Mark Brader
2023-09-21 07:20:58 UTC
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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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 "<singer> and the <band>".
(If multiple groups named in this fashion have recorded the song,
I will accept any one.)
To repeat, all answers are in the form "<singer> and the <band>".
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?
2. In what phase transition does a solid transition directly into
a gas? It is the reverse of deposition.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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?
8. For a complex number x + yi, x is the real part, while yi is
the part described by what other adjective?
9. Push and pop are operations central to what data structure that,
unlike a queue, operates on a last-in-first-out basis?
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.
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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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 "<singer> and the <band>".
(If multiple groups named in this fashion have recorded the song,
I will accept any one.)
To repeat, all answers are in the form "<singer> and the <band>".
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?
2. In what phase transition does a solid transition directly into
a gas? It is the reverse of deposition.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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?
8. For a complex number x + yi, x is the real part, while yi is
the part described by what other adjective?
9. Push and pop are operations central to what data structure that,
unlike a queue, operates on a last-in-first-out basis?
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.
--
Mark Brader "Look, sir, we can't just do nothing."
Toronto "Why not? It's usually best."
***@vex.net -- Lawrence of Arabia
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader "Look, sir, we can't just do nothing."
Toronto "Why not? It's usually best."
***@vex.net -- Lawrence of Arabia
My text in this article is in the public domain.