Ottawa Hybrid 2015
Round 7 – Waterloo B (Faith Barrett, Erik Christensen, Theeran Kanthan)
1. One of these genes promotes the p21 inhibition of cyclin A and cdk2. Another one of these genes
inhibits CDK4 and is known as INK4a. The FAP disorder is caused by a mutation in one of these
genes, (*) APC. Knudson’s two-hit hypothesis says that two of these genes must be mutated before the
expression of symptoms. These genes tend to limit cell growth and promote DNA repair and apoptosis.
Sometimes referred to as anti-oncogenes, these genes protect the cell from cancerous behaviour. For 10
points, name these genes which include the retinoblastoma and the guardian of the genome, p53.
ANSWER: tumor suppressor genes
2. Rather than sail to the underworld, one of these beings stays on a jetty in the Suburbs of the Dead,
and these characters are often dogs when they are in the service industry. Inspired by Leonardo's Lady
with an Ermine, these beings are the subjects of intercision by the General Oblation Board at
Bolvangar. Sayan Kotor, the goose Kaisa, and the Arctic Hare Hester are all this type of being, and
Iofur Raknison is tricked by a girl pretending to be one of these creatures. The bear Iorek Byrnison has
armor instead of one of these companions, and witches can separate themselves from these beings over
long distances. Shapeshifting until they “settle” at puberty, these creatures include Lord Asriel's Stelmaria
and Lyra's Pantalaimon. For 10 points, name these familiars that represent people's souls in the Golden
Compass books.
ANSWER: daemons [prompt on “souls” or similar]
3. Hasok Chang wrote that "We Have Never Been Whiggish" about this theory, and Kuhn gave this
theory as an example of "Kuhn loss," saying it explains the common properties of metals. This theory's
discovery created a "mass paradox," and it contradicts the caloric theory described in Elements of
Chemistry. A book discussing (*) "fatty earth," or "terra pinguis," introduced this theory, which says that
all metals contain calx, and which was formulated by Georg Stahl and Johann Joachim Becher. Reconciled
with the existence of hydrogen by Joseph Priestley, this theory was undermined by the use of closed vessels
to show conservation of mass and show that combustion needs oxygen. For 10 points, identify this theory
disproved by Lavoisier, which says that a special element makes a substance flammable.
ANSWER: phlogiston theory [prompt on descriptions; don't prompt on "alchemy"]
4. A writer from this country created the 8-year-old Papelucho, and another wrote, "Fog thickens,
eternal, so that I may forget where the sea has thrown me." A poem about this place features "dark blue
figs," and a poet from here wrote about being “united in one anguished knot / around his bloody neck.”
Marcela Paz is from here, as is the author of (*) Cradle-Songs and Desolacion who mourned a lover's
suicide in "To See Him Again." A collection from this country described casting lighthouse signals to a
lover's absent eyes and compared a lover to a soul-butterfly in "I like it when you're quiet." A poem saying,
"I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too," and beginning, "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" was
written in this country by a man called Neftali Reyes. For 10 points, name this home of Gabriela Mistral
and Pablo Neruda.
ANSWER: the Republic of Chile
5. One movie about this person contains the line “a lake of gold in the desert sand is less than a cool,
fresh spring.” Ben Kingsley narrated an unsuccessful animated film about this man, in which he was
voiced by Christian Slater. Brenda Chapman co-directed a movie in which this teen hero destroys a
temple (*) in the course of a vigorous chariot race. In a movie with a famous water-dumping special effect,
this character falls in love with Anne Baxter and gets arrested by Yul Brynner. Val Kilmer voiced this
character for a movie that got Best Song for "When You Believe," and thousands of extras were used for a
four-hour Cecil B. DeMille movie that starred Charlton Heston as this man. For 10 points, name this
character who says, "Let my people go," in the movies The Prince of Egypt and The Ten Commandments.
ANSWER: Moses
6. This monarch invaded Aleppo and Qaqun and got attacked by a literal Assassin. This monarch started
the quo warranto inquiries and employed ill-fated Ricciardi banks to collect the new duties on wool he
imposed. The husband of (*) Eleanor of Castille, this king exiled all the Jews with the Edict of Expulsion.
This king deposed John Balliol and stole the "Stone of Destiny" after sacking Berwick, and he built
concentric castles and crowned his son the first Prince of Wales following the Statute of Rhuddlan. Before
coronation he fought in the Second Barons War and the 9th Crusade, and as king, this king fought and won
the Battle of Falkirk. For 10 points, name this king who conquered Wales and Scotland by defeating
Llewellyn ap Gruffyd and William Wallace.
ANSWER: Edward I or Edward Longshanks
7. Andre Breton described this artist’s work as a “ribbon around a bomb.” Hayden Herrera wrote a
bestseller about this artist, whose childhood home is now the Blue House museum, displaying works
like Marxism Will Give Health To The Sick. In an ex-voto style painting commissioned by (*) Claire
Booth Luce, this artist showed a woman in a black dress lying dead in the foreground while a woman in
white tumbles from a tall building. This artist memorialized a Ziegfield chorus girl in The Suicide of
Dorothy Hale. Injured at eighteen in a bus crash, this painter’s final work shows watermelons inscribed
with the words “Viva la Vida,” and many of her other works use indigenous symbols such as monkeys and
parrots. For 10 points, name this Mexican painter of many self-portraits.
ANSWER: Frida Kahlo
8. This player is believed to have mouthed the words "fat fuck" at Bruce Boudreau once, and a photo
shows this player receiving a silver medal with his arm in a sling after the World Juniors. In 2013, he
was named to the First and Second All-Star teams at (*) different positions, thanks to Adam Oates
switching him to right wing. This player campaigned to be picked last at the all-star game so he could win a
car for a youth hockey program, and he was first-picked ahead of Evgeni Malkin in the 2004 Draft. The
usual league-leader in shots, this player has won five Rocket Richard trophies. For 10 points, name this
linemate of Nicklas Backstrom, a Russian scorer for the Washington Capitals.
ANSWER: Alexander (Mikhailovich) Ovechkin
9. This character won a drinking contest against Paul Leotard by eating an entire loaf of bread
beforehand; when asked if she had prepared for the contest, this character replied that “No, I just do
that every night.” This character once dated a prostitute played by Josh Meyers, and she was told she
was (*) a BBW after discovering her ex had posted their sex tape online. This character’s brother attempts
a rap career with her help, and in the first episode where she appears, she rides a bicycle into a swimming
pool while drunk. This character hosts Betsy’s bible group in her apartment after she starts dating Casey,
and she goes to Haiti in the Season 1 finale of the show she is on. For 10 points, name this Indian-American
OB/GYN from an NBC sitcom.
ANSWER: Mindy Lahiri (either name is acceptable)
10. This band had to record drum parts using a toilet to appease producer Martin Hannett, and they
renamed themselves from "Warsaw" to something from the book House of Dolls. This band sang,
"Don't walk away in silence," on one song, and Factory Records recorded both their albums. This
band had a sparse sound and a song that begins, "When routine bites hard and (*) ambitions are low."
The line, "She said I've lost control again" is on a song about their singer's epilepsy, and this band's album
Unknown Pleasures has a famous waveform cover design. "Atmosphere" and "She's Lost Control" are
songs by this band, which wrote a response song to a Captain and Tenille hit. Reformed after Ian Curtis’s
suicide as New Order, for 10 points, name this band that sang "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
ANSWER: Joy Division
11. Guanophores produce this phenomenon with plates of crystallized guanine, and Robert Hooke held
the feathers of a certain bird underwater to show that this was not the result of pigmentation. This is
because this phenomenon is a result of structural colouration, and it is produced by microstructures
or thin-film interference. Argonite plates in a protein matrix produce this phenomenon in (*) nacre or
mother-of-pearl, and chitinous diffraction gratings produce this effect in the wings of butterflies and the
wing-cases of beetles. For 10 points, name this phenomenon where the colour of an object changes based
on the angle from which it is observed.
ANSWER: iridescence or goniochromism [accept structural colouration before it is said]
12. Late in his life, this man unsuccessfully attempted to install Cleonymus as ruler of Sparta. As a
youth, this man was sent as a hostage to Alexandria; Ptolemy Soter later restored this man to his
throne. This ruler conquered almost all of Sicily (*) but could not capture Carthaginian Lilybaeum
before the Greek Sicilians revolted against his despotism. Tarentum appealed for assistance from this ruler.
This man won the battles of Heraclea and Ausculum, Rome’s first encounters with war elephants, but his
losses at Beneventum ended his time in Italy. For 10 points, name this King of Epirus who won some
hollow victories against Rome.
ANSWER: Pyrrhus of Epirus
13. In February 2015, one of this player’s teammates caused a controversy by tweeting that this
player “fit in” rather than “fit out.” After leading UCLA to the final four, this player was drafted by
the Memphis Grizzlies and traded on draft night for a package including (*) OJ Mayo, and he
recorded the NBA’s most recent 30-30 game against the Knicks in 2010. This player is related to the Beach
Boys, and he dislocated a shoulder fighting for a loose ball with Kelly Olynyk, causing him to miss all four
of his team’s playoff rounds in 2015. For 10 points, name this power forward who is supposed to play with
Lebron James on the Cavaliers.
ANSWER: Kevin Love
14. In one video, a visibly stoned man dances in a chair as this claim is made about Paris Hilton. Andy
Milonakis said this about the pope, and Genius pointed out that this claim was almost true when it
was made about (*) James Worthy. The verse, "I'm that pretty bitch," appears in a song that alleges this
about Jesus, and the cooking dance appears in a video that makes this claim about Ellen DeGeneres. This
kind of statement often follows the phrase "hoes on my dick," and it was said about J.K. Rowling in
"Wonton Soup." For 10 points, name this literary device in which a rapping Based God compares himself
to different celebrities.
ANSWER: (Lil B) saying he looks like someone [accept Lil B saying he is Ellen or Paris Hilton or anyone]
15. This game introduced Dragon's Breath and ballistic knives, and it gives players R/C cars for a 3kill-streak. A zipline level in the First Strike map pack of this game is set in Kowloon Walled City,
and it also features the map "Five," where players are world leaders fighting zombies at the
Pentagon. The hero shoots Dr. Steiner in this game, on a mission to assassinate (*) General Dragovich.
The player drives a helicopter in the "Payback" level of this game, which introduced "cod-points" and
wager matches and the "Nuketown" multiplayer map. This game’s first mission is the Bay of Pigs invasion,
and it has Sam Worthington as the voice of agent Alex Mason. Returning the zombie mode from World at
War, for 10 points, name this first Cold War-themed Call of Duty game.
ANSWER: Call of Duty: Black Ops [prompt on Call of Duty by asking which game]
16. A velocity of certain type of these is described by the Adams-Williamson equation, and John Scott
Russell developed shipbuilding techniques that followed the properties of these phenomena. Second
partial derivatives with respect to time and to position are related to speed-squared in D'Alembert's
formula describing these phenomena. Planck's constant is inverse-proportional to a (*) particle's
momentum in a formula measuring these things, as described by the de Broglie Hypothesis. A single-pulse
type of this form is a soliton, and they're often defined as disturbances that propagate through space or
through a medium. Capable of transferring energy without transferring matter, for 10 points, name these
forms that can be transverse or longitudinal and can have period, amplitude, and frequency.
ANSWER: waves [accept more specific things like solitons or transverse waves or wavelength]
17. Walter describes broken machines using female pronouns in this novel, which repeats the image of
an old photograph with the word "picnic" written on the back. In its subplot set in "another dimension
of space," this novel features peach-women who grow on trees and (*) virgin sacrifices at the Ninth
Gate of a city buried under a pile of stones. The characters are heirs to a button factory in this book, and
they hide an activist arsonist in their home. Laura drives off a bridge in this book, which is set in Port
Ticonderoga and on Planet Zycron. This Booker-winner is interspersed with fake Toronto Star death
notices and features a twist about the authorship of its novel-within-a-novel. For 10 points, name this book
narrated by Iris Chase and written by Margaret Atwood.
ANSWER: The Blind Assassin
18. This actor played a character that died in a car crash in the season 4 finale of the show he appeared
in, and that character was a member of the Walker family. This actor played a character that
constantly references Dr. Richard Nygard, and he is set to appear in the 2015 TV show Apocalypse
Slough as Father Jude. This actor’s character (*) Robert McCallister was married to Kitty Walker on
Brothers and Sisters, and he played a character whose Secret Service codename was “Princeton.” In one
role, this actor was yelled at by Ron Swanson for bringing a vegetable loaf instead of a cake, and in
another, he wrote speeches alongside Toby Ziegler. For 10 points, name this actor who played Chris
Traeger on Parks and Recreation and Sam Seaborn on The West Wing.
ANSWER: Rob Lowe (or Robert Hepler Lowe)
19. Beings called "deceiver" and "screamer" claimed that one god choked to death on this thing, and
Hoenir is observed to only have this quality in the presence of a companion. This quality is present on
Earth thanks to an accident in an eagle-race, (*) and it is possessed by a creature born of all the gods'
spit until the dwarves Fjalar and Galar kill him. In pursuit of this quality, a god poses as "Bolverkr" and
tricks nine workers into killing themselves with their scythes so he can get close to Baugi and Gunnlod.
Suttung hides an item that gives this quality, which has been distilled from the blood of Kvasir. Odin trades
an eye for, for 10 points, what quality granted by Mimir's well and the Mead of Poetry?
ANSWER: wisdom [accept similar things like knowledge or ability to answer questions; prompt on
"writing poetry" or "power"; prompt on specific things like "Mead of Poetry" by asking what the quality is]
20. One of these messages states, “You Would Have To Eat 5 Apples Today To Get The Same
Nutritional Value As An Apple From The 1950s.” One of them consists of the single word “Ufo’s”
(with a possessive S), and another of these statements had its author claiming “I Watch Twilight
Every Night.” These statements frequently mention (*) “Mateo”, as in, “It’s Your Birthday Mateo Said.
I Didn’t Respond.” One of these asks, ““How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Even Real.” For 10
points, name these supposedly thought-provoking statements posted online by the teen star of The Pursuit
of Happyness and the The Karate Kid remake.
ANSWER: tweets by Jaden Smith (accept J. Smith and tweets)
21. The first winner of this award was Hendrik Willem van Loon, and the first two-time winners
were Joseph Krumgold and Elizabeth George Speare. Founded by Frederic Melcher, this award
went to Kwame Alexander in 2015 and (*) Kate DiCamillo in 2014, and TV Tropes claims you can win
it by killing off a dog. The A.L.A gave this award to Katherine Paterson, Ellen Raskin, and Louis Sachar
for Jacob Have I Loved, The Westing Game, and Holes. Twice won by Lois Lowry, this award is given
parallel to the British Carnegie Medal and the Caldecott Medal, which is for picture books. For 10 points,
name this American award given annually to the best children's book.
ANSWER: Newbery Medal [prompt on Newbery Honor, since that's a shortlist for the medal]
BONUSES
1. Debuting in 1921, this play was incredibly influential in its genre, though Isaac Asimov stated that “this
play, in in my own opinion, is a terribly bad one.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play, in which a factory produces life-like organic replicas of human beings for servitude; it
is perhaps most notable for coining the term “robot.”
ANSWER: R.U.R: Rossum’s Universal Robots
[10] In R.U.R., this character secretly burns the formula that was used to create robots. The robot version of
this character falls in love with Robot Primus.
ANSWER: Helena
[10] This other work of Czech literature is set during World War One, and at one point its title character is
captured by his fellow men-at-arms as a suspected Russian deserter. It was written by Jaroslav Hasek.
ANSWER: The Good Soldier Svejk (accept Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války)
2. This composer’s third symphony was completed well after his fourth and fifth, taking over a decade to
compose. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this composer of such works as the Hebrides Overture and a famous Wedding March. Some of
his sister Fanny’s own works were published under his name in his opus 8 and 9 collections.
ANSWER: (Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn (Bartholdy)
[10] Mendelssohn wrote this series of short lyrical solo piano pieces between 1829 and 1845. Though he is
credited with inventing the style, historians believe that Fanny’s earlier works influenced this series.
ANSWER: Songs without Words (or Lieder ohne Worte)
[10] Part of Mendelssohn’s Festgesang was adapted to the words of this Christmas carol. This hymn may
also be performed to the tune of “See the Conqu’ring hero comes” or “Christ the Lord is Risen Today.”
ANSWER: “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
3. What would a boy band be if they didn’t meticulously consider their hair choices? Answer some
questions about One Direction’s interesting dye-jobs, for 10 points each.
[10] This is Irishman is the only blond member of One Direction, and he has been dyeing his hair since the
age of 10.
ANSWER: Niall Horan
[10] This member of One Direction put a blond streak in his quiff in early 2013. Nowadays he has green
hair and is not a member of One Direction.
ANSWER: Zayn Malik
[10] Zayn’s blond streak caught the attention of writers at Marvel, who used it as inspiration when drawing
the new incarnation of this character, sometimes known as Johnny Blaze.
ANSWER: Ghost Rider (accept Robbie Reyes)
4.Answer questions about upsets at the Golden Globes, for 10 points each.
[10] The 2014 Globes saw this police sitcom win two awards, despite only being halfway through their first
season. Even Andy Samberg, who won Best Actor for this show, expressed extreme incredulity at the time.
ANSWER: Brooklyn 99
[10] Joanne Froggatt upset this Orange is the New Black actress for Best Supporting Actress in 2015. She
plays Suzanne Warren, or Crazy Eyes.
ANSWER: Uzo Aduba
[10] Also in 2015, this woman won for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. Her character was artificially
inseminated in the first episode of Jane the Virgin.
ANSWER: Gina Rodriguez
5. This reaction has rate constant of 10-to-the-minus-14, and it produces the ions required for a certain
liquid to conduct electricity. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this reaction that produces a hydronium and a hydroxide.
ANSWER: auto-ionization of water [accept self-ionization; prompt on partial]
[10] The hydronium ion produced in auto-ionization can donate a proton, which makes it this kind of
substance.
ANSWER: (Bronsted-Lowry) acid
[10] This non-protic molecule also auto-ionizes. It is a byproduct in the “disappearing cross” experiment,
and it reacts in water to make acid rain.
ANSWER: sulfur dioxide [SO2]
6. After horizontal drilling is complete, this action is done by pumping a high-pressure fluid into a
wellbore. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this process of extracting natural gas from reservoirs inside a porous rock formation.
ANSWER: fracking [hydraulic fracturing]
[10] America's biggest source of natural gas is this shale formation in Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
where fracking is done by companies like Chesapeake Energy.
ANSWER: Marcellus Shale Formation
[10] Fracking fluid left in wells or disposed elsewhere is believed to have caused events of this type in
Youngstown, Ohio and Fox Creek, Alberta.
ANSWER: earthquakes
7. Answer some questions about the Toronto Blue Jays’ offseason moves, for 10 points each.
[10] This Blue Jays signed this Canadian catcher to a five year contract worth $82 million, which is the
largest free agent signing by Alex Anthopolous.
ANSWER: Russell Martin
[10] To compensate for adding a Canadian, the Blue Jays traded away Canadian Brett Lawrie for this third
baseman. He and the Blue Jays went straight to salary arbitration in February 2015.
ANSWER: Josh Donaldson
[10] The Blue Jays began their offseason by trading this longtime designated hitter to the Milwaukee
Brewers for swingman Marco Estrada.
ANSWER: Adam Lind
8. This writer described a soldier escaping to hell and meeting the enemy he killed, in the poem “Strange
Meeting.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this English poet, best known for recounting the brutal images of World War I in such poems as
Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth.
ANSWER: Wilfred (Edward Salter) Owen
[10] This other poet was a friend and mentor to Owen. The author of Counter-Attacks and Other Poems, he
was hospitalized with shell-shock following his “Soldier’s Declaration”, a protest of the war.
ANSWER: Siegfried (Loraine) Sassoon
[10] Counter-Attacks and Other Poems features a poem about the “Glory of” these people, who “make us
shells” and who “crown our distant ardours while we fight, And mourn our laurelled memories when we're
killed”.
ANSWER: Women [accept equivalents; but the title is “Glory of Women”]
9. In this movie, one character distracts another with a cuddly monkey before knocking him out, then
saying, “playtime’s over”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this comedy film about “top London cop” Nicholas Angel being relocated to the town of
Sandford, only to find that things there are much more sinister than they appear.
ANSWER: Hot Fuzz
[10] Hot Fuzz is part of this trilogy of films by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright. Hot Fuzz is the
“blue” movie in this trilogy, representing the colours of the police.
ANSWER: Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
[10] Angel finds out that the hooded murderer is actually this group of people, who kill off anybody they
think will impede their town from winning “Village of the Year”.
ANSWER: Neighbourhood Watch Alliance
10. Randy Newman has written many songs for Pixar, answer some questions about other songs he has
performed. For 10 points each:
[10] In this satirical song, Newman says to leave “Chicago to the Eskimos.” He shouts out streets including
such Victory Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard.
ANSWER: “I Love L.A”
[10] Newman wrote this song proposing prejudice against a group of people, who “got no reason to live.”
He mentions how these people wear platform shoes on their nasty little feet.
ANSWER: “Short People”
[10] During the final episode of the this Comedy Central show, Newman played the Vera Lynn song
“We’ll Meet Again” while a bunch of famous people sang along.
ANSWER: Colbert Report
11. According to Lord Palmerston, only three people understood the question about this territory. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this region that passed from Denmark to Prussia and Austria in 1864 after Christian IX tried to
impose a new constitution.
ANSWER: Schleswig-Holstein [prompt on partial answer]
[10] Prussia gained control of the entire territory following the Seven Weeks’ War, which it won thanks to
this decisive victory won by Helmuth von Moltke.
ANSWER: Battle of Königgrätz [or Battle of Sadowa]
[10] The pretext to the Seven Weeks War was orchestrated by this chancellor, who later would edit the Ems
Dispatch to provoke the Franco-Prussian War.
ANSWER: Otto von Bismarck(-Schönhausen)
12. The website that hosts this comic was created in May of 2008, though its author had previously posted
some of her comics to LiveJournal. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this web comic, titled after spotting a homeless person on the street. It focuses mainly on
literary and historical comic strips, like Anne of Cleves Gables and Broadside Ballads.
ANSWER: Hark! A Vagrant
[10] This Nova Scotian is the author of Hark! A Vagrant. She drew the Google Doodle for Henrietta
Edwards’ 165th birthday.
ANSWER: Kate Beaton
[10] One of Hark! A Vagrant’s most popular strips shows this author reading a fan-letter from Jules Verne.
The letter depicts this poet of Ulalume in a hot-air balloon with Verne.
ANSWER: Edgar Allen Poe
13. Answer some questions about various intersex conditions, for 10 points each.
[10] Men with this syndrome have an XXY karyotype, though they may have a “mosaic” of normal and
abnormal cells. They tend to be very tall and have low testosterone levels.
ANSWER: Klinefelter syndrome
[10] Despite having an XY karyotype, people with this syndrome may not be phenotypically male. The
receptor for a certain class of hormones is non-functional; this can prevent male sex characteristics from
developing.
ANSWER: Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
[10] Those with AIS still have a functional copy of the SRY gene, meaning that these organs still develop.
Their Sertoli cells produce the anti-Müllerian hormone that prevents the development of female internal
genitalia.
ANSWER: testes or testicles
14. Answer some questions about men’s figure skating – for 10 points each.
[10] This 2014 Olympic silver medalist won three consecutive world championships between 2011 and
2013, before announcing that he would take a break for the 2014-15 competition season.
ANSWER: Patrick Chan
[10] This other Canadian won silver in Lillehammer and Nagano. His hopes for gold in Nagano were
dashed by a leg injury which he aggravated while landing a triple axel.
ANSWER: Elvis Stojko
[10] This bombastic Russian’s gold medal in the team competition at Sochi placed him into a tie for the
most Olympic medals won by a figure skater. He skated to Tom Jones’ “Sex Bomb” while wearing a
muscle suit.
ANSWER: Evgeni Plushenko
15. Despite arguing well, the title figure of this dialogue justly loses patience with Socrates, calling him a
torpedo fish. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Socratic dialogue, perhaps best known for its namesake “riddle.” It also has Socrates telling
a slave how to construct a square with twice the area of a given square.
ANSWER: Meno
[10] The main question in the Meno concerns whether this state of being can be taught. Meno attempts to
distinguish this concept for men, women, or rulers, but Socrates argues it must be the same for everyone.
ANSWER: virtue
[10] The Meno also gives us this Socratic theory regarding souls and knowledge. This doctrine means that
knowledge on some subjects is not learned, but innate or from previous lives.
ANSWER: recollection (accept word forms, such as “recall previous lives”)
16. Hugh Laurie and some other actors play in a band called “Band From TV.” Name some songs they
covered, for 10 points each.
[10] For “Idol Gives Back,” Band From TV covered this revenge song by Carrie Underwood, with guest
Teri Hatcher singing the line, “I carved my name into his leather seats.”
ANSWER: “Before He Cheats”
[10] Jesse Spencer, from House, plays both fiddle parts in Band From TV’s version of this song by the
Charlie Daniels Band. It involves a bet over a gold fiddle.
ANSWER: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
[10] E.R.’s Scott Grimes sings lead when Band from TV covers this Queen song. McFly covered this song
once for Sport Relief, and Blaine sang it in the Glee episode “Diva.”
ANSWER: “Don’t Stop Me Now”
17. Laser lipsticks and comm-powders are only a few of the desirable gadgets from this series. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this Marathon Media TV show, featuring Sam, Clover, and Alex as teenagers in the titular
profession. When they aren’t working, they are attending high school in Beverly Hills.
ANSWER: Totally Spies!
[10] This character makes terrible puns as he summons the girls for their missions. Though little is known
about him, his siblings Terence and Sherry have both been recurring villains.
ANSWER: Jerry
[10] Many episode titles are phrased as a question, ending with this word. A signature of the valley-girl
dialect, this word may be used to question someone’s ability to walk after they have tripped.
ANSWER: much (accept “Walk much?”)
18. Eight of this studio’s films are among the top 15 grossing anime films to be produced in Japan. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this studio, founded in part by Hayao Miyazaki. It has produced Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s
Moving Castle, and Spirited Away.
ANSWER: Studio Ghibli Inc.
[10] Studio Ghibli’s logo is this round character. In the movie he appears in, this “troll” befriends the
young sisters Mei and Satsuki, and he is shown to travel via cat-bus.
ANSWER: Totoro (accept My Neighbour Totoro or My Friend Totoro)
[10] This Studio Ghibli film was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2015. It follows the story of a
miniature girl found inside a glowing bamboo shoot.
ANSWER: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (or Kaguya-hime no Monogatari)
19. This is the year when U.S. Presidents started living in the White House, and a convention in this year
resolved the Quasi War with the Treaty of Mortefontaine. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this year that also saw the passing of the Irish Act of Union.
ANSWER: 1800
[10] This U.S. President moved into the White House and made peace with France following the XYZ
Affair.
ANSWER: John Adams [prompt on "Adams"]
[10] Also in 1800, Napoleon became First Consul and defeated Michael von Melas's Austrian troops in this
Second Coalition battle.
ANSWER: Battle of Marengo
20. We’re all here for fun, remember, no need to get competitive. Answer some questions about measuring
something a quality we all possess, for 10 points each.
[10] Tests that measure this quantity are the WAIS and the WISC, which is used for children. This
quantity’s average is historically supposed to be 100.
ANSWER: IQ [or intelligence quotient]
[10] This effect shows that IQ scores have seen a substantial and sustained increase since the 1930s, though
it seems to have ended in some developed nations.
ANSWER: the Flynn effect
[10] This Harvard Psychologist developed a theory of multiple intelligences in 1983, which includes
interpersonal, musical, and bodily-kinesthetic.
ANSWER: Howard Gardner