Ottawa Hybrid 2014
Round 5
Packet by Ottawa A (Rodrigo Borgia and the Cardinals (Ian Dewan, Chris Johnston, Rodrigo Morante and SanmeetChahal)
1. One derivative of these structures that synthesizes tannins was discovered in 2013. The elaio— type are used to store fats, and the etio— type appear in those not exposed to light. Some protists absorb these from algae they digest, which is also practised by some sea slugs, a process called kleptoplasty. Another type, found in large numbers in potatoes and used to store starch, are the amylo-these. Xanthophylls, carotenes, and other pigments,are synthesized in one type of these, and one of these entities comes from the endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria. For 10 points, what group of plant organelles includes the location of and photosynthesis.
ANSWER:plastids [Prompt on chloroplasts or leucoplasts]
2. One deity from this culture created the first man and woman, but forgot to feed them, which led to the death of the man. This god, Pachacamaq, was believed to be invisible and never represented in paintings. The underworld in this culture is called the UkuPacha and is inhabited by Supay who is associated with death and chaos and he loses the trust of his brother Llapa the god of thunder and rain leading them to become enemies. One of the largest celebrations of this culture is the inti-raimi which celebrated during the Winter Solstice which represented the start of a new year for this culture. Uruchillay is a multi-coloured llama from this culture who is worshipped by herders to keep animals safe. For 10 points, name this culture with the sun god Viracocha that had his son Manco Capac emerge out of Lake Titicaca.
ANSWER: Inca
3. Roatan is the capital of this country’s Islas de la Bahia department, a Protestant centre in this country, and the Coco River forms part of its southern border. A 2013 study found that this country’s second-largest city, San Pedro Sula, is home to the world’s highest murder rate. The Copán River in this country was diverted to protect a Maya site of the same name. The Coluteca River flows through this nation’s capital, and into the Gulf of Fonseca, which this country borders. Hurricane Mitch made landfall in this country, where it caused extensive damage. For 10 points, name this Central American country with capital at Tegucigalpa.
ANSWER: Republic of Honduras [or República de Honduras]
4. A bombed city in this work is described as looking like “a heap of baking powder,” and this work criticizes people who eat “shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.” A woman in this story references the Oxford martyrs by saying: “Play the man, Master Ridley,” and the protagonist compares his leaky memory to the experience of trying to fill a sieve with sand. A stomach-snake is used to save a woman who overdoses on sleeping pills in this story, after her husband is asked whether he's happy on his way home from work. Mrs. Phelps cries upon hearing “Dover Beach” in this story, which ends with the protagonist working to memorize Ecclesiastes after escaping from a mechanical hound. For 10 points, name this Ray Bradbury novella featuring Guy Montag, about book-burning.
ANSWER: Fahrenheit 451
5. One character in this work grows “parsley, peppers, cabbages” and other vegetables in a garden which was cursed by her mother, and another character in this work enters a forest to bring baked goods to her ailing grandmother. The songs “Agony” and “Stay With Me” appear in this work, which features a woman dying under the feet of a widowed giant, leading the Witch to “Lament” the loss of her adopted daughter. The Baker and his Wife enter the forest to find ingredients for a potion so that they might have a child, but the Baker ends up widowed and raising his child alone. For ten points, name this Stephen Sondheim musical with characters like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.
ANSWER: Into the Woods(do not accept or prompt on “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Jack and the Beanstalk,” etc.)
6. A second-generation spinoff of this show was the 1990s 3-season sitcom Nurses. One episode of this television show features three of its main characters singing “Mr. Sandman” to lull a baby to sleep. One character on this show has her blunt personality attributed to a stroke, while another enjoys recalling stories from her childhood, colloquially known as “St. Olaf Stories.” Those characters are Sophia Petrillo, and Rose Nylund respectively. Its opening credits feature a plane flying in front of an orange sun, and the song “Thank You for Being a Friend.” Its other main characters are the promiscuous Blanche Devereaux, and the divorcée Dorothy Zbornak. Actors on this show include Bea Arthur, and Betty White. For ten points, name this long-running 80s sitcom about the titular group of “40ish” year old female roommates.
ANSWER:TheGolden Girls [or begrudgingly Empty Nest on the first clue]
7. In one sequel to this game, the gameplay is interrupted by a text box telling you that the day has become night or vice-versa and on one level in that game, an old lady says “that we should live together”. According to the instruction manual for this game, pork chops are collectible units of extra health, rather than hearts.The main character of this game must fight against bosses such as Medusa’s head, Death, Frankenstein’s monster and a giant bat. Optional items called sub-weapons available for use in this game include a knife, a stop watch, a cross, and holy water, though the primary weapon used in this game is a whip.For ten points, name this Konami-developed NES video game in which Simon Belmont must defeat Count Dracula.
ANSWER:Castlevania
8. One character in this show practices a monologue from the Tragedy of Coriolanus to a confused teenaged girl. The opening credits shows the lips and eyes of several people while playing You’ve Got Time by (*) Regina Spector. A character played by Jason Biggs is ashamed of watching Mad Men by himself and writes an article about a fad called “edging.” The main character owns an artisanal soap business with her friend Polly, which ends up becoming very useful for her survival. Backstories of characters in the show include a former firefighter who steals credit cards and a track runner who is caught stealing a store. For ten points, name this series set after Piper Chapman helps an ex-girlfriend traffic drug money, a Netflix series about a women’s prison.
ANSWER: Orange is the New Black
9. The main character of this work has an argument with his wife concerning flowered toilet paper and blue tissues. Another character in this work remembers being trapped in a well after seeing a comrade of his being flayed at the orders of a USSR officer while operating as spies in Mongolia. That character is (*) Lieutenant Mamiya. The protagonist often spends time in a well across from where May Kasahara lives. The lot where the well is located is purchased with the help of Malta and Creta Kano. They are psychics hired by the protagonist’s wife to find their lost cat. For ten points, name this Haruki Murakami novel about Toru Okada’s search for his wife Kumiko.
ANSWER:The Wind-up Bird Chronicle(or NejimakidoriKuronikuru)
10. In this show an animation of a boat being dry-docked in Harlem illustrates an anecdote, and in another episode shows the host’s comments that Keith Olbermann has gone in reverse by doing baseball wrap ups. Some episode titles for this show include“I Like Kettle Corn,” “Kids Need Bullying,” and “Larry Eats Pancakes.”In one episode with Patton Oswalt, a Delorean breaks down after being driven down the street, forcing the host to call for another ride. In an episode featuring Tina Fey, the host asks the driver of an Acura SUV if “this is a product placement.” In the first episode, Larry David comments that this a “show about nothing” and a fictional episode shows the host at Tom’s Diner with George Costanza. For ten points, name this Crackle web show hosted by Jerry Seinfeld.
ANSWER: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
11. He’s not Lob, but saying that “if roses are red, then Rob Ford smokes crack” is a paradox named for this man that affects naïve set theory, lambda calculus and combinatory logic. The practice of representing a function of multiple variables as a function returning a function was developed by and is named after him; but it is his work on combinatory logic that explains why three functional programming languages are named after him. He also showed that programs in several models of computation are equivalent to proofs in a formal system and their types to the propositions proven; this isomorphism is named after him and William Howard. For ten points, name this mathematician after whom the programming languages Haskell and Brooks are named.
ANSWER: Haskell Brooks Curry
12. Silas Wright declined the Vice-Presidential nomination on the winning ticket in this election. James Birney’s anti-slavery Liberty Party siphoned votes from this election’s loser. One prospective candidate in this election was unable to secure a two-thirds majority at his convention following the Hammet Letter, whose party also declined to nominate Lewis Cass or James Buchanan. The losing candidate in this election originally opposed one key policy in the Raleigh letter, but appeared to reverse himself in the Alabama letters. This election’s winner campaigned for the annexation of Texas and “Fifty-four forty or fight!” For 10 points, name this year that elected “dark horse” James K. Polk.
ANSWER: US Presidential election of 1844
13. One character with this profession seduces Sarah Jessica Parker and Victoria Tennant using romantic advice he learned from a magic freeway sign. Another of these people starts carrying a bow and arrow around to stop people from throwing fast food at him. A man with this profession claims that he is “a god, not the god” and orders a “sweet vermouth on the rocks with a twist,” and another asks, “where did you get those clothes, at the toilet store?” One of these men attempts to invite a woman to a “pants party” and declares “I love lamp,” and another repeatedly runs into Ned Ryerson while stuck in Punxsutawney. For ten points, name this post held by Bill Murray in Groundhog Day and Steve Carell in the Anchorman films.
ANSWER:Weatherman [or Weatherperson; do not accept “Meteorologist”]
14. Carathéodory's formulation of this law states that in any neighbourhood of any state S of an adiabatically isolated system there are states inaccessible from S. Boltzmann’s H theorem is a precursor to this and another statement of this isClausius’s statement, which says is that it is impossible for heat to move spontaneously from a cold object to a hot one.This law forbids some perpetual motion machines that are not excluded by the Law of Conservation of Energy, because they would convert thermal energy into mechanical energy. For ten points, name this physical law which states that the entropy of the universe is always increasing.
ANSWER: Second Law of Thermodynamics
15. An audio guide to these items included clips of the leaked “Collateral Murder” video, and some of these items were vandalized by Omar and peed on by a pug. One of these things had the Gladiator quotation: “What we do in life echoes in eternity,” and some of them were notably sold for $60 in Central Park including a blue door with a Plato quotation and a statue of Ronald McDonald getting his shoes shined; these items appeared in October 2013 as part of a project called “Better Out Than In.” The Banality of the Banality of Evil was one of these items showing a Nazi looking at a landscape, and probably the coolest of them was a truck of full of stuffed animals that made slaughterhouse noises. For ten points, identify these things done in New York by a British graffiti artist.
ANSWER: Banksy installations in New York
16. One band from this country was beloved by a woman who collected sock puppet monkeys; that band sang: “He’s intellectual and he’s hot” in “Write About Love.” The albums The Boy With the Arab Strap and The Life Pursuit were done by a band from this country, which sang: “Elope with me, Miss Private,” in the song “Piazza New York Catcher.” Other bands from this country are led by Alex Kapranos and Lauren Mayberry and released albums like You Could Have It So Much Better and The Bones of What You Believe. Bands from here did the songs “Right Action” and “The Mother We Share,” and one band from here sang, “I’m just a crosshair” and “You say dontcha know” in the song “Take Me Out.” For ten points, name this home country of Belle and Sebastian, Chvrches, and Franz Ferdinand.
ANSWER: Scotland
17. Latin nouns have inflectional suffixes that express at least two of these conceptual objects, because they indicate both case and number. The word cranberry is used to refer to one of these that has lost any meaning of its own, and they are studied in a branch of linguistics founded in 1859 by August Schleicher. A word may come to have more than one of these through the formation of a compound word or by affixation; the affixes used in that process are bound ones of these because they cannot exist as words in their own right. Some of these have multiple phonetic realizations, called allomorphs. The word “allomorph” contains two of these: the derivational prefix “allo-,” and a root, which is the word for the concrete representation of one of these. For ten points, name these smallest components of a word that have meaning.
ANSWER:Morphemes [do not accept or prompt on “morph(s)”]
18. This player tied Michael Jordan’s record for least points scored in a game at 29 with at least 37 Field Goal Attempts in a double overtime loss against the Rockets. His best performance while playing for the US national team was against Slovenia at the 2010 FIBA World Cup. At the 2006 NBA Draft, he was traded by the Houston Rockets for Stromile Swift and Shane Battier and was the highest of the four U-Conn players drafted that year. He tied a career high this season with 41 points against the Pelicans following a trade which sent players like John Salmons and Grevis Vasquez the other way. For ten points, name this notoriously inefficient former Grizzlies and Raptors small forward, who currently plays for the Sacramento Kings.
ANSWER: Rudy Gay
19. The Barberini family is honoured with bee engravings on columns in this building, and a memorial to the Jacobite pretenders in this building was made by Antonio Canova. A stained-glass sun-dove and bronze sculptures of four church doctors surround a cathedra―a wooden throne―behind the altar of this building, which has statues of eleven apostles on its roof. Designed partially by the Sangallo family and extended in a plan by Carlo Maderno, this building contains a canopy held up by very tall spiral columns. Including a Bernini-designed baldachin and Michelangelo's Pieta, for ten points, name this building designed for Julius II by Donato Bramante, which was largely paid for by indulgences and is now used for most Papal Masses.
ANSWER: Saint Peter's Basilica [accept "baldachin" or "Bernini" before "this building]
20. The protagonist of this film makes a joke about choosing the “lesser of two weevils” to an unsuspecting doctor. Later, as that doctor recovers his health after performing surgery on himself, he is offered a collection of insects by a boy named Blakeney. Near the end of this film, that boy sews up the body bag of a friend who died in a skirmish with the French, a battle that resulted in the capture of the Acheron. Billy Boyd has a small role as a coxswain, while midshipman Hollum believes he is the Jonah of the ship, and commits suicide to get wind back in the sails. Featuring Paul Bettany as a Darwin-like Doctor Maturin, for ten points, name this 2003 Peter Weir film in which Russell Crowe plays Jack Aubrey, a British naval captain during the Napoleonic Wars.
ANSWER: Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World [Prompt on partial answer]
TB1. This book's hero disrupts a movie musical about a circus and attempts to donate one of his own handwritten works to the library. At the Night of Joy bar in this book, the stripper Darlene hears how "literary labours" drive a man to make cheese dip and hears a boring story about a trip on a Greyhound bus. When Irene owes repairmen after a drunk-driving accident in this book, her son gets a job at Levy Jeans, and this book was championed by Walker Percy following its author's suicide. Set in New Orleans and focusing on an eccentric loser who wears a green hunting cap, for ten points, name this book about Ignatius J. Reilly, written by John Kennedy Toole.