11th form Writing / Test (The Ig Nobel Prize)

1. A large portion of scientific research remains forever ____ the public attention.

2. Only some of the studies deliver results ____ are important for scientific community and make their way to the textbooks.

3. Then there are those studies that represent "achievements that cannot or should not ____".

4. Every year the Annals of Improbable Research ____ this last group with the Ig Nobel Prize.

5. The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prizes and ____ out in late September or early October each year for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.

6. The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that make people ____, and then think.

7. The prizes are intended to celebrate the ____, honour the imagination and raise people's interest in science, medicene and technology.

8. The prizes ____ to the winners by actual Nobel laureates.

9. One person, Sir Andre Geim, won ____ both an Ig Nobel Prize (in 2000) and a real Nobel Prize (in 2010).

10. He won the Ig Nobel Prize for an experiment ____ he and another scientist succesfully levitated a frog using magnets.

11. During the ceremony, each Ig Nobel Prize winner ___ 60 seconds to explain their research.

12. If they ____ over the time, a little girl, "Miss Sweetie Poo", will walk up to them and yell "Please stop: I'm bored" continually untill the speaker stops.

13.It was also once trditional for audience to throw paper airplanes at the stage while the ceremony was taking place, but the practice ____ out in recent years due to safety concerns.

14. Some examples of work that resulted in people winning the Ig Nobel Prize ____:

Veterinary Medicine: for the discovery that cows that are given names produce more milk than cows that don't have names.

15. Economics: for the invention of Clocky, an alarm clock on wheels that motors itself away - off the dresser and onto the floor - and hides, ____ you to get out of bed, find it and turn it off.

16. Linguistics: to a group that conclusively demonstrated that rats occasionally are unable ____ between japanese and Dutch recordings played backwards.

17. Medicine: for research on ____ listening to country music affects suicide rates.

18. Astrophysics: for a paper ____ that black holes fulfil all the technical requirements to be the location of biblical Hell.

19. Ornithology: to a group that researched why woodpeckers ____ headaches.

20. The Ig Nobels may be silly, but that's the point: not all science ____ to be serious and earth-changing, rediculous things exist alongside the significant