Paradoxes
Cryptography
Sabermetrics
Real Math
Potpourri
100

What Paradox says that there is a 50% chance that two people in a room 23 share this interesting trait.

Birthday Paradox

100

Who coined the term "neurocryptography" and spoke at Woodside for a guest lecture on 2/16?

Scott Aaronson

100

Sabermetrics apply to which sport?

Underwater pickleball (baseball)

100

What is the ones digit of

222,222 - 22,222 - 2,222 - 222 - 22 - 2

2

100

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200

Zeno says this journey must take an ___ amount of time because there is a sum of infinite finite blocks.

Infinite

200

Hexadecimal is what number base?

16

200

Which stat is more descriptive: Batting average or On base Plus Slugging percentage (OPS)

OPS

200

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

200

If you could pick one club at the school to be vaporized, what would it be? 

Science Olympiad

300

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.

300

What cipher uses lines at different angles as well as dots to encode the message?

Pigpen

300

How does Statcast track things such as exit velocity of the ball off the bat and spin rate of the ball?

High speed cameras

300

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

300

What is the lowest possible Erdos number? For double points, what is Albert Einstein's Erdos Number?

0 (2)

400

Which paradox follows the following structure: the painter that paints all (and only those) that do not paint themselves. 

Russell’s Paradox

400

Decode

13 1 14 9 6 5 19 20 9 14 7

Manifesting

400
A 117 OPS+ is what percent better than league average?

17%

400

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

400

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.

500

Gabriel's horn has finite ____ and infinite ____. 

Fill in the blanks

volume, surface area

500

What is the hexadecimal 1F to binary?

11111

Decimal: 31

500

Who invented Defense Independent Pitching Statistics (DIPS)?

Voros McCracken

500

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!

500

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)