Ottawa Hybrid 2015
Round 5 - Carleton Penn III (Duncan Chalmers, Max Johnstone, Patrick Liao)
1. This is the official name of a team that is popularly called the Busan Seagulls, and it names the Negro League
team run by Rube Foster. The Hanshin Tigers are rivals to a team with this name, which had Gabe Kapler and
Hideki Matsui on it and that plays home games at the (*) Tokyo Dome. Ryan Theriot scored a World Serieswinning run for the Major League team with this name, in a season when they came from behind against the Reds
and Cardinals before sweeping the Tigers in the World Series. That team with this name lost Melky Cabrera to a
steroid suspension and got World Series home runs from Pablo Sandoval. For 10 points, give this name of the
baseball team managed by Bruce Bochy, which has Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner on it.
ANSWER: Giants [or Lotte Jaieoncheu; or Yomiuri Jaiantsu; or specific team names such as the Lotte Giants,
Cuban Giants, Yomiuri Giants, New York Giants; or San Francisco Giants]
2. One equation named for this man says the Laplacian of the slowdown density equals the time derivative of the
slowdown density with respect to a time parameter; that is his namesake age equation. One statement named for
this man says the product of two pi over h-bar, the density of final states, and the square of the norm of the
matrix element (*) give the scattering amplitude of a particular transition. Systems of particles named for this man
have a wavefunction that change sign under exchange, meaning they obey the Pauli exclusion principle. For 10
points, name this scientist who lent his name to particles with half-integer spin, a key Italian member of the
Manhattan project.
ANSWER: Enrico Fermi
3. This actor played George Clooney's driver in a movie that begins with his corpse being fished out of the river
with fifty-thousand reichsmarks, and in another role, this actor gets jealous of "Uncle Tommy" at a skating
rink. This actor wrestles Bonesaw McGraw for three minutes in order to buy a car, and in a remake of a
Danish movie, he has P.T.S.D. and (*) Jake Gyllenhaal gets with his wife. This actor lets a carjacker go but saves a
tram car full of children in a movie that ends with James Franco vowing to kill him. This star of Brothers outraces
War Admiral, and he says that great responsibility comes with great power in a movie where he kisses Kirsten Dunst
upside-down. For 10 points, name this man who played a jockey in Seabiscuit and played Spiderman before Andrew
Garfield.
ANSWER: Tobey Maguire
4. The prelude to this work mentions “that Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not
the last of her kind” when describing St. Theresa. The protagonist of this novel marries a person called “our
Lowick Cicero” with whom she falls out of love with during a trip to Rome. The protagonist’s sister marries (*)
Sir James Chettam, who was spurned by the protagonist. In this book, two characters marry after one abandons the
church to become a land agent. One of those characters is Mary Garth. The death of John Raffles shortly after his
exposure of a banker’s shady past leads Rosamond Vincy and the idealistic Dr. Lydgate to leave town in this book.
Its protagonist decides to abandon an inheritance left to her by her late husband and author of The Key to All
Mythologies by marrying the parliamentarian Will Ladislaw. For 10 points, name this George Eliot novel about
Edward Casaubon's widow Dorothea Brooke, which is set in the title town.
ANSWER: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
5. Shortly after this war, Mike Jackson told his superior officer that he was “not going to start World War III” by
seizing the Russian-held airport serving the capital of this war’s namesake region. According to John Keegan,
the end of this war was a turning point in military history because “the capitulation of [the defeated head of state]
proved that war can be won by air power alone”. (*) The Racak massacre occurred during this war that was ended
by the Kumanovo Treaty and was the only war in which an F117A Nighthawk was shot down. A diplomatic crisis in
this war was caused by the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in the capital of the losing country, whose
head of state was overthrown in the Bulldozer Revolution shortly afterwards. Operation Allied Force was the NATO
air campaign during this war, the last of the Yugoslav wars. For 10 points, name this 1998-99 war that ended with
Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbian forces withdrawing from an ethnically Albanian region with capital at Pristina.
ANSWER: Kosovo War [or Operation Allied Force until read; or Operation Noble Anvil; prompt on “Yugoslav
Wars” or “Breakup of Yugoslavia”]
6. This show survived a cancellation scare when after its hundredth episode it was renewed for “a billion more
episodes” after a gas leak that makes people in the building hallucinate. This show was originally created
after feminist backlash against another show on its parent network (*) that starred Will Ferrell; that show was
Bitch Hunter. Notable lines to come from this show include “Me want food!” and “That’s a dealbreaker, girls!” Josh
Girard created the character Gaybraham Lincoln on this show, which was re-branded for a male audience after Tracy
Jordan was hired to co-star on it with Jenna Maroney. This parody of Saturday Night Live is, for 10 points, what
show for which Liz Lemon works on 30 Rock?
ANSWER: TGS with Tracy Jordan [or The Girlie Show; prompt on “30 Rock”]
7. Elias Groll said this artist should read a Charles Tilly essay, and this artist said the way she looks at the
music industry was “really informed” by a philosopher whose work is about how “religion turned into politics
and politics turned into religion.” A self-proclaimed fan-girl of Francis Fukuyama, (*) this artist sampled a
kitten video in a song that says, “Taste the rainbow, taste my Skittles.” On a Wiz Khalifa song, this artist rapped,
“M-O-N-E-Y, what I go hard for,” and this artist of “Pussy” and “Bounce” made the album The New Classic and
rapped her own name a lot on Ariana Grande’s song “Problem.” For 10 points, name this Australian woman who
works with T.I. and said, “First thing’s first, I’m the realest.”
ANSWER: Iggy Azalea
8. Boron tribromide is often used to cleave these compounds into alkyl halides. One reaction used to synthesize
these compounds is accelerated through halide exchange, and a cyclic example of them can be formed via an
(*) intermolecular SN2 reaction on a halohydrin. A common cyclic example of these compounds is used as a polar
aprotic solvent for SN2 reactions and can be produced by an intermolecular Williamson ether synthesis; that
molecule is tetrahydrofuran. For 10 points, name this functional group that contains two carbons single bonded to an
oxygen, often used as inert solvents or old-school anesthetics.
ANSWER: ether [accept epoxides]
9. A collection by this writer includes a biography of Alexander Crummell and the short story "Of the Coming of
John," and it ends with a chapter praising black spirituals as "the music of an unhappy people." This writer of
"Sorrow Songs" described a “sense of always looking at one’s self through the (*) eyes of others,” and he was
hired at Penn to study poverty in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward. This coiner of the term “double-consciousness” and
author of The Philadelphia Negro wrote in his most famous work that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the
Problem of the Color Line” for an essay collection that attacked Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise. For
10 points, name this author of Souls of Black Folk, a prominent African-American sociologist.
ANSWER: W.E.B. Du Bois [du-BOYZ; or William Edward Burghardt Du Bois]
10. Two characters in one of this author’s novels are about to have sex when one of them says she is too sleepy
and leaves things “to be continued.” One of this author’s characters describes his best friend as the “world's
largest person who is really, really gay" and is obsessed with Neutral Milk Hotel. He also wrote about a
character who goes to Gutshot, Tennessee, where he figures out that (*) Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s tomb is
actually Lindsey’s grandfather’s tomb. One of his protagonists uses clues from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” to
go to fictional Algoe, New York, where finds his love interest Margo. In one novel, two characters are applauded
while making out in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam; those two characters with terminal cancer featured in a
Shailene Woodley movie. For 10 points, name this author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines,
Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars.
ANSWER: John Green
11. In one of this author’s two plays, the title character, Van Zorn, persuades his love interest Villa Vannevar to
leave his best friend and marry the reformed alcoholic George Lucas. In a poem, another of this author’s
characters is told to “go to the Western gate...where the vines cling crimson on the wall,” (*) where it is implied
that he can hang himself to join his dead lover. That poem is “Luke Havergal.” Some more famous titular characters
of this author are said to have been “a child of scorn” who “loved the Medici,” while another was “a gentleman from
sole to crown.” For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote works like “Miniver Cheevy” and “Richard
Cory.”
ANSWER: Edwin Arlington Robinson
12. A kid yells “Pakistan is threatening my border” in a commercial for the fictional board game NUKEM in this
movie. In a sequel to this film a young boy arranges to pay off a city’s debt if the mayor agrees to legalize the
drug (*) Nuke. The main character’s son, Jimmy, watches the show T.J Lazer and asks his dad to imitate the
character’s signature gun twirl. A remake of this film shows the main character being critically injured by a car
bomb instead of being repeatedly shot by Clarence Boddicker’s henchman like in the original film. Directive 4
restraints the main character in this film from attempting to arrest any senior officers at Omni Consumer Products,
and ED-209 kills a man after malfunctioning early in this film. For 10 points, name this film about Alex J. Murphy, a
mechanical Detroit Policeman.
ANSWER: Robocop
13. This character loses one battle after he gives the defense codes to a poorly disguised spy named Hugh
Man; that mistake leads to an invading force being able to deploy their Mobile Oppression Palace. This
character was abandoned by his fiancée after revealing that he had tricked the Carcarons into signing a
declaration of war disguised as a (*) peace treaty. This character wears no pants, claims to have sexlexia, and was
first introduced in the episode “Love’s Labours Lost in Space.” Kif Kroker serves as the assistant to this captain of
the Nimbus who, when not sending his men to die in foolhardy missions, is trying to get Leela to sleep with him. For
10 points, name this incompetent 25-star general from Futurama.
ANSWER: Zapp Brannigan [accept either]
14. This molecule activates the transcription factor EIN3, whose mutation makes organisms insensitive to it.
The rate-limiting step in the production of this compound is the synthesis of ACC from s-adenosylmethionine. (*) This hormone mediates both the hyponastic response and the so-called triple response, in which a
stem assumes a hook shape in response to mechanical stress. This substance triggers leaf abscission, and is also the
reason that one rotten apple spoils the bunch. For 10 points, name this gaseous plant hormone that causes fruit to
ripen.
ANSWER: ethylene
15. A band from this state made the album I’ve Suffered a Head Injury with a song about an ex-girlfriend’s
suicide. An artist from this state raps “like Lieutenant Dan I’m rollin” on a song about MDMA from his 2013
album Old. Marvin Gaye recorded his album What’s Going On for Tambla Records, (*) based in this state. This
is where the Verve Pipe and Danny Brown are from, and a pre-Illinoise album about this state was made by Sufjan
Stevens. A song set in this state says, “Get up/ Everybody’s gonna move their feet,” and a band from this state
promotes Faygo and holds an annual Gathering of the Juggalos. For 10 points, name this home state of Madonna,
Insane Clown Posse and Motown Records.
ANSWER: Michigan
16. Jean Hyppolite argued that this work has the structure of a bildungsroman, and it was intended as the first
volume of a System of Science. In this work’s preface, its author discusses conscious experience of objects and
names a method called “pure looking at.” This work formulated that a “struggle to the death” occurred in an
extreme version of a situation where two distinct beings, the (*) lord and his bondsman, recognize each other as
self-conscious. This work formulated the master-slave as well as the thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectic. For 10
points, name this work that explored the development of consciousness and claimed that history followed a
dialectical pattern, the magnum opus of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
ANSWER: The Phenomenology of Spirit [or The Phenomenology of Mind; or Phänomenologie des Geistes;
prompt on “Phenomenology”]
17. This author worked on translating Thomas Browne's Urn Burial. A breed of roses with the profession of faith
written on their petals appears in a work by this author, in which a character doesn’t understand the meaning of
“tragedy” and “comedy” while translating Aristotle’s Poetics. A hidden article in the Anglo-American
Cyclopaedia leads this author to discover a language without (*) nouns and a world where lost objects duplicate
themselves. This author of "Averroes's Search" described Earth gradually transforming into a fictional world
imagined by aliens, and he described the letters M-C-V repeated for 410 pages in a story where the universe is also
called "The Library." For 10 points, name this blind author of "Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius" who described infinite
hexagonal rooms full of bookshelves in "The Library of Babel."
ANSWER: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
18. At St. George’s Church, Boris calls himself the “king” of these people, and the "black prophecy" of John Dee
foretells these people's invasion in 2012. The Prepper equips players with a bug-out bag to fight these people,
and players evade these characters while running to the (*) Tower of London with Dr. Knight's Panacea formula.
These people are the enemies in the Slot Machine and Walnut Bowling mini-games, from a game where one of these
people rides a ducky tube and another carries a screen door. Pea-shooters protect a house from this type of pole
vaulter and newspaper-reader in a PopCap game where they wear buckets and traffic cones on their heads. For 10
points, name this kind of sick person who walks very slowly and fights Plants in a cellphone game.
ANSWER: zombies
19. When asked about one of these incidents, a man ripped the E! logo off everyone's microphones, saying
that that logo was already on the bottom of the TV screen. Jay Leno asked a man what his mother would have
said about one of these incidents, and during another one, the perpetrator explained that he'd spent a million
dollars on a production with (*) Pamela Anderson and jumping-across-canyons in it. This happened to Justice and
Simian in 2006, and a woman wrote the song “Innocent” about one of these actions. In February 2015, a man
claimed to be joking after pretending to do this on TV, and President Obama earlier called a man a "jackass" for
doing this. For 10 points, name these incidents that happen at awards shows to people like Taylor Swift who don't
deserve the awards they win.
ANSWER: Kanye West interrupting acceptance speeches [accept synonyms like "hijacking"]
20. One revolt that started in this city began when Samuel Prince and Nathaniel Byfield read “The Declaration
Of the Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabitants of [this city].” During that revolt in this city, Captain John George
of the HMS Rose was arrested before he could take his ship away to France, a plan which when revealed, led to
the mutiny of his Protestant crew and the subsequent surrender of the (*) Castle Island garrison. Simon
Bradstreet was restored to power in this city after the unpopular rule of a man who had established its Anglican
King’s Chapel and was overthrown when news of the 1689 Glorious Revolution reached this city. Dr. Samuel
Prescott was one of two messengers who alerted minutemen of the march of General Thomas Gage from this city to
Concord. This city’s port was closed by the first of the Intolerable Acts, which were enacted in response to an antiprotectionist demonstration here by the Sons of Liberty. For 10 points, name this city home to Samuel Adams and
Paul Revere, which was the site of an anti-British Tea Party.
ANSWER: Boston
21. Robert D.G. Kelley called this musician “an American Original,” and John Coltrane compared his music
to "falling into an elevator shaft." This man played with Kenny Clarke in the house band at Minton's
Playhouse, and he played the celeste in a song titled for his Rothschild patron. That song was “Pannonica,”
which appeared alongside a song he co-wrote with Denzil Best on a heavily-edited album that he made with
Sonny Rollins. When this artist and (*) Bud Powell got arrested for drugs, he lived off his wife's job because
couldn't play anywhere that served alcohol. This "High Priest of Bebop" recorded "Bemsha Swing," and his playing
style used dissonance and heavy percussive banging on the keys and moments of silence. For 10 points, name this
jazz pianist of the album Brilliant Corners, who composed the standards “Straight, No Chaser” and “Round
Midnight.”
ANSWER: Thelonious Sphere Monk
22. Two universities from this city contest the Battle of the Boulevard; those are Belmont and Lipscomb
Universities. Another university from this city won the 2014 NCAA Division 1 Baseball Tournament by
beating the Virginia Cavaliers. That university’s namesake stadium was home to this city’s NFL team for its
first year of existence. The Home (*) Run Throwback took place in this city during the 2000 NFL playoffs. A
reddit hockey thread noted that, for the current season, this city’s NFL team lost 14 games, losing more in 16 games
than its hockey team lost in regulation over 61 games. This city’s hockey players include Mike Fisher, James Neal,
Shea Weber and Pekka Rinne. For 10 points, name this city home to the NFL’s Titans and the NHL’s Predators.
ANSWER: Nashville, Tennessee
BONUSES
1. The attacking force at this battle hoped to seize Fort Union and open up the path to attack California. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this 1862 battle fought on the Sante Fe trail that saw Major Charles Pyron’s Confederates seize the
namesake geographic feature, though they were forced to retreat due to their supplies being cut by John Chivington.
ANSWER: Battle of Glorieta Pass
[10] Glorieta Pass is commonly called “[this battle] of the West.” During this 1863 battle, Joshua Chamberlain’s
men held Little Round Top with bayonets and Pickett’s charge failed.
ANSWER: Battle of Gettysburg
[10] John M. Chivington is better known for leading the Colorado Territorial militia in this 1864 massacre of a
village of Cheyenne and Arapaho. Like at Wounded Knee, this massacre mostly killed women and children.
ANSWER: Sand Creek massacre
2. The reunification of this activity’s world championship occurred in 2006 when Vladimir Kramnik defeated
Veselin Topalov despite forfeiting a game for protesting bathroom-use policies. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this activity, whose Classical and FIDE championships had split in 1993.
ANSWER: Chess
[10] Kramnik’s successor as World Champion, Vishy Anand, lost his crown in 2013 to this Norwegian prodigy, who
again defeated Anand in 2014. In 2010, this man became the youngest-ever world #1 player.
ANSWER: Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
[10] Anand’s only World Championship victory over Carlsen came playing this d4 opening. The “Accepted” variant
of this opening sees white give up a pawn but gain space on the board.
ANSWER: Queen’s Gambit
3. Ferrus and Breaker are two examples of this kind of work by Canadian artist Robert Murray. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this term coined by Jean Arp for abstract sheet metal sculptures. Examples include La Grande Vitesse in
Grand Falls, Michigan; Flamingo in Chicago’s Federal Plaza, and Flying Dragon in the Art Institute of Chicago.
ANSWER: stabiles
[10] Stabiles were created by Alexander Calder, who’s better known for creating these other abstract structures
exemplified by Lobster Trap and Fish Tail in the MoMA. Unlike stabiles, these works are kinetic and could move.
ANSWER: mobiles
[10] On the Carleton University campus, Robert Murray made a stabile called Tundra (for [this artist]). This colour
field painter designed the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the controversial Voice of Fire, now in Ottawa.
ANSWER: Barnett Newman
4. The first game in this collect-a-thon video game series was released in 1998 and had Gruntilda as the final boss.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this series that follows the title bear-bird team as they collect musical notes, puzzle pieces, honeycombs,
and Jiggies. The latest game in this series, since Microsoft purchased it, is subtitled Nuts & Bolts.
ANSWER: Banjo-Kazooie [prompt on Banjo-Tooie]
[10] This M-rated N64 game was released in 2001 and starred an alcoholic red squirrel as he fights a xenomorph, a
robotic haystack, the Panther King, and the Great Mighty Poo.
ANSWER: Conker’s Bad Fur Day [accept Conker: Live and Reloaded]
[10] Banjo-Kazooie and Conker’s Bad Fur Day were developed by this studio, known for its secrecy. It also made
Goldeneye 007 and the Donkey Kong Country series.
ANSWER: Rare Ltd.
5. John Oliver started the hashtag #NotMyChristian as a joke because he felt hurt for not being chosen as the male
lead in this recent film. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this movie with Dakota Johnson as Ana and Jamie Dornan as the billionaire Christian. The Weeknd song
“Earned It” is on its soundtrack.
ANSWER: Fifty Shades of Grey
[10] A viral parody trailer showed this other actor in the role of Christian Grey. The trailer uses footage from his
performances in Reservoir Dogs, Boardwalk Empire, and Mr. Deeds.
ANSWER: Steve Buscemi
[10] Jamie Dornan was cast when this actor bailed on playing Christian Grey. He fought Kaijus with Rinko Kikuchi
in Pacific Rim.
ANSWER: Charlie Hunnam
6. The “delta” of this quantity is often used as a measure of specific impulse in rocket kinematics. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this vector quantity, which is the derivative of the position.
ANSWER: velocity
[10] The time derivative of the specific energy of a rocket is equal to the dot product of velocity and this other
quantity. Non-inertial reference frames have a nonzero value for this quantity with respect to an inertial one.
ANSWER: acceleration
[10] In this effect, a rocket engine that fires at a high speed generates more energy than one fired at low speed. It is
the basis for the use of multistage rockets.
ANSWER: Oberth effect
7. John Barrowman first played Captain Jack Harkness on this BBC show. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this show in which Barrowman’s character saved the title Time Lord’s companion, Rose Tyler, from a
German bombing run.
ANSWER: Doctor Who
[10] After Doctor Who, Barrowman played Captain Jack Harkness in this spin-off series alongside Eve Myles’
Gwen Cooper. Its title institute was founded by Queen Victoria to combat alien threats.
ANSWER: Torchwood
[10] Recently, Barrowman has played this character on CW’s Arrow. This character is the archrival of Oliver Queen
and is planning the “Undertaking”.
ANSWER: Dark Archer [or the Magician; or Al-Sa-Her; or Malcolm Merlyn]
8. These songs are oldies but…. Well, they’re oldies from where I come from. Name some tunes from the 1950s, for
ten points each.
[10] This 1955 Chuck Berry song was played by Marty McFly in Back to the Future. It is about a country boy that
“could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell”.
ANSWER: “Johnny B. Goode”
[10] In Full House, Michelle was sung this Elvis tune before going to bed. In this song, Elvis sings that he doesn't
“wanna be a lion/ 'Cause lions ain't the kind you love enough”
ANSWER: “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear”
[10] Also famous as the theme for Happy Days, this Bill Haley and the Comets song states that when “it’s 8, 9, 10,
11 too, I’ll be goin’ strong and so will you.”
ANSWER: “Rock Around the Clock”
9. Samantha Kofer becomes a legal intern in Virginia’s coal mining country in this author’s latest novel, Gray
Mountain. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this American author who brought back Jack Brigance as the protagonist of his 2013 novel Sycamore
Row, which was a sequel to his pro-murder first novel.
ANSWER: John Grisham
[10] This first novel by John Grisham is about the trial of Carl Lee, who killed the two men who killed his daughter,
and is defended by Jack Brigance in a trial that is attacked by the KKK.
ANSWER: A Time to Kill
[10] Many Grisham novels are set in the fictional Clanton in this home state of Grisham’s. Other pop writers from
this state include Charlaine Harris and Kathryn Stockett.
ANSWER: Mississippi
10. The Anti-Reelectionist Party was started in opposition to a politician who held this office nearly uninterrupted
for 35 years. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this civilian position held by Porfirio Díaz. Another holder of this title, Venustiano Carranza, decided to
reject the Zimmerman Telegram, and many of its holders in the 20th century were from the PRI.
ANSWER: President of Mexico [or President of the United Mexican States; or Presidente de México; or
Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos; prompt on “Mexico’s head of state”]
[10] This time period includes a series of skirmishes and a 1913 coup that made General Victoriano Huerta
president. Huerta had conspired with mutinous general Félix Díaz and American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson.
ANSWER: Ten Tragic Days [or La Decena Trágica]
[10] This politician started the Mexican Revolution by releasing the Plan of San Luis Potosi and succeeded Porfirio
Díaz. He was killed on the last of the Ten Tragic Days.
ANSWER: Francisco Indalecio Madero González
11. This show added Paget Brewster and Keith David for its sixth season on Yahoo! Screen. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this show created by Dan Harmon and set at Greendale College. It stars Joel McHale and has theme
episodes about paintball wars.
ANSWER: Community
[10] This comedienne played Professor June Bauer, the teacher for Anthropology 101 who hit Starburns with a
blowdart. She later appears in a cameo discussing Inception with Congolese tribesmen.
ANSWER: Betty White (Ludden)
[10] This Star Trek actor played himself in the episode where Pierce gives everyone unnerving gifts at the hospital.
Troy is unable to talk to him.
ANSWER: LeVar Burton [or Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr.]
12. If current trends continue, all NBA starters will be Canadian by the year 2100. For 10 points each:
[10] Name the two Canadian forwards who went first overall in the 2013 and 2014 NBA entry drafts. They were
both traded to the Timberwolves for Kevin Love.
ANSWER: Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins
[10] This Canadian point guard won a championship backing up Tony Parker on the Spurs. He signed with the
Raptors in July 2015.
ANSWER: Cory Joseph
[10] This Canadian player retired in October 2014 before his 19th season due to chronic back pain. He was NBA
MVP in ‘05 and ‘06 when he led the Phoenix Suns to the Western Conference Finals.
ANSWER: Steve Nash
13. Fractal, rubble-pile, and icy-glue are variations of this model first set forth by Fred Whipple in 1954. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this model that was proven in 1986 by fly-by photos from the ESA’s Giotto. It states that the nucleus of a
certain object is a conglomerate of dust cemented by ice.
ANSWER: dirty snowball [or icy conglomerate until mentioned]
[10] The dirty snowball model describes these objects, which are found in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.
When they pass close to the sun, solar radiation and solar wind give them their “tails”
ANSWER: comets
[10] The dirty snowball model replaced this earlier model, which hypothesized that the comet nucleus was an
aggregate of dust and grains without cohesion.
ANSWER: sandbank model
14. Lenasia is a predominantly South Asian neighbourhood in this largest city in the world not found on a river,
ocean, or lake. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this city that now includes the Apartheid-era city of Soweto. Although the largest city in South Africa, it
is not one of that country’s three capitals.
ANSWER: Johannesburg [or eGoli; prompt on “JHB”]
[10] This city in Eastern Cape Province lies on Algoa Bay near the Addo Elephant National Park. Its Donkin
Reserve includes a stone pyramid monument dedicated by its founder, Sir Rufane Donkin, to his late wife.
ANSWER: Port Elizabeth [or The Bay; or Ibhayi; or Die Baai]
[10] This mountain range, part of the Great Escarpment, is the main range in South Africa and stretches from
Eastern Cape through Lesotho to KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo Provinces.
ANSWER: Drakensberg Mountains
15. This actress played Brianna Wallace, a spoiled heiress, in the 2001 Olsen twins film Holiday in the Sun. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this actress who won the Worst Supporting Actress at the 35th Razzies for her role as April O’Neil in the
2014 Ninja Turtles film. She gained widespread fame for her role as Mikaela Banes.
ANSWER: Megan (Denise) Fox
[10] This producer of the 2014 TMNT film also won a Worst Director Razzie for his work on Transformers: Age of
Extinction, which was the fourth explosive-laden Transformers film that he’d directed.
ANSWER: Michael (Benjamin) Bay
[10] One of the redeeming features of the 2014 TMNT film was the work of this actor who played Vern Fenwick,
April’s cameraman. He voiced Surly Squirrel in The Nut Job.
ANSWER: (William Emerson) Will Arnett
16. This court was merged with a similarly named body in 1998 and passed Protocol 14 in 2010 to deal with its
backlog that would’ve taken 46 years to clear. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Council of Europe-affiliated courts established in 1959 via a namesake convention. This Strasbourgbased court has 47 justices, including one from Russia.
ANSWER: European Court of Human Rights [or ECHR; or Cour européenne des droits de l’homme]
[10] The ECHR passed numerous decisions in favour of these people in Britain who were prosecuted through the
Labouchere Amendment and the Buggery Act of 1533. Lord Alfred Douglas defined them as engaging in “the love
that dare not speak its name.”
ANSWER: British homosexuals [or British gays, queers, sodomites, faggots, fudge packers, Poofs, Queens,
Backdoor Bandits, Chutney Ferrets and other historical/derogatory terms]
[10] The Labouchere Amendment defined a crime with this two word name. Homosexuals such as Oscar Wilde and
Alan Turing were convicted of this, which had lower burdens of proof than sodomy.
ANSWER: gross indecency
17. At the end of this song’s music video, a boy sits down on a couch and freezes in the same pose as its singer, who
plays a doll representing the boy’s missing father. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this song with lyrics such as “Dis-moi où es tu-caché?” This song’s title question references the singer’s
childhood experiences after the death of his father in the Rwandan Genocide.
ANSWER: “Papaoutai”
[10] “Papaoutai” is a hit single on this Rwandan-Belgian singer-songwriter’s sophomore album Racine Carrée. He
made the Euro-hits “Formidable” and “Alors on Danse.”
ANSWER: Stromae [or Paul Van Haver]
[10] Stromae’s music is in this language. A Eurovision-winner in this language was Switzerland’s 1988 “Ne partez
pas sans moi,” which was recorded by Céline Dion.
ANSWER: French [or Français; or equivalents like they’re Francophone]
18. In this work, the mysterious man who rescues the main character from a blizzard is later revealed to be
Pugachev. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel set around Pugachev’s Rebellion, which is framed as the memoir of the title character’s lover,
who faces bloody fighting and the douchebag Schvabrin.
ANSWER: The Captain’s Daughter [or Kapitanskaya dochka]
[10] The Captain’s Daughter is by this Russian author of the play Boris Godunov. He may be best known for his
poems Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman.
ANSWER: Alexander (Sergeyevich) Pushkin
[10] Pushkin also wrote this story in which Hermann marries an old countess’ ward after scaring the countess to
death with a pistol while trying to learn her gambling secrets.
ANSWER: “The Queen of Spades” [Pikovaya dama]
19. Answer some questions about Catholic mendicant orders, for 10 points each.
[10] A Latin pun on this order’s name led its members to be referred to as “hounds of the Lord.” It was founded by a
Spanish saint to preach against heretics, and its famous members include Albertus Magnus and Fra Angelico.
ANSWER: the Dominican Order or Order of Preachers or Ordo Praedicatorum
[10] John Duns Scotus and Roger Bacon were members of this order, referred to as the Greyfriars in England. Their
founder was a saint from Assisi, who was the patron saint of animals and namesake of exactly one pope.
ANSWER: the First Fransiscan Order or Order of Friars Minor or Ordo Fratrum Minorum
[10] This order of nuns founded by another saint from Assisi also follows the rule of Saint Francis. Its Perpetual
Peace branch is run by Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word TV Network in the U.S.
ANSWER: Poor Clares [or Order of St. Clare; Order of Poor Ladies; the Clarisses; the Minoresses; Franciscan
Clarist Order; prompt on Second Order of St. Francis]
20. In August 2014, President Hollande and President Gluck laid the foundation stone of a new monument
commemorating this anniversary event at Hartmannswillerkopf. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this commemorative event that will last until November 11, 2018.
ANSWER: Centenary of the First World War [or equivalents like hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the
First World War; prompt on stuff like “commemorating the First World War”]
[10] This London landmark was the site of “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red”, an art installation that used red
ceramic poppies to commemorate dead Commonwealth troops. You might also see the Crown Jewels here.
ANSWER: Tower of London [or Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress; prompt on “the Tower”]
[10] Ryoji Ikeda’s spectra [london] began exhibiting at the end of this August 2014 event in London. This event
recalled a statement by Sir Edward Grey about the First World War.
ANSWER: Lights Out