mathNEWSquiz #4 Answers

Hi folks! We didn't get many submissions for our super-sized squiz! We were really amazed, actually, at how few answers we received. Whatever. Here are the long-awaited answers to the last squiz: 1) Des Chiffres et Des Lettres; 2) The surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, marking the end of the US Civil War; 3) Lester B. Pearson; 4) Pearl Jam -- Even Flow; 5) Keith Milligan, my third cousin once-removed 6) House of Commons, Peace Tower; 7) The Confederation Bridge; 8) Harriet the Spy 9) HFRO, RSR, PG, CotK, CPD, SumF, WR, DoH, ExecO: 9 total; 10) Windsor; 11) 25; 12) Hudson's Bay Company; 13) Floating point operations; 14) Roy Plunkett; 15) Lou Gherig's Disease, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; 16) Cabbage; 17) Canada (Britain) and the US; 18) Black with white stripes; 19) Stan Rogers -- Garnet's Homemade Beer; 20) South Africa; 21) Sackville, NB; 22) In the wind; 23) 1905; 24) Ferdinand Magellan's; 25) USS Missouri; 26) Beachville, Ontario; 27) Self-serve gas stations; 28) R-E-D spells red and out goes you!; 29) The Rolling Stones -- Ruby Tuesday; 30) Juno; 31) Atlantic Ocean; 32) Billy Joel; 33) ``Dexter's Labratory'', 18.00 Wednesdays, 11.00 Saturdays on YTV!; 34) John McCrae; 35) Eliza Schneider; 36) 1413-1422; 37) Major General Louis Mackenzie; 38) Eraserhead; 39) Spirit of the West -- The Crawl; 40) November 22rd, 1963; 41) Terpsichore, Euterpe, and Polyhymnia are acceptable; 42) Southern-most point of Mainland Canada; 43) Spanish Civil War; 44) Schwarzschild; 45) Sleepers; 46) Measure of temperature; 47) Jason, Mark, Tiny, Ke-op, Princess; 48) The moon; 49) Five: tetrahedron, hexahedron (cube), octohedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron; 50) So they don't fall in the manholes. They're easier to transport that way, too!; 51) 4; 52) 1215; 53) Christopher Pike and Robert April are acceptable; 54) Lone Star; 55) Karl Freidrich Gauss constructed a 17-gon, something the Greeks didn't know how to do; 56) lava; 57) Mary Pickford; 58) Monday, April 9th, 1917. (Easter Monday); 59) REM -- Losing My Religion; 60) 24; 61) Millikan, who was finding the charge of an electron. Kudos to those who found the error!; 62) Sarah McLachlan -- Ice; 63) British, Spanish, French; 64) Fargo; 65) Red Rider, Lunatic Fringe; 66) Dogs; 67) Spain; 68) (The Artist Formerly Known As) Prince -- Diamonds and Pearls; 69) Phrenology; 70) Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone; 71) Simon Fraser University Pipe Band; 72) British North America Act.

I owe an apology to Rob Roy Duncan McGregor and Esther Ella Small, who jointly received a score of 15 on the last squiz. Sorry, folks!

Many people noted that there are errors and ambiguities in the questions. For each ambiguity (or error), a bonus point was awarded. So, here are the people who submitted, with their scores (+ bonus) in parentheses: Eric Joanis (19); Riemann Sums (27); Mala Krishnan (29); Mike Talarowski & Matthew Garnier (34); Pokey & Taz (36); Jason Smulevich (47 + 1); Ian ``The Word Guy'' Facey (48); Eric Fung (57 + 1); Philly Phanatic (60 + 4); and the winners of the biiiiiiiiiig prize package are ...\ Ethan Hall-Beyer and Neil DeBoni (66)! You can pick up the prize package at the MathSoc office!

Stuart ``Jean-Guy!'' Pollock