Derailer

Rules
Each team (starting from team with the lowest score), gets to pick a team to give the question to along with the scoring. (+20/-10 or +10/-5) The team that gets the question can attempt or pass. If they pass, the question is back to the team that asked the question with the same scoring If they also pass, it goes to the next team (clockwise) for +5/0 Each team cannot pick themselves, and can pick a team only once.

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Question 21 Explain

Answer follows

Americans trying to shift from Feet to Meter (or Imperial System of Measurements to Metric System)

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Question 22 X and Y please

X has empathy, X can feel. X is alive.
Why does anyone care about _____'s shiny blue battery packs when he seems to have created life? Couldn't X shut down pretty much any villain or criminal in the world anytime he wanted to? Obnoxious ______, who has issues maintaining any kind of relationship and spends his life playing at shiny metal god-man, just went out and made himself the perfect friend. X is far away from being achieved, but for those people who need to experience X now, can download an update onto their phones. This would allow them to listen to Paul Bettany (who voices X) instead of the female default voice for Y on their phones.

Answer follows

X Jarvis ; Y - Siri

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Question 23 -What is the comic depicting?

Answer follows

Newton and Leibnitz inventing Calculus.

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Question 24 X and Y please

The terms X and Y are both popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were Y the system. Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so it was saved. There is even a pic of this famous moth.

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Debug and Debugging

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Question 25
e = 2.71828.. the base to which natural logarithms are taken, is one of the fundamental constants. e stands for ______ constant which is named after a famous mathematician.

Who?

Answer follows

Euler

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Question 26
Called a little mouse by the Chinese, Elephants Trunk by the Swedes, a Spider Monkey by Germans and a Snail by Italians. We know it by a different name. Hint: The Greeks made a shorthand out of the phrase Each-At and they made a new symbol. What is it?

Answer follows

The @ symbol!

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Question 27 X and Y ?
All animals produce Hydrochloric acid in their stomachs to digest food. The only mammal that does not, is the X. This is because its stomach has hardened folds and it uses strong contractions to digest food, along with the help of some of the soil and dirt it ingests while eating Y. Y is its primary diet, and Y provides enough formic acid that X does not need any hydrochloric acid at all, using ingested formic acid instead.

Answer follows

X Anteater ; Y Ants/Termites

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Question 28 Project by an internet Giant What is it?

Answer follows

Project Loon by Google

An Audience Question!

Who is being featured in this video?

Steve Wozniak

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Question 29 X ?
X was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. The idea of X came to Hastings when he was forced to pay $40 in overdue fines after returning Apollo 13 the movie well past its due date. So he decided to set up X, so that people never need to face the issue he did.

Answer follows

Netflix

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Question 30
Save the _____ League is a campaign taken up to protect the _____, because they form a complex community of living things. ____ family of trees has only 3 subfamilies: The Coast ____, the Giant Sequoia and the Dawn _____ (found in China). One of the winning entries for a recent competition to increase public awareness, is shown (pic on next slide).

The _____ Cathedral

Answer follows

Redwoods