Short Quiz 12
22.7.10
1)The books shown are responsible for popularising which phrase in the world in the 1880s?
"God is Dead" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
2)The Fields Medal awarded in mathematics has the photo of this man on one side and his proof that a sphere has two thirds the surface area of a cylinder with same height and diameter. Who is this guy?
Archimedes
3)What exactly is the Bosman ruling passed in 1995?
The case banned restrictions of foreign EU members within the national leagues and allowed professional football players in the European Union to move freely to another club at the end of their term of contract with their present team.
4) According to EA Sports' Cricket 07 computer game, the ______ is a delivery which starts off like a normal off break ball but, after release, drifts slowly in to the batsman before pitching and turning at an angle while picking up speed and bouncing higher than a normal delivery.
Give the name of the delivery and also its inventor.
Teesra, Saqlain Mushtaq
5)There was something like this in the movie Along Came a Spider with Morgan Freeman. The challenge is to get from one chosen page to another chosen page using only the hyperlinks on the page. The first one to post a sequence of how he/she did wins the. The following are the rules of the game:
The two articles you choose should be chosen by two different players in the game
* It is poor conduct for a player to choose articles specific to their own knowledge to give them an advantage
* One player should start the race by saying " to in 3,2,1 GO!"
* You must only use the hyperlinks on the page that lead to other pages on
* You cannot go back on your web browser or click on the links of your web browser history
* You cannot use the "Find" tool on your web browsers (usually used by pressing 'Ctrl' and 'F' on the keyboard
* Therefore you have no need to be using your computer keyboard in the race
* The search bar mustn't be used to find the article you want
* Only the links in the article can be used
* The winner is the person who gets to the specified article first and must say "I'm there" to the other players
* All players are allowed to have both the starting and desired page open in different tabs for reference
* It is good etiquette to tell the other players what article you are now and again to give the game more pace and excitement
* If the race is particularly hard to accomplish then using the "Find" tool on your web browser may be introduced as long as the majority of the players agree
Wikipedia Race
"God is Dead" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
2)The Fields Medal awarded in mathematics has the photo of this man on one side and his proof that a sphere has two thirds the surface area of a cylinder with same height and diameter. Who is this guy?
Archimedes
3)What exactly is the Bosman ruling passed in 1995?
The case banned restrictions of foreign EU members within the national leagues and allowed professional football players in the European Union to move freely to another club at the end of their term of contract with their present team.
4) According to EA Sports' Cricket 07 computer game, the ______ is a delivery which starts off like a normal off break ball but, after release, drifts slowly in to the batsman before pitching and turning at an angle while picking up speed and bouncing higher than a normal delivery.
Give the name of the delivery and also its inventor.
Teesra, Saqlain Mushtaq
5)There was something like this in the movie Along Came a Spider with Morgan Freeman. The challenge is to get from one chosen page to another chosen page using only the hyperlinks on the page. The first one to post a sequence of how he/she did wins the. The following are the rules of the game:
The two articles you choose should be chosen by two different players in the game
* It is poor conduct for a player to choose articles specific to their own knowledge to give them an advantage
* One player should start the race by saying " to in 3,2,1 GO!"
* You must only use the hyperlinks on the page that lead to other pages on
* You cannot go back on your web browser or click on the links of your web browser history
* You cannot use the "Find" tool on your web browsers (usually used by pressing 'Ctrl' and 'F' on the keyboard
* Therefore you have no need to be using your computer keyboard in the race
* The search bar mustn't be used to find the article you want
* Only the links in the article can be used
* The winner is the person who gets to the specified article first and must say "I'm there" to the other players
* All players are allowed to have both the starting and desired page open in different tabs for reference
* It is good etiquette to tell the other players what article you are now and again to give the game more pace and excitement
* If the race is particularly hard to accomplish then using the "Find" tool on your web browser may be introduced as long as the majority of the players agree
Wikipedia Race
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