ROUND: Languages

1) German. Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liecthenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland. France has 5, Italian, Croatian 4, English, Serbian 3 [0]

2) FORTRAN. Short for the IBM Mathematical Formula Translation System. [4]

3) Pidgin. A Creole is similar but is a fully expressive mix of two or more languages. [5]

4) J or Z. Both of them requires explicitly spelling the letter with one's index finger. [5]

5) Russia. Other languages include Chechen, Tatar, and Chukchi. [0]

6) Another, together. Also, 'different' and 'every' in some pronunciations. [0]


ROUND: Head to head

1) Indonesia: GDP is $1.02 B ($600 B), 684 airports (1141), and 45,000 square km² of irrigated land (15,000) [2]

2) Pigs. Pigs were domesticated 13,000 years ago, there are about 200 pig breeds (350) and about 2 billion pigs (1 billion) [2]

3) Les Misérables. It has 513,000 words in French (460,000), was published in 1862 (1865-1869), and has been made into 11 films (6). [4]

4) The Qing Dynasy, 14.7 M km² (5-6 M), 18 provinces plus 5-10 other units (36), and only 13 emperors (over 80 from Augustus to 476 AD). [5]

5) The British Museum-opened 1759 (1793), 75,000 m² of floor space (60,000), 6 M visitors per year (8.2 M). [4]

6) Goodfellas-300 utterances of 'fuck' (265), 10 homicides (7) and runs for 145 minutes (154). [3]

ROUND: Roots

1) Riemann hypothesis, named for Bernhard Riemann. The function is also known as the Riemann zeta function. [3]

2) The Gambia [2]

3) Ginseng [5]

4) Sea urchin [3]

5) The Kalahari Desert, which floods every year due to the Okavango river. [1]

6) Nagano 1998 winter olympics [1]


ROUND: Dead foursomes

1) Bob Marley, who died in 1981 at age 36 of (untreated) melanoma of his toe. Ramunujan died of malnutrition and liver failure at age 32 in 1920, Evita Peron died of cervical cancer in 1952 at age 33, and Bruce Lee died from a seizure in 1973 at age 33. [2]

2) The VW Type 1 Beetle was produced from 1938-2003, with production leaving Germany in 1980. The Testarossa was produced from 1984-1996, the Saab 900 was produced from 1978-1998, and the GM EV1 was produced from 1996-1999. [4]

3) Passenger pigeons, which were last sighted in the wild in 1900. Moas went extinct around 1500 (possibly lasting until 1830), the dodo by 1700, and the great auk by 1852. [3]

4) Hirohito died in 1989 at age 87. Kai-Shek and Franco died in 1975, de Gaulle in 1970). [2]

5) The drachma is no longer used anywhere. The guilder is still used in the Netherlands Antilles (half of which will adopt the US dollar in 2011), the escudo in Cape Verde, and the (converted) mark in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  [3]

6) Michael Jackson, with US$275 M in earnings, more than the other three combined. [3]

ROUND: Things that use electricity

1) The vibrator. Hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus (hence 'hysterectomy'), and for centuries western medicine considered hysteria to be caused by disturbances to a woman's uterus which were treated by pelvic massage and orgasm. The device proved much more popular for self-medication. The American Psychological Association finally stopped considering hysteria in 1952. [4]

2) The cell phone, normally used by re-wiring the speaker to the bomb trigger and calling the phone. Car alarms, garage door openers, television remote controls, and others have been used, but cell phones are by far the most reliable. [5]

3) The smoke detector. The vast majority of non-working devices have had their batteries removed after false alarms. [1]

4) The electric chair. Edison hoped to demonstrate that AC was inherently dangerous, although it turned out DC was more reliable for electrocution. About 4440 electric chair executions have been conducted. 12 electric chairs have been nicknamed "Old sparky." The word electrocution was also invented by Edison as a portmanteau of "electricy" and "execution." [1]

5) The Taser [5]

6) The VCR. Valenti was head of the Motion Picture Association of America, which vehemently opposed the VCR. [1]


ROUND: Consumption (Permutation round)

I C E J F K H G D L A B

1) I. Canadians consume over 100 M boxes of mac & cheese annually, which is 10 times the rate of consumption of the US, the next largest consumer, although almost all of the Canadian consumption is imported from the US. Canadians call it simply 'Kraft Dinner' and it is considered a national comfort food. [5]

2) C. Czechs drink about 160 litres of beer per person per year, 20 more than Ireland or Germany, the next biggest consumers. It helps that most Czech beer is lagers, which are easier to drink in large quantiteies. Brewing dates back to the 11th century in Czech Republic, and today Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser Budvar are large exports. [5]

3) E. Finland drinks nearly twice as much coffee as any other country in the world, at an incredible rate of about 1 litre per person per day. Many Finnish businesses hold mandatory morning and afternoon coffee breaks. Starbucks has declined to open a store in the country, after their market research indicated coffee is so entrenched in the national culture that there was no hope for foreign coffee shops. [2]

4) J. India in fact consumes more mangos than the rest of the earth combined, at about 10 kilos per person, over 10 M tons per year of mango. Mangoes originated in India and are used in a wide variety of Indian cooking. [2]

5) F. Mexicans consumed about 438 eggs each in 2009. Eggs form an integral part of many Mexican breakfast dishes such as huevos rancheros and huevos montuleños. Mexico is also a major egg producer and exporter beyond its domestic consumption. [1]

6) K. Myanmar consumes 225 kg of rice per person per year, narrowly edging out Vietnam and Bangladesh. Rice completely dominates agriculture in Myanmar, taking up 60% of all cultivation. The region has traditionally been the most fertile rice-growing region in the world, and the country is still the 7th largest exporter of rice, but has been passed. [3]

7) H. New Zealand largest company is Fonterra, the largest dairy exporter in the world with 30% of the global export market, leaving enough dairy products to enable 23 liters per year of ice cream consumption, topping the USA and Australia at about 18 litres. Fonterra produces Tip Top ice cream, which is exported throughout Asia as well as New Zealand. [3]

8) G. South Koreans consume about 10 kilos of garlic per year, about 10 times the rate in the USA or Europe. Garlic features heavily in most Korean dishes, including Kimchi. [2]

9) D. The Swiss eat about 11 kilos of chocolate per person per year, edging out Austria and Germany. Switzerland is not the largest exporter of chocolate, and consumers more than half of its consumption domestically, but is the most profitable chocolate industry, due to the preponderance of high-end brands like Toblerone. [4]

10) L. Turks consume about 2.5 kilos of dry tea per year, narrowly edging out the UK. Tea has always played an important role in Turkey, but it was only in the 20th century that consumption skyrocketed as Ataturk strongly discouraged coffee consumption as the coffee-growing regions were lost with after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. [1]

11) A. Bananas are important throughout Africa but Ugandans lead the world in consumption with over half a kilo per person per day. Uganda is also Africa's largest producer, and produces hundreds of varieties, at least 100 of which are native to Uganda. "Matoke" is a banana stew which is the national dish of Uganda and also simply means "food" in many local languages. [4]

12) B. Uruguayans consume 58 kg of beef per person per year, recently passing Argentina's 55. There is a long history of ranching on the pampas of South America, and the 'gaucho culture' still includes frequent steak consumption and wealthy individuals purchase traditional 'estancia' ranches. [4]


MAP ROUND: 

1) Percentage of the adult population which regularly smokes. [0]

2) Primary alphabet [1]

3) Countries shaded by their appearance in alphabetical order (Western, UN name). [0]

4) Percentage of the population self-identifying as Christian. [0]

5) Olympic host countries. Red=summer only, Blue=winter only, Green=both [0]

6) Population density. [4]


TIEBREAKER:

150 million unexploded landmines


Answer distribution:
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      8 1
      8 2
      8 3
      9 4
      8 5