UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
Faculty og Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Exam in : INF-3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939 — Elementary Yuleboardics
Day of exam: Friday, Desember 8th, 2006
Time and Duration: After dinner, about 30 minutes
The problem set comprises 7 pager—the front page (this) included
Appendices : None
Aids allowed: Absolutely none (and in particular: ¬nettlesere!)
• Read through the entire problem set, each and every one, before you get started
• Problem 1 is a set of multiple choice questions where you check-mark what you think is the correct alternative.
• Problems 2 and 4 are sets of parts of information for you to complete.
• Oppgave 3 og 5 are sets of key words for names of individual animals and plants to be supplied by you.
Good luck!
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The group will evaluate itself. The correct answers are in an envelope together with the problem sets. When you
think you have done what you can, or the time is up, you go through the answer and count your points—one for
each correct answer.
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1. SEVENTEEN INCOMPLETE QUOTATIONS
1.1. "To be or not to be, ...."
a) "that's what's bugging me"
b) "that is the question."
c) "what is the answer?"
Shakespeare
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1.2. "I have nothing to offer but ...."
a) "blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
b) "blood, sweat and tears"
c) "blood and sweat, toil and tears"
Winston Churchill
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1.3. "And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene, mene, tekel, ...."
a) "and parsin"
b) "and parsing"
c) "upharsin"
Daniel 5:25
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1.4. "You don't need a weather man ...."
a) "to teach you how to drive your van"
b) "to tell you if it's raining"
c) "to tell you where the wind blows"
Robert Zimmerman
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1.5. "I ain't gonna work .... no more"
a) "in Marge's store"
b) "on Maggie's farm"
d) "for the CIA"
Robert Zimmerman
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1.6. "Lovely Rita Meter Maid ..."
a) "Please don't leave that bill on my car"
b) "our love will never fade"
c) "nothing can come between us"
The Beatles
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1.7. "All the world's a stage, …."
a) "And all the words a cage"
b) "And all the men and women merely players"
c) "And each must play a part"
Shakespeare
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1.8. "Vel hefir konungrinn alit oss, feitt er mér enn um hjartarøtr. ...." (the rest in modern Norwegian)
a) "Og så døde han"
b) "Så falt han om i uvit"
c) "Så seg han bakover og var død"
Snorre Sturlason
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1.9. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, ...."
a) "for they will inherit the earth. "
b) "for they are mostly happy anyway "
c) "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Mathew 5.3
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1.10. "Blessed are the meek, ...."
a) "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
b) "for theirs is the front of the line in the end"
c) "for they will inherit the earth. "
Mathew 5.5
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1.11. "We hold …., that all men are created equal."
a) "on to the creed of the fathers of our constitution"
b) "on to this creed"
c) "these truths to be self-evident"
d) "our forefather's words to be true"
Thomas Jefferson
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1.12. "Ask not what your country can do for you – ...."
a) "ask how can you serve your country"
b) "ask what you can do for your country"
c) "ask, How do you do?"
John F Kenney
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1.13. "Then Jacob gave Esau ...."
a) "some bread and water."
b) "two fishes and five loaves of bread"
c) "some bread and some lentil stew."
Genesis 25.34
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1.14. "We'll have Manhattan, .... It's lovely going through The zoo."
a) "some bread and some lentil stew."
b) "the Lower East Side, me and you."
c) "The Bronx and Staten Island too."
d) "Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island."
Lorenz Hart
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1.15. "First we take Manhattan and then we take ...."
a) "the isle of Staten "
b) "the Bronx "
c) "Berlin"
Leonard Cohen
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1.16. ".... When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin."
a) "When I want the East to sneeze, I flirt with the Chinese"
b) "Berlin is the testicle of the West."
c) "When I want the East to sweat, I lean on Tibet."
Nikita Khrushchev
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1.17. "I never had sex with that woman. ...."
a) "Ms. Lebowsky"
b) "Ms. Lewinsky."
c) "Ms. Loveinthesky"
Bill Clinton
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2. SIXTEEN COMPUTERS
when
where
2.1
-100
2.2
key words
name
constructor(s)
The Egeans astronomy-mechanics
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1275
Spain
Arguments and sermons
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2.3
1623
Germany
Used by the constructor's
friend Kepler
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2.4
1644
France
The pious Cartesian
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2.5
1671
Germany
Calculus Ratiocinator
(the formalism)
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2.6
1801
France
So far the most succesfull
use of punched cards
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2.7
1820
France
First commercial
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mechanical table computer
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2.8
1822-49 England
decimal, analogue, brass
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2.9
1849-71 England
-"-
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2.10 1840
England
ternary, digital, wood
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2.11 1880
USA
punched card computer
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2.12 1936
England
Do we ever know
when to stop?
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2.13 1938-41 Germany
binary, from mechanical
to electronic
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2.14 1942
England
anti-enigmatic
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2.15 1945
USA
digital, electronic large
scale, programmable
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2.16 1953
Norway
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3. SIXTEEN FAMOUS ANIMALS
3.1 Flying wide, reporting back to their master in whispers—
their kind frequently referred to in the Theory of Science
3.2 The Volatile Feline from Wonderland
3.3 The Independant Feline—as portrayed by the writer of the tale of the orphaned wolf boy
3.4 The handle of abrupt release — aka the smartest horse in the movies
3.5 The Great Messianic Lion
3.6 The Airborne Steed of Ancient Bellerophon—much later claimed by the Poet
3.7 The Canine TV-hero of the Borderlands
3.8 The Hell-Hound versus the Famous Drug Addict Detective
3.9 Devourer of the World—held, for now, by an unbreakable tether at the Gates of Hell
3.10 Elephated by means of his enormous sensory appendages (when "Elephated" is a bad pun)
3.11 The roundhead rodent of the cartoons, conceived as Mortimer, to be borne with a
commoner name
3.12 What you might have shouted to the president, had his name begun with a D, instead of an R,
at his encounter with the would be assassin
3.13 The animated submarine with his reluctantly holy passenger
3.14 The tiny latino blood sucker
3.15 The permanently cold-ridden cloven-hoofed arctic animal of the seasonal altruist
3.16 Reborn Through Flame and Ashes
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4. TWENTY EIGHT FAMOUS COUPLES
4.1
Angelina
& __________
4.15 __________
& Robin
4.2
Evita
& __________
4.16 __________
& Hardy
4.3
__________
& Eve
4.17 __________
& Ginger
4.4
Anthony
& __________
4.18 __________
& Leander
4.5
__________
& Ken
4.19 Othello
& __________
4.6
__________
& Ernie
4.20 Philemon
& __________
4.7
Bonnie
& __________
4.21 __________
& Bess
4.8
__________
& Marge
4.22 Diana (aka Sala)
& __________
4.9
Kurt
& __________
4.23 __________
& Delilah
4.10 __________
& Juliet
4.24 __________
& Watson
4.11 Samson
& __________
4.25 Sonny
& __________
4.12 __________
& Roy
4.26 __________
& Jane
4.13 Abelard
& __________
4.27 __________
& Iseult (Isolde)
4.14 __________
& Jerry
4.28 __________
& Judy
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Kan puffes
or, Shove it, if you don't love it (if you'll excuse the french)
5. SIXTEEN FAMOUS PLANTS
5.1 Banned to be forever barren by the thirsty son of the carpenter (or actually someone else's son)
5.2 Supporting the miniscule customs officer, and eo ipso sinner, who so badly wanted to see the preacher
5.3 Foretelling the fair haired king
5.4 The Reborn Coastal Memorial of Royal Escape
5.5 The Miðgarðr Piercing World Tree
5.6 Left to itself in virtue of its innocence and then coupled with blindness to be the bane of the fairest
5.7 The stool of meditative nirvanic bliss
5.8 Ribboned with wishes of homecoming
5.9 The Uniquely Dark Flower of Love and Strife
5.10 The Never-ending Slenderness of Heaven Reaching Climbing Stick
5.11 The Fate of the Ancient Dialectic Obstetrician
5.12 The Flaming Inflammable Medium of The One Who Is
5.13 By name a Plant by Deed a Vessel for the Pious
5.14 The totally silly sacrifice demanded by the giant keepers of the words: Ni, Ping, and Nee-womm!
5.15 Nicely flowered, but stinging—hedging in the somewhat distant loveliness
5.16 Edging the ally—the crooner besinging their flowering wonder-promising beauty
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