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Seth Teitler Presents: An Intimate Engagement With TrashWritten and edited by David Seal, Nolan Esser and Brian McNamaraWith the generous participation of Michael Arnold and Tommy CasalaspiRound SevenTossups1. In one song, this artist claims that “I don’t own my clothes, but I own my mind.” That song is called “Wish I Stayed”. The music video for one song by this artist shows her covered by a red veil while singing lyrics like “You promised forever and a day/And then you take it all away.” Besides Figure 8, another hit from this artist’s most recent album contains the lines “After the war we said we’d fight together/I guess we thought that’s just what humans do”. That song is “Anything Could Happen” from the album Halcyon. In a recent collaboration with Calvin Harris, this artist declares that “I need to be free with you tonight” because “when everything’s wrong you make it right”. That song is called “I Need Your Love”. In her best-selling single to date, she claims that the title objects are calling her home. For ten points, name this artist, who performs the song “Lights”.ANSWER: Ellie Goulding2. This man beat Freddy Garcia to win his Rookie of the Year award. He replaced Ken Griffey, Jr. on the 2004 All-Star Game roster. Allen Baird once obtained a package that included Mark Teahen, Mike Wood and John Buck in exchange for this player. This man has the first ever regular season hit in Marlins Park. Along with Barry Bonds this man holds the record for most home runs in a single postseason. In the 2006 NLCS this man struck out against Adam Wainwright to end the series. He once hit a home run in five straight postseason games. The New York Mets acquired Zak Wheeler after trading this player, who joined the Mets after leaving the Astros. For ten points, name this Puerto Rican center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.ANSWER: Carlos Beltran3. This character met his wife playing Truth or Dare in a tree fort and he minored in Mongolian in college. In the episode “Over Logging” this character was caught masturbating to Brazilian fart porn. He once received a blowjob after taking his wife to see Wicked. This character was once a member of the Ghetto Avenue Boys and he also competed with Bono to see who could produce the world’s biggest shit. His half-brother Jimbo Kern once took this character’s son hunting near a volcano. This character once solved the problem of spontaneous human combustion, and on Wheel of Fortune this character once got the word “Naggers” wrong. For ten points, name this South Park character, a geologist who is the father of Stan.ANSWER: Randy Marsh4. They’re not the Chargers but one player on this team’s roster is the brother of Rob Gronkowski, Dan. This past season the Wikipedia page of one player for this team was edited to give him the nickname “Doopy Pantz.” This team finished 10-6 in 2007, but lost a tiebreaker to Tennessee for the final AFC playoff spot. This team recently hired Joe Banner as president, and they traded for Davone Bess this past offseason. Josh Gordon, a receiver for this team, is suspended for the first two games of next season. This team’s last playoff appearance was a 36-33 loss to Pittsburgh in 2003 and this team’s owner is currently under FBI investigation. They were outbid by the Redskins for the Rams pick that became RG3. For ten points, name this team that currently features players like Trent Richardson and Brandon Weeden.ANSWER: Cleveland Browns (accept either underlined part)5. In one film, this actor plays a man who steals a necklace for his mistress played by Jennifer Lopez. That film is Blood and Wine. In another film, this actor plays Will Randall, a literary editor who urinates on the shoes of a rival editor to “mark his territory”. In one role, this actor looked after a dog named Verdell for his neighbour Simon.This actor was nominated for both a Golden Globe and a Golden Raspberry for his role in Hoffa, and he played the author of The Iceman Cometh in Reds. One character played by this actor falls in love with Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. That character is the alcoholic astronaut Garrett Breedlove. For ten points, name this actor, who played author Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets and who told Tom Cruise that he couldn’t “handle the truth” in A Few Good Men.ANSWER: Jack Nicholson6. One unit sometimes found in the game, The Count, can be used to block “paratrooping.” One spinoff of this game is “The Ark of the Covenant, which draws from the Old Testament, and one expansion to this game is titled “The Princess and the Dragon,” which add things like fairy pieces. One feature in this game are cloisters and fields in this game get points when cities are completed next to them. The players in this game draw from seventy-one terrain tiles. It was created by Klaus Jurgen Wrede ?One type of piece in this game are sometimes referred to as “meeple” but are officially known as followers. ?For ten points, name this German board game, named for a medieval town in France. ANSWER: Carcassonne7. A British channel of this name that broadcast American wrestling like WCW and ECW ceased broadcasting on the first day of 2011. When the US channel with this name debuted in 1980, it was available two days a week, sharing time with the softcore porn channel Escapade. During the 2012 Olympic Games, this channel was responsible for covering most of the Table Tennis events. Flipping Out is a recent show on this channel, which is centered around Jeff Lewis. A host of a late-night talk show on this channel is actually a Senior Vice President for the channel. That show is Watch What Happens: Live and its host is Andy Cohen. Another show on this channel is Don’t Be Tardy..., which features Kim Zolciak. For ten points, identify this pop-culture and reality TV-oriented cable channel, home of the Real Housewives series.ANSWER: Bravo8. The title people of this show’s third episode share their names with a band who released the single “Let’s Go,” Matt & Kim. The title of this show comes from a shipping practice used to transport certain food products from Alaska to China without sacrificing taste. One of the only episodes to have a successful ending involved a transgender man going by the name Alyx as well as the website . Although Max Joseph is one of the hosts of the show, he tends to take a backseat to the other host, whose 2010 documentary of the same name became the genesis for the show. This show’s name became widely used during the recent scandal about Manti Teo’s nonexistent dead girlfriend. For ten points, identify this MTV show in which Nev Schulman investigates sketchy online relationships.ANSWER: Catfish: The TV Show9. Aliza Gur plays Vida and Martine Beswick plays Zora in this film. One character in this film says “he seems tough enough” after punching a character with brass knuckles. Pedro Armendariz plays a character who believes that “blood is the best security” in this film. One character in this film pretends to be a man named Nash and he orders red wine with fish. This movie features a catfight at a Gypsy camp. Lotte Lenya played one villain in this film, and that character was a former agent of SMERSH. That character is a lesbian who comes onto Daniela Bianchi’s character, Tatiana. The protagonist of this film fights Grant, played by Robert Shaw, on a train to Istanbul. For ten points, name this Bond film, the second to star Sean Connery.ANSWER: From Russia with Love10. This song was covered on the “Grilled Cheesus” episode of Glee by a recently deceased member of the cast. The symbolic images of this song’s video were supposedly inspired by the artistic works of Caravaggio as well as the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The video for this song also features images of an African-American angel and an androgynous St. Sebastian. The speaker of the song directs the listener to consider “the hint of the century” before asking, “What if all these fantasies come/flailing around?” This song is the second track on an album that includes the songs “Near Wild Heaven” and “Country Feedback” and is called Out of Time. Containing what is perhaps the most famous use of the mandolin in popular music, this is for ten points, what 1991 R.E.M. hit that is ostensibly about waning spiritual faith.ANSWER: Losing My Religion11. One character in this film claims that he has been rejected from the army and shoved into a Dora The Explorer backpack. Another character in this film is Cynthia-Rose, played by Ester Dean, who wrote Rihanna’s S&M. One character in this movie attempts to woo the protagonist by showing her The Breakfast Club. One of the antagonists in this film drops out of school to work for John Mayer. Elizabeth Banks plays ICCA commentator Gail Abernathy-McKadden in this film, which she also produced. This film opens with Anna Camp’s character vomiting during a performance of Ace of Base’s “The Sign.” Rebel Wilson plays Fat Amy, who is a member of the Barden Bellas, which the protagonist joins after performing “Cups.” For ten points, name this 2012 film starring Anna Kendrick as an a capella singer.ANSWER: Pitch Perfect12. One remix of this song features a verse in which T-Pain claims that “If you say you saw me and I wasn’t flying, that’s absurd” and the music video for this song opens with a shot of a to-do list which includes buying champagne before attending a party at The Social Trust which requires a handprint scan to get in. This song beseeches its listeners to “take that bottle to the head and let me see you fly” and claims that the “808 bump” makes you “put your hands up.” This song’s artist claims that “when sober girls around me, they be actin’ like they drunk”, and Dev sings this song’s chorus, which talks of “poppin’ bottles in the ice like a blizzard”. For ten points, name this terrible song which asserts that the “right” way to drink is to get “slizzered”, performed by the Far East Movement.ANSWER: “Like a G6”13. Pinstripe games is running a kickstarter campaign to get a sequel to this game. The first boss in this game, Karnov, is named after an older Data East game, and Killer Joe is another boss in this game. In Parenthood Steve Martin asks his son why this game is so difficult. Sodas are used to recover lost health in this game. Blade and Stryker are the player characters in this game. The final boss of this game is the Dragon Ninja, who is the leader of a group of kidnappers. At the end of this game the players celebrate by eating burgers with President Ronnie. For ten points, name this beat-em-up that asks if you are enough of the title type of person.ANSWER: Bad Dudes v. Dragon Ninja14. One player in this game described re-watching it as like “looking at a Salvador Dali painting.” Devin Green replaced one player in this game for the last four seconds. On the same day this game occurred the Suns and Sonics set a record for most 3 pointers in a game. Mike James was the leading scorer for the losing team in this game and Smush Parker scored 13 points for the winning team. In describing one player in this game Chris Bosh said, “we were just watching him shoot,” and that player went 28-46 from the field. For ten points, name this 2006 game in which a player scored the second most points in a single game in NBA history.ANSWER: Kobe Bryant’s 81 Point Game15. In Bastion the first weapon the player acquires is one of these and in Red Faction: Guerilla players can unlock one of them that is actually just an ostrich. Poppy from League of Legends uses one of these weapons and in Assassin’s Creed II, players can buy the Condottiero one of these. In the first generation of Pokemon Krabby and Kingler were the only pokemon who could use a move named for a crab one of these. King Dedede utilizes one of these weapons. These weapons provide the name for a pair of koopa brothers that throw them at Mario. For ten points, name these items that in Donkey Kong allow Mario to destroy barrels.ANSWER: Hammers16. This person directed an episode of Tales From The Dark Side in which a couple receives a box which contains a human soul in the mail, as well as a film in which Robert Downey Jr tries to set up his sister with a man named Leo at a Thanksgiving gathering. This actress played Anna Leonowens opposite Chow-Yun Fat in Anna and the King, and she also played the mother of a seven year old genius who enrolls in university in Little Man Tate. One character played by this actress meets an alien who looks like her father. That character is Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact. After Miggs insults a character played by this woman, he is convinced to kill himself by a fellow inmate at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. For ten points, name this actress, who played Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.ANSWER: Jodie Foster17. The nail polish named for this song is the “perfect way to add a bit of gloss to your look without going over the top.” The video for this song contains a scene inspired by a Brian DePalma film. One character in this song teaches another “how to shoot a combo” and that character buys three dollars of bathroom cologne according to the singer. It appears on the album Some Hearts, its singer’s debut album. One woman in this song likes fruity drinks because she can’t shoot whiskey, and sings Shania Twain karaoke. In the video for this song the singer wields a Louisville Slugger and it repeats the phrase “right now” in its verses. The singer of this song carves her name into the seats of her boyfriend’s four-wheel drive. For ten points, name this 2007 Carrie Underwood song. ?ANSWER: “Before He Cheats” ??18. This man will play Confederate General John B. Gordon in HBO’s To Appomattox and he played Jim Hill on 24. Jimmy Fennig serves as the Crew Chief for this driver. In 2007 he won the Busch Series and this driver was the 2003 Raybestos Rookie of the Year in the Craftsman Series. He won this years Subway Fresh Fit 500 and in 2005 he won his first Sprint Cup race, the Golden Corral 500. In 2008 he won a season high nine races, including the season finale, but he still finished second to Jimmie Johnson. In 2011 he finished second in Sprint Cup standings, after losing a tiebreaker to Tony Stewart, and he drives the No. 99 AFLAC car. For ten points, name this NASCAR driver, known for doing a backflip off his car after victories.ANSWER: Carl Edwards19. This man attended Haverford College and one time while staying at a hotel this character was annoyed by an Icelandic group staying on his floor. He once discovered that Chester Desmond’s car had been vandalized with the phrase “Let’s Rock. ”This character once had an affair with Caroline Earle, and he worked under Gordon Cole. He once fell in love with a woman who worked at the Double R. He addressed a woman named Diane when he spoke into his recorder, and The Man from Another Place helped him apprehend the evil BOB. For ten points, name this FBI agent who investigates the death of Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks.ANSWER: Dale Cooper20. This character gets in a brief discussion about how to pronounce “Shar-Pei.” Later, in an uncharacteristic action, this character drinks a milkshake at McDonalds. He lives on 81st street in the American Gardens Building in which he meets Tom Cruise in an elevator. This character gives monologues that were combined with scenes featuring newspapers, raincoats, and axes in a film adaptation of the novel this character appears in. Those monologues were about his opinions of Whitney Houston and Huey Lewis and the News. He is an extremely unreliable narrator who observes a talking Cheerio as well an ATM which asks to be fed a stray cat. For ten points, identify this Wall Street denizen and serial killer, who is Bret Easton Ellis’s titular “American Psycho.”ANSWER: Patrick BatemanBonuses1. Their members protect the entire galaxy, which they divide into 3600 sectors. For ten points each:[10]Name this intergalactic police force, whose powers are resistant to the colour yellow, and whose members have included Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Killowog.ANSWER: The Green Lantern Corps[10]The Green Lantern Corps’ headquarters is on this planet, where their leaders, the Guardians of the Universe, live.ANSWER: Oa[10]This member of the Green Lantern Corps passed his ring on to Hal Jordan, making him the first human Green Lantern. He is later resurrected during the Blackest Night storyline.ANSWER: Abin Sur2. Corey Webster caught one of these that led to Lawrence Tynes game winning field go in the 2008 NFC Championship Game, and 317 of these were thrown.[10] Name these turnovers thrown by a retired quarterback.ANSWER: Brett Favre Interceptions[10] Favre threw an interception caught by this Saint late in the 2010 NFC Championship Game. He also scored the game clinching touchdown after intercepting Peyton Manning in Super Bowl XLIV.ANSWER: Tracy Porter[10] Favre holds the record for most interceptions in NFL history. Second on that list is this former Raiders, Oilers and Bears quarterback and placekicker. He also holds the record for most interceptions in a season with 42.ANSWER: George Blanda3. For ten points each, identify the following instances of strings appearing in popular music.[10]. This Beatles song about a woman who “picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been” features no instruments played by the Beatles and the vocals are only backed by a string ensemble.ANSWER “Eleanor Rigby”[10]. This band encountered both critical success and a lawsuit after they sampled an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones’s “The Last Time” on their song “Bittersweet Symphony.”ANSWER: The Verve[10]. Strings are prominently featured on this 1972 Randy Newman album on such tracks as “He Gives Us All His Love,” as well as the title track about slavery which notes that “In America, we get food to eat.”ANSWER: Sail Away4. One music video by this band features its lead singer and Jack Black trashing a hotel room. For ten points each:[10]Name this band, who have had hits like “One By One” and “Monkey Wrench,” fronted by the drummer from Nirvana.ANSWER: The Foo Fighters [10]This is the title of the band’s most recent album, which won the 2012 Grammy for Best Rock Album, and which has spawned hits like “Rope” and “Walk”.ANSWER: Wasting Light[10]For the recording of Wasting Light, this guitarist rejoined the band permanently. He had previously toured with Nirvana, and was a member of the influential 80s punk band The Germs.ANSWER: Pat Smear (accept Georg Ruthenberg)5. One of the founders of this website, Ryan Davis, recently passed away, and it calls itself the “Largest Video Game Database Online.”[10] For ten points, name this video game site that was founded by Jeff Gerstmann after leaving Gamespot.ANSWER: Giant Bomb[10] Gerstmann left Gamespot after he gave this game a bad review. The sequel to this game is titled Dog Days and it is named for two death row inmantes.ANSWER: Kane & Lynch: Dead Men[10] Part of the reason for Gerstmann’s firing was a review one of his writers gave to a game in this series. This series is named for a lombax and his robot compatriot, and it also features the oafish Captain Qwark.ANSWER: Ratchet and Clank6. Sometimes musicians write the scores to movies. Answer some questions about those who do, for ten points each:[10]Jonny Greenwood, who is the guitarist for this Thom Yorke-fronted British band has enjoyed success working with Paul Thomas Anderson on films like The Master and There Will Be Blood.ANSWER: Radiohead[10]The Chemical Brothers provided the score for this 2011 Joe Wright film about a teenaged assassin who wreaks havoc on the CIA throughout Europe.ANSWER: Hanna[10]This one-time bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers has written the music for several Steven Soderbergh films, as well as the Ryan Gosling hit Drive.ANSWER: Cliff Martinez7. The author of this book details the formation of a romantic relationship with a Brazilian businessman in the last part of this book, based on events that happened shortly after her divorce.[10] For ten points, name this 2006 memoir in which Elizabeth Gilbert travels to India, Italy and Indonesia.ANSWER: Eat, Pray, Love[10] Diane Lane played the protagonist in the 2003 film adaptation of this memoir, in which Frances Mayes acquires a villa in Italy.ANSWER: Under the Tuscan Sun[10] E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View is about this young woman, who starts the novel in Florence with her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Helena Bonham Carter played her in the 1985 Merchant-Ivory adaptation.ANSWER: Lucy Honeychurch (accept either)8. She starred as the daughter of a pornographer in the short-lived television series Skin. For ten points each:[10]Name this actress, who rose to fame playing Dr. Remy “13” Hadley on the medical drama House.ANSWER: Olivia Wilde[10]Before appearing on House, Wilde played Jenny, a friend to a family of Irishmen with mob ties on this 2007 NBC series.ANSWER: The Black Donnellys[10]The Black Donnellys was created by this man, whose other television credits include Walker, Texas Ranger and Due South. He also directed the Academy Award-winning film Crash.ANSWER: Paul Haggis9. At the time of the writing of this question, she had just entered a luxury rehab program for alcohol abuse. For ten points each, identify the following about a reality TV star who is only famous for her constant bad decisions.[10]. First, identify this 22 year old walking mistake who recently sold a sex tape featuring her and porn star James Deen for a million dollars. She took her three year old daughter into negotiations for the sale of the tape. First or last name acceptable.ANSWER: Farrah Abraham[10]. Farrah Abraham was one of the original four adolescent women whose experiences with their children comprised the first iteration of this MTV hit show. The other three characters on this show were Maci, Catelynn, and the godawful Amber Portwood.ANSWER: Teen Mom (don’t accept “Teen Mom 2” or anything other than those two underlined words).[10] Of course, Farrah has made a regrettable foray into pop music. Released in August 2012, this album received surprisingly mixed reviews, with some sources citing it as an example of “outsider art.” Tracks include “Finally Getting Up from Rock Bottom” and all tracks share names with chapters from her book of the same name.ANSWER: My Teenage Dream Ended10. He has had hits with songs like “Just The Two Of Us” and “Gettin’ Jiggy With It”. For ten points each.[10] Name this rapper, whose famous Horatio Alger-esque sitcom theme tells “how [he] became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.”ANSWER: Will Smith[10] In Smith’s early solo career, he collaborated under the alias “The Fresh Prince” with this DJ on albums like He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper and Homebase. He also made cameos on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.ANSWER: DJ Jazzy Jeff (accept: Jeffrey Alan Townes)[10] This song by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince features music from a Kool & The Gang song while Smith raps about “Riding around in your Jeep or your Benzos” and “Honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes”.ANSWER: “Summertime”11. No one likes Flo Rida, but everyone likes the other people he sings with. Answer the following questions about his collaborators FTPE:[10] One of Flo Rida’s earliest hits was “Right Round,” which featured this singer. Her recent album Warrior featured songs like “Die Young” and “C’Mon.”ANSWER: Ke$ha or Kesha Sebert ?????????[10] Flo Rida raps lines like “Maybe I’m insane/Cause I keep doing the same damn thing” in his guest verse on this Olly Murs song from the album Right Place Right Time.ANSWER: “Troublemaker”[10] This Flo Rida song samples a similarly named song by The Bingo Players. In it he says “Can’t let go got fans in Okinawa/My heart to Japan quake losers and survivors.”ANSWER: “I Cry”12. This series’ theme song was “After the Sun Goes Down” which was performed by Lou Rawls, who starred on the first season of it.[10] For ten points, name this 1995-1997 spinoff series. It became a science fiction series in its second season.ANSWER: Baywatch Nights[10] The lead on Baywatch Nights was Mitch Buchannon. He was played by this actor, who also played Michael on Knight Rider.ANSWER: David Hasselhoff[10] This actress played detective Ryan McBride on Baywatch Nights. Jason Sehorn proposed to her on The Tonight Show and she currently plays Detective Jane Rizzoli on Rizzoli and Isles.ANSWER: Angie Harmon13. He was recently suspended indefinitely from his basketball team following an incident involving his possession of marijuana and cocaine. For ten points, identify the following about a controversial basketball player.[10]. First, name this player, a charismatic shooting guard who lead the SEC in scoring last season and became known for an incident in which he taunted the Auburn fan section.ANSWER: Marshall Henderson[10]. Until his suspension, Marshall Henderson played for Ole Miss, which is currently coached by this man. Before coming to Mississippi in 2006, this man was the interim for Cincinnati after Bob Huggins left.ANSWER: Andy Kennedy[10]. Before playing for Kennedy at Ole Miss, Henderson spent a season on the bench at this school after he transferred there from Utah. This school has had three coaches since 2008, including a single season from Billy Gillispie.ANSWER: Texas Tech ?14. For ten points each, identify the following about a famous director and screenwriter.[10]. First, name this auteur who is responsible for directing such films as Carrie, Mission to Mars and Scarface.ANSWER: Brian De Palma[10]One of De Palma’s lesser-received films was this drama starring Michael J. Fox as a Vietnam soldier whose superior officer, played by Sean Penn, perpetrates some horrible sex crimes.ANSWER: Casualties of War[10]. Aside from Scarface, De Palma also helped to write this famous block of text that opens with the line, “It is a period of civil war.”ANSWER: The opening crawl of Star Wars: A New Hope (accept similar answers).15. This actor played Juror Number 8, the lone initial holdout in Twelve Angry Men. For ten points each:[10]Name this actor, who also starred in film adaptations of War and Peace as Pierre Bezhukov and The Grapes of Wrath as Tom Joad.ANSWER: Henry Fonda[10]Fonda played against type as Frank, a hired killer who squares off against the Charles Bronson-played Harmonica in this Sergio Leone film.ANSWER: Once Upon A Time In The West[10]Fonda played the President of the United States, who is forced to confront a Soviet nuclear threat after a malfunction at the Strategic Air Command triggers a nuclear bombing in this Sidney Lumet film.ANSWER: Fail-Safe16. This line is most famously spoken by a man played by Dorien Wilson, formerly of The Parkers, and that man’s two children ask him a similar question after observing his empty plate.[10] For ten points, name this recent commercial slogan.ANSWER: “I ate the bones?!”[10] “I ate the bones?!” is a slogan for this fast food chain. Conan O’Brien had a morbidly obese version of their mascot, Colonel Sanders, attempt to dunk a basketball on a recent episode.ANSWER: Kentucky Fried Chicken[10] The “I ate the bones?!” commercials were directed by this director, better known for getting into screaming matches with actors like George Clooney or Lily Tomlin on the sets of Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees.ANSWER: David O. Russell17. This man is currently the leader of the nation that will host the next Olympic Games, and the Bush administration allegedly told one man to call an item taken by this man a gift.[10] For ten points, name this world leader who was accused of stealing one of Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl rings.ANSWER: Vladimir Putin[10] Putin is an expert in this Japanese martial art that derives from jujitsu. Dr. Jigoro Kano created this martial art 1882.ANSWER: Judo[10] In 2009 Putin was photographed swimming in a Russian lake using this stroke, in which the swimmer rotates both arms simultaneously and performs a double leg kick.ANSWER: Fly Stroke18. It introduced the characters Lumpy, Itchy, and Malla as well another, more famous character. For ten points each, answer the following about an infamous television special featuring Han Solo and Princess Leia.[10]. Set on the Wookie home planet of Kashyyyk and centering on Chewbacca’s family, this TV special broadcast on November 17th, 1978 has never been rebroadcast or released on video.ANSWER: The Star Wars Holiday Special[10]. Because Wookies are obviously unholy pagan creatures and wouldn’t celebrate Christmas or Hanukah or anything like that, The Star Wars Holiday Special centers around this exceedingly generic-sounding holiday. At the end of the special, Princess Leia sings a song describing the holiday as “A day of joy we all can share/together joyously.”ANSWER: Life Day[10]. Despite being mostly regarded as non-canonical, The Star Wars Holiday Special did feature the first appearance of this bounty hunter in an animated segment of the special. He eventually fell into the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi.ANSWER: Boba Fett19. Daniel Radcliffe hasn’t just portrayed Harry Potter. For ten points each, identify the following about his acting oeuvre which shows him becoming an increasingly legit actor.[10]One of Radcliffe’s pre-HP roles was in a 1999 BBC TV movie version of this Dickens work. He played the young version of the title character, while Ian McKellan played Mr. Creakle, and Nicholas Lyndhurst played Uriah Heep.ANSWER: David Copperfield[10]After David Copperfield and the Harry Potter series, Radcliffe did a nude scene at age 17 in a stage revival of this Peter Shaffer play which also featured his Harry Potter co-star Richard Griffifths.ANSWER: Equus[10]. Debuting earlier this year at Sundance and slated for an October US release, the upcoming film Kill Your Darlings, about the killing of David Kammerer by Lucian Carr features Radcliffe playing the role of this Beat poet.ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg20. This player won the 1933 Triple Crown, his second of two consecutive MVP seasons, and he was mentioned with Babe Ruth in the Ogden Nash poem “Lineup for Yesterday.”[10] For ten points, name this slugger nicknamed “The Beast,” who became the second player to hit 500 home runs.ANSWER: Jimmie Foxx[10] Foxx spent the first half of his career with this team. He won the 1929 and 1930 World Series with them and their owner Connie Mack sold him to the Red Sox.ANSWER: Philadelphia Athletics or A’s[10] Foxx began his career playing for a minor league team managed by this former A’s great. He was part of the $100,000 infield and got his nickname for two game winning hits he got in the 1911 World Series.ANSWER: Frank “Home Run” Baker ................
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