Ottawa Hybrid 2017 — Editors 3
1. A character in this sequence says that the police "have their nose in everything" after a scene set in that character’s garage. This sequence is made noticeably simpler using a ramp near a storm drain at the principal location. The noteworthy portion of this sequence begins by driving to Unity station. A character in this sequence is surprised when he realizes that certain Mexicans have been mixing in with Los Santos. This sequence begins with officer Frank [*] Tenpenny noting that the central figure of this sequence is 'keeping busy'. The game in which this sequence takes place prompts the player to "get on the motorbike" with Big Smoke and do the title action so Big Smoke can kill the Vagos. This mission was first satirized in 2010 but has consistently come up in low quality memes and askreddits about difficult video game missions. For 10 points, identify this agonizing mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in which Big Smoke reminds CJ of this objective after the mission fails.
ANSWER: The ‘Follow the damn train, CJ’ mission (accept ‘Wrong Side of the Tracks’ as it is the official title and any efforts to describe the scene involving the two underlined words; prompt partial answers)
2. Some organisms of this kind have a protease with the ability to degrade prions. Usnic acid is a yellow pigment found in these organisms, and the K and PD tests are used in their classification. Their unique reproductive structures include isidia and (*) soredia. These organisms’ thalli come in three major forms, fructicose, foliose, and crustose. These organisms are used for environmental monitoring because they are very sensitive to air pollution. The cortex and medulla of their thalli are made up of the mycobiont, and between them is a layer that contains the photobiont. They form the majority of the diet of caribou. For 10 points, name these organisms which consist of a symbiotic relationship between an alga and a fungus.
ANSWER: lichen
3. A man named Denny who posts blurred pictures of himself on Facebook with the captions in all caps is an example of this type of picture. A trend in these images is to feature a dating profile picture with cropped phrases from the profile alongside the person’s face. Another trend is to feature young teens posting (*) sexually explicit comments on Facebook, such as “The insects feast upon my genetalia. A thousand black locusts make me climax one last time”. Most of these posts are message logs between women and “Nice Guys” who make unwanted advances and don’t take polite rejection lightly. It’s not r/TheRedPill, but people getting “friendzoned” is a recurring theme in a subreddit of these images. For 10 points, name this kind of picture, popular because of the schadenfreude it provides, that is intended to make the viewer feel uncomfortable.
Answer :r/cringepics
4. During live performances this band does covers of Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues . In one of this band’s music video a girl tells her boyfriend “I’m tired” while at a fountain in Las Vegas. Tom from (*) Parks and Rec says he once accidentally downloaded an album by this band and had to throw away his computer. In one of this band’s song the lead singer says “pack yourself a toothbrush dear, pack yourself your favourite blouse” while in another he says “you’ve been on mind mind girl, like a drug” For ten points name this folk rock band of songs like Sleep on the Floor, Ophelia and Hey Ho.
ANSWER: The Lumineers
5. This writer observed that water in a fountain flows up and then returns to the ground, which he compared to how a student will journey back to common sense. This writer said we sense heat the same way we sense pleasure and pain, and his [*] ‘likeness’ principle’ dictates that no object can resemble an idea, and that an idea can only resemble another idea. The circular logic involved in trying to think of an "unconceived tree," without first conceiving that tree, is this writer's "master argument." Principles of Human Knowledge is a book by this idealist philosopher, who claimed that all material things are really just our ideas of those things. For 10 points, name this religious Irishman who outlined the doctrine that "to be is to be perceived."
ANSWER: George Berkeley
6. This man claimed he was summoned by god to “cause justice to prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil and to further the welfare of the people.” This man broke his alliance with Zimri-Lim of Mari after they conquered Larsa together, and he defeated Ishme-Dagan I in another war. This Amorite leader followed a practice of Eshnunna and Ur-Nammu in (*) regulating the treatment of slaves, and the Louvre now holds a stele inscribed with cuneiform under this king's rule. This man ordered the death penalty for a builder who gets a client killed, but only mutilation for a doctor who does the same thing. Hand-removal and the "eye for an eye" punishment were ordered by, for 10 points, what Babylonian ruler who instituted a vernacular law code?
ANSWER: Hammurabi
7. A cadence named for this country is a perfect cadence in which the natural and flat seventh sound together. The composers of the cantata “Ô saisons, ô châteaux” and the opera The Wreckers are from this country; the former is Elisabeth Lutyens. The song “Passetyme with goode cumpanye” was written by a king of this country, which underwent a namesake musical (*) renaissance in the late nineteenth century. A composer from this country wrote the score to Scott of the Antarctic, and another’s incidental music to Abdelazer was the basis for a later composer from this country’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. For 10 points, Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, and Ralph Vaughan Williams were composers from what country?
ANSWER: England [prompt on Great Britain, or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland]
8. After meeting his next door neighbour one of these people has flashbacks to various newspaper publications After a wild party a man with this profession appears wearing panties and with a breast implants. One of these people keeps asking the question “Is it safe?” to a character played by (*) Dustin Hoffman . Prior to becoming a bounty hunter man a man who had this profession pretends to want to buy slaves for Mandingo fighting. Another person with this profession write a song about what tigers dream about and another has a son that puts golden tickets in chocolate bars. For ten points name this profession held by Stu from the Hangover series and Willy Wonka’s father in the Tim Burton version.
ANSWER: Dentist
9. WARNING: Person and act required.
The earliest recorded example of this type of goal by this player was against Russell Hoult in 2005. Two of these were scored against Andriy Pyatov in one game, while another was scored against Rayo Vallecano in a notable 10-2 victory. This type of goal was the only one scored in a 2007 Manchester Derby. The frequency of this type of goal has resulted in a snide portmanteau nickname combining the type of goal and player. This type of goal was scored twice in Champions League finals against Atletico Madrid – once in a 4-1 win, and another time in a shootout. For 10 points, identify this type of goal scored by a certain Portuguese player after a foul in the box, the frequency of which has given him the nickname “Penaldo”.
ANSWER: Penalty shots by Cristiano Ronaldo [Prompt on partial answers]
10. This building contains the mural sculpture Metropolis, which is made out of nails, and it was built over a Chinatown that got bulldozed. Philip Givens was criticized for spending $100,000 on Henry Moore's sculpture The Archer for this building, whose design was chosen by (*) Eero Saarinen overruling the other architects on his panel. This building was intended to have concrete office furniture and no back doors, and some people claim it looks like a giant eye. Architect Viljo Revell made a round chamber that looks like a flying saucer and sits under this building's two towers, which make a horseshoe shape. For 10 points, name this very grey government building that overlooks Nathan Phillips Square.
ANSWER: Toronto City Hall
11. As a rookie, this second-round pick beat out Bruce Gradkowski to win the starting job. This quarterback faced off against T.J. Yates in the first ever playoff game started by two rookie quarterbacks, but his team lost that game 31-10 to the Texans. When this player fractured his thumb in 2015, backup A.J. McCarron played well in his stead. Despite only throwing 18 touchdown passes, this player made his third Pro Bowl in 2016 thanks to having over 4200 passing yards with only 8 interceptions. In his first season, this quarterback set the record for most yards between a rookie QB and receiver with teammate A.J. Green. For ten points, name this redheaded quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals.
ANSWER: Andy Dalton
12. This author asks “who is the amplitude of the earth” in a poem titled Kosmos, and in another poem he “sees that these states sleep”. This man discusses the rising of the “lord-star Jupiter” and writes of a [*]“noiseless patient spider” “surrounded, detached in measureless oceans of space.” In one poem from this author, “the dead face of an old saint with long white hair” lays “near by the corpe of the child that serv’d”, and earlier in that poem this author “does not talk of the beginning or the end.” This author of Out of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking laments the death of Abraham Lincoln, and beseeches his “captain” to “rise up and hear the bells.” For 10 points, name this American poet of “Song of Myself.”
ANSWER: Walter “Walt” Whitman
13. This character adapts a screenplay written by Benton Tarantella in one episode, and in another this character lampoons as and plays 'Simon Says' with an army of eggplants. This character performs an exorcism on a mattress demon, which ends with the phrase "Kick 'em in the dishpan, hoo hoo hoo". Voiced by Marty Grabstein, this character is sold banana costumes when he is hurled 1000 years into the future, and is shaved clean by a [*] "naughty" hairdresser, Freaky Fred, in another episode. Nemeses of this character include Le Quack and Katz, who are the only other characters of the titular character's show who speak directly to the audience. For 10 points, identify this anthropomorphic dog, a resident of Nowhere, owned by Eustace and Muriel Bagge.
ANSWER: Courage the Cowardly Dog
14. In the Star Trek Voyager episode Resolutions., Janeway and Chatokay are stranded on a planet where they befriend this type of creatures. Sal is this type of creature that sings Hooked on a Feeling with the (*)Muppet Johnny Fiam. Cesare Borgia brings one of these creatures to a feast in order for it to taste food before him to find out if it's poisoned. During Krusty the Clown’s farewell show one of these creatures dances to You Sexy Thing . In How I Met Your Mother Marshal claims he was once mugged by one of these creatures. This type of animal puts The Lion Sleeps Tonight on a stereo even after Ross told him not to. For ten points, Marcel on Friends is this type of animal.
ANSWER: Monkey (Accept simian, primate, ape)
15. A movie with many scenes at this setting features a song that says “People flock here to get down to the rock music”. Conrad tells Jeannine that he doesn’t believe in god and opens up about his suicide attempt at one of these locations in (*)Ordinary People. A man discussing one of these places requests Pennies From Heaven tobe played on the piano and in Big Daddy Adam Sandler urinates on the street on his way to one of these places. A handshake agreement to 1% of the revenue of these locations is not honoured by a character played by Michael Keaton and an alien dressed as a bear dances at one of these places. For ten points name the fast food establishment that is the focus of The Founder, and Super Size Me.
ANSWER:Mcdonald’s
16. If a problem Y has this property with respect to a machine with an oracle for a problem X, then Y equivalent to the Turing jump of X. A set of natural numbers has this property if and only if it is recursive. Determining if two words on the generators of a group are equivalent, the Post correspondence problem, and finding the (*) Kolmogorov complexity all have this property. The fact that Chaitin’s constant is non-computable follows from the fact that the halting problem has this property. The halting problem was proved to have this property in the course of Turing’s proof that the Entscheidungsproblem has this property. For 10 points, give this property of problems seeking a yes-or-no answer for which there is no algorithm giving a solution.
ANSWER: undecidable [prompt on unsolvable]
17. A biography of this man was written by John Segundus. He made the acquaintance of Arthur Wellesley during the Peninsular War, when he worked on constructing roads and diverting a river, among other tasks. He summoned the ghost of Maria Absalom in a dream, and raised several Neapolitan soldiers from the dead using a spell of John (*) Uskglass. All copies of his The Theory and Practice of English Magic were destroyed by a former teacher who disappeared with him from Hurtfew Abbey after being imprisoned in a pillar of perpetual darkness by a fairy who had abducted this man’s wife, as well as Lady Pole and Stephen Black: that fairy is the Gentleman With the Thistle-Down Hair. For 10 points, name this English magician who titles the book he appears in together with Mr Norrell.
ANSWER: Jonathan Strange
18. This author writes of an “unbelievable alligator quiet beneath the tender protest of the stars” in The City That Does Not Sleep. In one poem by this author, four riders “with blue and green jackets” ask a young girl to “come to Cordoba.” In a play by this author (*) Senor X claims that a “professor of political economics” should not discuss with a “grower of roses”. A notable character created by this author sings lullabies to a lamb whom she believes is her descendant, while in another, Angustias has her makeup violently scrubbed off by her mother. The protagonist of that work wears a green dress instead of black mourning gear, and hangs herself when she hears that Pepe has died. For 10 points, identify this Spanish author of Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba.
ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca
19. Annette Gordon-Reed wrote a historiography book about this woman, and James T. Callender spread rumours about her. Her son Eston became a bandleader, and she was related to Martha Wayles through her father, John Wayles. (*) Born under a "partus sequitur ventrem" law, this woman was eventually "given her time" and retired to Charlottesville with her sons. According to her son Madison, this woman's two years in France ended because she got pregnant, and her living descendents gave fairly conclusive DNA samples in 1998. For 10 points, name this woman who lived at Monticello as a slave and had children with Thomas Jefferson.
ANSWER: Sally Hemings
20. In a music video featuring this artist he is shown wearing a white tuxedo and accidently drinking a bottle that says “poison” on it. In one song he claims that he “he doesn’t smoke it no more, he’s tired of waking up on the ground”, this is the anti-drug song the (*) No No Song. In a Pizza Hut commercial this man accidently reunites the Monkees.In one song this artist states “got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues” and in another he says “every time I see your face, it reminds me of the places we used to go”. At the end of Helter Skelter this artist yells “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!”. This artist of Photograph also sang the lead in Act Naturally and With a Little Help for My Friends. For ten points name this drummer for the Beatles.
ANSWER: RingoStarr (Accept Richard Starkey )
21. Chris Kontos did this in the first-ever Tampa Bay Lightning game, and Fabian Brunnstrom is believed to have done this unofficially. Max Pacioretty and Patrick Marleau both did this during the current NHL season, and a photoshop of Joe Thornton with a (*) rooster is inspired by lewd comments he made after Tomas Hertl did this as a rookie. Erik Karlsson got three points and the Senators won in a game where an opponent did this against them. A player's Mexican-American mom was shown in the crowd after he accomplished this feat on a pass from William Nylander. For 10 points, name this achievement sometimes called a "dick trick," which was accomplished by Auston Matthews in his first NHL game.
ANSWER: scoring four goals
1. The incomplete poem The Lay of Leithian tells the story of Beren and this person, who are helped by the hound Huan. For 10 points each,