Bill Nye the SCIENCE guy!
Small Neurons in the dentate gyrus called granule cells send their axons (known as_______)to the main part of the hippocampus called the Ammons Horn.
mossy fibers
Pg.101
What is the name of the girl (in childfinder) that Barbara lends the Harriet Tubman book to?
Valerie
Pg.106
Who saved the narrator in Moxon's Master?
Mr. Haley
Pg.79
Who wrote a proposal to the German army to request funding to build a larger, fully electronic computer based on Zuse's designs?
Helmut Schreyer
Pg.17
What technology replaced the daguerreotype?
Why did this technology replace it?
Wet-plate photography
Wet-plate photography can produce unlimited paper prints when the daguerreotype could only produce one singular image
Pg.98
The most common inhibitory neurotransmitter is_______, whose agonists are known for the calming effect.
Gamma-aminobutryic acid (GABA)
Pg.45
When we first meet Mannie Ahrens he is wearing a necklace with the emblem of
Aquarius
Pg.37
What did Anna Atkins use Prussian blue to create?
Plant cyanotypes
Pg.86
What does the General Public License state?
Programmers were welcome to include GNU code in their own projects as long as those projects were also free
Pg. 64
What are the four key ingredients that go into making cristallo glass?
A former, a flux, a stabilizer, and a decolorizer
silica, plant ash allume catina, alumina, lime, and magnesia, manganese dioxide
Pg.76
The ____________ System controls involuntarily (or unconscious) responses to regulate all kinds of aspects of the body and brain.
Autonomic nervous system.
Pg. 22
What is the name of Giovanni’s landlord in Rappaccini’s Daughter?
Lisabetta
Pg.56
Which taste receptors do hydrogen ions depolarize?
Sour taste receptors
Pg.68
What is the name of the essay that inspired Ted Nelson to create Xanadu?
As We May Think
Pg.65
What two things did Fra Filippo Lippi include in The Annunciation that gave the illusion of recession?
Geometrically patterned floor tiles and receding balustrades with garden foliage
Pg. 71
What is the most common excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain?
Glutamate.
Pg.45
Besides his 1963 animated film Ray Bradbury wrote for which two shows?
Alfred Hitchcock presents, and the twilight zone
Pg.81
Which university did Michael Dell attend?
University of Texas-Austin
Pg.59
What computer was the first version of Fortran intended for?
IBM704 computer
Pg.33
In The Italian Comedians, Prussian blue is used to color stockings and a _______
Cape
Pg.85
The inner ear is made up of these two main sections; The _______, and the _______
Cochlea; semicircular canals
Pg.62
What is the title of John Crowley’s first book to be published?
The Deep
Pg.113
Name the 4 lobes of the cerebrum and 1 function for each.
Frontal- decision making, problem solving, action (thinking and movement)
Parietal Lobe- sensation, touch
Occipital Lobe- vision
Temporal Lobe- sound/ auditory processing
Pg.16
What year was CS Net created?
1981
Pg.49
Pastels first became a popular medium in the
1700s
Pg.41