Mark Brader
2023-08-30 05:30:58 UTC
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,
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*)".
* Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems
1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?
2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
planetary motion?
4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".
In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
what 10n-letter word?
5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
area under a curve. Name *either* operation.
6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
substances with a two-word name*?
7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
precision is a principle commonly named after which German
physicist?
8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
of a 2019 image of one of these objects.
9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
same color?
10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
his namesake "machines"?
* Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing
Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.
1. "Goldfinger".
2. "Smokey and the Bandit".
3. "Dukes of Hazzard".
4. "Back to the Future".
5. "The Love Bug".
6. "Bullitt".
7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
8. "The Italian Job" (1969).
9. "Thelma and Louise".
10. "Breaking Bad".
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*)".
* Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems
1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?
2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
planetary motion?
4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".
In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
what 10n-letter word?
5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
area under a curve. Name *either* operation.
6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
substances with a two-word name*?
7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
precision is a principle commonly named after which German
physicist?
8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
of a 2019 image of one of these objects.
9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
same color?
10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
his namesake "machines"?
* Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing
Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.
1. "Goldfinger".
2. "Smokey and the Bandit".
3. "Dukes of Hazzard".
4. "Back to the Future".
5. "The Love Bug".
6. "Bullitt".
7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
8. "The Italian Job" (1969).
9. "Thelma and Louise".
10. "Breaking Bad".
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Mark Brader "Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.'
Toronto Except just this once, of course."
***@vex.net -- John Varley, "Steel Beach"
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Mark Brader "Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.'
Toronto Except just this once, of course."
***@vex.net -- John Varley, "Steel Beach"
My text in this article is in the public domain.