Yesterday’s Teaser saw Debbi† putting her answers: and scoring ten out of ten.
Q1) 20th, May, 1948, saw Chiang Kai-shek named as president of where?
Q2) One year later, 20th May, 1949, saw the establishment of the Armed Forces Security Agency: predecessor of which US agency?
Q3) 20th May, 1983, saw publication of the paper that detailed the discovery of the HIV virus. What does the ‘I’ stand for, in HIV?
Q4) 20th May, 1902, saw Cuba gain its independence. From where?
Q5) Finally … 20th May is the feast day of Saint Lucifer of Cagliari. Cagliari is on which Mediterranean island?
Q1) 19th May, 1743, is the day Jean-Pierre Christin announce revisions of the Centigrade scale for measuring temperature. What’s the symbol for that scale?
Q2) That scale is also as what C?
Q3) In this scale, 0 °C is the freezing point of what: water, rock or blood?A3) Water. (Although this is an approximation.)
Q4) 100 °C sees water, boil. This is known as water’s what point?A4) Boiling point. (From what I can gather, 100 °C is an approximation: it’s nearer 99.9839 °C.)
Q5) When water — or another substance — is at a temperature and pressure where its solid, liquid and gaseous form can coexist, this is known as its what point?A5) Triple point.
Q6) What’s the average human body temperature: 17 °C, 27 °C or 37 °C?A6) 37 °C.
Q7) A substance’s sublimation point is the temperature it turns from a solid, into a what: liquid, gas or plasma?A7) Gas.
Q8) The Fahrenheit scale is an older temperature scale. At which temperature do the two scales meet: -40, -50 or -60?A8) -40.
Q9) -273.15 °C is also known as Absolute Zero. In which scale is Absolute Zero usually zero?A9) The Kelvin.
Q10) Finally … In Centigrade or Fahrenheit, which device measures temperature?A10) A thermometer.
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2. the NSA
3. immunodeficiency
4. Spain
5. Sardinia