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OLYMPIC SPORTS BY GOLD MEDALIST |
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THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH |
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S: This 3rd-largest wireless telecom company in the United States |
(Mary Bayer's students at Elgin Academy: Break a leg on Jeopardy!, Mrs. Bayer! Huzzah!)
Sprint
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1980: Eric Heiden |
men's speed skating
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Worldwide there are more than 40 different species of this often coastal denizen |
(Mary: What is a gull?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
a sea gull
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Part I of a 2004 "Bible" for this subject is "Parts of Speech"; Part II is "Dissecting the Sentence" |
grammar
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A very dark tire-changing aid |
a black jack
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This spiteful word is the average of all the numbers in a data set |
mean
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P: This company that lets users create personal radio stations |
Pandora
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Much of what became this pastime originated in France during the Middle Ages |
tennis
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"Nautical", "Girls", "Tribal" & "Lower Back" are categories in the "Bible" of this art |
tattooing
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An azure adhesive |
blue glue
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x + y = 8 & x = 3y, so y = this |
(Jennifer: What is 27?)
2
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V: To their credit, this corporation is global |
(Chris: What is Verizon?) (Mary: What is Viacom?) (Jennifer: What is Virgin?) (Alex: No! "What is [*]?" You probably have one in your purse. Jennifer, back to you.)
Visa
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1976: Michael Spinks |
boxing
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Your students won't remember when this device connected you to the Internet, but will you? |
a modem
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In titles these 2 words precede "The Bible" as well as "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" |
Zen and
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An ivory illumination |
a white light
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It's a line segment that connects the 2 endpoints of an arc |
(Mary: What is a parabola?)
a chord
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Z: This way to find a home |
Zillow
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1996: Dominique Dawes |
gymnastics
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You've been warned--the alert for one of these, from the Spanish for "thunder", is heard here |
(Chris: What is a siren? What is a siren?)
a tornado
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Chapters in this professional's "Bible" include "Aperitifs" & "Tropical Drinks" |
a bartender
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A flaxen member of the violin family |
a yellow cello
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It's the slope of the line seen here; to calculate it, divide the change in y by the change in x |
1
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R: This rental transportation & supply chain company |
Ryder
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1968: Jean-Claude Killy |
[Applause for Chris' run of the category] (Alex: You hit your category, but there are no more sports up there! We just have THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH. Do we start at the top?) (Chris: $200, please.) (Alex: All right.)
downhill skiing
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Vivaldi wrote for it, but it's also popular in American bluegrass music |
(Mary: What is the autoharp?)
the mandolin
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In the 1890s this daughter of Judge Daniel Cady published "The Woman's Bible" |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A jade luster |
a green sheen
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We're handing out this multiplication property that says a(b + c) = ab + ac |
the distributive property
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