From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 8/29/23 22:30, Mark Brader wrote:   
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   > * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems   
   >   
   > 1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what   
   >     quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?   
      
   force   
      
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   > 2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within   
   >     a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?   
      
   entropy   
      
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   > 3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.   
   >     This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of   
   >     planetary motion?   
      
   Kepler   
      
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   > 4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".   
   >     In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by   
   >     what 10n-letter word?   
      
   hypotenuse   
      
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   > 5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship   
   >     between two operations on a function.  One describes the slope   
   >     of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the   
   >     area under a curve.  Name *either* operation.   
      
   integration   
      
   >   
   > 6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,   
   >     volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of   
   >     substances with a two-word name*?   
      
   ideal gas   
      
   >   
   > 7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position   
   >     and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact   
   >     precision is a principle commonly named after which German   
   >     physicist?   
      
   Heisenberg   
      
   >   
   > 8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*   
   >     can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and   
   >     angular momentum?  Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation   
   >     of a 2019 image of one of these objects.   
      
   black hole   
      
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   > 9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to   
   >     prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the   
   >     countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the   
   >     same color?   
      
   four   
      
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   > 10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary   
   >     British computer scientist effectively states that any problem   
   >     is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of   
   >     his namesake "machines"?   
      
   Turing   
      
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   >   
   > * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing   
   >   
   > Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own   
   > star billing.  That means the model, not the individual car.   
   >   
   > 1. "Goldfinger".   
      
   Aston Martin   
      
   > 2. "Smokey and the Bandit".   
      
   Chevy Camaro   
      
   > 3. "Dukes of Hazzard".   
   > 4. "Back to the Future".   
      
   Delorean   
      
   > 5. "The Love Bug".   
      
   Volkswagen Beetle   
      
   > 6. "Bullitt".   
      
   Ford Mustang   
      
   > 7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".   
   > 8. "The Italian Job" (1969).   
   > 9. "Thelma and Louise".   
   > 10. "Breaking Bad".   
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