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Quiz: What Happens Behind the Scenes
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Copy the questions below (highlight the text, then press the CTRL key plus "c", or use the Edit menu at top and choose "Copy") In your email program start composing an email and paste the questions (not pictures) to your email (use CTRL-V to paste or use Edit menu and choose "Paste"). Email your quiz answers to the instructor at chm130@chemistryland.com. Note: If your answers are far afield, I will give you some tips on what to restudy and you can do the questions again. |
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| Question 1: They make big chunks of cheese in Germany.(a) How wide does this block of cheese appear? (estimate in feet or inches) (b) How wide do you think it really is? (estimate in feet or inches) (c) What kind of lens was used to make the illusion? | |
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Question 2: This poster for an early Clint Eastwood movie used photography that used the same kind of lens as the image above. What was the purpose of using that lens? (Roll cursor over image to see another poster image). |
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We are all guilty of being accomplices for product placement. When we buy "to-go" drinks at fast food restaurants, service stations, or coffee shops, we bring to work or home a cup with the name of that store's brand name displayed prominently on the cup. We are inadvertently advertising for the company using product placement (placement outside its normal advertising space). Question 3: What stores are you frequently advertising with the cups you bring to work or home? |
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Question 4: (a) Which of these two drawings has the word "Liar" in it? (left or right image?) (b) Which of these has the saxophone player in it? |
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Besides tempting unknown psychics with a million dollars, James Randi (a previous magician turned investigator) publicly challenges popular psychics like John Edward of the TV show Crossing Over to come and prove their capabilities. The challenge is the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. According to their website, what is this challenge? Here's the link:
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| Question 6 (previously #7): The metal used in most spoons melt around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. From the picture below how can you tell this not the normal metal that gets put into spoons but rather a low melting metal alloy? | |
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| Below is the follow up spoon gag. Notice the spoon is melting in the hot water. Question 7: Do a search for low melting alloys and find which metals are commonly used. Name at least four. | |
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Question 8: Math challenge with Challenge Butter. The whipped version costs $3.00 for 8 oz (1/2 lb). The unwhipped version costs $4.00 for 16 oz (1 lb.) Question 8a: How much money per oz is the whipped version? Question 8b: How much money per oz is the unwhipped version? Question 8c: Instead of buying a pound of whipped butter, you buy a pound of unwhipped butter and whip air in it yourself. How much money would you save? |
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When I receive your answer via email, I will record it's been received on the progress sheet. (That's updated about once a day) After grading it, I will email your answers back with my comments. If there are any missed, I will ask for you to redo them; that way you can get 100% on every quiz. It usually takes me about 4 days to grade and return your quizzes. |
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