ST Trivia June 2009

[Haljackey 17,385]

Hehe, that was a fun one!

I betcha beebs would have had even more points if he actually arrived on time.

He's such a fast typer! Same thing goes for Sim1234, a trivia regular. Nice work folks!

[Jumpthefence 74]

Yeah, my friend and I both missed it. School let out late because of a stupid pep rally. I could've at least logged on from my phone or something. Trivia would have been sooo much more fun than watching 8th graders play volleyball.

But anyway...

If you have any questions written down (I assume that's what you did), I would like to hear some. Just to see how I would have done. Can you PM some of them to me pretty-please?

Sorry I couldn't make it. Not my fault.

[JakeMD 107]

Oh, I can just post the questions right here.

1. Q: About how many people live on the planet Earth 

     A: People have lived in the world for millions of years. Today, 6.3 billion people live on the earth.

2.  Q: About how fast does the world's population grow by each year?

      A: The world's population grows by 100 million each year.

3.  Q: About how many people in the world are malnourished?

      A: Some 950 million people in the world are malnourished.

4.  Q: What form of government  occurs in which the people hold power. People can either exercise the power or elect officials to do so.

      A: Democracy

5. Q: What was the opening battle for the US Revolutionary war?

     A: Lexington and Concord

6. Q: The invasion of which island in 1942 was a major Allied victory in the Pacific theater of World War II and marked a turning point in the war with Japan?

    A: Guadalcanal.

7. Q: When and what was V-E Day?

     A:V-E day stands for Victory in Europe.  May 8th, 1945.

8. Q₁: What year did the Challenger Space Shuttle experience an explosion on takeoff?

     A₁: 1986, Jan. 28

    Q₂: How far along was the shuttle in its take off?

    A₂: 73 seconds.

9. Q: Which year did World War II start?

     A: 1939.

10. Q:  What are the 5 kingdoms of life?

       A: Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, plantae, animalia, fungi

11. Q₁: How thick is the Earth's atmosphere?

       A₁: The atmosphere is a layer of gas surrounding the Earth that is some 700 km (400 miles) thick.

       Q₂: What is the majority of the composition of Earth's atmosphere?

        A₂: It is made up of nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), plus traces of other gases.

12. Q: About what % of Earth is covered by Water?

       A: ~71%

13. Q: Name the 5 oceans present on Earth

       A: Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Southern.

14. Q: Who invented Google?

       A: The very popular search engine called Google was invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

15. Q: what is the current land speed record?

       A: 766 M/H, or about 1234 KM/H

16. Q: What is "Absolute Zero"?

       A₁: Temperature at which molecular motion stops.

       A₂: 0°K

       A₃: −273.15°C

17. Q: Who was Canada's last prime minister?

       A: Paul Martin

18. Q: Before the maple leaf, what was featured on the Canadian flag?

       A: The Union Jack.

19. Q: What is Canada's national sport?

       A: LaCrosse  (NOT hockey XD)

20. Q: What english number does this Roman Numeral represent? LXXX

       A: 80

21. Q: What is the first 6 digits of pi?

       A:  π = 3. 1415922

30. Q: Agateophobia is the fear of what?

       A: Insanity.

31. Q: If you checked the time on big ben, in which country would you be?

       A: England.

32. A: The biggest selling music single of all time is?

      Q: White Christmas by Bing Crosby

33. Q: What is the currency of Japan?

       A: Yen

34. Q: Which European city was redesigned in the nineteenth century by Baron Haussmann?

A: Paris.

35. Q: Which Italian artist sculpted the statue of David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

A: Michelangelo (Buonarotti).

36. Q: Which two Greek city states fought eachother in the Peloponnesian War?

A: Athens and Sparta.

37. Q: What is the name of the filmmaker responsible for the controversial films 'Lolita' and 'A Clockwork Orange'?

A: Stanley Kubrick.

38. Q: In which city is the Peace Palace, the home of the International Court of Justice, located?

A: The Hague.

39. Q: It is the largest mountain-free landform in Europe

       A: The European Plain or Great European Plain is a plain in Europe

40.  Q: What is the term used to describe the academic study of the various means by which individuals and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time.

        A: Mass communication

[Jumpthefence 74]

Thank you very much, Swat Medic! I would have gotten a moderate number of these, had I been able to type quickly enough; probably around 15 or so. But those include the ones where the answer isn't in my head immediately. Not including those, I would maybe get 5. Anyways, it sounds like a missed a good time! I'll be at the next one, what would that be, December?

[funkychicn 1]

Sounds like it was a good time, I was held and tortured at the same volleyball game Jumpthefence was talking about (lord those bleachers are uncomfterable). I might have gotten a few of those questions right (though not the first one, I know because I had a geography final today with that exact question on it and I found out later when I researched it and found out I got it wrong.) I hope that Jumpthefence is right and the next one is in December, I'd like to try to participate. I'm gonna go look at the rest of those questions.

[JakeMD 107]

I will shoot for one more this year, Probably in August. Though I wouldn't expect it yet.

[un1 41]

Wasn't it supposed to be tomorrow?

Edit: Never noticed the date change...

[beebs 129]

Pretty fun indeed, SWAT! Hopefully I can show up on time to one of these things. Oh and I thought I'd mention that touchstone is a CODEWORD.

[Zelgadis 638]

I wasn't there, but I did have a peek at the list of questions, and...

13. Q: Name the 5 oceans present on Earth

A: Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Southern.quote>

WHAT??? I hate blankity-blank scientists and how they blankity-blank change every-blankity-blank-thing all the time!

There are four oceans. End of story. "Southern Ocean." Sheesh, can we please give these obviously very bored Oceanographers something to do? And these idiots are getting paid a lot more than I am to sit around all day and think, "Jeepers, we need to make more oceans."  And they're probably using tax dollars to do it.

And Pluto is a planet.  I didn't memorize "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (or Pickles, if you learned that one) for nothing.  Aren't you people supposed to be contemplating the origins of the universe or something?  Go do your jobs!

ISF

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: Zelgadis

I wasn't there, but I did have a peek at the list of questions, and...

13. Q: Name the 5 oceans present on Earth

A: Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Southern.quote>

WHAT??? I hate blankity-blank scientists and how they blankity-blank change every-blankity-blank-thing all the time!

There are four oceans. End of story. "Southern Ocean." Sheesh, can we please give these obviously very bored Oceanographers something to do? And these idiots are getting paid a lot more than I am to sit around all day and think, "Jeepers, we need to make more oceans."  And they're probably using tax dollars to do it.

And Pluto is a planet.  I didn't memorize "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (or Pickles, if you learned that one) for nothing.  Aren't you people supposed to be contemplating the origins of the universe or something?  Go do your jobs!

ISF

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Thank you!! I thought I was losing my mind when I looked around and there were apparantly five oceans.. but I only knew of four. Does anyone know when that change came about?

[pagenotfound 53]

Originally posted by: beebs

Originally posted by: Zelgadis

I wasn't there, but I did have a peek at the list of questions, and...

13. Q: Name the 5 oceans present on Earth

A: Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Southern.quote>

WHAT??? I hate blankity-blank scientists and how they blankity-blank change every-blankity-blank-thing all the time!

There are four oceans. End of story. "Southern Ocean." Sheesh, can we please give these obviously very bored Oceanographers something to do? And these idiots are getting paid a lot more than I am to sit around all day and think, "Jeepers, we need to make more oceans."  And they're probably using tax dollars to do it.

And Pluto is a planet.  I didn't memorize "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (or Pickles, if you learned that one) for nothing.  Aren't you people supposed to be contemplating the origins of the universe or something?  Go do your jobs!

ISF

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Thank you!! I thought I was losing my mind when I looked around and there were apparantly five oceans.. but I only knew of four. Does anyone know when that change came about?

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@ Beebs: Apparently the "Southern Ocean" has been a traditional name used my mariners for a long time. About 10 years ago the International Hydrographic Organization made it an "Official" ocean for some reason related to current patterns. While this does make some sense it does not technically make the Southern Ocean a full fledged ocean. Oceans typically are created when a rift splits apart a large landmass and the water invades. This makes each ocean essentially its own basin. The "SOuthern Ocean" is not its own basin like the real oceans.

@ Zel: Pluto is no longer considered an official planet. A few years back the Internation Astronomical Union defined pluto as a dwarf. Why? Well first its tiny. Secondly it does not "clear its neighborhood. Pluto orbits in a region known as the Kuipur Belt - an icy asteroid belt. Plus Pluto passes inside the orbit of Neptune for a few years during its orbit.

[Jumpthefence 74]

Wikipedia demonstrates:

There could be 5, 4, 3 or 1 ocean(s), depending on your view. 5 oceans if you include the Southern Ocean. 4 if you don't include it (like me). 3 if you consider the Arctic Ocean a continuation of the other 3 main oceans. 1 if you think of it as the World Ocean. The article mainly summarizes it as being 5 oceans.

Also:

The IHO promulgated the decision on its existence in 2000, though many mariners have long regarded the term as traditional. The Southern Ocean appeared in the IHO's Limits of Oceans and Seas second edition (1937), disappeared from the third edition (1957), and resurfaced in the fourth edition (not yet^[update] formally adopted due to a number of unresolved disputes).

So, the change came in 2000, to anyone who was wondering. I still don't think it should count as an ocean, but to quote Zelgadis, "Jeepers, we need more oceans".

And while we're on a controversial subject:

From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, Pluto was considered the Solar System's ninth planet. In the late 1970s, following the discovery of minor planet 2060 Chiron in the outer Solar System and the recognition of Pluto's very low mass, its status as a major planet began to be questioned. Later, in the early 21st century, many objects similar to Pluto were discovered in the outer solar system, notably the scattered disc object Eris, which is 27% more massive than Pluto. On August 24, 2006, the IAU defined the term "planet" for the first time. This definition excluded Pluto as a planet, and added it as a member of the new category "dwarf planet" along with Eris and Ceres. After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of minor planets and given the number 134340. A number of scientists continue to hold that Pluto should be classified as a planet.

A agree with said scientists.

[rainyday 2]

Oh My God! I forgot to go to the trivia event...AGAIN. I'll never remember

[Zelgadis 638]

Originally posted by: pagenotfound

@ Zel: Pluto is no longer considered an official planet. A few years back the Internation Astronomical Union defined pluto as a dwarf. Why? Well first its tiny. Secondly it does not "clear its neighborhood. Pluto orbits in a region known as the Kuipur Belt - an icy asteroid belt. Plus Pluto passes inside the orbit of Neptune for a few years during its orbit.

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Don't care.  Pluto is a planet.  And there ain't nuthin' you can say to make me change my mind.    If the astronomers can call it what they want, then I can call it what I want.    Too many so-called scientific  definitions seem arbitrary at best.  Since when does a planet have to "clear its own neighborhood?"  Obviously it didn't have to do that when Pluto became a planet in the first place.  When did it suddenly have to be a certain size?  Seems it didn't have to be a certain size when it became a planet.  I think they're just being lazy.  I think they panicked when they discovered that if they kept the definition as it was, then too many things would be planets.  So, faced with the task of naming and cataloguing them, they just changed the definition. 

ISF

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: Zelgadis

Originally posted by: pagenotfound

@ Zel: Pluto is no longer considered an official planet. A few years back the Internation Astronomical Union defined pluto as a dwarf. Why? Well first its tiny. Secondly it does not "clear its neighborhood. Pluto orbits in a region known as the Kuipur Belt - an icy asteroid belt. Plus Pluto passes inside the orbit of Neptune for a few years during its orbit.

quote>

Don't care.  Pluto is a planet.  And there ain't nuthin' you can say to make me change my mind.    If the astronomers can call it what they want, then I can call it what I want.    Too many so-called scientific  definitions seem arbitrary at best.  Since when does a planet have to "clear its own neighborhood?"  Obviously it didn't have to do that when Pluto became a planet in the first place.  When did it suddenly have to be a certain size?  Seems it didn't have to be a certain size when it became a planet.  I think they're just being lazy.  I think they panicked when they discovered that if they kept the definition as it was, then too many things would be planets.  So, faced with the task of naming and cataloguing them, they just changed the definition. 

ISF

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Scientific definitions change over time and personally, I'm fine with that. As we learn more about the universe we live in, it only makes sense to adapt them with the knowledge we gain.. It's not unreasonable to assume that if we discovered Pluto at the same time as all the other "minor bodies", it would never have been classified as a planet.

And for the record, I still call Pluto one of the nine planets.

Jumpthefence: Huh I guess I juuuust missed out on learning the "new" ocean, as I finished elementary school in 2000. What was wrong with having 4 oceans? The Antarctic was complaining about how the Arctic got its own ocean?

[Duke87 1,070]

I'm going to preface this with one big . Brace yourselves.

5. Q: What was the opening battle for the US Revolutionary war?

     A: Lexington and Concordquote>

This is a nitpick, but the "opening battle" would be just Lexington. "Lexington and Concord" is two battles.

10. Q:  What are the 5 kingdoms of life?

       A: Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, plantae, animalia, fungiquote>

This is good. You correctly name the six kingdoms in the answer, but ask for five in the question.

13. Q: Name the 5 oceans present on Earth

       A: Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, Pacific, Southern.quote>

"Southern Ocean" or "Antarctic Ocean" does appear on some atlases, but the earth is most commonly said to have four oceans, not five.

21. Q: What is the first 6 digits of pi?

       A:  π = 3. 1415922quote>

The first six digits of π would be 3.14159. If you want the first six decimal places, it's 3.141592. Rounded to six decimal places, it's 3.141593. But by no qualification is it ever what you say it is, since the digit after the first 2 is a 6, not another 2.

Also, it's "what are the first 6 digits of pi". 

31. Q: If you checked the time on big ben, in which country would you be?

       A: England.quote>

Technically correct, though "The UK" would be a better answer, would it not?

32. A: The biggest selling music single of all time is?

      Q: White Christmas by Bing Crosbyquote>

Depends. Eleton John's 1997 redoing of "Candle in the Wind" sold more copies, but some people say that doesn't count since it's not the original release of the song. And while I don't know, it'd be worth investigating whether if you were to include downloads off iTunes and whatnot, a few modern songs have sold even more copies than that. If they count as "singles", that is.

[JakeMD 107]

wow thanks duke...

we sorted them out anyway.  trust me, they were more than willing to point out my mistakes

[MC6Ash 4]

Egad!

Thanks for keeping ST Trivia going. I can't believe it didn't die out after all this time!

~Ash~

[Mikeaut1 261]

Haha, Ash! It's been a heck of a long time since we've heard from you! I'm glad to see your face around the forums again. It's great that Swat kept ST Trivia going because we loved Trivia when you were around. Late nights in the chatroom come to mind! Hope all is well.

[JakeMD 107]

Haha thanks! Its not quite like yours was, from what I hear.. yours got pretty intense.

[confused04 14]

Originally posted by: Duke87

I'm going to preface this with one big . Brace yourselves.

10. Q:  What are the 5 kingdoms of life?

       A: Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, plantae, animalia, fungiquote>

This is good. You correctly name the six kingdoms in the answer, but ask for five in the question.quote>

Technically, no. Archaebacteria and Eubacteria are not a kingdoms, they are domains. The 5 kingdom system was oringally Monera, Protista, Plantae, animalia, and fungi. Parts of the old Monera kingdom have been split btween Eubacteria and Archaebacteria domains in the relatively "new" three domain system (Eubacteria, Archae, and Eucaryota) with the majority of "Protists", plants, animals and fungi falling in the 3rd domain. Because scientists struggled to classify the polyphyletic "protista" and that the Kingdom Monera had more diversity than all the other kingdoms combined, they overhauled the taxonomic system. Some may have considered Archaebacteria its own kingdom for a time, but it wasn't widespread. It is certainly not in use today.  

31. Q: If you checked the time on big ben, in which country would you be?

       A: England.quote>

Technically correct, though "The UK" would be a better answer, would it not?quote>

England is defined as its own "country" thus it is the most accurate answer. The UK is a union of countries (albeit its formation somewhat undercuts the feel good nature of the word "union") into a single sovereign state. Each constituent part of the UK refers to themself as a country. By American standards, we'd consider the UK a single "country". But England seems to be the best answer.

Although there is issue with some people whether the clock or the bell in the clock tower is actually Big Ben, but I'll go with the general usage. The name was first refered to for the bell, but has since been molded, mostly by tourism. So if you wanna get uber technical, you can't read the time off of Big Ben, it only chimes.