ModelQuestions 201029 145516
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• Why?
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A B
40C 40 F
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A
At 40F (-15. 50C) water is solid ice and the
coin would lie on the surface
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• VIDEO: This is astronaut David Scott performing an
experiment during the Apollo 15 Moon mission in
1971. This was a version of a very famous
experiment conducted more than three centuries
earlier from the top of a famously angled building.
Galileo
Leaning Tower
of Pisa
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• The working title of
which award in the
entertainment industry
was first named Eddie
after its inventor?
• The award was finally
named after one of his
inventions.
08
Grammy
What book?
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11
Red Rackham’s
Treasure
12
• Where specifically would one find this
futuristic structure? (5 letter word)
• His name?
12
12
Epcot (Disneyworld)
Buckminster Fuller
13
• This controversial 1994 book was written by Richard
Herrnstein and Charles Murray to explain the variations in
intelligence in American society. The authors argued
that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both
inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better
predictor of many personal outcomes than parents’
socioeconomic status.
• What is the title of this book that comes from the graph
showing distribution of intelligence quotient (IQ) scores in a
population.
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13
The Bell Curve
14
• This is the international symbol
of a popular activity and
service that brings people,
electronics and communication
together.
• Methane • Chlorofluorocarbons
15
Water Vapour
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• In a cave 1,300 meters deep below the Ino peak in
Tamil Nadu lies the ICAL – The Iron CALorimeter
Detector
• What animal?
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18
Unicorn
Rhinoceros unicornis
19
• This is the logo of the
Indian Space Research
Organisation.
• What feature
commonly associated
with manmade objects
orbiting Earth has
been blanked out in
this logo?
19
Solar array/panel/cells
20
• What technology commonly seen in
supermarkets was invented by Joseph
Woodland and Bernard Silver in 1948?
?
named?
21
Ammonia | Haber
22 • This mineraloid called fulgurite consists of natural
hollow glass tubes. It is formed when a temperature
of at least 1,800 degrees Celsius instantaneously
melts silica on a conductive surface and fuses grains
together. Because of how it is formed, it is
sometimes described as fossilized (or petrified)
_________?