Second Annual

Chandler Science Café

Science Pub QuizThe Ig Nobel Edition

Chandler Science Cafe

Every First Wednesday of the month, 7

PM at Gangplank Chandler Hack Night.

Science Cafés are live—and lively—

events that take place in casual settings,

are open to everyone, and feature an

engaging conversation with a scientist

about a particular topic.

January 2015 Chandler Science

CafeWednesday, January 7, 2015, 7pm,

“The Drone Dilemma: Commercial UAVs, the FAA, and You.”

Discussion led by Garrick Williams, Young Professionals chair for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as well as the External Chair for the Orbital Early Career Network (OECN) at Orbital Sciences in Chandler.

The Ig Nobels

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people

LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to

celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur

people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

Every September, in a gala ceremony in Harvard's Sanders

Theatre, 1100 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the new

winners step forward to accept their Prizes. These are

physically handed out by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel

Laureates.

The 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happened on

Thursday, September 18, 2014.

Science Pub Quiz

Round 1:

3 questions worth 5 points each (15);

Round 2:

3 questions worth 10 points each (30);

Round 3:

Paper Airplane Challenge

Distance 10 points, Time in Air 10

points;

Ultimate Question:

bet all, some or no points earned.

The Rules

Put your team name on all of the answer sheets provided.

All questions are from 2014 Ig Nobel Awards.

You have one minute to answer each question after it is read aloud.

Turn in your answer sheet when time called.

No more than four people per team.

Round 1, Question 1

The 2014 Ig Nobel Award for Physics went to:

A. "Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin," Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, DaichiUchijima and Rina Sakai.

B. “Absence of red structural color in photonic glasses, bird feathers, and certain beetles, “Sofia Magkiriadou, Jin-Gyu Park, Young-Seok Kim, and Vinothan N. Manoharan.

C. “Universal Power Law Governing Pedestrian Interactions,” IoannisKaramouzas, Brian Skinner, and Stephen J. Guy.

Round 1, Answer 1

A. 2014 PHYSICS PRIZE: Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, DaichiUchijima and Rina Sakai, for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that's on the floor.

5 Points

Round 1, Question 2

Who portrayed The Human Spotlight

(male) at the 2014 Ig Nobel Awards:

Round 1, Question 2

Who portrayed The Human Spotlight

(male) at the 2014 Ig Nobel Awards:

A. Brad Pitt, Actor.

B. Howard Berg, Herchel Smith

Professor of Physics and Professor

of Molecular and Cellular Biology,

Harvard.

C. James F. Bredt, co-inventor of 3D

printing.

Round 1, Answer 2

C. James F. Bredt, co-inventor of 3D printing.

Jim Bredt founded Z-Corp –“which was at one point the world's largest 3d printer manufacturer, teaches at MIT, owns the powder printing research lab Viridis3d, and is the human spotlight at the Ig Nobel Awards.”

5 Points

Super-Releaser

http://superreleaser.com/

Round 1, Question 3

Who won the 2014 Neuroscience Ig Nobel Award?

A. “Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction,” Craig Bennett.

B. "Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Face Pareidolia," Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, JieTian, Kang Lee.

C. “Mechanisms of brain evolution: Regulation of neural progenitor cell diversity and cell cycle length,” Victor Borrell, Federico Calegari.

Round 1, Answer 3

B. "Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and

Behavioral Correlates of Face

Pareidolia," Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu

Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, Kang Lee.

5 PointsCC Joshua Kehn

Round 2, Question 1

The 2014 Ig Nobel Biology prize established when defecating and urinating, dogs prefer to align their body axis with which of Earth’s geomagnetic field lines?

A. East-West

B. Inner Van Allen Belt

C. North-South

D. Outer Van Allen Belt

Round 2, Answer 1

C. North-South

"Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field," Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, MilošJežek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda, Frontiers in Zoology, 10:80, 27 December 27, 2013. 10 points

WikiCommons, Mike

Finkelstein

Round 2, Question 2

The 2014 Ig Nobel Public Health prize was awarded “for investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat.”

Which study was cited for the award?

A. "Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis."

B. "Decreased level of psychobiological factor novelty seeking and lower intelligence in men latently infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondiiDopamine, a missing link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis?“

C. "Describing the Relationship between Cat Bites and Human Depression Using Data from an Electronic Health Record.“

D. All of the above

Round 2, Answer 2

D. All of the above.

Jaroslav Flegr, Jan

Havlíček and Jitka

Hanušova-Lindova,

and David Hanauer,

Naren Ramakrishnan,

Lisa Seyfried.

10 points

WikiCommons, Yumi Kimura

Round 2, Question 3

The 2014 Ig Nobel Arctic Science Prize

went to Eigil Reimers and Sindre

Eftestøl, for testing how reindeer react

to seeing humans who are disguised

as:

A. Seals

B. Wolves

C. Polar Bears

D. Lions

Round 2, Answer 3C. "Response Behaviors of Svalbard Reindeer towards Humans and Humans Disguised as Polar Bears on Edgeøya," Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research.

10 points

Ultimate Question

The Ig Nobel awards feature 24/7

LECTURES, in which several of the

world's top thinkers each explains her or

his subject twice:

FIRST : a complete technical

description in 24 seconds,

THEN: a clear summary that anyone

can understand, in 7 words.

Ultimate Question

This 7 word summary describes which body of study:

“The rich get richer. The poor... don't.”

A. Mechanism Design Theory

B. Management of Common Pool Resources

C. Gini Coefficient

D. Asymmetric Information

bet all, some or no points earned

Improbable

Research

Ultimate Question Answer

C. “The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measure of inequality.”

Eric S. Maskin, Economics, 2007, recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.”

bet all, some or no points earned

Paper Airplane Challenge

Use only paper provided;

You may tear the paper;

You may not add anything (such as paperclips or weights);

15 Points for longest distance (measured in front of launcher down the hallway from the door);

15 Points for longest time in the air without being touched, blown or propelled after launch.