Dang. Fell at the last hurdle. In hindsight I’m pretty sure Faraday would’ve been like -20 years old. Edit: -46.

To elaborate on Edison’s involvement in the electrocution of an elephant… Edison’s Brooklyn electric company employees (sold by Edison already, I believe) helped to execute a performing elephant that had killed a trainer. They figured this might be the most humane way to put down an elephant, but also simultaneously poisoned it. It doesn’t make the Edison company look any better that they filmed it and allowed people all over the US to watch an elephant getting electrocuted. The circus was allowing the press and the Edison Film Company in to watch, though, so I guess it was just a different time. Edison wasn’t really directly involved but an elephant 100% got electrocuted.

10/10, proud of this one. Took the full 100 points to think on three questions and figured them all out by elimination, including a new personal longest thinking time on the Electric Slide question.

Didn't read #5 completely and didn't see it included cars.

Ditto on the layton jar, never heard of it.....

I was thinking of the Faraday Cage.

Surprised how few people got the Leyden jar, it is one of the few things I remember from physics class, along with the vandeGraaff Machine. (and ofcourse some basic formulas and SI units like Newton). Have you guys not been taught this? Seems like standard curriculum to me.

On the other hand, only 50% got the ampere question right which I am quit certain everyone gets taught. So I guess it is more about remembering (still, the name would ring a bell you would think, even if you could not remember what it was exactly)

Anyway I got an electrifying score of 9/10, well it would have been if it was 10/10 :) of course missed the movie question (nr4). Changed my mind at the last moment..

Edit ow wait, if I would have gotten 10/10 it would have been shocking of course ;) :D

The Electric Slide was played at every wedding at the time when most of my friends (and I) were getting married. I never could figure out the damn moves.

In the original script for Matrix, humans actually were harvested for the processing power of their brains, not as batteries. Which I'd say makes a whole lot more sense and is far more interesting.

Unfortunately, the studio thought that audiences would be too stupid too understand the concept (ironically) so it was changed to the machines using humans as a power source, despite the fact that they'd have to put just as much energy into the humans to keep them alive as they get out as heat.

And as someone commented back when the film came out, even if the battery idea made sense, why not just use cows? They generate more heat than humans, and instead of needing to create a complex simulation of the world that humans don't all believe, they could just program an endless green field where all the cows are happy and docile.

And call it the Mootrix.

Was concerned when I figured out the theme, definitely not my forte, but to my surprise I managed the 10/10 with no guesses today (though I couldn't tell you where I've heard of Leyden jars before lol).

9,915, not quite the beast of a score I missed out on yesterday, but a step in the right direction 😁

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I had #10 narrowed down to Leyden jar or magnetic box, ended up choosing poorly.

I was thinking the faraday cage

I got a 6/10

i can't believe i only got question 2 wrong

Shouldn't the Baghdad battery be a more correct answer for question 10? It predates the leyden jar by a thousand or two years