FunTrivia Sci / Tech Mix: Vol 8 Quiz

Answer: internet protocol

TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. An IP address is a numerical identifier for a device in a computer network. The most well-known IP address is 127.0.0.1 also known as localhost.

Question by player p4r4n01d

Answer: Usually but not necessarily

The ISBT is the International Society of Blood Transfusion, and of those thirty types now officially recognised, these break down to more than six hundred blood-group antigens, most of which, however, are very rare. In extremely rare cases, such as a liver transplant or a bone marrow transplant, the blood group that a person is born with can actually convert into the blood group contained within the transplanted liver or bone marrow.

Question by player Creedy

Answer: Victor McKusick

Victor McKusick was notable for his pioneering research on hereditary-related diseases among the Amish people of Pennsylvania. He was best remembered for authoring the catalog called "Mendelian Inheritance in Man" that was published in 1966. It has a continuously updated online version called "Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man" which provides students of medicine and clinical practitioners a timely research resource on human genes and genetic disorders.

Question by player pomophagist44

Answer: Fleas from animals

Bubonic plague is spread mainly from fleas carried on small animals. It can also be spread from the bodily fluids of infected animals. Bacteria enter the host from a flea bite and travel to the lymph nodes, causing them to swell. Mammals, including humans, are at risk for bubonic plague. Symptoms include fever, vomiting and swollen lymph nodes.

The bubonic plague was the cause of the Black Death in the fourteenth century. One way to prevent it is sanitary handling of dead animal carcasses.

Question by player ramonesrule

Answer: Trojan horse

The Trojan horse, in computer virus terms, is used to gain access to your computer illegally, often by pretending to be a file which you would want to download. It is named for the way the Greeks are supposed to have gained access to the city of Troy by hiding inside a big wooden horse.

Question by player NavyCop68

Answer: Sprites

These stunning lightning effects were theorised about since the early 1700s, but could not be proven until the University of Minnesota accidentally photographed them on July 6, 1989. Since then, they have been captured on film many times. Most often the colours are reddish/orange with blue tendrils.

Question by player ankhsunamun1

Answer: Binary

A microprocessor incorporates the central processing unit which operates on the binary numbering system, that is, using zero or one.

Question by player ClaudiaCat

Answer: Optical Character Recognition

OCR could also be described as the clever electronic or mechanical process of translating written 'humanspeak' into suitably encoded 'computerspeak'.

Question by player mfc

Answer: Windows Vista

Vista's predecessor, Windows XP, was launched in 2001 and Microsoft trumpeted the arrival of Vista. However, compatibility proved a problem for many non-Microsoft devices, which led to much criticism and the development and release of its successor, Windows 7 was accelerated. Windows 7 was codenamed "Vienna" but it means nothing to me!

Question by player Daddy19

Answer: putrescine and cadaverine

Putrescine and cadaverine are organic compounds produced when animal tissue is in the decomposition process. They have a terrible stench when smelled by human beings and are toxic in large doses. The smell has likely had beneficial effects, since human beings don't have the physiology necessary to eat decaying flesh as some other animals do.

Question by player trident