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2013 NYU Weird Thing.Pdf One character from G. I. Joe, Corporal Lance Steinberg, is better known by this codename. In nature, this word refers to a group of eggs all laid at a single time. The mascot of the Houston Rockets was given this name after the team’s championship victories in 1994 and 1995. A popular style of purses is called by this name because it lacks a handle. In a car with manual transmission, the left-most foot pedal operates a mechanical element with this name. FTP, give this word spoken by NYU QBers to refer to a particularly skillful buzz. ANSWER: clutch Mike Bentley speculated that the actress who played this character must have starred in Yogesh’s short film – something that could have been easily disproved by watching it – and Yogesh powered a Mike Cheyne-written question about her namesake institution in last year’s Minnesota Open, which made his week. She knows how to say, “Let me stay up late, or I’m calling immigration” in several languages and was saved from poverty when oil was discovered in her family’s diamond mine. She composed lyrics stating that she “deserves the opposite of hate” and described “la” as “something you get to break if you’re rich” while learning musical scales. John Michael Higgins portrayed her father, and two cast members of the series on which she appeared are currently NYU students. Known for the catchphrase “Yay me!”, this is, FTP, what Brenda Song-played heiress in Disney’s Suite Life franchise? ANSWER: London Tipton (accept either underlined name) The boasts on this establishment’s webpage include an onsite fitness center and “room service (limited).” Located at the intersection of Baltimore Avenue and Berwyn Road, other features of this complex include a putting green, multiple shuffleboard courts, and access to a wafflemaker. On a day that began here, two NYU teams finished a combined 7-9, ignoring two losses to their coach, who managed to come back after spotting the NYU A team 300 points at halftime. However, the novice teams nearly didn’t make it here after some confusion with the DC metro system. FTP, name this super-cool hotel in College Park, the best-named housing that NYU Quiz Bowl has ever known. ANSWER: Clarion Inn and Fundome, College Park, Maryland When one student currently at this university said that he knew Yogesh from losing to Yogesh’s team in Scholastic Bowl, Yogesh replied, “For me, it was Tuesday.” One member of its quiz bowl team was Yogesh’s teammate at Oxford in 2003-04, while another, Nicholas Polk, went to USC with him from 2005-07. A student from here memorized thousands of lead-ins to lead his team to victory at Yogesh’s first ICT in 2002. Other alumni include a member of the Virginia team that lost the 2013 ICT final to a Matt Jackson-led Yale, as well as the frequent captain of Columbia’s current team. It was simultaneously home to two of the best female quizbowlers of all time, Susan Ferrari and Selene Koo, in addition to the aforementioned Marshall Steinbaum, David Seal, and Michael “Marnold” Arnold. Also an alma mater of Seth Teitler and Andrew Yaphe, this is, FTP, what school attended by Katrina Van Laan’s twin sister, where Yogesh will play in a trash tournament this summer at its namesake “Open”? ANSWER: the University of Chicago This man briefly retired to Florida, but returned to face a cult called “Children of the Sun.” A confidant of the Timson family, he is a regular at Pommeroy’s wine bar. His co-workers include Phyllida “Portia” Erskine-Brown, “Soapy” Sam Ballard, and Guthrie Featherstone, the latter two of whom have served as Head of Chambers at 3 Equity Court. He never took silk, but his greatest triumph was winning “alone and without a leader” the case of the Penge Bungalow Murders, and he refers to his wife Hilda as “She Who Must Be Obeyed.” Created by famed attorney John Mortimer and brilliantly depicted by Leo McKern, this is, FTP, what self- proclaimed “Old Bailey hack” whom, their trophies notwithstanding, neither NYU’s D2 team nor Matt Jackson’s Yale A team could identify in consecutive years at ICT? ANSWER: Horace Rumpole (accept either underlined name) or Rumpole of the Bailey 5 Raskin and Terry developed the most widely-used measure of this psychological concept. A 2001 paper by Morf and Rhodewalt about its “paradoxes” described it in terms of “motivated self- construction.” Virgil Zeigler-Hill claimed that it was the result of discrepant self-esteem, and a 1998 study by Bushman and Baumeister found that it predicted direct aggression in response to ego threat. A 2009 book by Jean Twenge refers to it as an “epidemic,” and a classic work by Christopher Lasch subtitled “American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations” is about “The Culture of” it. Otto Kernberg identified splitting as a defense mechanism associated with it, and Heinz Kohut wrote extensively about it in relation to rage. It can take the form of a personality disorder whose DSM criteria include lack of empathy, need for admiration, and grandiosity. FTP, identify this personality trait with a name deriving from a mythological figure who fell in love with his own reflection. ANSWER: narcissism This QB member won a spelling bee at an art school in the eighth grade, and then later that year spent six weeks at Culver Military Academy. Personal accomplishments of this person include knitting a scarf, training their dog to compete in agility, mastering sliding down stair rails, taking ballroom dance in lieu of normal PE, and completing 3 seasons of LOST in 4 days during an AP exam week. This person has twice broken into fields to go cow riding and once drove onto a park plaza, but has only gotten into legal trouble for not validating a metro ticket. While applying for colleges, she submitted to Yale a rhymed essay in meter about horses, and was happy to be waitlisted. FTP, name this Linguistics and Italian major who has auburn hair and hails from the sleepy state of Oregon. ANSWER: Sarah Cook (accept “Cook”; prompt on “Sarah”) Aaron looks to God for inspiration and God looks to this man for inspiration. If you ask him an Indonesian literature question, it’s no big deal – he knows 12 different Indonesian authors and will correct your spelling errors! If you look up “clutch” in the dictionary, you will see a picture of this man. Oh, and just for fun, he powers current event questions on Kazakhstan to clinch the finals at ICT. FTP, name this historian of Albanian historians who moonlights as the president of NYU quizbowl and who in reality is the extremely talented president of Yale quizbowl. ANSWER: Matt Jackson (prompt on first name) This actor starred on the detective series Johnny Staccato and played a fugitive who holds a woman at gunpoint but doesn’t realize she’s deaf on an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. An early success came as a longshoreman opposite Sidney Poitier in the racial drama Edge of the City. A telekinetic girl played by Amy Irving makes his villain explode at the end of The Fury, and he got an Oscar nomination as the rebellious Victor Franko in The Dirty Dozen. He appeared in Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky and an excellent episode of Columbo opposite good friend Peter Falk, while in his most famous role he is an actor who assures his wife that he caused the scratches down her back, but secretly schemes with Minnie and Roman Castevet to have her impregnated by Satan. FTP, name this portrayer of the title character’s husband, Guy Woodhouse, in Rosemary’s Baby. ANSWER: John Cassavetes One of this author’s title characters steals semen from famous men throughout history. An earlier story by this author ends with that same character having involuntary sex with the fat Mrs. Posonby after Henri Biotte discovers an aphrodisiac smell. In addition to My Uncle Oswald and “Bitch,” this man wrote a story in which Lexington is swindled by Zuckermann after Aunt Glosspan’s death and then slaughtered in a warehouse full of pigs. Another story by him ends with injured pilot Peter Williamson giving name, rank, and serial number after seeing the words “Garde au Chien” and realizing he is not in Brighton. His most famous stories feature Mary Maloney killing her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and serving it to investigating police, and a man who wagers Carlos that his cigarette lighter will strike ten times a row or he loses his thumb. “Beware of the Dog,” “Lamb to the Slaughter,” and “Man from the South” are all by, FTP, what macabre British writer who – that’s right, Aaron – wrote a lot NOT for children? ANSWER: Roald Dahl 10 Wilhelm Steinitz called this the dullest of chess openings, and one that he never played. Victor Korchnoi and Mikhail Botvinnik notably advocated this opening. George Balster has played nothing but this opening as black for the past 5 years, when given the opportunity. The Tarrasch variation of this opening is characterized by 3. Nd2, which was used by Anatoly Karpov extensively in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Players who fear the awesome power of this defense often play the boring and drawish exchange variation, characterized by 3. e x d5. FTP, name this closed response to the King’s Pawn Game characterized by 1. e4 e6. F5P, it was created by Chamouillet in a correspondence game between Paris and London and is named for its country of origin.
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