Today's Guest is Kim Jeong-hoon
*The most wanted guest by viewers since Problematic Men started airing on February 26, 2015
* 67th place (top 0.01%) in the whole country in a mock test for Koren SAT in 1998
*Entered SNU majoring Dentistry but dropped out to focus on his acting career
*Going to Hollywood to appear in a film Pacific Rim 2
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| Kim Jeong-hoon in Japanese math quiz show |
The singer-turned-actor Kim won two consecutive times in Japanese math quiz show on Fuji TV and his answers were highly appreciated thanks to their beautiful solving process.
Have you ever heard about math essays???
I feel like myself only when I exist between sleep and full waking and solve a math problem. <from the essay>
An ordinary person like me will never understand what he is talking about. lol
Today's Brain Warm-ups are to get over YIPS.
What is YIPS?
Yips, the loss of fine motor skills in athletes, occurs suddenly and without apparent explanation usually in mature athletes with years of experience. <from Wikipedia>
Q. The village people are missing when spring has come. How long it will take for all people to disappear?
Tip> Chinese characters
A. three days
春 can be taken apart as 三, 人, 日.
春=spring
三 = three
人 = people
日 = day
∴ without 人(people) = 三日(three days)
Q. Make figure with the same shape and area using all pieces on the right and left.
(from WPC)
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Q. Make figure with the same shape and area using all pieces on the right and left.
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Q. 538 is a strange number. It becomes the original three-digit number when 538,538 divides by 7, divides by 11, and divides by 13 in order. How many strange numbers like this among all three-digit numbers?
A. 900
538=X
538,538=1000X+X=1001X
1001X÷7÷11÷13=X
1001X / 7×11×13=X
X=X
∴ 900
Q. Ju-suk and Hyun-moo play stair climbing game by the rock-paper-scissors. A winner goes up two steps and a loser goes down one step. A person won two times in a row ascends three steps, a person lost two times in a row descends two steps, and a person standing on the bottom doesn't move even if he loses.
Hyun-moo won the rock-paper-scissors game 4-2 stands on the eighth step and Ji-suk stands on the third step.
Who did win and lose in all rounds?
A. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th round → Hyun-moo won
4th and 6th → Ji-suk won
Hyun-moo: 2(win)+3(win)+3(win)-1(lose)+2(win)-1(lose)=8
Ji-suk: 2(win)-1(lose)+2(win)=3
Q. An incident takes place in a hotel. Move two match sticks to solve the case.
A. 119 tel
*911 is 119 in Korea.
Q. Tyler and Seok-jin play go stone game. They alternately take at least one go piece among three piles of stones. What is a way for a person starting first to win if a person who takes the last stone wins the game?
A.
① Take 7 stones from the pile of 8 pieces.
There are one, two, three stones left in each of the piles.
② Make the number of stones of two of the three heaps the same.
Starring
Jun Hyun-moo, Ha Seok-jin, Kim Ji-seok, Lee Jang-won, Tyler Rasch, and Park Kyung
