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Ottawa Hybrid 2017Packet by “Pusheen and friends” (Nick Penner, Jay Misuk, Kira Vimal, Aayush Rajasekaran)1. Tom Seaver pitched his final major league baseball game as a member of this team. The MLB record for lowest single-season WHIP was set in 2000 by a member of this team, for which Bob Stanley holds the record with 637 games pitched. Earl Wilson became this team’s first black pitcher in 1959; this was the final MLB franchise to integrate. Originally called the Americans, this team won 5 of the first 15 World Series, including the first in 1903. In 2016, Rick Porcello won the AL Cy Young Award with this team, which had signed David Price prior to that season. For ten points, name this team, whose sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees afflicted it with the Curse of the Bambino and which plays at Fenway Park.ANSWER: Boston Red Sox [Accept either underlined part]2. A music video featuring this artist shows her walking a pig around an Indian deli store. In one song, this woman sang “I’m starting to believe, it should be illegal to deceive a woman’s heart”. This artist’s self-titled 2014 album includes featured appearances by MAGIC! on “Cut Me Deep” and (*) Blake Shelton on “Medicine”. This singer asks “Can’t we laugh about it? It’s not worth our time” while featuring in Beyonce’s “Beautiful Liar” .This woman’s biggest hit was on Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, and features Wyclef Jean. In that song, she claims “Oh baby when you talk like that, you make a woman go mad”. For 10 points, identify this Colombian singer behind “Try Everything” and “Hips Don’t Lie”.ANSWER: Shakira3. The House of Saint Pol was an extinct branch of this house, established by a Luxembourgish prince who fought for France during the Italian Wars. Ferdinand the Conky and Ferdinand the Bomb King ruled the Two Sicilies as members of this house, whose more powerful branch descended from “King Antoine” (*) and from Robert, Count of Clermont. The current Duke Henri of Luxembourg is a member of this house, as is a king from this house who abdicated in 2014, allowing his son Felipe VI to ascend. This house lost power in 1792 and again in 1848, and it gained power when the assassination of Henry III deposed the House of Valois. For 10 points, name this family whose dynasty began with Henry IV of Navarre.ANSWER: House of Bourbon4. In Drosophila sperm, the Nebenkern is found in this organelle. This organelle contains a protein that has a water-soluble F1 complex. A disease affecting this organelle causes the appearance of ragged red fibers under a Gomori stain. Mutations in a structure found in this organelle cause Leber’s Neuropathy. Protein transport into this organelle is mediated by the (*) TOM and TIM complexes. Ubiquinone transports electrons between Complexes I and III in this organelle. Cytochrome C is found in the intermembrane space of this organelle, the release of which triggers apoptosis. This organelle includes folds called cristae, and in humans, its DNA is entirely inherited from the mother. For 10 points, identify this “powerhouse of the cell”.ANSWER: Mitochondria5. President Donald Trump cited Virginia, New Hampshire and this state as hotbeds of voter fraud. A former governor of this state tweeted that the average margin of victory for the House of Representatives of this state was 37%. This state’s 2016 Senate election was won by the first (*) Indian-American elected to the Senate. In 2017 Democrats in this state have proposed a plan that would make tuition free for over 400,000 students. The current governor of this state had a 28 year gap between his two terms in office. This state is served by the current House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi. For 10 points, identify this state with capital at Sacramento, led by Governor Jerry Brown.ANSWER: California6. Street artist LushSux made a mural depicting this person along with this person’s signature and an “XOX”. A line of wine, chocolate and salami are currently being sold in a Lower Sava Valley castle with this person’s title. This person made threats to sue a youtuber for posting a video that claimed that their son is (*) autistic. . After a spitting match due to the controversial music video for Lavender, Bow-Wow responded by saying that he would pimp out this woman. Gawker had a theory that this woman’s 1995 nude pictures were leaked in order to take away the attention from comments made about Khizr Khan. For ten points name this woman who at the Republican National Convention made a plagiarised speech and is the current the First Lady. ANSWER: Melania Trump7. The herald Leos helped this man escape an ambush at Gargettus. A fragmentary poem by Callimachus titled for Hecale depicts her meeting this man. This man killed the 50 Pallantides, who were his cousins, and captured the Crommyonian Sow. This man’s grandfather was King Pittheus, and his mother was Aethra. A bull emerged from the sea to kill this man’s son after he invoked a curse from his father, (*) Poseidon. This man abducted a young Helen of Troy to be his future wife, and then unwisely voyaged to Hades to capture Persephone as a wife for his friend, Pirithous. Earlier, this man had abandoned Ariadne, despite the fact that her help was critical to him navigating the Labyrinth. For 10 points, identify this Athenian, who slew the Minotaur.ANSWER: Theseus 8. Hiro Murai directed most episodes of this show, and it has Aubin Wise as the rich girl Jayde, who condescends to her friend about eating Thai food with chopsticks. A store clerk on this show gets confused and freezes up when a customer buys a drink for (*) $1.49. A club manager dodges this show’s hero using a secret fire-alarm-door in an episode that ends with a sports star running people over with his invisible car. While meeting the main character’s father, Darius ask him if can “measure his tree,” and a celebrity basketball game on this show leads to a fight between Justin Bieber and Paper Boi. For 10 points, name this FX show about Earn Marks, a music manager played by Donald Glover. ANSWER: Atlanta 9. Perhaps the earliest example of music from this modern-day nation is the song Lord, Have Mercy on Us, which has been ascribed to Saint Adalbert. Traditional musical forms from this country include the bagpipe-heavy Chodsko music, and folk ensembles that often feature a dulcimer known as a cimbalom. Composers from this modern-day nation include violinist and composer of 58 symphonies Johann (*) Stamitz, and the composer of the Mystery Sonatas, Heinrich Biber. A tone poem from this country is about a warrior maiden who deceives and kills Ctirad; that poem, ?árka, is from the nationalistic cycle Má vlast. For 10 points, what is this modern-day nation perhaps better-known for its more modern composers, such as Leos Janacek, Bed?ich Smetana, and Antonín Dvo?ák?ANSWER: Czech Republic10. In an interview with Metal Hammer, Devin Townsend revealed that this actor would stay up until 6 AM playing acoustic guitar. In To The Wonder, a character played by this actor compares women to fruit, saying that “sometimes you want raspberry then after a while you want some strawberry.” It’s not Omar Sharif, but this actor portrayed Ahmed Ibn Fadlan in The 13th Warrior. Voice acting roles taken by this actor include [*] Burger Beard the Pirate in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. This actor made his breakthrough in a 1986 Pedro Almodovar movie entitled Matador, in which he played the student Alexis Jimenez. This man starred as El Mariachi in Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy, which includes the films Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. For 10 points, identify this Spanish actor who played the role of Zorro alongside Catherine Zeta Jones.ANSWER: Antonio Banderas11. One character created by this author realises her mistake when a piece of wool spontaneously combusts when exposed to sunlight and in that play, Hyllus is told to marry Iole in the final act. The title character laments over an empty urn in this author’s version of [*] Elektra. Neoptolemus tries to get Philoctetes to return to Troy in one work by this author, who is eventually convinced by a deux ex machina appearance by Heracles. His earliest play sees Teucer argue for the title character’s burial after Athena drove that character to suicide. In another work by this author, Queen Eurydice kills herself upon hearing of the death of her son, Haemon. In that work, Creon’s decree against the burial of Polynices leads to disaster. For 10 points, identify this tragedian who wrote Antigone.ANSWER: Sophocles12. Eloise Mintumble was trapped in the year 1402 for five days while using one of these objects. That incident contributed to the establishment of Croaker’s Law, which restricts legal usage of these objects to no longer than five hours. While the entire stock of these objects was destroyed at the Department of Mysteries in 1996, one of these objects is confiscated from Theodore Nott in 2020. In the same story, rumours about Scorpius (*) Malfoy’s parentage hinge on the illegal usage of one of these objects. One of these objects is legally issued to Hermione Granger so she can attend extra classes, and she later uses it to help Harry Potter save Sirius Black and Buckbeak. For 10 points, identify these objects that allow wizards to return to the past, featured heavily in the plots of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.ANSWER: Time-Turners13. The authors D-G-L-A-P name an equation related to this phenomenon, which can be partly explained by Wilson loops. After noticing that muons were unaffected by this phenomenon, Hideki Yukawa predicted the existence of pions. The symmetry group SU3 underlies the gauge theory explaining this phenomenon. This force loses its effect at high energies and distances below point-seven (*) femto-meters, so it has asymptotic freedom and confinement. The mass of a proton is almost entirely a result of the field energy of this force, which is explained by quantum chromodynamics and is mediated by gluons. For 10 points, identify this fundamental force that holds quarks together in baryons and holds together the atomic nucleus.ANSWER: Strong nuclear force [prompt on “nuclear force”; accept quantum chromodynamics or QCD or gauge theory before “force”]14. On Indiewire, David Ehrlich argued that this movie is about “rewatching movies”. In this movie, Hannah asks her mother what the science-y term for making a deal is, but her mother tells her to ask her father. The protagonist of this film is hired by the government when she reveals that the [*] Sanskrit word for war means “a desire for more cattle.” A line delivered in Mandarin at the climax of this film translates to "In war there are no winners, only widows" which are the dying words of General Shang’s wife. After a message is deciphered as “use weapon”, the Chinese army threaten to war with the heptapods. For 10 points, identify this 2016 movie about the landing of aliens, whose language must be translated by Louise Banks, portrayed by Amy Adams.ANSWER: Arrival 15. Henrietta Leavitt discovered the period-luminosity relationship for Cepheid variables by examining stars in this region. A stream of gas clouds extends from this object to the Milky Way, and a namesake bridge of hydrogen connects it to a similarly named object. It is now put in a class named for it and notated Sm, due to its single spiral arm, but was formerly considered to be an (*) irregular galaxy. This galaxy is home to supernova 1987A as well as the Tarantula Nebula, which is the most active region of stellar genesis in the Local Group. It is useful for navigation in the Southern Hemisphere, since an approximately equilateral triangle is formed by it, the South Pole, and a similarly named smaller galaxy. For 10 points, what largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way is named after a Portuguese explorer?ANSWER: Large Magellanic Cloud16. This man is credited with coining the name of the ECHL, and in his first coaching job, he used a goalie rotation that featured John Grahame. This coach has used the motto "safe is death" and has stopped his current team from doing morning skates on game days. This teacher of shot-blocking got his current job following the firing of Todd Richards, and he has an ongoing feud with beat writer Larry Brooks. Roberto Luongo was benched for the Heritage Classic by this winningest ever American NHL coach, who once barged into the Flames' dressing room in an apparent attempt to fight their coach, Bob Hartley. The winner of a Jack Adams award and a Stanley Cup with the Lightning in 2004, for 10 points, name this short-tempered coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets.ANSWER: John [Robert] Tortorella17. A speech by this man declared that a Republican nominee for President “has no right to quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt” and ended with the phrase “the dream shall never die”. A special election caused by this man’s death was surprisingly lost by Martha Coakley. This man was attacked for his silence during Clarence Thomas’ nomination hearing, and he launched an unsuccessful primary challenge against incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980. This Senator torpedoed a controversial Supreme Court nomination with his “Justice Bork’s America” speech, and his Presidential hopes were dashed by the Chappaquiddick incident. For ten points, name this longtime Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, the youngest brother of Robert and Jack Kennedy.ANSWER: Ted Kennedy [Also accept “Edward [Moore] Kennedy”] [Prompt on “Kennedy”]18. Note: Description acceptable In a music video for this type of song, Paul Anka creepily follows around a woman and sings “things will change, I’ll find another lover.” Another example of this type of song includes the lyrics from the perspective of a character called (*) Matthew. One of these songs has an intro in which the singer says “This is my jam, where is the peanut butter?” and has a feature by Dave Days. In one of these songs Buddy Holly sings “she’s the one I’ve been told, now she’s wearing a band of gold” while in another David Bowie says “I’ve heard a rumour from ground control, don’t say it’s true”. For ten points name these types of songs that include Ashes to Ashes , Saturday and Peggy Sue got Married.. ANSWER: Song Sequels (Accept equivalents like Songs recorded to follow up another song by the same artist.)19. It’s not Fuller House, but Macy Gray makes a guest appearance on this show as a sassy Dry Cleaners Clerk. One character on this show breaks up with her boyfriend after he pretends to be a vegetarian and actually loves eating ribs. A character in the third season of this show goes to England in order to attend Law School but is never seen again. The main character’s boyfriend (*) Devon moves to Seattle after his father gets remarried.The main character often hangouts at the Chill Grill along with Eddie and Chelsea. In October of 2016 one of the hosts of the View announced she was leaving in order to work on a reboot of this show. For ten points name this show about a teenage psychic which had the spinoff Cory in the House. ANSWER: That’s so Raven20. This author wrote about the servant Harrison proudly cooking roast beef and rhubarb crumble in a book that describes malnutrition as "Harold Wilson syndrome." A Catholic dad throws a missal book and breaks Beatrice's glass figurines in a novel by this author, in which Jaja goes to prison for his mother’s crime of poisoning his dad. The house-boy Ugwu narrates this author's novel about a civil war, in which Olanna sleeps with Richard Churchill to get revenge on her sister Kainene. This writer criticized the saying, "I did it for peace in my marriage," and asserted that "We teach girls to shrink themselves." The TED talks "The Danger of a Single Story" and "We Should All Be Feminists" are by, for 10 points, what Nigerian author of Purple Hibiscus and Half Of a Yellow Sun?ANSWER: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie21. Michael Meyer translated both these writers into English, and one of these writers kept a crazy-looking portrait of the other one over his desk. The younger of these men wrote Lucky Peter's Journey and Mr. Bengt's Wife in response to the older one, and he said the older one should have written the heroine Rebecca West to be crueler and more jealous. During his unhinged "Inferno crisis," the “naturalist” one of these writers claimed the “realist” one had based characters on himself and his character Tekla from (*) The Creditors. Laura manipulates her husband, Captain Adolph, in The Father, a play that the younger of these writers wrote as a rebuttal to the older one. For 10 points, name these two Europeans who wrote famous plays about women getting hurt.ANSWER: August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen1. When Magellan spotted this archipelago in 1520, he assumed that the bonfires that the Yaghan and Selk’nam had set were a warning of their intent to ambush him, were he and his armada to approach too closely. For 10 points each:[10] What is this archipelago first settled by humans approximately 10,000 years ago, and separated into eastern and western groups by the Beagle Channel. ANSWER: Tierra del Fuego[10] The largest city in Tierra del Fuego, commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world, is the Argentinian city of Ushuaia, which is a major stop-over point for ships heading to Antarctica. However, this Chilean city is actually further south, a point which the Argentinian government doesn’t even actually refuteANSWER: Puerto Williams[10] In the 1940’s, this North American animal was introduced to the archipelago to provide an additional source of income in the vein of fur production. The population of this rodent grew from 25 to 100,000. ANSWER: North American Beaver [accept: Castor Canadensis]2. While this song is being sung Joker says in the background says “I’m in a world of shit, yes, but I’m alive and I’m not afraid.” For ten points each:[10] This television theme song is sung by a group of marines at the end of a Stanley Kubric film. ANSWER: The Mickey Mouse (Club) March[10] In this Stanley Kubrick film about the Vietnam war, Gomer Pyle kills himself while in boot camp and the Joker kills a young sniper.ANSWER: Full Metal Jacket [10] In the 40 Year Old Virgin this character quotes a prostitute from Full Metal Jacket by saying “me so horny, me love you long time” when describing a fictional sex partner.ANSWER: Andy Stitzer (Accept either name) 3. This artist re-recorded her single “Castle” for The Huntsman: Winter’s War. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this electropop singer who released her debut album, Badlands, in 2015. Her other singles include “Colors” and “New Americana”.ANSWER: Halsey (or “Ashley Nicole Frangipane”)[10] Halsey may be best-known for her featured appearance on the smash hit “Closer”, which is by this EDM duo. They first rose to prominence with “#SELFIE”, with subsequent hits coming in “Roses” and “Don’t Let Me Down”.ANSWER: The Chainsmokers[10] Halsey also has a featured appearance on “The Feeling” on this 2015 album, which also has the songs “Company” and “No Sense” featuring Travis Scott.ANSWER: Purpose [by Justin Bieber]4. European conquest in the 16th century wiped out many kingdoms in this territory, including Tondo, a thalassocracy that controlled its biggest island. For 10 points each:[10] Name this country whose city-states were once “barangays” and whose monarchs were “datus.” It is now just named for a colonial monarch.ANSWER: the Philippines[10] 70 years before Spain showed up, Tondo was conquered by this Muslim empire that controlled Borneo and traded with Ming China.ANSWER: Brunei[10] Then as now, Brunei was ruled by one of these rulers, who claims to be a king but not to be the caliph. Most state governors in Malaysia still claim this title.ANSWER: sultan5. See how far you'll go with these questions about Disney's Moana. For 10 points each:[10] The heart of Te Fiti is stolen by this shapeshifting demi-god at the beginning of the film, activating a curse that drains the life away from the islands.ANSWER: Maui[10] At the 2017 Oscars this actress and voice of Moana sang How Far I’ll Go. ANSWER: Auli?i Cravalho[10] In the song Shiny Tatamoa breaks the 4th wall and tells the audience to look up this word, the order of crustacean he belongs to. ANSWER: decapod 6. George Michael died in 2016. Not the Arrested Development character, the singer-songwriter. For 10 points each:[10] Michael made it big as half of this 80s duo alongside Andrew Ridgley. This group’s hits include “Last Christmas”, “I’m Your Man”, and “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”.ANSWER: Wham![10] One of Michael’s first solo hits was this track which begins “Well I guess it would be nice/If I could touch your body”. The title track of his debut solo album, this song’s music video features Michael dancing beside a jukebox.ANSWER: “Faith”[10] Michael’s final US #1 single was a live duet of “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” featuring this man. The song originally appeared on this man’s album Caribou and he first performed it with Michael at Live Aid in 1985.ANSWER: Sir Elton John (accept either underlined part)7. Answer some questions about college football freshmen and the Heisman Trophy, for 10 points each:[10] In 2012 this Texas A&M quarterback became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. Nicknamed “Johnny Football” this man’s NFL career with the Browns was short-lived after multiple arrests and rehab stints.ANSWER: Johnny Manziel[10] Jameis Winston became the second freshman to win the Heisman in 2013 while playing for this school. Winston was this school’s third Heisman winner, following Charlie Ward in 1993 and Chris Weinke in 2000.ANSWER: Florida State Seminoles[10] Prior to 2012 this Georgia running back’s 3rd place finish in 1980 was the best Heisman result for a freshman. This man later won the 1982 Heisman and was involved in a lopsided NFL trade between the Cowboys and Vikings.ANSWER: Herschel Walker 8. This buddhist psychological process is used by Andy Puddicombe in his mental health application Headspace. For 10 points each:[10] Name this process of bringing one’s attention to internal and external experiences while meditating.ANSWER: Mindfulness [10] Mindfulness can help individuals with this type of anxiety disorder that tend to worry uncontrollably about everyday matters such as health, relationships, work, and money.ANSWER: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Accept GAD) [10] This drug is sometimes prescribed to people that have anxiety, a common brand name for this drug is Klonopin. ANSWER Clonazepam 9. This algorithm is based on the idea that “two reflections make a rotation”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this optimal quantum algorithm that finds a satisfying assignment for a given black box function in Big-O-of-square-root-N queries, where N is the size of the domain.ANSWER: Grover’s algorithm[10] Grover’s algorithm is a quantum version of performing this basic task, that can be performed in Big-O-of-log-n time on a sorted array of length n, using a namesake “binary” algorithm.ANSWER: searching[10] Arguably the most famous quantum algorithm is Shor’s algorithm, which performs this task. Shor’s algorithm is based on the hidden subgroup problem, which can be used to solve this problem.ANSWER: factoring [or integer factorization, or prime factorization]10. Lebron James is one of the executive producers for this new game show. For ten points each: [10] Name this game show hosted by Chris Hardwick in which contestants drop green and red balls into “drop zones”.ANSWER: The Wall [10] In 2017 this actor became the host of a new version of the classic game show The Match GameANSWER: Alec Baldwin[10] In this Game Show Network original, Donald Faison hosts a show in which contestants must rearrange ten numerical facts from in order of largest to smallest. ANSWER: Winsanity11. Answer some questions about Alice Walker, for 10 points each:[10] Alice Walker is most famous for this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, framed as letters written by the sisters Celie and Nettie. ANSWER: The Color Purple[10] Walker helped increase the profile of this much earlier black female author, with her article “In Search of [This Author]”. This author wrote Seraph on the Suwanee and created the character of Janie Crawford.ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston[10] Walker’s collection In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, is subtitled as this kind of prose. She defines this kind of person as a “black feminist or a feminist of colour”, and in a much-quoted phrase, she asserted that “[this kind of person] is to feminist, as purple is to lavender”.ANSWER: Womanist12. Kathy Griffin repeatedly referred to these two individuals as “Candle” and “Francine”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify these sisters, the two biological children of Kris and Caitlyn Jenner. ANSWER: Kylie and Kendall Jenner (accept either order, but require both first names)[10] A 2015 internet challenge named after Kylie Jenner saw girls try to modify this body part to look more like Jenner’s. Predictably, it led to young girls harming themselves in their effort.ANSWER: Lips[10] While broken up with Tyga, Kylie may have dated this Canadian rapper. LiveNation fired Jeremih from co-headlining a tour with this rapper.ANSWER: PartyNextDoor [or PND or Jahron Brathwaite]13. This philosopher posed the question of “routinization of charisma” in his works on religion. For 10 points each,[10] Name this philosopher who coined the term “monopoly of the legitimate use of violence” in Politics as Vocation. He is best remembered for his work on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.ANSWER: Max Weber[10] In On Bureaucracy, Max Weber coined this term referring to the rigidity of bureaucracy and rationalization of society, which inspired Franz Kafka’s work on The Trial.ANSWER: “Iron Cage” (or stahlhartes Geh?use; accept “shell as hard as steel” or “steel prison” or similar)[10] Max Weber’s idea of multiple moral systems was inspired by an aphorism titled “One Thousand and One Goals” from this German author who wrote “I am not a man, I am dynamite” in his autobiography.ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche14. In the group stage of the 1962 World Cup, held in this country, its team played a game against Italy whose astonishing brutality caused it to be nicknamed the "battle" of its host city and inspired its referee to later invent red and yellow cards. For ten points each:[10] Name this country, which finished third in that 1962 World Cup. In more recent years, this team has been in groups with Spain in each of the past two World Cups, losing 2-1 in 2010 but eliminating Spain with a 2-0 victory in 2014.ANSWER: [Republic of] Chile[10] The 1962 World Cup was dominated by this player, whose superb dribbling led Brazil to victory. This winger won the Golden Ball as best player and tied for the scoring lead with 4 goals.ANSWER: Garrincha [Also accept “Manuel Francisco dos Santos” or “Mané”][10] Garrincha rose to the forefront for Brazil because this biggest star of the Brazilian team injured himself in the group stage. This man was voted World Player of the Century in 1999.ANSWER: Pelé [Grudgingly accept “Edson Arantes do Nascimento”]15. In one war, these vessels experienced periods of success known as “Happy Times”. For ten points each:[10] Name these naval craft, used by the German Navy in both World Wars to disrupt shipping to and from Britain. The convoy system was developed to defend against against these vessels.ANSWER: U-Boats [Accept “Submarines” or “Unterseebooten”][10] In 1943, this man replaced Erich Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy. This man would later briefly become Germany’s head of state after Adolf Hitler’s suicide.ANSWER: Karl Doenitz[10] At the outbreak of war, Germany had just been embarking on this plan for enormous naval expansion. This plan shared its name with the codename given to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while it was in its planning stage.ANSWER: Plan Z16. Several of these works can be seen in the Brixton area in London For 10 points each:[10] What is type of artwork exemplified by examples such as the depiction of the Jataka tales from the Ajanta caves, painted depictions of the Pyramid Texts found in Egypt, and the Last Supper. ANSWER: Mural[10] In this surrealist mural by Diego Rivera, the Skeleton Catrina and Frida Kahlo stand beside dozens of mexican historical figures, a hot air balloon, and a rearing horse. ANSWER: Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central (Accept Sue?o de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central)[10] In an early painting by Van Gogh a skull of a skeleton can be see doing this action. ANSWER: Smoking a Cigarette 17. This character crashes into the side of the road while getting a blowjob from his wife . For 10 points each:[10] Name this friend and manager of Larry David that has a fouled mouthed wife named Suzie in Curb Your Enthusiasm.ANSWER: Jeff Greene[10] Larry David made several appearances on SNL portraying this person. Memorable quotes David said while playing this man include “Who’s trying to steal a pen from a bank?” and “I’ve got a lot of big ideas and absolutely no idea how to implement them.”ANSWER: Bernie Sanders (accept either underlined part)[10] David’s first TV job came as a writer for this ABC rip-off of SNL. Michael Richards was also a performer on this show, which had an infamous incident when Andy Kaufman refused to read his lines on live TV.ANSWER: ABC’s Fridays18. Answer some questions about up-and-coming webcomics that started in 2016. For 10 points each:[10] Emily McGovern questions training bras, health and safety inspections, and the psychological implications of being turned into a ferret in this Harry Potter themed webcomic.ANSWER: My Life as a Background Slytherin[10] The intrusive urge to throw babies, working over the holidays, and the onset of winter are all situations prompting this catchphrase from the pink amorphous star of Webcomic Name.ANSWER: oh no[10] Webcomic Name mostly consists of material originally published onto this social network site founded by David Karp.ANSWER: tumblr19. These times occurred between the Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom, between the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom, and between the New Kingdom and the Late Period. For 10 points each:[10] Name these durations when Egyptian power and recordkeeping was not so hot. They’re sometimes considered Dark Ages.ANSWER: Intermediate Periods[10] During the 2nd Intermediate Period, the 15th Dynasty brought this ethnic group to power. These people introduced the war chariot and practiced horse burials, and they worshipped Baal.ANSWER: Hyksos[10] The New Kingdom then began with Ahmose I driving out the Hyksos and returning the capital to this city in south Egypt. It has giant ruin columns today in its Hypostyle Hall.ANSWER: Thebes 20. With the release of the 7th generation of Pokémon games and our introduction to the Alola region, the Pokédex has been subsequently upgraded to reflect that. However, now that the Pokédex has been possessed by a cheeky Rotom, the new entries can be a bit eye-opening; identify the following Gen I Pokémon from their new dex info, for 10 points each:[10] Regular form: It unleashes electric shocks that can reach 100,000 volts. When agitated, it can knock out even an Indian elephant. Alola form: It uses psychokinesis to control electricity. It hops aboard its own tail, using psychic power to lift the tail and move about while riding it.ANSWER: Raichu[10] Regular form: Its disposition is far more violent than its looks would suggest. Don’t let your hand get too close to its face, as it could bite your hand clean off. Alola form: This gourmet Pokémon is particular about the taste and freshness of its food. Restaurants where this Pokémon live have a good reputation.ANSWER: Raticate[10] The Alola form description of Raichu and Raticate can be found in either of these two new Gen 7 Pokemon games. ANSWER: Sun or Moon (Only need one) ................
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