{"id":41909,"date":"2019-04-18T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=41909"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:55:07","slug":"salticids-hoist-the-2019-quiz-bowl-trophy-um-ok-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/salticids-hoist-the-2019-quiz-bowl-trophy-um-ok-t-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Salticids hoist the 2019 Quiz Bowl trophy (um, ok, they got t-shirts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Salticids AKA the Jumping Spiders, comprised of <b>Elliott Bowman,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b>Cameron Byer, Jake Myers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and <\/span><b>Seth Weaver<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, were crowned champions of Wednesday evening\u2019s STEM Games Quiz Bowl at Eastern Mennonite University. The trivia contest has been hosted near the end of the spring semester since 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, it became the first official event of (and kind of like a STEM pre-party to) the university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/academics\/academic-and-creative-excellence\/\">Academic and Creative Excellence Festival<\/a> held the next day. The ACE Festival is a campus-wide culmination of the academic year with oral and poster presentations, art exhibitions and talks, concerts and performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each of the eight teams competing in the STEM Quiz Bowl \u2014 among them the creatively named Team Entropically Favorable and Team No Math (who were indeed blessed in the random question selection with their wish) \u2014 included 3-4 members with a mix of majors and underclass\/upperclass status. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Salticids rode to victory on a (randomly chosen) slew of mathematics-related questions, offering the correct answers to such brainteasers as <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the total number of \u00a0two-element subsets that can be formed from the 26 letters of the alphabet (325) and <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the sum of all interior angles of an octagon (1080). <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questions about chemistry and physiology were also summarily batted aside with ease.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For their efforts, the quartet donned light blue t-shirts adorned with an emu giving a primary-feather-up (designed by a former visiting professor, Abigail Berkey). Only faculty members and past STEM Games champions possess the shirts, which have become a status symbol over the years, said department chair <\/span><b>Tara Kishbaugh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kishbaugh was among 10 STEM faculty members in attendance at the games, which were moved from the traditional site in the iconic SC-106, currently under renovation, to Common Grounds Coffeehouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor <\/span><b>Daniel King<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used his engineering prowess to attend to the first soundwaves of each team\u2019s acoustic devices (cowbells, mortar and pestle, etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor<\/span><b> Jeff Copeland <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kept a somewhat accurate score throughout. Professor <\/span><b>Steve Cessna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> raised his arms in triumph when one of his plant biology questions (Is a bay magnolia tree a dicot or monocot? Answer: neither) stumped both teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some incorrect answers, or even correct answers delayed by excessive memory searching, drew groans from the attending professors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor <\/span><b>Laurie Yoder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was excessively pleased when one of her questions \u2014 the identification of a mysterious equation \u2014 went unanswered because, as she noted, with some relief, \u201cNo one here has taken the class.\u201d If they had, it would have been easily recognizable<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as Schr<\/span>\u00f6<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dinger\u2019s equation (\u201ccat in a box,\u201d some wiseacre yelled, too late). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chemistry professor <\/span><b>Matt Siderhurst<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> MC\u2019ed the event, occasionally mispronouncing multisyllabic terms from outside his field and offering a side-commentary that diverged into the arcane: i.e., after reading the question, \u201cCoat patterning in tortoiseshell calico cats is the result of what genetic factor?\u201d Siderhurst queried the crowd, \u201cIf they have orange in their coats, doesn\u2019t that mean they came with the Vikings?\u201d*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Across the room, Copeland paused from his attentive counting of questions and accrued points and somewhat sadly shook his head.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cphone-a-friend\/lifeline\u201d option resulted in opportunities for public shame and betrayal. <strong>Daniel Harker<\/strong>, for example, denied a request by the flailing Salticids to answer a question in a field of his apparent expertise. One member of the No Maths squad waved away the issued lifeline from another team, claiming he had failed that particular exam. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interspersed with the hardcore science trivia were questions asking competitors to identify faculty members by their academic degree-granting institutions, perhaps the name of published research, or their children\u2019s names.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The internationals among the faculty were most quickly identified: Professor <strong>Kris Schmidt<\/strong>\u2019s descriptive phrase got only so far as the word Manitoba before the cowbell rang; swiftly named as a denizen, for all three of his degrees, from the University of Rome was EMU\u2019s newest computer science professor, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dottore<\/span><\/i> <b>Stefano Colafranceschi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Questions about research into T-Cells and ruffed grouse as topics of interest for Professor <\/span><b>Julia Halterman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Professor<\/span><b> Jim Yoder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were also easy pickings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During intermissions between team duals, junior <strong>Melissa Kinkaid<\/strong> posed questions asking faculty to identify senior STEM majors by quirky personality traits and life experiences (for example, which senior broke a test tube, and then a beaker, too, on her \u00a0first day of O Chem?). Copeland won the prize of a battered and unclaimed aluminum water bottle that everyone was tired of seeing in Suter Science Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Snacks were available, of course, and a good time was had by all in the midst of the end-of-semester crunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*The correct answer to this question, which no team was able to answer, is X-chromosome inactivation in female cats. And Siderhurt\u2019s synaptic pulses were not failing in the dying embers of the culminating academic year: he did read something about Vikings and cats, probably <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/how-cats-conquered-the-world-and-a-few-viking-ships-1.20643\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Salticids AKA the Jumping Spiders, comprised of Elliott Bowman,\u00a0Cameron Byer, Jake Myers\u00a0and Seth Weaver, were crowned champions of Wednesday evening\u2019s STEM Games Quiz Bowl at Eastern Mennonite University. 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