Hi folks - here is the Quiz! Since Clumpy and Kloumpios are adhering to
their good social distancing practices and are spending this week being
isolated after helping Carl Van Wormer, we are going to have a slight twist
to the Quiz. You are allowed to use any resource you want to answer the
following questions. First person to get all the questions correct is our
winner:
The Question: Many of the elements had names proposed for them that were
not chosen. Provide the name of the element for the proposed names that
did not get selected:
a) Panchromium = Vanadium
When vanadium was discovered, the metal salts it produced formed a wide
variety of colors, so the proposed name was named "panchromium" translated
from the Greek word for "all colors".
b) Columbium = Niobium
The naming controversy raged for over 100 years on who discovered element
41. It was said you could tell if a metallurgist was European or an
American by the name they used for element 41.
e) Austrium = Magnesium
Anton Rupprecht produced an impure form of magnesium and proposed the name
"austrium" after his native Austria. However, the first pure sample was
produced by Sir Humphrey Davy who proposed the name "magnium" as he felt
that magnesium was too similar to "manganese". Element 12 was ultimately
named for the magnesium mineral that came from Magnesia, Greece.
So this is going to get really weird! Nobody actually got it right,
primarily due to the fact that Wikipedia isn't right! For some reason,
Wiki does not acknowledge the history of Anton Rupprecht's involvement in
the discovery of magnesium and instead points readers to gallium. So Clumpy
& Kloumpios are going to "virtually assist" Bhanu, Ravinder and Graham this
week!
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
Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 13 No Quiz,
Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 16 John Maxwell
Week 17 Leland Woodall
Week 18 Leland Woodall
Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 20 Robert Kondner
Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems
Week 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International
Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose
Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 28 Leland Woodall
Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 30 Leland Woodall
Week 31 Leland Woodall
Week 32 Steve Gregory
Week 33 Leland Woodall
Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem
Week 38 Leland Woodall
Week 38 Tom Carroll
Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 40 Leland Woodall
Week 41 Tom Carroll
Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 43 Joyce Koo
Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 45 Leland Woodall
Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems
Week 47 Fred Cox, Bluering Stencils
Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose
Week 49 Leland Woodall
Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 52 Leland Woodall
Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS
Week 54 Leland Woodall
Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
Week 58 Leland Woodall
Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark
Week 60 Leland Woodall
Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 62 Leland Woodall!
Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 63 Tom Granat
Week 64 George Wenger
Week 65 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc.
Week 66 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
Week 66 Leland Woodall
Week 67 Eray Canli, ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
Week 68 James Head
Week 69 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
Week 71 Eray Canli, ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
Week 72 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 73 Denny Friz
Week 74 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 74 Leland Woodall
Week 75 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 76 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 76 Eray Canli, ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
Week 77 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 78 David Bealer, WatchFire Signs
Week 79 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
Week 80 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 83 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 84 Tom Granat
Week 85 Leland Woodall
Week 85 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
Week 86 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
Week 87 Steven Herring, Pennatronics Corp
Week 88 Leland Woodall
Week 89 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 90 Tom Brendlinger
Week 91 Leland Woodall
Week 90 David Bealer
Week 91 Leland Woodall
Week 92 David Bealer
Week 93 Leland Woodall
Week 94 Eray Canli, Nurol BAE Systems
Week 95 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 96 Bev Christian
Week 96 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
Week 97 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 98 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 99 Robert Wolfe
Week 100 Steve Gregory
Week 101 Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Technologies
Week 102 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
Week 103 Raye Rivera
Week 104 Carl Van Wormer
Week 105 Denny Fritz
Week 106 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 107 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 107 Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Tech
Week 108 Ron Feyereisen
Week 109 Murray Campbell
Week 110 Bev Christian
Week 111 Ron Feyereisen
Week 112 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 113 Carl Van Wormer
- After Clumpy & Kloumpios go through the 2-week quarantine process, I'll
have them disinfect the factory, and then finish up the ShortSniffer final
testing and decontamination process. This may make them unavailable for
the next two Element Quiz events, but we all have to make sacrifices for
the greater good . . .
Week 114 Bhanu Sood, NASA
- assisted with ????
Week 114 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
- assisted with ????
Week 114 Graham Naisbitt, Gen3
- assisted with ????
I hope everyone has an awesome week!
Dave Hillman
Collins Aerospace
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