The Brix scale is used to measure sugar concentration in wine, fruit juice and fruits and vegetables. It’s named for Adolf Brix, the 19th-century Austro-German mathematician who devised it, and it’s expressed as “degrees Brix” or “degree-sign Bx.” Ripe grapes usually measure 18 to 24 degrees Brix and garlic (believe it or not) typically measures more than 30 degrees Brix.
Which classic video game was designed by a programmer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1984?
A) Asteroids
B) Breakout
C) Pong
D) Tetris
Previous answer: Jazz great Charlie Parker played the saxophone.
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