Ottawa Hybrid 2014
Playoff Round
Packet by McMaster A (Jay Misuk, Leslie Newcombe, Thomas Hu, Brian Luong, Rex Tomasic)
1. The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for their research on this superfamily of proteins. Another protein in this superfamily is involved in detecting electromagnetic radiation through the conversion of 11-cis-retinal to all-trans-retinal. Two types of these proteins are named Frizzled and Smoothened, and some can activate phospholipase C. Rhodopsins and Adrenergic ones are proteins from this superfamily, of which some members can bind histamine or adenyl cyclase to form cAMP. For ten points, name this superfamily of seven transmembrane domains proteins which bind to their namesake proteins which in turn bind the complement of cytosine.
Answer: G-Protein Coupled Receptor (or GPCR).
2. Phil Jordon was replaced by DarrallImhoff in this game, during which one team pulled out four of their starting five players, putting in bench players York Larese, Ed Conlin, Ted Luckenbill, and Joe Ruklick, the latest of whom was responsible for the final assist of this game. The final score of this game had the New York Knicks lose to the Philadelphia Warriors 147-169, and was abruptly ended after the court was filled with players with 46 seconds left in the game. One player with around 50% career free throw percentage scored 28 out of 32. For ten points, name this game which saw Philadelphia’s number 13 set the single-game scoring record in the NBA.
Answer: Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game (accept anything with Chamberlain and 100 points)
3. In one of this man’s works, he defined memory as a phantasm or mental picture, the storage of which causes a physical imprint to be made on an internal organ. Besides his treatise On the Soul, his theory of virtue ethics, which posited that the ideal state exists between two extremes as a “golden mean,” appeared in a work named for his son. He wrote a work that was intended to provide an overview of the titular discipline, in which he argued that all things are the result of four causes―material, formal, efficient, and final―and that all things were composed of the five elements. For ten points, name this ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of an Athenian philosophical school known as the Lyceum, and tutor to Alexander the Great.
ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristoteles]
4. One song in this genre was based on the Turkish folk song "Katibim" and includes the line, "there was a cat that really was gone." Labels like TK and Casablance Records released this type of music, which included the albums I Remember Yesterday and Nightflight to Venus, and successful covers of "Rivers of Babylon" and "MacArthur Park." Pete Belotte worked on a song in this genre that repeats the words "fallin free, fallin free," and another of these songs tells the story of "Russia's greatest love machine." This style of music was performed at places like Studio 45, and it included hits like "Love to Love You Baby," "Rasputin," and "I Feel Love." For ten points, name this genre performed by artists like Boney M and Donna Summer.
ANSWER: disco [prompt on anything mentioning "Europe" or "dance"; don't prompt on "pop" or "electronic"]
5. In quantum mechanics, one can apply Noether’s (Nuh-thur’s) theorem associated with rotational invariance to show that this property is conserved, assuming the Lagrangian has rotational symmetry. Other forms of this property are known as orbital operators and spin operators, and occur quantized n multiples of the reduced Planck's constant. It gives rise to gyroscopic precession, which additionally depends on the body’s moment of inertia and torque, which are related quantities to it. It is defined by a cross product between the position vector, and a vector representing its translational equivalent, equal to mass times linear velocity. For ten points, name this physical property of rotating bodies, which helps explain why figure skaters spin faster when their arms are tucked in.
ANSWER: Angular Momentum (do not accept momentum)
6. The titular creatures of this game are named for the creator's sheep dog, although in game their name is derived from a popular brand of carrot sold on the protagonist's home planet. Unlike its sequels, this game had a time limit in which the player had to recover items such as the anti-dioxin filter, the whimsical radar, and the secret safe, which was guarded by Emperor Bulblax. Collecting these items helps restore function to the S.S. Dolphin which had crash landed onto a planet with an oxygen-rich atmosphere toxic to the main character, whose life support systems would only last for 30 days. For 10 points, name this 2001 Nintendo GameCube game featuring Captain Olimar and the eponymous red, yellow, and blue creatures.
Answer: Pikmin (Do not accept Pikmin 2 or 3 after the first clue)
7. A museum guard in this city is driven to suicide by a cursed green statue, and a grandmother who smells like "slightly rancid butter" is interrupted while cooking potatoes near this city to shelter a "short and wide" man beneath her skirts. Walter and Eddi grow up near this city before Walter knocks out Eddi's teeth, and a mental patient from this city recalls his ability to "singshatter" and favours a Polish father over a Nazi father. This city names a series about characters like the Great Mahlke and a man who decides stops growing on his third birthday, Oskar Matzerath. For ten points, German-slash-Polish city where the Vistula empties into the Baltic Sea, which is the main setting of the books Dog Years, Cat and Mouse, and The Tin Drum.
ANSWER: Gdansk [or Danzig]
8. This character simulates “third-dimensional television” by arranging a pack of cigarettes to fall out of a TV, and a speech by this character asks “are you tired, run-down, listless? Do you poop out at parties?” This character uses the alias “Mrs. McGillicuddy” and complains of the heat after not being warned of a “23% alcohol” content, and in another appearance, she stuffs candy into her bra and hat. This aspiring performer hangs out with Ethel and is declared “enceinte” instead of just “pregnant” by her husband Ricky. For ten points, name this woman who works as a vita-meata-vegemin spokeswoman and deals with a speeding candy conveyor-belt in episodes of a 50’s sitcom.
ANSWER: Lucy Ricardo [accept “Lucille Ball,” because that’s close enough]
9. This movie was first announced to be in production when the star made an unannounced cameo on Conan. In the film, one character has an RV with Jesus and himself painted on the side and is hired by Kench Allenby. The majority of this movie takes place in New York City after the protagonist is fired from his old job and leaves his wife, reuniting with his friends who had left their careers as a restaurateur, a cat photographer, and being dead in order to work the late night shift on GNN. The main character is nearly killed by his pet shark Doby and again by the ghost of Stonewall Jackson during a news fight featuring reporters played by Will Smith and Sacha Baron Cohen, among others in, for ten points, what 2013 movie, the sequel to Ron Burgundy’s first epic.
ANSWER: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues [do not accept “Anchorman” alone]
10. This man lost his last postseason start 1-0 to Chris Carpenter in Game 5 of the 2011 NLDS. In 2000, this man set a record for worst ERA with at least 50 innings pitched, at 10.64, which led to his demotion to Dunedin to rebuild his mechanics. A Bobby Higginson home run with two out in the ninth broke up this man’s no-hit bid on the last day of the 1998 regular season, this man’s second start. This man threw a no-hitter against the Reds in his first postseason start in 2010, and also threw a perfect game against the Marlins on May 29, 2010, which helped him win the NL Cy Young Award. For ten points, name this recently retired Phillies and Blue Jays ace.
ANSWER: Harry Leroy “Roy” Halladay III [or “Doc”]
11. This artist was photographed in pitch-dark profile by Edward Steichen, a muscle-man lifts up a woman in fetal position in one work by this artist, who also depicted three really gloomy figures with their heads bowed and their hands in the middle. I Am Beautiful and The Three Shades are works by this artist, who spent his last seven years on a tall blurry-looking statue of an author wrapped in a robe, and who made a nude portrait of another author exiled in Guernsey. A work originally titled The Poet was sculpted by this artist, who made statues of Honore de Balzac and Victor Hugo. For ten points, name this creator of a widely-copied sculpture of Dante sitting on a rock and resting his chin on his hand.
ANSWER: AugusteRodin
12. This band sang, “You must be looking very old tonight,” and “Fifteen minutes with you? Well I wouldn't say no.” The guitarist for this band went on to play in The Cribs and Modest Mouse, and this band of “Reel Around the Fountain” and “What Difference Does It Make?” repeated the lines “hang the DJ, hang the DJ” on the outro to one song. Their album The Queen is Dead included a song that goes, “Panic in the streets of London,” and this Manchester band had a hit that declared, “I am human and I need to be loved.” For 10 points, name this group of “There Is a Light that Never Goes Out” and “How Soon Is Now,”a band featuring Johnny Marr and Morrissey.
ANSWER: The Smiths
13. A half-brother intends to leave this book's main characters three thousand pounds each of inheritance, but he gets talked down to nothing by his wife Fanny. This book was adapted from an unpublished epistolary novel, and when its characters move from Norland to Barton Park, Edward Ferrars is freed up to secretly marry Lucy Steele. A woman in nearly dies of fever when she gets jilted for Sophia Grey in this book, but she eventually gets over Mr. Willoughby and marries Colonel Brandon. For ten points, name this novel by Jane Austen about the sisters Marianne and ElinorDashwood.
ANSWER: Sense and Sensibility
14. The intro to The Simpsons episode “Treehouse of Horror XVII” parodies the opening sequence of this show including a camera man falling down a spiraling staircase. Production of this series moved to Britain in its final season with its host inviting the viewer to join him at the pub for some “authentic Flesh and Chips.” Popular episodes included a character portrayed by Meat Loaf ironically having his carcass served in a restaurant, and a video dating service owner, played by Tom Hanks, having his head smashed into a TV. Perhaps its most famous episode saw a digitally inserted Humphrey Bogart murdered by John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. The puppet controlled host lacked a nose and often addressed viewers as “boils and ghouls” in, FTP, what HBO horror anthology series that saw countless celebrity cameos?
Answer: Tales from the Crypt (do not accept Tales from the Cryptkeeper; it’s an entirely different show!)
15. A character from the short stories of Saki had this name allegedly because he was “so appallingly frank.” A hypothetical comet impact event of this name has been claimed by some to have been responsible for the extinction of many large mammals and is named after the culture it is also believed to have ended. Two rulers of Austrasia with this name have been labelled by some historians as roi fainéant, or “do-nothing kings” because of their dominance by the mayors of the palace. Coming from the Old Frankish for “famous in battle,” FTP, what name was perhaps most famously held by the son of Childeric I, the first Frankish king to unify all of the Frankish kings under one ruler, and the founder of the Merovingian dynasty?
Answer: Clovis
16. This organisation first appeared in Strange Adventures, Issue 215, and was first headed by EbeneezerDarcel until his death during a plot to kidnap the daughter of the founder of this organisation. Also appearing in that issue was this organisation’s eventual second leader, a master martial artist known as Sensei, who for a time was possessed by a spirit named Jonah. This leader attempted to cause an earthquake targeted at a peace conference, but he was the only person who died from it. Other leaders of this organization have included Nyssa Raatko, who appointed Lady Shiva as Sensei, and Cassandra Cain, who took over after the former died in a car explosion. Also having Professor Ojo, Onyx, Whisper A’Daire, The Seven Men of Death, and Bane as members, this is, FTP, what evil organisation founded by Ra’s Al-Ghul in the DC Universe?
Answer: League of Assassins (prompt on: League of Shadows, Society of Shadows)
17. This molecule, which is the primary source of Reye’s syndrome and can act as an uncoupler in cartilage and liver mitochondria, is derived from a similarly named monohydroxybenzoic acid and is commonly synthesized by combining said substance with ethanoic anhydride and a small amount of sulfuric acid as a catalyst in a Fischer esterification reaction. This drug is sometimes used instead of nitroglycerin to treat heart conditions like angina, but most commonly used in the treatment of aches and pains or as an antipyretic or an anti-inflammatory drug. First synthesized in 1897 by Felix Hoffmann at Bayer in Germany, for ten points, name this salicylate drug, commonly known as Aspirin.
Answer: Acetylsalicylic acid or ASA orAspirin before the end
18. In Show Me Love, Elin and Agnes claim to be sisters when they do this activity, and in Wristcutters: A Love Story, Shannon Sossamyn's character Mikal is first encountered doing this activity. Brad Pitt does this after colliding with Geena Davis in a store and before having sex with her in Thelma and Louise. This is how Pee-Wee Herman meets Large Marge, and it's how Mental first encounters Harry and Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber. Harland Williams recites a rhyme about "seven chipmunks twirlin' on a branch" and pitches the idea of "seven minute abs" while doing this activity in There's Something About Mary, and Emile Hirsch meets Catherine Keener and Hal Holbrook by doing this activity throughout Into the Wild. For ten points, name this risky method of transportation that involves sticking out a thumbs-up to ask strangers for a lift.
ANSWER: hitch-hiking [accept any variations]
19. This character says that, "Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it." This character is also revealed to be lauded as the best marksman in town when he shoots a rabid dog roaming the streets, and at one point, he accepts payment from Mr. Cunningham in vegetables. After this, his children are attacked while walking home from the Halloween pageant, he and the local sheriff conclude that the assailant “fell on his own knife.” For ten points, name this character played by Gregory Peck in the movie, who defends Tom Robinson in court and is the father of Jem and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Answer: Atticus Finch
20.Unserdeutsch is one of these systems that has developed in this particular place during the colonial period, although fewer than 100 native speakers remain. Out of over 850 of these in this place, representing the greatest diversity on the planet, only a handful are expected to survive the intrusion of the three official ones, such as Tolai, used on the Gazelle Peninsula. Among the most widely used non-official systems are Enga and Huli, found in the eastern highlands, although these have begun incorporating loans from the dominant systems in recent years. These systems in this place include HiriMotu, formerly the most widely-spoken lingua franca, which has been declining in recent years due to the prestige of English, despite it still only being utilized by 1–2% of the population. FTP, what are these systems of a particular country, the most widely-used of which is TokPisin, a creole with distinct dialects developing in the Highlands, north coast, on New Britain, and on Bougainville Island?
Answer: Languages of Papua New Guinea
TB1. This man’s Halifax platform called for Senate reform and free rural mail delivery, but instead shifted his focus to “Canadianism or Continentalism” and “A White Canada.” This man was the first person in his office to attend a British cabinet meeting and was the last person in his office to be knighted. His (*) Union government enacted the Military Service Act thanks in large part to his Wartime Elections Act which gave the vote to widows, wives, and daughters of soldiers. His face graces the newest Canadian 100-dollar bill; this is for ten points, what Conservative Canadian Prime Minister who enacted conscription during the First World War?