2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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Since I'm going to be gone tomorrow, here's the Tuesday game.

I think I'm caught up on administrative stuff. Let me know if there's something that needs my attention.

See you Wednesday.
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MISLABELED NATIONALISTIC FOODS

2: The oldest known recipe for this fried bread dish flavored with sugar and cinnamon was written in Rome.

4: “Back” and “peameal” are other names for the type of bacon known in America by this nationality.

6: People of the nationality this pastry is named for call it “Viennese bread”; in Vienna the pastry is called Plundergeback.

8: This cake with a coconut-pecan frosting is named for an American baker with a national last name.

10: This dish of pancake batter fried in an iron topped with strawberries and whipped cream was introduced at Seattle's Expo 62.

MATHEMATICIANS

by goforthetie

3: I'll wager that you know this mathematician for whom the triangle of binomial coefficients is named.

6: His 1202 book "Liber Abaci" used a now-eponymous sequence of numbers to model the growth of a population of rabbits.

9: In "The Fractal Geometry of Nature," he observed that “clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones . . . and lightning does not travel in a straight line.”

12: This prolific mathematician was featured on a Swiss 10-franc note alongside the bridges of Königsberg.

15: The "Incompleteness Theorems" that bear this logician's name imply that, within any consistent formal axiomatic system of mathematics, there must be true statements that are unprovable.
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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Spoiler
2: French Toast
4: Canadian
6: Danish
8:
10: Belgian Waffle

3: Pythagoras
6: Fibonacci
9:
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2: french toast
4: canadian
6: danish
8: german chocolate cake
10: belgian waffles

3: pascal
6: fibonacci
9: mandelbrot
12: euler
15: gödel
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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2. French toast
4. Canadian
6. danish
8. German chocolate cake
10. Belgian waffle?

3. Blaise Pascal
6. Fibonacci
9. Benoit Mandelbrot?
12. clam
15. clam
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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2: French toast
4: Canadian
6: danish
8: German Chocolate
10: Belgian waffle

3: Pascal
6: Fibonacci
9: Mandelbrot
12: Euler
15: clam
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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2: French toast
4: Canadian (bacon)
6: Danish?
8: clam
10: clam

3: Pascal
6: Fibonacci
9: Mandelbrot?
12: Euler
15: Godel
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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2: Danish?
4: Canadian
6: clam
8: clam
10: clam

3: Pascal
6: Fibonacci
9: clam
12: clam
15: clam
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MISLABELED NATIONALISTIC FOODS
2: French toast
4: Canadian
6: Danish
8: German chocolate
10:

MATHEMATICIANS
3: Blaise Pascal
6: Fibonacci
9:
12:
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2: French Toast (is it fried?)
4: Canadian Bacon
6: Dutch krullers (delicious)
8: German Chocolate Cake
10: Belgian waffles

3: Pascal
6: Fibonacci
9: Mandelbrot
12: Euler
15: Godel
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Spoiler
2: French toast
4: Canadian bacon
6: Danish
8:
10:

3: (Blaise) Pascal
6: Fibonnaci
9: Mandelbrot???
12: (Leonhard) Euler
15: Godel
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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MISLABELED NATIONALISTIC FOODS

2: What is French toast?

4: What is Canadian bacon?

6: What is Danish?

8: What is German chocolate cake?

10: What is a Belgian waffle?

MATHEMATICIANS (They said there would be NO MATH!)

3: Who is Pascal?

6: Who is Fibonacci?

9: Who is Moe CLAMonacci?

12: Who is Curly CLAMonacci?

15: Who is Shemp CLAMonacci?
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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MISLABELED NATIONALISTIC FOODS

2: French toast

4: Canadian Bacon

6: Danish

8: German Chocolate

10: CLAM

MATHEMATICIANS

by goforthetie

3: CLAM

6: Fibonacci

9: CLAM

12: CLAM

15: ugh...CLAM
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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Spoiler
2: french toast
4: canadian bacon
6: danish?
8: german chocolate cake
10:

3: pascal
6: fibonacci
9: mandelbrot
12: euler
15: gödel
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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Spoiler
2: French Toast
4: Canadian
6: Danish
8: German Chocolate
10: Belgian waffle

3: Bernoulli?
6: Fibonacci
9: Mandelbrot?
12: Euler
15: Gödel
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Spoiler
2: French Toast
4: Canadian Bacon
6: Danish
8: German chocolate cake
10: Belgian waffles

3: clam
6: Fibonacci
9: Mandlebrot
12: clam
15: clam
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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Spoiler
2: French toast
4: Canadian bacon
6: Danish
8: German chocolate cake
10: Belgian waffles

3: Pythagoras
6: Fibonacci
9: CLAM (but I'm going to kick myself)
12: CLAM (Gauss?)
15: CLAM (Paschal?, Descartes?)
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 2

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Spoiler
2: French toast
4: Canadian bacon
6: Danish
8: German chocolate cake..?
10: Belgian waffle?

MATHEMATICIANS

by goforthetie

this is my category, although DoT added the fractal question. The answer is Mandelbrot.
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Spoiler
2: French Toast
4: Canadian bacon
6: Danish
8: German chocolate cake?
10: Belgian waffle

3: Pythagoras
6: Fibonacci
9: Mandelbrot?
12: Clam
15: Clam
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