ANSWER: Alexander (Yaroslavich)Nevsky Prompt on Partial; Nevsky Is a Title and Not a Surname
Ottawa Hybrid 2015
Round 11 - Ottawa
1. This man is described as being tall and looking like Joseph, and he won a battle against enemies in a "German swine formation" under Hermann of Dorpat. This leader liberated Koporye and visited Sarai to submit to a census, and he defeated the Swedes at the Izhora River, as described in the Second Pskov Chronicle. This saint allied with (*)Sartak Khan and Batu Khan of the Golden Horde, and he said that "Whoever comes to us with a sword perishes from a sword." This brother of Andrei II trapped enemy cavalry into drowning in Lake Peipus, in a battle against Teutonic Knights that was later glorified by Sergei Prokofiev and Sergei Eisenstein. For 10 points, name this semi-mythical 13th-century Russian hero who won the Battle of Neva and the Battle of the Ice.
ANSWER: Alexander (Yaroslavich)Nevsky [prompt on partial; Nevsky is a title and not a surname]
2. A character in this work attends a screening of Jules Dassin’s Rififiand avoids eating the Raisinettes mixed into his popcorn. At a family meal in this work, the hero angrily reminds everyone that his cousin only plays (*) Division III football.In this film, a girl tells the hero that she has “Jay Leno’s chin” during their first date at a pizza parlor. A car crash occurs during this film after the main character talks on his cellphone after rushing back from a car rental office to a performance. The final scene in this film shows the main character playing an epic solo of the song “Caravan”. For ten points name this drama about Andrew Neiman and his abusive music instructor, Terrence Fletcher, played by J.K Simmons.
ANSWER: Whiplash
3. Salieri and Meyerbeer were in the orchestra for this piece’s premiere, which was a benefit for wounded soldiers organized by Johann Maelzel. This piece’s first movement begins with a tuttiA major chord before the first oboe plays E-C-F-sharp followed by another tutti chord. Donald Tovey used the words (*) "Bacchic fury" about the final movement of this piece. Strings and winds play 61 E's as at the end of its first movement, which transitions from a pocosostenuto into a six-eight vivace. A sombre melody is introduced on viola and cello in a baroque-sounding A minor second movement of this symphony. Called the "apotheosis of the dance" by Wagner, for 10 points, name this Beethoven symphony with a popular allegretto second movement.
ANSWER: Beethoven's 7th symphony [accept just "7th" after you read his name]
4. The Shrove Tuesday court epilogue “As the Dial Hand Tells Ore” is sometimes considered an alternate epilogue to this play, since it makes reference to mustard pancakes in Act 2. The usual epilogue to this play is famous for its use of the subjunctive and for being spoken by a woman. This play opens with Duke Frederick having usurped the throne from his brother Duke Senior, and after winning a wrestling match, Orlando (*) is forced to flee to the same area Duke Senior’s banished in. Celia and her cousin disguise themselves as men in order to search for Orlando, and in Act 2, Jaques orates a speech that includes the seven ages of man and begins with the line “All the World’s a Stage.” For ten points, name this pastoral Shakespeare play that concludes with Orlando marrying Rosalind in the Forest of Arden.
ANSWER: As You Like It
5. Note to players: Series name or outcome is acceptable –for example, you could say either “2014 NHL finals” or “Kings beating Rangers.”One player in these finals said that in 30 years he could tell his kids he was the MVP despite not playing one second. A pivotal moment in this series was game three when one of the teams came back from a 24 point deficit, the biggest finals comeback since 1971. In one game of this series, (*) Leon Powescored 21 points in 15 minutes, and the winning team’s good defence was attributed to assistant coach Tom Thibodeau. The result of this finals was said to have broken the 24-year Len Bias curse. After winning game 6, one player yelled “Anything is Possible!” and another threw Gatorade on Doc Rivers. For ten points name this finals which saw Kobe Bryant lose to Paul Pierce.
Answer: 2008 NBA Finals [or CelticsbeatingLakers; prompt on just “Celtics and Lakers” by asking who won]
6. This character appeared at one of Dean Martin’s Celebrity Roasts and brought homemade lasagna for Frank Sinatra. This character can be seen eating Chili with crackers at Barney’s Beanery and is confused for a homeless man on several occasions. A spin off series featuring this character's (*) wife changed its title after the characters supposedly got a divorce. Unlike in other mystery shows, the audience knows who the guilty person is while this character figures out the case. Right before solving cases, this character would say “just one more thing” to the suspect. For 10 points, name this L.A. detective who smokes cigars and wears a raincoat, played by Peter Falk on an eponymous TV show.
ANSWER: Columbo
7. Imogen Heap co-wrote a song for this album that says, “Just because you’re clean don’t mean you don’t miss it,” and Jack Antonoff co-wrote a song for it with the lyrics, "You were looking at me / I remember." An app lets you see a 360 degree interactive video for one song on this album, whose regular music video shows (*) a deer beside a damaged fireplace. The songs "I Wish You Would" and "All You Had to Do Was Stay" appear on this album, which has Polaroid cover art and a song that goes, “Are we out of the woods yet?” A single from this album sounds like it mentions “Starbucks lovers,” and another single begins “I stay out too late / Got nothing in my head." For 10 points, name this album featuring “Blank Space” and “Shake It Off”, titled after the year Taylor Swift was born.
ANSWER: 1989
8. Hans Bethe's conception of inorganic complexes as a metal surrounded by ions is this type of field theory, which is extended to ligand field theory. These substances are made by the Bridgeman technique or in the Czochralski process. These things can have screw dislocation(*) or edge dislocation, and they include Bravais structures such as body-centered or face-centered cubes. Euhedral ones of these have a smooth habit, and mechanical stress can separate the charge in these substances. Diffraction patterns in von Laue's photos of these substances were interpreted by William Braggs, and they can be formed from a supersaturated solution by a process that begins with nucleation. Containing unit cells, for 10 points, name these piezoelectric solids that have a lattice structure.
ANSWER: crystals [accept lattices before mentioned; prompt on solids]
9. In The Day After Tomorrow, a businessman offers a relatively exorbitant $200 to use one of these objects, but dies anyway in a tsunami. This is the setting of a performance of “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” in It Happened One Night, and was used by Claudette Colbert’s character to (*) leave Miami. Marilyn Monroe uses one of these to go to Montana in a film with this conveyance in the title, while the director of North By Northwest fails to use one in a cameo during the opening credits. A plane is destroyed when one of these explodes thanks to a bomb set by Dennis Hopper in a 1994 film. For 10 points, name this method of transportation driven at 50 miles per hour by Sandra Bullock in Speed.
Answer: a bus (accept “city bus” or “intercity bus”; accept Bus Stop during the Monroe clue)
10. A recent study in this state linked one-way streets to higher crime rates, and this was the first state to enact common core. The "Pillars of Hercules" and the "Frozen Niagara" are in a park with an endemic species of shrimp in this state. The dish "Hot Brown" comes from this state, whose town of (*) Paducah is in its Jackson Purchase region. Coal mining happens in Pike County and Harlan County in this state, which surrounds the manmade Lake Cumberland and contains the Red River Gorge in its Daniel Boone Forest. The Corvette Museum is in this state, as are the towns Covington and Owensboro and the world headquarters of Yum Brands. For 10 points, name this state that contains Mammoth Cave and the Churchill Downs racetrack at Louisville.
ANSWER: Kentucky
11. This law can be obtained by integrating the intensity, as given by Planck’s law, with respect to frequency, and in arbitrary dimensions a power of four is replaced by a power of n plus one. The first use of this law was to accurately calculate the temperature of the(*) surface of the Sun, and it can be extended from blackbodies to all objects by multiplying by a constant called emissivity. It has two common forms, one of which gives the radiant exitance and the other the radiated power. This law contains a constant of proportionality symbolized sigma, which shares its name with this law. For 10 points, name this law that states the power radiated from an object is proportional to its surface area, emissivity, and temperature to the fourth power.
ANSWER: Stefan-Boltzmann law [accept Stefan’s law; do NOT accept Stefan-Boltzmann constant]
12. One character in this work says that he will act like “that lady in the informercial” and says to “order now and get a set of steak knives.” A character in this work claims she will send “text messages” to all her friends when she means to write them letters on a (*)typewriter. In a dream sequence in it, Johnnie Cochran is seen wearing the glove from the O.J trial while maple glazed donuts holding pitchforks dance around. The two main characters of this work yell “HasaDigaEbowai” after complaining about their luggage being stolen and their bus being late, until they realize what that phrase means. After breaking rule 72, Kevin Price is called a “dick” by Jesus in, for 10 points, what musical by Matt Stone and Trey Parker about a missionary trip to Uganda?
ANSWER: Book of Mormon
13. It’s not Arrested Development, but Julia Louis Dreyfus guest starred on this show as a lawyer who defends a character’s right to read Huckleberry Finn for an English report. Tom Hanks guest starred on this show as a washed up alcoholic, Uncle Ned. In season 4 the character of baby (*) Andrew is introduced, but he’s already four years old in the next season. This show’s theme song says, “I bet we’ve been together for a million years and I bet we’ll be together for a million more.” A character loses his virginity after a Milton Friedman lecture on this show, which has Justine Bateman as a girl who goes on dates and likes fashion a lot. For 10 points name this 80’s sitcom about hippie parents and their daughters, Mallory and Jennifer, and their conservative son Alex P. Keaton, played by Michael J.Fox.
ANSWER:Family Ties
14. In one story by this author a man is unable to save the bass he put in a pond in his backyard from a flood and kills himself soon after finding out his wife cheated on him. This author wrote of Bill’s wife who complains of “bleeding” as Bill suspects that a young couple is cheating at bingo at the community center. The film (*)All Things Must Go was loosely based on a short story by this man, inwhich analcoholic man has all his possessions left out in his front-yard. Another story by him shows two couples drinking gin and discussing their romantic history in Mel McGinnis’ kitchen. For 10 points, name this author of the short stories “The Third Thing that Killed My Father Off,”“Denim,” and“Don’t you Dance?,” which are part of his collection What we Talk about When Talk About Love.
ANSWER: Raymond Carver
15. Marcellinus Comes said this man was killed by his wife, and a "prayer marathon" led by Saint Genevieve thwarted one of his campaigns. This ruler's men wounded Thorismund after he mistakenly walked into their camp, and he commanded the Gepids alongside Ardaric. The younger son of Mundzuk, this ruler allied with (*) Valentinian III to invade Toulouse, and most records of him come from the historian Priscus. This ruler negotiated peace with Leo I near Mantua, and he extorted an annual tribute of 2100 pounds of gold from one enemy. This ruler destroyed the city Aquileia after his Gallic campaign was deterred by a battle with Flavius Aetius at Chalons. For 10 points, name this 5th-century "Scourge of God" who murdered his brother Bleda and sacked parts of the Eastern Roman Empire.
ANSWER: Attila the Hun
16. The opening sequence to this show was recreated on SNL with the main character being replaced by Abraham Lincoln. A several-car collision is caused by a boy pushing a stroller onto the road in this show, andDr. Bigelow, played by (*) Charles Grodin, tells this show’s main character that a three legged dog has “plenty of legs.” While walking beside the Brooklyn Bridge, a girl tells the main character that “holding hands with a fat girl won’t make your dick fall off.”On this show, the hero’s daughter tells a joke about a gorilla going to the ballet and packs a baby duck into her dad’s luggage before he goes to do an USO show in Iraq. For ten points name this FX show about a balding man who does stand-up at the Comedy Cellar.
ANSWER: Louie
17. The author of this work criticizes Kennedy for saying “Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country” as he believed it made the government the patron.Its writer cites his previous work A Program for Economic Stability, arguing that the money supply should be increased by a constant percentage every year. This work compares occupational licensing to medieval guilds and advocates ending licensing for (*) doctors. In its chapter about the alleviation of poverty, a proposed negative income tax is given in order for people to have a guaranteed minimum income. A part of this work lists national parks, tariffs on imports, and rent controls as things government should not do. For 10 points, name this work that argues political freedom can’t occur without economic freedom, which was written by Milton Friedman
ANSWER: Capitalism and Freedom
18. A first person shooter titled Maverick Hunter featuring this character was cancelled after the character’s creator left the project to create Compect Inc. The main character in the game Mighty No.9 highly resembles this character,and this character’s “little sister” was created to cook and clean and is named (*) Roll. He is the first 3rd-party character in Super Smash Bros 4,where his up special move summons his dog Rush. In this character’s original series,he fought a mad scientist named Dr.Willy. For 10 points, name this character created by KeijiInafune, a Capcom character that has one cannon arm and typically wears blue armour.
ANSWER: Megaman(begrudgingly accept Rockman)
19. Oliver's Sign and Cardarelli's Sign both indicate this problem, and Walter Dandy developed a "clipping" treatment for this problem. A micro- type of this is named for Charcot and Bouchard, and it begins with weakness of the tunica media. A true type of this problem involves all three layers, and a false type of it creates (*) hematoma. This problem can be fusiform or saccular, and EVAR is a way of using a catheter for endovascular repair of it. When this occurs in the Circle of Willis, it often causes a subarachnoid haemorrhage. A weak point in an arterial wall can lead to death when one of these things ruptures in the brain or aorta. For 10 points, name this kind of bulge in a blood vessel.
ANSWER: aneurysm[accept more specific]
20. While hiding out at Leatherslade Farm, John Daly and Bruce Reynolds are believed to have spent time doing this, andPrince Andrew has banned members of the royal house from this activity as he says it gets “too vicious.” Bracelet charms were originally used in this activity when it was created by a left leaning “Georgist.” (*) Mary Pilon wrote that equipment for this activity was used to smuggle maps to Allied prisoners, and this was evidence used in catching the Great Train Robbers. A robot and a helicopter lost a fan-vote in which a cat was added to this activity, which now also uses electronic bank cards. Greens are nearly worthless and oranges are especially valuable for this game, whose invention is in dispute but usually attributed to Charles Darrow. For 10 points, name this time-killing activity in which children act as landlords trying to bankrupt each other.
ANSWER: Playing Monopoly
21. This person was hired to do the artwork for a failed Coca-Cola product called OK Soda. One of his stories involves a character that gets shot in the head by Karkes, a man that has a similar obsession as the character with Wanda. That story of his is about a 19 year old security guard named(*) David Boring. In another of his works a character says that the cover of a box of cookies called “Mallow Tweens” is pornographic. In that same work a young republican brags about being in a commercial for Hampton Hayes and the main characters follow a man who they believe is a Satanist around a grocery store. At the end of that story by this writer, Rebecca becomes serious with her boyfriend Josh and Enid Coleslaw leaves town. For ten points name this cartoonist and writer of the Eightball comic book series and the graphic novel Ghost World.