FunTrivia Sci / Tech Mix: Vol 13 Quiz

Answer: Adipose Tissue

Adipose tissue is 'loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes' according to www.sciencedaily.com. It stores energy besides insulating and cushioning internal organs, so it is a good thing - but one can have too much of this good thing.

Question by player mfc

Answer: Hiccupping

She had the hiccups for two years and only stopped when doctors operated on the nerves around her diaphragm, the part of the body that spasms, causing hiccups.

Question by player loopeyloo

Answer: Universal Serial Bus

The Universal Serial Bus was designed and established around 1995 or 1996 by a group of seven 'tech' companies in order to regiment a plethora of external devices that get connected to a host computer. That's about all the information I can give you on the topic, except to say I don't go anywhere without my USB mass-storage device, or flash drive, or as us Luddites like to call it: memory stick.

Question by player nickdrew55

Answer: February

Poor February. Not only can it not have a blue moon, or two full moons in the same month, some years it doesn't even have a full moon. The time between full moons averages 29.5 days. For three out of four years February has 28 days. Every four years is a leap year and February has 29 days, still not enough days to have two full moons.

Question by player MiraJane

Answer: Write a book about your experiment

Scientific method is the logical procedure in solving scientific problems.
The six main steps in the procedure are: Identify the problem, Gather information about the problem, Formulate Hypothesis, Test the Hypothesis, Analyze the data and Draw a conclusion.

Question by player adette_phoenix

Answer: Folic acid

Vitamin B9 or folic acid is a water soluble vitamin that isn't stored in the body. Vitamin B9 is found in a variety of sources including liver, lettuce and a variety of beans. Pregnant women should supplement their diet with folic acid as it helps in neural tube development, lack of it causes neural diseases such as spina bifida to develop.

Question by player Starlord

Answer: Bromine

While mercury is silver at room temperature, bromine is a red-brown colour. As it evaporates the gas is also red-brown in colour. Mercury is a metal that is liquid and bromine is nonmetallic.

Question by player Unicornjorge

Answer: Electrocardiogram machine

Cardiac monitors can also detect them. The electrocardiogram machine (ECG) can detect the heart from many different views at the same time while the monitors can detect the heart from only one view. The ECG gives a clearer picture.

Question by player tritran5555

Answer: anthracite

Perhaps more well known than coal types is the infection called 'anthrax' which causes black lesions and is named from the same Greek root word meaning coal. Anthracite coal is 80 to 98 percent carbon, thus it burns cleaner with less smoke and impurities than lower carbon content coal.

There are still huge deposits of it in the northeastern USA, primarily in Pennsylvania. Lignite, or brown coal, is the dirtiest form, often containing less than 50% carbon. There is no golden coal.

Question by player Nealzineatser

Answer: Moore's Law

The term was coined by Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, in a paper he wrote in 1965, and has since been used as an industry standard for research and development of processors.

Question by player gorkon