UT Austin Invitational 18-19
25
What was the cost (in 2018 USD) of all the energy UT Austin has used since 2010?
9
If you had enough large 18-inch delicious pepperoni pizzas to cover Green- land completely, how much human bodies’ worth of calcium would be in those pizzas?
10
How many astronomical units would a stack of pennies reach if its monetary value represented the value of all the gold in the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York?
-2
How long, in days, would it take a SR-71 Blackbird (traveling at constant top speed) to travel from Earth to the center of the Milky Way?
12
How many miles do Austin drivers collectively drive each day?
8
How many pieces of avocado toast could millenials buy with the money consumers have spent on Minecraft?
9
How many pollen grains would it take to build a scale model of Mount Everest? (assume the pollen grains are packed together as tightly as possible)
20
Calculate the escape velocity of the Sun, in miles per hour.
5
If you drop this test onto the ground (assuming none of the pages are separated and the test is not crumbled up), how far in meters will the center of Earth move up towards it?
-26
What fraction of Earth’s total recorded seismic energy release occurred in 1960?
-1
How many Hot WheelsTMare sold in Austin every day?
2
A mole of piano tuners will reasonably serve how big of a population (that is identical to Earth’s current demographics and culture)?
29
How fast, in meters per second, would you have to fire one neutron at this test in order to singlehandedly(singleparticledly?) set it all on fire?
15
How many islands are in Scandinavia?
5
What is the value (2018 USD) of all the printer ink in the world?
10
How many pounds of human hair grow each year?
9
How many gluons are in Earth?
52
In an average year, how many neutrinos pass through UT students?
26
How many dryers could an ant power?
-9
At the awards ceremony of this event, for how long (in minutes) would everyone need to continuously clap in order to collectively generate the energy output of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake? (M W = 3)
12
How many Lake Eries would it take to hold a pile of every credit and debit card in the world?
-5
How many ATP molecules would you hydrolyze walking to the top of the Burj Khalifa?
3
How many years will it take for you to walk up to turn this test in? (Answer while sitting in your seats please I know what you’re thinking)
-7
What is the probability of winning an expert-difficulty game of minesweeper by randomly clicking?
-105
Consider a hydrogen atom in this room, with a single electron permanently occupying its 1s shell. What is the probability of finding that electron on the moon?
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