PACK 4
FIRST QUARTER
6-Part Blitz
1. Who leads his friends Sloane and Cameron in an adventure around Chicago in a
movie titled for his “day off”?
A: Ferris Bueller (accept either underlined part)
2. Led by A’ja Wilson and coached by Becky Hammon, what team won the WNBA
Championship in 2022?
A: Las Vegas Aces (accept either underlined part)
3. Baritone and alto saxophones are transposing instruments in what key?
A: E flat (reject: E)
4. What circuit element only allows current to flow in one direction?
A: diode
5. What adjective is commonly applied to a literary narrator who conveys an
inaccurate account of events to the reader?
A: unreliable
6. What last queen of Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty was reputed to have died after
being
bitten by an asp?
A: Cleopatra VII Philopator
Set of 4: Shoes
7. High-end stiletto shoes with red soles are the signature product of what fashion
designer?
A: Christian Louboutin
8. Professional tennis player Stan Smith is perhaps best known for his namesake
brand of sneakers made by what company?
A: Adidas
9. Chuck Taylor All-Stars are made by what company, a subsidiary of Nike?
A: Converse
10. What ankle-high boots with a distinctive elastic side panel are named for a
neighbourhood of West London?
A: Chelsea boots
Set of 4: Capital Cities in Music
11. What capital city partially titles a song that asks “What she order? Fish
fillet?” by
Jay-Z and Kanye West?
A: Paris
12. Camila Cabello sings that her heart is in what city in a 2018 hit?
A: Havana
13. “Slow down, you crazy child” begins what Billy Joel song, in which the title
city
“waits for you”?
A: “Vienna”
14. Also the theme song for the Washington Capitals, what 2011 song is the biggest
hit
by the band Capital Cities?
A: “Safe and Sound”
Jackpot
15.
Part 1: What series features nations such as Marley and Eldia?
Part 2: Three structures in this series are named Maria ["MAH-ree-uh"], Rose, and
Sina.
Part 3: Members of the Ackermann family are endowed with superhuman strength in
this anime.
Part 4: This anime sees characters such as Eren Jaeger ["YAY-ger"] fight against
colossal
humanoid monsters.
A: Attack on Titan (accept: Shingeki no Kyojin)
Set of 3: The Letter P
19. Along with Future, what rapper performed the 2022 track “Pushin P”?
A: Gunna
20. In what video game series would activating a blue “P-Switch” swap coins for
bricks?
A: Super Mario Bros./Brothers (prompt on: Mario)
21. Name either of the two Ancient Greek letters that represent a sound equivalent
to
the English letter P.
A: pi OR phi
Streaks
22. Name up to all of the prime ministers who served between Alexander Mackenzie
and Wilfrid Laurier.
A: John A. Macdonald, John Abbott, John Thompson, Mackenzie Bowell,
Charles Tupper
25. Name up to all of the sisters in the Brontë family who are known for their
literary
achievements.
A: Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
SECOND QUARTER
Splits: Classic Board Games & Statues
Classic Board Games
26. The street names used in Monopoly are based on those of what American city?
A: Atlantic City, New Jersey
27. What ancient board game sometimes features a doubling cube and involves two
players moving 15 pieces in opposite directions around the board to offload them?
A: backgammon
28. What is the name of the patient in the board game Operation?
A: Cavity Sam
29. Which two letters are worth ten points in Scrabble?
A: Q AND Z
Statues
30. What statue sculpted by Alexandros of Antioch depicts a goddess without arms?
A: Venus de Milo
31. Edvard Eriksen created what frequently-vandalized statue in the harbour of
Copenhagen that depicts a Hans Christian Andersen character?
A: The Little Mermaid
32. Located in the Indian state of Gujarat, what is the tallest statue in the
world?
A: Statue of Unity
33. Donatello’s best-known bronze statue depicts what figure, who also appears in a
work by Michelangelo holding a sling?
A: David
Set of 3: The Big Bang
34. What term refers to the period of very fast expansion that happened just after
the
Big Bang?
A: cosmic inflation (accept: inflationary epoch)
35. What is the hypothetical opposite of the Big Bang, in which expansion reverses
and
everything collapses into a singularity?
A: Big Crunch
36. What was the most abundant element created during the Big Bang?
A: hydrogen (accept: H)
Set of 4: Plant Biology
37. Potato and ginger plants contain what specialized root that is actually a
modified
plant stem?
A: rhizome
38. What plant structure contains veins that can form parallel, pinnate, or palmate
shapes?
A: leaf (accept: leaves)
39. Bacteria-filled nodules in roots promote fixation of what element crucial for
plant
growth?
A: nitrogen (accept: N)
40. Unlike most plants, which produce seeds, ferns reproduce via what method shared
with fungi?
A: spores
Set of 4
41. After removing the term limits on his positions in 2018, who recently began his
third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party?
A: Xi ["SHEE"] Jinping (accept: Jinping Xi)
42. Shortly after coming to power, Xi tried and convicted what governor of
Liaoning, a
political rival, on corruption charges?
A: Bo Xilai (accept: Xilai Bo)
43. Since Nancy Pelosi’s August 2022 visit, Xi has stepped up belligerent rhetoric
towards what nearby country, which China claims as its own territory?
A: Taiwan (accept: Republic of China, ROC) (reject: China, People’s
Republic of China)
44. In December, after widespread protests, Xi ended a policy known by what
two-word name, reducing mandatory testing and lifting lockdowns?
A: zero COVID
6-Part Blitz
45. The Bear Flag represents which American state?
A: California
46. What kind of government is formed by a party that has fewer than half of the
seats
in the House of Commons?
A: minority government
47. Sam-I-Am appears in which Dr. Seuss book?
A: Green Eggs and Ham
48. What word can refer to an irrelevant line of conversation or to a line that
touches a
circle at one point?
A: tangent
49. In what city was the first organized hockey game played, in 1875?
A: Montreal
50. What is the only war in which nuclear weapons have been used?
A: World War II (accept: the Second World War)
THIRD QUARTER
Splits: Typefaces and Fonts & Canadian Islands
Typefaces and Fonts
51. What font was the subject of an eponymous 2007 documentary and is named for
its Swiss origin?
A: Helvetica
52. In Microsoft Word, what font is selected by default upon creation of a new
blank
document?
A: Calibri
53. What font is commonly associated with image macros, a popular early meme
format?
A: Impact
54. What demonym was historically used to describe fonts that were neither
blackletter nor italic? One of these typefaces was commissioned by the British
newspaper The Times in 1931.
A: Roman
Canadian Islands
55. What is the most populous Canadian island?
A: Island of Montréal (accept: Île de Montréal)
56. Separated from the Olympic Peninsula by the Juan de Fuca Strait, what island
contains the capital of British Columbia?
A: Vancouver Island
57. The settlements of Grise Fiord and Alert are located on what northernmost
island
of Nunavut?
A: Ellesmere Island
58. What is the world’s largest island within a lake, located entirely in Lake
Huron?
A: Manitoulin Island
Set of 5: Fractions
59. Express the decimal 0.24 in lowest terms.
A: 6/25 [“six over twenty-five” or “six twenty-fifths”]
60. 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 plus 5 plus 6 and so on can be shown using analytic
continuation to equal what fraction?
A: -1/12 [“negative one over twelve” or “negative one twelfth”]
61. Five-thirds, three-halves, eight-fifths, and other fractions where the
numerator is
greater than the denominator are given what name?
A: improper fractions
62. The repeating decimal “0.0909 repeated” can be written in lowest terms as what
fraction?
A: 1/11 [“one over eleven” or “one-eleventh”]
63. What is 125 to the two-thirds power?
A: 25
Jailbreak
64. What Welsh word for “river” names the river running through Stratford?
A: avon (accept: afon)
65. What word can mean, as a noun, pieces of fabric in decorative colours, or, as a
verb, intentionally hitting the ball softly onto the ground in baseball?
A: bunting (reject word forms)
66. Whom does Hamlet call “a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy” as
he
holds up his skull?
A: Yorick
67. On which continent would you find Cape Horn?
A: South America
68. As part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, Microsoft developed
what
pair of console designs to succeed the Xbox One?
A: Xbox Series X AND Xbox Series S
69. Who was the second man to set foot on the moon?
A: Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
70. Before the release of Avatar: The Way of Water, what was by far the highest
grossing movie of 2022?
A: Top Gun: Maverick
71. What Saudi Arabian province contains Jeddah as well as its namesake city, the
holiest city in Islam?
A: Mecca Province
72. “Murder at Castle Nathria” and “March of the Lich King” are recently-released
sets
in what Blizzard digital card game?
A: Hearthstone
73. To what Mediterranean island was Napoleon exiled in 1814?
A: Elba
74. What river flows through Medicine Hat and Saskatoon before joining its “North”
counterpart?
A: South Saskatchewan River (reject partial answers)
75. What quantity can be measured in torrs, bars, or pascals?
A: atmospheric pressure
FOURTH QUARTER
Jackpot
76.
Part 1: What god sails on a ship made from the fingernails and toenails of the
dead?
Part 2: Whenever his wife Sigyn is absent, snake venom drips onto this god's face,
causing earthquakes.
Part 3: This god's affair with the giantess Angrboda creates Fenrir, Hel, and the
World
Serpent.
Part 4: This god’s mouth is sewn shut to prevent others from falling for his
trickery as
the Norse god of mischief.
A: Loki
Set of 3: Language Learning
80. A green owl serves as the mascot of what online language-learning service?
A: Duolingo
81. What alphanumeric designation is given to the lowest level of language
proficiency
in the European standard reference framework?
A: A1
82. IELTS [“eye-ELTS”] and TOEFL [“TOH-ful”] are standardised tests of proficiency
in
what language?
A: English
Double Jumps
83. From the 1500s until it was eclipsed by the Maratha Empire in the 1700s, what
empire controlled most of the Indian subcontinent?
A: Mughal Empire
84. Which Mughal emperor, who ruled from 1556 to 1605, established a modern
bureaucracy and was famous for his religious tolerance and sponsorship of learning?
A: Akbar the Great
85. What kind of chemical reaction involves the transfer of electrons from one
species
to another?
A: redox reaction (accept: reduction, oxidation)
86. What equation calculates the reduction potential of a redox reaction under
non-standard conditions?
A: Nernst equation
87. In standard tuning, the top and bottom strings on a guitar are both what note?
A: E
88. What chord can be played by pressing down the second fret on the second, third,
and fourth highest strings, and leaving the first and fifth strings open?
A: A major chord
12-Part Blitz
89. What physiological system for providing feedback on body position and movement
is sometimes known as the “sixth sense”?
A: proprioception (accept: kinesthesia)
90. What is the two-word term for the situation seen in many Western movies in
which
multiple people hold each other at gunpoint with no one shooting?
A: Mexican standoff
91. What American city was home to a school of free-market economists led by Milton
Friedman?
A: Chicago
92. Which former US president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in
recognition of his diplomatic and advocacy efforts?
A: Jimmy Carter
93. What suffix can mean “presence in blood” or “blood” in general?
A: -emia (accept: -emic)
94. A friend of Harper Lee, what openly gay novelist wrote In Cold Blood and
Breakfast
at Tiffany’s?
A: Truman Capote [“kuh-POH-tee”]
95. Lake Burley Griffin intersects the Parliamentary Triangle in what planned city,
the
capital of Australia?
A: Canberra
96. What former city on Lake Texcoco was the capital of the Aztec empire?
A: Tenochtitlan ["ten-och-tee-TLAN"]
97. Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in what short film?
A: Steamboat Willie
98. For a boat, what force balances gravity?
A: buoyancy (accept: buoyant force)
99. What is the surname of the main children in the Chronicles of Narnia series?
A: Pevensie
100. In what modern-day country was the Sultanate of Rum centred?
A: Turkey
