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Fundamental Physics Of Space - Technical Details has been repeated over the centuries by such eminent scientists as IsaacNewton (~1680), Baron roland von eotvos (~19001922), and Robert Dicke (1962). http://funphysics.jpl.nasa.gov/technical/grp/step.html
Extractions: Principle Investigator: Prof. Francis Everitt, Stanford University The Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle, commonly known as STEP, is a project sponsored jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency to greatly improve the test that Galileo conducted at the leaning tower of Pisa: Do all objects fall with the same acceleration due to gravity? The answer to this question relates to whether an object's gravitational mass is the same as, or equivalent to, its inertial mass. The experiment plans to fly several pairs of masses on a drag-free satellite in low Earth orbit, with a launch planned for after 2006. It may surprise you to learn that so great a thinker as Aristotle believed that heavier objects would fall faster, the rate of acceleration being proportional to the weight. These thoughts from the Greek Golden Age prevailed for about 2000 years until courageous scientists like Galileo began to challenge the orthodoxy of physics beliefs. Galileo's purported test in 1620 at the Tower of Pisa to drop a musket ball and a much heavier cannon ball, with the result that the two landed "within a hand's-breadth" of each other, showed two results: If wind resistance is small, then lighter and heavier objects of the same material will fall at the same rate; and, this result is independent of the compositions of the two objects.
Chronology Of Gravitational Physics And Relativity 1889, roland von eotvos uses a torsion fiber balance to test the weak equivalenceprinciple to 1 part in one billion. http://www.3rd1000.com/chronology/chrono14.htm
Extractions: Chronology of Gravitational Physics and Relativity Ismael Bullialdus suggests an inverse-square gravitational force law. Isaac Newton deduces the inverse-square gravitational force law from the "falling'' of the Moon. Isaac Newton proves that planets moving under an inverse-square force law will obey Kepler's laws. Isaac Newton uses a fixed length pendulum with weights of varying composition to test the weak equivalence principle to 1 part in 1000. Henry Cavendish measures the gravitational constant. Urbain Leverrier observes a 35'' per century excess precession of Mercury's orbit. William Clifford suggests that the motion of matter may be due to changes in the geometry of space. Simon Newcomb observes a 43'' per century excess precession of Mercury's orbit. Albert Michelson and Edward Morley do not detect the ether drift. Roland von Eotvos uses a torsion fiber balance to test the weak equivalence principle to 1 part in one billion. Ernst Mach states Mach's principle; first constructive attack on the idea of Newtonian absolute space. Albert Einstein completes his theory of special relativity and states the law of mass-energy conservation.
PW Anderson On Bayes From the Bayesian point of view, it s not clear that even the very firstreexamination of roland von eotvos s results actually supported the fifth force, http://www.ar-tiste.com/pwa-on-bayes.html
Extractions: From Physics Today, Jan 1992. Phillip Anderson: Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 Phillip W. Anderson In 1759 or so the Reverend Thomas Bayes first wrote down the "chain rule" for probability theory. (The date is not known; the paper was published posthumously by a "good friend" in 1763.) Bayes seems to have had no idea that his simple formula might have far-reaching consequences, but thanks to the efforts of Harold Jeffreys, earlier in this century, and many others since, "Bayesian statistics" is now taught to statistics students in advanced courses. Unfortunately, however, it is not taught to nutritionists or even to experimental physicists. These statistics are the correct way to do inductive reasoning from necessarily imperfect experimental data. What Bayesianism does is to focus one's attention on the question one wants to ask of the data: It says, in effect, How do these data affect my previous knowledge of the situation? It's sometimes called "maximum likelihood" thinking, but the essence of it is to clearly identify the possible answers, assign reasonable a priori probabilities to them and then ask which answers have been made more likely by the data. It's particularly useful in testing simple "null" answers. Consider, for instance, the question of looking for a needle in a haystack. Actually, of course, there are no needles in most haystacks, so the question doesn't come up unless I happen to suppose that at some particular source of hay there are a lot of absentminded seamstresses or bucolic crack addicts. So I might look for needles to find out if a particular set of haystacks came from that bad source and therefore shouldn't command a high price.
Eponyms eotvos unit, roland, Baron von Eötvös (18481919), Hungarian physicist. epicure;Epicurean, Epicurus (341-270BC), Greek philosopher http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/eponyms.htm
Extractions: Eponyms An eponym is a word derived from the name of a real, fictional, mythical or spurious character or person. Most eponyms originate from a person's surname: boycott , for instance, from the Irish landlord Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott; dahlia , from the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl; the sousaphone , from the American bandmaster John Philip Sousa; and volt , from the Italian physicist Count Alessandro Volta. Many eponymous words come from literary, biblical or mythological sources: malapropism , from Mrs Malaprop in Sheridan's The Rivals Dickensian , from the English writer Charles Dickens; as old as Methuselah , from the age of the Old Testament patriarch; and aphrodisiac , from the Greek goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite. There are thousands of eponyms in everyday use in English today and study of them yields a fascinating insight into the rich heritage of the world's most popular language and its development. Here are some more examples of names that have been immortalised in such a way. A B C D ... W X Y Z A Aaron's beard/rod Aaron, brother of Moses
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Chapter 1: The Scientific Significance Of GG of this century by roland von Eötvös and his colleagues in Budapest. Their resultswere published three years after Eötvös death (Eötvös et al., http://eotvos.dm.unipi.it/nobili/ggweb/phaseA/chapter1/chapter1.html
Extractions: Novelties and Advantages of the GG Design This Chapter Ready to Download and Print (0.2MB): chapter_1.pdf Relevance of the Equivalence Principle "Galileo Galilei" (GG) is a small satellite project devoted to testing the Equivalence Principle (EP) to part in an improvement by orders of magnitude over the best results obtained so far on Earth. It is the same target of the STEP mission proposal as evaluated twice by ESA at Phase A level within the competitions for the medium size missions M2 (Blaser et al., 1993) and M3 (Blaser et al., Do bodies of different composition fall with the same acceleration in a gravitational field? If not, the so called Equivalence Principle is violated. The Equivalence Principle, expressed by Galileo and later reformulated by Newton, was assumed by Einstein as the founding Principle of general relativity, the best theory of gravitation available so far. In fact, it is not a Principle but a starting hypothesis unique to Gravity: no Equivalence Principle holds for the other fundamental forces of nature (the electromagnetic, weak and strong interaction) and almost all theories trying to unify gravity with these forces require the Equivalence Principle to be violated, thus indicating that general relativity may not be the final truth final truth at beginning of this century. All tests of general relativity, except those on the Equivalence Principle, are concerned with specific predictions of the theory; instead, EP tests probe the basic assumption of general relativity, and this is why they are a much more powerful instrument of investigation. A high accuracy, unquestionable, experimental result on the Equivalence Principle
1993 UIUC TOURNAMENT TOSSUP QUESTIONS By CHICAGO A Edited By Answers WEAK EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; Baron roland von eotvos; perihelion shiftof Mercury, gravitational lensing B14. (3020-10 points) Name the author from http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ill93/ill93a_chi_a.txt
Extractions: ********************************************************************** 1993 UIUC TOURNAMENT TOSSUP QUESTIONS by CHICAGO A Edited by Sendhil Revuluri With contributions from Messrs. Edward, Sheahan, and Wang T1. Born in 1879 of mixed Welsh and English ancestry, this man is considered one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. His writings are known best for their attention to moral, ethical, and human values, as well as their evocative descriptive scenes in England, Italy, and India. Name this man who has enjoyed recent popularity due to the movies of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. Answer: E. M. FORSTER T2. The people who answered his ad thought they were being recruited for a study of memory and learning at Yale. These subjects were asked to administer increasing electric shocks to a "victim" to see if it would aid his learning ability. In reality, there were no shocks, and what was being tested was the subjects' willingness to follow orders. Name the man who performed this 1963 psychology experiment, "Behavioral Study of Obedience." Answer: Stanley MILGRAM T3. Approximately 90% of thoroughbred horses are descendants of a single Arabian stallion brought to Britain in the late eighteenth century. This horse also lends his name to the award for thoroughbred Horse of the Year. Name the horse, the award, or the name of the astronomical phenomenon caused by the temporary concealment of one celestial body by another. Answer: ECLIPSE T4. Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institute led the mass resignation of a special scientific advisory board that he believed was hurting his reputation as well as those of the other members. What they were overseeing is a curiosity that receives 230,000 visitors a year and collects $4 million in gift shop purchases. This project funded by billionaire Ed Bass was supposed to be a closed environment, but it has repeatedly broken that goal. Name this supposedly self-contained world in Oracle, Arizona. Answer: BIOSPHERE 2 T5. He was the last man to be imprisoned in the Tower of London, having been detained there during World War II. He is better known, however, for spending the last 40 years of his life as the last occupant of another European prison. Name this Nazi leader, who when he died was the only inmate of Berlin's Spandau prison. Answer: Rudolf HESS T6. The four sections of his last major work are entitled, "Why I am so wise," "Why I am so clever," "Why I write such good books," and "Why I am a destiny." Name this less-than-humble philosopher, whose final work was "Ecce Homo." Answer: Friedrich NIETZSCHE T7. A protege of the famed geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, this man believed that the percentage of genetic recombinations had some relation to the physical distances between gene loci. Using his theory, he began mapping chromosomes in 1913 by defining one map unit as the distance that would give one recombinant organism per 100 eggs. Who is this man whose maps helped prove that genes are located on chromosomes at fixed positions? Answer: A. H. STURTEVANT T8. His first opera, "Le Devin du Village," was an instant success when it debuted in 1753 and for a short time he was the most popular composer in France, but he soon after abandoned music altogether and never wrote another opera. To many, this action was seen as an attempt to reconcile his life with the philosophical principles of his "Discourse on the Sciences and Arts," in which he criticized the culture of grand operas like the one he had just written. Name this composer, philosopher, and novelist, the author of "Emile" and "The Confessions." Answer: Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU T9. Alfred Uhry was born in Atlanta and went to Brown University. He then went to New York to become a lyricist. His musicals include "Here's Where I Belong," "America's Sweetheart," and "The Robber Bridegroom." But it was his first nonmusical play that brought him popular attention as well as the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the 1989 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Name this work, which portrays the relationship of an elderly woman and her driver. Answer: "DRIVING MISS DAISY" T10. When this residence was raided in 1986, among the things found were medical equipment for the ex-President's kidney problems, 500 black brassieres, and a few thousand more famous items. What is the name of this residence, former home to former President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, his wife Imelda, and many pairs of shoes? Answer: MALACANANG Palace T11. Jack Miller, Marguerite Tate, Marcella Lawrence, Martha Ruwart, Lois Hawes, Sherry Miller, Marjorie Wantz, and Janet Adkins have one thing in common they all had the same doctor. Name the physician whom they shared a thorn in the side of the state of Michigan. Answer: Jack KEVORKIAN T12. Built in 1912, this ornate New York building has long been a cultural mecca and locus of popular political and social activism. In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association used the hall to welcome those arriving in the Great Migration. In the 1930s the Transport Workers Union was established there. Later, a young Gregory Hines danced there. However, the building is most famous as the site of the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965. Name this building that shares its name with a prominent American naturalist? Answer: AUDUBON BALLROOM T13. His 1977 Clarinet Concerto is only such work to enter the American repertory in the last half of the 20th century. His acclaimed Symphony No. 1 of 1990, an elegy for friends who died from AIDS, is one of the most important orchestral pieces of the last decade. Name this American composer whose opera The Ghost of Versailles was recently staged by the Met. Answer: John CORIGLIANO T14. Ruled by the Mensheviks after the Russian Revolution, the secession of this nation from the Russian Empire and its independence from the USSR were both solemnly recognized by Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks in 1920. Though its independence lasted longer than that of its neighbors, it would soon return to the orbit of Moscow: at the urging of the Bolshevik leaders Sergo Ordzhonikidze (ord-joe-ni-KID-zeh) and Josef Stalin, it was invaded early in 1921 and annexed to the Soviet Union. Name this former Soviet republic and non-member of the CIS, the birthplace of both Ordzhonikidze and Stalin. Answer: GEORGIA T15. This nation covers an area about twice the size of the District of Columbia and has a population of about 200,000, almost half of whom are under 15. It is predominantly Sunni Moslem, and its main language is Divehi, a Sinhalese dialect. Name this nation of 19 atolls and over 1000 islands, most of which are uninhabited, located in the Indian Ocean, with its capital at Male. Answer: MALDIVES T16. Janis on bass, Zoot on sax, Floyd Pepper on guitar, Dr. Teeth on keyboards, and, of course, Animal on drums. In what musical group do all these gifted musicians play? Answer: DR. TEETH AND THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM T17. He began his musical career with the violin, but turned to the guitar for rehabilitation after his left hand was badly injured in a caravan fire. The unusual two-fingered technique this Belgian gypsy developed as a result contributed to his substantial influence on contemporary jazz guitar style. Name this founding member of Le Hot Club de France who toured the U. S. with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. Answer: Jean Baptiste "Django" REINHARDT T18. Dr. Marion Tinsley defeated the computer program Chinook by a score of 4 victories to 2 in the most recent World Championship match of this board game. Name this game that involves kings, but not queens, and captures, but not castles. Answer: CHECKERS (accept draughts) T19. Josip Broz Tito, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Doenitz, Vladimir Vysotsky, Sanjay Gandhi, Henry Miller, Reza Pahlavi, Tex Avery, Peter Sellers, Archbishop Oscar Romero, and Steve McQueen. In which year did all these men die, a year which also saw the deaths of John Lennon and 36 victims of Mt. St. Helens? Answer: 1980 T20. In the late 1970s and early 80s, he was known in Hollywood primarily for his screenplays, including those for "Conan the Barbarian," "Year of the Dragon," "Scarface," and "Midnight Express," for which he won an Oscar. Although he has been directing films since 1970, only in the late 1980s did he become successful in this capacity. Since 1986 he has been nominated three times for best director, winning twice. Name this director of "Salvador," "Talk Radio," and "JFK." Answer: Oliver STONE T21. When gas in a tube carries current, it glows. 19th century physicists investigating this phenomenon concluded that the glow was caused by rays coming from the negative pole in the tube, which led to the name they gave these rays. What is this name that is retained today in the terminology of computer monitors? Answer: CATHODE rays T22. "Island Son." "Night of the Hunter." "Shogun." "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story." "The Thorn Birds." "Dream West." "The Bourne Identity." what "King of the Miniseries" starred in all these TV programs, and first gained fame in the title role of "Dr. Kildare?" Answer: Richard CHAMBERLAIN T23. In the Book of Zechariah, the prophet sees a "flying scroll; its length is 20 cubits, and its breadth 10 cubits." If one were similarly inspired today, however, one might prefer more conventional units of measurement. To within one inch, how many inches are in one cubit? Answer: 17 or 18 INCHES (17.49) T24. Last February, 90 million viewers watched Oprah Winfrey interview the self-proclaimed King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Among the various issues brought up in the interview, one of the most astounding was that Jackson revealed that he did not bleach his skin, but that he suffers from a skin disease that makes his skin look white. Name this condition that blocks the skin's ability to produce pigment. Answer: VITILIGO ********************************************************************** 1993 UIUC TOURNAMENT BONUS QUESTIONS by CHICAGO A Edited by Sendhil Revuluri With contributions from Messrs. Edwards and Wang B1. (30 points) The science of taxonomy is much more complicated than Kingdom, Phylum and Class. There are several other taxa used to classify living things. For five points each, match the following six classifications of Homo sapiens with the taxa of which they are an example; for example, Animalia would match Kingdom. a. Vertebrata 1. Tribe b. Theria 2. Subfamily c. Unguiculata 3. Infraorder d. Catarrhini 4. Cohort e. Homininae 5. Subclass f. Hominini 6. Subphylum Answers: 1-F, 2-E, 3-D, 4-C, 5-B, 6-A B2. (30-20-10 points) Name the American author from his novels. 30: "Long After Midnight", "A Medicine for Melancholy", and "The Golden Apples of the Sun" 20: "Dandelion Wine", "The Illustrated Man", and "The Halloween Tree" 10: "The Martian Chronicles", "Something Wicked This Way Comes", and "Fahrenheit 451" Answer: Ray BRADBURY B3. (30 points) These two men have been called two of the most similar Justices to ever sit on the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Not only were they both thoughtful legal thinkers known best for their dissents, they were also related and shared the same name. The grandfather served from 1877-1911 while the grandson served from 1955-1971. For 20 points, give their full shared name and for ten points more, name the famous dissent the elder Justice is best remembered for. Answers: JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN, PLESSY V. FERGUSON B4. (25 points) Born in 1875, his exposure to Western political ideas in his early schooling led him to join the Independence Club and later to be imprisoned for six years. After his release, he went to the United States and studied at Princeton, which isn't much different from prison. He hung around long enough to earn a doctorate and be converted to Christianity, and then returned to Korea as a YMCA worker. When the Japanese annexed the country, he returned to the U. S. and was elected president of the Korean government-in-exile in 1919. When the U. S. gained control of South Korea after World War II, he returned and was elected the first president of the Republic of Korea in 1948. Name this staunch anti-Communist who was forced to resign amid student protests in 1960, after winning his fourth consecutive term as president. Answer: Syngman RHEE B5. (30-20-10 points) Name the musical group, given the following clues. 30: Although they were not very active in the 1980's, they produced two albums in that decade: "Famous Last Words" (1982) and "Brother Where You Bound" (1985). 20: This group was originally bankrolled by a Dutch millionaire named Sam, who heard some of its members playing in a Munich club called The Joint. Sam underwrote their experimental albums, "Indelibly Stamped" and another which bore the group's name. 10: They are best known for the album "Breakfast in America," which includes the hits "The Logical Song," "Goodbye, Stranger" and "Take the Long Way Home." Answer: SUPERTRAMP B6. (30 points) He is probably most famous in the scientific community for his reformulation of quantum mechanics known as the "pilot wave" theory. However, he also made fundamental contributions to the consideration of the philosophical implications of basic quantum principles, perhaps best laid out in "Causality and Chance in Modern Physics". However, refusing to testify before the House Unamerican Activities Committee got him "blacklisted", and he was forced to leave Princeton in 1950. He taught in Brazil and then in London until his retirement. Name this recently-deceased physicist who tried to keep modern physicists from becoming dogmatic about quantum mechanics. Answer: David BOHM B7. (30 points) Anyone who's taken a physics class has probably seen footage of the spectacular oscillation and collapse of a bridge in high winds in Washington state in 1940. 1. For 15 points, the wind blowing across the bridge caused standing waves in the bridge that increased in amplitude until the bridge broke up. What physical principle does this illustrate? 2. For another 15, name this unfortunate bridge. Answers: RESONANCE; TACOMA NARROWS Bridge B8. (30 points) There are 3 grips commonly used in competitive table tennis. For 10 points each: 1. Which grip commonly used by Americans and Europeans involves extending the index finger? 2. Which grip commonly used by Asians involves gripping the paddle as one would grip a writing implement? 3. This grip is named for its inventor, the longtime Dean of US table tennis and dominant US player of the 1970's and 80's. Answers: SHAKEHANDS; PENHOLD; SEEMILLER grip B9. Name the authors of the following seminal works in the study of religion for ten points each. You'll be given the year for some extra help. 1. "Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902) 2. "The Idea of the Holy" (1917) 3. "The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion" (1957) Answers: Henry JAMES; Rudolf OTTO; Mircea ELIADE B10. (30 points) The bombing of the World Trade Center has made Americans much more aware of incidents of terrorism aimed at Americans at both home and abroad.Given a description of a terrorist attack, tell where it occured for ten points each. 1. On December 27, 1985, these two European cities experienced attacks at their airports, killing five Americans. Name the cities for five points each. 2. A bomb destroyed a disco in this city and an American serviceman was killed. This attack led to President Reagan's attack on Libya in 1986. 3. FALN, a Puerto Rican independence group, bombed the TWA terminal at this airport in 1975, killing eleven people. Name the airport. Answers: ROME and VIENNA; WEST BERLIN; LA GUARDIA B11. (30 points) Name these playwrights given one of their works for five points each. 1. You Never Can Tell 2. The Barber of Seville 3. The Seagull 4. Under Milk Wood 5. The Doctor in Spite of Himself 6. Murder in the Cathedral Answers: George Bernard SHAW; BEAUMARCHAIS; Anton CHEKOV; Dylan THOMAS; MOLIERE; T. S. ELIOT B12. (25 points) For five points each and a five point bonus for all four, name the main parts of a steel plow. You'll get short descriptions to help you. 1. This part precedes the main body of the plow, and acting as a wedge, creates a furrow by making a vertical cut in the soil. 2. This part follows the coulter and also acts as a wedge, making a horizontal cut and freeing the top layer of soil. 3. Attached to the share, this part also acts as a wedge to lift and turn the layer of soil freed by the share. 4. This part is fixed to the side of the moldboard and slides along the vertical wall of the furrow to move the layer of soil outward. Answers: COULTER; SHARE or plowshare; MOLDBOARD; LANDSIDE B13. (30 points) When a reporter remarked to Sir Arthur Eddington that only three people in the world understood relativity, he replied, "Who's the third?" Hopefully things have improved since then, and you'll have a chance of answering these questions about relativity for ten points each. 1. This principle states that all bodies in the same gravitational field fall with the same acceleration, regardless of mass or composition. 2. This Hungarian baron was an important experimental physicist in the early development of relativity for his tests of the weak equivalence principle. Experiments testing this principle are now named after him. 3. Identify the two phenomena of the folllowing that are actually believed to result from general relativity: perihelion shift of Mercury, expansion of the universe, gravitational lensing, chaos in orientation of Mars' axis. Answers: WEAK EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; Baron Roland von EOTVOS; perihelion shift of Mercury, gravitational lensing B14. (30-20-10 points) Name the author from novels. 30: "The Mystic Masseur", "Miguel Street", "The Middle Passage", and "Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion" 20: "In A Free State", "The Loss of El Dorado", "The Suffrage of Elvira", and "The Mimic Men" 10: "A House for Mr. Biswas" and "India: A Million Mutinies Now" Answer: V. S. NAIPAUL B15. (30 points) The tune "Here Comes the Bride" is familiar to us all, but do you know its origins? 1. For ten points, name the composer who created the tune titled the "Bridal Chorus." 2. For another ten points, for what opera did Wagner create this tune? 3. For a final ten, the Bridal Chorus was first used during a wedding ceremony when a daughter of Queen Victoria married Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Which daughter? Answers: Richard WAGNER; "LOHENGRIN"; VICTORIA B16. (25 points) Stars and stripes of various shapes and colors are very common motifs on national flags. A less common object on national flags is the wheel. For five points each, name the four nations that have wheels on their national flags. Answers: AFGHANISTAN, ANGOLA, INDIA, MYANMAR (do NOT accept Botswana, Bulgaria, or Burma) B17. (25 points) Gagarin and Glenn get all the glory, but he was the first person of neither American nor Soviet citizenship to fly in space or orbit the Earth. This son of the deputy defense minister of Czechoslovakia was born in 1948 and attained the rank of captain as a jet pilot. On March 2, 1978, he and Soviet Commander Aleksei Gubarev were launched into space aboard Soyuz 28, after which they docked with the space station Salyut 6 and conducted a week of joint space research. Name this first Czechoslovakian cosmonaut. Answer: Vladimir REMEK B18. (30-20-10 points) Name the artist from his works. 30: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, Presentation in the Temple 20: Descent from the Cross, Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Conspiracy of Julius Civilis 10: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, The Night Watch Answer: REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn B19. (30 points) Born in Russia, he was raised in Chicago and studied at the U. S. Naval Academy and at Columbia University. During World War II, he was the head of the electrical section of the Navy's Bureau of Ships and later became convinced of the possibility of nuclear-powered naval vessels. He was put in charge of the Navy's nuclear power program and the Atomic Energy Commission's naval reactor branch, and later directed the planning and construction of the Nautilus submarine. Meanwhile, he criticized the efficacy of the American educational system, writing, among other works, "American Education: A National Failure" in 1963. Name this admiral whose many accomplishments earned him the nickname of "Father of the Nuclear Navy." Answer: Admiral Hyman George RICKOVER B20. (25 points) Ringo Starr may have been many things, but he wasn't a very prolific songwriter. Of all the Beatles' songs, only two were written by Ringo Starr. 1. For five points, under what name are Ringo's songs credited to him? 2. For 10 points each, name Ringo's two songs. If you answer incorrectly, I'll give you the albums they appear on as another clue and you'll get five points each. [The albums are The Beatles (The White Album) and Abbey Road.] Answers: Richard STARKEY; DON'T PASS ME BY, OCTOPUS'S GARDEN B21. (30 points) Modern popular and rock musicians tend to have weird nicknames. For five points each, given the group that a musician is a part of and his role, give his strange name. Normal names need not apply (i. e., will not be accepted). 1. Marillion: vocals 2. Red Hot Chili Peppers: bass 3. Dead Kennedys: vocals 4. Mothers of Invention: drums 5. Guns n' Roses: drums 6. and of course, back by popular demand, it's: Dread Zeppelin: vocals Answers: FISH; FLEA; JELLO BIAFRA; MOTORHEAD SHERWOOD; DUFF; TORTELVIS B22. (30 points) Only three American cyclists have ever won stages of the Tour de France. Name them for ten points each from the following clues: 1. The first American to win a stage, this cyclist and husband of Connie Carpenter won a stage for the 7-11 team. 2. His stunning time trial victory on the final day won him the 1989 Tour by 8 seconds, the narrowest margin of victory ever. 3. This Motorola rider's win on the prestigious Alpe D'Huez climb in 1992 was the first ever American victory in a mountain stage. Answers: Davis PHINNEY; Greg LEMOND; Andy HAMPSTEN B23. (30 points) How much do you remember about the Golden Age of music? We are referring to, of course, the early 80's. Identify these 3 early 80's groups after the lead singer for ten points, or after a hit song for five points. You may guess after each clue. 1. lead singer: Mike Score song: "Space Age Love Song" 2. Kevin Rowland "Come On Eileen" 3. Mike Reno "Workin' for the Weekend" Answers: A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS; DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS; LOVERBOY B24. (30 points) The Kennedy family has been called the First Family of America. No matter what you think of them, it is hard to argue that any family has had more of an impact on this country than they have. Of course you are familiar with Joseph and Rose Kennedy's sons John, Robert, and Edward, but they had six other children as well. For five points each, give the first names of the other children of this generation. Answers: JOSEPH JR., KATHLEEN, ROSEMARY, EUNICE, PATRICIA, JEAN **********************************************************************
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Extractions: Negli anni successivi tutte le cime, le torri ed i campanili furono saliti con vie di sempre maggior difficoltà tecnica. L’epoca del sesto grado fu inaugurata nel 1925 sulla parete nord-ovest della CIVETTA (la così detta "Parete delle Pareti", espugnata per la prima volta dalla cordata inglese Phillimore-Rainor con guide, vedi foto in basso a destra) e vide primeggiare alpinisti come Emil Solleder (vedi foto in basso a sinistra) ed Emilio Comici (qui, mentre fa il nodo alla corda). CRONOLOGIA CONQUISTA DELLE PRINCIPALI VETTE DOLOMITICHE 19 Settembre. 1857: PELMO (3168m) Sir John Ball 29 Agosto. 1863: TOFANA DI MEZZO (3243m) Paul Grohmann - F. Lacedelli 18 Settembre. 1863: ANTELAO (3263m) Paul Grohmann - F. Lacedelli - A. Lacedelli - M. Ossi 29 Agosto. 1864: TOFANA DI ROZES (3225m) Paul Grohmann - F. Lacedelli - A. Dimai - Santo Siorpaes
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Extractions: Version for printing studied at Heidelberg where he was taught by Kirchhoff Helmholtz Franz Neumann and Friedrich Richelot. He returned to Hungary and received a doctorate with a thesis which studied problems of Fizeau on the relative motion of a light source. This was one of the first steps towards relativity theory. Hungarian Society for Mathematics in 1885 and he was important in improving educational standards in Hungary. Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson List of References (5 books/articles) Mathematicians born in the same country
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Extractions: English aircraft designer, manufacturer, and pioneer in long-distance jet flying. In 1909, he constructed his first machine and through trial and error and taught himself to fly. Since then De Havilland has been carried aloft by more than fifty aircraft. Notable were the DH-2 fighter of World War I, and the DH-4 light bomber. He established the new De Havilland Company at Stag Lane near London in 1920, beginning the long line of DH commercial and sport aircraft. De Havilland's triumph in World War II was the Mosquito light bomber, the fastest aircraft of its time. In 1943, he was one of the first to make jet-propelled aircraft, producing the Vampire jet fighter. De Havilland led the world in entering the era of jet passenger flight with its first turbine powered aircraft, the Comet in 1949. Hans Fischer Hans Fischer was a German biochemist research into the constitution of haemin, the red blood pigment, and chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants and especially for his synthesis of haemin (1929), non-protein part of haemoglobin that gives blood its red colour. He further showed that chlorophylls are porphyrins and that they share a similar structure with haemin, but with subtle differences. Following the destruction of his laboratory during WWII air raids, dispair led to suicide, just one month before Germany surrendered.
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