Trash.quizbowlpackets.com



MO VANITY TRASH: You’ll Never EVERRRR Be the Same Again!

Packet Three

Questions by Roger Kaputnik

Tossups

1. Team and position needed. It doesn’t involve Seattle, but one man to play this position was photographed jokingly kissing coach Monty Basgall. That man played Coach Duke Temple in the Major League movies and was Chuck Yeager’s nephew. Another man to hold this post was infamously attacked with a bat by Juan Marichal during a tense 1965 game. A multiple time MVP award winner to play this position wrote the autobiography It’s Good to Be Alive after becoming crippled in a 1958 car accident. The men who have played this position for the most games include Johnny Roseboro and current Angels manager Mike Scioscia. One man won the 1993 Rookie of the Year playing this position and was drafted in the 62nd round as a favor for Tommy Lasorda. For 10 points, name this position, the first in the major leagues held by Russell Martin and Mike Piazza, whose occupants called pitches for men like Sandy Koufax.

ANSWER: Catcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers [accept Dodgers catcher, accept Brooklyn Dodgers catcher, prompt on Los Angeles catcher]

2. A Mad magazine parody of this show featured a character saying “vootie” and thrusting his right palm forward, a parody of a man’s catch phrase, “peace.” One theme song for this show resulted in a lawsuit for its similarity to the Godspell song “Day by Day.” This show’s current theme is “Scherzo for [this show],” which was composed by John Williams. Its first host, Dave Garroway, worked with a puckish chimpanzee named J. Fred Muggs. In 1989, one personality on this show wrote a memo complaining it was being held hostage to one man’s “assortment of whims, wishes, birthdays, and bad taste,” referring to Willard Scott. The recent promotion of Savannah Guthrie over the departed Ann Curry has upset some fans of this show, which has a fourth hour co-hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford. For 10 points, name this morning show co-hosted by Matt Lauer, which airs on NBC.

ANSWER: Today [accept The Today Show]

3. According to one story, this man failed to remove his hat as a papal procession passed in Rome, resulting in a Swiss Guardsman knocking his hat off. The 1836 candidate of the Nativist Party for mayor of New York, this man denounced “popery” in his text Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States. After painting the Dying Hercules, this man ended his art career after receiving a letter that his wife was ill and arriving after she was already buried. His new venture featured him trying to improve the methods of William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. In 1844, while in the Capitol building, he sent the phrase “What hath God wrought” to Baltimore. For 10 points, name this American who received a 1847 patent for a single-wire telegraph system and who is the namesake of a code featuring dots and dashes.

ANSWER: Samuel Finley Breese Morse

4. In one of this company’s commercials, a daughter discovers “fear toxin” in her room as a family tries to adjust living in Gotham City. Michigan residents are sure to remember an ad featuring Joel Zumaya, who was billed as the “league’s fastest pitcher.” It ran an ad in which Jane Lynch is given her “limo cat” as she is chauffeured, and another in which parents can’t agree on the name “Stanley” or “Bill Jr.” In one of this company’s ads, a man is informed by his tattoo artist, “Sorry, Roger, you tiger now!” It currently runs ads in which Brian Urlacher says he’s here to defend you from one of its rivals as he slaps some football player fairies to death. This company’s characters included the beloved-by-Ryan-Westbrook turtle couple, the Slowskys. For 10 points, name this much-maligned largest cable operator in the United States.

ANSWER: Comcast Corporation [accept Xfinity]

5. This city was home to the high school of Vance Packard, the author of The Hidden Persuaders, while it was the home of popular bandleader and blender innovator Fred Waring. Wikipedia claims that in the 1950’s Milton Eisenhower, the president of the most notable institution here tried to get this city to change its name to reflect that institution. The company AccuWeather is based here, and its minor league baseball team uses the symbol of a young white-tailed deer and used to be the New Jersey Cardinals. While her newspaper was not based in this city, reporter Sarah Ganim won the 2012 Pulitzer for Local Reporting for her work in this city. A high school from here held a 37-game winning streak at the PACE NSC, a tournament they won in four straight years from 1998 to 2001. This city is home to Beaver Stadium and the Nittany Lion Shrine. For 10 points, name this city where Penn State University is located.

ANSWER: State College [prompt on Happy Valley]

6. In one film, this is the sport associated with Mickey Gordon, a character who marries an American Airlines employee that helps him find a missing casket containing his father. In another movie, a man who plays this sport recorded the hit song “Love Me Sexy.” This is the sport primarily seen in the movies Forget Paris and The Fish Who Saved Pittsburgh. In another film, a villain who runs the amusement park Moron Mountain commands his minions to play it. One character who plays this sport, Billy Hoyle, has a Rosie Perez played girlfriend whose goal in life is to be on Jeopardy! The subject of the Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro, it is played by the alien “Monstars” in one movie as they challenge the Looney Tunes. For 10 points, name this sport which is played in the film Space Jam by Michael Jordan and is not baseball.

ANSWER: basketball

7. The PlayStation game Herc’s Adventure was made by the same company and used the same basic format as this game, while a sequel took place in such locations as ancient Japan and Hell itself. After completing levels, you can earn a “massive destruction” bonus, usually in levels featuring hedge mazes. The head villain in this game is Doctor Tongue. The protagonists are Zeke and Julie, who can set up clown dolls in order to distract bad guys. Levels in this game include one called “Titanic toddler.” The traditional weapon in this game is a squirt gun, although the player can also use soda cans and a weed cutter. Villains include chainsaw wielding killers in hockey masks. For 10 points, name this video game in which the player must rescue people in a suburban community from various monsters, including the title walking dead.

ANSWER: Zombies Ate My Neighbors [accept Zombies]

8. One man killed during this event told observer Charles Rosendahl that it must have been “an infernal machine.” One fanciful theory about this event blames it on the contortionist Joseph Spah, who made several illegal trips ostensibly to feed his dog. Despite originally offering more nefarious theories, veteran Hugo Eckener came to endorse the “static spark” theory of explanation. While the “lightning” hypothesis was also proposed to explain it, one conspiracy theory blames this event on a rigger named Eric Spehl, who perhaps was seeking a way to strike back against the Hitler regime. It was famously observed by Chicago radio reporter Herbert Morrison. Taking place at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, this event was described with the phrase “Oh, the humanity!” For 10 points, name this 1937 disaster in which the namesake German zeppelin caught fire.

ANSWER: the Hindenburg disaster

9. A character with this last name seems to stutter as he says the line “you couldn’t catch me if I stole your chair with you in it.” That man with this surname watches his female companion brutally kill a guard as the song “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” plays. Another character with this surname misidentifies John Wayne as the star of High Noon and kills the coke-sniffing Harry Ellis. One man with this last name uses dump trucks to steal gold bullion from the Federal Reserve Bank and demands a cop wear a sandwich board with a racist slogan in Harlem. That villain, Simon, is played by Jeremy Irons and is the brother of the first man we meet with this surname. One man with this surname falls to his death from the Nakatomi Plaza building during a faked terrorist plot that actually involves theft. For 10 points, name this surname of criminal Hans who battled John McClane in Die Hard.

ANSWER: Gruber

10. This actor played a character who is killed by a WASP injection knife wielded by the loony Dr. Audrey Shelton. In the 2008 TV movie version of A Raisin in the Sun, he played Clybourne Park Improvement Association representative Karl Lindner. This actor played a gay wedding planner who goes on strike in the TV-movie Wedding Wars and a “reproductive abuser” who has many children on the terrible SVU episode “Bang.” One of his characters leads such groups as the “Rippers” and “Hot Daddy and the Monkey Puppets.” His best known television character changed his last name to “Katsopolis” to highlight his Greek heritage and was married to the Lori Loughlin played anchorwoman Rebecca Donaldson. On that show, this man played a musician who moves in with his brother-in-law Danny. For 10 points, name this actor still best known for playing “Uncle Jesse” on Full House.

ANSWER: John Phillip Stamos

11. At one party convention, this man’s presidential hopes were thwarted when future Postmaster general Arthur Summerfield backed his opponent. That last major campaign was managed by the father of Warren Buffett and featured him losing delegates in the “Fair Play” proposal, although during the “Surrender at Morningside Heights,” he reached an understanding with the eventual nominee. This man was the most recent of the senators profiled in John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, which honored his criticism of the Nuremberg Trials. He became Senate Majority Leader shortly after his opponent for the 1952 Republican nomination, Dwight Eisenhower, took office. As a senator, he co-names a 1947 bill which severely amended the Wagner Act. For 10 points, name this longtime Ohio Senator, the son of a former President who co-names an anti-union law with Fred Hartley.

ANSWER: Robert Alphonso Taft

12. In an episode of The Simpsons, Bart trades a baseball card of this man with the head cut out for Milhouse’s Carl Yastrzemski card. In 2001, he asked Seattle reliever Arthur Rhodes to remove his earrings during a game, resulting in a confrontation. This man’s autobiography is titled his first name with an exclamation point and included a cutting reference to a former teammate as having “completely empty” eyes during a World Series Game Seven. That book resulted in him having a feud with closer Jose Mesa. This man got his 2,877th hit in his final at-bat of 2012 and probably his career, as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. From 1991 to 2001, he formed a formidable double play combo with teammate Roberto Alomar. For 10 points, name this all time leader in games played at shortstop, best known for his Gold Glove winning days with the Cleveland Indians.

ANSWER: Omar Enrique Vizquel (Gonzalez)

13. At one point in this episode, a montage of scenes includes one where a character praises the quality of twenty minute beans and then goes on to say “I’m sorry I’m not Brad. I’m me!” It begins with a character upset at birthday celebrations for two employees named Walter. Near the end of this episode, a character tries to console her boss by singing “Get well, get well soon, we hope you will get well.” The most famous plot involves a character hiring Shlomo and Slippery Pete to move an object from Mario’s Pizza Parlor. Subplots in this episode include one character being afraid of a serial killer called the Lopper and a woman eating a piece of cake from Edward VIII’s wedding owned by her boss, J. Peterman. This episode ends with a truck smashing the title game as a character desperately tries to push it across the street. For 10 points, name this Seinfeld episode in which George is obsessed with acquiring the title early arcade game.

ANSWER: “The Frogger”

14. In one key scene in this story, a character says that his name is Armand and that he had never been to China before, infuriating the title character. That title character was disfigured when his head was placed in a carpenter’s vise by Chinese bandits. This story ends with the narrator exiting a bus and noticing a piece of red tissue paper. In one scene, the narrator, who admires the law student John Gedsudski, pronounces a girl fielding with a catcher’s mitt as a “horrible sight.” The title character owns a wolf named Black Wing and is served by a dwarf named Omba and a Mongolian named Hong. That character’s nemesis is the “internationally famous” detective, Dufarge. At the end of this story, the title character is killed off after the Chief ends his relationship with Mary Hudson. For 10 points, name this J.D. Salinger story in which the “Chief” of the Comanche Club tells fanciful stories about the title character.

ANSWER: “The Laughing Man”

15. An early member of this organization to die was William Craig, who was killed by a trolley car accident in 1902. It initiated 1990’s Operation Sundevil and was sued shortly after by the company Steve Jackson Games. Notable leaders of this organization included James J. Rowley, who led it during almost all of the 1960’s, and its current one, Mark J. Sullivan. A famous piece of film footage shows a member of this organization, Clint Hill, desperately running towards a car in front of him. One member of this organization, Timothy McCarthy, was wounded in 1981, while Leslie Coffelt was killed in 1950 by a Puerto Rican nationalist at Blair House. Until March 2003, it was a part of the Treasury Department and nine of its members resigned after a prostitute laden scandal at the Summit of the Americas. For 10 points, name this agency whose members protect the President.

ANSWER: United States Secret Service [accept White House Police Force]

16. This man bought a Missouri restaurant called The Southern Air and was sued by women who claimed he put a video camera in the ladies’ restroom. His sixtieth birthday was the subject of the Taylor Hackford documentary Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n Roll. The speaker in one of this man’s songs sadly notes “I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt” while riding around in his automobile with his girl. He had a hit with a double entendre filmed song about a boy acquiring “two silver bells on a string.” While he originated “No Particular Place to Go,” this man’s most famous song tells of a country boy “who never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.” His only #1 song was “My Ding-a-Ling,” although he originated such hits as “Roll Over, Beethoven.” For 10 points, name this singer of “Johnny B. Goode.”

ANSWER: Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry

17. This character borrows a parrot named “Chopper,” who says such phrases as “Rattle my bones!” One relative of this character inadvertently uses blonde hair dye belonging to his wife instead of his special hair tonic. She and her friend Lavender are told stories by Hortensia, and she witnesses the punishment of Bruce Bogtrotter. This character uses a piece of chalk to pose as the spirit of Magnus and return a cottage to its rightful owner. She is encouraged by Mrs. Phelps to obtain a library card, and is horrified when her copy of The Red Pony is destroyed. Her father is a corrupt car salesman who ultimately flees town to avoid the cops. This character goes to live with her teacher, Miss Honey, after she uses her abilities to thwart Miss Honey’s aunt, Miss Trunchbull. For 10 points, name this girl with telekinetic powers, the title character of a Roald Dahl book.

ANSWER: Matilda Wormwood [accept either]

18. An early character who appears to die in this film, Apone, has a speech about how “every meal’s a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune!” During one confrontation scene, a character makes the pointed reference, “You don’t see them fucking each over for a goddamn percentage.” This film ends on a location called the Sulaco. In one scene, Vasquez notes “you always were an asshole, Gorman,” as the two sacrifice themselves. Characters in this movie include the Bill Paxton played Private Hudson, who babbles “Game over, man! Game’s over!”, as well as the shifty Paul Reiser played Burke, who works for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Near the end, the chief antagonist tears the android Bishop in half. This James Cameron film ends with the protagonist shouting “get away from her, you bitch!” as she rescues the girl Newt from the enemy queen. For 10 points, name this second film featuring Sigourney Weaver as Ripley.

ANSWER: Aliens

19. One letter written during this battle noted “I am writing it in a hurry. I see death coming.” General Melvin Zais defended his orders during it by saying he was instructed “to destroy enemy forces.” Documented by reporter Jay Sharbutt, this battle was denounced by a politician who said “American boys are too valuable to be sacrificed for a false sense of military pride.” This battle resulted in Creighton Abrams instructing field commanders to avoid further direct assaults. Fought during Operation Apache Snow, images of it were published a week later in Life magazine with the subtitle “A Week’s Toll.” The name of this battle references a similarly named battle from an earlier war named “Pork Chop.” For 10 points, name this battle fought for ten days in May of 1969 which became a symbol of the futility of the Vietnam War.

ANSWER: Battle of Hamburger Hill

20. In one WrestleMania match, this man fought Rick Martel with both men blindfolded after Martel sprayed cologne in this man’s eyes. He was apparently legitimately injured by a guitar shot from the Honky Tonk Man during an interview segment, which prevented him from winning the Intercontinental title. This wrestler fought Rick Rude, who wore an image of his man’s wife, Cheryl, on his trunks. This man was responsible for causing Andre the Giant to have a heart attack and while using a Bible preaching gimmick, he was the initial subject of Steve Austin’s “Austin 3:16” reference. He was upset at his depiction as a crack cocaine addict in the documentary Beyond the Mat. Claiming to have invented the DDT move, this man’s primary gimmick involved a pet named Damian. For 10 points, name this wrestler best known for his gimmick of using his pet python in the ring.

ANSWER: Jake “The Snake” Roberts [accept Jake the Snake, accept Aurelian Smith Jr.]

Bonuses

1. The music video for this song features the singer hitchhiking in the desert. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this song from the 1997 album Come on Over. The singer says the song’s title after saying such phrases as “Okay, so you’re a rocket scientist” and “Okay, so you’re Brad Pitt,” before asking, “so you got the brains but have you got the touch?”

ANSWER: “That Don’t Impress Me Much”

[10] “That Don’t Impress Me Much” was a song for this Canadian “Queen of Country Pop,” whose other songs include “You’re Still the One” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”

ANSWER: Shania Twain [accept Eileen Regina Edwards]

[10] Twain’s ex-husband is “Mutt” Lange, who produced a hit song for this band. This band’s best known song was written about a school shooting and was titled “I Don’t Like Mondays.”

ANSWER: The Boomtown Rats

2. This character is married to a woman named Joan, played by Lauren Graham. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this character, who is originally a television news reporter in Buffalo before being elected to Congress in another movie. In that movie, this character constructs a ship which withstands a flood caused due to a faulty dam.

ANSWER: Evan Baxter [accept either]

[10] Evan Baxter appeared in Bruce and Evan Almighty and was played by this actor, who also enjoyed a long run as Michael Scott on the American version of The Office.

ANSWER: Steven John Carell

[10] This actress appeared in both films as Buffalo anchorwoman Susan Ortega. Currently starring on Army Wives, she starred on another show as Sarah MacKenzie, the partner of “Harm” Rabb.

ANSWER: Catherine Bell

3. The defendant in this case was described as “an obnoxious young transplanted New Yorker” who enjoyed carrying a bloody, severed pig’s head around. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 1989 Supreme Court which invalided prohibitions on desecrating the American flag, saying the defendant’s burning of the American flag at the 1984 Republican Convention was protected speech.

ANSWER: Texas v. Johnson [accept in reverse order]

[10] Gregory Johnson was defended by this controversial attorney, a former director the ACLU. He is best known for defending the Chicago Seven, as well as AIM members after the Wounded Knee incident.

ANSWER: William Moses Kunstler

[10] While William Brennan wrote the majority opinion in Texas v. Johnson, this justice wrote a concurring opinion. Still on the Supreme Court, he is often referred to as the key “swing vote.”

ANSWER: Anthony McLeod Kennedy [accept MISTERRR Kennedy]

4. While David Seal may contest it, my favorite Frasier episode is “Ham Radio.” For 10 points each:

[10] The episode features this hapless brother of Frasier being forced at the last minute to perform numerous roles in the adio drama Frasier is producing. He eventually snaps and kills off all his characters on the air.

ANSWER: Niles Crane

[10] The comic highlight of the episode is potentially Bulldog’s dyslexic girlfriend warning everyone of an attacker using this object.

ANSWER: nug [prompt on gun]

[10] The episode is only hampered in its greatest ever status by not featuring this supporting character, whom David once compared to Marshall Steinbaum. He is the deep-voiced nemesis and neighbor of Frasier who once hung an American flag over Frasier’s balcony.

ANSWER: Cam Winston [accept either]

5. One of the title characters in this play believes he is visited by King Solomon. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this play about a group of sanitarium patients who are actually faking insanity. Two of the patients are spies trying to obtain the secrets of Johann Mobius, although the sanitarium director has actually stolen his secrets.

ANSWER: The Physicists [or Die Physiker]

[10] The Physicists was written by Friedrich Durrenmatt, who hailed from and attended the University of Bern in this country.

ANSWER: Switzerland [accept the Swiss Confederation]

[10] Durrenmatt gave a 1990 speech in honor of this fellow author, who parodied his country’s government in a play about the “Liquidation Office” entitled The Garden Party.

ANSWER: Vaclav Havel

6. In 1988, this team started the season by losing its first twenty one games. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this baseball franchise which featured longtime shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. and was managed for many years by the combustible Earl Weaver. It previously was the St. Louis Browns.

ANSWER: Baltimore Orioles [accept either]

[10] In 1988, Baltimore featured this former center fielder on its roster. He is best known for winning the MVP and Rookie of the Year in the same year, during his first season for the Boston Red Sox in 1975.

ANSWER: Fredric Michael “Fred” Lynn

[10] The disappointing 1988 Orioles came several years after the club won the 1983 World Series. This man, one of the most nondescript managers to win a World Series, led the Orioles to the title after succeeding Weaver.

ANSWER: Joseph Salvatore Altobelli

7. Zach Foster finds himself in a forest in Brittany during the winter. For 10 points each:

[10] While trying to find shelter, Zach scares this King of France, a member of the House of Valois, resulting in him going insane. At the 1393 “Ball of the Burning Men,” he engaged in a wild dance fest that ended up killing four men in a fire. His son was famously aided by Joan of Arc.

ANSWER: Charles VI [prompt on Charles the Beloved or Charles the Mad]

[10] Zach discovers that Charles VI suffers from this psychiatric disorder, which explains why did he didn’t want people to touch him. It is used as an example of insanity in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy.

ANSWER: Glass delusion [accept anything that suggests he thinks he is made out of glass]

[10] Charles VI’s daughter, Catherine, would marry this English king in the aftermath of the Treaty of Troyes. This man is best known for winning the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War.

ANSWER: Henry V

8. A supporting character on this show was nicknamed “Lifeguard” who communicated with the protagonist over the telephone. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this show, which mainly featured Vinnie Terranova as an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated various realms of organized crime. This show was acclaimed for its innovative use of multi-episode arcs. It shares its name with the book that inspired the film Goodfellas.

ANSWER: Wiseguy

[10] One of the most notable villains on the show was Mel Profitt, a drugged out, vaguely incestuous, Malthusian economics disciple, who was played by this actor, better known for winning Oscars for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty.

ANSWER: Kevin Spacey [accept Kevin Spacey Fowler]

[10] The show’s creator, Stephen J. Cannell, also created this show which inexplicably ran for 176 episodes, generally on the USA Network. It was mainly about two detectives who solved sexually-based crimes among the ultra-rich in Palm Beach.

ANSWER: Silk Stalkings

9. Answer the following about a movie critic James Berardinelli awarded zero star ratings to, for 10 points each.

[10] Name this 2003 film, the “prequel” to a far more successful comedy. It is about two young students who form part of a “special needs” class, as part of a scheme by the corrupt Eugene Levy played Principal Collins.

ANSWER: Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

[10] This star of the Transformers movie franchise and former star of Even Stevens appears in Dumb and Dumberer as a student mistaken for a “centaur” by the protagonists.

ANSWER: Shia Saide LaBeouf

[10] One of the more notable sequences in Dumb and Dumberer is when a Bob Saget played character walks into a bathroom and repeatedly screams this word after seeing the remnants of an accident involving a candy bar.

ANSWER: shit [accept anything with shit in it]

10. This award has been most frequently won by Will Smith, who has a whopping 10 of them. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these awards that resemble a orange blimp, which are awarded by the viewers of a children’s network associated with green slime.

ANSWER: Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards [accept KCAs]

[10] The Kids’ Choice Awards have been hosted by the most by this woman. This former talk show host was an outspoken proponent of gun control and gay rights, while her show helped to popularize the Tickle Me Elmo.

ANSWER: Roseann “Rosie” O’Donnell

[10] The Kids’ Choice Awards should not be confused with the Teen Choice Awards, which gave a special 2004 award to Bethany Hamilton. Hamilton survived a 2003 shark attack and wrote this book, which became a 2011 film.

ANSWER: Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

11. The second movie based on this show was titled Turbo and introduced the character of Divatox. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this long-running children’s franchise, which under various forms, has always combined new and old footage from the show Super Sentai to tell the story of young people who fight evil using their robotic “Zords.”

ANSWER: Power Rangers [accept anything with Power Rangers in it, including Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers]

[10] Amy Jo Johnson, who played this character, the Pink Ranger, on the original Power Rangers, is one of the few show alumni to actually continue an acting career, as she currently stars on the Canadian series Flashpoint.

ANSWER: Kimberly Hart [accept either]

[10] This 2004 iteration of the Power Rangers franchise reintroduced former character Tommy as a paleontology professor at Reefside High. The villain was Mesogog, while the Rangers acquired such powers as “Tyrano-Speed” and “Ptera-Scream.”

ANSWER: Power Rangers: Dino Thunder

12. This man favored a piece of legislation eventually rescinded by the Magnuson Act. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this leader of the Workingmen’s Party of California, a labor organizer who ended most of his speeches with the phrase “the Chinese must go,” reflecting his extremely nativist views.

ANSWER: Denis Kearney

[10] Kearney was called “an unduly inflated sack of very bad gas” by this politician. He served as Secretary of State twice and was mocked as “the continental liar from the state of Maine” during his tight loss to Grover Cleveland in the 1884 presidential election.

ANSWER: James Gillespie Blaine

[10] Kearney sought to become Benjamin Butler’s running mate during the 1884 election when Butler ran for president as a member of this party. Other candidates of this party were Peter Cooper and James Weaver.

ANSWER: Greenback Party [accept anything with Greenback in it, prompt on National Independent Party]

13. One antagonist in this play is the Romanian count Teck de Brancovis. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Lillian Hellman play in which the German-born Kurt Muller and his wife go to Washington. Kurt is blackmailed by Teck to keep quiet regarding Kurt’s anti-Nazi operations.

ANSWER: Watch on the Rhine

[10] Hellman wrote the original libretto to Leonard Bernstein’s operetta based on this Voltaire work. The title character is tutored by the optimistic Pangloss.

ANSWER: Candide, ou l’Optimisme [or Candide: or, Optimism; or Candide: or, All for the Best]

[10] This Hellman play is set in New Orleans and is about the Berniers family. The spinster sisters Carrie and Anna react to their younger brother, Julian, suddenly returning home with an unstable bride and a large sum of money.

ANSWER: Toys in the Attic

14. This man eventually lost a leg at the Battle of Verdun. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Frenchman who once served as a general manager for Ferdinand de Lesseps’ company. In 1903, after being given powers by President Manuel Amador, he signed a treaty with the American Secretary of State, which was not popular with the country this man represented.

ANSWER: Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla

[10] The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed shortly after the signing of the Hay-Herran Treaty, which was rejected by this country. This South American country formerly controlled Panama.

ANSWER: Republic of Colombia

[10] This doubly eponymous set of two 1977 treaties signed by the United States and Panama eventually abrogated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty and promised that Panama would gain control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

ANSWER: Torrijos-Carter Treaties [accept in reverse order]

15. Answer the following about players associated with the California Angels for 10 points each.

[10] This pitcher, whose career mark of 5,714 career strikeouts is the most in major league history, threw four of his seven career no-hitters in an Angels uniform.

ANSWER: (Lynn) Nolan Ryan Jr.

[10] This lefty pitcher has exactly 200 career wins with a number of them occurring during his decade plus in an Angels uniform. He is noted for being assaulted by his now ex-wife, Tawny Kitaen, and for being Sam Axe’s frequent alias on the show Burn Notice.

ANSWER: Charles Edward “Chuck” Finley

[10] A solid outfielder with the Minnesota Twins, this player signed with the Angels in 1978, only to be tragically killed in Gary, Indiana when he was fatally shot by a man who was attempting to kill his estranged wife.

ANSWER: Lyman Wesley Bostock Jr.

16. Name the following wrestling events run by the WWE for 10 points each.

[10] This pay-per-view event is usually run in January and is noted for its namesake match in which 30 wrestlers enter the ring at regular intervals to compete in a battle royal until only man is left in the ring.

ANSWER: Royal Rumble

[10] This event is run in November and in fact was initially run on Thanksgiving. Its original format emphasized tag team wrestling with large groups of wrestlers engaging in a team-based match that would eliminate wrestlers one by one. It inspired the fine NES game WrestleMania Challenge.

ANSWER: Survivor Series

[10] This horrible 1998 event featured wrestlers fighting in legit matches to knock each other out. Intended to showcase competitors with actual fighting experience, it predictably resulted in injuries and did nothing to boost the career of the winner, Bart Gunn.

ANSWER: Brawl for All

17. Answer the following about Alan Siegel’s Slate article about quizbowl for 10 points each.

[10] Siegel wrote the article based on his experiences watching ACF Nationals last year at this university, mostly in the iconic Jimenez Hall.

ANSWER: University of Maryland [accept College Park]

[10] In one of the more memorable passages in the article, this player, described as a “wiz,” casually tells Siegel he was the “22nd –ranked quiz bowler of all time.” He led his team to a top bracket finish at both ICT and ACF Nationals.

ANSWER: Andrew Hart

[10] The Siegel article ends with Ike Jose receiving a copy of this book, a volume edited by Jeffrey Richards. It includes such cockles-warming selections as Royall Tyler’s The Contrast and William Henry Smith’s The Drunkard.

ANSWER: Early American Drama

18. This man became addicted to morphine after the Battle of Columbus. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this former Confederate soldier who, in his attempt to find a cure for his addiction, created the drink that effectively became Coca Cola with the assistance of Atlanta druggist Willis Venable.

ANSWER: John Stith Pemberton

[10] Another John Pemberton, John Clifford Pemberton, surrendered Vicksburg during the Civil War to this Union General in 1863, who had earlier acquired the nickname “Unconditional Surrender.”

ANSWER: Ulysses S. Grant [accept Hiram Ulysses Grant]

[10] This Confederate became the first general to surrender an army in the war when he surrendered Fort Donelson to Grant in 1862. He later served as Governor of Kentucky during the Hatfield-McCoy War and was the 1896 Vice Presidential nominee for the Gold Democrats.

ANSWER: Simon Bolivar Buckner

19. Answer the following about what happens when you beat certain video games for 10 points each.

[10] This 1988 game, a film adaptation, ends with the nonsensical line “Conglaturation!!! You have completed a great game. And proved the justice of our culture.” The film that this game was based on featured the evil Zuul, a servant of the Sumerian Gozer the Gozerian.

ANSWER: Ghostbusters

[10] The N64 edition of this series ends with the simple line “Finally, the mother of all demons is dead.” The plot, like various computer games in this series, has a Marine sent to the moons of Mars to stop a demonic horde.

ANSWER: Doom [accept anything with Doom in it]

[10] If you beat this NES game without a partner, it said “Bad End. This is not a true ending! Try again with your friend.” This game, an arcade port, starred twin dragons who travel through one hundred stages, trapping enemies and consuming food.

ANSWER: Bubble Bobble [accept Baburu Boburu]

20. The protagonist of this film is photographer Connor Mead. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this movie, a take-off of A Christmas Carol, in which Matthew McConaughey plays Mead, a womanizer encouraged by the ghost of his uncle Wayne to change his ways.

ANSWER: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

[10] The “Ghost of Girlfriends Past” in the movie was played by this actress, whose starring roles include the female leads in Zombieland and Easy A. She played Gwen Stacy in the recent Amazing Spider-Man film.

ANSWER: Emily Jean “Emma” Stone

[10] In another version of A Christmas Carol, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Present is played by this Disney character, a big dude who also menaced Mickey in Mickey and the Beanstalk.

ANSWER: Willie the Giant

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download