2013 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 2

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2013 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 2

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MATH, NEW & OLD

2: Diagrams of sets containing various numbers of sometimes-interlocking circles are named for this mathematician, who called them “Eulerian circles” in 1880.

4: In 1876, then-Congressman James A. Garfield wrote a new proof of this triangle-related theorem named for a Greek mathematician.

6: Two of these rectangular arrays of numbers can be multiplied if the number of rows in the first equals the number of columns in the second.

8: A unit of magnetic field density is named for this German mathematician who developed modular arithmetic.

10: The main operations in the type of Algebra named for this 19th century mathematician are “and,” “or,” and “not.”

SONGWRITERS

3: "What the World Needs Now" is a collection of songs by this composer and lyricist Hal David performed by Stan Getz.

6: This composer whose film scores include the Toy Story franchise also wrote such songs as "I Love L.A." and "It's a Jungle Out There."

9: When this singer-songwriter died of a heart attack in 1988, the surviving members of the supergroup Traveling Wilburys -- including George Harison and Bob Dylan -- recorded "End of the Line" as a tribute.

12: Johnny Cash recorded this children's book author's poem "A Boy Named Sue" at San Quentin prison.

15: This founder of the Songwriters Hall of Fame teamed up with Henry Mancini to write “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses.”
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DadofTwins wrote: “Moon Rover”
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Thanks. Fixed.
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Spoiler
2: Venn
4: Pythagorean theorem
6: Matrices
8: Gauss
10: Boole

3: Burt Bacharach
6: Randy Newman
9: Roy Orbison
12: Shel Silverstein?
15: Johnny Mercer
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2 Venn
4 Pythagorean Theorem
6 CLAM
8 Gauss
10 Boole

3 Burt Bacharach
6 Randy Newman
9 Roy Orbison
12 CLAM
15 Johnny Mercer
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2:Venn
4:Pythagorean Theorem
6:matrices
8:Gauss
10:Boole

3:Burt Bacharach
6:Randy Newman
9:Roy Orbison
12:Shel Silverstein
15:
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2: Venn
4: Pythagorean Theorem
6: Matrices?
8: clam
10: clam

3: clam
6: Newman
9: clam
12: clam
15: clam
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2: venn
4: pythagorean theorem
6: matrices
8: gauss
10: boole

3: bacharach
6: newman
9: orbison
12: silverstein
15: mercer
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Re: 2013 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 2

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Spoiler
2: Venn
4: Pythagorean Theorem
6: Matrices
8: Gauss
10: Boole

3: Burt Bachrach
6: Randy Newman
9: Roy Orbison
12: Shel Silverstein
15: Johnny Mercer
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2. Venn
4. Pythagorean Theorem
6. matrices
8. Weber
10. Boole

3. Bacharach
6. CLAM
9. CLAM
12. CLAM
15. CLAM
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Re: 2013 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 2

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MATH, NEW & OLD

2: Venn
4: Pythagorean theorem
6: Matrices
8: Gauss
10: Boole

SONGWRITERS

3: Burt Bacharach
6: Randy Newman
9: Roy Orbison
12: Shel Silverstein
15: Johnny Mercer
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MATH, NEW & OLD

2: Venn

4: Pythagorean theorem

6: Matrices

8: Weber

10: Boole

SONGWRITERS

3: Burt Bacharach

6: Randy Newman

9: Roy Orbison

12: Shel Silverstein

15: Johnny Mercer
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2: Venn
4: Pythagorean
6: matrices?
8:
10: Boole


3: Bacharach
6: Randy Newman
9: Orbison?
12: Shel Silverstein
15:
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[quote="DadofTwins"]MATH, NEW & OLD

2: Venn
4: Pythagorean Theorem (Pythagoras)
6: CLAM
8: CLAM
10: Boole (Boolean algebra)
SONGWRITERS

3: Burt Bacharach
6: Randy Newman
9: Roy Orbison

12: Shel Silverstein

15: Johnny Mercer
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Spoiler
2 venn
4 pythagorean
6 matrix (es)
8 gauss
10 boole

3 burt bacharach
6 randy newman
9 roy orbison
12 shel silverstein
15 johnny mercer
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MATH, NEW & OLD

2: Venn
4: Pythagorean theorem
6: Matrices
8: Gauss
10: Boole

SONGWRITERS

3: Burt Bacharach
6: Randy Newman
9: Roy Orbison
12: Shel Silverstein
15:
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Spoiler
2: Venn
4: Pythagorean
6: Matrices
8: Gauss
10: Boole

3:
6:
9:
12:
15:
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Re: 2013 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 2, Day 2

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2: Venn
4: Pythagoras' theorem
6: matrices
8: Gauss
10: Boole

3: Burt Bacharach
6: Randy Newman
9: Roy Orbison
12: Shel Silverstein
15: CLAM (my guess would be something along the line of Johnny Mercer or Sammy Cahn)
Poo-tee-weet? So it goes.
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