21 October 2014

Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!, Second Annual IQuISE Edition

Last Friday, IQuISE (MIT's Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering graduate program/community) had it's annual kickoff event, and I--once again--prepared a pub quiz inspired by Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!, an NPR show that I listen to weekly.

Here's a snippet from my Listener Limerick Challenge about QIS in the (very recent) news: 

This search giant has heard the quantum bugle
And hiring managers here don’t need to be frugal
 They want niobium to compute,
 To solve problems big and minute
So Martinis and students now work at _____

You can find the evening's script with answers and without on my website. Enjoy!