• QFTCIBSI23 Game 8, Rounds 7-8: laws, car stars

    From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 05:30:58 2023
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,
    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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
    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 Bloor St. Irregulars and
    are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
    have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
    please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
    Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".


    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?

    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?

    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a� + b� = c�".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?

    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.

    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
    volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?

    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?

    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.

    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?

    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?


    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
    star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.

    1. "Goldfinger".
    2. "Smokey and the Bandit".
    3. "Dukes of Hazzard".
    4. "Back to the Future".
    5. "The Love Bug".
    6. "Bullitt".
    7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
    8. "The Italian Job" (1969).
    9. "Thelma and Louise".
    10. "Breaking Bad".

    --
    Mark Brader "Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.'
    Toronto Except just this once, of course."
    [email protected] -- John Varley, "Steel Beach"

    My text in this article is in the public domain.

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  • From Dan Tilque@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Tue Aug 29 23:08:57 2023
    On 8/29/23 22:30, Mark Brader wrote:


    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?

    force


    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

    entropy


    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?

    Kepler


    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?

    hypotenuse


    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.

    integration


    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
    volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?

    ideal gas


    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?

    Heisenberg


    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.

    black hole


    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?

    four


    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?

    Turing



    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
    star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.

    1. "Goldfinger".

    Aston Martin

    2. "Smokey and the Bandit".

    Chevy Camaro

    3. "Dukes of Hazzard".
    4. "Back to the Future".

    Delorean

    5. "The Love Bug".

    Volkswagen Beetle

    6. "Bullitt".

    Ford Mustang

    7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
    8. "The Italian Job" (1969).
    9. "Thelma and Louise".
    10. "Breaking Bad".


    --
    Dan Tilque

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  • From Dan Blum@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Wed Aug 30 22:04:14 2023
    Mark Brader <[email protected]> wrote:

    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?

    force

    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

    entropy

    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?

    Kepler

    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a? + b? = c?".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?

    hypotenuse

    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.

    integration

    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
    volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?

    ideal gases

    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?

    Heisenberg

    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.

    black holes

    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?

    four

    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?

    Turing

    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    1. "Goldfinger".

    Aston-Martin

    4. "Back to the Future".

    DeLorean

    5. "The Love Bug".

    Volkswagen Beetle

    7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

    Ferrari

    8. "The Italian Job" (1969).

    Mini Cooper

    --
    _______________________________________________________________________
    Dan Blum [email protected]
    "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

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  • From swp@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Wed Aug 30 16:58:35 2023
    On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 1:31:05 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,
    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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
    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 Bloor St. Irregulars and
    are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
    have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
    please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
    Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".


    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?

    force

    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

    entropy

    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?

    kepler

    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?

    hypotenuse

    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.

    differentiation ; integration

    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
    volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?

    ideal gas

    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?

    heisenberg

    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.

    black holes

    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?

    four

    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?

    alan turing


    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
    star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.

    1. "Goldfinger".

    aston martin db5

    2. "Smokey and the Bandit".

    pontiac trans am

    3. "Dukes of Hazzard".

    dodge charger named 'the general lee'

    4. "Back to the Future".

    dmc delorian

    5. "The Love Bug".

    volkswagon beetle

    6. "Bullitt".

    ford mustang gt fastback

    7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

    ferrari spyder

    8. "The Italian Job" (1969).

    mini cooper

    9. "Thelma and Louise".

    ford thunderbird

    10. "Breaking Bad".

    el camino?


    --
    Mark Brader "Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.'
    Toronto Except just this once, of course."
    [email protected] -- John Varley, "Steel Beach"

    My text in this article is in the public domain.

    swp

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  • From Joshua Kreitzer@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Wed Aug 30 17:48:56 2023
    On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:31:05 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:

    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?

    force

    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

    entropy

    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?

    Kepler

    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?

    hypotenuse

    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.

    integration

    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
    volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?

    ideal gases

    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?

    Heisenberg

    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.

    black hole

    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?

    4

    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?

    Turing

    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
    star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.

    1. "Goldfinger".

    Aston Martin

    3. "Dukes of Hazzard".

    Dodge Challenger

    4. "Back to the Future".

    DeLorean

    5. "The Love Bug".

    Volkswagen Beetle

    --
    Joshua Kreitzer
    [email protected]

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  • From Erland Sommarskog@21:1/5 to Mark Brader on Thu Aug 31 20:34:27 2023
    Mark Brader ([email protected]) writes:
    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?

    Force

    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

    Entrophy

    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?

    Kepler

    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a� + b� = c�".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?

    Hypotenuse

    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.

    Derivate and integral

    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?

    Heisenberg

    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?

    Four

    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?

    Turing

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  • From Lee Songee@21:1/5 to swp on Fri Sep 1 05:36:04 2023
    On Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 12:58:37 AM UTC+1, swp wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 1:31:05 AM UTC-4, Mark Brader wrote:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,
    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 in a single followup to the newsgroup,
    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 Bloor St. Irregulars and
    are used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may
    have been retyped and/or edited by me. For further information
    please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
    Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".


    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?
    force
    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
    entropy
    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?
    kepler
    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?
    hypotenuse
    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.
    differentiation ; integration
    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure, volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?
    ideal gas
    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?
    heisenberg
    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.
    black holes
    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?
    four
    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?
    alan turing

    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
    star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.

    1. "Goldfinger".
    aston martin db5
    2. "Smokey and the Bandit".
    pontiac trans am
    3. "Dukes of Hazzard".
    dodge charger named 'the general lee'
    4. "Back to the Future".
    dmc delorian
    5. "The Love Bug".
    volkswagon beetle

    6. "Bullitt".

    ford mustang gt fastback
    7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".
    ferrari spyder
    8. "The Italian Job" (1969).
    mini cooper
    9. "Thelma and Louise".
    ford thunderbird

    10. "Breaking Bad".

    el camino?

    --
    Mark Brader "Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.'
    Toronto Except just this once, of course."
    [email protected] -- John Varley, "Steel Beach"

    My text in this article is in the public domain.
    swp

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  • From Lee Songee@21:1/5 to Joshua Kreitzer on Fri Sep 1 05:35:52 2023
    On Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 1:48:57 AM UTC+1, Joshua Kreitzer wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:31:05 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:

    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?
    force
    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
    entropy
    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?
    Kepler
    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?
    hypotenuse
    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.
    integration
    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure, volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?
    ideal gases
    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?
    Heisenberg
    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.
    black hole
    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?
    4
    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?
    Turing
    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
    star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.

    1. "Goldfinger".
    Aston Martin
    3. "Dukes of Hazzard".
    Dodge Challenger
    4. "Back to the Future".
    DeLorean
    5. "The Love Bug".
    Volkswagen Beetle

    --
    Joshua Kreitzer
    [email protected]

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  • From Mark Brader@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 2 04:06:00 2023
    Mark Brader:
    These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2023-07-10,
    and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
    please see my 2023-05-24 companion posting on "Questions from the
    Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".


    Lee Songee posted twice in the thread, each time quoting the whole
    of an earlier poster's entry but adding nothing. These were ignored.
    If you want to enter, you must, of course, post a response to the
    questions without looking at someone else's answers. If you want
    to comment on a question or answer, please quote only what you are
    commenting on, and say something about it.


    * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems

    1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what
    quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?

    Force. 4 for everyone -- Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, Joshua,
    and Erland.

    2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within
    a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

    Entropy. 4 for everyone.

    3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.
    This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of
    planetary motion?

    Johannes Kepler. 4 for everyone.

    4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a� + b� = c�".
    In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by
    what 10n-letter word?

    Hypotenuse. 4 for everyone.

    5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship
    between two operations on a function. One describes the slope
    of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the
    area under a curve. Name *either* operation.

    Differentiation, integration. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen
    (the hard way), and Joshua.

    6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,
    volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of
    substances with a two-word name*?

    Ideal gases. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Joshua.

    7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position
    and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact
    precision is a principle commonly named after which German
    physicist?

    Werner Heisenberg (the Uncertainty Principle). 4 for everyone.

    8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*
    can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and
    angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation
    of a 2019 image of one of these objects.

    Black holes. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Joshua.

    9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to
    prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the
    countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the
    same color?

    4. 4 for everyone.

    That's how it was worded in the original game, but of course several qualifications are necessary to state the theorem exactly. The map
    must be on a plane or spherical surface or the topological equivalent;
    only countries are mapped (as opposed to another color being used
    for water areas); each country must consist of a single area (no
    exclaves); and single-point contacts (like Utah and New Mexico)
    do not make countries adjacent.

    10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary
    British computer scientist effectively states that any problem
    is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of
    his namesake "machines"?

    Alan Turing (Church-Turing Thesis). 4 for everyone.


    * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing

    Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own
    star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.

    1. "Goldfinger".

    Aston Martin DB5. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Joshua.

    2. "Smokey and the Bandit".

    Pontiac Trans Am. 4 for Stephen.

    3. "Dukes of Hazzard".

    1969 Dodge Charger. (Years were not required.) 4 for Stephen.

    4. "Back to the Future".

    DeLorean DMC-12. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen, and Joshua.

    5. "The Love Bug".

    1963 Volkswagen Beetle. 4 for Dan Tilque, Dan Blum, Stephen,
    and Joshua.

    6. "Bullitt".

    Ford Mustang GT Fastback. 4 for Dan Tilque and Stephen.

    7. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

    Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen.

    8. "The Italian Job" (1969).

    Austin Mini Cooper S. 4 for Dan Blum and Stephen.

    The 2003 remake also used Mini Coopers.

    9. "Thelma and Louise".

    1966 Ford Thunderbird. 4 for Stephen.

    10. "Breaking Bad".

    2004 Pontiac Aztek. The Chevrolet El Camino, the title car of the
    sequel movie, was also accepted on a protest. 4 for Stephen.


    Scores, if there are no errors:

    GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 7 8 BEST
    TOPICS-> Lit His Mis Spo Sci Mis FOUR
    Stephen Perry 40 32 36 40 40 40 160
    Joshua Kreitzer 36 32 28 19 40 12 136
    Dan Blum 40 32 12 4 40 20 132
    Dan Tilque 4 36 8 12 40 16 104
    Erland Sommarskog 0 24 4 24 28 0 80
    Pete Gayde 4 16 -- -- -- -- 20

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