From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Final, Round 4 - Sports   
   >   
   > * C. The Tour de France   
   >   
   >    C1. The modern Tour de France consists of 21 legs and covers   
   >        around 3,500 km, though the route changes from year to year.   
   >        What aspect of the circuit *alternates* from one year to   
   >        the next?   
      
   The highest point   
      
   >    C2. The Tour often starts outside France and traditionally   
   >        terminates in Paris.  But next year, because of preparations   
   >        for the Olympics, the race will end in a different French   
   >        city.  Tell us *either* the French endpoint or the non-French   
   >        starting point for 2024.   
      
   Lyon   
      
   > ** Final, Round 6 - Science   
   >   
   > * A. Old-Timey Photography   
   >   
   >    A1. Cameras today are typically digital, recording the image   
   >        electronically.  Before that, they used film, meaning   
   >        a rolled strip of plastic covered with photosensitive   
   >        chemicals: substances that change chemically when exposed   
   >        to light.  With film, you had to turn the roll to the next   
   >        section after each photo, either by hand or there would be   
   >        a motor.  But before *that*, i.e. before there was film,   
   >        what technology was used to put those photosensitive   
   >        chemicals where they needed to be for each photo?   
      
   A silver-coated plate.   
      
   > * B. Linguistics   
   >   
   >    B1. What is the notation used by linguists, lexicographers,   
   >        and other speech and language professionals as a standard   
   >        way of representing sounds?  We need the full name.   
      
   International Phonological Alphabet   
      
   >    B2. What do linguists call a consonant sound if at some point   
   >        in its articulation the flow of air is completely blocked?   
      
   Stop   
      
   > * D. Watch Those Element Symbols   
   >   
   >    D1. Pa is not the symbol for palladium.  What element is it   
   >        the symbol for?   
      
   Protactinium   
      
   >    D2. Ca is not the symbol for cadmium.   What element is it the   
   >        symbol for?   
      
   Calcium   
      
   > * E. Clever People   
   >   
   > Give the field of intellectual inquiry principally associated with the   
   > following clever people.   
   >   
   >    E1. See: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/gfr6/clev-E1.jpg   
   >   
   >        Kurt Gödel ["Gerd'll" without the R sound], Andrew Wiles,   
   >        Paul Erdós ["AIR-dosh"; should be written with a double   
   >        acute accent].   
      
   Nuclear physics   
      
   >    E2. See: http://www.vex.net/~msb/tmp/gfr6/clev-E2.jpg   
   >   
   >        Donald Knuth ["kuh-NOOTH", rhymes with "tooth"], Brian   
   >        Kernighan ["kern-i-HAN"], Grace Hopper.   
      
   Computer science   
      
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