Trash Quizbowl Packet Archive



The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla TrashPacket by Mike Bentley1. Historian John Capouya singles out the importance of the Marching 100 on this state's music. This state's homegrown equivalent to Motown was Willie Clark and Johnny Pearsall's Deep City Records, which released records from artists such as Helene Smith. A song about a dance popular among this state's teens first appeared on the B-Side to "Teardrops on Your Letter" by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters. An artist from this state had a 1972 hit with "Clean Up Woman" and was named Betty Wright. Rappers from this state peer from under the legs of four women in thongs on the cover of their controversial 1989 album (*) As Nasty As They Wanna Be. A dance that originated in this state was the subject of two separate hit songs by Chubby Checker about The Twist. 2 Live Crew is from this state, as is the MC behind the 2008 single "Low", Flo Rida. For 10 points, name this state home to Miami bass.ANSWER: Florida <Pop Music>2. The sports teams at a private all-boys high school located next to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle have this nickname. The most popular team with this nickname were once known as the Rovers or Ramblers for their frequent travel around the nation. One origin story of this nickname traces it to some Northwestern fans at an 1899 game. A tree of liberty planted by may have inspired one school to adopt this nickname for their sports teams. Under coach Henry Luhn in the early 20th century, the future (*) Bulldogs of Gonzaga were known by this nickname. One school may have adopted this nickname under the influence of President William Corby, who had previously served in a Union Civil War brigade with this nickname. A football team with this nickname most recently won a national championship under Lou Holtz. For 10 points, give this nickname of the sports teams at Notre Dame.ANSWER: Fighting Irish [prompt on Irish] <Football>3. The protagonist of this show once dressed in a fur bikini to fill the role of Princess Pam Pam. Erica Jong and Jennifer Weiner both had cameos playing themselves on this show. One of the funnier plotlines on this show is a social campaign that encourages women to post topless selfies using the hashtag #ShowUsYourOates to promote a new Joyce Carol Oates book. A guest star on this show wrote the successful book Goldman Sex and is played by Jane Krakowski. The (*) secret at the center of this show was preserved when a falling construction beam killed Thad. The tattoo artist Josh thinks he's a peer of the protagonist. One character on this show is in charge of a publishing imprint called Millennial; that character, Kelsey Peters, is played by Hilary Duff. For 10 points, name this TV Land show where Sutton Foster's middle-aged character pretends she's in her 20s.ANSWER: Younger <TV>4. The creative team behind this film sent back a broken-in-half tape of the trailer to express their dissatisfaction with Paramount. One character's line, "Get me the fuck out of this chair!" was originally going to be what its villain said when he was executed in a deleted scene. One song of this film was recorded by an uncredited James Hetfield; other songs include "Up There" and "Eyes of a Child." Robin Williams performed a song from this film at the Oscars, although the award went to one composed by (*) Phil Collins. Another deleted scene in this film had Conan O'Brien shooting himself after the scene where he jumps out of his studio window. The title of one song in this film was supposedly changed from referencing a mother to an uncle to keep it from getting an NC-17 rating. Mike Judge voices a character in this film who has removed his hood after killing Saddam Hussein. For 10 points, name this film starring Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman.ANSWER: South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut [accept the South Park movie] <Musicals>5. This thing was apparently created by Michael Girard to show off a software library called Kinetix. Millennium fans, assuming they exist, might remember an episode where a demonic version of this thing appears alongside Black Flag's song, "My War." A website that has the original version of this thing also features its star riding a motocross bike and holding a Blockbuster video. This thing was first created as a sample file for the Character Studio within 3D Studio Max. John Woodell created a gif of this thing in (*) 1996. Two years later, a CNN article quoted a Wired reporter explaining what a meme was in reference to this thing. This thing was accompanied by Blue Swede's version of "Hooked on a Feeling" and used as a symbol for Calista Flockhart's biological clock on early episodes of Ally McBeal. For 10 points, name this early viral animation of a certain diaper-wearing gyrator.ANSWER: dancing baby [or Baby Cha-Cha] <Internet Life>6. The earliest live video of a Bad Religion performance is a 1981 show at an LA club whose name ends with these two words. A cigarette girl-turned DJ named Patty Brockhurst was the first of a person identified by this adjective to perform at a club founded by Elmer Valentine inspired by a Paris disco. A band with this name were inspired by the Chipmunks to release the novelty song "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek." The listener will "see some people from your block / and don't be shocked / if you see your favorite star-a" at an establishment of this name in a hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Performers of this name at a (*) "Whiskey" club in LA were placed in glass booths and wore white patent-leather boots. Jane Wiedlin and Belina Carlisle were in a New Wave band of this name that recorded the hits "Head Over Heels" and "We Got the Beat." For 10 points, give these two words that name a type of '60s dancers wearing short skirts.ANSWER: Go Go [or The Go-Gos; accept Whiskey a Go-Go] <Fashion>?7. The leads in this film discuss starring in a gender-swapped version of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to illustrate they're not over the hill and imagine needing a fake ID to make it onto an under-55 white water rafting trip. The song "The Windmills of Your Mind" plays at the conclusion of this film. One character in this film is told that he has the chance to become the next Ricky Gervais while being wooed by the other lead's former agent. One character in this film gets annoyed that the other won't stop doing a Roger Moore (*) impersonation while he's trying to explain the highlights of Moorish culture. The protagonists of this film dress up for a photo shoot as Sancho Panza and Don Quixote. Like the previous films in the franchise, it involves stars Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan visiting a bunch of restaurants. For 10 points, name this sequel to The Trip to Italy.ANSWER: The Trip to Spain <Film>8. Historian Francesca Beauman credits a 17th century edition of A Collection for Improvement in Husbandry and Trade for including the first of these things. The British site is for these things. Two different Harveys, Harvey Glatman and Harvey Carignan, both were murderers nicknamed for their use of these things. Alfred Barrett, publisher of The Link, was prosecuted in 1921 for allowing words like (*) "artistic" and "unconventional" to appear in these things. Common acronyms used in these things included WLTM, LTR and ALA, the last of which stood for "all letters answered." The acronym DWF in these things meant "Divorced White Female." These things often appeared in newspapers near sections devoted to finding jobs. For 10 points, name these types of advertisements seeking mates.ANSWER: personal ads [or lonely hearts columns] <Advertising>9. USC instructor B. David Brooks dispelled several myths about these businesses in his study of them in the LA area, arguing that they were equivalent to a previous generation's ice cream parlors and largely drug free. A ban on these types of businesses in Mesquite, Texas was appealed to the Supreme Court. Bans of these types of businesses were given credence by a speech on addiction and violence by US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. One of these businesses was the subject of the 1982 case America's Best (*) Family Showplace v. City of New York. With support from the mayor of Ottumwa, Iowa, Walter Day opened one of these types of businesses that morphed into a record-keeping company. Early forms of these businesses might have bagatelles and mutoscopes. Nolan Bushnell paired this type of business with pizza and music-playing animals. In Akihabara, Sega runs a six-story business of this type. For 10 points, name these types of businesses that specialized in offering coin-ops such as Pac-Man.ANSWER: video arcades [or amusement arcades; or penny arcades] <Misc.>10. At parties, this man would wow guests by hiding in the cushions of his sofa. This "ultimate survivor" appeared topless in an Annie Leibovitz cover photo for a 1982 issue of the New York Times Magazine. James Park Sloan's 1996 biography of this man largely validated allegations that may have led to this man's suicide. A fictional version of this man has a relationship with a dominatrix named Anna Karenina and makes trips to Atlantic City with Svetlana Alliluyeva, aka Stalin's daughter. A man enjoys coloring and releasing the title creatures in one novel by this author. This man's life was novelized in a recent book by Jerome Charyn. His time as an orphan witnessing various horrors supposedly inspired his first novel, although an expose in The Village Voice revealed that he and his parents had spent the war disguised as Christians. For 10 points, name this Polish author of (*) Being There and the Holocaust novel The Painted Bird.ANSWER: Jerzy Kosinski [or Józef Lewinkopf] <Personalities>11. Although in his fifties, Mike Smith is still one of the top people in this profession based in Santa Anita, California. The asterisks placed on the uniforms of apprentices in this profession give rise to the term of "bug boys" for the apprentices. Some of the most talented people in this profession belong to a club named the NYRA, which operates a facility called Aqueduct. John Velazquez is a standout talent in this profession. Rising stars in this profession include the Puerto Rican brothers Jose and Irad Ortiz. Bug boys are given permission to not carry as much (*) lead weight as older journeymen in this profession. Tobey Maguire played Red Pollard, a man in this profession in a 2003 film partially shot on location at Saratoga Springs. For 10 points, name this occupation of people who race horses.ANSWER: jockeys [prompt on horse racing] <Other Sports>12. In 2006, one man sent a grammatically challenged letter declining to participate in this type of event where he called the institution that staged them, "Urine in wine." At one of these events, Steve Miller declared, "This little get-together you guys have here is like a private boys' club, and it's a bunch of jackasses and jerks and fucking gangsters and crooks who've stolen everything from a fucking artist." Joan Jett, Kim Gordon, Annie Clark, and Lorde joined Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl for a performance during one of these events. A Blu-Ray of these events includes Bruce Springsteen performing the relatively obscure track "E Street Shuffle". Some of these events celebrate (*) "early influencers". Ozzy Osbourne originally didn't want to attend one of these events because it was not decided upon by fans. Only about 7 percent of these events have honored female solo artists. For 10 points, name these annual events where musicians are recognized at a Cleveland institution.ANSWER: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony concerts [or Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concerts; or equivalents that mention the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame] <Pop Music>?13. A podcast about this activity features Jenelle Leat, Martha Williams and Alex Wheeler who all paid $10,000 to attend a nine week training session to get certified to teach it. Liz Winfield organized a Facebook campaign against the founder of this activity. The founder of this 90-minute activity claimed that he was given a Green Card after supposedly curing Richard Nixon of his phlebitis, thus preventing a leg amputation. That founder once brought his new wife, (*) Rajashree, onto an appearance on the Merv Griffin Show. This activity caught on after Loretta Swit and other Hollywood stars started doing it. Julia Lowrie Henderson hosted a podcast about this activity for a season of 30-for-30. In the 1984, Raquel Welch put out a Total Fitness program that was essentially a rip-off of this activity. For 10 points, name this type of hot yoga named for its founder, a noted sexual abuser.ANSWER: Bikram yoga [prompt on yoga; prompt on hot yoga] <Radio>14. Etcetera Edutainment released a training simulator for these things that promises to reduce the 94,000 injuries and fatalities attributed to them each year. The fourth boss of Shock Troopers is one of these things with a bunch of spikes attached to it. The door is too small to remove one of these things from Sprunk's in GTA V. One of these things is used to escape from the basement in the mission "Breaking the Bank at Caligula's" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The player gets a job operating one of these things while looking for the Mad Angels in a (*) Yu Suzuki game. Two "Extreme" games where you operate one of these things tasks you with not tipping over tall loads while you try to deliver pallets. One of these things has high acceleration but is the slowest vehicle in GTA IV. Ryo Hazuki operates one of these vehicles in the Shenmue games. For 10 points, name this type of vehicle used to raise goods at warehouses.ANSWER: fork-lift <Video Games>15. A point guard with this surname led his team to three recent championships for the New Zealand Breakers and hit a game-winner against Syracuse while at Cleveland State University in the 2009 NCAA Tournament. A player with this last name has played on-and-off for the Reno Bighorns after being drafted in the First Round and then immediately traded by the Trail Blazers in 2017. Along with Jamal Mashburn and Jason Kidd, one man with this last name formed part of the Triple J Ranch for the Mavericks. A fan named Bryant with this last name pleaded no contest to throwing a chair during an incident where (*) another man with this last name followed his teammate Ron Artest into the stands and punched William Paulson in the face. A basketball coach with this name wrote the book Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. For 10 points, give this last name of the man who coached Shaq and Kobe to a series of titles with the Lakers from 2000 until 2002.ANSWER: Jackson <Basketball>?16. This actor's political awakening came when playing Pozzo in a mixed-race tour of Waiting for Godot in Mississippi in the 1960s. He read most of the Pickwick Papers while on a hunger strike in an Orange County jail for having protested a power plant. He once used the New York apartment of his father, a blacklisted Hollywood director, to shelter Black Panter Elbert Howard. In July 2017, this actor was arrested for disrupting an Orca show while wearing a t-shirt reading "SeaWorld Sucks". He apparently went on an anti-fossil fuel rant while in character as a scientist in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. This six-foot-seven actor may have been cast in an Oscar-nominated role for his resemblance to the man in (*) Grant Wood's painting American Gothic. His ringtone is apparently himself saying "That'll do, pig". For 10 points, name this actor who earned an Oscar nomination for playing farmer Arthur Hoggett in Babe.ANSWER: James Cromwell [or James Oliver Cromwell] <Misc.>17. In the early '90s, Greg Lindahl edited an online fanzine for these types of games whose first issue contained reviews of Olympia, which supported about 120 players at a time. One wargame of this type let you play as the Pirate, Artifact Collector, Apostle, Berserker, Merchant or Empire Builder and relied on a central computer operated by Rick Loomis. The game Starweb is one of these types of games by the company Flying Buffalo. In the 1960s, John Boardman used his sci-fi fanzine Knowable to adapt the game Diplomacy to be this type of game. This tech is used to play leagues in Extra Time, a football management game. Tournaments that use this technology allow for up to (*) 30 days for reflection per every 10 moves. Cards recording the last received move are standard in a version of chess with this characteristic. For 10 points, correspondence chess is what type of game where you wait to receive a letter with your opponent's next move?ANSWER: play-by-mail [or play-by-email; accept correspondence chess before mentioned] <Game>?18. For an arts component of these events, the Seattle Opera sunk $2 million on a production of Prokofiev's War and Peace. The sponsor of these events lost $26 million on the first iteration and $44 million on the second. The Space Needle was painted gold for one of these events held in Washington State. The last of these events were scheduled for Phoenix in 2005 but was cancelled. A bridge in Brisbane is named for the 2001 iteration of these events. The first of these events began in Central Lenin Stadium and saw Ben Johnson beat (*) Carl Lewis in the 100 meters. These events were founded by media tycoon Ted Turner in response to the USSR boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics. For 10 points, name this rival to the Olympics, that, despite its name, does not seem to be associated with a charity whose eponymous thrift stores are good places to buy quizbowl prizes.ANSWER: Goodwill Games <Other Sports>?19. In 1998, he told Vanity Fair that having an Aeron chair was pretty much the same thing as owning a private jet. His most recent book was inspired by a visit from Charles van Over. Some of his celebrated photographs were exhibited at The Forum Shops at Las Vegas's Caesars Palace in 2017. His most recent project, co-written with Francisco Migoya, is 2,642 pages long. He used a scanning electron microscope from one of his companies to capture at 734X resolution a piece of "pure gluten". One of this projects is renowned for the photos taken by doing things such as sawing off part of a (*) pressure cooker. This man founded Intellectual Ventures, and was once the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft. For 10 points, name this man behind the massive tomes Modernist Bread and Modernist Cuisine.ANSWER: Nathan Myhrvold <Misc.>20. A comic artist with this surname created a six-issue series where a clone of a certain religious figure appears on reality TV titled Punk Rock Jesus. In 2017, Teri Gross interviewed two separate brothers with this surname; one wrote the memoir The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road. The other brother with this surname profiled Mort Walker and other comic strip artists in Fairfield County, Connecticut. In the same book, that man with this surname recounted being forced to model Prince Valiant characters for his father, John. A Governor of Michigan with this surname was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1940 and criticized the (*) "legalization of racism" in his dissent in Korematsu. A plural form of this name appears in the name of the band behind the 2005 album The Warrior's Code, which featured their sports anthem "I'm Shipping Up to Boston." For 10 points, give this surname that follows "Dropkick" in a Boston punk band.ANSWER: Murphy [or Murphys; accept Dropkick Murphys] <Comics>?21. Jonas Yerkes popularized this stuff in the U.S., using leftover ingredients from a canning operation. The Vol-Pak revolutionized the distribution of this food in the 1970s. Charles M. Berger came up with a 1960s ad campaign where one brand of this product "raced" against competitors. Walnuts, oysters and mushrooms were substituted for the soybeans used in the Chinese version of this food. The most prominent maker of this stuff debuted it at the Philadelphia Fair in 1872 and by 1891 it was being hailed as the (*) "sauce of sauces." A special narrow-necked octagonal bottle was patented in 1890 for storing it. The spelling of this food was finally standardized following a 1980s law that granted one of form of it "vegetable" status, thus dooming the sale of it as "cornchops". For 10 points, name this tomato-based condiment sold by Heinz's.ANSWER: tomato ketchup [or catsup; accept cornchops before mentioned] <Food and Drink>22. Dan Austin wrote a book on the "last great" man in this profession who entered it after suffering an injury working in the Oklahoma oil fields. "Uncle Hughie" Alexander served in this profession. One man in this profession, Grady Fuson, was unflatteringly played by Ken Medlock in a 2011 film directed by Bennett Miller. "El Tiburon", Howie Haak, was one of the first people in this profession to work in Latin America. In 2017, Amanda Hopkins became the first (*) woman hired in this profession since the 1960s; the first woman in this profession was Edith Houghton. Hopkins has this job for the Mariners. One man in this profession nicknamed the "King of Weeds" once happened upon Tim McCabe while attending a county fair in Farmington, Missouri. Jim Sandoval and Bill Nowlin edited a book about people in this profession titled Can He Play? For 10 points, name this profession that finds baseball prospects.ANSWER: baseball scout <Baseball> ................
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