Trash Quizbowl Packet Archive



Fuck This Packet 2016Opus 2: Weaboos Not Welcome Technical Notes: The Powers are just there for fun and are not necessary. There is only one tiebreaker per packet, so read an unread bonuses if there is still a tie after tossup 21. TOSSUPS1. (TV) This TV show features a scene where the back tattoo of Kyle Hobart is removed by a blow torch. Henry Rollins appears in this TV show as a white supremacist who rapes the mother of the protagonist because a cigars salesman is having problems with the protagonist and his friends. After the wedding of the porn star Lyla and Opie, the protagonists of this show kill Russian gangsters. The creator of this show Kurt Sutter also starred in the show as the imprisoned Otto Delaney. In this TV series, the protagonists live in Charming California, and sell guns to support “the club”. Characters in this show included the sexually deviant Tig, the Scottish Chibs, and the Katey Sagal played Gemma. FTP, Clay Morrow and Jax Teller were characters on what AMC series that was about a motorcycle club?Answer: Sons of Anarchy (angrily prompt on “SAMCRO”)2. (Music) “I want an Alien for Christmas” is a semi-popular song from the artist of this song. The infamous music video for this song starts with boys tapping their foot to the beat before a red car pulls up. The 2003 album that this song appears has a cover that features a bunch of white dudes sitting around a circular table. That album is called Welcome Interstate Managers. While sitting in a pool, the protagonist’s red pop overflows while he is distracted in the music video for this song. The protagonist of that video is also distracted while lawn mowing because of the titular being. The singer suggests “we can hang around by the puh puh pooloolool” [just try to pronounce that shit…] and asks about the titular character’s business trip. For 10 points, what song by the Fountains of Wayne has the singer suggest that someone’s mom has got it going on?Answer: “Stacy’s Mom” 3. (Misc.) Bald Brian and Anderson of “The Film Vault podcast” named this scene the number 1 scene of its kind in a Summer 2015 episode. Spoofs of this scene include a Youtube video where characters from this scene are in a weird background while the theme to the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion plays. Another Youtube video splices the heads of characters from this scene onto Leonard and Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. Fans of this scene have insisted that an extra in the background of this scene has the name of “Smee” because one character lists Smee in a plan. Smashmouth’s “Allstar” had its lyrics edited to match the content of this scene. The director of this scene called it his favorite scene for reasons unknown. At the memetic start of this scene, Aiden Gillen’s character says “Dr. Pavel, I’m CIA”. For 10 points, name this meme-inducing scene where Bane implies that he’s a “big guy” “For you” which appears at the beginning of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Answer: The Plane scene at the beginning of the Dark Knight Rises (accept “Bane’s intro”, “TDKR Plane Scene”, “TDKR intro”, prompt on “Baneposting”, “Big guy scene”, “CIA meme”)4. In Conan the Destroyer, this man played the character Bombaata. This athlete was criticized for being selfish earlier in his playing career so he decided to lead the league in assists. This player never fouled out in the NBA despite playing over fifty-five thousand minutes. This player spent a few seasons as a Kansas Jayhawk before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. In his autobiography A View from Above this player infamously claimed he slept with over twenty thousand women. He once average 48 minutes a game in a season, and this player is the only NBA player to average over both 40 and 50 points in a season. This player, is the only NBA player to hit the century mark in points. For 10 points, name this 4 time NBA MVP, 2-time champion and Goliath who played for the Philadelphia Warriors, 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers.Answer: Wilt Chamberlain (accept either)5. (Music) One of this man’s music videos starts with him being confronted in a parking garage by three gang members. In that song he sings “You know when I’m by myself I’m a crowd”. One music video by this artist features cameos by Key and Peele, and features this artist riding a segway. In another song, this artist orders a kleenex used by Dr. Dre. This artist wrote a pastiche of the band Devo, which advises the listener to “Put all your eggs in one basket” and “Stick your head in the microwave and get yourself a tan”. This artist proclaims that “Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1699” in a parody of “Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio. For 10 points, name this parodist and prominent accordion player behind such hits as “Fat”, “Ebay”, “Dare To Be Stupid”, “Amish Paradise”, and “White and Nerdy”.Answer: “Weird Al” Yankovic6. (VG) At AGDQ 2014, a speedrun of this game was done in 2 minutes and 5 seconds by Presjpolk. One Easter egg from this game has the player fall down into a hole with a dead flower that comes back to life magically. Howard Scott Warshaw efficiently designed this game in 5 to 6 weeks. Famously, unplayed copies of this game were buried at a garbage dump in El Paso, Texas. The strange objective of this game is to help the title creature find pieces of his phone. This game is one of the notable causes of the infamous video game crash of 1983 and lead to the demise of the Atari 2600. For 10 points, name this critically panned game based on a 1982 Steven Spielberg film. Answer: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 26007. (TV) This anime features a guest star appearance by George Takei where he plays the character of Ronald. A Nintendo DS video game based on this anime had the most requested guide on IGN. That game has an average rating of 9.5 on Metacritic, which makes it the highest rated DS game. One character in this show is the son of an intelligence operative and spies on Meena Paroom. Another main character from this anime has no discernible character features besides playing the guitar. The main character and his family move to the city this anime is based in after the protagonist’s father gets a job as a big-time chef. In the anime community, this Disney TV show is humorously called an anime. Raven Symoné makes a cameo in one episode reprising her role as Raven Baxter. For 10 points, name this TV show where Kyle Massey plays pranks on the President after his character moves to Washington DC.Answer: Cory in the House 8. (Misc.) Description acceptable. Encyclopedia Dramatica says that this object is now on sale at Walmart for five bucks as Me Love You Long Time. A single “LOL” tweet was a response of one person in this event to the other in 2012 after one person involved posted some inspirational tweets like “We are not defined by our pasts”. This object was published by Vivid entertainment, though there is a conspiracy that one those who took part sold it for five million dollars. In reality, there was a five million dollar lawsuit settlement. One person involved in this event said that Paris Hilton “used a nightvision camera” in a similar Hilton version of this event. For 10 points, give the name of this rare video recorded in 2003 where an E! reality star gave head to Ray J. Answer: Kim Kardashian’s Sex tape (accept “Kim Kardashian blowjob video”,”Ray J’s Sex Tape” before mention, prompt on “sex tape”)9. (Music) This album was originally conceived when one of the band members was on a flight home from Kenya. Langdon Winner of Rolling Stone wrote that the week this album was released was “the closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815”. This album was also the first rock album to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. In 2003, Rolling Stone included this album on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, where it was named #1. Karl Marx stands between H. G. Wells and Oliver Hardy on this album’s cover, while James Joyce is barely visible below Bob Dylan. This album also features the borrowed wax figures of the artists from Madame Tussauds next to the newly mustachioed real life versions. For 10 points, name this 1966 Beatles album featuring “Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds” and “A Day in the Life”.Answer: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (prompt on “Sgt. Pepper’s” if you want to be a douchebag, otherwise accept)10. (Movies) Description acceptable. Good luck. The prologue of a terrible 1996 movie shows this event turning the titular place into an island and prompting the creation of a fascist American State. After narrowly avoiding this event in 1997’s Volcano, a young boy looks at a crowd of ash-covered people and says “Look at their faces. They all look the same”. A freak storm interrupts a distracted meteorologist moments before this event in a 2004 “climate science fiction disaster film”. The director of that film did this same action in two of his other movies, in which some of the few survivors are the first lady and a stripper in one movie, and a plastic surgeon and a limo driver in the other. For 10 points, name this action which takes place in California, which Roland Emmerich uses as the first special effects orgasms in both Independence Day and 2012. Answer: Destroying Los Angeles (Be generous and prompt on partial answers with questions like [“what city is the earthquake in?”]. Accept reasonable equivalents such as “Los Angeles getting demolished”. Accept specifics like “Earthquake destroying Los Angeles”)11. (VG) This game was the first in the series to include online play. One package of this game was sold with a checkered wristband and a red version of the game system. One playable stage in the “Battle” mode of this game allowed players to face off on a giant version of the system that this game is played on, while a different track that was almost impossible was made mostly of docks over water with periodical appearances of laughing ghosts. That track was called Banshee Boardwalk. This game had no story mode, but that didn’t stop IGN from giving it the Game of the Year award in 2005. This game brings together many characters from the expanded universe of a different series by this game’s publisher and has them compete. Different items in this game include mushrooms, bananas and that fucking blue shell. For 10 points, name this 2005 Nintendo racing game developed for a two-screened handheld console.Answer: Mario Kart DS (prompt on “Mario Kart”)12. This university first experienced gridiron success under legendary coach “Gloomy” Gus Henderson in the early 1920s. In 1970, this school faced Alabama in the first game of the season and was the first fully integrated team to play in the state of Alabama. Former school Athletic Director and 1965 Heisman winner Mike Garrett played running back at this school. More recently, this school is currently involved a legal battle with the NCAA in Todd McNair’s defamation suit. This team played schools like Illinois, Michigan, and Texas in Rose Bowls in the 2000s. Quarterbacks from this school include John David Booty, Matt Barkley and Mark Sanchez. In 2015, this team played Stanford in the PAC-12 championship under quarterback Cody Kessler. For 10 points, name this school previously coached by Pete Carroll that featured players like O.J. Simpson and Reggie Bush. Answer: University of Southern California (accept “USC” and “Southern Cal”)13 (Pop Culture) The speaker of these things tells the listener that she is “trying to breast-feed with, uh, fucking foreign bodies in you.” He then goes on to lambast her for wearing tight clothes and accuses her of lying about having “fake tits”. In a later example of these things, the speaker rebuts that “The last three years have been a fucking gravy train for you” when the listener accuses him of abuse. The speaker of these called a cop “sugar-tits” during a 2006 DUI arrest, and asked another officer if he was Jewish. On one of these, the speaker angrily yells “You should just fucking smile and blow me! Cause I deserve it!” For 10 points, name these things, released in 2010, where the director Braveheart and Passion of the Christ tells his ex-girlfriend that “if you get raped by a pack of [expletives], it’ll be your fault”.Answer: Mel Gibson’s drunk phone tapes (accept anything mentioning Gibson and speaking, really)14. (Music) Fans of this band call themselves “Children of the Fence” in reference to the fictional galaxy “Heaven’s Fence”. “Heaven’s Fence” is featured in Amory Wars which is a story invented by the lead singer of this band. Most of this band’s albums follow the plot of Amory Wars and are more like musical accompaniments and concept albums. This prog band’s most recent release The Color Before the Sun is not a concept album and features tracks like “Here to Mars”, and “Eraser”. This band’s lead singer is Claudio Sanchez and this New York band infuses pop sounds into their songs such as the hit “Island”. This band’s most famous track features a heavy metal intro and that song features the memorable lyric: “You're a whore in sheep’s clothing/Fucking up all I do and so if here we stop”. For 10 points, name this band who, on Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, made “Welcome Home”. Answer: Coheed and Cambria 14. (Extra Question, you don’t have to read this one) This former 2009 McDonald’s All-American led South Atlanta to a basketball state championship. This player shot 61% from the field in college and his team made the ACC Tournament finals against Duke. The team that drafted this player finished a fabulous 12-70 the year before he was drafted. This former Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket was traded along with two first round picks and Devin Harris in February of his rookie NBA season. This former number 3 overall draft pick used to play on the then New Jersey Nets, but now plays on a team in the Northwest division. This player sat on the bench early in his career behind big men like Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap. For 10 points, name this power forward who currently plays with Rudy Gobert and Gordon Hayward on the Utah Jazz. Answer: Derrick Favors 15. (TV) In a filler episode in this actual anime, characters sorta break the fourth wall and interview other characters on a TV set. Two characters in this anime are forcibly stuck together in order to use combination techniques. Those characters are named Sakon and Ukon. Another villain in this anime was sent to spy on Sasori who controls puppets, but Sasori sent that character Kabuto Yakushi to spy on his snake-like boss instead. The humorous pig Tonton is owned by the extremely busty Tsunade, who actually uses anti-aging powers to make herself not look like a sixty-year-old woman. The main villain in this anime changes a billion times, but the most powerful villain is probably the reincarnated Madara Uchiha. In an early episode of this anime, the protagonist vandalizes a monument in Konoha, and the Hokage forces him to remove the paint. For 10 points, name this shonen anime where Sakura, Sasuke and the titular protagonist are ninjas. Answer: Naruto (accept Naruto: Shippuden) 16. (VG) Some of the achievements in this game include “Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves”, “Gotta Catch ‘em All”, and “The World Is A Mess And I Just Need To Rule It”, all of which have been earned by one of the writers of this packet. One of the playable characters in this game stands solemnly over a globe, while another savagely tosses a wine cup down from his throne. This game features a turn-based structure, but online multiplayer for some reason has all players take their turns at the same time. In 2013, this game was greatly improved with the release of the Brave New World expansion pack which added trade routes and archaeology and overhauled the social policy system. For 10 points, name this 2010 turn-based strategy game by Sid Meier, where the player is asked to lead a nation that will “stand the test of time”.Answer: Civilization V (prompt on “Civilization”)17. (Movies) In an early role, this actress appeared in the television spin-off of Cruel Intentions as the character Kathryn Merteuil. Julie Andrews narrates one flick this actress appears in. In that flick this actress plays a hopeless romantic trapped in New York City. In Spike Jonze’s Her this actress plays a character who divorces her husband and used to date the protagonist Theodore Twombly. In one film, a character played by this actress jerks off Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character. In that film, this actress plays a character who is the wife of a cult leader named Lancaster Dodd. That film is The Master. This actress has appeared in the David O. Russell films The Fighter and American Hustle. For 10 points, name this actress who in the new shitty DC superhero movies plays Lois Lane. Answer: Amy Adams18. (Misc) This musical group eats Mr. Pizza at the beginning of one music video. In another video, this group dances in the middle of the street while wearing large baseball caps. This group became popular after the release of “Into the New World” in 2007. Their 2013 album, I Got a Boy, sold 250,000 albums in its first month alone. Sunny is a member of this group and appeared in productions of both Catch Me if You Can and Singin’ in the Rain. This group sang “You Bad Bad Bad boy, You so bad“ in their smash hit “Mr.Mr.”. This group of “You Think” consists of: Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Seohyun. For 10 points, name this superstar K-pop group that made “Lion Heart”. Answer: So Nyeo Si Dae (accept, SNSD, Girls Generation) 19. Hall of Fame cornerback Dick “Night Train” Lane played for this team from 1960 to ‘65. 4-time Pro Bowler and wideout Herman Moore played for this team for 10 seasons in the 90s. Wayne Fonts owns both the losses and wins head coaching records for this team. This team foolishly traded Bobby Lane to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1958, who then supposedly cursed this team. In 1992, this team beat the Dallas Cowboys 38-6 under quarterback Erik Kramer. Other quarterbacks to play for this team include Heisman winner Andre Ware, Joey Harrington, Dan Orlovsky, and Jon Kitna. In 2008, this ignominious team became the the only NFL team to go 0-16 [pronounced “O and 16”]. Barry Sanders, Matt Stafford and Calvin Johnson have had the pleasure of playing for this NFL team. For 10 points, name this hapless NFL franchise based in Michigan. Answer: The Detroit Lions (accept either) 20. (Movies) In this piece of kino, one character visits a Carl’s Jr., whose motto is “Fuck You! I’m Eating”. The plot of this movie is very similar to Cyril M. Kornbluth’s short story “The Marching Morons”. In the climax of this movie, the protagonist is sentenced to death in a thunder-dome type spectacle for causing the collapse of the economy. Dax Shepard plays Frito, an incompetent lawyer who unsuccessfully defends the protagonist at a trial. Terry Crews plays the President of the United States, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. The protagonist is Joe Bauers, an unambitious Army Librarian roped into a military experiment because he is completely average in all respects. For 10 points, name this 2006 Mike Judge comedy, where Luke Wilson accidentally travels 500 years into the future to find that he is the smartest man on Earth.Answer: IdiocracyTB. (TV) In November 2015, Jimmy Kimmel created a skit based around this TV show where he talked about Kimmel Laboratories. One guest on this show said that the currents of the ocean would create gold. In another episode of this reality TV show, the cast got angry when an item was not made in China. In the intro to this show, the stars of this TV show are seen in a private air plane hanger. Guest stars on this show include Jeff Foxworthy, and the creators of Uber and GoPro. Patents are often discussed on this show because one person on it is obsessed with “PROPRIETY”. This show was based off the Japanese reality show Dragons Den. For the win, name this CNBC and ABC entrepreneurial TV show where billionaires like “Mr. Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary get to invest in or lambast growing businesses. Answer: Shark Tank [fun fact: O’Leary said he is considering running for Canada’s PM position] BONI 1. (VG) Does anyone else feel nostalgic for flash games? I bet you did so answer some questions about them for 10 points apiece. [10] Arguably the most famous flash game series, this series sees the player control monkeys who try to stop villainous h elium filled objects from reaching the end of the track. The most recent version of this game, the fifth in the series, introduced the generally crappy tack machines.Answer: Bloons Tower Defense (accept BTD and more specific answers like “Bloons Tower Defense 3”)[10] This popular fantasy series by Rudy Sudarto features Tolkien ripoff units like the Hobbits and Dwarves. The 4th installment in this Kongregate series features titan units like a kickass green dragon, a triceratops dragon, and a lame devil. The main point in this game is to knock down your enemy’s castle before they knock down yours.Answer: Epic War (accept specific installments of Epic War like “Epic War Legends”) [10] This Mario ripoff game features the F.L.U.D.D. from Mario Sunshine as well as knock off Yoshi’s Island graphics. This game’s objective is to collect the many shines while not letting the lag fuck up your computer.Answer: Mario 63 2. (Movies) Answer some questions about Hayao Miyazaki movies written by someone who’s never seen a Hayao Miyazaki movie.[10] This movie is about a young girl who is trapped in a magical hotel with what seem to be terrifying creatures like a filthy “stink spirit”, a moustachio’d old man with six arms, and a giant, cannibalistic masked monstrosity that this writer believes is one of the scariest things he’s ever fucking seen.Answer: Spirited Away (seriously, this is a kid’s movie?)[10] Miyazaki’s 4th film was My Neighbor Totoro, where the titular wood spirit first meets Satsuki while wearing this as protection from the rain.Answer: A Leaf[10] Miyazaki has announced that he is coming out of his sixth retirement to make this short film, which will be his first made entirely in CG and will only be screened at the Studio Ghibli museum.Answer: Boro the Caterpillar3. (Music) Everyone likes “Iron Man” by Black Sabbath, but name some more Ozzie and Black Sabbath songs for 10 points each. [10] This recent Black Sabbath song from 13 had a music video directed by Peter Joseph who made the Zeitgeist films. Ozzie says that “With God and Satan at my side/ From darkness will come light” in this philosophically allusory song. Answer: “God is Dead?” [10] Guitarist Randy Rhodes kicks some ass in this 1980 Ozzie song featured in Guitar Hero: World Tour. This song is about a British occult magician and features the memorable lyric: “You fooled all the people with magic/ Yeah, you waited on Satan's call”. Answer: “Mr. Crowley”[10] This song is likely the most memorable from Black Sabbath besides “Iron Man”, and appeared on a 1970 album of the same name that also featured “War Pigs”. This song never features its name in its lyrics, but does features the confusing lyric: “Can you help me, occupy my brain?”Answer: “Paranoid” 4. (TV) The gang owns the bar Paddy’s Pub on this FX comedy. For 10 points each…[10] Name that TV show where Dennis, Charlie, Mac, Dee and Frank go on cynical misadventures and occasionally act kindly towards each other.Answer: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia [10] In “The Gang goes to the Jersey Shore”, Mac and Frank are obsessed with this meat-based object. They get lost at sea after falling asleep while consuming this scrumptious dish. Answer: A rum ham [10] In the early Sunny episode “Charlie wants an Abortion”, while Dennis and Mac try to pick up women at an abortion rally, Charlie is still trying to get with this character played by Mary Elizabeth Ellis. Charlie says his fake son is from the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.Answer: The Waitress 5. (Sports) For 10 points each, answer some things about Golf, which, I promise, is a sport.[10] Name this player, who has won every major title except the U.S. Open, who has earned the nickname “Lefty” because, despite being right-handed, he plays with his left.Answer: Phil Mickelson[10] Tiger Woods won 14 major titles before his injuries and his dick stopped his meteoric rise to the top. This put him in second place to Jack Nicklaus, who won this many majors in his career.Answer: 18[10] This man showed off his skills at the 2015 Greenbriar Classic Pro-am, where he whiffed twice on the 1st tee before making his shot. Despite that, this famous actor of Shazam fame still ended up beating Charles Barkley.Answer: Shaquille O’Neal (accept O’Neal) 6. (VG) Remember when people who weren’t little kids played Minecraft? Well I do so answer some questions about Minecraft for 10 points each.[10] Minecraft was made by this eccentric Swede who founded Mahjong. This man posts depressing tweets on Twitter with his fedora, and bought a house in Beverly Hills for seventy million dollars. Answer: Markus “Notch” Persson (accept Markus Persson) [10] This Minecraft mob plays weirdo bagpipe music when it is angry at the player. Thankfully, this mob is afraid of water, is 3 blocks tall, and cannot see the player when the player has a pumpkin on their head. Answer; Endermen [10] This self-proclaimed “evil” mapmaker made the Super Hostile Minecraft maps. These maps featured mob spawners and lots of traps and loot. This guy also has a YouTube channel where he plays Minecraft and other games like Fallout 4. Answer: Vechs [pr. “Vecks”]7. (Music) For 10 points each, identify rap and R&B songs from the 2000s that may not be that memorable, but the writer of this packet had to remember them. [10] This 2009 song from the British Virgin Islands artist Iyaz was number 1 for three weeks in the UK before being knocked off by “Fireflies”. In this song the singer says his iPod is stuck on the title phenomen. Answer: “Replay” [10] 50 Cent is featured on this 2004 song by The Game whose music video features Dr. Dre puffing smoke at the viewer. This song features the memorable lyric: “I put Lamborghini doors on that Es-ca-lade/Low pro so look like I'm riding on blades” rapped by 50 Cent. Answer: “How We Do” [10] This 2000 Jay-Z single also features the Southern rap group UGK. This song’s title features the name of a certain profession heavily romanticized in the song. The singer says he “fuck em,/love em, leave em/Cause I don't fuckin' need em” while talking about a group of people affected by the profession. Answer: “Big Pimpin’”8. (Internet) This term is often used to refer websites that try to gain ad revenue through less than stellar means. For 10 points, [10] Name this term used to refer to websites like Buzzfeed that incentivize viewership by using celebrities, provocative titles, cleavage and, of course, top 10s. Answer: clickbait [10] This other “clickbait” website was created by The Onion in order to parody actual “clickbait” websites. Some articles include “Can You Survive a Night on the Town with the Rat Pack?”, and “Heartwarming: American and ISIS Forces come Together to Celebrate Christmas”.Answer: [10] The Concourse, which is a branch of this website, featured an interesting article called “Shut up About “Clickbait”” written by Tim Marchman. This Gawker website also allowed its readers to make up part of Dan LeBatard's Baseball Hall of Fame vote. Answer: 9. (Sports) Defensive players need some love too, so for 10 points each, identify some dominant NFL defenders. [10] This Houston Texans defensive lineman eats quarterbacks for breakfast and has played through a broken nose. This player was named AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Answer: J.J. Watt[10] This non-Luke Kuechly [pr. “Keekly”] Carolina Panthers linebacker is underrated because he is so good in pass coverage. He was named to his first Pro Bowl in 2015.Answer: Thomas Davis[10] This Buffalo Bills cornerback out of Florida State University was named Pro Football Focus’ 2015 Defensive Rookie of the Year. This player had 13 pass breakups in 2015, which was fifth among corners. Answer: Ronald Darby10. (TV) Name some shameful TV shows from ABC Family for 10 points each. [10] This sitcom stars Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence as an odd couple-ish who live together and sorta raise Hart’s niece Lennox and Hart’s nephew Ryder who is played by all-time awful actor Nick Robinson. Answer: Melissa and Joey (creative name, eh?) [10] This TV show was somehow sponsored by Jennifer Lopez. In this show, a teenager played by Maia Mitchell is placed in a new home and is raised by lesbian parents. Remember Jake T. Austin? Yeah, he’s in this show, too. Answer: The Fosters[10] Popular with the drama-seeking teen crowd, this farce of a TV Show created by I. Marlene King features four friends who seek to find the identity of a murderer. Troian Bellisario and Ashley Benson play two of the four friends who are looking for someone named A. Plot twists ensue. Answer: Pretty Little Liars 11. (Music) For 10 points each, answer some questions about the Canadian invasion into rock music. Hint: because of the rampant quiz bowl obsession, none of these bands are Arcade Fire. [10] “American Woman” was created by this band from Winnipeg. With drums from Gary Peterson, this band also created classic tunes like “No Time” and “These Eyes”.Answer: The Guess Who[10] Strangely, this Mississauga, Ontario post-hardcore band has a larger following in Europe than the U.S. Unique vocals are sung by Benjamin Kowalewicz and this band achieved some American radio play (at least in Detroit) with hits like “Red Flag”, “Kingdom of Zog”, “Devil on my Shoulder,” and “Viking Death March”.Answer: Billy Talent [10] This Vancouver act of “One Love” and “Good to You” fame, is named after an oceanic feature. Their most recent album was Astoria and was released in 2015. They were present at the 2012 Juno Music Awards, which are the Canadian music award for you dumb Americans out there. Answer: Mariana's Trench 12. (Movies) This isn’t your mother’s Trash packet. For 10 points each, answer some things about cursing in movies.[10] When The Wolf of Wall Street came out in 2013, it had the most instances of the word “Fuck” of any non-documentary movie in history. However, it was passed up one year later by this movie, created by the stars of the Trailer Park Boys, which contains 935 uses of the word.Answer: Swearnet[10] R. Lee Ermey ad libbed many of his profanity-ridden lines as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in this 1987 war drama, where he says “I bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around.”Answer: Full Metal Jacket[10] This is written on Samuel L Jackson’s wallet. This is the same phrase as the name of a song by Biting Elbows. Answer: Bad Mother Fucker 13. (Misc) For 10 points each, answer some questions a certain Young Adult book series that includes the characters of Violet, Klaus, Sunny. [10] Identify that series where orphaned siblings have to go live with their third cousin four times removed–or is it fourth cousin three times removed?– Count Olaf.Answer: A Series of Unfortunate Events [10] Most of the important adult characters are members of this covert organization that employs both firefighters and arsonists. Some of its former members include Ishmael, and the hook-handed Fernald. Answer: The VFD (accept VDC because the acronym is different in French)[10] In The Ersatz Elevator, this family takes the Baudelaire children to go live with them. Esmé, who has this surname, later leaves her husband Jerome for Count Olaf and she is obsessed with what is “in” or “out” in fashion.Answer: Squalor 14. (VG) Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong came out of Japan. For 10 points each, answer some things about lesser known Japanese games.[10] In this game, the player controls a worm-like creature, using the analog sticks to control separate ends and stretch the titular character around his environment. Over time, players’ collective scores unlocked new playable maps on each planet in the solar system.Answer: Noby Noby Boy[10] The creator of Noby Noby Boy also created this game, which begins after the King of All Cosmos goes on a drinking spree that wipes out all of the stars. The player must then roll balls with enough material to remake the stars.Answer: Katamari Damacy[10] Japan is known for its dating games. This dating game follows an obsessed schoolgirl who murders the other girls at her school so that she can have her senpai to herself. This game was also recently banned from streaming on .Answer: Yandere Simulator15. (Movies) The Rom-Com distribution has spoken! Name some FTPE. [10] Arguably the most classy Rom-Com, this ‘93 film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan features the memorable quote “Look, Annie... I love you. But let's leave that out of this.”Answer: Sleepless in Seattle [10] Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock star in this ‘95 Rom-Com. In this film, Bullock plays Lucy who pretends to be engaged to the unconscious Peter but ends up falling for his brother Jack. Answer: While You Were Sleeping [10] This Baltimore barf-inducing film features huge stars like Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Morgan Lily. Several characters in this ‘09 film including Gigi, Conor, and Alex learn about the signals the sexes send to each other because the plot must be advanced somehow.Answer: He’s Just Not That Into You16. (Sports) Everyone loves a Cinderella during March Madness, so identify some famous Cinderellas for 10 points each. [10] This Atlantic-10 university is known as a giant slayer for its March victories as a 15, 14, 13 and 12 seed. In 1991, this team beat 2 seed Syracuse in the first round.Answer: Richmond University [10] Coached by current Celtics coach Brad Stevens, this Indiana school was probably the most successful Cinderella and made the Championship game in both 2010 and 2011. Only a few inches from a half-court game winner against Duke, Gordon Hayward played for this university. Answer: Butler University [10] In 2006, this university made the Final Four, but the lost to the Florida Gators, who would later win the championship. This team was then coached by Jim Larranaga who used his success at this school to get the head coaching gig at the University of Miami.Answer: George Mason University 17. (Music) Identify some things about ska music because Fuck This Packet for 10 points each. [10] This punny ska band from Huntington Beach, created songs like “Sell Out” and “Beer”. This band became an underground hit after ska became unpopular. Aaron Barrett is the only remaining founding member of this band.Answer: Reel Big Fish [10] This hit from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones features a trumpet intro. In the music video for this song, the band plays in front a white background. “Never had to/knock on Wood” is said in this song, in reference to a traumatic experience.Answer: “The Impression That I Get” [10] This Orange County band is sort of ska but is really stupid. This band’s members like keyboardist Jimmy the Robot wore masks and capes. Their most famous song is probably “Super Rad!” and reeks of late 90s shit. Answer: The Aquabats 18. (TV) It’s always breakfast time, so identify some characters from Breaking Bad for 10 points each.[10] This character is Walt’s son and has Cerebral Palsy. He likes breakfast, and likes to learn how to drive Chrysler cars. Answer: Walt Jr. (accept “Flynn”) [10] This early Breaking Bad villain also appears in Better Call Saul as he takes care of his “Abuelita” and beats the shit out of Jimmy’s scummy associates. In Breaking Bad, this character snorts meth off a knife. Answer: Tuco Salamanca (prompt on “Salamanca”) [10] This character is one of Jesse’s stupid stoner friends along with “Combo” and Skinny Pete. This character and Skinny Pete use laser pointers to scare the Schwartz family in Season 5. Earlier, this character gets busted by the DEA for dealing drugs.Answer: Brandon “Badger” Mayhew (accept “Brandon” or “Mayhew”, I guess) 19. (Misc) NAQT once had a super stupid XKCD tossup that pretty much cost a writer of this packet a game… Avenge his team’s loss for 10 points each by answering some questions about web comics that aren’t XKCD[10] This award-winning webcomic created by Canadian Kate Beaton sometimes features literary figures like one that has Jules Verne writing fan art to Edgar Allan Poe. She also writes comics based on famous literature covers.Answer: Hark! A Vagrant[10] This comic, hosted on , is a webcomic made by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, and Dave McElfatrick. This webcomic is known for its dark humor and bald characters. One panel features a firefighter who fights fires with his fists. Answer: Cyanide and Happiness[10] This serial sci-fi dramedy webcomic features romance, genderbending characters, aliens and interdimensional villains. This webcomic produced by Dan Shive features characters like Ellen, who is the female duplicate of Elliot, and the shapeshifting Grace. Answer: El Goonish Shive 20. (Sports) FTPE, name some MLB players who got big contracts but the team didn’t get their money’s worth for various reasons.[10] This Yankees infielder and former Ranger and Mariner was suspended 162 games in 2014 for performance enhancing drugs, being injured and being an asshole. He signed a 10 Year/275 million dollar deal in 2007 that shows how stupid these contracts are. Answer: Alex Rodriguez (accept “A-Rod”, prompt on “Rodriquez”)[10] The BoSox signed this former Rays outfielder in 2011 to a 7 year/142 Million dollar deal. Thankfully for Boston, he was traded to the Dodgers in 2012 for a move that freed enough salary for Boston to win the World Series the next season. In 2015, this player played in 69 games but earned over 21 mill. Answer: Carl Crawford [10] This legendary bad contract guy is set to receive money from the Mets until his age 71 season in 2035. Inflation helps the Mets, I guess, but what the fuck? This retired first baseman last played in 2001 for the St. Louis Cardinals. Mets owner Fred Wilpon’s friend and business guru Bernie Madoff assured Wilpon that this player’s deal would look genius with Madoff’s double digit returns. Answer: Bobby Bonilla ................
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