WHIZ KIDS WEEK #4
Yash Kadadi
Atlanta, GAYash is going for $20,000. He has his 50:50 and +1 lifelines remaining. Yash has an alter ego, either "DJ Kadadi" or "Yash Daddy" because he did a math rap.
$20,000: Because it's evenly divisible by every integer between 1 and 10, what did Plato consider to be an ideal number? A - 1,880
B - 3,450
C - 5,040
D - 7,770
Yash says that they are all divisible by 1, 2 and 5. He then notes that
to be divisible by 3 the digits must sum up to a number divisible by 3, so he eliminates 1,880. He works through the others carefully.
commercial break$30,000: Though it was supposed to cure his fever, what toxic element with the symbol Sb may have fatally poisoned Mozart? A - antimony
B - arsenic
C - bismuth
D - tungsten
Yash made it a point to distinguish between
tin and antimony because they have similar symbols -Sn and Sb. He's sure that tin is Sn.
$50,000: Argentina is greater in area than Belgium. Belgium has more people than Canada. Canada has more islands than Denmark. How many of those statements are true? A - none of the above
B - one of the above
C - two of the above
D - all of the above
Yash says that
the first statement is true, he doubts the second is true and doesn't know about the third one. He uses his 50:50 to narrow down the choices.
Yash says that makes it a lot easier.
Answer: C (two of the above)
A - metonym
B - ananym
C - demonym
D - allonym
Yash doesn't think it's
C. He says his dad is good with roots and words, so he calls on him as his +1. He's been thinking since he saw the question; he doesn't know so he's guessing. He says
ananym sounds like antonym so he eliminates it. Yash says they need to look at the first few letters of each word. When he saw
allonym he thought of allotrope, a chemical term referring to two elements that are the same but differ in configuration. He and his dad think that
metonym is like higher level or different, as in metadata or metamorphosis.
Answer: A (metonym)
Yash wins $50,000.
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