Ottawa Hybrid 2015
Round 1 - Aaron Dos Remedios, Christine Irwin, Jordan Palmer, and AayushRajasekaran
1. This man said, "They say go home or go big, so today I'm just going home -- big!" This man's purchases include old fishing rods, a hearing test machine, and boy scout collectibles, and he was surprised to discover there was no value in old books. This man found a trove of Frank Gutierrez paintings, and he advised a (*) younger man that an empty safe is valuable in itself. Before TV, this sunburned man with a huffy voice once found a corpse in a storage locker, and he refers to items worth, for example, forty dollars, by saying, "That's a forty-dollar bill, right there." In the opening credits, this enemy of Dave Hester says, "This is the 'wow' factor." For 10 points, name this man who bids on lockers with his son Brandon, the "Gambler" from Storage Wars.
ANSWER: DarrellSheets [accept either]
2. This woman has been played by Suzanne Cloutier and Margaret Hughes, and in one scene, she says her hand has "felt no age nor known no sorrow." After telling a story about the maid Barbary who died lovesick, this woman sings the Willow Song. A man jokes about mistaking her for a (*) "cunning whore," and she makes a comment about Lodovico being a "proper man" and gives a speech about divided loyalty between her father and her husband. After failing to court her, Roderigo tries to get his jewelry back from this woman, who dies a "guiltless death" and asks to be buried in her wedding sheets. This daughter of Duke Brabantio is smothered in bed after she gets in trouble for losing a handkerchief. The maid Emilia works for, for 10 points, what woman who is accused of cheating with Cassio and is the wife of Othello?
ANSWER: Desdemona
3. In one painting by this artist, a bearded, brown-trousered man looks across a dark room at a woman in white who is turned away from him; that painting is The Interior or The Rape. This artist painted naked women turned away from the viewer in works like The Tub, The Toilette, and After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself. (*) A group of four topless girls faces off against five naked men in his Young Spartans Exercising. One of this artist’s best-known subjects curtsies in his Musicians From The Orchestra, and that same subject was depicted in this artist’s Fin d’Arabesque and The Dance Class. For 10 points, name this French painter of A Cotton Office in New Orleans and At the Races, famous for depicting nudes, horses, and ballerinas.
ANSWER: (HilaireGermain) Edgar Degas
4. One theory behind this phenomenon was supported by the fieldwork of Arthur Wolf and Edward Sherper, and this phenomenon is reflected in Trobriand attitudes about “suvasova.” Levi-Strauss explained this phenomenon by saying that "nature transcends itself," and Edward Tylor said it was a way to avoid "being killed out." A Finnish scholar's "avoidance" explanation for this phenomenon(*) inspired Levi-Strauss's "alliance theory," and Malinowski attributed it to "cooperation theory." This practice may be aided by Aborigines' use of a clan totem, and it can mostly be explained by the Westermarck effect. This nearly universal practice helps prevent birth defects and is examined in the first essay of Freud's Totem and Taboo. For 10 points, name this cultural practice where people don't have sex with any of their close family members.
ANSWER: incest taboo [or "not committing incest" or "not marrying your sister" or exogamy or any descriptions of those things; prompt on "incest" before "avoidance"]
5. Though the Bryan brothers won the doubles gold in London, two teams from this country won silver and bronze, and this country hosted the 2014 Davis Cup and lost it in the finals to Switzerland. A woman from this country now coaches Andy Murray, and a woman who played for this country used a two-handed forehand and retired 40 days after winning (*) Wimbledon. Michael Llodra is from this country, and so is the player who lost the longest-ever tennis match to John Isner. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is from this country, which hosts a tournament that Rafael Nadal won nine times. For 10 points, name this country whose Grand Slam on clay was won by Stan Wawrinka in 2015, the home of Yannick Noah and Gael Monfils.
ANSWER: France [or French Republic or RepubliqueFrancaise]
6. The director of the place where this man grew up thought his mother was “from the circus” because of the strange name she instructed he be given, and this man murdered Hepzibah Smith to steal a piece of jewelry from her. He framed Morfin Gaunt for the murder of his father and grandparents, and he applied for a teaching job at his (*) former school immediately after graduating. This son of Merope divided his soul into eight parts, which saved his life after he attempted to murder a child who was prophesied to have the power to defeat him. After it was refused to him, the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher was cursed by, for 10 points, what Harry Potter character who is usually referred to as “You-Know-Who.”
ANSWER: Lord Voldemort or TomMarvoloRiddle [prompt on You-Know-Who, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, or The Dark Lord]
7. An NP-complete problem asks whether it is possible to colour a graph so it has no monochromatic one of these things. The 2-simplex is one of these things. The rule that the absolute value of the sum is less-than-or-equal-to the sum of absolute values is this kind of (*) inequality. Repeatedly subdividing one of these things yields a fractal called the Sierpinski Gasket. The Euler Line is drawn through the centre of the nine-point circle and three of the centres of one of these shapes. The faces of both an icosahedron and a tetrahedron are this shape. For 10 points, name this shape whose area can be calculated using Heron’s Law and whose side lengths can be determined using the sine and cosine laws.
ANSWER: triangle [accept3-cycle or 3-clique or complete graph on 3 vertices before “inequality”]
8. These people were assisted by Matthew L. Davis and David Hosack, and they corresponded through the judges William Van Ness and Nathaniel Pendleton. One of these people lost a gubernatorial race to Morgan Lewis and oversaw Samuel Chase's impeachment trial. One of these people refused to contradict comments he had made at a dinner party, which had then been leaked by (*) Charles Cooper. One of these men won a senate seat from Philip Schuyler, and the other convinced Congress to break an Electoral College deadlock and block that man from being President. Joseph Ellis claimed that one of these men deliberately saved the other's life by missing a pistol shot in Weehawken, New Jersey. For 10 points, name this Vice President and former Treasury Secretary who fought a duel in 1804.
ANSWER: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
9. In one role, this actress sends a werewolf to bite the child Carolyn, kills David’s mother, and tells the protagonist “I killed your parents, and every one of your lovers. They kept us apart.” This actress introduces herself by saying, “I’m the money” in one role, and the MPAA banned a movie poster of this actress for a role where she employed the henchman Manute to beat up Josh Brolin’s character Dwight. She played the witch Angelique in (*) Dark Shadows, and she played a former sex slave and Persian warlord who seduces Themistocles -- Artemisia from 300: Rise of an Empire. This actress drowned in an underwater elevator once after watching a long poker game. For 10 points, name this French actress who played the title character Ava in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and played James Bond’s girlfriend Vesper in Casino Royale.
ANSWER: Eva (Gaelle) Green
10. An early game in this genre is the Playstation title UmJammerLammy. A freeware game in this genre features a mode where Yuzu must catch fruit in a basket on his head in addition to a mode based on Taiko No Tatsujin. Morris, J, and Derek, (*) members of the title agency, appear in a DS game in this genre where the player must fill an “Elite-O-Meter.” Paul Blart is distracted by one of these games while the mall is evacuated, and the precursor to this genre inspired the open-source game Stepmania. The third installment of one series in this genre added a keyboard controller, while another series in this genre allows the player tip up a certain object to activate “Star Power.” For 10 points, name this genre of Osu, Rock Band, and Guitar Hero that requires the player to keep time to music.
ANSWER: rhythm games [prompt on music games]
11. Nitrogen-containing compounds with this many carbon atoms convert ketones to amines in the Leuckart reaction. The Reimer-Tiemann reaction uses a catalyst with this many carbon atoms to convert phenol to salicyl-aldehyde. That same catalyst slowly oxidizes to the highly toxic (*) phosgene, which contains this many carbon atoms, as does each part of the buffer solution in blood plasma. The water-gas shift reaction is the reversible oxidation of a compound with this many carbon atoms. That oxidized product dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, which has this many carbon atoms, as does the stronger formic acid. The prefix “meth-” indicates compounds with this number of carbon atoms. For 10 points, how many oxygen atoms are present in a water molecule?
ANSWER: one
12. After they lost to the Bruins once, their coach told referee Don Koharski, “You fell, you fat pig! Have another donut!” Wayne Gretzky called this team a “Mickey Mouse franchise.” Tommy Albelin and Ken (*)Daneyko won Stanley Cups with this team, and the Leafs signed David Clarkson after his 30-goal season with this team. They signed Ilya Kovalchuk to an illegal seventeen-year contract, and they beat the Panthers on a game-seven goal by Adam Henrique. The all-time wins leader among goalies played for this team, as did the scorers Patrik Elias and John MacLean. For 10 points, name this eternally defensive NHL franchise of Scott Stevens and Martin Brodeur.
ANSWER: New JerseyDevils [Accept Either]
13. A direct-to-DVD release is titled for a “Blackwater Valley” one of these events. Erin Bruner unsuccessfully defends Richard Moore in a film named for one of these events, where the title character is played by Jennifer Carpenter and the defendant is played by Laura Linney. A Jewish one of these is the focus of the Gary Oldman film The Unborn, which pits the characters against a(*) dybbuk. “Captain Howdy” appears in a film titled for these events, which includes the threat “Keep away! The sow is mine!” Jason Miller is told, “Your mother sucks cocks in hell,” as he attempts this process with Regan and Pazuzu, which is eventually completed by Max von Sydow’s character. Father Merrill is the title practitioner of, for 10 points, what kind of event featured in a 70s horror film where Linda Blair spins her head 360 degrees?
ANSWER: exorcisms [do not accept or prompt on equivalents]
14. An allegedly Viking spearhead was found on this body of water’s Sodus Point. An 1857 train crash into its Desjardins Canal killed 59 people near train mogul Allan MacNab’s castle. The 1804 wreck of HMS Speedy in this body of water killed a provincial Solicitor General and High Constable and is(*) the basis for its “Marysburgh Vortex” theory. Canada’s last remaining WWII tribal destroyer, HMCS Haida, sits in this body of water. Guarded at opposite ends by Fort Henry and Fort George, this body of water was crossed during a War of 1812 raid where US wounded at Fort Niagara were allegedly bayoneted. For 10 points, name this Great Lake that Marilyn Bell swam across in 1954, which can now be viewed from the CN Tower.
ANSWER: Lake Ontario
15. This album beat The Fame and I Am Sasha Fierce for Album of the Year, and a song from this album says, “you don’t have to call anymore,” and “I don’t believe you, baby, like I did before.” The tour following this album featured Gloriana and Kellie Pickler,(*) and its title track says, “I don’t know how it gets better than this,” and “I’d dance in a storm in my best dress.” The song “You’re Not Sorry” is on this album, as is a song with a video where Lucas Till exchanges “I love you” notes with the singer. “Abigail” gives everything to the wrong boy on a track from this album that begins, “You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors.” Another song from this album has the verse, “She wears short skirts / I wear t-shirts.” For 10 points, name this second Taylor Swift studio album, which has “Fifteen” and “You Belong With Me.”
ANSWER: Fearless
16. MMADHC separates the mitochondria and cytoplasm bound versions of this vitamin, by tagging with acetyl or methyl groups. A receptor with amnion-less and cubilin sub-units is required for the intestinal absorption of this vitamin. A deficiency of this receptor can cause Imerslund-Grasbeck syndrome. Along with cubam, haptocorrin and (*) intrinsic factor is required for the proper transport of this vitamin to cells. This vitamin is a cofactor in the MUT enzyme in the conversion of methyl-malonic acid to succinic acid. Along with folate, this vitamin plays a role in the conversion of homo-cysteine to methionine. The most common form of this vitamin includes a Corrin ring and a cyano group. For 10 points, name this B vitamin with a central cobalt atom.
ANSWER: Vitamin B12 or cobalamin [accept prefixes before cobalamin, such as “cyano-”, “hydroxyo-” etc]
17. On this kind of Fresh Prince episode, Jazz throws Uncle Phil out the front door, and a Red Coat is revealed to be the still-living Alison on one of these episodes which is set on Ravenswood Founders Day. Diaz admits she went to ballet school and Captain Holt announces that “Jake Peralta is an amazing detective slash genius”(*) on one of these episodes, and Troy calls Abed a nerd on another one. These episodes are the occasion for a bet about stealing a medal of valour and for sex between Shirley and Chang, after the Dean pipes in an ABBA playlist and serves army surplus rations to get everyone sick. They include the offseason episodes of Pretty Little Liars and the Simpsons episodes with pun credits and visits from Kang and Kodos. For 10 points, name this occasion for Twilight Zone parodies like Treehouse of Horror.
ANSWER: Hallowe’en episodes [prompt on “zombie” episodes for less specific; prompt on names of TV shows by asking what kind of episode]
18. A lasso in this novel is said to belong to the "King of the Demons of the Sea," and in this novel, 18 members of a mob are lynched after burning Abblasoure Manor. The narrator assigns men to wear sandwich-boards advertising tooth-powder and stove-polish in this novel,from which FDR probably got the phrase "new deal." The narrator nicknames his companions (*) "Clarence" and "Sandy" in this novel, whose frame story sees a bullet-hole discovered in Sagramor's armor. A factory manager known as "The Boss" destroys a tower with an "enchantment" that is really dynamite in this novel. For 10 points, name this satire on feudalism by Mark Twain, in which Hank is sent back to 6th-century Camelot.
ANSWER: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
19. One character in this work is only seen by a shadow projected onto a drape, and another character only shows his tail. The protagonist is conceived after “a little mixer” where her mother is told to “Have another little swallow, little lady” and that character finally duets,(*) “I have been/ Changed for the better,” by and with a character who had earlier earned her “unadulterated loathing.” In the novel it’s based on, Madame Morrible and Dr. Diamond are killed, but they are only arrested in this musical. The fate of most characters is left vague, although a character claiming to be “Wonderful” is exiled by Glinda. For 10 points, name this Stephen Schwartz musical with “Defying Gravity,” which takes the witch Elphaba’s view of The Wizard of Oz.
ANSWER: Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz
20. Proponent Henry Sidgwick distinguished between this, egoism, and intuition-based morality in The Method of Ethics. Julian Savelescu used this perspective to argue for euthanasia of nonresponsive people and allowing performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Savelescu’s teacher used this position to argue for allowance of bestiality in (*) “Heavy Petting.” A book about this idea claims that it’s “better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied,” and a theorist who attempted a “Pannomion” in this tradition proposed a “felisific calculus” involving hedons and dolors. For 10 points, name this ethical view of Peter Singer and Jeremy Bentham, which aims for the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.