NewTrier Varsity 2006 Round 6, Page 3 Bonus 3: Social Studies (U.S. History) Given the campaign slogan, name the man who used it. A: "Hekept us out of war." B: "I like Ike." C: "A Chicken in every pot.A car in every garage." D: "Are you beter of now than youwere four years ago?" Answers: A: Woodrow Wilson B:DwightDavid Eisenhower C: HerbertHoover D: Ronald Reagan Tossup 4: Science (Chemistry) A silver-gray metal, its 99m isomer undergoes beta decaywith a half-life of 6 hours. It is used extensively innuclear medicine toimage the circulatory system, spleen, and damaged heart tissue. First synthesized by Emilio Segré and Carlo Perier in 1937, it only exists naturaly on Earth as a productof uranium fission.Name this chemical elementwith atomic number43, the lightest synthetic element. Answer: Technetium Bonus 4: Literature (Literature) Many literaryworks have identical or similar titles. Answer the folowing from the descriptions that are given. A: A playby Lilian Helman or a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfelow B: A narative by Geofrey Chaucer or a play by Wiliam Shakespeare C: A short story by Ray Bradbury or a poem by Walt Whitman. D: A play by Sophocles or a play by Jean Anouilh (zhawn ahn-oo-EEL) Answers: A: The Children's Hour B: Troilus and Cressida (also accept Troilus and Criseyde) C: I Sing the Body Electric D: Antigone Tossup 5: Social Studies (Other) This term was coined by JudeWanniski, a reporter forthe Wal StreetJournal, after he heard it explainedto him in 1974 by its inventor, who supposedly sketched iton a napkin. Demonstrating the concept of taxable incomeelasticity, it depicts thatthere exists an optimum tax rate to maximize government revenue. Name this economic graph named after the mancredited with its invention, a curve central to the theory of supply side economics. Answer: Lafercurve Bonus 5: Math (General) Name the folowing concepts in mathematics related to prime numbers. A: This conjecturestatesthat every even integer greaterthan 2 can be writen as a sum of two primes. B: This algorithm named after a Greek mathematician is one way to find prime numbers by crossing of al numbers that are multiples of prime numbers, and thus are composite. C: This conjecture states thatthere areinfinitely many primesthat are two greaterthan another prime number. D: According to the prime number theorem, the chance of N being prime is approximately one over this function of N. Answers: A: Goldbach conjecture B: Sieve of Eratosthenes C: Twin prime conjecture D: Natural log (accept "ln") Aegis Questions © 2006 htp:/www.aegisquestions.com/