QOD 1/3 Answers, Scores, etc

[tanstaafl2]

Please read the rules, blah blah blah.

After today's questions, this coming Monday's FJ category will be revealed. You can put your wager in the Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday threads. If you bet more than you end up having, I'll round down to what you have.

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Single Jeopardy: "Born to Run"
$200 - Winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, much to the consternation of the host Head of State
Jessie Owens

$400 - In addition to winning the Olympic 100 Meters, he also won 4 consecutive gold medals in the long jump
Carl Lewis

$600 - He won the Olympic marathon in 1960 while running barefoot and in 1964 six weeks after his appendix was removed
I dunno. Probably some skinny Ethiopian.

$800 - In 1964, as a high school student, he ran the mile in under 4 minutes. Later he ran for, and won, a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives
Jim Ryun?

$1000 - Her collision with Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympics might well not have been her fault
Young South African but the name escapes me.

Double Jeopardy - "Math Tricks"
$400 - To multiply single-digit numbers by this number, hold up both hands, and fold down the finger corresponding to the number you're multiplying by.
I guess I am missing something here.

$800 - To see if a number is a multiple of one of these two single-digit numbers, add the digits and see if the sum is a multiple.
3 and 9

$1200 - Depending on which school you attended, you may have learned "SOH-CAH-TOA" or "Oliver Has a Heap of Apples" as mnemonics for computing these three functions of an angle in a right triangle.
Sine, Cosine, Tangent

$1600 - Six and twenty-eight are examples of this type of number whose factors (except for the number itself) add up to the number.
Perfect numbers

$2000 - Legend has it this mathematician's teacher tried to kill some time by having him add the numbers 1 to 100. He derived the triangular number formula and frustrated the teacher by finishing in mere instants.
I dunno

This week's FJ category (please put your wager in a SEPARATE spoiler):
January 2006 Obituaries

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Don't even knowhow much I have or will have. I guess I will wager 5000.

[trevor_macfee]

$200 - Jesse Owens

$400 - Lewis

$600 -

$800 -

$1000 -

Double Jeopardy - "Math Tricks"
$400 -

$800 - 3 and 9

$1200 - Sine, Cosine, and Tangent

$1600 -

$2000 -

[trevor_macfee]

Wager:

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A True Daily Double (everything)

[mrkelley23]

Please read the rules, blah blah blah.

After today's questions, this coming Monday's FJ category will be revealed. You can put your wager in the Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday threads. If you bet more than you end up having, I'll round down to what you have.

Single Jeopardy: "Born to Run"
$200 - Winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, much to the consternation of the host Head of State

$400 - In addition to winning the Olympic 100 Meters, he also won 4 consecutive gold medals in the long jump

$600 - He won the Olympic marathon in 1960 while running barefoot and in 1964 six weeks after his appendix was removed

$800 - In 1964, as a high school student, he ran the mile in under 4 minutes. Later he ran for, and won, a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives

$1000 - Her collision with Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympics might well not have been her fault

Double Jeopardy - "Math Tricks"
$400 - To multiply single-digit numbers by this number, hold up both hands, and fold down the finger corresponding to the number you're multiplying by.

$800 - To see if a number is a multiple of one of these two single-digit numbers, add the digits and see if the sum is a multiple.

$1200 - Depending on which school you attended, you may have learned "SOH-CAH-TOA" or "Oliver Has a Heap of Apples" as mnemonics for computing these three functions of an angle in a right triangle.

$1600 - Six and twenty-eight are examples of this type of number whose factors (except for the number itself) add up to the number.

$2000 - Legend has it this mathematician's teacher tried to kill some time by having him add the numbers 1 to 100. He derived the triangular number formula and frustrated the teacher by finishing in mere instants.

This week's FJ category (please put your wager in a SEPARATE spoiler):
January 2006 Obituaries

Spoiler

200 Jesse Owens
400 Carl Lewis
600 No guess
800 No guess
1000 Zola Budd

DJ
400 Nine
800 3 or 9
1200 sine, cosine, tangent
1600 Perfect numbers
2000 No guess

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[jsuchard]

Spoiler

Single Jeopardy: "Born to Run"

$200 - Who is Jesse Owens?

$400 - Who is Carl Lewis?

$600 - CLAM

$800 - CLAM

$1000 - Who is Budd? [Zola might be her first name, so I am only giving the last name.]


Double Jeopardy - "Math Tricks"

$400 - What is nine?

$800 - What are three and nine?

$1200 - What are sine, cosine, and tangent?

$1600 - What are perfect numbers?

$2000 - CLAM [Maybe Descartes? No official guess.]

This week's FJ category (please put your wager in a SEPARATE spoiler):
January 2006 Obituaries

How are we supposed to make wagers if we don't know our total scores, and the scores of others yet?

[DadofTwins]

Spoiler

BORN TO RUN

200 -- Jesse Owens
400 -- Carl Lewis
600 -- CLAM
800 -- Jim Ryun
1000 -- Zola Budd

MATH TRICKS

400 -- 9
800 -- 3
1200 -- sine, cosine, and tangent
1600 -- Perfect number
2000 -- CLAM

[a1mamacat]

Please read the rules, blah blah blah.

After today's questions, this coming Monday's FJ category will be revealed. You can put your wager in the Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday threads. If you bet more than you end up having, I'll round down to what you have.

Spoiler

Single Jeopardy: "Born to Run"
$200 - Winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, much to the consternation of the host Head of State - Jesse Owens

$400 - In addition to winning the Olympic 100 Meters, he also won 4 consecutive gold medals in the long jump - Carl Lewis

$600 - He won the Olympic marathon in 1960 while running barefoot and in 1964 six weeks after his appendix was removed -nope

$800 - In 1964, as a high school student, he ran the mile in under 4 minutes. Later he ran for, and won, a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives - nope

$1000 - Her collision with Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympics might well not have been her fault - Sola Bud

Double Jeopardy - "Math Tricks"
$400 - To multiply single-digit numbers by this number, hold up both hands, and fold down the finger corresponding to the number you're multiplying by. 10?

$800 - To see if a number is a multiple of one of these two single-digit numbers, add the digits and see if the sum is a multiple. = huh?

$1200 - Depending on which school you attended, you may have learned "SOH-CAH-TOA" or "Oliver Has a Heap of Apples" as mnemonics for computing these three functions of an angle in a right triangle. = Tick

$1600 - Six and twenty-eight are examples of this type of number whose factors (except for the number itself) add up to the number. = Tick

$2000 - Legend has it this mathematician's teacher tried to kill some time by having him add the numbers 1 to 100. He derived the triangular number formula and frustrated the teacher by finishing in mere instants. - Boom!

This week's FJ category (please put your wager in a SEPARATE spoiler):

Spoiler

January 2006 Obituaries - 600

[plasticene]

I'm sure the deadline for Wednesday's questions is past, but I'll try Thursday's.

Spoiler

Please read the rules, blah blah blah.

Single Jeopardy: "Born to Run"
$200 - Who is Jesse Owens
$400 - Who is Carl Lewis
$600 -
$800 - Who is Jim Ryun
$1000 - Who is Zola Budd

Double Jeopardy - "Math Tricks"
$400 - What is nine
$800 - What are three and nine
$1200 - What are sine, cosine, and tangent
$1600 - What are perfect numbers
$2000 - Who is Gauss

This week's FJ category (please put your wager in a SEPARATE spoiler):
January 2006 Obituaries

[ToLiveIsToFly]

Single Jeopardy: "Born to Run"
$200 - Winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, much to the consternation of the host Head of State
Jesse Owens

$400 - In addition to winning the Olympic 100 Meters, he also won 4 consecutive gold medals in the long jump
Carl Lewis

$600 - He won the Olympic marathon in 1960 while running barefoot and in 1964 six weeks after his appendix was removed
Abebe Bikele

$800 - In 1964, as a high school student, he ran the mile in under 4 minutes. Later he ran for, and won, a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives
Jim Ryun

$1000 - Her collision with Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympics might well not have been her fault
Zola Budd

Double Jeopardy - "Math Tricks"
$400 - To multiply single-digit numbers by this number, hold up both hands, and fold down the finger corresponding to the number you're multiplying by.
9. For those who didn't get what I was talking about, as an example, let's take 9 x 3. Hold out all ten fingers. Now, since you're multiplying by 3, turn down the 3rd finger. So you've got a group of 2 fingers and a group of 7 fingers. And 9 x 3 = 27.

$800 - To see if a number is a multiple of one of these two single-digit numbers, add the digits and see if the sum is a multiple.
I was thinking 3 and 9. Someone pointed out that 1 is also a correct answer, so I accepted that, too. But if you only gave me one number, I dinged you.

$1200 - Depending on which school you attended, you may have learned "SOH-CAH-TOA" or "Oliver Has a Heap of Apples" as mnemonics for computing these three functions of an angle in a right triangle.
Sine, Cosine, Tangent

$1600 - Six and twenty-eight are examples of this type of number whose factors (except for the number itself) add up to the number.
Perfect Numbers. Turns out perfect numbers are related to Mersenne Primes. If N is a Mersenne Prime, N * (N+1) / 2 will be a perfect number.

$2000 - Legend has it this mathematician's teacher tried to kill some time by having him add the numbers 1 to 100. He derived the triangular number formula and frustrated the teacher by finishing in mere instants.
Gauss

Today:
Bob78164 8400
plasticene 8400
wintergreen48 7200
Appa23 7000
DadofTwins 6400
tlynn78 5600
mrkelley23 5600
jsuchard 5600
PlacentiaSoccerMom 5200
andrewjackson 5000
Greyhound Dude 5000
tanstaafl2 5000
TheConfessor 4600
Vails 4600
JBillyGirl 4600
littlebeast13 4200
T_Bone0806 4200
Catfish 4000
mikehardware 3000
MarleysGh0st 3000
peacock2121 2800
nitrah55 2600
trevor_macfee 2600
fantine33 2400
jarnon 1600
starfish1113 1600
NellyLunatic1980 1400
themanintheseersuckersuit 1400
a1mamacat 1200
takinover -200

For the week:
Appa23 24200
Greyhound Dude 23000
mrkelley23 19200
PlacentiaSoccerMom 17400
DadofTwins 16800
andrewjackson 16600
T_Bone0806 16600
jsuchard 16000
tanstaafl2 15400
fantine33 15200
wintergreen48 14000
tlynn78 14000
Bob78164 13600
Catfish 12800
Vails 12000
peacock2121 11600
JBillyGirl 11400
TheConfessor 10400
mikehardware 10200
jarnon 10000
NellyLunatic1980 10000
trevor_macfee 9600
plasticene 8400
nitrah55 7600
MarleysGh0st 7000
starfish1113 7000
littlebeast13 6400
takinover 4400
themanintheseersuckersuit 4000
a1mamacat 3800


Edited to reflect the change in Bob Numbers' score.

[andrewjackson]

I psyched myself out on the $1200 question. I got hung up on my non-existent mnemonic and didn't just cut to the heart of the question.

Hopefully, those points won't come back to bite me.

I have a feeling that Friday's points will make this irrelevant to the big picture.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

How are we supposed to make wagers if we don't know our total scores, and the scores of others yet?

You're going to have to do the best you can. If there were a way y'all could bet after all the scores are posted, but before you could see the question, in a timely way, I'd be all for it. But the Saturday and Sunday games don't even close until Monday night, so there's really no way, at least no way I can see.

If you've got something I haven't thought of, I'm all ears, to implement in game #2.