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   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   
      
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