1.The book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein has a statement in it which is used to explain among other things the zeroth law of thermodynamics and state macroeconomics. What is this statement?
2.What do the chemicals Sodium Thiopental, Pancuronium Bromide and Potassium Chloride in this sequence constitute?
3.Project Manhattan:Atom bomb::Project Chicago:?
4.When the Russians launched the Sputnik in 1957,US Dept of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency. This was the starting point for the creation of what?
5.After U.S. President William McKinley was shot, a famous scientist was called to help locate and extract the bullet. What invention was born as a consequence of this ?
6.Denise Darval, a young woman who died in an accident, and Louis Waskhansky were involved in which first in science?
7.He was awarded 25 U.S. patents,authored 28 books,received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science, engineering and the humanities, developed Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science, coined the term "Spaceship Earth" and predicted the eradication of poverty during our lifetime. Name this man also known as the father of architectural poetry.
8.The first written account which actually used this name is found in the 1628 letter of Emanuel Altham where he writes, "Very strange fowles called by ye portingals ....". What name ?
9.According to a 1997 Gallup poll,80% of Americans have heard of this incident, concerning the discovery of unidentified debris at a ranch in 1947, and over 40% believe it's true. Name the place, featured in the Fox TV hit Alien Autopsy, where this incident occurred.
10.You can imagine it is fine to be here, where there are so many people to talk with ... and this with those who know most about these things; and Professor Rutherford takes such a lively interest in all that he believes there is something in. In the last years he has worked out a theory of the structure of atoms, which seems to be quite a bit more firmly founded than anything which has existed up to now.
This letter was written in 1912 by a famous physicist studying at Manchester to his
equally famous mathematician brother. Name the physicist.
11.William Thomson was knighted in 1866 for his work on the transatlantic cable, his patents in this field earning him a large personal fortune.A contemporary of Babbage, Biot and Cauchy, he did pioneering work in developing mathematical considerations in heat, electricity and magnetism.
How is he known better to us?
12.Which is the second all-time best-selling book in the US after the Bible?
13.A curve which is the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed foci is constant, and the gap in the ring system of Saturn are both named after an Italian astronomer. Name him.
14.For any axiomatic mathematical system that is powerful enough to describe the natural numbers it holds that it cannot be both consistent and complete. What's this theorem called? And while you are at it,also name the person who gave this theorem.
15.A lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in the late 1700s once demonstrated that if a shell filled with musket balls could be made to release them above the enemy's troops, they would carry on with the 'remaining velocity' of the shell, spread out and hit anyone who happened to be in the way. If the point on the trajectory at which the shell burst was well chosen the balls would reach the target with lethal velocity.
Name this man whose invention helped defeat the French and paved the way for new developments in gun technology.