Mary Somerville - 2023 BHSU

Question

In William Whewell’s review of one of her books, this woman became the first person described as a “scientist.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Scottish polymath who wrote the popular science book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.

ANSWER: Mary Somerville

[10e] Somerville translated and expanded upon the work of this 18th century French physicist and mathematician in her book The Mechanism of the Heavens. Like Joseph Fourier, this “French Newton” developed an integral transform that converts functions from the time domain to the frequency domain.

ANSWER: Pierre-Simon Laplace

[10m] Somerville’s textbook Physical Geography was inspired by, and earned the praise of, this naturalist and explorer. This man’s Personal Narrative inspired Charles Darwin to travel to Tenerife and South America.

ANSWER: Alexander von Humboldt

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	16.67	33%	100%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	6	10.00	17%	83%	0%

Data


Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	0	10	10	20
Rutgers Diaspora	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	Maryland B+	0	10	10	20
[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley A	It's Joever	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	0	10	0	10
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	0	10	10	20
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	0	10	10	20
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	0	10	0	10
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	0	10
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	0	10	10	20
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10	20
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	0	10	0	10
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	0	10
Hutto Hippos	Cornell C++	0	10	10	20
Hutto Hippos	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10	20
Cornell B-	The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	0	10	0	10
Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	0	10	10	20
Oxford Hornets	Broken Imperial Nomads	10	0	10	20
Buzzers Karamazov	Magisters Ludi	0	10	0	10
The Passion According to C.H.	Cameron et al.	0	10	10	20
The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	0	10	0	10
Parth et al.	Milan et al.	0	0	0	0