How About History?
Proofs, Professors, and Pedagogy
Guessing Global Geography
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All About Ethan
100
The name of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that was the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986.
Chernobyl
100
Spell this person's name. Spelling Bee Style
Devangi Parikh
100
The Capital of Canada.
Ottawa
100
The fullname of UT's current Presdient.
Jay Hartzell
100
Ethan Matthew Hunt is the action protagonist of this famous movie series.
Mission Impossible
200
The amount of wives King Henry the Eighth had.
Six
200
The universtiy where Micheal Scott received his undergrad. (Extra Pts for Major)
Standford University. Industrial Engineering
200
The large mountain range that runs along the western side of South America.
The Andes
200
The number of Turing Award Winners that have been at UT.
2 (Dijkstra and Emerson)
200
Ethan Hawke's daughter plays this character in the hit Netflix series "Stranger Things".
Robin Buckley
300
Modern-day Istanbul used to be called what when it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Constantinople
300
The reason why CS is in the College of Natural Science at UT.
It originated from the Math Department.
300
The marine gateway between Russia and Alaska.
Bering Strait
300
UT's Birthday. (Extra 100 points for UT's age/establish year.)
September 15th - 1883, 139 years old
300
As of 9/16, the amount of followers @ethanzhang15 has on instagram. (margin of error - 50)
475 Followers
400
The African nation that was never colonized.
Ethiopia
400
Let P (x) be the statement “x spends more than five hours a week in class,” where the domain for x consists of all students in this class C.
Express each of these quantifications in English.
1. (∃x | x ∈C : P (x))
2. (∀x | x ∈C : P (x))
3. (∃x | x ∈C : ¬P (x))
4. (∀x | x ∈C : ¬P (x))
1. There is some student that spends more than five hours a week in class.
2. All students spend more than five hours a week in class.
3. There is some student that does not spend more than five hours a week in class.
4. All students do not spend five hours a week in class.
400
The 14 Countries that border China. (I only need 7)
Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.
400
The amount of Olympic Medals UT's students and alumnis have won. (margin of error - 25)
155 medals
400
As of 9/16, Ethan Benson has this many LinkedIn Connections. (margin of error - 10)
45
500
The first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace
500
Utilize equivalence-style proofs to solve the following problem. (I would like the steps y'all used to get there).
(p →q) ∨(q →r)
(p →q) ∨(q →r)
< Implication >
≡ (¬p ∨q) ∨(¬q ∨r)
< Associativity >
≡ ¬p ∨(q ∨¬q) ∨r
< Negation laws >
≡ ¬p ∨T ∨r
< Domination laws × 2 >
≡ T
500
The 10 countries that contain the Sahara Desert. (I only need 5)
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia
500
UT owns one of the only 21 remaining completed copies of this book.
Gutenburg Bible. (Fun Fact - UT Purchased it in 1978 for $2.4 million)
500
Convert "Ethan" to each letter's ASCII value, add the numbers together, and then convert to hex.
69 + 116 + 104 + 97 + 110 = 469 -> 1F0