The Quizzitch Cup Finale 2014 - Long Con (with answers)
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The document outlines a quiz format featuring various themes, with scoring rules for individual questions and a connect theme for bonus points. It includes topics such as the gulo gulo (wolverine), a short story by Washington Irving, a tech company from California, the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, and references to human rights demonstrations. Additionally, it discusses the Seven Deadly Sins with creative associations and an overview of a psychological scale.
The Quizzitch Cup Finale 2014 - Long Con (with answers)
- 1. Written round, please don’t shout out your answers. •Scoring for individual questions: +10/-0. •Scoring for attempting the connect theme indicated on each slide. Negative scores for wrong attempts. • LONG CON
- 2. 1. Comic world! +70/-35 Gulo gulo is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae (weasels). It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, more closely resembling a small bear than other mustelids. It has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself. What is the common name for Gulo gulo? (An alternative name feeds into the Connect.) (Photo in next slide)
- 3. Photo.
- 4. 2. As time goes by… +60/-30 A short story by Washington Irving published in 1819 is set in New York's Catskill Mountains and concerns a titular kindly British-American villager of Dutch ancestry. The name of the story?
- 5. 3. From the look of it… +50/-25 Three people co-founded this Santa Clara, California based tech company in 1993: Jen-Hsun Huang Chris Malachowsky Curtis Priem The company's main product is in direction competition with AMD's Radeon line.
- 6. 4. X & Y. +40/-20 New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement that was renamed in 1665 in honour of James II of England (the Duke of X). The barrier on the northern boundary of the settlement gave its name to a road, now emblematic. The road in turn lends its name to 1987 film Y, the most famous line of which can be traced to Ivan Boesky's May 18, 1986 commencement address at UC Berkeley's School of Business Administration. (This line feeds into the Connect.) (Pic in next slide)
- 7. Map.
- 8. 5. First instance of? +30/-15 "That the Annual Reminder, in order to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people, and encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged – that of our fundamental human rights – be moved both in time and location. We propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street..."
- 9. 6. Identify this Hindu god. +20/-10
- 10. 7. Hold it! +10/0 ACS is a psychometric measure of five ways in which ____ is acted out: misattributing causation, catastrophic evaluating, overgeneralizing, demandingness, and inflammatory labeling.
- 11. And the answers are… …in the next slide!
- 12. Seven deadly sins 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Gluttony = Wolverine, also known as Glutton. Sloth = Rip Van Winkle Envy = NVidia, which is derived from the Latin word Invidia. Greed = Wall Street, named after the wall protecting New Amsterdam. Pride = Pride Parade or Pride March Lust = Kamadeva Wrath = ACS is Angry Cognitions Scale