Ottawa Hybrid 2014
Round 1
Packet by Waterloo C (Faith Barrett, Erik Christensen, Daniel Resnick)
With additional questions by Stephen Chou, Aaron Dos Remedios, Brian McNamara, and Aayush
Rajasekaran
1. Natural gas development in this country is taking place in its Inhambane province. This country
has significant coal reserves in its Tete Province, which is also home to the Cahora Bassa Dam. The
Ruvuma River forms much of its northern border. This country’s second-largest city is located at the
mouth of the Pungoé and is Beira. This country’s capital is on Delagoa Bay and was formerly known as
Lourenço Marques. Xia-Xia marks where the Limpopo flows into the ocean in this country, as does the
Zambezi. For 10 points, name this Portuguese-speaking East African country with capital Maputo.
ANSWER: Republic of Mozambique [or República de Moçambique]
2. Many of the features in the most recent version of this programming language’s standard were
incorporated from Boost, a set of libraries for this language. The most recent version of this
programming language’s standard added support for range-based for loops and lambda functions.
The object-oriented aspects of this language were inspired by () Simula. I/O is supported in this language
through streams, with the “c-out” object representing the standard output stream. For 10 points, name this
programming language, which was created by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979 and was originally called “C with
Classes”.
ANSWER: C++ [do NOT accept or prompt on “C”]
3. This band expanded a practice song called “Booker T” into a story-song about Waldo Jeffers
getting stabbed with scissors after successfully mailing himself to his girlfriend; that song is “The
Gift” and appears on an album that ends with the improvised 17-minute jam "Sister Ray." A Welsh
viola player left this band after recording White Light White Heat, and they sang “I guess I just don’t
know” and “Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather,” on some famous songs. Managed by Andy Warhol, for
10 points, name this experimental band led by Lou Reed, which recorded “Heroin” and “Venus in Furs” on
an album they did with the singer Nico.
ANSWER: The Velvet Underground
4. This figure wrote about “Fortune's Ice” being preferred to “Virtue’s Land” by a figure who “loves
to slide, not to stand,” and this poet defended a “collateral line” and wrote the couplet, “Great wits
are sure to madness near allied / And thin partitions do their bounds divide.” People “who think too
little, and who talk too much” were satirized in a work by this poet which ends, “And willing nations
knew their lawful lord.” A poem that begins “in pious times ... before polygamy was made a sin,” was
written by this author, who put a damning portrayal of Shaftesbury and a sympathetic portrayal of a bastard
prince in his allegory of the Monmouth Rebellion, which represented Charles II as King David. For 10
points, name this monarchist writer of “Absalom and Achitophel.”
ANSWER: John Dryden
5. This movie includes a class of children being unable to multiply five times two and a scene where
Gregory correctly guesses the password “bacon.” The Baldwin brothers die in this movie. A song in
this movie begins, “Times have changed, our kids are getting worse,” and was performed by Robin
Williams at the Oscars, and Stan gets together with Wendy at the end of this movie. Others songs in this
movie command, “Shut your stupid face,” and another asks, “What Would Brian Boitano Do?” A sexual
relationship between Satan and Saddam Hussein exists in this movie, where a group of kids prevents a
disastrous war with Canada and saves Terrance and Phillip from execution. For 10 points, name this
animated movie by Matt Stone and Trey Parker with a title connoting phallicism.
ANSWER: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut [prompt on “South Park movie” or similar answer, but
do NOT prompt on just “South Park”]
6. This player was the ECAC’s 1995 player of the year and is the University of Vermont’s all time
leading scorer. After Martin Gelinas’ goal was not counted, this player scored the game winner in
Game Six of the 2004 Stanley Cup Finals. This player won the 2004 Hart and Art Ross Trophies, the
2013 Art Ross, as well as three of the last four Lady Byng Awards, and he succeeded Vincent Lecavalier as
captain until being traded to the New York Rangers. For 10 points, name this player who replaced his
teammate Steven Stamkos on the Olympic roster and a former captain of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
ANSWER: Martin St. Louis
7.One leader of this people was killed at the Battle of Taginae, after which this people’s last ruler,
Teia, was promptly killed at the Battle of Mons Lactarius. Together with the Gepids, these people
broke the dominance of the Huns at Nedao. Totila recaptured much of the land this people had lost to the
Byzantines, but Narses ultimately succeeded in killing him. Belisarius declined the crown of this people
after fighting them. One leader of this people captured Italy from Odoacer, and later murdered the scholar
Boethius, in spite of allowing religious toleration. For 10 points, name this people who ruled Italy under
Theodoric the Great.
ANSWER: Ostrogoths [prompt on Goths]
8. This man was Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign manager in 2000, after Bill Clinton appointed
this man Regional Director for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This fierce
opponent of charter schools often criticized his predecessor’s fondness for them, and this man
proposed making charter schools pay rent. This man dropped an appeal against his city’s police using
“stop-and-frisk” tactics, which he strongly opposed. This man has proposed raising taxes on the wealthy to
fund a universal pre-kindergarten program. He defeated Joe Lhota by 49 points to win his current office.
For 10 points, name this Democrat, the current mayor of New York City.
ANSWER: Bill de Blasio [or Warren Wilhelm Jr.]
9. This game’s score includes numerous pieces, and according to an interview with its creator used a
third of the game’s memory. The battle theme for the “New Age Retro Hippie” sounds suspiciously
like a Chuck Berry song. The game revolves around collecting musical songs in order to defeat the
villain, whose attacks are so evil that, according to the game, they are impossible to comprehend. This
game saw the first appearance of Porky, though he is called Pokey in American localisation of this game.
For 10 points, name this role playing game released on the Super Nintendo in North America in 1995,
directed and produced by Shigesto Itoi.
ANSWER: Earthbound [or Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back]
10. One character with this title, TJ Johnson, was in possession of a vehicle called the Lightning Fire
Tamer, while another, Leo Corbett, had a brother who was presumed dead but who instead became
the Magna Defender. In 2002, all existing holders of this title, with the exception of Rocky DeSantos,
banded together to destroy the spaceship Serpentera on the moon. The villain Trakeena was the sister of
another holder of this title, Andros, who was in possession of the Astro Megaship. FTP, give this title,
originally given to Jason Lee Scott along with the Tyrannosaurus Dino coin, that is usually given to the
leader of a group of superhero "teenagers with attitude."
ANSWER: Red Power Ranger (prompt on “Power Ranger” before “existing holders of this title”)
11. The double-sideband large-carrier version of this technique has the advantage of being relatively
simple to implement in hardware, at the expense of low power efficiency and wasted bandwidth.
Signals transmitted with this technique can theoretically be recovered perfectly using coherent
detection, though envelope detection is often used instead due to its simplicity and lower cost. For 10
points, name this technique for transmitting information in which the carrier signal’s strength is varied in
proportion to the magnitude of the message signals, usually between 540 to 1610 kHz in North American
radio, often contrasted with changes in frequency.
ANSWER: amplitude modulation
12. One character who dies this way says that he used to have a servant pull his boots off for him in a
speech about being shielded from work. This is what kills Irina's unattractive fiance, Baron
Tuzenbach, at the end of Three Sisters, and a pompous veteran who dies of this cause talks to Doctor
Werner about love and gets the silent treatment at a ball. After a black man dies in this way, his brother
engages in a payada, or singing contest with Martin Fierro, and after he gets snubbed by Princess Mary,
Grushnitski dies in this way on a clifftop. A man who visits Larin's grave is carelessly allowed to die in this
manner by Zaretsky; in life, that victim wrote hopeless love poems to Olga. For 10 points, name this cause
of Lensky's death, which is perpetrated by Russian heroes like Pechorin and Eugene Onegin.
ANSWER: getting killed in a duel [antiprompt for more specific answers like "getting shot," "getting
stabbed," or prompt for less specific like “getting killed,” “dying in a fight” ]
13. This album includes the words “freedom -- free doom!” in a sample of “Comment Number One”
by Gil Scott-Heron. Using a lot of production by Jeff Bhasker, this album starts with a nursery
rhyme read by Nicki Minaj, and it ends with “Lost in the World” and “Who Will Survive in
America.” Chris Rock does an explicit routine on this album’s song “Blame Game,” and Rihanna and
Elton John appear on “All of the Lights.” This album’s cover features a red background and a distorted
picture of the artist presumably having sex with a crudely drawn angel, and its song “Runaway” proposes a
“toast to the douchebags.” For 10 points name this album including “Power” and “Monster,” an elaborate
2010 offering of Kanye West.
ANSWER: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
14. Andrew Lipson has recreated many of this artist’s most well-known works using LEGO. One
Doctor Who episode takes its name from an early lithograph by this artist; that episode is called
“Castrovalva.” In the Futurama episode “I, Roommate,” Fry rejects an apartment which seems to be
designed after this artist’s most well-known work. MadTV featured this artist as a heavily censored rapper
on MTV, and Family Guy depicted him rapping dressed as MC Hammer. For 10 points, name this Dutch
artist, whose most famous work, Relativity, has been used for countless pop culture parodies, such as
Stewie Griffin’s drawing, Crazy Stairs.
ANSWER: Maurits Cornelis Escher
15. This player was traded to the Houston Rockets late in his career in exchange for Roy Rogers, and
this player had the NBA’s “block of the night” after rejecting Justin Bieber during the 2011 All-Star
Celebrity Game. This player was the MVP of the 1994 All-Star Game, during the only season of his
career in which he led his team in scoring. This player notably taunted Spike Lee after a dunk on Patrick
Ewing during the 1994 playoffs. This man is the only NBA player to have ever attended the University of
Central Arkansas, and after the “flu game,” Michael Jordan collapsed into this player’s arms. For 10 points,
name this retired small forward and defensive whiz who spent the majority of his career with the Chicago
Bulls.
ANSWER: Scottie Maurice Pippen
16. The order of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that is named after him is an
appendage to the larger Melchizedek order. There are two accounts of this figure's death, with one
account saying he was buried at Mount Hor, where he was mourned for a period of 30 days. He,
along with his brother, was not permitted to enter Canaan, a punishment from the Lord for showing
impatience at Meribah. He “stretched out his rod” to enact the first three plagues; that rod was later
transfigured into a snake to demonstrate the power of God. For 10 points, name this first High Priest of the
Israelites, who helped convince the Pharaoh to free the Israelites as the orator for his brother, Moses.
ANSWER: Aaron [or Harun]
17. This actor gets cocaine from Jason Statham and reunites with Jessica Biel in one role, and in
another role, he gets sent to the Earth Room to “cool off.” The roles of Syd in London and Mace
alongside Cillian Murphy in Sunshine were played by this actor, who gets dumped by Jessica Biel
and cold-called by a desperate Kim Basinger at the start of Cellular. In his best known role, this actor
defends himself with a garbage can lid outside a movie theatre and attends the Modern Marvels of
Tomorrow exhibit before eventually appearing in a campaign for war bonds. This actor gets repeatedly
rejected from the army before Stanley Tucci helps with a procedure to get him really ripped. For 10 points,
name this guy who plays Captain America.
ANSWER: Chris Evans
18. Due the large time span that this series covers, Alexander Ludwig replaced Nathan O’Toole in
the second season as the older version of his character, Bjorn. The end of the first season introduced
the character of Aslaug, who seduces the main character and eventually becomes his second wife. Gustaf
Skarsgård plays Floki, whose shipbuilding skills are instrumental in getting Ragnar and his company to
Northumbria. This series often draws on real-world eyewitness accounts for the historical events that it
portrays, such as a 10 century account of a funeral, or the raid on Lindisfarne. For 10 points, name this
History Channel show that takes place during the eponymous age of the title Norse people that include
protagonist Ragnar Lothbrok.
ANSWER: Vikings
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19. This character’s first chronological appearance was as a cameo as a brilliant teenager in Robbie,
a short story set in 1998 about a little girl and her robot. One of her later appearances is in The
Evitable Conflict, in which she believes that the Machines guiding the world’s economy have adapted
the first law to mean “No machine may harm humanity; or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to
harm.” More notable appearances include Lenny in which she acts maternally towards a robot printed with
a “blank brain”, and Liar, in which the psychic robot RB-34 (briefly) increases her hopes for a romantic
relationship. Those stories are the only stories in which she betrays a hint of humanity, and she is thought
of as more robotic than her patients. For ten points, name this creation of Isaac Asimov, the Head
Robopsychologist of US Robotics.
ANSWER: Susan Calvin [Accept Either]
20. Bob Plamondon’s most recent book writes a harsh truth about this man. At the Maison du Egg
Roll, he famously spoke against the Charlottetown Accord and his son’s eulogy quoted Julius Caesar
and Robert Frost. As Minister of Justice, this man introduced the omnibus Criminal Law
Amendment Act, legalizing homosexuality, contraceptives and abortion. During his term as Prime
Minister, he introduced the Official Languages Act and the National Energy Program and patriated the
Constitution. For 10 points, name this Canadian Liberal Prime Minister who invoked the War Measures
Act to deal with the October Crisis, and when asked how far he would go, replied “Just watch me.”
ANSWER: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
TB1. This was the fate of a series featuring a red-robed Hygieia holding a yellow snake, and this also
happened to a painting of a meaty-legged bald man with an angel reaching over his shoulder as he
reads a book. Another painting to undergo this process shows a giant shadow falling across a hill, as
a young man holds a heavy basket and an old man wears a straw hat and wields a dull hammer. This
happened to Klimt's paintings of Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence, as well as Caravaggio's Saint
Matthew and the Angel, and it happened to Andreas Schluter's Amber Room and Kurt Schwitters'
experimental home “Merzbau.” A painting usually compared to The Gleaners underwent this fate, as did
most of the stuff in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum. For 10 points, name this bad thing that happened to
Courbet's The Stone-Breakers and a lot of other art in central Europe in the 1940s.
ANSWER: getting destroyed in World War Two [accept more specific, prompt on less specific, prompt
on “bombs” or “fires” by asking when]
TB2. This province is the setting of “In the Village” and a poem about “First Death,” and it’s where
Alexander's brothers see by moonlight, the “lamp of the poor.” A woman brags that she'll marry a
dentist but immediately marries a piano tuner in this province, which is where a boy and girl play
“store” while their parents drown through thin ice. Elizabeth Bishop and the Clan of Calum Ruadh
lived here, and Lily's twin Ambrose drowns here from an impromptu baptism. An orthodontist from this
province visits his alcoholic brother in Toronto, and in an incest novel set here, the singer Kathleen is the
daughter of James and Materia Piper. For 10 points, name this setting of Alastair MacLeod's No Great
Mischief and Anne-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees.
ANSWER: Nova Scotia
1. A certain decision was announced in February and received Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s disapproval as she
referred to her co-anchor as “the male.” For 10 points each:
Identify that announcement in which a social networking giant announced its decision to expand beyond
the previous “male/female/other” option.
ANSWER: Facebook widening its gender options [require “Facebook” and anything about gender
diversity such as “Facebook adding 50 new gender options”]
[10] This is one of the new options that was added to include people whose gender fluidity stems from the
mixed gender roles of Native American cultures.
ANSWER: Two-Spirit
[10] This University Missouri defensive end came out as gay, and if drafted would be the first openly gay
player in the NFL.
ANSWER: Michael Alan Sam, Jr.
2. In one episode, this person switches faces with a man named Walt Warren. For ten points each:
[10] Name this character, who frames his boss for the robber of the Kwik-E-Mart, but whose large shoes
eventually give away his guilt. He is voiced by Kelsey Grammar.
ANSWER: Sideshow Bob [begrudgingly accept Robert Underdunk Terwilliger]
[10] After he gets out of jail, Sideshow Bob is briefly married to this character, who also married Troy
McClure.
ANSWER: Aunt Selma Bouvier
[10] In a famous scene from the episode “Cape Feare,” Sideshow Bob steps on eight of these objects while
trying to leave the Simpsons’ houseboat.
ANSWER: rakes
3. This type of entity is responsible for causing a wide variety of diseases, from the common cold to Ebola.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of infectious agent, which can only reproduce by taking over a host cell and is
therefore considered by some to not actually be alive.
ANSWER: virus
[10] Viruses can reproduce through the lytic cycle and this other cycle, during which viral genetic material
is incorporated into the host cell’s genetic material and replicated when the host cell undergoes mitosis.
ANSWER: lysogenic cycle
[10] Some types of viruses are enclosed by this structure, which is composed of lipids and proteins and may
be derived from the host cell’s membranes. These structures are around the capsids.
ANSWER: envelope
4. It was officially known as Highway 80. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this route taken by retreating forces that were then pummelled by Coalition air and ground
attacks.
ANSWER: Highway of Death
[10] The Highway of Death occurred during this conflict, which began with the invasion of Kuwait.
ANSWER: First Gulf War
[10] The Highway of Death ran through this city. It was the target of various Iranian operations in the IranIraq War, and site of heavy fighting during the 2003 invasion.
ANSWER: Al-Basrah
5. Originally scored for a piano duet and an organ, it was first publicly performed in its entirety in 1920 by
the London Symphony Orchestra. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this seven-movement orchestral suite composed by Gustav Holst.
ANSWER: The Planets
[10] Holst dictated that, for this movement of The Planets, two women’s choruses are “to be placed in an
adjoining room” whose door is to be “slowly and silently closed” at the end of the movement in order to
achieve a fade-out effect.
ANSWER: Neptune, the Mystic
[10] Holst’s suite did not have a movement for Pluto because it still had not been discovered when the suite
was premiered. In 2000, this composer composed an eighth movement titled Pluto, the Renewer to make up
for this.
ANSWER: Colin Matthews
6. In one scene in this movie, Dr. Jonas Miller is punched in the face while explaining the capabilities of
the DOROTHY machine to reporters. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as Jo and Bill Harding, who put their estranged
marriage aside to use their own version of the DOROTHY machine. Also, a cow hits a car.
ANSWER: Twister
[10] In Twister, this actor plays Dusty, who is obsessed with the “suck zone.” Other big roles for this actor
in the 1990s include the boom mic operator Scotty in Boogie Nights and Brandt in The Big Lebowski.
ANSWER: Philip Seymour Hoffman
[10] Twister’s director Jan de Bont scuttled his promising career when he directed this disappointing sequel
about a boat that might collide with an oil tanker, which starred Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric.
ANSWER: Speed 2: Cruise Control [do not accept “Speed” alone]
7. Perhaps the most graphic story-within-a-story in this philosophical tale is the one in which the
illegitimate daughter of Pope Urban X falls on hard times, and has her buttock chopped off to feed starving
pirates. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Voltaire work, in which the titular young man faces unimaginable horrors with relentless
good humour, while attempting to reunite with his lost love.
ANSWER: Candide, ou l'Optimisme [or All for the Best or The Optimist, Candide or Optimism]
[10] This is the name of the girl who Candide searches for, proclaiming her beauty to all who he meets,
only to find that by the time he’s reached her she’s gone “hideously ugly”; he marries her anyway, to spite
her brother.
ANSWER: Cunégonde
[10] Voltaire exercises his astronomical knowledge in this other short story, about the titular short giant
from the star Sirius, who befriends a Saturnian and travels with him to Earth to discuss philosophy.
ANSWER: Micromégas
8. For 10 points each, name these RTS (real time strategy games).
[10] Made by Blizzard and released in 1998, this sci-fi game features three distinct races and is notable for
such phrases as “you’ve not enough minerals” and “you must construct additional pylons.”
ANSWER: Starcraft
[10] Also made by Blizzard, this game is based in a fantasy setting. A notable mod for this game, Defence
of the Ancients, developed a cult following and had a catchy Basshunter song written about it.
ANSWER: Warcraft III [prompt on “Warcraft”]
[10] Usually recognized as the first modern RTS, this game has players control one of house Atreides,
Harkonnen, or Ordos, as they attempt to gain territorial dominance over the planet Arrakis.
ANSWER: Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty [do not prompt on “Dune”]
9. This show has been widely criticized for its significant historical inaccuracies, preferring to focus on
aspects like dramatic romance and intrigue. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this show in which Mary Queen of Scots arrives in France to solidify her engagement to Francis
II, and then everything after is a complete lie.
ANSWER: Reign
[10] This is the name of the ghost in Reign, whose motives are unclear to viewers; she helps Mary on many
occasions, yet insists on wearing a burlap sack over her head as she kills people.
ANSWER: Clarissa
[10] Adelaide Kane gave up playing Cora Hale on this MTV show in order to take the role of Mary. During
the time she was on the show as one of the titular creatures, she fought druids and an Alpha pack.
ANSWER: Teen Wolf
10. Characterized by their low chemical reactivity, these “aristocratic” gases are members of group 18 in
the periodic table and are generally found in nature as monatomic gases. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this lightest noble gas, which is widely used commercially in cryogenics but is perhaps more
well-known for its ability to temporarily alter the timbre of human voice. It is the second-most abundant
element in the universe.
ANSWER: helium
[10] As a consequence of their low reactivity, noble gases were not even known to exist until the discovery
of this noble gas by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsey. Its name is derived from the Greek word for
“inactive”.
ANSWER: argon
[10] Despite their low reactivity, compounds of heavier noble gases can still be synthesized. One example
is this compound, which exists as a white crystalline solid under normal conditions and is the first binary
noble gas compound to have been discovered.
ANSWER: xenon tetrafluoride (or XeF4)
13. The EU can be traced back to many organizations that have since been absorbed into the Union.
Answer the following about some of them, for 10 points each.
[10] This supranational organization established in 1952 by the Treaty of Paris was responsible for
regulating the common market that was created for its namesake natural resource and alloy.
ANSWER: European Coal and Steel Community
[10] The ECSC was proposed to make war “materially impossible” by this French foreign minister who
worked with Jean Monet to write his namesake declaration.
ANSWER: Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman
[10] The movement for European integration was followed with this organization. Created by the 1957
Treaty of Rome, it aimed to eliminate barriers to trade and create a common agricultural policy and
established the purely consultative European Parliament.
ANSWER: European Community (accept EC or EEC or European Economic Community, prompt on
Common Market DO NOT ACCEPT European Union or EU)
14. This tournament was won in 2012 by an Ontario team led by Glenn Howard. For ten points each,
[10] Name this tournament sponsored by Tim Hortons that is the male equivalent of the Scotties
Tournament of Hearts.
ANSWER: The Brier
[10] The Brier and the Tournament of Hearts are Canadian championships of this sport, which sees stones
being slid into the house. Canadian teams led by Brad Jacobs and Jennifer Jones both won gold medals at
the Sochi games.
ANSWER: Curling
[10] This Albertan won the Brier in 2008 and 2009 along with the 2010 Olympic gold.
ANSWER: Kevin Martin
15. Of all the people Taylor Swift has broken up with, the only one that matters is Harry Styles. Let’s talk
about One Direction. For 10 points each:
[10] While on the X Factor, this dry, soulless Atlantic-traversing Brit was their mentor; he eventually
signed them despite their placing third in the competition.
ANSWER: Simon Cowell
[10] Zayn Malik is engaged to marry Perrie Edwards, a singer in this girl group who won X Factor the year
after One Direction. It is rumoured they will be opening for 1D’s 2014 Where We Are tour.
ANSWER: Little Mix
[10] Last September, Liam Payne tweeted to fans behind his hotel, who were trespassing on this location;
he pleaded with them to leave this area, warning "it's not worth it, someone's gunna get hurt."
ANSWER: a snake habitat [accept virtually anything that indicates there are snakes present]
16. George Orwell once argued that Brave New World “must be partly derived from” this novel, though
Aldous Huxley denied the assertion. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which was banned in the USSR until 1988. This
novel is written in the form of a diary of the main protagonist, D-503.
ANSWER: We
[10] We is primarily set in this fictional nation, which is constructed almost entirely out of glass in order to
simplify surveillance. This nation is ruled by a dictator referred to as the “Benefactor” or the “Well-Doer”.
ANSWER: One State [accept United State or Single State]
[10]One example of mathematical symbolism in We is this number, which is used to represent all that is
irrational and which D-503 described as “foreign” and “terrible”.
ANSWER: square root of minus one [prompt on “i”]
17. In an election, how votes are counted up and translated into actual political power can be just as
important as the number of votes each candidate gets. For 10 points each:
[10] Federal elections in Canada use this electoral system in which the candidate with the most votes wins,
regardless of whether or not an absolute majority of votes were won. Its name is an analogy to horseracing.
ANSWER: first-past-the-post [accept single-member plurality]
[10] This type of electoral system has the defining characteristic that the share of seats won by a party at
least roughly matches the share of votes won by that party. An example of it is single transferable vote.
ANSWER: proportional representation
[10] This man proposed a namesake principle stating that plurality electoral systems like first-past-the-post
favor two-party political systems, as well as a corollary suggesting that proportional representation
encourages multi-party systems.
ANSWER: Maurice Duverger
18. He wrote the scripts for The Untouchables and Hannibal. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this screenwriter and playwright, whose plays include Speed-The-Plough and American
Buffalo.
ANSWER: David Mamet
[10] Mamet is perhaps best-known for this play, which he adapted into a film. Its characters are told to
“Always Be Closing” and compete for a new Cadillac.
ANSWER: Glengarry Glen Ross
[10] This early Mamet film is based on his play Sexual Perversity In Chicago. A remake of the movie is
due to hit theatres soon, and replaces Rob Lowe and Jim Belushi with Michael Ealy and Kevin Hart.
ANSWER: ...About Last Night
19. The Dirichlet function returns a value of 1 for this set of inputs. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this set of numbers that can be expressed as a ratio of two integers.
ANSWER: rational numbers [or “Q”]
[10] Since there exists at least one irrational number between any two rational numbers, the Dirichlet
function does not have this property anywhere on the real line. The graph of 1/x does not have property at x
= 0.
ANSWER: continuity [accept word forms]
[10] The presence of at least one irrational number between any two rationals also allows one to define a
rational number A using one of these entities, which consists of every real number less than A. These
entities are named for a German mathematician.
ANSWER: Dedekind cuts
20. This character is the daughter of Death’s apprentice and has inherited a number of Death’s powers. For
10 points each:
[10] Identify this Discworld character, granddaughter of death, and governess who will kill the monster
under your bed rather than telling you it doesn’t exist.
ANSWER: Susan Sto-Helit
[10] Susan appears in this Discworld novel, in which Mr. Teatime [pronounced Te-ah-tim-eh] steals
children’s teeth in an attempt to kill the titular anthropomorphic personification. It was adapted into a live
action film.
ANSWER: Hogsfather
[10] Teatime is working as the agent of these celestial bureaucrats, villains of the Discworld universe which
hate sentient life for its messy, unpredictable behaviour that leads to lots of paperwork. They have tried to
end humanity on numerous occasions, notably in Reaper Man and Soul Music.
ANSWER: The Auditors
21. Answer the following about some thinkers from the school of analytic philosophy for 10 points each.
[10] This thought experiment proposed by Bertrand Russell places the onus on those making fantastical
claims to provide proof. The namesake household item somehow got to another Solar System satellite, and
cannot be disproven.
ANSWER: Russell’s Teapot [or Clear-Knowledge Equivalents]
[10] This Austro-British philosopher emphasized a hypothesis’ falsifiability in his work on the philosophy
of science.
ANSWER: Karl Popper
[10] Karl Popper and this man got into a heated argument over whether philosophical problems were real,
which escalated when this man threaten Popper with a fire poker. Bertrand Russell was present for the
debate.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein
22. You can’t fault the Blue Jays for trying to improve during the off-season, even if they don’t get results
on the field. Answer some questions about the team’s recent offseason transactions for 10 points each.
[10] During the 2012 offseason, the time acquired this Dominican shortstop from the Florida Marlins.
Injuries hampered his first season with the Jays, limiting him to 91 games.
ANSWER: Jose Reyes
[10] Also coming over from the Marlins was this pitcher, who had spent most of his career with the
Chicago White Sox, for whom he threw a perfect game in 2009.
ANSWER: Mark Buehrle
[10] The Blue Jays have been quieter this offseason, with their major acquisition being this catcher, whom
they signed to replace JP Arencibia, and who spent most of his career with the team’s divisional rivals in
Tampa Bay.
ANSWER: Dionner Navarro
23. Answer the following about hip-hop artists, for 10 points each.
[10] This group recorded songs like “Bring Da Ruckus,” “The Mystery of Chessboxin’,” and “C.R.E.A.M.”
ANSWER: Wu-Tang Clan
[10] This rapper recorded the 1994 album Illmatic and dissed Jay-Z on the song “Ether”.
ANSWER: Nas
[10] This group released the album Low End Theory as well as recording songs such as “Suck N” on the
album Midnight Marauders.
ANSWER: A Tribe Called Quest