* Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Mathematical Oddities
1. If the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle are 5 and
12 units long, how many units long is the hypotenuse?
2. The formula 4/3 pi r| describes the volume of what solid object?
3. What is the first whole number which, when spelled out in
English, has its letters in alphabetical order?
4. Some computer systems use the hexadecimal number system based
on the number 16. What is 3 + A in hexadecimal?
| 5. Translate the binary number 1111 into the decimal system.
6. We all know from school math class that 3 squared is 9, 3 cubed
is 27, and 3 to the power 4 is 81. What is 3 to the power zero?
7. What is the next number in the following sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8?
8. What solid object has 4 triangular sides, 6 edges, and 4
vertices?
9. What is 8 to the power 1/3?
10. We all know from our high-school calculus that the derivative
of x# is 2x and the derivative of sin x is cos x. What is
the derivative of e to the power x, where e is Euler's number
(approximate value 2.718)?
* Game 2, Round 3 - Sports, or Leisure - Board Games
3. What is the original color of the houses in Monopoly?
4. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter Q worth?
6. In chess, how many pawns does each player start with?
8. In Risk, what is the goal of the game?
9. What is the name of the cooperative board game where players
try to stop global disease outbreaks?
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-09-22,
and should be interpreted accordingly.
On each question you may give up to two answers, but if you give
both a right answer and a wrong answer, there is a small penalty.
Please post all your answers in a single followup to the newsgroup,
based only on your own knowledge. (In your answer posting, quote
the questions and place your answer below each one.) I will reveal
the correct answers in about 3 days.
All questions were written by members of the Cellar Rats, and are
used here by permission, but have been reformatted and may have
been retyped and/or edited by me. The posting and tabulation of current-events questions is independent of the concurrent posting
of other rounds. For further information please see my 2026-03-10
companion posting on "Questions from the Canadian Inquisition
(QFTCI*)".
* Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Mathematical Oddities
1. If the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle are 5 and
12 units long, how many units long is the hypotenuse?
2. The formula 4/3 pi r-| describes the volume of what solid object?
3. What is the first whole number which, when spelled out in
English, has its letters in alphabetical order?
4. Some computer systems use the hexadecimal number system based
on the number 16. What is 3 + A in hexadecimal?
5. Translate the binary number 1111 into the decimal system.
6. We all know from school math class that 3 squared is 9, 3 cubed
is 27, and 3 to the power 4 is 81. What is 3 to the power zero?
7. What is the next number in the following sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8?
8. What solid object has 4 triangular sides, 6 edges, and 4
vertices?
9. What is 8 to the power 1/3?
10. We all know from our high-school calculus that the derivative
of x-# is 2x and the derivative of sin x is cos x. What is
the derivative of e to the power x, where e is Euler's number
(approximate value 2.718)?
* Game 2, Round 3 - Sports, or Leisure - Board Games
1. In the basic US game of Monopoly, how much money do you collect
when you pass Go?
2. Which board game features weapons including the candlestick
and the rope?
3. What is the original color of the houses in Monopoly?
4. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter Q worth?
5. Which game involves collecting wood, brick, wheat, sheep,
and ore?
6. In chess, how many pawns does each player start with?
7. Which classic game involves sinking your opponent's fleet
of ships?
8. In Risk, what is the goal of the game?
9. What is the name of the cooperative board game where players
try to stop global disease outbreaks?
10. In which game do players stack wooden blocks and remove them
one at a time without toppling the tower?
* Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Mathematical Oddities
1. If the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle are 5 and
12 units long, how many units long is the hypotenuse?
2. The formula 4/3 pi r? describes the volume of what solid object?
3. What is the first whole number which, when spelled out in
English, has its letters in alphabetical order?
4. Some computer systems use the hexadecimal number system based
on the number 16. What is 3 + A in hexadecimal?
5. Translate the binary number 1111 into the decimal system.
6. We all know from school math class that 3 squared is 9, 3 cubed
is 27, and 3 to the power 4 is 81. What is 3 to the power zero?
7. What is the next number in the following sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8?
8. What solid object has 4 triangular sides, 6 edges, and 4
vertices?
9. What is 8 to the power 1/3?
* Game 2, Round 3 - Sports, or Leisure - Board Games
1. In the basic US game of Monopoly, how much money do you collect
when you pass Go?
2. Which board game features weapons including the candlestick
and the rope?
3. What is the original color of the houses in Monopoly?
4. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter Q worth?
5. Which game involves collecting wood, brick, wheat, sheep,
and ore?
6. In chess, how many pawns does each player start with?
7. Which classic game involves sinking your opponent's fleet
of ships?
8. In Risk, what is the goal of the game?
9. What is the name of the cooperative board game where players
try to stop global disease outbreaks?
10. In which game do players stack wooden blocks and remove them
one at a time without toppling the tower?
* Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Mathematical Oddities
1. If the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle are 5 and
12 units long, how many units long is the hypotenuse?
2. The formula 4/3 pi r-| describes the volume of what solid object?
3. What is the first whole number which, when spelled out in
English, has its letters in alphabetical order?
4. Some computer systems use the hexadecimal number system based
on the number 16. What is 3 + A in hexadecimal?
5. Translate the binary number 1111 into the decimal system.
6. We all know from school math class that 3 squared is 9, 3 cubed
is 27, and 3 to the power 4 is 81. What is 3 to the power zero?
7. What is the next number in the following sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8?
8. What solid object has 4 triangular sides, 6 edges, and 4
vertices?
9. What is 8 to the power 1/3?
10. We all know from our high-school calculus that the derivative
of x-# is 2x and the derivative of sin x is cos x. What is
the derivative of e to the power x, where e is Euler's number
(approximate value 2.718)?
* Game 2, Round 3 - Sports, or Leisure - Board Games
1. In the basic US game of Monopoly, how much money do you collect
when you pass Go?
2. Which board game features weapons including the candlestick
and the rope?
3. What is the original color of the houses in Monopoly?
4. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter Q worth?
5. Which game involves collecting wood, brick, wheat, sheep,
and ore?
6. In chess, how many pawns does each player start with?
7. Which classic game involves sinking your opponent's fleet
of ships?
8. In Risk, what is the goal of the game?
9. What is the name of the cooperative board game where players
try to stop global disease outbreaks?
10. In which game do players stack wooden blocks and remove them
one at a time without toppling the tower?
* Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Mathematical Oddities
1. If the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle are 5 and
12 units long, how many units long is the hypotenuse?
2. The formula 4/3 pi r-| describes the volume of what solid object?
3. What is the first whole number which, when spelled out in
English, has its letters in alphabetical order?
4. Some computer systems use the hexadecimal number system based
on the number 16. What is 3 + A in hexadecimal?
5. Translate the binary number 1111 into the decimal system.
6. We all know from school math class that 3 squared is 9, 3 cubed
is 27, and 3 to the power 4 is 81. What is 3 to the power zero?
7. What is the next number in the following sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8?
9. What is 8 to the power 1/3?
10. We all know from our high-school calculus that the derivative
of x-# is 2x and the derivative of sin x is cos x. What is
the derivative of e to the power x, where e is Euler's number
(approximate value 2.718)?
* Game 2, Round 3 - Sports, or Leisure - Board Games
1. In the basic US game of Monopoly, how much money do you collect
when you pass Go?
2. Which board game features weapons including the candlestick
and the rope?
3. What is the original color of the houses in Monopoly?
4. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter Q worth?
5. Which game involves collecting wood, brick, wheat, sheep,
and ore?
6. In chess, how many pawns does each player start with?
7. Which classic game involves sinking your opponent's fleet
of ships?
10. In which game do players stack wooden blocks and remove them
one at a time without toppling the tower?
These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2025-09-22,
and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
please see my 2026-03-10 companion posting on "Questions from the
Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
* Game 2, Round 2 - Science - Mathematical Oddities
1. If the two shorter sides of a right-angled triangle are 5 and
12 units long, how many units long is the hypotenuse?
2. The formula 4/3 pi r| describes the volume of what solid object?
3. What is the first whole number which, when spelled out in
English, has its letters in alphabetical order?
4. Some computer systems use the hexadecimal number system based
on the number 16. What is 3 + A in hexadecimal?
5. Translate the binary number 1111 into the decimal system.
6. We all know from school math class that 3 squared is 9, 3 cubed
is 27, and 3 to the power 4 is 81. What is 3 to the power zero?
7. What is the next number in the following sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8?
8. What solid object has 4 triangular sides, 6 edges, and 4
vertices?
9. What is 8 to the power 1/3?
10. We all know from our high-school calculus that the derivative
of x# is 2x and the derivative of sin x is cos x. What is
the derivative of e to the power x, where e is Euler's number
(approximate value 2.718)?
* Game 2, Round 3 - Sports, or Leisure - Board Games
1. In the basic US game of Monopoly, how much money do you collect
when you pass Go?
2. Which board game features weapons including the candlestick
and the rope?
3. What is the original color of the houses in Monopoly?
4. In Scrabble, how many points is the letter Q worth?
5. Which game involves collecting wood, brick, wheat, sheep,
and ore?
6. In chess, how many pawns does each player start with?
7. Which classic game involves sinking your opponent's fleet
of ships?
8. In Risk, what is the goal of the game?
9. What is the name of the cooperative board game where players
try to stop global disease outbreaks?
10. In which game do players stack wooden blocks and remove them
one at a time without toppling the tower?
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