QUIZ
F.A.Q
Brainiacs
Promote1. Which international coffeehouse chain takes its name from the name of young first mate or first officer onboard whaleship Pequod, from the Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick?
Ans: Starbucks.
2. A famous physicist once declared during a lecture he would like to memorize the digits of π until that point in order that he could recite them and quip “nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on. Later, a sequence of six 9s which begins at the 762nd decimal place of π was found and named after him. Interestingly it is also the first occurrence of four and five consecutive digits in the expansion of π. What is the sequence notably known as?
Ans: Feynman point.
3. The song became so popular that the term “ticky tacky” became a catch-phrase during the 1960s and is best known through Pete Seeger’s 1963 rendering. It was originally written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 and satirizes the development of suburbia and its bourgeois conformist values. Tom Lehrer, the American singer-songwriter described Little Boxes as “the most sanctimonious song ever written”. Which song?
Ans: Little Boxes.
4. Though its modern usage came into being from Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass where Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky, it originally meant “a form of suitcase containing two separated hinged compartments”. Which word?
Ans: Portmanteau.
5. Tone mapping in conjunction with bracketed exposures of normal digital images was used to achieve the results initially, but in 1997 a technique by merging several differently exposed images to produce a single image was developed by Paul Debevec and his technique has been popular ever since. Originally developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Wyckoff, what describes a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques?
Ans: High dynamic range imaging.
Results In Brainiac Points
Priya: 5
Abhi: 5
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1-Starbucks
2-Feynman Point
3-Little boxes
4-Portmanteau
5-High dynamic range imaging
1. starbucks
2. feynman point
3. little boxes
4. portmanteau
5. high dynamic range imaging.really really boring question. i dint even feel like googling. hehe.