Packet 5: Bonus 15

The apparatus used in this experiment was built on a large sandstone block, floating in a circular trough of mercury. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1887 study that attempted to measure Earth's motion through the luminiferous aether by comparing the interference fringes of light-traveling along perpendicular arms.
ANSWER: Michelson-Morley experiment
[10e] The Michelson-Morley experiment contradicted the "Galilean" form of this concept. Albert Einstein later introduced both "special" and "general" forms of this concept.
ANSWER: relativity [accept Galilean relativity, special relativity, and general relativity]
[10h] The Sagnac effect, which was discovered in a follow-up to the Michelson-Morley experiment, underlies the “optical” type of these devices used in many navigation systems. The Gravity Probe B experiment used one of these devices with two gimbals to measure frame-dragging.
ANSWER: gyroscopes [accept optical gyroscopes]
<Science - Physics, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 05

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Albanian Rift in the SkyHeauton Timorumenos1010020ME
Armand duplantis fan clubThey'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days10101030MEH
Bella VistaNorthern10101030MEH
Belmont ABelmont B10101030MEH
Birmingham ABath010010E
Booz Allen InternsNot Just Biking10101030MEH
Burlington TrojansGlebe0101020EH
CambridgeBirmingham B1010020ME
Chapel Hill AChapel Hill B1010020ME
Cheese SandwichAbbey Park1010020ME
Don't Ever Take Sides Against the FamilyBig Brown Ballers10101030MEH
Eden PrairieMinnetonka B1010020ME
ExhibitionChattahoochee A10101030MEH
Georgia BTexas A010010E
Georgia CTexas B10101030MEH
HooverChattahoochee B1010020ME
Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?Michael Touse-Squid1010020ME
Johns CreekLambert A1010020ME
KentuckyGeorgia A010010E
Leif Eriksen's Striking AppearanceAlways Set the Kurve10101030MEH
Lexington AWaltham B10101030MEH
Manchester BChimera010010E
Mansfield BWellesley010010E
MidtownLambert B010010E
Minnetonka AProvidence10101030MEH
Minnetonka CBurnsville10101030MEH
Mountain Dew is BetterAn even worse idea1010020ME
New YorkWashington1010020ME
North CarolinaCalifornia10101030MEH
Northview AInnovation B1010020ME
Northview BInnovation A010010E
Ostia OrcasVirginia Tech1010020ME
OxfordSouthampton10101030MEH
PC Chris Master RaceTed Offensive10101030MEH
RenertMartingrove1010020ME
Sheffield AEdinburgh010010E
Sheffield BManchester A1010020ME
Taman's Nepo BabiesMidnight Bus to Vista1010020ME
Tantaene Animis Caelestibus IraeCary Academy010010E
The Young JitsI have no buzzer and I must neg10101030MEH
They fuck you up your buzz and negJeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu10101030MEH
Waltham ALexington B1010020ME
WarperialSouthperial010010E
With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experiencewhatever1010020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓618.33100%67%17%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓215.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓326.67100%100%67%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓422.50100%75%50%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓524.00100%100%40%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓313.33100%33%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓417.50100%50%25%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓422.50100%75%50%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓520.00100%60%40%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓826.25100%100%63%