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1)An assistant professor at the University of Buffalo thought he had ruined his project. Instead of picking a 10,000-ohm resistor out of a box to use on a ---------- prototype, Wilson Greatbatch took the 1-megaohm variety. The resulting circuit produced a signal that sounded for 1.8 milliseconds, and then paused for a resulted in X? What did X invent?
#The pacemaker

2)'Y' was inspired by a bus route which ran from Canterbury to London, as the bus was numbered 'Y' it is still running today as part of the national express. The author encountered the bus route as he lived in a village near Canterbury called Beksbourne.What is Y?
#The term '007'

3)Where would you find these?

#Tiny copepods (Crustaceans) were discovered after a reddit user uploaded photos of what they found through the other end of a microscope after adding H&E stain to New York tap water. According to blog Gizmodo, copepods are added to water to eat mosquito larvae, keeping water


4)Praying and hoping!!What/Where/Why?

#The message from the Chilean workers stuck under the mines.

5)Arbit one..take a guess though? Hint:AI

#British scientist becomes first human 'infected' with a computer virus

6 Responses so far.

  1. Hi Abinaya, nice quiz...

    Is it a quizzer's instinct or just coincidence...I have the videos of the chip and the miners question myself to use... ;-)

    Pls find my answers:

    1. Wilson Greatbatch and the Pacemaker
    2. OO7
    3. some parasite inside the human body ??
    4. the message from the 33 trapped chilean miners that they are safe...
    5. Mark Gasson and the RFID chip which was infected by a computer virus making it a first case of a human infected by a computer virus..

    Regards,
    Kartheegeyan S

  2. nice qns

    1. Pacemaker
    2. Ian Fleming and 007. Asked this at a qfi meeting in 2007 (note the year, coincidence huh?)

    3, 4, and 5 are very arbit

  3. 1. pace maker
    2. 007 , james bond trade mark
    3. the malarial parasite.
    4. banner abroad ship carrying stores for gaza
    5. Human chip

  4. 1.pacemaker
    2.007
    4.in a mines in spain...means we are ok in the refuge the 33 miners

  5. 1. a pacemaker
    2. The canterbury tales
    3. the plasmodium(??)
    4. The msg sent by trapped chilean miners
    5. Something related to a black box in a plane(??)

  6. 5-rfid chip
    4- the message from the trapped chilean miners
    3-
    2-
    1-pacemaker