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ROUND 11 --- TORONTO HYBRID MIRROR: ORLANDO (2016)Questions revised from the Toronto Hybrid set, with editing and writing by Travis Vitello, with support from Virginia Ruiz, Ian McKenzie, Jihye Shin, Billy Beyer, McKinnie Sizemore, Kevin Comer, Peter Torres, Zach Foster, Alex Shaw, Taylor Harvey, and Sean PlatzerTOSSUPS1. In this film, a man attempts to distract a kid from hearing his parents argue by turning on the television and watching a speech by George W. Bush. Dean Norris has a small role in this film as a cop who searches a man’s car, finding a stash of porn but failing to notice a corpse in the trunk. Prior to the events of this film, one character is fired after a failed relationship with a student, while another breaks a vow of silence after learning he is colorblind and cannot be a fighter-pilot. This film ends with a family joining their daughter onstage and dancing to Rick James’s “Super Freak.” Steve Carell plays a Proust scholar in, for ten points, what 2006 film about a dysfunctional family making a road trip to a children’s beauty pageant, starring Abigail Breslin?ANSWER: Little Miss Sunshine2. An early image in this music video is its singer seated in a white chair next to a Great Dane, prior to the activation of Parrot wireless speakers. Bottles of Nemiroff vodka appear in an opening scene of this video set at a certain "Bath Haus," where women in white emerge from vessels including one of which that's adorned with a red cross. A girl with oversized eyes is forcibly removed from a bathtub in this video, whose singer is stripped and presented to a man wearing a metal beard. The singer in this video cries how she doesn't "wanna be friends" while in it images of red-clad dancers are alternated with scenes of a flaming bed. A charred skeleton lays near the singer, whose bra emits sparks at the end of, for ten points, what 2010 music video, whose song's hook of “Ra-ra-ah-ah-ah, romah-rum-um-ah” is repeated by its artist, Lady Gaga?ANSWER: Lady Gaga’s "Bad Romance" music video3. The author of a work about this place asked in that work's preface "how will you find beauty when it is locked in the mind past all remonstrance?" A work about this place includes an untitled final entry that's dedicated to Toulouse-Lautrec, along with others like "The Run to the Sea" and one which describes a sign declaring "No Dogs Allowed" that’s titled "Sunday in the Park". In “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg wrote of minds “leaping toward poles of Canada” and this place. In a passage that likens a woman to a flower and a man to a city, this place is described as lying “in the valley under the Passaic Falls.” “Rigor of beauty is the quest” according to an epic poem whose title references, for ten points, what place discussed across five volumes of a work whose first entry is “The Delineaments of the Giants,” a New Jersey city once the home of William Carlos Williams?ANSWER: Paterson4. A character in this film quotes Jesus saying “Suffer the little children to come unto me” after one woman insists that she is a devout Catholic. One character in this film claims that he is on the verge of winning a Nobel Prize for his pharmaceutical research, but it is later revealed that he only works as a librarian. Peter MacNicol’s character sleeps with this film's title character, but awakens to find that she has returned to her schizophrenic and abusive lover, with whom she commits suicide. The title character of this film cannot get past a moment in which she picks Jan over Eva, and this film is based on a novel written by William Styron. For ten points, name this film where Meryl Streep's character must decide which child to send to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.ANSWER: Sophie’s Choice?5. This protein’s “meta-II” ["meta"-"two"] form is deactivated by its namesake kinases and arrestins when they bind to its phosphorylated domain. Franz Christian Boll is credited with the discovery of this G-protein-coupled-receptor, which can also exist in a “batho-” intermediate. The activated form of this protein binds to transducin, and then goes on to phosphorylate GDP. This protein is sometimes called “visual purple," and a Schiff base links an aldehyde group in this protein’s cofactor to the amino group of a lysine residue on it. That cofactor of this protein exists in an 11-cis form, but is isomerized to an all-trans configuration when it absorbs light and is called retinal. For ten points, name this photoreceptor protein found in rod cells of the retina. ANSWER: rhodopsin6. In the preface to the 1938 edition of this work, its author criticizes publishers who withdraw books by declaring, “the suppression of intellectual freedom rings the death knell of science.” This work, which is based on lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute, asserts that a language’s development is dependent upon human thought and not the other way around. One of its central critiques concerns the perception that people of European descent are superior based on their cultural and technological advancements which this work claims was due only to chance, and it posits that “the claim that achievement and aptitude go hand in hand is not convincing.” Its final chapter, titled “The Race Problem in Modern Society,” discusses racism in America and the lack of scientific evidence to support the idea that differences in mental capacities exist between ethnicities. For ten points, name this Franz Boas work, which attempted to debunk the notion that intelligence is related to culture.ANSWER: The Mind of Primitive Man7. This book narrates how Janus Thickey left only a hastily written note describing his death and was mourned by his family, until he was discovered living five miles away with his mistress. This book’s author has pets named Hoppy, Milly and Mauler, and one figure in this book has his experiment go awry and starts to wear a dead badger as a toupee. This book describes the Nundu, whose breath can cause diseases, as well as a creature also known as the Living Shroud. This book introduces a classification system from one to five X's to indicate how dangerous a creature is, and was written by Newt Scamander. For ten points, name this Hogwarts magiczoology textbook also published in the Muggle world, which includes many descriptions of magical creatures.ANSWER: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them8. Meredith Monroe guest starred as Chloe Metz, a cooking show host on this show, and the comedian Tim Minchin had a recurring role on it as rockstar Atticus Fetch. God Hates Us All is the title of a book authored by a character on this show. Madeleine Zima played one character on this show, the daughter of Bill, who marries the protagonist’s ex-wife, and Madeline Martin portrayed Becca, the protagonist's daughter, who flirts with Satanism. Natasha McElhone played Karen, the protagonist’s ex-wife on this show, and most of it involves the protagonist lying around in bed, whining, and claiming to be a writer. David Duchovny starred as Hank Moody in, for ten points, what Showtime series that was sued by the Red Hot Chili Peppers for borrowing a title from one of their albums? ANSWER: Californication?????9. This man sought to disprove Einstein’s particle theory of light, but his decade-long effort to do so only confirmed Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect. This man also used the photoelectric emissions of metals to measure Planck’s constant and, in collaboration with Harvey Fletcher, he estimated Avogadro’s constant. His research investigating the work of Victor Hess on extraterrestrial radiation led him to coin the term "cosmic rays." One experimental setup by this man that featured an atomizer and parallel plates failed because the water he used evaporated too quickly, but he came close to a correct value of a particular physical constant when he replaced that water with a certain other liquid. For ten points, name this American physicist who measured the elementary charge of an electron in his oil-drop experiment.ANSWER: Robert Millikan10. The second movement of this piece consists of a theme and variations in D-flat major, after which the third movement begins attacca immediately. This piece’s third movement is in near-perpetual motion and ends on three loud chords. The first movement of this piece begins with both hands playing tonic arpeggios in parallel motion two octaves apart, and ends with an extended C, A-flat tremolo leading into a pianississimo fermata. A long-short-long motif recurs throughout its first movement, as well as a four note motif reminiscent of its composer’s fifth symphony. This piece is one of the three best known of its composer’s middle period, alongside “Les Adieux” and “Waldstein." For ten points, name this piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven named after its emotional intensity. ANSWER: “Appassionata” (or Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, Op. 57)11. This actress made a guest appearance on Friends alongside Leila Kenzle, with whom she was then co-starring on a different show. Alongside Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick and Colin Firth, she starred as April Epner, a Brooklyn schoolteacher whose life falls apart in the film Then She Found Me, which she directed. This woman won a Best Actress Oscar for a role in which the artist Simon Bishop rediscovers his passion to paint after seeing her semi-nude. She starred for seven seasons as Jamie Buchanan, the wife of the filmmaker Paul, in the series Mad About You, and she also appeared opposite Mel Gibson in What Women Want. For ten points, name this actress who played the waitress Carol Connelly, a woman who has to deal with Jack Nicholson’s tantrums in As Good As It Gets.ANSWER: Helen Hunt12. The Movement Without Fear broke off an alliance with this man and nominated Juan del Granado against him in a recent election. In July 2013, this man’s plane was forced to land in Austria after it was denied access to Western European airspace due to suspicion that Edward Snowden might be on board. This man defeated Jorge ["HOR"-"hey"] Quiroa and Samuel Medina in a 2014 election. This man defended his country’s native coca growers before leading his MAS party to victory in a 2005 election. In February, a referendum defeated a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed this man to run for a fourth term as President. The first indigenous head of state in his country is, for ten points, what three-term and current President of Bolivia? ANSWER: Evo Morales 13. One actor who appeared in this film claimed that he tried to play his character like an accountant, which explains why he spends most of the movie screaming or whispering and shirtless. The main villain of this film tries to “harvest” the protagonist’s home, and is revealed to have killed his mother, for whom he harbors a strange, semi-oedipal affection. The male lead of this film tells the protagonist that he has more in common with a dog than he does with her, to which she responds “I love dogs, I’ve always loved dogs.” That lead is friends with a part-bee named Stinger, who takes care of bees that can recognize royalty, and despite being played by Sean Bean, doesn’t die in this movie. For ten points, name this 2015 film directed by the Wachowski siblings, starring Mila Kunis.ANSWER: Jupiter Ascending (do not accept "Jupiter Rising")14. The cheat-code “I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE” causes the main character of this game to kill himself, while “FOXY LITTLE THING” turns him into his occasional girlfriend, Mercedes Cortez. That character in this game gets the epithet “The Harwood Butcher” and Ken Rosenberg winds up as his chief ally. Ray Liotta voices the protagonist of this game, who discovers later in this game that Lance is betraying him. Other voice work in this game includes Burt Reynolds as Avery Carrington and Jenna Jameson as Candy Suxxx, and this game features a "Demolition Man" side quest that requires piloting an RC helicopter. In this game, Tommy Vercetti kills Sonny Forelli to establish his dominance over a thinly fictionalized depiction of Miami. For ten points, name this 2002 Rockstar Games title, the sixth entry of a carjacking-themed video game series.ANSWER: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (accept GTA: Vice City; prompt on just "GTA" or just "Grand Theft Auto")15. The period leading up to this war is known as the Pentecontaetia. One belligerent in this conflict successfully ended the Samian War shortly before this conflict broke out. During one event in this war, a defeated force refused to retreat for twenty-seven days due to superstition over a lunar eclipse, ultimately leading that force to be massacred. The Thirty Years’s Peace was aimed at preventing this war, which the Peace of Nicias failed to end. After losing the battle of Mantinea, one side in this conflict made an unwise expedition to attack Syracuse. The proponent of that expedition during this war was made to stand trial and later defected, and was named Alcibiades. The Sicilian Expedition was sent during, for ten points, what 5th century conflict between Athens and Sparta?ANSWER: Peloponnesian War16. The most recent one of these specific events ended with the loser tearfully declaring “I’m getting closer,” and the first one of these events happened against Mark Philippoussis in 2003. One of these events was made easier by a rival’s early elimination, which was partly due to that rival suffering from tendonitis in both knees; that was the first of these events to occur outside of an English-speaking country. This specific type of event involves a certain person and has never happened four times in one year, but it happened three times in 2004, 2006 and 2007, and was one French Open match short of happening four times in each of those latter two years. This type of event has happened 17 times, breaking Pete Sampras’s previous personal record of 14. For ten points, name this kind of event, in which a certain Swiss tennis player earns the title at one of tennis’s four most important tournaments. ANSWER: Roger Federer winning a Major (or Roger Federer winning a Grand Slam Event; prompt on partial answer)???17. A recurring motif in this novel is the pleas of fare dodgers who beg to be allowed into train compartments. This novel explains why 420 is the number most frequently associated with black magic and dishonesty, and includes an expert on snake venom named Dr. Schaapsteker. Another character in this novel kills prostitutes with his knees, and the frame story of this novel sees it being dictated to Padma. One episode in this novel focuses on a doctor who examines his future wife through a perforated sheet. This novel is narrated by a telepath named Saleem who was switched at birth with his rival Shiva. For ten points, give this work by Salman Rushdie that focuses on some people born at the moment of India’s independence. ANSWER: Midnight’s Children18. Andrew J. Donelson served as the third-place party’s vice-presidential candidate in this election, which saw a Republican candidate hurt by rumors that he was secretly Catholic. The incumbent President during this election failed to secure his party’s re-nomination, and plans to annex Cuba were a major issue during it. Millard Fillmore was nominated by the Know-Nothings in this election, which was dominated by the recent Kansas-Nebraska Act and the ongoing events of Bleeding Kansas. John Frémont’s loss in this election resulted in the Democrats retaining the White House after the end of Franklin Pierce’s presidency. For ten points, give this election won by James Buchanan, who would be succeeded four years later by Abraham Lincoln.ANSWER: American Presidential election of 1856 19. Jesse Metcalfe appeared as a DJ who works in a Whole Foods store in one episode of this show, and one character on this show taped over a stuffed toy’s cassette to say “Talk to the fist, because the face is pissed.” That character on this show was traumatized as a child when a boy fell off a bicycle and tore his cheek open. Two characters on this show stalk Martha Stewart; those characters also meet Kim Kardashian in this show’s 4th season. Jennifer Coolidge was promoted from recurring to a regular on this show where she plays the character Sophie. This show was co-created by Whitney Cummings, and centers on the title characters’ efforts to run a cupcake business while waitressing at Han’s Diner. Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings star as Caroline and Max in, for ten points, what CBS sitcom titled for a pair of poor females? ANSWER: 2 Broke Girls20. “Unakkena Naan” is a cover of an English song with this title that appeared on the soundtrack of the Tamil film Kadhalil Vizhunten. Ruth Chatterton starred as Lady Fay Kilkerry in a film of this title. Connie Sumner resolves to break off an affair when she is late to pick up her son from school in a film with this title. A song of this title was originally titled “Murderer” and appeared on the album A Girl Like Me. Richard Gere’s character kills Paul, his wife’s lover, in a film of this title, while a song of this title includes the lyric “He’s more than a man / And this is more than love.” In that song of this title, the singer claims that “every time I walk out the door, I see him die a little more inside.” For ten points, give the word that titles a ballad by Rihanna in which she confesses to sleeping with someone else. ANSWER: unfaithful????????BONUSES?1. The protagonist of this play becomes the head of the Central Inauguration and Liquidation Committee. For ten points each: [10] Name this absurdist play whose protagonist, Hugh, only succeeds after he learns to speak the meaningless platitude-filled language of the bureaucracy.ANSWER: The Garden Party (or “Zahradní slavnost”)[10] The Garden Party is a work by this absurdist playwright of The Increased Difficulty of Concentration. He spent 10 years as President of the Czech Republic.ANSWER: Vaclav Havel[10] Havel created the language “Ptydepe” in this play that also lampoons the bureaucracy. It focuses on Josef Gross’s efforts to get the titular document translated, and the person who finally does is promptly fired.ANSWER: The Memorandum2. These structures are defined as subsets of the Cartesian product of two sets, X and Y, that can be written as A-times-B, where A is a subset of X and B is a subset of Y. For ten points each: [10] Identify these structures, that can also be defined as a set of ordered pairs, R, such that if (x1,y1) ["x-one"-"comma"-"y-one"] and (x2,y2) ["x-two"-"comma"-"y-two"] belong to R, then (x1,y2) ["x-one"-"comma"-"y-two"] also belongs to R.ANSWER: combinatorial rectangles[10] The standard example of using rectangles to establish lower bounds in communication complexity is to show that this is the lower bound on determining whether two strings are equivalent. This lower bound can be intuitively understood due to the need to examine every single bit of both strings.ANSWER: linear (or “Big-Omega-of-n”; do not accept or prompt on “Big-O-of-n”)[10] Bounds are also established by representing all possible choices an algorithm might need to make one of these structures. Examples of these constructs in graph theory include "caterpillar" and "spanning" ones.ANSWER: trees3. Following some drama over a publicly posted letter, it became the first streaming service to have access to Taylor Swift’s 1989. For ten points each: [10] Name this streaming service launched with a 3-month free trial by a Cupertino-based company. A commercial for it featured Swift falling off of a treadmill while listening to “Jumpman” by Drake and Future.ANSWER: Apple Music[10] Apple Music is considered more successful than this Jay-Z-owned streaming service that initially released Beyonce’s Lemonade.ANSWER: TIDAL[10] This man criticized Taylor Swift, saying it was “ironic” that she wasn’t popular in his native Sweden since “all her producers are Swedish." Swift later attacked this CEO of Spotify, calling his company a “startup with no cash flow."ANSWER: Daniel Ek???????4. This play sees one character squeeze flower juice onto his wife’s eyes while she sleeps, causing her to later fall in love with a man with the head of an ass. For ten points each:[10] Name this Shakespeare play featuring fairies like Oberon, Titania, and Puck.ANSWER: A Midsummer Night’s Dream[10] This is the character whose head is turned into that of an ass. This weaver plays Pyramus in the play within a play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.ANSWER: Nick Bottom (accept either underlined portion)[10] Bottom is a member of this group of six characters, named for Puck’s description of them. Other members of this group include Peter Quince and Francis Flute.ANSWER: (rude) mechanicals5. At 282 feet below sea level, this depression's Badwater Basin is the lowest elevation in North America. For ten points each:[10] Name this land formation partially bounded by the Owlshead and Sylvania Mountains, and which is mostly located in Inyo County, California.ANSWER: Death Valley (accept Death Valley National Park)[10] Death Valley's so-called "sailing stones" are found in this dry lake whose northern end contains a rocky formation known as "The Grandstand."ANSWER: Racetrack Playa (accept The Racetrack)[10] This organization hosts an annual MarsFest at Death Valley. This organization is assisted by the Allen Telescope Array in its pursuit to detect signs of alien life.ANSWER: SETI Institute (accept Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute)6. This man led a murderous purge of communists in 1965, and became president of his country two years later. For ten points each: [10] Name this dictator of Indonesia for much of the 20th century, whose regime was known as the “New Order." This man came to power by ousting Sukarno and remained President of Indonesia until 1998.ANSWER: Suharto[10] The seventh and current President of Indonesia is this man, who was Mayor of Surakarta from 2005 to 2012 and Governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2014. ANSWER: Jokowi or Joko Widodo[10] Jokowi is a member of this liberal party, which nominated him for President in 2014 against Prabowo Subianto.ANSWER: Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (or PDI-P)7. Richard Hendricks develops the compression search algorithm behind this app on the HBO series Silicon Valley. For ten points each:[10] What is this app that ends up pitted against tech-giant Hooli's competing program called Nucleus?ANSWER: Pied Piper[10] The assisted living company Sandpiper Crossing is at the center of a lawsuit on this AMC series, a spin-off of Breaking Bad.ANSWER: Better Call Saul[10] Orange is the New Black is based on the memoir of Piper Kerman, a woman loosely portrayed by this actress on OITNB who also played Dagny Taggart in the 2011 film Atlas Shrugged: Part I ["one"].ANSWER: Taylor Schilling??8. Answer some questions about lyrics involving flight, for ten points each: [10] Bette Midler claims that she can “fly higher than an eagle” in this song that is played during Oscar “In Memoriam” reels. Its chorus opens “Did you ever know that you’re my hero?”ANSWER: “Wind Beneath My Wings”[10] Celine Dion declares that “You gave me wings and I could fly” in this song from her album Falling Into You. This song was the theme to the Michelle Pfieffer film Up Close and Personal.ANSWER: “Because You Loved Me”[10] The singer declares “I’m gonna let him fly” in the closing track of this band’s second major-label release, which also partly titles the album. The lead singer of this band controversially voiced her opposition to the Iraq War at a 2003 concert in London.ANSWER: Dixie Chicks9. This game issued a so-called “bug-out bag” to help people survive the upcoming Donald Trump presidency. For ten points each:[10] Name this game, whose makers released a Hanukkah-themed holiday promotion during December 2015, and whose primary version includes expansions like the "Bigger, Blacker Box."ANSWER: Cards Against Humanity (accept CAH)[10] One of Travis’s favorite Cards Against Humanity winning hands was when he played “Lifetime presents” “teaching a robot to love” “the story of” this absurd Nazi boss from Wolfenstein 3D.ANSWER: Mecha-Hitler (prompt on partial answer)[10] As part of the 2015 Cards Against Humanity Hanukkah promotion, its creators offered participants the chance to vote for either preserving or destroying a work of art by this creator of the painting Three Musicians.ANSWER: Pablo Ruiz y Picasso10. Teams in this sports league include the Delhi Daredevils and the Gujarat Lions. For ten points each:[10] Name this 8-team league founded in 2007, whose recent Orange Cap winners have included David Warner of the Sunrisers Hyderabad and Virat Kohli of the Royal Challengers Bangalore.ANSWER: Indian Premier League (accept IPL)[10] The Eden Gardens Stadium is the home of the Knight Riders, an IPL team based in this Indian city. A dungeon at Fort William was known as the "black hole" of this place.ANSWER: Kolkata (accept Calcutta)[10] Teams in the IPL compete in the Twenty20 form of this sport that involves batsmen and wickets.ANSWER: cricket11. The sequel to this film tells the story of the Enfield Poltergeist. For ten points each:[10] Name this 2013 horror flick starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. This film was heavily inspired by The Exorcist and is partly based on the real-life paranormal investigator couple Ed and Lorraine Warren.ANSWER: The Conjuring[10] The Conjuring was directed by this man, who also directed Patrick Wilson in 2011’s Insidious as well as the first film in the Saw franchise.ANSWER: James Wan[10] In Saw, the character Amanda is shown removing a "reverse" one of these devices from her head after retrieving the key to it from an unconscious man's intestines.ANSWER: beartraps?12. As with most amines, this aromatic compound is readily identified by its rotten fish smell. For 10 points each: [10] Give this compound, formed by attaching an amino group to a benzene ring.ANSWER: aniline (or phenylamine or aminobenzene)[10] Aniline’s basicity is very low, which can be attributed to the lone pair of electrons undergoing this process around the benzene ring. Electrons described by this term are contained within an orbital across multiple atoms.ANSWER: delocalization about the ring (accept word forms such as delocalized)[10] Aniline and its derivatives react with nitrous acid to produce these compounds that are the starting points of the Sandmeyer process.ANSWER: diazonium salts (or diazonium compounds)13. This character gives birth as Vocal Adrenaline sings “Bohemian Rhapsody.” For ten points each: [10] Name this cheerleader who is pregnant for much of the first season of the show on which she appears. This character is played by actress Dianna Agron. ANSWER: Quinn Fabray (accept either underlined portion)[10] Quinn was knocked up by Puck, even though she was dating this Cory Monteith-played character at the time. This character would spend much of his time on the show in a relationship with Rachel.ANSWER: Finn Hudson (accept either underlined portion)[10] All of these characters appear on this Fox musical-comedy set at a school in Lima, Ohio.ANSWER: Glee14. Mythological scenes by this man include several panicked figures and crashing horses in his work Fall of Phaethon, and another work showing a maid and Cupid attending on the title character in his Venus at the Mirror. For ten points each: [10] Name this Flemish Baroque artist known for his full-figured nudes.ANSWER: Peter Paul Rubens[10] Rubens was commissioned to paint this series of 24 works depicting the title woman’s life. This series concludes with the subject’s reconciliation with her son, Louis XIII ["the thirteenth"], in heaven.ANSWER: Marie de Medici cycle[10] This religious triptych by Rubens is the sequel to another work also located in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. The subject of this work is shown being supported by a figure in red who looks back at a woman in green.ANSWER: Descent From the Cross15. In one appearance, this character gets pregnant at 17, forcing the singer to take a job working construction at Johnstown Company. For ten points each: [10] Name this woman who is mentioned in several of Bruce Springsteen’s songs, including the title track of 1980’s River. In their self-titled debut album, The National sang of an "American" girl of this name who is asked not to "be a nightingale for anyone's space to fill."ANSWER: Mary[10] Springsteen's Mary also appears in this song on Born To Run that opens with the lyrics “The screen door slams / Mary’s dress waves." The singer says of the title street in this song that “these two lanes will take us anywhere."ANSWER: “Thunder Road”[10] A woman not named Mary which Springsteen sings about is this one with whom he declares that he wants to die with tonight in an “everlasting kiss” in the title track off Born To Run.ANSWER: Wendy16. Answer some questions about the pre-Norman-conquest history of England, for ten points each: [10] This massacre of Danes living in England occurred in 1002. Danish King Sweyn Forkbeard promptly invaded the next year following this event.ANSWER: St. Brice’s Day Massacre[10] The St. Brice’s Day Massacre was ordered by this king, who ascended to the throne after the murder of his brother Edward the Martyr. This man’s epithet is often considered to indicate his ill counsel, rather than unpreparedness. ANSWER: Aethelred the Unready or Aethelred II ["the second"] (prompt on “Aethelred”)[10] The Danegeld, a tax that England had to pay Denmark, was first established after this 991 battle. Fought at a site in Essex, this battle was immortalized in a partly extant poem titled after it. ANSWER: Battle of Maldon17. Michael Jackson’s estate requested that the makers of this game remove a dancing character that resembled his Thriller look. For 10 points each:[10] Name this PopCap tower-defense game in which the player must grow crops in order to fight off members of the undead.ANSWER: Plants vs. Zombies[10] PopCap’s biggest success is still this tile-matching puzzle game in which the player must chain gems of the same color.ANSWER: Bejeweled[10] Another tile-matching game is Tetris, which was created by this Russian in 1984. This man also created the mildly successful game Hexic.ANSWER: Alexey Pajitnov18. This man’s namesake system of psychology was developed following his break with Sigmund Freud. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Viennese psychologist who identified criminality, prostitution, and homosexuality as the three “failures of life." He also coined the term “inferiority complex."ANSWER: Alfred Adler[10] While Adler adopted Nietzsche’s idea of the “will to power” as motivating human beings, Freud instead viewed desire to maximize happiness and minimize pain as this alliterative two-word driving force. ANSWER: pleasure principle[10] This man, the founder of the school of Behaviorism, disagreed with Freud’s study of child sexuality in his Little Hans experiment.ANSWER: John Watson19. This league was founded on April 24th, 1996. For ten points each: [10] Name this league, which includes teams such as the San Antonio Stars and the New York Liberty.ANSWER: Women’s National Basketball Association[10] This WNBA team has won championships in 2001 and 2002. This West Coast team has featured players such as Nneka Ogwumike, Tina Thompson, and Candace Parker.ANSWER: Los Angeles Sparks (accept just LA or Los Angeles or Sparks)[10] This former Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hen won the Most Valuable Player award for the WNBA’s 2015 season. She led the league with 23.4 points per game that season and currently plays for the Chicago Sky.ANSWER: Elena Delle Donne20. Answer some questions about the Academy Award For Best Actress, for 10 points each: [10] This actress is the only woman to be nominated for the award twice for playing the same role in different films. She received those nominations for her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I ["the first"].ANSWER: Cate Blanchett[10] At under 22 minutes, Patricia Neal’s win for this film is the shortest performance ever to win the award. Based on Larry McMurtry’s Horseman, Pass By, this film starred Paul Newman as its title character, who clashes with his father over the fate of a cattle ranch.ANSWER: Hud[10] The only person to have Oscars in both writing and acting categories is this woman. She won Best Actress for Howard’s End and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility.ANSWER: Emma Thompson ................
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