tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22857211649667853642024-03-12T21:32:35.020-04:00The 1st QuestionIf You Have An Answer We Have A QuestioN! The fast-paced, fact-based, fun hour of science related merrymaking is the best quiz show on the web. Featuring audience participation, prizes, wit & wisdom. Pooky Amsterdam & Hydra Shaftoe make it all happen in a broadcast hour, shown live on treet.tv!Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-47930688418393885712020-06-29T07:04:00.000-04:002021-12-11T07:04:54.381-05:00The 1st Question - 28 Jun 2020<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PD9UU6RL5N8" title="YouTube video player" width="540"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>*Tinies Prance*</div><div>*Music swells*</div><div><br /></div><div>The Grande Finale Edition of the 1st Question!</div><div>Our Tribute to Paradox Olbers and the Era of The Scilands in Second Life</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Paradox Olbers / Spike McPhee to whom this show is dedicated offered me the SpinDome in a special area of Second Life in which to produce The 1st Question in March 2008. In 2020 after 8 years off the air we came back to honor him in his passing. Paradox was a guru, friend, inspiration and is sorely missed, though there is comfort in knowing his ashes were scattered amongst the stars...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The show which ran weekly 2008/2010 and monthly 20011/2012 produced over 150 episodes of incredibly fun, rich content of humor and invention. The panelists were incredible people from around the world's science and tech communities who were there for business, universities and commerce. It was a show highlighting human innovation, one that made rock stars of smarts with questions about the past, present and future of discovery. The live audience logged in and texted along in real time, playing the game as it went along for some real immersive entertainment. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Great thanks to everyone who were part of the shows, the crew who filmed, did sound checks, ran the game boards and provided security when needed. Also the tiny furries who opened with dynamic props and flair, riding tiny helicopters through burning hoops of fire among other mayhem. And of course to the magnificent panel, a stunning array of visually and mentally brilliant avatars. Thank you for being game enough to play! And to our audience, smart and funny as the panel! It was great to be in this pioneering era of virtual entertainment, with The 1st Question being the only game show broadcast live over <a href="https://www.facebook.com/treettv/">treet.tv</a>.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Russell Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03594516950828356996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-64586678588859117202012-06-07T13:27:00.000-04:002019-03-02T11:47:38.546-05:00The 1st Question - 3 Jun 2012<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6OGKEuNY8iI" width="540"></iframe><br />
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The championship continues with with more fun with the quiz show in the stars. The panelists are Valiant Westland, Melody Regent and Geenz Spad.<br />
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One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men, no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard<br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston, Texas<br />
2. MIT<br />
3. Lego<br />
4. Makey Makey<br />
5. Quorum sensing<br />
6. LiquiGlide. And you know condiments are everything<br />
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7. Streptococcus<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-46389443696826379092012-02-07T17:54:00.001-05:002019-03-02T11:49:04.395-05:00The 1st Question - 3 Feb 2012<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tfdcc7Ajzyg" width="540"></iframe><br />
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Special super duper celebrity show with StupidFunWill (Will Wright), Widget Whiteberry, and Alem Theas (Grady Booch). Hosts Pooky Amsterdam and Hydra Shaftoe run the lightning fast quiz for points, glory and fun.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Everyone has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future
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Answers:<br />
1. Kia Silverbrook<br />
2. "Ytterbite" discovered at a quarry in the village of Ytterby, Sweden<br />
3. The Aspen movie map<br />
4. Grid cells (Synthetic a priori - Kant was right, again)<br />
5. “Things to Come” by HG Wells<br />
6. Moscow<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-90698786651803425772011-07-31T09:28:00.000-04:002019-03-02T11:50:09.248-05:00The 1st Question - 31 Jul 2011<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7iu9E_xG7Vk" width="540"></iframe><br />
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The brilliance that is Pooky Amsterdam brings you another face-off of quick wits with this week's panelists: Buffy Beale, Emmo Wei and Krahazik Dragon. It's another fun time under the dome with hosts Pooky and Hydra.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, judge it by the seed you plant ~Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
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Answers:<br />
1. The Anxiety Suit<br />
2. California Institute of Technology<br />
3. QUMA<br />
4. EnviroMission<br />
5. Tata<br />
6. Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation<br />
7. The Voynich Manuscript
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<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-22418775539283015802011-06-30T08:16:00.000-04:002019-03-02T12:10:10.620-05:00The 1st Question - 26 Jun 2011<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5vbgzQ_TojQ" width="540"></iframe><br />
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Filmed at the SL8B main auditorium, it's the kick-off of the 1st Q Championship! Who is the smartest avatar? Join the fun with this week's panel Troy McLuhan, CathyWyo1 Haystack and Patio Plasma back to test their wits with questions from Pooky and Hydra.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Life must be lived as play ~ Plato<br />
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<a href="http://www.the1stquestion.com/p/the-1st-question-26-jun-2011-questions.html" target="_blank">Click here for the questions</a><br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Derek John de Solla Price<br />
2. Finland<br />
3. ZionEyez<br />
4. From Russia<br />
5. University of California-San Diego<br />
6. USC and Wake Forest University<br />
7. Kilobots<br />
8. Lytro<br />
9. UrtheCast<br />
10. Australia and Royal Melbourne IT
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<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-32197451173264466092011-05-03T08:31:00.003-04:002019-03-02T12:10:55.227-05:00The 1st Question - 1 May 2011<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rrkM9-uct1Y" width="540"></iframe><br />
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The quiz show in the stars brings us the best in science & tech fun. Join panelists Fearchar Enoch, Stereo Nacht and AnimaTechnica Umbarundu as they try for the most points with your hosts Pooky Amsterdam and Rosco Teardrop sitting in for Hydra this week.<br />
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Quote:<br />
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens ~Ellen Glasgow<br />
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<a href="http://www.the1stquestion.com/p/the-1st-question-1-may-2011-questions.html" target="_blank">Click here for the questions</a><br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Japan, at the RIKEN center<br />
2. A positronic brain<br />
3. $20 million a seat<br />
4. IntoNow<br />
5. Cann Can, for cannabis container<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-53548243049636941772011-03-14T19:46:00.001-04:002019-03-02T12:11:37.549-05:00The 1st Question - 13 Mar 2011<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ntBKBtBgJQU" width="540"></iframe><br />
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The quiz show of the SL Stars with guest panel Honour McMillan, Frolic Mills and Callie Cline. Your quizmasters Pooky Amsterdam and Hydra Shaftoe welcome the audience to get involved as well for some fun and laughs with science and tech.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities ~ Orison Swett Marden<br />
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<a href="http://www.the1stquestion.com/p/the-1st-question-13-mar-2011-questions.html" target="_blank">Click here for the questions</a><br />
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Answers:<br />
1. James Cameron<br />
2. Phosphorescence or phosphorescent light<br />
3. Steven Chu<br />
4. The University of California at San Francisco<br />
5. Ford Comuta<br />
---tiebreaker---<br />
6. Slightest Touch<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-26271510245380548712010-12-13T14:36:00.001-05:002019-03-02T12:12:33.889-05:00The 1st Question - 12 Dec 2010<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q32p6jwLHNw" width="540"></iframe><br />
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Tonight - Pathfinder Lester, sprag Parx and Eastman Wildrose compete for fun and prizes on the best science and tech quiz show in the world. Join your hosts Pooky Amsteredam and Hydra Shaftoe to see who will win a trip to the prize vault.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~ Erich Fromm<br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Tom Weis<br />
2. Spain’s Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona<br />
3. Texas – University of Texas<br />
4. ChouChou, Electric Butterfly<br />
5. University of Toronto and Rutgers University<br />
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6. Nerve growth factor, or NGF<br />
7. Plant cells<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-19016098788195016032010-12-07T06:57:00.001-05:002019-03-02T12:13:51.901-05:00The 1st Question - 5 Dec 2010<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KHIgCAj21Uc" width="540"></iframe><br />
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This week's panel Charles2 McCaw, Petlove Petshop and rgr Ampan competes for fun & a trip to the prize vault. Join your hosts Pooky Amsterdam & Hydra Shaftoe for another installment of the quiz show in the stars.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of Wisdom ~ Thomas Jefferson<br />
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<a href="http://www.the1stquestion.com/p/the-1st-question-5-dec-2010-questions.html" target="_blank">Click here for the questions</a><br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Magnetic recording tape<br />
2. TheoryMine<br />
3. China and Taiwan<br />
4. University of Utah Burn Care Center<br />
5. Benddesk<br />
---tie breaker---<br />
6. The SmartHand<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-32383802506510168472010-04-24T15:58:00.001-04:002019-03-02T12:14:30.358-05:00The 1st Question - 20 Apr 2010<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-cc9dW_NNnU" width="540"></iframe><br />
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The quiz show to the stars has a distinguished panel of quizees for this episode with hosts Pooky Amsterdam and Hydra Shaftoe. Watch to see who will get the most points: M Linden, Sydney Caramel, FutureGuru Haiku or Professor Springflower.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes. ~Marcel Duchamp<br />
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<a href="http://www.the1stquestion.com/p/the-1st-question-20-apr-2010-questions.html" target="_blank">Click here for the questions</a><br />
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Answers:<br />
1. HiWish or the HiRISE public suggestion tool<br />
2. The 3rd Space FPS Gaming Vest<br />
3. Silk<br />
4. Greenbutts<br />
5. The Power of Love<br />
6. MERLIN network<br />
7. The Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles<br />
8. SFGate.com and/or ProPublica<br />
9. De Stijl, after - The Style<br />
10. Aleister Crowley<br />
11. Vivos<br />
12. The Aikon robot<br />
13. iJustine or Justine Ezarik<br />
14. Science Channel<br />
15. Geobacter<br />
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16. John Desmond Bernal<br />
17. Dr. Leon Lederman<br />
18. A higher CO2 concentration<br />
19. Resomation<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-30825530124105745302010-02-16T08:55:00.000-05:002019-03-02T12:15:08.106-05:00The 1st Question - 16 Feb 2010<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m0A-0gW06QM" width="540"></iframe><br />
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Does Emmo survive the Vat 'o Death? Watch to find out that and more - like which panelist will win a trip to the prize vault: Sonicity Fitzroy, Rhett Linden, RamonaPringle Avon, or Roxxor Foxley.<br />
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Quote:<br />
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned ~Emile Durkheim<br />
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<a href="http://www.the1stquestion.com/p/the-1st-question-16-feb-2010-questions.html" target="_blank">Click here for the questions</a><br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Procter and Gamble and Walmart<br />
2. The Spy Video TRAKR from Wild Planet<br />
3. The Hexapod robot<br />
4. Tom’s Hardware<br />
5. Google<br />
6. Mycotecture<br />
7. Intellectual Ventures<br />
8. Edison's Conquest of Mars<br />
9. The James Dyson Award<br />
10. Germanium<br />
11. Pranav Mistry<br />
12. Google Buzz<br />
13. Robert Scoble<br />
14. A teetotum<br />
15. James Vickery
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<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-62497711547983147502009-12-24T13:02:00.000-05:002019-03-02T12:15:42.972-05:00The 1st Question 77 - 22 Dec 09<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3UJ_Aw05XaI" width="540"></iframe><br />
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Join Pooky & Hydra as they ask the questions of this week's panel of Justice League super heros Kalel Venkman, Kara Timtam, Maverick Grunfeld and GreenLantern Excelsior.<br />
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Quotes:<br />
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other ~Mother Teresa<br />
Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose ~Helen Keller<br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Larry Stewart<br />
2. MindFlex<br />
3. Divine proportion, the golden ratio or triangle<br />
4. Inetech<br />
5. Zatanna<br />
6. 50<br />
7. The Martian Manhunter<br />
8. Radioisotope power sources / Radioactivity<br />
9. Harlan Ellison<br />
10. Operation Whitecoat<br />
11. The CastOven<br />
12. Ralph Nadar<br />
13. Ubiquitous<br />
14. A music teacher and/ or his name Jim Mclean<br />
15. RUTH<br />
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16. Blue-green algae<br />
17. Squirrels<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-13998467613912687352009-03-24T16:56:00.002-04:002019-02-25T09:22:08.452-05:00From The 2nd Question! to The 1st QuestionThe 2nd Question! will be archived, all 44 shows will be available to be seen as they always have. As we leap ahead from the 2nd to the 1st, we lose nothing and leave no one behind. Come with us as we move forward and keep enjoying the fun hour and best quiz show on the Internet <a href="http://the1stquestionblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/2nd-question-44-17-mar-09.html">(read more here).</a><br /><br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-90470521506713723852009-02-19T08:04:00.001-05:002019-03-02T12:16:21.772-05:00The 2nd Question! 40 - 17 Feb 09<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CUSXx-BHrEc" width="540"></iframe><br />
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It's another laugh-packed episode of star quizzing as hosts Pooky Amsterdam and Hydra Shaftoe welcome the panel, Pathfinder Linden, Korii Tiger, Xander Newman, and MarkTwain White.<br />
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Quotes:<br />
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there ~James Buchanan<br />
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present ~Albert Camus<br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Corflu<br />
2. “Ars Amatoria” (“The Art of Love”)<br />
3. Immanuel Kant<br />
4. Christopher MacLeod<br />
5. Ontology<br />
6. The Galactic Suite Space Resort<br />
7. Dubai<br />
8. Rubiks 360<br />
9. Missouri<br />
10. Quwaq<br />
11. Giordano Bruno<br />
12. Max Planck Institute<br />
13. Amazon Stonehenge<br />
14. Ursula LeGuin<br />
<br />Pooky Amsterdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148300159339851110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2285721164966785364.post-49956391498097819712008-12-18T17:52:00.002-05:002019-03-02T12:16:57.492-05:00The 2nd Question! 34 - 16 Dec 08<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nB8Q8U6jT0c" width="540"></iframe>
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The 2nd Question has a star-studded panel this week with guests Draxtor Despres, Eshi Otawara, Salamanca Congrejo and Edwound Wisent. Join Pooky and Hydra at the quiz show for science freaks.<br />
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Quote:<br />
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran<br />
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Answers:<br />
1. Play-Doh<br />
2. The scientific unit of beauty, enough to launch one ship<br />
3. The principle of least effort<br />
4. Elvis Presley<br />
5. Ponzi scheme<br />
6. Charles Worth<br />
7. The Personal Interest Profile (PIP)<br />
8. Fomalhaut<br />
9. The Twelve<br />
10. Stanislaw Lem<br />
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11. Ukiyo-e<br />
12. The feelies<br />
13. I Had A Little Dreidel<br />
14. Piezoelectricity<br />
15. Mithras <br />
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