Round 6
Ottawa Hybrid 2015
Packet by Peter Liu, Adam Swift, Huma Zafar
1. A lost-and-found announcement about a blue cashmere sweater may have been added to this movie to fix a
continuity error. Elena and Dr. Smyslov ask unsuccessfully about a possible outbreak on Clavius Base in this
movie, and a girl in this movie asks for a bushbaby for her birthday from a father who is busy travelling.
Neon slit-scan art plays near the end of this movie to the astonishment of a man in a (*) red suit. After a
character in this movie is murdered while replacing an antenna controller, an argument breaks out about opening the
pod bay doors and Keir Dullea starts pulling out computer memory units in a red room. Culminating in Dave
Bowman’s transformation into the starchild, for 10 points, name this Stanley Kubrick movie involving a mysterious
black monolith and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
ANSWER: 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The creation of this series is credited to Steve Higgins and Eugene Levy, and Eddie Murphy refused to
participate in it in 2015. In this series, one man says his mother lives in a nursing home in Alberta, and
another man calls him “such a fruit.” (*) A man injures himself with a pen and gets his hand stuck in a pickle jar
on this series, while another character says he “Garfunkeled your mother” and spent five years trying to invent an
“anal bum cover.” French Stuart and categories like “Catch the Semen” and “Famous Titles” appear in these
sketches, which feature Norm MacDonald as “Turd Ferguson.” For 10 points, name these SNL sketches about Sean
Connery and Alex Trebek.
ANSWER: Celebrity Jeopardy [prompt on “Jeopardy” or “Saturday Night Live” or “SNL” by asking which
sketches]
3. In a play by this author, one character decides to hide his identity so that he can observe what truly makes his
family happy, which leads to Martha poisoning and robbing him when she doesn’t recognize that he is her
brother. This author of (*) The Misunderstanding wrote a play about the downfall of the title Roman leader and
described a group of revolutionaries including Stepan and Kaliayev attempting to assassinate the Grand Duke in his
plays Caligula and The Just Assassins. Another character created by this author is criticized for smoking at a funeral
and often repeats the phrase, “It’s all the same to me.” That character is eventually executed for shooting an Arab six
times. For 10 points, name this author of The Stranger.
ANSWER: Albert Camus
4. A side plot in this game involves the rescue of a princess from the Chestnut King, which is completed by the
protagonist’s brother. One area in this game features a “man-eating toilet” and groups such as the
Shellshockers, Spike Storm, and the Armored Harriers. (*) This game features four treasure chests whose
inhabitants “curse” the player by granting new abilities. The player’s character is referred to as “The Great
Gonzales” in the Glitz Pit. The main enemies in this game include X-Naut Lord Crump, whose leader, Grodus,
wants to conquer the world using the treasure hidden behind the title object. For 10 points, Mario collects Crystal
Stars to defeat the Shadow Queen in what Game Cube sequel to Paper Mario?
ANSWER: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door [don’t prompt on Paper Mario]
5. This city built a Temple to Athena on its inner island of Ortygia to commemorate one victory. The Spartan
Gylippus successfully orchestrated the defence of this city during one war, where its enemy was fully
destroyed after dawdling as a result of a lunar eclipse. This city’s tyrant (*) Gelon won the decisive battle of
Himera to defeat one invasion. The general Timoleon came to this city to overthrow the tyrant Dionysius II. Rome
conquered this city as part of the Second Punic War after the death of Hiero II; during that conquest one inhabitant
of this city was killed against orders after saying “don’t disturb my circles.” For 10 points, Athens’ Sicilian
Expedition failed to capture what city, the home of Archimedes?
ANSWER: Syracuse [or Siracusa]
6. The Havemeyers' collection was largely curated by this artist, who is credited on Wikipedia with inspiring the
Montreal-based Beaver Hall Group. In a painting with two mirrors in it, this artist showed a naked blond child
sitting in the lap of a woman with a yellow dress and a sunflower. This artist showed a girl in a tartan shawl
and a scruffy dog lounging around on adult-size (*) turquoise furniture, and she made a painting where a darkdressed man rows and a woman in a fascinator sits off-centre while clutching an infant. This painter of Little Girl in
a Blue Armchair did the Utamaro-inspired The Coiffure and Woman Bathing, and her Loge series is set at the Paris
Opera House. For 10 points, name this artist of The Boating Party and a series of mother-and-child paintings, a
friend of Degas and American Impressionist.
ANSWER: Mary (Stevenson) Cassatt
7. This band warns that “if you don’t mind you mother’s words, a wicked wind will blow your ribbons from your
curls.” They sang "One Engine" on a Hunger Games album, and they used guests Gillian Welch and Peter
Buck on a song that says, “Knock me down, tear me up, but I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup.”
That song is preceded by (*) “January Hymn” and “Rox in the Box” on an album by this band that has Jenny
Conlee and Chris Funk in it, and which made the early albums Castaways and Cutouts and Picaresque. This band
held a guitar battle with Stephen Colbert, and they are fronted by Colin Meloy. For 10 points, name this Portlandbased folk band of "O Valencia," whose album The King is Dead includes "Calamity Song" and "Down By the
Water."
ANSWER: The Decemberists
8. One of these works was addressed to a “bunch of despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats” and
explained that cake was a fluffy dessert for birthdays. Other works of this type have asserted that the poster
for Sex and the City 2 was airbrushed and affirmed that there are parts in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over
60. A work of this type discusses how to say, "I put the (*) pills in the people," and a British man commended the
"great work that's been done this year by cosmetic surgeons" in one of these speeches. For 10 points, name these
speeches given before the Hollywood Foreign Press Association by Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
ANSWER: Golden Globes opening monologues (accept synonyms; accept if people specify which host)
9. In one story by this author, women scramble to add more and more relics to a corpse awaiting sea burial, and
in another, a paralyzed man is blessed with almost winning the lottery and a leper sprouts sunflowers from his
sores. This author wrote of a very large corpse nicknamed (*) Esteban in one story, and he wrote about Father
Gonzaga checking if an apparent supernatural creature might be "just a Norwegian." Townsfolk are distracted by a
girl changed into a spider in one of this author's stories, which sees Pelayo and Elisenda lock the foul-smelling title
character in a chicken coop and charge people five cents to see him. For 10 points, name this author of "The
Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and a story about a vagrant who might be an angel, "A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings."
ANSWER: Gabriel Garcia Marquez [prompt on partial to be generous]
10. Unlike a close neighbour, this hormone's amino acid structure has an isoleucine and a leucine in positions 3
and 8, and it stimulates contractions that aid in sperm release during ejaculation. This hormone cleaves off from
its carrier protein Neurophysin I, and lacking the gene for this molecule’s receptor may be linked to the
development of (*) autism. Secreted by the posterior pituitary gland after being produced in the hypothalamus, this
hormone has been shown to affect social interaction in animals. Along with estrogen, this peptide hormone induces
production of a prostaglandin that causes shedding of the uterine lining, and it is responsible for contracting muscles
around the alveoli in order to induce lactation. For 10 points, name this hormone that is released in large quantities
during labour and after childbirth.
ANSWER: oxytocin
11. David Stove argued in support of this concept in his book The Rationality of [this concept], using examples
mentioning ravens. W.V.O. Quine offers a solution to a problem relating to this concept by claiming that only
predicates identifying a “natural kind” are legitimate. (*) Nassim Taleb used an example involving a turkey and
a butcher to explain an issue with this concept in The Black Swan. A problem proposes a predicate that is true if an
object is green before time t and blue afterwards. That predicate, called “grue,” appears in a “new riddle of” this
concept proposed in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast by Nelson Goodman. For 10 points, David Hume notably argued
against what type of reasoning generally contrasted with deductive reasoning?
ANSWER: induction [or inductive reasoning]
12. A child called Balilla sparked a revolt by throwing a stone in this city. This city allied with the Byzantines and
governed the suburb of Pera through the treaty of Ninfeo. This city won the battles of Meloria and Curzola and
lost the War of Chioggia, and the Bank of Saint George and the Lanterna lighthouse are both situated here. The
losing general in the Fall of Constantinople was Giovanni Giustiniani from this city, (*) and current princes of
Monaco are descended from this city's House of Grimaldi. The Black Death entered Europe through this city's
outpost at Caffa, and a man from this city was assisted by the Pinzon brothers and asked Arawak prisoners for gold
after he landed at San Salvador in the Bahamas. This city became a Spanish satellite under Andrea Doria, and it
ruled Corsica until the 18th century. For 10 points, name this city-state on the Ligurian Sea, the hometown of
Christopher Columbus and traditional rival of Venice.
ANSWER: Genoa [or Genova; or La Superba]
13. A man on this show has to propose a house meeting because he lacks the authority to call a house meeting,
and another character claims he's not afraid of commitment but is afraid of following through on
commitments. Production designer Lisa Hanawalt put gags like a bowl of tennis balls on a coffee table in this
show, which has the characters (*) Bradley Hitler-Smith and Vincent Adultman, who is three children in a trench
coat. The hero steals the D from the Hollywood sign and bickers with a Navy seal over a box of muffins on this
show, which has Alison Brie playing an Asian ghost-writer and Paul F. Tompkins playing Mr. Peanut Butter. For 10
points, name this Netflix cartoon set in an animal world and starring Will Arnett as a washed-up sitcom actor.
ANSWER: BoJack Horseman
14. In Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Mannie names the lunar computer after this
character. This character turns out to be Thursday’s uncle in a (*) series of novels by Jasper Fforde. In his first
appearance, this character assists Mr. Melas, the Greek interpreter, while in a later story he requests help in
recovering stolen submarine plans. This character, who lives in Pall Mall and frequently visits the Diogenes Club, is
described as the “central exchange” of the British government, where he ostensibly works as an auditor.
Tremendously lazy and out of shape, for 10 points, name this much smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes.
ANSWER: Mycroft Holmes
15. Kurt Mahler divided these objects into S, T, and U classes, and the person who proved they exist did so by
showing that all of the numbers of a type named after him are these. One theorem states that if a and b do not
belong to this set, with a and b not equal to one or zero and b irrational, then a to the power b will always
exhibit the property associated with this class. These entities are the subject of Hilbert’s (*) seventh problem,
which was resolved by the aforementioned Gelfond-Schneider theorem, while the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem
shows that pi and e belong to this class. For 10 points, name this class of numbers, which, unlike algebraic numbers,
cannot be the roots of any rational polynomial.
ANSWER: transcendental numbers
16. One character in this film asks his friend to tell him whether he has a “cute butt” after learning that this is all
women now talk about. Two men in this film tearfully discuss The Dirty Dozen, and the made-up statistic that
“it’s easier to be killed by a terrorist than get married over the age of 40” is repeated several times in this
movie. (*) The heroine sees a man playing with his son on the beach in this movie but leaves when she mistakes his
sister for a girlfriend. She eventually leaves her fiancee Walter, played by Bill Pullman, and visits the Empire State
Building on Valentine’s Day. This movie pays homage to An Affair to Remember, and it ends with Sam and Annie
getting together, played by actors who later co-starred in You’ve Got Mail. For 10 points, name this rom-com with
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
ANSWER: Sleepless in Seattle
17. This country shows cricket on the Carlton Sports Network, and Canada got the lowest O.D.I. score ever
against this team. This team won a re-toss when referee Jeff Crowe didn't hear what they called on the first
coin toss, and one of their players developed a ramp shot called a (*) Dilscoop. The current number one I.C.C.
test batsman is a player from this country who signed with Surrey, and this country is home to a Moors Club and a
Nondescripts Club. Now captained by Angelo Mathews, this is the national team of a bowler who got in trouble for
using a "doosra" arm motion. Pakistan was banned from hosting the 2015 World Cup after this team's bus was
ambushed by gunmen in Lahore. For 10 points, name this country that lost World Cup finals in 2007 and 2011,
which has the players Muttiah Muralitharan and Kumar Sangakkara.
ANSWER: Sri Lanka
18. A youth movement in this territory all wore big checkered coats, and the songs "Douce Ambiance" and
"Nuages" were hits here. Kurt Lischka was a police commander of this territory, which was expanded by the
Case Anton and, which had a "Zazou" culture and actual Forbidden Zones on the coast and in the Northeast.
Prisoners were held in a bicycle racetrack in this territory, which is where the (*) Bismarck was heading when
it sank, and which had a poorly-fortified Atlantic Wall. The Vel D'Hiv Roundup occurred in this territory, which was
north of the Demarcation Line and the "zone libre," and which was nominally governed by Marshall Petain's regime
to its south. For 10 points, name this military zone which included Paris in the early '40s, and which existed under
worse conditions than Vichy France.
ANSWER: (Nazi-)Occupied France [prompt on partial; accept "Nazi France" or "gestapo in France"; prompt on
"Vichy France" by asking what part of it]
19. This man heckled the Smothers Brothers and got thrown out of the Troubadour Club, and he was credited for
one song under the name “Winston O’Boogie.” In 1974, he joined Elton John onstage at Madison Square
Garden, and he produced the album Pussy Cats during his (*) “Lost Weekend.” This friend of Harry Nilsson
sang, “It’s been so long since we took the time, no one’s to blame, I know time flies so quickly,” and the song
Beautiful Boy was dedicated to his son Sean. This artist kisses his wife on the cover of their album Double Fantasy.
For 10 points, name this singer of “Whatever gets you Through the Night”, “(Just Like) Starting Over,” and
“Imagine.”
ANSWER: John Lennon
20. In one novel set in this city, a detective follows a man wandering seemingly at random for days, but when he
maps out the man’s route, he sees that it spells the phrase, “THE TOWER OF BABEL”. Another book set here
features the online ghost-utopia "DeepArcher" and shows Maxine investigating Gabriel Ice's thefts from his
company, "Hash-Slingerz." That novel which takes place in this city’s Silicon Alley is Thomas Pynchon’s (*)
Bleeding Edge. In another book, this is the location of Ernie’s Nightclub, where Ernie disgusts the narrator with his
showy piano playing. That narrator changes his mind about sleeping with Sunny and makes a date with the shallow
Sally Hayes, while wandering around this city after being kicked out of Pencey Prep. For 10 points, name this home
of Holden Caulfield, the setting of J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: New York City
21. A neon palm tree marks this city’s historic El Mocambo Tavern, and this city’s Little Portugal is between
Queen Street and College Street. An anti-Semitic riot occurred at this city’s (*) Christie Pits, and this is where
the Rolling Stones made a concert movie and allegedly slept with a political leader’s wife. This city’s Mirvish
Village is home to the discount store Honest Ed’s, and the Humber river runs through this city’s west end, while its
eastern district contains the Rouge Valley conservation area and the Scarborough Bluffs. This city is home to the
Hockey Hall of Fame, the Bata Shoe Museum, and an art gallery recently redesigned by Frank Gehry, the Art
Gallery of Ontario. For 10 points, name this city that lies on the Northwest shore of Lake Ontario, the largest city in
Canada.
ANSWER: Toronto
BONUSES
1. A character in this comic book wakes up in Colombia with only an ear-piece and must make his way to London in
12 hours or he will fail his test. For ten points each:
[10] Name this comic book in which Jack London recruits his nephew Gary to become an MI6 agent after he gets
into trouble by crashing a stolen car.
ANSWER: The Secret Service
[10] This writer of The Secret Service is also known for other comic books such as Jupiter’s Legacy, Kick-Ass and
Marvel’s Civil War. .
ANSWER: Mark Millar
[10] In the first issue of the Secret Service, Jack London tries to rescue this actor, who played Luke Skywalker, from
a group of terrorists.
ANSWER: Mark Hamill
2. Answer some questions about gas laws, for 10 points each.
[10] This Italian names a law that states that, under constant temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases
contain equal numbers of molecules. He also names the number of molecules in one mole.
ANSWER: Amedeo Avogadro
[10] Avogadro’s Law was based on this man’s law of combining volumes, which states that the ratio of volumes
consumed or produced in a reaction must be a ratio of whole numbers.
ANSWER: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
[10] Another gas law, which is named either for Gay-Lussac or Guillaume Amontons, describes this relationship
when mass and volume are constant.
ANSWER: pressure is (directly) proportional to temperature [accept synonyms]
3. In an early version of this novel, one character gives another the literal advice, “Run mad as often as you choose,
but do not faint,” before dying of pneumonia that she caught from fainting outside. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Jane Austen novel about Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who represent the two title concepts.
ANSWER: Sense and Sensibility
[10] Due to Marianne’s exuberant behaviour, Elinor wrongly believes her to be engaged to this man, who rescues
her after she hurts her ankle in a rainstorm. He reciprocates Marianne’s feelings but then abandons her to marry a
rich heiress.
ANSWER: John Willoughby
[10] Marianne initially accepts this gift from Willoughby but changes her mind because her family can’t afford to
keep it. Willoughby names it Queen Mab, after a character from Romeo and Juliet.
ANSWER: a horse
4. In a recent film, one of these people disguises herself in a hijab and roams the streets of Bad City on a skateboard
she steals from a little boy. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these people, of which one example is the title character in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Another
recent movie about them is Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive.
ANSWER: vampires
[10] In this Tomas Alfredson movie, 12-year-old Oskar develops a crush on his new neighbour Eli, who is a vampire
who helps save Oskar by murdering some bullies.
ANSWER: Let the Right One In
[10] The movie Shadow of the Vampire depicts a crew attempting to make this movie, not realizing that they hired a
real vampire to play the title role. This 1922 Dracula ripoff starred Max Schreck as Count Orlok.
ANSWER: Nosferatu
5. The reprise of this piece at the end of the opera it appears in leads the title character to realize that the person he
has assassinated is not the Duke but his own daughter. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this aria decrying the faithlessness of women, first sung by the Duke inside Sparafucile’s home.
ANSWER: “La donna è mobile”
[10] “La donna è mobile” is from this Verdi opera, in which the title hunchbacked jester fears a curse placed on him
by Count Monterone, whose daughter was seduced by the Duke.
ANSWER: Rigoletto
[10] This final Verdi opera was adapted from Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor and the Henry IV plays. It
concludes with a comic fugue that is a loose adaptation of the “All the world’s a stage” speech.
ANSWER: Falstaff
6. Answer some questions about the television career of a Canadian actor, for 10 points each.
[10] Name this Ottawa-born actor who currently stars as the hapless Josh Greenberg on Man Seeking Woman. As a
child, he appeared on Popular Mechanics for Kids and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
ANSWER: Jay Baruchel
[10] An earlier role for Baruchel was as college freshman Steven on the short-lived Undeclared, which was created
by this man. He also made Freaks and Geeks with Paul Feig.
ANSWER: Judd Apatow
[10] Baruchel had a guest role as a sabermetrician on this show, which starred David Krumholtz as math genius
Charlie Epps, who helps his brother solve crimes at the FBI.
ANSWER: Numb3rs
7. The enrichment centre regrets to inform you that this next bonus is impossible. Make no attempt to solve it, for 10
points each.
[10] Name this video game series where you control a fat, jumpsuit-wearing, orphan named Chell. She performs
tests for Aperture Science using a special gun that creates the title objects.
ANSWER: Portal
[10] Chariots, chariots. In the superior second Portal game, the player is introduced through recordings to this
industrialist, the founder of Aperture Science. He claims to be “the man who’s going to burn your house down.”
ANSWER: Cave Johnson (prompt on last name, accept Cave Prime, Mantis Cave, Cat Cave, or reasonable extradimensional equivalents)
[10] This thing will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak at all. You are warned, however, to
disregard any advice it gives you. He is your only friend, and you murder him. You monster.
ANSWER: Companion Cube
8. Elon Musk is apparently donating ten million dollars to keep research in this field “beneficial for humanity.” For
10 points each:
[10] Name this field of computer science associated with the Turing test that includes such subfields as machine
learning and natural language processing.
ANSWER: artificial intelligence (AI)
[10] A lot of early AI research was done in this programming language whose primary data structure is the linked
list. Its modern dialects include Clojure and Scheme.
ANSWER: Lisp
[10] Other tools used in AI include these learning systems that consist of input and output units connected through a
hidden layer. They can be trained using back-propagation.
ANSWER: artificial neural networks
9. Answer some questions about rock operas that teens may have liked in the 2000s, for 10 points each.
[10] This rock opera centers on “The Patient,” a character who dies of cancer. Songs from this My Chemical
Romance album include “Teenagers” and “Famous Last Words.”
ANSWER: The Black Parade
[10] According to Billie Joe Armstrong, this album’s character St. Jimmy is the Jesus of Suburbia. The cover art of
this Green Day album references a line from the song “She’s a Rebel.”
ANSWER: American Idiot
[10] In this final song off American Idiot, Billy Joe sings “Seems that she disappeared with a trace, did she ever
marry old what’s his face?”
ANSWER: “Whatsername”
10. Both players choosing to defect in the one-off prisoner’s dilemma is an example of one of these. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this game theory solution concept, in which no player can improve their position by changing their
strategy.
ANSWER: Nash equilibrium
[10] In the Bertrand model of oligopoly, this is the lowest number of firms required to make the Nash equilibrium
price equal to the marginal cost.
ANSWER: two
[10] The Bertrand model was a response to this oligopoly model, where the firms choose quantities rather than
prices. This model and the Bertrand model give the same result as the number of firms approach infinity.
ANSWER: Cournot model
11. The woman in this song was the dedicatee of the collection Flowers for Hitler. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this song that begins, “Come over to the window, my little darling / I’d like to try to read your palm.”
ANSWER: “So Long Marianne”
[10] “So Long Marianne” is a song by this Canadian, whose album Various Positions includes “If It Be Your Will”
and “Dance Me to the End of Love.”
ANSWER: Leonard Cohen
[10] This song from Various Positions got super-famous after it was featured in Shrek. It begins, “I heard there was a
secret chord/ that David played, and it pleased the Lord.”
ANSWER: “Hallelujah”
12. This scene is followed by an adorable prairie dog scurrying into its den. For 10 points each:
[10] Name or describe this galactically improbable scene where a character played by Harrison Ford escapes his
doom by hiding, then flying five thousand feet inside a kitchen appliance.
ANSWER: Nuking the Fridge [accept any answer that involves nuclear explosions and a fridge]
[10] The fridge is nuked in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which unfortunately co-starred this
actor as Indy’s son.
ANSWER: Shia LaBeouf
[10] The government of this country urged residents not to watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull due to the film’s
inaccurate, and highly Mexicanized, depiction of its culture, as seen in the obviously Mayan-looking lost city of
Akator.
ANSWER: Peru
13. This dynasty split into branches including the Jochids of the Golden Horde and the Yuan dynasty. For 10 points
each:
[10] This dynasty included Genghis Khan and held political power in Mongolia until the great purges of 1937. Give
their dynastic name; “khan” just means emperor.
ANSWER: Borjigin [or Borjigid, or Altan urag]
[10] This other Asian dynasty kept an “arthashastra” bureaucracy and controlled almost all of India under Ashoka
the Great.
ANSWER: Maurya [or Mauryan]
[10] The Ayutthaya kingdom gained independence from Toungoo under this dynasty. A member of this dynasty,
Naresuan, killed Minchit Sra in the “Elephant Battle.”
ANSWER: Sukhothai
14. This theory categorizes a certain type of process in terms of three basic actions: movement of a photon,
movement of an electron, and absorption or emission of a photon by an electron. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this “theory of light and matter,” which attempts to explain electromagnetism using quantum mechanics.
ANSWER: quantum electrodynamics [or QED]
[10] These diagrams illustrate problems in quantum electrodynamics, with a straight line representing the path of an
electron while a wavy line represents a photon. Their namesake was one of the original developers of QED.
ANSWER: Feynman diagrams
[10] QED can be used to explain this phenomenon where a slight difference is observed in the 2p and 2s energy
levels of the hydrogen electron.
ANSWER: Lamb shift
15. Canadian poet Jay Macpherson wrote about the process of converting this figure into an Ark in her poem “The
Boatman” and described this figure as an “old shape-changer” in a work addressed to it. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this figure whose “birth”, according to a French theorist, comes from the “death of the Author”.
ANSWER: the reader
[10] “Death of the Author” was written by this man who discussed a photograph of his mother at length in Camera
Lucida and analyzed various everyday phenomena in Mythologies.
ANSWER: Roland Barthes
[10] Barthes’ S/Z discusses this realist French author’s story “Sarrasine,” in which the beautiful singer Zambinella is
revealed to be a castrated man. That story appears in his “Scenes from Parisian Life.”
ANSWER: Honoré de Balzac
16. The most famous iteration of this play immediately followed a fourth down option pass touchdown from Vinny
Perretta to Derek Schoumann. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play, which ended the 2007 Fiesta Bowl when Ian Johnson scored the game-winning two-point
conversion to stun the Oklahoma Sooners.
ANSWER: Statue of Liberty
[10] Boise State again scored on the Statue of Liberty in their 2014 Fiesta Bowl victory against this school. This
university is the lone original Pac-10 team never to appear in the Rose Bowl.
ANSWER: University of Arizona Wildcats [accept either; DO NOT PROMPT OR ACCEPT Arizona State]
[10] Wildcats coach Rich Rodriguez formerly coached at this school, which lost its win-percentage record in the
regime of Brady Hoke. Don’t worry; Jim Harbaugh is here to save the day now.
ANSWER: Univeristy of Michigan Wolverines [accept either]
17. According to the apocrypha, these people protested when they were told that only their brothers would receive
an inheritance, leading their father to give them a “special inheritance” that granted them spiritual insight. For 10
points each:
[10] Name these people who are described as being the most beautiful women in the land in their father’s namesake
book of the Bible.
ANSWER: Job’s daughters
[10] Though the Bible does not name Job’s wife, she is sometimes identified as this daughter of Jacob, whose rape
by the prince Shechem was avenged by her brothers, Simeon and Levi.
ANSWER: Dinah
[10] One interpretation of Dinah’s rape states that it was Jacob’s punishment for locking her away so that this man
would not see her and want to marry her. This older twin of Jacob sold his birthright for a bowl of soup.
ANSWER: Esau
18. Why do bad things happen to good people? Answer some questions about a show that was cancelled after two
seasons, for 10 points each:
[10] This DC Comics show saw Aqualad lead a group of teenagers, including Artemis, Robin, Miss Martin,
Superboy, and Kid Flash out of their headquarters at Mount Justice.
ANSWER: Young Justice
[10] Dick Grayson returns to lead Young Justice in the second season under this new name, with a spiffy new black
and blue outfit and a ton of muscles.
ANSWER: Nightwing
[10] Robin / Nightwing was voiced by this actor who played JR Chandler on All My Children but may be better
known for his songs “Beautiful Soul” and “Leavin.”
ANSWER: Jesse McCartney
19. This word names the Canadian band that did “Lust for Love,” and a song with this title mentions “ladies with an
attitude” and “fellows that were in the mood”. For 10 points each:
[10] Give this name of a Conde Nast magazine that upset its readers by putting Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on
the cover.
ANSWER: Vogue
[10] U.S. Vogue is currently headed by this British woman, who revived the magazine after taking over in the late
80s. She was the inspiration for Meryl Streep’s character in The Devil Wears Prada.
ANSWER: Anna Wintour
[10] This writer said self-respect was a discipline to practice in her Vogue essay “On Self-Respect.” She is now a
model for the fashion brand Celine.
ANSWER: Joan Didion
20. Prices of this commodity crashed in late 2014. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this commodity produced in such places as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Alberta.
ANSWER: crude oil [or petroleum]
[10] This is the type of crude oil typically used for US oil prices, contrasted with Brent crude oil sold in Europe.
ANSWER: West Texas Intermediate [or WTI or Texas light sweet]
[10] Part of the reason for the increase in US production is the development of this area in North Dakota. The LacMégantic disaster involved a train full of oil from this place.
ANSWER: Bakken formation