------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vancouver Estival Trivia Open 2013 Trans-Canada Championship Match, combined packet of BONUSES. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ B2B Trans-Canada Bonus Questions Science/Math/Tech Bonus The disease most commonly associated with this virus is commonly treated with azidothymidine, or AZT. For ten points each: [10] Name this virus that causes AIDS. ANSWER: human immunodeficiency virus [10] HIV is a retrovirus, meaning that it replicates through this process of using its viral RNA to create single-strand complimentary DNA. ANSWER: reverse transcription [10] HIV works by attacking this class of T cells, which get their common name from the fact that they do not directly attack infected cells. Instead, these cells use a namesake glycoprotein to signal killer T cells to attack. ANSWER: helper T cells [or CD4 T cells] History Bonus Prince George one day could be King George. Answer these questions about other British Georges for ten points each: [10] This man inherited the English throne in 1760 upon the death of his young father. This man’s rule saw the victory over France in the Seven Years’ War and the Act of Union that joined Britain and Ireland. This man’s son became Prince Regent in 1811. ANSWER: George III [10] The most recent monarch of the name became King George VI in 1936 when this King, his older brother, abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson. ANSWER: Edward VIII [10] This songwriter, who later used the performing names Nelson Wilbury and Spike Wilbury, wrote the songs “Here Comes the Sun” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” ANSWER: George Harrison Geography/Social Science Bonus Name some Canadian travel destinations based on tourism recommendations of the New York Times’s 36 Hours column for 10 points each: [10] This ski resort in the Laurentian Mountains rises above its namesake lake, 36 Hours recommends P’tit Caribou and Queues de Castor for après ski. ANSWER: Mont Tremblant [10] This northern Canadian destination is the site for sled dog racing along the Takhini River. For local history, visit the MacBride Museum that includes Sam McGee’s log cabin. ANSWER: Whitehorse, Yukon [10] This provincial capital is home to the Johnson Geo Centre partway up the hill to Cabot Tower where Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message. After a day of sightseeing, join the party on George Street home to several Irish pubs. ANSWER: St. John’s, Newfoundland [listen carefully in case they say Saint John, New Brunswick] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VETO 2013 Bellevue Trans-Canada Match Bonus Questions ================ BONUS ================ This man was made a boyar the same year that he offered his sister to tsarevich Fyodor, for whom he’d later serve as a regent. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this man who became tsar of Russia following a 1598 election of the zemsky sobor. ANSWER: Boris Fyodorovich Godunov [10] Boris Godunov’s death kicked off this turbulent period of Russian history, marked by the appearance of several False Dmitrys. ANSWER: Time of Troubles [or Smutnoye Vremya] [10] This member of the House of Shuysky ruled during the first few years of the Time of Troubles, but had to call on Swedish troops to relieve a two-year siege of Moscow launched by False Dmitry II. He was deposed in 1610 following a Polish invasion of Russia. ANSWER: Vasily IV Shuysky [or Vasili IV] ================ BONUS ================ In April 2013, this country invalidated a patent on Novartis, a cancer-treatment drug. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this country, home to large biotech companies like Biocon and Panacea Biotec. Some of those companies have been accused of poaching talent from its large IT companies, such as Infosys. ANSWER: India [10] While serving as India's finance minister in the early 1990s, this Sikh and current prime minister of the country devalued the rupee. ANSWER: Manmohan Singh [10] In 2012, the Supreme Court of India invalidated all licenses granted by former government minister A. Raja for a resource important to this industry as part of a gigantic scandal in that country. Mo Ibrahim, the sponsor of a namesake prize for African leaders, made his money in this industry. ANSWER: Wireless Industry [or Telecom Industry] ================ BONUS ================ Judith Jarvis Thomson altered this thought experiment so that agency was removed from the driver of the title conveyance and given instead to a bystander. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this problem formulated by Philippa Foot which asks whether one should let the title vehicle kill one innocent person so that many others can survive. ANSWER: Trolley car problem [10] Foot discussed the Trolley Problem in a paper on the “problem” of this practice and “the Doctrine of the Double Effect”. One such case raised in that article is whether a craniotomy, a very late-stage form of this practice, is permissible to save a life. ANSWER: Abortion [accept clear equivalents] [10] The Trolley Problem is often discussed in relation to this philosophical system, which was promoted by men like Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. It can be naively summarized as “the greatest good for the greatest number of people”. ANSWER: Utilitarianism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BONUS from FARSIDE team I'll play you a clip from YouTube of a comedy act performed by someone who died this year. For 10 points, name him. [[[ PLAY FARSIDE-TCCM-bonus.mp3 ]]] Answer: _T_amerlan Anzorovich _Tsarnaev_ Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom you just heard giving his impression of an Armenian, met his demise in a Boston suburb that has the largest Armenian-American population outside California. For 10 points, name this city just upstream of Cambridge on the Charles River, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found lying in a backyard boat. Answer: _Watertown_, Massachusetts Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's homepage on the Russian VK social networking website contains a riddle, and I'll give you 10 points if you can answer it: "A car goes by with a Chechen, a Dagestani and an Ingush inside it. Who's driving?" Answer: a _police_man ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ McMaster bonuses 1. The People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival is given to the feature-length film with the highest ratings as voted by the Festival-going populace and is regarded as a strong prognosticator of critical acclaim and Academy Award love. Name these winners of the award FTP each. A. It would be Inconceivable! if you were unable to name this 1987 winner, directed by Rob Reiner based on the 1973 novel of the same name. If you fail to name this movie, perhaps you should be fed to the Rodents of Unusual Size. Answer: The Princess Bride B. This 2002 drama directed by Niki Caro, starred Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a 12-year-old Maori girl who wants to become the chief of the tribe. It was shot on location in Whangara, the setting of the novel. Answer: Whale Rider C. This third winner of the prize, awarded in 1981, tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, a Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. It features a notable electronic score composed by Vangelis. Answer: Chariots of Fire 2. Trying to pick up a lady at VETO? Well, there’s no better way to demonstrate the devastating disappoint she’s about to encounter than by showing her how little you know about the human female reproductive tract. FTPE: A. This is the collective name for the external genital organs of the female mammal. Answer: Vulva (yes, it rhymes with Mulva) B. Trimming of this structure (a process known as female circumcision) allows for more clitoral exposure. Reduction of this structure is indicated in women with mild clitoral enlargement who are unwilling to undergo a formal clitoral reduction. Answer: Clitoral Hood (Do not accept clitoris) C. These eponymously named glands secrete mucus, which may slightly moisten the labial opening of the vagina, serving to make contact with this sensitive area more comfortable for the woman. Answer: Bartholin’s Glands 3. It’s been argued that the most imaginative and perhaps best stories ever written have been intended for younger audiences. Answer the following questions on well-regarded youth literature, FTPE: A. This story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract. Winner of the Newbery Medal, it is the first in Madeline L'Engle's series of books about the Murry and O'Keefe families. Answer: A Wrinkle in Time B. This is a children's adventure novel and modern fairy tale by Norton Juster. Published 1961it tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives the magical titular contraption one afternoon and, having nothing better to do, decides to drive through it in his toy car. The text is full of puns, and many events, such as Milo's jump to the Island of Conclusions, exemplify literal meanings of English language idioms. Answer: The Phantom Tollbooth C. All Quiz Bowlians should be familiar with this 1997 Newberry Winner by E. L. Konigsburg. In it, Eva Marie Olinski returns after her accident left her paraplegic to coach a group of sixth-grade students who form an Academic Quiz Bowl team. They go on to become New York state champions and Ms. Olinski finds purpose in her life once again. Answer: The View from Saturday ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oregon Bonus 1 FTPE, identify these forms of traditional dwellings A transportable circular domed tent of skins or felt over a bent wooden frame, used by nomads in Central Asia. Answer: _yurt_, jirga, jurta, ger. Similar to the yurt, this conical tent made of animal skins and wooden poles could be easily transported and re-erected. It was used by various nomadic and sedentary tribes of the Great Plains, including the Lakota from which the name derives. Answer: _tipi_ or _teepee_ A semi-permanent shelter made by hollowing out a pile of settled snow, in contrast to an igloo, which is made from blocks of hard snow. The word is of Athabaskan origin. Answer: _quinzee_ Bonus 2 Hebrews 11 is full of shout-outs to figures from the Old Testament. FTPE, identify the following people, given their descriptions from that chapter. [10] He "was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death:” 'He could not be found, because God had taken him away.'” _Enoch_ [10] He, "when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going." _Abraham_ [10] His "parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict." _Moses_ Bonus 3 FTPE, given a portion of the lyrics, identify the following songs currently (as of July 27) in the top five of the Billboard Hot Airplay list. If incorrect, you will be given the artist and a chance to guess again for five points. [Moderator: If incorrect answer is given, do not reveal correct answer until after second clue is given.] 10: Cause I don't wanna lose you now/I'm lookin' right at the other half of me 5: Justin Timberlake _Mirrors_ 10: But if I fall for you, I'll never recover/If I fall for you, I'll never be the same 5: Maroon 5 _Love Somebody_ 10: Baby can you breathe?/I got this from Jamaica/It always works for me/Dakota to Decatur 5: Robin Thicke, featuring T.I. and Pharell _Blurred Lines_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SFU Bonuses ================ BONUS ================ For ten points each, name these famous coins used in world trade. [10] These silver bullion coins are named after the ruler of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia from 1740 to 1780. The word for this coin / currency eventually gave rise to the English word dollar. Maria Theresa thaler (also accept MTT) [10] These Spanish silver dollars were approximately 38 mm in diameter, minted starting in 1497, were legal tender in the USA until 1857. piece(s) of eight (also accept real de a ocho, peso de ocho, or eight-real coin) [10] This name is given to modified pieces of eight used in the early history of two British settlements: Prince Edward Island and New South Wales. The middle was punched out of Spanish coins, creating two parts: a small circular coin and this part. Holey dollar ================ BONUS ================ For 5-10-15, name these map projections. [5] The TM in UTM, when paired with a suitable geodetic datum, this projection delivers high accuracy in zones less than a few degrees in east-west extent. Transverse Mercator (prompt on Mercator) [10] Any projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced lines radiating out from the apex and circles of latitude (parallels) are mapped to circular arcs centered on the apex. Conic projection [15] This projection displays all great circles as straight lines, resulting in any line segment on the map showing the shortest route between the segment's two endpoints. Gnomic projection ================ BONUS ================ For ten points each, identify these entities from the recent Arab Spring. Uprisings in this country began on February 14, 2011, and later in March several protests and camps occurred at the Pearl Roundabout. More than 80 people have been killed, but the government still stands. Bahrain On January 25, 2011, 50,000 protesters first occupied this Cairo square which has been the focus of much of the media coverage of the Arab Spring. Tahrir Square The self-immolation of this young Tunisian vegetable seller is considered the starting spark of the Arab Spring. Mohamed Bouazizi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UBC questions by Michael Whitaker, Steph Wilson, Rob Freeman, and Trevor Alexander ================ BONUS ================ For ten points each, identify the following overseas administrative divisions of France. An archipelago that contains 25% of the world’s nickel resources. The capital and largest city of this special collectivity is Nouméa. ANSWER: _Nouvelle-Calédonie_ (or _New Caledonia_) The southernmost of the Leeward Islands. Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy separated from this overseas territory in 2007. ANSWER: _Guadelupe_ A coral atoll west of Costa Rica. This overseas possession has been uninhabited since the end of World War II, with the exception of occasional castaways and ham radio operators. ANSWER: _Clipperton Island_ ================ BONUS ================ Name these American Revolutionary War generals, for ten points each. In six weeks during the Siege of Boston in the winter of 1775, this man transported sixty tons or armaments over three hundred miles from Fort Ticonderoga. He later became Washington’s first Secretary of War. ANSWER: Henry _Knox_ This major general took credit for the victory at Saratoga in 1777, though military action was primarily directed by his subordinates, including Benedict Arnold. He tried to parlay his ensuing popularity into supplanting Washington as Commander-in-Chief. ANSWER: Horatio _Gates_ Unofficially second-in-command to begin the war, this man blamed the capture of New York on General Washington. He ordered a retreat at the Battle of Monmouth, defying Washington’s direct orders to attack, and was subsequently court-martialed. ANSWER: _C_harles _Lee_ (prompt on just Lee) ================ BONUS ================ Answer the following about a concept from cinema theory for ten points each. Critic Nathan Rabin created this term for stock characters such as Natalie Portman in Garden State, which he defines as "that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely ... to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries.” ANSWER: _Manic Pixie Dream Girl_ or _MPDG_ The Manic Pixie Dream Girl was the subject of the first “Tropes vs. Women” video-essay by this Canadian feminist media critic. ANSWER: Anita _Sarkeesian_ Because she awakens her man from petrifying malaise, or perhaps because she herself is essentially a product of his narrative arc, the MPDG has been connected to this mythological Greek sculptor whose beloved statue came to life. ANSWER: _Pygmalion_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ U of T grad alumni bonuses ================ BONUS ================ It is of the family Rhabditidae, and was named by Maupas in 1900, presumably for its style of movement. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this unsegmented worm which was first used as a model organism by Sydney Brenner in 1974 and has since become a model organism for biological study, earning researchers on it three distinct Nobel Prizes: ANSWER: Caenorhabdtis elegans [10] Another model organism, this plant has been transformed into genetic varieties such as “Hot Head,” and “Pot Head,” and was first proposed as a model organism as early as 1943: ANSWER: Arabidopsis thaliana (or Thale Cress or Mouse-Ear Cress) [10] C. Elegans belongs to this phylum, estimated to have 1,000,000 species, of which approximately 28,000 are classified. They make up over 90% of life on the ocean floor: ANSWER: Nematoda (or Nematodes or Roundworms) ================ BONUS ================ Identify the following influential Canadian politicians who were never Prime Minister, for 10 points each. [10] This French-Canadian “Father of Confederation” served as Prime Minister John A. Macdonald’s Quebec lieutenant. Jointly elected to both federal and provincial positions, although he lived to only 5 years after independence, his legacy exists in co-naming, with Macdonald, the major Highway 401 and Ottawa’s airport. ANSWER: Sir George-Étienne Cartier [10] Born and educated in Massachusetts, this Liberal cabinet Minister serving in the Mackenzie King and St. Laurent cabinets became so powerful as to be nicknamed the “Minister of Everything” during World War II. Post-war Minister of Trade as well as Defence Production, this erstwhile Engineering Professor was defeated in the 1957 election after a controversial plan on the Trans-Canada natural gas pipeline. ANSWER: Clarence Decatur Howe [10] More recently, this current Minister of National Defence rose to Leader of the federal Progressive Conservative party, then merged it with the right-wing Canadian Alliance to form the now-ruling Conservative Party of Canada. Voted “Parliament’s sexiest male” by the parliamentary newspaper The Hill Times, his relationship with Condoleezza Rice was so cordial that Jon Stewart raised the possibility of an affair on The Daily Show. ANSWER: Peter Gordon MacKay (Stewart’s quotation was “are they f###ing?” but we can’t put that) ================ BONUS ================ The ending credits scene in this film sees the titular object in motion while the soundtrack at this point is sung by the director and star, whose character is now deceased. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 2008 film, with Clint Eastwood directing, producing and acting as Walt Kowalski, the owner of the titular motor vehicle. ANSWER: Gran Torino [10] This actress played the female lead Su, a girl of Asian descent who befriends Kowalski despite his racism. Su is later beaten and raped for her brother’s refusal to join a gang. ANSWER: Ahney Her [10] Both Su and her brother Thao are members of this ethnicity, whose American integration is described by Su as “the girls go to University, the boys go to jail.” When told this ethnicity was encouraged to immigrate to America after the Vietnam War by Lutheran missionaries, Kowalski states, “everybody blames the Lutherans.” ANSWER: Hmong People (“Mong”) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of Washington A bonuses ================ BONUS ================ Answer some questions about a boom in northwest Canada, for 10 points each: [10] This event that began in 1896 saw tens of thousands travel to the Yukon hoping to make it rich. It was largely thanks to this event that the Yukon became its own territory with Dawson City as its capital. ANSWER: Klondike Gold Rush [also accept Alaska Gold Rush, Yukon Gold Rush, and Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush] [10] Along with his brother-in-law and nephew, this American was the first to discover gold in the Klondike region. ANSWER: George Washington Carmack [10] Getting to the Klondike was often an ordeal for many would-be prospectors. Ships left Vancouver, Seattle, or San Francisco daily and often deposited their passengers in this boomtown in southeast Alaska. ANSWER: Skagway [or Dyea] ================ BONUS ================ Canada has plenty of cool lakes. For 10 points each: [10] This lake is the largest entirely within Ontario; it is occasionally referred to as the sixth Great Lake. Some remember it for its strange green-black sand, a result of molten rock releasing the mineral pyroxene in the area a billion years ago. ANSWER: Lake Nipigon [10] This lake (or reservoir) is in the form of a 70-km diameter annulus, and is evidence of a 200 million-year-old impact. One theory holds that the impact was part of a chain of several, resulting from the pre-collision breakup of an asteroid or comet. ANSWER: Manicouagan reservoir [10] This lake was known to Samuel Hearne as Lake of the Hills. Its modern name is a Cree Indian term that roughly means “where there are reeds”. The major settlements on it are Ft. Chipewyan and Uranium City. ANSWER: Lake Athabasca ================ BONUS ================ This author references the first battle in the Anglo-Zulu War in a poem entitled “Isandlwana”, while he compares Helen of Troy to Quebec in another work based on the French and Indian War. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Canadian author of the poems “The Anxious Dead” and “Upon Watts’ Picture ‘Sic Transit’”, a Lieutenant Colonel during the First World War. ANSWER: John McCrae [10] McCrae is better known for this poem, which resulted in the use of “remembrance poppies” and wherein he writes, “We shall not sleep, though poppies grow” in the title location. ANSWER: “In Flanders Fields” [10] “In Flanders Fields” was inspired by the death of McCrae’s friend Alexis Helmer, who died in this 1915 battle in which the 1^st Canadian Division defeated Germany in an engagement in St. Julien. ANSWER: Second Battle of Ypres ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of Washington B bonuses ================ BONUS ================ Until December 2012, this man's vice president was Mahmoud Mekki. For 10 points each: [10] Name this former leader of Egypt who was detained on July 3rd. ANSWER: Mohamed Morsi [10] As of July 23rd 2013, this man was the interim president of Egypt. His vice president is El Baradei. ANSWER: Adly Mansour [10] Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian military which is lead by this general. ANSWER: Abdel Fattah el-Sissi ================ BONUS ================ This man became president of Venezuela after a coup against General Angarita. For 10 points each: [10] Name this member of Accion Democratica who became President of Venezuela a second time in 1959. ANSWER: Romulo Betancourt [10] Betancourt survived an assassination attempt by this Dominican dictator. He ordered the Parsley Massacre of Haitians. ANSWER: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina [10] During Betancourt's second administration, Venezuela became a founding member of this cartel governing a certain commodity. Other founding members included Iraq and Saudi Arabia. ANSWER: OPEC [or Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries] ================ BONUS ================ Mount Garibaldi is a “strato” one of these geologic features. For 10 points each: [10] Name features that also include Mount Etna and Kilauea ANSWER: volcanoes [10] This volcano in Java has a name meaning “fire mountain”. Several hundred people died in the 2010 eruptions here. ANSWER: Mount Merapi [10] Tanzania is the location of this 300 square kilometer volcanic caldera. The crater is now part of a conservation area that is a popular safari site. ANSWER: Ngorongoro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Waterloo (Aayush, Cam, Jj, Huma) History For 10 points each, answer some questions about the Napoleonic Wars. [10] This Prussian general is best known for either being trapped under his dead horse during the Battle of Ligny, or for defeating Napoleon at Waterloo along with the Duke of Wellington. ANSWER: Gebhard Leberecht von _Blücher_ [10] This French monarch assumed the throne after Napoleon’s first exile, fled after Napoleon returned, then assumed the throne again after Waterloo. ANSWER: _Louis XVIII_ [10] The Congress of Vienna settled the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and also established the German Confederation to replace the Holy Roman Empire; the Confederation eventually collapsed after this war in 1866. ANSWER: _Austro-Prussian War_ [accept _Seven Weeks’ War_] Literature One character in this novel is the lawyer Manny di Presso, who is suing a dead character’s estate because that character supposedly never paid for a delivery of human bones. For 10 points each: [10] Name this novel in which Oedipa Maas is named executor of Pierce Inverarity’s will, which ends with her attending the title auction. ANSWER: The _Crying of Lot 49_ [10] In The Crying of Lot 49, Oedipa’s paranoia about the conspiracy surrounding the Trystero secret postal service begins after she witnesses a staging of this play. The director, Randolph Driblette, is unable to explain a reference to the Trystero in this play and commits suicide before Oedipa can learn anything from him. ANSWER: The _Courier’s Tragedy_ [10] The Crying of Lot 49 is by this American author, whose latest novel is the detective story Inherent Vice. ANSWER: Thomas Ruggles _Pynchon_, Jr. Geography OR Social Science [omit if possible] Three rivers run through it. For 10 points, each, answer some questions about the geography of Canada’s best city, Toronto. [10] Toronto lies on the Northwest shore of this Great Lake, which is also the namesake of the province Toronto is capital of. ANSWER: Lake _Ontario_ [10] Those aforementioned three main rivers that run through Toronto are the Humber, the Don, and this river which flows from the Oak Ridges Moraine. Its namesake park is the only national park located within a municipality. ANSWER: _Rouge_ River [10] Toronto’s southernmost point lies on its border with this Peel region city, notable for its long-standing and very old mayor, Hazel McCallion. ANSWER: _Mississauga_