This is the oldest mainstream language
What is Tamil?
This civilization built Machu Picchu
Who are the Incas?
These 2 planets have no moons
What are Mercury and Venus?
The subject was studied by sea captains for navigation, cartographers & engineers etc. It was originally developed to solve geometric problems relating to a triangle
What is Trigonometry?
The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded at this event
What is the Superbowl?
'Three men on a Bummel' is the sequel to a book by the author known for his comic travelogue
Who is Jerome K Jerome?
This is the longest river in France
What is Loire?
This statue in Novosibirsk has this significance
What commemorates lab rats?
His so-called Little Theorem is often used in the testing of large prime numbers, and is the basis of the codes which protect our credit cards in Internet transactions today.
Who is Fermat?
The number of balls on the table at the beginning a game of 8 ball pool
What is 16?
He has written poems like The Tale of Melon City, The Golden Gate and the Wind
Who is Vikram Seth?
The national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, it finds its origins in the French Revolution,
What is Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity?
A phrase coined in WWI to describe the type of PTSD many soldiers were afflicted with during the war. It is a reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared.
What is Shell Shocked?
Aristotle wrote the first treatise on Logic over 2300 years ago. It formed the basis for study in all fields of knowledge. Later Leibnitz realized that process of deductive reasoning could be used to mechanize the process. In nineteenth-century, George X founded the modern subject of logic with Augustus Morgan.
Who is George Boole / What is Boolean?
On May 31, 1978, St Mirren sacked their manager with an industrial tribunal ruling he had: "neither by experience nor talent, any managerial ability at all."
Who is Sir Alex Ferguson?
Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
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This was the name of the blind Benedictine monk who allegedly invented Champagne
Who is Don Perignon?
This is a glycoprotein found in the saliva of vampire bats. It is composed of 411 amino acids, weighing about 88.5kDa. It functions as an anticoagulant, inhibiting coagulation factors IX (IXa) and X (Xa), thus keeping the blood of the bitten victim from clotting while the bat is drinking. It is recently being proposed as a treatment of strokes and heart attacks.
What is Dracula Enzyme / Draculin?
"He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the binomial theorem. On the strength of it, he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it? Is this a man to traduce?"
Who if Prof Moriarty?
This toe crusher was the only Pakistani who remained not out during Anil Kumble's 10 wicket haul in 1999?
Who is Waqar Younis?
A Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. (One of his stories The Chameleon was about Khryukin, a drunkard)
Who is Anton Chekov?
Popularly called as ”Deshbandhu”, he was an Indian politician and Founder - leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal under British rule. ![]()
Who is Chittaranjan Das?
While the most common and the most counter-intuitive explanation is blending with the surroundings, other theories suggest protection from markedly ‘smaller’ threats and the patterns in this context most closely relate to the temperature and precipitation than other factors. So, the current theory explains the occurrence of these as a means of temperature regulation by creating eddy currents.
Why do Zebras have stripes?
Suppose the typewriter has 50 keys, and the word to be typed is banana. If the keys are pressed randomly and independently, it means that each key has an equal chance of being pressed. Then, the chance that the first letter typed is 'b' is 1/50, and the chance that the second letter typed is 'a' is also 1/50, and so on. Therefore, the chance of the first six letters spelling banana is
(1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) = (1/50)6 = 1/15 625 000 000 ,
less than one in 15 billion, but not zero
What is The Infinite Monkey Theorem?
The 2 boxers fought in the 'Rumble in the Jungle'
Who are Muhammad Ali and George Foreman?