What parts of their bodies do crickets use to hear with?
Where were Arabic numerals invented?
What U.S. state was home to the first installed parking meter?
What is the only bird that can fly backwards?
Someone offers you the product of the Bombyx mori. What will you do with it?
Which continent produces the most chocolate?
10 comments:
"Where were Arabic numerals invented?"
another "trick" question? :)
Lion,
Not so much a trick as a "lesson" to researchers that not everything is always as straightforward as we might think it is. Don't assume; check the facts.
western or eastern arabic?
"What U.S. state was home to the first installed parking meter?"
no idea, but i call forth eternal curses on the city that first instituted alternate side of the street parking
Lion,
Take as a starting point that you are here in the US and that terms in common usage should be viewed from their application here. What is known as Arabic numerals here in the US (and the rest of the "Western" world for the most part)?
Hummingbirds?
I looked up the parking meter question and I am still puzzled. Why would that particular city need parking meters especially in that year? Sounds like another politician who came up with something to bother citizens with and make money on.
"What is known as Arabic numerals here in the US"
i remember going to israel as a kid and seeing "arabic" numerals on signs and in television subtitles. i couldn't understand why i wasn't able to read what i had been taught in school were "arabic" numerals.
This is a much better set. Although I knew about the crickets since my wife published a paper on the biomechanics of their acoustic transduction.
Note to readers: The questions I am posting here are culled from the over 800 questions I rotate for the students' use. Each student gets 20 distinct questions from which they are assigned to answer either the odd or the even numbered questions. I have been randomly picking out questions from the total to post here. These questions don't appear together for the students.
Let me guess--you're a great trivial pursuit player. And yes, I admit that the answer to the Arabic numeral question surprised me. I always just supposed that if Arabic was in the name that the Arabs must have invented them.
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