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Round 4Ottawa Hybrid Tournament 2015Packet by Colonel By A (Ted Gan, Cameron Amini, Yana Brion, Janusz Gacek, Anubhav Srivastava)1. This quantity may be graphically represented through the use of a Mohr circle, which maps a second-order tensor of this quantity named for Cauchy. The distribution of this quantity in transparent plastics and glass may be seen using polarized light in photoelasticity. The maximum value of this quantity for which Hooke’s law remains valid is known as the proportional limit. Strain is related to this quantity’s tensile form by Young’s modulus, and its shear form is applied perpendicularly to an object. For 10 points, name this quantity defined as the force that particles within a material exert on each other.ANSWER: stress [accept more specific forms of stress]2. One expansion of this game introduces the fairy character, who provides protection from dragons, while another expansion uses towers to transfer control from one player to another. When Wil Wheaton played this game on the YouTube channel TableTop, his team “Awesome Robots” gave him a rare win thanks to a token lying on its back that earned 15 points in endgame scoring. A (*) builder unit allows the owner to play a second tile in this board game, and many versions of this game begin with a river that starts other features players can claim with “meeples”. Known for introducing the small wooden men associated with modern board games, for 10 points, what game has players build roads, farms, and cities in medieval France?Answer: Carcassonne [prompt on “The Princess and the Dragon”]3. A woman in this work loses a pregnancy in a “violent menstrual flow” as a fireball flies out the window. After a man's heart stops during sex in this work, the woman he was with eats candles so she can join him in a special spirit tunnel. Gertrudis becomes a general in the Revolution in this novel, and guests are first overcome with sadness then with vomiting at a wedding reception(*), after which Nacha dies of a broken heart. This book's title refers to the controlled boil used to make a certain drink, which is like the controlled boil of the heroine's passions for her sister's husband. Written in twelve monthly chapters that each begins with a recipe, this books hinges on Mama Elena insisting that Pedro marry her eldest daughter Rosaura. For 10 points, name this book in which Tita's emotions are magically infused into her cooking, written by Laura Esquivel.ANSWER: Like Water for Chocolate [or Como agua para chocolate]4. This writer describes a seducer who surrenders to a "demonic" kind of repentance when a woman gives him an innocent look. In another book, this writer explores the dread that comes from standing at an abyss and knowing you could choose to leap in and kill yourself. A merman chooses hiddenness instead of seducing Agnes in a book by this writer, (*) who also described the "dizziness of freedom" and theorized that human existence was first aesthetic, then ethical, then religious. This writer of Stages on Life's Way and The Concept of Anxiety broke off an engagement to Regine Olsen and took the name Johannes de Silentio to write about an "Absolute duty to God," as illustrated by Abraham trying to sacrifice Isaac. For 10 points, name this Christian existentialist author of Fear and Trembling.ANSWER: Soren Kierkegaard5. In one short story by this author, Xlthlx and Captain Vhd Vhd jump back and forth from the Zinc Cliffs to the Moon, causing the Moon to move further from the Earth. That work is narrated by Qfwfq (QUIFF-”kick”), who also appears in the short story collection t zero by this author. In another work by this author, Biagio explains how a meal of snails causes Cosimo to run away from society and live in the trees. This author of “The Distance of the Moon” and The Baron in the Trees wrote a novel partially written in second-person, in which Ludmilla ends up marrying you, the protagonist, who attempts to start reading multiple novels but is interrupted each time. For 10 points, name this Italian author of Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.ANSWER: Italo Calvino6. This city was collectively awarded the Virtuti Militari, and a shopping mall with a bubble-wave roof is across from a Palace of Culture and Science in this city. This city’s oldest public park is the Saxon Garden, and its downtown includes the Zlote Tarasy complex. Ujazdow Castle is in this city’s Srodmiescie district, across the street from Lazienki park, and a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is in this city’s Pilsudski Square. This city’s Wlochy district is home to its Chopin Airport, and its Wilanow Palace was built for its country’s king Jan III Sobieski. For 10 points, name this capital city of Poland.ANSWER: Warsaw [or Warszawa]7. The opening credits of this film feature one of the protagonists crashing a soapbox derby car and being dragged off by a dog to the horror of his best friend. Later in those credits, that protagonist disguises himself as a member of an animatronic band at a restaurant to scare a child. Towards the end of this film, one character appears to be killed while climbing a lighting scaffold at Fenway Park but is brought back to life by a wish on a shooting star. A character fights a pet goose named James Franco at a cocaine party in this movie, and a character who likes prostitutes asks his friend to guess the white-trash name of his new girlfriend Tami Lynn. For 10 points, name this 2012 movie starring Mark Wahlberg as John and Seth Macfarlane as the voice of a stuffed bear.ANSWER: Ted8. In 2013, pictures of this man looking very sick in bed were released as his daughter tried to get him pardoned in Congress. The newspaper El Comercio reported voter fraud by this man's Party in an election in which he won against Alberto Toledo. This leader reversed the economic policies of his country after the first term of his predecessor, resulting in his namesake (*) “shock”. The popularity of this leader plummeted when Vladimiro Montesinos was shown on TV giving bribes to Alberto Kouri. The Barrios Altos massacre was carried out by this leader’s death squad Grupo Colina. During the Internal Conflict, the forces of this leader arrested the head of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzman. For 10 points, name this Peruvian president of Japanese descent.ANSWER: Alberto Fujimori [prompt on “El Chino” before it is read]9. In the 1972 instance of this game, one team returned two blocked punts for touchdowns to upset the #2 team 17-16. One year earlier, Heisman winner Pat Sullivan’s team lost this game, ruining their perfect season, and the winners then fell to Nebraska in the national championship game. Phillip Lutzenkirchen caught a 7 yard touchdown pass in the (*) 2010 edition of this rivalry, helping his team overcome a 24-0 deficit to win 28-27 -- following that game, the trees at Toomer’s Corner were poisoned. In 2013, following a video review, one second was placed back on the clock following a T.J. Yeldon run as time expired in this game. After that review, Adam Griffith missed a field goal short and Chris Davis returned it for the winning touchdown as time expired in the Kick-Six. For 10 points, name this college football game played between Auburn and Alabama.ANSWER: Iron Bowl [or Auburn-Alabama game until mentioned]10. In a song from their first album, their singer repeats that “nobody else can take me higher” and tells the listener to “take some time to simmer down.” In another song, their singer apologizes to his mother and brother for letting them down while also saying that they will all “take the Western train, just by the side of (*) Amsterdam.” A video where Dane DeHaan gets rescued from a dam by a boy in overalls accompanies a repetitive song by this band that says, “I gave you hell through all the years.” This Las Vegas band of “Tiptoe” and “Bleeding Out” had hits with “I Bet My Life” and a song that repeats, “Welcome to the new age.” For 10 points, name this rock band of the albums Night Visions and Smoke + Mirrors and the song “Radioactive.”ANSWER: Imagine Dragons11. Arthrobotrys makes “nooses” out of these structures with which it captures and consumes nematodes. In some lichens, they surround symbiotic algae to form clusters known as soredia used for asexual reproduction, and they contain groups of secretory vesicles in growing regions called (*) Spitzenk?rper. These structures may classified as either coenocytic or septate depending on whether or not they are divided by septa. Specialized types of these known as haustoria penetrate the cell wall but not the plasma membrane of plant hosts in parasitic fungi, and they are not found in yeasts and other unicellular fungi. For 10 points, name these constituent components of a mycelium, the primary growth structures of fungi.ANSWER: hyphae [or hypha; prompt on mycelia or mycelium before read]12. In one song about this character, the singers say “we're a cheese sandwich and he's the cheddar”. This character was the basis for a wooden “inaction figure” that enjoyed commercial success for doing “absolutely nothing.” This character becomes upset when his best friend replaces him with a panda from Seattle. One of the few civilians to know this character's secret identity is Stacey Hirano. Along with lesser-known O.W.C.A secret agents, his missions are briefed by Carl the Intern and Major Monogram. He often enters with the “dooby dooby doo, ba!” chorus of his theme song. In a running gag, kids in the backyard of the Flynn-Fletcher estate ask “Where's [this character]”? For 10 points, name this fedora-wearing “semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action”, the nemesis of Dr. Doofenshmirtz and house pet of Phineas and Ferb.ANSWER: Perry the Platypus [or Agent P]13. In one painting from this country, a campfire is obscured by a man who looks at a wagon with his back to the viewer. A woman holding a ball and a wreath aloft was sculpted for a World Expo in this country; that sculpture is now called the “golden lady” statue. Shotgun Hospitality and the Statue of the Republic are from this country, (*) as is a sculpture of a rider about to whip a rearing horse. A sculptor from this country made a multi-racial cluster of three soldiers and a gabbro memorial wall with thousands of names on it, and another sculptor depicted a seated president in a memorial designed by Henry Bacon. For 10 points, name this home country of Maya Lin, Daniel Chester French, and Frederic Remington.ANSWER: United States of America [or USA]14. This character lies about being from Maidenpool and having a stonemason for a father. This character says that "Anyone can be killed" and claims to own only one coin when negotiating with Ternesio Terys for passage aboard the Titan’s Daughter. This character gets caught addressing a man as "my lord" instead of "m'lord," and she is captured by the Brotherhood Without Banners after escaping a job as a cupbearer at Harrenhal and roaming through the woods with Hotpie and Gendry. This owner of Nymeria receives "dancing instruction" in season one and recites a list every night of the people she plans to kill. Maisie Williams plays, for 10 points, what girl who keeps the sword Needle, the youngest Stark daughter on Game of Thrones?ANSWER: Arya Stark15. In his first book, a woman working at Fort Mead, Maryland, uses her dying superior’s surprise proclamation of love to her to deduce that an elevator password is her name. Later in that novel, she jokes that she won’t marry her fiancé, linguistics professor David Becker, unless he reveals what he means by “my love for you is without wax”. In a later book by this man, an albino monk dies in a London park after accidentally shooting Bishop Aringarosa. In 2009, the sequel to that book featured Mal’akh, actually Zachary Solomon, leaving Robert Langdon in a sensory deprivation tank before being impaled by shards of falling glass inside a Masonic Temple. For 10 points, name this American author of Digital Fortress, The Lost Symbol, and The Da Vinci Code.ANSWER: Daniel “Dan” Brown16. Williams failed to sign this driver in 2004 as a result of BMW declining to supply funding. This driver won his home Grand Prix in a rain-filled 2008 race immediately following the most recent French Grand Prix. Prior to the 2011 Australian Grand Prix, this man referred to Red Bull Racing as “just a drinks company”; this man’s pole in Korea was the lone one not taken by Red Bull that year. This driver won his maiden Drivers’ Championship in 2008 by passing Timo Glock on the final corner of the season at Interlagos to deny Felipe Massa the title. This man won the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to clinch his second world title over teammate Nico Rosberg. For 10 points, name the reigning Formula One Drivers Champion, a British Mercedes driver who used to date Nicole Scherzinger.ANSWER: Lewis (Carl Davidson) Hamilton17. One group in this former country issued the communique Turn Illness into a Weapon. A group suicide known as “Death Night” occurred in a prison here. The June 2 movement from this country was named to commemorate the death of Benno Ohnesorg. Hijackers from Palestine and this defunct country took over an Air France flight, (*) leading to the Entebbe raid. In fall 1977, a leader of industrial associations in this country was kidnapped and killed by the Red Army Faction. One leader of this country resigned after the Guillaume Affair and overturned the Hallstein Doctrine by softening relations with a communist neighbour. Shortly after its foundation, this country experienced an “economic miracle” as a result of the policies of Ludwig Erhard and Konrad Adenauer. For 10 points, name this country whose capital was Bonn until reunification in 1990.ANSWER: West Germany [don’t prompt on “Germany” or “East Germany”]18. A musician from this country was exposed as a former member of the Neo-Nazi band Commit Suiside. Some singers from this country are Veronica Maggio, El Perro Del Mar, and Jose Gonzalez. A song from this country says to “stay on the ground girl, you better not get too high," and another song from here includes the line (*) “life is demanding without understanding.” The album First Band on the Moon was made in this country, with a song instructing, “Go on and fool me.” The most successful Eurovision winners were from this country -- they went on to record Arrival and Super Trouper after winning with the song "Waterloo." For 10 points, name this home country of Ace of Base and ABBA.ANSWER: (Kingdom of) Sweden [Sverige]19. A royal NPC in this game has a bird-related name, and players who choose one of the five classes named after that NPC play through a tutorial in Ereve where all the monsters drop feathers. One famous squishy green monster in this game drops an item of the same name, 25 of which can be exchanged for a random hairdo in the marriage-themed city of Amoria. The five classes who like feathers are called the Cygnus Knights and are not to be confused with their Explorer counterparts, which were the original four and then, with the addition of Pirates, five classes. Other classes in this game include the Resistance classes and Heroes. One major update and redesign of Victoria Island was called the Big Bang and occurred with the arrival of the Black Mage. For 10 points, this is what cartoony, 2D side-scrolling MMORPG developed by Nexon?ANSWER: MapleStory [or Meipeul Seutori]20. This function appears in the denominator of the formula for the volume of an n-dimensional ball, and one form of it contains e raised to the negative Euler-Mascheroni constant multiplied by the argument. That form is the Weierstrass representation. The beta function can be represented using solely this function, and the Riemann Zeta function can be expressed as the reciprocal of this function multiplied by the integral of an infinite geometrical series. Arguments to this function at odd integer multiples of one-half result in multiples of the square root of pi, and the value of this function at one-half can be used to derive Stirling’s approximation. For 10 points, name this function, a real and complex-valued analog of the factorial function.ANSWER: gamma function [prompt on factorial]21. The influence of personal factors, the environment and behaviour is referred to as the “triadic” version of his Reciprocal Determinism. Loye, Gorney and Steele repeated one of his experiments with older participants. Attention, retention, reproduction and motivation are the stages of his namesake modeling process. This man defined “self-efficacy” as a belief that you can succeed in specific situations, and he developed a “social learning” idea into Social Cognitive Theory. In his most famous experiment, this man had children watch a video of an adult yell “hit him down” and “sock him” while they played with a toy. For 10 points, name this psychologist responsible for the Bobo Doll experiment. ANSWER: Albert BanduraBONUSES1. One ruler of this empire promoted the religion Din-e Ilahi and built a hall for religious discussions known as the Ibadat Khana. For 10 points each:[10] Name this empire whose rulers include Aurangzeb and Akbar the Great. ANSWER: Mughal Empire[10] Akbar the Great defeated Hemu at a 1556 battle with this name. Sadashivrao Bhau was killed at the third battle of this name by the forces of Ahmad Shah Durrani. ANSWER: Battle of Panipat[10] The Mughal empire was humiliated when this ruler sacked Delhi in 1739 and stole the Peacock Throne after the battle of Karnal. This ruler founded the Afsharid dynasty after overthrowing the Safavids. ANSWER: Nader Shah [or Nadir Shah]2. In one movie, he played a genetically-engineered human put into cryogenic sleep in a drifting spaceship for centuries. For 10 points each:[10] Name this British actor who played Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness and a “nice slaveholder” in 12 Years a Slave.ANSWER: Benedict Cumberbatch[10] Cumberbatch played Julian Assange in this 2013 flop by Bill Condon, based on the history of WikiLeaks.ANSWER: The Fifth Estate[10] Cumberbatch is set to play this magic-wielding character in a 2016 Marvel movie. He was initially a neurosurgeon but became the Sorceror Supreme after losing his hands.ANSWER: Doctor (Stephen Vincent) Strange [or Stephen Sanders or Vincent Stevens]3. This ruler’s law code was written and published in Latin even though his entire empire spoke Greek. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 6th-century emperor who made short-lived conquests of the Ostrogoths in Italy and the Visigoths in Spain.ANSWER: Justinian the Great [or Justinian I][10] Justinian’s general Belisarius conquered this Carthage-based kingdom ruled at the time by Gelimer. These white people ruled North Africa and disrupted trade in the Mediterranean.ANSWER: Vandals[10] Justinian paid gold and received territory in an "Eternal Peace" with the Sassanid king Khosrau I following this war where Belisarius captured much of present-day Georgia and Armenia.ANSWER: Iberian War4. Answer some questions about combinatorics, for 10 points each.[10] This function important in combinatorics counts the number of combinations of k out of n items. Its values form the entries in Pascal’s triangle, and its name comes from its use in expressing powers of certain polynomials.ANSWER: binomial coefficient [prompt on “n choose k” or “choose” or “combination”][10] This proof technique is useful in combinatorics. It involves proving a statement is true for a base case, then showing that if it is true for one number it is true for the next number.ANSWER: induction[10] The nth one of these numbers is equal to two n choose n divided by n plus one. They solve numerous counting problems, including the number of binary trees with n plus one leaves. Despite their name, their discoverer was Belgian.ANSWER: Catalan numbers5. Postmen in this work are said to "[make] ghosts with their breath," and a kid in this work asks, "Can the fishes see it's snowing?" For 10 points each:[10] Name this prose poem that features kids throwing snowballs to help put out a fire in Mrs. Prothero's house.ANSWER: A Child's Christmas in Wales [accept A Child's Memories of Christmas; prompt on partial, prompt on "Conversation About Christmas"][10] A Child's Christmas in Wales is by this 20th-century Romantic poet of "Do Not Gentle Into That Good Night" and the radio play Under Milk Wood.ANSWER: Dylan Thomas[10] In this poem, Thomas recalls when he “was young and easy under the apple boughs" and compares his Aunt Annie's farm to the Garden of Eden.ANSWER: “Fern Hill”6. The designer of this series of video games was largely inspired by his explorations around his childhood home in Sonobe, Japan. For 10 points each:[10] Name this series of Nintendo games that depict the adventures of Link as he attempts to rescue the title princess over and over again. ANSWER: The Legend of Zelda [or Zeruda no Densetsu; prompt on “Zelda”][10] In Ocarina of Time, these creatures inhabit their namesake city within Death Mountain. Their namesake Ruby is given to Link after he defeats King Dodongo.ANSWER: Gorons[10] This locale in Ocarina of Time is the first “dungeon” faced in the game. You gain tools such as the Fairy Slingshot and Compass in this location.ANSWER: Insides of the Great Deku Tree (accept equivalents; prompt on inside a tree, and prompt on Great Deku Tree)7. This show ended with Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea singing “Booty,” and Lorde sang “Yellow Flicker Beat” on this show inside a psychedelic colour-cube. For 10 points each:[10] Name this awards show hosted by Pitbull at the Nokia Theatre, which saw Sam Smith win Favourite Pop/Rock Male Artist and the Dick Clark Award for Excellence go to Taylor Swift.ANSWER: 2014 American Music Awards [or 2014 AMAs][10] The award for Favourite Pop/Rock Female Artist went to this American singer, who in 2013 released the album Prism and who with Juicy J won Single of the Year for “Dark Horse”.ANSWER: Katy Perry [or Katy Hudson][10] This artist won Favourite Country Album for Just As I Am, which has the songs “Small Town Throwdown” and “Bottoms Up”.ANSWER: Brantley Gilbert8. The voltage in a galvanic cell equals the difference of this measurement for the anode minus for the cathode. For 10 points each:[10] Name this intensive property that measures something's affinity for electrons relative to hydrogen.ANSWER: reduction potential [accept electric potential, electrode potential, or standard potential; prompt on “voltage” or “E”][10] Multiplying reduction potential times molar concentration times Faraday's constant gives the negative of this value.ANSWER: (change in) Gibbs free energy (or delta G)[10] If the Gibbs free energy was reduced by the cell, then one of these thermodynamically favourable reactions occurred.ANSWER: spontaneous reaction9. “Peeing on old people’s houses is an inflict.” Tell us about a Swedish rapper, for 10 points each.[10] This leader of the Sadboys clique raps that he is “up in the club for some morphine.” He wears a bucket hat and promotes Arizona Iced Tea on songs like “Kyoto” and “Yoshi City.”ASNWER: Yung Lean[10] Like Bobby Shmurda and Lil B, Yung Lean is known for releasing songs to this website. This website offers a “music key” bundled with a Google Play account.ANSWER: Youtube[10] Yung Lean’s song “Kyoto” mentions “pumping” this leader of the Wu-Tang Clan while “eating pizza.” Also called Bobby Digital, this artist founded the Gravediggaz and scored the Kill Bill movies.ANSWER: RZA (“Rizza”) [or Robert Diggs; don’t prompt on “GZA”]10. Name some Pokémon based on the descriptions of Pokemon movies, for 10 points each.[10] The first Pokémon movie is sometimes titled [this Pokémon] Strikes Back! In that movie, this clone fights the Pokémon from whose DNA it was created. Its signature move is Psystrike.ANSWER: Mewtwo[10] In the film named for this “Wish Maker” Pokémon, a former Team Magma member named Butler uses the Millennium Comet to summon what turns out to be a fake Groudon.ANSWER: Jirachi[10] This Ghost-Dragon legendary Pokémon drags Dialga into the Distortion World to fight it, but the fight is broken up with Shaymin in the film named for [this Pokémon] and the Sky Warrior. This Pokemon has an Altered Form and an Origin Form, and is the mascot of Pokémon Platinum.ANSWER: Giratina11. Name some patron deities of particular Mesopotamian cities, for 10 points each:[10] This patron deity of Babylon rose to supremacy after Hammurabi conquered most of the nearby kingdoms. He defeated the sea-dragon Tiamat.ANSWER: Marduk [or Merodach][10] This Akkadian goddess is the patron of Nineveh and Arbela, and she's always depicted with lions. She descended to the underworld to try and dethrone her sister.ANSWER: Ishtar [or Astarte; prompt on “Inanna” by asking for the Akkadian version][10] This patron deity of Ur is represented with a bull's horns that look like a crescent moon. The great Ziggurat of Ur was built in his honour.ANSWER: Nanna or Suen [or Sin]12. This series uses Highclere Castle in Hampshire for a large part of its setting, although the fictional castle created by Julian Fellowes is in Yorkshire. For 10 points each:[10] Name this ITV drama about Lord Grantham’s family and servants, who look after a country house during events like the sinking of the Titanic and the First World War.ANSWER: Downton Abbey[10] Lord Grantham’s mother, the Dowager Countess, is played by this actress, who also appeared in the Harry Potter movies and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.ANSWER: Maggie Smith (Dame Margaret Natalie Smith)[10] This sister of Lord Grantham lives in London and is played by Samantha Bond. Her bad advice causes Lady Mary to reject Cousin Matthew’s proposal in the first season.ANSWER: Rosamund Painswick (or Rosamund Crawley)13. This team defeated the Edmonton Oilers in seven games in the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals, whose first game saw their captain Rod Brind’Amour score the winning goal when the Oilers’ goalie misplayed the puck. For 10 points each:[10] Name this NHL team with players such as Jeff Skinner, Elias Lindholm, and Cam Ward. They play home games at PNC Arena.ANSWER: Carolina Hurricanes [accept either underlined portion][10] This man was the Hurricanes’ starting goalie during the 05-06 season, but was replaced by Ward for the playoffs. At the Turin Olympics, he backstopped Switzerland to a 2-0 upset of Canada.ANSWER: Martin Gerber[10] In 2009, the Hurricanes defeated this team in seven games on an overtime goal by Scott Walker. The next season, this team blew a 3-0 lead in a playoff series against the Flyers. ANSWER: Boston Bruins [accept either underlined portion]14. Name these really old Nickelodeon cartoons, for 10 points each.[10] In this series, Tito works at the Shore Shack in the town of Ocean Shores, while Otto, Reggie, and Twister surf and skateboard pretty much every day.ANSWER: Rocket Power[10] In this series, Eliza is able to communicate with animals, such as Darwin the chimpanzee. This show’s title family travels the wilderness in their “Commvee” making nature documentaries.ANSWER: The Wild Thornberrys[10] In this series, the title wallaby lives in the hyper-consumerist O-Town with his friends Heffer and Filburt. On this show, Chewy Chicken is a parody of KFC, and most of the town is owned by Conglom-O Corporation.ANSWER: Rocko's Modern Life15. To avenge the bloodthirsty Roland Weary, Paul Lazzaro assassinates this man as he speaks to a convention in Chicago. For 10 points each:[10] Name this optometrist who marries Valencia Merble and keeps the Serenity Prayer framed on the wall of his office.ANSWER: Billy Pilgrim [accept either underlined portion][10] Billy Pilgrim is from this novel, where he becomes “unstuck in time” and hides out in a meat locker during the bombing of Dresden.ANSWER: Slaughterhouse Five[10] Kurt Vonnegut repeats this three-word sentence every time someone dies in Slaughterhouse Five.ANSWER: “So it goes.”16. Ray Allen’s last playoff appearance before joining the Celtics was here in 2005. Other players to have played here include Gary Payton and Rashard Lewis. For 10 points each:[10] Name this NBA franchise that played at Key Arena and defeated the Washington Bullets to win their only championship in 1979.ANSWER: Seattle SuperSonics [accept either underlined portion][10] In 2008, the Sonics became this team after relocation. Their starters include Serge Ibaka and Russell Westbrook, and they made the 2012 NBA Finals before dropping a five-game series to the Miami Heat.ANSWER: Oklahoma City Thunder [accept either underlined portion][10] Russell Westbrook wore a mask to complete this kind of streak in February and March 2015. He is the fifth player to ever do it. ANSWER: 4 consecutive Triple Doubles [prompt on partial] 17. This legislative body passed the Triennial Act, requiring itself to meet every three years, and one of its members issued the Grand Remonstrance. For 10 points each:[10] Name this legislature sympathetic to Puritans, which tried William Laud for treason and which refused to fund the Bishops’ Wars.ANSWER: Long Parliament[10] The Long Parliament was called by this very broke King of England, who tried to charge ship-money to inland towns and who was beheaded in 1649.ANSWER: Charles I of England and Scotland[10] The Grand Remonstrance was a series of grievances with Charles I presented by this leader of the Long Parliament, who escaped arrest as one of the Five Members.ANSWER: John Pym18. In this opera, Turiddu bites Alfio's ear to draw blood and thus signal he wishes to duel to the death. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Pietro Mascagni opera in which Lola is jealous of her husband Turridu's affair with Santuzza. It has the aria “Voi Lo Sapete” and a Siliciana praising Lola’s beauty.ANSWER: Cavalleria rusticana [or Rustic Chivalry] [10] This Ruggero Leoncavallo opera is often paired with Cavalleria rusticana in performances. Its title clown proclaims “The comedy is finished!” after stabbing his wife Nedda and her lover Silvio.ANSWER: I Pagliacci[10] Both Leoncavallo and Mascagni were opera composers in this style, which emphasizes depictions of everyday life. Another famous composer of operas in this style is Puccini.ANSWER: verismo19. One of these works opens with the Harmony Restoration Movement, a policy which calls for the decolonization of Yu Dao and other Fire Nation colonies. For 10 points each:[10] Name these works, many of which were created by Gene Yang. The first trilogy of these works, titled The Promise, involves a conflict between Earth King Kuei and Fire Lord Zuko.ANSWER: Avatar: The Last Airbender comics [or Avatar comics; accept graphic novels, comic books, or any reasonable equivalent in place of “comics”][10] In Gene Yang's The Search trilogy, The Mother of Faces allow this woman to begin life anew with Ikem, her lover before she was taken away by Fire Lord Ozai. She is the mother of Azula and Zuko.ANSWER: Ursa[10] In The Rift trilogy, the Earthen Fire Refinery was set up by Loban and Lao, the latter of whom is this character's father. This blind character is mad at her parents Lao and Poppy for being overprotective.ANSWER: Toph Beifong20. This novel's protagonist is reminded of Kizuki's suicide after hearing the title song. For 10 points each:[10] Name this novel about Toru Watanabe's contrasting relationships with Midori and Naoko.ANSWER: Norwegian Wood[10] This Japanese author of Norwegian Wood wrote the short story collection after the quake in response to the 1995 Kobe earthquake. He also wrote 1Q84 and Kafka on the Shore.ANSWER: Haruki Murakami [or Murakami Haruki][10] In Kafka on the Shore, this character has the ability to talk to cats. He receives a sub-city from the Governor for his mental handicap and leaves his home in Nakano Ward after stabbing Johnnie Walker.ANSWER: Satoru Nakata (accept Mr. Nakata) ................
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