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

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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

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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. ANSWER: The French Defense

This person sometimes tells people that one of the reasons he chose to come to NYU was “for this girl,” which is actually partially true. During freshman year this club member went through his “emo phase,” a period during which he shut himself away from the world and listened to Chris Brown for about a week. This person is not Michael Zhuang but this person probably also made his English professor think, “What the hell is this Stern student doing sitting in my class?” This person likes trolling people for fun by incorporating California Slang into his jargon and finding creative uses for the Internet meme, “Do you even lift?” Outside of quizbowl, this person also enjoys FIFA Street, poker nights, and 53rd and 6th chicken and rice. FTP, identify this closet quizbowler and senior member of the club from Atlanta, who will still try to stop by and visit you guys next year when he is working in the city. ANSWER: Jason Kevin Lai (accept either underlined name) [QUESTION REDACTED]

During this club member’s only foray into debate, he ended his closing argument against globalization by jumping on a table and yelling “¡Viva La Revolucion!”, leading his side to victory. Going on to lead his high school to two straight appearances at HSNCT, he may have actually run into Jason at some point during the first run. Deciding not to play quiz bowl during his freshman year, he aligned himself to join and captain the NYU Division II team that took silver at ICT 2012. Somehow, he is even more proud of this than of coining the term “Soul Quiz Bowlers” to name them. FTP, name this consul-elect of our club, who is writing this from across the pond and missing you all dearly – even Aaron Cohen. ANSWER: Max Stivers (accept either underlined name; last name rhymes with “divers”)

An accomplished capsizer who once smuggled their brother into the state of California in the back of a truck, this southpaw QBer first learned to write in mirror-image and still gets big J’s wrong once in a while, which is probably why they stick to numbers. Once a regionally competitive step dancer, this individual cringes whenever “you” attempt to pronounce the Irish words in the rare Fionn mac Cumhaill question. Like Amy Poehler, as a child this QBer celebrated Patriots’ Day with a weeklong school vacation, and probably also like Amy Poehler, they correctly believe that most of “you” cannot say “Reese’s Pieces” correctly. (You probably just said it wrong.) Additionally, the two probably shopped at the same mall, where scenes from Paul Blart: Mall Cop were filmed, and the most recent “Ask Amy” video was directed at someone who shares this person’s first name and home city of Boston. She is not the murdered teenager at the center of the Leveson Inquiry, but Jerry’s daughter who dated Chris Traeger would share her name if Andy were to divorce April and marry her. FTP, name this person who apparently loves Amy Poehler even more than Gilmore Girls, and is the main co-president’s roommate. ANSWER: Millie Dwyer (accept either underlined name, or “Mildred”)

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This school’s decision to ban beer pong during the 2009 swine flu outbreak made the Weekend Update of SNL. Its president is the country’s highest paid college president and is the focus of a poster in an MIT building. This school’s QB team finished third at the 2009 DII ICT and currently includes a member whom Jason Lai refers to as “the silent assassin.” To this day, NYU has never beaten this school’s A team. Members of this school’s QB team include its friendly president Nimit Dhulekhar and its current leading scorer Qi Wang. FTP, name this mostly male technical school in upstate NY whose many illustrious alumni include our own Aaron Cohen. ANSWER: RPI or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (prompt on “that giant sausage fest” etc.)

He’s not Arthur Hiller, but this director’s last film, a comedy about an insurance agent drawn into a murder plot, re-teamed the writer and stars of The In-Laws. A museum curator romances a crazy parking attendant in his Minnie and Moskowitz. In another of his films, Mr. Sophistication is a singer employed at Crazy Horse West, a strip club whose owner, Cosmo Vitelli, loses $23,000 gambling and must kill a Chinese bookie. He raised money for his first film, about an interracial relationship, from listeners of Jean Shepherd’s radio show. Other films by him center on actress Myrtle Gordon, who breaks down after a fan’s death; the mentally ill Mable, who is institutionalized by her construction worker husband Nick; and gangster’s moll Gloria, who goes on the run with a Puerto Rican boy. All of those roles were played by his wife, Gena Rowlands. FTP, name this filmmaker known for gritty and naturalistic dramas like Opening Night, Shadows, Faces, Husbands, and A Woman under the Influence. ANSWER: John Cassavetes

This economist argued that countries should avoid deflation, even at the price of currency deflation, in A Tract on Monetary Reform. He argued that near zero nominal interest rates could actually worsen a recession through liquidity traps. This man is the favorite economist of George Balster. Milton Friedman argued that this man’s theories were the root cause of deflation. This man’s most famous quote is continued, “Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past, the ocean is flat again.” FTP, name this economist who wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and said, “In the long run, we are all dead.” ANSWER: John Maynard Keynes

The roots of this psychological theory can be found in a combination of Jonathan Haidt’s social intuitionism and Jonah Berger and Chip Heath’s identity-signaling perspective, and it builds on Norbert Schwarz’s work on feelings-as-information and processing fluency, as well as Richard Lazarus and James Gross’s theories of emotion. Its developer was influenced by Carl Wilson’s book about Celine Dion, Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, which introduced him to the work of Pierre Bourdieu and the Hume-Kant debate on aesthetics, and in a photograph of him presenting this theory at a conference, the logo of the hospital where he was born magically appears next to his head. Its name – described by Nick Ungson as “baller” – occurred to him in a flash of intuition after a conversation in a subway station near Columbia with Evan Squire and Jason Lai, and it references three distinct phases of judgment: Set, Appraisal, and Re-Appraisal. FTP, name this subject of Yogesh Raut’s MA thesis NOT named after anyone. ANSWER: the SARA model of experiential judgment

This QB member’s least favorite word is “dulcet” because it is the word that caused him to lose the 8th grade spelling bee. Some embarrassing facts about this member are that as a teenager he went three and a half years without getting a haircut, and once during a routine cleaning his dentist referred to him as a ‘Juicy Boy.’ Despite a usually pleasant demeanor, this member has an irrational dislike for anyone who shares his first name. This member has a unique bar of soap for each day of the week, his favorite meal is brinner, and he has been told that his celebrity doppelganger is actor Paul Dano. Despite these fun facts, you probably know him better for his skills at tallying receipts, keeping score, and sending you weekly e-mails. FTP, name this multi- talented member of NYU Quiz Bowl, your current Secretary turned President-elect. ANSWER: Evan Squire (accept either underlined name) 20 – HALFWAY POINT

Though it acquired its current name in 1960, this entity was founded in 1888 by Hiram Hadley. One tradition here involves ringing the Engineers’ Bell, and another is painting a giant “A” onto a mountainside. Its alumni include former Miss Teen USA finalist Brittany Toll and a Farmers Insurance agent who is also the mayor of its home city, Ken Miyagishima. ESPN reporter Rob Stone famously humiliated himself at an institute in this university where the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, with a score of up to 2 million Scoville heat units, was named the world’s hottest chili pepper. One rivalry with a neighboring school is called the Battle of I-10; another is the Rio Grande Rivalry. FTP, name this southwestern state university located in Las Cruces, where Yogesh plans to start school in the fall. ANSWER: New Mexico State University (do not accept “New Mexico”) or NMSU

Born at exactly 11:00AM on a winter’s day, this person got her first solo in second grade and has since learned songs in Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Swahili, and of course English. Since coming to NYU, this person has gained such nicknames as Nora, Fifty Shades of White, Designated Mother, Eric, Dymphna, and Sweet Vengeance. Born on February 7, 1994, FTP, who is this freshman in the Global Liberal Studies Program? F5P: “Eric.” ANSWER: Erica Beeman (accept either underlined name)

This person once lied about his age to get into the Library of Congress, which might be a felony, and in high school he got in trouble for sneaking out with two girls to see a movie about Hannibal Lecter. In 2013, he appeared at the top of the LGBT subreddit after a University of Virginia student made a letter he wrote in 2004 go viral. He thinks that “Hecho en Mexico” are the three sweetest Coke-related words in the English language, and he is preternaturally gifted at citing sitcom episodes to parallel virtually any situation. His most impressive quizbowl feat came after Seth Teitler answered a question about The Lives of Others; Mike Bentley, Sarah Angelo, and Matt Jackson then looked on as this man powered ten out of ten tossups in a single half, on his way to scoring an average of over 221 PPG. FTP, name this future Aggie and alumnus of six college quiz bowl clubs whose proudest achievement at NYU was developing the SARA model. ANSWER: Yogesh Raut (accept either underlined name, but only accept surname from Aaron Cohen if he pronounces it correctly)

This actress starred opposite Jennifer Beals as a military rape victim in the Internet film Lauren. A childhood playmate of the Olsen twins, she had a small role in their DTV movie Billboard Dad and made her feature debut a decade earlier in Last Rites, a film written and directed by her father. Her mother, Deborah Pratt, played a character with her name in an episode of Quantum Leap, and she played the sister of Tim McGee – played by her real-life step-brother, Sean Murray – on NCIS. She was cast in her most famous role despite being nearly twice the age of Sasha Pieterse, who plays her dead frenemy, Alison DiLaurentis. Probably a former USC schoolmate of Yogesh Raut, she is also his favorite actress, and you all saw her play strip quiz-bowl. FTP, name this portrayer of Spencer Hastings on Pretty Little Liars whose last name will remind George of a general who served under Justinian. ANSWER: Troian Bellisario This person was recently confused with a bank robber in his home town, prompting the police to go to his house looking for him. This person almost fell off of the top tier of Wrigley Field in an attempt to catch a foul ball. This person nearly broke a classmate’s ribs in gym, to which this person responded, “I told him to give me the ball.” After this person lost their final quiz bowl match in high school, they threw several desks at a wall. This person was the Chief Executive Traveling Secretary to the A Team at ACF Nationals 2013. FTP, name this Illinoisan who has multiple times been nicknamed “Big Man” and “G Balin” for obvious reasons. ANSWER: George Balster (accept either or both parts)

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that people with this profession are twice as likely to die on the job as police officers and four times as likely to be killed on the job as firefighters. Nine U.S. presidents have held this profession at some point in their lives, the most recent of whom once famously reported a UFO sighting at the behest of his children. In film, this profession has been depicted in the ending scene of Wall-E, the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds, and the climactic rescue scene of Tropic Thunder, during which Sergeant Lincoln Osiris proclaims that he works with lead in this profession. If you manage to beat Oregon Trail playing as this profession, your final score will be tripled. Identify, FTP, this profession held by currently- abroad QBer Sabeeh Jameel during every summer of his life since he was 14. ANSWER: farmer

Although able to speak in full sentences before age 2, this individual spent their early years referring to all deer as “Bambi” and to all colors as “orange.” Born south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but eventually moving north at the tender age of 8, this individual’s love of the ocean led to a frightening underwater encounter with an electric eel. In the past four years this individual has been seemingly “pretending” to study anthropology, as she usually gets all of the anthro-related QB questions wrong – but she will hopefully remember E. O. Wilson’s name in the future. FTP, who is this SCUBA diving, world traveling, sushi loving French speaker who made the clutch decision to have you all draft questions in exchange for food, aka Millie’s roommate and your ever present co-president? ANSWER: Rebecca Zeidman (accept either underlined name)

Yogesh emphasized capitalization to Aaron when they used this phrase in a Facebook thread begun by Mike Cheyne. Katie Peters did not understand the significance of this phrase when it was used by Yogesh to answer a tossup about an obscure Albanian historian. It originated when Jonathan Magin cut a tossup on someone Aaron erroneously believes to be Yogesh’s favorite director from an ACF Nationals packet. FTP, give this phrase abbreviated C.I.T.O. ANSWER: “Cassavetes is too obscure” (prompt on “CITO” on early buzz) In one idiotic incident, this man claimed that bears and humans look nearly identical to one another. Michael Zhuang once claimed that he wasn’t sure if this man actually existed (hint: he does). He once claimed he would be Sarah Dillard’s proctor for an exam, a promise that never panned out. He also got a twitter account for the sole purpose of getting bar trivia questions in advance. For the past two years this man has continually made the dubious claim that he has written 3,000 questions, many in his capacity as an NAQT writer and geography editor. FTP, name this graduate student who was recently elected vice-president of NYU quiz bowl and who will certainly yell at you if you don’t know your chemistry. ANSWER: Aaron Cohen (accept either underlined name)

Yogesh once raised the possibility of Jason being “king scumbag” in reference to this man. According to a source quoted by Christian Flow, he once stated, “I deserve to bleed!” Mirza envisioned Doug Yetman, Aaron Cohen, and this man’s wife, Hannah Kirsch, joining this man in an NYU Dream Team. He described his own mental health as “on the wrong side of ‘unstable’” and claimed to get a “transgressive thrill” out of his most famous action. FTP, name this former Harvard quizbowler and notorious cheater. ANSWER: Andrew “Andy” Watkins (prompt on partial answer)

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This person’s admiration of celebrities began when she was two years old and wandered away from her parents at a shopping center, only to be returned by John Tesh. 16 years later, Stephen Colbert would compliment her fashion sense. Her middle name may derive from Seinfeld and Yogesh has criticized her for being unfair to Jay Leno. She currently writes about TV and film for the Washington Square News. FTP, name this freshman who hasn’t worn pants in public in over a year. F5P, her parents are big fans of Steve Winwood. ANSWER: Valerie Nelson (accept either underlined name)

A joke about Patrick McGoohan was only understood by one person at this event, while another person at it made a series of gaffes involving confusing ringworm and tapeworm, actors John Rhys-Davies and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and the website Pinterest and the adjective “Pinteresque.” Its invitation contained an unintended doppelganger for Sarah Cook, and a chocolate babka brought to it was quickly regifted at an Oscar party later that day. Rescheduled due to a snowstorm, it featured a much-appreciated gift of Mexican Coke and a completely unwanted present of absinthe. Sarah Dillard and Michael Zhuang were not at, FTP, what club- wide celebration in Queens that took place, oddly, on Jason Lai’s birthday? ANSWER: Yogesh Raut’s birthday party (prompt on partial answer)

The name’s the same. One is a distinguished professor of Chemical Engineering. Another is a virulently xenophobic political commentator. The NYU QBer of this name once celebrated his birthday by touring the largest papier-mâché site in central Maryland. His room-reserving mojo allowed us to hold Monday night practices. FTP, name this former Texas student from southern California, a post-doc who never doesn’t complain about math questions. ANSWER: Ray Yang (accept any underlined name but not “Raymond”) Non-uniquely-identifying lead-in alert! This member’s favorite part of quiz bowl is obviously the food. His/her worst fear is being surrounded by corn stalks, a fear that sadly happens frequently, given his/her home state. A freshman, their current claim to fame lies in being the only team member who needs to forge their parent’s signature on competition forms. FTP, name this QBer who insists that Yoshi is a turtle (and calls Yogesh by different Community characters’ names). ANSWER: Lindsey Keck (accept either underlined name)

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. According to an April 24, 2013, post on Deadline.com, 20th Century Fox has secured the rights to Guys and Dolls and wants to cast these two actors as Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson. They both appeared in a 2010 short film directed by one of them, Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo, and one will cameo in the other’s feature directorial debut, Don Jon. They played members of a squad of soldiers traumatized by Iraq service in Stop-Loss. In the opening number of the 85th Academy Awards, one danced with Charlize Theron while the other joined Daniel Radcliffe and Seth MacFarlane in a soft-shoe number set to “High Hopes.” One opened an episode of SNL by gyrating shirtless, an homage to the other’s turn as a stripper in Magic Mike. Seen separately in 2012 in The Vow, Premium Rush, 21 Jump Street, and Looper, these are, FTP, which two bros, both man-crushes of Jason Lai? ANSWER: Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (prompt on partial answers)

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One person with this distinction called Lisa Kudrow the most talented Friends cast member while noting that she went to Vassar; that man later acted out an eerily detailed simulation of the behavior of a child molester. Another incorrectly cited Silent Bob as the Mallrats character who stares at Magic Eye posters. Another joked that mornings on which one consumes Danishes are the happiest mornings, a joke that – like yet another’s observation that MANOVA is not a sexist term – Yogesh has frequently stolen. One of them is the only person to ever re-tweet one of Yogesh’s tweets, and on Christmas Day, it took Yogesh nearly an hour to travel from one movie theater in Times Square to another directly across the street because he detoured to meet one of these people. Still another’s incorrect definition of heritability led Yogesh to declare that he was “hate-taking” her class. Including the co-developer of construal theory, these are, FTP, what group of people whose decision to let Yogesh pass allowed him to complete his degree? ANSWER: Yogesh’s instructors (or professors, etc.) at NYU (prompt on partial answer)

This person once claimed that Facebook exchanges between Katya and Yogesh were his main source of entertainment, and his neg on a question about the American Party led Yogesh to try to make his name a verb. In an HSQB forum post, he sarcastically mocked the notion that women avoid quizbowl because they are “delicate” and “conciliatory.” In addition to coming within a tossup of beating Yale as part of an NYU-based superteam with Thomas Littrell, he helped bring NYU its only non-ICT trophy, at Ridgewood, and his sister Diana goes to NYU. Now playing for the University of Massachusetts, this is, FTP, what deep-voiced lone wolf who, incredibly, lost to NYU in an ACF game after being up 45 points with one tossup left? ANSWER: Douglas Yetman (accept either underlined name) This QBer shares a birthday with his namesake saint’s feast day. His favorite poet penned lines like “Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” and “When the melancholy fit shall fall/Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud.” That poet is John Keats. While attending a performance at Carnegie Hall, he conversed with a professor of music from Dartmouth who assumed him to be a music major for most of the evening until informed otherwise. He disappeared from quizbowl for two years until he was recruited to play for NYU at the 2012 ICT, where he didn’t do much except argue about Chinese pronunciations with moderators. FTP, name this Stern senior who, at ACF Nationals 2013, assumed the role of classical musical negalist. ANSWER: Michael Zhuang (accept either underlined name)

This is the title of a Flight of the Conchords episode guest-starring Sutton Foster. Yogesh used this four-letter term in a tongue-in-cheek fashion to justify leaving practice to eat Ethiopian food, and at a recent Brooklyn pub quiz, he joked that a woman with this first name had released an album titled Yes, I’m a Witch, only to be shocked when that turned out to be true. It is the first name of the leader of Seatbelts, the band that performs the soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop, and it is the second name that appears in the title of a song whose chorus proclaims, “The way things are going, they’re gonna crucify me.” FTP, give Yogesh’s affectionate nickname for Suzy Simmons, also the given name of John Lennon’s widow. ANSWER: Yoko

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. As a gift, this team gave this player a 3d pop-up painting by Charles Fazzino. The first time this player faced this team, he hit a game-winning home run off Josias Manzanillo. One of this man’s teammates referred to fans of this team as “degenerates” and said that traveling to their ballpark was like “riding to Beirut,” but this man has shown nothing but affection for this team, even naming his son after their former home, and his strong performance against them in the 1999 NL East playoff race helped earn him an MVP award. Chants of “Larry!” frequently greeted, FTP, what Atlanta Brave when he faced what club at Shea Stadium and Citi Field? ANSWER: Chipper Jones and the New York Mets (prompt on “New York”)

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Bonus secret 41st tossup, just for fun: The Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction. ANSWER: Wittig reaction FTPE, name these places Max has visited during his semester abroad. (Max: “Extra dignity points if you can keep the jealousy out of your voice while answering.”) [10] Max took tea at the Jane Austen museum in this English city, called Aquae Sulis by the Romans during their occupation of Britain. ANSWER: Bath [10] After stepping out of his TARDIS at the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff, Max walked along the wharf to an entirely fan-constructed memorial to this fictional character who was killed in the Children of Earth miniseries of Torchwood. ANSWER: Ianto [yawn-toe] Jones (accept either underlined name) [10] Astoundingly, Max had the best Korean BBQ of his life in this European capital city, after spending the day exploring the gardens that gave it its name, and its famous Temple Bar district. ANSWER: Dublin, Ireland [Max: “The gardens are the dubh linn (black pool) gardens”]

To make this question less of a softball, Evan has barred Yogesh, Aaron, Jason, Michael, Ray, George, and himself from answering. FTSNOP: [5, 5] The NYU Quiz Bowl team competed at two national tournaments this semester: The NAQT Intercollegiate Tournament and ACF Nationals. F5PE, in what cities did those tournaments take place? ANSWER: New York (City) and Chicago [5, 5] Now, F5PE, what do the acronyms NAQT and ACF stand for? ANSWER: National Academic Quiz Tournaments and Academic Competition Federation [5, 5] F5PE, give the name and school affiliation of the highly skilled rival player who was almost voted president of our club for next year. ANSWER: Matt Jackson (accept either underlined name) and Yale University

FTSNOP, name these restaurants and brands that club officials have used to provide food for Monday or Tuesday meetings during the year. [5, 5] In between his internship and running meetings on Monday nights, Max walked to these two places on the corner of 8th Street and 6th Avenue to get pizza and cookies for the group. ANSWER: 99¢ Fresh Pizza and Insomnia cookies [10] In the effort to satisfy Jason’s endless cravings for chicken wings and Yogesh’s more pressing need for a non-dairy option, Max and Evan organized feasts from this restaurant specializing in finger foods, unappetizing salads, and gigantic portions of coleslaw. ANSWER: Pluck U [10] In addition to fond memories of the Dos Toros feast and the Chinatown cakes ordered to celebrate the club’s last meeting of the Fall semester, the moment when Evan exposed us all to this brand of Diet Chocolate Fudge soda must surely be seared into your brains (*shudders*). ANSWER: Waist Watcher It takes a Nathan of Fillions to hold us back. FTPE: [10] Many Fillion fans were introduced to their idol as he interrupted this song sung by Neil Patrick Harris as the title character in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog, turning the song into an ode to his own greatness. As he is Nathan Fillion, nobody minds all that much. ANSWER: “A Man’s Gotta Do” [10] Starring as Firefly’s Malcolm Reynolds, in the role that made him a sci-fi cult hero, Fillion saw his character receive this affectionate nickname from the Jewel Staite-played Kaylee. ANSWER: Captain Tightpants (prompt on partial answer) [10] Continuing his bromance with Joss Whedon, Fillion has been cast as this constable in Whedon’s upcoming Much Ado about Nothing modernization and reunion tour. ANSWER: Dogberry

FTPE, given the NYU team and the tournament they played in, name the team’s highest scorer. [10] NYU, Division I ICT, 2013 ANSWER: Yogesh Raut (accept either underlined name; Max: “I won’t even bother trying with a pronunciation guide …”) [10] NYU A, Collegiate Novice at University of Maryland, 2012 ANSWER: Andy “other George” Margulies (accept any underlined name; prompt on “George”) [10] NYU B, Minnesota Open Mirror at Columbia, 2012 ANSWER: Douglas Yetman (accept either underlined name)

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Star Wars has one of the sci-fi world’s deepest and coolest expanded universes. FTPE: [10] This war was fought in 5000 BBY. It originated when two hyperspace explorers landed on Korriban during a Duel featuring Ludo Kressh. ANSWER: The Great Hyperspace War [10] This Sith Lord was the principal commander of the Sith Empire during that war. He was exiled to Yavin 4 and his tomb on Korriban contains a Star Map that Revan used. ANSWER: Naga Sadow (do not accept “Shadow,” as that is not his name) [10] Revan used the Star Map to find this super weapon of the Infinite Empire, which was heavily featured in the video game Knights of the Old Republic. ANSWER: The Star Forge

George: “Did that last Star Wars bonus annoy you? Well, too bad; here is another one!” FTPE: [10] After The Galactic Civil War, this man attempted to reestablish the Jedi Order, eventually establishing a Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 at the Great Temple, a former Rebel base. ANSWER: Luke Skywalker (prompt on “Skywalker”) [10] Luke would go on to marry this former Emperor’s Hand who has tried to kill him on multiple occasions. Part of her name is shared with one of Yogesh’s Brooklyn pub-quiz-mates. ANSWER: Mara Jade (prompt on partial answer) [10] Mara Jade was killed by this man then known as Darth Caedus. He is the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa. His sister Jaina killed him on a ship named for their younger brother Anakin. ANSWER: Jacen Solo (prompt on “Solo”) FTSNOP, answer some questions about Jason Lai’s quizbowl related words of wisdom. [10] Jason coined, “Quizbowl is 90% luck; the other half is skill,” a reference to a well-known “Yogi-ism.” Yogi-isms are humorous sayings by what famous personality? ANSWER: Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra (Jason: “Like seriously punch someone if they guess Yogesh on this J”) [5, 5] Jason once said, “There is not to reason why; there is but to quiz or die,” a reference to this poem, which helped Evan get a tossup on it at a tournament. Name it F5P, and for another five name its author’s similarly titled poem about James Yorke Scarlett and his 300 men. ANSWER: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “The Charge of the Heavy Brigade” [10] Jason also once said, “Don’t take quizbowl too seriously. You will never get out alive.” This is a reference to one of his favorite quotes about life, generally attributed to this native of Central Illinois who died on the Lusitania. Though this man founded his own separatist community, Roycroft, don’t confuse him with a famous cult leader with an eerily similar name. ANSWER: Elbert Hubbard

Thanks to Joe Larkin, the Stanford lexicon defines having a tangible real-world connection to a quizbowl clue or answer as “Ford Foundation.” FTPE: [10] One of the few fathers of a noted quizbowler to be a legit answer line is this former General Foods executive and NEA chairman, also a poet identified with the New Formalist school. ANSWER: Dana Gioia [10] Right after Yogesh complained that no one he knew personally came up at ACF Nationals, in the final round his former advisor Phil Tetlock was mentioned as an ideological opponent of this reaction-time measure of implicit (or nonconscious) bias. ANSWER: the IAT or Implicit Association Test [10] Yogesh has correctly answered several questions about this Asian nation because he went to college with members of the Wangchuck family. ANSWER: Bhutan

No one man should get all those powers. FTPE, name these songs whose lyrics have been altered to be about Matt Jackson, none of which are by Kanye West. [10] “The tossup’s in black/The page is white/Matt Jackson powers all in sight/A beautiful sight/And now a child can understand/That this is the law of quizbowl land” ANSWER: “Black and White” by Three Dog Night [co-written by Alan Arkin’s dad!] [10] “I’m sorry ‘bout Matt Jackson/I am, for real/Never meant to make your novice team cry/I apologize a trillion times” ANSWER: “Ms. Jackson” by Outkast [10] “Even on NYU’s buzzer system, he can beat our best/Grace Liu leads him in, and he just does the rest/He’s got crazy buzzer fingers/I’ve never seen him fail/That short, wiry, racially ambiguous kid/Sure plays a mean quizbowl” ANSWER: “Pinball Wizard” by The Who or Elton John

10 On the eve of the 1985 Super Bowl, The Chicago Bears recorded the wildly popular “Super Bowl Shuffle,” one of the greatest songs of all time. FTPE, name these associated people. [10] This punky QB led the Bears to a 15-1 record in the 1985 season and became the first quarterback to run for two touchdowns in a Super Bowl. ANSWER: Jim McMahon [10] This man, nicknamed “Sweetness,” is considered by George Balster to be the greatest running back of all time. ANSWER: Walter Payton [10] This former Bears tight end coached the 1985 Bears. According to Da Super Fans, this man’s hair can cure our dependence on foreign oil and could have forced an opposing team to score negative 7 points. ANSWER: Mike Ditka (accept Da Coach or God, as both equally describe him)

This holiday is generally celebrated on August 1, where “generally” means “since 2012.” FTPE: [10] Identify this holiday announced by Mike Huckabee to support a restaurant chain founded by S. Truett Cathy for their opposition to same-sex marriage. ANSWER: National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day [5, 5] Every year Chick-fil-A hosts the Chick-fil-A Bowl, a college football game between a member of the ACC and SEC conferences. F5PE, identify the two teams in their 2012 bowl game. One team was lead by quarterback Tahj Boyd and the other once featured Tyrann “Honey Badger” Mathieu. ANSWER: the LSU or Louisiana State University Tigers and the Clemson University Tigers (prompt on “Tigers” for both) [10] Jason and Aaron coined this term for that feeling you get when you crave Chick-fil-A on Sundays and then realize that it’s closed. The fact that this term has a completely different, much more common meaning led to a very awkward Facebook conversation between them. ANSWER: “cockblocked” (accept word forms)

FTPE, answer these questions about quizzing Matts who are not Matt Jackson. [10] Yogesh does not regret missing a Party Down reunion in Austin to attend the wedding of his friend Matt Husky, which took place in a Unitarian chapel near St. Louis named for this founder of Washington University. You may be more familiar with this man’s Nobel laureate grandson, a playwright who is a favorite of Michael Zhuang. ANSWER: William Greenleaf Eliot [10] Unlike his quizbowling namesake, this Mad Men creator has been a Jeopardy! champion. ANSWER: Matthew Weiner [10] This UVA quizbowler failed to capture titles at either ICT or ACF Nationals, despite the latter being held at Columbia, whose president shares his surname; however, he came first in Mike Cheyne’s 2013 Player Poll and will no doubt have a great 2013-14 season. ANSWER: Matt Bollinger FTPE, name these QB members based on their similarity to Mila Kunis. [10] Like Mila Kunis, this QBer has been known to yell angrily at people in fluent Russian – or perhaps she’s speaking to them with love; it’s impossible to tell in Russian. ANSWER: Michelle Lerner (accept either underlined name) [10] Just as Mila Kunis lied about her age when auditioning for That ‘70s Show, this QBer pretended to have a seat on a crowded shuttle bus, enabling his team to reach their hotel. ANSWER: Michael Zhuang (accept either underlined name) [10] Kunis starred in the Mike Judge comedy Extract, whose plot is set in motion when a man loses a testicle. Another male who suffered a groin injury was one who made the mistake of surprising this QBer near a haunted house. ANSWER: Sarah Dillard (prompt on “Sarah”; accept “Dillard”)

Evan, Sarah Cook, and Ray were kind enough to get Yogesh passes to the Tribeca Film Festival. FTSNOP, answer these questions about movies he saw there. [10] Yogesh saw a powerful documentary about police dropping a bomb on a house on Osage Avenue in this city in 1985, killing John Africa and 10 other members of MOVE, including five small children. ANSWER: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [5] After staying up all night to complete his poster, Yogesh briefly fell asleep during the French comedy Cycling with Molière and again during the Russell Crowe-narrated documentary Red Obsession, about this country’s fascination with the French wine industry. ANSWER: People’s Republic of China [5] The excellent film Jîn, about a young Kurdish rebel, is in Kurdish and this language, which was also spoken in a brothel once visited by Sarah Dillard. ANSWER: Turkish [10] Yogesh unwisely stayed up before ACF Nationals to watch an alleged horror-comedy about lesbians and cannibals – but not, sadly, lesbian cannibals – from this country. It starred Temuera Morrison, best known as Star Wars’ Jango Fett. ANSWER: New Zealand

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FTSNOP, answer these questions linked by a common date. [5, 5] June 26 is the birthday shared by two actors best known for playing Ron Swanson and April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation. Name them F5PE. ANSWER: Nick Offerman and Aubrey Plaza [NOTE: Nick Offerman celebrated his birthday at the aforementioned Party Down reunion, which took place on June 26, 2011.] [5, 5] June 26, 2010, saw the wedding of Yogesh’s friends Nick and Phebe Polk in real life, as well as the wedding of these two fictional characters, who promptly skipped their honeymoon to join the Eleventh Doctor in investigating “an Egyptian goddess, loose, on the Orient Express … IN SPACE!” Name them F5PE. ANSWER: Amelia “Amy” Pond and Rory Williams (accept any underlined name) [10] This right-wing blogger, born on June 26, 1981, appeared on the 2000 presidential ballot as an elector for Pat Buchanan, making him one of the youngest elector candidates in US history. ANSWER: Aakash(deep) Raut (accept “Yogesh’s brother” or equivalents) FTPE, answer these questions about people who may or may not exist. [10] A part of Aaron Cohen still doesn’t believe that this former club officer is a real person. Unlike Mila Kunis, she does not share her name with part of the title of a Leon Uris novel; however, like Topaz, her name refers to a gemstone. ANSWER: Diamond “Diamante” Dyani Ebanks (accept either underlined name) [10] When Yogesh’s friend Suzy texted this young lady, asking if she wanted to go on a date with Aaron Cohen, her immediate response was, “Is that a real person?” For a quick 10 points, let’s see if Aaron (or anyone else) knows her name one week before their date. ANSWER: Abbey Warner (accept either underlined name) [10] Like Abelardo Gutierrez and the popularity of Alexander Scriabin, we only have direct evidence of this entity’s existence from one quizbowler. Specifically, Zach Taylor claimed to see him when looking directly at the only doctoral degree-holding NYU QBer, an event commemorated by Evan using Photoshop. ANSWER: “Raymond”

FTPE, name these modern culture heroes, none of whom are Matt Jackson. [10] Perhaps because his wife concealed news of his son’s injury from him, this man pitched an incredible three complete game victories, including two shutouts, to win the 1957 World Series for the Milwaukee Braves. He was also the winning pitcher of a 1959 game in which Harvey Haddix pitched an amazing 12 perfect innings but still lost. ANSWER: Lew Burdette [10] In the immediate wake of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, this Secretary of State made the much-mocked statement, “I am in control here”; perhaps not coincidentally, he was forced to resign by 1982. ANSWER: Alexander Haig [10] This Lutheran pastor is immortalized for a quote beginning, “First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.” Oddly, he also did not speak out when they came for Hitler. ANSWER: Martin Niemöller

FTPE, name these people with whom Michael Zhuang claims not to be familiar. [10] While George Balster is arguably too knowledgeable about this former Illinois senator and UN ambassador who said he was prepared to wait for an answer “until Hell freezes over,” Michael is completely ignorant of even his 1952 and 1956 runs as the Democratic presidential nominee against Eisenhower. ANSWER: Adlai Stevenson II (prompt on partial answer not containing the 2) [10] “We Didn’t Start the Fire” places this man’s name near that of a countryman who also died on March 5, 1953. Yogesh first learned about him from Highlights for Children magazine, as well as a Mathnet episode that notes that this composer, not Tchaikovsky, wrote Peter and the Wolf. ANSWER: Sergei Prokofiev [10] NYU’s entire A team was unable to identify this South African author of A Dry White Season, allowing Vassar’s York Chen – who is male – to wow us at practice. Coincidentally, this writer shares his last name with the title of a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie that inspired Max Stivers’ nickname for NYU quizbowlers. ANSWER: André Brink In 2011, Yogesh was one question away from breaking the WQC Top 30; in 2012, he was one question away from the Top 20. FTPE, identify these things that would have made a difference. [10] Yogesh deliberately memorized the name of this Italian prime minister in 2012; but, like the Mahabharata’s Karna, he forgot that knowledge at exactly the moment he needed it. ANSWER: Mario Monti [10] Yogesh is still kicking himself for changing an answer about this legendary photographer who co-founded Magnum Photos and covered Gandhi’s funeral and the last stages of the Chinese Civil War. This man also played a butler in Jean Renoir’s La Règle du jeu. ANSWER: Henri Cartier-Bresson [10] Yogesh’s first rule of quizzing is “Don’t overthink!”, but in 2011 he underthought and failed to name this wife of Juan Perón, who from 1974 to 1976 served as the Western Hemisphere’s first female head of state and head of government in modern times. ANSWER: Isabel (Martínez de) Perón (prompt on partial answer)

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To get over the sting of his numerous mistakes, Yogesh is going to draw attention to other people’s slip-ups. FTPE: [10] In NYU’s last game at ICT, just as Yogesh was about to power a question asking for a song used in Carnival Cruise advertisements that was originally written about heroin, Aaron decided that it would be a great time to neg with this response. ANSWER: “Who Let the Dogs Out?” [10] In addition to inventing works of literature like The House of St. Bernarda Alba and Darkness After Noon, and misidentifying Carlos Fuentes novels, Jason has shown a bizarre tendency to insert this consonant into answers like “the Weddell Sea” and “Supper at Emmaus.” ANSWER: “n” [10] At last year’s Quiz About Quiz, Sarah Dillard confused both Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott with this nonexistent thespian. She was probably thinking of an actor with degrees from Princeton and Yale who is the subject of a Bree Sharp novelty song. ANSWER: Daniel Duchovny (prompt on partial answer)

FTPE, give the “correct” pronunciation of … [10] … the musical instrument played by Jacqueline de Pré, according to a reader at Penn Bowl. ANSWER: “sell-oh” [10] … the unit of cultural transmission defined by Richard Dawkins, according to a student reader at UT-Austin. ANSWER: “mee-mee” [10] … the type of moiety exemplified by methenium and methanium, according to every reader whose background is not in the sciences. ANSWER: “car-bo-kay-shun” FTPE, answer these questions about men who traveled great distances in a hurry. [10] The namesake of one of Ramsey Furse’s rival high schools – the same school where a quiz bowl coach had some unfortunate Ezra Fitz-style shenanigans – this man rode overnight to a Continental Congress meeting to vote for independence in July 1776. ANSWER: Caesar Rodney [10] This hilariously-named general marched 20,000 Army of the Potomac troops to Tennessee, enabling the Union to crush the Confederacy at the Battle of Lookout Mountain. ANSWER: Joseph Hooker [10] With similarly momentous results, Aaron Cohen took a red-eye to Chicago and a hurried shuttle from the airport, thus arriving moments before the beginning of ICT – and several minutes ahead of this person, who was traveling all the way from upstairs. ANSWER: Jason Kevin Lai (accept either underlined name)

It takes its name from the epigraph of E. M. Forster’s Howard’s End. FTPE: [10] Max and Yogesh enjoy setting questions in the style of Rounds 1 and 2 of this UK game show, which debuted in 2008 and is hosted by Victoria Coren. ANSWER: Only Connect [10] A “Champion of Champions” match held after Series 4 of Only Connect pitted the Crossworders, captained by this man, against the Epicureans, captained by his wife. ANSWER: David Stainer [10] Speaking of awesome married couples, Ms. Coren is wed to this comedian, best known for a fruitful partnership with Robert Webb that includes Peep Show. He shares his name with the author of Cloud Atlas. ANSWER: David Mitchell

FTPE, answer these questions about Yogesh’s scholastic triumphs. [10] Yogesh earned an A+ for a paper connecting this sociologist’s theory of anomie to the question of why people have kinky sex. This man’s namesake son won a Nobel Prize for the Black-Scholes model of option pricing. ANSWER: Robert K. (not C.) Merton (prompt on partial answer not containing “K”) [10] Yogesh has successfully convinced his Group Dynamics professor to give over tomorrow’s entire class to discussion of quiz bowl – and of this excellent short-lived 2011 ABC game show that requires teamwork and lateral thinking. It is derived from the Russian What? Where? When? ANSWER: Million Dollar Mind Game [10] Though it won Yogesh no friends and led his professor to Godwin him, Yogesh successfully demonstrated that none of his seminar classmates could give a convincing reason not to engage in this behavior studied by Claude Steele, Joshua Aronson, Susan Fiske, and Brenda Major. ANSWER: discrimination or stereotyping or prejudice or bias or similar

25 FTPE, name these club members who did not submit a question. [10] When this club member informed Yogesh that she would not be submitting a question, he joked that he would just offer 30 points to anyone who can spell her last name. (For the record, it’s J-a-d-w-i-s-z-c-z-o-k.) ANSWER: Agatha Jadwiszczok (accept either underlined name, but probably “Agatha”) [10] Last year, this club member gave Yogesh permission to stalk his Facebook profile to write a question about him, but there wasn’t time. So, for this year: He went to Seton Hall Prep, worked at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, is in a relationship with Michelle Punzal, and supports the International Filipino Association at NYU. Go. ANSWER: Tad Umali (accept either underlined name) [10] Though Millie did eventually submit, depriving this bonus of its third part, as punishment for her lateness I will ask you all to pronounce the name of this actor, whose character of Cary Agos recently lured Alicia Florrick away from Lockhart & Gardner to his new start-up law firm. Another of his characters, Logan Huntzberger, competed with Jess and Dean for Rory Gilmore. ANSWER: Matt Czuchry (your guess is as good as mine on pronunciation)

FTPE, name these natives of Springfield, Illinois. [10] Considered one of the first serious film critics, this poet of “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight,” “The Congo,” and “General William Booth Enters into Heaven” was known as the “Prairie Troubadour” for his long treks on foot, but in 1929 he returned to the house in Springfield where he was born, two years before committing suicide. ANSWER: Vachel Lindsay [10] This Hall of Fame pitcher, who played for the Phillies from 1948 to 1961, is the namesake of Springfield’s major baseball stadium. He shares his name with a female Good Morning America anchor who has publicly battled breast cancer. ANSWER: Robin Roberts [10] Like Columbia QBer Victoria Cui and NYU QBer Yogesh Raut, this man’s birthday is February 15. He was the co-creator, head writer, and lead musician of the animated series Home Movies and gave his name to that show’s 8-year-old protagonist. ANSWER: Brendon Small (accept either first or last name)

FTPE, name these high schools that would outperform most college quiz bowl teams. [10] York Chen and Marianna Zhang are among the students from this high school that embarrassed NYU at summer practices. Located on the Upper East Side, it should not be confused with a similarly-named school “for Sciences” on the Upper West Side. ANSWER: Hunter College High School (prompt on “Hunter”) [10] This school, coached by Jason Flowers, used to practice with UT-Austin, but they were way too hardcore for us. Yogesh has the distinction of playing for this school’s B team at ACF Regionals while a grad student, and its alumni include Albert Bayer and Aaron Pellowski. ANSWER: LASA or Liberal Arts and Science Academy [10] After Yogesh captained this school to a state title in 2001, it experienced a decade-long drought until a squad that includes Carlo Ordoñez’ younger brother Eric earned it three consecutive IHSA championships from 2011 to 2013. ANSWER: IMSA or the Illinois Math(ematics) and Science Academy [For what little it’s worth, the lead scorers of the top two teams at 2007’s CBI Nationals were both IMSA graduates.] FTPE, name these people with connections to quizbowl. [10] This multiple Hugo-winning SF novelist who created the Uplift Universe and wrote Kiln People and The Postman is connected to NYU quizbowl by virtue of the fact that his daughter came to a few meetings at the beginning of the year. ANSWER: David Brin [10] This actor voiced the young version of frequent NAQT answer-line Horace Rumpole in a few radio dramas, in addition to playing the head of Bristol’s University Challenge team in 2006’s Starter for 10. Oh, and he’s Yogesh’s Facebook avatar. ANSWER: Benedict Cumberbatch [10] This woman, who passed away in April 2013, won her second Newbery Medal in 1997 for a novel about quizbowl, The View from Saturday. She first broke through three decades earlier with Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the latter of which inspired us all to run away to New York City. ANSWER: E(laine) L(obl) Konigsburg [Like many female authors of juvenile fiction, she had to conceal her first name with initials, a practice now long extinct in our enlightened times – just ask J. K. Rowling!]

This bonus is about pop culture, so naturally it’s aimed at Aaron Cohen. FTPE: [10] Mel Tormé and a pervy dentist who bears an uncanny resemblance to Walter White figure in subplots of this 1995 sitcom episode, whose title character’s contagious illeism leads to the exclamation, “George is getting upset!” ANSWER: “The Jimmy” [10] Like Rafer Johnson, Wayne Newton, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Benicio del Toro, “The Jimmy” portrayer Anthony Starke appeared in the film that made Q a field agent, 1989’s Licence to Kill. Starke played this accountant, who is killed to cut back on overhead; he shares half his name with a Massachusetts family that rivaled the Fitzgerald-Kennedys. ANSWER: Truman-Lodge [10] Another Seinfeld title character, the Marble Rye Lady, was played by Frances Bay, the sister of this Canadian sociologist who did important work on self-presentation and on stigma, as well as on institutions like the namesake of his book Asylums. ANSWER: Erving Goffman

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FTPE, name these things that aren’t absinthe that actually did send Yogesh on benders. [10] Yogesh literally lost three days of his life the first time he encountered this massively addictive website dedicated to cataloging narrative devices. ANSWER: TV Tropes (or tvtropes.org) [10] Yogesh’s decision to marathon this TV series put him in a similar altered mental state to many of its characters, including Jesse Pinkman, which is probably why he started addressing everyone around him as “Bitch!” Luckily, he was alone at the time. ANSWER: Breaking Bad [10] Pulling a Wikipedia bender in 2011 made Yogesh briefly an expert on this fruit, which was domesticated after Isabel Fraser brought its seeds out of China in 1904. That information has come in useful exactly zero times. ANSWER: kiwifruit The past year has seen an explosion in “mainstream” news articles about quizbowl, and they weren’t all about cheating scandals. FTPE: [10] One precursor to the trend was Christian Flow’s 2008 “Mind Games,” in which the writer accompanied Dallas Simons, Bruce Arthur, and, yes, Andy Watkins to EFT. Flow’s article appeared in this publication. ANSWER: The Harvard Crimson [10] This man discussed the “Edwige Danticat problem” in a May 2012 Slate article, and later wrote impartially about Watkins-gate. ANSWER: Alan Siegel [10] Shortly after Siegel’s original Slate piece, Yogesh’s friend and frequent pub quiz teammate from his Austin days, Lauren O’Neal, wrote a response in Slate’s XX factor titled for “The Plight of” this type of quizbowler. ANSWER: “the Lady Quiz-Bowler” (accept “female” or equivalents)

FTPE, give the appropriate line from Mean Girls to quote in the following situations: [10] … Aaron Cohen attempts to popularize a certain slang term. ANSWER: “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen, [Aaron]!” (accept reasonable equivalents) [10] … William attempts to vote in a club election, or Jason tries to come to practice next year. ANSWER: “[He] doesn’t even go here!” (accept reasonable equivalents) [10] … Yogesh’s friend Richard Craib, formerly of Cornell University and the University of Cape Town, drops by practice. ANSWER: “If you’re from Africa, why are you White?” (accept reasonable equivalents or alternatives)

Here are some questions about Sabeeh’s journeys from the past year, FTPE: [10] The furthest east Sabeeh traveled in the past year was to the outskirts of this historical city, though he could not manage to enter the city itself. Notable people from this city include Eli Cohen, Nizar Qabbani, and Bashar al-Assad. ANSWER: Damascus [10] In terms of traveling north, Sabeeh spent his fall break journeying through the Arctic wilderness of this country, where he did a reindeer safari with the Sami people in Nordland, witnessed the Northern Lights in Bodø, and visited the old Viking capital of Trondheim. ANSWER: Norway [10] Sabeeh recently tested proficient in seven languages, including this Germanic language he was able to practice with elderly or ultra-Orthodox Jewish populations in Berlin, Kraków, and Jerusalem. As a Pakistani-American Muslim, he was able to confuse many Jews who have seen little use of this language since its decline after the Holocaust. ANSWER: Yiddish FTPE, answer these questions related to Yogesh’s 2008 sojourn in the Oscars press room. [10] From the front row, Yogesh was no more that six feet away when this actress sang a few bars of “Padam... Padam...” when asked for her favorite Édith Piaf song. ANSWER: Marion Cotillard [10] Yogesh only officially interviewed Honorary winner Robert Boyle, but he exchanged words with this Swell Season frontman when the Best Documentary Feature winner was announced. Jon Stewart famously called back to the stage this man’s co-winner after her speech was cut off. ANSWER: Glen Hansard [10] Yogesh was disappointed that the Documentary winner wasn’t Berkeley International House alum Charles Ferguson, who won three years later for Inside Job. Another I-House Oscar connection came in 2013 through Ken and Patricia Taylor, who met in I-House. The Taylors were appointed to the Order of Canada for actions dramatized in this 2012 film. ANSWER: Argo

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FTPE, answer these linked questions. [10] First, this is Sarah Dillard’s hometown. You get no points for knowing it’s in Iowa. ANSWER: Spencer, Iowa [10] Another Spencer of note is this anti-hazing activist from Yale, who has crossed paths with NYU quizbowl numerous times, including one occasion on which he was asked, “Are you from Europe, or did you just go to a school for the deaf?” ANSWER: Spencer Weinreich [10] When one NYU team engaged in theme-naming at last year’s Penn Bowl Trash, Ramsey, as team captain, naturally chose to be Spencer. FTP, give AT LEAST ONE of the names assigned to Jason, Diamond, and Michelle – WITH the reason that Ramsey and Yogesh assigned it. ANSWER: Any one of the following earns full points, but only if both parts are present: Jason was Emily because both are Asian OR both like girls; Diamond was Aria because both are named for abstract nouns; Michelle was Hanna because that was the one left over

[NB: This question was written for the 2012 packet but never read out loud.] FTPE, name these answers from this year’s tournaments that aren’t “the Tipton Hotel” but still made Yogesh very happy. [10] Yogesh literally threw his fist into the air with excitement after hearing a question about this theory from behavioral economics developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. ANSWER: prospect theory [10] Thanks to the release of the movie Anonymous, Yogesh briefly became an expert on anti- Stratfordianism and thus answered a question about this guy from a mention of Mark Rylance, the first Artistic Director of the Sam Wanamaker-founded London theater named for him. ANSWER: William Shakespeare (do not accept “Earl of Oxford” or “Edward de Vere”) [10] A question about this Vice President and occasional songwriter, who won a Nobel Prize for his ambitious but impractical plan for WW1 reparations, allowed Yogesh to reference an AV Club meme about a Southern California band that shares his surname. That band, noted for its “Laurel Canyon sound,” released the albums North Hills and Nothing Is Wrong. ANSWER: Charles G. Dawes Inexplicably, the fact that cast member Missy Peregrym had this property allowed UT quizbowler Isabella Kuo to identify the Canadian police drama Rookie Blue. FTPE: [10] Name this quality, attributed to former Stanford QBer Nico Martinez, 61-year-old director Kathryn Bigelow, and Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy. At a recent practice, Ramsey correctly answered a question about economist Peter Orszag only after being reminded that his Moldovan wife had THIS. Vlogger Natalie Tran has been described as having the “accessible” type, and this term is meaningless when applied to Stacy Keibler, who transcends it. ANSWER: hotness (accept word forms) [10] Jason only agreed to adopt the name “Emily” at Penn Bowl Trash after Yogesh and Ramsey assured him that this Canadian actress of part-Filipina descent was, indeed, hot. ANSWER: Shay Mitchell [10] Several female NYU QBers – and Suzy Simmons – insist that this historical figure, who died on the same day as Sergei Prokofiev, was hot. Cracked’s David Wong described him as a young man as a “rugged, more handsome Keanu Reeves with Johnny Depp hair.” ANSWER: Joseph Stalin

Yogesh greatly regrets not insisting that this entity be “7.5 Per Person” when he was with Jeopardy! champions Roger Craig and Dave Madden. FTPE: [10] Name these things that require considerable cleverness. Yogesh stole two of his best ideas for them, “Mario Speedwagon” and “Welcome Mats Are a Gateway Rug,” from the Twitter of Parks and Recreation writer Megan Amram. ANSWER: pub quiz team names or clear knowledge equivalents [10] Yogesh warmed up to one of Aaron’s team name suggestions after he discovered the existence of 2013’s version of The Room, the direct-to-DVD feature A Talking Cat!?!, starring the voice of this erstwhile Oscar nominee who is today less famous than his daughter Emma. ANSWER: Eric Roberts [10] After an extended argument in which Yogesh claimed that no one cares about Pokémon, and was proven wrong, his teammate Isabella came up with this brilliant name, which mashes up the best-known works of Ann M. Martin and Chuck Palahniuk. ANSWER: The Babysitters’ Fight Club

Max and Yogesh never settled whether one should call its protagonists “teens,” but regardless, it’s not an NYU Quiz about Quiz without multiple questions about The Cabin in the Woods. FTPE: [10] Kristen Connolly has gone from The Cabin in the Woods to acting opposite Corey Stoll in by far the most interesting subplot of this Netflix original series, based on an Andrew Davies-scripted BBC original starring Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart. ANSWER: Whatever players say, reply: “You might think that. I couldn’t possibly comment.” ACTUAL ANSWER: House of Cards [10] Though it sat on the shelf for a long time, director Drew Goddard wrapped The Cabin in the Woods just a year after the release of this 2008 NYC-set found footage monster movie he co- scripted. Two of its cast members, T. J. Miller and Lizzy Caplan, went on to make Yogesh’s third-favorite film of the 2000s, Successful Alcoholics. ANSWER: Cloverfield [10] This awesome actress, currently seen as the awesome character of Root on Person of Interest, had a small role in The Cabin in the Woods. She will hopefully get a better showcase for her awesomeness as Beatrice in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing. ANSWER: Amy Acker

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- Yogesh Raut (including three tossups cut from NYU’s ACF Nationals packet) - Evan Squire - Max Stivers - George Balster - Jason K. Lai - Aaron Cohen - Sabeeh Jameel - Written by the person who is the answer line Thanks to Katrina Van Laan for some copy-editing help. All tossups and bonuses were edited into final form by Yogesh Raut.