From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 2:21:08 AM UTC-5, 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?    
      
   Mendoza line   
      
   > 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?    
      
   Lutz   
      
   > 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?    
      
   Hickok   
       
   > * 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 ".    
   >   
   > 1. "On the Dark Side". Name either the real band or the fictional    
   > one that performed it in a 1983 movie.    
      
   John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band; Eddie and the Cruisers   
       
   > 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   
      
   > 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?    
      
   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   
       
   > 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   
       
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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