30-POINT OPEN QUESTION -- NUMBERS IN MODERN MUSIC
Covered in 2001 by Bob the Builder but most famously performed by Lou Bega, which jazz dance track is subtitled in the latter version with “A Little Bit Of...”?
Mambo No. 5
CLUE A: A management principle named for me states, roughly, that everyone rises to their own level of incompetence. WHAT NAME AM I?
CLUE B: I am the name of a ruler who dissolved the Streltsy and implemented a tax on beards in an effort to modernise their country. WHAT NAME AM I?
CLUE C: I am the name of an apostle who denied knowing Jesus three times before a rooster crowed. WHAT NAME AM I?
CLUE D: I am the first name of a Russian Tsar nicknamed “the Great” and the first Pope.WHAT NAME AM I?
Peter (accept: Pyotr, Petrus)
B-squared minus 4 times A times C is what quantity for a quadratic equation?
discriminant
Give the type of location that completes the title of this Brian Eno album: “Ambient 1, Music for...:”
airports
Two people have the options of betraying each other or remaining silent in what situation from game theory?
prisoner’s dilemma
Which song’s narrator notes that his father lived to age sixty-one and that “only those I really love will ever really know me”, and is sung by Lukas Graham?
“7 Years”
Who is the current South Korean president?
Yoon Suk-yeol
What is the Japanese term for organized crime syndicates?
yakuza
In Hinduism, Ganesha is often depicted with the head of what animal?
elephant
Which 2009 anti-war song by Green Day is titled after a style of honourary salute often used at military funerals?
“21 Guns”
What is wolf in French?
loup ([“loo”], but be lenient on pronunciation)
In minutes and seconds, how long was John Cage’s silent three-movement composition?
4 minutes and 33 seconds
Later adapted into a film starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, which young adult novel is the first written by Stephen Chbosky?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Who was named MVP of the 2021-22 NBA season?
Nikola Jokić
What type is shared by the Pokemon Lickitung, Meowth, and Snorlax?
Normal
What adjective describes shoes with a stiff sole used by dancers to perform its namesake ballet technique?
pointe shoes