Packet 6: Bonus 8
A Caltech chemist who determined this quantity in the 1950s tore lead pipes out of the walls of his lab, thus creating one of the first clean rooms. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this quantity, which Clair Patterson calculated was 33% higher than other estimates. Lead-lead dating of the Canyon Diablo meteorite indicated this quantity is about 4.55 billion years.
ANSWER: age of the Earth [accept equivalents like how old the Earth is]
[10h] Patterson later opposed Robert Kehoe, a toxicologist hired by General Motors to lie on behalf of this developer of leaded gasoline. This chemist also invented Freon, a chlorofluorocarbon that depleted the ozone layer.
ANSWER: Thomas Midgley Jr.
[10m] In response to Patterson’s anti-lead campaign, this city’s ASARCO smelter proposed doubling the height of its 500-foot smokestack in a foolish attempt to prevent surface pollution. This Washington city’s namesake Narrows were spanned by a suspension bridge nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” that collapsed in 1940.
ANSWER: Tacoma, Washington [accept Tacoma Narrows Bridge]
<Other Academic — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 13.50 | 90% | 45% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Road Academy | Portland High | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Harpeth Hall | Owensboro | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Merrol Hyde B | Merrol Hyde A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| USN A | USN C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| USN B | Athens Bible School | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rube Goldberg XIX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 10 | 14.00 | 90% | 50% | 0% |
| SHOW-ME Four Nationwide HS | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| SPOOKY IX | 11/20/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |