From: dtilque@frontier.com   
      
   On 9/21/23 00:20, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > * Final, Round 4 - Sports - Sporting Eponyms   
   >   
   > 1. Technically known as "ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction",   
   >     this procedure is usually referred to by the name of which   
   >     pitcher who underwent the surgery in 1974?   
      
   Tommy John   
      
   >   
   > 2. Baseball players whose batting average is under .200 are said   
   >     to fall below *which eponymous line*, indicating that they are   
   >     too mediocre to play in the major leagues?   
      
   Uecker   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > 7. The swimmer performs an underwater butterfly kick off the wall   
   >     after the turn, to maximize speed and distance underwater, before   
   >     starting the regular stroke, in a turn named after which swimmer?   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Wyatt Erp   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   Giuoco   
      
   >   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > * Final, Round 5 - Audio - "And The" Bands Played On   
   >   
   > Yes, you're getting the audio round this time, without the audio.   
   > In the original game you would have heard a clip; here I'll just   
   > tell you the song.  You must give the full name of the credited   
   > recording group -- all named in the style " and the ".   
   > (If multiple groups named in this fashion have recorded the song,   
   > I will accept any one.)   
   >   
   > To repeat, all answers are in the form " and the ".   
   >   
   > 1. "On the Dark Side".  Name either the real band or the fictional   
   >     one that performed it in a 1983 movie.   
   >   
   > 2. "Kiss".   
   > 3. "I Hate Myself for Loving You".   
   > 4. "Peek-a-Boo".   
   > 5. "Wooly Bully".   
   > 6. "96 Tears".   
   > 7. "The Valley Road".   
   > 8. "Good Vibrations".   
   > 9. "There She Goes, My Beautiful World".   
   > 10. "Echo Beach".   
   >   
   >   
   > * Final, Round 6 - Science! -- B.S.I.   
   >   
   > To cap off a season of science by the Bloor St. Irregulars, answer   
   > the following questions -- whose *correct answers will each begin   
   > with either B, S, or 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?   
      
   inflamation   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   boson   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Schroedinger   
      
   >   
   > 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   
      
   --   
   Dan Tilque   
      
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