Science & Technology Quiz 2: The one with the catchy title.

Procedures :-
1) A asks a question, the rest will try to answer.
2) A must confirm which answer is correct.
3) Person (say B) with confirmed correct answer then asks the next question.
4) A cannot play again until B's turn is over (to prevent the thread turning into a 2 person spam party).
5) Repeat.
6) If person asking question doesn't login to confirm answers within 72 hrs of his question being posted, any one can ask a new question.
7) If no one can answer question within 72 hrs or can't get the right one, questioner can ask again.
8) Definitely no Net or book searches. The answers would be too easy to find if you were allowed to use Google and the like.
9) If answer has been confirmed and the new questioner hasn't set a question in 72 hours, anyone can ask the new question.
10) You can ask questions on any aspect of science (including the history of science and scientists) but let's try not to resort to 'm=3kg a=2ms-2 please work out F'. Come on, guys. Technology questions are also allowed and encouraged.
11) Mathematics is also allowed, but take heed of rule 10).

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ori said:

the french, german, italian, spanish and british disease

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Mise said:

Yup! Except for the British part. It was never our disease

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Moore said:

When syphilis was first observed in 1495, each successive nation of sufferers named the scourge after their closest enemies, so that the French called it "the Neapolitan sickness," the Italians "the French sickness," the British "the French pox," and, after 18th century explorers imported the disease to Tahiti, it was inevitably dubbed "the British disease."

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