Ottawa Hybrid 2014
Playoff Round
Packet by Carleton D (Heather Gordon, Gabirel Mayost, Stuart Macdonald)
1. The Bechamp reaction is an electrophillic aromatic substitution performed on an acid of this element. Cacodylic acid contains this element as the central atom, and its buffer was used in Agent blue. An alloy of this element, whose allotropes include yellow, black, and the most stable grey, with gallium are used as a semiconductor more potent than silicon. The bacterium GFAJ-1 was falsely discovered to thrive solely on this pyruvate dehydrogenase inhibitor toxic element as a replacement for phosphorus, which is one row above it in column 15 of the periodic table. With atomic number 33, for ten points, name this metalloid with atomic symbol As.
ANSWER: Arsenic
2. In one of this author's books, the protagonist spies on an Angolan man's genitals and gets told, “you’ve deflowered me,” by a fictional Joseph Conrad. This author played on the Black Diaries in a book about a consul awaiting execution and wrote of the socialist phrenology advocate Galileo Gall in a book where the Counselor preaches that the Republic is the work of an Antichrist. This author fictionalized Roger Casement’s colonial experiences and the War of Canudos, respectively, in The Dream of the Celt and The War of the End of the World. This author put stories about a dumb soccer referee and an aspirin salesman into a work based on his marriage at 18 to an older woman, and featuring a long-haired Argentine-hating man who single-handedly produces five hours of radio novelas every day. For ten points, name this author who wrote about Pedro Comacho and about courting his own actual aunt in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa
3. In one instalment of this series, the protagonist must must rescue a dancer from the General of Darkness, Onox. Lines such as “You dare bring light to my lair? You must die!” appear in one of three games from this series to have appeared in 1993 on Philips’s ill-fated CD-i system. Most games in this series is set in a land created by three goddesses that represent power, wisdom, and courage, though other locales visited over the course of this series include Khonolit and Holodrum. Featuring items such as bombchus and the hookshot, for ten points, name this series created by Shigeru Miyamoto set in Hyrule which stars the Hero of time and the titular princess.
ANSWER: The Legend of Zelda series
4. This player is the last active member of the Québec Nordiques and was voted best player in the Finnish league during the 2005 lockout. The number this player wore in Florida was in honour of John Vanbiesbrouck, and was traded way for Dan Ellis. This player’s most successful tenure ended poorly after he refused to visit the White House with the team and took a break from playing during the last year of his contract. This player made his Olympic debut in the 2010 semifinals in relief of Ryan Miller and was the first ever American-born player to win a Conn Smythe trophy when the Vacouver Canucks were defeated by his Boston Bruins in 2011 currently playing for the Dallas Stars.
ANSWER: Tim Thomas
5. This man lost his first campaign in one conflict at Cheat Mountain. He served on Winfield Scott’s staff in Mexico, proposing the flanking maneuver used at Cerro Gordo. This man’s family estate became the site of Arlington National Cemetery. Upon receiving his highest command, this man immediately fought the Seven Days Battles. A copy of this man’s Special Order 191 fell into enemy hands and contributed to the demise of his first invasion. This man captured John Brown at Harpers Ferry. His invasions of the North failed at Antietam and Gettysberg. For ten points, name this Confederate general, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
ANSWER: Robert Edward Lee
6. One of this man’s stories sees a young man accuse an elderly German immigrant of being a Nazi war criminal, and another of his stories features four boys following railroad tracks to find the body of a missing boy. This author of “Apt Pupil” and “The Body” also wrote a novel in which a haunted car begins to murder its former owners, as well as a novel in which prison inmate John Coffey has the power to heal people. This man wrote Christine and The Green Mile, and he also wrote a novel in which the town of Derry is terrorized by Pennywise the Clown, as well as a novel in which Jack Torrance goes insane at the Overlook Hotel. For ten points, name this author of It and The Shining.
ANSWER: Stephen King [or Richard Bachman]
7. One character on this show repels two Brainspawn attacks because he lacks the Delta brainwave. Q. T. McWhiskers was turned into an evil killbot in one episode of this show, and in another, one character loses a glove and gets pregnant, prompting Leo and Inez Wong to turn a party board into an ironing board. One character from this show is cast as a young robot on the soap All My Circuits alongside Calculon, and another character, Hermes, is a level 36 bureaucrat from Jamaica. For ten points, identify this thrice-cancelled Matt Groening animated TV show set in the year 3000 featuring the Planet Express delivery crew of Fry, Leela, and Bender.
ANSWER: Futurama
8. This author wrote: “your voice sounds like a scorpion being pushed through a glass tube” and pledged that “your breasts and shoulders would reek” after he left “yellow bark dust on your pillow.” This author of “Sweet Like a Crow” edited the journal Brick and wrote about “searchers” who get four dollars a week to look for a missing theatre baron. The son of Hazen inherits an iguana and burns down a hotel in one of this author's novels, where a man gets painted blue to escape from prison and a Macedonian worker saves a nun who falls off a bridge. The author of a book about immigrants building Toronto's Bloor Street viaduct, for ten points, name this man who wrote "The Cinnamon Peeler" and In The Skin of a Lion.
ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje
9. Some of the more unusual villains to debut in this character’s feature comic book include Stilt-Man and the Purple Man. This character’s wife, Milla Donovan was institutionalized after an encounter with Mr. Fear, and his house was demolished by Wilson Fisk after he learnt this character’s secret identity. This hero once attempted to kill the assassin Bullseye by throwing him off a building, later accomplishing the task during the Shadowland storyline. Trained by Stick to control his superhuman senses, this character first donned a mask after his father was shot after throwing a boxing match. For ten points, name this blind Marvel superhero, known as the Man Without Fear.
ANSWER: Daredevil (or Matthew Murdock)
10. A girl pees on this actor's carpet after borrowing his camcorder in one role, and his first movie role was as the Spartan Stelios in 300. In one long take, he tells a priest a story about drowning a colt, and this actor's other roles have included seducing Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank and claiming that it's the Lord's will that a servant should be "beaten with many stripes." This actor's porn site visits put a virus on a work computer in a movie where he displays his very long penis and looks after his sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan. Steve McQueen has cast this actor as the sex addict Brandon, the prisoner Bobby Sands, and Edwin Epps, a man who rapes Patsey and purchases Chiwotel Ejiofor's character Solomon Northrup. For ten points, name this red-haired actor from Hunger, Shame, and Twelve Years a Slave.
ANSWER: Michael Fassbender
11. In this part of the body, Vitamin K is utilized to form coagulation factors and Vitamin A is stored in the stellate cells. Haemoglobin is processed for use of its iron content, the phagocytosis of microbes as well as cytokine production are performed by the Kupfer cells. In addition to the muscle, the Cori cycle also takes place in this organ, which is comprised of hexagonal functional units called lobules. Angiotensinogen is relased by this organ to raise blood pressure. This organ converts lactate to glucose, acetyl-co-A to fatty acids to triglycerides, ammonia to urea, as well as glucose into glycogen. Located just below the diaphragm, For ten points, name this four lobed organ that metabolizes toxins found in alcohol and drugs; the site of hepatitis that produces bile.
ANSWER: liver
12. This man has his facial hair burned off while lighting a funeral pyre for Li’l Sebastian, and his two least favourite things are lying and skim milk, which he characterizes as water lying about being milk. This man escapes to his cabin when he finds out his first wife has arrived to see him, and that wife shares his name with his second wife, played by Megan Mullaly. This former husband of Tammy I and Tammy II, whose namesake Pyramid of Greatness places honour as the pinnacle of manliness, enjoys breakfast foods and woodworking. For ten points, name this mustachioed Libertarian director of the Pawnee Parks Department on Parks and Recreation.
ANSWER: Ronald Ulysses Swanson (prompt on Duke Silver)
13. This actress plays a landscape gardener at Versailles in Alan Rickman’s upcoming movie A Little Chaos, and in one role, she throws up on a Kokoschka catalogue and calls John C. Reilly a hamster murderer. She has played an “Adele Wheeler” and an “April Wheeler” in different movies, and had her underwear stolen by Elijah Wood when she played a bookstore clerk who picks up a toque-wearing man at Montauk beach. She won an Oscar for playing a streetcar conductor who leaves a tea-tin full of money to Ralph Fiennes and refuses to admit her illiteracy in court. This actress sleeps with a teenage David Kross and gets her memories of Jim Carrey erased in two major roles. For ten points, name this woman who played Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Nazi Hanna in The Reader.
ANSWER: Kate Winslet
14. This figure declares, "We live / law to ourselves, our Reason is our Law," and a description of her begins, “Grace was all in her steps.” First discovered “veiled in a cloud of fragrance,” this woman speaks the lines, “Sweet is the breath of morn,” and, “With thee conversing I forget all time.” When she has the idea to divide labours with her companion, she is commanded “Go,” and this woman habitually refers to her husband as her head. This woman spends hours in “mutual accusation” and observes that her husband is not as beautiful as her own reflection, and a character disguised as a toad gives instructions into this woman’s dreams. For ten points, name this “Mother of Mankind” in Paradise Lost, who uses "female charms" to persuade her husband into eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.
ANSWER: Eve
15. Ron Lancaster played for this team for 16 seasons, and became their head coach immediately after retiring. They were the last original CFL team to win the Grey Cup, beating Ottawa in 1966. Kent Austin was the first man to win a championship as both a starting quarterback and head coach for the same team, doing so for this team. This team beat their Labour Day rivals in the 2007 Grey Cup, beating Banjo Bowl opponents the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. A too many men penalty allowed Damon Duval to kick the game-winning field goal against this team in the 2009 Grey Cup. For 10 points, name the current Grey Cup champions, who won on their home turf in Regina.
ANSWER: Saskatchewan Roughriders [Accept Either, DO NOT ACCEPT Ottawa Rough Riders]
16. This song was sampled on Madonna’s track “Get Together” and the artist then known as Puff Daddy sampled this song’s opening riff in his tribute to the Notorious B.I.G. “I’ll Be Missing You.” The writers of this song received the Grammy for Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1984, and this song was included on their last album, Synchronicity. This song includes the line “since you’ve gone I’ve been lost without a trace/ I dream at night I can only see your face,” and Sting has said multiple times that people interpret it as a love song despite its upsetting lyrics. For ten points, name this 1983 hit by The Police.
ANSWER: “Every Breath You Take”
17. February 23 is often named for this organization, of which Magaza Masanchi ran a Dungan branch. Early leaders of this organization included Jukums Vacietis and Sergei Kamenev, and prisoners working in this organization were called tramplers. Rumours questioning this organization's loyalty were started by Nikolai Skoblin, and this organization operated in multiple echelons under Georgi Isserson's "deep operations" theory. Supervised by the RMC and the Stavka, senior members of this organization were called combrigs and comdivs, and its leaders were given a secret trial instead of show trials during the Great Purge. Mostly founded by Leon Trotsky, for 10 points, name this force credited with winning the Eastern front of World War Two.
ANSWER: Red Army [or RKKA; accept Soviet army or Soviet military; prompt on Russian army or military]
18. This band sang the lines, “this nonsense isn’t news to me” and “you don’t want this sympathy” on a song about Montgomery Clift. A drummer quit this band in 1997 to become a farmer. This band of “Monty Got a Raw Deal” was produced by Mitch Easter and recorded a song saying “offer me alternatives and I decline,” which was sped up in a cover by Great Big Sea. A party involving Leonid Brezhnev, Leonard Bernstein, and Lenny Bruce features in one of their songs, which begins “that’s great, it starts with an earthquake.” Hailing from this Georgia band’s album Automatic for the People includes the songs “Nightswimming” and “Everybody Hurts.” For ten points, name this Michael Stipe-led band that sang, “It’s the End of the World As We Know It.”