Martial Arts
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100

What is it called when you hit people with your feet

kick

100

What is 2 + (314*(2.5)*(4-4)*(8^4)/(43+2)) + 2

4

100

This U.S City is known as the city that never sleeps

New York

100

This book’s featured the story of the son of god who was famously nailed to a cross

The Bible

100

In this movie, the main character wants to “let it go”, claiming she “can’t hold it back anymore”

Frozen

200

What is the modern Japanese martial art, descended from kenjutsu that uses bamboo swords?

Kendo

200

Celebrated on March 14th, what is the name of the holiday commemorating this irrational number?

Pi Day

200

What county is New Haven, CT in?

New Haven County

200

Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby?”

F Scott Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald acceptable)

200

This show features a song whose lyrics are “Leaves from the vines, falling so slow, Like fragile tiny shells”

Avatar, The Last Airbender

300

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

300

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

300

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

300

This text’s first chapter contains the phrase “The Name that can be spoken of is not the ever-constant Name.”

Dao De Jing

300

In this movie, the climax scene had one of the main characters say “You should’ve gone for the head”.

Avengers: Infinity War

400

In Hawaiian martial arts, sometimes a leiomano is used. What, exactly, is this weapon made from?

Shark tooth

400

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)

400

Which U.S. State has the smallest population?

Wyoming

400

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

400

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

800

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)

800

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

800

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

800

This flamboyant Irish author wrote “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” after the end of his two-year prison sentence for “gross indecency.”

Oscar Wilde

800

This movie’s main character claims “Neytiri calls me skxawng. It means "moron."

Avatar (the blue skin version)