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Trivia!
Went to trivia today for the first time since I think 2005 at nerdcamp, and quite likely the second time in my life. Unlike that time, I actually made a valuable contribution to the team in the following questions.
3) Determine the numerical values of the following boxes, and give the final answer. Each box represents a single digit from 0-9. (Boxes were colored, letter indicates the color of each box, and were presented as one above the other.)
11) The word "hydrosphere" describes the surface of the Earth covered by water. What is the word that describes the equivalent of land?
12) In the year 1483, the first mass was held in this place named after Pope Sixtus the Fourth.
19) This question was introduced to us as both geometry and literature. What geometric shape served as narrator in Flatland?
24) We were asked to identify the TV show for which a song was played. It was rhythmic, no lyrics, in 4/4 time, with pronounced percussion/bells on the 1st, 2nd, pick-up to 4th, and 4th beats of each measure.
3) I tried a lot of algebra to solve this one, but with the carry-overs, it ended up being way way underconstrained. The other work that I did was mirrored between myself working alone, and T$ and A working together - because I was determined to find an algebraic solution, I worked by myself while they worked together from a logical approach. When I gave up on that, I went back to their logical method, partially working on my own and partially from their notes. The solution below is mashing together what we all did.
In the right column G+Y+R=Y (mod 10). This means that G+R does not affect the ones column, so G+R=10, and there's a carry-over into the next column of 1.
In the far left column, 2Y+G=R. R cannot be more than 9, so the most that 2Y could be is 8, so the most that Y could be is 4.
From there it was trial and error, I started by looking at the far left column and guessing that R=9 so G=1 from the right column, and tried Y=4 with no carryover, or Y=3 with a carryover of 2, and plugged in those values into the other slots. What eventually worked was R=7, so G=3, and Y=1 with a carryover of 2, and therefore the "answer" number was 7311.
11) "Lithosphere" popped into my head immediately, but I second-guessed myself on this, trying to remember if that was actually a part of the aesthenosphere. No one else had any guess, I couldn't come up with any better, and someone else said that a lithograph involves stone, so we answered lithosphere and lithosphere it was.
12) Sixtus made me think of the Sistine Chapel, T$ and others confirmed that the time period was appropriate, and the Sistine Chapel it was. I totally missed the part about the mass (remembered it as typing it up and looking up the year again, which we misheard but didn't remember the date of the Sistine Chapel well enough to feel it was worth asking for a repeat) or we would've been more confident.
19) Square immediately popped into my head, and was correct. No one else had a clue. Flatland is an old short book that describes how different numbers of dimensions will appear when projected into universes of a different number of dimensions. I specifically recalled that it discussed a hypercube or tesseract, without using that nomenclature.
24) I ID'd it as Futurama before 2 measures were done. Whenever T$ and I watch it, I always start bouncing and "doot-doot"-ing along half just to irritate him, and half because it's fun. It's certainly a catchy tune. This was an extended version.
The End!
I may do it again. I'm still not a huge fan of trivia, but I like the socialization, and being slightly more successful than usual was nice. We got I think 18 out of 30, winners got 23 and third place got 20, so we did pretty good. Admission was $5/person and 50% of the proceeds went to a local food bank, with the rest being split between first, second, and third in some proportion. Drinks and snacks paid for the space.
Sleep forever!
3) Determine the numerical values of the following boxes, and give the final answer. Each box represents a single digit from 0-9. (Boxes were colored, letter indicates the color of each box, and were presented as one above the other.)
YBBG
GRYY
+YRYR
RGYY
11) The word "hydrosphere" describes the surface of the Earth covered by water. What is the word that describes the equivalent of land?
12) In the year 1483, the first mass was held in this place named after Pope Sixtus the Fourth.
19) This question was introduced to us as both geometry and literature. What geometric shape served as narrator in Flatland?
24) We were asked to identify the TV show for which a song was played. It was rhythmic, no lyrics, in 4/4 time, with pronounced percussion/bells on the 1st, 2nd, pick-up to 4th, and 4th beats of each measure.
3) I tried a lot of algebra to solve this one, but with the carry-overs, it ended up being way way underconstrained. The other work that I did was mirrored between myself working alone, and T$ and A working together - because I was determined to find an algebraic solution, I worked by myself while they worked together from a logical approach. When I gave up on that, I went back to their logical method, partially working on my own and partially from their notes. The solution below is mashing together what we all did.
In the right column G+Y+R=Y (mod 10). This means that G+R does not affect the ones column, so G+R=10, and there's a carry-over into the next column of 1.
In the far left column, 2Y+G=R. R cannot be more than 9, so the most that 2Y could be is 8, so the most that Y could be is 4.
From there it was trial and error, I started by looking at the far left column and guessing that R=9 so G=1 from the right column, and tried Y=4 with no carryover, or Y=3 with a carryover of 2, and plugged in those values into the other slots. What eventually worked was R=7, so G=3, and Y=1 with a carryover of 2, and therefore the "answer" number was 7311.
11) "Lithosphere" popped into my head immediately, but I second-guessed myself on this, trying to remember if that was actually a part of the aesthenosphere. No one else had any guess, I couldn't come up with any better, and someone else said that a lithograph involves stone, so we answered lithosphere and lithosphere it was.
12) Sixtus made me think of the Sistine Chapel, T$ and others confirmed that the time period was appropriate, and the Sistine Chapel it was. I totally missed the part about the mass (remembered it as typing it up and looking up the year again, which we misheard but didn't remember the date of the Sistine Chapel well enough to feel it was worth asking for a repeat) or we would've been more confident.
19) Square immediately popped into my head, and was correct. No one else had a clue. Flatland is an old short book that describes how different numbers of dimensions will appear when projected into universes of a different number of dimensions. I specifically recalled that it discussed a hypercube or tesseract, without using that nomenclature.
24) I ID'd it as Futurama before 2 measures were done. Whenever T$ and I watch it, I always start bouncing and "doot-doot"-ing along half just to irritate him, and half because it's fun. It's certainly a catchy tune. This was an extended version.
The End!
I may do it again. I'm still not a huge fan of trivia, but I like the socialization, and being slightly more successful than usual was nice. We got I think 18 out of 30, winners got 23 and third place got 20, so we did pretty good. Admission was $5/person and 50% of the proceeds went to a local food bank, with the rest being split between first, second, and third in some proportion. Drinks and snacks paid for the space.
Sleep forever!