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100
Which professor said it: “You’re like an idiot savant, without the savant.”
a) Andre Neves
b) Benson Farb
c) Luis Silvestre
d) Peter May
b) Benson Farb
100
Which board member competed at the base-jumping juniors world championships before coming to college?
None of us :) Did you really think we were that cool?
100
Whose board is this?
a) Danny Calegari
b) Peter May
c) Matthew Emerton
d) Kazuya Kato
a) Danny Calegari
100
(5 seconds) Is this a knot or not?
Not
100
What result holds the record for most wrong proofs ever published?
Fermat's Last Theorem
200
Which professor said it: "When someone says ‘killing fields’ I don’t even think of Cambodia anymore, just differential geometry.”?
a) Andre Neves
b) Benson Farb
c) Matthew Emerton
d) Frank Calegari
b) Benson Farb
200
Which board member is from the asbestos capital of the world?
Ryan O'Farrell
200
Whose board is this?
a) Amie Wilkinson
b) Andre Neves
c) Leonid Polterovich
d) Eduard Looijenga
d) Eduard Looijenga
200
(5 seconds) Evaluate the following expression:
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
36
200
Given this diagram: 
please find sin(90).
1
300
Which professor said it: “In our world, in the case a girl shines in the heart of a boy, it does not imply that the boy shines in the heart of the girl (as many boys, including me in my young day, know sadly)"?
a) Peter May
b) Matthew Emerton
c) Kazuya Kato
d) Daniil Rudenko
c) Kazuya Kato
300
Which board member is a humanities minor?
Mick Kaibni
300
Whose board is this?
a) Shmuel Weinberger
b) Matthew Emerton
c) Daniil Rudenko
d) Kevin Lin
c) Daniil Rudenko
300
(10 seconds) Prove everyone wrong...show us that UChicago students can do computations!! In undergrad algebra you learn Z is a UFD...so factor the following number into primes:
15,485,473
15,485,473
300
Which person did NOT speak at math club this year?
a) Shmuel Weinberger
b) Otto Reed
c) Faye Jackson
d) Lucas Chen
Lucas Chen
400
Which professor said it: “This is like what my daughter would call…generational trauma.”?
a) Andre Neves
b) Benson Farb
c) Luis Silvestre
d) Shmuel Weinberger
a) Andre Neves
400
Which board member used to be really into screamo metal music?
Maya Mustata
400
Whose board is this?
a) Danny Calegari
b) Shmuel Weinberger
c) Matthew Emerton
d) Peter May
c) Matthew Emerton
400
(10 seconds) Find a matrix A that will make the equation hold:
400
Which UChicago Math professor graduated college with a degree in mathematics despite having never taken a single math class?
a) Benson Farb
b) Matthew Emerton
c) Danny Calegari
d) Frank Calegari
b) Matthew Emerton
500
Which professor said it: “Once you go on a killing spree you have no incentive to stop.”?
a) Benson Farb
b) Andre Neves
c) Shmuel Weinberger
d) Daniil Rudenko
c) Shmuel Weinberger
500
Which board member has 3 chinchillas in their apartment.
Dael Amzalag
500
Whose board is this?
a) Benson Farb
b) Victor Ginzburg
c) Daniil Rudenko
d) Alexander Beilinson
b) Victor Ginzburg
500
(20 seconds) Name and classify all Kardashian/Jenner sisters by isomorphism type.
Kylie, Kendall, Kim, Khloe, Kourtney (only 1 isomorphism type)
500
According to Professor Frank Calegari's blog, which campus coffee shop has the best coffee?
a) Medici
b) Grounds of Being
c) Plein Air
d) Pret
c) Plein Air