Ottawa Hybrid 2015
Editors’ packet #1
(Dennis Beeby, Ian Dewan, Chris Johnston, Aaron Kozak, Brendan McKendy, Rodrigo Morante, Shelby Robert,
Ben Smith, Joe Su)
1. This kind of spectroscopy is used in Chem-20 blood tests, and this phenomenon can be measured in Sabins.
The regions surrounding natural frequencies are this kind of bands, and Fraunhofer lines on a spectrum (*)
represent this phenomenon. One measurement of this equals a coefficient E times path length times concentration,
according to Beer's law, and that same measurement can be represented as the negative log of transmittance. This
kind of event excites a photon to a higher energy state, and a selective form of this phenomenon gives an object its
colour. For 10 points, name this property of dark objects, where an atom captures radiation or light.
ANSWER: absorption [accept absorbance]
2. The main character of this show alienates all his friends while shooting the film Three Eyes Wide Shut and
ends up going to the premiere alone. While trying to look smarter, Donny starts wearing glasses and tries to fit
the word “cornucopia” into his daily vocabulary on this show. In a dream sequence, another character on
this show sang that “we went to the moon in 1969” after forgetting to do a science assignment. Principal (*)
Wexler is tricked into thinking that there is a snowstorm in Sacramento by Beans and the main character so that he
can avoid taking an algebra test. For ten points name this Disney Channel show that starred Christy Carlson Romano
and Shia Labeouf as Ren and Louis.
ANSWER: Even Stevens
3. One of this band’s psychedelic songs begins with the lyrics “My, my, the clock in the sky is pounding away.
There's so much to say.” Another song by this band states that they’re a “manufactured image with no
philosophy.” As one of their tracks begins, their lead singer says, “Like, don’t get excited man. It’s cause I’m
short,” after being yelled at by his band members for not knowing which song to play. (*) “War Chant” and
“The Porpoise’s Song” are featured on their album Head, which was released alongside a film that starred this band
and was written by Jack Nicholson. They sing that “the six o’clock alarm would never ring” and, “Cheer up Sleepy
Gene” on one song. For 10 points, name this boy band known for “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “Daydream Believer,”
and “I’m a Believer.”
ANSWER: The Monkees
4. Victims in this event included Max Robinson, Reggie Williams, and Peter Staley. Demonstrations during this
event included Ray Navarro dressing up as Christ and protesters wrapping Jesse Helms' house in canvas.
The U.S. government responded to this with a controversial immigration ban and a CARE act sometimes
named for Ryan White. This event affected members of a (*) "four H club," and it inspired Cleve Jones to create
a memorial quilt. ACT UP used the anti-Reagan slogan "silence equals death" during this event, which affected
celebrities like Rock Hudson and Eazy-E, and which was sometimes blamed on the flight attendant Gaetan Dugas,
or "Patient Zero." For 10 points, name this health crisis that began among gay Americans in the 1980s.
ANSWER: (American) AIDS crisis [prompt on "HIV"; don't prompt on "gay rights"]
5. In the 2003 NBA All Star game this player gave away his starting spot to Michael Jordan. This player
tipped off the Sonics bench by announcing, “It’s a flare,” before his team ran a flare play, and according to
Jalen Rose, this player once (*) body-slammed his coach. In the 2014 playoffs, he scored a game winning threepointer against the Spurs which resembled a notorious shot he had missed against Philadelphia in the 2001 Playoffs.
This enemy of Sam Mitchell had a brief stint in Phoenix after being traded along with Marcin Gortat from the
Orlando Magic. For 10 points, name this current Memphis Grizzlies small forward best known for winning the 2000
dunk contest and playing alongside his cousin Tracy McGrady on the Toronto Raptors.
Answer: Vince Carter
6. One character in this novel is described as having a fox-like face, and is often seen eating a sausage sandwich.
Another character in this novel enjoys extolling the benefits of margarine, and needs to have her knees broken
when she is put into her coffin. That woman’s burial leads to the discovery that Jan (*) Bronski was shot after
defending a Post Office in this book. The protagonist’s father is either Jan or the Nazi Alfred, who swallows a pin,
and does not live to see Danzig freed from German occupation. The protagonist of this novel chooses to stop
growing at the age of three, has a glass-shattering scream, and enjoys playing with the title object. For 10 points,
name this first novel in the Danzig Trilogy, written by Gunter Grass.
ANSWER: The Tin Drum (accept Die Blechtrommel)
7. One character remembers throwing this book in a river, and an introduction to this book taunts the reader
for thinking it’s a long way down the road to the chemist. This “wholly remarkable” work describes a society
building three arks as a trick to get rid of a useless third of their population, (*) and Infinidum Enterprises
made a Mark II edition of it. Megadodo Publications insists that this book is definitive but reality is inaccurate, and
it explains that the knack of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. This book contains an extensive
section on the triple-breasted whore Eccentrica Gallumbits, and its entry about Earth is expanded to two words,
based on research by Ford Prefect. For 10 points, name this work that endorses towels and has the words “Don’t
Panic” in large, friendly letters on the cover.
ANSWER: the (fictional) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [prompt on partial answers]
8. Melissa Joan-Hart and Anthony Anderson appear in a series of 2014 Thanksgiving and Christmas
commercials for this company. A video by Mercy For Animals narrated by Joaquin Phoenix showed
undercover footage of cruelty to pigs at factory farms that supply pork (*) to this company. Former unionized
employees in Jonquiere, Quebec won a Supreme Court case for compensation after this company abruptly closed
their franchise. A fatigued truck driver for this company crashed into a limo and crippled Tracy Morgan, and the
6th-through-9th-richest people in America are the kids of its founder Sam. For 10 points, name this discount retailer
with the slogan “Save Money, Live Better.”
ANSWER: Wal-mart Stores, Inc.
9. John Cochlaeus caught William Roy making this product in Cologne, and Thomas Gerrard sold this
product at Oxford and Cambridge. William Warham and King's Men bought this product just to destroy it.
Peter Schoeffer and Johann Fust won a large inventory of this product (*) in a lawsuit, and John Rogers
produced it under the name Thomas Matthew. A 42-line type of this thing was created in Mainz in the 1450s. Miles
Coverdale and William Tyndale both produced these items, which are now available in Revised Standard and New
International Versions. For 10 points, name these items produced in the Reformation by people like Johannes
Gutenberg.
ANSWER: Bibles [prompt on “books”; accept "English Bibles" until Fust; prompt generously if someone says
something specific like "New Testaments"]
10. It's not a Psalm, but one of these contains the lines “Thou hast prevented him with the blessings of
goodness.” John Blow wrote one of these called “Behold, O God, Our Defender,” and Henry Purcell wrote one
called “My Heart is Inditing.” Hubert Parry’s “I was Glad” and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “O Taste and See”
are this type of composition, and a work of this type that uses the line “All the people rejoiced” in a 3/4
section was commissioned by (*) George II in 1727. One of these compositions refers to Nathan the Prophet, and
four of them were written from Bible verses by George Handel. For 10 points, name these pieces such as “Zadok the
Priest” which are performed at Westminster Abbey to honour people like Elizabeth Windsor.
ANSWER: Coronation anthems of England/Great Britain/the United Kingdom [accept anything that clearly means
choral music performed at coronations in the UK]
11. Margaret Eichler wrote about seven biases inherent in these institutions. Morgan's three stages of society
inspired a four-stage breakdown of these things, including a Punaluan type, which appeared in a book that says
these things were shaped by Bourgeois property law. Stephanie Coontz said they were defined by a "nostalgia
trap" in (*) The Way We Never Were. George Murdock identified four functions that these things perform, and
Engels wrote a book about their supposed origin. Malinowski's "principle of legitimacy" suggests that these entities
perform sexual regulation, and Talcott Parsons emphasized their role in socializing children. Comprising a single
economic unit, for 10 points, name these domestic groups which can be blended or nuclear and which often consist
of parents and children.
ANSWER: families [accept "kinship groups" or “households”; prompt on more specific answers]
12. A character in this movie was based on Harold Jaffe, and the frantic song “Moonshine” plays over its end
credits. Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock won an Oscar for this movie, which has three characters
casually switch cable cars in mid-air. After the butler Serge is killed in this movie, the heroes chase after
Jopling, played by (*) Willem Defoe. A balalaika score for this movie is Alexandre Desplat’s first Oscar win, and it
depicts a half-ounce vial of L’Air de Panache being procured from Monsieur Ivan, played by Bill Murray. All of
these events are part of a plot in this movie to own the MacGuffin painting Boy with Apple, which Dmitri thought he
would inherit from Tilda Swinton’s old-lady character. Young Zero, played by Tony Revolori, is the lobby boy of
the title location, and assists the manager Gustave H. For 10 points, name this Wes Anderson film set in Eastern
Europe.
ANSWER: The Grand Budapest Hotel
13. One of these things existed between the Kula and Farallon plates in the Late Cretaceous period and was
created by the rupture of the Farallon plate. In the crust parallel to these formations, magnetic field inversions
create alternating stripes of normal and inverse magnetic polarity. Depressurization melting of the mantle (*)
creates basalt and gabbro at these sites, which have rift valleys down their spines. These things all link together
around the globe, and hydrothermal vents at these locations are full of sulfur and are called black smokers. In
seafloor spreading, new oceanic crust is created at these sites. Formed from igneous rock at divergent plate
boundaries, for 10 points, name these large underwater mountain ranges such as the East Pacific Rise.
ANSWER: mid-ocean ridges [accept oceanic spreading centres; prompt on partial; prompt on divergent
boundaries or rift valleys by asking what the big things are at those locations]
14. A track on one of this rapper’s albums features two women ordering an apple martini and a cosmo from a
drunk offensive bartender. A guest rapper says “I caught a guy/ give me an (*) awkward eye/ and I strangled
him up in the parking lot,” on a song where this rapper asks, “Who you think taught you to smoke trees?” This man
rapped, “He just took some Ectasy/ Aint’ no telling what the side effects could be,” and on a radio show, Chris Pratt
rapped a verse about standing with this man next to a burned-down house. This rapper made the song “Let’s Get
High” with Snoop Dogg and signed Eminem to Aftermath Entertainment. For 10 points, name this wealthy rapper
who hasn’t released an album since Chronic 2001.
ANSWER: Dr. Dre [prompt Eminem on the “parking lot” or Chris Pratt clues by asking who the lead artist was]
15. One character in this game can be given a “subterranean bunny-pig” as a gift, which she names Schmooples.
An oft-quoted religious text in this game states that “Blessed are they that stand before the corrupt and the
wicked and do not falter. Blessed are the peacemakers, champions of the just”. That text is the Chant of
Light. Leadership of one locale in this game can be given to either Bhelen or Harrowmont, (*) the former of
which is the scheming younger brother of players with a “Dwarf Noble” background. That locale is Orzammar, and
is where the player picks up a companion named Oghren. Other companions include a Qunari known as Sten, a
mage named Morrigan, and Alistair. For 10 points name this Bioware game whose most recent sequel deals with an
inquisition.
ANSWER: Dragon Age: Origins (Prompt on “Dragon Age”, do not accept “Dragon Age 1”)
16. This author wrote of a woman correctly guessing that a basket contained a weaving, a necklace, and an
olive branch to reunite with her son. In another work by this author, a large drunk person says he will rest
well with Ganymede, as he prefers lads to wenches. A bastard son of Creusa and Apollo (*) works at a temple
of Apollo in a play by this author, who wrote the only fully-surviving satyr play. This author of Ion and The Cyclops
wrote a play where the heroine flies offstage in a chariot of Helios after using a poisoned cloak to murder her
husband and children. For 10 points, name this Socrates-inspired playwright of Medea.
ANSWER: Euripides
17. This man played a cable guy whose wife forgets their 20th anniversary, and he played a radio host named
Mingus who meets Julie Delpy’s family in New York. He considered cheating on Gina Torres in a loose
remake of Eric Rohmer’s Chloe in the Afternoon, (*) and in another movie, this actor listened to a rapper sing a
Charlie Chaplin song in prison and threw beers at a grocery-store display of beer. In Dogma this actor plays Rufus,
the forgotten thirteenth apostle, and in another movie, he played a Dutty Boukman-inspired entertainer trying to
avoid his own reality-TV marriage. For 10 points name this comedian who falls for Rosario Dawson in Top Five and
voices Marty the zebra in the Madagascar movies.
ANSWER: Chris Rock
18. Samuel von Cocceji reformed the courts under this monarch, who commissioned the palace Sanssouci and
whose rétablissement program attracted immigrant farmers. The author of Anti-Machiavel, this ruler was
caught trying to flee to England with Hans von Katte, and he wrote that “Everything is lost” following a
disastrous defeat at (*) Kunersdorf. This man checked the ambitions of Joseph II in the Potato War, and tourists
now leave potatoes on his grave. This leader allied with England in the Diplomatic Revolution, and he violated the
Pragmatic Sanction shortly after his accession in 1740. This man engineered the First Partition of Poland, and the
wars he provoked with Austria included his conquest of Silesia and his invasion of Saxony to start the Seven Years'
War. For 10 points, name this enlightened despot of Prussia.
ANSWER: Frederick the Great [or Frederick II; or Friedrich der Grosse]
19. This character is called an Adonis and told he could get women 20 years younger, but later he is advised
to "hang on" to anyone who will go near him "like grim death, which isn't far away." After this character
puts Nana in a home, it is discovered he cheated his sister out of fifty dollars from a racetrack win. This
character is mocked on The Tonight Show for his fear of (*) anti-semitism, and when his girlfriend laughs at the
joke, he calls her an anti-semite. This character is finally told "hello" after being ratted out for shoplifting books, and
in another episode, this character discovers a watch in the trash that he later fights over with his nephew in a
restaurant bathroom. Often bragging about his son Jeffrey who works in the Parks Department, for 10 points, name
this brother of Helen played by Len Lesser, who often remarks “Jerry! Hello!”
ANSWER: Uncle Leo
20. In this character’s first appearance, his steed is described as a gytrash and towards the end of the novel, the
narrator hears this character’s voice in the wind. Lord and Lady Ingram wonder whether this character in
disguise is a real fortune-teller. This character proposes to his future (*) wife under a chestnut tree, which is
later destroyed by lightning, though his marriage is ultimately interrupted by Mr. Mason from the West Indies. After
his hand and eyes were maimed in a fire, this man retires to Ferndean. He once had a passionate affair with Celine
Varens, whose daughter Adele he now cares for. For 10 points, name this man who keeps his insane wife Bertha in
the attic and who goes on to marry Jane Eyre.
ANSWER: Edward Fairfax Rochester
21. While engaged in this practice, people greet each other by saying "Habari gani." Components of this
practice honour "nia" and "inami," meaning purpose and faith. This practice involves giving handmade gifts
called zawadi, and part of this practice is that the oldest person in attendance pours libations (*) from a unity
cup. One ear of corn for every child in the house is used for this practice, which sometimes has a colour scheme
based on the bendara flag and which follows seven principles represented by seven symbols. This practice includes a
feast called a karamu and a candleholder called a kinara which holds red, green, and black candles. For 10 points,
name this practice which began in the 60's and which takes place from Boxing Day to New Year's, a secular
African-American holiday.
ANSWER: (celebrating) Kwanzaa
BONUSES
1. This treaty obliged "Annex I" countries to keep national inventories of their greenhouse gas emissions, and
member countries meet every year at a C.O.P. conference. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this non-specific climate change treaty signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.
ANSWER: UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change)
[10] This 1997 Treaty extended the Framework Convention into firm emissions targets for signatory countries.
Canada ratified this treaty but then withdrew from it in 2012.
ANSWER: the Kyoto Protocol
[10] Agreements between the U.S. and China on cutting emissions will likely be finalized at a 2015 conference in
this city. The Megacities project installed a carbon monitoring station atop an iron tower in this city.
ANSWER: Paris (France)
2. Detroit Red Wings from this country have included Nicklas Lidstrom and Henrik Zetterberg. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Nordic country that won the men’s hockey gold in Turin, defeating the Czech Republic in the gold
medal game.
ANSWER: Sweden
[10] This Swede won the 2010 Hart trophy as a center for the Vancouver Canucks. He became Canucks’ captain that
season after Roberto Luongo stepped down, and he plays on a line with his brother Daniel.
ANSWER: Henrik Sedin
[10] The Sedin twins and Hall of Famer Peter Forsberg all matriculated in this Swedish Elite League team. This
team is based in Ornskolsvik and their current captain is ex-NHLer Samuel Pahlsson.
ANSWER: Modo Hockey
3. In this movie, Schmidt gets attacked by an Octopus and Jenko says “something awesome” before throwing a
grenade into a helicopter. For ten points each:
[10] Name this 2014 sequel in which Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play undercover agents trying to find the
supplier of the “WHY-PHY” drug at the Metrocity College.
ANSWER: 22 Jump Street
[10] A faux-flashback at the beginning of 22 Jump Street shows Schmidt and Jenko clumsily trying to cook this
dish, in tribute to a similar scene in Annie Hall.
ANSWER: lobster(s)
[10] In the closing credits segment, “27 Jump Street: Culinary School,” this actor appears dressed as a chef and gets
stabbed by Jenko. He played the reporter Herb Welch, and he voiced Fear in Inside Out.
ANSWER: Bill Hader
4. Li Hongzhang founded the Jiangnan Arsenal in this city, which eventually produced China's first steamship. For
10 points each:
[10] Name this present-day financial centre in the Yangtze River delta.
ANSWER: Shanghai
[10] The Jiangnan Arsenal was part of this wave of armory and ironworks projects under Empress Cixi.
ANSWER: Self-Strengthening movement [or "Yang Wu Yun Dong" or "Zi Qiang Yun Dong"]
[10] Shanghai was one of five "treaty ports" opened following China's loss to the U.K. in this war.
ANSWER: First Opium War [prompt on partial]
5. Everybody has watched at least one property selling/buying show while they were home sick with a cold and
strung out on Nyquil. Name some of these shows. For ten points each:
[10] Jonathan and Drew Scott help families buy fixer-uppers on this show, where Drew focuses on the real estate
and Jonathan on the renovations of the houses.
ANSWER: Property Brothers
[10] Property Brothers airs on this network along with shows like Holmes on Homes, Love it or List it and Disaster
DIY.
ANSWER: Home and Garden Television (Accept HGTV)
[10] This HGTV spinoff show depicts rich people saying they want to “simplify” their lives by leaving the country.
It is almost certainly fake and staged.
ANSWER: House Hunters International (don’t prompt on House Hunters)
6. The hero in this novel buys lilies-of-the-valley for his fiancee but buys roses for her cousin. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this book about a man who questions his place in New York high society. It ends with a trip to Paris,
where the hero decides to not go up and visit the woman he loves.
ANSWER: The Age of Innocence
[10] Though this man buys an extravagant diamond necklace for his wife, he is soon discovered to be broke. This
douchebaggy character in Age of Innocence competes with Newland Archer for Ellen’s love until he gets caught up
in a banking scandal.
ANSWER: Julius Beaufort [accept either]
[10] Age of Innocence is by this American author, the first woman to win a Pulitzer for Fiction. She also wrote about
Undine Spragg in the Custom of the Country and Lily Bart in House of Mirth.
ANSWER: Edith Wharton
7. This fighter wore a shirt that said “Not Quite Human” for his Toronto fight against Alexander Gustafsson. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this light heavyweight champ who tested positive for cocaine and spent exactly one night in rehab, who
is considered, pound-for-pound, the best active MMA fighter.
ANSWER: Jon "Bones" Jones
[10] Jones defended his title in January 2015 in a decision over this former Olympic wrestler and champion from the
defunct Strikeforce MMA federation.
ANSWER: Daniel Cormier [prompt on "Black Fedor"]
[10] Leading into the Cormier fight, Jones sparred with this aging MMA fighter called "the Spider," who used an
armbar to defeat Chael Sonnen once.
ANSWER: Anderson Silva
8. A journey to this place begins with a man winning ten bucks from scratch tickets and buying a six-pack. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this place to which we're "laughing all the way" with our inner tube and our trailer hitch.
ANSWER: the “River Bank”
[10] "River Bank" is a song by this moderately funny country singer of "Mud on the Tires," "Whiskey Lullaby," and
"Southern Comfort Zone."
ANSWER: Brad Paisley
[10] Paisley may be best-known for this song about wearing a confederate flag shirt to a Starbucks. It features LL
Cool J asking us not to judge his do-rag.
ANSWER: "Accidental Racist"
9. In Japanese culture the idea of taking one’s “proper station,” whether in your standing in society or even in the
family home, is highly valued. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this derogatory Japanese word for the “nouveau riche” who step outside of their “proper station.” It
comes from a word for a pawn being transformed into a queen in chess.
ANSWER: Narikin
[10] Concepts like “proper station” and self-discipline are discussed in this Ruth Benedict book which was
commissioned by the Office of War Information to better understand the Japanese in World War Two.
ANSWER: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
[10] In the chapter “Japanese at War,” Benedict discusses how the Japanese belief in the superiority of the spiritual
over the material explained their use of these “Special Attack Units.”
ANSWER: kamikaze
10. Played by Ellar Coltrane, this character receives a suit, a shotgun, and a CD of post-Beatles solo songs on his
15th birthday. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this main character of Boyhood who deals with moving cities, having an alcoholic stepdad, and being
called unfocused for only caring about photography.
ANSWER: Mason Evans Jr. [accept either name]
[10] This director dragged his daughter Lorelei into playing Mason’s sister in Boyhood. He also made Dazed and
Confused and School of Rock.
ANSWER: Richard Linklater
[10] In another Linklater movie, Jack Black plays this funeral director who kills Shirley MacLaine with a shotgun.
ANSWER: Bernie Tiede [accept either]
11. This man’s paper “The Chemical Basis for Morphogenesis” developed the reaction-diffusion theory in
mathematical biology. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this logician who also theorized about computability with Alonzo Church and designed a “bombe” to
decipher the Enigma machine codes when he worked at Bletchley Park in World War Two.
ANSWER: Alan Mathison Turing
[10] In his work on this Hilbert-derived logic problem, Turing showed that finding an algorithm to determine if a
statement of first-order logic was valid was equivalent to solving the halting problem for a Turing machine.
ANSWER: The Entscheidungsproblem [or decision problem]
[10] While working on the Entscheidungsproblem, Church devised this model of computation, which Turing
showed was equivalent to the Turing machine. It is named for the letter it uses to express function abstraction.
ANSWER: Lambda calculus
12. “This is our town, scrub.” “Yeah, beat it!” For 10 points each, answer some Hearthstone questions.
[10] The former quote is said by this Hearthstone card and his accomplice when he is played and his combo ability
is activated. This minion costs two mana and summons a 2/1 Bandit.
ANSWER: Defias Ringleader
[10] Defias Ringleader is a card in this class, which builds combo decks using Eviscerate and Blade Flurry. In
WoW, this class deals melee damage, and in Dungeons and Dragons it can pick locks and disarm traps.
ANSWER: Rogue
[10] Going second in Hearthstone gets you this card, which gives you a free mana to play Defias Ringleader on turn
one.
ANSWER: the Coin
13. Dan Simberloff did research on species richness of arthropods in the mangrove type of these locales. For 10
points each:
[10] Simberloff’s research was testing the equilibrium theory of these places’ biogeography. That theory describes
the effect of these locations’ isolation and size on the number of species found there.
ANSWER: islands
[10] This rate, for an island, is inverse to the number of species already present, because newly arrived individuals
are more likely to be from a species already present.
ANSWER: immigration rate (of species)
[10] The equilibrium theory of island biogeography is this type of theory, because it considers all of the individual
units (i.e. species) to be indistinguishable.
ANSWER: neutral model
14. The music video to this song shows the lead singer sitting on a bench beside a man in a pig costume and shows
the faces of several people smiling. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this song from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots which states that “The sun doesn’t go down, it’s just an
illusion caused by the world spinning round.”
ANSWER: “Do You Realize???”
[10] Led by Wayne Coyne, this band recorded the songs “Do You Realize,” “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song,” and
“Fight Test,” as well as the Beatles tribute album With a Little Help from my Fwends.
ANSWER: The Flaming Lips
[10] In With a Little Help From my Fwends, the Flaming Lips covered “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” with this
singer, as seen at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards.
ANSWER: Miley Cyrus
15. No, you cannot has cheezburger until you improve your grammar and spelling! Here are some tips, for 10 points
each.
[10] According to Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half, this creature is better than you at everything. She imagines
that instead of trying to describe a large amount of something, people are actually describing this creature, which
can be made of fire, mist, or beer cans.
ANSWER: Alot or A Lot (monster)
[10] This webcomic’s party gorilla has helped you use a semi colon and it described “whom” as “vocabulary
drenched in bourbon, monocles and mustaches.” It has popular strips about sriracha and Nikola Tesla.
ANSWER: The Oatmeal
[10] In a comic rewrite contest, this webcomic featured a man who was allergic to grammatical errors. It is posted at
explosm.net.
ANSWER: Cyanide and Happiness
16. In this reaction, a free pair on the nucleophile attacks the σ* [sigma-star] orbital of the alpha-carbon/leaving
group bond, producing an inversion of configuration. For 10 points each:
[10] This important organic reaction involves replacing a leaving group on a carbon atom with a nucleophile in a
single concerted step, involving two molecules passing through a pentavalent transition state.
ANSWER: SN2 or dimolecular nucleophilic substitution
[10] SN2 reactions are different from SN1 reactions, which involve two steps. In the first, the leaving group
dissociates from the substrate, producing this type of positively charged molecule with an empty p-orbital.
ANSWER: a carbocation [accept carbenium ion, but NOT carbonium ion; prompt on just “cation”]
[10] Hydroxyl groups are poor leaving groups, so they are activated by being converted to tosyl groups. Both
hydroxyls and tosyls include this element which is involved in combustion reactions.
ANSWER: oxygen
17. This work describes “A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,/A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief”. For
10 points each,
[10] Name this poem that describes its author’s inability to write. It was originally addressed to Sara Hutchinson,
and claims that “. . .we receive but what we give/And in our life alone does Nature live”.
ANSWER: “Dejection: An Ode”
[10] This author wrote “Dejection: An Ode.” He is more famous for works like “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
and “Kubla Khan.”
ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[10] In the poem, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner tells his story to this character. This character is stopped by the
mariner just as he was hoping to catch a feast.
ANSWER: The Wedding-Guest (accept reasonable equivalents describing someone going to a wedding)
18. This 1921 work solved all problems in philosophy, at least according to its author. For 10 points each:
[10] This book, its author’s only non-posthumous work, distinguishes between things that can be said and those that
can merely be shown. The author compared it to a ladder to be climbed and then discarded.
ANSWER: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [or Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung]
[10] The Tractatus was a work of this analytic philosopher, who later changed his mind about having solved
philosophy, and wrote The Blue and Brown Books, Philosophical Investigations, and Culture and Value.
ANSWER: Ludwig (Josef Johann) Wittgenstein
[10] Wittgenstein may have threatened this philosopher with a poker when he gave a speech to the Cambridge Moral
Sciences Club. This philosopher is known for limiting scientific theories to those that can be falsified.
ANSWER: (Sir) Karl (Raimund) Popper
19. This man painted several portraits of street urchins including the Cross Eyed Boy and Paddy Flanagan. One of
his paintings shows people on a street in a hot summer day under hanging clothes. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this New York painter of the Cliff Dwellers and Pennsylvania Station Excavation.
ANSWER: George Wesley Bellows
[10] Bellows is perhaps best known for drawing these people, such as in his painting Stag at Starkey’s, which shows
two of these people with red blurry faces.
ANSWER: boxers
[10] Like Robert Henri and Edward Hopper, Bellows belonged to this New York art movement which painted a lot
of street scenes using rough brushstrokes.
ANSWER: Ashcan School
20. Name some popular vehicles, for 10 points each:
[10] This aluminum-bodied truck was the best-selling vehicle in Canada and the States in 2014. It has a "gamechanging 4-engine lineup," and a “Forward March” commercial claims it’s “the future of tough.”
ANSWER: Ford F Series [or F-150; prompt on just "Ford"]
[10] Though Toyota Camrys and Corollas sell better in the States, this compact car has been the best-selling in
Canada since 1997. Ads for it used to show a choir imitating the sounds it makes.
ANSWER: Honda Civic
[10] Canada's top-selling minivan is this Windsor-built vehicle, which Chrysler is now discontinuing in favour of a
new line of Town and Country.
ANSWER: Dodge Grand Caravan