How Would You Have Fared At ATL Trivia?

Test your knowledge by playing the home version of the ATL/Kaplan Bar Review trivia night.

onOctober 18, 2013 at 11:18 AMOctober 22, 2013 at 12:14 AM

For the next round, Elie spun some tunes. Specifically, the theme songs to legally-themed TV shows. So we can’t really hide the ball on this one. If you want to play along, don’t look at the names of these or pictures on these clips as you play them.

ROUND 4

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Finally, for the fifth round, our sponsors from Kaplan decided to ask the questions (though I wrote them, so any of your complaints should be directed at me rather than Kaplan). The theme was STEM questions. You went to law school to get away from science and math, yet here it is:

ROUND 5

While playing law school Bingo, when Glenda Gunner raises her hand for the fifth fucking time today, you mark off the appropriate coordinate on your grid — an homage to what French philosopher?
Larry Lawstudent and Sally Slacker are standing in the library. If they are at a perfect right angle from the Shepardizing books that no one uses, what theory would you employ to find the distance between them?
It’s hard to get, but many law students are hoping for that sweet in-house job with a tech giant named after a number. Correctly spell the number I’m asking for…which is not the same as the tech firm.
Victor Victim is pushed to the ground by a person fleeing the police carrying a bag of money lifted from the local bank. Victor hit the ground with enough force to break his arm. What formula would you use to calculate the force involved.
Walter bequeaths Whiteacre to Winnie and her heirs. Soon after taking possession, Winnie finds gold on the premises, which may be subject to a separate deed for mineral rights Walter assigned long ago. Not knowing this, Winnie shouts, “Eureka!” just like what ancient mathematician?
French police find a dead body on the floor of the Louvre. Written in blood around the body 0,1,1,2,3,5,8 because the victim had nothing better to do as he was dying that scribble on the ground. What’s the name of the number pattern outlined on the floor?
At a Supreme Court nomination hearing, you might overhear conservative Senators railing about pro-Choice leanings being what kind of test – which determines whether something is an acid or a base?
As you sit at your Biglaw firm desk, mulling the weekend plans you made months ago, a partner walks into your office and informs you of the warehouse of documents in Wichita you’ll be flying out to look at over the weekend. It forces you to remember that everything tends toward disorder, which is commonly given what physics term?
A favorite contract law fact-pattern is the jilted fiancée seeking the return of the diamond engagement ring. Diamond is an allotrope of carbon – what’s Carbon’s atomic number?
An actual legal question – in last term’s Myriad case, the Supreme Court banned the what?