When did Uri first appear in the NYTimes?

1987, regarding the Feige-Fiat-Shamir scheme

Where did Uri and Daphna get married?

On the rooftop of San Martin (the guesthouse).

Which famous result is not due to Uri?

Set cover can be approximated to within O(log n) in polynomial time.

What do Uri, Napoleon, Alfred Dreyfus and Erwin Schrödinger have in common?

All were Artillery officers at some point.

The third place in the IDF’s chess championship.

Uri cited one of the papers of his brother Michael, who was a sociologist, in his own work :

After defining “verifreier”, citing work on the hebrew slang `freier’.

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1
When did Uri first appear in the NYTimes?
1991, regarding FGLSS
1989, regarding his folk dancing activities
1987, regarding the Feige-Fiat-Shamir scheme
1985, regarding his chess achievements
2
Which eminent computer scientist overlapped with Uri in high school?
Lance Fortnow
Anna Karlin
Paul Beame
Cynthia Dwork
3
Where did Uri and Daphna get married?
On the rooftop of Ziskind (the computer science building).
At the folk dancing hall where they met.
On the rooftop of San Martin (the guesthouse).
On the rooftop of this conference center (then, the library).
4
Which famous result is not due to Uri?
How to quickly elect a leader.
Set cover can be approximated to within O(log n) in polynomial time.
No graph can be traversed in less than O(n log n) steps in a random walk
Cliques are hard to approximate.
5
What do Uri, Napoleon, Alfred Dreyfus and Erwin Schrödinger have in common?
All were the second child in the family.
All were Artillery officers at some point.
All like(d) to wear funny hats.
All had cats.
6
Which activity Uri does not practice regularly:
Judo
Israeli folk dancing
Chess
Basketball
7
If you want to sing, Uri will accompany you on a:
Guitar
Harpsichord
Piano
Violin
8
Who didn't know the beardless Uri?
Daphna Feige
Moshe Tennenholtz
Moni Naor
Adi Shamir
9
Uri won:
The third place in the IDF’s chess championship.
The second place in the Technion’s Bridge championship.
A silver medal in the International Math Olympiad.
A piano competition during high school.
10
During elementary school Uri:
Skipped a year.
Was heading the student council.
Had to repeat a year due to discipline problems.
Found a new proof to a famous math problem.
11
How old is Uri?
60
70
50
40
12
Uri cited one of the papers of his brother Michael, who was a sociologist, in his own work :
In ”On low memory strategies for Mirror Games” to explain self reflection.
After defining “verifreier”, citing work on the hebrew slang `freier’.
In “On Optimal Strategies for a Hat Game” to explain the Veil of Ignorance.
In “Why are Images Smooth?” citing Michael’s work on west bank settlements.

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