Here is the Element Quiz Question:

The Question:
This element has no commercial applications due to it being highly
radioactive, having a short half life and its difficulty to produce. The
discovery of this element was kept secret for several years. The element
was nicknamed "Pandamonium" for a brief period of time. Which element is
being described?

The Answer:
The element is Einsteinium (Es). Einsteinium was one of the "new" elements
that was detected in the 1952 Enewetak atoll hydrogen bomb test. The Cal
Berkeley team later produced Es in the laboratory but the discovery was
kept secret until 1955 due to the secrecy of the hydrogen bomb program.
Part of the bomb program was named "Project PANDA" so the discovery team
jokingly named the new element Pandamonium for a period of time.


The winners of the quiz are Scott Decker, UTAS and Tom Carrroll, Boeing
 and they will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week.

FEQAB reference materials show that Es as being temporarily named
"Pandamonium". Several folks submitted Americium as the answer since Wiki
lists that element as having the "Pandamonium" moniker - sorry, the FEQAB
references are the ones we are using and those references don't state that
(lots of secret stuff during that era, clearly lots of smoke and mirrors).
Leland Woodall and Robert Wolfe would have been the winners if Am was the
element - Doug will have some company this week in not being happy with the
FEQAB.


So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:

Past Quiz winners/tasks:
Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
Week 3 John Burke
Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
Week 8 Leland Woodall
Week 8 David Bealer, SMT

Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
- Tell Clumpy and Kloumpios to get on the first available flight to JFK, I
live a mile from the JFK AirTrain station in Howard Beach, NY. Clumpy and
Kloumpios can help me prepare some flammability burn test samples for an
FAA project that I'm working on. After that they can go fishing in Jamaica
Bay and catch some dinner.

Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
- Dave, this victory is the capstone, the gilding on my career...end of
this month I'm officially retiring. Clumpy and Kloumpios help will be
welcome in clearing out the office. Not sure if I will stick on TechNet or
not...it's been a big part of my life for most of the past 20 years but I
may go on to do something completely different.

Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
- assisted with ????

Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
- assisted with ????

I hope everyone has a awesome week!

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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