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- The Swedish KO, Question 8, Answer - 3 Updates
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| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Oct 06 09:10PM +0200 > Q8: How high (in metres) is the highest point in Sweden? Mark Brader 1955 -142.5 David B 2000 -97.5 Stephen W Perry 2000 -97.5 CORRECT 2097.5 Dan Blum 2100 +2.5 Björn Lundin 2111 +13.5 Russ 2500 +402.5 Russ is knocked out. The highest mountain in Sweden is Kebnekaise. The mountain has two peaks, North and South. The South Peak still is the highest. It was measured to 2097.5 as late as August this year. However, it is now only 70 cm higher than the North Peak. The South Peak has a shrinking glacier on top, while the North Peak is all solid rock. I must say that I am impressed by the answer slate. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Oct 06 09:49PM -0500 Mark Brader is disqualified for accidentally seeing another answer. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Effective immediately, all memos are to be written msb@vex.net | in clear, active-voice English." -- US gov't memo |
| "David B" <askforemail@gmail.com>: Oct 07 08:49AM +0100 5 -- David |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 07 02:29AM > totals 3 3 1 2 0 1 0 2 3 3 0 3 21 > the winner by a landslide is Dan Blum! > hearty congratulations Dan! you get to host rotating quiz #159 in a manner of your choosing. Thanks. It will probably be a few days. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org>: Oct 06 08:06PM On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:54:01 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > about 3 days. > * Game 2, Round 7 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Landmarks > 1. Which two provinces are connected by the Confederation Bridge? PEI and New Brunswick > in Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film "I Confess". > 4. It looks like a giant game of Tetris... but name the *architect* > of the Montreal apartment complex known as Habitat 67. Saarenson > 7. A UNESCO World Heritage Site outside Ft. Macleod, AB, is a > famous demonstration point for the ingenuity of native hunters. Name > that place with the distinctive moniker. (Gaaa - crushed skull?) Buffalo Jump > 8. As of the 1990s, Diavik, Ekati, and Snap Lake have made the > Northwest Territories famous for what natural resource? Diamonds > 9. Which Saskatchewan city has an extensive, now-unused underground > tunnel system that was purportedly part of the liquor supply route to > Chicago during Prohibition? Saskatoon > In each case please answer with the name in English of the relevant > Greek letter. > 1. To 5 decimal places, this geometrical constant equals 3.14159. Pi > 2. A triangular area of alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river > is named after this letter, because its shape resembles the letter in > upper case. What is it? Delta > is frequently used as a symbol for the frequency of a wave. > In particle physics, it is also the symbol for any of the three kinds > of neutrinos. Nu > 4. The last of the Greek alphabet, this letter lends its name to > entire classes of fatty acids. Omega > is used as the symbol for a very small quantity in math, as well as > the permittivity of a medium in physics. A form of this letter is > also used to express set membership in math. Epsilon > 6. A version of a software product that is still in its development > stage but is released for testing purposes is referred to by this > letter. Beta > 7. It is used to represent a photon (in layman's terms, a "packet" > of electromagnetic energy), as well as a high-energy form of > electromagnetic radiation. Which letter is this? Gamma > function, named on honor of the German mathematician August Ferdinand > Möbius. In particle physics, it is used to denote a subatomic > particle, the muon. Mu > 9. This letter, the 8th in the Greek alphabet, is very commonly > used as a symbol for a plane angle in trigonometry and geometry. Theta > infinitesimal amount of something, or the orbital inclination with > respect to the line of sight, used when describing gravitational wave > sources. Lambda? |
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