Year End Challenge—A Baker’s Dozen of Tribulation
- The challenge will be graded on the basis of both accuracy and promptness.
- The inputs will be graded with each question equally weighted. Each correct response is worth 1 point.
- The first input sets the baseline by which all inputs will be judged. If the first input is 100% correct, it wins the challenge.
- A late input that is more correct may beat an earlier input that has fewer correct answers. (This will be based on when other inputs are received and how correct they are. Remember, both accuracy and promptness counts.)
- The winner will be announced as soon as it is determined. There is no second place. (Second place is the first loser!)
- Absolutely no hints will be given. Good luck!
The Challenge
1. Per R.H., USNA Class of ’29, you can’t get one of these for free, even on the Moon.
2. Math puzzle: There is a mad scientist in Ottumwa, Iowa who wants to design a clock such that it would keep perfect time. Being a mad scientist he also wanted the end of the minute hand to move at 60 mph. How long would the minute hand have to be?
3. What is Navy slang for a shower stall?
4. From the perspective of the one who is dining, which is harder to swallow, a duck dinner or a big chicken dinner?
5. Who first “attacked” the fleet at Pearl Harbor?
6. What is the best number? (Why? There is a correct answer.)
7. Logic puzzle: Professor Banatz was talking to a colleague who told him about a dinner party he had attended with his wife. The colleague told him the following things about the party:
1) There were four married couples present.The question is what was each person's hobby, and where did they sit? (Be prepared to discuss your methodology and show your work.)
2) Each person had a unique hobby.
3) The eight people were seated around a dinner table with the host and hostess at either end or three people seated on either side.
4) Only one married couple were seated beside each other.
5) A man was seated on either side of the hostess.
6) A woman was seated on either side of the host.
7) The hostess likes to ride horses.
8) Donna collects stamps.
9) Carol and her husband were seated on the same side of the table.
10) The piano player was seated next to his brother-in-law.
11) The person who grows roses was seated next to the person who does needlepoint.
12) Frank was seated directly across from the person who builds model planes.
13) Harold is seated to the immediate right of the hostess.
14) George and Betty were seated directly across from each other.
15) Alice is married to Edward.
16) Donna's sister-in-law is seated directly across from Carol.
17) The piano player was seated next to the hostess.
18) The stamp collector's husband was seated across from the model plane builder.
19) Carol was seated immediately to the left of George.
20) Alice is married to the fisherman.
21) The person who does needlepoint was seated across from the actress.
22) The actress was seated immediately to the right of the host.
23) The fisherman was seated across from his sister.
24) Frank was seated next to Edward.
8. In remembrance of Titanic’s 100th anniversary, I ask: Tiller or wheel, what’s the deal? ‘Splain.
9. Who was the MHS NJROTC Battalion Commander in school year 2004-2005?
10. What is Commander Wall’s favorite word? (There is at least one student who knows.)
11. You are standing watch on the bridge of the USS Middletown. Dead ahead you see a red running light just to the left of a green running light, both on the same vessel. Describe the situation.
12. Marine Corps trivia: Almost every item on a Marine’s uniform has some historic significance—the blood stripes, the quatrefoil, etc., are all examples. What is the significance of the Star of David inlaid on the blade of the sword?
13. Find CDR Wall and be prepared for a surprise question or task. (For the sake of fairness, the tasks or questions will be of equivalent difficulty.)
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