Super 2, Social Networks was headed up by Brian Hirshman, with significant portions by me and Katie Bram. Well, we thought that the fill-in-the-blank networks would work, and at least for our adaption of Franco Moretti's Hamlet diagram, it seemed to do pretty well (i.e., some teams just got Hamlet, some got a handful of major characters, some got more than that, some got almost everything). It seems, though, that the supporting characters of Jane Eyre are not nearly so well ingrained in players' minds: several teams got that Jane was in the center, but answers beyond that were scare. The diagram of the great bop/fusion groups centering on Miles Davis, John Coltran, Charlie Parker, et al. faced a similar fate, and only Polar Vortex (who might have just found the original MoMA diagram) got any artists. The smaller diagrams were similarly baffling. (At least a few of you watch Supernatural.)
The second half of the bonus prompted more correct answers, at least beginning around question 90. (One team, by the way, said that this bonus often read like someone's graduate thesis. That is not entirely inaccurate.) You all may not have known about Erdos-Renyi, but you do know about KONY2012. Still, scores overall were pretty low outside of Googlers, which is why a lot of the bonus score ended up relying upon the Twitter challenge, on which I'll let Brian reflect. One erratum: Pauline Kael was misidentified as an actress rather than a critic.
Questions 1-17: The play Hamlet
Num |
Answer |
1 |
Hamlet |
2 |
Horatio |
3 |
The Ghost of King Hamlet |
4 |
Fortinbras |
5 |
Marcellus |
6 |
Barnardo |
7 |
Francisco |
8 |
Rosencrantz (half credit for Guildenstern) |
9 |
Guildenstern (half credit for Rosencrantz) |
10 |
King Claudius |
11 |
Osric |
12 |
Laertes |
13 |
Polonius |
14 |
Reynaldo |
15 |
Ophelia |
16 |
Gertrude |
17 |
Voltemand |
Questions 18-35: The book Jane Eyre
Num |
Answer |
18 |
Jane Eyre |
19 |
Mrs. Sara Reed |
20 |
Georgiana |
21 |
Eliza |
22 |
Bessie Lee Leaven |
23 |
Mr. Lloyd |
24 |
Rev. Edward Brocklehurst |
25 |
Miss Maria Temple |
26 |
Mr. Edward Rochester |
27 |
Bertha Mason |
28 |
Mr. Briggs |
29 |
Grace Poole |
30 |
Mrs. Alice Fairfax |
31 |
Adele Varens |
32 |
Blanche Ingram |
33 |
St. John Rivers |
34 |
Mary Rivers |
35 |
Rosamond Oliver |
Questions 36-42: 20th Century cultural figures
Num |
Answer |
36 |
Alfred Stieglitz |
37 |
Man Ray |
38 |
Piet Mondrian |
39 |
Pablo Picasso |
40 |
Wasily Kandinsky |
41 |
Tristan Tzara |
42 |
Fillippo Marinetti |
Questions 43-44: The television show Supernatural
Num |
Answer |
43 |
Sam Winchester |
44 |
Dean Winchester |
Questions 45-62: Mid-20th century musicians
Num |
Answer |
45 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
46 |
Sid Catlett |
47 |
Charlie Parker |
48 |
Max Roach |
49 |
Clifford Brown |
50 |
Bud Powell |
51 |
Sonny Rollins |
52 |
Miles Davis |
53 |
Cannonball Adderly |
54 |
John Coltrane |
55 |
McCoy Tyner |
56 |
Wayne Shorter |
57 |
Herbie Hancock |
58 |
Joe Zaniwul |
59 |
Freddie Hubbard |
60 |
Art Blakey |
61 |
John McClaughlin |
62 |
Chick Corea |
Questions 63-66: The 9/11 Hijackers network, as compiled from public information by Valdis Krebs
Num |
Answer |
63 |
Khalid Al-Mihdhar |
64 |
Mohamed Atta |
65 |
Fayez Ahmed |
66 |
Ahmed Al Haznawi |
Question 67: The Sampson's Monastery network
Questions 68-72: Interlocking directorates network
Num |
Answer |
68 |
Time Warner |
69 |
New York Times |
70 |
Comcast |
71 |
Walt Disney |
Questions 72-75: the book Les Miserables
Num |
Answer |
72 |
Javert |
73 |
Valjean |
74 |
Marius |
75 |
Cosette |
Questions 76-85: Network example
Num |
Answer |
76 |
3 (one of size 1, one of size 3, one of size 11) |
77 |
1 |
78 |
node 9 |
79 |
node 8 |
80 |
node 9 |
81 |
5 (eg, 5->6->8->10->13->14) |
82 |
Node 13 |
83 |
2 new components (one containing nodes 5 and 6, the other containing node 7) |
84 |
0 new components |
85 |
Node 10 |
Questions 86-87: Canonical Networks
Num |
Answer |
86 |
Erdos-Renyi random |
87 |
Small world |
Questions 88-90: Network terminology
Num |
Answer |
88 |
Density |
89 |
Out degree |
90 |
Bipartite |
Questions 91-100: Famous social network findings
Num |
Answer |
91 |
Dunbar's number |
92 |
Obesity |
93 |
World of Warcraft |
94 |
"Birds of a feather flock together" |
95 |
Small world experiment (accept variants like "six degrees of separation") |
96 |
Erdos number |
97 |
Bacon number |
98 |
Wikipedia |
99 |
Weak ties |
100 |
Pauline Kael |
Questions 101-115: Social network software
Num |
Answer |
101 |
Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind |
102 |
Eduardo Saverin; the Wincklevoss twins |
103 |
Must be 12+ (!) |
104 |
Snapchat |
105 |
thefacebook.com |
106 |
Justin Timberlake |
107 |
Quotation marks around words |
108 |
Twitter |
109 |
Orkut |
110 |
10% |
111 |
Blogs promoting suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders |
112 |
academia.edu |
113 |
LinkedIn |
114 |
36% |
115 |
Katy Perry |
Questions 116-125: Social Networks in Popular Culture
Num |
Answer |
116 |
JP Morgan |
117 |
Jesse Eisenberg |
118 |
George Zimmerman |
119 |
33%, according to http://www.divorce-online.co.uk/blog/ |
120 |
Police brutality |
121 |
KONY 2012 |
122 |
"Slender man" / "Forever alone" / "Zerg rush" / "My little pony" / "Trollface" |
123 |
Selfies (http://techinfographics.com/selfie-infographic-selfiegraphic-facts-and-statistics/) |
124 |
Being white |
125 |
Anonymous |
Questions 126-130: Blogs
Num |
Answer |
126 |
User provided content |
127 |
User provided content |
128 |
User provided content |
129 |
User provided content |
130 |
User provided content |
Questions 126-130: Shared Stories
Num |
Answer |
131 |
User provided content |
132 |
User provided content |
133 |
User provided content |
134 |
User provided content |
135 |
User provided content |
Questions 136-150: Followers
Num |
Answer |
136 |
User provided content |