What Happens in Vegas
This card in a game of Blackjack is a wildcard, being worth by itself either one or eleven points
What is an ace?
This island off the coast of Mozambique has a population of 33 million people, despite a certain movie franchise leading the world to believe it is only inhabited by lions, zebras, hippos, and penguins.
What is Madagascar?
The French rationalist, considered to be the father of modern Philosophy, who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am"
Who is Rene Descartes?
These oceanic equestrians belong to the only known family of animals where fathers birth eggs while the women are off developing more eggs to be fertilized.
What are seahorses?
Ponyboy, Bob Sheldon, Cherry
What is The Outsiders?
This is the best hand possibly achieved in a game of Texas Hold-Em which, in a game of five card draw, has about a .000154% chance of being dealt.
What is a Royal Flush?
Though it hosts a natural abundance of water, this place is considered to be the largest desert in the world.
What is Antarctica?
Adam Smith described this elusive force that controls the world's markets in his famous work that some consider the birthplace of modern capitalism The Wealth of Nations.
What is the Invisible Hand?
The zone of the ocean where sunlight fades to nothing and the only light is produced from bioluminescence.
John Proctor, Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale
What is The Crucible?
This Blackjack strategy, made popular by the 2008 movie "21", involves keeping track of how many high and low cards have been dealt in a given shuffle of a deck and using that information to determine the size of your bet.
What is card counting?
Despite its large area and proximity to the Adriatic Coast, this country is tragically restricted to only 12 miles of beach by its neighbor Croatia, making it the second shortest among countries with a coastline.
What is Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto describes the fight between the Bourgeoise and this group of working class individuals
Who are the proletariat?
Christopher Columbus accidentally identified these sea creatures as mermaids when sailing off the coast of Haiti, noting they were "not half as beautiful as they are painted".
What are manatees?
Okonkwo, Unoka, Nwoye
What is Things Fall Apart?
This line is the one you bet on in a game of craps if you are betting "with the shooter"; it plays on a 7 or 11 before a point is established, or any time the determined point is hit thereafter.
What is the "pass line"?
The country in the world that spans the most time zones across all territories, beating out Russia's mainland eleven by just one.
What is France?
This ideology and mathematical framework was popularized by Nobel Prize winner John Nash and is used to analyze decisions made by "players" based on their perception of what other players are going to do.
What is game theory?
These "bivalve" creatures are being released into New York Harbor, with the goal to supply over a billion to help regulate water quality, storm surges, and more.
What are oysters?
Anton Chigur, Llewelyn Moss, Sherriff Ed Tom Bell
What is No Country for Old Men?
The nickname given to a two-pair of two black aces and two black eights in a game of 5-card draw, famously played by outlaw Wild Bill Hickock before he was shot in the back of the head.
What is the Dead Man's Hand?
South Africa has twelve official languages. Name 5. (200 points per)
English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Spedi, Venda, Tsonga, Sotho, Tswana, Swati, Ndebele, SASL
The word that fills in the blank in this excerpt from Albert Camus' 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus: "One must imagine Sisyphus _____".
What is "happy"?
Instead of a swim bladder, pelagic sharks rely on a massive, oil-filled version of this organ containing high concentrations of squalene to maintain buoyancy.
What is the liver?
Nurse Ratched, Randle McMurphy, Chief Bromden
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?