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QFTCI16 Game 6, Rounds 2-3: experiments, before-and-afters
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Mark Brader
Aug 18, 2016, 5:53:30 PM8/18/16
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
describe it.
2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
to settle this question?
4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
proved?
7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
what did he calculate?
9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
on their own. What had kept them together?
10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh
whfg fnvq "vg ebgngrq" sbe Sbhpnhyg'f craqhyhz be "tenivgl"
sbe Pniraqvfu'f rkcrevzrag, gung'f vafhssvpvrag. Tb onpx naq
pynevsl rknpgyl jung lbh zrna.
If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
but for no points:
11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
stopped moving. What was he measuring?
12. In Cavendish's experiment in question 7, the rod only rotated
by a tiny amount, so how did he amplify the motion so he could
measure it accurately?
* Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
that combined name -- in full, please.
1. For the first two questions, we will describe the two people but
you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
were in office only once, 16 years apart.
2. These two men -- again, one each from the two major parties --
were both prime ministers of Canada after Pierre Trudeau retired.
They were in office 10 years apart. Hint: this time there is
a trick to the question.
3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
#1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
it did win one.
4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
the same year his team joined the NHL.
6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
Series with.
7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
countries, although at least one is primarily associated
with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
English, or at least in something like English.
8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
Literature; and he died in 1951.
9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
this one will be 5 words long.
--
Mark Brader | "Are you coming to bed?"
Toronto | "I can't. This is important... Someone is WRONG on the Internet."
m...@vex.net | --Randall Munroe
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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
describe it.
2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
to settle this question?
4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
proved?
7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
what did he calculate?
9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
on their own. What had kept them together?
10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh
whfg fnvq "vg ebgngrq" sbe Sbhpnhyg'f craqhyhz be "tenivgl"
sbe Pniraqvfu'f rkcrevzrag, gung'f vafhssvpvrag. Tb onpx naq
pynevsl rknpgyl jung lbh zrna.
If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
but for no points:
11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
stopped moving. What was he measuring?
12. In Cavendish's experiment in question 7, the rod only rotated
by a tiny amount, so how did he amplify the motion so he could
measure it accurately?
* Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
that combined name -- in full, please.
1. For the first two questions, we will describe the two people but
you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
were in office only once, 16 years apart.
2. These two men -- again, one each from the two major parties --
were both prime ministers of Canada after Pierre Trudeau retired.
They were in office 10 years apart. Hint: this time there is
a trick to the question.
3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
#1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
it did win one.
4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
the same year his team joined the NHL.
6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
Series with.
7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
countries, although at least one is primarily associated
with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
English, or at least in something like English.
8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
Literature; and he died in 1951.
9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
this one will be 5 words long.
--
Mark Brader | "Are you coming to bed?"
Toronto | "I can't. This is important... Someone is WRONG on the Internet."
m...@vex.net | --Randall Munroe
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Dan Blum
Aug 18, 2016, 6:18:33 PM8/18/16
to
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
Doppler
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
nucleus) rather than being diffuse
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
as the pendulum swings the path rotates
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
constant
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
> 1. For the first two questions, we will describe the two people but
> you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
> So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
> were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
> were in office only once, 16 years apart.
John MacKenzie King
> you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
> So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
> were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
> were in office only once, 16 years apart.
> 3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Jason Kreitzer
Aug 18, 2016, 7:58:54 PM8/18/16
to
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
>
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
>
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
Branch Rickey Henderson
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
>
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
>
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
Joshua Kreitzer
Aug 18, 2016, 8:56:47 PM8/18/16
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:5Y-dnUEm64nIsyvKnZ2dnUU7-
SHN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
Doppler
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
he set up a number of items in a circle surrounding the pendulum, which
knocked them down as it swung due to the Earth's rotation
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
that weight does not affect the speed at which an object falls
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
circumference of the earth
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
willingness to comply with an authority figure's instructions
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
>
> If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
> Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
> you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
> names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
> and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
> two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
> that combined name -- in full, please.
>
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
James Taylor Swift
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
Branch Rickey Henderson
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
Henry James Joyce
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
Upton Sinclair Lewis
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
Claire Trevor Howard
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
grom...@hotmail.com
SHN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
knocked them down as it swung due to the Earth's rotation
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
>
> If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
> Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
> you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
> names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
> and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
> two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
> that combined name -- in full, please.
>
> 3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
Katy Perry Como
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
Kristin Scott Thomas Haden Church
--
Joshua Kreitzer
--
grom...@hotmail.com
Calvin
Aug 18, 2016, 9:22:49 PM8/18/16
to
On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 7:53:30 AM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
Doppler
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
That was an excellent round thanks.
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
>
> If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
> Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
> you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
> names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
> and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
> two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
> that combined name -- in full, please.
>
> 1. For the first two questions, we will describe the two people but
> you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
> So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
> were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
> were in office only once, 16 years apart.
>
> 2. These two men -- again, one each from the two major parties --
> were both prime ministers of Canada after Pierre Trudeau retired.
> They were in office 10 years apart. Hint: this time there is
> a trick to the question.
>
> 3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
>
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
>
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
>
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
>
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
calvin
Dan Tilque
Aug 18, 2016, 11:12:01 PM8/18/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
Doppler
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
>
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
>
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
>
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
sidereal day
>
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
>
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
massive they are
>
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
>
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
>
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
>
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
convinced to do evil things
>
> After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh
> whfg fnvq "vg ebgngrq" sbe Sbhpnhyg'f craqhyhz be "tenivgl"
> sbe Pniraqvfu'f rkcrevzrag, gung'f vafhssvpvrag. Tb onpx naq
> pynevsl rknpgyl jung lbh zrna.
>
> If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
> but for no points:
>
> 11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
> into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
> into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
> voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
> stopped moving. What was he measuring?
>
> 12. In Cavendish's experiment in question 7, the rod only rotated
> by a tiny amount, so how did he amplify the motion so he could
> measure it accurately?
>
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
>
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
>
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
--
swp
Aug 19, 2016, 12:29:50 AM8/19/16
to
On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 5:53:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
e=mc^2, from which it follows that t(h)/t(p)==e(m).
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
> After completing the round, please decode the rot13: If you
> just said "it rotated" for Foucault's pendulum or "gravity"
> for Cavendish's experiment, that's insufficient. Go back and
> clarify exactly what you mean.
>
> If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
> but for no points:
>
> 11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
> into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
> into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
> voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
> stopped moving. What was he measuring?
determine the electric charge carried by a single electron
> If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
> but for no points:
>
> 11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
> into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
> into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
> voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
> stopped moving. What was he measuring?
> 12. In Cavendish's experiment in question 7, the rod only rotated
> by a tiny amount, so how did he amplify the motion so he could
> measure it accurately?
>
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
>
> If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
> Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
> you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
> names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
> and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
> two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
> that combined name -- in full, please.
>
> 1. For the first two questions, we will describe the two people but
> you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
> So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
> were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
> were in office only once, 16 years apart.
> 2. These two men -- again, one each from the two major parties --
> were both prime ministers of Canada after Pierre Trudeau retired.
> They were in office 10 years apart. Hint: this time there is
> a trick to the question.
> 3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
swp
Mark Brader
Aug 19, 2016, 1:15:19 AM8/19/16
to
"Calvin":
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> That was an excellent round thanks.
Thank *you*.
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Björn Lundin
Aug 19, 2016, 4:30:53 AM8/19/16
to
On 2016-08-18 23:53, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
> 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
>
This _sounds_ like the Doppler effect :-)
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
> 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
>
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
>
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
>
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
so it appears that the pendulum moves its swinging direction.
As if the swing followed the hour indicator in a clock.
>
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
>
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
>
Weight has nothing to do with it.
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
>
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
>
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
>
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
Björn
bbowler
Aug 19, 2016, 10:33:18 AM8/19/16
to
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:53:25 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27, 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's the other
> guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built Amsterdam-Utrecht
> railway, a trumpeter was carried back and forth on an open flat-car
> while other musicians stood beside the tracks. Either tell whose
> "effect" was confirmed, or describe it.
Doppler
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27, 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's the other
> guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built Amsterdam-Utrecht
> railway, a trumpeter was carried back and forth on an open flat-car
> while other musicians stood beside the tracks. Either tell whose
> "effect" was confirmed, or describe it.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil.
> Most of the particles passed straight through, but, astonishingly, a
> few of them were deflected strongly sideways or even backwards.
> Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of
> tissue paper and it came back and hit you" -- and he drew what
> historic conclusion?
>
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know that
> white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply separates
> them. But people used to think it was somehow adding color to the
> light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac Newton in
> Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism to settle this
> question?
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he use a
> large pendulum to provide this proof?
straight line, it showed the earth was rotating. These days it's
frequently done by drawing in sand.
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed the
> Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground. Whether he
> did it or not, what would this demonstration have proved?
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single vertical
> wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he set a
> 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated around its
> center, and he measured how much. Either name the specific thing
> that he was trying to find out, or give the picturesque three-word
> title he gave to his experiment.
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now call
> Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep well you
> could see the sun reflected in the water. But that never happens in
> Alexandria. Based on the distance between the two places and some
> measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed a metal
> sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate hemispheres.
> When he hitched a team of horses to each hemisphere, they did not
> have the strength to pull them apart; but then he operated a control
> and the hemispheres fell apart on their own. What had kept them
> together?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that they were
> themselves running an experiment. They thought they were measuring
> how learning was affected by punishment, using a graded sequence of
> increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
conscience
Peter Smyth
Aug 19, 2016, 1:30:06 PM8/19/16
to
Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
> 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
That the frequency of a sound will change depending on whether the
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
> 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
source is coming towards you, or moving away from you.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
Atoms have a positively charged nucleus
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
The second prism combined the coloured light back into a single white
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
beam
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
The pendulum gradually changed its direction of swing over time
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
To prove that maggots are not produced by rotting meat, but are
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
attracted by rotting meat.
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
Acceleration due to gravity is constant
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
>
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
>
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
The circumference of the Earth
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
A vacuum
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
How far the participants would be willing to follow instructions
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
> After completing the round, please decode the rot13: If you
> just said "it rotated" for Foucault's pendulum or "gravity"
> for Cavendish's experiment, that's insufficient. Go back and
> clarify exactly what you mean.
>
> 3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
Katy Perry Como
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
>
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
>
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
Peter Smyth
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
>
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
>
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
Erland Sommarskog
Aug 19, 2016, 3:48:54 PM8/19/16
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
Doppler
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Marc Dashevsky
Aug 21, 2016, 3:29:28 AM8/21/16
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In article <5Y-dnUEm64nIsyvK...@giganews.com>, m...@vex.net says...
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
Doppler
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
atoms have a positively charged nucleus
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
it returned the refracted light to white light
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
the pendulum swung while the earth roted under it.
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
to show that maggots would not form if flies had no contact with the meat
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
that acceleration of an object due to gravity is independent of the object's mass
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
>
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
circumference of the earth
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
vaccuum
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
obedience to authorithy
> After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh
> whfg fnvq "vg ebgngrq" sbe Sbhpnhyg'f craqhyhz be "tenivgl"
> sbe Pniraqvfu'f rkcrevzrag, gung'f vafhssvpvrag. Tb onpx naq
> pynevsl rknpgyl jung lbh zrna.
>
> If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
> but for no points:
>
> 11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
> into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
> into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
> voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
> stopped moving. What was he measuring?
charge of the electron
Katy Perry Como
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
James Taylor Swift
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
>
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
Branch Rickey Henderson
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
Henry James Joyce
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
Upton Sinclair Lewis
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
>
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
>
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
> After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Vs lbh
> whfg fnvq "vg ebgngrq" sbe Sbhpnhyg'f craqhyhz be "tenivgl"
> sbe Pniraqvfu'f rkcrevzrag, gung'f vafhssvpvrag. Tb onpx naq
> pynevsl rknpgyl jung lbh zrna.
>
> If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
> but for no points:
>
> 11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
> into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
> into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
> voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
> stopped moving. What was he measuring?
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
>
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
>
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
--
Pete
Aug 21, 2016, 1:21:15 PM8/21/16
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
> 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
Doppler
> 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 Usual Suspects 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 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
>
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
>
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
>
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
>
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
>
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
>
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
>
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
>
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
>
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
>
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
>
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
>
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
>
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
>
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
>
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
>
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
>
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
>
Mark Brader
Aug 21, 2016, 7:44:12 PM8/21/16
to
Mark Brader:
the next set.
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
For each question, ANY ONE of the words or phrase emphasized
*this way* in the answer shown -- or equivalent wording -- was
sufficient for your answer to be accepted.
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
The *Doppler* effect, named for Christian Doppler: the *sound changed
in pitch* according to the velocity of the train. 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Erland,
Marc, and Pete.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
That *most of an atom's mass is in a small part* with a positive
charge, i.e. that atoms *have a nucleus*. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Peter, Erland, and Marc.
The students were Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden. Geiger would
later invent the Geiger counter.
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
He turned it to *face the other way* -- and instead of adding more
color, it *recombined the colors* to produce colorless white light.
4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Bruce, Peter, Erland,
and Marc.
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
He suspended it so it would be free to swing in any direction, and
as the hours passed, it seemed to *swing in a different direction*
due to the Earth turning under it. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Peter, and Marc.
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
To prove that rotting meat *did not spontaneously generate vermin*
such as maggots. (The gauze kept flies from laying eggs on the meat.)
4 for Dan Tilque, Stephen, Bruce, Peter, Marc, and Pete.
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
That a lightweight ball would *fall just as fast* as a heavy one
(contrary to Aristotle's writings). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Erland, Marc, and Pete.
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
He was measuring the *gravitational force (attraction)* between the
different weights. From this he could compute the *gravitational
constant* in Newton's equations, and in turn, both the *density of
the Earth* and finally the total *mass of the Earth*. So he called
the experiment *"Weighing the Earth"*. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, and Bruce.
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
The *circumference of the Earth* (also accepting its diameter,
or radius, or just its size). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Erland, and Marc. 3 for Calvin.
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
*Air pressure*: he had *pumped the air out* from the sphere, creating
a near *vacuum* inside. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen,
Björn, Bruce, Peter, Erland, Marc, and Pete.
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
Their *obedience* to authority. (I did not accept answers that only
referred to the shock level they supposedly administered, although
of course that's what was actually tabulated.) 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Bruce, Peter, Erland, and Marc.
Subjects were placed alone in a room with the experimenter and a
fake control panel with labels like "danger: severe shock", and
beyond that, "XXX". Through a window they saw the man supposedly
being shocked. As the experiment progressed, he he had a heart
condition, begged to be released, and finally appeared to collapse.
Given instructions like "the experiment requires that you continue,
it is absolutely essential", 26 out of 40 subjects, even while
feeling very concerned about the man, still went on to administer
the 30th and highest shock level.
> If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
> but for no points:
> 11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
> into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
> into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
> voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
> stopped moving. What was he measuring?
The electric *charge on one electron*. Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Marc
got this.
The setup would charge each drop so slightly that he could
identify drops as missing just 1 electron, 2 electrons, etc.,
with all the charges a multiple of the same base amount.
> 12. In Cavendish's experiment in question 7, the rod only rotated
> by a tiny amount, so how did he amplify the motion so he could
> measure it accurately?
He fixed a mirror to the rod and reflected a beam of light off it.
Nobody got this.
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
> If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
> Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
> you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
> names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
> and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
> two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
> that combined name -- in full, please.
> 1. For the first two questions, we will describe the two people but
> you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
> So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
> were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
> were in office only once, 16 years apart.
Alexander Mackenzie Bowell. (1873-78, 1894-96.) 4 for Stephen.
And we promise no more Alexander Mackenzie questions this season.
> 2. These two men -- again, one each from the two major parties --
> were both prime ministers of Canada after Pierre Trudeau retired.
> They were in office 10 years apart. Hint: this time there is
> a trick to the question.
Paul (Edgar Philippe) Martin (Brian) Mulroney. (2003-06,
1984-93.) Mulroney goes by his middle name.
> 3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
Katy Perry Como. ("I Kissed a Girl", "Catch A Falling Star".)
4 for Dan Blum, Jason, Joshua, Calvin, Stephen, Peter, Marc, and Pete.
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
James Taylor Swift. ("Before This World", "1989".) 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Calvin, Stephen, Marc, and Pete.
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
Rod Gilbert ["zheel-BEAR"] Perreault. (New York Rangers, Buffalo
Sabres.) 4 for Stephen and Pete.
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
Branch Rickey Henderson. (Branch Rickey was the man who "broke the
color bar" by hiring Jackie Robinson) 4 for Jason, Joshua, Stephen,
Marc, and Pete.
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
Henry James Joyce. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin, Dan Tilque,
Stephen, Peter, and Marc.
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
Upton Sinclair Lewis. 4 for Joshua, Dan Tilque, Stephen, and Marc.
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
Claire Trevor Howard. 4 for Joshua and Stephen.
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
Kristin Scott Thomas Haden Church. (She was nominated for "The
English Patient".) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Mis
Stephen Perry 40 36 76
Marc Dashevsky 36 20 56
Dan Blum 36 16 52
Dan Tilque 40 8 48
Joshua Kreitzer 20 28 48
"Calvin" 35 12 47
Peter Smyth 32 8 40
Bruce Bowler 36 0 36
Pete Gayde 16 16 32
Erland Sommarskog 28 0 28
Björn Lundin 24 0 24
Jason Kreitzer 0 8 8
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> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2016-06-27,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2016-05-31 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
Due to travel, there will be a hiatus following the posting of
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
the next set.
> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
*this way* in the answer shown -- or equivalent wording -- was
sufficient for your answer to be accepted.
> 1. In 1845 one scientist had predicted that a certain effect would
> happen, and another one, Christoph Buys-Ballot ["BOYZ-BAL-ot"]
> attempted to prove it would not. He was wrong, so now it's
> the other guy whose name is remembered. On the newly built
> Amsterdam-Utrecht railway, a trumpeter was carried back and
> forth on an open flat-car while other musicians stood beside
> the tracks. Either tell whose "effect" was confirmed, or
> describe it.
in pitch* according to the velocity of the train. 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Erland,
Marc, and Pete.
> 2. This experiment was done in 1909 in Manchester, England,
> by two students under the direction of Ernest Rutherford.
> They directed a beam of alpha particles at a sheet of gold
> foil. Most of the particles passed straight through, but,
> astonishingly, a few of them were deflected strongly sideways
> or even backwards. Rutherford said it was "as if you fired a
> 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and
> hit you" -- and he drew what historic conclusion?
charge, i.e. that atoms *have a nucleus*. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Peter, Erland, and Marc.
The students were Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden. Geiger would
later invent the Geiger counter.
> 3. In the mid 17th century it was known that if white light passed
> through a prism, different colors would appear. We now know
> that white light is a mixture of all colors and the prism simply
> separates them. But people used to think it was somehow adding
> color to the light -- until an experiment in about 1666 by Isaac
> Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. How did he use a second prism
> to settle this question?
color, it *recombined the colors* to produce colorless white light.
4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Bruce, Peter, Erland,
and Marc.
> 4. In the mid 19th century, everyone knew that the Earth rotates,
> but there was no easy way to prove it until Léon Foucault's
> ["foo-KOH's"] simple experiment in 1851 in Paris. How did he
> use a large pendulum to provide this proof?
as the hours passed, it seemed to *swing in a different direction*
due to the Earth turning under it. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Peter, and Marc.
> 5. In 1668 in Florence, Italy, Francesco Redi allowed meat to rot
> in a jar whose mouth was covered with a layer of gauze. Why?
such as maggots. (The gauze kept flies from laying eggs on the meat.)
4 for Dan Tilque, Stephen, Bruce, Peter, Marc, and Pete.
> 6. It's disputed whether or not this one actually happened,
> but in 1589 in Italy, Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed
> the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped two balls to the ground.
> Whether he did it or not, what would this demonstration have
> proved?
(contrary to Aristotle's writings). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Erland, Marc, and Pete.
> 7. In 1798 in London, Henry Cavendish took a rod with two weights,
> like a barbell, and balanced it by its center from a single
> vertical wire so it was free to pivot. When it came to rest, he
> set a 350-pound weight near each end. The barbell then rotated
> around its center, and he measured how much. Either name the
> specific thing that he was trying to find out, or give the
> picturesque three-word title he gave to his experiment.
different weights. From this he could compute the *gravitational
constant* in Newton's equations, and in turn, both the *density of
the Earth* and finally the total *mass of the Earth*. So he called
the experiment *"Weighing the Earth"*. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin,
Dan Tilque, Stephen, Björn, and Bruce.
> 8. In Alexandria, Egypt, sometime in the 3rd century BC,
> Eratosthenes [ends in "-eez"] learned that at the place we now
> call Aswan, on the summer solstice if you looked down a deep
> well you could see the sun reflected in the water. But that
> never happens in Alexandria. Based on the distance between
> the two places and some measurements he could make himself,
> what did he calculate?
or radius, or just its size). 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Dan Tilque,
Stephen, Björn, Bruce, Peter, Erland, and Marc. 3 for Calvin.
> 9. In 1654, Otto von Guericke was the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany,
> but he did this demonstration in Regensburg. He constructed
> a metal sphere about 20 inches across, made of two separate
> hemispheres. When he hitched a team of horses to each
> hemisphere, they did not have the strength to pull them apart;
> but then he operated a control and the hemispheres fell apart
> on their own. What had kept them together?
a near *vacuum* inside. 4 for Dan Blum, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen,
Björn, Bruce, Peter, Erland, Marc, and Pete.
> 10. In 1961 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram ran a psychology
> experiment where he misled his subjects into believing that
> they were themselves running an experiment. They thought they
> were measuring how learning was affected by punishment, using
> a graded sequence of increasingly powerful electric shocks.
> What was Milgram actually trying to measure?
referred to the shock level they supposedly administered, although
of course that's what was actually tabulated.) 4 for Dan Blum,
Joshua, Calvin, Dan Tilque, Stephen, Bruce, Peter, Erland, and Marc.
Subjects were placed alone in a room with the experimenter and a
fake control panel with labels like "danger: severe shock", and
beyond that, "XXX". Through a window they saw the man supposedly
being shocked. As the experiment progressed, he he had a heart
condition, begged to be released, and finally appeared to collapse.
Given instructions like "the experiment requires that you continue,
it is absolutely essential", 26 out of 40 subjects, even while
feeling very concerned about the man, still went on to administer
the 30th and highest shock level.
> If you enjoyed this round, here are two extra questions for fun,
> but for no points:
> 11. In 1909 in Chicago, Robert Millikan sprayed a mist of oil drops
> into a chamber and irradiated them with X-rays. Then he looked
> into the chamber with a microscope and adjusted the electrical
> voltage on a pair of metal plates until some of the drops
> stopped moving. What was he measuring?
got this.
The setup would charge each drop so slightly that he could
identify drops as missing just 1 electron, 2 electrons, etc.,
with all the charges a multiple of the same base amount.
> 12. In Cavendish's experiment in question 7, the rod only rotated
> by a tiny amount, so how did he amplify the motion so he could
> measure it accurately?
Nobody got this.
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
> If you ever watch "Wheel of Fortune", you've probably seen a
> Before-and-After. If you've played in this league long enough,
> you'll know that they've been done here, and you'll also know the
> names of Kelly Pykerman and Steve Kelly. Put those names together
> and you get Steve Kelly Pykerman. On this round we'll describe
> two people whose names go together in this manner, and you give
> that combined name -- in full, please.
> 1. For the first two questions, we will describe the two people but
> you have to figure out whose name comes first in the combination.
> So, these two men -- one each from the two major parties --
> were prime ministers of Canada in the 19th century. They each
> were in office only once, 16 years apart.
And we promise no more Alexander Mackenzie questions this season.
> 2. These two men -- again, one each from the two major parties --
> were both prime ministers of Canada after Pierre Trudeau retired.
> They were in office 10 years apart. Hint: this time there is
> a trick to the question.
1984-93.) Mulroney goes by his middle name.
> 3. Two singers. The first is a woman born in 1984. She was a
> Grammy nominee for a 2008 song suggestive of lesbianism, and has
> been nominated almost every year since then, but has never won.
> The other is a man, a crooner who lived 1912-2001. His last
> #1 song was in 1958, the year the Grammy awards started, and
> it did win one.
4 for Dan Blum, Jason, Joshua, Calvin, Stephen, Peter, Marc, and Pete.
> 4. Two more singers, and these two each have several Grammy awards.
> The first is a man born in 1948; the woman was born in 1989,
> and has even won multiple Grammys in the same year, such as
> in 2009. And between them, for one week in the middle of 2015
> they had the #1 and #2 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.
Joshua, Calvin, Stephen, Marc, and Pete.
> 5. Two hockey players who each played over 15 seasons for a single
> NHL team -- that is two different teams, one for each player.
> Both teams are based in New York State. Both players have scored
> over 40 goals in a season at least once. The first man's NHL
> career began in 1960; he became the first player on his team to
> have his number retired. The second began his career in 1970,
> the same year his team joined the NHL.
Sabres.) 4 for Stephen and Pete.
> 6. Two baseball players. For the first one, his playing career
> was much less than memorable, but something he did in 1947 as
> president of the Brooklyn Dodgers has earned him a place in
> history. The second one played for 25 years with 9 different
> teams, and the Blue Jays are one of the teams he won a World
> Series with.
color bar" by hiring Jackie Robinson) 4 for Jason, Joshua, Stephen,
Marc, and Pete.
> 7. Two novelists, who both emigrated from their original home
> countries, although at least one is primarily associated
> with that country. The first, a realist, was born in 1843
> in New York, moved to London in 1869, and died there in 1916.
> The second, a modernist, was born in Dublin in 1882, moved to
> Zurich in 1904, and died there in 1941. They both wrote in
> English, or at least in something like English.
Stephen, Peter, and Marc.
> 8. Two American authors, who both wrote novels that criticized
> aspects of capitalism. The first author was born in Baltimore
> in 1878 and died in 1968. The second was born in Sauk Center,
> Minnesota, in 1885; in 1930 he won the Nobel Prize for
> Literature; and he died in 1951.
> 9. Two Oscar nominees for acting. The first, a woman, was American
> and lived 1910-2000; she was best known for film noir work, and
> won an Oscar for her supporting role in "Key Largo". The second,
> a man, was British and lived 1913-88; he never won an Oscar,
> but was nominated for "Sons and Lovers".
> 10. Two nominees more recently for Oscars for acting. Both were
> born in 1960, a few weeks apart. The first, a woman, is
> English and was nominated for a 1996 film; the second, a man,
> is American and his nomination was for "Sideways", released
> in 2004. And they both go by three names, so your answer on
> this one will be 5 words long.
English Patient".) 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Stephen.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 6 ROUNDS-> 2 3 TOTALS
TOPICS-> Sci Mis
Stephen Perry 40 36 76
Marc Dashevsky 36 20 56
Dan Blum 36 16 52
Dan Tilque 40 8 48
Joshua Kreitzer 20 28 48
"Calvin" 35 12 47
Peter Smyth 32 8 40
Bruce Bowler 36 0 36
Pete Gayde 16 16 32
Erland Sommarskog 28 0 28
Björn Lundin 24 0 24
Jason Kreitzer 0 8 8
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Mark Brader
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before: I wrote both of them.
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> * Game 6, Round 2 - Science - Famous Experiments
> * Game 6, Round 3 - Miscellaneous - Before-and-After Names
I forgot to include the credit/blame note when I posted these rounds
before: I wrote both of them.
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