Question
Answer the following about historical software malfunctions, for 10 points each.
[10h] In 1991, a Patriot defense missile system in this city failed to intercept a Scud missile that killed 28 barracked US reservists when its software stalled due to operating continuously for more than 100 hours. Saudi Aramco is headquartered in this city.
ANSWER: Dhahran (“dah-huh-RAHN”) [or Al-Dhahran]
[10m] The crash of an army helicopter in this country in 1994 was first blamed on the pilots’ dangerous flying in foggy conditions but was later blamed on faulty FADEC (“fay-DECK”) software. Pan Am Flight 103 crashed in this country.
ANSWER: Scotland [or Alba; prompt on United Kingdom or UK or Great Britain; reject “England”] (Pan Am Flight 103 crashed in the Lockerbie bombing.)
[10e] An international “scare,” which was ultimately largely unfounded, arose over concerns about software errors that would shut down computers when they ticked over into this year and could not properly represent the date.
ANSWER: 2000 [accept year 2000 problem; accept Y2K scare, Y2K problem, Y2K bug, Y2K glitch, or Y2K error; prompt on millennium bug]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Northwestern A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |