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Title: Can You Name These Famous Paintings’ Artists?
Source: Mental Floss
URL Source: http://mentalfloss.com/node/72682/take
Published: Jan 4, 2016
Author: The Masters
Post Date: 2016-01-05 02:36:34 by X-15
Keywords: art
Views: 645
Comments: 13


Poster Comment:

"You scored 80%, Fun Fact: 8587 other people have taken this quiz with an average score of 61%." I missed #4 and #8

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

Only 70% here, but thanks -- fun!

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2016-01-05   11:04:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed, X-15 (#1)

I'm an absolute cultural clod, apparently.

I would have gotten a few right if they had asked who invented the Widlar Current Source (Widlar), or who invented the Zener diode (Zener), or who discovered Kirchhoff's Current Law (Kirchhoff). Or whom Lagrangian Polynomial Interpolation is named after (Lagrange). Or the Ford F-150.

StraitGate  posted on  2016-01-05   12:21:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: StraitGate (#2)

Who invented the Ford F-150?

Fred Mertz  posted on  2016-01-05   12:24:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: StraitGate (#2)

OK, what did Zener eat for lunch on this date in 1906, huh?

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2016-01-05   12:51:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Fred Mertz (#3)

Who invented the Ford F-150?

Clessie Cummins?

StraitGate  posted on  2016-01-05   13:38:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#4)

OK, what did Zener eat for lunch on this date in 1906, huh?

Probably milk, since he would have been only 5 weeks old. That's what infants used to drink in Indiana.

StraitGate  posted on  2016-01-05   13:43:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: StraitGate (#6)

Dang -- right answer!

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2016-01-05   15:25:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#7)

Dang -- right answer!

If you trust wikid.

OK, NN, see if you can get this one: what tribe are the Honda Goldwing and the Chevy Silverado named after?

StraitGate  posted on  2016-01-05   21:26:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: StraitGate (#8)

The half-tribe of Manasseh?

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2016-01-05   21:28:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: NeoconsNailed (#9)

The half-tribe of Manasseh?

That is correct! And I thought for sure you would say the Chiricahua Apaches!

OK, flashing back to elementary school again here... Do you remember the song "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold"? I bet they sang that one in JJersey, no?

StraitGate  posted on  2016-01-05   21:45:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: StraitGate (#10)

IDTS, but they sure should have.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2016-01-05   21:48:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: NeoconsNailed (#4)

OK, what did Zener eat for lunch on this date in 1906, huh

reverse biased PN junctions, of course.


I used to be in a hurry, then I figured out I was just getting nowhere fast.

IRTorqued  posted on  2016-01-05   22:22:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: IRTorqued (#12)

reverse biased PN junctions, of course.

Diodes were thermionic back then, and I doubt that Zener's mama had discovered the PN junction. But you never know -- he had to get his smarts from somewhere.

StraitGate  posted on  2016-01-08   0:31:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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