User:Oreo Priest/Round 3

Bar Style Round 3

Round 1 - General

 * 1) What online casino is known for buying ridiculous things in publicity stunts, including buying the pope’s VW Golf for $200K, a grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary for $30K, a tattoo on a woman’s for head for $10K and the naming rights to the newly discovered monkey species Callicebus aureipalatii for $600K?	goldenpalace.com
 * 2) What is the name for the combination of the the Trivium: grammar, rhetoric and logic, and the Quadrivium: geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy, forming the basis of a classical education? 		    Liberal Arts
 * 3) King Henry I of England died from food poisoning from overfeeding on what parasite, his favourite food? “a surfeit of lampreys”
 * 4) What fictional character, an evil genius of Chinese origin, was first featured in a series of novels by Sax Rohmer, and gave his name to his characteristic style of facial hair? Fu Manchu
 * 5) What automobile related event was observed in Sweden on Dagen H, September 3rd, 1967 at 5am to bring it in line with surrounding countries?  	Traffic began driving on the right-hand side of the road
 * 6) The Beer Lover’s Party, a joke party intent on converting the country’s vodka drinking tradition to a beer drinking tradition, won 16 seats in the lower house of what central European country in 1991? 		Poland
 * 7) The Crown of Saint Stephen, with its characteristic bent cross, is legally recognized as granting all state powers of the monarch or the government of which country, through its sacred powers?	Hungary
 * 8) What NHL team has a tradition of throwing octopi onto the ice during playoff games, including one 1995 game where fans threw 36 octopi including a 30-pounder?	Detroit Red Wings
 * 9) On what US government building is there a giant sculpture of Mohammed, which the government refused to sandblast in face of Arab complaints?	Supreme Court Building
 * 10) What German non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote German language and culture outside of the German-speaking countries is named after a famous polymath?		Goethe-Institut

Round 2 – Belgium I

 * 1) What northern, Dutch-speaking half of Belgium has a strong independence movement?  Flanders, accept close equivalents
 * 2) Belgium was home to many artists and architects, including Victor Horta, of what artistic style, popular at the beginning of the 20th century? 	Art Nouveau
 * 3) What ludicrously famous Belgian comic book character was accompanied by the mildy offensive and stereotypical character of Captain Haddock, a drunken English sailor?		Tintin
 * 4) Due to that character's killing of a rhinoceros in one of his comics, what famous joke Canadian political party threatened to declare war on Belgium if a case of Mussels and Belgian beer was not sent to their “Hindquarters” by the Belgian Government? Note: the Belgian embassy did in fact do this. The Rhinoceros Party
 * 5) This boring beer, ridiculously overpriced in Canada and many other countries, is in fact one of the very cheapest beers available in Belgium at €7 per case, and drunk by nearly none of the locals?	 Stella Artois
 * 6) The company that owns it, InBev, also owns this London ON based iconic Canadian brewery. Labatt
 * 7) Mini round! The next several questions will be on the Battle of Waterloo and related topics! Waterloo is just south of what Belgian city? Brussels
 * 8) Name the British general credited with the victory.	Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington
 * 9) Before regaining power preceding the battle, Napoleon could have said, in English, what famous palindrome as a reference to being dethroned as First French Emperor and exiled? 	Able was I ere I saw Elba.
 * 10) The song Waterloo was voted best Eurovision song of all time. Who was it by?	ABBA
 * 11) Many Frenchmen claimed that the station in London formerly hosting the terminus of what train service was called Waterloo Station, and thus not in the spirit of co-operation or moving on, despite having an Austerlitz Station in Paris, commemoration Napoleon's victory over the Austrians in the battle of the same name?	Eurostar

Round 3- Enclaves and Exclaves
[Explain what they are].
 * 1) Canada possesses a 1 km2 exclave in northern France, now a war memorial. It was ceded by the French for Canada’s amazing victory at the site of what battle?  Vimy Ridge
 * 2) Which German city on the Elbe contains a 30 000 sq. m Czech exclave, granted by the Treaty of Versailles so the latter would have access to the sea? Hamburg
 * 3) What country is an enclave within South Africa? Lesotho
 * 4) Often land is ceded for succession reasons. During World War II, the UK ceded Suite 212 at Claridges Hotel in London to what land of the south Slavs, to allow crown prince Alexander to be born on home soil?	Yugoslavia
 * 5) In 1943, the maternity ward at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in Canada was temporarily declared part of what country so that the birth of Princess Juliana's daughter, Princess Margriet, could take place on home soil?   Netherlands
 * 6) Formerly know as Königsberg, this city was once the capital of Prussia, which became the modern German state. What is it known as now?  Kaliningrad
 * 7) What south Asian ‘exclave’ had a greater population than the ‘mainland’ where the capital was, until its independence in 1971?	Bangladesh/East Pakistan
 * 8) Tegel airport in Berlin was constructed for this 1948-1949 operation to supply the then exclave of West Berlin.	 Berlin Airlift
 * 9) Name the two areas under control of the Palestinian Authority.	West Bank and Gaza Strip
 * 10) What two enclaves border only on Italy? Holy See and San Marino
 * 11) What sovereign entity that is not a country is based in Rome? Sovereign Military Order of Malta, accept close equivalents

Round 4 – Belgium II

 * 1) What, somewhat confusingly due to sharing a name with a nearby country, is Belgium's southernmost and least populous province?	Luxembourg
 * 2) What order of seven monasteries is often considered to brew the best beers in the entire world, including Westvleteren 10, widely considered the very best?	The Trappists
 * 3) An enormous variety of 50-cent sauces add variety to what popular savoury Belgian snack food, sold in nearly every town? Fries
 * 4) What event occured in 1830 after a particularly rousing performance of the opera La Muette de Portici?		The Belgian Revolution
 * 5) The Belgians have a delightful history of to this day officially unacknowledged brutality, genocide and murder in what country, due to powers granted from King Leopold II's appeal to the European powers as manager of an alleged humanitarian society?		Belgian Congo/DRC, accept close equivalents
 * 6) In the first book ever written, Commentaries on the Gallic War, this Roman author comments “Of all [the Gauls], the Belgae are the bravest”, prompting the modern name for the country?	Julius Caesar
 * 7) The official animal and emblem of Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking half of Belgium is the same as the national animal of the Netherlands. What is it?	The Lion
 * 8) The official animal and emblem of Wallonia, the southern, French-speaking half of Belgium is the same as the national animal of France. What is it?	The Cock/Rooster
 * 9) Brussels would be the sole seat of the European Union's parliament were it not for France insisting at 200 million euros a year that the parliament spend one-quarter of its time in this city.		Strasbourg
 * 10) What famous Belgian chanson singer of the 1920s did little to ease tensions by referring to the Flemish women as serious, prudish and boring in his song Les Flamandes? He also appeared in the book Asterix in Belgium. Jacques Brel
 * 11) In what extremely famous 1927 Brussels physics conference, funded by a grant from its namesake Belgian industrialist, did Albert Einstein remark that "God does not play dice.", to which Niels Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."? The Solvay Conference
 * 12) Belgian federal politicians recently (2007) spent a record breaking 196 days unable to peform what basic action?	Form a government

Round 5 – Name Change
Given the old name for something, state the new one.
 * 1) Chinese gooseberry, following the start of the Cold War. Kiwifruit
 * 2) The city of Berlin, Ontario, following the start of WWI. Kitchener
 * 3) Tie-down roping, a rodeo event, as of course changing the name removes the alleged cruelty.	     Calf roping
 * 4) New Amsterdam, a Dutch colonial possession. New York City
 * 5) Londonderry, a city in Northern Ireland.	Derry
 * 6) Rapeseed, one of Alberta's principle crops (almost, the two are not technically equivalent).	Canola
 * 7) Pressburg, an Austro-Hungarian city.		Bratislava
 * 8) Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, established 1801, and its name has not technically changed, though is almost never be referred to as such.	McGill University
 * 9) Dorval International Airport.	Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (use judgement)
 * 10) United Fruit, a multinational company often accused of neocolonialist pracices in Latin America, especially so-called 'banana republics.' Chiquita Banana
 * 11) Siam. Thailand

Round 6-General

 * 1) The current Canadian $50 bill features sufraggettes. What bird did the old one feature? Snowy Owl
 * 2) When is the unofficially named "Fête de la démenagement" (moving holiday) in Quebec? July 1st, Canada Day
 * 3) What is the verb for "to make a saint"? Canonize
 * 4) What word for extremely uncritical biography technically means writing on the subject of saints and other holy people? Hagiography
 * 5) What war ended in the independence of Cuba, while Guam and Puerto Rico changed hands? Spanish-American War
 * 6) What popular series of travel guides orginally appealing to low budgets, was at first written by an Australian couple, with its first entry being "Southeast Asia on a Shoestring"? Lonely Planet
 * 7) Name any of the seven hills of Rome. Two points for naming three, three points for all of them. Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine and Capitoline
 * 8) What famous Disney movie has a plot that is loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet? The Lion King
 * 9) What technique is used by space agencies whereby satellites increase their speed by flying very close to a planet? Gravity assist/ gravity slingshot/ swing by
 * 10) What language is the song Dragostea din tei (Numa Numa) in? Romanian/Moldovan
 * 11) What is Napoleon Dynamite's favourite animal, a hybrid between the two largest felines, and notably, actually exists? The liger (also accept tigon though the two are not technically the same)