The national park of Rock Creek is in the middle of this city. Diagonal streets intersect its street grid at traffic circles as part of the city plan of Charles L'Enfant. The Freer Gallery has a large collection of Asian art in this city and is part of a larger museum group that includes the Hirshorn Gallery and the Air and Space Museum. This home to the Smithsonian at one time contained land now part of Arlington County. For 10 points, name this capital of the United States.
ANSWER: Washington, D.C. [or Washington, D.C.]
This character poses as an Italian priest to take the train with his friend. He sets up a wax dummy to fool Colonel Sebastian Moran and frequently uses cocaine by injecting it in a "seven-per-cent solution." In "The Final Problem," this hero and brother of Mycroft seemingly dies after falling at Reichenbach Falls when fighting his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. For 10 points, name this partner of Dr. Watson, a brilliant detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
ANSWER: Sherlock Holmes [or Sherlock Holmes]
The volume of the three-dimensional generalization of this shape is given by the vector triple product. One can visualize vector addition by drawing one of these shapes. The area of these figures equals the product of their side lengths times the sine of the angle between them. These are the most general quadrilaterals whose diagonals are guaranteed to bisect each other. For 10 points, identify these quadrilaterals which are called rhombuses when all their sides have equal length.
ANSWER: parallelogram
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This city was where police officer James Zadroga died, resulting in legislation meant to protect workers suffering from respiratory diseases. Over six hundred employees of Cantor Fitzgerald died here. The Richard Drew photograph The Falling Man shows a man jumping out of a building in this city to presumably escape a fire. It was the location of a building with the “Windows on the World” restaurant. For 10 points, name this city where the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001.
This is the manner of death of a character who arrives late after thinking her husband is busy stacking wood. A woman dies in this manner at the hands of Old Man Warner and her own family while saying "It isn't fair, it isn't right." This is how Tessie Hutchinson dies in a story after drawing a paper with a black spot on it, apparently to save the town's crops. For 10 points, name this method of death which kills the "winner" of the title game in Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery."
ANSWER: stoning [or being hit with rocks or other such descriptions]
In pyrosequencing, the creation of this molecule by a namesake sulfurylase generates a signal by activating luciferase. The sodium-potassium pump consumes large quantities of this molecule. This molecule is created by a rotor-like protein that has an FO base-piece and an F1 domain, which is driven by a proton gradient created by the electron transport chain. 34 molecules of it are created by the complete oxidation of glucose. For 10 points, name this primary energy currency of the cell.
ANSWER: ATP [or adenosine triphosphate]
In one play, this character interprets a thunderstorm as a sign of his impending death, prompting him to give his burial site as a gift to Athens. He spends most of that play in a grove sacred to the Furies near Colonus. In an earlier play, he learns that he was adopted by Merope and Polybus, wins a fight at a crossroad by killing Laius, marries Jocasta, and solves the riddle of the Sphinx. For 10 points, name this title character of two of Sophocles's Theban plays, a Greek who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
ANSWER: Oedipus [or Oedipus Rex; or Oedipus at Colonus]
This actor played a thief who teams up with Perry van Shrike in a movie whose sections are named after Raymond Chandler stories. In another film, this actor asks, "Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?" This actor, who starred alongside Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, played a man who builds a device "in a CAVE! with a BOX OF SCRAPS!", to the consternation of Obadiah Stane. For 10 points, name this actor who starred as Tony Stark in Iron Man.
ANSWER: Robert Downey, Jr.
Lamin filaments provide structural support for this organelle. A structure in this organelle is the site of ribosomal RNA transcription and ribosome assembly. The transport of molecules in and out of this organelle is allowed by namesake pore complexes that cross its envelope. It is the largest organelle in the animal cell and its presence differentiates eukaryotes and prokaryotes. For 10 points, identify this organelle that stores a cell's genetic material.
ANSWER: cell nucleus
A law of this type which also established an income tax led to the Pollock case. William Howard Taft declared that the best one of these things was a controversial bill masterminded by Nelson Aldrich. During the 1920s, the Fordney-McCumber one was passed. One of these pieces of legislation named for Senators Hawley and Smoot provoked a trade war that intensified the Great Depression. For 10 points, name these protectionist laws that impose taxes on imports.
ANSWER: tariffs
This is a 20-second calculation question. What is the angle supplementary to a 125 degree angle?
ANSWER: 55 degrees
What Brit who was an original judge on American Idol went on to create The X Factor and America's Got Talent?
ANSWER: Simon Phillip Cowell
Name the state home to the General Sherman Tree in its Sequioa National Park.
ANSWER: California
This is a 20-second calculation question. If a fair coin is flipped 500 times, what is the expected number of heads that will appear?
ANSWER: 250
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What princess of Hyrule titles a video game series in which she is often saved from Ganondorf by Link?
In what condition can the spine appear curved in the shape of an S or question mark rather than straight and which is commonly tested by bending forward in the school nurse's office?
ANSWER: scoliosis