The Flaming Geeks Book of Geeky Trivia

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Yes. Trivia is perfect for a school quiz. And the best thing is you can find relevant questions for all grades. Whether they're studying the longest river in the world or their current curriculum is covering South America, you can write your own questions or find ones to suit your students. How could you include a picture round during a pub quiz? What is the four-letter name for the jelly-like substance obtained from red algae that is often used as a solid growth medium in Petri dishes to culture microorganisms?

Trepanging is the harvesting of what elongated, leathery Pacific creature you probably don't want in your gyro? The CO 2 is low, which would be in keeping with an alkalosis, so we now know the respiratory system is contributing to the alkalosis and is likely to be the entire cause of it. What two resources, along with wool, grain, and lumber, make up the five resources in the game Settlers of Catan? A 16-year-old female presents to hospital with drowsiness and dehydration. They have no previous past medical history and are on no regular medication. A regular hexagon has a side length of 6 feet. What is the area of the hexagon? We'll accept responses within 2 square feet of the correct answer.A low base excess (< -2mmol/L) indicates that there is a lower than normal amount of HCO 3– in the blood, suggesting either a primary metabolic acidosis or a compensated respiratory alkalosis. Because a portion of both hydrogen ions and calcium are bound to serum albumin, when blood becomes alkalotic, the bound hydrogen ions dissociate from albumin, freeing up the albumin to bind with more calcium and thereby decreasing the freely ionized portion of total serum calcium leading to hypocalcaemia. One novel way to retain thermal energy collected by a solar tower is through a mixture of sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, and calcium nitrate. This method is often referred to as "molten ______." What dinner table-sounding word fills in the blank? Metabolic alkalosis occurs as a result of decreased hydrogen ion concentration, leading to increased bicarbonate, or alternatively a direct result of increased bicarbonate concentrations.

There is no evidence of metabolic compensation of the respiratory alkalosis (which would involve a lowered HCO 3-) suggesting that this derangement is relatively acute (as metabolic compensation takes a few days to develop). Interpretation So we now know the respiratory system is NOT contributing to the acidosis and this is, therefore, a metabolic acidosis. This patient has presented profoundly septic, with fever, hypotension and evidence of reduced end-organ perfusion (reduced urine output). Orson Welles provided the voice for which Transformer in “The Transformers: The Movie” released in 1986? Fahrenheit degrees (or 0 Kelvin) equals what two-word term for when all particles completely stop moving?A Type II error in statistics is a failure to reject a false null hypothesis in a test procedure. What is the two-word phrase by which type II error's are more popularly known in day-to-day vernacular? The rounds are 'general knowledge', 'weird and wonderful' (this one's a bit kooky), 'true or false', 'one-letter answers' and finishing off with the good old quiz classic 'science and nature.'

What is the type of number expressed as a pair of a real and an imaginary number? An example would be 3 + 6i where i = the square root of -1. No" is the negative-sounding chemical symbol that represents an element that was first produced in the US in 1958. The element is named after a man who more famously lent his name to a series of prizes. With a single guess, name either the man or the element. Silver iodide is a favorite "seeding agent" that is used in meteorological professions largely because it has a crystalline structure very similar to a natural ice crystal. What are the everyday objects that silver iodide is used to "seed"?

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In chemistry, what 10-letter A-word means the adhesion of atoms or molecules from a gas or liquid to a surface, creating a thin film on the surface? What kind of "motion," the random movement of particles in a liquid or gas, is named for a Scottish botanist? The solstice is defined as the start of summer because it is the date when the Earth gets the most exposure to the Sun’s rays. What “i” term is a technical measurement of this exposure? Question: Which director is often referred to as the 'king of the nerds' and has directed movies for Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises?