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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * 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   
      
   > 2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within   
   >    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?   
      
   entropy   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a? + b? = c?".   
   >    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by   
   >    what 10n-letter word?   
      
   hypotenuse   
      
   > 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 gases   
      
   > 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 holes   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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   
      
   > * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing   
      
   > 1. "Goldfinger".   
      
   Aston-Martin   
      
   > 4. "Back to the Future".   
      
   DeLorean   
      
   > 5. "The Love Bug".   
      
   Volkswagen Beetle   
      
   > 7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".   
      
   Ferrari   
      
   > 8. "The Italian Job" (1969).   
      
   Mini Cooper   
      
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