Prelims Answers

1

What English word is a portmanteau of the Greek words for 'sharp' and 'blunt'?

Answer

Oxymoron

2

Commander X is the by-the-book, well-intentioned leader of ______ City’s paramilitary Enforcers who are tasked with defending the city against a host of threats. Oftentimes uncompromising in his outlook towards criminal activity, X has no time for reckless hotshot vigilantes, like the ___1___. This has frequently put him at odds with Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs, who has made her support of the ___1___ no secret. This, in addition to his blatant dislike of Mayor Manx (calling Manx a coward and a fool on many occasions), has often forced X to stand alone.X?

Answer

Commander Ulysses Feral from the SWAT Kats

3

A Japanese jeweler is selling a solid gold replica of X's left foot. The asking price for the 55-pound statue is $5.25 million.The detailed golden foot -- the statue is complete with blood vessels and swirls of skin on the bottom of the toes -- was created by Tokyo-based jeweler Ginza Tanaka to celebrate an unprecedented event in January

Answer

Lionel Messi

4

The direct translation of this dog breed’s name was adopted for use in the official breed registry; however, at the conclusion of World War I, it was believed that the inclusion of the word “______" would harm the breed's popularity, due to the prevailing sentiment of the era. The breed was officially renamed by the UK Kennel Club, a name which was also adopted by many other international kennel clubs. Eventually, the appendage "wolf dog" was dropped. The name remained for five decades, until 1977, when successful campaigns by dog enthusiasts pressured the British kennel clubs to allow the breed to be registered again as _______.

Which dog breed?

Answer

German Shepherd / Alsatian

5

The franchise began with the 1947 purchase of a disbanded team, the Detroit Gems of the NBL. The new team began playing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, calling themselves the _____ in honor of the state's nickname. They won five championships in Minneapolis, propelled by center George Mikan, who is described by the official website as the league's "first superstar". After struggling financially in the late 1950s following Mikan's retirement, they relocated to their current location before the 1960–61 season.Which franchise?

Answer

6

This is the flag of Ohio. It belongs in a separate category with one other flag. Which flag? What category?

Answer

Non-rectangular flags

Nepal

7

Oreo Ad. Which 1912 Broadway Musical is being referenced?

Answer

8____1____ is a noun used to describe members of the United States Army and items of their equipment___1___ was originally used to denote equipment made from galvanized iron, such as metal trash cans, in U.S. Army inventories and supply records. During World War I, U.S. soldiers sardonically referred to incoming German artillery shells as “___1___ cans". In that same war, ___1___ started being interpreted as an adjective for anything having to do with the Army. During World War II, ____2____ became a nickname for American soldiers. Dwight D. Eisenhower stated in 1945, for example, that "the truly heroic figure of this war is ____2____ and his counterpart in the air, the navy, and the merchant marine of every one of the United Nations.“

FITB

Answer

1 - G.I2 – G.I. Joe

9

ID this bear, closely related to the Tibetan Blue Bear. This bear is unique because it lives in a desert habitat.

Answer

Gobi Bear (from Gobi Desert) aka mazalaai

10

• Inspiration for which movie title?

Answer

• Live Free or Die Hard. (Die Hard 4.0)

11

ID the guy who is circled. In the news recently

Answer

Pope Francis

12

Answer

Euler

13

• A X is a phrase or platitude that, having been employed excessively, suggests insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker employing it.

• The term "X" derives from the antiquated use of certain X salts in medicine as mild tranquilizers and sedatives. Administration of a "X" (such as the original Bromo-Seltzer prior to 1975 in the U.S.) would relieve anxiety and make the patient drowsy. Describing a phrase as a "X" is meant humorously to imply that it is a verbal sedative; a boring statement with similar soporific properties.

• Bromide

14• Some theories regarding the origins of X (of varying veracity) :• A symbol virtually identical to X has been used as an alchemic

sigil for cinnabar dating at least as far back as the early eighteenth century.

• A X with two vertical lines could have started off as a monogram of 'US', used on money bags issued by the United States Mint.

• Another theory is that X may have also originated from Hermes, the Greek god of bankers, thieves, messengers, and tricksters: One of his symbols was the caduceus, a staff from which ribbons or snakes dangled in a sinuous curve.

• Derived from a slash through the numeral eight, denoting pieces of eight.

$ - Dollar Sign

15

• A/an X, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. A dunce is a/an X who is specifically incapable of learning. A/an X differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/an ignorant), neither of which refers to someone with low intelligence.

• X ?

Idiot

16

• A summary of X's special qualities:• With X, Y would be able to strike as firmly as

he wanted, whatever his aim, and X would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic.

• X ?

• Mjölnir (Thor’s Hammer)

17• 'Ils ne passeront pas/On ne passe pas' is a slogan used to express

determination to defend a position against an enemy.• It was most famously used during the Battle of Verdun in World War I

by French General Robert Nivelle. It appears on propaganda posters, such as that by Maurice Neumont after the Second Battle of the Marne, which was later adopted on uniform badges by units manning the Maginot Line.

• (pic on next slide)

• X, a World War 1 veteran, famously uses the English-version of the slogan in his book series Y.

• X & the English-version of the Slogan?

18The Bone Wars, also known as the "Great Dinosaur Rush", refers to a period of intense fossil speculation and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. In 1877 Marsh wrote a short two-paragraph article for the American Journal of Science that didn't have illustrations and included only a description of the animal's vertebral column. Marsh named the creature ________, meaning "deceptive lizard". In that same year, in another short article in the same journal, Marsh claimed finding another dinosaur based on a description of the pelvis and vertebrae. He named this one X.The X soon went on to become one of the most famous dinosaur species of all time. A nearly complete skeleton found by Marsh was mounted in Yale's Peabody Museum. There it captured the public's imagination as did a beautiful illustration Marsh published in US Geological Survey, 1895.In his rush to beat Cope, Marsh had made a mistake, however. The _______ was not a separate species, but simply a juvenile example of X. In 1903 Elmer Riggs of the Field Museum in Chicago was studying Marsh's work when he found this mistake:X?

Brontosaurus

•1967: Bonnie and Clyde•1968: The Battle of Algiers•1969: Z•1970: Five Easy Pieces•1971: The Last Picture Show•1972: The Godfather•1973: Cries and Whispers•1974: Scenes from a Marriage•1975: Nashville•1976: Small Change•1977: 3 Women•1978: An Unmarried Woman•1979: Apocalypse Now•1980: The Black Stallion•1981: My Dinner with Andre

•1982: Sophie's Choice•1983: The Right Stuff•1984: Amadeus•1985: The Color Purple•1986: Platoon•1987: House of Games•1988: Mississippi Burning•1989: Do the Right Thing•1990: Goodfellas•1991: JFK•1992: Malcolm X•1993: Schindler's List•1994: Hoop Dreams•1995: Leaving Las Vegas•1996: Fargo

•1997: Eve's Bayou•1998: Dark City•1999: Being John Malkovich•2000: Almost Famous•2001: Monster's Ball•2002: Minority Report•2003: Monster•2004: Million Dollar Baby•2005: Crash•2006: Pan's Labyrinth•2007: Juno•2008: Synecdoche, New York•2009: The Hurt Locker•2010: The Social Network•2011: A Separation•2012: Argo

19• Best Movie of the Year list by ?

• Roger Ebert, who passed away recently

20

• In 1985, Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, New York, was issued a patent for X. Vitale called her invention a "package saver" and used that term also as the title of her patent, but it has since been renamed the “X" since that has become its most common use. The patent (#4,498,586) was filed on February 10, 1983, and issued on February 12, 1985.

X ?

21

• These were the 3 sites, of what?

Answer

• Lord’s Cricket Ground

22

• Cicero dicit fac hoc, Kommando Pimperle" in German, "Jacques a dit" in French, "Commando“in Dutch,", or "Jantje zegt" in Flemish parts of Belgium, Deir Ó Grádaigh" in Irish, "Răzvan spune" in Romanian, "Yakup der ki" in Turkish, "Kongen befaler" in Norwegian, "Kapteeni käskee" in Finnish, "O rei manda" in Portuguese, and "O mestre mandou" in Brazilian Portuguese.

• Which game is known by these different games?

Answer

• Simon Says

23

• Colloquial term for winning (or losing) a set 6–1, with the straight shape of the one supposedly being reminiscent of the straight shape of a X(or a piece of Y).

• Ties in the Annual Golden Bagel Awards are resolved by using the number of Xs(or Ys) recorded in the circuit season.

X or Y ?

Breadsticks or Fries

24• X is an industrial metal band from Berlin, Germany. The band was formed in

1994 and consists of Till Lindemann (lead vocals), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar and backing vocals), Paul H. Landers (guitar, backing vocals), Oliver "Ollie" Riedel (bass guitar), Christoph "Doom" Schneider (drums and electronic percussion) and Christian "Flake" Lorenz (keyboards).

• Their songs are usually in German, but they have also performed songs entirely or partially in other languages such as English, Spanish, French and Russian.

• X have achieved particular fame for their hugely over-the-top stage show, using so many pyrotechnics that fans eventually coined the motto "Other bands play, X burns!". Lindemann is now a licensed pyrotechnician who spends entire songs engulfed head-to-toe in flames. He has suffered multiple burns on his ears, hair and arms.

X? (image on next slide)

25

ID the artist

Answer

PSY