From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 2, Round 4 - History - Technological Advances with Historic Impact   
   >   
   > This round is about technological advances over the past 150 years   
   > that have had a historic impact on the world.  For each technology   
   > or innovation, we'll ask for the year it was invented, patented,   
   > or launched, as we specify -- in each case, plus or minus 5 years.   
   >   
   > 1. Automobile: The year when German engine designer and automotive   
   >    engineer Karl (or Carl) Benz patented the first gasoline-powered   
   >    car.   
      
   1896   
      
   > 2. Phonograph: The year when American inventor and businessman   
   >    Thomas Edison patented the cylinder phonograph.   
      
   1878   
      
   > 3. Television: The year when Scottish inventor and electrical   
   >    engineer John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first live   
   >    working television system.   
      
   1926   
      
   > 4. The tank: The year when designers Walter Wilson and William   
   >    Tritton in Britain and Eugè ne Brillié in France invented the   
   >    first operational military tanks.   
      
   1915   
      
   > 5. World Wide Web: The year when English computer scientist Tim   
   >    Berners-Lee invented the Web.   
      
   1989   
      
   > 6. YouTube: The year when the first popular video-streaming site   
   >    was launched by Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur Steve   
   >    Chen, American webmaster and businessman Chad Hurley, and   
   >    American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur Jawed Karim.   
      
   2006   
      
   > 7. Transistor: The year when American physicists John Bardeen,   
   >    Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented this semiconductor   
   >    device at Bell Labs.   
      
   1953   
      
   > 8. Nylon: The year when the first fully synthetic fiber was produced   
   >    by chemist Wallace Carothers while working at DuPont.   
      
   1926   
      
   > 9. Radio: The year when Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo   
   >    Marconi sent the first wireless signals across the Atlantic   
   >    Ocean.   
      
   1903   
      
   > 10. Airplane: The year when American aviation pioneers Orville   
   >    and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled and sustained flight   
   >    of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft.   
      
   1903   
      
   > * Game 2, Round 6 - Science - Scales and Measurements   
   >   
   > 1. A tachometer measures the working speed of an engine. In what   
   >    *units* does a tachometer typically measure?   
      
   rpm   
      
   > 2. What is the ancient unit of measurement oft-cited in the Bible   
   >    that was equivalent to the distance from one's elbow to the   
   >    tip of one's middle Finger?   
      
   "aln" in Swedish.   
      
   > 4. The strongest recorded earthquakes to hit Toronto were of   
   >    virtually the same magnitude and occurred on 2010-06-23 and   
   >    2013-05-17.  Within 0.1, what was the measurement of these   
   >    earthquakes on the Richter scale?   
      
   3.6   
      
   > 5. What is the name given to the most accurate kind of clock,   
   >    considered accurate to within one second in 20,000,000 years?   
      
   Atomic watch   
      
   > 6. When we put on a sphygmomanometer, what are we measuring?   
      
   Elementary, sphygmos, of course!   
      
   > 7. What does an anemometer measure?   
      
   Blood pressure   
      
   > 8. Many -- or most? -- members of this trivia league make use of   
   >    an everyday item whose strength is measured in diopters. What   
   >    do diopters measure?   
      
   Strength of spectacals   
      
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