Trash Quizbowl Packet Archive



More musical elements – Will NedigerThe answers in this packet are all elements of songs; they might be lyrical snippets, melodies, or whatever. To get points, players must produce (hum, sing, whatever) the relevant element – you can prompt on descriptions. Because of this, many of the answerlines are fairly useless. If you’re doing a reading of this packet, the reader should look over the answerlines first to familiarize themselves with them, and if necessary listen to the songs. I’ve also included time-stamped YouTube links in the answerlines, so you can play them in the case of a dead tossup. There are no powers, but if you want you can give 15 points to people who give a particularly spirited rendition of the element.1. A March 2019 tweet by “jules” presents this element as a “quick grammar lesson.” In the music video, the singer of this element points to himself and then to the sky at the end of this element, as the band members stand in front of an airplane. In the cold opening of a TV episode, the four lines in this element are performed separately by four different people before the song is continued in unison, allowing a woman to identify the man who killed her brother. Four people in a police lineup perform this element in that scene from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Later in the song, this element is repeated with the first line turned into a question and the third line replaced with “Yes, I know it’s too late.” This element is followed by the lines “But we are two worlds apart, can’t reach to your heart” in a song whose chorus repeats the plea “Tell me why.” For 10 points, produce the first four lines of The Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way.”ANSWER: You are my fire / The one desire / Believe me when I say / I want it that way 2. Paul Leka wrote this element because he needed a chorus for a song that he wrote with Dale Frashuer and Gary DeCarlo as members of a doo-wop group called the Glenwoods. This element precedes the lyrics “He’ll never love you the way that I love you, ‘cause if he did, no no, he wouldn’t make you cry.” Nancy Faust was awarded an RIAA gold record for her role in popularizing this element, which she did as an organist for the Chicago White Sox. This element opens a song which was originally attributed to a fictitious band called Steam, and which was covered by Bananarama in 1983. This element is often sung by sports fans when a member of the opposing team is ejected. For 10 points, produce the chorus of the song “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.”ANSWER: Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye 3. This element is sampled in a song whose singer wears a pink leotard in the music video, which is an homage to John Travolta. This element precedes a verse which laments that “movie stars find the end of the rainbow with a fortune to win, it’s so different from the world I’m living in.” Both a sample of this element and the sound of a ticking clock prominently feature in a song which repeats “Time goes by so slowly.” This element repeats and fades out after the final repetition of a chorus which ends “Take me through the darkness to the break of the day” in a song subtitled “A Man After Midnight.” Though the band behind this element very rarely allows samples, this element is sampled in Madonna’s “Hung Up.” For 10 points, produce the synth riff from ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”PROMPT ON: the synthesizer riff from ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” 4. The Genius page for the song named after this element contains no annotations, and only a single comment stating that the “lyrics are straight fire.” In another appearance, this vocal element follows a series of prophecies, one of which predicts that “near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.” On a webpage created by Rico Monkeon, you can hear this vocal element playing over a random selection of GIFs. This element is sung by Albert de Ruiter over what Wikipedia hopefully accurately describes as a four-bar organ-passacaglia bassline. This element can be heard over a slowly zooming-out shot of a cave painting which dissolves to a slow-motion explosion. This element means “life out of balance” in Hopi. For 10 points, solemnly intone this word from the Philip Glass soundtrack to a 1982 Godfrey Reggio film.ANSWER: Koyaanisqatsi 5. A less profane version of the song titled for this element describes a ten-layer cake that Daisy baked for Donald Duck’s birthday party. This element is practically the same as the title of a song released two months earlier by 95 South, and the band behind this element responded to plagiarism accusations by claiming that this element was coined by strippers from Florida working in Atlanta. Although this element arguably consists of four words, the song notes that “these three words mean you’re gettin’ busy.” In a scene from Elf, Buddy dances to a song titled for this element on top of a table in the mail room. DC the Brain Supreme and Steve Roll’n intersperse this element with the encouragements “come on y’all” and “a little louder.” For 10 points, produce the title phrase of a 1993 hit by the Miami bass group Tag Team.ANSWER: Whoomp! There it is 6. This element is the main synth hook on Thomas Dolby’s “Europa and the Pirate Twins.” The drummer Jerry Allison plays a variant on this element on Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” The tremolo effect on The Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now?” was largely inspired by this element as heard in the song “Mona.” This element accompanies the lyrics “I reconsider my foolish notion, well I need someone to hold me but I wait for something more.” This element, which is a 3-2 clave rhythm reminiscent of the hambone folk tradition, is accompanied by maracas on the 1955 rhythm and blues single that gives it its name. The hundreds of songs that use this element include George Michael’s “Faith” and Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy.” For 10 points, produce the rhythm known as the Bo Diddley beat.PROMPT ON: Bo Diddley beat 7. The musician who sampled this element gave a hungover Rich Harrison two hours to write a song based on it, because at first she considered this element too retro. This element opens a song that states “Seems to be a misunderstanding ‘bout who you belong to” and repeats “I’m so tired, well you set my soul on fire”; that song is “Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)” by The Chi-Lites. In the music video, the singer dances while being soaked in water while this element plays, because she has just kicked the top off of a fire hydrant. The singer asks “You ready?” just before a vocal hook based on the phrase “uh-oh” takes over from this element. Over this element, the featured artist mentions “history in the making part two.” While this element plays, Jay-Z says “Yes, so crazy right now.” For 10 points, produce the iconic horn hook from Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love.”PROMPT ON: the horn hook from Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” 8. A scene in which the performer sings this element while driving is the structural jumping-off point for Paul Morley’s book Words and Music, in which the performer of this element travels to the “city of pop” accompanied by people like Masami Akita and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In that scene, the performer sings this element while driving a yellow De Tomaso Mangusta over a futuristic-looking bridge. A song beginning with this element can be heard emanating from an apartment party in the film Holy Motors, in which the song’s artist appears. In the music video, red-and-black-clad dancers wear hollow cylinders on their heads and dance behind the performer of this element, who wears a hooded white jumpsuit with an extraordinarily low neckline. This element is serves as the chorus of the lead single from the 2001 album Fever, which begs the addressee to “stay forever and ever and ever and ever” and tells him “boy, your loving is all I think about.” For 10 points, produce the wordless chorus of Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.”ANSWER: la la la, la la la la la 9. This element was based on a sped-up version of the line “There is nothing I can do” from Albert King’s recording of “The Years Go Passing By.” Tom Dowd spliced together a movement beginning with this element and a movement credited to Jim Gordon even though it may have actually been written by Gordon’s girlfriend, Rita Coolidge. The performer says “See if you can spot this one” to introduce an acoustic variant of this element on the 1992 album Unplugged. This element was written by Duane Allman, who performed its first seven notes fretted and its last five notes on slide. This element opens a song inspired by a poem by Nizami, which joins “other assorted love songs” on a 1970 album. For 10 points, produce the opening guitar riff from Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla.”PROMPT ON: the opening guitar riff from “Layla” 10. In its original appearance, this element follows the line “The answer is there,” and is spoken by Mr. Meek, a medium claiming to be channeling Professor Harrington, who is played by Maurice Denham. In a music video inspired by The 39 Steps, this element is mouthed by a man in a brown suit and a brown hat whose head pops up into the frame, before a cut to that man running through a hallway. This element, which is sampled from the horror film Night of the Demon, is referenced in a lyric followed by the plea “Help me darling, help me please.” This element precedes the lines “When I was a child, running in the night, afraid of what might be” at the beginning of a song which repeats “Take my shoes off and throw them in the lake, and I’ll be two steps on the water.” For 10 points, produce this warning sampled at the beginning of Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love.”ANSWER: It’s in the trees! It’s coming! 11. This element is sung by the tenor and bass parts in a chorale based on a traditional Czech song in the original version composed by Katherine Kennicott Davis. In a 1982 duet, one performer’s snippets like “And your child too” and “When men of good will live in peace” line up with this element being sung by the other performer. In that duet, Bing Crosby sings a song repeating this element while David Bowie sings “Peace on Earth” in counterpoint. This element follows lines like “The ox and lamb kept time.” If you hear a song which incessantly repeats this element at any time between Black Friday and Christmas Eve, you automatically lose that song’s namesake “challenge.” This element follows the lines “Come they told me” and “A newborn king to see.” For 10 points, produce the imitation of a drumbeat in “The Little Drummer Boy.”ANSWER: pa-rum-pum-pum-pum 12. In an attempt to determine the provenance of this element, a Newsweek reader performed a spectrographic analysis pointing to the “squareness” of the wobbles in one of the proposed sources. According to WhoSampled, this element comes from the Junior & the All Stars song “Shoot Your Shot,” but Anil Dash and Questlove have both argued that it samples Prince’s “Gett Off.” This element is repeated eight times before the lyrics “Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin, I came to win, battle me, that’s a sin.” This element repeats at the beginning of every bar in the background as Everlast says “I came to get down, I came to get down, so get out your seat and” perform the title action. For 10 points, produce a reasonable approximation of the high-pitching squealing sound heard repeatedly in House of Pain’s “Jump Around.”PROMPT ON: the squeal from “Jump Around” 13. At one point in the writing of the song, this element had the lyrics “Foam Rubber, USA.” The eventual lyrics to this element came from a phrase chanted by audience members at P-Funk concerts, which is fitting because P-Funk’s Bernie Worrell performed live with the band that created this element. In a concert film, the lead singer and the guitarist and backup vocalist Alex Weir run in place, lifting their knees really high, in between the last two instances of this element. That occurs during the first song to feature the entire band in the film Stop Making Sense. This element is chanted after lines like “I’m an ordinary guy,” “There has got to be a way,” and “Three hundred sixty-five degrees.” For 10 points, produce the title line of a Talking Heads hit with an arson-related title.ANSWER: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE! 14. This element is presumably performed by Salma Kenas, since she’s the only female vocalist listed in the liner notes for the song, though I can’t actually find any clear confirmation on the internet. This element is repeated by a woman in an outro accompanied by a sample of Aphex Twin’s “Avril 14th.” This element refers to things like “how to put some motherfucking Jimmy Choos on.” This element’s last occurrence follows a monologue whose speaker exclaims that “Twista had this motherfucker on in The Source!” in reference to a watch with a bezel. This element is repeated by a character who presumably represents Amber Rose in response to questions posed by Chris Rock. For 10 points, produce the three-word phrase repeated by a woman in the skit at the end of Kanye’s “Blame Game.”ANSWER: Yeezy taught me 15. This element is eliminated in Limp Bizkit’s cover, which is a medley with M?tley Crüe’s “Home Sweet Home.” In the outro, this element plays while lines like “It’s just sex and violence, melody and silence” can be heard in the background. This element is sampled from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra’s recording of “The Last Time,” based on the Rolling Stones song of the same name; thanks to a series of court cases, songwriter Richard Ashcroft now receives much fewer royalties than Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for the song. On the opening track of the album Urban Hymns, this element, this element accompanies a chorus beginning “No change, I can change, I can change, I can change, but I’m here in my mould” after a verse complaining that “trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die.” For 10 points, produce the string melody from The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony.”PROMPT ON: the string melody from “Bitter Sweet Symphony” 16. At one point in Ulysses, Bloom recalls a “bazaar dance when May’s band played” this element, prompting him to remember “girls in grey gauze” and “black with daggers and eyemasks.” In a Spike Jones song, this element is followed by “Doodles Weaver” delivering rapidfire commentary on the Indianapolis 500. The melody of Nancy Sinatra’s “Like I Do” is based on this element. This element is used in Allan Sherman’s biggest hit, which includes lyrics like “And the head coach wants no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses” and “I went hiking with Joe Spivey, he developed poison ivy.” This element comes from the Act 3 finale of the opera La Gioconda, and is used in the novelty song “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh.” For 10 points, produce the melody of Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours.”PROMPT ON: the melody of “Dance of the Hours” 17. The composer best known for writing this element shot himself in the head because the coin he flipped to decide whether to drown himself or hang himself landed with its edge stuck in the clay; according to Wikipedia, that suicide was occasioned by his love for a woman who “was out of his league in every way.” For unknown reasons, this element is called “The Temple” in John Gay’s Polly, whose final chorus uses a variation on this element. The sound collage that ends a 1969 song quotes both this element and lyrics from the Merseys’ hit single “Sorrow” about “your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue.” This element, which is quoted near the end of The Beatles’ “It’s All Too Much,” plays in the background during the fadeout section of Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping.” During World War II, this element opened BBC broadcasts that were directed to a certain German-occupied country. For 10 points, produce the opening melody of Jeremiah Clarke’s “Prince of Denmark’s March,” also known as “Trumpet Voluntary.”PROMPT ON: the opening melody of “Prince of Denmark’s March” [or the opening melody of “Trumpet Voluntary”] 18. An early version of this element is performed by a German woman named Alexandra Müller at the beginning of a fairly disturbing 2007 video in which she sings and claps her hands increasingly frenetically over the course of the video. Johnny Only, who made a so-called “non-dismemberment version” of a song beginning with this element in 2011, took the company SmartStudy to court over the ownership of that song. This is the first element performed by a boy wearing a shirt with blue and white Charlie Brown stripes, who has a red-and-white-striped animated object around his waist. This lyrical element is preceded by a snippet of the New World Symphony which is reminiscent of a certain movie theme. In a video made by Pinkfong, the first three words of this element are replaced by words like “Safe at last” and “It’s the end” in later repetitions. For 10 points, produce the obnoxiously catchy opening of a ridiculously popular children’s song about a family of sharks.ANSWER: baby shark doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo 19. In a song named for this element, it describes what happens because “Girl, I’m done with you, girl, we done, it’s through.” This element follows the line “Drop a pin, send a location” in Travis Scott’s chorus on 2 Chainz’ song “4 AM.” A song named for this element describes “stray bullets hitting kids while they playing hop scotch” and includes an outro that repeats the line “slaughter your daughter” twice. Quavo’s verse in DJ Khaled’s “No Brainer” repeats this element after the line “But when you’re ridin’ in the drop, you can’t explain it”; it also follows lines like “Hop in the Lamb, have a drag race” in “Bad and Boujee.” For 10 points, produce this hip-hop ad-lib which imitates the sound of a car’s wheels screeching.ANSWER: skrrt 20. Note to players: Answer does not have to be exact. This lyrical element can be heard in the background near the end of a Neil Cicierega song which mashes up Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing” with parts of a movie soundtrack. This element is performed by Lebo M. in a song which also features vocals from Carmen Twillie. The repetition of this element is followed by a line meaning “We’re going to conquer.” This is the first lyrical element of a song which describes how “there is far too much to take in here, more to find than can ever be found.” A song opening with this element appears in the trailer for a photorealistic computer animated 2019 Jon Favreau film which was confusingly described in the media as a “live-action remake.” In Zulu, this element literally means “Here comes a lion, father.” For 10 points, produce some reasonable approximation of the chant at the beginning of “The Circle of Life” from The Lion King.ANSWER: nants ingonyama bagithi Baba ................
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