Winners and still champs!
Defending champs, Team Yodzis, won their second consecutive Science Quiz Bowl title last month at Walter Library, narrowly defeating Guess and Check in the final.
Jon Hank, Max Nagarajan, Josh Tveite, and Ankan Ganguly made up Team Yodzis, while Guess and Check team members were Ben Bosch, Ian Pierson, and Sam Duncan.
Care to test your wits with one of the final questions?
They lie in the ultraviolet and correspond to a final state nf of 1 in the Rydberg formula. They are the only part of the hydrogen spectrum with higher energies than the Balmer series. For 10 points—identify this series of spectral lines not discovered by the original owner of Odie.
See answer at the bottom.
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