Cassia Quiz- AV

2015

Explain the
adjacent figure

Answer:
ANALEMMA, the track on the
earth where the sun is at 90
degrees during one year. It is
NOT a straight line since the
earths orbit around the sun is
not circular but elliptical and
the earth moves faster or
slower around the sun at
different times

Blue Banana

The adjacent figure is called

the Blue Banana of Europe.
What does it represent?
ANSWER:
It is the area showing the most
highly populated areas in
Europe, from Manchester to
Milan, and it represents the
true heart of Europe.

Artificial Tree?

What is the mechanical gadget

in the picture actually do?

ANSWER: It is a Wind Turbine.

Each Tree-shaped Turbine can
generate 3kW of power

What Letter is this

A"Dear John letter"(Dear

Jane for females) is a letter
written to ahusbandor
boyfriendby his
significant otherto inform him
their relationship is over,
usually because the author has
found another lover.

AUDIO CLUE
Play Taylor Swifts
Dear John

Maths Question

Mary Boole, the wife of George

Boole was a mathematician in
her own right and invented the
practice of constructing
straight-line envelopes of
mathematical curves using
colored thread through a
pattern of holes pricked in
cardboard.
What is this method called?
BONUS for Audience: What did
her husband George Boole
invent?

Maths Question

Pi

Now I live a drear

existence in ragged
suits
And cruel taxation
suffering
This statement is a
mnemonic for a very
well known number.
Which one?

Maths Question

On which mathematical
concept is the construction of
this tree based upon?

Named the Pythagoras Tree by

Dutch mathematician Albert
Bosman in 1942

Science Question

This Inventor wrote this poem (

only a part of it is shown) after
he was arrested for speeding
What had he invented?
And Name the Inventor

RADAR
Sir Robert Watson-Watt

His magical all-seeing eye

enabled cloud-bound
planes to fly
but now by some ironic
twist
it spots the speeding
motorist

Maths Question

What is curious about the

adjacent Magic Square?

It works even upside down

since
( all numbers are symmetric)

Literature

Which famous literary event is

captured in the painting
shown?

The death of Sherlock Holmes

and Prof Moriarty at the
Reichenbach Falls

 I got Joe, after Laurine nearly got

me. You know the logics setup.
TECHNOLOGY/LITERA
You got a logic in your house. It
TURE
looks like a vision receiver used
to, only its got keys instead of
This is an extract
dials and you punch the keys for
from a 1946 story by
what you wanna get. Its hooked
Sci-Fi writer Murray
in to the tank, which has the
Leinster, called A
Logic called Joe.
Carson Circuit all fixed up with
relays. Say you punch Station
SNAFU on your logic. Relays in
What is the thing the
the tank take over an whatever
paragraph describes?
vision-program SNAFU is
telecastin comes on your logics
screen. Or you punch Sally
Hancocks Phone an the screen
ANS: The Internet
blinks an sputters an youre
hooked up with the logic in her
house an if somebody answers

History

This is a picture from World

War 2
What place does it show?

ANS: Nagasaki, before and

after it was bombed

TECHNOLOGY/FILM
S
Shown alongside is a
programme that when
executed prints out the
message string hello
world
In which language has the
program been written?

Ans: ArnoldC, a
programming language
that uses statements
made by Arnold
Schwarzenegger in
movies

IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND
"hello world"
YOU HAVE BEEN
TERMINATED

History

What is the article that is being

patented?

Ans: The Statue of Liberty.

Patent application by Auguste
Bartholdi in 1879.

Extract from a Patent

The statue is that of a female figure
standing erect upon a pedestal or block,
the body being thrown slightly over to the
left, so as to gravitate upon the left leg,
the whole figure being thus in equilibrium,
and symmetrically arranged with respect
to a perpendicular line or axis passing
through the head and left foot. The right
leg, with its lower limb thrown back, is
bent, resting upon the bent toe, thus
giving grace to the general attitude of the
figure. The body is clothed in the classical
drapery, being a stola, or mantle gathered
in upon the left shoulder and thrown over
the skirt or tunic or under-garment, which
drops in voluminous folds upon the feet.
The right arm is thrown up and stretched
out, with a flamboyant torch grasped in
the hand. The flame of the torch is thus
held high up above the figure.

Geography /Trivia

The map in the picture shows

the Triple Divide Peak in the
Rocky Mountains connected to
three different oceans/seas/
What do these lines represent?

ANS: Water flows. A drop of

water on this peak can go to
any of the three seas, since the
peak is a part of three
watersheds.

Humor/ Trivia

The following facilities were

suggested for a school of Math
at Oxford. Who made the
suggestion?

Ans: Lewis Carroll

A very large room for

calculating Greatest
Common Measure.
To this a small one might be
attached for Least Common
Multiple
A piece of open ground for
keeping Roots
It would be advisable to keep
Square Roots by themselves
A room for reducing Fractions
to their Lowest Terms.

Music

These were the working lyrics

of a song that is now part of
English music folklore.

Which song?

ANS: Yesterday, by the Beatles

Scrambled eggs
Have an omelette with some Muenster
cheese
Put your dishes in the wash bin please
So I can clean the scrambled eggs
Join me do
Theres a lot of eggs for me and you
Ive got ham and cheese and bacon too
So go get two and join me do
Fried or sunny side
Just arent right
The mix-bowl begs
Quick, go get a pan, and well scramble
up some eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs
Scrambled eggs
Good for breakfast, dinner time or brunch
Dont buy six or twelve, buy a bunch
And well have a lunch on scrambled
eggs

Art
The picture is allegorical
paintingTaste, Hearing and Touch,
completed in 1620 by the Flemish
artist Jan Brueghel the Elder.

What is the name of the strange bird

in the picture?
ANS: Sulphur Crested cockatoo

Audience: Why is the bird special?

It is an Australian bird, Apparently it
was captured during one of the first
Dutch visits to pre-European
Australia, perhaps by Willem
Janszoon in 1606, who would have
carried it to the Dutch East Indies
(Indonesia) and then to Holland in
1611.