Ottawa Hybrid 2014
Playoff Round
Packet by Carleton D (Heather Gordon, Gabirel Mayost, Stuart Macdonald)
1. The Bechamp reaction is an electrophillic aromatic substitution performed on an acid of this element.
Cacodylic acid contains this element as the central atom, and its buffer was used in Agent blue. An alloy of
this element, whose allotropes include yellow, black, and the most stable grey, with gallium are used as a
semiconductor more potent than silicon. The bacterium GFAJ-1 was falsely discovered to thrive solely on this
pyruvate dehydrogenase inhibitor toxic element as a replacement for phosphorus, which is one row above it in
column 15 of the periodic table. With atomic number 33, for ten points, name this metalloid with atomic symbol As.
ANSWER: Arsenic
2. In one of this author's books, the protagonist spies on an Angolan man's genitals and gets told, “you’ve
deflowered me,” by a fictional Joseph Conrad. This author played on the Black Diaries in a book about a
consul awaiting execution and wrote of the socialist phrenology advocate Galileo Gall in a book where the
Counselor preaches that the Republic is the work of an Antichrist. This author fictionalized Roger
Casement’s colonial experiences and the War of Canudos, respectively, in The Dream of the Celt and The War of
the End of the World. This author put stories about a dumb soccer referee and an aspirin salesman into a work based
on his marriage at 18 to an older woman, and featuring a long-haired Argentine-hating man who single-handedly
produces five hours of radio novelas every day. For ten points, name this author who wrote about Pedro Comacho
and about courting his own actual aunt in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa
3. In one instalment of this series, the protagonist must must rescue a dancer from the General of Darkness,
Onox. Lines such as “You dare bring light to my lair? You must die!” appear in one of three games from this
series to have appeared in 1993 on Philips’s ill-fated CD-i system. Most games in this series is set in a land
created by three goddesses that represent power, wisdom, and courage, though other locales visited over the course
of this series include Khonolit and Holodrum. Featuring items such as bombchus and the hookshot, for ten points,
name this series created by Shigeru Miyamoto set in Hyrule which stars the Hero of time and the titular princess.
ANSWER: The Legend of Zelda series
4. This player is the last active member of the Québec Nordiques and was voted best player in the Finnish
league during the 2005 lockout. The number this player wore in Florida was in honour of John
Vanbiesbrouck, and was traded way for Dan Ellis. This player’s most successful tenure ended poorly after he
refused to visit the White House with the team and took a break from playing during the last year of his contract.
This player made his Olympic debut in the 2010 semifinals in relief of Ryan Miller and was the first ever Americanborn player to win a Conn Smythe trophy when the Vacouver Canucks were defeated by his Boston Bruins in 2011
currently playing for the Dallas Stars.
ANSWER: Tim Thomas
5. This man lost his first campaign in one conflict at Cheat Mountain. He served on Winfield Scott’s staff in
Mexico, proposing the flanking maneuver used at Cerro Gordo. This man’s family estate became the site of
Arlington National Cemetery. Upon receiving his highest command, this man immediately fought the Seven
Days Battles. A copy of this man’s Special Order 191 fell into enemy hands and contributed to the demise of his
first invasion. This man captured John Brown at Harpers Ferry. His invasions of the North failed at Antietam and
Gettysberg. For ten points, name this Confederate general, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
ANSWER: Robert Edward Lee
6. One of this man’s stories sees a young man accuse an elderly German immigrant of being a Nazi war
criminal, and another of his stories features four boys following railroad tracks to find the body of a missing
boy. This author of “Apt Pupil” and “The Body” also wrote a novel in which a haunted car begins to murder its
former owners, as well as a novel in which prison inmate John Coffey has the power to heal people. This man wrote
Christine and The Green Mile, and he also wrote a novel in which the town of Derry is terrorized by Pennywise the
Clown, as well as a novel in which Jack Torrance goes insane at the Overlook Hotel. For ten points, name this
author of It and The Shining.
ANSWER: Stephen King [or Richard Bachman]
7. One character on this show repels two Brainspawn attacks because he lacks the Delta brainwave. Q. T.
McWhiskers was turned into an evil killbot in one episode of this show, and in another, one character loses a
glove and gets pregnant, prompting Leo and Inez Wong to turn a party board into an ironing board. One
character from this show is cast as a young robot on the soap All My Circuits alongside Calculon, and another
character, Hermes, is a level 36 bureaucrat from Jamaica. For ten points, identify this thrice-cancelled Matt
Groening animated TV show set in the year 3000 featuring the Planet Express delivery crew of Fry, Leela, and
Bender.
ANSWER: Futurama
8. This author wrote: “your voice sounds like a scorpion being pushed through a glass tube” and pledged that
“your breasts and shoulders would reek” after he left “yellow bark dust on your pillow.” This author of
“Sweet Like a Crow” edited the journal Brick and wrote about “searchers” who get four dollars a week to look
for a missing theatre baron. The son of Hazen inherits an iguana and burns down a hotel in one of this author's
novels, where a man gets painted blue to escape from prison and a Macedonian worker saves a nun who falls off a
bridge. The author of a book about immigrants building Toronto's Bloor Street viaduct, for ten points, name this
man who wrote "The Cinnamon Peeler" and In The Skin of a Lion.
ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje
9. Some of the more unusual villains to debut in this character’s feature comic book include Stilt-Man and the
Purple Man. This character’s wife, Milla Donovan was institutionalized after an encounter with Mr. Fear,
and his house was demolished by Wilson Fisk after he learnt this character’s secret identity. This hero once
attempted to kill the assassin Bullseye by throwing him off a building, later accomplishing the task during the
Shadowland storyline. Trained by Stick to control his superhuman senses, this character first donned a mask after his
father was shot after throwing a boxing match. For ten points, name this blind Marvel superhero, known as the Man
Without Fear.
ANSWER: Daredevil (or Matthew Murdock)
10. A girl pees on this actor's carpet after borrowing his camcorder in one role, and his first movie role was as
the Spartan Stelios in 300. In one long take, he tells a priest a story about drowning a colt, and this actor's
other roles have included seducing Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank and claiming that it's the Lord's will that a servant
should be "beaten with many stripes." This actor's porn site visits put a virus on a work computer in a movie where
he displays his very long penis and looks after his sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan. Steve McQueen has cast
this actor as the sex addict Brandon, the prisoner Bobby Sands, and Edwin Epps, a man who rapes Patsey and
purchases Chiwotel Ejiofor's character Solomon Northrup. For ten points, name this red-haired actor from Hunger,
Shame, and Twelve Years a Slave.
ANSWER: Michael Fassbender
11. In this part of the body, Vitamin K is utilized to form coagulation factors and Vitamin A is stored in the
stellate cells. Haemoglobin is processed for use of its iron content, the phagocytosis of microbes as well as
cytokine production are performed by the Kupfer cells. In addition to the muscle, the Cori cycle also takes
place in this organ, which is comprised of hexagonal functional units called lobules. Angiotensinogen is relased by
this organ to raise blood pressure. This organ converts lactate to glucose, acetyl-co-A to fatty acids to triglycerides,
ammonia to urea, as well as glucose into glycogen. Located just below the diaphragm, For ten points, name this four
lobed organ that metabolizes toxins found in alcohol and drugs; the site of hepatitis that produces bile.
ANSWER: liver
12. This man has his facial hair burned off while lighting a funeral pyre for Li’l Sebastian, and his two least
favourite things are lying and skim milk, which he characterizes as water lying about being milk. This man
escapes to his cabin when he finds out his first wife has arrived to see him, and that wife shares his name with
his second wife, played by Megan Mullaly. This former husband of Tammy I and Tammy II, whose namesake
Pyramid of Greatness places honour as the pinnacle of manliness, enjoys breakfast foods and woodworking. For ten
points, name this mustachioed Libertarian director of the Pawnee Parks Department on Parks and Recreation.
ANSWER: Ronald Ulysses Swanson (prompt on Duke Silver)
13. This actress plays a landscape gardener at Versailles in Alan Rickman’s upcoming movie A Little Chaos,
and in one role, she throws up on a Kokoschka catalogue and calls John C. Reilly a hamster murderer. She
has played an “Adele Wheeler” and an “April Wheeler” in different movies, and had her underwear stolen
by Elijah Wood when she played a bookstore clerk who picks up a toque-wearing man at Montauk beach. She won
an Oscar for playing a streetcar conductor who leaves a tea-tin full of money to Ralph Fiennes and refuses to admit
her illiteracy in court. This actress sleeps with a teenage David Kross and gets her memories of Jim Carrey erased in
two major roles. For ten points, name this woman who played Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
and the Nazi Hanna in The Reader.
ANSWER: Kate Winslet
14. This figure declares, "We live / law to ourselves, our Reason is our Law," and a description of her begins,
“Grace was all in her steps.” First discovered “veiled in a cloud of fragrance,” this woman speaks the lines,
“Sweet is the breath of morn,” and, “With thee conversing I forget all time.” When she has the idea to divide
labours with her companion, she is commanded “Go,” and this woman habitually refers to her husband as her
head. This woman spends hours in “mutual accusation” and observes that her husband is not as beautiful as her own
reflection, and a character disguised as a toad gives instructions into this woman’s dreams. For ten points, name this
“Mother of Mankind” in Paradise Lost, who uses "female charms" to persuade her husband into eating the fruit
from the Tree of Knowledge.
ANSWER: Eve
15. Ron Lancaster played for this team for 16 seasons, and became their head coach immediately after
retiring. They were the last original CFL team to win the Grey Cup, beating Ottawa in 1966. Kent Austin was
the first man to win a championship as both a starting quarterback and head coach for the same team, doing
so for this team. This team beat their Labour Day rivals in the 2007 Grey Cup, beating Banjo Bowl opponents the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers. A too many men penalty allowed Damon Duval to kick the game-winning field goal
against this team in the 2009 Grey Cup. For 10 points, name the current Grey Cup champions, who won on their
home turf in Regina.
ANSWER: Saskatchewan Roughriders [Accept Either, DO NOT ACCEPT Ottawa Rough Riders]
16. This song was sampled on Madonna’s track “Get Together” and the artist then known as Puff Daddy
sampled this song’s opening riff in his tribute to the Notorious B.I.G. “I’ll Be Missing You.” The writers of
this song received the Grammy for Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1984, and this song
was included on their last album, Synchronicity. This song includes the line “since you’ve gone I’ve been lost
without a trace/ I dream at night I can only see your face,” and Sting has said multiple times that people interpret it
as a love song despite its upsetting lyrics. For ten points, name this 1983 hit by The Police.
ANSWER: “Every Breath You Take”
17. February 23 is often named for this organization, of which Magaza Masanchi ran a Dungan branch. Early
leaders of this organization included Jukums Vacietis and Sergei Kamenev, and prisoners working in this
organization were called tramplers. Rumours questioning this organization's loyalty were started by Nikolai
Skoblin, and this organization operated in multiple echelons under Georgi Isserson's "deep operations" theory.
Supervised by the RMC and the Stavka, senior members of this organization were called combrigs and comdivs, and
its leaders were given a secret trial instead of show trials during the Great Purge. Mostly founded by Leon Trotsky,
for 10 points, name this force credited with winning the Eastern front of World War Two.
ANSWER: Red Army [or RKKA; accept Soviet army or Soviet military; prompt on Russian army or military]
18. This band sang the lines, “this nonsense isn’t news to me” and “you don’t want this sympathy” on a song
about Montgomery Clift. A drummer quit this band in 1997 to become a farmer. This band of “Monty Got a
Raw Deal” was produced by Mitch Easter and recorded a song saying “offer me alternatives and I decline,”
which was sped up in a cover by Great Big Sea. A party involving Leonid Brezhnev, Leonard Bernstein, and Lenny
Bruce features in one of their songs, which begins “that’s great, it starts with an earthquake.” Hailing from this
Georgia band’s album Automatic for the People includes the songs “Nightswimming” and “Everybody Hurts.” For
ten points, name this Michael Stipe-led band that sang, “It’s the End of the World As We Know It.”
ANSWER: R.E.M. [Carleton says to accept Rapid Ear Movement]
19. This thinker argued in Essays Moral, Political and Literary that “since marriage is...entered into by mutual
consent,” polygamy and divorce should not be allowed. Stating to Boswell that it was possible a piece of coal
put upon the fire would not burn to show his opinion of an afterlife, this thinker argued that “Reason is, and
ought only to be the slave of the passions” in his A Treatise of Human Nature. More famous thought experiments
include the “Missing Shade of Blue” and his contention that a good meal and friends will soon erase philosophical
problems, while he divided human knowledge into “ideas” and “impressions” in centring knowledge in human
perception. For 10 points, name this sceptical empiricist, author of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, a
Scotsman whose magnum opus is An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
ANSWER: David Hume
20. This artist’s studio at Rue Guyot was the setting for a portrait with a Velasquez painting and a print of a
Japanese wrestler in the background, and this artist used a knife to cut a poorly-reviewed painting into two
smaller paintings. A young boy in red pants playing a fife and a cool portrait of Zola were painted by this artist
of The Dead Toreador and The Bullfight, who also showed the sole of a woman’s foot near a delicious-looking roll
in a painting inspired by the Pastoral Concert. This artist gave a gunman the features of Napoleon III in one of a
series he painted about an incident at Queretaro, and he put some blue clothes strewn next to Victorine Meurent’s
body in a painting of well-dressed men sitting on a forest floor with a nude woman. For ten points, name this artist
of The Execution of Maximilian and Luncheon on the Grass.
ANSWER: Edouard Manet
TB1. Dust storms named haboob were observed and named in this country. The Kashm Al-Qirbah Dam is
located on this country’s Atbara River: the last tributary to flow into this country’s most important river,
which is itself dammed by the Al-Rusayis Dam. The Gezira scheme in this country was originally used to
irrigate lands to grow cotton. The Nuba Mountains rise in this country’s oil-producing South Kordofan province.
The Fur people live in one area of this country dominated by the volcanic Marrah Mountains: Darfur. One of the
sister towns of this country’s capital is Omdurman. For ten points, the White and Blue Niles merge at Khartoum in
what country?
ANSWER: Republic of Sudan [or Jumhuriyat as-Sudan]
TB2. The losers of this battle were unable to engage the services of Orban the Hungarian due to lack of funds,
so he went to work for the victors instead building cannons. The victors at this battle dragged their ships
overland to avoid a sea wall mounted by the defenders. Johannes Grant dug counter-tunnels at this battle under
the city walls. Giovanni Giustiniani was put in charge of the defense in this battle, and was mortally wounded during
this battle. The body of the losing commander at this was never found, leading to the legend that he would return to
reconquer this site, but Constantine XI almost certainly died in the fighting. For ten points, name this 1453 battle
that ended the Byzantine Empire.
ANSWER: Fall of Constantinople [accept equivalents]
1. Answer these questions about star Boston Celtics players, for 10 points each.
[10]This longtime Minnesota Timberwolves power forward and centre came to the Celtics in 2007. With his 6'11"
frame, the 2004 MVP helped them win the NBA Championship in 2008, then screamed "anything is possible" in
celebration.
ANSWER: Kevin Garnett
[10]Garnett’s statement rang true when he and this small forward, the face of the Celtics franchise in the 21st
century, were traded to the Brooklyn Nets in 2013. Wearing #34, he earlier led Boston to the Conference Finals in
2002 with Antoine Walker.
ANSWER: Paul Pierce
[10]This former Celtic made news for running into a 12-year-old fan on the sidelines after hitting a game-winning
shot in 2008. Appropriately nicknamed "Big Baby", he was able to body slam future teammate Shaquille O'Neal at
only 15 years old.
ANSWER: Glen Davis
2. Some television shows are so good; they have to make another one. Answer these questions about shows that
spun off from other ones, for ten points each.
[10]Perhaps the most successful spin-off of all time, this show followed a psychiatrist moving back to Seattle to
accept a radio hosting job and spend time with his brother Niles. Characters from Cheers would occasionally pop by
to visit.
ANSWER: Frasier
[10]After an appearance on Happy Days, an alien from Ork played by Robin Williams got his own series set in
Boulder, Colorado, where he befriends a woman and her family. This series features the alien’s sign off, Nanu nanu!
ANSWER: Mork and Mindy
[10]Perhaps the most reviled spin-off in recent memory, this show sees a character leave Friends and his friends in
New York to pursue an acting career in LA. Matt LeBlanc really should have moved on.
ANSWER: Joey
3. He synthesized many economic concepts into a coherent whole. For ten points each:
[10]Name this English economist who first combined supply and demand curves, the concept of marginal utility,
and costs of production to arrive at the market equilibrium price in now-familiar graphs in his 1890 work Principles
of Economics.
ANSWER: Alfred Marshall
[10]One concept put forward by Marshall was this value which measured the net gain by a purchaser of a good
when their willingness to pay exceeded the price of the good. Together with its producer equivalent, it forms the
metric of total welfare.
ANSWER: Consumer surplus
[10]Total welfare is maximized when the market equilibrium price is set, unless one of these is present in the
market, a cost or benefit that affects welfare but is not accounted for in private market supply and demand. It results
in a different socially-optimal price.
ANSWER: Positive or negative externality
4. He used his position as commander-in-chief of the army to attack the presidential palace, though witnesses insist
that he did not kill the President, who committed suicide. For ten points each:
[10] Name this military leader, influenced by the neo-liberal Chicago Boys, who overthrew the government of
Salvador Allende and imposed himself as dictator of Chile in 1974.
ANSWER: Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
[10] Under Pinochet, Chile joined the likes of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay to participate in this co-ordinated
repression of communists and opponents more generally.
ANSWER: Operation Condor
[10] Prior to the Chilean coup, the CIA ordered the kidnapping of this previous commander-in-chief of the army
who was shot by Roberto Viaux when he resisted. This general had earlier opposed a coup d’état against Allende
during the 1970 election.
ANSWER: René Schneider Cherea
5. Answer some questions about a recent conflict, for 10 points each.
[10] In late 2013, militants in this country attempted a coup in its capital of Kinshasa. Other civil strife in this
country has taken place in its east.
ANSWER: Democratic Republic of the Congo [or DRC; or RDC; or République démocratique du Congo;
prompt on just Congo; do not accept or prompt Republic of the Congo or Congo-Brazzaville]
[10] This rebel group briefly held Goma in November 2012, but signed a peace deal in 2013 after being defeated
militarily thanks to the help of the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade.
ANSWER: March 23 Movement [or Mouvement du 23 mars]
[10] This country, along with Rwanda, was accused of supporting the M23. Its armed forces have also intervened to
support neighbouring South Sudan’s government.
ANSWER: Republic of Uganda
6. Answer the following about mathematical theorems for ten points each.
[10] This theorem was first written in the margin of a textbook, and states that "It is impossible... for any number
that is a power greater than the second to be the sum of two like powers”. Andrew Wiles proved this theorem.
ANSWER: Fermat's Last Theorem
[10] This problem, solved by Grigori Perelman in 2003, is the only one of the Millennium Prize Problems to be
solved and states that every simply connected, closed, 3-manfold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere.
ANSWER: Poincaré Conjecture
[10] This theorem, a stronger version of Goldbach’s weak conjecture, state that every odd number greater than five
can be expressed as the sum of a prime plus twice a prime.
ANSWER: Lemoine’s Conjecture or Levy’s Conjecture
7. Answer some questions about the Romans in Germany, for ten points each.
[10] German tribesmen under Arminius slaughtered three legions at this battle in AD 9.
ANSWER: Battle of the Teutoburg Forest [or the Varian Disaster; or one of the zillion other names for it in Latin
and German]
[10] This Roman commander at the Teutoburg Forest killed himself during the disaster. Augustus legendarily
demanded that this man return his legions.
ANSWER: Publius Quinctilius Varus
[10] Arminius later fought against this other German tribe then led by Marbod. Marcus Aurelius fought these people
for most of his reign.
ANSWER: Marcomanni
8. For 10 points each, answer some questions about some universal constants in physics:
[10]This constant is the maximum speed at which any massless particle, energy, or field can travel in a vacuum. In
Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence formula, an object’s contained energy is equal to its mass time this squared.
ANSWER: c (or the speed of light)
[10] The square speed of light is the inverse of the product of vacuum permittivity and this value, often symbolized
mu-naught and is equal to 4pi times 10 to the minus 7 volt seconds per ampere metre.
ANSWER: Permeability of free space or Vacuum Permeability or Magnetic Constant
[10] This dimensionless value is equal to the vacuum permeability times the square of the elementary charge times
the speed of light all over two times the Planck’s constant. It is approximately equal to 1/137.
ANSWER: Fine structure constant
9. Praise the Helix Fossil for his eternal guidance! This isn’t the time to use that, Red! Answer some questions about
the number one religion of 2014 for ten points each:
[10] Name this social experiment in which players recently made their way through Kanto through text imputs to
ultimately defeat the Elite Four
ANSWER: Twitch Plays Pokémon (prompt on partial answer)
[10] This false prophet in the TPP mythos only knew Tackle and Sand-attack when it was released. It never lived it’s
potential through the water stone, instead using the fire stone.
ANSWER: Flareon
[10] Defeating the Kimono Girls’ eevee-lutions in the second generations games will earn you this Hidden Move,
which can curiously be learned by Tauros and Sentret and is necessary to get to Cianwood City.
ANSWER: HM03 or Surf
10. He is the sometime leader of San Theodoros, where he trades coups with his rival General Tapioca. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this general who successfully leads the Picaros in the final coup in that country.
ANSWER: General Alcazar
[10] The Picaros are plagued by alcoholism, which this scientist develops a cure for. This man creates a pill which
makes alcohol totally unpalatable.
ANSWER: Professor Cuthbert Calculus [or Professeur Tryphon Tournesol]
[10] Professor Calculus bought this man his home after selling the patent to another of his inventions, the sharksubmarine. Tintin and this man had used it to discover Red Rackham’s treasure.
ANSWER: Captain Archibald Haddock [or Capitaine Haddock]
11. This tradition stipulates that there are 72 planets inhabited by intelligent life, and its members worship God the
father and the Mother Buddha, who preside of yang and yin, respectively. For ten points each:
[10]Name this syncretic religion that uses a left eye to depict God and whose hierarchical structure resembles that of
the Catholic Church.
ANSWER: Cao Dai [accept word forms such as Caodaism]
[10]Cao Dai was founded in the city of Tay Ninh in this country. Cao Dai’s opposition to communism led to their
repression when communists took over after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
ANSWER: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam [It’s cool if they say it as “Viet Nam”]
[10]Cao Dai venerates a variety of historical figures as saints, including Thomas Jefferson, Sun Yat-sen, and this
Catholic saint “The Maid of Orléans” who was burned at the stake in 1431.
ANSWER: Joan of Arc [or Jeanne d’Arc, prompt on Joan or Jeanne]
12. Kanye West was up to a lot of things in 2013. For ten points each, answer some questions about them:
[10]In October 2013, West became engaged to this celebrity socialite and television star. Their daughter, North, was
born earlier in June.
ANSWER: Kimberly Kardashian (prompt on either)
[10]Will Ferrell dressed up as this moustachioed newscaster and announced that co-star Paul Rudd was working on
an album with West in order to promote Anchorman 2. Will Ferrell was probably lying because he thought it was
funny.
ANSWER: Ron Burgundy (prompt on Ron)
[10]While West had released a shoe with Nike in 2009 as part of his many business ventures, he reached in
December 2013 a deal for a new shoe collaboration with this other major sportswear company that also owns
Reebok.
ANSWER: Adidas
13. It is the only Grand Slam of tennis not hosted in an English-speaking country. For 10 points each:
[10]This tournament is played on clay in a stadium named for a First World War pilot. Its prize, the Coupe des
Mousquetaires, notably eluded Roger Federer for years, owing mainly to Rafael Nadal winning a record 8 titles.
ANSWER: The French Open OR Roland Garros
[10]This Swedish player dominated the French Open and Wimbledon between 1974 and 1981, winning both in the
same year three times and holding the record for most French Open titles in the Open Era, 6, until it was broken by
Nadal.
ANSWER: Bjorn Börg
[10]In 2009, this other Swede became the first and to date only player to defeat Nadal at the French Open, but lost to
Federer in the final. The next year, he again reached the final, beating Federer, but lost to Nadal.
ANSWER: Robin Söderling
14. The Office sure had a lot of characters, so no wonder they had two decent seasons after Steve Carrell left. For 10
points each:
[10] This lovable but incompetent accountant frequently gambles, watches porn on his work computer, keeps a jar of
M&Ms at his desk, and is the drummer for the Police cover bands Scrantonicity I and Scrantonicity II.
ANSWER: Kevin Malone (accept either)
[10] The show couldn’t have continued without this power-hungry beet farmer with a love of hierarchy and
Battlestar Galactica. He finally marries Angela in season nine, which probably means his cousin Mose has to move
out.
ANSWER: Dwight K. Schrute (accept either)
[10] Though her character Kelly Kapoor left the show after season eight, this actress returned for Dwight’s wedding.
She now has her own show, where she plays an OB/GYN trying to balance her professional and private lives.
ANSWER: Mindy Kaling
15. Although he rose to fame playing bebop as Charlie Parker’s sideman, this trumpet player’s most successful
album was his stripped down Kind of Blue. For ten points each:
[10] Name this jazz musician, known for his gravelly voice and non sequitors, who led two famous quintets and also
produced the album Sketches of Spain.
ANSWER: Miles Davis
[10] The Kind of Blue sessions featured this musician on tenor saxophone, who, after being fired from Davis’ band
because of his drug problems, went on to record the famous album Giant Steps.
ANSWER: John Coltrane
[10] Davis’ second great quintet featured Herbie Hancock on this instrument, also played by Bill Evans and Wynton
Kelly on Kind of Blue. Other notable jazzmen to play this instrument were Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum.
ANSWER: piano
16. He returned from a twenty-year break from directing to helm The Thin Red Line. His movie To The Wonder
bears the distinction of being the last movie reviewed by Roger Ebert. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this reclusive writer and director known for his experimental screenplays and mastery of lighting who
directed the films The New World and The Tree of Life.
ANSWER: Terrence Malick
[10] The Tree of Life features this actor as an army veteran who pursues a career as an engineer over his passion for
music. His Academy Award-nominated roles were in Twelve Monkeys, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and
Moneyball.
ANSWER: Brad Pitt
Gorgeous skyscapes are found in this 1978 film, Malick’s breakout, in which two lovers pose as siblings in order to
swindle a rich farmer out his fortune. A famous scene in it involving a swarm of locusts was shot backwards.
ANSWER: Days of Heaven
17. For 10 points each, answer some questions about the earth’s composition beneath the crust:
[10] This layer that separates the earth’s crust from the mantle was first discovered in 1909, when seismographs
measured sets of seismic waves that had been diffracted by it. It is named after a Croatian seismologist.
ANSWER: Mohorovičić discontinuity
[10] Seismic waves are usually classified as body and surface waves; body waves are classified as P-waves and this
other type, which are transverse waves that arrive after the compressive waves of an earthquake.
ANSWER: S-waves (or shear waves or secondary waves)
[10] S-waves are unable to travel through this layer of superheated nickel and iron found beneath the mantle. The
convection of metals found here are responsible for the earth’s magnetic field.
ANSWER: outer core
18. He wrote music for Broadway musicals and Hollywood movies, as well as jazz and classical compositions and
one opera. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this composer, whose work often featured lyrics written by his older brother Ira whose compositions
include Porgy and Bess.
ANSWER: George Gershwin
[10] This 1924 piano concerto by Gershwin opens with a distinctive clarinet trill and halfway through features a
section that is one of the most widely referenced themes in popular music.
ANSWER: Rhapsody in Blue
[10] The score to this 1937 movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was one of Gershwin's last works, and
features songs like "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".
ANSWER: Shall We Dance
19. This man’s darker movies include The Lost Weekend and Witness for the Prosecution. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this writer-director who worked with Jack Lemon on Some Like It Hot and The Apartment.
ANSWER: Billy (or Samuel) Wilder
[10] Wilder wrote the script for Ninotchka, starring this actress as a Soviet in Paris, and advertised with the line,
“[this actress] laughs.” She also starred in movies of Anna Christie and Anna Karenina.
ANSWER: Greta Garbo
[10] Ninotchka frequently uses the trope that Garbo's character wants to be left alone; that is a humorous reference
to this 1932 Best Picture in which Garbo tells John Barrymore “I want to be alone”.
ANSWER: Grand Hotel
20. Before Arrested Development came along and overshadowed his name, George Michael enjoyed a prolific
career. Answer some questions about him for 10 points each:
[10] Before launching his solo career, George Michael was part of this pop duo with Andrew Ridgeley. This group
produced 80s masterpieces such as “Careless Whisper,” “Everything She Wants,” and “Freedom.”
ANSWER: Wham!
[10] Believe it or not, Wham! actually moved away from its edgier political material with this song, which opens
with the word “Jitterbug” and tells the listener “don’t leave me hanging on like a yo-yo”.
ANSWER: “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”
[10] George Michael went on to release this solo album, whose title track opens with the lyrics “Well I guess it
would be nice / if I could touch your body,” and whose music video features George Michael in jeans and a leather
jacket.
ANSWER: “Faith”
This character’s obsession with a gypsy girl causes him to almost murder the knight Phoebus in a fit of rage, and he
commands his servant to capture her during the Feast of Fools. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this priest who supports his immature brother Johan and falls to his death when he is pushed from atop a
cathedral.
ANSWER: Claude Frollo (accept either)
Frollo is the villain in this novel, which also features a cameo appearance by King Louis XI of France, in which
everyone mistreats the deformed bell ringer Quasimodo except for Esmeralda.
ANSWER: Notre-Dame de Paris (or The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
Notre-Dame de Paris is is a novel by this French author who wrote about visiting his daughter’s grave in the poem
“Tomorrow at Dawn.”
ANSWER: Victor Marie Hugo