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Ottawa Hybrid 2014EDITORS’ PACKFINALS1. The Yixian formation and the Cedar mountain formation dates from this period. This period, whose ages include Aptian and Maastrichtian saw Minmi paravertebra emerged in its early part, as did the anthophyta. The oldest known ants, grasshoppers and butterflies are dated to this period, which also saw the adaptive radiation of angiosperms. Discoveries from it are helped by a namesake soil composition notably seen in England and Normandy, and its end is marked by a geologic signature of iridium likely caused by the debris of a rock from outer space at the K-T boundary. For ten points, name this period from 142- to 65-million years ago, ending with the dinosaur extinction.ANSWER: Cretaceous [or K before K-T Boundary] Period2. One character in this movie calls Alexander Coffroth a barnacle and then tells him: “Congratulations on your victory, and get out.” That same character tells Asa Litton: “There is very nearly nothing I won’t say” to achieve a result in this movie, whose protagonist says he inherited scissors after his last two barbers both hanged themselves. This movie includes a speech about using a moral compass and a joke about Ethan Allen seeing a picture of GeorgeWashington in a water closet. At the end of this movie, a wig-wearing character is revealed to be married to S. Epatha Merkerson. Including David Straitharn as William Seward and Sally Field as a first lady, for 10 points, name this Steven Spielberg film in which Tommy Lee Jones and Daniel Day-Lewis gather votes to pass the 13th Amendment.ANSWER: Lincoln3. One figure with this regnal name penned the erotica?The Tale of the Two Lovers?and wrote the only papal autobiography, while another surrendered to France with the Treaty of Tolentino and was buried by Napoleon. In addition to this name’s 2nd and 6th popes, a Saint of this name born Giuseppe Sarto names a conservative Society founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The 4th Pope of this name was a Medici and oversaw the end of the Council of Trent. For 10 points, name this name of the last two canonized Popes, whose 11th and 12th served?during World War II and whose 9th, the longest-serving Pope, convoked Vatican I, with a name emphasizing obedience.ANSWER:?Pius?4. One song by this group incorrectly attributes “I Think We’re Alone Now” to Debbie Gibson and also references Cat Stevens and Nevermind. This band sang “you'll never be a better kind” and repeated “waste my days,” in the outro of one song, and in February, they played at the opening of a Microsoft store in Mississauga. One of their songs goes “when I'm away she puts her makeup on the shelf,” and members of this group include Scott Shriner, Brian Bell, on top of that, a former bassist now fronts The Rentals. This band of “No One Else” and “Keep Fishin” began one song with the line “somebody's Heine is crowding my icebox” and began another song with “when you're on a holiday.” For 10 points, name this band that did "Say It Ain't So" and a song about a place that makes me feel so fine I can’t control my brain, “Island in the Sun.”ANSWER: Weezer5. Winner of the Spike VGX 2013 award for Best Action Adventure Game, it features an updated recruit ability, although recruits can no longer engage in combat or assist in long-range missions. PETA released a statement condemning this game’s “glorification” of a type of aquatic hunting. Freedom Cry is connected to this game-in Freedom Cry the playable character is Adéwalé, the Jackdaw’s quartermaster. Featuring whaling, hacking of a Montréal Abstergo base, naval combat, its main action follows Edward Kenway, and IGN ranked it above all but its series’ second installment. For 10 points, name this pirate-themed Caribbean adventure in the Assassin’s Creed franchise.ANSWER: Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag [Accept either, or any answers incorporating the number or franchise and title; Prompt on descriptions]6. One speech this figure gives in the aftermath of an armoured car robbery ends with “without justice there can be no freedom.” In the episode “Monster” this person requests a state doctor give false information to the defence lawyer of a pedophile. This character mentions to Claire Kincaid that he has had only three affairs with female ADAs, before she realizes that she is the fourth to work with him. His leaving Lenny Briscoe at a bar after hustling pool indirectly leads to Kincaid’s death in “Aftershock,” which notably featured no prosecution, and this self-described “mick” took over from Ben Stone after a witness played by Alison Janney is killed by the Russian mob. For ten points, name this prosecutor who succeeded Arthur Branch as District Attorney, a character on Law & Order and its spinoff SVU.ANSWER: Jack McCoy [Accept either]7. Secor et al. wrote a paper titled “Can we study [these organisms] to extinction?” With eight varieties in North America, the Lake species?of this,?Acipenser fulvescens, has an IGFA world record of 168 pounds. Wikipedia claims it is a “royal fish,” and all catches are property of the Crown. Also found in the genuses?Scaphirhyncus, which includes the endangered Alabama type, and the Asian?Pseudoscaphirhyncus, the species?Huso huso, or beluga, is heavily fished in the Caspian and Black seas for its roe and is Canada’s largest freshwater sportfish. For ten points, name this armored fish family surviving from prehistoric times, endangered partially from trade in its eggs known as caviar.?ANSWER:?Sturgeon?[or?Acipenser?before it is mentioned]8. One of this writer’s characters, Vesey, deciphers a coded report on the Russo-Japanese War by creating phrases from each word. In addition to “Calloway's Code,” the title figure of another of his works impersonates Major Talbot in the play?A Magnolia Flower, but redeems himself by returning $300 in disguise to the destitute Southerner. This author of “The Duplicity of Hargraves” coined the phrase “Banana Republic” in his collection?Cabbages and Kings.?The hobo Soapy tries and fails to be arrested in this author’s “The Cop and the Anthem,” and Jim gives Della an expensive set of combs in a story by this author. For ten points, name this author who used ironic twist endings in stories like “The Gift of the Magi.”?ANSWER:?O. Henry?[Prompt on Partial Answer; or William Sydney?Porter]9. In one role, this actor claims: “If I take my gingko, I can still remember where I put the Viagra.” He then later commandeers a bicycle and attends his police partner’s amateur production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Cameoing as military intelligence Colonel Lucas (a named he chose) in Apocalypse Now, this same actor breaks a Gary Oldman-played terrorist’s neck with a parachute before telling him “get off my plane!” in another work. Controversy exists over whether his character “shot first” against Greedo, and he ends another series where he fears snakes with a marriage to Marian Ravenwood. For ten points, name this versatile actor who portrayed Han Solo and Indiana Jones.ANSWER: Harrison Ford10. F.R. Scott satirized this figure in a poem which contains “Do nothing by halves/ which can be done by quarters.” Bringing down one government with the help of the Progressive Party in 1926, he later became his country’s first official citizen. This spiritualist surpassed Robert Walpole’s longest tenure of a Commonwealth PM before his retirement in 1948, being succeeded by fellow Liberal Louis St. Laurent. For ten points, name this Canadian politician who led the nation through World War II, created “zombies” with his phrase “conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription,” and was at the centre of a rhyming constitutional struggle with Governor General Lord Byng.ANSWER: William Lyon Mackenzie?King?[Do NOT Accept/ Do NOT Prompt on “William Lyon Mackenzie”]?10. This work samples the TED talk “Why we should all be feminists.” In addition to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, another contributor states “your breasteses are my breakfast” while the lead claims she was “grainin’ on that wood.” In addition to “Flawless” and “Drunk In Love,” another part of this collection, “Ghost,” states “I’m climbing up the wall ’cause all the shit I hear is boring/all the shit I do is boring.” The song “XO” samples audio from the Challenger disaster, called “emotionally difficult” by a Challenger widow. For ten points, name this album which accompanies all songs with videos, unexpectedly released in December 2013 by its namesake lead singer of Destiny’s Child.ANSWER: Beyoncé [Prompt on descriptions; Accept “Flawless” before “breasteses”]11. A shirt of this colour is laid out to dry in G.C. Bingham’s?The Jolly Flatboatmen, whose principal figure dances in pants of this colour, also featured on the pants of the leftmost observer in his?Raftsmen Playing Cards. Displayed in the shirt of Tam Gan and the coat of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in portraits by Robert Henri, Joseph Brant wears an armband of this in a 1797 portrait by Charles Willson Peale. It colours the large vases in Sargent’s?The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, while vertical lines of this colour alternately title Jackson Pollock's?Number 11, 1952, described as this colour “poles.” For ten points, name this colour often representing water and the sky.ANSWER:?Blue?[Antiprompt on more specific answers]12. This nation’s highest point, Doyle’s Delight, lies in its Maya Mountains. It’s not The Bahamas, but Half-Moon and Man-o’-War Cayes lie in a namesake UNESCO World Heritage site Barrier Reef Reserve System which contains the submarine sinkhole the Great Blue Hole. This nation’s towns include Orange Walk, and languages include Kriol and the Arawakan-based Garifuna. It’s not Turks and Caicos, but one tourist attraction is its island of Ambergris Caye. With “I Flourish in the Shade” in Latin on its flag, it gained independence from Britain in 1981. For ten points, name this Central American nation whose largest and namesake city lost the status of its capital to Belmopan.ANSWER:?Belize?[Do NOT Accept or Prompt on British Honduras]13. One of his signature characters first appeared in his The Blessing Way, where a knifing suspect is found in the desert with a mouthful and sand, and that character is joined by Jim Chee in a search for the titular black magic in Skin Walkers. His novels engage contemporary issues, such as the Pinochet regime and extra-territorial assassinations in Talking God and genetic archaeology in A Thief of Time, while he engaged with southwestern history by discussing the Lincoln Canes in Sacred Clowns and Butch Cassidy in Coyote Waits. For 10 points, name this mystery author, winner of Edgar, Anthony and Macavity Awards, whose Joe Leaphorn novels follow the Navajo Tribal Police.ANSWER: Anthony “Tony” Grove Hillerman 14. A version of this song mentions that "I've seen kids hide behind walls and footballs" before extensively quoting an Andrea Gibson poem and ending with a two minute "here's-to-this" toast. That Angel Haze remix used the same "People Get Ready" sample as the original, which led into Madonna's "Open Your Heart" at one performance and which includes the lyric, "that holy water you soak in has been poisoned." This song claims that "a certificate on paper" is a "damn good place to start," and it begins with a really dumb verse where the singer wonders about the significance of keeping a tidy room. Queen Latifah performed a mass marriage at the Grammys during this song, whose hook "I can't change ... even if I wanted to" is sung by Mary Lambert. For ten points, name this Macklemore song about gay rights.ANSWER: “Same Love”15. After meeting a really cool chick, a character in this work says: "Till now, when men were fond, I smiled and wondered how." That character argues that the law can't be like an old scarecrow, in this work, and another character says: “Our doubts are traitors” while trying to manipulate his sister. This play hinges on whether betrothal is sufficient legal criteria for a marriage, and a character in it asks: "The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?" That character then falls for a "bed trick" and being deceived into having sex with his wife Mariana instead of an aspiring nun. The jailed Claudio fails, in this play, to coerce his sister Isabella into having sex with a government official. For ten points, name this "problem play" by Shakespeare, in which the Duke goes undercover as a friar and puts the hypocrite Angelo in charge of enforcing Vienna's anti-sex laws.ANSWER: Measure for Measure16. This book proposes a ritual using a cereal offering, unbinding hair, and a sterilizing “water of bitterness” to detect adulterous women. 250 censers are left over, in this book, after the ground swallows up Dathan, Abiram, and rest of Korah's rebellion. In verse 23:23 of this book, a quotation describes the Israelites as“What hath God wrought.” An item that sprouts almonds and brings forth water, Aaron's rod, appears in this biblical book, which also tells of a figure prevented from cursing the Israelites for Balak in the story of Balaam’s ass. Taking the twelve tribes from Mount Sinai to Moab, just outside the Promised Land, for 10 points, name this biblical book that includes a census of Israelites and follows the Book of Leviticus.ANSWER: Book of Numbers [or Bemidbar; Prompt on “Bible,” “Torah” and “Old Testament” before they are mentioned]17. Judge Snyder dislikes this character ever since he ran over the judge’s son, while this advertiser of “expert shoe repair” is once mesmerized by a smoking monkey doll, exclaiming: “Look! He’s taking another puff!” He describes another character as “the greatest hero in American history” before a case which wins that character free a buffet at a seafood restaurant. Describing a sexual harassment lawsuit as “exactly what I need to help rebuild my shattered practice,” he is successful in garnering an offer of $500,000 from Mr. Burns, which is ruined by Marge’s testimony. For ten points, name this Phil Hartman-voiced shyster on?The Simpsons, a self-described “law-talking guy.”ANSWER:?Lionel?Hutz?[Accept Either; or?Miguel Sanchez?or?Nguyen van Phuoc?before mentioned]18. Its ECHL affiliate is the Ontario Reign, located in California. Eliminating the 1982 Edmonton Oilers in the first playoff round despite losing the highest-scoring NHL playoff game ever 10-8, this “Miracle on Manchester” team drafted Bernie Nicholls 73rd overall-Nicholls had 3 straight hat-trick home games in his rookie season for this team, and holds the team record for most goals in a season and most points in a game with 8. A penalty for an illegal stick kept them from a 2 game lead in the 1993 finals, which it lost to the Montreal Canadiens. For 10 points, name this ice hockey team of Luc Robitaille, Wayne Gretzky, and Jonathan Quick, winners of the 2012 Stanley Cup.ANSWER: Los Angeles [or L.A.] Kings [Accept Either]19. The Stille reaction uses this element as a catalyst. In 2001, Ford suffered a $1-billion loss when it stockpiled this element and then developed a way to substitute for it; this metal’s price thus fell approximately 75%. Minted in four Canadian $50 coins showing Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, this transition metal has a “black” variety useful in hydrogenation. This platinum-group metal used in dentistry and jewellery is able to help formation of carbon-fluorine and carbon-nitrogen bonds, but is mainly used in catalytic converters. For ten points, name this element catalyzing the Suzuki and Heck reactions, which is element 46 and has symbol Pd. ANSWER: Palladium [or Pd before mentioned]20. Murders in this state were described in the book?Salamander, while two fundamentalists from this state killed 15-month-old Erica Lafferty. In addition to the bomber and forger Mark Hofmann and the Lafferty brothers, a “bishop” was shot to death here in 1877 for attacking the Baker-Fancher wagon train. Despite over 100 casualties, that man, John D. Lee, was the only man convicted of this state’s Mountain Meadows Massacre. It experienced the “Raid,” a period of mass arrest centred here following the upholding of the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act. For ten points, name this Southwest destination for a polygamous Christian sect, with capital largely planned by Mormon Brigham Young.ANSWER:?UtahTB1. One athlete from this country defeated Steffi Graf to win the 1990 US Open and won silver at the Seoul Olympics. In addition to Gabriela Sabatini, another national partnered with Virginia Ruano Pascal to win 8 Grand Slam Doubles titles but never won at Wimbledon and only won bronze at the Olympics with Patricia Tarabini. In addition to Paola Suarez, a man from here was disqualified from the 2012 Queen’s Club Championships for injuring an umpire, forfeiting $69,910 in prizes and fines. Another is now ranked 5th by the ATP and won the 2009 U.S. Open. For 10 points, name this country of David Nalbandian and Juan Martin del Potro, known for Maradona soccer.ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or Republica Argentina]TB2. This team’s longtime goalie coach is advanced stat namesake Jim Corsi. The first Soviet to defect to the NHL was Alexander Mogilny, who joined this team. Jim Lorentz killed a bat at this team’s home rink during the Fog Game, which René Robert won for this team. Robert and Rick Martin were part of this team’s French Connection line, along with its first-ever pick Gilbert Perrault. Longtime General Manager Darcy Regier was fired in November 2013 by this team, which followed Lindy Ruff’s dismissal in February. Brett Hull controversially scored on this team to win the Stanley Cup in 1999, beating Dominik Hasek. For ten points, name this Western New York hockey team.ANSWER: Buffalo Sabres [accept either]1.Archie Griffin is the only person to have won this award twice, and Steve Spurrier became the first winner to coach a winner in 1996. For 10 points each:[10] Name this award first given in 1935 by the Downtown Athletic Club, which annually honours the outstanding American football college player “whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.” The current award-holder, its youngest ever, was a Florida State freshman, while Reggie Bush’s was vacated after NCAA violations.ANSWER: Heisman Memorial Trophy Award[10] The namesake of the award, John Heisman, had a collegiate football career, first at Brown University and then at this Ivy League University, where he graduated from law school in 1892. Playing at Franklin Field, the oldest still-operating NCAA football field, other notable football players at this university have included Hall of Famer Chuck Bednarik and future NFL Commissioner Bert Bell.ANSWER: University of Pennsylvania Quakers [Accept either; DO NOT ACCEPT Penn State][10] This first African-American player to win the Heisman was a 2-time all-American playing for Syracuse. He was drafted first overall in the 1962 NFL Draft, but tragically died of leukemia at age 23 before playing any NFL regular-season games.ANSWER: Ernest “Ernie” Davis2. Answer the following about physics paradoxes and thought-experiments, for ten points each.[10] This man’s namesake “demon” (although really pronounced “day-mon,” or spirit) is an entity, which can theoretically violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics by sorting particles by energy level, thus decreasing entropy. He also names, with Boltzmann, a distribution describing particle speeds in gas.ANSWER: James Clerk Maxwell[10] This thought-experiment named after a recipient of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics describes a man conducting the Schr?dinger cat experiment to elucidate the quantum mind/body problem. If the namesake completes the experiment, the unanswerable question is when the superposition of the reaction of another person hearing the results occurs.ANSWER: Wigner’s Friend[10] This real-world observed “problem” describes how the movement of the namesake while in motion and acted upon by gravity does not violate the law of conservation of angular momentum. The solution turns on the idea that the example object is not a rigid body.ANSWER: Falling Cat Problem [or Cat-Righting Problem or Clear-Knowledge Equivalents]3. Answer the following about philosophers who haven’t been drinking the religious Kool-Aid through human history, for 10 points each.[10] This Greek philosopher,who penned On Nature, used the atomistic theory of Democritus to argue that the soul is not immortal. He names a mild hedonism.ANSWER: Epicurus[10] This author of Why I am Not a Christian described his theory as “logical atomism.” This philosopher created the thought experiment of the possibility of a china teapot orbiting the Sun to argue that the burden of proof cannot be shifted in favour of unfalsifiable claims. ANSWER: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell [10] This modern philosopher asked whether religion counts as child abuse and works include The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and The Portable Atheist.ANSWER: Christopher Eric Hitchens4. In one work, this actor utters the line, “the future’s all yours, you lousy bicycle!” before throwing it into a stream. For 10 points each:[10] Name this actor who portrayed Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Another famous quotation uttered by this actor, when asked why he was cutting the heads off parking meters in Cool Hand Luke: “small town, not much to do in the evenin.’” ANSWER: Paul Leonard Newman[10] In Cool Hand Luke, this line is uttered by the prison captain after hearing “I wish you’d stop being so good to me,” for which he clubs Newman down a hill. 11th on AFI’s top 100 movie quotations, it’s often misquoted adding a “a” and changing a verb to “have.”ANSWER: What we’ve got here...is failure to communicate[10] As Sidney Mussberger in The Hudsucker Proxy, Newman plays a ruthless member of the board of directors attempting to devalue Hudsucker Industries which fails when his fall-guy, Norville Barnes, invents this child’s toy which is a huge success for the company.ANSWER: The Hula-Hoop5. This bonus on poetry is brought to by Aayush Rajasekaran and the letter G, as in “Gee, I wonder if Aayush knows anything about world poetry?” For 10 points each:[10] Aayush almost certainly knows this South-Asian poet of Gitanjali, or Song Offerings, who became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He also wrote the lyrics for both India and Bangladesh’s national anthems.ANSWER: Rabindrinath Tagore [or Thakur; Prompt on Gurudev][10] A poet from this nation to which Aayush has never been wrote of singing a “beautiful revenge” that “no woman will descend to this depth/ to claim from me your fistful of bones” in the poem “Sonnets of Death.” In addition to Gabriela Mistral, another poet from this country in his Book of Questions asked “does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for anyone?” ANSWER: Republic of Chile [or República de Chile][10] This South Korean poet, a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, this figure wrote: “Pumpkin flower brimming full of life: you are true beauty!” His works include the collection The Sound of My Waves and the novel Little Pilgrim.ANSWER: Ko Un [or Untae; be generous with phonetic pronunciations of the given name]6.Early games that used this mechanic, like Crazy Clock Game and Mountaineering, were intended for children, but by the 1980s, games like Citadel of Blood and Scotland Yard were available for adults. For ten points each:[10] Name this class of board games in which players collaborate rather than compete with each other, resulting in a shared win or loss.ANSWER: co-operative gameplay (accept word forms of “cooperate”; do not accept variants of “team”)[10] A popular cooperative game is this title by Matt Leacock in which the players take on medical roles to stop the spread of diseases. It should not be confused with a Flash game where Madagascar closes its ports.ANSWER: Pandemic (there are a bunch of expansions, but all have “Pandemic” in the title)[10] Matt Leacock also designed this 2010 cooperative game in which players are adventurers seeking artifacts on an island that is sinking into the ocean. Its sequel, Forbidden Desert, was released in 2013.ANSWER: Forbidden Island 7. One of his operas contains the aria “Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête!,” described as the “Mount Everest” for tenors with nine high Cs early in the opera. For ten points each:[10] Name this composer of operas such as The Daughter of the Regiment and The Elixir of Love and one based on Walter Scott’s Bride of Lammermoor.ANSWER: Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti [10] This Donizetti opera features the melody “home sweet home” in the titular Tudor queen’s mad scene, whose aria “al dolce guidami” was a staple for Maria Callas. Essentially, this opera based on English history consists of Henry VIII ordering the death of the titular old queen, ANSWER: Anna Bolena [or Anne Boleyn][10] This other non-Donizetti work was roughly contemporaneous with Anna Bolena, debuting 4 years later. A work of Hector Berlioz, its title character is borrowed from a Byron poem, include the first where the hero is in the mountains, and the fourth movement, “Orgy of Brigands.”ANSWER: Harold in Italy [or Harold en Italie]8. Identify some legal terms in Latin, for ten points each.[10] While it is often traced to the Magna Carta, Blackstone records its first usage under Edward I. It is designed to require the state to justify its detention of an individual, and translates as “you have the body.”ANSWER: Habeas corpus [10] Some jurisdictions allow for this plea made in latin, which results in an uncontested conviction without an admission of guilt. It translates to “I do not want to contest” or “I do not want to fight.”ANSWER: Nolo contendere[10] This occurs in a phrase translated as “the law does not concern itself with trifles.” Describing a technical breach of law too small to be justiciable, it has impacts on tax law and especially criminal law, such as cases where a tap on the shoulder (not consented to) could be described as assault.ANSWER: De minimis non curat lex9. Be shiny and answer the following about Firefly/Serenity, for ten points each.[10] Malcolm Reynolds’s ship Serenity is named after the battle of Serenity Valley, a victory for this group, the show’s chief antagonist. This government’s structure is unclear, although their name suggests a coming together of Chinese and American groups.ANSWER: The Alliance[10] This actor portrays the Serenity’s pilot Wash, who is an amazing pilot and describes himself as a “leaf on the wind” during one of his better stunts. He's also played Ann’s father on Arrested Development and Noah Werner on Suburgatory.ANSWER: Alan Wray Tudyk[10] Firefly’s director of photography, David Boyd, served as director of photography for 18 episodes of the first season of this NBC show set in Dillon, Texas, and directed 2 other episodes. Based on a non-fiction novel, this 5-season show may, like Firefly, spawn a movie.ANSWER: Friday Night Lights 10. Answer the following about video games from the days when dinosaurs such as Jordan Palmer and Chris Borglumsaurus roamed the Earth, for 10 points each.[10] This launch game for the NES had the player use the “zapper” to fire at the screen, intending to kill the titular targets. Bundled with Super Mario Brothers, its highest real level was 99-passing this led to erratic play on level 0. If the player failed to shoot any of the creatures, his dog would laugh at him, but could not be shot.ANSWER: Duck Hunt [or Dakku Hanto][10] This mascot for a portable video game product line created by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991 is a playable character in both Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Melee. First appearing in the game Ball, this character without features is normally mute, making beeping noises. The dual nature of the product he represents leads to a nonsense name.ANSWER: Mr. Game and Watch [prompt on partial answer; or Gēmu & Uotchi][10] It is Jordan Palmer’s greatest regret that he has never played this game for the Atari 2600. Produced by Mystique, the player controls 2 naked women who have to ingest falling semen. While pornographic and often denounced as misogynistic and lewd, it is considered “relatively harmless” compared to the racially-charged Mystique porn game Custer’s Revenge.ANSWER: Beat ’Em and Eat ’Em11. Answer the following about the National Treasure movie series, for ten points each.[10] The main character and hero Benjamin Gates is played by this character, known for zany quotations such as “put the bunny back in the box” from his starring role in Con Air. His other action roles include Big Daddy in Kick-Ass.ANSWER: Nicolas Cage [or Nicolas Kim Coppola][10] In the second film, subtitled “Book of Secrets,” this is the location of Cibola, the lost city of gold. In the film, a nearby landmark was created in the early 20th century to hide it.ANSWER: Near Mount Rushmore [or anything like that, including the Black Hills or South Dakota][10] Gates know the location from the titular “Book of Secrets,” a rumoured bound volume for the American President’s eyes only. Gates learns the location of the book by “kidnapping” the President, played by this actor. Other film roles for this actor include as Christopher Pike in J.J. Abram’s Star Trek reboot, and as President John F. Kennedy in Thirteen Days.ANSWER: (Stuart) Bruce Greenwood12. Answer the following about pivotal but lesser-known battles of the ancient world, for 10 points each.[10] This queen of the Iceni revolted against Rome in her native Britain, sacking Colchester and London before being defeated by Roman Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus at the Battle of Watling Street, exact location unknown.ANSWER: Boudicca [or Boadicea or Buddig][10] This polity won the funnily named Battle of the Great Foss against its neighbours in 682 BCE. More famous wins for this polity include resisting Pyrrhus of Epirus’s assault on this city in 272 BCE.ANSWER: Sparta [accept its modern name of Sparti, I guess] [10] Although not a funny name, two battles at this Egyptian settlement in 525 and 343 BCE both ended in victories for the Achaemenid Persian Empire. The 343 battle ended the reign of Nectanebo II, the last native ethnic-Egyptian ruler of Egypt. It’s also where Pompey the Great was assassinated.ANSWER: Pelusium [or Sena or Per-Amun or Pelousion or Sin or Seyan or Tel El-Farama]13. Answer the following about American writers unnecessarily dropping the “n-bomb,” for 10 points each.[10] This Flannery O’Connor short story drops the n-bomb as the family grandmother is telling a story about her suitor who brought his her a watermelon every Saturday afternoon, which was once eaten by an African-American boy. It features a car wreck caused by the family cat followed by a visit from escaped criminal “the Misfit” which doesn’t exactly work out for Bailey and his family.ANSWER: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”[10] This white writer, promoter of the Harlem Renaissance may be best remembered for dropping the n bomb in the title of a 1926 novel set in Harlem, N-word Heaven. The title’s “Heaven” refers to the balcony in church where Blacks were forced to sit.ANSWER: Carl Van Vechten[10] There is only one n-bomb in this tedious Nathaniel Hawthorne work where nothing happens, uttered by Scipio, a servant of the Pyncheon family. That family constructed the titular edifice after controversially getting the land from the executed Matthew Maule.ANSWER: The House of the Seven Gables 14. It has rows of rasping teeth and they have been known to attack swimmers in Lake Ontario such as Marilyn Bell. For 10 points each:[10] Name this invasive species, a member of the Petromyzon genus, which have decimated the Great Lakes fisheries as they attach themselves to fish and can live in both fresh- and salt-water. They should be killed without mercy until they are ALL DEAD.ANSWER: Sea Lamprey [or Lamprey Eel or Petromyzon marinus; Prompt on “lamprey”] [10] Another invasive species with a devastating impact is this member of the Agrilus genus, named for the bright colouring of its adults and the habits of its larvae, which prove fatal to members of the Fraxinus genus. Despite attempts at control, it threatens millions of North American trees.ANSWER: Emerald Ash Borer [or EAB or Agrilus planipennis][10] Farther afield, this Russian plant, a member of the Salsola genus, so effectively colonized the American west in the 19th century that this fire hazard is often assumed to be native and associated with cowboys.ANSWER: Tumbleweed [or Russian Thistle or Salsola tragus]15. Answer the following about carry-overs from the American Basketball Association into the NBA, for 10 points each.[10] The owners of this franchise, one of the 6 remaining ABA franchises when the ABA ceased to exist (and 1 of 2 that did not transfer to the NBA) received $2.2 million in cash, but also a one-seventh share of the television revenues of the four transferring teams in perpetuity. That makes the Silna brothers, the former owners of this team, which played from 1974-1976 and was the subject of an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, approximately $15 million per year today.ANSWER: Spirits of St. Louis [Accept either][10] This team won three ABA championships, in 1970, 1972 and 1973, but has yet to win an NBA championship since joining the NBA in 1976. Despite the efforts of hall-of-famer Reggie Miller, this team has only gone to the NBA finals once, in the 1999-2000 season, losing in 6 games to the Lakers.ANSWER: Indiana Pacers [Accept Either][10] Playing for the Kentucky Colonels in the ABA, where he was Rookie of Year, this 7-foot-2 centre nicknamed the “A Train” was an All-Star 4 years in a 5-year period with the Chicago Bulls, and still holds the record for highest NBA career field goal percentage.ANSWER: Artis Gilmore 16. Answer the following about a certain style of music referring to a certain style of matrimony, for ten points each.[10] This rapper claimed “I’m Utah/I’m multiple bitches” in a song referencing several recent news stories in “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It.” Other songs of this artist of the album The Predator and Death Certificate include “It was a Good Day” and with the Westside Connection, “Bow Down.”ANSWER: Ice Cube [or O’Shea Jackson][10] This rap duet off the album Watch the Throne quotes a tattoo that “love is cursed by monogamy.” Winner of the 2013 Grammy for Best Rap/Sung collaboration, it features a chorus by Frank Ocean that asks “what’s a god to an unbeliever/that don’t believe in anything?”ANSWER: “No Church in the Wild”[10] DMX’s controversial track “What These Bitches Want” off the album And Then There Was X has an entire verse which lists a number of women DMX has slept with, including “about 3 Kims, Latoya and Tina.” The song features this singer, better known for pieces such as “The Thong Song,” “Incomplete” and “Dance for Me.”ANSWER: Sisqó [or Mark Althavean Andrews]17. Answer some questions about recent developments in Canadian prostitution, for ten points each.[10] Released on December 20, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada decision in this case struck down several restrictions on prostitution in Canada (which was already legal under some circumstances). The named applicant challenging the law is a dominatrix hoping to get back into the sex business.ANSWER: Terri-Jean Bedford et al v. Canada (Attorney General) [or Amy Lebovitch or Valerie Scott, as they were both co-applicants][10] The criminal laws concerning the sex trade was found to be contrary to the “life, liberty, and security of the person”-guaranteeing Section 7 of this document, part of the Constitution Act, 1982.ANSWER: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms[10] The Bedford decision was released as this other nation’s lower house passed a bill supported by this nation’s Women’s Minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, to criminalise buying, but not selling, sex.ANSWER: Republic of France [or French Republic or République Francaise]18. Answer the following about literary prototypes of Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women,” for ten points each.[10] This author’s On Famous Women is a biographical work of 106 famous women, including Medusa, Sappho and Giovanna I of Naples, in Latin. He also wrote biographies of men entitled On the Fates of Famous Men, as well as The Decameron.ANSWER: Giovanni Boccaccio[10] Women were not person’s under this country’s Code of Leke, promulgated in the 15th century but used in this country until the 20th. Putting honour as a very important thing and thus causing a lot of feuds, it was suppressed here by Enver Hoxha.ANSWER: Albania [or Shqip?ri or variants][10] This 1785 novel of the Marquis de Sade describes the sexual torture and eventual murder of 46 people, mostly adolescents, by four depraved aristocrats assisted by four prostitutes in the inaccessible Chateau de Silling.ANSWER: The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinism [Accept either; or Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage]19. Answer the following about humorous moments in Seinfeld involving animals, for ten points each.[10] George Costanza, in his pretend-job as a marine biologist, is forced to help one of these animals that has been struck by a golfball hit by Kramer. When corrected from calling this a “great fish,” George answers, “whatever.”ANSWER: Whale [or clear-knowledge equivalents][10] While in a hotel in this city, Jerry accidentally drowns doves, leading a young woman from Rhode Island to sing for a talent portion in this city instead. Regarding her singing, coached by Kramer, Jerry comments, “it’s like I’m watching an animal get tortured.” It’s also the setting of Boardwalk Empire.ANSWER: Atlantic City, New Jersey[10] George’s plan to distract his parents-in-law-to-be with a carriage ride backfires when Kramer feeds this horse the wrong food, causing excessive flatulence and prematurely ending the trip.ANSWER: Rusty20. Answer the following about conveniently-forgotten things from parts of the Harry Potter series, for 10 points each.[10] The Mirror of Erised, the giant three-headed dog Fluffy, and Neville Longbottom’s Remembrall play a key role in this first novel of the series which is titled for a possession of Nicholas Flamel, and then disappear off the map in the rest of the series.ANSWER: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone [or Sorcerer’s Stone][10] It's a good thing these items, introduced in The Prisoner of Azkaban as a way for Hermione to overload classes, were all destroyed in The Order of the Phoenix when the Death-Eaters invaded the Ministry of Magic, otherwise their namesake temporal ability could have easily and boringly solved the series issues and wrapped up the plot.ANSWER: Time-Turners[10] While duelling with Harry, Draco Malfoy uses this spell, causing a large snake to erupt from his wand. It's effective, so naturally Draco never uses it in the books again.ANSWER: Serpensortia21. It’s that bonus on Chinese dynasties that you hope you never get! For 10 points each:[10] Empress Wu Zetian and Yang Guifei were two prominent women during this dynasty, which gained control of China from the Sui Dynasty and ruled from approximately 618-907 CE.ANSWER: Tang Dynasty[10] For most of its reign the Tang Dynasty ruled from this capital city, with modern name meaning “Western peace,” where an earlier dynasty, the Qin, [pronounced Ch’in] had buried their first emperor with a terracotta army. ANSWER: Xian [pronounced “She-an”; or Chang’an][10] This first emperor of the Ming dynasty was able to overthrow the Mongolian Yuan dynasty in the mid-14th century, this former Red Turban took on a ruling name meaning “vastly martial” ANSWER: The Hongwu Emperor [or Zhu Yuanzhang, or Hongwu-di; Prompt on Ming Taizu] ................
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