I Got It -- Quiz Quilt 166 Solution

CATEGORY ANSWERS:

[ Geography & Nature ]
> What type of animal are Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling?

PANDAS -- China gave the bears to the National Zoo in Washington,
D.C. on April 16, 1972. Another pair, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian,
arrived on December 6, 2000.

[ Sports & Games ]
> What sumo wrestler was the first non-Japanese yokozuna?

AKEBONO -- Born as Chadwick Haheo Rowan, the Hawaiian attained the
rank of yokozuna in 1993.

[ Literature & Arts ]
> What author observed, "In fact there was but one thing wrong with the
> Babbitt house: it was not a home"?

LEWIS -- Sinclair Lewis's "Babbitt" helped popularize the political
term "liberal" in 1922.

[ History & Government ]
> Who was the first woman to become governor of a state without her
> husband preceding her?

GRASSO -- Democrat Ella Grasso was inaugurated as governor of
Connecticut on January 8, 1975. [A coincidence with last week's
question, I swear.]

[ Entertainment & Food ]
> What is the only band to have the same version of a song hit #1 in
> the U.K. on two separate occasions?

QUEEN -- "Bohemian Rhapsody" reached the top in 1975, then a second
time after Freddie Mercury's death in 1991.

[ Math & Science ]
> What metric prefix means "one hundred times"?

HECTO -- Its counterpart is "centi-", meaning "one hundredth".


QUIZ QUILT ANSWER: EUREKA (Second letters going up)

The interjection, directly from the Greek for "I found it", was
supposedly shouted by a naked Archimedes when he discovered how to
determine the purity of gold.

--
Robert Jen, the Trivia Why's Guy (whysguy@triviawhys.com)
http://triviawhys.blogspot.com -- Trivia Why's blog

In article <rjen-7E60F3.21123013122008.RemoveThis@news.verizon.net>, Robert Jen <rjen.RemoveThis@rjen.com> wrote:

: The interjection, directly from the Greek for "I found it", was
: supposedly shouted by a naked Archimedes when he discovered how to
: determine the purity of gold.

Actually, what he discovered was Archimedes' Principle, from which it
is possible to determine whether or not the gold of an object has been
alloyed with base metal *without having to damage the object*. Methods
for determining the purity of gold were known in Archimedes' day, and
even determining whether the gold had been tampered with by measuring the
object's density was a known method -- the problem was that at the time,
there wasn't any good way of estimating the volume of an irregularly-shaped
object, and the person who set the problem to Archimedes was unwilling to
have his crown melted down and recast as a cube.

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Richard Schultz schultr.RemoveThis@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad."