Answers to Quiz - 18

1) Mixolimnion and monimolimnion are the top and bottom layers of a lake whose waters are stratified and do not mix. What is the name for such a lake?

Meromictic lake

2) Name the world’s most prestigious award in architecture, which is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize for Architecture

The Pritzker Prize

3) Which law named after an English banker says ‘When there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives good money out of circulation"?

Gresham’s Law

4) By what term are mammals that lay eggs (example – platypus and echidna) known?

Monotremes

5) Which species of monkeys almost always give birth to twins?

Marmosets

6) Originally used to describe a specific style of furniture that was popular in 19th Century Vienna, name this term that developed into a description of art, architecture and eventually a middle-class social phenomenon that centered on the family and private life.

Biedermeier

7) Name the legendary red wine grape that is exclusively cultivated across the state of California?

Zinfandel

8) What is the term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their book A Thousand Plateaus to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation?

Rhizome

9) Name the 19th Century Norwegian mathematician whose pioneering work in group theory led to groups being named after him.

Sophus Lie

10) Who in 1905 founded Sinn Féin, the oldest political movement of Ireland devoted to the cause of Irish Republicanism?

Arthur Griffith

QUIZ - 18

1) Mixolimnion and monimolimnion are the top and bottom layers of a lake whose waters are stratified and do not mix. What is the name for such a lake?

2) Name the world’s most prestigious award in architecture, which is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize for Architecture.

3) Which law named after an English banker says ‘When there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives good money out of circulation"?

4) By what term are mammals that lay eggs (example – platypus and echidna) known?

5) Which species of monkeys almost always give birth to twins?

6) Originally used to describe a specific style of furniture that was popular in 19th Century Vienna, name this term that developed into a description of art, architecture and eventually a middle-class social phenomenon that centered on the family and private life.

7) Name the legendary red wine grape that is exclusively cultivated across the state of California?

8) What is the term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their book A Thousand Plateaus to describe theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation?

9) Name the 19th Century Norwegian mathematician whose pioneering work in group theory led to groups being named after him.

10) Who in 1905 founded Sinn Féin, the oldest political movement of Ireland devoted to the cause of Irish Republicanism?

Answers to Quiz - 17

1) Which day of the year is observed as Pi day?

March 14th (3/14) to commemorate the mathematical constant Pi (3.14). It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday

2) What term describes the difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics?

Dyscalculia

3) What is often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics?

The Fields Medal

4) It was not until 1976 that the four-colour conjecture was finally proven by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois. Who proposed it in 1852 while trying to colour the counties of England on a map?

Francis Guthrie

5) 1729 is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. What is this number famously known as?

The Hardy-Ramanujan Number

6) Name the Czech born mathematician who in 1931 published the Incompleteness Theorem, which is widely held to be the most important contribution of 20th Century mathematics.

Kurt Gödel

7) Name the 8th Century Arab mathematician who is considered as the father of algebra and from whose name the word algorithm is derived.

Al-Khwarizmi

8) What term coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 describes non-regular geometric shapes that have the same degree of non-regularity on all scales?

Fractal

9) For discovering what mathematical entities is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the first civil liberties group dedicated to protecting the health and growth of the Internet, sponsoring cooperative computing awards, with over half a million dollars in prize money?

Prime Numbers

10) Name the 17th Century French friar who is best remembered today because of his name being associated with a certain class of Prime Numbers?

Marin Mersenne

QUIZ - 17

1) Which day of the year is observed as Pi day?

2) What term describes the difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics?

3) What is often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics?

4) It was not until 1976 that the four-colour conjecture was finally proven by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois. Who proposed it in 1852 while trying to colour the counties of England on a map?

5) 1729 is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. What is this number famously known as?

6) Name the Czech born mathematician who in 1931 published the Incompleteness Theorem, which is widely held to be the most important contribution of 20th Century mathematics

7) Name the 8th Century Arab mathematician who is considered as the father of algebra and from whose name the word algorithm is derived

8) What term coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 describes non-regular geometric shapes that have the same degree of non-regularity on all scales?

9) For discovering what mathematical entities is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the first civil liberties group dedicated to protecting the health and growth of the Internet, sponsoring cooperative computing awards, with over half a million dollars in prize money?

10) Name the 17th Century French friar who is best remembered today because of his name being associated with a certain class of Prime Numbers?