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BLASTOISE: “Do not play this set with THUNDER”

Edited by Jj Li, Patrick Liao, Alex Rochon, Joe Su, and Di Xiao.

Packet by Ottawa B (Erin Bolton)

Tossups

1. The protagonist in this film ignores the advice of Colonel Brighton to make a quiet investigation and leave. One character in this film who drops out of a caravan out of fatigue is later discovered by the protagonist to be at the centre of a blood feud. The protagonist (*) executes that man, Gasim, to preserve the alliance with the Howeitat Tribe. In the second half of this movie, the protagonist supports Allenby by massacring a retrating Turkish column. For 10 points, name this 1962 Best Picture Winner which features Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish, Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal, and Peter O’Toole as the title British lieutenant.

ANSWER: Lawrence of Arabia

2. This was practiced by the Muslim Hui as well as the Dungan people until the 20th century, as well as a dancing troupe based around this practice. The first real textual evidence for this practice comes from the court of the Southern (*) Tang dynasty in Nanjing. Although less common among the poorer classes, this practice was widespread by the time that it was banned for all Manchus by the new Manchu Emperor. The attraction to the practice by the upper classes may have had to do with men wanting to show that they didn’t need their wives to be able to do anything useful, particularly outside of the home. For 10 points, name this practice that was outlawed in China in the 1900s, in which women had a particular part of their body misshapen into the shape of a lotus.

ANSWER: Foot-binding

3. In one of this thinker’s works, he studies literature using the works of Raymond Roussel while another of his works begins with a passage on Las Meninas. Those two works were Death and the Labyrinth and The Order of Things. He discussed such concepts as the (*) panopticon, redefined what “knowledge is power” means, and was associated with structuralism. However, this structuralist thinker is best known for works on history of the psychiatric institution and one which stated that to be a homosexual was a 19th century invention. Those works were The Birth of the Clinic and The History of Sexuality. The most cited humanities scholar is, for 10 points, what Frenchman who died of AIDS?

ANSWER: Michel Foucault

4. This thinker believed the many is the one and the one is the many. He argued that time and change are an illusion, since existence is timeless and change is impossible. The bulk of his thought can be found in a poem which is divided into two parts, and prefaced by a (*) youth’s journey from darkness to light. The “way of truth” and the “way of opinion” are the two parts of that fragmented poem is called On Nature. He was the mentor of another philosopher who used paradoxes such as that of Achilles and the Hair, Zeno. For 10 points, name this Pre-Socratic philosopher, the founder of the Eleatic school of thought.

ANSWER: Parmenides of Elea

5. This figure is the narrator for books 3-6 of the Dream of Eagles cycle, as well as a standalone 7th book. A database run by the London police force bears this name, and a death metal band from Russia with this name was formed by a female vocalist and bassist. In the DC universe, someone bearing this name is a half-demon (*) sorceror created by Rafael Astarita. On this figure’s namesake tv show, one of this character’s first lines was “Look. I’ve told you you were an ass. I just didn’t realize you were a royal one.” In the Harry Potter series, wizards and witches who have achieved great deeds are awarded the “Order of [this man].” For 10 points, name this magical figure from British lore, the advisor of King Arthur.

ANSWER: Merlin

6. This TV show includes episodes in which the characters visit an island so new it hasn’t been discovered yet, having to escape a locked bathroom by building structures, and having to help one of their own learn to do a slam dunk. One of the ensemble character group is always shown in green, with a red (*) “R” on his shirt, while another, the class bookworm, is always trying to look for a fact in one of her books. For 10 points, name this animated children’s show, which features the adventures of a third grade class taught by a certain red-haired teacher, Ms. Frizzle, who drives an anthropomorphic vehicle.

ANSWER: The Magic School Bus

7. This country’s national football team has won the FIFA world cup in 1978 and 1986, and are one of only three teams to have won the World Cup outside of their continental zone. One of only two teams to have won all (*) three most important titles recognized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic tournament, this team’s most recent World Cup trip involved a vow by the coach to streak through the streets of the capital city of they won the championship. That coach, a former player for this team known as La Albiceleste had previously scored the “Goal of the Century” and the “Hand of God” goal. For 10 points, what country’s soccer team was eliminated the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup despite having players like Messi and being managed by Diego Maradona?

ANSWER: Argentina

8. The commander of the losing side at this battle accused the Earl of Gloucester of cowardice, which prompted that insulted commander of the English vanguard to fatally charge into an enemy schiltron. That occurred on the second day of the battle, when the losing side crossed the (*) river which gave this battle its name. Another English knight, Sir Henry de Bohun, charged the winning king, but had his head split with a blow dealt by that King’s axe. Prompted by an agreement made by Mowbray to surrender Stirling Castle if no aid came by midsummer 1314, For 10 points, name this fourteenth century battle that took place below Stirling castle that gave Robert the Bruce his legendary status in Scottish history.

ANSWER: Battle of Bannockburn

9. This song features three movements as it was originally three songs but the lead singer of the band who performs it decided it would be better as one. There were many concerns initially that it would not be played on the radio due to its length, approximately (*) six minutes. These concerns were quickly quieted as it soon became one of the most played songs and is still played on the radio today. This song was further popularized by a car scene in the movie “Wayne’s World” and has a Czech province in its name. For 10 points, name this song, one of the few rock songs you will ever hear with the word Scaramouch repeated and which was written by Freddie Mercury for Queen.

ANSWER: Bohemian Rhapsody

10. A film based on this game was released in 2000, with a sequel appearing in 2005 that had only one cast member returning to reprise his role from the first film. This is likely a good thing since the original film featured such stars as Marlon Wayans and Justin Whalin. This game is played by James Franco's character for the first time in the final episode of Freaks & Geeks, despite being featured throughout the series. One of the co-creators of this game also created the game (*) Blackmoor. That co-creator was Dave Arneson who died in April of 2009. In one episode of The Simspons, Homer says he played this game for three hours, after which he was slain by an elf. For 10 points, name this game created by Gary Gygax which primarily requires a 20-sided die and is currently in its fourth edition.

ANSWER: Dungeons & Dragons

11. A comic scene from this film has a bounty hunter talk about getting revenge on one of the title characters, only to be interrupted with a fatal gunshot, prompting the title character to say “when you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk”. A drunken Union captain’s wish to have a bridge blown up inspires two of the protagonists to find a way across a river to (*) Sad Hill cemetery. En route to the graveyard, the main character gives his coat to an injured soldier, leading viewers to believe that this film is a prequel because the character then gets his trademark poncho. Angel Eyes forces Tuco to dig up Arch Stanton’s grave, finding no treasure and setting off a three-way standoff between Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, and Clint Eastwood. The third of Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns”, for 10 points, name this Man With No Name epic about three differing gunslingers.

ANSWER: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly or Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

12. In the backstory behind this novel, Colchester was bombed. The protagonist of this story has an alcove where he seems to be able to write. The protagonist falls in love with a woman whom he had thought was of the Junior Anti-(*) Sex League, who he later describes as a “rebel from the waist down.” The novel's climax occurs within the confines of Room 101, where the protagonist faces his greatest fear, ultimately leading to his being brainwashed into toeing the Party line of Ingsoc. “Doublethink,” “thoughtcrime,” and “Newspeak” are found in, for 10 points, what dystopian novel published in 1949 by George Orwell

ANSWER: Nineteen Eighty-Four

13. While climbing his family castle's walls, one of the protagonists of this fantasy novel witnesses the Queen and her twin brother having sex. The twin brother, Jaime, notices the protagonist and throws him from the tower, paralyzing him from the waist down. His mother later saves him from an assassin, but is stabbed through the hand in the process. His father, (*) Ned Stark of Winterfell, becomes a short-lived aide to King Robert Baratheon, who is eventually killed in a conspiracy, culminating in a civil war throughout Westeros. A TV adaptation of this novel produced by HBO is set to premiere in April, 2011. For 10 points, name this first novel of the A Song of Ice and Fire series written by George R.R. Martin.

ANSWER: A Game of Thrones [prompt on A Song of Ice and Fire until it is read]

14. This poem states that one entity ”was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore” as a metaphor for the loss of faith during the author’s time. The sound of the sea is compared to an “eternal note of sadness” while the world is compared to a “darling plain”. The poem begins “The sea is calm to-night.(*)/ The tide is full, the moon lies fair/ Upon the straights” which details the naturalistic nightscape at the titular location. One famous line in this poem states “Sophocles long ago/ Heard it on the Aegean.” And concludes with the line “Where ignorant armies clash by night.” For 10 points, name this Matthew Arnold poem set in a beach in England.

ANSWER: Dover Beach

15. To analyze this even, Giemsa or Quinacrine staining are used in methods like FISH and as a hybridization matric for comparative genomic hybridization experiments. The spindle checkpoint of this period is created through regulation of securin, separase, and a promoting complex. A cell cycle checkpoint occurs during this event, and classical (*) karyotypes use chromosomes from this event. Including things such as kinetochores and miotic spindle fibres, the early events of this stage can coincide with the later events of the preceding stage. One of the aspects of this event involves centromeres conveying on the equatorial plate, equidistant from the centrosome poles. For 10 points, name this stage of mitosis, followed immediately by anaphase.

ANSWER: Metaphase

16. After his college team's loss due to this event, then Stanford president Donald Kennedy remarked that “this isn't the National Football League [...] this is a game conducted largely by 19- and 20-year-olds, and every once and a while something (*) marvelously unexpected happens.” Quarterback John Elway called this event “an insult to college football.” This event, occurring with only four seconds left on the clock, was central to the defeat of the Stanford University Cardinal by the University of California Golden Bears in the 1982 Big Game. For 10 points, name this event that included five lateral passes and involved one player running into a trombonist in the end zone, arguably the most famous play in college football history.

ANSWER: “The Play” (accept clear knowledge equivalents [this was a last-second kickoff return through a marching band resulting in a game-winning touchdown])

17. One mission in this game involves the use of the super-hacker hero unit Black Lotus to sabotage a railway bridge controlled by a power which also took control of Baikonur to launch chemical weapons at American cities. That group, utilizing a hero unit called (*) Jarmen Kell and Rebel infantry, also used Scorpion Tanks and was called the Global Liberation Army. This game’s expansion, Zero Hour, features an invasion of the American West Coast, and keeps the massive Chinese Overlord Tank. For 10 points, name this Command and Conquer game where you can user superweapons such as the Particle Uplink Cannon, Chinese nuclear missiles and Scud Storms while you rank up to the title role.

ANSWER: Command and Conquer: Generals [prompt on early buzz of “Command and Conquer”]

18. It is named after the Russian economist who derived it, after whom a theorem extending properties of convergent real-numbered sequences to sequences of random variables is also named. It relates the changes in Hicksian, or compensated demand to those in Marshallian, or uncompensated demand as a result of changes in price. Commonly written in terms of price elasticities of demand and income, FTP what is the mathematical statement of the principal that the total effect of a price change is equal to the substitution effect plus the income effect?

ANSWER: Slutsky equation

19. This author wrote one short story with only four characters: The Officer, The Condemned, The soldier, and the Explorer, “In the Penal Colony.” Considered as a precursor to the (*) Bizarro genre, he ordered is works to be destroyed upon his death, but that order was not carried out. He wrote one novella in which the protagonist is accused of a crime without reason and another one in which the title action occurs overnight without .For 10 points, name this Czech author of “The Trial” and “The Metamorphosis”.

ANSWER: Franz Kafka

20. In a rotating reference frame, this quantity is given by “omega cross r cross, in brackets, m times omega”. This is always exerted upon all bodies in a non-inertial frame of reference, and the Coriolis effect is always present under the same conditions. At the equator, an object experiences this equal to approximated (*) 1/289th of standard gravity. In Lagrangian mechanics, this term is sometimes used to describe the generalized force. There are two different facets of this concept, the fictitious force, and the reactive force. It can be applied in namesake rotating devices, as well as in planetary orbits. For 10 points, name this representation of the effects of inertia, often confused with centripetal force.

ANSWER: Centrifugal Force

TB1. One of these creatures is killed while Franz Krieger is holding Ethan Hunt above the floor of CIA Headquarters in a 1996 film. Smashmouth’s song “Pet Names” relates a post-break-up scream (*) referencing them, while Zoidberg claims that they are eating his leg while at the Decapodian Embassy. Robert C. O'Brien wrote of Mrs. Frisby and these technologically advanced animals, who are led by Nicodemus and are subtitled “of NIMH.” Crawling in front of the Massachusetts State Capitol in the last shot of the departed, another is either a man framed by Oruku Saki, Hamato Yoshi, or Hamato Yoshi’s pet. For 10 points name these four-legged creatures represented by Emile and Remy, the protagonist of the film Ratatouille.

ANSWER: Rats [or Mouse before “Pet Names,” because Mission Impossible’s Rat looks kind of like a mouse]

Bonuses

1. The Grammys are known as music’s biggest night. Answer some questions about songs that won awards at the 2011 Grammy Awards For 10 points each.

[10] A Californian rock band won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals with this song characterized by its distinctive ukelele sounds.

ANSWER: Hey, Soul Sister

[10] The award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance went to this song that addresses the situation of being in love with one’s best friend.

ANSWER: Bad Romance

[10] This “orchestral rap ballad” won for best Rap/Sung Collaboration, and was the third single from Jay-Z’s album The Blueprint 3.

ANSWER: Empire State of Mind

2. Let's answer questions about some famous mathematicians for 10 points each:

[10] Philosophically, this man was a rationalist, but he was more famous for developing infinitesimal calculus independently of Sir Isaac Newton.

ANSWER Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

[10]This mathematician effectively founded the mathematical branch of graph theory with his solution to the Königsberg bridge problem.

ANSWER Leonhard Euler

[10] This German mathematician and inventor of set theory proved that the real numbers are more numerous than the natural numbers with his diagonal argument.

ANSWER Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor

3. Answer the following on Soviet history, for 10 points each:

[10] This former chairman of the Council of Ministers was born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili

ANSWER: Joseph Stalin

[10] This member of the Politburo and Central Committee initially supported Stalin after Lenin’s death, but later became one of Stalin’s most prominent victims during the Moscow Trials. He was also editor in chief of Pravda from 1918 to 1929.

ANSWER: Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin

[10] This 1939 Pact secretly divided Europe into Soviet and German spheres of influence:

ANSWER: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

[DE] 4. Name these characters from a certain Pixar movie, for ten points each.

[10] This is the title character, whose capture by a scuba diver is the impetus for the majority of the film’s events. He was voiced by Alexander Gould.

ANSWER: Nemo

[10] This is Nemo’s father, who teams up with a friendly blue tang fish named Dory in order to find Nemo. He was voiced by Albert Brooks.

ANSWER: Marlin

[10] This is the pelican that transports Marlin and Dory in his mouth to the dentist’s office where Nemo is being held. He was voiced by Geoffrey Rush.

ANSWER: Nigel

5. Name these interesting emperors of Rome, For 10 points each:

[10] He has been painted by sensationalists as a mad tyrant after a serious illness cut short a promising beginning to his reign. Stories of homosexuality and incest surround him, and he was assassinated during the Palantine Games on January 24, AD 41.

ANSWER: Caligula

[10] This Roman Emperor married a Vestal Virgin, and procliamed that Sol Deus Invictus, or the unconquerable sun god was above all the traditional Roman gods.

ANSWER: Heliogabalus

[10] Considered a virtuous pagan by medieval theologians, this emperor’s campaigns extended the Roman Empire to its greatest extent under his reign.

ANSWER: Trajan

6. Ready for a movie bonus? No? Well no one cares. For 10 points each, name these cult classics.

[10] This film features three German nihilists, one of whom loses an ear to John Goodman, a fake kidnapping, and features “The Dude”.

ANSWER: The Big Lebowski

[10] This next cult film features door-to-door herbal breast enhancement sales, Tater Tots, and one awesome dance scene that helps win the high school election.

ANSWER: Napoleon Dynamite

[10] This final cult film features the Gramercy Riffs and the Rogues, and features a famous gang that must “bop [their] way back to Coney Island.”

ANSWER: The Warriors

7. Answer these questions about a certain opera, for 10 points each:

[10]Bull fighting and knife-wielding are big parts of this opera, which sees the title heroine stabbed to death by her scorned lover

ANSWER: Carmen

[10] That lover felt scorned because Camrmen had taken up with this character who sings the Toreador Song.

ANSWER: Escamillo

[10] This other Bizet opera has Zurga and Nadir as two of the characters and takes place in Ceylon

ANSWER: Pearl Fishers or Les pêcheurs de perles

8. Answer some questions about Ballet, For 10 points each:

[10] Literally meaning “to whirl,” this term is used to describe a controlled turn on one leg, and can be executed in either single or multiple rotations.

ANSWER: Pirouette

[10] This term indicates a position of the body where the dancer stands on one leg with the other leg is extended behind the body, with both knees straight.

ANSWER: Arabesque

[10] Fourth positon, when talking about positions of the feet, can be placed opposite either of these two other positions.

ANSWER: First OR fifth

9. Answer some questions about a comic strip by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, Zits, for 10 points each:

[10] The main character of Zits is this plaid-wearing, guitar-playing, ninth-grader.

ANSWER: Jeremy

[10] One of his best friends is this much-pierced, Mohawk-sporting drummer in Jeremy’s band.

ANSWER: Pierce

[10] When he’s at home, Jeremy’s dad is often shown doing the laundry, which he once tried to teach Jeremy how to do, before he escaped through the laundry chute. But what is his actual day-job?

ANSWER: Orthodontist

10. Answer some questions about these semi-related television shows For 10 points each.

[10] This popular sci-fi/horror/thriller television show ran for a total of 9 seasons. The plot follows two FBI agents as they deal with unsolved cases no other department is willing to take on. Famous lines from this show include “The Truth is Out There” and “Trust No One”.

ANSWER: The X-Files

[10] This British sci-fi series is the longest running fiction show on television. It has had 11 male leads all playing the same lead character, with no proper name.

ANSWER: Doctor Who

[10]This spin off of Doctor Who follows the adventures the alien-killingCardiff branch of the title institute.

ANSWER: Torchwood

11. Answer these questions on fan favourites on TV series, for 10 points each:

[10] This spy-comedy show about an “average computer-whiz-next-door” saw the title character finally get together with the female member of his spy-team, and the two are now engaged.

ANSWER: Chuck

[10] Although both Blair and Chuck have been rocky since they started, they are, according to this drama show’s creators, “endgame.”

ANSWER: Gossip Girl

[10] A relationship developed between the title character and his boss, the dean of medicine on this medical drama.

ANSWER: House

12. Name these dogs, for 10 points each,

[10] This breed of dog was developed by Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm in Scotland during the 19th century and is the mascot for Cesar Dog Food.

ANSWER: West Highland White Terrier (accept Westie)

[10] On the medical drama House, this is the name of Dr. Wilson’s ex-wife's Westie that Dr. House bonds with while babysitting him in the episode Family.

ANSWER: Hector

[10] Name this Laotian Westie who has the uncanny ability to do back flips, competitive dances, and once ran away with Ladybird in the Fox animated series, King of the Hill.

ANSWER: Doggie Kahn Souphanousinphone

13. Name these characters in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, for 10 points each:

[10] This is the main character, who gathers up friends such as Beldevere, Galahad, Sir Robin, and Lancelot

ANSWER: King Arthur

[10] Who says “I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”

ANSWER: Frenchman [accept clear knowledge equivalents such as castle guard and French soldier]

[10] This is the name given to the peasant of a suprisingly egalitarian community who cries out “I’m being oppressed” when shaken by King Arthur.

ANSWER: Dennis

14. One great scene in this movie sees the protagonist sitting on a swing and trying on a woman’s white glove before he gives it back to her. for 10 points each:

[10] Name this film in which a pigeon-loving dockworker works up the courage to testify against his corrupt union bosses .

ANSWER: On the Waterfront

[10] On the Waterfront stars this great method actor as the boxer-turned-dockworker Malloy, who claims he “could have been a contender” if the union hadn’t asked him to take a dive.

ANSWER: Marlon Brando

[10] Director Elia Kazan made On the Waterfront to rebut Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and to justify the fact that he named all his communist friends before this committee.

ANSWER: House Un-American Activities Committee [or HUAC]

15. One of them was hidden in Albania before the owner put it inside the Room of Requirement. Another is destroyed by a basilisk fang in the Chamber of Secrets. For 10 points each:

[10] These are what type of magical objects in the world of Harry Potter that lets a human spilt his soul upon killing another human?

ANSWER: Horcrux

[10] This man created seven horcruxes before his revival in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He is killed by Harry Potter as all seven of his horcruxes are destroyed.

ANSWER: Lord Voldemort, or Tom Marvolo Riddle ]prompt on “The Dark Lord”, or “You-Know-Who” or “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”]

[10] This horcrux of Voldemort’s is first explained to the trio by Terry Boot, and is finally accidentally destroyed by Fiendfyre.

ANSWER: Diadem of Ravencaw [prompt on “The Lost Diadem”]

16. Answer the following on South American literature, for 10 points each:

[10] Name this book that centers on the fictitious Columbian town of Macondo and its founding family the Buendía’s.

ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude [accept A Hundred Years of Solitude]

[10] This author of One Hundred Years of Solitude is affectionately known as Gabo and is most noted for popularizing the literature style of magical realisim,

ANSWER: Gabriel García Márquez (do not accept Marquez)

[10] This character is the first child of Arcadio and Santa Sofía and it is said that she is the most beautiful woman ever seen. She is last seen being carried away by butterflies while folding laundry.

ANSWER: Remedios the Beauty

17. He named a South African town after Leo Tolstoy, and he opposed the Rowlatt Bills. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this activist lawyer who employed non-violent protest, or satyagraha, reformed the Indian National Congress and appealed for a united India and Pakistan.

ANSWER: Mohandas Gandhi [or Mahatma Gandhi]

[10] Gandhi marched 240 miles to Dandi and Dharasana to begin a satyagraha over taxes to this commodity, which is useful in India for preventing iodine deficiency.

ANSWER: salt

[10] Assassinated in 1979 by the IRA, this Earl arranged the partition and independence of India and Pakistan in his position as the last Viceroy of India.

ANSWER: Louis Mountbatten

18. Answer these questions about the scientific method for 10 points each.

[10] In statistics, a two-sample Student’s t test will result in the rejection of the null one of these if the two sample means are found to be significantly different. It is also one of the basic steps of the scientific method.

ANSWER: hypothesis

[10] This polymath is often referred to as the father of the scientific method. He also coined the phrase “Knowledge is power.”

ANSWER: Sir Francis Bacon

[10] This epistemological perspective holds that the scientific method is the best way of understanding how natural and social phenomena occur. It was developed by the Auguste Comte, also the founder of sociology.

ANSWER: positivism

19. Name the books of the Bible that each of these passages are from, For 10 points each:

[10] “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

ANSWER: Gospel of John

[10] “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord.”

ANSWER: Leviticus

[10] “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

ANSWER: Psalms

20. This game was the first of its series to be made by Treyarch which was not set in WWII. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this game which features weapons such as the ballistic knife and tomahawk and killstreak rewards such as napalm and SAM turrets, the latest instalment in a popular first person shooter series.

ANSWER: Call of Duty: Black Ops [prompt on “Call of Duty” or “COD” or “COD 7”]

[10] As of 2010, how many games have there been in the Call of Duty series?

ANSWER: Seven or 7

[10] Abbreviated CODE, what non-profit program by Activision Blizzard helps find employments for veterans, and contributes to veteran support foundations?

ANSWER: Call of Duty Endowment

Extra. Answer these questions about rhythm games, for 10 points each:

[10] This Konami-published game was one of the first globally successful rhythm games. In it, players jump around on a pad in patterns dictated by on-screen arrows.

ANSWER: Dance Dance Revolution (accept DDR or Dancing Stage)

[10] This rhythm game has a slightly different play style compared to normal games of the genre. It is a room-based MMO by Nexon.

ANSWER: Audition

[10] After the success of Rock Band, Konami hoped to cash in on the genre by releasing this game in the same month as Guitar Hero: World Tour. While that game sold 534,000 copies in its launch month, this critically-panned game only managed to move 3,000 units.

ANSWER: Rock Revolution

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