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Although some scientists believe that they were very common in the early universe, today very few potential candidates have been identified, such as HVC 127-41-330, a gas cloud rotating rapidly between the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies, and HE0450-2958, a quasar with no visible host galaxy. FTP, what are these yet unproven objects, hypothetical bodies of massive size that comprise matter of a type that may comprise up to 30% of the universes mass-energy? Answer: Dark Galaxies 2. The most recent of these periods in a certain region ended after the 5.9 Kiloyear Event, which also resulted in the extinction of megafauna such as Shivas Beasts, and Monster Sheep, which, despite the name, were actually ancestral wild cattle. During this period, higher elevations such as the Hoggar Mountains supported oak, lime, and elm, while lower elevations supported juniper trees. Tassili nAjjer, the Plateau of the Rivers, possesses cave art from this period that depicts scenes of hunting and vegetation, and may have been produced by members of either the Kiffian or Tenerian cultures. Fishing and use of pottery is indicative of the riparian social system in place during this period and region, which was only able to be continued in the far east by the Naqada culture. Such ecology and human activities are evidence of, FTP, what period of fertility in the climate history of North Africa, officially known as the Neolithic Subpluvial, or Holocene Wet Phase, that ended in the middle of the 4th millennium BCE? Answer: Green Sahara (also accept: Wet Sahara; accept Neolithic Subpluvial or Holocene Wet Phase before mentioned) 3. In the Pokemon Trading Card Game, the Diamond/Pearl Mime Jr. promo card is described as this. Sonic Labyrinth does not have one of these, nor does Sonic Spinball. The introduction to this in Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, labels it Night of the Bobcat, and has the titular character exclaim, Hey, I thought I saw Elvis back there! In Battletoads, riding a platform to the bottom of a spike pit followed by repeated jumping will cause the player to skip this, while colliding with the 10th wall of the final section of Turbo Tunnel will lead you there. Goldeneye 007, calls it Bunker; and in Banjo Kazooie it is usually Freezeezy Peak. In Lego Star Wars: Complete Saga, this for Episode 1 is called Retake Theed Palace, and in Ms. Pacman, the food for this is the apple. FTP, these are all examples of what things, which Earthworm Jim has an appropriately-named one, which in Super Mario Bros is snowy, and which in Galaga is represented by a banner with a number 5 embossed on it? Answer: 5th Levels of Video Games (accept anything to do with Level 5) 4. Exiting the Factory is one of the names of what is regarded to be the first of these works, which has three versions: one horse, two horses, and no horse. Exhibited at the same time as Exiting the Factory were works such as Fishing for Goldfish, which depicts a baby reaching into a goldfish bowl while being supported by her father, and Babys Breakfast, which features a baby girl eating breakfast with her parents in the countryside. The Sprinkler Sprinkled has been regarded as an early example of slapstick, and it depicts a boy playing a prank on a gardener, which leads to a chase. Jumping onto the Blanket depicts a man attempting to jump onto a blanket being held by four men while a sixth man watches the spectacle from the side, and has been designated an actuality piece. Perhaps the most famous of these allegedly caused the audience to panic and run to the back of the theatre, although contemporary critics refute this. FTP, what are these pieces by a pair of filmmakers from Lyon, exemplified by Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat? Answer: Lumiere Brothers Films 5. One of the earliest published examples of these begins, Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, and later the speaker asks, On this boundless land Who rules over mans destiny? Another more sombre selection describes how, The yellow crane has long since gone away, all that here remains is Yellow Crane Tower, and was written in 1927. Besides Changsha and Yellow Crane Tower, other examples of these include The Double Ninth, which describes a traditional festival; Loushan Pass, which tells a story about a struggle in Guizhou; and Snow, which juxtaposes the beauty of northern China in winter with the grandeur of prominent emperors, ending with the lines, Alas, They are now gone as history: The real great hero, Is coming up now. Composed in the Li style and usually published as a set of 20, these works comprise part of the corpus of what type of writing by a certain world leader, who also published one called The Long March? Answer: Poetry of Mao Zedong 6. Allegedly, the victor at this event was offered anything he wanted by the king, and all he asked for was a new donkey-drawn carriage. The winner accredited his accomplishment to being fuelled by wine offered by a local inn, some orange juice from his grandfathers girlfriend, some milk, beer, and an Easter egg. The early lead was held by Albin Lermusiaux of France, who collapsed due to exhaustion after 32km, and he was replaced by the Australian Edward Flack, who would also collapse just further ahead. Despite being behind for most of the race, three Greeks took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, although the bronze medalist, Spiridon Belokas, had to relinquish his medal due to covering part of the course by carriage. The crown princes of the host country, Constantine and George, ran with the eventual gold medalist, Spyridon Louis, for his last lap, and the finishing time was a then-record 2:58:50. A moralizing victory for the host country after losing at all of the other track and field events, this was, FTP, what event at a games opened by King George I? Answer: 1896 Olympic Marathon 7. There are 14 of these entities, and they are further subdivided into many audandar. Two of these technically straddle two continents due to their straddling what is known locally as the Zhayyiq River. According the Gesta Hungarorum, the Hunor and Magyor tribes lived in the Turan lowlands of the one called Atyrau, which is also the second smallest of these entities. One of these with capital at Aktau, was allegedly uninhabited until anti-Oghuz groups associated with Khwarezm settled in the area in the 10th century, and remains sparsely populated today. Besides Mangystau in the southwest, there is also one known as white burial in the native language with capital at Kokshetau, one known as white hill with capital at Aktobe, and the largest one by area, Karagandy. FTP, what are these entities known natively as oblystar, which also include the most populous, South Kaz, and the smallest and least populous, Baikonur? Answer: Provinces of Kazakhstan (accept anything to do with territorial divisions of Kazakhstan) 8. Among other effluxes, these may come in pulmonic-contour and ejective-contour varieties, and all pertinent languages but Damin possess contrastive phonation of these sounds. Linguo-pulmonic contour varieties are less common than linguo-glottalic, and no known language contrasts homorganic and heterorganic affricated ejective forms. Phonetically, these sounds are produced by rarefication caused by a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism, the quality of which is modified by the place and manner of articulation. One of these sounds often produced by means of circular breathing, and known as a velaric egressive, is only known to have been linguistically employed by an extinct Australian Aborigine ritual language. Often confused with ejective consonants, and appearing extralinguistically in English interjections, Ningdu Chinese nursery rhymes, and Middle Eastern negations, are, FTP, what sounds which are most prolific in languages of South and East Africa such as Hadza, and the Khoisan languages? Answer: Click Consonants 9. One of these people who acted as a stunt double to do this was a highly regarded swordfight choreographer and former Olympic fencer who coached actors from Errol Flynn to Johnny Depp. Another person to do this has voiced a certain character for a video game series since the 1990s, during which time he has also played Commander Sturgis Turner on JAG. Besides the aforementioned Bob Anderson and Scott Lawrence, Matt Sloan has also done this for Soulcalibur IV and on an episode of Deal or No Deal. The shortest amount of time spent doing this was 2m. 17s., and included only 24 words of dialogue, which nonetheless earned Sebastian Shaw the most fanmail of his career, and was filmed in one day. Other people to have done this have included an English bodybuilder known in Britain for playing the Green Cross Code Man; Arnold Schwarzeneggers son in Jingle all the Way; and a Canadian-American actor who has insisted that his inclusion in a remake of an earlier version of a scene was without his knowing. FTP, what have Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christensen, and the voice of James Earl Jones all done? Answer: Portrayed Anakin Skywalker 10. The earliest example of this system of a certain culture is contained on ivory labels found at Tomb U-j, while depictions of offerings on a macehead give evidence that this system may have been base 10, unlike its neighbours. Inscriptions at Meidum apparently contain measurements which are used to calculate the slope of a nearby object, and the numbers were additive. Among the more prominent texts about this system include the Moscow and Rhind documents, which have been described as problem texts, and which demonstrate the use of a unit fraction system with special notation. In this system particular to one region, the number one was represented by a single stroke, 1000 by a lotus flower, and 100 000 by a frog, while fractions tended to be represented by a mouth super-imposed over a number. Multiplication was handled by means of binary arithmetic, and algebra was done through so-called aha problems by means of the method of false position. These strategies and numerals are exemplary of, FTP, what system used by a certain ancient culture for doing such things as designing pyramids? Answer: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics 11. The longest-serving one was appointed by the Marquess of Lorne in 1879, and he served for 17 years until replaced by the man nominated by John Thompson, and who would retire in 1902 as the last of the original holders of a then defunct position. The first one of these earned his law degree at the St. Lawrence Academy in Potsdam, NY, and was appointed by Lord Dufferin after previously serving in the legislature for Leeds. One of these had originally opposed Confederation, and eventually served on the Privy Council after being knighted, and his grandson would eventually serve in the same position. The first one of these to be raised from BC was originally from Ontario, was a Congregationalist minister and math teacher in Barrie, and became Administrator of Canada upon the death of Lord Tweedsmuir. FTP, counting the aforementioned Sir William Johnstone Ritchie, Sir William Buell Richards, Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau, and Sir Lyman Poore Duff among alumni of this position, what office is currently held by a woman nominated by Jean Chretien and appointed by Adrienne Clarkson? Answer: Chief Justice of Canada 12. Unlike in most other cultures, these areas of the celestial sphere recognized by a particular cultural group may be formed by or incorporate dark regions of the sky rather than outlines created by the layout of stars. To one group, the dark Coalsack Nebula represents the head of a lawman, while a continuous band of dark sky represents the wife of the creator-hero Daramulan. One of these, Julpan, represents a canoe, with two prominent stars representing two of three brothers who went fishing for forbidden fish, and M42 representing the forbidden fish. To another group, the Milky Way represents a river lined with campfires where the dead are ferried to by a canoe which is sent back to Earth as a meteor. The Pleiades represents seven sisters fleeing a man in the vicinity of Orion. FTP, what are these culture-specific areas of sky, which equates Lyra with a Malleefowl, dust lanes near the Coalsack with the great Emu-in-the-sky, and the Southern Cross with a possum in a tree? Answer: Australian Aboriginal Constellations 13. This authors first collaborative effort in this genre was with the author most famous for writing Pit Pony, and was about the titular females quest to find a suitable companion for city life, which a trip to her grandparents farm would lead to her finding. Besides that collaboration with Joyce Barkhouse, Annas Pet, this author wrote an environmental awareness piece in this genre about maintaining a sustainable environment for the titular creatures, For the Birds. This authors first foray into this genre is about the liberation from responsibility offered by living up in a tree, until beavers eat away at the ladder which was main characters only way out, leading them to rethink their decisions. Starting with Up in the Tree, and expanding upon this genre more recently with works like Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut, Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, and Bashful Bob and Doleful Dolinda, these are, FTP, examples of what type of literature written by a particular author, whose most recent entry is Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallops Wunderground Washery? Answer: Childrens Books of Margaret Atwood 14. Many of these were elicited via flashcards that read such questions as, Whats your favourite colour?, Whats your favourite food?, and When was the last time you were violent? These responses were recorded in a darkened studio booth and were given by staff and temporary occupants of Abbey Road Studios over the duration of recording the overall piece to which they would be added. One of these describes an encounter with a motorist, with a response of give em a quick, short, sharp shock, and the same respondent, Roger Manifold, notably responded, live for today, gone tomorrow, thats me in response to a question about death. The first of these used was provided by Chris Adamson, and states, Ive been mad for fucking years absolutely years, while accompanying laughter during Speak to Me and Brain Damage were provided by the father of Naomi Watts. These items are, FTP, what recordings superimposed on a certain prog rock concept album, which ends with one stating, there is no dark side in the moon, really. As a matter of fact, its all dark. Answer: Voice Clips on Dark Side of the Moon 15. Raspberry Water sees two characters discussing the recollections of old Foggy, and The Office is about a clerk working in a rundown shack who abuses his power by doing such things as separating lovers. Death is about people watching a man die after being struck by a tree felled by deep frost, and Singers is about a singing contest at a tavern in a terrible village, which juxtaposes the beautiful singing of one participant with the apparently horrible description of the setting. Living Relic is about a beautiful servant girl completely crippled by a digestive disorder who nevertheless dies happy because being unable to move meant that she could not sin, and District Doctor is about a doctor who fell in love with a dying patient. Along with works such as Khor and Kalinych, My Neighbour Radilov, Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands and Two Landowners, among others, these are examples of, FTP, what works based on recollections of the author from his time hunting at this mothers estate in Spasskoye, eventually collected in a work that would land the author under house arrest? Answer: Short Stories from A Sportsmans Sketches 16. The first of these to be issued by this polity featured a left-facing Britannia on the reverse, and carried a portrait of a monarch who had actually died two years prior to this items release. 18 years after the issue of that dollar, the bank responsible for issuing coinage for the remainder of its politys existence was granted royal assent due to a critical shortage, although these were still struck at the Royal Mint in London. The 1850 issue included and 1 penny tokens with a representation of St. George and the dragon, designed by Benedetto Pistrucci and based off of an earlier Gold Sovereign of 1817. The 1852 issue was split between the Royal Mint and Heatons Mint in Birmingham, and in 1857 the final issue was made due to the impending implementation of decimal currency into the polity where these were to be used. FTP, also incorporating French, Spanish, and American types due to international trade and bank notes specific to each individual institution, the above issues are examples of what system instigated by John Strachan at York in 1821, and which lasted until replaced by an official system of a certain pre-Confederate colony? Answer: Currency of Upper Canada (Also accept: currency of Canada West; Currency of the Province of Canada) 17. This subgenre covers a corpus spanning almost 400 years, despite the socio-economic conditions of the society in which it flourished being poor, and the authoritative works describing this subgenre are by literary historians Rob Nieuwenhuys and E.M. Beekman. Major works in this subgenre include Max Havelaar, a novel about coffee auctions and with an introduction by D.H. Lawrence, written by Multatuli, and The Hidden Force, by Louis Couperus. The founder of the Batavian Newspaper was a self-taught writer in this genre whose works include From Sugar to Tobacco, and Goena-Goena; that man was P.A. Daum. Other examples of this subgenre include The Lords of Tea, by Hella Haasse, My Fathers War, by Adriaan van Dis, and the political pamphlet Our Struggle, by activist Sutan Sjahrir, written to redirect nationalist sentiment away from Japanese direction and into the hands of the people. FTP, what is this subgenre which perhaps most famously includes The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout, and loosely, Sukarnos defense speech at his trial in Bandung? Answer: Dutch East Indies Literature 18. The first role in this genre for this actor saw him play Jimmy Grant opposite Olympe Bradnas Jeanette, and the production of that film set off a conflict between 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers due to similarities to a movie already in production. Another role for this actor in this genre was as Johnny Hammond, opposite Errol Flynn playing Australian Terrence Forbes, during filming for which this actor was called to the Air Force. In the same year, this actor narrated a film in this genre that would win an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-reel), as well as an educational dramatic short in this genre intended to educate the audience about friendly fire and recognizing a certain kind of enemy plane. Besides the aforementioned International Squadron, Desperate Journey, Beyond the Line of Duty, and Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter, these are, FTP, examples of what actors contributions to a certain genre, which also included Cadet Classification, Target Tokyo, The Stilwell Road, and This is the Army, after the success of his role as a double-amputee in Kings Row, but before his political career began in 1945? Answer: Ronald Reagan War Films 19. Six of these places are licensed for pari-mutuel gambling in Florida, where a world attendance record for an event at one was set in Miami at what is colloquially known as The Yankee Stadium of a certain sport. These places consist of three walls known as frontis, at the front, back, and left. There is a very high ceiling and a floor which is out-of-bounds, and the space is divided by 14 parallel lines. Traditionally, the front wall was the wall of a church, and the back wall was just a line on the ground, but the sidelines are always 4.5m apart. These places are further divided into upper and lower zones, cuadros, a service line usually at the 4th or 5th cuadro, and falta and pasa lines. While in normal play the falta line is in the 4th cuadro and the pasa line at 7th, in the Olympics they are at 3rd and 5th respectively. FTP, what are these places, known as a fronton in French, or pilotaleku in Basque, in which what has been called the fastest game in the world is played by bouncing a ball off a walled space? Answer: Jai Alai Courts (accept: fronton or pilotaleku before mentioning) 20. These figures are notable for depicting no sexual characteristics, and many of them are depicted on the largest greenstone sculpture found, known as the Las Limas Monument 1. Most of these are depicted with cleft heads and downturned mouths, such as Banded-Eye, who is only known from facial depictions. Shark Monster is identified by crescent-shaped eyes and a sharks tooth, and Bird Monster has been identified with the harpy eagle, and may have been associated with leadership. One of the more commonly depicted of these figures was Earth Monster, or Dragon, notable for its flame eyebrows, prominent fangs, and bifurcated tongue. Rain Spirit and Were-jaguar may be the same or distinct, given the number of shared features, and some researchers have linked these forms to the Maize Spirit. FTP, what are these figures, described as supernaturals by researchers, among whom has been identified a Feathered Serpent similar to that found in later cultures, and known from depictions on stelae and statues at sites like La Venta? Answer: Olmec Deities 21. Answer: Lee 22. One character of this authors is an immensely loyal walking trunk named The Luggage. Several books by this author, including The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, unfold on a world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on the back of a turtle walking through the cosmic void. This author also collaborated with Neil Gaiman on a very ineffable novel about an eleven-year-old starting the apocalypse in Lower Tadfield. For ten points, name this British author, creator of Discworld and co-author of Good Omens. Answer: Terry Pratchett 23. Answer: Hae Yoon 24. Answer: Kurtis Bonuses 1. Its time for historical Whos your daddy? Identify the fathers of the following rulers, FTPE: A. Pippin, King of the Lombards and titular character of a Stephen Schwartz musical, was the second son of this man and his wife Hildegard. Despite what the musical may indicate, Pippin was actually quite effective at helping his father subdue the Avars. Answer: Charlemagne (also accept: Charles the Great, Carolus Magnus, Charles I) B. Tutankhamun, the famous 18th century BC boy pharaoh, was the product of incest between this father of his and one of his aunts. His father famously established a new capital at Amarna and incurred the wrath of many when he abandoned the traditional Egyptian pantheon for a new monotheistic system that Tutankhamun quickly dismantled. Answer: Akhenaten (also accept: Amenhotep IV) C. Arcadius and Honorius, the first true Eastern and Western Roman emperors, were both sons of this last ruler of a unified empire. As well as defeating the usurpers Eugenius, at the Battle of Frigidus, and Magnus Maximus, this emperor made Christianity the official state religion of the empire, for which historians granted him the epithet of the great. Answer: Theodosius I (also accept: Flavius Theodosius Augustus) 2. Time to take a trip down memory lane to answer some questions about a certain series of childrens books, FTPE: A. Firstly, identify the English conservationist and children's author who wrote "The Tale of Peter Rabbit". Answer: Beatrix Potter B. Next, identify the fictional female rodent who vandalised a doll house in another of her books. Answer: Hunca Munca C. For a final ten points, identify which of Peter Rabbit's Tam o'Shanter-wearing cousins helps Peter retrieve his clothes from Mr. McGregor's garden. Answer: Benjamin Bunny 3. Welcome to Chez Canada, home of fine Canadian cuisine. FTPE: A. Your appetizer today will consist of fresh muktuk sliced into cubes by a traditional ulu, served with soy sauce and garnished with mousefoods. Muktuk is of course this traditional Inuit raw snackfood. Answer: Whale skin (also accept: whale blubber) B. The main course will consist of cod tongues and scrunchions, served with maple syrup baked beans, fiddleheads, bannock, and a bowl of yellow pea soup. We would be glad to tell you that scrunchions are better known as this, to the uninitiated. Answer: Pork rinds (also accept: deep fried pork fat, or anything to do with fried pork leftovers) C. Dessert will consist of a sampling of Pets de soeurs, or Nuns Farts, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, and a slice of this stone soup of the pie world, otherwise known as a mixed-berry pie. Answer: Bumbleberry Pie 4. Gee, I wonder whats going on in Kyrgyzstan these days? Said no one ever, except for Jay. Answer these questions about current news items in the second-poorest country in Central Asia, FTPE: A. Apparently drunken Kyrgyz soldiers shot dead a border patrolman of this neighbouring country on Tuesday, further escalating tensions caused by recent ethnic standoffs and pressure created by uncertainty over the two countries borders concerning the Ferghana Valley. Answer: Republic of Uzbekistan B. The Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper reports that China is prepared to invest up to $500 million into modernizing the Heat and Power Plant in this largest Kyrgyz city, which only currently has 13 out of 24 boilers functioning. Answer: Bishkek C. Apparently tourism is on the rebound since civil unrest and revolution in 2010. PM Jantoro Satybaldiev is particularly focused on redeveloping infrastructure to, and surrounding, this large Kyrgyz lake, which will be aided by the building of a new airport at Tamchi, saving tourists the 300km drive from Bishkek. Answer: Lake Issyk-Kul 5. It is commonly referred to as the building block of life; FTPE: A. Name the molecule which is present in all human cells except red blood cells and platelets and comprises of A, C, G, and T bases arranged in a double helix. Answer: DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid B. Modified by acetylation, name the protein arranged in octamers. Answer: Histone C. When first developed, this process involved highly refined seaweed. It organizes DNA fragments by size. Answer: Gel electrophoresis 6. Footage was captured of the accident which showed the plane coming in low and striking the seawall which then caused it to flip. It was also recently confirmed that one of the deceased was killed not by the crash, but by a responding emergency vehicle. A. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 recently crashed upon landing at the airport in which major American city? Answer: San Francisco B. Local television station KTVU came under fire for broadcasting pilot names which turned out to be the result of a prank by an NTSB intern. For 10 points, name any 2 of the 4 names which were broadcast by KTVU Answers: Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Bang Ding Ow, Ho Lee Fuk (any 2 of the 4) C. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled flight which took off from which city on the Korean Peninsula? Answer: Incheon 7. Given the flags of subnational entities or administrative regions, identify the country to which they belong, FTPE: (see Appendix at end of pack) A. Answer: United States of America (the flag is of Hawaii) B. Answer: Russian Federation (the flag is of the Chechen Republic) C. Answer: Federative Republic of Brazil (the flag is of Goias State) 8. Who doesnt love inappropriate mythology? Identify some items from the more crude side of myth, FTPE: A. In Hittite myth, Kumarbi struggles for the throne of the sky with his father, Anu, and only succeeds upon specifically doing this, mid-fight. How his head got down that low, and why he thought to do this is anyones guess. Answer: Castrates his father with his Mouth (accept clear-knowledge equivalents to bites his balls off) B. According to the Nez Perce, this figure pounded his penis in an effort to make it long enough to rape some women across a river. However, the oldest of the women chops it off, and apparently created a dam. Answer: Old Man Coyote C. In imitation of various tales of bestiality in Greco-Roman myth, according to Lucretius, many games held at Roman festivals would feature women copulating with bears and crocodiles, as well as these reptiles that would be inserted in the vagina, or used to suckle their nipples. Answer: Snakes 9. If you can find them, answer the following questions regarding British spy literature, FTPE: A. To begin, identify the English author who wrote a 1963 book entitled "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold". Answer: John le Carr B. For another ten points, name the fictional British intelligence agent whose longtime nemesis is a fictional Soviet spy codenamed "Karla". Answer: George Smiley C. For a final ten points, name the British spy novel adapted into a 2011 film starring Gary Oldman which follows retired intelligence agent George Smiley as he attempts to identify a double agent in the SIS. Answer: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 10. Sometimes you stage a coup, sometimes you fail miserably and become a footnote in history. Answer these questions about failed coup attempts, FTPE: A. A Venizelist coup attempt in this country in 1935 actually hastened the collapse of the Second Republic, when the popularity of General Kondylis soared due to his rapid handling of the situation. Answer: Greece (also accept: Hellenic Republic) B. The Kyujo Incident was a failed military coup intended to prevent this from happening, when the officers involved were unable to persuade the Eastern District Army to join their cause. Having been unsuccessful at removing the Imperial House, the disgraced officers were compelled to commit seppuku. Answer: Surrender of Japan in WWII C. The Mantsala rebellion failed to overthrow the Social Democrats in power in this country in 1932. The ultra-nationalist and anti-communist Lapua Movement was defused when President Svinhufvud promised that only the leaders of the coup would be punished upon surrender. Answer: Republic of Finland (also accept: Suomi, Suomen Tasavalta, Republiken Finland) 11. His most recent release in his native Japan is Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage while his most famous non-fiction involves interviews with survivors of the 1995 Sarin Gas Attacks. A. Who is this Japanese author of such works as Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood? Answer: Haruki Murakami B. Murakamis most recent release which has been translated to English is this novel which concerns an alternate timeline, a professional assassin and a second, malformed moon. Its title in Japanese is a play on words on a famous dystopian novel. Answer: 1Q84 (do not accept 1984) C. Formerly one of Murakamis most outspoken critics, this author presented Murakami with the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind Up Bird Chronicle in 1995. Some of his works are influenced by the fact that his eldest son Hikari has severe brain damage. Answer: Kenzaburo Oe 12. Their most notable accomplishment may have their performance in a brawl against Team Mexico. Name some of the people who represented Canada at this years World Baseball Classic for ten points each: A. Undoubtedly the most prominent name on Team Canadas roster is this Cincinnati Reds first baseman who recorded only two hits in Canadas three round robin games. Answer: Joey Votto B. This pitcher and 2010 second overall draft pick for the Pittsburgh Pirates was the youngest member of Team Canada and started Canadas final tournament game against the United States. Answer: Jameson Taillon C. The manager for Team Canada was this man who has managed Team Canada in all three World Baseball Classics thus far as well as the 2006 Olympic Games. He played 12 seasons for the Blue Jays between 1977 and 1989 and also served as a coach during John Gibbons first stint as manager of the Blue Jays. Answer: Ernie Whitt 13. This music group, founded in 1967, was first called Soft White Underbelly. FTPE: A. Name this American rock band with lead vocalist Buck Dharma responsible for such hits as Burnin for You and Godzilla. Answer: Blue yster Cult B. This song alludes to forty thousand men and women like Romeo and Juliet and states that seasons follow the titular instruction. For ten points, name this 1976 Blue yster Cult song which first appeared on the 1976 album Agents of Fortune. Answer: Dont Fear (The Reaper) C. The lyrics of the fifth song on this Blue yster Cult album were written by Patti Smith. For ten points, name this 1973 heavy metal album containing 7 Screaming Diz-Busters and The Red & The Black, the latter song an homage to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Answer: Tyranny and Mutation 14. Time for a bonus on everyones favourite kind of particlesthe subatomic ones! FTPE: A. Identify the category of subatomic particles which carries forces between fermions. Answer: Bosons B. Next, identify the uncharged subatomic particle which, along with the W boson, carries the weak nuclear force. Answer: Z boson C. For a final ten points, name the massless, chargeless subatomic particle which carries the strong nuclear force. Answer: Gluon 15. When travelling overseas, it might be a good idea to know what language people are likely to be speaking. In a world of over 6800 languages, very few hold any sort of official status of any kind. Identify these countries from their major languages, FTPE: A. English (official), Kriol (lingua franca), and Spanish (minority) Answer: Belize B. French (official), Lingala (national), and Munukutuba (national), which is a Kikongo-based creole Answer: Republic of the Congo (also accept: Republic du Congo) C. English (official), Tigrinya (official), and Arabic (official). Interesting, since very few people even understand English in this East African nation. Answer: State of Eritrea (also accept: Hagere Ertra, Dawlat Iritriya) 16. A body which possesses this property and conforms to Hookes law can be referred to as Hookean. A. What is this property, a materials ability to return to its original shape and size after having been deformed. Answer: Elasticity B. Hookes Law is stated as F = kx in which F is the force needed to extend or compress a spring, x is the distance the spring is extended or compressed, and k represents this innate quality of the spring itself. Answer: Stiffness C. Used to measure the stiffness of an elastic material, this measure was named for a 19th Century British scientist despite being developed earlier by Euler. It is measured in units of pressure. Answer: Youngs Modulus 17. Back in the day when there were fewer writing conventions to adhere to, one could go to town with subtitling literature. Identify these famous works from their lengthy subtitles, FTPE: A. A Thomas Paine pamphlet: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology Answer: The Age of Reason B. An Elizabethan play: Containing, His treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence; the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephews; his tyrannical usurpation; with the whole course of his detested life, and most desired death Answer: Richard III C. A 17th century English work by this man was subtitled: Or the Contemplative mans Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, Not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers Answer: Izaak Walton 18. Given the works, identify the sociologist, FTPE: A. The Division of Labour in Society; The Elementary Forms of Religious Life; Rules of the Sociological Method. Answer: David Emile Durkheim B. The System of Modern Societies; Family, Socialization, and Interaction Process; The Structure of Social Action Answer: Talcott Parsons C. Archaeology of Knowledge; The Birth of the Clinic; Madness and Civilization Answer: Michel Foucault 19. Try to collect as many points as you can by answering the following questions about collectathons, FTPE: A. One of the first games to be recognized as a collectathon is this 1995 adventure platform game, where collecting all of the DK coins and Bonus coins will allow you to complete the game with 102%, although it is unnecessary for actually completing the game, and wont unlock a secret boss. Answer: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddys Kong Quest B. This winner of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Console Action Game of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics for 1999 had players solving collecting notes to open doors in the hub world, and solving puzzles to collect Jiggies which would allow players to advance to the final battle with Gruntilda. Answer: Banjo-Kazooie C. A more modern collectathon that is much more challenging than the others is this game, to be released in August on all major consoles. This fifth installment in Ubisofts incredibly challenging and strange platforming franchise sees the titular character collecting Lums, freeing captured Teensies, and ultimately attempting to put a stop to the Bubble Dreamers nightmares. Answer: Rayman Legends 20. Women can be philosophers too? Who knew! Identify some cerebral females, FTPE: A. One of the earliest women philosophers ever identified was this priestess of Delphi, who was identified by ancient sources as the teacher of Pythagoras, and informed his moral doctrines. Answer: Themistoclea (also accept: Theoclea) B. Perhaps better well-known is this German-American political theorist who developed the ideas of homo faber, animal laborans, and the banality of evil. Her most famous work is probably Eichmann in Jerusalem. Answer: Hanna Arendt C. Probably the pre-eminent philosophress today is post-structuralist from University of California-Berkeley. Her work focuses on feminism, queer theory, rhetoric, Jewish philosophy, and seminal work is Gender Trouble. Answer: Judith Butler 21. Whos ready for some early Chinese literature? Anyone? No? Oh well. Heres some questions about it FTPE anyways: A. This father of Chinese historiography traveled widely and worked as court astrologer for Emperor Wu of Han. His Records of the Grand Historian covers more than 2000 years of general history in the jizhuanti style. Answer: Sima Qian B. In 1972, fragments of this mans Art of War were found in Yinque Mountain. It was written as a military strategy guide for the State of Qi, and was written during the Warring States period, and is not to be confused with a text of the same name compiled by his distant relative Sun Tzu. Answer: Sun Bin C. Writing much later, but considered the founder of modern Chinese literature was this head of the League of Left-Wing Writers and sympathizer of the May Fourth Movement. His more well-known stories include A Mad-mans Diary and The True Story of Ah Q. Answer: Lu Xun (also accept his penname, Zhou Shouren) 22. US demand for cocaine has fuelled a decades-long conflict with drug lords and guerrilla groups in Colombia that occasionally flares up despite Dec. 2012 peace talks. FTPE: A. 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