Subject: Video games, board games, other games, etc.
Packet by Anderson Wang and Josh Alman
1. In one game, a battle is fought at this location right after defeating 30 purple polyhedra. During that battle,
many colored lines move through this location’s background, and that background becomes a purple fog
when the enemy is down to 200 HP. In another game, this stage can be unlocked by defeating Ganondorf,
Mewtwo, and (*) Giga Bowser in the 51st event match. One video about this location contains a stick figure surfing
the web and another jumping out of the screen and screaming, “No bookmarks. No plugins. Firefox only.” Reaching
this location in under 9 minutes with difficulty set to at least Hard in Brawl’s Classic Mode will allow the player to
fight a “Crazy” version of the boss usually seen on this stage. For 10 points, name this extremely flat stage in the
Super Smash Bros. series where Master Hand is fought.
ANSWER: Final Destination
2. One part of this game has the player circle around haystacks to make them glow blue while moving
between street lamps at night, and another involves activating wind turbines during a sunset. One stage in
this game contains metal structures with red lights that can electrify the player but are harmless after turning
white. This game’s level selection screen is an apartment window looking out at a city, and selecting a picture
frame on the windowsill after beating the other six levels plays through this game’s credits. This game was
developed by a company led by (*) Jenova Chen that also produced Flow and Journey. Pushing any button blows
the wind harder in this game, and tilting the controller is used for steering. For 10 points, name this PS3 game
created by thatgamecompany in which players control the wind to blow around and gather petals.
ANSWER: Flower
3. In one game, this action can be performed with modifiers such as Boomerang, Tornado, Dizzy, and C450.
In that game, scoring 96 percent on this action gives you a grade of one star, while 100 percent is required for
a quad star, and hitting a mine subtracts six points. In another game, this action can be done in Oni Mode,
and this action is graded on (*) stream, voltage, air, chaos, and freeze. This action is performed in the games Pump
it Up and In the Groove. In a Konami game, this action’s difficulty can be categorized as Beginner, Light, Standard,
or Heavy, and based on the timing, the player can receive feedback of Miss, Almost, Good, Great, or Perfect. For 10
points, name this action performed while playing Stepmania or DDR, which involves hitting arrows laid out in a
cross pattern with your feet.
ANSWER: dancing [accept equivalents; accept In the Groove, Stepmania, or Dance Dance Revolution before
mentioned]
4. In a game with this object in the title, the player finds winged shoes and a pickaxe, and then has to escape
from a cave in 7 minutes while mining as much gold as possible. Messhof created a game called “You found
the” this item. In Terraria, crafting this object with 3 Vines and 12 Jungle Spores results in an Ivy Whip. In
Phantom Hourglass, this object is used on two of four pegs to reflect balls of fire and ice during the Gleeok
fight. Opening a parachute while using this device performs a slingshot in Just Cause 2. In another game, this
object is used on Valoo’s tail to defeat Gohma, the boss of (*) Dragon Roost Cavern, and it can be equipped on
the King of Red Lions to salvage treasure chests. Medli gives this object to Link after he rescues her in The Wind
Waker, and it should not be confused with a similarly named item found in the Wind Temple, the Hookshot. For 10
points, name this device commonly used in games to latch on to things and pull the player towards them.
ANSWER: grappling hook [prompt on “hook”; do not accept or prompt on “hookshot” or other wrong answers]
5. A remix of this song appears with tracks by Fred Deakin, Paul Hartnoll, Markus Schulz, Moby, and Philip
Glass on the Windows version of Chime. This song is the only free DLC released for Rock Band: Unplugged.
In another game, radios set to the frequency 85.2 FM play a samba version of this song. An update
introduced the achievement “Transmission Received”, which required the player to transport those radios
playing this song to specific areas as part of an (*) alternate reality game. In this song, the singer states “I think I
prefer to stay inside” and “I’m being so sincere right now”. The singer also jokes “HA HA. FAT CHANCE,” when
wondering if Black Mesa would help you, and this song’s counterpart in the sequel is “Want You Gone”. This song
performed by Ellen McLain begins with the lyrics “This was a triumph. I’m making a note here.” For 10 points,
name this song written by Jonathan Coulton which GLaDOS sings to Chell in the credits of Portal.
ANSWER: “Still Alive” [prompt on “the credits song in Portal” or similar answers]
6. The Vilani, Zhodani, and Solomani are all of this race in the Traveller RPG. In Epic Munchkin, this race’s
epic feat is called “Pets Rock”, and this is also the only race that can equip the Bad-Ass Bandana in
Munchkin. The warrior deity Sigmar united tribes of this race to form The Empire in Warhammer Fantasy
lore. In the Pathfinder RPG, this is the only race which receives a bonus feat as well as an extra skill rank at
first level. Members of this race start in (*) Northshire Valley, and Varian Wrynn is the leader of Stormwind, a
kingdom of this race, in World of Warcraft. In Dungeons & Dragons, half-elves are the offspring of elves and this
race, which is also the only playable race in RuneScape. For 10 points, name this race which may have evolved from
Australopithecus, whose scientific name is Homo sapiens.
ANSWER: humankind [accept equivalents]
7. In the Facebook version of this game, the protagonist evolves into a panda, followed by a wolf, gorilla,
sabretooth tiger, and dragon. The song used in this game has a music video in which a guy in a red mask
throws a marble that turns into a giant snowball, trapping a man and his lover inside. That song also states
“Melting the ice for me/Jump into the ocean” and asks “When it’s cold outside/Am I here in vain?” Another
version of this game uses a Blind Guardian song titled (*) “Battlefield” and is subtitled Heavy Metal. Dolphins
first appear on the screen when the player reaches 5000 points, and this game’s menu notably states “Press Z to
make your wishes come true”. Points may be scored by collecting pixies or destroying pink stars by dashing through
them. For 10 points, name this Adult Swim flash game featuring a mechanized one-horned mythological beast.
ANSWER: Robot Unicorn Attack [accept Robot Unicorn Attack: Evolution, prompt on partial answers]
8. In this game, a beast called a “murderous winged devil” is behind 4 doors of progressively smaller size, but
it turns out to be a parrot. One character says “I’m Bobbin. Are you my mother?” after being shot out of a
cannon in exchange for 478 gold pieces. To make a voodoo spell in this game, the protagonist mixes together
ingredients including cinnamon sticks, gunpowder, four breath mints, and a rubber chicken with a pulley in
the middle. One character in this game disguises himself as Sheriff (*) Fester Shinetop and kidnaps Elaine
Marley. Locations in this game include the Scumm Bar, Captain Smirk’s Gym, and Stan’s Previously Owned
Vessels. In this game, Carla the Sword Master is defeated in the activity of insult swordfighting. For 10 points, name
this LucasArts game which begins on Mêlée Island and features LeChuck and Guybrush Threepwood, the first game
in the Monkey Island series.
ANSWER: The Secret of Monkey Island [prompt on “Monkey Island” before mention; do not accept any other
titles]
9. In this country, the USK is responsible for video game content ratings. Bigpoint Games is centered in this
country, and another developer from this country made Far Cry as well as a game in which Prophet steals the
Nanosuit 2 and commits suicide to give it to Alcatraz. The board game Thurn and Taxis involves building post
office routes in this country. One chess player from this country sacrificed a bishop, both rooks, and his
queen to checkmate Lionel Kieseritzsky in the (*) Immortal Game. The company Crytek, which developed
Crysis, is centered in this country. This is the home country of the enemies fought by B.J. Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein
3D. In general, tabletop games which emphasize strategy and minimize chance are called this country-”style” board
games. For 10 points, name this country that hosts the world’s largest show for board and card games, Spiel, which
is held in Essen.
ANSWER: Germany
10. This man created a tactical shooter in which it is possible to enter powerups and enemies to change their
attributes. As part of a challenge to create a game that could be a religion, this man designed a Minecraft mod
contained in a flash drive called Chain World. This guy also created a storytelling game titled Sleep is Death.
In a different game by this man, the player controls a pixellated blue-eyed guy who plays catch with his
blonde daughter and can have his head catch on fire. In another low-res game by this designer that lasts
exactly 5 minutes, the player can receive points by walking or by opening chests with blue stars in them, and
gradually (*) moves across the screen when progressing from childhood to old age and death. For 10 points, name
this man known for his art games like Gravitation and Passage.
ANSWER: Jason Rohrer
11. The 2010 World Championship of this was held in Philadelphia and won by Jan Mrozowski. Variations of
this include Thermometer, Arrow, and Kropki, and the Samurai version contains five interconnected ones.
Winners of the U.S. Championship in this include Wei-Hwa Huang and Thomas Snyder. Techniques used for
this include Swordfish, (*) X-Wings, and Naked Pairs. In 2012, Gary McGuire showed that doing one of these is
impossible with less than 17 givens. These things were famously published by Nikoli under a name that literally
means “the digits must be single”. It is similar to KenKen in that both have a Latin square constraint. For 10 points,
name this kind of logic puzzle which consists of filling in a grid so every row, column, and three by three box
contains all digits from 1 to 9.
ANSWER: sudoku puzzles [accept anything involving sudoku]
12. Jak receives this ability after using his hoverboard to collect 18 floating symbols in the Monk Temple, and
this ability is activated by pressing L2 and square while as Light Jak. Amaterasu uses this ability by drawing
two horizontal lines to perform the Veil of Mist technique in Okami. In God of War II, the player activates this
ability by pressing L1 and R1 while standing near a statue with a green crystal on top. In Dishonored,
upgrading this ability to level two requires a whopping eight runes. By making a well-timed dodge, (*)
Bayonetta can activate this ability. In another game, using this ability requires adrenaline, which is measured by an
hourglass symbol. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, using the Shadow the Hedgehog assist trophy will cause him to
perform Chaos Control, which activates this ability. For 10 points, name this ability used by both Max Payne and
Neo from The Matrix to dodge bullets.
ANSWER: slowing time [accept equivalents; be nice and accept freezing time, stopping time, or equivalents;
accept bend time; accept bullet time; accept witch time; prompt on “time manipulation” or things like that; do not
accept or prompt on “reversing time” or similar answers]
13. Playing this sport is the only way to acquire the Jupiter Sigil, which is used to upgrade the World
Champion celestial weapon. One famous technique in this sport has “Mark III” in its name because that
technique’s creator wanted the crowd to “come back every night expecting to see Mark I and Mark II”.
Other techniques in this sport include Venom Shot, Wither Pass, and Drain Tackle. The overdrives Element
Reels and Attack Reels can be won as prizes from this sport. Jassu, Botta, Datto, and Letty all play this sport
for the (*) Besaid Aurochs. During a tournament of this sport in Luca, the stadium is attacked by a ton of fiends, but
they are all owned when Seymour summons his aeon, Anima. Both the protagonist and his father, Jecht, were star
players of this sport for the Zanarkand Abes. For 10 points, name this underwater sport notably played by Wakka
and Tidus in Final Fantasy X.
ANSWER: blitzball
14. One boss in the shape of this object can be defeated by throwing Knik-Knaks into its mouth and is named
Belcha. In one game, rockkrocs can only be defeated with the Stop & Go type of this object, and checkpoints
are these things with white stars painted on them. Kremlings which wear this object are known as Klobbers
and attempt to ram the player. The TNT kind of this object is used to kill both Dogadon and Army Dillo in an
N64 game. In that game, after jumping inside one of these objects, the player can switch between characters
like (*) Lanky or Chunky. In an arcade game, a blue one of these objects hits an oil drum, causing it to catch on fire
and spawn living fireballs. Driving into a cannon shaped like this object shoots the player to the top of a volcano in a
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! stage. These objects are thrown at Jumpman in the 25m stage of the original Donkey
Kong. For 10 points, in the Corneria stage of Star Fox 64, Peppy instructs Fox to perform what kind of “roll”?
ANSWER: barrels [accept barrel roll]
15. One game in this series contains a fifteen puzzle that doesn’t need to be touched unless a trident is under
the statue below it. Mini-games in this series include one where your drawings appear in the clouds, and
Costume Catastrophe where you need to find the odd shrimp out. In another game in this series, you can only
talk to Horst after trading for a phrase book, which yields a (*) Shim-Sham-Jimmety-Jam-Clapper-Gapper. It
features characters like Phineas McFinn, Saltwater Stella, and Calico Catfish. Created by the makers of Backyard
Baseball, Humongous Entertainment, the first game in this series opens with the player bringing flowers to Grandma
Grouper, whose treasure chest of kelp has been stolen! For 10 points, name this series in which the small green
Luther helps the title yellow fish to solve mysteries.
ANSWER: Freddi Fish series of games [be lenient and accept “Freddi Fish and the Case of the Haunted
Schoolhouse” or “Freddi Fish 2” before “drawings appear in the clouds”]
16. They should be kept asleep in Barrel Peril and Sneak ‘n Snore, and they are invincible in Jungle Hut. Two
points are earned if one eats a ball after being pelted by a bomb at Wario Factory, and the player must
outrun one before fighting Wario at Wario’s Carnival. You can receive one in Vaati’s palace to help fight
other Links. Francis from Super Paper Mario has a pet one of these, and red ones are initially ranked second
in the (*) Glitz Pit before the Great Gonzales overtakes them. They stun at least one enemy when used in Super
Mario Strikers. A wheel named for them is a battle stage in Mario Kart Wii, they run in zig-zag patterns in Mario
Kart 64’s Rainbow Road, and can be used exclusively by the babies in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. One that can be
dazed but not killed appears in the first level of Super Mario 64. In Super Mario Galaxy, they freely roll around,
defying half of their name. For 10 points, name these common Mushroom World enemies that look like a ball with
teeth on a chain.
ANSWER: Chain Chomps
17. In a game with this title, U-Bahn and Park ‘n’ Ride are the 11 cost cards, and some cards contain symbols
with cars, fountains, or shopping carts. The August 2012 expansion to 7 Wonders is known by this word, and
one expansion to Bang! is called Dodge this. In Carcassonne, this feature can contain pennants and gives 2
points per tile and pennant if it is completed during the game. In another game, this card is upgraded as
supply piles run out, giving +2 cards, +2 actions, +1 coin, and +1 buy when two piles are empty. In Settlers of
Catan, making one of these costs 3 ore and 2 grain, and they give 2 (*) victory points. Thief: The Dark Project is
set in a world known by this name, while Resident Evil takes place in “Raccoon” this and Grand Theft Auto IV takes
place in “Liberty” this. For 10 points, name these entities, real world examples of which are San Francisco, Paris,
and Philadelphia.
ANSWER: the city [accept cities; do not accept or prompt on “town” or “settlement” or other synonyms]
18. Christophe Andreani made a game named for a Bubble one of these for the Atari ST. A game named for a
Master of them has a final level which is only playable in the US in Steam and Good Old Games releases. Slim
Bankshot and Sue Pea are examples of these creatures in one game. In another game, players in multiplayer
matches whose kills are attributed to (*) The Guardians, most likely caused by network problems, are called by
this term. Angus Mengsk was killed by number 24601 of these. A vehicle by this name’s standard model is the type32 RAV. Their abilities can be researched at a Covert Ops in Starcraft. Many racing games have a time trial mode
where this kind of car races against you. The Covenant’s standard rapid attack vehicle, which is purple and skims
above the ground when being used in Halo, shares its name with, for 10 points, what creatures that are vacuumed in
Luigi’s Mansion and hunt Pacman?
ANSWER: ghosts
19. The boss in the flash game You Have to Burn the Rope is called the “grinning” this. A Halo 2 stage of this
name contains a long corridor in the center with a gravity lift at one end and an overshield and some giant
windows at the other. One character who attempts to defeat these creatures can also eat the tails of whitetailed lizards to increase his stamina gauge. This word’s adjective form is the first word in the title of an
adventure game which introduced the word xyzzy and contains the line “You are in a (*) maze of twisty little
passages, all alike”. In another game, these creatures have sigils on their bodies that indicate weak points, and the
horse Agro helps the protagonist in finding and slaying sixteen of these creatures, the only enemies in the entire
game. For 10 points, give this name for the creatures that Wander defeats in a 2005 PlayStation 2 game titled
Shadow of the this.
ANSWER: colossus [accept colossal or colossi; accept grinning colossus; accept Colossal Cave Adventure; accept
Shadow of the Colossus]
20. The Game Boy version of this game contains a level in which the player must outrun the Wicked Wurm’s
brain in a zigzagging tunnel, and bosses include the Darkling and Sergeant Slaughter. This game’s
protagonists enlist the help of Billy and Jimmy Lee to destroy a spaceship in a crossover of this game and
Double Dragon. Bosses in this game include Big Blarg and Robo-Manus. One stage in this game involves
rappelling down a hole containing ravens and venus flytraps, where it’s possible to turn into a wrecking ball,
and another involves riding on snakes that make 90 degree turns. In another stage, the player must outrun a
rat by dropping through platforms to defuse a bomb at the bottom. Locations in this game include Wookie
Hole, Volkmire’s Inferno, and (*) Turbo Tunnel. In this game, the Dark Queen kidnaps Princess Angelica, and the
title characters are Pimple, Rash, and Zitz. For 10 points, name this extremely difficult NES platformer featuring
three amphibians.
ANSWER: Battletoads
21. This song begins with a voice humming the notes G D C B, after which a shaker starts playing. This song’s
composer also recorded “Coronation”, which plays during the introduction of the game this song appears in.
Both of those songs are the first music Firaxis Games has outsourced. This song appears right before “Mado
Kara Mieru” and features the Soweto Gospel Choir as the first song on the album (*) Calling All Dawns. One
scene in this song’s music video sees a futuristic spaceship turn into a cave painting. The word “Amina” is sung
several times in this song, whose lyrics are taken from the Lord’s Prayer, and this song’s title means “Our Father” in
Swahili. At the 2011 Grammy Awards, this Christopher Tin song notably became the first video game piece to ever
receive a Grammy. For 10 points, name this menu theme in Civilization IV.
ANSWER: “Baba Yetu”
1. Rare Ltd. made a lot of good games for the N64. Name some of them, for 10 points each:
[10] This platformer contains worlds like Clanker’s Cavern, Freezeezy Peak, and the incredibly annoying Rusty
Bucket Bay. The two title characters, a bear and a red bird, collect musical notes and jigsaw pieces, and try to rescue
Tooty from Gruntilda.
ANSWER: Banjo-Kazooie
[10] In this game’s first level, Joanna, an agent of the Carrington Institute, infiltrates Lucerne Tower, the global
headquarters of the dataDyne corporation. This game’s multiplayer mode is dubbed the “Combat Simulator” and
contains scenarios like “Hold the Briefcase” and “Pop a Cap”.
ANSWER: Perfect Dark
[10] In this game, the player must free every single Tribal and find 12 parts of a spaceship. This game’s title group
consists of Juno, Vela, and Lupus, who try to defeat Mizar.
ANSWER: Jet Force Gemini
2. One devastating combo in this game involves having a hand of only King’s Court, Goons, and Masquerade. For
10 points each:
[10] Name this card game set in medieval times where players try to get the most victory points, which can be done
so by buying Estates, Duchies, and Provinces.
ANSWER: Dominion
[10] This most recent Dominion expansion has an option to replace the starting estates with Shelter cards instead.
This expansion also introduces a Ruins pile and a Knight pile.
ANSWER: Dominion: Dark Ages
[10] This card, released in Dark Ages, is the only one for which there are twenty copies in the supply pile, as
opposed to the usual ten. Playing this card makes you gain another copy of this card and trash a card from your hand
that is different from this card.
ANSWER: Rats
3. Name some things about the Evo 2012 tournament, for 10 points each:
[10] In the tournament of the “Super” version of the fourth game in this series, Infiltration beat GamerBee in the
grand finals. Characters in this series of fighting games include Guile and Ryu.
ANSWER: Street Fighter [accept Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition]
[10] In the Street Fighter top 8, Poongko, who plays this character, lost 2-0 to Xiaohai, which was somewhat
disappointing given that in 2011, Poongko used this character to completely destroy Daigo in winner’s semis. This
character has the lowest hit points of any playable character in Super Street Fighter IV.
ANSWER: Seth
[10] At the Evo pre-tournament show, Floe played a “Gaiden” version of this game designed by Kayin O’Reilly.
This platformer contains many unfair elements like apples that fall up, and bosses in this game include Mecha Birdo
and Kraidgief.
ANSWER: I Wanna Be the Guy [or IWBTG]
4. In the past year, quite a few famous game developers have been using Kickstarter as a method of funding. Name
some things about crowd-funded games, for 10 points each:
[10] Double Fine Productions, which was founded by this man, used Kickstarter to raise over 3 million dollars for
the game Double Fine Adventure, becoming the most successful project at that time. This man also designed Grim
Fandango and Psychonauts.
ANSWER: Tim Schafer
[10] Andrew Hussie used Kickstarter to fund a video game based on this webcomic on MS Paint Adventures. This
webcomic begins with John Egbert receiving a copy of the game Sburb.
ANSWER: Homestuck
[10] This other Kickstarter-funded game has the player control a spaceship through eight sectors while trying to stay
out of rebel space. Ships in this game include the Kestrel and the Osprey.
ANWER: FTL: Faster Than Light
5. This character has stolen the entire fishing fleet of Iceland, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mason-Dixon Line. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this leader of V.I.L.E., the main villain in a series of educational computer games, one of which is titled
Where in The World is this person.
ANSWER: Carmen Sandiego [accept either]
[10] Brøderbund, the company behind the Carmen Sandiego games, also created a game about these things whose
feet can consist of pink shoes, roller skates, wheels, propellers, or a spring. In one puzzle, these things must make
pizzas with toppings that will satisfy three trolls named Arno, Willa, and Shyler.
ANSWER: Zoombinis
[10] Brøderbund also published this point-and-click adventure game in which the player explores a deserted island
and travels through different Ages. This game has sequels subtitled Riven, Exile, Revelation, and End of Ages.
ANSWER: Myst
6. In one game, this accessory acts as the second player and can move spinning tops to press the A and B buttons,
which lowers red and blue gates. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this accessory which is only usable for two games: Gyromite and Stack-Up.
ANSWER: R.O.B. [or Robotic Operating Buddy]
[10] R.O.B. is an accessory for this console. Other games for this console include Excitebike, Ice Climber, and Super
Mario Bros., and this console was succeeded by a “Super” one.
ANSWER: Nintendo Entertainment System [do not accept “Super Nintendo Entertainment System” or “SNES”]
[10] This other NES accessory can be worn on the player’s arm, and using it requires three ultrasonic sensors placed
around the TV. In the film The Wizard, Lucas notably states that he loves this accessory and “It’s so bad”, which
was funny because this accessory was actually really terrible.
ANSWER: Power Glove
7. In one game, this man gives Solid Snake some rations, Sniper Wolf’s handkerchief, and a ketchup bottle which
Snake uses as fake blood. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this lead engineer on the Metal Gear REX project whose nickname comes from his fondness for anime.
ANSWER: Hal Emmerich [accept either; accept Otacon]
[10] Hal Emmerich received a PhD from this university, which was also where Mei Ling was enrolled. Another
graduate from this university is the protagonist of the Half-Life series, Gordon Freeman.
ANSWER: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[10] In Metal Gear Solid 4, Hal Emmerich creates a miniature Metal Gear, dubbed Metal Gear Mk. II, to help
Snake. One of its uses is to carry weapons between Snake and this gun launderer. This man owns a monkey named
Little Gray and loves drinking Narc soda, and weapons can be bought from him with his namesake points.
ANSWER: Drebin 893
8. Name some board and card games about space exploration, for 10 points each:
[10] During every turn in this card game, players simultaneously choose one of five phases: Explore, Develop,
Settle, Consume, or Produce, and all chosen phases are carried out. Expansions for this game include The Gathering
Storm and Rebel vs. Imperium.
ANSWER: Race for the Galaxy [accept RftG; prompt on “Race”]
[10] In this board game, players use a common set of component tiles including cabins, engines, lasers, shields, and
batteries to build ships. During flight, players try to earn cosmic credits while attempting to avoid hazards like
meteors and pirates.
ANSWER: Galaxy Trucker
[10] This board game has the expansions Shattered Empire and Shards of the Throne. During each turn, players
choose from strategies like Initiative, Diplomacy, or Political, and must complete public and secret objectives to
earn victory points.
ANSWER: Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition
9. Iron-bellied eaters battle it out to see who can slurp down the most Hotfish and Negg Stew every day at 2 pm
NST in Warf Wharf. For 10 points each:
[10] This takes place at Food Club, one of the minigames in this online game universe.
ANSWER: Neopets.com [or Neopia]
[10] In Food Club, Gooblah the Grarrl’s favorite foods are in this category. In Kingdom of Loathing, this serves as
the currency, and in a game with this kind of food in its name, the namesake character has to rescue Bandage Girl
from Dr. Fetus.
ANSWER: Meat [accept Super Meat Boy]
[10] This is the course that Scurvy Dan the Blade most often wins with at Food Club. In one Pokémon Stadium
minigame, Lickitungs race to eat as many of this type of food as they can.
ANSWER: Sushi [accept sushi-go-round]
10. One way to encounter this Pokémon is by talking to the old man in Viridian City and then flying to Cinnabar
Island and surfing along its coast. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this glitch Pokémon.
ANSWER: Missingno.
[10] A glitch in Super Mario 64 allows the player to perform this technique which makes Mario slide extremely
quickly. This technique allows the player to reach the top of the endless staircase with less than 70 stars.
ANSWER: backwards long jump [accept BLJ, prompt on partial answer]
[10] This arcade game uses a 1-byte level counter, so its 256th level is impossible to beat due to a glitch occurring
from the overflow. As a result, a perfect score in this game is 3,333,360 points, which was first achieved by Billy
Mitchell, though David Race currently holds the record for fastest time to achieve that score.
ANSWER: Pac-Man
11. For 10 points each, name these Maxis games.
[10] This Maxis game is the best-selling PC game in history. It has expansions including House Party, which lets
you hold parties and gatherings, and Unleashed, which lets you keep pets. In the Unleashed expansion, cats and
dogs are treated like the namesake characters, while other pets are just objects.
ANSWER: The Sims [accept The Sims: House Party or The Sims: Unleashed, do not accept “The Sims 2” or other
sequels]
[10] This game was released by Maxis for free. In one Ctrl-Alt-Del comic, the narrator plays this in the first panel,
and then in the last panel, encounters some oversized genetalia as a result of another player breaking the game’s
terms of service.
ANSWER: Spore Creature Creator [begrudgingly prompt on “Spore”]
[10] In this racing-combat game, you can explore the cities you made in SimCity 2000. Missions in the game include
Zippy’s Courier Service, and Granny’s Wild Ride, in which Granny discovers plans for an alien invasion of your
city. This game was one of the few Maxis games that Will Wright did not work on.
ANSWER: Streets of SimCity
12. This character sees Sunny bullied while in the Chunky Burger, and when Joe Chin bursts in, this character thinks
“I need to become a hero, too!” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this character who later learns lessons from Chop Chop Master Onion, Instructor Mooselini, and Prince
Fleaswallow in order to impress Sunny Funny. This character’s motto is “I gotta believe!”
ANSWER: PaRappa the Rapper
[10] PaRappa learns how to make one of these objects by watching Cheap Cheap’s cooking show. In Portal, Chell is
repeatedly promised one of these objects after completing the test chambers, but it turns out that this object “is a
lie”.
ANSWER: cakes
[10] In PaRappa the Rapper, the player’s performance is rated as Awful, Bad, Good, or this highest ranking which
is only achievable by freestyling. It’s not “attractive”, but this adjective also appears in the title of a point-and-click
adventure developed by TellTale games and starring Strong Bad.
ANSWER: cool [that game is Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People]
13. In one game, this character attempts to find the six Chaos Emeralds on South Island. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this extremely fat scientist, the antagonist in almost every game featuring Sonic the Hedgehog.
ANSWER: Doctor Ivo Robotnik [accept Doctor Eggman]
[10] In this game, Doctor Robotnik convinces Knuckles that Sonic is trying to steal the Master Emerald. Locations
in this game include Icecap Zone and Hydrocity Zone. The events in this game take place right before Sonic &
Knuckles.
ANSWER: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 [accept Sonic 3, do not accept or prompt on any other Sonic game]
[10] It is likely that Michael Jackson helped compose music for Sonic 3, even though he is not explicitly credited
anywhere. One piece of evidence is that the Sonic 3 credits song is very similar to this Michael Jackson single which
mentions an “armageddon of the brain” and notes that “happy days will drown the pain”.
ANSWER: “Stranger in Moscow”
14. Minty and Gloyd are the fastest racers in this game, in which the Frosty Rally courses have cherry bombs lining
both sides of the track. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1997 game that was first released at Litwak’s arcade, in which fourteen girls might race against
Turbo, described as “the most hyperactive drive of your life.”
ANSWER: Sugar Rush
[10] This bad guy of the 1982 arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr. visits Sugar Rush to help the Sarah Silverman-voiced
Vanellope in a recent namesake Disney movie.
ANSWER: Wreck-it Ralph
[10] In the movie, Ralph steals two cherries from Pac-Man, and gives one of them to the namesake character of this
game. The goal of this real 1982 arcade game is to change the color of every cube in a pyramid while avoiding the
Coilys, Uggs, Wrong-Ways, Slicks, and Sams.
ANSWER: Q*bert
15. This game has a staggering 989 worlds, and a funny terrain in this game known as Cake Land replaces followers
with mice trying to set a tablecloth. For 10 points:
[10] Identify this 1989 game developed by Bullfrog Productions and designed by Peter Molyneux in which the
player acts as a deity who can shape the terrain. The goal is to have your followers defeat those led by an evil deity.
ANSWER: Populous
[10] Peter Molyneux also helped design this 2004 action RPG set in Albion, in which the Hero of Oakvale attempts
to defeat the Jack of Blades. One notable feature in this game is that the player has many choices to do good or evil,
and the player’s actions affect his alignment, in turn affecting his reputation and appearance.
ANSWER: Fable
[10] Lionhead Studios, which developed Fable, was acquired by this company in 2006. This company also
established 343 Industries after splitting with Bungie.
ANSWER: Microsoft Game Studios
16. The soundtrack to this game was composed by Magnus Palsson and contains songs like “Passion for Exploring”
and “Pressure Cooker”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this platformer by Terry Cavanagh in which Captain Viridian loses his crew when his ship teleports to an
alternate dimension. One part of this game is referred to as “Veni Vidi Vici” and is notoriously difficult because it
involves moving up and down through six screens, all filled with spikes.
ANSWER: VVVVVV [be lenient and accept anything that has to do with the letter V]
[10] In VVVVVV, this is the total number of trinkets in the main game. In completely unrelated news, this is also the
number of sides on a die which is commonly used in Dungeons and Dragons to resolve actions.
ANSWER: 20
[10] This other Terry Cavanagh game begins and ends with a man standing at a grave during a rain shower. This
flash game is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
ANSWER: Don’t Look Back
17. Levels in this game include Around the World in 80 Bites, where you compete in the Duff Ultimate Eating
Challenge, and Mob Rules, where you form mobs to fight against the new violent video game, Grand Theft
Scratchy. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 2007 game, named after the television series it comes from, in which the title characters learn they
have super powers from reading the game’s manual, and travel to parodies of other games to obtain key cards.
ANSWER: The Simpsons Game [prompt on partial]
[10] In this other game, Mr. Burns has purchased all the buses in the city and converted them into hazardous
nuclear-powered vehicles, and the citizens of Springfield need to raise a million dollars to stop him. SEGA sued the
game’s creators, since the game is a patent infringement of Crazy Taxi.
ANSWER: The Simpsons: Road Rage
[10] This character drives the Sedan in The Simpsons: Road Rage, and all the orcs in the NeverQuest level of The
Simpsons Game look like him.
ANSWER: Moe Szyslak [accept either]
18. Name some things related to trolling in World of Warcraft, for 10 points each:
[10] One way to troll involves performing this action on a boss to bring it to a heavily populated city, hilariously
causing many unsuspecting players to die. This action involves keeping the boss at a distance while luring it in the
player’s direction.
ANSWER: kiting [accept kite]
[10] In a famous video, this person shouts his name really loudly and charges into a chamber, causing his party to
wipe. At the end, he says, “At least I have chicken.”
ANSWER: Leeroy Jenkins [accept Ben Schulz; accept LEEROOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIINS]
[10] In a namesake incident, it was discovered that this debuff spell could be taken out of the Zul’Gurub instance by
giving it to a hunter pet. Because this plague periodically inflicts damage and can spread between players, many
trolls spread it around large cities.
ANSWER: Corrupted Blood [accept Corrupted Blood incident]
19. Alvin and Dexter can cause cities to be in chaos in one expansion of this game. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this transportation-related board game, other expansions of which include one which replaces cards with
dice, and three Map Collections.
ANSWER: Ticket To Ride [accept Ticket To Ride: Alvin & Dexter or Ticket To Ride Dice Expansion]
[10] You slide cars and trucks around in this game played on a 6 by 6 grid, in which the goal is to let the red car
escape.
ANSWER: Rush Hour
[10] The battleship, wheelbarrow, thimble, and top hat are some tokens in this game, although everyone’s favorite
method of getting to Boardwalk is, of course, the car.
ANSWER: Monopoly
20. Taipei Assassins won the Season 2 World Championship in this game. For the stated points:
[10] For 10 points, name this multiplayer online battle arena game inspired by DotA and developed by Riot Games.
Players in this game are known as Summoners.
ANSWER: League of Legends
[5 or 10] There are four items in League of Legends that give +5 gold per 10 seconds. Name any three for 10 points,
or name one for 5 points.
ANSWER: Avarice Blade, Heart of Gold, Philosopher’s Stone, Kage’s Lucky Pick
[10] For 10 points, after the Shadow Isles patch, the most powerful monster on the Twisted Treeline map changed
from this monster to Vilemaw. This dragon is also known as the “Terror of Zaun”.
ANSWER: Ebonmaw