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 LoCO 2018Packet by ?Edited by Bob De Caux and Theo Howe1. A picture of this figure at the Australian Open went viral as he was stood in the “you know I had to do it to em” pose. This figure went on record to say that, when going on a family holiday, he flies first class while his children fly in economy. This figure described BTS member Jin's cooking as “overcooked egg with worms” and in a particularly entertaining video, he is unable to locate the lamb sauce. In another humorous appearance, this figure forces a food truck worker to refer to themselves as “an idiot sandwich”. This figure presents Hotel Hell and was notably unable to help Amy's Cafe and Bakery in one episode of his Kitchen Nightmares. For 10 points, name this profane Scottish chef and restaurateur..ANSWER: Gordon Ramsay2. In the introduction to the fourth season of Mabel, Mabel Martin is described as “the girl half” this adjective, and in the climax of The Stars My Destination, Gully Foyle becomes a figure described by this adjective thanks to a collapsing church and the effects of PyrE [pie·REE]. An event named for a figure with this attribute is run according to ten principles, including radical inclusion, communal effort, and leaving no trace, and takes place in Black Rock City. Superheroes with this attribute include the android Jim Hammond, Frankie Raye, and Johnny Storm, and the skulls of every incarnation of Ghost Rider have this attribute. For 10 points, name this attribute, possessed by the Human Torch.ANSWER: Burning [accept Burning Man, accept clear-knowledge equivalents such as on fire]3. In The Witcher 3, the quest ‘Contract: The Phantom of Eldberg’ takes place in one of these structures, which is haunted by a Penitent. In Life is Strange, Max and Chloe’s first kiss can happen below one of these structures, which is destroyed by a fishing boat in an earlier nightmare sequence, while in the first episode of Alan Wake, Alan is compelled to go to one of these buildings in another nightmare sequence. In Destiny 2, Brother Vance can be found in an eponymous building of this type, while in the Sea of Doors in another game, Elizabeth comments that there is always one of these buildings, along with “a man” and “a city”. For 10 points, name these buildings, which are used to access the cities of Columbia and Rapture in the Bioshock games.ANSWER: Lighthouses4. In one role this man signed a number of flops such as Laurent Charvet and Andreas Andersson, while in another he succeeded Don Mackay and was succeeded by Tony Parks. This footballer scored seven minutes into his English league debut against Middlesbrough, having been signed to replace a player who had transferred to Germany. This man, who performed on the 2012 Christmas Number 1 cover of He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, scored the winner as his club retained the European Cup in 1978. As well as being his country’s most capped player, this man won three European Cups and six first division titles whilst playing for Liverpool, a club he later managed on two separate occasions. For 10 points, name this Scottish striker nicknamed “King Kenny”.ANSWER: Kenny Dalglish5. After the Iraq War, this band changed the lyrics of one of their early singles to “Bush’s hands are turning red... And I found out your baby is dead.” That song, The Big Three Killed My Baby appears on their self-titled debut album. In another song, this band’s singer remarks that “I must be fine because my heart’s still beating”; that song was later covered by Joss Stone. The heavily down-tuned guitar riff from this band’s most famous song was widely adopted on football terraces and found fame in 2017 when being sung about a popular political figure. For 10 points, name this American Rock duo famous for their use of De Stijl aesthetic and songs such as Fell In Love With A Girl, Icky Thump and Seven Nation Army.ANSWER: The White Stripes6. One character with this occupation is known as K’ez’rek d’b’duz [kez·rek·dub·duz] and was found in her bed wearing a sign reading ‘I IS PROBLY DEAD’. In one book, these people are described as having blue spit and no toes, and develop a poison known as ‘Formula 86’, which is demonstrated on Bruno Jenkins before poisoning many of these characters in an order of cress soup. One character of this type says “bored now” several times before killing people, and her girlfriend Tara Maclay leaves her after a memory-erasing spell goes wrong. In a show based on a character of this type, the wiggling of Samantha Stephens’ nose was actually a camera trick. For 10 points, name these female magic users such as Granny Weatherwax, Willow Rosenberg, and the teenage Sabrina.ANSWER: Witches [prompt on ‘magic users’ or similar, we need the exact word]7. A current Premier League footballer with this first name was known as “Chunks” in his school days and scored his first goal for his current club in October 2017, the winner in a 2-1 Premier League victory against Arsenal after Troy Deeney had equalised. A golfer with this first name won the Open Championship in the same year as Tiger Wood’s last major appearance as an amateur, while in a 2011 Comic Relief sketch, one person with this first name was asked “do you ever wear any clothes?” by Dermot O’Leary. Another man with this name is the only player to win five Superbowls playing for the same team. For 10 points, give this first name shared by golfer Lehman, Watford midfielder Cleverley and diver Daley.ANSWER: Tom [accept Thomas]8. A song from the point of view of an object shaped like one of these animals claims “My story’s infinite, like the Longines Symphonette”, while an Iron & Wine song partially titled for one of these animals along with ‘American Mouth’ plays over the prom scene in Twilight. The second album from Antony and the Johnsons is titled I Am [one of these animals] Now, while a 2001 song partially titled for one of these animals claims “I don’t know where my soul is, I don’t know where my home is”. For 10 points, name these animals which They Might Be Giants asked you to make a house for in your soul and Nelly Furtado claimed to be like in her first single.ANSWER: Birds [prompt on nightlight until “Iron & Wine”, accept Flightless Bird, American Mouth, Birdhouse in Your Soul, or I’m Like a Bird]9. A section of this work was performed by Mathilda Gregory at the 2016 Brighton Fringe Festival. In a different part of this work, the protagonist travels back in time to interact with a character known variously as Tom Anderson, Tom Bombadil, and Stan. Earlier, the protagonist of this story runs into the Forbidden Forest after discovering her boyfriend’s previous relationship with another male student. They later reconcile and, in a notable scene of this story, attend a My Chemical Romance concert in Hogsmeade that is crashed by Lord Voldemort and some Death Eaters. For 10 points, “my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair” begins what iconic Harry Potter fanfiction?ANSWER: My Immortal10. This tennis player’s brother was a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. This player said “Let’s forget knees, ankles toes, everything else. She just played beautiful tennis” after her first Grand Slam loss to Chris Evert in 1977. This player was the first female athlete to make over $100,000 in prize money and restrictions by the US Lawn Tennis Association led to this player founding the Women’s Tennis Association and also the Women’s Sports Foundation. This Time magazine Person of the Year in 1975 won every Grand Slam doubles title except the Australian Open and has twelve Grand Slam singles titles, including six at Wimbledon. For 10 points, name this American former women’s world number one and victor of the 1973 ‘Battle of the Sexes’. ANSWER: Billie Jean King [also accept Billie Jean Moffitt]11. In one scene in this game, one character chases Miroslav Korda through a supermarket to a meat locker. In another scene in this game, a character must wipe all their fingerprints from a typewriter shop lest they be caught by the police. In one scene in this game, the player can press X to shout 'JASON' while walking through a mall. In this game, Norman Jaden bleeds from his eyes if he wears his glasses for too long, and Madison Paige discovers that John Sheppard's drowning turned Scott Shelby into a killer. In this game, the player must choose whether to crawl through glass, kill a man, and cut off a finger when playing as Ethan Mars. For 10 points, name this game by Quantic Dream about the hunt for the Origami Killer. ANSWER: Heavy Rain12. In her autobiography, this woman recalled: “we never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls’ talk.” In 1963, copies of one of this musician’s singles were smashed by a Carolina radio station and mailed to her record label. That song, Mississippi Goddamn, was written in response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In one song this woman sings “even Liberace’s smile is something he can’t see”, while in another she notes that “birds flyin’ high, you know how I feel.” For 10 points, name this musician and civil rights activist who recorded My Baby Just Cares For Me and Feeling Good.ANSWER: Nina Simone [accept Eunice Kathleen Waymon]13. In one episode of this series, a character is temporarily deafened by listening to a golden record, represented by Segal’s Misplaced Abortion. Another episode in this series sees a boy reject his stalker’s kiss during a production of Osama: the Musical; that character helped his friend relearn how to swim after being hit by a bus in a series finale. Two characters in this series were featured as No. 1 and 2 in ’s Top 50 characters of 2010; they were Naomi and Emily, who feature in the ‘second generation’ alongside Cook and Effy. For 10 points, name this Channel 4 TV drama starring, Dakota Blue Richards and Nicholas Hoult, that depicts the lives of multiple sets of Bristol teenagers.ANSWER: Skins14. In one incident, this actress locked herself in the bathroom of Gian Carlo Menotti’s estate after being chased by Jane Bowles, who insisted she had to play the character of Inès in Sartre’s No Exit due to her sexuality. This actress turned down the lead in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? to appear instead in Fanatic, which she later described as “a piece of shit”. This actress’s final TV appearance was as Black Widow in Batman, and her most successful film appearance was her portrayal of journalist Connie Porter, who loses her camera off the side of the title object after filming a battle between two ships. For 10 points, name this “ambisextrous” actress of stage and screen who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat and for whom the character Blanche DuBois was written.ANSWER: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead15. The oldest tournament still running in this sport is the Beighton cup, while the World Cup in this sport was created by the Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Corp of the Pakistani Army. This sport, in which you can perform a tomahawk shot, has recent leading players including Jamie Dwyer and Luciano Aymar, while the greatest player of all-time is commonly acknowledged to be Major Dhyan Chand. One famous piece of commentary related to this sport is “Where were the Germans? And frankly, who cares”, which came from Seoul in 1988, while Great Britain also won a gold medal in this sport at Rio 2016 with a team featuring Sam Quek and the married couple Helen and Kate Richardson-Walsh. For 10 points, name this 11-a-side sport featuring a ball and sticks. ANSWER: Hockey [accept field hockey]16. One song performed by this singer references Aylesbury market square in its first line, and predicts the end of the world in an eponymous time, while another song describes this singer as “the nazz” and “a leper messiah”. Mick Rock was the only photographer authorised to record this singer’s career and a 2002 book illustrated with his pictures was titled Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of this singer. This singer was inspired by Vince Taylor claiming to be a cross between a god and an alien, and he was torn apart by ‘infinite’ aliens on stage at the end of his eponymous album. For 10 points, name this androgynous singer, backed by the Spiders from Mars on an eponymous David Bowie album.ANSWER: Ziggy Stardust [prompt on partial answer, prompt on David Bowie until said]17. A malicious one of these beings transforms a handsome gay scientist into a feral simian and another man into a faceless blob in a short story by Harlan Ellison. Another of these beings refers to itself “experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall” and is one of a number of these beings that safeguard the egalitarian Culture. An old one of these beings convinces Hari Seldon to develop ‘psychohistory’ in Asimov’s Foundation series and a female-presenting one of these beings hunts the player in the System Shock series. One of these beings, when asked for the meaning of everything, gives the answer ‘42’ and a murderous one is depicted by a red dot in a camera lens. For 10 points, give these sentient synthetic beings that include SHODAN, Deep Thought and HAL 9000.ANSWER: Artificial Intelligences [also accept AIs or anything suggesting sentient computers. Prompt on robot]18. Ethan Tremblay keeps his father's ashes in a container meant for this substance in the film Due Date. Boris spits out an allegedly high quality version of this substance before telling the film director Adam 'this is the girl' in Mulholland Drive. In a film partially named for this substance, Jack White shows off the Tesla coil he has built. Hudson Hawk spends the entirety of his titular film trying to obtain this substance and Jules claims he would be happy with “the freeze dried shit” before praising Jimmie's ability to prepare this substance in Pulp Fiction. Holly Golightly can be seen drinking this substance over the credits of Breakfast at Tiffany's. For 10 points, name this caffeinated beverage.ANSWER: coffee (accept any individual types such as espresso or latte)19. One song that uses this instrument for its main melody line is Bullit by Waterm?t, while Florian Schneider used this instrument with electronic effects while part of Kraftwerk, including on the track Ruckzuck. One band had to pay substantial damages after a section of a 1983 UK number one featuring this instrument was found to be based on the song Kookaburra. Peter Gabriel played this instrument while he was in Genesis, while it was also used for the solo in the middle of California Dreamin’. Another solo on this instrument in One Night in Bangkok uses a difficult flutter tongue technique, similar to that used by Ian Anderson on many Jethro Tull songs. For 10 points, name this instrument played by James Galway.ANSWER: Flute20. One TV character of this name agrees that elephants are orange to appease his superior and wears a pair of golden appendages to a drinking party. Another character with this name, whose unusual verbal tic could have arisen from their ancestor’s tryst with Flossie the sheep, fines a defence counsel ?50 for “turning up”, considers the University of Oxford to be a “complete dump” and “wouldn’t lick a German if he was glazed in honey”. For 10 points, give this shared surname of the fictional Lord Chamberlain to ‘Queenie’ Elizabeth I and a [“BAAH!”] bloodthirsty World War I general, both played by Stephen Fry in the Blackadder series.ANSWER: Lord/General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett [accept Melchie]21. The same sprite is used in this video game to represent a preserved cadaver and the hiding place of two assassins. Narrators of this game’s cutscenes include Guy de Josselyne and a character who betrays the player twice – the latter time to the Lombard League. Players can research ‘careening’ in this game while the cheat code ‘how do you turn this on’ allowed the control of a bullet-shooting roadster. Another historical inaccuracy in this game, depicted in the mission ‘The Lion and the Demon’, is Saladin’s apparent victory over Richard I and other crusaders at the 1189 Siege of Acre. The Woad Raider and Chu Ko Nu are unique units for the Celt and Chinese civilizations in, for 10 points, what 1999 real-time strategy game?ANSWER: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings [prompt on Age of Empires or the Conquerors]22. This man became Honorary Patron of the British Crown Green Bowling Association in 2011 and can be seen in the betting ring with Gary Wiltshire as part of the BBC’s horse racing coverage. This player won the snooker European Open in the first two years of its existence and once more in 1996, but in 1989 was on the losing end of the most one-sided World Championship final, when he was beaten 18-3 by Steve Davis. This man failed to reach the semi-finals of any World Championship after his victory over Jimmy White in the final in 1991. For 10 points, name this former professional snooker player and team captain on BBC’s A Question of Sport from 1996 to 2002 alongside Ally McCoist.ANSWER: John Parrott 23.In one episode of this series, the eponymous character is proclaimed “Your Watermelojesty”, and the first episode of this series’ third season opens with a dialogue-free sequence in a society of sentient watermelons. One second-season episode of this series was adapted as the children’s book The Answer, depicting the start of Ruby and Sapphire’s relationship. One major character in this series leads another in mindfulness meditation in the song Here Comes A Thought, and describes herself as “made of love” in the song Stronger Than You. For 10 points, name this Cartoon Network series, whose eponymous half-human protagonist protects the world from extra-terrestrial threats as part of the Crystal Gems along with Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl.ANSWER: Steven Universe24. A member of this band was attacked on Twitter after being mistaken for a convicted paedophile that shared his name. Recently, this band performed a reunion gig at G-A-Y in London, subsequently releasing their fifth album Tears on the Dancefloor with lead single Scared of the Dark. This group had a run of 14 UK Top 10 singles that ended with Words Are Not Enough, and in one of this group’s music videos, Pete Waterman appears as a DJ after the weddings of the three female members are disrupted. Famous for their cheesy pop music and synchronised dance routines, for 10 points name this five-person British pop group, best known for their performances of Chain Reaction, 5,6,7,8 and Tragedy.ANSWER: Steps ................
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