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100
What does Holden Caulfield think you are?
A phony
100
Name the actress and actor who adopted hammy Russian accents in order to play definitely-not-mutant characters Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron?
Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
100
What year was the UBC Nerdfighters founded?
2013
100
Name the Weasley siblings from youngest to oldest
Ginny, Ron, Fred & George, Percy, Charlie, Bill
100
Finish this line: “I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her. Marooned for all eternity, in the center of a dead planet... buried alive.” What is Captain Kirk’s next line?
"KHAAAAAAAAANNN!!!"
200
Ballpark how many words Ulysses is
Around 250,000 (closer to 265,000)
200
As a child, soviet super spy Natasha Romanoff was made to believe she was being trained as a ballerina at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. What is the actual name of the KGB training facility where she grew up?
The Red Room
200
Name four Chinese dynasties
Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Han
200
Where does Harry Potter FIRST meet Draco Malfoy?
Madam Malkins
200
What flavour was the original filling of the twinkie?
Banana
300
What is the setting at the start of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer?
April, or The Tabard Inn at Southwark.
300
Name three infinite gems
Any of: the soul (green), time (orange), space (purple), mind (blue), reality (yellow), power (red)
300
Who wrote "Perpetual Peace"?
Emmanuel Kant
300
What Hogwarts house is Tom Felton in?
Gryffindor
300
"Baby Don't Hurt Me"
"What is love?"
400
What is the first word of Beowulf?
Hwæt! (we Gar-Dena in gear-dagum / theod-cyninga thrym gefrunon…)
400
Who is going to play Purple Man in Jessica Jones
David Tennant
400
What was Napoleon Bonaparte's height at his time of death? Give two answers: one in French units of measurement and the second in British
5'2" and just shy of 5'7"
400
Where did Gellert Grindewald attend wizarding school?
Durmstrang. He was expelled.
400
What is the name of the theory that posits: a ____ imagined as being enclosed in a box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be released when the source (unpredictably) emits radiation. The _____ is considered (according to quantum mechanics) to be simultaneously both dead and alive until the box is opened and the _____ observed.
Schrodinger's cat
500
What are the two classic blunders you can fall victim to?
1) "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" 2) "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line"
500
What was the name of the first Human Torch?
Jim Hammond (android from WWII)
500
You all know Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who famously crossed the Alps. His father was also a famous general who led Carthage during the First Punic War.
Hamilcar
500
Where is this from and finish this line: “Back to witches and wizards, magical beasts, goblins and ghosts, and to magical feasts. It’s __________________. I think I’m going back—”
A Very Potter Musical; “all that I love and all that I need at Hogwarts, Hogwarts.”
500
What is an "aha ha"?
An Australian wasp