Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    rec.games.trivia    |    Discussion about trivia games    |    32,813 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 31,660 of 32,813    |
|    Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader    |
|    Re: QFTCIBSI23 Final, Rounds 4-6: sports    |
|    21 Sep 23 20:42:16    |
      From: esquel@sommarskog.se              Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:       > * 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 flop              > 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?              Aksel              > 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              > 6. This variation of the hockey hat-trick is accomplished when a       > player collects a goal, an assist, and a fight in the same game.       > It is named after which player, who actually achieved the "feat"       > only twice in his long career?              Gordie Howe              > 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?              Billy the Kid              > 10. In soccer, the turn named after which legendary Dutch player       > consists of feigning a pass before dragging the ball behind       > his standing leg, turning 180°, and accelerating away?              Cruyff?                     > * Final, Round 5 - Audio - "And The" Bands Played On       >       > 8. "Good Vibrations".              Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys              > * 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?              Bromine              > 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              > 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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca