Martial Arts
What is it called when you hit people with your feet
kick
What is 2 + (314*(2.5)*(4-4)*(8^4)/(43+2)) + 2
4
This U.S City is known as the city that never sleeps
New York
This book’s featured the story of the son of god who was famously nailed to a cross
The Bible
In this movie, the main character wants to “let it go”, claiming she “can’t hold it back anymore”
Frozen
What is the modern Japanese martial art, descended from kenjutsu that uses bamboo swords?
Kendo
Celebrated on March 14th, what is the name of the holiday commemorating this irrational number?
Pi Day
What county is New Haven, CT in?
New Haven County
Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby?”
F Scott Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald acceptable)
This show features a song whose lyrics are “Leaves from the vines, falling so slow, Like fragile tiny shells”
Avatar, The Last Airbender
This martial art is know as the "bodyguard style", as this was the style taught and used by personal bodyguards for Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek and Puyi
Baijiquan
Two workers can complete 5 tasks in a day and have spare time to play video games, but two video gamers can only complete 3 tasks while taking 6 days, how many more days does it take one videogamer to complete a task compared to one worker? (express your answer to the nearest tenth, assume everything scales linearly)
3.6 days
Worker: .4 days, video gamer: 4 days
There is a single point where four states meet in the U.S., known as the Four Corners Monument. What are the 4 states?
Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado
This text’s first chapter contains the phrase “The Name that can be spoken of is not the ever-constant Name.”
Dao De Jing
In this movie, the climax scene had one of the main characters say “You should’ve gone for the head”.
Avengers: Infinity War
In Hawaiian martial arts, sometimes a leiomano is used. What, exactly, is this weapon made from?
Shark tooth
This type of mathematical construct can be called “telescoping” if most of its terms can be canceled. If the partial sums of this type of construct approach a limit, it is called “convergent.”
Infinite series (series is acceptable)
Which U.S. State has the smallest population?
Wyoming
This famous work, named after the two main characters, features the story of a local teenage fling that lasted four days, ending in six deaths and a banishment. One character in this book famously asks wherefore the other character is.
Romeo and Juliet
In what movie does a character say “Not your fault? Who filled my head with dreams? Who drove me to train until my bones cracked? Who denied me my destiny?”
Kung Fu Panda
What are the 3 main types of -jutsu that every ninja should master, in the anime Naruto?
Ninjitsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu (Yes people, ninjutsu is martial arts)
When using this number as a base, the standard form avoids having the sequence “11” [“one-one”]. This number equals twice the cosine of 36 degrees. The continued fraction “1 plus 1 over 1 plus 1 over 1” and so on equals this number.
Golden Ratio, (1+sqrt5)/2
Order these cities by geographical distance from New Haven, CT from smallest to largest: Washington DC; Cleveland, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Houston, Texas
Baltimore, Maryland; Washington DC; Cleveland, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico
This flamboyant Irish author wrote “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” after the end of his two-year prison sentence for “gross indecency.”
Oscar Wilde
This movie’s main character claims “Neytiri calls me skxawng. It means "moron."
Avatar (the blue skin version)