Packet by Penn Eh (Angela Li and Patrick Liao)

Ottawa Hybrid 2014 Round 3

1.The appendix to this work describes a system and discusses the B-classification in that system, where it praises the euphony of abbreviations such as Agitprop, Comintern, and Gestapo. One part of this text describes the aims of the High, Middle, and Low but is cut off reading “This motive really consists…” Tom Parsons is reported by his daughter and another character in this work, Syme, is perceived to be “too intelligent.” “Here comes a lopper to lop off your head” is recited when the protagonist is betrayed by a man whom he wanted to meet in the “place in which there is no darkness.” For 10 points, name this book about a State run through Big Brother, a dystopia by George Orwell. ANSWER: Nineteen Eighty-Four [or 1984]

2. The two most recently released games in this series happen in its million world multiverse and their antagonists are the Centennial Monster and the One King. In one game in this series, which had a 2008 game subtitled Tierkreis, Lucretia Merces advises the protagonist, who is guarded by his love interest Lyon and is a prince of the Queendom of Falena. Jeane and Leknaat, the Keeper of Balance, are two ageless characters who appear in all games in this series created by Yoshitaka Murayama. The corrupting influence of a True Rune often starts the plot of these games in which recruiting the 108 Stars of Destiny unlocks special endings. For 10 points, name this Konami RPG series whose name is the Japanese translation of a Chinese classic it is very loosely based on, Outlaws of the Marsh. ANSWER: Genso Suikoden

3. On this show, a wrench is observed to bear traces of “brackish water,” and a guy smells like model-plane glue because he tried to glue a giant wound shut. Nigella Mason is revealed to taken a horse named Silver Blaze when she divorced the Marquess of Loudwater on this show, which also features the murderers “M” and the Balloon Man. Aidan Quinn plays a police captain and Natalie Dormer plays a character who faked her death and whose real name is “Jamie” and not “Irene.” This show is set after the junkie protagonist relocates to New York and begins staying with a “sober companion.” For 10 points, name this CBS shows starring Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson and Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes. ANSWER: Elementary

4. This number is the output of the third and fifth terms in the sequence of Perrin numbers. An equation of this degree discovered by Euler’s first 40 inputs are all prime. For all convex polyhedra, this number is the polyhedron’s Euler characteristic. A prime number that is one less than the square of a power of this number is the definition of a Mersenne prime. X equals negative b plus minus the square root of b squared minus four A C is part of a formula to find the roots of a polynomial of this degree. For 10 points, name this number that is the number of dimensions of planes in R-3, the degree of a quadratic, and the first even number. ANSWER: two

5. Jean-Pierre Bemba is currently on trial in The Hague for crimes committed in this nation’s capital. This country is the site of Operation Sangaris and the MISCA mission. Its current president was formerly mayor of its capital and is Catherine Samba-Panza. This country’s first free democratic elections were in 1993 and elected Félix Patassé, who was overthrown by François Bozizé, who in turn was overthrown by its first Muslim President, Michel Djotodia, leader of the Séléka rebels from this country’s Muslim north. Anti-balaka militias contributed to Muslim-Christian sectarian violence in this country, where France deployed soldiers in December 2013. For 10 points, name this former French colony and trouble spot once ruled by Jean-Bédel Bokassa. ANSWER: Central African Republic [or CAR; or République centrafricaine; or Centrafrique; or Kodorosese ti Beafrika]

6. Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets segment featured this figure reading that he had very small hands. In one film this actor sports a handlebar mustache, is advised to treat his wife “like a dirty stripper,” and hits a drug dealer with a coffee mug. In addition to Don Fitzgerald in We’re the Millers, this actor who played Shlubb in Sin City voices a character with a shark for a hand, who rescues a double-decker couch after having to rebuild his entire body. This actor of The Lego Movie’s Metalbeard also plays a character who queries “did you just say you have the right to be an attorney?” while quizzing Channing Tatum on Miranda rights. For 10 points, name this dour actor who played Deputy Chief Hardy in 21 Jump Street, best known as Ron Swanson on television’s Parks and Recreation. ANSWER: Nick Offerman

7. George Fort Milton published a 1943 book whose title described these people as a fifth column. The members of this group reinterpreted their names to mean the depictions of Liberty on pennies, which they prominently wore as badges of this group. Many members of this group, especially in Ohio, were accused of being members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. One leader, Clement Vallandingham, coined its slogan, “To maintain the Constitution as it is, and to restore the Union as it was.” General Order Number 38 targeted this group, sometimes called butternuts, whose rights were protected by the Supreme Court in ex parte Milligan. For 10 points, name this group of northern Democrats who opposed the Union’s participation in the Civil War and who shared their name with a type of snake. ANSWER: Copperheads [or Butternuts before mention; prompt on “Peace Democrats,” “Democrats,” and “people in the Union opposed to the Civil War”]

8. This psychologist found that subjects of his experiments were more likely to explore new environments in his “open-field test” and more likely to fight a frightening stimulus used in his “fear tests” if they had surrogate presence. Since artificial insemination was not yet invented, this psychologist, who often used vernacular non-scientific terms, developed a “rape rack” to see if females of a certain species could be good parents if they had been isolated shortly after birth in the “pit of despair.” Another of his experiments found that even if a wire mother provided food, a simian infant usually preferred a cloth mother because of “contact comfort.” For ten points, name this Wisconsin-Madison psychologist best known for a series of controversial experiments with rhesus macaques. ANSWER: Harry Frederick Harlow [or Israel]

9. The Phi Delta Theta fraternity donated a trophy that is now awarded in memory of this player, who once attended Columbia University. Only Sandy Koufax was inducted into the Hall of Fame at a younger age than this player was. This player was the winner of the 1934 MLB Triple Crown and was the first MLB player to have his jersey number retired. When his man retired, he gave a speech in which he declared himself “The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth.” In 1995, Cal Ripken Jr. finally broke this man’s record of 2130 consecutive games played that earned him the nickname “Iron Horse.” For 10 points, name this Yankees superstar who was forced to retire because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease now commonly named for him. ANSWER: Henry Louis “Lou” Gehrig [or “Buster” Gehrig]

10. A band from this place sang “everybody's dancing, tonight everything is over,” and that band's album It's Never Been Like That included “Long Distance Call” and “Consolation Prizes.” Members of the band Darlin’, from this country, went on to make the instrumental songs “Revolution 909” and “Veridis Quo.” An artist from this country sang “watch them build up a material tower,” and other artists from this country worked with Simian on “We Are Your Friends” and soundtracked the movies Interstella 5555 and Tron Legacy. One group from this country named their album a cross symbol and did the song “D.A.N.C.E.,” and other groups from this country made the songs “Lisztomania” and “1901” and the albums Discovery and Random Access Memories. For 10 points, name this home country of Justice, Phoenix, and Daft Punk. ANSWER: France [or French Republic or Republique Francaise or La France]

11. He’s not Brahms, but this composer’s first opera was nicknamed Alfred and begins with a “tragic” overture. This composer’s second string quartet is dedicated “to [his] Nation” and a movement from his seventh symphony is “from the sad years.” That symphony’s 6/4 third movement has a quarter note, quarter rest, quarter note, eighth rest, eighth note, two quarter note rhythmic motif. The first act of his seventh Humoresque features the aria “Song to the Moon” in the opera Rusalka. A fortissimo B-C motif begins the fourth movement of a work which contains an English horn solo in the second movement. For ten points, name the Czech composer of Slavonic Dances whose 9th symphony is commonly called From the New World. ANSWER: Antonin Leopold Dvořak 12. This person divided the mind into a psychological subjective component, a morally driven objective component, and a self-aware absolute component. This friend of Schelling compared forming opinions to learning to swim, using “determinate negation.” He wrote that “the truth is the whole,” suggesting that the totality of all development of Nature would reach truth and end philosophy. He described consciousness developing into absolute knowledge, and a “mediated” theory emerging when a theory is countered negatively. Two guys in a death struggle illustrate recognition in the “Lordship and Bondage” chapter of a book whose main concept translates as both “mind” and “spirit.” For 10 points, name this Idealist who developed a dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. ANSWER: (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich) Hegel

13.This country had some occupied territory returned in the Erdut Agreement. Prince Aimone of Savoy was king of this country for two years, where he was known as Tomislav II. This country launched Operation Flash and Operation Storm against a breakaway state often known by its abbreviation, RSK. The Peasant Party in this country formed its dominant political force in the interwar period, although in opposition to this country’s monarchy. During the Second World War, this country’s Roman Catholic Archbishop, Aloysius Stepinac, did little to combat the Ante Pavelic’s Fascist Ustaše regime. For 10 points, name this country that, through a 1991– 1995 war, gained its independence fromthe Former Yugoslavia. ANSWER: Republic of Croatia [or Republika Hrvatska]

14. This artist wore black nail polish and was shot in night-vision singing lyrics like, "I just started living," and, "We're meant to be in holy matrimony." A crying kitten lip syncs to this artist in one video, and this artist sheds a Sinead O'Connor-style single tear at the start of another video. This singer sang, "I put you high up in the sky," on a song that begins, "We clawed, we chained our hearts in vain." Terry Richardson filmed this musician wearing Doc Martens and short blond hair and licking a sledgehammer. This performer of "Adore You" sang, "Don't you ever say I just walked away" in a nude-swinging video about her breakup with Liam Hemsworth. For 10 points, name this singer of “Wrecking Ball.” ANSWER: Miley Cyrus [accept either]

15. This work claims that “friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit,” and a woman in this work buys a gun on Valentine’s Day and hums the M*A*S*H theme song on her anniversary. This work’s main characters move from New York to North Carthage, Missouri, where the husband uses his wife’s trust fund to open a bar with his twin sister, Margo. This novel is told from alternating perspectives through diary entries, though both narrators are revealed to be lying to the reader: Nick Dunne hides his affair and Amy tries to frame her husband for murdering her. For 10 points, name this 2013 thriller by Gillian Flynn. ANSWER: Gone Girl

16. This author used the term “philanthropic ogre” to describe his nation’s government, and wrote that “two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time” in one work. This author of Freedom Under Parole diagnosed a widespread desire to be “Nobody” rather than “Somebody” and talked about “forever arriving” in a cyclical poem with the same first six and last six lines. This author revised one collection to include “Post-data,” which reflected on a 1968 massacre, and wrote how men’s use of “chingar” and “chingada” showed a lonely stoicism from oppression. A “willow of crystal” and a “poplar of water” begin one poem by this writer of essays including “The Pachuco and Other Extremes” and “The Sons of La Malinche.” For 10 points, name this author of “Sun Stone” and The Labyrinth of Solitude, a Mexican Nobel Laureate. ANSWER: Octavio Paz Lozano

17. In a New Yorker interview, President Obama hilariously compared Al-Qaeda to this person, and this person is the answer to Juicy J's question, “Who da neighbours?” A round of “Facebook venting” by this person began with the line, “This is such BS!”, and this person wore a Nike shirt in a commercial where he played Call of Duty with Jimmy Kimmel. Known for calling himself “vino” and getting Mike Brown fired in 2012, this man bought his wife Vanessa a four-million-dollar diamond ring and was acquitted for a 2003 incident in a Colorado hotel after an unnamed woman chose not to testify. For 10 points, name this accused rapist who remains the NBA's highest-paid player in 2014, and who managed to score 81 points against the Raptors once. ANSWER: Kobe Bryant [Accept Either] 18. A biopic about this actress starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and Emmy Rossum, and spans this actress’s childhood in the Netherlands to her prime in the US. In one film, this actress plays a character who loses a shoe while fidgeting with it during a reception of important functionaries. Later in that film, this actress plays a character who uses the pseudonym Anya Smith and is shocked by a prank pulled at the Mouth of Truth. In another role, she asks Fred: “Will you marry me for my money?” That owner of a cat named Cat is Holly Golightly. This film actress plays a woman whose ambition is to work in a flower shop, but becomes the subject of a language experiment; that is Eliza Doolittle. For 10 points, name this Briton featuring in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Roman Holiday, and My Fair Lady. ANSWER: Audrey Hepburn

19. Variants on one algorithm of this type include one algorithm that uses iterative deepening and a Beam variant, while another variant of one of these algorithms is named after Fibonacci. Examples of these algorithms include one used in quantum computing include ones that can be used in the self-balancing data structure called Red-Black trees as well as Grover’s algorithm. One of these algorithms continuously calculates the midpoint of an array does the same algorithm on a certain half; that type is the “binary” type of these algorithms. For 10 points, name these algorithms that compare an element to a target, which are used by websites such as Bing and Google. ANSWER: search algorithms [or pathfinding, shortest path, or finding shortest path until “Grover’s algorithm” is read]

20. In this work, two security guards employed at the same place are both named Rocco. While watching the television series Family Matters, two characters in this film abuse dated pills to ostensibly no effect. In this film, while on the Naomi, the protagonist throws a lobster and then money at FBI agents, calling the bills “fun coupons.” The FBI later arrests him during the filming of an infomercial. The protagonist asks members of the audience to “sell me this pen” at a seminar on sales technique at the end of the film. The protagonist is responsible for the initial public offering of companies including Steve Madden Ltd through the brokerage house he founded, Stratton Oakmont, which specializes in pump and dump schemes of penny stocks. For 10 points, name this 2013 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, an unethical New York securities trader. ANSWER: The Wolf of Wall Street

TB1. In this show, a man played by Nathan Lane claims to have planned 53 gay weddings, but that man doesn’t realize that Ronaldo is in love with him. Javier shows up one day late, but with a boat, when he comes to visit his son. One character while working as a Dapper Dan at Disneyland is reunited with his ex. On this show, Ed O’Neil’s character pretends to eat rat poison in order to convince Sofia Vergara’s character that she needs glasses. In this show, Dylan works as a Dapper Dan. When going to deliver an anniversary present, Luke, Alex and Haley walk in on Phil and Claire having sex. For 10 points, name this ABC sitcom about the title kin group, starring Ed O’Neill and Sofia Vergara. ANSWER: Modern Family 1. He built the first wall around Rome since the Servian Wall. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Barracks Emperor whose military exploits include defeating the Gallic Empire and Palmyra. ANSWER: Lucius Domitius Aurelianus [10] The rise of Palmyra also led to the decline of this city. Located in present-day Jordan, this trading city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. ANSWER: Petra [10] Aurelian cultivated the cult of this deity, making it an official Imperial religion. Powerful enough to be condemned by St. Augustine of Hippo, in earlier scholarship Christmas was assumed to have originated as this sky- cult’s birth holiday. ANSWER: Sol Invictus [or the Unconquered Sun]

2. The main character’s favourite cereal is Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs and he once engineered a Transmogrifier. For 10 points each: [10] Name this comic strip in which characters like Miss Wormwood and Susie annoy the title six-year-old boy and his anthropomorphic stuffed tiger toy. ANSWER: Calvin and Hobbes [10] Calvin and Hobbes was created by this reclusive cartoonist, who also worked for the Cincinnati Post and who notoriously refused to merchandise his work. ANSWER: Bill Watterson [10] As this interplanetary explorer, one of his many alter-egos, Calvin fights the Hideous Blob, Zorgs and other aliens with his Zorcher or Death Ray Blaster. ANSWER: Spaceman Spiff

3. In this film, Clément Mathieu conducts the school choir at the Fond de l’Étang boarding school and mentors Pierre Morange. For ten points each: [10] Name this 2004 French film, whose song “Vois sur ton chemin” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. ANSWER: Les Choristes [or The Chorus] [10] This actor plays the young Pierre Morange and was handpicked from the choristers from Les petits chanteurs de Saint-Marc. ANSWER: Jean-Baptiste Maunier [10] Les Choristes is directed by Christophe Barratier, whose 2011 film La nouvelle guerre des boutons is set during this conflict, which is also the setting of Roman Polanski’s The Pianist and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima, mon amour. ANSWER: Second World War [or World War Two; or WWII; or Seconde Guerre mondiale]

4. Name the following classes of phylum Chordata, for 10 points each: [10] All species in this class nurse their young with mother’s milk and this class includes the largest animal in the history of the Earth. Most members of this endothermic class make use of placentas in childbirth. ANSWER: Mammalia [or mammals; or mammalians] [10] All species in this class are examples of an animal that have a skull but no vertebrae, and which was a member of the historic class called Agnatha along with a fellow living skeleton, the lamprey. ANSWER: Myxini [or Hagfish; or Hyperotreti; or slime eels] [10] This class can be divided into the Elasmobranchii and the Holocephali subclasses. Spiracles are gill clefts found behind the eyes of some of its species, such as rays. ANSWER: Chondrichthyes [or cartilaginous fish; or chondrichthyans, prompt on Sharks]

5. During a powerplay in a playoff game, this player stood in front of the net, facing goaltender Martin Brodeur and began distracting him with his stick, which was legal at the time but had to be banned thereafter. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this prominent goon and former Vogue intern who spent most of his playing career with the New York Rangers. ANSWER: Sean Avery [10] Tough guys for this team included Gino Odjick and (when he hit Donald Brashear in the head with a stick, for which he was criminally convicted) Marty McSorley. More recently, this team once captained by Tiger Williams employed the late Rick Rypien, who took a swing at a fan. ANSWER: Vancouver Canucks [Accept Either] [10] Mainly, tough guys can be jerks. This player got a 30-game suspension after he purposely stepped on the back of Jarkko Ruutu’s leg; he had earlier been suspended for 25 games for swinging his stick at Ryan Hollweg’s face. ANSWER: Chris Simon

6. In this film, Finch claims that his murder of Kay Connell was “an accident” despite it being a ten-minute beating. For ten points each: [10] Name this 2002 film in which the Al Pacino plays an LAPD officer who suffers from the title condition after he shoots his partner Eckhardt, who was about to testify against him in an internal investigation, and tries to cover it up. ANSWER: Insomnia [10] This 2000 film by the director of Insomnia is presented in a chronological black and white sequence as well as a reverse chronological order colour sequence. It features Leonard Shelby, who has anterograde amnesia and uses notes, tattoos, and Polaroid photos to store memories. ANSWER: Memento [10] This British director of a 2006 film about competing stage magicians called The Prestige directed Insomnia and Memento, as well as a reboot of the Batman franchise. ANSWER: Christopher Nolan

7. This poet wrote that “the book of events is only halfway open” after a catalogue of missed encounters in the poem “Love at First Sight.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this writer who said,“Nothing can ever happen twice,” and published the collection View With a Grain of Sand. ANSWER: Wyslawa Symborska [10] Before her Nobel, Szymborska won an arts prize named for this German poet of some Roman Elegies and the poems “Die Erlkonig” and “The Sorceror’s Apprentice.” ANSWER: (Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe [10] Szymborska’s poem “The End and the Beginning” says that after each of these events, “someone’s got to tidy up.” Poets known for writing about them include Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke. ANSWER: wars

8. Name some things about Adele’s sophomore album, for ten points each. [10] Adele Adkins hit international stardom with her release of this second studio album which featured mega hits like “Rolling in the Deep,” and “Someone Like You,” and “Set Fire to the Rain.” ANSWER: 21 [10] This song from 21 describes a heartbroken figure confronting a manipulative ex-lover and vows “next time I’ll be braver, I’ll be my own savior.” ANSWER: “Turning Tables” [10] On the album, Adele covers this song by the English alternative rock band The Cure and sings “whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again.” ANSWER: “Lovesong”

9. On the right of this painting, a servant in red spills the drink in her cup while staring at a mysterious handwriting characters in the air. For ten points each: [10] Name this painting in which the attendees of the title event are staring in awe at a message being written to the host, a Babylonian king. It is based on a scene from Daniel. ANSWER: Belshazzar’s Feast [or Het feestmaal van Belsazar; or Belsazars feest genoemd] [10] Belshazzar’s Feast is a work by this Dutch Golden Age painter also known for his Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp, and The Night Watch. ANSWER: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn [10] This other Rembrandt work is his only seascape and shows thirteen men struggling to control the sails of their boat during the title event. ANSWER: The Storm on the Sea of Galilee [or Christus in de storm op het meer van Galilea]

10. The northern boundary of this region is usually drawn at the Izozog Swamps while the southern boundary is around the Salado River. For 10 points each: [10] Name this sparsely populated, lowland plains whose name is derived from the Quechua phrase for “Hunting Land.” Despite speculation in the 1930s, oil was never found here. ANSWER: Gran Chaco [or the Chaco Plain] [10] Tributaries of this river and the Paraguay River drain most of the Chaco. The Itaipú Dam lies on this river where it divides Brazil and Paraguay. ANSWER: Paraná River [10] This waterfall occurs along a namesake river just before it flows into the Paraná near the Itaipú Dam. It occurs along the Brazilian-Argentine border. ANSWER: Iguaçu Falls [or Cataratas del Iguazú]

11. This title was given to its first holder in 1818 by the Persian shah, but that holder later revolted and helped the British in the First Anglo-Afghan War. For 10 points each: [10] Name this hereditary religious title whose fourth and current holder is the head of its namesake foundation. Its third holder was a president of the League of Nations, and like all holders of this title, was an imam. The current Swiss-born holder of this title is estimated to have a net worth of $800 million. ANSWER: Agha Khan [or Aqa Khan] [10] The Agha Khan is the head of this Islamic group’s Nizari sect. This tariqah (or path) of Shia Islam, the second- largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers, it is named for its choice of imam to succeed Jafar al-Sadiq. ANSWER: Ismailism [10] The Shia tradition believes that the temporal caliphate wrongly passed from Ali ibn Abu Talib to this man, as opposed to the proper (and true) choice of Ali’s son Husayn. This man is the founder of the Ummayyad Dynasty and the cause of the Shia-Sunni Islamic split. ANSWER: Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan I

12. For ten points each, name these reality television shows. [10] This dating game show is hosted by Chris Harrison and features a rose ceremony at the end of each episode in which the title character eliminates women he finds underiable. ANSWER: The Bachelor [10] This MTV television show uncovers lies behind online dating by revealing people who create fake personal profiles on social networking websites. ANSWER: Catfish: The TV Show [10] This television game show is hosted by 2010 Vancouver men’s skeleton gold-medalist Jon Montgomery and its first and so far only season was won by Winnipeg father and son pair Tim Hague Sr. & Jr. One of its challenges involved building a dinosaur skeleton from memory in the Royal Tyrell Museum. ANSWER: The Amazing Race Canada [do not prompt on “Amazing Race”]

13. Augustin Fresnel correctly deduced that this value was only dependent on surface curvature in one weight- saving design he made for lighthouses. For ten points each: [10] Name this value also measured by Gullstrand’s Equation. The unit used to measure this value can be defined as one over one metre. ANSWER: Optical power [or Lens power; focusing power, dioptric power, refractive power, convergence power; or anything that sounds opticky and has the word power; or lens strength] [10] Optical power is equal to the reciprocal of the principal type of this other value. The slight variance in this value at different wavelengths is called chromatic aberration. ANSWER: principal focal length [prompt on “f”] [10] The principal focal length of a thin lens can be negative if the lens has this shape that bulges inwards in the middle and is contrasted with convex lens. ANSWER: concave lens

14. A vehicle by Mitsubishi won seven straight years before this event was cancelled in 2008 and relocated. For ten points each: [10] Name this off-road race organized by the Amaury Sports Organization that traditionally went from Paris to its namesake West African capital city. ANSWER: the Dakar Rally [or the Paris-Dakar Rally] [10] Due to security threats in Mauritania in 2008 and 2009, all future events of the Dakar Rally have been entirely run on this continent, where it destroyed several archaeological sites. ANSWER: South America [prompt on “America” or “the Americas”] [10] Name either of the two sister French carmakers whose models dominated the race from 1987 to 1996, only losing twice to Mitsubishi. ANSWER: Peugeot or Citroën [either underlined; or Peugeot S.A.; or PSA]

15. An economic fallacy named after these people argues against technological unemployment, since true innovation would lead to lower production costs, higher supply of the good, and thus lower cost of the good. For 10 points each: [10] Name these people active from 1811–1817, some of whom were put on trial in York during the height of the Napoleonic Wars. They were named after a probably fictional figure whose first name was Ned. ANSWER: Luddites [10] The British parliament also passed this act to combat the Luddites. It made it a capital offence to break the namesake devices and thus deterred potential Luddites from smashing machines needed for industrial production. ANSWER: Frame-breaking Act [or Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812; prompt on “machine breaking”] [10] In the 1830’s, people employed in the profession started movement similar to the Luddites in Southern England and coalesced around the figure of Captain Swing, who destroyed threshing machines. ANSWER: farmers [or agricultural workers; or equivalents that indicate working on a farm of some sort]

16. Several of this author’s short stories were published as part of his Palm-of-the-Hand stories. For ten points each: [10] Name this Japanese 1968 Nobel laureate known for works such as The Master of Go and a novel in which the ballet expert Shingo has an affair with the geisha Komako, Snow Country. ANSWER: Yasunari Kawabata [or in reverse order] [10] One of Kawabata’s Palm-of-the-Hand stories is this magical realist one in which a woman detaches the title body part from herself and lends it to the narrator to keep for a night. ANSWER: “One Arm” [or “Kataude”] [10] Another one of Kawabata’s Palm-of-the Hand short stories is this one about a traveller who befriends Eikichi and becomes infatuated with the title character, a member of a troupe who turns out to be younger than she looks. ANSWER: “The Dancing Girl of Izu” [or “Izu no Odoriko”]

17. This occurrence of phenomenon can be indicated by a reaction arrow with a circle above its halfway point. For 10 points each: [10] Name this phenomenon that results in the inversion of the stereochemical configuration at a stereocenter in a chemical reaction. During it, the configuration of a chiral molecule from one enantiomeric form to another. ANSWER: Walden inversion [10] The Walden inversion always occurs in and was first discovered in this type of reaction mechanism that involves the namesake number molecules for it’s rate law. These reactions are dominant when strong, unhindered nucleophiles attack a primary alkyl halide. ANSWER: SN2 [or substitution nucleophilic bi-molecular reaction before mention] [10] The backside attack on the chiral centre in SN2 reactions is done by a nucleophile, which is always an electron donor and thus this kind of substance per a definition espoused by Lewis. ANSWER: Lewis base [or basic]

18. This third-party candidate had former Air Force General Curtis Lemay as his running mate. For ten points each: [10] Name this former Democratic Governor of Alabama, who did not tell his wife, Lurleen, that she had cancer though he knew for three years. He was famous for declaring “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” ANSWER: George Corley Wallace [10] Wallace was a third candidate in this election in which the Democratic ticket of Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie was defeated by a former Republican vice-president. ANSWER: United States Presidential Election of 1968 [10] This man was a favourite to become president in 1968, but was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan. He was the brother of a former Democratic president who was himself assassinated in 1963. ANSWER: Robert Francis Kennedy [or RFK; or “Bobby” Kennedy; prompt on “Kennedy”] 19. Name these celebrity children with bizarre given names, for ten points each: [10] This daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z was featured on the song “Glory”, becoming the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart. ANSWER: Blue Ivy Carter [prompt on “Carter”] [10] Okay, so it’s not quite as outrageous, but this celebrity is mother to 2008’s twins Emme Maribel and Maximilian David-presumably the kids had a nanny while this singer had a scandal by singing for the dictator of Turkmenistan’s birthday in 2013. ANSWER: Jennifer Lynn Lopez Muniz [Either, or J.Lo] [10] This daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin was named after a biblical reference. ANSWER: Apple Martin [prompt on “Martin”]

20. Nuclear missiles were launched in the first season finale of this show, and the President was revealed to be hiding in Guantanamo Bay. For ten points each: [10] Name this current NBC drama, starring Tracy Spiridakos, about society struggling to survive after all electrical power was removed. ANSWER: Revolution [10] Apparently, the electricity was removed by having it consumed by these devices. In Revolution's second season, these devices develop a human personality and have the ability to bring people back to life. ANSWER: nanites or nanotech or nanobots [accept equivalents to “tiny machines”; prompt on “fireflies”; do not accept “USB drives”] [10] Tom Neville, a frequent antagonist on Revolution, is played by this actor, who also played Sidney Glass on Once Upon a Time and Gus on Breaking Bad. ANSWER: Giancarlo Esposito

21. Name these Simon and Garfunkel songs, for ten points each: [10] This ballad about a “story seldom told” was released as a follow-up single to “Mrs. Robinson” and appeared on their last album Bridge Over Troubled Water. The refrain features the tune “lie-la-lie”. ANSWER: “The Boxer” [10] Simon and Garfunkel released this song in the aftermath of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and includes the lyrics: “Hello darkness, my old friend,/I’ve come to talk to you again.” ANSWER: “The Sound of Silence” [10] This song was included on the album Sounds of Silence and depicts the singer as the title entity, which feels “no pain,” and an island, which “never cries.” ANSWER: “I am a Rock”

22. Name the following video games series based on musical clues, for 10 points each: [10] The only song composed for a videogame to win a Grammy was Christopher Tin’s 2005 song “Baba Yetu,” whose Swahili lyrics served as the loading screen tune for the fourth installment in this 4X series. ANSWER: Sid Meier’s Civilization series [or Civilization IV] [10] The music of this Valve series is most famous for Jonathan’s Coulton’s 2007 song “Still Alive” which is sung by Ellen McLain, the voice of GLaDOS, the antagonist of this puzzle-platformer utilizing the namesake entities. ANSWER: Portal [10] Every main installment of this RTS series formerly managed by Westwood had a song called “Hell March” which sampled the sounds of a Soviet-style military parade. ANSWER: Command & Conquer: Red Alert