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Astronomy & physics quiz answers
Joy Pavelski
Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: News
At The Source last week, the Astronomy Club and Society of Physics Students offered a quiz with puzzler questions and prizes.
The Astronomy Club's puzzler read: "In 1967, Jocelyn Bell and her team of scientists in Cambridge, England, first observed the existence of what we now know as 'pulsars.' Scientists originally called them 'LGMs.' What do the initials 'LGM' stand for?" Answer: Little green men. Winners were Edward Sutherland, Travis James, Walter Pettus, Victoria Landes and Becky Schoon.
The Society of Physics Students puzzler read: "The flow of water coming out of a faucet tapers as it falls because a) its speed increases as it falls b) of surface tension c) both of the above d) of air resistance e) of atmospheric compression." Winners answering "c" were Sean Holmes, Jennifer Maggi, Bob Lochner, Andrew Cureton and Lauren Gribble.
The Astronomy Club's puzzler read: "In 1967, Jocelyn Bell and her team of scientists in Cambridge, England, first observed the existence of what we now know as 'pulsars.' Scientists originally called them 'LGMs.' What do the initials 'LGM' stand for?" Answer: Little green men. Winners were Edward Sutherland, Travis James, Walter Pettus, Victoria Landes and Becky Schoon.
The Society of Physics Students puzzler read: "The flow of water coming out of a faucet tapers as it falls because a) its speed increases as it falls b) of surface tension c) both of the above d) of air resistance e) of atmospheric compression." Winners answering "c" were Sean Holmes, Jennifer Maggi, Bob Lochner, Andrew Cureton and Lauren Gribble.
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