#30
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by ToLiveIsToFly » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:37 am
Here are Today's answers/comments/scores. I've got a few picture questions as we go forward, so if anyone knows how to resize a picture on this bored, I'd really appreciate it.
Single Jeopardy - "Bruce"
$200 - This legendary martial artist starred in such films as "Enter the Dragon"
Bruce Lee. Every single player got this one.
$400 - He's the NFL's all-time leader in sacks
Bruce Smith. This was tougher than I expected. Where's Buffacuse when you need her?
$600 - Dustin Hoffman was nominated for an Oscar for playing this comedian
Lenny Bruce. Gotten by 17 of our 19 players
$800 - He was crowned King of Scots on March 25, 1306
Robert the Bruce
$1000 - He was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962
Bruce Banner (aka The Incredible Hulk). When I wrote this question (about 2 years ago) it didn't occur to me that Bruce Wayne would be such obvious neg bait, but it's come up a bunch of times. I'm also enough of a dork to have thought, at some point, "Bruce Wayne's a DC character, and Lee and Kirby were Marvel guys, so nobody'll guess that"
Double Jeopardy - Nobel-winning Physicists
$400 - 2005 marked the 100th Anniversary of three of his world-changing publications.
Albert Einstein. Yes, he looks dapper in the picture, and I can sort of see the resemblance to Alex Trebek.
$800 - We may have to constantly remind you that this man won the prize in 1918 for discovering energy quanta.
Max Planck ("constant")
$1200 - Surely you're joking if you don't know this native Brooklynite shared the 1965 prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics. Maybe we should draw you a diagram.
Richard Feynman. I'd recommend both Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman and What Do You Care What Other People Think? to anyone considering a career in the sciences. Or anything else, for that matter.
$1600 - We could tell you all about him winning the Prize in 1922, or his son sharing it in 1975. Heck, we could talk about it until your eyes glaze over.
Niels Bohr. I'd have accepted "Nels". My Danish is a bit rusty, but in my mind I pronounce "Niels" the same as "Kneels", and I can see how "Nels" could plausibly be pronounced that way. Bohr = "Bore" = "eyes glaze over", get it?
$2000 - These two gentlemen, Bednorz and Muller, shared the 1987 prize for their work in this field; thank them if you ever need an MRI.
Note that I'm NOT just looking to see if you know what MRI stands for - that is not the correct answer. I want the underlying technological improvement
I was looking for superconductivity. I remember really well when that first breakthrough came through, and these guys found materials that would superconduct at something like 70K, which was more than twice the previous high (and almost twice what people were saying was theoretically possible at the time). Somebody else soon got it up over 90K, and my professors (I was a freshman physics major at the time) were convinced it was only a matter of time before we got room-temperature superconductors, which of course hasn't happened. But going from 30-odd K to 70K is a huge deal, because you can cool something to 70K with liquid nitrogen (which is relatively cheap) but you need liquid helium (which is not) to cool something down to the 30s.
BUT, the doctor who explained to me that this is why your average hospital / medical facility / etc can now afford an MRI machine, while they couldn't used to, turns out to have been suspect. Turns out almost all MRI's still use liquid nitrogen, so the "thank them if you ever need an MRI" part turns out to have been misleading.
They definitely did win for superconductivity, so if you said that you get the points. But if you guessed wrong, I'm going to assume it was because I misled you, and I won't be deducting anything.
Anyway, here are the scores for the first day, which of course are the same as the scores for the current game and for the month as a whole:
mrkelley23 9000
Greyhound Dude 9000
Appa23 8200
jarnon 6600
fantine33 6200
NellyLunatic1980 5800
jsuchard 5600
DadofTwins 5400
Bob78164 5400
andrewjackson 5400
wintergreen48 5000
PlacentiaSoccerMom 5000
nitrah55 5000
Catfish 4600
tanstaafl2 4600
JBillyGirl 4200
tlynn78 3800
T_Bone0806 3400
takinover 3200
TheConfessor 3200
trevor_macfee 3200
mikehardware 3000
a1mamacat 2600
peacock2121 2000
themanintheseersuckersuit 1600
MarleysGh0st 1600
littlebeast13 1000
starfish1113 600
It's always possible that I screwed up your score, so if you think I did, let me know.
