Carleton Undergrad Tournament, 3/3/01
Results: Northwestern (West Division)
(Jordan Burgess, Robert Flaxman, Mike Henninger, Dan Hirt, Pete Lawson)
Round One: Northwestern 540,
Iowa A (1-man) 105
Round Two: Northwestern 295,
Grinnell B 190
Round Three: BYE
Round Four: Northwestern 315,
Wisconsin "J" 235
Round Five: Northwestern 390,
Minnesota C 180
Round Six: Minnesota B 235, Northwestern
205
Round Seven: St. Olaf 250, Northwestern 225
Round Eight: Northwestern 260,
Wisconsin "G" 255
Round Nine: Northwestern 285,
Wisconsin "L" 260
Round Ten: Carleton A 365, Northwestern 315
Round Eleven: Northwestern 320,
Carleton B 195
Playoffs: Ladder Format
Third-Place Tiebreaker: Wisconsin "L" 40, Northwestern 30
Round One: #4W Northwestern 320,
#4E Grinnell A 215
Round Two: #4W Northwestern B 315,
#3E Carleton A 70
Final Ranking: #6
Personal Stats: Questions Answered
This is a new feature, added mostly in part because I think it's interesting to have a record of questions I answered correctly in tournaments. I really should have started doing it before. No one's asking you to care about it, by the way. Powers are in bold, neg-5s are in italics with the real answer following. Anything in plain text was just ten.
Round One
Talmud
Red blood cells
Mt. McKinley
William Shakespeare
War of the Pacific
Roland
Pascal
Namibia
Vladimir Putin
The Tale of Genji
Tom Sawyer
Round Two
Stephen Hawking
Patents
Joseph McCarthy
Ted Williams
Hudson Bay
Arachne
All the Pretty Horses
Round Four
Gerald Ford
Lard
Venice
Monet
Congo River
Davy Crockett
Cataracts
Boise
Round Five
Tony Blair
Millard Fillmore
Billy Budd
Chicago Bears
Pakistan
"Bartholdi" (actually Eiffel)
Round Six
Anwar al-Sadat
"Ghana" (actually Niger)
Pierre Trudeau
Bake-Off
Belize
Round Seven
San Marino
Cannery Row
Round Eight
Daniels
Pepin the Short
Dublin
Round Nine
Mario Lemieux
Geena Davis
Waiting to Exhale
John Glenn
Cape Verde
Don Juan
Round Ten
Bobby Hull
Upton Sinclair
Orpheus
Bill Murray
Lake of the Woods
Apollo 13
The Tinderbox
Round Eleven
Mountain Dew
NIT
Stone Mountain
Naples
Suriname
PPG: 60.5
Playoff Tiebreaker
Michael Andretti
Playoffs Round One
Adlai Stevenson
Druids
Dr. Laura Schlesinger
Black Forest
Holden Caulfield
Charles I
Bus Stop
Playoffs Round Two
Emma
Colossus (at Rhodes)
Whooping Cough
Seattle Supersonics
Benito Mussolini
Augustus
Santeria
Canberra
Henry David Thoreau