End-of-year community quiz
Posted by FocalPlane, on 16 January 2024
Thanks to everyone who participated in our end-of-year quiz together with the Node and preLights. We are delighted to announce that our winner is Benjamin Topacio! Check out the correct answers below:
Q1: Which person being interviewed on the Node in 2023 plays the piano in a klezmer band?
Q2: Sarah Young-Veenstra covered a preprint describing the different ways in which elephant seal cells adapt to hypoxia during deep dives. What is not one of the mechanisms described:
A: Induction of cell cycle arrest pathways
Q3: Which researcher, featured in our ‘Latin American Microscopists’ series this year, started their scientific career by observing carrots?
A: Pablo Sáez
Q4: Martin Estermann was reminded of which iconic animation duo while writing his preLight in May 2023?
Q5: Where should you not place your music speaker while imaging if you want to stay in the good books of Andres Hugo Rossi?
Q6: Which “behind the paper” post published in 2023 tells the story when the first author had to travel to Trinidad, Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico to catch their research organism?
A: “What bats can tell us about the evolution of mammalian teeth” by Alexa Sadier on 25 September 2023
Q7: Mole contributed six articles to JCS in 2023, but how many of them featured a teapot in the accompanying cartoon?
A: Four
Q8: Which paper published in Development in 2023 featured the following figure?
A: Regulation of anterior neurectoderm specification and differentiation by BMP signaling in ascidians by Agnès Roure, Rafath Chowdhury, Sébastien Darras
Q9: Song lyrics often inspire our summaries of preLights posts (dark grey box at the top of each post) – which song inspired two summaries in 2023?
A: Kelly Clarkson – Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)
Q10: Which lab featured in the ‘Lab meeting’ series mentioned that one lab member’s job is “searching cat ovaries and testes around the city”?
A: Excellent Unit of Wildlife Stem Cells (eWIS)
Q11: The preLighters interviewed in 2023 mention several things they do in their spare time – what is not one of these things?
A: Lifting weights
Q12: According to his interview with Mai Rahmoon, what makes Teng-Leong Chew get up in the morning?
A: His dog!
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