Grammar
Which is the correct spelling? "Receive" or "Recieve"
What operation does an exclamation mark indicate? (double points if you know not just the name, but how to do the operation)
it indicates the factorial function, which means to multiply every integer from 1 until the number, so 5! is 5*4*3*2*1
In the song the twelve days of Christmas, how many presents are given?
364
Draw a treble clef on a staff.
N/A
What is a potpourri?
A mixture of dried petals and spices placed in a bowl or small sack to perfume clothing or a room.
What English sentence is commonly used to test handwriting and keyboards because it has all the letters?
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
what is the name of the bar in a fraction?
Vinculum
What year was All I Want for Christmas released?
1994
What is the order of the sharps? (I can clarify if needed)
F,C,G,D,A,E,B
In music, a single augmented dot indicates to add half of a notes duration (e.g. a dotted quarter note is worth 1.5 beats, a dotted eight note is worth 0.75 beats, et cetera) how does a double augmented dot augment it's parent notes duration? how about a triple dot?
a double dot adds a half and a quarter of the notes duration, so a double dotted quarter note would be worth 1.75... a triple dot adds a half, quarter, and eighth of the duration, so a triple dotted quarter note is worth 1.875 beats.
DAILY DOUBLE!
What are the 18 most common punctuation marks in grammatically correct English (MLA)? (closest team gets the points)
. period , comma ! exclamation mark ? question mark : colon ; semicolon " quotation mark - hyphen — dash () parentheses [] brackets {} braces ' apostrophe & ampersand ... ellipsis / slash ~ tilde * asterisk
what is the product of the first 10 non-negative numbers?
0
Which country popularized the Christmas tree?
Germany
What is a ledger line?
It is a line drawn above or below the staff when a note goes off the staff. (I can't add images :()
As seen in the answer to Math 500, what does the "∪" symbol mean?
It means the union of two sets. e.g. if set a=[1,2,3] and set b=[4,5,6] then a∪b=[1,2,3,4,5,6]
What is the name of a typographical symbol, most commonly three spaced asterisks (***) or similar small graphic, used in writing to create a visual break between sections, indicating a shift in time, place, perspective, or just a smaller segment within a chapter, functioning like a scene break in a movie
Where are the asymptotes of the tan function? (written as an function)
x={(π/2)+aπ|a∈ℤ}
* "π" is the symbol for pi it's just cut off for some reason
What country was St. Nicholas originally buried in?
Turkey
Write the chord symbol for C sharp half-diminished over E?
C#ø/E
Who can pose the best for a Christmas photo op? (the team that gets the points is decided by me.)
N/A
In English, footnotes commonly use numbers or letters (e.g. 1,2,3,4 or a,b,c,d) however there is a standard set of 7 symbols. What do they look like? What order are they in? And for double points (1000): what are their names? (they should go in the order that MLA and AMA puts them in, because that is the most common)
* asterisk, † daggar, ‡ double daggar, § section symbol, ¶ pilcrow, # hashtag, || double vertical bar
What is the range of the csc parent function?
(-∞, -1] ∪ [1, ∞)
How many Yule lads are there, and what do they give to bad children?
there are 13, they give potatoes to bad children.
What notes are in a Ebsus4(b6)/Ab? and what order are they in from lowest to highest?
Ab,Bb,B,Eb
if a quarter note is quaver, what is a 128th note called?
semihemidemisemiquaver
or
quasihemidemisemiquaver