TEN!, Week One, Tuesday

[Pastor Fireball]

Within a span of 24 hours, the Stanley Cup returned to Pittsburgh and the NBA trophy returned to Oakland. Today seems like a good day to whip out the sports trivia... but I'm gonna save those for later in the series. Today, we're going as far away from sports as we can with this category:

SCIENCE & NATURE

Science and nature do exist, and we're looking at ten questions on science-y stuff. Deadline for your answers is Thursday at 4 PM Eastern.

1. A deficiency in what mineral can cause hypokalemia?
A. Zinc
B. Potassium
C. Iron
D. Sodium

2. What color is a giraffe's tongue?
A. Blue
B. Red
C. Green
D. Black

3. You know Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. But did you know that there are other temperature scales in the world? Which of these is not the real name of a temperature scale?
A. Rankine
B. Leiden
C. Delisle
D. Becquerel

4. What is another name for Bright's disease?
A. Cirrhosis
B. Meningitis
C. Nephritis
D. Bronchitis

5. Which of these qualities would make a fish "anadronous"?
A. It can change sex
B. It can spawn upstream
C. It has natural camouflage
D. It has a flat body

6. Aqua regia, a liquid known since the 8th century to dissolve precious metals, is a contribution of two acids--nitric and what?
A. Hydrofluoric
B. Sulfuric
C. Phosphoric
D. Hydrochloric

7. How many vaginas does an adult female kangaroo have?
A. Zero
B. One
C. Two
D. Three

8. Pluto now has five natural satellites revolving around it. Charon is the largest and the first to be known. Which of the names below does not belong to one of the four newly discovered moons?
A. Haumea
B. Hydra
C. Styx
D. Nix

9. Zolpidem is a drug that is better known by what trade name?
A. Ritalin
B. Ambien
C. Viagra
D. Zoloft

BONUS: Confirmed elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were finally given official names in 2016. Name any one of those four elements that fill in the blanks in Period 7 of the periodic table.

[franktangredi]

Mostly guesses today.

Spoiler

1. A deficiency in what mineral can cause hypokalemia?
B. Potassium

2. What color is a giraffe's tongue?
D. Black

3. You know Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. But did you know that there are other temperature scales in the world? Which of these is not the real name of a temperature scale?
D. Becquerel

4. What is another name for Bright's disease?
C. Nephritis

5. Which of these qualities would make a fish "anadronous"?
A. It can change sex

6. Aqua regia, a liquid known since the 8th century to dissolve precious metals, is a contribution of two acids--nitric and what?
D. Hydrochloric

7. How many vaginas does an adult female kangaroo have?
B. One

8. Pluto now has five natural satellites revolving around it. Charon is the largest and the first to be known. Which of the names below does not belong to one of the four newly discovered moons?
C. Styx

9. Zolpidem is a drug that is better known by what trade name?
A. Ritalin

BONUS: Confirmed elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were finally given official names in 2016. Name any one of those four elements that fill in the blanks in Period 7 of the periodic table.
GONORRHIUM

[eyégor]

Comment on Bonus- On this bored element 118 will always be known as Kryptonite. Seutonius & I settled that issue long, long ago. In the land of Go, actually.

Returning now to my boycott

[mellytu74]

Spoiler

1. A deficiency in what mineral can cause hypokalemia?

B. Potassium

2. What color is a giraffe's tongue?

D. Black

4. What is another name for Bright's disease?

C. Nephritis

5. Which of these qualities would make a fish "anadronous"?

B. It can spawn upstream

7. How many vaginas does an adult female kangaroo have?

C. Two

8. Pluto now has five natural satellites revolving around it. Charon is the largest and the first to be known. Which of the names below does not belong to one of the four newly discovered moons?

D. Nix

9. Zolpidem is a drug that is better known by what trade name?
B. Ambien

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Spoiler

1. A deficiency in what mineral can cause hypokalemia?

B. Potassium


2. What color is a giraffe's tongue?

D. Black

3. You know Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. But did you know that there are other temperature scales in the world? Which of these is not the real name of a temperature scale?

D. Becquerel

4. What is another name for Bright's disease?

C. Nephritis

5. Which of these qualities would make a fish "anadronous"?
A. It can change sex


6. Aqua regia, a liquid known since the 8th century to dissolve precious metals, is a contribution of two acids--nitric and what?

D. Hydrochloric

7. How many vaginas does an adult female kangaroo have?

C. Two


8. Pluto now has five natural satellites revolving around it. Charon is the largest and the first to be known. Which of the names below does not belong to one of the four newly discovered moons?

D. Nix

9. Zolpidem is a drug that is better known by what trade name?

D. Zoloft

BONUS: Confirmed elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were finally given official names in 2016. Name any one of those four elements that fill in the blanks in Period 7 of the periodic table.
Moscowium

[Pastor Fireball]

1. A deficiency in what mineral can cause hypokalemia?
A. Zinc
B. Potassium
C. Iron
D. Sodium

I know this way too personally. I myself have had a potassium deficiency since I was a teenager... so, needless to say, I've had to eat thousands of bananas more than any normal human being should in order to alleviate the lightheadedness and the leg cramps and all of that. The constant need for bananas has made me self-conscious, as I am often surrounded by bigots who get personal joy out of dehumanizing innocent people and are itching to make the obvious monkey references... not unlike the baseless self-serving persecution foisted upon the Bored by Beast, Estonut, jarnon, Bob#s, and Weasel during the past five days. Nonetheless, my life and this game go on as scheduled. Both my life and this game MUST go on, full speed, in direct defiance of the prejudice. Otherwise, the terrorists win.

2. What color is a giraffe's tongue?
A. Blue
B. Red
C. Green
D. Black

I didn't really expect anybody to know the color of a giraffe's tongue. When was the last time you look in a giraffe's mouth, huh? I wouldn't have known this answer myself if I hadn't looked it up.

3. You know Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. But did you know that there are other temperature scales in the world? Which of these is not the real name of a temperature scale?
A. Rankine
B. Leiden
C. Delisle
D. Becquerel

4. What is another name for Bright's disease?
A. Cirrhosis
B. Meningitis
C. Nephritis
D. Bronchitis

5. Which of these qualities would make a fish "anadronous"?
A. It can change sex
B. It can spawn upstream
C. It has natural camouflage
D. It has a flat body

You definitely don't want to confuse "anadronous" with "androgynous".

6. Aqua regia, a liquid known since the 8th century to dissolve precious metals, is a contribution of two acids--nitric and what?
A. Hydrofluoric
B. Sulfuric
C. Phosphoric
D. Hydrochloric

7. How many vaginas does an adult female kangaroo have?
A. Zero
B. One
C. Two
D. Three

You know it's not a good quiz unless there's at least one question about animal genitalia. Again, nobody would know this cold unless they had looked it up somewhere before... because I know that nobody on the Bored is going around peeking inside of kangaroo pouches.

8. Pluto now has five natural satellites revolving around it. Charon is the largest and the first to be known. Which of the names below does not belong to one of the four newly discovered moons?
A. Haumea
B. Hydra
C. Styx
D. Nix

That's a dwarf planet, located about 350 million miles past Pluto's orbit. By the way, Kerberos is the fifth moon of Pluto.

9. Zolpidem is a drug that is better known by what trade name?
A. Ritalin
B. Ambien
C. Viagra
D. Zoloft

BONUS: Confirmed elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were finally given official names in 2016. Name any one of those four elements that fill in the blanks in Period 7 of the periodic table.

Nihonium (Nh) is #113, moscovium (Mc) is #115, tennessine (Ts), is #117, oganesson (Og) is #118

Tennessine and oganesson are the first elements in about 75 years not to get a name ending in -ium. That's because tennessine is in the halogens group (where the names traditionally end in -ine) and oganesson is in the noble gases group (where the names traditionally end in -on).