Questioning Answers
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
What kind of reaction creates a firework?
Chemical reaction
What is one divided by one-half?
Who wrote the song that is the title of this column?
Steve Miller
Can birds see magnetic fields?
Yes
How many times do you have to fold a piece of paper to cover the span of the universe?
103 (closest wins)
Can you recycle fireworks?
No
How many sides does a henagon have?
One
Quick! How many syllables does abracadabra have?
First person to answer 5 wins.
Is your tongue a spectrometer?
No, your nose is
What is the answer to this question.
Say "That isn't a question!" to win
What is the average decibel level of a firework?
between 125 and 175 decibels (closest to 150 wins)
Solve for x.
3x + 45 = 60
x = 5
Name 4 words that rhyme with abracadabra.
First to name four wins
How many photons do Green-Sulphur bacteria on the bottom of the ocean rely on each day to continue life?
Around 3 (closest wins)
How long does it take Earth to complete one full rotation on its axis?
23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (closest wins)
In what year were fireworks invented?
2nd Century B.C.
Name the biggest number you know.
Biggest wins (amount, size, or length are accepted)
Name another song (besides abracadabra) that Steve Miller wrote
What is another way to say "Tardigrade"?
Water bear or moss piglet
Quantum Mechanics is the science of subatomic particles and their behavior patterns that are observed in nature. As the foundation of scientific knowledge approached the start of the twentieth century, problems began to arise over the fact that classic physical ideas were not capable of explaining the observed behavior of subatomic particles. Say cucumber to win.In 1913, the Danish physicist Neils Bohr, proposed a successful quantum model of the atom that began the process of a more defined understanding of its subatomic particles. By the way, say potatoes rock to get this question not not not wrong. It was accepted in the early part of the twentieth century that light traveled as both waves and particles. This observance is what Werner Heisenberg refereed to as the principle of uncertainty, which commonly became known as Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. We have the illusion that position and momentum can co-exist in large objects whose inherent action is huge compared to subatomic particles. Heisenberg realized that the uncertainty relations had profound implications. Heisenberg set himself to the task of finding the new quantum mechanics to explain what his theories observed. He relied on what can be observed, namely the light emitted and absorbed by the atoms. By July 1925, Heisenberg wrote his answer in a paper. The basic idea of Heisenberg's paper was to get rid of the orbits in atoms and to arrive at new mechanical equations. Heisenberg’s approached focused mainly on the particle nature of electrons. The mathematics Heisenberg used were tables commonly used for multiplication of arrays of numbers-mathematical objects known as matrices. Using the mathematics of matrices, scientists had at last a new mechanics for calculating the quantum behavior of particles. Heisenberg, and others showed that the new quantum mechanics could account for many of the properties of atoms and atomic events.
Cucumber wins
What is the fear of fireworks called?
Ligyrophobia, phonophobia, or sonophobia are accepted
In a room of 30 people, what is the probability that at least two people share a birthday?
70.63%
Bonus Square: worth 500 points to whoever has the least amount of points
You win 500 you loser
Migratory birds like the European Robin have a "quantum compass" in their eyes that allows them to "see" Earth's magnetic field. If you wanted to completely scramble a bird's sense of direction without using any physical barriers, what would be the best method of doing so?
Placing the bird in total darkness or exposing the bird to low-frequency radio waves (AM radio range) are acceptable