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QFTCIUA19 Game 8, Rounds 7-8: Greek letters, athlete-pols
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Mark Brader
Sep 2, 2019, 12:19:10 AM9/2/19
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These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-07-15,
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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
The following round of science questions will all have answers
that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
not the actual letters in Unicode.
1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
this letter.
2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
form of electromagnetic radiation.
3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
letter in upper case.
4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
math to express set membership.
5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
kinds of neutrinos.
9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
entire classes of fatty acids.
* Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
name that athletic politico.
1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
of Oklahoma.
2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
Southern state in 120 years.
3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
5. This late Toronto Maple Leaf played with the team in the '60s
*while* serving as MP for York West in the Pearson government.
He would go on to coach the Leafs for four seasons in the '70s.
6. In another case of NHL moonlighting, this right-winger for the
Maple Leafs served (appropriately) as a Progressive Conservative
MP for Waterloo South while playing for the team from 1951
to 1953. He would later make a name for himself as a "Hockey
Night in Canada" personality.
7. This former Montreal Canadien won 5 Vezina trophies in 7 full
seasons. Subsequently, in 2004, he was elected MP for York
Centre. He was Minister of Social Development under Paul Martin.
8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10
world titles and, in 2013, was on the Forbes list as the 14th
highest-paid athlete in the world. Since 2010, he has served
in both houses of the Philippines legislature.
9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
--
Mark Brader | "As long as they can annoy people into buying their
Toronto | software ... Microsoft faces the tradeoff of spending
m...@vex.net | their money on compact code or your money on hardware.
| It's not a hard choice." --Jonathan Goldberg
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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
The following round of science questions will all have answers
that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
not the actual letters in Unicode.
1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
this letter.
2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
form of electromagnetic radiation.
3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
letter in upper case.
4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
math to express set membership.
5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
kinds of neutrinos.
9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
entire classes of fatty acids.
* Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
name that athletic politico.
1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
of Oklahoma.
2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
Southern state in 120 years.
3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
5. This late Toronto Maple Leaf played with the team in the '60s
*while* serving as MP for York West in the Pearson government.
He would go on to coach the Leafs for four seasons in the '70s.
6. In another case of NHL moonlighting, this right-winger for the
Maple Leafs served (appropriately) as a Progressive Conservative
MP for Waterloo South while playing for the team from 1951
to 1953. He would later make a name for himself as a "Hockey
Night in Canada" personality.
7. This former Montreal Canadien won 5 Vezina trophies in 7 full
seasons. Subsequently, in 2004, he was elected MP for York
Centre. He was Minister of Social Development under Paul Martin.
8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10
world titles and, in 2013, was on the Forbes list as the 14th
highest-paid athlete in the world. Since 2010, he has served
in both houses of the Philippines legislature.
9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
--
Mark Brader | "As long as they can annoy people into buying their
Toronto | software ... Microsoft faces the tradeoff of spending
m...@vex.net | their money on compact code or your money on hardware.
| It's not a hard choice." --Jonathan Goldberg
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Calvin
Sep 2, 2019, 12:38:24 AM9/2/19
to
On Monday, September 2, 2019 at 2:19:10 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
Beta
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
> 9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
> He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
> champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
cheers,
calvin
Joshua Kreitzer
Sep 2, 2019, 12:56:50 AM9/2/19
to
m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:G8qdnf5mAa-lBfHAnZ2dnUU7-
dHN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
beta
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
gamma
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
delta
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
epsilon
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
theta
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
lambda
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
mu
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
nu
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
pi
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
omega
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
>
> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
> name that athletic politico.
>
> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
> of Oklahoma.
Largent
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
> and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
Bradley
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
Kemp
> 8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10
> world titles and, in 2013, was on the Forbes list as the 14th
> highest-paid athlete in the world. Since 2010, he has served
> in both houses of the Philippines legislature.
Pacquiao
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
Coe
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
dHN...@giganews.com:
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
>
> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
> name that athletic politico.
>
> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
> of Oklahoma.
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
> and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
> 8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10
> world titles and, in 2013, was on the Forbes list as the 14th
> highest-paid athlete in the world. Since 2010, he has served
> in both houses of the Philippines legislature.
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com
Dan Blum
Sep 2, 2019, 8:23:15 AM9/2/19
to
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
beta
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the M?bius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand M?bius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
mu
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
> 2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
> in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
> first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
> Southern state in 120 years.
Scott
> in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
> first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
> Southern state in 120 years.
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
> and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Pete Gayde
Sep 2, 2019, 1:24:19 PM9/2/19
to
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-07-15,
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
Beta
> 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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
>
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
>
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
>
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
>
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
>
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
>
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
>
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
>
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
>
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
>
> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
> name that athletic politico.
>
> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
> of Oklahoma.
>
> 2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
> in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
> first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
> Southern state in 120 years.
>
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
> and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
>
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
>
> 5. This late Toronto Maple Leaf played with the team in the '60s
> *while* serving as MP for York West in the Pearson government.
> He would go on to coach the Leafs for four seasons in the '70s.
>
> 6. In another case of NHL moonlighting, this right-winger for the
> Maple Leafs served (appropriately) as a Progressive Conservative
> MP for Waterloo South while playing for the team from 1951
> to 1953. He would later make a name for himself as a "Hockey
> Night in Canada" personality.
>
> 7. This former Montreal Canadien won 5 Vezina trophies in 7 full
> seasons. Subsequently, in 2004, he was elected MP for York
> Centre. He was Minister of Social Development under Paul Martin.
>
> 8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10
> world titles and, in 2013, was on the Forbes list as the 14th
> highest-paid athlete in the world. Since 2010, he has served
> in both houses of the Philippines legislature.
>
> 9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
> He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
> champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
>
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
>
Pete Gayde
Pete Gayde
Sep 2, 2019, 1:31:17 PM9/2/19
to
Pete Gayde <pag...@wowway.com> wrote in
news:XnsAABE7E303FFA0pa...@46.165.242.91:
> m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:G8qdnf5mAa-lBfHAnZ2dnUU7-
> dHN...@giganews.com:
>
>> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-07-15,
>> 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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
>> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>>
>>
>
>>
>>
Largent but I rejected it because he was a receiver, not a quarterback.
Pete
news:XnsAABE7E303FFA0pa...@46.165.242.91:
> m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:G8qdnf5mAa-lBfHAnZ2dnUU7-
> dHN...@giganews.com:
>
>> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-07-15,
>> 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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
>> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>>
>>
>
>>
>>
>> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
>>
>> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
>> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
>> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
>> name that athletic politico.
>>
>> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
>> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
>> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
>> of Oklahoma.
>
> Zorn
The wording of this question is incorrect. My first thought was Steve
>>
>> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
>> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
>> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
>> name that athletic politico.
>>
>> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
>> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
>> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
>> of Oklahoma.
>
> Zorn
Largent but I rejected it because he was a receiver, not a quarterback.
Pete
Erland Sommarskog
Sep 2, 2019, 5:02:16 PM9/2/19
to
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
beta
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
>
> 9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
> He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
> champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
Volodomir Klychko
> He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
> champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
>
Dan Tilque
Sep 2, 2019, 10:56:38 PM9/2/19
to
On 9/1/19 9:19 PM, Mark Brader wrote:
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
beta
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
>
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
>
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
>
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
>
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
>
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
>
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
>
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
>
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
>
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
>
> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
> name that athletic politico.
>
> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
> of Oklahoma.
>
> 2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
> in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
> first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
> Southern state in 120 years.
>
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
> and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
>
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
>
> 5. This late Toronto Maple Leaf played with the team in the '60s
> *while* serving as MP for York West in the Pearson government.
> He would go on to coach the Leafs for four seasons in the '70s.
>
> 6. In another case of NHL moonlighting, this right-winger for the
> Maple Leafs served (appropriately) as a Progressive Conservative
> MP for Waterloo South while playing for the team from 1951
> to 1953. He would later make a name for himself as a "Hockey
> Night in Canada" personality.
>
> 7. This former Montreal Canadien won 5 Vezina trophies in 7 full
> seasons. Subsequently, in 2004, he was elected MP for York
> Centre. He was Minister of Social Development under Paul Martin.
>
> 8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10
> world titles and, in 2013, was on the Forbes list as the 14th
> highest-paid athlete in the world. Since 2010, he has served
> in both houses of the Philippines legislature.
>
> 9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
> He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
> champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
>
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
--
Dan Tilque
Bruce Bowler
Sep 3, 2019, 9:27:07 AM9/3/19
to
On Sun, 01 Sep 2019 23:19:04 -0500, Mark Brader wrote:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-07-15, 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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers that are
> letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers, please give the
> names of the letters as usually used in English, not the actual letters
> in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by this
> letter.
beta.
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-07-15, 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 Unnatural Axxxe 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 2019-01-22
> companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
>
>
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
>
> The following round of science questions will all have answers that are
> letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers, please give the
> names of the letters as usually used in English, not the actual letters
> in Unicode.
>
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by this
> letter.
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy form
> of electromagnetic radiation.
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this letter
> in upper case.
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in physics
> for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in math to express
> set membership.
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name to a
> phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that inhabits the
> bacterium E. coli.
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August Ferdinand
> Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle physics it is used to
> denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three kinds
> of neutrinos.
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
>
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
>
> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares you
> for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice training
> for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case, name that
> athletic politico.
>
> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor of
> Oklahoma.
>
> 2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
> in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the first
> African-American to be elected to Congress from any Southern state in
> 120 years.
>
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks and
> is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
Mark Brader
Sep 4, 2019, 9:55:54 PM9/4/19
to
Mark Brader:
Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
Gamma. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
Delta. 4 for everyone.
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
Epsilon. 4 for everyone.
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
Theta. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
Lambda. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Dan Tilque,
and Bruce.
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
Mu. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
The particle named "muon" having the symbol "mu" is no coincidence
but it also is not a simple matter of shortening. When the particle
was first discovered it was believed to be the first known instance
of an until then hypothetical type of particle that had been named a
"mesotron", and the symbol "mu" represented the first letter of that
word. As more types were discovered, "mesotron" was soon shortened to
"meson" and the specific types were named after the symbols that had
been used for them; so the first known type became the "mu meson",
or "muon" for short. But later it was realized that the muon was
not a meson after all, and the shortened name became its only name.
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
Nu. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
2 for Pete.
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
Pi. 4 for everyone.
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
Omega. 4 for everyone.
In case you didn't notice, the questions were sorted so that the
answers were in order of the Greek alphabet. This was also done in
the original game without its being called attention to.
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
> name that athletic politico.
This was the hardest round in the original game.
> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
> of Oklahoma.
Steve Largent. 4 for Joshua and Dan Tilque.
As Pete was the first to note, the question is wrong. In fact
it's doubly wrong. Largent's position was wide receiver (perhaps
someone had him confused with J.C. Watts, see below, who was also
interested in becoming governor of Oklahoma). Also, it was 2002 when
Largent resigned from Congress to run unsuccessfully for governor.
Sorry about that, but on this sort of topic I'm generally going to
assume the question-setters have it right.
> 2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
> in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
> first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
> Southern state in 120 years.
J.C. (Julius Caesar) Watts.
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
> and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
Bill Bradley. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
Jack Kemp. 4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, and Bruce.
> 5. This late Toronto Maple Leaf played with the team in the '60s
> *while* serving as MP for York West in the Pearson government.
> He would go on to coach the Leafs for four seasons in the '70s.
Red Kelly.
This bit of moonlighting was mentioned in two previous rounds that
I've posted there, the last one on 2018-12-22, so you should still
remember it. As I mentioned when revealing the answers to that one,
Kelly found he did not enjoy political life, partly because it kept
him away from his family too much. His reminiscence on the subject
is available at:
http://www.revparl.ca/12/3/12n3_89e_zinterview.pdf
(The Paul Martin mentioned in that article would be Paul Martin Sr.,
father of the similarly named 21st century prime minister.)
> 6. In another case of NHL moonlighting, this right-winger for the
> Maple Leafs served (appropriately) as a Progressive Conservative
> MP for Waterloo South while playing for the team from 1951
> to 1953. He would later make a name for himself as a "Hockey
> Night in Canada" personality.
Howie Meeker.
> 7. This former Montreal Canadien won 5 Vezina trophies in 7 full
> seasons. Subsequently, in 2004, he was elected MP for York
> Centre. He was Minister of Social Development under Paul Martin.
Ken Dryden. 4 for Pete.
> 8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10 world
> titles and, in 2013 he was #14 on the "Forbes" list of highest-
> paid athletes in the world. Since 2010, he has served in both
> 9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
> He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
> champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
Vitali Klitschko. The surname was sufficient although his brother
Wladimir Klitschko has also been a world champion heavyweight boxer.
4 for Calvin (the hard way) and Pete.
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
Sebastian Coe. 4 for Calvin, Joshua, Pete, Erland, and Dan Tilque.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Lit Can Mis Aud Geo Sci Spo FIVE
Joshua Kreitzer 32 10 7 40 20 40 20 152
Bruce Bowler 4 12 36 8 29 40 8 125
Dan Tilque 20 8 8 16 19 40 12 107
"Calvin" 20 0 19 16 12 40 12 107
Pete Gayde 4 8 12 19 24 26 23 104
Erland Sommarskog -- -- 8 12 16 36 4 76
Dan Blum -- -- -- -- -- 40 8 48
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "It is almost always wrong to strive for
m...@vex.net gilt by association." --Martin Ambuhl
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2019-07-15,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2019-01-22 companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
Beta. 4 for everyone -- Calvin, Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Erland,
> Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - The Greeks Had a Letter for it
> The following round of science questions will all have answers
> that are letters in the Greek alphabet. In posting your answers,
> please give the names of the letters as usually used in English,
> not the actual letters in Unicode.
> 1. A version of a software product that is still in its development
> stage, but is released for testing purposes, is referred to by
> this letter.
Dan Tilque, and Bruce.
> 2. This letter is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms,
> a "packet" of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy
> form of electromagnetic radiation.
> 3. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
> is named after this letter, because its shape resembles this
> letter in upper case.
> 4. In lower case, this letter, the 5th in the Greek alphabet,
> is used in math as a symbol for a very small quantity, and in
> physics for the permittivity of a medium. Is it also used in
> math to express set membership.
> 5. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly
> used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry.
> 6. This letter, the 11th in the Greek alphabet, is used to denote
> the wavelength of a wave in physics. It also lends its name
> to a phage (a small virus that infects only bacteria) that
> inhabits the bacterium E. coli.
and Bruce.
> 7. In number theory this letter is used to denote the Möbius
> function, named in honor of the German mathematician August
> Ferdinand Möbius, who introduced it in 1931. In particle
> physics it is used to denote a subatomic particle, the muon.
The particle named "muon" having the symbol "mu" is no coincidence
but it also is not a simple matter of shortening. When the particle
was first discovered it was believed to be the first known instance
of an until then hypothetical type of particle that had been named a
"mesotron", and the symbol "mu" represented the first letter of that
word. As more types were discovered, "mesotron" was soon shortened to
"meson" and the specific types were named after the symbols that had
been used for them; so the first known type became the "mu meson",
or "muon" for short. But later it was realized that the muon was
not a meson after all, and the shortened name became its only name.
> 8. In lower case, this letter, the 13th in the Greek alphabet,
> is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave.
> In particle physics it is used as the symbol for any of three
> kinds of neutrinos.
2 for Pete.
> 9. The 16th letter in the Greek alphabet, it is used to denote a
> key value in the equation for the circumference of a circle.
> 10. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to
> entire classes of fatty acids.
In case you didn't notice, the questions were sorted so that the
answers were in order of the Greek alphabet. This was also done in
the original game without its being called attention to.
> * Game 8, Round 8 - Sports - Athletes Turned Politicians
> Whether the rough-and-tumble world of professional sports prepares
> you for the real world is debatable. But it does seem to be nice
> training for politics, where playing dirty pays. In each case,
> name that athletic politico.
> 1. Considered the all-time best Seattle Seahawks player, this
> quarterback spent four terms in the US House of Representatives
> before resigning in 2006 to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor
> of Oklahoma.
As Pete was the first to note, the question is wrong. In fact
it's doubly wrong. Largent's position was wide receiver (perhaps
someone had him confused with J.C. Watts, see below, who was also
interested in becoming governor of Oklahoma). Also, it was 2002 when
Largent resigned from Congress to run unsuccessfully for governor.
Sorry about that, but on this sort of topic I'm generally going to
assume the question-setters have it right.
> 2. This quarterback led the Ottawa Rough Riders to the Grey Cup
> in 1981. In 1995, as an Oklahoma Republican, he became the
> first African-American to be elected to Congress from any
> Southern state in 120 years.
> 3. A 20-year senator from New Jersey, and onetime presidential
> candidate, he won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks
> and is in the NBA Hall of Fame.
> 4. *The* Buffalo Bills quarterback of the 1960s, he won two
> championships and went to seven Pro Bowls. He served as a
> congressman from New York for 18 years and was Bob Dole's
> vice-presidential candidate in the 1996 election.
> 5. This late Toronto Maple Leaf played with the team in the '60s
> *while* serving as MP for York West in the Pearson government.
> He would go on to coach the Leafs for four seasons in the '70s.
This bit of moonlighting was mentioned in two previous rounds that
I've posted there, the last one on 2018-12-22, so you should still
remember it. As I mentioned when revealing the answers to that one,
Kelly found he did not enjoy political life, partly because it kept
him away from his family too much. His reminiscence on the subject
is available at:
http://www.revparl.ca/12/3/12n3_89e_zinterview.pdf
(The Paul Martin mentioned in that article would be Paul Martin Sr.,
father of the similarly named 21st century prime minister.)
> 6. In another case of NHL moonlighting, this right-winger for the
> Maple Leafs served (appropriately) as a Progressive Conservative
> MP for Waterloo South while playing for the team from 1951
> to 1953. He would later make a name for himself as a "Hockey
> Night in Canada" personality.
> 7. This former Montreal Canadien won 5 Vezina trophies in 7 full
> seasons. Subsequently, in 2004, he was elected MP for York
> Centre. He was Minister of Social Development under Paul Martin.
> 8. The only 8-division boxing world champion ever, he won 10 world
> paid athletes in the world. Since 2010, he has served in both
> houses of the Philippines' legislature.
Manny Pacquiao. 4 for Calvin and Joshua. 3 for Pete.
> 9. He was the first professional boxer to hold a Ph.D. degree.
> He retired in 2013 as the 8th-longest-reigning heavyweight
> champion of all time. He is now mayor of Kiev, Ukraine.
Wladimir Klitschko has also been a world champion heavyweight boxer.
4 for Calvin (the hard way) and Pete.
> 10. This track-and-field superstar won 4 medals, including a gold,
> at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. He was a British MP from 1992
> to 1997. He is now chair of the British Olympic Association.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 BEST
TOPICS-> Lit Can Mis Aud Geo Sci Spo FIVE
Joshua Kreitzer 32 10 7 40 20 40 20 152
Bruce Bowler 4 12 36 8 29 40 8 125
Dan Tilque 20 8 8 16 19 40 12 107
"Calvin" 20 0 19 16 12 40 12 107
Pete Gayde 4 8 12 19 24 26 23 104
Erland Sommarskog -- -- 8 12 16 36 4 76
Dan Blum -- -- -- -- -- 40 8 48
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