1. What term named after a famous American singer-actress describes the phenomenon on the internet when an attempt to remove or block a piece of information backfires and actually increases its popularity?
The Streisand effect
2. What branch of applied chemistry deals with the production of industrial chemicals from agricultural feedstock?
Chemurgy
3. Name the social psychologist who conducted a series of famous experiments on ‘obedience to authority’ at Yale University in 1961-1962, in which ordinary people were found willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks to protesting victims, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to.
Stanley Milgram
4. What endangered animal of New Zealand, resembling a lizard, is often termed as ‘living fossil’?
Tuatara
5. What hallucinogenic substance is derived from certain types of mushrooms called magic mushrooms or shrooms grown in parts of South America and Mexico?
Psilocybin
6. What is the popular name of the 1984 US Law that stimulated the generic drugs industry and gave it considerable clout in patent litigation?
Hatch Waxman Act
7. Name the American tailor who in 1924 invented and patented the necktie as we know it today.
Jesse Langsdorf
8. In which part of Europe is the language Euskara widely spoken?
The Basque province in North-East Spain
9. Name the Hungarian writer who in 1929 proposed in his short story ‘Chains’ the concept of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, according to which everyone in this world is separated from everyone else by six links.
Frigyes Karinthy
10. What are metabolomes?
The complete set of intermediates and products of the process of metabolism in a living cell.
The Streisand effect
2. What branch of applied chemistry deals with the production of industrial chemicals from agricultural feedstock?
Chemurgy
3. Name the social psychologist who conducted a series of famous experiments on ‘obedience to authority’ at Yale University in 1961-1962, in which ordinary people were found willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks to protesting victims, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to.
Stanley Milgram
4. What endangered animal of New Zealand, resembling a lizard, is often termed as ‘living fossil’?
Tuatara
5. What hallucinogenic substance is derived from certain types of mushrooms called magic mushrooms or shrooms grown in parts of South America and Mexico?
Psilocybin
6. What is the popular name of the 1984 US Law that stimulated the generic drugs industry and gave it considerable clout in patent litigation?
Hatch Waxman Act
7. Name the American tailor who in 1924 invented and patented the necktie as we know it today.
Jesse Langsdorf
8. In which part of Europe is the language Euskara widely spoken?
The Basque province in North-East Spain
9. Name the Hungarian writer who in 1929 proposed in his short story ‘Chains’ the concept of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, according to which everyone in this world is separated from everyone else by six links.
Frigyes Karinthy
10. What are metabolomes?
The complete set of intermediates and products of the process of metabolism in a living cell.
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