2010 TRASHionals



2010 TRASHionals

Round 08

Bonuses

1. For ten points each, answer these questions about women who earned Oscar nominations just a few years after playing murderers on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

1. Viola Davis appeared in Madea Goes to Jail, State of Play, and Law Abiding Citizen in 2009 after breaking through with a single powerful scene as the mother of a possibly molested boy in this 2008 drama.

Answer: Doubt

2. This actress first gained attention as the mother of a kidnapped girl in Gone Baby Gone, leading to roles as Michael Scott's girlfriend on The Office and a Wall Street Journal reporter in Green Zone.

Answer: Amy Ryan

3. This actress' most notable movie roles are as Benicio Del Toro's wife in 21 Grams and a woman involved in smuggling illegal immigrants across the Canadian border in Frozen River.

Answer: Melissa Leo

2. Now we get to find out how closely have you listen to the lyrics to the 1973 Steve Miller Band's hit "The Joker" for ten points each.

1. The first line of the song references this 1969 radio hit for the band; both that song and "The Joker" itself name check the blues tune "Gangster of Love," also covered by the band.

Answer: Space Cowboy

2. Later in the first verse, Miller flat-out makes up this three-syllable Latin-sounding word to describe some aspect of love, later inspiring the title of a 1996 indie film in part about the mysterious neologism.

Answer: Pompatus

3. In the final two verses, Miller also references this 1953 hit with a rhyming title by the Clovers, which, like The Joker, also contains the line "Really love your peaches/ wanna shake your tree."

Answer: Lovey Dovey [OK, there's an '50s blues tune with a similarly made-up word which is most likely where Miller got it from, per Straight Dope.]

3. Conan, relax, not everyone is cut out for 11:30. For ten points each, answer questions about other post-prime-time large-scale failures

1. Fox gave this former 11:30 Saturday star a chance at a nightly show in 1993, some 17 years after he left NBC to become a movie star.

Answer: Chevy Chase

2. This game show host's 1989 stint at CBS late night was only remarkable for its ill-fated guest-host Rush Limbaugh, who was forced to tape without an audience due to heckling from ACT UP.

Answer: Pat Sajak

3. Despite his RatPack cachet, this predecessor to Dick Cavett's run on ABC late night only lasted two years with Regis Philbin as a sidekick.

Answer: Joey Bishop

4. Identify the following things with something in common, for ten points each.

1. The three-hour miniseries The Peacekeeper Wars wrapped up the series-ending cliffhanger where John Crichton and Aeryn Sun were crystallized.

Answer: Farscape

2. Guinness World Records has recognized this 2001 Jagex, Ltd. release as the world's most popular free MMORPG. In it, players explore the world of Gielinor.

Answer: RuneScape

3. The 1980 Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards went to this Gregory Benford novel in which scientists in 1998 try to warn an earlier earth of impending ecological disasters such as viral algal blooms.

Answer: Timescape

5. What is it with the New England Patriots and snow? For ten points each, name the team that:

1. Tom Brady torched for five touchdowns in one quarter, resulting in a 59-0 loss in 2009.

Answer: Tennessee Titans (accept either)

2. Lost to the Pats in 2002 in the AFC title game, held during a driving snow but probably best remembered for the application of the "tuck rule" on what was likely a Tom Brady fumble.

Answer: Oakland Raiders (accept either)

3. Lost in the infamous 1982 "snowplow" game, where a groundskeeper at Schaefer Stadium drove a small plow on to the field, clearing a spot for John Smith to boot the game's only score.

Answer: Miami Dolphins (accept either)

6. Name these card games put out by Wizards of the Coast that aren't Magic: the Gathering for ten points each.

1. This light-hearted look at beheading puts players in the role of executioners attempting to kill the most valuable French nobles.

Answer: Guillotine

2. A variant of the drinking game president with a slightly different card mix, in this game players vie to take the title role and avoid becoming the Greater Peon.

Answer: the Great Dalmuti

3. Games Magazine s 1998 Word Game of the Year, it features two different games, one which slowly changes a central tableau of letters and another which involves players acting simultaneously.

Answer: Alpha Blitz

7. Name these highly varied rock bands which formed in Atlanta, for ten points each.

1. This veteran classic rock-loving jam band, led by the Robinson brothers, reconstituted in 2005 after a hiatus; their '90s hits included "She Talks To Angels" and "Remedy."

Answer: The Black Crowes

2. The founding members of this alt-metal band also met in Atlanta; they're known for songs such as "Angels' Son" and "Enemy" from albums such as Animosity and Seasons.

Answer: Sevendust

3. In a completely different vein, Atlanta is also home to this indie-rock outfit led by Brandon Cox. Pitchfork Media describes them as "equally adept at ambient, looped strums as they are at pleasing-if-barely-in-tune jangle pop" on such albums as Cryptograms and Microcastle.

Answer: Deerhunter

8. They were the subject of an IMAX concert film directed by Julien Temple in 1990. For ten points each:

1. Name this British rock group that was again featured in concert on the IMAX screen in Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light.

Answer: The Rolling Stones

2. The Stones' 1969 US tour, including the killing of Meredith Hunter during the Altamont Free Concert, was captured in this legendary Maysles brothers documentary.

Answer: Gimme Shelter

3. This French filmmaker showed the Stones recording "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio in his surreal 1968 film One Plus One, which also includes Black Panthers, a woman in white called "Eve Democracy," and a store selling comics, pornography, and Marxist propaganda.

Answer: Jean-Luc Godard

9. Did you see Celebrity Duets in 2006? Neither did your question writer, but he was intrigued by the concept. For ten points each:

1. This nasty Brit behind American Idol and The X Factor created Celebrity Duets.

Answer: Simon Cowell

2. The judges on the show were David Foster, Little Richard and this woman, who has a Las Vegas show at the Flamingo with her brother, with whom she is usually paired. On the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars, she was paired with Jonathan Roberts.

Answer: Marie Osmond

3. The winner was this actor, whose best known role was more associated with dancing along to Tom Jones, which he reprised as a promise to his fans when he made the finale of Celebrity Duets.

Answer: Alfonso Ribeiro

10. For ten points each, name these two-time West Coast Conference players of the year in men's basketball:

1. The only three-time winner, this center out of San Francisco was drafted third in 1979 by the Knicks. Traded for Charles Oakley, he became a key part of Michael Jordan's Bulls.

Answer: Bill Cartwright

2. The most recent double winner was this Gonzaga shooting guard in 2003 and 2004 who failed to latch on in the NBA, but has been seen on TV playing poker.

Answer: Blake Stepp

3. After winning at Pepperdine in '91 and '92, he was drafted by Seattle, and went on to play for seven other teams, with four All-Defensive first or second team appearances during his time with Sacramento.

Answer: Doug Christie

11. Zounds! Recent retellings of Shakespeare for ten points each.

1. Hamlet is a mute dog-breeder in the wilds of Wisconsin in this 2008 David Wroblewski bestseller.

Answer: The Tale of Edgar Sawtelle

2. This 2003 Jane Smiley book is a modern retelling of King Lear, set in Zebulon, Iowa.

Answer: A Thousand Acres: a Novel

3. This 2009 work by Christopher Moore is a period retelling of King Lear from the title character s perspective.

Answer: Fool: a Novel

12. Answer the following about Sean "Puffy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment for ten points each.

1. The most successful album in the history of the label was this certified Diamond 1997 release by Notorious B.I.G., which, as the title suggests, was released posthumously.

Answer: Life After Death

2. Another release from that same year, Harlem World by this rapper, which featured singles "Feel So Good" and "What You Want," also topped the album charts.

Answer: Ma$e (or Mason Betha)

3. This trio, led by future solo rapper Jadakiss, released their 1998 debut Money, Power, and Respect on Bad Boy.

Answer: The LOX

13. For ten points each, name these soap operas which changed storylines due to headline news:

1. Due to the Virginia Tech shooting, this soap abandoned plans to have nerdy Henry Mackler, having found that Britney Jennings has been leading him on to get him to do her homework, have a violent reaction at Llanview High School.

Answer: One Life to Live

2. Janet pulled a gun instead of planting a bomb as planned on this soap opera at the wedding of Trevor and Janet due to the recency of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Answer: All My Children

3. Due to the abduction of Madeleine McCann, this British primetime soap scrubbed a child abduction storyline, but has decided to go ahead with a similar story three years later in 2010.

Answer: Coronation Street

14. Answer the following about songs called "Fever" for ten points each.

1. This composer of "Handy Man," and "Great Balls Of Fire" wrote a song called "Fever" in 1956 that became Peggy Lee's signature song, and was covered for hits by both Elvis and Madonna.

Answer: Otis Blackwell (a.k.a. John Davenport)

2. A different "Fever" was a 1993 hit single for these veteran New England-based rockers, one of the few songs on their album Get A Grip written with no outside help; a reworked cover version became a 1995 country hit for Garth Brooks.

Answer: Aerosmith

3. The most recent song called "Fever" to hit the charts is an electropop tune unrelated to the other two, by this German group, also behind the hit "Evacuate The Dance Floor."

Answer: Cascada

15. Woodlawn cemetery: people are just dying to get in. Identify some of them, for ten points each.

1. This textile merchant and philanthropist was buried in 1919. His trustees founded a graduate music school that merged with the New York Institute of Musical Art and bears his name.

Answer: Augustus Juilliard

2. This jazz trumpeter, whose early albums under Prestige records include Birth of the Cool, Blue Period and Blue Haze.

Answer: Miles Davis

3. This Cuban-American salsa songstress known for shouting "Azucar!" was interred in 2003. She started out with the Sonora Matancera and married Pedro Knight.

Answer: Celia Cruz

16. Answer these questions about modern-day Dick Sargeant-for-Dick York TV switcheroos, for ten points each.

1. This prime-time CBS soap did a double-reverse switcheroo, writing matriarch Miss Ellie Southworth out of the show when Barbara Bel Geddes became ill, then bringing in Donna Reed in as a replacement, then bringing back Bel Geddes a year later.

Answer: Dallas

2. The character Alison Stark has now been played by four different actresses in the four-season run of this FOX sitcom. It has gotten meta in its current fourth and final season, as husband Doug has become convinced, accurately, that his entire life has become a sitcom.

Answer: 'Til Death

3. The all-time switcheroo champ, though, might be this '90s CBS drama has repeat entries in the same character-different actor derby, replacing Jane Wyman with Georgeann Johnson in the role of the title character's mother, replacing Erika Flores with Jessica Bowman in the role of Colleen Cooper, and three other recurring roles as well.

Answer: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

17. The Swarm notwithstanding, not all movies about insects portray them in a negative light. For ten points each:

1. In this 2006 animated film, a boy named Lucas is shrunk to the size of an insect after using a squirt gun on an anthill. It was based on a children's book by John Nickle.

Answer: The Ant Bully

2. The last film credit of both Madeleine Kahn and Roddy McDowall was this 1998 CGI-animated movie, in which the ant inventor Flik hires circus performers Francis, Slim, and Heimlich under the impression that they are warriors. It came out the same year as the similarly-themed Antz.

Answer: A Bug's Life

3. At the climax of this 1985 Dario Argento horror film, the Jennifer Connelly-portrayed protagonist is saved from a blade-wielding dwarf by a swarm of insects with which she has psychically bonded.

Answer: Phenomena (or Creepers)

18. For ten points each, name the workplaces of these comedies:

1. Better Off Ted deals with the employees of this tech company.

Answer: Veridian Dynamics

2. The guys at It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia run this bar.

Answer: Paddy's Pub

3. This teaching hospital is where most of the action takes place on Scrubs for the first eight seasons.

Answer: Sacred Heart Hospital

19. This video game series featured a man whose signature move was a jumping uppercut called The Star Punch , for ten points each:

1. Name this game series that came in Mike Tyson , and Super varieties, where, in the earliest incarnations, players controlled an unnamed green-haired boxer.

Answer: Punch-Out!!!

2. In later games, players control Little Mac, a boxer who was trained by this man, and who in a Wiiware game named after him, must fight his protege.

Answer: Doc Louis

3. This arcade spinoff of Punch-Out! was originally released as a conversion kit. Opponents in this game include a man who can breathe fire, Frank Junior, and Ape III, who is difficult to pin.

Answer: Arm Wrestling

20. Name the following tropical fruits, for ten points each.

1. Heavily marketed as a dietary supplement, this palm fruit is harvested in small black-purple drupes wherein the seed makes up roughly 80% of it. Demand abroad in the 2000s has resulted in Brazilian jungle residents seeing a local shortage.

Answer: Acai

2. The first fruit tree to have its genome deciphered, they are ripe when their skin acquires an orange-ish color, though the unripe green fruit is often cooked and used in Thai cuisine. Some people also use the black seeds in a manner similar to pepper.

Answer: Papaya

3. There are two varieties of this plant, the Golden type that gets as large as a grapefruit, and the dark purple type that gets to be the size of a lemon. It common name stems from Catholic missionaries associating it with Jesus.

Answer: Lilikoi or Passion Fruit

21. They scored three short-handed goals in 64 seconds during a game on April 10, marking the first time in NHL history that a team scored three shorties during the same power play. For ten points each:

1. Name the team that scored these goals, clinching a playoff spot in the process.

Answer: Boston Bruins (accept location or nickname)

2. The Bruins did this against this Southeast Division team that knocked the Bruins out of the playoffs in 2009.

Answer: Carolina Hurricanes (accept location or nickname)

3. This winger registered a goal and an assist during this outburst. Drafted by the Buffalo Sabres, he was the first player ever traded between the two teams when the Sabres sent him to Boston in October 2009.

Answer: Daniel Paille (PIE-yay)

22. Answer the following about rock bands that only exist on the pages of 20th century literary fiction, for ten points each.

1. Johnny Zhivago, Bread Brothers, and Heaven 17 were bands from this dystopic novel made into an iconic 1971 film. A real-life 1980s New Wave group later named themselves Heaven 17.

Answer: A Clockwork Orange

2. The Paranoids, a Beatles clone band, were major players in this Thomas Pynchon novel, in which Oedipa Maas seeks to decipher the mystery of the Tristero.

Answer: The Crying Of Lot 49

3. Near the end of this John Irving novel, we find out that Hester Eastman, a former girlfriend of sorts of the title character, has become Hester the Molester, an Alice Cooper-inspired shock rocker.

Answer: A Prayer For Owen Meany

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