TeleQuiz

Question 1

In one of the most popular sci-fi television series this hand gesture means

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Live long and prosper!

Question 2

ER=EPR by Maldacena and Susskind may not explain telepathy but claims

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Einstein-Rosen wormhole = Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement

Question 3

The ??? geometries on the figure are called as

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Riemann-Cartan

Question 4

Hans Lippershey 1608 patent on a "kijker" was not granted by the Dutch government as

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the State Elder showed the instrument to the enemy to enforce peace, the government wanted to keep it secret, other masters rushed in and claimed thay have made similar instruments

Question 5

Georg Philipp Telemann is known for

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being forgotten, music not played between 1832 until roughly 1950s, being one of the most prolific composers ever (over 3000 pieces of music)

Question 6

Telefon Hírmondó service in Budapest from 1893 till 1925 with thousands of subscribers at its peak was

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telephone newspaper, reports updated every hour

Question 7

The word "telescope" was coined by a theologian Ἰωάννης Δημησιάνος in 1611

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at a banquet where Galileo was admitted to the Academy of the Lynx-Eyed

Question 8

Quantum teleportation

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is a transfer of quantum information not quantum matter, requires classical communication besides sharing quantum entanglement

Question 9

The prefix 'tele' in "teleparallel" derives from

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Greek and means "far", "distant"

Question 10

Edward Teller (E.T.), John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Cornelius Lanczos are called "the Martians" as

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they were all from Hungary (almost as remote as planet Mars)

Question 11

The first telegraph network in 1792 utilized stations 8-30 km apart linking France, its working principle was

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optical, move rods on towers, to be viewed by telescope

Question 12

Morse's electrical telegraph in 1837 was successful as

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he obtained funds from US Congress to build a long commercial line, very simple code to transmit letters, operators could hear the beeping message, not look at the display, transmission needed only a single wire

Question 13

in sports Telemark county of Norway has given name to

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Telemark landing, a ski jumping technique, Telemark skiing, a skiing technique, Telemark step, in ballroom dancing (waltz, foxtrot, quickstep)

Question 14

Quantum pseudo-telepathy is and observable phenomenon which uses entaglement in

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certain Bayesian games to get payoff above the Nash equilibrium, Alice and Bob winning the game 100% of the time without any communication

Question 15

Lake Télé in the Republic of Congo is famous for

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home of the Mokèlé-mbèmbé (large, unidentified reptilian creature), 100,000 gorillas living in the swamp forest around the lake

Question 16

In December 1929 Einstein received a letter about TP from Wolfgang Pauli, who wrote that

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Weyl and Fock had incorporated Dirac theory in GR, hence TP not necessary, he bets that Einstein would give up the TP theory in a year, the derivation of the TP field equations was not convincing

Question 17

The names of Teletubbies are

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Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po

Question 18

Android Data plays cards with holographic Newton, Einstein, and who else (on the picture)?

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Stephen Hawking (acting himself in the series)

Question 19

Einstein published notes on TP in 1928, and then got a letter claiming the maths was advanced before by

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Élie Cartan, Roland Weitzenböck

Question 20

In 1928 Einstein introduced the notion 'teleparallelism' in German as

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Fernparallelismus

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