I am a chemical symbol for an element.This element was discovered in 1824.I am a Spanish word without the accent.Reverse me so that I may become a form of a common verb.What symbol am I? AnswerSi. (silicon)Silicon was discovered in 1824.“Si” with an accent means “yes” in Spanish.Reverse it to become “is”, which is a […]
In a high school science class, Jimmy was given 50 millilitres of water and 50 millilitres of ethanol. His task was to mix them together and then run an experiment on the mixture. When the teacher came to check on him, however, Jimmy’s mixture only contained 94 millilitres. The teacher accused him of drinking some
One day, Bob and Hannah were sitting out on their deck, sipping on some drinks. Bob ran into the house, got an empty two-litre bottle from the freezer and a quarter, and returned to the deck.“I bet you money that this quarter will move with nobody touching it.”Hannah thought this was a sure win; however,
Mr. Jones filed a lawsuit against the company he worked for. He claimed that the company he worked for was drugging him to make him a better worker. He claimed that the coffee the company provided contained a drug called Trimethylxanthine. Trimethylxanthine is an addictive drug that increases alertness, improves concentration, and gives you a
Lost in the woods, you come upon a mysterious stranger who hands you two large spheres made of two kinds of opaque marble. The spheres look the same, are the same size and have the same weight and apparent density; however, one is solid and the other hollow. The hollow sphere contains a tiny map
After Sam Rottenegger’s failed attempt in the teaser “What Happened” to egg his least favourite band, he came up with another plan. This time he would use rotten eggs, and get in and out of the concert quickly. He took 6 eggs from his fridge and put them in a box in his closet for
Zona, the nutty professor, gathered the class one day for an experiment. Zona began, “I have in my hands a rock and a piece of wood. I am going to place them in this beaker of mysterious liquid, and you may observe what happens.” Surprisingly, the rock floated and the wood sank! He turned to
You are enjoying your breakfast after having put some salt on your scrambled eggs when your nerdy brother presents you with an ice cube floating in a glass of water and a short length of string. He challenges you to remove the ice cube from the glass using the string without tying any knots. What
NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why? AnswerBirds, unlike humans, need gravity to swallow. Humans can swallow even while hanging upside down.
We all know that if you weigh yourself on the moon, it is less than your weight on the Earth. Can you tell me something that actually weighs more on the moon than on Earth? AnswerA helium-filled balloon; or a balloon filled with any gas lighter than air.Earth’s atmosphere causes a helium-filled balloon to float,
A cork, say from a wine bottle, is held by a robotic clamp at the bottom of a bucket of water and released the moment the bucket is dropped off the side of a tall building. What will happen to the cork during the fall? Will it float to the top of the bucket normally,
A lady, very concerned about her appearance and the environment, was being interviewed about keeping her beauty without compromising on environmental issues. When she was asked how she managed to keep her hair so shiny and silky without washing it every day, she declared she never washed it!How could this be true? AnswerAccording to scientific
A magazine competition invited people to come up with “invented” inventions of the cyber-age.For example, a solar-powered clothes drier (a rope) and a hand-held word processor (a pencil). Can you guess what this is?It’s a graphic media emulator. It is a high-resolution, thin-screen monitor that produces near-perfect emulations of all graphical media. It is used
Homer had suffered a bizarre accident that affected his eyesight. The doctor said it would be temporary, but for the next 4 weeks, he had to adjust how he did some things. The accident had affected his focal length. He was only able to focus on objects that were 6 or more feet away from
Nora Shekrie paid a visit to her niece, Saffa Moore, at Watts-Amata U. One of the first things Nora noticed was a tastefully framed poster over Saffa’s desk, apparently a long-range photo of some celestial rock.“Aunt Nora, did you know they just discovered two more moons of Pluto last week?”“I read about it, but I