Trivia

Okay, let it be known I am a nut for trivia. I am also very competitive. So, these two piece of news should be taken in that context.

1. My team got second place at Galaxy Lunch's Galaxy Jeopardy. Despite the fact three out of five of us were either planetary astronomers or physicists (Shannon was also a physicist, but she does galactic astronomy, so she counts). Part of that was aided by the fact the Daily Double we got was identifying a photo of a galaxy Shannon worked on.

Things were complicated by the fact Ann and Sabrina had expected everyone to know roughly how Jeopardy worked. Turns out that neither professor who showed up (and some of the grad students) was that familiar with the show. Their team still won.

(We also were hindered by the fact a lot of the ESL folks had problems reading the questions quickly.)

Comedy moment came when one category was about the professors who came to Galaxy Lunch. Ann has dug out a quote from Ricardo's thesis, and asked whose it was -- no one answered, including Ricardo.

2. I am one of the three finalists for the anime club's Semi-Annual Anime Trivia Gameshow. There was a written exam, and I somehow managed to pass -- I blame a good memory and fanficrants (How else would I learn who Naruto's parents are? I don't watch most popular stuff.) Root for me on the 1st of December.

3. I apparently am my seminar's way of knowing constants and orbital radii -- Seth asked me what the orbital radius of Callisto and I was able to give him an answer. (Well I gave him the period, and Jupiter's mass and asked for a calculator to find the radius from that.)

Trivia

Okay, let it be known I am a nut for trivia. I am also very competitive. So, these two piece of news should be taken in that context.

1. My team got second place at Galaxy Lunch's Galaxy Jeopardy. Despite the fact three out of five of us were either planetary astronomers or physicists (Shannon was also a physicist, but she does galactic astronomy, so she counts). Part of that was aided by the fact the Daily Double we got was identifying a photo of a galaxy Shannon worked on.

Things were complicated by the fact Ann and Sabrina had expected everyone to know roughly how Jeopardy worked. Turns out that neither professor who showed up (and some of the grad students) was that familiar with the show. Their team still won.

(We also were hindered by the fact a lot of the ESL folks had problems reading the questions quickly.)

Comedy moment came when one category was about the professors who came to Galaxy Lunch. Ann has dug out a quote from Ricardo's thesis, and asked whose it was -- no one answered, including Ricardo.

2. I am one of the three finalists for the anime club's Semi-Annual Anime Trivia Gameshow. There was a written exam, and I somehow managed to pass -- I blame a good memory and fanficrants (How else would I learn who Naruto's parents are? I don't watch most popular stuff.) Root for me on the 1st of December.

3. I apparently am my seminar's way of knowing constants and orbital radii -- Seth asked me what the orbital radius of Callisto and I was able to give him an answer. (Well I gave him the period, and Jupiter's mass and asked for a calculator to find the radius from that.)