1. Patch X is the second X of each month, the day on which Microsoft releases security patches in conjunction with the Microsoft Update. Exploit Y is the day just after Patch X, when exploit developers take advantage of the underlying vulnerabilities seen shortly after the release of a patch. What’re X and Y?
2. What term defining its root to the French word for “touched” and used in fencing as an acknowledgement of a hit by the fencer who is hit has also found momentum in popular culture with it being used to congratulate someone on a clever response to an argument?
3. Touted to have an yield equivalent to ten times the amount of all the explosives used in World War II combined, including Little Boy and Fat Man, the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, developed and tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago by the Soviet Union, the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and currently the most powerful explosive ever detonated in human history?

1. Ten Commandment Alternatives, an alternative to the Ten Commandments appears in a famous book by which evolutionary biologist and popular science author, dedicated to the memory of his late friend, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author, Douglas Adams?

2. Phenoptosis is a feature common among living species like yeast and salmon, causing the breakdown of glucocorticoid regulation and inhibition, leading to massive excess of these corticosteroids in the body. What results due to this?

3. Which work of science fiction by H. G. Wells chronicles the future events from 1933 until the year 2106 and propounds a world state as the solution to mankind’s problems?

1.       Named after a Russian scientist, what do we call the distinctive electromagnetic radiation, like the blue glow in the case of nuclear reactors, produced when a charged particle goes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium?

Ans: Čerenkov Radiation.

2.      The first documented usage of the word as a verb dates to July 8, 1998, and appears in a mailing list reading thus, “Have fun and keep _____ing!” It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in June, 2006 and the American Dialect Society chose it as the “most useful word of 2002.” Which word?

Ans: Google.

3.      The recipe for this beverage brand is published under a Creative Commons license, in particular the Attribution-ShareAlike license and was concocted by students at the IT-University in Copenhagen together with Superflex, a Copenhagen-based artist collective. Its name incidentally is a play on Richard Stallman’s common explanation of free software. What are we talking about?

Ans: Free Beer.

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1.       Which Colombian drug lord became infamous as to growing so wealthy from the drug trade that in 1989 Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh richest man in the world? For facts, he was accountable for the deaths of some 30 judges, 457 policemen, and other deaths at a rate of 20 a day for two months.

Ans: Pablo Escobar.

2.      This double Academy Award-winning movie’s title refers to the total number of films the director had previously directed, which includes features, short segments, and collaboration with another director. Easy enough! Which movie?

Ans: 8½.

3.      How do we better know the BMP image developed from the photograph of a landscape in 3028 Fremont Dr. (Sonoma Hwy.), Sonoma County, California, US by Charles O’Rear, for HighTurn, a digital-design company? It shows rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds, if that’d help you think!

Ans: Bliss; used as the default computer wallpaper for the “Luna” theme, which is included with Microsoft Windows XP.

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1.       Tracing its origin to a Japanese word and invented by Mike Johnston, a former editor of Photo Techniques magazine, what term in photography means the emergence of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens that uses a shallow depth of field?

Ans: Bokeh.

2.      What do we content from the World Wide Web that is not part of the surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines?

Ans: deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, dark Web or the hidden Web).

3.      Which Pulitzer Prize winning poet wrote the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay which was featured in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and its film adaptation; though only eight lines long, some believe it is his best work and helped him win the Pulitzer Prize?

Ans: Robert Frost.

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