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From: pgs@ai.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 19:45:08 EST
To: all-ai
Subject: GSB Friday, 5:30pm

GSB's Spot Quiz for AI Lab Members
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1. The human head has no more than 60,000 hairs.  There are no more
   than 6 billion people in the world.  Show that there are at least
   two people who have the same number of hairs on their heads.

2. You have a cabbage, a wolf, and a goat, and you must get them
   across the river in a leaky row-boat.  You have only one oar, and
   it rained last week.  Also, you hate cabbage.  What do you do?

3. A worm is eating its way through three volumes of Gibbon's "Decline
   and Fall of the Roman Empire."  The worm starts on the last page of
   the first volume, works its way to the first page of the last
   volume, and then takes a bite or two of Louis Braudel's "The
   Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World during the Reign of
   Phillip II."  What color is the worm?  Is it male, female, or
   hermaphroditic?

4. Your consultancy has been engaged by the firm of Molto, Dolares and
   Buchs to update their ancient accounting system.  You have an
   8086-based PC with a bum power supply and an ancient copy of TI's
   PC Scheme.  Your partner Ben Bitdiddle has recently been found
   floating face-down in the Charles, and you know how much he hated
   swimming.  Assuming Goedel's well-known result, show that the
   generalized continuum hypothesis cannot be proved under the usual
   axioms of set theory.

These and other questions will not be answered at this week's

                 G I R L   S C O U T   B E N E F I T

But you should come anyway, socialize, and relax, Friday afternoon at
5:30pm in the seventh floor playroom.