Obscure Bible Trivia
The only woman whose age is given. She was 127 years old when she died.
Who was Sarah, wife of Abraham
A magnifying glass is what type of lens?
Convex
This is primarily used as a non-nutritive artificial sweetener and contains very few calories because it is not metabolized by the body. It has three chlorine atoms replacing three hydroxyl (-OH) groups on the sucrose molecule.
What is sucralose?
A neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk in 2016. Its primary focus is on developing implantable brain–machine interfaces (BMIs), and recently they implanted their product in their first human.
What is Neuralink?
The stock market index that tracks the performance of the 30 largest publicly traded companies in the United States.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)?
The only woman in the Bible afflicted with leprosy
Who is Miriam?
What “-ism” is the branch of physics that describes the physical interaction between electrically charged particles? It is measured using Newtons.
electromagnetism
The Michaelis-Menten equation describes the relationship between these two parameters in enzyme kinetics.
What are substrate concentration and reaction rate?
What is the term for a type of artificial neural network where neurons are arranged in layers, with each neuron connected to every neuron in adjacent layers and can be used for object/feature recognition?
What is a feedforward neural network?
What type of order instructs a broker to buy or sell a security immediately at the best available price?
What is a market order?
He was ten feet tall (“six cubits and a span”)
How tall was Goliath?
What phenomenon explains shifts in frequency/wavelength due to relative motion, utilized in various fields like radar and astronomy for measuring velocity and distance?
What is the Doppler effect?
A committed step is an irreversible reaction nearest a branch point in a metabolic pathway after which substrate molecules will ultimately proceed to the products of the pathway. What enzyme catalyzes the committed step of glycolysis?
Phosphofructokinase
An agent plays the game and records each action, observation, and reward. Once the game is finished it tests which actions led to rewards, then adjusts the neural net
What is the term for the ratio that compares a company's stock price to its earnings per share (EPS), indicating how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings?
What is the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio?
How many time is "Lamb of God" used in the NT?
Twice (both in the first chapter in the book of John)
linear partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a quantum-mechanical system
What is the Schrödinger equation?
What is the name of the technique used to study protein-protein interactions by immunoprecipitating a target protein along with its interacting partners?
What is co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP)?
What is the name of the annual conference that is considered one of the premier gatherings for researchers and practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence?
What is the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)?
Name the index commonly used to measure the volatility of the U.S. stock market, often referred to as the "fear index."
What is the VIX (CBOE Volatility Index)?
12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
What did Mark 11:12-14 say
The term used in quantum chromodynamics to describe the phenomenon where quarks and gluons are confined within composite particles such as protons and neutrons, making it impossible to observe individual quarks and gluons in isolation.
What is color confinement?
What is the name of the DNA repair pathway that involves excision of a damaged DNA segment followed by resynthesis using the undamaged strand as a template?
What is base excision repair (BER) or nucleotide excision repair (NER)?
What is the name of the reinforcement learning algorithm developed by DeepMind that achieved superhuman performance in games like Go and Chess?
What is AlphaZero?
What is the term for the mathematical model used to evaluate the fair value of a stock by analyzing its expected future cash flows, discounting them back to the present, and accounting for risk factors such as interest rates and market volatility?
What is a discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis?