Quiz Bowl
Police officer Qiwu symbolically eats 30 cans of pineapple with the same expiration date after he breaks up with his girlfriend in this brilliant Wong Kar-Wai movie. A second story line follows another cop's relationship with a snack bar waitress.
Chungking Express
The Guardian once summarized this online community as "lunatic, juvenile... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming."This forum website is often a source of memes including being the originators of Chocolate Rain. Its mascot is a young girl with green hair, and its symbol is four green clover leaves. For ten points, name this website known best for its group of faceless elites known as Anonymous.
4chan
The small intestine's surface is comprised of villi, which contain these lymphatic capillaries that are used in lipid absorption.
lacteals
Ives W. McGaffey came up with an impractical hand-cranked one of these devices, but most of them were destroyed when the warehouse burned up in the Great Chicago Fire. An early oil-powered one of these devices that was mounted on a horse-pulled cart delighted Europe's aristocracy when it was used at Edward VII's coronation. That device was the brainchild of H. Cecil Booth and was known as the (*) Puffing Billy. One of the biggest makers of these products was originally a Harness and Leather Goods company, but acquired patents from a 60 year old janitor named James Spangler and by the '50s was selling the popular Constellation model of these things. One of these devices was the first consumer product released by the iRobot Corporation. The Dual Cyclone was an innovative one of these devices invented in the 1980s by James Dyson. For 10 points, name these devices, robotic examples of which include the Roomba.
vacuum cleaner
The Burghal Hidage is a series of fortifications planned by this man. This brother of Ethelred I [the first] won the battles of Ashdown and Edington, which led to the christening of King Guthrum. This ruler was defeated at the Battle of Reading [RED-ding], and his life was chronicled by Bishop (*) Asser. He created a code of laws known as The Doom Book and unified Anglo-Saxon lands. For 10 Points, name this King from Wessex, the only English king known as "the Great."
Alfred the Great
Mo Udall sponsored the Lands Act that doubled this entity's size late in the Carter administration. This region's Sheenjek valley is excellent habitat for Dall sheep. The Gwich'in people, who live in the south of this area, built wooden fences across it to restrain the movement of the Porcupine (*) caribou herd, whose chief calving grounds are located here. The "1002 ['ten oh two'] area" of this region, which contains the village of Kaktovik on the shores of the Beaufort Sea, was compared to the Everglades and the Grand Canyon in a campaign speech by John McCain. ► Ted Stevens led a 2005 attempt to allow oil drilling in this area, which was defeated by a Democratic filibuster. For 10 points—name this wildlife refuge on the north slope of the Brooks Range in Alaska.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [or ANWR] [prompt on "North Slope" before it is read]
It's not Mollusca, but A. luminosa uses one of this phylum's osmoregulatory systems for bioluminescence; that system is composed of Malpighian tubules [mal-FIH-jee-an tubules]. Chelicerates [cheh-lih-ser-ates] are members of this phylum, and a class in this phylum has stacked plate-like structures called (*) book lungs, which fill with hemolymph. Arachnids are members of this phylum, which is characterized by exoskeletons made of chitin [KYE-tin]. Trilobites are members of, for 10 points, what phylum that includes insects and crustaceans?
Arthropoda (or Arthropods)
One of the last two of these begins Maestoso and ends with a second-movement Arietta, while the other, their composer's Opus 110, begins Moderato and ends with an arioso dolente. Another one of these famously includes a second, chordal theme in the mediant key of E major, a contrast to the quiet eighth-note staccato C-major chords that open that Opus 53 piece. In Opus 57, the opening pianissimo theme is violently interrupted by fortissimo chords in F minor, and in Opus 27 number 2, the opening theme in C-sharp minor is played in slow triplets in the right hand. FTP, name this set of pieces that includes Les Adieux, Waldstein, Appassionata, and Moonlight.
Beethoven piano sonatas (accept in any order, prompt on partial answer)
During World War II, this country passed The National Resources Mobilization Act, which allowed conscription into its armed forces. War Plan Red was a plan to invade this country by the United States. During a joint operation with the CIA, (*) six American diplomats were freed in a mission known as"this country's" caper. One Prime Minister of this country declared, "Just watch me" in response to the October Crisis. That Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, helped defeat the Quebec Referendum. For 10 points, name this country, America's northern neighbor.
Canada
According to an April 24, 2013, post on Deadline.com, 20th Century Fox has secured the rights to Guys and Dolls and wants to cast these two actors as Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson. They both appeared in a 2010 short film directed by one of them, Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo, and one will cameo in the other's feature directorial debut, Don Jon. They played members of a squad of soldiers traumatized by Iraq service in Stop-Loss. In the opening number of the 85th Academy Awards, one danced with Charlize Theron while the other joined Daniel Radcliffe and Seth MacFarlane in a soft-shoe number set to "High Hopes." One opened an episode of SNL by gyrating shirtless, an homage to the other's turn as a stripper in Magic Mike. Seen separately in 2012 in The Vow, Premium Rush, 21 Jump Street, and Looper, these are, FTP, which two bros, both man-crushes of Jason Lai?
Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (prompt on partial answers)
This company runs an engineering blog titled Code as Craft which documents such projects as the very simple metrics-tracking software, StatsD. This company's New York-based office has a meeting room named Public Edamame. Its engineering culture improved after now-CEO Chad Dickerson was made CTO in 2008. In 2015, this company became the largest (*) B Corporation to ever launch an IPO. In 2013, this company controversially allowed sellers to partner with manufacturers. This company was founded by Rob Kalin after he couldn't find a place to sell his wooden computers. Until 2013, a blog whose name was a play on the word "regret" tracked "when DIY meets WTF" on this site. For 10 points, name this website for selling handmade crafts.
Etsy
His Postmaster General was James Farley, while military campaigns launched during his reign include Operation Husky and Operation Avalanche. He claimed to have written the Haitian Constitution while serving as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and his Supreme Court appointees include James Byrnes, Frank Murphy, and William O. Douglas. He did not allow the S.S. St. Louis to dock in America or release its asylum-seeking refugees, and he signed the Wagner Act and Executive Order 9066, which was upheld in the Korematsu case. For ten points, name this US President, best known for the New Deal.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"I Think I'm Paranoid" was a song from this band of "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When it Rains."
Garbage
One athletic venue in this location is colloquially known as "The Cage," and is an undersized set of basketball courts used in local "Streetball" tournaments. In Rear Window Jimmy Stewart's character lived here. Bars here include the White Horse Tavern, where Dylan Thomas was regular as well as one where Dave Van Ronk was arrested during a riot. This neighborhood also featured coffeehouse venues such as The Kettle of Fish and The Gaslight Cafe. Robert Christgau wrote for this location's namesake Voice. For ten points, identify this New York City neighborhood, which saw the Gay Rights movement begin at the Stonewall Inn and is home to New York University.
Greenwich Village (prompt on New York City)
In one film role, this actress plays a circus performer who goes by the alias Susan Lenox, and in another role she romanced Napoleon as Countess Marie Walewska in Conquest. One character played by this actress is convinced by her lover Armand's father to leave him before dying of tuberculosis; that character is the Dame Camille in an adaptation of The Lady of the Camellias. Melvyn Douglas courted this actress in her final two film roles, including her Oscar-nominated turn in Ninotchka and Fredric March played Count Vronsky opposite this actress. Besides her role as Anna Karenina, this actress also played the exotic dancer Mata Hari. This actress filmed simultaneous English and German versions of the film Anna Christie which was her first "talkie". For ten points, name this actress who, in her role as a suicidal ballerina in Grand Hotel declared "I want to be alone."
Greta Garbo
If SK Hynix can bring to market a technology this company is working on, then its Linux++ and Carbon operating systems could become really useful. One project being worked on at this company replaces metal wires with light pulses to move data between processors and memory and builds on a discovery made by Stanley Williams that uses a layer of titanium to perform switching. A lot of this company's future hopes are placed on a new server powered by (*) memristors called The Machine. One of this company's biggest successes was a 40-pound programmable calculator released in 1968. This company recently broke its enterprise services division into a separate company from its core PC and printer business. In 1999, GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina became its CEO. For 10 points, name this computer company started in 1938 by its two namesake founders.
HP [or Hewlett-Packard Company or Hewlett-Packard Enterprise or HP Inc.]
When the Bandwidth Theorem is taken in conjunction with the de Broglie [duh broy] wavelength, it gives this relation. The Robertson Relation can be used to derive this relation, and two operators are subject to this relation if they don't commute. This relation can be used to set a minimum width to spectral lines because, in one formulation of it, (*) energy and time are conjugate variables. The lower bound in this relation is h-bar over two. Position and momentum cannot both be known with arbitrary accuracy in, for 10 points, what quantum mechanical principle, named for a German physicist?
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Though not Colorado, the southern part of this state contains Shawnee National Park, home to the Garden of the Gods and the Little Grand Canyon. This state is home to the Cahokia tribe, and it won a case that allowed it to regulate maximum rates for grain elevators and warehouses. One governor of this state protested against President Grover Cleveland's use of federal troops in the (*) Pullman Strike. That governor, John Peter Altgeld, pardoned the anarchists involved in the killing of seven policemen in the Haymarket Square Riot. For 10 points, name this state bordered to the north by Wisconsin, whose capital is at Springfield.
Illinois
Formerly known as Moisant Field, New Orleans airport is now named after this jazz great also called Satchmo.
Louis Armstrong
Harriet Burns was the only woman included in a book about legends of this profession by Jeff Kurtti. People in this profession developed Circle-Vision 360°. While working in this profession, a man with the delightful name of X Atencio wrote the lyrics to the song "Grim Grinning Ghosts". These people once worked for WED Enterprises. Roger E. Broggie, one of these people, developed a transportation system once called the (*) Peoplemover whose only station is below the Astro Orbiter. Projects currently being worked on by people in this profession include Luigi's Flying Tires and Stich Encounter, the latter intended for a location in Tokyo. For 10 points, name this profession of the people who built the Hall of Presidents, Haunted Mansion, Star Tours, Space Mountain and other attractions at Disney parks.
Imagineer [prompt on stuff like Disney employee or Disney engineer; don't prompt on just "engineer"]
Mara Jade was killed by this man then known as Darth Caedus. He is the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa. His sister Jaina killed him on a ship named for their younger brother Anakin.
Jacen Solo
This musician put out the album Evilstig with the remaining members of The Gits after the rape and murder of that group's lead singer, Mia Zapata. Gibson USA produced a namesake Signature Melody Maker guitar, the first electric guitar that company ever designed with a female artist. She had some success with covers, including Gary Glitter's "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" and Tommy James and the Shondell's "Crimson and Clover". While with the Runaways, she played alongside Lita Ford and helped put out their self-titled album with the single "Cherry Bomb". For ten points, name this female musician who recorded such songs as "I Hate Myself for Loving You", "Bad Reputation" and "I Love Rock and Roll".
Joan Jett
This economist argued that countries should avoid deflation, even at the price of currency deflation, in A Tract on Monetary Reform. He argued that near zero nominal interest rates could actually worsen a recession through liquidity traps. This man is the favorite economist of George Balster. Milton Friedman argued that this man's theories were the root cause of deflation. This man's most famous quote is continued, "Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past, the ocean is flat again." FTP, name this economist who wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and said, "In the long run, we are all dead."
John Maynard Keynes
This man waged a war to restore Hilderic to the throne after he was deposed by his cousin Gelimer. That conflict ended after one of this man's generals defeated Gelimer at the Battle of Tricamarum. Besides the Vandalic War, this man also fought a war with (*) Khosrau I, which he ended after paying 11,000 pounds of gold and establishing an "eternal peace." One revolt against this man ended when his general Belisarius slaughtered thousands at the Hippodrome. For 10 points, name this Byzantine Emperor who survived the Nika Riots and was married to Theodora.
Justinian I (accept Justinian the Great prompt on "Justinian" )
At the end of one song by this woman, she tries to remember whether she has herpes, syphilis or AIDS and imagines her house is on fire in trying to escape an unwanted suitor. On another song by this woman, the title character is always "high on THC," watches TV and never gets laid. Those songs are "Knock 'em Out" and "Alfie" which appear on this woman's first album from Regal on 2006. Her second album includes a song where the title expletive goes to either the British National Party or George W. Bush and a music video where this woman dances through a mansion filled with dancing balloons and packages. On that song, she sings "I don't care about clever I don't care about funny," and says "everything's cool as long as I'm getting thinner," while on her first No. 1 she does the title action after "she feels bad for awhile" and when "I see you cry-iy-iy." FTP, identify this British singer who released "**** You" and "The Fear" on It's Not Me, It's You and "Smile" on Alright, Still.
Lily Allen
When this NHL team was accused of plagiarizing the Canuck's team slogan, it official Twitter account responded with "ok we'll change it to 'We Are In The Playoffs.'" In the 2011-12 season, this team's coach was fired midseason and replaced with Darryl Sutter. Coach Sutter eventually led the team to a Stanley Cup title behind the efforts of their Conn Smyth Trophy winner, goalie (*) Jonathan Quick. This team is currently captained by Dustin Brown, and played the Stadium Series against local rivals, the Anaheim Ducks in Dodger Stadium. For 10 points, name this hockey franchise that plays at the Staples Center, the current Stanley Cup champions.
Los Angeles Kings
This chemist discovered that in yeast, glucose is consumed more quickly without the presence of oxygen, which is his namesake effect. By separating a racemic [ray-SEE-mik] mixture of tartaric acid, this chemist was able to demonstrate chirality [KYE-ral-ih-tee]. He observed the lack of chicken cholera expression in immune species, and cured 9-year-old Joseph Meister with the first-ever (*) rabies vaccination. In one experiment, he used a normal flask and a swan-neck flask to show that organisms didn't originate within the contents of the flask themselves, disproving spontaneous generation. For 10 points, name this French chemist, who names the process of heating beverages to prevent spoiling.
Louis Pasteur
This man sandwiched a waterfall between two thin orange walls at the ranch he designed for Folke Egerström. With Mathias Goeritz, this man designed five tall triangular prisms painted in primary colors and white for the Satellite City Towers. This man helped design the gardens, or lack thereof, at Louis Kahn's Salk Institute and collaborated with Max Cetto on the [*] Pedregal Gardens. This man's work is characterized additions of bright, monochromatic color to simple modernist planes, as in the pink rear wall of the reception room of his house in Mexico City. The second-ever recipient of the Pritzker, for 10 points, name this architect from Guadalajara.
Luis Barragan
In one of this author's novels, Carol and Grace leave the protagonist in the snow, who later reconciles with Cordelia. The title object of that novel is kept in the red purse of Elaine. This author of Cat's Eye wrote a novel in which Richard Griffin is married to Iris Chase, (*) The Blind Assassin. The protagonist of one of her novels illegally plays Scrabble with the sterile character, The Commander. Moira and Serena Joy appear in that novel by her, that is set in the dystopian Republic of Gilead. For 10 points, name this Canadian author who wrote about Offred in The Handmaid's Tale.
Margaret Atwood
An early ruler of this empire faced two revolts in Taxila. That ruler apocryphally got his name from a mark he received due to his mother ingesting poison. The founder of this empire contributed to the Battle of Ipsus by giving Seleucus I 500 elephants, and his advisor (*) Chanakya wrote the Arthashastra. Another ruler of this empire included a ban on hunting deer in the edicts that he inscribed on his namesake pillars. The Kalinga campaign shocked that ruler of this empire into converting to Buddhism. For 10 points, name this empire founded by Chandragupta and ruled by Ashoka.An early ruler of this empire faced two revolts in Taxila. That ruler apocryphally got his name from a mark he received due to his mother ingesting poison. The founder of this empire contributed to the Battle of Ipsus by giving Seleucus I 500 elephants, and his advisor (*) Chanakya wrote the Arthashastra. Another ruler of this empire included a ban on hunting deer in the edicts that he inscribed on his namesake pillars. The Kalinga campaign shocked that ruler of this empire into converting to Buddhism. For 10 points, name this empire founded by Chandragupta and ruled by Ashoka.
Mauryan Empire
Identify this holiday announced by Mike Huckabee to support a restaurant chain founded by S. Truett Cathy for their opposition to same-sex marriage.
National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day
A desire to avoid a fine for throwing the ball into the stands led one member of this team, Homer Jones, to develop the celebratory spike, while years later New Orleans receiver Joe Horn's infamous cell phone celebration occurred against them. Benny Freidman and Mel Hein were early greats for this team, while a confrontation with journalist Russ Salzberg cost coach Ray Handley his job. Charles Way, who had spent his first year as a slow fullback blocking for Rodney Hampton, was not nearly as chunktacular a disaster as this team's 11th overall pick from Wisconsin, Ron Dayne. Guard Chris Snee is the son-in-law of this team's current head coach, who has drafted David Tyree and Mathias Kiwanuka. The former home of Phil Simms and Tiki Barber, this team won Super Bowls over the Broncos, Bills, and most recently the then-undefeated Patriots. For ten points, identify this NFC East team helmed by Eli Manning, which shares home turf with the Jets.
New York Giants (prompt on "New York")
The B-side of this band's first single includes "You're So Damn Hot" and "Bruise Grey", and its first EPs were called "Brown" and "Pink", respectively. Its self-titled debut album includes such tracks as "The Fix is In", "1,000 Miles Per Hour", and "Don't Ask Me", and it originally toured with They Might Be Giants. Its name comes from an art teacher's direction to Tim Nordwind and Damian Kulash, and it is best known for a song describing what happens when you "Throw on your clothes, the second side of Surfer Rosa, you leave me with my jaw on the floor." FTP, name this band famous for dancing on treadmills in "Here it Goes Again".
OK Go
This deity drank from Son, Bodn, and Odrarer. He was pursued by Suttung while disguised as the farmhand Bolverk. He possessed a ring that recreated itself eight times every ninth night, Draupnir, and drank from the Well of Mimir. This son of Bestla and Borr consumed the (*) Mead of Poetry, and owned Hugin and Munin. He hung himself from Yggdrasil for nine days to learn the secrets of the runes, and he rode the eight-footed horse Sleipnir. For 10 points, name this husband of Frigg, the one-eyed Allfather of Norse mythology.
Odin (accept Wotan)
The Second Treaty of Vienna abolished an East India Company based in this city, which deployed the ships "Marquis of Prie," "House of Austria," and "Empress Elizabeth." A siege engine called the "Big Cat" was used to attack this city, which was known as the "new Troy" during a 1601 to 1604 siege that was the first in a series of victories for Ambrosio Spinola. A cartoon named for this place depicts "practical (*) Democrats" using knives, guns, and a club to "carry out the principle" established when Pierre Soule, John Mason, and ► James Buchanan met here to discuss plans for the annexation of Cuba. For 10 points—what Belgian port gave its name to an 1854 "manifesto"?
Ostend
A recent video shows James Franco learning how to intone "Well, you know, I do so much prefer EARLY Ian McEwan to LATE Ian McEwan," in a seminar on how to behave at parties thrown by this publication, which has been edited by Philip Gourevitch since the death of founding editor George Plimpton.
Paris Review
One character in this film relates how she once lived in an apartment building with eight homosexuals and earlier tells that at one point her favorite pastime was going to the supermarket. At another point in this film, that character sings "Eye of the Tiger" while shaving her legs and attending a university. Twice in this film, that character's grandmother is said to smell nice because of the jasmine flowers she puts in her bra. The protagonist receives swans made of bread from her imprisoned Uncle Anoush and she is later sent to live in Vienna in the 1980s due to the war with Iraq. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, For ten points, identify this 2007 animated film that explores Marjane Satrapi's life growing up in Iran.
Persepolis
This deity once disguised himself as the river god Enipeus to sleep with Tyro, who then had the twins Neleus and Pelias. His son Arion was conceived after he seduced his sister Demeter while in the form of a stallion. He lost a contest to (*) Athena, after which this deity use his powers to inconvenience Athens. He delayed Odysseus's return home after Odysseus blinded this god's son, Polyphemus. This god is married to Amphitrite, and they had Triton together. For 10 points, name this Greek god who could cause earthquakes with his trident, the Greek god of the sea.
Poseidon
This city's ice rink greatly resembles the Cathedral of Brasilia, and a low green dome tops its premier acrobatics facility, the Army Circus. In this city, a cemetery features rows of busts separated by hedgerows against the backdrop of a fluttering flag made of stone. In this city, an eight-floor revolving cone tops a three-winged pyramidal [*] hotel with the most floors of any in the world. A sculpture of workers holding a hammer, sickle, and writing brush stands in front of a 560-foot column topped by a metal flame in this city that is home to Ryugyong Hotel. This city's Juche Tower features one block for each day of the life of the Eternal President. For 10 points, name this city whose Kumsusan Memorial Palace houses the remains of Kim Il-Sung.
Pyongyang
This deity committed suicide after he was tricked by his rival into sleeping with a celibate priestess. A form of this deity represented the cardinal directions; that was the wind god Ehecatl. At the beginning of the fifth cycle, this deity mixed his blood and bones of humans from (*) Mictlan [meek-tlon] to repopulate the Earth with humans. This brother of the "evening star," Xolotl, [zah-lah-tul] often clashed with his nemesis, the "smoking mirror" Tezcatlipoca [tet-skah-tlee-poh-kah]. For 10 points, name this feathered serpent deity worshiped by the Aztecs.
Quetzalcoatl [ket-sal-koh-ah-tul
Vapor pressure, another colligative property, can be quantified by this law. For liquids, this law is used to determine the overall vapor pressure given the partial vapor pressure of the compounds in the solution.
Raoult's law
A fresco by this artist shows the bread of the Eucharist bleeding during The Mass at Bolsena. Transubstantiation is also the subject of another work by this man, in which Pope Gregory I ["the first"], Saint Augustine, and others argue under a depiction of Heaven. In another of his paintings, Mary looks away from a book to watch John the Baptist lift the title (*) bird up for the Christ child. In addition to La Disputa and Madonna of the Goldfinch, this man painted a fresco in the Apostolic Palace that shows Ptolemy, Aristotle, Plato, and other great thinkers speaking together. For 10 points, name this Italian Renaissance painter of The School of Athens.
Raphael Sanzio da Urbino
Name this website based in San Francisco, which allows its users to make their own subsections. The "Ask Me Anything: subsection of this website generated so much traffic after a post by Barack Obama that it crashed.
One of this author's title characters steals semen from famous men throughout history. An earlier story by this author ends with that same character having involuntary sex with the fat Mrs. Posonby after Henri Biotte discovers an aphrodisiac smell. In addition to My Uncle Oswald and "Bitch," this man wrote a story in which Lexington is swindled by Zuckermann after Aunt Glosspan's death and then slaughtered in a warehouse full of pigs. Another story by him ends with injured pilot Peter Williamson giving name, rank, and serial number after seeing the words "Garde au Chien" and realizing he is not in Brighton. His most famous stories feature Mary Maloney killing her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and serving it to investigating police, and a man who wagers Carlos that his cigarette lighter will strike ten times a row or he loses his thumb. "Beware of the Dog," "Lamb to the Slaughter," and "Man from the South" are all by, FTP, what macabre British writer who - that's right, Aaron - wrote a lot NOT for children?
Roald Dahl
In an infamous piece of fanfiction featuring this character, he plays in the band "Bloody Gothic Rose 666," and changes a notable birthmark into a pentagram and is renamed "Diabolo." In an altered audio track to the first movie featuring this character, this character's family is described as having "money stretched thinly over a vast volume of loin product" and this character is given an epithet of "the Bear." In canonical sources, this character's home is known as "The Burrow," and he eventually earns the position of house prefect that his then estranged brother used to hold. Other siblings include jokers Fred and George as well as his younger sister Ginny who eventually marries his best friend. For ten points, identify this central character of the Harry Potter series a member of the Weasley family who eventually marries Hermione Granger.
Ron Weasley (Prompt on "Weasley")
This namesake of a major airport starred in King's Row and Hellcats of the Navy.
Ronald Reagan
In Baha'i, this figure is compared to the Báb as part of an early "twin manifestation" of God. This man's father was made mute until he wrote this prophet's name. He spoke against the wife of Philip and Herod, who persuaded her daughter, (*) Salome [saa-loh-may], to request this man's head on a platter. This son of Elizabeth and Zechariah is compared to Elijah, and predicted the coming of the Lamb of God. For 10 points, name this New Testament prophet, known for dunking Jesus Christ in the Jordan River.
Saint John the Baptist (accept Yokhanan ha-Matbil; prompt on "John" or "Yokhanan")
This man defeated Miguel de la Torre's forces at the Battle of Carabobo, and also scored a victory at the Battle of Boyaca. This man's first campaign, the "Admirable Campaign" failed, and he was often assisted by General Soublette. This man was aided in many victories by (*) Jose de Sucre. At the Guayaquil Conference, this man met with Jose de San Martin. This ruler was the first President of Gran Colombia. For 10 points, name this man known as "El Libertador" for freeing many Spanish colonies, and is the namesake of a country with capitals at La Paz and Sucre.
Simón Bolívar
One of the craziest hacks of this program called Pit of Death contains only the "Scrolling Horror". Like an earlier released program, SethBling recently decomposed this program into a series of white boxes for safe places and black boxes for moving obstacles so that it could be solved with a neural network. SethBling had earlier exploited a buffer overflow within this program without using any outside tools to complete it in under 6 minutes. Fu So Ya created a tool called Lunar Magic for hacking this program. The colors in parts of this program can be changed by using a glitch on (*) Chocolate Island 3. This was the original program to which T. Takemoto modified to create a super-hard "Kaizo" or "*******" version of. For 10 points, name this platformer included with launch editions of the SNES.
Super Mario World
The exoplanet Kepler-16b in the constellation Cygnus has been nicknamed after this other body. Ghomrassen, Guermessa, and Chenini are the three moons of this body. This body is home to a region of large stones called the Mushroom Mesa and to Beggar's Canyon. The Anchorhead settlement was a giant failure for this body's Czerka Mining Corporation. The Great (*) Pit of Carkoon is home to the Sarlacc on this planet. The Boonta Eve Classic podrace is held on this planet. Prior to escaping this planet on the Millennium Falcon, Obi-Wan Kenobi claimed, ► "These aren't the droids you're looking for" at Mos Eisley. For 10 points, name this desert home planet of Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars saga.
Tatooine
Harry Daugherty's failure to act during this scandal led to the case McGrain v. Daughtery. For 10 points each, [10] Name this scandal, in which Albert Fall illegally leased land to companies in exchange for bribes. This scandal is named for one of those leased lands, an oil field in Wyoming.
Teapot Dome Scandal
One character on this show temporarily lowers his standards to go after "the dietitian at the cafeteria with the limp and the lazy eye", Olivia, while another character's Mom is currently enamored with Doogie Howser re-runs. Envy of a North Korean character named Dennis Kim results in one character deciding to create a Neuvo Jerusalem, while Sara Gilbert has a portrayed a recurring character, Leslie Winkle; she appeared in an episode where the canon of a particular game was expanded to include a lizard and Mr. Spock. Producer Chuck Lorre has denied the underlying Asperger's theme on this show, and a Season 2 episode saw the house where America's Next Top Model was being filmed discovered by Howard and Raj. Centering around the characters of Penny, Leonard, and Sheldon, for 10 points, name this CBS sitcom about physicists.
The Big Bang Theory
The final piece in this collection begins with an allegro non molto section in which the F minor melody appears in four ritornelli. One work in this set includes a notation marking that "the drunkards have fallen asleep." In its second movement largo, the first piece in this set depicts a snoozing shepherd and a barking dog; in another section, pizzicato strings illustrate (*) chattering teeth. Comprising the first third of The Contest Between Harmony and Invention, this set of works includes sonnets written by the composer, the first of which is "La primavera." For 10 points, name this set of violin concerti written by Antonio Vivaldi to depict autumn, spring, summer, and winter.
The Four Seasons (accept Le quattro stagioni; prompt on "The Contest Between Harmony and Invention" before mentioned)
This band from Scotland released the single "Happy When it Rains" from their album Darklands.
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Delacroix also painted this painting, which on its right depicts an Ottoman soldier on a rearing horse. In this painting, other Ottoman soldiers appear during the slayings on the title Greek island.
The Massacre at Chios
In this film, the protagonist passes a statue of the central figure from Munch's The Scream. This film mimics the establishing shot of the title location in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at a town meeting called by the protagonist. This film visually alludes to Nosferatu as one character's enlarged shadow moves along a wall as he descends a ramp in a wheelchair while holding another character's severed arm. In a notable scene, the protagonist is framed against a giant yellow moon while standing on a finger-like tree that uncurls as he walks down it. This film's villain is a grotesque sack full of bugs named Oogie Boogie. For 10 points, name this stop motion Henry Selick film, produced by Tim Burton, in which Jack Skellington unsuccessfully attempts to replace Santa Claus.
The Nightmare Before Christmas [or Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas]
Mike Bentley considers the second best song he ever recorded as part of his novelty punk act to be a song about a wasteland of this type. Mike's second favorite song with the title "Modern Man" appears on a record titled for this place, which also contains tracks like "City with No Children" and "Rococo". Ben Folds declares that he wants to "rock" this place like Michael Jackson did on the title track of one of his solo albums. An album of this name was the follow-up to Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. For 10 points, name this place, where a certain Jesus hails from according to a track from American Idiot.
The Suburbs [or Suburbia or Suburban Wasteland]
Some consider Puppetry of the Penis to be the male answer to this Eve Ensler serial play featuring speeches about the namesake lady part.
The Vagina Monologues
One of his more recent hits sampled "Liberian Girl" by Michael Jackson and had him lament that he may "never get to holla at my unborn child." He was the sole performer on the songs "Pour Out a Little Liquor" and "St8 Ballin'", released on an album by a group he helped create that also included Rated R and his step-brother. He is credited as the writer of the spoken word album The Rose That Grew from Concrete, while his first album featured the singles "Trapped" and "I Don't Give a ****". He adopted a new pseudonym for an album including the tracks "White Man'z World", "Hail Marry" and "Toss It Up", The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. Also known for the album All Eyez on Me and single "California Love", For 10 points, name this rapper famously shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
Tupac Amaru Shakur [or 2Pac or Makaveli]
In 2000 she starred as Eve, a doll who comes to life in the ABC tv movie Life-Size with Lindsay Lohanand her first appearance on television was on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Jackie Ames. She once went undercover as a homeless person for a talk show segment and episodes of the show for which she is most famous almost always start with the phrase "The Girl Who." Along with Ashton Kutcher this woman is a co-producer of the ABC series True Beautyand she appeared on the cover of both the 1996 and 1997 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues.For ten points name this model who hosts a titular talk show and America's Next Top Model.
Tyra Banks
This nation's secluded Cabo Polonio in the Rocha Department is home to many large sand dunes. This nation is home to the largest reservoir in its continent, the Embalse del Río Negro. The Museum of Man and Technology can be found in this nation's second most populous city of Salto which is connected to a neighboring nation's city of Concordia via a dam bridge. In May 2014, this nation's president stated that since they can track the whereabouts of its cows, they can track its nation's (*) pot smokers. The Rambla in this nation's capital city lines the coast and passes through the barrios of Malvín and Buceo. That city is home to an obelisk at the intersection of ► Artigas Boulevard and 18 de Julio Avenue. For 10 points, name this South American nation, led by the "world's poorest president," José Mujica, from Montevideo.
Uruguay
This band just released an album titled after the modern type of the creature in their name. Famous songs by this band include "Oxford Comma," "Mansford Roof."
Vampire Weekend
This company's strategy of hooking kids on its products included sending two units of its signature product to toddlers celebrating their second birthday. Its founder turned California's Catalina Island into a resort location. The National Museum of American History contains a product manufactured by this company in 1974 that was the first ever to be scanned by a UPC reader. This company's signature product was originally available only as a prize for buyers of baking soda, but it proved much more popular than the baking soda. This company's founder and namesake was also one of the "double-Bills" alongside Bill (*) Veeck and is the namesake of a stadium which uniquely features semi-official seats from roofs across Sheffield Avenue. This company puts out brands such as Eclipse, Orbit and Big Red. For 10 points, name this gum company, the namesakes of the stadium where the Chicago Cubs play.
William Wrigley, Jr. Company
Currently unused areas in this game include the Ring of Valor and an instance in Hyjal Summit. One profession allows Wool Bandages and Powerful Anti-Venom to be produced, while another allows you to catch the World's Largest Mudfish. In this game, dwarves can't be mages while the undead or humans cannot become hunters. A famous character stated in Upper Blackrock Spire that "at least I have chicken." Eye of the Storm was added in The Burning Crusade, while Death Knights first appeared with the expansion Wrath of the Lich King. For ten points, name this game, developed by Blizzard, the most popular MMORPG in the world.
World of Warcraft
In some stories, he can speak perfect English, and in some comics, only words that rhyme with "orp". He is seen today in games such as Mario Tennis, where he is the fastest player, and Mario Superstar Baseball, where he uses his tongue to catch fly balls. After finding all 120 stars in Super Mario 64, visiting him on the roof of the castle will give you an extra 100 lives. While green is his standard color, others members of his species are blue, black, or red. For ten points, names this utterly adorable, dinosaur companion in the Super Mario series.
Yoshi!
Adherents of this religion are initiated through the navjote ceremony. The third savior of this religion is the virgin-born Saoshyant. The spirit of truth in this religion is called "asha," which opposes "Druj", part of this faith's Amesha Spenta. The (*) Vendidad is a section of this religion's holy text, the Avesta. The evil Ahriman will eventually lose to the creator god Ahura Mazda. For 10 points, name this dualistic Persian religion founded by Zarathustra.
Zoroastrianism (accept Mazdaism until Ahura-Mazda is mentioned and accept Zarathustraism until Zarathustra is read)
The attenuated Sterne strain of this disease is used as a vaccine, while the Ames strain has gained infamy for its virulence. Fatalities from it result when the released tissue-damaging toxin destroys endothelial lining and induces vascular leakage and hypovolemic or septic shock, and cutaneous infections of it are less serious than inhalation infections. Its pathogen forms endospores that are hardy and easily dispersed, explaining its classification as a CDC category A bioterrorism agent. For ten points, name this acute disease that caused a 2001 Postal Service scare.
anthrax
Richard Greenblatt declined MIT's offer for a PhD in exchange for writing a thesis on a program of this type he wrote in one week on a PDP-6. Greenblatt's program of this type, MacHack, was used to counter a 1965 RAND Corporation memo written by Herbert Dreyfus. In 2015, Baudsurfer broke a long-standing record by writing a program of this type in just 487 bytes. Hackers at MIT used a primitive network connection between the PDP-1 and TX-0 to fool (*) John McCarthy into thinking they had written a program of this type. A modern program of this type called Stockfish may have been used by Borislav Ivanov at the 2012 Zadar Open. Perhaps the most famous program to do this was based on Feng-hsiung Hsu's work at Carnegie Mellon on Deep Thought and won a 1997 contest. For 10 points, name this game played by IBM's Deep Blue, which beat Garry Kasparov.
chess program
A musical revue staged on the blue Astroturf in Boise, Idaho was the first part of a Matthew Barney cycle of artworks named for this muscle on the scrotum.
cremaster (accept The Cremaster Cycle)
The Shockley diode equation for this quantity references its "reverse saturation" variety. In the phasor diagram for a capacitor, this quantity leads the voltage by 90 degrees. When constructing a Norton circuit, one must first compute the equivalent output of this quantity, and magnetic fields are generated by this quantity according to the (*) Biot-Savart Law. The sum of this quantity in every constituent of a junction is zero in Kirchhoff's Junction Rule, and voltage equals resistance times this quantity in Ohm's Law. For 10 points, name this quantity, the rate of the flow of electric charge measured in amperes and symbolized I.
electric current
Fred Zachariasen came up with namesake rules for how this material is formed. A highly stable form of this material is made through the Vycor process. In the Renaissance, the most highly valued type of this good was made from cogoli and was improved by the addition of manganese oxide. When industrially making this material, it's common to use a batch containing as much as 60% of low-value (*) cullet. It's not silk, but Venetian craftsmen who made this good worked on the island of Murano and forbidden from leaving the city. A type of this material made for labs and kitchens is known as Pyrex. This material is traditionally made by combining fluxes with sand. The Phoenicians invented an iron tube for blowing this substance. For 10 points, name this material whose clear variety was essential in the invention of spectacles.
glass
One protein structure used in this process degrades chromosomes and is called the synaptonemal complex. Thick threads form as a part of pachynema during one stage in this process; that spindle formation causes genetic recombination in this process, which occurs as a result of (*) crossing over. The risk of nondisjunction is higher for cells undergoing this process, due to reduction division. Spore formation, oogenesis [oh-oh-genesis] and spermatogenesis utilize this process in order to form haploid gametes. For 10 points, name this cellular process, concluding with telophase II ["two"], which occurs in organisms that reproduce sexually.
meiosis (prompt on "prophase" before "crossing over" is read; do not accept "mitosis")
A herd of circus elephants help the residents of a small town construct one of these things in Kern and Hammerstein's musical High, Wide and Handsome. A. C. Hartley came up with one of these things essential for the D-Day landings as part of Operation Pluto. The first of one of these things in the United States was known as Benson's Folly while under construction and was named for the Tidewater region. The completion of one of these projects in 1977 allowed one state to replace its (*) income tax with payouts from a Permanent Fund. In World War II, Harold Ickes ordered the construction of one called the Big Inch that went from Texas to New Jersey. One of these things extends to Prudhoe Bay. For 10 points, name this type of project, examples of which include the planned Keystone XL.
oil pipelines [or natural gas pipelines]
Unchecked fires drawing on this substance are said to be "sullen, silent monsters," like the one near Crosby, Minnesota, that spent eight years undermining a nearby railway embankment. The Bord na Mona uses narrow-gauge railways to manage the production of this substance, much of which comes from the site of Allen in County Westmeath. In May 2014 the University of Leeds found a rare (*) tropical example of this resource, which covers a "colossal" area near the village of Itanga in the northeastern Republic of the Congo. Hebridean ► distilleries often fuel fires with this substance to create a distinctive flavor for whiskey. Sphagnum moss is a primary source of --for 10 points—what form of partially decayed organic matter produced in a bog?
peat [accept peat moss or peat bog]
This function's Maclaurin expansion begins "x minus x cubed over 3 factorial." The cardinal form of this function divides it by x; that function has a limit of one as x approaches zero, which is often proved using the squeeze theorem. A law named for this function equates the (*) ratios of side lengths to this function of angle measures. This function, the reciprocal of cosecant, is equal to one minus cosine squared. For 10 points, name this trigonometric function that, in a right triangle, gives the ratio of the side opposite the angle to the hypotenuse.
sine
The Wronskian is a calculation on one of these specific entities consisting of derivatives of functions. Each of these objects has a characteristic polynomial whose roots are its eigenvalues ["eye"-gen-"values"]. Reflecting one of these over its main diagonal creates an object with the same dimensions, called the transpose. Cofactor expansion is one method for computing a value that will equal (*) zero if one of these objects has only zeroes below its main diagonal. For the two by two kind of this entity, the determinant equals ad-bc ["A" "D" minus "B" "C"] The identity for these objects consists of a main diagonal of ones with zeroes everywhere else. For 10 points, name these arrays of numbers that have exactly as many rows as columns.
square matrix (accept square matrices; prompt on "matrix" or "matrices;" do not prompt on "square")
A pressure drop due to pair production is thought to have triggered this process in an event observed in 2006. Immediately prior to it, stellar cores undergo silicon burning. Roche lobe overflow in a binary pair containing a white dwarf can cause one type of this that exhibits a characteristic 615 nm silicon spectral line, that type can be used as a (*) standard candle and was used to show the acceleration of the expansion of the universe in 2012. Iron-nickel cores collapse in the Type II version of them, and Cas A and the Crab Nebula are remnants of this process, which can leave behind neutron stars or black holes. For 10 points, name these bright stellar explosions.
supernovae
Projected news coverage of this event accompanied a work of shattered objects in porcelain titled Dream by the Chinese artist Liu Jianhua. Investigations into this event were made easier because a piece of test equipment called the OEX was never removed. In the book Comm Check... Linda Ham was singled out for her role in not allowing (*) high quality images to be taken that could have prevented this event. This event delayed STS-114 for two years. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov opened his response to Colin Powell's infamous UN Security Council Speech on Iraq by offering his condolences regarding this event. Israel's Ilan Ramon was one of seven people killed in this event, which took place above southeastern Texas and was caused by foam that broke off during liftoff. For 10 points, name this 2003 disaster in which a space shuttle exploded.
the Columbia space shuttle disaster
The roots of this psychological theory can be found in a combination of Jonathan Haidt's social intuitionism and Jonah Berger and Chip Heath's identity-signaling perspective, and it builds on Norbert Schwarz's work on feelings-as-information and processing fluency, as well as Richard Lazarus and James Gross's theories of emotion. Its developer was influenced by Carl Wilson's book about Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, which introduced him to the work of Pierre Bourdieu and the Hume-Kant debate on aesthetics, and in a photograph of him presenting this theory at a conference, the logo of the hospital where he was born magically appears next to his head. Its name - described by Nick Ungson as "baller" - occurred to him in a flash of intuition after a conversation in a subway station near Columbia with Evan Squire and Jason Lai, and it references three distinct phases of judgment: Set, Appraisal, and Re-Appraisal. FTP, name this subject of Yogesh Raut's MA thesis NOT named after anyone.
the SARA model of experiential judgment
Taking the derivative of angular frequency with respect to wavenumber in a vacuum electromagnetic wave's dispersion relation gives this value. Rapidity is defined as the hyperbolic tangent of a ratio with this quantity in the denominator; that ratio is symbolized beta and appears in (*) special relativity. Taking the product of vacuum permittivity and permeability, then taking the square root and the reciprocal, will yield this quantity. Though the phase velocity of an electromagnetic wave can be manipulated to exceed this constant, the group velocity cannot. Energy and mass are related by squared factor of, for 10 points, what quantity, symbolized "c," equal to about 3 times 108 meters per second?
the speed of light (accept c before it is read)