Paradoxes
What Paradox says that there is a 50% chance that two people in a room 23 share this interesting trait.
Birthday Paradox
Who coined the term "neurocryptography" and spoke at Woodside for a guest lecture on 2/16?
Scott Aaronson
Sabermetrics apply to which sport?
Underwater pickleball (baseball)
What is the ones digit of
222,222 - 22,222 - 2,222 - 222 - 22 - 2
2
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Zeno says this journey must take an ___ amount of time because there is a sum of infinite finite blocks.
Infinite
Hexadecimal is what number base?
16
Which stat is more descriptive: Batting average or On base Plus Slugging percentage (OPS)
OPS
When Yunji added all the integers from 1 to 9, she mistakenly left out a number. Her incorrect sum turned out to be a square number. What number did Yunji leave out?
9
If you could pick one club at the school to be vaporized, what would it be?
Science Olympiad
Newcomb's Paradox Proposes a scenario where there are two boxes, one opaque (containing $1000000 or $0) and one clear (containing $1000). An infallible AI predicts the outcomes prior to your actions. What are the possible actions you can choose in this paradox?
Select just the opaque box or select both boxes.
What cipher uses lines at different angles as well as dots to encode the message?
Pigpen
How does Statcast track things such as exit velocity of the ball off the bat and spin rate of the ball?
High speed cameras
Aaliyah rolls two standard 6-sided dice. She notices that the product of the two numbers rolled is a multiple of 6. Which of the integers 5-9 cannot be the sum of the two numbers?
6
What is the lowest possible Erdos number? For double points, what is Albert Einstein's Erdos Number?
0 (2)
Which paradox follows the following structure: the painter that paints all (and only those) that do not paint themselves.
Russell’s Paradox
Decode
13 1 14 9 6 5 19 20 9 14 7
Manifesting
17%
A and B represent numbers, and a binary operation (*) is defined as A * B = A2 + B2 – 2AB. What is the value of (2 * 4) * (6 * 8)?
0
Within the next 5 seconds, guess the proportion of students in this room that are in Math Club leadership.
After the 5 seconds, name each math club leadership member and their position for (floor functioned to the nearest hundred) 50 additional points. 20 points for each non-leadership member correctly named (also floor functioned).
Subject to variability; correct answers can be 0.1 away from the true proportion.
Gabriel's horn has finite ____ and infinite ____.
Fill in the blanks
volume, surface area
What is the hexadecimal 1F to binary?
11111
Decimal: 31
Who invented Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS)?
Voros McCracken
Which of the following numbers is a perfect square?
A) 98!99!
B) 98!100!
C) 99!100!
D) 99!101!
E) 100!101!
99!100!
How many math club meetings have there been this year? (include this one). For double points, how many math club meetings are there in total?
24 (31)