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:lol: :lol: :lol: that sounds like something I would do! That's y I have a partner who doesn't study :] jk jk
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So on the 2010 nationals test for Physics Lab, one of the stations was about some renewable energy bill in the US senate or something. It asked who was the key person involved in this bill. We wrote Al Gore. We got 8th place!

At the 2010 PA state test for Bio Process, there was one station where we had a diagram of the water cycle with like 10 arrows pointing to stuff, and we had 2 minutes to label the arrows. I just wrote "evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation." We got 1st place!

At the 2008 nationals test for Crave the Wave, one question asked for the refractive index of air. I had a 10 page list in my binder of every single refractive index of every substance known to man, including turquoise, pyrex, and beer. We forgot air. We got 5th place!

At the 2010 PA state Shock Value test, I did all of the questions except 2, which I gave to my partner because I was running out of time on that station. They were math problems. One was multiplication, and one was division. He got the first one right, but he forgot to show his work! And the second one was wrong but he wrote down the numbers so I could do it later when I had time. But for the first one he completely forgot what the original problem was!! So like 10 minutes later at another station I'm doing the test and my partner is playing around with the calculator. And he realizes that you can go through the history by pressing the up button!!! So we found the original problem and showed our work. 1st place!

At 2008 nationals, my partner (9th grade super genius) and I were waiting outside the door for the Food Science test. They let my partner in, but not me, because I was wearing shorts!!! There was nothing I could do. My partner did the test all by himself. I ended up with a 5th place medal for... wearing shorts. :lol:
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ichaelm wrote:So on the 2010 nationals test for Physics Lab, one of the stations was about some renewable energy bill in the US senate or something. It asked who was the key person involved in this bill. We wrote Al Gore. We got 8th place!

At the 2010 PA state test for Bio Process, there was one station where we had a diagram of the water cycle with like 10 arrows pointing to stuff, and we had 2 minutes to label the arrows. I just wrote "evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation evaporation precipitation." We got 1st place!

At the 2008 nationals test for Crave the Wave, one question asked for the refractive index of air. I had a 10 page list in my binder of every single refractive index of every substance known to man, including turquoise, pyrex, and beer. We forgot air. We got 5th place!

At the 2010 PA state Shock Value test, I did all of the questions except 2, which I gave to my partner because I was running out of time on that station. They were math problems. One was multiplication, and one was division. He got the first one right, but he forgot to show his work! And the second one was wrong but he wrote down the numbers so I could do it later when I had time. But for the first one he completely forgot what the original problem was!! So like 10 minutes later at another station I'm doing the test and my partner is playing around with the calculator. And he realizes that you can go through the history by pressing the up button!!! So we found the original problem and showed our work. 1st place!

At 2008 nationals, my partner (9th grade super genius) and I were waiting outside the door for the Food Science test. They let my partner in, but not me, because I was wearing shorts!!! There was nothing I could do. My partner did the test all by himself. I ended up with a 5th place medal for... wearing shorts. :lol:
FYI, the refractive index of air is 1; it's the baseline. You probably didn't put it because you figured you'd remember it with such an easy number :lol:
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Nope, that's the refractive index of a vacuum! The refractive index of air is about 1.0003 8-)
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For our school, we have testing for events, and I made and graded the fossils test.
One of the stations was a mucrospirifer. It was great to see some of the answers.
1. Identify the Genus.
Some answers: animal, shell
2. What is the nickname for this?
some answers: dead, fossil, shell,
3. What did this eat?
some answers: nothing it was anorexic, poop, its family
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There was a question in Ornithology that asked what the earliest flying vertebrates were. The correct answer was dinosaur (we put down birds). :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: The first flying vertebrates were pterosaurs and any self-respecting person who knows anything about dinosaurs knows that PTEROSAURS ARE NOT DINOSAURS!!!!!!
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quizbowl wrote:For our school, we have testing for events, and I made and graded the fossils test.
One of the stations was a mucrospirifer. It was great to see some of the answers.
1. Identify the Genus.
Some answers: animal, shell
2. What is the nickname for this?
some answers: dead, fossil, shell,
3. What did this eat?
some answers: nothing it was anorexic, poop, its family
I heard someone at Fossils saying that a trilobite was a eurypterid, because the question mentioned a New York fossil site and eurypterus is the NY state fossil.
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At regionals for fossils, this girl came in alone with just a pencil. She was obviously just there for participation, and when I glanced at her answer sheet, every answer was either dinosaur, fish or shell in capital letters surrounded with hearts. Surprisingly, she did not get last.
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I just graded the Dynamic Planet event at our regionals, and boy, did we get some dumb answers.

One team had put steps of the water cycle for every single question, rotation between "evaporation, condensation, transpiration, precipitation" (I think they seriously tried to answer a few questions). They got last. The same team answered a question about artesian wells with "because artesian wells get their water from Poland Spring".

We also had a station on stream order which literally only 1 team understood; it asked for the stream order at certain points of the river, and most teams had tried to literally put them in order. Funnily enough, not every team even put them in the same order.
2009 events:
Fossils: 1st @ reg. 3rd @ states (stupid dinosaurs...) 5th @ nats.
Dynamic: 1st @ reg. 19thish @ states, 18th @ nats
Herpetology (NOT the study of herpes): NA
Enviro Chem: 39th @ states =(
Cell Bio: 9th @ reg. 18th @ nats
Remote: 6th @ states 3rd @ Nats
Ecology: 5th @ Nats
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