Ottawa Hybrid 2015
Round 3 - McMaster University A (Jay Misuk, Shuying Zheng, Brian Luong, and Leslie Newcombe)
1. A film by this director shows a man breaking a backboard after refusing to play on Jack Black’s basketball
team. That same film features a dinner party scene in which the characters play the game Password. In this
director’s debut film, a character sings “My Sharona” at a gas station and Steve Zahn stays celibate so he
won’t have to (*) come out to his family. In his latest movie, the hero travels to Greenland to find a photojournalist
played by Sean Penn and daydreams about Kristen Wiig singing “Space Oddity” before he jumps into a helicopter.
David Bowie judges a walk-off in one of this man’s films, where the main character asks if the “Centre for Kids
Who Can’t Read Good” is for ants. For 10 points, name this director of Reality Bites, The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty, and Zoolander.
ANSWER: Ben Stiller
2. This author wrote about an artist who must watch as his daughter burns alive in a carriage in order to
finish the title work of art, and in another story, the mocking of villagers causes a priest to be relieved when
the title feature returns to its original size. (*) This author wrote a story with contradictions about whether or not
a comb was left on the ground, a dead man’s hairstyle, and how many arrows were kept in a quiver. That work
opens with the interrogation of a woodcutter, and was later adapted into a film that shares its title with a story by this
author about two people discussing the morality of stealing at the title location. A literary award is now named for,
for 10 points, what Japanese author of “Hell Screen”, “The Nose”, “In a Grove”, and “Rashomon”?
ANSWER: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (accept names in either order)
3. The prophetess Catherine Théot called this man her beloved son; this, along with his signature of a certificate
of civism for Dom Gerle, was presented by Marc-Guillaume Vadier as evidence of conspiracy. An artist told this
man, “If you drink hemlock, I shall drink it with you,” after this man delivered a speech accusing unnamed
persons of conspiring against him. The next day, he was (*) arrested at the National Convention, freed by troops
of the Paris Commune, and arrested again at the Hôtel de Ville; his jaw was shattered by a gunshot in the course of
those events on the 9th of Thermidor. For 10 points, name this politician who was guillotined alongside Louis de
Saint-Just, who led the Jacobin Club and the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
ANSWER: Maximilien (François Marie Isidore de) Robespierre
4. Title or description acceptable. This episode begins with a nightmare about gunfire in Afghanistan, after
which the dreamer sets down a green apple and a mug and reveals the handgun in his desk drawer. The
adulterous journalist Jennifer Wilson is killed by Phil Davis's character in this episode, where the hero (*)
mass-texts the word "wrong" to policemen at a press conference. At a morgue in this episode, a character speculates
about Harry's divorce and alcoholism after borrowing her old cellphone. A word scribbled on a floor in this episode
is thought to mean "revenge" but actually signifies the phone password "Rachel." Apparent suicide victims were
actually murdered by choosing between two pills in, for 10 points, what episode of Sherlock where the killer turns
out to be a cab driver?
ANSWER: “A Study in Pink” [accept "first episode" or "episode one" or "premiere" of Sherlock; accept pink
episode of Sherlock, prompt on "Study in Scarlet" episode; prompt on "cab driver" episode before that gets
mentioned; prompt on vague descriptions by asking who the murderer was or what colour it was about]
5. Wikipedia reports a music fest in New England that sells t-shirts forbidding this song. Supposedly written
about running away from Phillips-Exeter Academy, this song has one video with an outdoor burlesque show
and another video where the singer hitches rides from the Duck Dynasty cast. This song rhymes (*) "seventeen
hours" with "dogwood flowers" and makes an error about the location of Johnson City. Written by Ketch Secor, this
song describes "Starin’ up the road, and pray to God I see headlights," and declares, "If I die in Raleigh, at least I
will die free." Based on a Bob Dylan outtake, for 10 points, name this song recorded by Darius Rucker and by Old
Crow Medicine Show, which says, "Rock me mama, any way you feel."
ANSWER: "Wagon Wheel"
6. The enzyme DSBA carries two of this functional group. The Mozingo reduction reacts a ketone with this
group and then uses Raney nickel and hydrogen gas to produce hydrocarbons. Two of these compounds are
made by breaking a certain bond with "DTT," (*) also called Cleland's reagent. The smell of natural gas and
skunk spray comes from these compounds, and since they bond well with mercury, these things are sometimes
called "mercapto groups." Oxidative folding involves reacting this type of side-chain in a cysteine, which then forms
a disulfide bridge. For 10 points, identify this functional group composed of a sulfur atom bonded to a hydrogen,
which is analogous to alcohols.
ANSWER: thiols [prompt on sulfhyrdyls or mercaptans]
7. A glitch in this game’s Virtual Console release corrupts the colour palette so that the screen goes completely
black in water levels, and this game’s GBA port includes an extra world called Pacifica. The Merry Cheat causes
this game’s main collectables to turn into presents. A boss battle in this game involves sucking water from a
waterfall and spitting it in the eyes (*) of the slug Squirt, and an annoying trading cycle in this game involves
bringing a bowling ball and a No. 6 wrench to different Bear Brothers. Ellie the Elephant and Parry the Parallel Bird
are introduced in this game, which includes a snowball fight against a snowman and a series of Banana Bird Caves.
Since Donkey and Diddy go missing at the start of this game, the player controls a new tag-team who can throw
each other and can swing a ponytail in a helicopter spin. Belcha the giant barrel and Baron K. Roolenstein are bosses
in, for 10 points, what SNES platform game about Dixie and Kiddie Kong?
Answer: Donkey Kong Country 3 (Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble) [or DKC 3] [do not accept or prompt on partial]
8. One person described this event as taking "7, 8, 10 minutes," but it turned out only to be 2 minutes and 22
seconds. A monologue about a Rubik's cube ends with the speaker getting hung up on this event, and Julie
Snyder looked into this event by pulling a user agreement from an archived class-action suit. Occurring after
a weed purchase at 3:22 PM at a golf course on Forest Park, this event involved a woman who "looked like a
chipmunk" and lived in Silver Spring, who later claimed that this took place in the evening at a (*) porn video
store. The recipient not having voicemail and the billing rules at AT&T introduce the possibility that this was just a
butt-dial. For 10 points, name this supposed "smoking gun" that suggests Jay wasn't alone with Adnan's cell phone
all afternoon.
ANSWER: the Nisha call
9. This artist gave two paintings to the National Gallery on the condition that hang beside Claude Lorraine
paintings. This artist attempted the epic poem "Fallacies of Hope" and joined the Royal Academy on the
merits of a moonlit painting with The Needles at its left side. Disaster landscapes by this artist showed roaring
gold flames that reflect as red. A tiny (*) elephant sits under a storm-cloud that looks like a black tidal wave in a
painting by this artist, which compares France to Carthage. Fishermen at Sea and The Burning of the Houses of
Lords and Commons were made by this artist, who added a red blotch to one of his paintings on varnishing day. For
10 points, name this Ruskin-approved landscape painter of Snowstorm: Hannibal Crossing the Alps, who walks
around grunting in a top hat in a Mike Leigh movie.
ANSWER: Joseph Mallord William Turner
10. This place extends from Cape Farewell to Coffee Club Island, and it contains the world's largest national
park, which is full of musk oxen. The world’s oldest plant DNA has been found in this place, whose capital sits
by Sermit-siaq mountain and was founded by the Lutheran Hans Egede on the Kangerlua River. The U.S.
keeps missile detection stuff at the (*) Thule Air Base in this place, which has been an "autonomous dependent
territory" since 1979. This place is majority Inuit but mostly uninhabited, and it has a capital at Nuuk and is wildly
magnified by Mercator projections. For 10 points, name this largest island in the world, which is covered by a thick
sheet of ice and partially ruled by Denmark.
Answer: Greenland [or Kalaallit Nunaat]
11. It's unknown which of these people wrote a threatening letter to Taketa Tani, but earlier, one of these had
people tried to provoke a war by offending some Korean officials. These people's students raided Sotuma
Arsenal, and their customs were restricted by (*) the Haitorei Edict. A rebellion where these people laid siege to
Kumamoto Castle occurred after their rice stipends were cut off and they had to adopt Western haircuts. These
people operated private schools called shigakko in Kagoshima, and after their last stand at Shiroyama, their leader
Saigo Takimori committed seppuku. The Satsuma Rebellion was fought by, for 10 points, what kind of people who
were targeted by anti-sword laws and followed a bushido warrior code?
ANSWER: samurai [or bushi before the end]
12. This character tracks a secret VHS tape of himself assassinating a terrorist, and in 2015, Jeff Lemire took
over this character’s comic from Matt Fraction. In a “versus Deadpool” series, this character is partially
deaf, and his name has been assumed by Wyatt McDonald and Kate Bishop. This husband of Mockingbird
collaborates (*) with Selvig to activate a Tesseract while under a mind control that is later broken by Natasha
Romanoff. Along with Black Widow, he is a superhero of the Avengers that has not yet had a title film. For 10
points, name this comics character played by Jeremy Renner who uses a bow and arrow.
Answer: Hawkeye (accept “Clint Barton” before mentioned)
13. This writer made dirty jokes on the word "thrust" in describing a boy pushing a girl on a swing. A "swinegirl" created by this writer burns the potatoes and gets hassled by her brothers at dinner. This writer put the
chapter "Lad-and-Girl Love" in a novel where a father cuts a boy’s hair as the boy's mother sleeps, and he
wrote of a housewife who complains about always getting the same apology-flowers (*) and about her husband
skipping dinner to go drink at the "Prince of Wales." This author wrote a story where a large body is laid out across
Mrs. Bates's parlour after a coal-mining accident. The author of a novel where Paul comes of age and chooses
between Clara and Miriam, for 10 points, name this modernist writer of "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" and Sons
and Lovers.
ANSWER: David Herbert Lawrence
14. This team’s last two first-round picks were Matt Chapman and Richie Martin, and in 2014, they led the
Majors in run differential. The relief pitchers Dan Otero and Sean Doolittle play for this team, which once
used Herb Washington to fill in for Joe Rudi as a “designated runner.” (*) Managed today by Bob Melvin, this
team won its last championship a lineup including Carney Lansford and Dave Stewart. In mid-season 2014, this
team traded for Jon Lester and Jeff Samardzija. Josh Reddick and Coco Crisp play for this team, which won the ‘89
Earthquake World Series. For 10 points, name this baseball team whose general manager Billy Beane is the subject
of Moneyball.
ANSWER: Oakland Athletics [or Oakland Athletics, or Oakland A’s]
15. This thing was laid to rest in a boneyard on Hera. Kaywinnet demonstrates a strong bond with this thing
from the start, easily determining that its problem is with the reg couple, not the grav boot, and later taking
offense to it being described as “luh-suh”. (*) In the final episode of the series in which this thing appears, River
says that this thing is “very unhappy”, claiming to be talking to and incorporeally possessing it. Sonny Rhodes
recorded “The Ballad of” this thing, singing that “There’s no place that I can be / since I found” it. A Companion
leases a shuttle aboard this thing, which is staffed by Zoe and Jayne and is flown by Wash. For 10 points, name this
spaceship owned by Captain Malcolm Reynolds, which lends its name to the Firefly movie.
ANSWER: Serenity
16. One song by this artist claims that “Every day I’m grindin’/ don’t even get a weekend”, but that today
they will “make it pop like” the title substance. That song was pulled from this artist’s first album, which did
include a song where the singer wants to make the claim that (*) “we’re going steady/ Like it’s 1954/ No, it
doesn’t need to be forever/ Just as long as I’m the name on” the title thing. “Pink Champagne” and “Tattooed
Heart” are on the album Yours Truly by this singer, who sang, “head in the clouds/got no weight on my shoulders”
and has “one less" of something "without you”. For 10 points, name this singer of "Problem," who also appeared
with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj on “Bang Bang.”
ANSWER: Ariana Grande
17. Description acceptable. Carbon-12 in the Isua rocks suggests that this event began in the Achaean eon, and
extinctions resulting from this event are a common counter-argument to how James Lovelock used it as a
basis for the (*) Gaia hypothesis. This event probably triggered the Huronic ice age, and "red beds" and banded iron
formations were formed when this event caused the iron in the oceans to precipitate. Dated 2.4 billion years ago in
the Proterozoic Era, this event occurred well after the emergence of cyanobacteria and killed off all anaerobic life.
For 10 points, identify this "Great Event" that enabled multicellular organisms and was begun when Earth reached a
critical amount of photosynthesis.
ANSWER: Great Oxygenation Event [accept Oxygen Revolution, Great Oxidation, or descriptions like "origin /
abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere"]
18. He’s not Steve Coogan, but this actor’s first voiceover role was as Blitzen in two BBC Comic Relief Christmas
specials. In a more recent voiceover role, his character attempts to reclaim his pet dodo from Queen Victoria
with the help of a David Tennant-voiced Charles Darwin. That film, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, marked a
return from a three-year absence during which he testified in the (*) News of the World scandal. He won a
Golden Globe for Four Weddings and a Funeral, leading to roles as a romantic lead in in Two Weeks Notice and
Music and Lyrics. Wearing war paint as a Hawaiian chief in Cloud Atlas, for 10 points, name this charming British
actor known for About a Boy, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Notting Hill.
ANSWER: Hugh Grant
19. This poet wrote about a person who waits until November to sing a song, causing other people to judge
her. Another poem is addressed to people who “did not know [they] were” an unusually-spelled continent,
and have since spread across the world. Besides writing “The Crazy (*) Woman” and “To the Diaspora”, this
author wrote that “Blackness/ is a title/ is a preoccupation,” and that “The huge, the pungent object of our prime outride/ is to Comprehend/ to salute and to Love the fact that we are Black,” in her work “Primer for Blacks”. She also
described a couple for whom “Dinner is a casual affair,” and another group who “sing sin” and “Jazz June.” For 10
points, name this author of “The Bean Eaters” and “We Real Cool”.
ANSWER: Gwendolyn Brooks
20. This group "naturally conceives the world in which it is supreme to be the best," and one work compares this
group to a sorcerer who has lost control of all the powers he summoned. Divisions within this group are
supposed to have allowed the Ten Hours Bill to be passed in England, and "what [this group] produces, above
all, is its own (*) grave-diggers." This group is accused of depleting rural populations as it creates enormous cities,
and it has displaced local self-sufficiency for a cosmopolitan interdependence. Perpetuating itself by continuously
revolutionizing the means of production, this group is believed to have displaced the aristocracy and to have
concentrated all property in its own hands by its control of the means of production. For 10 points, name this
oppressive class which will someday be overthrown by the proletariat.
ANSWER: the bourgeoisie [prompt on ruling class]
21. Taking place in a dohyo, representing the earth, covered by a yakata, representing the sky, this activity
involves the dohyo-matsuri, a purification ritual performed by gyoji. This activity is similar to Ssireum,
practiced in Korea, and Shuai Jiao, (*) which was developed as military training for the Yellow Emperor’s army.
The first honbasho gathering for this activity took place at the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine in 1684. Each honbasho is
15 days long, and the goal for this activity’s practitioners, known as rikishi, is to earn promotion by achieving a
kachikoshi; the current record-holder for undefeated tournament championships is Hukuho Sho of Mongolia. The
most recent person to reach this sport’s highest rank, Kakuryu, became the 71 st yokozuna in March 2014. For 10
points, what is this sport in which portly men must push each other out of a circle.
ANSWER: Sumo
BONUSES
1. Buy Rebel Heart on iTunes today. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this artist who fell from the stage at the 2015 Brit Awards while performing her song “Living for Love.”
Some of her better known works are “Like a Prayer” and “Ray of Light”.
ANSWER: Madonna [or Madge, or Madonna Louise Ciccone. Prompt on "Queen of Pop"]
[10] Madonna wore an iconic wedding dress and rhinestone belt that said “Boy Toy” for her performance of this
song at the MTV awards. It describes feeling “beat/ incomplete/ I’d been had, yeah I was sad and blue”.
ANSWER: "Like a Virgin"
[10] This rapper appears on the Rebel Heart bonus track “Veni Vidi Vici.” His recent albums include Life is Good,
Hip-Hop Is Dead, and an untitled album that was supposed to be called the n-word.
ANSWER: Nas
2. One man with this name envisions a town made of ice, and another one reappears covered in tattoos and runs
away with Rebeca. For 10 points each:
[10] Give this shared name of men who attempt to make a daguerrotype of God and lead a strike at a banana
plantation.
ANSWER: Jose Arcadio Buendia [prompt on partial]
[10] They appear in this novel by Gabriel García Márquez, which begins with a flashback to Aureliano and his
father going on an expedition for ice, as Aureliano faces execution by firing squad.
ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien años de soledad]
[10] This English translator of One Hundred Years of Solitude and many Brazilian novels wrote the memoir If This
Be Treason.
ANSWER: Gregory Rabassa
3. Though Dr. Gregory House is formidable when working alone, he is often aided by a number of others. Answer
some questions about these characters from the show House, for 10 points each.
[10] This actress plays 13, a bisexual doctor who is diagnosed with Huntington’s. She plays the brewery worker
Kate in Drinking Buddies.
ANSWER:Olivia Wilde
[10] This character’s suicide comes as a surprise to his peers. This character actually dies abruptly because the actor
who plays him, Kal Penn, had accepted a job with the White House and had to leave the series.
ANSWER: Dr. Lawrence Kutner
[10] House initially refers to this character as “cut-throat bitch,” but it is guilt from her death that ultimately pushes
him to confront his Vicodin addiction.
ANSWER: Amber Volakis [accept either]
4. I bet after that Fifty Shades of Grey movie, Twilight doesn’t seem so bad, eh? For 10 points each, identify some
characters from the work that Fifty Shades was a fanfiction of.
[10] This is the main protagonist of this series. She falls in love with two men, but one of the two becomes her
daughter’s future lover.
ANSWER: Isabella Swan [accept either; accept Bella Swan]
[10] This young vampire is changed by Victoria for the purpose of attacking the Cullens. She is spared by Carlisle in
the mist of battle, but the Volturi order her to be executed and Meyer wrote a novella about her life.
ANSWER: Bree Tanner [accept either]
[10] This character is killed by the Quileute wolves for attempting to kill Bella. He is the former lover of Irina, and
her reaction to his death sparks the main conflict in Breaking Dawn.
ANSWER: Laurent
5. This work defines sociology as a proper “social science” that is the study of “social fact.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Emile Durkheim book that separates social facts into “normal” ones, which are healthy, and
“pathological” ones, which are diseased.
ANSWER: The Rules of (the) Sociological Method
[10] Durkheim used Wagner’s and Morselli’s research for his case study of suicide, in which he gave this name to
the variety which results from over-regulation and repression of the passions.
ANSWER: fatalistic suicide
[10] This concept, which Durkheim describes as a “state of disorganization,” is suggested as another possible cause
of suicide.
ANSWER: anomie
6. The common bile duct forms from the joining of a duct from this organ and one from the gallbladder. For 10
points each:
[10] This largest gland of the body converts heme groups into bilirubin. Its four lobes are made up of lobules which
contain the hepatocytes that perform its vital metabolic tasks.
ANSWER: liver
[10] The liver is fed blood by a vein of this type, which connects it to the intestines. Only two venous systems of this
type, which connect organs directly without passing through the heart, occur in humans.
ANSWER: portal vein/venous system
[10] The liver is responsible for making and storing this polymer of glucose, which is the primary energy storage
mechanism of animals.
ANSWER: glycogen
7. This was originally designed to be a replacement for the Les Paul, and it featured a thinner double-cutaway body
that gave it its signature "horned" appearance. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Gibson guitar model played by Angus Young of AC/DC and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath.
ANSWER: SG
[10] This competitor to Gibson makes a Telecaster played by Bruce Springsteen and Keith Richards, and a
Stratocaster that was originally designed for country music.
ANSWER: Fender
[10] This guitarist used a Gibson SG on the Cream song “Sunshine of Your Love,” and he played an uncredited
guitar solo on the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
ANSWER: Eric Clapton
8. At one point in this movie, the hero goes out to the backyard and throws stuff at a painting that an unfaithful
girlfriend made him. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this movie in which Adam gets diagnosed with schwannoma neuro-fibro-sarcoma and meets an
unprofessional therapist played by Anna Kendrick.
ANSWER: 50/50
[10] This actor played Adam in 50/50. He also played the disturbed addict Neil in Mysterious Skin and the good cop
John Blake in The Dark Knight Rises.
ANSWER: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
[10] Seth Rogen’s character consoles Adam by erroneously listing off celebrities who beat cancer, including Lance
Armstrong, “the guy from Dexter,” and this star of the movies The Outsiders and Red Dawn.
ANSWER: Patrick Swayze
9. This man is part of a group of individuals referred to as The Beatles for their English accents. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this high-profile Jihadist responsible for beheading various foreign hostages like Peter Kassig, James
Foley, and David Haines.
ANSWER: Jihadi John [or Jailer John; or Mohammed Emwazi]
[10] ISIS has also burned to death a downed pilot, Moaz Al-Kasasbeh, from this country, ruled by King Abdullah II.
In 1994, this country signed a peace treaty with Israel.
ANSWER: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan [Al Mamlakah al Urduniyah al Hashimiyah]
[10] This camp for Syrian refugees is now one of the largest cities in Jordan. Refugees are now being sent to the
Azraq camp as a result of the size of this camp.
ANSWER: Zaatari refugee camp
10. Who doesn’t like pop music with screaming? For 10 points each, answer some questions about a band with
commercial success.
[10] Machine Shop Records and the Projekt Revolution tour were started by this rap-metal band with Chester
Bennington and Mike Shinoda. Their first hit was “One Step Closer.”
ANSWER: Linkin Park
[10] This 1996 Linkin Park album has a dragonfly soldier on the cover and included the singles “Papercut” and “In
the End.” It has now sold 27 million copies.
ANSWER: Hybrid Theory
[10] The third single from Meteora, this song states “I’m tired of being what you want me to be” and have become
this title sensation. A combination of this song with Jay-Z’s “Encore” was subsequently released as a single.
ANSWER: "Numb"
11. This man may have become Emperor thanks to the intrigues of Plotina. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this successor to Trajan, who built a wall in Britain, rebuilt the Pantheon, and travelled across the
Empire.
ANSWER: Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus
[10] Hadrian dismissed this author from his post as secretary. He chronicled the Emperors until Domitian in The
Twelve Caesars.
ANSWER: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
[10] Hadrian became Emperor near the end of this conflict. Rome’s Jewish opponents in this conflict would again
rise up against Hadrian during Bar Kokbha’s Revolt.
ANSWER: Kitos War
12. He wrote a three-part epic poem which contributed to Tuscan becoming the predominant Italian dialect. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this man, sometimes called “the Supreme Poet,” who also wrote a prosimetric work dedicated to his love
Beatrice.
ANSWER: Dante Alighieri [accept either; accept Durante degli Alighieri]
[10] In Dante’s Divine Comedy, he encounters his mentor Brunetto Latini in this circle of Hell. This circle is
divided into three rings, for the violent against people or property, against the self, and against God or Nature.
ANSWER: the Seventh Circle [accept the Third ring of the Seventh Circle]
[10] As Dante passes through the gate of Hell, he reads an inscription that describes Hell as a creation of God. This
is the final line of the inscription.
ANSWER: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here [or Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate; accept English
synonyms/equivalents]
13. “On my planet, we have a legend about people like you. It’s called Footloose.” For 10 points each:
[10] Starlord tells Gamora about Footloose in this movie. In another scene from this movie, Rocket sees Stan Lee
with a younger woman and calls him a “class A pre-vert.”
ANSWER: Guardians of the Galaxy
[10] Since his abduction from Earth, Starlord listens to this cassette tape, which has recordings of “Escape (The Pina
Colada Song)” and Blue Suede’s “Hooked on a Feeling.”
ANSWER: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 [prompt on partial answers]
[10] To distract Ronan the Accuser from his attempt to destroy all life on Xandar, Starlord begins singing this song
from the mix and claims they’re having a dance-off.
ANSWER: “Ooh Child”
14. Franz Schubert was particularly well-known for a certain type of composition. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this type of German art-song, of which Schubert wrote over 600, including Gretchen am Spinnrade, and
cycles of them like Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise.
ANSWER: Lieder [or Liederkreis]
[10] Like Gretchen am Spinnrade, the text of this lied is from Goethe. In it, a boy riding home with his father sees
the title character with crown and cape, but is assured it is only a wisp of fog. At the end, the father arrives at his
house only to discover the child is dead.
ANSWER: Der Erlkönig or The Erlking [accept The Elf King or The Alder King]
[10] Another Schubert lied, Die Forelle, based on a Christian Schubart poem about a fish, was so popular Schubert
adapted it into a piece of chamber music for this ensemble.
ANSWER: piano quintet [prompt on partial answers; do not accept string quintet]
15. Its world is populated by chimeras such as armadillo lions and otter penguins. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Nickelodeon show that centres on the adventures of Aang as he tries to restore balance to the world.
ANSWER: Avatar: The Last Airbender [prompt on “Avatar”]
[10] The sequel series to The Last Airbender recently came to an end in July 2014; it opens with this new Avatar
from the Southern Water Tribe as she moves to Republic City.
ANSWER: Korra
[10] The episode “The Tales of Ba Sing Seh” was dedicated to this Japanese-American voice actor who played Iroh
in seasons one and two. A fire bender in Legend of Korra is named for him.
ANSWER: Mako Iwamatsu [accept either underlined part]
16. Its existence was predicted by the Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism. For 10 points each:
[10] This quark is the third most massive, and is paired with the strange quark as part of the second generation of
matter.
ANSWER: charm quark [prompt on “c”]
[10] Like all quarks, charm quarks carry this kind of charge, which determines their interaction with the strong
force. Gluons have two different charges of this type, which is the object of study in QCD.
ANSWER: colour charge
[10] An important property of the strong force is that it does not vary with the distance between particles, which
produces this phenomenon which prevents single quarks from being isolated.
ANSWER: colour [or quark] confinement
17. They were conceived when their father’s skull spit into their mother’s hand. For 10 points each:
[10] Named Hunahpu and Xbalanque, identify these brothers who were the central characters of many of the stories
collected in the Popol Vuh.
ANSWER: the Mayan Hero Twins
[10] To avenge the murder of their father, the Hero Twins descended to the underworld where they survived a series
of trials before defeating these figures.
ANSWER: the Lords of Xibalba (shi-BOL-ba) [accept synonyms for lords]
[10] This pyramid at Chichen Itza has exactly 365 steps, and it casts special shadows on the equinoxes. It’s
dedicated to the Mayan version of Quetzalcoatl.
ANSWER: El Castillo [or Temple of Kukulcan]
18. You’ve probably found yourself wondering how the powers-that-be select the Gym Leaders that they do. For 10
points each, identify the following Gym Leaders.
[10] This is the third Gym Leader from the Kanto region. He gives the Thunder Badge to those who defeat him, and
is best known for his Raichu. In the anime, he mocks Ash for his “baby” Pokemon and urges evolution.
ANSWER: Lt. Surge
[10] This Gym Leader from the Hoenn Region is also the father of the player character. He uses the Normal type
and gives out the Balance Badge. His most powerful Pokemon is a Slaking.
ANSWER: Norman
[10] This Gym Leader is the seventh fought by trainers in the Unova region. He gives out the Freeze Badge, and he
was an actor before he became a Gym Leader.
ANSWER: Brycen
19. What do you do when you don’t have raw materials or a decent tax base? Establish colonies! Answer some
questions about colonial possessions for 10 points each:
[10] This country has had colonies in the Phoenix Islands and Corn Islands, as well as a 1914 colony in Veracruz,
but you’ve certainly heard about their lease of Guantanamo Bay made possible by the Platt Amendment.
ANSWER: United States of America
[10] This country received the colony of Shandong in the Treaty of Versailles and held on to it until 1922. During
the Second World War, these folks briefly held the Christmas Islands and Attu and Kiska, as well as North Borneo.
ANSWER: Empire of Japan [or Nipon or Nihon]
[10] This country’s colonisation was about as inauspicious, with a short-lived colony at Darien in Panama, after
which its trading company was folded into another.
ANSWER: Scotland
20. This man was the protagonist of the book The Blind Side. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this offensive tackle who played his first five seasons with the Ravens. In March 2015, he signed a twoyear deal with the Carolina Panthers.
ANSWER: Michael Oher
[10] This coach successfully recruited Oher to Ole Miss. When Lane Kiffin got fired at USC, this man replaced him
as interim head coach.
ANSWER: Edward Orgeron Jr.
[10] This linebacker played for Orgeron at Ole Miss before being a six-time All-Pro for San Francisco. He retired in
March 2015 due to struggles with foot injuries.
ANSWER: Patrick Willis