Scholar's Challenge

(SCIENCE) When  was the last Pyrenean Ibex died?

• January 2000

• August 1945

• December 2374 BC

• June 126 AD

• March 1978

Who introduced the scientific name of “The Aurochs”?

• Predebut Han

• Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus

• Chuu the scientist

• Jane Morris Goodall

• Carl Linnaeus

Neanderthals are named after the Neanderthal Valley in which the first identified specimen was found. The valley was spelled Neanderthal and the species was spelled Neanderthaler in German. What event changed the spellings? 

• German orthography reform of 1996

• German orthographic conference of 1901

• Orthographic conference of 1876

• German orthography reform of 1994

• May 1998 Tragedy

How old is the oldest DNA?

• 2,000,000 years old

• 9,000,000 years old

• 1,000,000,000 Years old

• 1,000,000,000,000 Light years

• 10 Years old

Who made the first attempt to classify plants based on their toxic and therapeutic effect?

• Dioscorides

• Shennon Ben Cao Jing

• Edwin Smith Papyrus

• Constantinos Africanus

• Frederic II

Who was the first person that applied forensic entomology to a case?

• Dr. Louis François Etienne Bergeret

• James Marsh

• Prof. Dr. Danielle Marsh

• Henry Goddard

• Alphonse Bertillon

Genes are responsible for facial features, when did the researchers find that genes are responsible for our facial features?

• 2003

• 2010

• 2018

• 2020

• 2021

For the last few days, the UNPAD baseball team went to Hong Kong to play in the Hong Kong International Baseball Open. One of the projectile launchers in Ballistics is throwing. Baseball is one example of throwing. Pitchers need to throw the ball to the runner so the runner can hit or maybe if you’re having bad luck, the runner will get a free-walk because your pitching is bad. What equation determines the resulting motion of the ball if the ball is thrown or hit?

• Escape velocity

• Trajectory range

• Newton’s laws of motion; Newton’s first law

• Angle required to hit for a projectile following a ballistic trajectory (coordinate (x,y))

• Time of flight for a projectile following a ballistic trajectory

 How many stories about the CSI effect had appeared in newspapers and magazines in 2009?

• More than 250 Stories

• Approximately 300 Stories

• Around 500 Stories

• Less than 100 Stories

• 400 Stories

Mercury is used to fill the thermometer because. . .

• The boiling points are regular

• The expansion is regular

• Has a high freezing point

•  the expansion is irregular