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Mark Brader
Feb 9, 2016, 9:41:13 PM2/9/16
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
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 the 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
see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
questions about female scientists and their work.
1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
*Name either element*.
2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
biologist*.
3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
blue pigment. *Name that element*.
4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
*Name that quantity*.
5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
as a result of physical exertion.
6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
programmer. *Name her*.
7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
*Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
mathematician* from Alexandria.
9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
organism*, which is a staple crop.
10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
molecule*?
* Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
You simply give the title of the book.
1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way."
4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
since."
5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
striking thirteen."
8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
childhood was like..."
10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
much."
--
Mark Brader | Given the degree of bitterness... here recently, it might
Toronto | [be better described] as an againstum than a forum.
m...@vex.net | --Peter Moylan
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
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 the 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
see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
questions about female scientists and their work.
1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
*Name either element*.
2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
biologist*.
3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
blue pigment. *Name that element*.
4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
*Name that quantity*.
5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
as a result of physical exertion.
6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
programmer. *Name her*.
7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
*Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
mathematician* from Alexandria.
9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
organism*, which is a staple crop.
10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
molecule*?
* Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
You simply give the title of the book.
1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way."
4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
since."
5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
striking thirteen."
8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
childhood was like..."
10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
much."
--
Mark Brader | Given the degree of bitterness... here recently, it might
Toronto | [be better described] as an againstum than a forum.
m...@vex.net | --Peter Moylan
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Feb 9, 2016, 11:16:40 PM2/9/16
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> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
radium
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
The Color Purple
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Joshua Kreitzer
Feb 9, 2016, 11:23:11 PM2/9/16
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:fOGdncx828bVPifLnZ2dnUU7-
W2d...@giganews.com:
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
Jane Goodall
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
cobalt
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
lactose
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
Ada Lovelace
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
"Silent Spring"
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
Hypatia
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
corn
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
DNA
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
"The Color Purple"
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
"Anna Karenina"
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
"The Great Gatsby"
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
"1984"
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"Pride and Prejudice"
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
"The Catcher in the Rye"
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
grom...@hotmail.com
W2d...@giganews.com:
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
radium
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
"A Tale of Two Cities"
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
"Fahrenheit 451"
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
--
Joshua Kreitzer
--
grom...@hotmail.com
Jason Kreitzer
Feb 9, 2016, 11:55:00 PM2/9/16
to
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
"Anna Karenina"
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
"A Tale of Two Cities"
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
"Fahrenheit 451"
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
"1984"
> striking thirteen."
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
>
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
>
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
"The Catcher in the Rye"
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Marc Dashevsky
Feb 10, 2016, 2:49:44 AM2/10/16
to
In article <fOGdncx828bVPifL...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
Jane Goodall
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
cobalt
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
momentum
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
lactic acid
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
Ada Lovelace
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
Silent Spring
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
soybean
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
DNA
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
>
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
Anna Karenina
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
Nineteen Eighty-Four
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
Pride and Prejudice
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
radium
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
>
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
A Tale of Two Cities
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
Fahrenheit 451
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
The Catcher in the Rye
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
--
bbowler
Feb 10, 2016, 11:33:04 AM2/10/16
to
On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:41:12 -0600, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05, 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup, 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 the 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 see my 2015-08-18
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery of
> two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Polonium
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05, 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup, 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 the 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 see my 2015-08-18
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery of
> two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other members
> of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that biologist*.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics Nobel for
> Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of a
> ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake blue pigment.
> *Name that element*.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially invariant
> physical system follows the law of conservation of a quantity that is
> typically calculated as mass times velocity. *Name that quantity*.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles as a
> result of physical exertion.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing what
> would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a 1962
> book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT. *Name
> that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob in 415.
> Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics contest from the
> University of Waterloo, *name this ancient mathematician* from
> Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons, in
> her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that organism*,
> which is a staple crop.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others, an
> American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in discovering
> the two-stranded structure of *which biological molecule*?
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation, if
> applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
>
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
>
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
A Tale of Two Cities
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
Fahrenheit 451
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
>
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood
> was like..."
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
Peter Smyth
Feb 10, 2016, 1:27:25 PM2/10/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Polonium
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
Fossey
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
Cadmium
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
Momentum
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
Lactic Acid
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
Ada Lovelace
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
>
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
Rice
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
>
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
DNA
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
>
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
>
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
>
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
Great Expectations
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
>
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
>
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
>
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
1984
>
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
Pride and Prejudice
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
>
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
>
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Peter Smyth
Joe
Feb 10, 2016, 1:32:57 PM2/10/16
to
On 2016-02-10 02:41:12 +0000, Mark Brader said:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Polonium
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
>
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
>
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
>
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
>
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
>
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
>
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
>
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
>
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
>
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
>
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
The Catcher in the Rye
>
>
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
--
“To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by
withholding your forgiveness until it’s too late is to become divinely
fucked up.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
Björn Lundin
Feb 10, 2016, 2:30:45 PM2/10/16
to
On 2016-02-10 03:41, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Polonium
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
>
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
>
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
-I use it every day at work :-)
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
Wuthering Heights ?
> unhappy in its own way."
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Harry Potter and the Philosophers's Stone ?
--
--
Björn
Erland Sommarskog
Feb 10, 2016, 2:49:03 PM2/10/16
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Polonium and Radium
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
(And never in my schooling did attribute the formula to a person. Was
that because she was a woman?)
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
To Kill a Mockingbird
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Pete
Feb 10, 2016, 5:03:08 PM2/10/16
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Uranium; Strontium
> 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 to the newsgroup in a single followup,
> 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 the 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
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
>
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
>
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
>
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
>
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
>
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
>
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
>
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
>
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
>
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
>
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
>
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
>
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
>
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
>
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
>
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
>
Pete
>
Calvin
Feb 10, 2016, 6:47:31 PM2/10/16
to
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 12:41:13 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Polonium
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
>
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
A Tale of Two Cities
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
Fahrenheit 451
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
The Catcher in the Rye
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque
Feb 11, 2016, 2:52:55 AM2/11/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
radium
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
>
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
>
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
>
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
>
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
>
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
>
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
>
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
>
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
>
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
>
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
>
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
>
>
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
>
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
>
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
>
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
>
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
>
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
>
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
A Tale of Two Cities
>
>
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
Fahrenheit-451
>
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
>
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
>
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
>
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
--
Dan Tilque
Mark Brader
Feb 12, 2016, 10:24:18 PM2/12/16
to
Mark Brader:
Björn, Erland (the hard way), Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
In the similar question that came up last week (specifically on
2016-02-02) in the "Jeopardy!" College Championship, they required
both answers, not just one. Their version of this question was:
"1898: MARIE & PIERRE CURIE DISCOVER THESE 2 ELEMENTS".
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
Jane Goodall. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Marc, Bruce, Pete,
and Dan Tilque. 3 for Calvin.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
Cobalt. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Bruce, Erland, and Dan Tilque.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
Momentum (or specifically linear momentum; angular momentum is
wrong). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Peter, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Erland.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
Lactic acid (or lactate; but not lactose, a significantly different
though related compound). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Peter, Björn,
Erland, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
Ada Lovelace. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Bruce, Peter, Joe,
Björn, Erland, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
"Silent Spring". 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Bruce, Erland,
Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
Hypatia. 4 for Dan Blum and Joshua.
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
Corn (maize or Zea mays). 4 for Joshua, Bruce, and Dan Tilque.
2 for Dan Blum.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
Deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA was sufficient. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Marc, Bruce, Peter, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Erland.
The original version of this question said she was "snubbed" for the
prize, which is simply wrong; she was ineligible because she had died
some years before the Nobel committee decided to give an award for the
discovery. It is fair to say that her work provided key information
that Watson and Crick's discovery was based on, but this was not
exactly forgotten; she was mentioned twice in Wilkins's Nobel lecture,
and when Watson and Crick's announced the double helix structure in
"Nature", they acknowledged being "stimulated by a knowledge of the
general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas
of Dr. M.H.W. Wilkins, Dr. R.E. Franklin and their co-workers..."
It is also claimed that Franklin's results should not have been made
available to Watson and Crick in the way that they were at the time
that they were, and there may be something to that.
Brenda Maddox's biography of Franklin is worth reading.
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
"The Color Purple" (Alice Walker). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason,
Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
"Beloved" (Toni Morrison). It refers to a house, number 124 on a
certain street.
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
"Anna Karenina" (Leo Tolstoy). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason,
Marc, and Joe.
Original wording: "Vse stsastliviya syemi pokhozki drug na druga,
kazhdaya nyestsastlivaya syemya nyestsastliva po cvoyemu."
(Or something like that. For the text in Cyrillic letters see:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=OPcVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false
.)
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
"The Great Gatsby" (F. Scott Fitzgerald). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Joe, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
"A Tale of Two Cities" (Charles Dickens). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Jason, Marc, Bruce, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
"Fahrenheit 451. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Marc, Bruce, Joe,
Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" (George Orwell). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Jason, Marc, Bruce, Peter, Joe, Erland, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"Pride and Prejudice" (Jane Austen). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc,
Peter, Joe, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
"The Catcher in the Rye" (J.D. Salinger). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua,
Jason, Marc, Bruce, Joe, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (or "...Sorcerer's Stone")
(J.K. Rowling). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Marc, Bruce, Peter,
Joe, Björn, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Lit
Dan Blum 38 36 74
Dan Tilque 36 32 68
Joshua Kreitzer 32 36 68
Marc Dashevsky 32 28 60
Bruce Bowler 32 20 52
"Calvin" 23 28 51
Pete Gayde 20 24 44
"Joe" 8 28 36
Jason Kreitzer 4 28 32
Peter Smyth 20 12 32
Erland Sommarskog 26 4 30
Björn Lundin 12 4 16
--
Mark Brader | "...most people who borrow over $1,000,000 from a bank
Toronto | would at least remember the name of the bank."
m...@vex.net | -- Judge Donald Bowman, Tax Court of Canada
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2015-10-05,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2015-08-18 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Polonium, Radium. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Bruce, Peter, Joe,
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 3, Round 2 - Science - Historic Women in Science
> From astronomy to zoology, the contributions of women have been
> instrumental in shaping modern science as we know it. Answer these
> questions about female scientists and their work.
> 1. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes in her lifetime. The second of
> them, the 1911 chemistry Nobel, was awarded due to her discovery
> of two elements, numbers 84 and 88 on the periodic table.
> *Name either element*.
Björn, Erland (the hard way), Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
In the similar question that came up last week (specifically on
2016-02-02) in the "Jeopardy!" College Championship, they required
both answers, not just one. Their version of this question was:
"1898: MARIE & PIERRE CURIE DISCOVER THESE 2 ELEMENTS".
> 2. The Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania is the home of an
> English biologist's 1960 study of Gigi, Flo, Fifi, and other
> members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community. *Name that
> biologist*.
and Dan Tilque. 3 for Calvin.
> 3. Chien-Shiung Wu's namesake experiment, which confirmed parity
> violation in weak force interactions, won the 1957 physics
> Nobel for Lee and Yang, though she was largely ignored.
> The experiment investigated beta decay in the 60 isotope of
> a ferromagnetic element whose oxide is used in a namesake
> blue pigment. *Name that element*.
> 4. Noether's theorem, named for physicist Emmy Noether ["noyt-er"],
> has many consequences, one of which is that any spatially
> invariant physical system follows the law of conservation of a
> quantity that is typically calculated as mass times velocity.
> *Name that quantity*.
wrong). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Peter, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Erland.
> 5. Biologist Gerta Cori and her husband Carl are the namesakes
> of the Cori cycle, which is also sometimes named for a certain
> molecule. *Name that molecule*, which is produced by muscles
> as a result of physical exertion.
though related compound). 4 for Dan Blum, Marc, Bruce, Peter, Björn,
Erland, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 6. The programming language Ada is named for a woman whose work with
> Charles Babbage's planned Analytical Engine included describing
> what would be recognized as the world's first computer algorithm,
> giving her a popular designation as the world's first computer
> programmer. *Name her*.
Björn, Erland, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 7. The effects of the US Department of Agriculture's fire ant
> extermination program on landowners prompted the writing of a
> 1962 book that decried the use of pesticides, in particular DDT.
> *Name that book* by marine biologist Rachel Carson.
Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. Perhaps the most famous ancient female scientist, this person
> invented the hydrometer and taught astronomy and neoplatonic
> philosophy in her home city, where she was killed by a mob
> in 415. Now the namesake of an annual grade 11 mathematics
> contest from the University of Waterloo, *name this ancient
> mathematician* from Alexandria.
> 9. The 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine went to geneticist Barbara
> McClintock for her discovery of "jumping genes", or transposons,
> in her extensive study of a certain organism. *Name that
> organism*, which is a staple crop.
2 for Dan Blum.
> 10. In 1962, Rosalind Franklin was ineligible for the medicine Nobel
> Prize; it went to her colleague Maurice Wilkins and two others,
> an American and an Englishman. Franklin's work was key in
> discovering the two-stranded structure of *which biological
> molecule*?
Marc, Bruce, Peter, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Erland.
The original version of this question said she was "snubbed" for the
prize, which is simply wrong; she was ineligible because she had died
some years before the Nobel committee decided to give an award for the
discovery. It is fair to say that her work provided key information
that Watson and Crick's discovery was based on, but this was not
exactly forgotten; she was mentioned twice in Wilkins's Nobel lecture,
and when Watson and Crick's announced the double helix structure in
"Nature", they acknowledged being "stimulated by a knowledge of the
general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas
of Dr. M.H.W. Wilkins, Dr. R.E. Franklin and their co-workers..."
It is also claimed that Franklin's results should not have been made
available to Watson and Crick in the way that they were at the time
that they were, and there may be something to that.
Brenda Maddox's biography of Franklin is worth reading.
> * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Opening Lines of Famous Books
> We'll give you the opening line of a book (in English translation,
> if applicable) and the year the book was first published.
> You simply give the title of the book.
> 1. 1982: "You better not never tell nobody but God."
Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 2. 1987: "124 was spiteful."
certain street.
> 3. 1873: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way."
Marc, and Joe.
Original wording: "Vse stsastliviya syemi pokhozki drug na druga,
kazhdaya nyestsastlivaya syemya nyestsastliva po cvoyemu."
(Or something like that. For the text in Cyrillic letters see:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=OPcVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false
.)
> 4. 1925: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
> me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever
> since."
Joe, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 5. 1859: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
Jason, Marc, Bruce, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 6. 1953: "It was a pleasure to burn."
Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 7. 1949: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
> striking thirteen."
Jason, Marc, Bruce, Peter, Joe, Erland, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 8. 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
> man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
Peter, Joe, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. 1951: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
> you'll want to know is where I was born and what my lousy
> childhood was like..."
Jason, Marc, Bruce, Joe, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
> 10. 1997: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
> proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very
> much."
(J.K. Rowling). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Jason, Marc, Bruce, Peter,
Joe, Björn, Pete, Calvin, and Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 3 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Lit
Dan Blum 38 36 74
Dan Tilque 36 32 68
Joshua Kreitzer 32 36 68
Marc Dashevsky 32 28 60
Bruce Bowler 32 20 52
"Calvin" 23 28 51
Pete Gayde 20 24 44
"Joe" 8 28 36
Jason Kreitzer 4 28 32
Peter Smyth 20 12 32
Erland Sommarskog 26 4 30
Björn Lundin 12 4 16
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