Science Quiz

An object placed in water displaces an amount of water whose weight equals that of the object.

Who said this?

(a) Archimedes
(b) Dilip D'Souza
(c) An Engineering graduate from BITS Pilani
(d) This is a trick question
(e) All of the above
(f) None of the above

[Answer] This is really a trick question. The above discovery was made by Dilip D'Souza when he took a dive into the Bombay rotary club swimming pool high on scotch whiskey. Dilip D'Souza is also an Engineering under-graduate from BITS Pilani and has a graduate degree in Computer Science from a US university. So the correct answer is (d). Of course there are no prizes, all we can give you is a link to some sites where they tell you how to get a fake OBC certificate.

Dilip D'Souza realized his mistake since then and corrected it. We were a little surprised, because as far as we knew, the displacement of water is the least important side effect of what is known as the Archimedes principle. The principle takeaway is the force of buoyancy, which, among other things makes interesting things like boats, ships, cruise liners etc possible.