From: stephen.w.perry@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 3:21:08 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:   
   > These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-24,    
   > 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*)".    
   >    
   >    
   > * 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?    
      
   mendoza   
      
   > 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?    
      
   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?    
      
   salchow?  [1908?]   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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?    
      
   a flip turn is named after someone?   
      
   > 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?    
      
   bill hockock   
      
   > 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   
      
   > 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    
   >    
   > 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.    
      
   john cafferty    
      
   > 2. "Kiss".    
      
   prince and the revolution   
      
   > 3. "I Hate Myself for Loving You".    
      
   joan jett and the blackhearts   
      
   > 4. "Peek-a-Boo".    
      
   siouxsie and the banshees   
      
   > 5. "Wooly Bully".    
      
   sam the  sham and the pharaohs   
      
   > 6. "96 Tears".    
      
   question mark and the mysterians   
      
   > 7. "The Valley Road".    
      
   bruce hornsby and the range   
      
   > 8. "Good Vibrations".    
      
   marky mark and the funky bunch   
      
   > 9. "There She Goes, My Beautiful World".    
      
   nick cave and the bad seeds   
      
   > 10. "Echo Beach".    
      
   martha and the muffins   
      
   >    
   >    
   > * 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.    
      
   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    
      
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