Math
What is the most stable geometric shape?
Answer: Triangles
Triangles are referred to as the strongest and the most stable geometric shapes. They are used in the field of Architecture and Engineering in various ways. It is able to distribute vertical force applied to it on its different sides
What is the name of the animal considered to be the link between lobe-finned fishes and early amphibians?
Answer: Tiktaalik
Considered to be the first tetrapod and was probably a walking aquatic animal during the late Devonian Period.
What is the name of the first ever female graduate of Harvard Medical School?
Answer: Fe del Mundo
A known pediatrician, known for improvement of incubator for jaundice treatment. She was mistaken to be male and thus accepted. Fe del = Fidel
What is the form of Zeus when he seduced/raped Leda, an Aetolian princess and eventually a Spartan Queen?
Answer: Swan
Explanation: Leda and the swan is a famous subject of art and stories wherein, you guessed a woman is having intercourse with a swan.
Who wrote the novel "War & Peace"?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
What is the value of cos 675 in its exact form?
Square Root of 2 over 2
675-360 = 315. 315. Quadrant IV. Check Unit circle, so cos value is greater than 0.
What is the name of the other element discovered by Marie Curie aside from radium?
Answer: Polonium
Explanation: Marie Curie’s hometown is Poland, thus Polonium. Both of these elements were extracted from urananite.
What is the name of the chemist who revolutionized rubber making it more durable?
Answer: Charles Goodyear
Rubber tires used to freeze in winter and melt in summer but a case of serendipity, led to him vulcanizing rubber. He did not reap the fruits of his discovery and faced death with a debt.
What is the name of the Egyptian god known to be credited for the 365 day-calendar?
Answer: Thoth
Explanation: He has the head of an ibis or a baboon. The year was only 360 days, and Nut was sterile not able to bear. Thoth gambled with the moon to have 1/72nd of its light (5 days) and she was fertile. Thus 365 days.
What year did J. D. Salinger publish the novel "The Catcher in the Rye"?
Answer: 1951
What is the compared in several populations when an analysis of variance is being done?
Answer: Means
ANOVA was developed by Ronald Fisher and is used to analyze the differences among the group means in a sample.
What is the pattern of deflection taken by objects not firmly connected to the ground as they travel long distances around the Earth?
Answer: Coriolis Effect
Explanation: It affects large-scale weather patterns and is due to the Earth’s rotation.
What is the name of the Imperial Japanese General responsible for ordering the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Answer: Hideki Tojo
Explanation: He also became a Prime minister from October 1941 to July 1944 and was executed for war crimes
What is the name of the primeval void from which all other Gods such as Gaia came from?
Answer: Chaos
Explanation: Chaos means gap or yawning. Eros, Tartarus and Gaia came from Chaos. It all started with Chaos I guess
Who coined the phrase "15 minutes of fame"?
Answer: Andy Wharhol
What is the vertex of the parabola with an equation, y = 3(x-7)2 +2?
Answer: (7,2)
The vertex form of the equation of a parabola is y = a(x-h)2 + k. The vertex is (h,k).
What is the name of the first space probe to first send back surface images from a planet in our solar system?
Answer: Venera 9
Explanation: The first planet to be probed is Venus, by Venera 9 in 1975.
What is the name of Cleopatra’s younger sister who plotted against her and his brother-husband Ptolemy?
Answer: Arsinoe IV.
Explanation: Arsinoe IV was responsible for the Siege of Alexandria against her sister Cleopatra VII. She was a teen when she usurped her sister. See Drunk History with Aubrey Plaza as Cleopatra
What is the item that the first woman who walked the earth unwittingly opened and let all evil escaped?
Answer: Jar
Explanation: Unfortunately, there was a misinformation and/or mistranslation that have persisted throughout ages. Pandora was given a jar or a pythos. This was mixed by 16th century writer Erasmus with pyxis which means box. Ang Babae sa Banga is shaking.
What type of fruit is a Winter Banana?
Answer: Apple
∫ 2xdx = x2 + C
What do you call the +C in this equation?
What is the wavelength (λ) that is associated with an object in relation to its momentum and mass?
Answer: de Broglie wavelength
Explanation: In 1923, Louis de Broglie, a French physicist, proposed a hypothesis to explain the theory of the atomic structure.
What is the name of the student leader who Imee Marcos ordered to be tortured when she was questioned of her validity as the National Chairman of the Kabataang Barangay?
Answer: Archimedes Trajano
Explanation: He is a 21 year old student of Mapua Institute of Technology. Imee Marcos admitted that she had ordered the torture at the US District Court of Hawaii and was sentenced guilty. She has not yet paid the damages the court ordered her to do so. #NeverAgain
What is the name of Athena’s human form when she was a teacher to Telemachus, son of Odysseus?
Answer: Mentor
Explanation: Mentor is an old friend of Odysseus. Athena would guide Telemachus in the form of Mentor to hide from the suitors of Penelope. Sanaol may mentor. Inyo wlaa na panbatyag? hakahak
What is the item that Labawdonggon sought after Amburukay that led him to one of his epic adventures?
Answer: Golden Pubic Hair
Explanation: Amburukay was an old and ugly woman but with golden pubic hair which Datu Labaw Donggon stole. This is in one of the Epics of Panay.