Fall 2021 Trivia Night

Music: A character's name in the LEGO movie is an explicit reference to which musician?

Literature/Linguistics: What was Noam Chomsky's first published book?

Linguistics: Which grammatical case can subjects in English take?

Video Games: In the original alpha version of Freedom Planet, what species was Sash Lilac?

Math: What is the integral of 10 w.r.t x

Math: Can one decompose a solid ball into five pieces, then reassemble the pieces into two larger balls?

Food: How many calories are in an average slice of cheese pizza?

Voice Actors: Which of the following voice actors of characters in FFXIV is still living (character in parens)?

Music Production: How many wavetables does the synthesizer Massive come with?

Literature: What is Anaklusmos disguised as in The Lightning Thief?

Fandom: Which of the following websites is NOT well-known for hosting fanfiction?

Language: Which tone used to exist, but no longer does, in common spoken Shanghainese?

Games: How many cards do players start face down with in the card game Idiot?

History: The CIA tried to directly assassinate which head of state?

Literature: Which of the following refers to a computer science textbook?

Math: Clopen sets are sets which are ____

Logic: A contrapositive is__.

Geography Theory: Walter Christaller created which major theory?

Art: This guy put a toilet in an art museum, which is now seen as an artistic icon of the 20th century.

Math: Is the image of a closed set under a continuous function necessarily closed?

Technology: How much does the most expensive MacBook Pro cost (in the US)?

Animation: In the Star Wars canon, how many pairs of legs does Maul go through during his lifetime?

Chem: R-carvone tastes like spearmint. What does S-carvone taste like?

D&D: Which of the following actors are NOT regulars on Critical Role?

(CA) Universities: How many schools/colleges are official members of the Claremont College consortium?

Biology: True or False. DNA exhibits "handedness"

Video Games: What is the name of Arno's father in Assassins Creed: Unity?

Fandom: Which of the following memes did NOT originate from Yugioh: The Abridged Series?

Math: Which of these is equivalent to a multi-variable second derivative?

History: This politician may have plagiarized British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, derailing their 1988 campaign.

Math: What is dominance of a function?

Math: Write the square root of 6 as a fraction

D&D: How much base damage does a STANDARD thrown dagger do in 5e?

Math: What is the derivative of e^x w.r.t y?

Chemistry: The standard coefficient for the auto-ionization of water is given at which temperature?

Math: What day is math 321-1 HW due on this quarter?

(CA) Universities: Which of the following UC's is commonly known for being "socially dead"?

Math: What is the 999th prime number?

Music Production: When a mono sound is stereo-split using Haas delay, then summed to mono, it sounds like _.

CS: Recursion involves __.

Board Games: How many expansions have there been to the 4th edition of Talisman?

Political Geography: Which of the following countries has a state exclave?

Literature: Who does Kelsey end up with in The Tiger's Curse series?

Caesar: Which of the following is/was NOT a Caesar-based schedule maker?

Math: Can you define an order on the set of complex numbers?

(CA) Universities: Who founded Stanford University?

Pop Culture: What did Joe Rogan take for COVID according to CNN?

History: Who created Tankman, the mascot most associated with the website Newgrounds?

Language: In ancient classical Chinese texts, how many different punctuation marks were there?

Physics: When a metal becomes a super conductor there is a tremendous decrease in _______.

Logic: A contradiction is __.

Literature/History: Which of these Slavic poets used to breed horses?

Voice Actors: Which of the following voice actors voices the character Venti from Genshin Impact?

Music Production: To remove offset from a sample or signal, the cleanest technique to use is to apply __.

Chem: When three carbons form a ring structure, they typically form what kind of bonds to relieve angle strain?

Linguistics: Which of the following languages does not have a self-embedding property?

Slivka: Which of the following memes originated from Abdul?

Literature: Who wrote the first book in The Wheel of Time series?

Video Games: How many boards does Mario Party Advance have?

Math: Are singleton sets finite?

Animation: In the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, which bending art does lavabending belong to?

(CA) Universities: Which of the following UC's has the highest-ranked veterinary program?

Music: Which My Little Pony fan musician was slated to have a release with Monstercat Records?

History: Which of these ships was not sunk at the Battle of Midway?

Animation: In Yu-gi-oh: DM, which card did Pharoah Atem use to defeat Haga on a train in Season 4?

NU: Does Tech have two basements?

Technology: How long has Moore's Law held true?

Fandom: Which of the following fictional ships have been canonically confirmed?

Music: Which of the following drum machines is considered most influential to rave music, especially house and techno?

D&D: What is the damage type for a STANDARD thrown dagger in 5e?

Language: Which language was Orkish language from the Lord of the Rings based on?

Literature: What is the last name of the main character of The Accidental Hero?

Literature: What is the name of Darrow's first love interest in the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown?

Video Games: What is the official name of the promotional main character of Final Fantasy XIV Online?

Fandom: Which of the following Pokémon (relation)ships are cross-generation?

Literature: What is the name of the fourth book in New York Times bestseller Will Wight's Cradle series?

Animation: Which of the following Chinese animated TV shows does NOT have an official Japanese dub?

State History: In which state did supreme court justices get into a fist fight?

Political Science: There are two terms for "self-coup." One of them contains part of the name of which politician?

Fandom: Which of the following TV shows set off a series of events resulting in the website AO3 being banned in China?

History/Logic Who was a racist guy who invented much of modern first order logic?

NU: What is the closest wing of Tech if you're walking from Lunt on Sheridan?