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Question 1
In the 1940s the German government prohibited German citizens from accepting the Nobel Prize.
When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in _____ _____ to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jarone of perhaps hundreds on the shelving contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of _____ _____. They re-cast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.

Answer follows

Aqua Regia

Question 2
Lincos (an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica) is a language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal in his book Lincos: Design of a Language for _________, Part 1. Freudenthal considered that such a language should be easily understood by people not acquainted with any regular syntax or language that we know. Ever since 1999, in a remote location in Ukraine, the language is being used to discuss topics regarding Physics, Basic mathematics and astronomy, over and over again. What is this language actually used for?

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Contacting ET/ Cosmic Intercourse

Question 3
The Nokia ringtone is an extremely famous one

The music was not only made to be catchy, but also repetitive for a particular reason.
Some very clever audio engineers who knew how to speak the _____, and not just write it as dots and dashes probably came up with the tune at Nokia. What is so special about the tune?

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Morse code for SMS and Connecting People in Nokias Tune.

Question 4 ( Image on next slide )

This bird inhabits the upper canopy of rainforests and has a small wingspan and larg tail. Its name refers to the ____ of Ancient Greek mythology. These were wind spirits that took the dead to Hades, and were said to have a body like an eagle and the face of a human. So the bird was called so, and was named by Linnaeus himself. They even inspired Fawkes the Phoenix from the Harry Potter series.

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Harpy Eagle

Question 5

Scientists from MIT recently created a new kind of previously unobserved form of matter, by making use of a phenomenon called the Rydberg blockade, to allow photons to interact and bind with molecules. Such a great discovery of a photonic molecule has captured headlines everywhere since real life Xs were not far away, due to light-matter interaction. X was once voted as the most popular sci-fi device ever. What is X, that could be realised due to such a photonic molecule?

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Lightsaber from Star Wars

Question 6 X and the blank please?

Santiago Cajal was a great medical scientist who was known for his legendary drawings and is credited for the discovery of the ____. When he put some tissue under a microscope and stained it, he managed to get a drawing of ____ and called a part of it X, (Latin word for tree), because it really looked like a tree. (Image on next slide) So what is the branched projection X, which forms a major part of the ____, and conducts most of the electrochemical stimulation.

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Dendrite (dendron means tree in Latin) and Neuron

Question 7 Which famous award?

"Why five words? It doesn't..." - Jerry Seinfeld (Outstanding Comedic Performance for his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee).

Andrew Mason - "Its short for Group Coupon."

Groupon won the Breakout of the Year Award and Awards for a Retail website.

"Person of the Year. Ironic" - The Person of the Year Award went to IBM supercomputer Watson.
"It's pronounced 'Jif' not 'Gif.'" - Steve Wilhite, inventor of the .GIF file (Lifetime Achievement). "Anyone want a free X?" -- The Onion (Best Humor Site).

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Webby Awards

Question 8
Bars of aluminium were displayed alongside French Crown jewels, and Napoleon used to give his most important guests aluminium cutlery, and the less worthy ones got to dine with just mere silver. Thats how expensive it was!

We all know aluminium is very cheap now, and this is because of the change in aluminium production process. The invention of what caused this massive and permanent decline in its value?
(Image on the next slide)

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This is the first dynamo/motor invented by Zenobe Gramme. Its called the Gramme machine. Thus using abundant amounts of electricity has brought down aluminium production process.

Question 9
In Euclidean geometry, the _______ ____ theorem says that, if a point P is chosen inside rectangle ABCD, then,

The theorem also applies to points outside the rectangle, although the proof is harder to visualize in this case. This theorem is named as such because when the involved line segments are drawn, they somewhat resemble the _______ ____ (Image in next slide)

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British Flag theorem

Question 10
In an acidic solution (usually lemon juice), the lawsone molecule can react via a process called Michael addition with keratin to create a stain. The lawsone molecule is also known as hennatonic acid and is naturally obtained from leaves of the only plant from lawsonia genus.

What simple traditional process are we describing chemically?

Answer follows

Mehndi

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Audience Questions!

What is this a recording of?

Filtered and remastered version of a recording is being played

Thomas Alva Edison recording on the Phonograph. He recorded a brass instrument, laughter, and Mary had a little Lamb.

What is this called?

Blue Screen of Death

What did he develop?

In the mid-1970s a professor at the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest built as a teaching tool to help his students solve the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. The professor soon discovered a better use for it and later obtained a patent for it. It later became widely recognized and even competitive sports developed around it.

Rubiks Cube!

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