Heists
Video Games
Mean-ing
Cars
Analogies
100
The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) abducted this student of UC Berkeley, who adopted the nom de guerre "Tania" after Che Guevara's associate "Tania the Guerilla" and whose later participation in bank heists in the San Francisco Bay Area were commuted by Jimmy Carter and pardoned by Bill Clinton.
Who is Patricia ('Patty') Hearst?
100
At 639 million copies sold, this is the most popular video game franchise of all time.
What is Mario?
100
Euclid offered the first known definition of this relationship:
Formally, this relationship, φ, obtains between two quantities, x and y, when:
(x+y)/x = x/y <=> phi
What is the 'golden mean'?
Also known as: golden ratio, golden selection, golden proportion, golden cut, golden number, extreme and mean ratio, medial section, divine proportion, divine section.
100
The first motorized locomotion device (auto-mobile) was created around 1672 by Ferdinand Verbiest as a toy for the Kangxi Emperor. Ferdinand was a member of this religious group.
What is the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)?
100
POTUS : West Wing :: FLOTUS :: ____
What is 'East Wing'?
200
In 1933, citing the exploits of this person, Director of the Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover campaigned to combine the BOI with the Bureau of Prohibition to form what later became known as the FBI, with greater powers to prosecute organized crime. This person was the first to be declared "Public Enemy No. 1" by the FBI in 1934.
Who is John Dillinger?
200
At 495 million copies sold since its debut in 1988, this is the most popular video game franchise to originate from Russia / USSR, and is the second most popular franchise of all time.
What is Tetris?
200
Collectively named after the school that developed and studied them, this group comprises the arithmetic mean, the geometric mean, and the harmonic mean.
What are the 'Pythagorean means'?
200
In 1803, Hayden Wischett designed the first car powered by the de Rivaz engine, an internal combustion engine that used this for fuel.
What is hydrogen?
200
YHWH : Yahweh :: JHVH :: ____
What is 'Jehovah'?
Q.v., 'Tetragrammaton'
300
Chicago PD was the first organization to employ the term "Public Enemy No. 1", and this person is the most recent designee from CPD.
Who is Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera?
300
This video game title has grossed more than any other single media title in history.
What is Grand Theft Auto V?
300
On the way to Nani's house, there is no traffic and the average speed is 60mph. On the way home, though, there is traffic, and the average speed is just 30mph. This is the average speed of the whole trip.
What is 40mph?
Arithmetic mean:
(40+60)/2 = 45 ≠ 40
Harmonic mean:
[(x1-1 + x2-1 + ... + xn-1) / n ]-1
[(1/60+1/30)/2]-1 = 2 / (3/60) = 2*20 = 40
300
Overtaking the Volkswagen Beetle in the 1990s and now more than doubling it, this car, which debuted in 1966, holds the record for most units sold at +44 million.
What is the Toyota Corolla?
300
Catholic : universal :: August : ____
What is 'important'?
'catholic' means universal and, when capitalized, denotes the largest sect of the largest world religion.
'august' means important and, when capitalized, denotes a month of the year.
400
The biggest bank heist in world history (2003), as well as the second biggest (2007), occurred in this Middle Eastern country.
What is Iraq?
1. The Central Bank of Iraq robbery ($920 million)
2. The Dar Es Salaam Bank heist ($282 million)
400
This is the first video game franchise to spawn a reality TV show, which will be broadcast July 17, 2020 on TBS.
What is The Sims?
EA / Turner Sports / BuzzFeed created The Sims Spark'd, a four-episode reality competition TV show featuring 12 contestants tasked with challenges within The Sims 4 to create characters and stories following the challenge's themes and limitations.
400
The arithmetic mean, symbolized below, is always larger than the geometric mean, which has this form.
(x_1+x_2+...+x_3)/n
What is
root(n)(x_1*x_2* ... * x_n)
?
400
Clocking in at 304mph, the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport is the fastest production car in history ($3.8M), and yet it accelerates to 60mph more slowly than this car, which starts at $74,990.
What is the Tesla Model S?
400
According to Johannes Kepler, on geometry's two great treasures:
Pythagorean theorem : 'a mass of gold' :: ____ : 'a precious jewel'
What is the 'golden mean'?
"Geometry has two great treasures: one is the theorem of Pythagoras, the other the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a mass of gold, the second we may call a precious jewel."
500
The most successful diamond-thieving gang in history, the Pink Panthers, have conducted at least 341 heists and have never been caught. They are known to exclusively drive Audis, which, for the 2007 heist in Dubai, forced them to hijack an Audi S8 shortly before the heist from this neighboring Emirate.
What is Abu Dhabi?
500
This video game, released in 1997 on PlayStation, features an innovative "Body Damage System" and gameplay mechanic based on the Japanese version of Chivalry.
Weapons include the katana, nodachi, long sword, saber, broadsword, naginata, rapier, and sledgehammer, and attack options depend on stances chosen by the player.
What is Bushido Blade (1997)?
500
Suppose we record the top speeds of ten supercars, where at least one car has a different speed from at least one other car (i.e., it is false that all cars have the same max speed).
We can describe this set with five terms: (1) the minimum, (2) the maximum, (3) the arithmetic mean, (4) the geometric mean, and (5) the harmonic mean. What is the median of these five terms?
What is the geometric mean?
min ≤ HM ≤ GM ≤ AM ≤ max
with equality obtaining when all values are identical.
500
Driving the ThrustSSC (pictured below), Andrew Duncan Green OBE broke his own record for the Land Speed Record at 761.689 mph, making him the first to break the sound barrier. Andy was a member of this aeronautical military organization.
What is the Royal Air Force (RAF)?
500
autological : heterological :: esoteric : ____
(hint: autological == homological)
What is 'exoteric'?
- 'esoteric' is commonly known and means 'not commonly known'
- 'exoteric' is not commonly known and means 'commonly known'
- 'autological' is predicated of words whose meaning corresponds with their form (e.g., 'pentasyllabic' or 'awkwardnessful')
- 'heterological' is predicated of words whose meaning conflicts with their form (e.g., 'pulchritudinous' or 'big')