Fred wrote:Stephen Douglas
William Hogarth
Smuttynose Island wrote:Fred wrote:Stephen Douglas
I'd like to applaud you on this TU. I didn't get to see a lot of it, but I love it when people use important/interesting/suitably well-known quotes by or describing people in their TUs, which I thought this TU did well.
DII SCT round 10 wrote:One song by this group tells listeners what to do if "you wanna have fun and do something." It sings the ~Jersey Shore~ theme, "Get Crazy," and declares, "Girl, look at that (*) body, I work out." While wearing Dr. Dre headphones it declares, "everyday I'm shuffling." SkyBlu and his uncle Redfoo comprise--for 10 points--what duo responsible for "Sexy and I Know It" and "Party Rock Anthem" named for a vulgar Internet abbreviation?
DI SCT round 9 wrote:This artist depicted a large piece of beef being carried to a tavern in France in his painting ~The Gate of Calais~. An unfinished work by this artist shows a basket of mussels balanced on the head of the title ~Shrimp Girl~. His series ~The Humours of an Election~ depicts a parliamentary campaign, while another series of his works includes a depiction of (*) Sarah Young being rejected by Tom Rakewell. For 10 points--name this English painter and engraver, best known for ~The Rake's Progress~.
Gettysburg*
Packet 12: vocal music terms (oratorios, tenor, melisma)
quotient topology bonus (Mobius strip/torus/Klein bottle)
potential/Schrodinger/node
graphite
The wording in the packet is as follows:Plan Rubber wrote:Packet 12: vocal music terms (oratorios, tenor, melisma)
I'm not sure if it was wrong in the question or just misread to us, but everyone on my team heard "this highest vocal range" for the second part, and we said soprano in the midst of great confusion about the clef clue.
So it sounds like the question was misread to you.What highest of the three main male {vocal ranges} is often denoted on a staff using the {treble clef} with the number 8 written beneath it?
DII SCT round 10 wrote:The "particle in a box" problem is a staple of introductory quantum mechanics. For 10 points each--
A. That problem is to find the wavefunction that results when this quantity is zero between ~-a~ and ~a~ and infinite everywhere else.
answer: _potential_ (accept _potential function_ or _potential energy_)
B. The particle in a box problem is solved using the "time-independent" form of this equation that plays a central role in quantum mechanics.
answer: _Schr\"odinger_('s) equation
C. Solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation contain these points, analogous to a stationary point on a standing wave, where the particle cannot be found.
answer: _node_s
DII SCT round 5 wrote:This is the only elementally pure substance commonly used as a moderator in nuclear reactors. A single-layer derivative of this material, used in observing the quantum Hall effect, has been prepared using Scotch tape. It contains stacks of ~sp~2 hybridized atoms, which causes electron (*) delocalization and makes it a good conductor. For 10 points--name this soft allotrope of carbon used in lubricants and pencil leads.
answer: _graphite_ (prompt on "graphene" before "stacks"; prompt on "carbon" before "carbon")
Dot product
It was on the easy side, but I think of of Division II as primarily for younger college students who are not especially likely to have taken Calculus IV or calculus-based physics, and therefore don't think it was unconscionably easy. If I had thought of a suitable lead-in that was harder without being obscenely hard, I would've gone with it.Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Wasn't saying the dot product symbol was in the divergence too easy as a lead in?Dot product
jonah wrote:It was on the easy side, but I think of of Division II as primarily for younger college students who are not especially likely to have taken Calculus IV or calculus-based physics, and therefore don't think it was unconscionably easy. If I had thought of a suitable lead-in that was harder without being obscenely hard, I would've gone with it.Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Wasn't saying the dot product symbol was in the divergence too easy as a lead in?Dot product
That would've been fine, it just didn't occur to me.Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Laplace Operator, or is that too hard? It was mentioned in my Calc III class, but this could be very biased.jonah wrote:It was on the easy side, but I think of of Division II as primarily for younger college students who are not especially likely to have taken Calculus IV or calculus-based physics, and therefore don't think it was unconscionably easy. If I had thought of a suitable lead-in that was harder without being obscenely hard, I would've gone with it.Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Wasn't saying the dot product symbol was in the divergence too easy as a lead in?Dot product
jonah wrote:That would've been fine, it just didn't occur to me.Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Laplace Operator, or is that too hard? It was mentioned in my Calc III class, but this could be very biased.jonah wrote:It was on the easy side, but I think of of Division II as primarily for younger college students who are not especially likely to have taken Calculus IV or calculus-based physics, and therefore don't think it was unconscionably easy. If I had thought of a suitable lead-in that was harder without being obscenely hard, I would've gone with it.Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Wasn't saying the dot product symbol was in the divergence too easy as a lead in?Dot product
Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Dot product
Wasn't saying the dot product symbol was in the divergence too easy as a lead in?
That's pretty surprising to me. I too am a math major, haven't taken vector calc (or used it in physics or elsewhere) in over four years, and would know it cold on that clue. I don't think it's quite too easy, but I do think it's among the easier lead-ins for math questions in that set, and maybe even the set as a whole (I haven't really looked at the Div II set overall).What is it like to be a Batman? wrote:FWIW, I didn't get it there (actually I think I was 上海'ed into scorekeeping that round) despite being a math major, although it's true I took vector calculus an embarrassingly long time ago. I'm not sure people would have gotten that unless they took vector calc literally last semester, or otherwise had to use it a lot (maybe physics majors?). Probably still early, but I don't think it's that bad as a lead-in. Nobody got it in my room until the giveaway, at least.Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Wasn't saying the dot product symbol was in the divergence too easy as a lead in?Dot product
jonah wrote:That's pretty surprising to me. I too am a math major, haven't taken vector calc (or used it in physics or elsewhere) in over four years, and would know it cold on that clue. I don't think it's quite too easy, but I do think it's among the easier lead-ins for math questions in that set, and maybe even the set as a whole (I haven't really looked at the Div II set overall).
Well, I liked that course, which is probably at least part of why I remember it pretty well.What is it like to be a Batman? wrote:It's possible that you're just good at remembering mathematical notation, or I'm just bad at it, or somewhere in between. But I don't think it was really that bad of a lead-in -- I suspect most people's reaction to vector calc is to forget all of it as soon as possible (I know mine was, haha), so even if they've taken the class, they might not know it.jonah wrote:That's pretty surprising to me. I too am a math major, haven't taken vector calc (or used it in physics or elsewhere) in over four years, and would know it cold on that clue. I don't think it's quite too easy, but I do think it's among the easier lead-ins for math questions in that set, and maybe even the set as a whole (I haven't really looked at the Div II set overall).
bradleykirksey wrote:Stupid question, Fred, but was the lead-in for Gettysburg inspired by Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Fred wrote:bradleykirksey wrote:Stupid question, Fred, but was the lead-in for Gettysburg inspired by Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
I don't even think that lead-in was mine, to be honest.
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