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Ottawa Hybrid 2014Round 5Packet by Ottawa A (Rodrigo Borgia and the Cardinals (Ian Dewan, Chris Johnston, Rodrigo Morante and Sanmeet Chahal)1. One derivative of these structures that synthesizes tannins was discovered in 2013. The elaio— type are used to store fats, and the etio— type appear in those not exposed to light. Some protists absorb these from algae they digest, which is also practised by some sea slugs, a process called kleptoplasty. Another type, found in large numbers in potatoes and used to store starch, are the amylo-these. Xanthophylls, carotenes, and other pigments,are synthesized in one type of these, and one of these entities comes from the endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria. For 10 points, what group of plant organelles includes the location of and photosynthesis. ANSWER: plastids [Prompt on chloroplasts or leucoplasts]2. One deity from this culture created the first man and woman, but forgot to feed them, which led to the death of the man. ?This god, Pachacamaq, was believed to be invisible and never represented in paintings. The underworld in this culture is called the Uku Pacha and is inhabited by Supay who is associated with death and chaos and he loses the trust of his brother Llapa the god of thunder and rain leading them to become enemies. One of the largest celebrations of this culture is the inti-raimi which celebrated during the Winter Solstice which represented the start of a new year for this culture. Uruchillay is a multi-coloured llama from this culture who is worshipped by herders to keep animals safe. ?For 10 points, name this culture with the sun god Viracocha that had his son Manco Capac emerge out of Lake Titicaca. ANSWER: Inca3. Roatan is the capital of this country’s Islas de la Bahia department, a Protestant centre in this country, and the Coco River forms part of its southern border. A 2013 study found that this country’s second-largest city, San Pedro Sula, is home to the world’s highest murder rate. The Copán River in this country was diverted to protect a Maya site of the same name. The Coluteca River flows through this nation’s capital, and into the Gulf of Fonseca, which this country borders. Hurricane Mitch made landfall in this country, where it caused extensive damage. For 10 points, name this Central American country with capital at Tegucigalpa.ANSWER: Republic of Honduras [or República de Honduras]4. A bombed city in this work is described as looking like “a heap of baking powder,” and this work criticizes people who eat “shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.” A woman in this story references the Oxford martyrs by saying: “Play the man, Master Ridley,” and the protagonist compares his leaky memory to the experience of trying to fill a sieve with sand. A stomach-snake is used to save a woman who overdoses on sleeping pills in this story, after her husband is asked whether he's happy on his way home from work. Mrs. Phelps cries upon hearing “Dover Beach” in this story, which ends with the protagonist working to memorize Ecclesiastes after escaping from a mechanical hound. For 10 points, name this Ray Bradbury novella featuring Guy Montag, about book-burning.ANSWER: Fahrenheit 4515. One character in this work grows “parsley, peppers, cabbages” and other vegetables in a garden which was cursed by her mother, and another character in this work enters a forest to bring baked goods to her ailing grandmother. The songs “Agony” and “Stay With Me” appear in this work, which features a woman dying under the feet of a widowed giant, leading the Witch to “Lament” the loss of her adopted daughter. The Baker and his Wife enter the forest to find ingredients for a potion so that they might have a child, but the Baker ends up widowed and raising his child alone. For ten points, name this Stephen Sondheim musical with characters like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.ANSWER: Into the Woods (do not accept or prompt on “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Jack and the Beanstalk,” etc.)6. A second-generation spinoff of this show was the 1990s 3-season sitcom Nurses. One episode of this television show features three of its main characters singing “Mr. Sandman” to lull a baby to sleep. One character on this show has her blunt personality attributed to a stroke, while another enjoys recalling stories from her childhood, colloquially known as “St. Olaf Stories.” Those characters are Sophia Petrillo, and Rose Nylund respectively. Its opening credits feature a plane flying in front of an orange sun, and the song “Thank You for Being a Friend.” Its other main characters are the promiscuous Blanche Devereaux, and the divorcée Dorothy Zbornak. Actors on this show include Bea Arthur, and Betty White. For ten points, name this long-running 80s sitcom about the titular group of “40ish” year old female roommates.ANSWER: The Golden Girls [or begrudgingly Empty Nest on the first clue]7. In one sequel to this game, the gameplay is interrupted by a text box telling you that the day has become night or vice-versa and on one level in that game, an old lady says “that we should live together”. According to the instruction manual for this game, pork chops are collectible units of extra health, rather than hearts.?The main character of this game must fight against bosses such as Medusa’s head, Death, Frankenstein’s monster and a giant bat. Optional items called sub-weapons available for use in this game include a knife, a stop watch, a cross, and holy water, though the primary weapon used in this game is a whip.?For ten points, name this Konami-developed NES video game in which Simon Belmont must defeat Count Dracula. ANSWER: Castlevania8. One character in this show practices a monologue from the Tragedy of Coriolanus to a confused teenaged girl. The opening credits shows the lips and eyes of several people while playing You’ve Got Time by (*) Regina Spector. A character played by Jason Biggs is ashamed of watching Mad Men by himself and writes an article about a fad called “edging.” ?The main character owns an artisanal soap business with her friend Polly, which ends up becoming very useful for her survival. ?Backstories of characters in the show include a former firefighter who steals credit cards and a track runner who is caught stealing a store. For ten points, name this series set after Piper Chapman helps an ex-girlfriend traffic drug money, a Netflix series about a women’s prison.ANSWER: Orange is the New Black9. The main character of this work has an argument with his wife concerning flowered toilet paper and blue tissues. Another character in this work remembers being trapped in a well after seeing a comrade of his being flayed at the orders of a USSR officer while operating as spies in Mongolia. That character is ?(*) Lieutenant Mamiya. The protagonist often spends time in a well across from where May Kasahara lives. The lot where the well is located is purchased with the help of Malta and Creta Kano. They are psychics hired by the protagonist’s wife to find their lost cat. For ten points, name this Haruki Murakami novel about Toru Okada’s search for his wife Kumiko.ANSWER: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (or Nejimakidori Kuronikuru)10. In this show an animation of a boat being dry-docked in Harlem illustrates an anecdote, and in another episode shows the host’s comments that Keith Olbermann has gone in reverse by doing baseball wrap ups. Some episode titles for this show include “I Like Kettle Corn,” “Kids Need Bullying,” and “Larry Eats Pancakes.” ?In one episode with Patton Oswalt, a Delorean breaks down after being driven down the street, forcing the host to call for another ride. ?In an episode featuring Tina Fey, the host asks the driver of an Acura SUV if “this is a product placement.” ?In the first episode, Larry David comments that this a “show about nothing” and a fictional episode shows the host at Tom’s Diner with George Costanza. For ten points, name this Crackle web show hosted by Jerry Seinfeld.ANSWER: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee11. He’s not Lob, but saying that “if roses are red, then Rob Ford smokes crack” is a paradox named for this man that affects na?ve set theory, lambda calculus and combinatory logic. The practice of representing a function of multiple variables as a function returning a function was developed by and is named after him; but it is his work on combinatory logic that explains why three functional programming languages are named after him. He also showed that programs in several models of computation are equivalent to proofs in a formal system and their types to the propositions proven; this isomorphism is named after him and William Howard. For ten points, name this mathematician after whom the programming languages Haskell and Brooks are named.ANSWER: Haskell Brooks Curry12. Silas Wright declined the Vice-Presidential nomination on the winning ticket in this election. James Birney’s anti-slavery Liberty Party siphoned votes from this election’s loser. One prospective candidate in this election was unable to secure a two-thirds majority at his convention following the Hammet Letter, whose party also declined to nominate Lewis Cass or James Buchanan. The losing candidate in this election originally opposed one key policy in the Raleigh letter, but appeared to reverse himself in the Alabama letters. This election’s winner campaigned for the annexation of Texas and “Fifty-four forty or fight!” For 10 points, name this year that elected “dark horse” James K. Polk.ANSWER: US Presidential election of 184413. One character with this profession seduces Sarah Jessica Parker and Victoria Tennant using romantic advice he learned from a magic freeway sign. Another of these people starts carrying a bow and arrow around to stop people from throwing fast food at him. A man with this profession claims that he is “a god, not the god” and orders a “sweet vermouth on the rocks with a twist,” and another asks, “where did you get those clothes, at the toilet store?” One of these men attempts to invite a woman to a “pants party” and declares “I love lamp,” and another repeatedly runs into Ned Ryerson while stuck in Punxsutawney. For ten points, name this post held by Bill Murray in Groundhog Day and Steve Carell in the Anchorman films.ANSWER: Weatherman [or Weatherperson; do not accept “Meteorologist”]14. Carathéodory's formulation of this law states that in any neighbourhood of any state S of an adiabatically isolated system there are states inaccessible from S. Boltzmann’s H theorem is a precursor to this and another statement of this is Clausius’s statement, which says is that it is impossible for heat to move spontaneously from a cold object to a hot one.?This law forbids some perpetual motion machines that are not excluded by the Law of Conservation of Energy, because they would convert thermal energy into mechanical energy. For ten points, name this physical law which states that the entropy of the universe is always increasing.ANSWER: Second Law of Thermodynamics15. An audio guide to these items included clips of the leaked “Collateral Murder” video, and some of these items were vandalized by Omar and peed on by a pug. One of these things had the Gladiator quotation: “What we do in life echoes in eternity,” and some of them were notably sold for $60 in Central Park including a blue door with a Plato quotation and a statue of Ronald McDonald getting his shoes shined; these items appeared in October 2013 as part of a project called “Better Out Than In.” The Banality of the Banality of Evil was one of these items showing a Nazi looking at a landscape, and probably the coolest of them was a truck of full of stuffed animals that made slaughterhouse noises. For ten points, identify these things done in New York by a British graffiti artist.ANSWER: Banksy installations in New York16. One band from this country was beloved by a woman who collected sock puppet monkeys; that band sang: “He’s intellectual and he’s hot” in “Write About Love.” The albums The Boy With the Arab Strap and The Life Pursuit were done by a band from this country, which sang: “Elope with me, Miss Private,” in the song “Piazza New York Catcher.” Other bands from this country are led by Alex Kapranos and Lauren Mayberry and released albums like You Could Have It So Much Better and The Bones of What You Believe. Bands from here did the songs “Right Action” and “The Mother We Share,” and one band from here sang, “I’m just a crosshair” and “You say dontcha know” in the song “Take Me Out.” For ten points, name this home country of Belle and Sebastian, Chvrches, and Franz Ferdinand.ANSWER: Scotland17. Latin nouns have inflectional suffixes that express at least two of these conceptual objects, because they indicate both case and number. The word cranberry is used to refer to one of these that has lost any meaning of its own, and they are studied in a branch of linguistics founded in 1859 by August Schleicher. A word may come to have more than one of these through the formation of a compound word or by affixation; the affixes used in that process are bound ones of these because they cannot exist as words in their own right. Some of these have multiple phonetic realizations, called allomorphs. The word “allomorph” contains two of these: the derivational prefix “allo-,” and a root, which is the word for the concrete representation of one of these. For ten points, name these smallest components of a word that have meaning. ANSWER: Morphemes [do not accept or prompt on “morph(s)”]18. This player tied Michael Jordan’s record for least points scored in a game at 29 with at least 37 Field Goal Attempts in a double overtime loss against the Rockets. His best performance while playing for the US national team was against Slovenia at the 2010 FIBA World Cup. At the 2006 NBA Draft, he was traded by the Houston Rockets for Stromile Swift and Shane Battier and was the highest of the four U-Conn players drafted that year. He tied a career high this season with 41 points against the Pelicans following a trade which sent players like John Salmons and Grevis Vasquez the other way. For ten points, name this notoriously inefficient former Grizzlies and Raptors small forward, who currently plays for the Sacramento Kings.ANSWER: Rudy Gay19. The Barberini family is honoured with bee engravings on columns in this building, and a memorial to the Jacobite pretenders in this building was made by Antonio Canova. A stained-glass sun-dove and bronze sculptures of four church doctors surround a cathedra―a wooden throne―behind the altar of this building, which has statues of eleven apostles on its roof. Designed partially by the Sangallo family and extended in a plan by Carlo Maderno, this building contains a canopy held up by very tall spiral columns. Including a Bernini-designed baldachin and Michelangelo's Pieta, for ten points, name this building designed for Julius II by Donato Bramante, which was largely paid for by indulgences and is now used for most Papal Masses.ANSWER: Saint Peter's Basilica [accept "baldachin" or "Bernini" before "this building]20. The protagonist of this film makes a joke about choosing the “lesser of two weevils” to an unsuspecting doctor. Later, as that doctor recovers his health after performing surgery on himself, he is offered a collection of insects by a boy named Blakeney. Near the end of this film, that boy sews up the body bag of a friend who died in a skirmish with the French, a battle that resulted in the capture of the Acheron. Billy Boyd has a small role as a coxswain, while midshipman Hollum believes he is the Jonah of the ship, and commits suicide to get wind back in the sails. Featuring Paul Bettany as a Darwin-like Doctor Maturin, for ten points, name this 2003 Peter Weir film in which Russell Crowe plays Jack Aubrey, a British naval captain during the Napoleonic Wars.ANSWER: Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World [Prompt on partial answer]TB1. This book's hero disrupts a movie musical about a circus and attempts to donate one of his own handwritten works to the library. At the Night of Joy bar in this book, the stripper Darlene hears how "literary labours" drive a man to make cheese dip and hears a boring story about a trip on a Greyhound bus. When Irene owes repairmen after a drunk-driving accident in this book, her son gets a job at Levy Jeans, and this book was championed by Walker Percy following its author's suicide. Set in New Orleans and focusing on an eccentric loser who wears a green hunting cap, for ten points, name this book about Ignatius J. Reilly, written by John Kennedy Toole.ANSWER: A Confederacy of DuncesTB2. The Hague Secret Emissary affair arose when this family sent three secret consuls to a naval conference, and the “Six Martyred Ministers” attempted to assassinate a ruler of this group. The eleventh ruler of this dynasty took power in a coup deposing his half-brother and ordered the “Third Literati Purge of 1519.” This dynasty also saw the emergence of Silhak, a Confucian social reform movement that lead to its namesake “renaissance”. The battle of Chungju was fought during one of several Japanese invasions that this dynasty endured. They fought more successfully at the battle of Haengju, thanks in part to use of the Hwacha. This dynasty lasted for an impressive five centuries, becoming the longest that its country had ever seen. King Sejong the Great of this dynasty introduced Hangul, an alphabet system still in use today. For 10 points, name this longest and last Korean dynasty.ANSWER: Choson Dynasty [ or Cho-sen]TB3. This team’s deepest two runs into the playoffs ended with four-game sweeps by the Edmonton Oilers. The franchise record for most penalty minutes in a season was set by Tie Domi. A controversial trade by this team included dumping the salary of Kris Draper for $1 to the Detroit Red Wings and a tradition in the playoffs with this team was to create a “whiteout” by having the stadium wear all white. For ten points, name this team whose current incarnation plays in the MTS Centre with current players such as Dustin Byfuglien and Evander Kane. ANSWER: Winnipeg Jets [Accept Either]Bonuses:1. Let’s talk about the expanding economic gap and the lack of distribution of resources around the world. Just kidding! Let’s just talk about statistical distributions! For ten points each: [10] Uses for this distribution is to find out the decay of a radioactive nucleus and the number of births in a hospital per hour, this discrete distribution can help count the number of events that occur randomly in a given interval of time (or space).ANSWER: Poisson distribution[10] ?This concept explains how the averages of samples have an approximately normal distribution it explains that as sample sizes get larger that the distribution becomes more normal and more narrow.ANSWER: Central Limit Theory[10] This type of distribution is a special type of a negative binomial distribution as it deals with the number of trials required for a single success.ANSWER:: Geometric distribution2. Jesse Pinkman and Walter White liked making meth with their chemistry skills, now it’s time for SCIENCE! ?For 10 points each: [10] Apart from Mercury, this reddish-brown element is the only other on the periodic table that is liquid at room temperature.Answer: Bromine[10] Alchemists trying to turn lead into gold were unsuccessful in inducing this phenomenon, which converts one element to another by changing the number of protons in the nucleus; it can occur through many processes such as types of radioactive decay. Answer: ?Nuclear Transmutation[10] Superconductivity is the strange property where materials lose all their electric resistance, usually below some threshold temperature. After making the transition from the normal to the superconductive state, a material excludes a magnetic field from its interior named this effect.Answer: Meissner effect3. “Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap. Pop! Pop! Hope no one sees me getting freaky.” For ten points each:[10] Name this parody of a Chamillionaire song featuring a guy who cannot choose between Captains Kirk and Picard and does “vector calculus just for fun.”ANSWER: “White & Nerdy”[10] Weird Al, the artist behind “White and Nerdy,” got the idea for this parody indirectly from Madonna. In this song he has “finally made it through med school” and is not “cuttin’ for the very first time.”ANSWER: Like a Surgeon[10] “The Night Santa Went Crazy,” a Christmas classic, is a parody of this Ozzy Osbourne song from No More Tears in which “it hurts so bad it’s been so long” because Ozzy is “lost and found and turned around/ By the fire in your eyes.”ANSWER: “Momma I’m Comin’ Home”4. This team’s best season to date was in their 1999 season with a 14-2 record, but this team lost to the Tennessee Titans at the conference finals. For ten points each: [10] Name this team that plays in the AFC south-division that lost its first 8 games of the 2012-2013 season and hired a new head coach, Gus Bradley.ANSWER: Jacksonville Jaguars[10] ?This offensive tackle’s jersey number 71 was unofficially retired after he left the team in 2002. He was the team’s first-ever draft pick and he made the Pro-Bowl in his first five seasons with the Jaguars.ANSWER: ?Tony Boselli[10] The Jaguars have been playing in this stadium since their first season in 1995, also the location of the Gator Bowl; this stadium was previously called the Alltel Stadium. ANSWER: Everbank Field5. This poet and librarian wrote the novels Jill, and A Girl in Winter. For ten points each:[10] Name this writer who claimed: “They fuck you up, your mum and dad” and who advises to “get out as early as you can, and don’t have any kids yourself” in his poem “this be the Verse,” from his collection High Windows.ANSWER: Philip Larkin[10] In this poem, Larkin claims to “work all day, and get half-drunk at night,” while waking up to the sight of “unresting death, a whole day nearer now.” It calls religion a “vast moth-eaten musical brocade.”ANSWER: “Aubade”[10] This Larkin collection includes “An Arundel Tomb” and a title poem about “grinning and pomaded” young couples getting on a train car.ANSWER: The Whitsun Weddings6. Breaking Bad’s finale broke viewership records for a certain television channel. For ten points each: [10] Breaking Bad aired on this network, which tried to highly promote their failure of a show Low, Winter Sun. Other shows on this network include Mad Men.ANSWER: American Movie Classics[10] This Bob Odenkirk-played lawyer of Walter White, who is probably working in a Cinnabon in Omaha, will have his own prequel spin-off series titled after his television advertisement catchphrase.ANSWER: Saul Goodman (accept either)[10] According to Vince Gilligan, Walter White poisoned Brook by injecting this poisonous plant into a juice box, which he then gave his victim at school.ANSWER: Lily of the Valley [or Convallaria majalis]7. This song dethroned Jennifer Lopez’s “If You Had My Love” from number one in the Billboard charts and the music video sees the group singing while styling women’s hairs. For ten points each:[10] Name this song which is sung to a freeloading boyfriend, a “trifling, good for nothing type of brother,” ?who keeps“maxing out my card” and borrows the car, “drive it all day and don’t fill up the tank”.ANSWER: “Bills, Bills, Bills”[10] “Bills, Bills, Bills,” “Bootylicious.” and “Independent Woman”and ?are hits by this R&B girl band featuring Beyoncé, Michelle Williams and Letoya Luckett until their breakup in 2006. ANSWER: Destiny’s Child ??(Accept ?Girl's Tyme)[10] In this song from a 2001 Destiny’s Child album with the same name, Beyoncé brags that “you thought I wouldn't sell without you. Sold nine million” and that she won’t diss you on you the internet “cause my mama taught me better than that”. ANSWER: “Survivor”8. Depending on how pedantic you are, the first recorded holder of this office was either Sir Peter de la Mare or Sir Thomas Hungerford. For ten points each:[10] Name this office of the Parliament of England, later merged into the Parliament of the United Kingdom; the current office holder is John Bercow.ANSWER: Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (accept equivalents, do not accept Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada or any other country)[10] This Speaker famously refused to help Charles I when he entered the House of Commons to arrest five members. His principles did not prevent him from testifying at the trial of regicide Thomas Scot, though.ANSWER:William Lenthall[10] Before the office of Speaker existed, Parliaments were often presided over by persons styled prolocutors; the first such presiding officer was this man who shares his surname with the leader of the Second Barons’ War against Henry III.ANSWER: Peter de Montfort [or Piers de Montfort]9. Apparently, destroying a single military installation and killing a few political leaders is not enough to defeata Galactic Empire. Answer the following about the Empire in the Star Wars Extended Universe post-Returnof the Jedi for ten points each.[10] Five years after the Battle of Endor, the Empire is led by this tactical genius, the namesake of an eponymous triology by Timothy ZahnANSWER: Mitth’raw’nuruodo (accept Thrawn)[10] Thrawn’s flagship, the Chimera, was one of this type of wedge-shaped ship, which are some of the mostrecognizable Imperial designs.ANSWER: Star Destroyer[10] This captain of the Chimera and protégé of Thrawn later becomes the Supreme Commander of Imperial forces, and negotiates peace with the New Republic.ANSWER: Gilad Pellaeon10. Jesus had followers before twitter. Answer questions about them, for 10 points each.[10] He was one of Jesus’s twelve apostles. He is mostly known for being flayed, and having his skin appear in a famous painting by Michelangelo.ANSWER: Bartholomew the Apostle (also accept Nathaniel)[10] This other apostle is said to have died in an equally horrific manner, being crucified on his namesake X-shaped cross. He is the brother of Simon Peter, and was called by Jesus to be a “fisher of men.”ANSWER: Andrew the Apostle[10] Though not one of the apostles, this follower of Jesus’ teachings was positively contrasted with her sister Martha when Jesus visits their home. Her brother Lazarus was famously raised from the dead by Jesus, on whose feet she also poured perfume. She is not to be confused with several other identically named biblical figures.ANSWER: Mary of Bethany [prompt on Mary, Miriam, and Maria, also accept Miriam of Bethany or Maria of Bethany; do not accept Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of Jesus, Mary of Clopas, Mary mother of James, Mary mother of John Mark, or Mary Salome]11. He tweeted “Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.” For ten points each:[10] Name this actor who eventually apologized for plagiarising a Dan Clowes comic book in his short film Howard Cantour. Answer: Shia Labeouf [10] This writer and actress started a twitter feud with Lebeouf after she called him out for plagiarizing one of his apology tweets with one of her own: “Touché, Louis Stevens” she tweeted when realizing what he had done.Answer: Lena Dunham[10] Shortly after “retiring from all public life” after this fiasco, ?Shia paid $25,000 to have this two-word phrase written over L.A’s sky by 5 skywriting planes. Answer: Stop Creating12. According to the composer of this piece in the fourth movement, the main character “dreams that he has killed his beloved, that he is condemned to death and is being led to execution.” For ten point each: [10] Name this five-movement symphony by Hector Berlioz that is subtitled “An Episode in the Life of an Artist” in which the artist is in an opium-induced dream.Answer: Symphonie Fantastique[10] This penultimate movement precedes “Dreams of a Witches Sabbath” and uses a fortissimo chord to represent a guillotine and pizzicato notes to represent the rolling of the head. ANSWER: “March to the Scaffold” or Marche au supplice [10] ?In the final movement of Symphonie Fantastique, this instruction is given to the string player in which they had to bounce the wood of their bows off the strings , it comes from the Italian for “with the wood.”Answer: Col legno13. The main character of this movie finds a loophole to a Healthy Choice promotion that would let him accumulate 1 million air miles. For 10 points each: ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [10] Name this Paul Thomas Anderson film in which Barry Egan travels to Hawai’i to have Lena fall in love with him. Egan is also extorted by a phone sex operator who believes he is wealthy.Answer: Punch Drunk Love ??????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????[10] This actor plays Barry Egan in Punch Drunk Love and has had other dramatic roles in Spanglish, Reign Over Me and Funny People. ???????????????????????????????Answer: Adam Sandler ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????[10] After going to several grocery stores and looking at different products, Barry decides that this product would be the cheapest to buy in order to exploit the Healthy Choice promotion ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Answer: Pudding Cups14. This writer wrote that ‘Metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; everything else is systems and approximations.” For ten points each:[10] Name this writer of the poetry collection Messages who also wrote “could it think, the heart would stop beating” in The Book of Disquiet.ANSWER: Fernando Pessoa[10] Under the heteronym Alvaro de Campos, Pessoa wrote this poem in which he states: “I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.”ANSWER: “The Tobacco Shop” [accept other translations]This Portguese writer of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Death with Interruptions imagined a conversation with Pessoa’s spirit in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.ANSWER: José Saramago15. His badass sword Tizona is currently being exhibited at the Museum of Burgos, and he was exiled by Alfonso VI when he suspected this man of killing his brother. For ten points each: [10] This Spanish hero is known for his fight against the Almoravids and was integral in the halting of the Muslim seizure of Christian kingdoms at Valencia. ANSWER: El Cid Campeador [Accept Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar][10] El Cid was brought up as a minor noble the in the court of this emperor of Spain, predecessor to Sancho II and known for his wars against Zargoza and Toledo.ANSWER: Ferdinand I ??[Accept Ferdinand the Great, Ferdinand El Magno ?or Ferdinand I of Leon and Castile][10] Apart from having a badass sword, ?Rodrigo El Cid also owned this war horse that he acquired as a coming-of-age gift. One version of the horse’s name says that it originated ?from Rodrigo hastily choosing a horse and being called an idiot in Spanish for his choice.ANSWER: Babieca16.One character in this show says his penis is like an arm without the hand and gets a hand job from a blind woman while watching a TV show premiere. For ten points each:[10] Name this television show in which Matt LeBlanc plays a douchey fictionalised version of himself that is miscast as a headmaster in the remake of the British television show Langley’s Boys.Answer: Episodes[10] Writers Sean and Beverly are forced to change the title of their television show to this after Matt Leblanc convinces the television executive Merc that the show would make more sense if he was a hockey coach instead of a headmaster.Answer: Pucks[10] At the end of season one, Beverly has sex with Matt Leblanc out of anger as she believes her husband, Sean, is having an affair with this actress.Answer: Morning Randolph (accept either name)17. Throughout the years. some video game consoles?have been made that sounded good on paper, but were probably too ahead of their time. Name some of these consoles, for ten points each:[10] In 1996, Nintendo tried to introduce this game system that would let you play games like Mario Tennis in “3-D graphics,” but it didn’t have full colour and would often make players nauseous, leading to its commercial failure.ANSWER: Virtual Boy[10] ?Before the age of iPhones and Androids, Nokia tried to release this portable game console cum mobile phone that was shaped like a taco. The system had poor gameplay since the buttons were designed for a phone and not a game console. ANSWER: N-Gage[10] ?This?1993 system manufactured by Panasonic had better graphics than the PS1, and its commercials told you to “put away your toys,” referring to the Super Nintendo; however, at a price of $700, it did not last in the saturated video game market.ANSWER: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer18. Examples of this theory of development economics are a book having little value to an illiterate person or a person with parasitic disease being less able to extract nourishment from a given quantity of food. For 10 points each:[10] ?Name this economic theory that states ?what matters for well-being is not just the characteristics of commodities consumed, as in the utility approach, but what use the consumer can and does make of commodities.Answer: Capability Approach[10] This Indian Nobel Prize-winning economist created the Capability Approach and is best known for his study of the 1943 Bengal famine in?Poverty and Famine. ?Answer: Amartya Sen[10] Sen and Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq created this economic measure of national socioeconomic progress, based on combining measures of education, health, and adjusted real income per capita.Answer: Human Development Index 19. One of the two founders of this company, Frank Blake, became the owner of the Atlanta Falcons in 2002. For ten points each:[10] Name this orange home improvement big-box store that failed to capitalise on the Chinese market and closed down all its stores in the country?in 2012.ANSWER: The Home Depot ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????[10] In 2009, Home Depot changed their slogan from “You can do it, we can help” to this slogan that emphasizes their competitive prices. ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????ANSWER: “More Saving, More Doing”????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????[10] Since 2009, Home Depot employees have engaged in this practice from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. Employees are supposed to do nothing but serve customers during this time (but they never do). ANSWER: Power Hour20. This man razed Aquileia, although the Pope legendarily kept him from sacking Rome. For 10 points each: [10] Name this conqueror, who invaded Italy after receiving what he interpreted as a marriage proposal from the Emperor’s sister Honoria.ANSWER: Attila the Hun [10] Attila was defeated by the Romans at this battle, where the Roman ally Theodoric I also was killed. ANSWER: Battle of Ch?lons [or Battle of the Catalaunian Plains] [10] This man commanded the Romans at Ch?lons. Gibbon called him the “Last of the Romans” for his victory there. ANSWER: Flavius A?tius21. For 10 points each, answer the following questions about rulers of ancient Egypt.[10] This pharaoh ruled during the Early Dynastic Period. He is believed by most Egyptologists to have controlled both Upper and Lower Egypt, thereby founding its first dynasty. Most of what we know today of this ruler comes from his namesake palette, found at Hierakonpolis.ANSWER: Narmer[10] This Third Dynasty ?pharaoh is most known for his namesake pyramid, as it was the first. It was a step pyramid, and led to the trend among Egyptian royalty of building pyramids. It was designed by his vizier, Imhotep.ANSWER: Djoser (also accept Djeser, or Zoser)[10] This Fourth Dynasty pharaoh was also a fan of pyramids, as he built 3 of them. These are the Meidum, Bent, and Red pyramids, the latter of which is Egypt’s third largest pyramid, and its first “true” pyramid, as it had smooth sides. These building projects were fuelled by large raiding campaigns into Nubia and Libya.ANSWER: Sneferu (also accept Snofru, or Soris)22.This country’s 2013 presidential election was contested by two childhood friends. For 10 points each:[10] Name that country, where Evelyn Mattei was crushed by Michelle Bachelet. ANSWER: Republic of Chile [or República de Chile][10] Bachelet’s two terms as President were sandwiched between this man’s time as President. His term was marked by a massive earthquake in 2010, and by the rescue of trapped miners later that year.ANSWER: Sebastián Pi?era[10] Chile was also in the news for losing some of its territorial waters to this country in a 2014 ICJ ruling. However, Chile retained most of the lucrative fishing grounds in the disputed area.ANSWER: Republic of Peru [or República del Perú]23. The Major League Soccer is where Central American players and washed-up international stars go to play, name some of these international players. For ten points each:[10] This former Barcelona and Arsenal ?French forward joined the New York Red Bulls in 2010 and led them to the top record of the league in 2013.Answer: Thierry Henry[10] ?With the help of Drake and Tim Leiweke Toronto F.C. was able to sign this longtime English Tottenham Spur striker along with Michael Bradley.Answer: Jermain Defoe[10] This Peruvian goalkeeper known as “Superman” was the starting goalie for the MLS All Stars in 2013 and the current starting goalkeeper for FC DallasAnswer: Raúl Fernández24. The main character in this film uses a credit card to visit friends in Paris for a weekend, but ends up just watching Puss in Boots ?alone when she can’t reach them. For ten points each:[10] Name this 2013 film in which Greta Gerwig plays the titular “undateable” modern dancer who has to move out of her apartment in Brooklyn after her friend Sophie moves out with her boyfriend.Answer: Frances Ha[10]This director of Frances Ha is also known for directing and writing films such as The Squid and the Whale and Greenberg. Answer: ?Noah Baumbach[10]After Frances moves out of Brooklyn, she moves into Chinatown with Benji and Lev. Lev is played by this actor who is also known for playing Samuel Beckwith in Lincoln and Al Cody in Inside Llewyn Davis.Answer: Adam Driver ................
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