Trash Quizbowl Packet Archive

 LoCO 2018Packet by The Helvetica ScenarioEdited by Bob De Caux and Theo Howe1. During a play in which this character portrays Little Red Riding Hood, she remonstrates with her father in the audience for taking photos, which was prohibited. This character teaches her cousin Alexander his first word, ‘puddle’, and has a French pen pal called Delphine, to whom she teaches the Bing Bong Song. A 2017 British Medical Journal article asked if the eponymous show in which this character appears encouraged inappropriate use of GPs, while another episode was banned in Australia after encouraging children to befriend spiders. A theme park based on this character opened in 2011 at Paultons Park in Hampshire. For 10 points, name this character who has friends such as Suzy Sheep and Zoe Zebra and is the eldest child of Mummy and Daddy Pig.ANSWER: Peppa Pig2. This team recently hired a coach known for his appreciation of the play ‘Spider 2 Y Banana’. The only punter to be inducted in the NFL Hall of Fame played his entire career for this team and is named Ray Guy, and Pro-Bowl Defensive End, Khalil Mack currently plays for this team. In 2002, this team lost the Tuck Rule game to the New England Patriots, while in 2017, Marshawn Lynch left the Seattle Seahawks to join this team, his hometown club. This team share their stadium, the Coliseum, with the MLB team Athletics. For 10 points, name this NFL team who play in black and silver in the East Bay area of California.ANSWER: Oakland Raiders [accept Los Angeles Raiders]3. One song with this title begins with the words “This week dragged past me so slowly, the days fell on their knees”. The video for another song with this title features vocalist Theo Hutchcraft and an Icelandic actress emerging from the sea; that song is by Hurts. A song with this title from Rihanna’s 2012 album Unapologetic has sold 10 million copies worldwide and features Mikky Ekko, while another song with this title by Sash! features La Trec, who “had a dream last night”. This word is followed by ‘I Missed You’ in parentheses to give the title of a song released in 1994 by Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories. For 10 points name this single-word title of the only No. 1 for Shakespears Sister.ANSWER: Stay4. In 2012, this person wrote The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit, the only authorised story in the Peter Rabbit series not by Beatrix Potter. In one film role, this actress’s character tells another character that she and her fiancé laugh at her impression of him pinching his nose when he puts pepper on his food. As a guest on The Graham Norton Show, this actress related how, whilst filming Primary Colors, she turned down a dinner invitation from Donald Trump. This person became the first to win Academy Awards for both acting and writing, for her role in Howards End and the script for Sense and Sensibility respectively. For 10 points, name this actress, married to Kenneth Branagh from 1989 until 1995, whose film roles have included Nanny McPhee and Elinor Dashwood.ANSWER: Emma Thompson5. One song from this musical was once performed on the Morecambe and Wise show with the BBC newsreaders of the time providing the chorus. This musical is based on a book of 19 short stories written by James Michener. In one song from this musical, one character describes another as “gayer than laughter” and “younger than springtime”. Act II of this musical opens on Thanksgiving, in which a woman dressed as a man sings Honey Bun to a man dressed as a woman. The former character is the nurse Nellie, who had earlier declared that she's “gonna wash that man right out of my hair”. For 10 points, name this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical which features Some Enchanted Evening and is set on the island of Bali Ha'i in the titular ocean.ANSWER: South Pacific6. The second book in Trudi Canavan’s The Traitor Spy trilogy has this title, as does a 2007 Australian horror film which was its director’s follow up to Wolf Creek. In 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, the character class with this name has archetypes that include Scout, Arcane Trickster and Thief. The seventh major instalment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, and sequel to Black Flag, has this single-word subtitle and is unusual in that the player character is a Templar. A member of the X-Men with this name has a real first name Marie in the film franchise, where this character is played by Anna Paquin. For 10 points name this word, which precedes ‘One’ in a 2016 Star Wars prequel starring Felicity Jones.ANSWER: Rogue7. A station on the London Underground line of this colour was opened as Gale Street Halt before adopting its current name. In Season 1 of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, Tommy Oliver is turned into a Power Ranger of this colour by Rita. On the Manchester Metrolink a tram line of this colour runs from Piccadilly to Bury, while on a TV gameshow based on a board game, a character with this surname was played by Richard Wilson, Christopher Biggins and Nicholas Parsons in different series. Associated with the triangle button on a PlayStation controller, for 10 points name this colour that also follows Parsons in the name of a station on the London Underground and is the surname of the Reverend in the board game Cluedo.ANSWER: Green8. In one episode of the programme in which this character appeared he was beaten up by two ‘yo-yos’, one of whom was a midget and the other of whom was a Sumo wrestler. In 2017, 45 men were removed from Comerica Park dressed as this character, who frequently wore a Detroit Tigers cap in the series in which he appeared. This character was friends with a Baron of Perth, Jonathan Higgins, while Robin Masters, who was voiced by Orson Welles, allows this character to live in his beach-house and drive a Ferrarri 308 GTS. For 10 points, name this private investigator on Oahu who was played by Tom Selleck on a 1980s TV show.ANSWER: Thomas Magnum IV9. Fatimid Sultan Al-Muzaffar Hajji was criticised for his love of this sport and responded to his critics by killing all of the participants one by one to show his lack of attachment. Traditionally, races in this sport were not ended until a ring was placed in a clock, and participants in this sport have frequently been trained in the widowhood system. This sport is governed by the FCI and was pioneered in Belgium, whose royal family helped introduced the British royal family to this sport. The length of races in this sport has increased since participants have been transported by train rather than horse. For ten points, name this racing sport whose participants live in dovecotes.ANSWER: Pigeon Racing10. One musical act from this nation released a 1969 album that earned a BBC ban for a track that simulated orgasm. The 1980 album Colossal Youth was recorded by a band from this nation and another act from this nation caused controversy on Top of the Pops when their lead singer wore an IRA-style balaclava. When performing before a World Cup qualifying game, a band from this nation dedicated one of their songs to David Beckham called Your Missus is a Nutter, while a single by another band from this nation had a picture of footballer Robin Friday gesticulating on the cover; that single was The Man Don't Give A Fuck. For 10 points name this home nation of Great Britain known for its singers such as Mary Hopkin, Shakin' Stevens and Tom Jones.ANSWER: Wales [prompt on United Kingdom and Great Britain until mentioned; do not prompt or accept any other constituent part of Great Britain]11. One instalment in this video game franchise was the most-played game of the week on Xbox Live on its launch and held that title consecutively for over two years, the longest streak for any game. The alternate reality game I Love Bees was used as viral marketing for that game in this franchise. During the Battle of Sunaion mission in another instalment of this franchise, Fireteam Osiris activate and board a titular Guardian. The Gravemind is a super-organism that is the final stage of the parasitic lifeform The Flood in this franchise, which also features an alliance of alien races called The Covenant. For 10 points, name this franchise which features the AI Cortana and Master Chief John-117 and is named after the ring-shaped space megastructures that feature prominently in the games.ANSWER: Halo12. The 1973 ‘high fashion, high camp’ collection of this fashion house drew particular attention with what its designer called a ‘surprise skirt’. This fashion house has a line aimed at a younger generation called See launched in 2001. Other collections of this fashion house have also included a dress named after Sergei Rachmaninoff and famous handbags of this fashion house include the Pixie, the Nile, and the iconic Paddington. The creative director of this fashion house is Natacha Ramsay-Levi, who in 2017 replaced Givenchy-bound Claire Waight Keller. Prior to launching her own fashion house, Stella McCartney also held that role in this fashion house. For 10 points, name this Parisian fashion house founded by Gaby Aghion in 1952 that shares its name with the first name of the actresses Moretz and Sevigny.ANSWER: Chloé13. This person’s TV show is parodied in a Deadpool 2 teaser where that character exclaims “Holy fuck-knuckles, I am high as a kite right now” and in October 2015, Twitch hosted a nine-day marathon of that show by this person. A board game called The Art of Chill revolves around emulating this person and in Season 3 of Epic Rap Battles of History, an episode pitted this person against ‘Pablo Picasso’ who accused him of “painting thirty thousand pictures of bushes and sticks”. This person would often smile and say he was “beating the Devil out of it” when cleaning his two-inch brush. For 10 points, name this fan of “happy little trees”, an American military veteran who became a television painter in the programme The Joy of Painting.ANSWER: Robert Ross14. A lighter in this film bears the symbol of the wendehorn. One character in this film is sick over a toilet and a poet tries to hide that man's wound on his ribs from his wife. A character in this film repeatedly asks people at a party not to sit on a sink because it hasn't been braced and adds a yellow powder to water which she drinks. At the end of the film, the action appears to loop back to before the fire and the film’s beginning. For 10 points, name this film directed by Darren Aronofsky in which Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem play a married couple in a rural house and appear to play characters who are an ecological and biblical allegory.ANSWER: mother![NOTE TO MODERATOR: SPECIFY SPELLING OF ‘GNOME’]15. At the end of one level set in one of these places, the player fights an anime schoolgirl who can only be shot when illuminated by streetlights. As well as the first part of 'Encounter' in Killer7, another level set in one of these places sees the player face off against the inflatable dinosaur Mr. Patch for the first time. In a level set in one of these places in Left 4 Dead 2, the player can acquire Gnome Chomsky whom they must carry around the course of 'The Screaming Oak' to the end of the level for an achievement. In a game in which players manage one of these places, the player must choose where best to place security guards, food kiosks, and ferris wheels to maximise profit and patron happiness. For 10 points name this type of leisure area which is the setting of games in the Rollercoaster Tycoon series.ANSWER: Theme parks (accept amusement park and other clear knowledge equivalents)16. A player from this country won the futsal Best Player in the World award in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The international rugby union side from this country qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 2007, losing all four of their Pool C matches. This nation's most recent Olympic gold medal was secured at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when the men's triple jump was won by Nelson ?vora. A football manager from this country once compared young players to “melons” and branded Arsène Wenger “a specialist in failure”. This country last hosted a Formula 1 Grand Prix in 1996, at the Autódromo do Estoril. For 10 points, name this country who, thanks to a goal by Eder, won the 2016 European Football Championship for the first time with a team that featured Cristiano Ronaldo.ANSWER: Portugal17. This singer’s big break came when she was noticed singing on the Drifter’s song Mexican Divorce by its composer. On the advice of an astrologer, this vocalist added an ‘e’ to the end of her surname, which she subsequently removed four years later, and this vocalist was also a presenter on the Psychic Friends Network. The Bee Gees mainly wrote this vocalist’s 1982 album Heartbreaker, and although Aretha Franklin’s version became more well-known, I Say A Little Prayer was first recorded by this five time Grammy award winner. For 10 points, name this cousin of Whitney Houston who recorded the Bacharach and David-penned hits Do You Know the Way to San Jose and Walk on By.ANSWER: Dionne Warwick18. A meeting at the Bold Street Working Men's Club led to the foundation of the modern incarnation of this football club, whose recent rise dates to the 2001 transfer of one of their former players from Blackpool to Southampton. Recent financial problems have led to Ilyas Khan saving this club, for whom Billy Kee is this season’s top scorer. This club have the smallest ground in the Football League, which is currently named the Wham Stadium, and were promoted to the Football League in 2006 replacing Oxford United, the team that had replaced their predecessors in 1962. For 10 points, name this club managed for 17 years by John Coleman and notable for a 1980s advert for milk which asked "Who are they? Exactly.”ANSWER: Accrington Stanley19. During one of these events, a person advocating secession for Cornwall protested with a sign saying “UK OUT OF CORNWALL NOW”, while in 1994, the man who organised Operation PUSH and the National Rainbow Coalition presented this event. Model and acid-attack victim Katie Piper was the first person to feature in this event twice and the first of these events was presented by Quentin Crisp. In 2008, this event was conducted in Persian for the first time, by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For 10 points, name this short broadcast, the most recent of which was presented by five child survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, on Channel 4 - in this instance not at the traditional time concurrent with the Queen's Christmas Message.ANSWER: Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message20. Goychay in Azerbaijan hosts an annual festival for these fruit, one of which formed the logo of the 2015 European Games. In a Sergei Parajanov film one of these fruit is cut into and its juice creates a stain in the shape of Armenia. That film is The Color of [these fruit]. Part of this fruit is dried to make the Indian sweet-sour spice anardana, and the seeds of this fruit provide the red of the Mexican tricolor in the Mexican dish chiles en nogada. A thrown explosive derives its name from the French word for this fruit. For 10 points, name this fruit which provides the traditional flavouring of the syrup grenadine and is formed of clusters of ruby droplets in a hard casing.ANSWER: Pomegranate21.On one song on this album, the vocalist sings “I know they buried her body with others, her sister and mother and 500 families”, and in another song on this album, they sing of how the same girl was “buried alive one evening, 1945”. Both of those songs are about Anne Frank, and this album opens with two songs named The King of Carrot Flowers parts 1 and 2. This album’s cover is an edited image of a European postcard with a tambourine placed over the face of a girl with her right hand in the air. Despite this album’s critical success, vocalist and songwriter Jeff Mangum became something of a recluse after its release. For 10 points name this 1998 album, the most acclaimed work of Neutral Milk Hotel.ANSWER: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea22. The Center for Digital Arts at the University of Southern California is named after this person, and one film directed by this person marks the only time characters from Disney and Warner Brothers appear together on screen. Being replaced by Ron Howard, this director was fired from Cocoon because of a negative preview of his previous film which turned out to be successful and features El Corazón, a large emerald. In one film by this director, the first all-digital capture film ever made, the character Hero Boy says "I've wanted to do that my whole life" which is a direct quotation of a character in another film by this director. For 10 points, name this director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump and the Back to the Future trilogy.ANSWER: Robert Zemeckis23. One boxer with this surname won gold at flyweight for Great Britain in the 1956 Olympics. Another boxer with this surname was undisputed World Welterweight Champion from 2003 to 2005 until he lost a rematch to Zab Judah; that boxer is the son of a man who is the only male to have held world titles in both boxing and wrestling, and who achieved one of the biggest upsets in boxing history by, in 1978, winning a split decision over Muhammed Ali. Another boxer with this name, one of the greatest light-heavyweight champions of all time, beat Larry Holmes in 1985 and suffered his only defeat to Mike Tyson. For 10 points, what surname is shared by Cory, Leon and Michael, nicknamed the “Jinx”?ANSWER: Spinks24. One of these type of programme features a character called Reginald Molehusband and another of these programmes featured the narration of the original voice of the Croydon Tramlink, Ray Brooks. In another one of these programmes, Rowan Atkinson addresses a stone, while another one from the 1990s showed hyenas breaking into a car. Kenny Everett provided warning growls in one of the most famous of these programmes, another of which titled Apaches became notorious for being extremely graphic and featuring children dying on a farm. John Hurt and Donald Pleasance famously narrated examples of these, warning of the dangers of AIDS, and lakes and ponds respectively. For 10 points, name this series of government-commissioned short films shown during television advertising breaks.ANSWER: Public Information Film ................
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