Saturday, May 8, 2010
Question #66
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Question #65
•Myths say this strange looking animal X was created by a Buddhist monk X at a mountainous village in Y. X ate a cow and a goat at the village. Urged by his followers to perform a miracle, he joined the head of a goat to the bones of the cow and created this divine animal.
•The myth gave this animal the status of the national animal of Y.
•There are four subspecies: A, B, C and Y.
•A recent census estimated the number of the A subspecies to be at only 1000. Its divine association did not protect it from hunters who kill it for its delicious meat.
Solve for X, Y and A. What are the other two subspecies?
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Question #64
Answer: The McGurk Effect which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. In this video, a visual /ga/ combined with an audio /ba/ is heard as /da/. Try closing your eyes and play the video again!
Friday, April 9, 2010
Question #63
This is a zoomed in view of something. This was in the news recently for some obvious reasons. What is the hoopla all about?
Answered correctly by Nazar, vish and buckingfastard.
Answer: New Delhi in Islamabad. Kolkata in Bay of Bengal. Won’t they have a hoopla?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Question #62
He provided scientists with an extraordinary window into the human brain and the nature of memory. Who is he? What is so special about him?
Answered correctly by Nihar, indian and mak
Answer: Kim Peek. The man who could recite whole books by heart but could not button his own shirt. He suffered from the Savant Syndrome.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Question #61
This question is a modified version of a question asked in our college's Inter Hall Quiz event. No originality claimed
Ans: These are Computer Chess. Deep Blue, Deep Thought, Junior and Hydra
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Question #60
What product developed by Sisi Yuan, Yiwu Qiu, Lei Zhao, Qiulei Huang, Lijun Zhang and Weihang Shu is being shown in the image below?
Answer: Fresh Code, Graphing the freshness level of food.
Answered correctly by all who tried.