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SciTech Quiz Finals
Clockwise
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modulo arithmetic/integer overflow
When subtracting 2 from 1, instead of ending up at -1, the numbers would “wrap around
modulo 256” and he’d end up at 255!
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cascading space debris leading to catastrophe
for satellites/space stations in orbit
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rat guards
Meant to prevent rats from clambering onto or leaving ships at foreign ports, and therefore
disease control
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A = Achilles
B = Ants
C = Myrmidons
D = Myrmecology
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the Anthropocene epoch
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exoplanets
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“Microsoft has a majority market share”
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First use of ether as anesthetic
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X = brevium
Y = proto-actinium
Z = actinium
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the Brotherhood of Bridge Builders
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finding Krypton
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(i) The Great Circle between LA & Tokyo is the shortest possible distance between two points (ii) The return flight doesn’t follow the shortest path because the Jetstream provides tail winds which help in saving fuel
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the Autograph
Lets you write “metadata” about the negative into the
film itself
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demons
X = Descartes
Y = Laplace
Z = Maxwell
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Studying bird migration (direction)
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Ferran Adria
elBulli
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Monu Mental
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Exchange
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Humphry Davy
holding a miner’s safety lamp
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Kurchatov
father of Soviet nuclear fission
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Alexander Fleming
matador thanks him
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Nicholas Copernicus
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Mendeleev
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Alan Turing
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Thomas Edison
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Newton (via William Blake)
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Reverse Rounds
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Sunlight impacting on the solar panels provides enough force to balance the telescope
and act as a virtual third wheel
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Hari Seldon
psychohistory
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X = Fields Medal
“Nobel Prize for mathematics”
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During Seattle Seahawks football games
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hydrangea
The colour is a reflection of the pH of the soil
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Mersenne Primes
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Kafka’s Metamorphosis
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language/speech skills
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the IceCube observatory, located at the South Pole
It only considers upward moving particles, caused by neutrinos traveling through the
entire mass of the earth, using the whole earth as a shield
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numeric keypads in telephones
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the aye-aye
There are no woodpeckers native to Madagascar or PNG, these 2 animals fill the
niche left by woodpeckers
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fuchsia
magenta
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human powered flight, Igor Sikorsky
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continental drift
underwater/ocean floor maps
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Estimating the number/production of German tanks. If the numbering is not random,
statistical estimates give a reasonably accurate picture of actual production.
Seal Team Six was actually the second team, but by giving it a random number, they were
trying to confuse opponents about how many actually existed.
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Last question coming up… Thanks, Nihilanth! @bcl400 and @choultry
awaited in great anticipation
the match between a man
distinguishing trait: a knife between his
teeth
and the monster of a machine
distinguishing trait: Olympic calm
ended in the victory of the dragon
for nothing
poems ripened
in the gardens of Andalucía
the nouveau riche
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elbows his way across squares
sewn from a Harlequin’s cloak
a mocking ignoramus stuffed
with all the openings
attacks defences
and finally with a joyful
hallali above the corpse
of his opponent
and so
the royal game
passes into the hands
of automatons
it needs to be snatched by night
from the prison camp
when the mind slumbers
machines awaken
we must begin again
a journey to the imagination
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…the answer is…
Kasparov vs Deep Blue
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The End…
