The Teensies' General Knowledge Quiz – Season 13 – Reese Riverson

[Hunchman801]

Indeed, it was the Seljuk Turks preventing Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land!

DaveRattlehead, Greengoop: 2
PluMGMK, Rsandee: 1

Question 9: Some writers are so emblematic of their own language that the latter is often referred to as "the language of that author". Name as many of them as you can.

[Greengoop]

By this, do you mean named after the author or written in the author’s language?

[dr_st]

Pushkin? Dumas? Shakespeare?

[Hunchman801]

By this, do you mean named after the author or written in the author’s language?

I am asking for authors whose language is commonly referred to as "the language of [insert their name here]".

[DaveRattlehead]

Pushkin, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Alighieri?

[Greengoop]

I would say Voynichese, but I’m pretty sure that’s either the place it came from or the guy who discovered it

[Rsandee]

Does Kafka's "kafkaesque" writing count as an answer?

[Hunchman801]

Well, Dave wins this one and takes the lead again! Pushkin, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Alighieri are all correct, and as for French, I think the name of Molière is used much more than that of Hugo, but he's pretty iconic too. Others that come to mind are Camões, Goethe and Vondel.

DaveRattlehead: 3
Greengoop: 2
PluMGMK, Rsandee: 1

Question 10: Give an example of when physical predictions differ significantly between special relativity and Newtonian mechanics.

[EdgyRabbid]

Bees???

"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."

[Rsandee]

Gold would look like iron if the core electrons in gold wouldn't approach the speed of light, which changes their mass and shrinks their Bohr radii (distance between an electron and the nucleus). Its gold color is a direct result of relativistic effects (releases electromagnetic radiation which we perceive as gold), much like how your car wouldn't be able to start without relativity either as its motor generates voltage from the relativistic effects of lead.

This is a textbook example I learned in theochem.

[dr_st]

Question 10: Give an example of when physical predictions differ significantly between special relativity and Newtonian mechanics.

Well, how about the fundamental fact that the speed of light is constant, and so, for example, if you send a light beam ahead of a moving train with a speed of V, the speed of the beam observed by an outside observer is still just C, and not C+V.

[PluMGMK]

I was gonna mention the orbit of Mercury but then I reread the question and realized you said "special" relativity

[Hunchman801]

Rsandee's answer, though more elaborate than what I was expecting, is the first correct one so he gets the point!

DaveRattlehead: 3
Greengoop, Rsandee: 2
PluMGMK: 1

Question 11: What is the name of the Germanic winter celebration that was later incorporated into Christmas?

[Rsandee]

Well I'm a chemist, not a physicist after all ^^"

I'm skipping this round because I couldn't come up with the answer by myself and could only remember the German word for Christmas, and then I googled it.

[EdgyRabbid]

St Nick! I belivie.. he gave good kids gifts while another demon takes children.. or maybe im mistaken?

[PluMGMK]

Yule / Jul, right?

[Greengoop]

St Nick! I belivie.. he gave good kids gifts while another demon takes children.. or maybe im mistaken?

That’s a Turkish Christian myth, and he gave out gold to poor families, idk where you heard that myth from

[Hunchman801]

Well I'm a chemist, not a physicist after all ^^"

Sounds like you guys are overrepresented here!

Yule / Jul, right?

That's correct! It is still used as today for things such as the Yule log.

DaveRattlehead: 3
Greengoop, PluMGMK, Rsandee: 2

Question 12: What are the main languages of Sri Lanka? Also mention the language families they belong to if you can.

[Greengoop]

Sri Lankan?

[Rsandee]

Singhali, Tamil and Hindi? I don't really know what language group they belong to, but I'm going to go with Indo-european.