Mixed3 #17

Posted by Corpus Gray in Mixed Bag | Sep 28 2009 | 3 submissions
Cerebral Algebra is back in business, after a long hiatus. So, quiz On.
  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?