> The usual complaints about questions are relevant here. The
> difficulty varied uncomfortably both among packets and within
> packets. A tossup on sisplatin, a biochemical compound with a
> central platinum atom our moderator, a biochemistry Ph.D, had never
> heard of, proceeded Camp David Accords, something a high school
> player should know.
I'm not going to defend or attack the questions here, but I find this
statement rather surprising. Cisplatin (one of the chemotherapy drugs
Lance Armstrong took) gets over 100,000 hits on Google; by contrast,
the Camp David Accords gets less than 15,000--which may not mean that
cisplatin is better known, but that it's at least important enough to
be question-worthy.
[I can also add that I first learned about cisplatin in my AP chem
class junior year, and that I've learned about it in at least three
college classes since then.]
--STI