From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 1:31:05 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,    
   > and should be interpreted accordingly.    
   >    
   > On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give    
   > both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.    
   > Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,    
   > based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote    
   > the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal    
   > the correct answers in about 3 days.    
   >    
   > All questions were written by members of Bloor St. Irregulars and    
   > are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may    
   > have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information    
   > please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the    
   > Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".    
   >    
   >    
   > * 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 "a² + b² = c²".    
   > 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.    
      
   differentiation ; 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 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"?    
      
   alan turing   
      
   >    
   > * 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 db5    
      
   > 2. "Smokey and the Bandit".    
      
   pontiac trans am   
      
   > 3. "Dukes of Hazzard".    
      
   dodge charger named  'the general lee'   
      
   > 4. "Back to the Future".    
      
   dmc delorian   
      
   > 5. "The Love Bug".    
      
   volkswagon beetle   
      
   > 6. "Bullitt".    
      
   ford mustang gt fastback   
      
   > 7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".    
      
   ferrari spyder   
      
   > 8. "The Italian Job" (1969).    
      
   mini cooper   
      
   > 9. "Thelma and Louise".    
      
   ford thunderbird   
      
   > 10. "Breaking Bad".    
      
   el camino?   
      
   >    
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