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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 |
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