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VETO 2009 – Jittany + JUNTA = Double J

Toss Up

1) This infection is primarily caused by Staphylococcus aureus, but can also be caused by Staphylococcus pyrogenes. From the Latin for “to assail”, this disease most commonly affects children between the ages of 2 and 6, but it also commonly contracted by people who participate in rugby, football, wrestling or other contact sports. FTP, name this bacterial skin infection that produces honey-coloured crusts.

Answer: Impetigo

2) This poem opens with: "of man's first disobedience, and the fruit / of that forbidden tree, whose mortal tast / brought death into the World, and all our woe." Its numerous editions have famously been illustrated by artists including William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Salvadore Dali, and it is the literary basis for Philip Pullman's ``His Dark Materials'' trilogy of novels. FTP, name this poem that takes place partly in Pandæmonium', the capital of Hell, an account of the fall of man by John Milton.

Answer: Paradise Lost

3) Founded in 997 when its inhabitants were baptized by Saint Adalbert of Prague, this city was given special status by King Bathory of Poland since its seige in 1577. Throughout its history, it has been controlled by Teutonic Order, Prussia, Germany, and it has also existed as a free state. A shipyard by the same name was the birthplace of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, and Germany did not relinquish all claims to it until the Treaty of Warsaw was signed in 1970. FTP, name this city, the fourth largest in Poland.

Answer: Gdansk or Danzig

4) It has 15 different narrators in its 59 chapters, including one narrating from the inside of a coffin post-mortem. Set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, this novel's title is taken from ``The Odyssey'', in which Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus, preceding “… the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades''. Preceded a year earlier by ``The Sound and The Fury'', for ten points, name this Faulkner novel it is written entirely in the stream of consciousness style, telling the death of Addie Bundren.

Answer: As I Lay Dying

5) Originally known as "The Total Overcomers", the logo for this group consisted of its name superimposed on an image of the rings around a planet inside a keyhole. Members of the group added "-ody" to their first names in order to differentiate themselves as "children of the next level", and members were encouraged to hate the world "to the extent to be willing to leave it without any proof of the Next Level's existence". FTP, name this cult led by Marshall Applewhite whose 39 members were beckoned by Hale-Bopp to depart to another world through an act of cult suicide.

Answer: Heaven’s Gate

6) It is depicted on the reverse of the Albanian 1 lek coin and on the Louisiana state flag. The original name of Sir Frances Drake’s Golden Hinde, it is also the United States Coast Guard designation for the Sea King helicopter. The Dalmatian variety of this bird can have a wingspan of up to 3.5 meters and the Australian variety have the longest bills of any bird. For ten points, name this bird with a large pouched bill.

Answer: Pelican

7) Plutarch wrote of her, "she is both wise, and a lover of wisdom; as her name appears to denote that, more than any other, knowing and knowledge belong to her", and it is written on her shrine in Sais that "I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised." Her symbol is the tyet, which symbolizes welfare, or life, and she is typically depicted wearing the headdress of Hathor, sometimes holding her child, Horus. The daughter of Geb and Nut, FTP, name this sister and wife of Osiris, the Egyptian Goddess of fertility.

Answer: Isis

8) This novel features a wide variety of questionable cures for impotence, including anal penetration with a pepper covered leather dildo, and soaking ones genitals in the juice of watercress. It is an account of the life of Encolpius, an impotent former gladiator, and his lover, a sixteen year old boy named Giton. Many portions of it have been lost and it is unclear whether it was originally written as a satire. It opens with its narrator Encolpius standing outside a school in Campania railing against false taste in literature caused by declamatory education. A work of 141 chapters, and a mix of both prose and poetry, it is generally believed to have been written during the reign of Nero by Gaius Petronius. FTP, name this Roman novel.

Answer: Satyricon


9) The main decay mode for neutral pions produces two. Paul Villard discovered them in 1900 while studying radiation emitted from radium. Mössbauer spectroscopy is based on the resonant emission and absorption of them in solids. The three main ionization processes for these are the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, and pair production. For ten points, name these photons of shorter wavelength than X-rays.

Answer: Gamma Rays or Gamma Photons (grudgingly accept photon before Villard, grudgingly accept X-ray before mentioned, do not accept gamma radiation)

10) This took place on January 15, 1947, but the motivations behind it have never been determined. Prior to the event in question, its namesake was born in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, the daughter of a miniature golf constructor. Though some believed the namesake to have been a call girl and possessed "infantile genitalia", neither rumour is now believed to be true. FTP, name this event, the results of which were discovered in Leimert Park, LA, when a severely mutilated 22-year old female body was found, cut in two, and with its blood drained.

Answer: Black Dahlia Murder (accept: Murder of Elizabeth Short, or equivalents)

11) No longer included in the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, this term was coined by William Cullen in 1769 to refer to "disorders of sense and motion". There are many different manifestations of this condition, including hysteria, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and pyromania. Carl Jung found that politics could be thought of as suffering from this condition, and according to psychoanalytic theory it can develop as an ego defense mechanism. For ten points, what is this term denoting a "general affection of the nervous system".

Answer: Neurosis (accept Psychoneurosis or Neurotic Disorder)

12) Ptolemy's Geographia contains the first written reference to this people living north of the Elbe with a name thought to derive from a word for a unique knife. In its namesake wars, they were conquered by Charlemagne in a long series of campaigns from 772 to 804. For ten points, name this confederation of Germanic tribes that participated in the settlement of Britain in the fifth century AD.

Answer: Saxons

13) Samuel Leonard Tilley took inspiration from Psalm 72:8 in coining this term at the London Conference of December 1866 discussing the confederation of four of the British North American colonies. A namesake act from 1872 encouraged the settlement of Canada's prairie provinces. On October 27th, 1982, the name Canada Day superseded this term for Canada’s national holiday. FTP, name this term, also common in the formal name of Canada until the 1950s.

Answer: Dominion

14) There are two symphonies given this name and associated with Beethoven. The first is actually Brahm's Symphony No. 1 in C minor. The second was assembled from fragments of Beethoven's writing by Barry Cooper, and first recorded in 1988 by Wyn Morris and Walter Weller. Schubert's symphony of this name also is unfinished, haven been written in the last weeks of his life. Unlike these other composers, after writing a symphony with this name, Mozart went on to write another 31 symphonies. FTP, name this common numerical name.

Answer: Symphony X (accept 10th Symphony, Symphony No. 10, or equivalents)

15) This is mentioned in Act One, Scene One of Henry V. In 333 BC while at the capital of Phrygia, Alexander the Great attempted to solve this puzzle. When he failed, he sliced it in half with a stroke of his sword, producing the required ends. For ten points, identify this puzzle that is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem solved by bold action.

Answer: Gordian Knot

16) French Canadian film actress Geneviève Bujold was originally cast for the lead role in this series, but she was replaced before the pilot was completed. Other actors on this included Ethan Phillips who plays the chef and Robert Picardo who plays the Doctor. Its crew consisted of both Maquis (MA-KEE) rebels and original members of its namesake crew which suffered major losses in the series premiere. FTP, name this UPN show named for a vessel that was transported to the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light-years from Earth.

Answer: Star Trek: Voyager

17) Its all-time height was reached in June 1980, reaching 21.98%, and its all-time low was back in July 1953 when it registered only 2.97%. Developed in the 1960s by Arthur Okun, it is the sum of the inflation rate and the unemployment rate, and it does not factor in GDP and bank interest rate. FTP, name this economic indicator that supposedly measures the suffering experienced by a country's populace, frequently referenced by Jimmy Carter during his election run in 1976.

Answer: Misery Index


18) A monument known by this name stands in Whitehall, London. It is a sparse stone structure with the words “The Glorious Dead” and wreathes carved into each end. The National War Memorial in Ottawa is a tall granite example of this. One is located in Victory Square in downtown Vancouver commemorating the World War One war dead. FTP, give this term, from the Greek for empty tomb, for a monument erected in honour of a person or group whose remains lie elsewhere.

Answer: Cenotaph

19) Major falls along its route include Ripon Falls, Tis Issat Falls, and Rusumo Falls, and two main branches of it are known to locals as ``Bahr al Azraq'' and ``Bahr al Jabal'.' This river has two main tributaries, and near its delta again splits into two main distributaries, the Damietta in the east and the Rosetta to the west. Major cities lying along its path include Luxor, Aswan, and Khartoum. FTP, name this river whose first ever full traversal was documented in the National Geographic feature film, ``The Longest River''?

Answer: Nile

20.) Johann Philipp Siebenkees created the history of the device as a hoax in 1793. Popular lore states that this device would have caused asphyxiation or death from blood loss due to the spikes. Often associated with the Middle Ages, it was still being used in the 20th century, with Uday Hussein owning a crude one that was allegedly used on Iraqi soccer players. FTP, name this torture device consisting of an iron cabinet large enough to encase a human.

Answer: Iron Maiden

21) The central idea behind this method relies on the theory that memory, personality, and identity is physically stored in cellular structures and chemistry, and perhaps the most famous person who went through this procedure was Ted Williams. Revival has so far proven beyond modern science except for some microscopic animals such as water bears. There were tabloid rumours recently that Michael Jackson’s body would have undergone this procedure, but it was not processed in time. FTP, name this preservation method for humans and animals that relies on low temperature.

Answer: Cryonics or Cryopreservation (Do not accept cryogenics)

22) Although she eventually shows up as a prostitute in Boston and has had an affair with John Proctor, she is only a girl of seventeen. At the beginning of the novel, we learn that this girl and two other girls, Betty and Tituba, have been engaged in occult rituals in the woods, leading to rumours that she has been performing witchcraft. In order to protect her identity, she accuses some of the townspeople of being involved with the devil, and this resulted in her becoming the foremost accuser in the court trying the witches. FTP, name this accuser of the Salem Witch trials of 1692, also a character in the Crucible.

Answer: Abigail Williams

23) Minor characters include Esme, played by Elizabeth Reaser, and James, played by Cam Gigandet. The actors playing the Cullens wore topaz-colored contacts while Kristen Stewart, who played the lead Bella, wore brown contacts to match the character’s description in the book. Awards received by this 2008 movie include 5 MTV Movie Awards including “Best Fight” and “Best Kiss”. For ten points, name this Catherine Hardwicke directed film about teenage vampire love.

Answer: Twilight

24) According to stellar evolution theory, these nuclides have existed in their current form since before Earth was formed. It is also a rare category of dwarfism associated with a uniformly small body size. An –ism from this root word states that nations are ancient, natural phenomena. For ten points, give this word meaning first created, from the Latin “first” and “to begin”.

Answer: Primordial

25) Impetigo, Paradise Lost, Danzig, As I Lay Dying, Heaven’s Gate, Pelican, Isis, Satyricon, Gamma Ray, Primordial, Abigail Williams, Saxon, Dominion, Symphony X, Gordian Knot, Voyager, Misery Index, Cenotaph, Nile, Cryonics, Neurosis, Twilight, Black Dahlia Murder, and Iron Maiden, are all examples of bands that play this genre of music. FTP, name this type of music whose subgenres include speed, black, and death.

Answer: Metal (accept equivalents)


Bonus

1) Name these 20th century literary works for 10 points each, if you need the author you only get 5

a) Speculating on Jane Austen’s writing process and what life would be like for a fictional Shakespeare’s sister, this work is an early feminist classic.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Answer: A Room of One’s Own

b) This romance follows its heroine through repressive Edwardian culture in both England and Italy and opens with complaints over a hotel room from which the work gets its title.

Author: E.M. Forster

Answer: A Room with a View

c) This play takes place in a close knit Italian-American community who lives beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, off of longshoremen wages and largely under their own laws.

Author: Arthur Miller

Answer: A View from the Bridge

2) FTPE, answer the following about Canadian popular music.

a) Nominees this year include Fucked Up’s The Chemistry of Common Life, Metric’s Fantasies, and Chad VanGaalen’s Soft Airplane. Considered Canada’s answer to Britain’s Mercury Prize and Canadian hipsters’ answer to the Junos, name this award given to the year’s best Canadian album.

Answer: Polaris Music Prize

b) A former Polaris juror, this former MuchMusic VJ now hosts the CBC Newsworld program, The Hour.

Answer: George Stroumboulopoulos

c) In somewhat of an upset, Owen Pallet won the inaugural Polaris Prize in 2006 with He Poos Clouds under this video game-inspired moniker.

Answer: Final Fantasy

3) FTPE, answer the following questions on recent happenings in the world of technology.

a) Google recently released a light-weight operating system, which shares its look-and-feel with the web browser of the same name.

Answer: Chrome

b) This company recently released the first beta of its 3.0 codeline of their JavaScript library, YUI [WHY-you-EYE].

Answer: Yahoo!

c) Microsoft is once again trying to make headway into the internet search space. In June, they launched this attempted Google-killer, which goes by this 4-letter name.

Answer: Bing

4) Name the statistical probability distribution, 5-5-10-10.

a) A discrete distribution, it takes value 1 with probability p and value 0 with probability 1-p.

Answer: Bernoulli


b) Another discrete distribution, it describes the number of successes in a sequence of n independent binary experiments

Answer: Binomial

c) A class of continuous distributions, these describe the times between events in a Poisson [PWAH-sohn] process

Answer: Exponential

d) A continuous distribution, it arises when studying two-dimensional vectors where the elements are uncorrelated, normally distributed, and with equal variance

Answer: Rayleigh

5) Identify the following “portraits,” for ten points each.

a) Written by James Joyce in 1916, it depicts the early years of Stephen Dedalus

Answer: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

b) Joseph Heller's final novel, it tells the story of an elderly author trying to write a novel as successful as his early works.

Answer: Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man

c) Released in 1994, this Marilyn Manson “portrait” includes the songs "Lunchbox" and "Get Your Gunn".

Answer: Portrait of an American Family

6) Everyone loves a good siege (if you know what I mean). FTPE, identify the siege equipment by the picture.

#1 Answer: Trebuchet

#2 Answer: Ballista

#3 Answer: Mangonel or Onager (Prompt on Catapult)

7) Given the following "Hello World" programs, identify the programming language that each is written in. 5 points for each correct answer. You have 15 seconds in total.

Answers:

a) Cb) Cobolc) Javad) Adae) Haskellf) Common LISP

8) Name these authors who killed themselves for ten points each.

a) Having published her best known work under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas,” she met her end with her head in an oven.

Answer: Sylvia Plath

b) His Brief Interviews With Hideous Men was adapted into a play in 2000, but he is best known for his 1996 work, Infinite Jest, which Time Magazine included his its list of 100 Greatest Novels from 1923 to 2006.

Answer: David Foster Wallace


c) Credited as the founder of Gonzo Journalism, he is perhaps best known for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He met his end through a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.

Answer: Hunter S. Thompson

9) For 10 points each, answer the following questions about the recent travels of heads of state and their families.

a) Stephen Harper introduced his kids to the pope after completing G8 meetings in this city.

Answer: L’Aquila, Italy.

b) Barack Obama took his daughters to the so called “Point of No Return” in this African country.

Answer: Ghana

c) Honduran President Manuel Zelaya hopefully brought his wife along when he fled to San Jose in this country.

Answer: Costa Rica

10) The 2009 Toronto Blue Jays got off to a red hot start, only to start blowing it as they head into the summer. Lets reminisce about the good old times, shall we? FTPE, answer the questions about the 1992 World Series Champion Jays.

a) The ace of the staff is this 21-game winner who sported a sweet moustache.

Answer: Jack Morris

b) Even though Duane Ward led the bullpen with 103 strikeouts and a 1.95 ERA, it was this man who served as the team’s primary closer, notching 34 saves that year in the regular season.

Answer: Tom Henke

c) This future Hall-of-Famer was signed as the team’s DH heading into the ’92 season, and he didn’t disappoint, hitting 26 home runs to go along with 108 RBIs.

Answer: Dave Winfield

11) For 10 points, name these developmental psychology theories.

a) This theory focuses on the relationship between the child and their primary caregiver and separates children into the following types: secure, avoidant, ambivalent and disorganized.

Answer: Attachment Theory or Styles

b) This theory, named after its founder, purports that all children develop through the following stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete-Operational and Formal-Operational.

Answer: Piaget’s Theory.

c) This theory compares the child’s cognitions to that of a computer.

Answer: Information-Processing Theory.

12) For 10 points each, answer these questions about European composers and their works.

a) Better known to moviegoers as the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey, this tone poem was composed in 1896 by Richard Strauss.

Answer: Thus Spake Zarathustra or Also Sprach Zarathustra


b) Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima uses instruments from this musical family in many non-traditional ways.

Answer: Strings

c) This 1912 melodrama from Schoenberg includes the setting of twenty-one French poems of the same name to music.

Answer: Pierrot Lunaire

13) For 10 points each, answer these questions about recent Broadway plays.

a) Starring Tony Soprano James Gandolfini himself, this play won the 2009 Tony for Best Play.

Answer: God of Carnage

b) Having won the Tony for Best Musical in 2004, this musical will close its Broadway curtains this September.

Answer: Avenue Q

c) Although some have said it is unbearably long, this Tom Stoppard play trilogy premiered in London in 2002.

Answer: The Coast of Utopia

14) FTPE, name these related people.

a) This Canadian served as the general commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda.

Answer: General Romeo Dallaire

b) He was the commander of the winning side at the Battle of Queenston Heights, even though a famous painting depicted his death during the battle.

Answer: General Isaac Brock

c) He was the commander of the Canadian Corps in WWI, as well as being the first Canadian to attain the rank of full general.

Answer: General Arthur Currie

15) For 10 points each, name these Canadian cities situated on islands.

a) Harboring Canada’s most famous Long Beach, this resort town on Vancouver Island is popular for surfers and honeymooners alike.

Answer: Tofino

b) This Canadian capital is on the coast of Baffin Island.

Answer: Iqaluit

c) This Cape Breton city has a similarly-named city on Vancouver Island and another one in Australia.

Answer: Sydney


16) Look at the images given. For five points a piece and a bonus five for getting all correct, state whether the following organic molecule is: a) a common organic component of the human body; b) an illegal drug; or c) neither. You have 15 seconds in total.

A: Common (cholesterol)B: Drug (Psilocybin)C: Drug (Amphetamine (Speed))D: Common (Norepinephrine)E: None (Sarin nerve gas)

17) Answer the following related questions FTPE.

a) For 10 points, identify the building under attack in this painting.

Answer: The Bastille

b) For another 10 points, how many inmates escaped during the prison break on the Bastille in 1789? You get 5 points if you off by 1.

Answer: 7

c) For a final 10 points, on what date is Bastille Day celebrated in France?

Answer: July 14 th

18) As of July 1, 2009, the Canadian Criminal Code categorizes offenses into the following categories: SUMMARY, HYBRID, or INDICTABLE. FTPE, identify the category given a description of the offense.

a) Wilfully committing an act in the presence of Her Majesty with intent to alarm Her Majesty.

Answer: Indictable

b) Anyone who receives a payment of interest at a criminal rate.

Answer: Hybrid

c) Disturbing a group of people meeting for religious worship.

Answer: Summary

19) FTPE, give the common name from the Latin scientific species name.

a) Ursus americanus

Answer: Black bear

b) Odocoileus virginianus

Answer: White-tailed deer or Virginia deer

c) Turdus migratorius

Answer: American Robin

20) So You Think You Can Dance. NOT the Canadian version. Answer these questions FTPE.

a) She is the charming host of the American version of So You Think You Can Dance. Leah Miller has nothing on her.

Answer: Cat Deeley


b) The only female choreographer to win an Emmy for her work on the show, she picked up that award in 2007 for a piece called “Calling You” which used a bench for a prop.

Answer: Mia Michaels

c) Not a really a dancer herself, this singer made her US television debut on season 4 of program, doing – appropriately enough – her single “Just Dance.”

Answer: Lady Gaga

21) Name the classic adventure game series, for ten points each.

a) Starring mighty pirate Guybrush Threepwood, a five-part episodic addition to this series will be released in the summer of 2009 for Xbox Live.

Answer: Monkey Island

b) Originally a comic book series created by Steve Purcell, this video game series features its namesake suit-wearing dog and "hyperkinetic rabbity thing" crime-fighting duo.

Answer: Sam & Max

c) Created by Al Lowe, characters appearing in this series include "Dewmi Moore", "Jamie Lee Coitus", "Nailme", and its namesake, Mr. Laffer.

Answer: Leisure Suit Larry

22) For 10 points each name the directors of the following Shakespeare film adaptations based on the play and the year of release

a) Titus Andronicus (1999)

Answer: Julie Taymour

b) Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Answer: Franco Zeffirelli

c) Hamlet (1996)

Answer: Kenneth Branagh


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7) Given the following "Hello World" programs, identify the programming language that each is written in. 5 points for each correct answer.

A) #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); return 0; }

B) IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM ID. HELLO-WORLD. PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY "Hello, world!" STOP RUN.

C) public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, world!"); } }

D) with TEXT_IO; procedure HELLO is begin TEXT_IO.PUT_LINE ("Hello, world!"); end HELLO;

E) :- write('Hello, world!'),nl.

F) (write-line "Hello, world!")


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