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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Final, Round 4 - Sports - Sporting Eponyms
> 3. Showcased in his gold-medal win at the 1968 Olympics, which man's
> revolutionary backward high-jump style has effectively replaced
> the previous straddle and scissors jumps.
Fosbury
> 4. Figure skating's oldest and most difficult jump, it is the
> only basic jump in competition that requires a forward takeoff.
> Which jump is named after a Norwegian skater named Paulsen?
axel
> 5. This figure-skating jump is accomplished with a takeoff from
> the back inside edge of one foot and a landing on the back
> outside edge of the opposite foot. It takes its name from
> which Swedish gold medalist at the 1908 Olympics?
axel
> 8. There is debate about which cards actually constitute the Dead
> Man's Hand (probably black aces and 8's), but the Dead Man
> in question was which gunslinger, shot at a poker table in
> Deadwood, SD, in 1876?
Hickock
> 9. In chess, many openings and gambits are named after the players
> who popularised them. One of the commonest openings in master
> play --
> 1. e4 e5
> 2. Nf3 Nc6
> 3. Bb5
> -- takes its name from which Spanish priest who described it
> in 1561?
Ruy Lopez
> * Final, Round 5 - Audio - "And The" Bands Played On
> 3. "I Hate Myself for Loving You".
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
> 10. "Echo Beach".
Martha and the Muffins
> * Final, Round 6 - Science! -- B.S.I.
> 1. The only two chemical elements that are liquid at standard
> temperature and pressure are mercury and what brownish halogen?
iodine
> 2. In what phase transition does a solid transition directly into
> a gas? It is the reverse of deposition.
sublimation
> 3. The suffix "-itis", as found in words like "bronchitis" and
> "laryngitis", refers to the presentation of what symptom,
> often caused by viral or bacterial infection?
inflammation
> 4. The zebra mussel, cane toad, and kudzu ["KUD-zoo"] are examples
> of species described by what adjective, indicating that their
> overpopulation has caused significant damage when introduced
> to new environments?
invasive
> 5. Named for an Indian physicist, what class of subatomic particles
> have integer spin, as distinct from fermions with their
> half-integer spin? The so-called "God particle" is one of
> these particles that imparts mass to all other particles.
bosons
> 6. The quantum-mechanical equation often represented H psi = E psi
> is named after what Austrian physicist? He also partially names
> a thought-experiment used to illustrate quantum superposition.
Schrodinger
> 7. Show that a base case (n = 1) is true. Then show that if case
> n is true, then so is case n+1. You have just completed a
> proof by what method, contrasted with deduction?
induction
> 8. For a complex number x + yi, x is the real part, while yi is
> the part described by what other adjective?
imaginary
> 9. Push and pop are operations central to what data structure that,
> unlike a queue, operates on a last-in-first-out basis?
stack
> 10. Named for an English mathematician, what adjective describes
> binary data that take on one of two values, usually denoted true
> and false? This adjective also describes the algebra that is
> performed on this type of data.
Boolean
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