Tie-breakers, Pack 3

Transylvania University Academic Tournament

Feb. 12, 2000

1.

A matrix with dimensions five by seven is said to be of full rank if its rank is what number?
Answer: 5

2.

What kind of cell is first infected by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)?
Answer: a form of cytotoxic T cell called CD4

3.

In what year was the Spanish-American War?
Answer: 1898

4.

What nineteenth-century German Kantian philosopher is associated with a philosophy of pessimism and with underwriting much of the Romantic movement?
Answer: Schopenhauer

5.

What can you add to an enzymatic reaction in order to overcome competitive inhibition?
Answer: more substrate

6.

What sect of Hellenistic philosophy is associated with ``the garden''?
Answer: Epicureanism