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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIFFF12 Game 7, Rounds 4,6: spor   
   20 Feb 22 12:10:34   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 7, Round 4 - Sports   
   >   
   > Rather than pick a particular incident, sport, or occasion, we   
   > present general questions on sports worldwide.   
   >   
   > 3.  What country """has won""" the most soccer World Cups?   
      
   Brazil   
      
   > 5. In which Olympic sport would you find a tsukahara?   
      
   Judo   
      
   > 6. In golf one under par on a hole is called a birdie, and two   
   >    under par is called an eagle.  What is the rare feat of three   
   >    under par called?   
      
   Albatross   
      
   > 7. In what sport does a match consist of 8 periods of play called   
   >    chukkas or chukkers?   
      
   Rugby   
      
   > 8. The Euro 2012 Football (i.e. soccer) Championship takes place   
   >    """this summer""" and """is""" being co-hosted by two   
   >    countries.  Name either.  *Note* You may also answer for the   
   >    next championship, in 2024.   
      
   Poland and Ukraine (in 2012)   
      
   > 9. Only one Soviet-bloc country competed in the 1984 Olympics in   
   >    Los Angeles.  Which country was it?   
      
   Romania   
      
   > 10. The decathlon is a combined track-and-field event whose   
   >    contestants are men.  What is the name of the similar event   
   >    contested by women?   
      
   Heptathlon   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 6 - Science - Nuclear Power   
   >   
   > 1. Name the scientist who created the first artificial self-   
   >    sustaining nuclear chain reaction, at what was called Chicago   
   >    Pile 1, in a rackets court below the bleachers of Stagg Field   
   >    at the University of Chicago on 1942-12-02.   
      
   Meitner   
      
   > 2. What is the popular term used to refer to what would properly be   
   >    called "low-energy nuclear reactions": nuclear reactions   
   >    supposedly occurring near room temperature and pressure using   
   >    relatively simple and low-energy-input devices?   
      
   Cold fusion   
      
   > 3. What term is defined as smallest amount of fissile material   
   >    needed for a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction?   
      
   Critical mass   
      
   > 4. What is the common name of the compound, used in certain types   
   >    of nuclear reactors, that contains the hydrogen isotope deuterium   
   >    in place of regular hydrogen?   
      
   Heavy water   
      
   > 7. What country, """second""" in the world in nuclear generating   
   >    capacity, produces about 75% of its electricity via nuclear   
   >    power?  It """is""" the only country where that number is   
   >    over 50%.   
      
   France   
      
   > 8. This country """operates""" 13 reactors of a type developed from   
   >    the  design, but Canada stopped nuclear dealings with   
   >    the country after they exploded an atomic weapon.  Name the   
   >    country.   
      
   India; Pakistan   
      
   > 9. Calder Hall was the world's first nuclear power station to   
   >    deliver electricity in commercial quantities.  It was connected   
   >    to the grid in 1956 and shut down in 2003.  In which country   
   >    was it located?   
      
   UK   
      
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