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Canadian Hybrid Tournament 2017 Packet E.txt- Written by Tossups 1. One country song about this drink includes the lyric “One is too many / One more is never enough”. That song titled for this drink is a collaboration between Kenny Chesney and Grace Potter. In Carrie Underwood’s “Last Name” they blame their drunken mistakes on this alcoholic drink. In the title track on Emotion, Carly Rae Jepsen asks their love (*) to drink this beverage for them. A song titled after this beverage includes the lyric “Every night when the sun goes down / Just another lonely boy in town”. According to a Joe Nichols song, this drink “makes her clothes fall off”. An Eagles song is titled after a cocktail made with this alcoholic beverage; that cocktail is its namesake “sunrise”. Jose Cuervo is, for 10 points, what kind of Mexican spirit? ANSWER: Tequila (accept “Jose Cuervo” before mention) 2. One of this author’s narrators is impressed when a child tells them “In ten minutes, it will be eight o’clock” without looking at a watch. That work’s title character gains the ability to permanently remember everything they experience. One of this author’s narrators “delivers 9 men from evil every 9 years” and realises with shock that they are a minotaur at the end. This author of “Funes the Memorious” and (*) “The House of Asterion” wrote a work whose title competition starts out with losers paying fines, but eventually evolves to a place where losers are executed. This author also wrote a work in which the German spy Yu Tsun shoots Stephen Albert dead. This author of “The Babylon Lottery” collected their works in their Ficciones. For 10 points, identify this Argentine writer of “The Garden of Forking Paths”. ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges 3. William Gull described a patient known only as “Miss A” in a seminal work on these conditions. Christopher Dare helped develop a treatment for these conditions that is known as the Maudsley method. An experiment undertaken in Minnesota used conscientious objectors as test subjects to study the physiological and psychological effects of these conditions. It is not alcoholism or poisoning, but Mallory-Weiss syndrome can occur in people suffering from one of these conditions. The DSM-5 removed the requirement of (*) amenorrhea to diagnose these conditions, which may involve binging and purging. These conditions are far more prevalent in women than men. For 10 points, identify these conditions exemplified by bulimia and anorexia. ANSWER: eating disorders (anti-prompt on any answers mentioning “anorexia” or “bulimia” until mention) 4. They’re not Nightwing, but one villain faced by this hero was the conman Jeremy Tell, who was cursed by a pack of playing cards that bonded to their skin and became the villain Double Down. Another villain who fought this hero sewed their mouth shut after incriminating themselves and was named Murmur. One villain fought by this hero called (*) The Top hypnotized other villains fought by this hero including The Trickster and Heat Wave into turning good. George Harkness is an Australian supervillain who fights this hero as Captain Boomerang. This superhero fights a group called the “rogues” led by a man named Leonard Snart, who also goes by Captain Cold. For 10 points, name this DC superhero who fought the villain Zoom, whose power is super speed. ANSWER: The Flash (or Wallace Rudolph “Wally” West, Jason Peter “Jay” Garrick, Bartholomew Henry “Barry” Allen, or Bartholomew Henry “Bart” Allen II) 5. This city is home to the Guenete Leul [GWAY-NEET LOOL] palace, which was built in 1930, and later gifted to this city’s university. This city is divided into 10 subcities including Kirkos, Lideta, and Kolfe Kiraneo. This city’s name literally translates to “New Flower” in its nation’s primary language, and is called Finfinne, [FIN-FIN-AY] meaning “natural spring,” in this city’s minority language of (*) Oromo. This city held the most summits of the Organisation of African Unity, and was also the city where the OAU was founded. It’s not Johannesburg, but this city is home to the African Union Commission, the secretariat of the AU. This city, home to the headquarters of its nation’s Orthodox Tewahedo Church, is also home to the Lion of Judah Monument. For 10 points, name this primarily Amharic-speaking capital of Ethiopia. ANSWER: Addis Ababa (accept Finfinne before it is mentioned) 6. This film uses the phrases “future wife” and “future husband” instead of “fiance” due to the director’s hatred of the French language. A psychologist is attacked by a character in this film after that psychologist diagnoses that character’s girlfriend as a sociopath. In this film Chris-R threatens (*) Denny over drug debts, and is overpowered by the main character and taken into custody. In this film, a character is revealed to have shaved their beard off while their friends toss a football around in an alleyway while wearing tuxedos. The protagonist of this film buys flowers for their future wife before petting a pug and saying “hi Doggy”. Containing the classic lines “What a story Mark,” “Everybody betrayed me! I’m fed up with this world,” and “You’re tearing me apart Lisa,” for 10 points name this cult classic bad movie directed by Tommy Wiseau. ANSWER: The Room (Do not accept or prompt on The Disaster Artist, do not accept or prompt on just “Room”) 7. The metallic mean of this degree is equal to this number plus the square root of 13 all over 2. Gauss showed that every positive integer can be written as the sum of at most this many triangular numbers. In the Collatz conjecture, the procedure for odd numbers is to multiply them by this number and then add one. A two-dimensional simplex has this many sides. Calculating the (*) torsion of a curve requires calculating derivatives up to this degree. Cardano’s formula can be used to solve equations of this degree. This number is the third Lucas number. This is the lowest degree for which a one-variable polynomial could have an inflection point. For 10 points, how many sides are on each face of a tetrahedron? ANSWER: 3 8. A modern-day team from this city started off as the Buffalo Bisons which quickly then moved to the Quad City region of Illinois with a similar nickname that team has today. Brett Favre played two games for a team in this city before being traded away to Green Bay. Another team from this city lost a World Series deciding game after an Otis Nixon bunt was recovered and tagged out by Mike Timlin. A new stadium in this city, the (*) Mercedes-Benz Stadium, was opened in 2017 and its old stadium later demolished, which saw a viral video where someone trying to film the demolition was blocked by a passing bus. For 10 points, name this city where the the NBA’s Hawks, MLB’s Braves, and NFL’s Falcons play. ANSWER: Atlanta 9. A government in this nation was responsible for the Trelew Massacre in Rawson prison. The “Triple A” death squad was active in this country after the Ezeiza massacre, which killed left-wing supporters of a president of this country, including a group known as the Montoneros. Government oppression in this nation was opposed by the (*) Mothers of the Plaza Del Mayo. Significant figures in this nation’s military government were prosecuted in the Trial of the Juntas. Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted for their government’s systematic abduction of children in this nation during their government’s “Dirty War”, where people were dropped out of planes over the Atlantic Ocean. For 10 points, name this nation that was led by Leopoldo Galtieri and lost the Falklands War. ANSWER: Argentina (or Argentine Republic, or República Argentina) 10. A recurring side character on this show is the Shakespearean actor Andy Schroeder, who attempts to strangle one of this show’s female leads. One character in this show is threatened with an unloaded gun by a psychiatrist whose fiance left them at the altar. During the intro to one episode of this show, that psychiatrist’s car alarm was repeatedly set off by an accountant and a (*) mailman. The death of Nicholas Colasanto resulted in this show’s character of Ernie Pantusso, also known as “Coach”, being written out at the end of the third season. The first five seasons of this show largely focused around the romance between Diane Chambers and the former Red Sox pitcher Sam Malone. Frasier was a spinoff of, for 10 points, what show about a bar in Boston “where everybody knows your name.” ANSWER: Cheers 11. P!nk co-wrote the song “Recovering” about an event in this artist’s life. This artist’s album Unison includes the moderate hit “Where Does My Heart Beat Now”. This artist rehearsed with a then-unknown Josh Groban at the 1999 GRAMMYs, which led to Groban being invited on The Rosie O’Donnell Show. The theme song from the film Up Close & Personal is a Diane Warren song recorded by this artist. This artist also recorded the pop version of the song “How Does (*) a Moment Last Forever?” from 2017’s Beauty and the Beast. This artist recorded a song whose chorus opens “You were my strength when I was weak”, and another song by this artist opens with a flute, and the lyrics “Every night in my dreams, I see you”. For 10 points, identify this Canadian singer whose biggest hit is the Titanic song “My Heart Will Go On”. ANSWER: Céline Marie Claudette Dion 12.