia before, in French Lutèce) was a town in pre-Roman and Roman Gaul.

Between 250 and 225 BC, the Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, settled on the Île de la Cité and on the banks of the Seine, built bridges and a fort, minted coins, and began to trade with other river settlements in Europe.

and Vienna is most definitely not on that list. that site was inhabited by the Celts since 500 BCE.

don't spread misinformation about European history.