2010 TRASHionals

Round 05

Bonuses

1. It seems like they always keep the baby on TV. For ten points each:

  1. Name the sitcom that debuted in 2009 about a movie critic who decides to give birth after hooking up with a chef for a one night stand.
    Answer:Accidentally on Purpose
  2. Name the star of Accidentally On Purpose, who plays Billie Chase.
    Answer: Jenna Elfman
  3. The show is based on a memoir, subtitled "The True Tale of a Happy Single Mother", by this journalist.
    Answer: Mary F. Pols

2. Bad sexual behavior from NFL stars through the ages for ten points each

  1. This thick-headed Steeler quaretback dodged his second sexual assault charge in as many years by having charges thrown out because everyone involved was too drunk to remember anything in Milledgeville, Georgia
    Answer: Ben Roethlisberger
  2. This USC alum was taken second overall by the Raiders in 1997 but was suspended for substance abuse when he allegedly roofied a girl in 2002. He died in a car crash in 2005.
    Answer: Darrell Russell
  3. This Cowboy all-pro receiver blamed reading Orwell's 1984 for his first public exposure to a minor charge, and blamed watching Kubrick's 2001 for his second exposure charge in 1970.
    Answer: "Let me show you my" Lance Rentzel

3. Fox has had a string of shows that lasted a season or less in the so-called "Friday night death slot". For ten points each:

  1. This 2009 casualty centered around Dr. Jack Gallagher, an unorthodox British psychiatrist in Los Angeles.
    Answer:Mental
  2. This 2004 show centered around a woman working in a gift shop who is told what to do by toy animals.
    Answer:Wonderfalls
  3. Lasting only three episodes, this 2008 series starred Parker Posey as a woman who asks her sister to serve as a surrogate mother.
    Answer: The Return of Jezebel James

4. For ten points each, answer these questions about animated features that spotlight crocodilians.

  1. Brutus and Nero, Miss Medusa's pet alligators, are outwitted by Bernard and Miss Bianca in this 1977 film.
    Answer:The Rescuers
  2. This character, the antagonist in a 1953 Disney movie, is deathly afraid of the crocodile that ate his left hand.
    Answer: Captain Hook
  3. Tvtropes.org coined the phrase "Big Lipped Alligator Moment" in honor of the "Let's Make Music Together" number performed by King Gator and Charlie in this 1989 Don Bluth film.
    Answer:All Dogs Go to Heaven

5. For ten points each name these high-profile baseball draft number one picks

  1. Given the nickname "Fastball Jesus" is this San Diego State All-American who signed with the Washington Nationals in 2009; but, started this season at the AA level
    Answer: Stephen Strasburg
  2. The first pick of the 1991 draft by the Yankees, this lefty never saw the majors as he damaged his arm throwing a punch
    Answer: Brien Taylor
  3. This lefty took the mound for the Rangers less than a month after his high school graduation ceremony in Houston. After winning his debut, he won only 10 more games in his five year career.
    Answer: David Clyde

6. In the UK he is known for his portrayals of Charles Dickens, including on an episode of Dr. Who. For ten points each:

  1. Name this man who played Schikaneder in Amadeus, the Master of Revels in Shakespeare in Love, and villainous consul Vincent Cadby in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls -- but isn't a judge on American Idol.
    Answer: Simon Callow
  2. Callow played Gareth, the gay friend whose death unites all the main characters, in this 1994 Richard Curtis-scripted romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant that featured multiple couples getting married.
    Answer:Four Weddings and a Funeral
  3. Callow authored a critical study of this film for the British Film Institute, as well as a biography of its director, Charles Laughton. It stars Robert Mitchum as sadistic preacher Harry Powell, who has "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed on his knuckles.
    Answer:The Night of the Hunter

7. Every year, the people who bring us the New Oxford American Dictionary name a new "Word of the Year". For ten points each:

  1. Name the 2009 Facebook-inspired word of the year.
    Answer:unfriend
  2. One finalist was this rhyming two-word phrase to describe a lower back tattoo.
    Answer:tramp stamp
  3. This term describes "a financial institution whose liabilities are greater than its assets, but which continues to operate because of government support".
    Answer:zombie bank

8. This man is portrayed by Joseph D. Kucan, and in Command and Conquer: Red Alert, he advises Joseph Stalin and betrays Nadia, killing her. For ten points each,

  1. Identify this supposedly immortal man, who committed the first murder in the world.
    Answer:Kane
  2. Kane is the leader of this faction in the Command and Conquer universe whose logo is a scorpion tail coiled within a triangle.
    Answer:Brotherhood of Nod
  3. This North African city is presumably the city where Abel's tomb is buried as the player discovers a sarcophagus detailing Kane s crime in Command & Conquer: Renegade.
    Answer:Cairo

9. Taylor Swift songs about love - which seems redundant - for ten points each.

  1. Swift wrote this song, her debut single, about an ended romance and all of the things that reminded her of the guy who left. It was inspired by Swift's actual boyfriend, who was not the singer from whom the song is titled, at the time moving away for college.
    Answer:Tim McGraw
  2. Written for a ninth-grade talent show, it chronicles the search by a young couple for the title item, which in Swift's view would include "a slammin' screen door," tapping on a window, and the guy "talking real slow" so his mama don't know he's on the phone.
    Answer:Our Song
  3. Swift wrote this song just after writing "Love Story," saying that the guy from that song reminded her of fairy tales and Prince Charming. The second single from Fearless, it focuses on the moment the singer realizes all of her plans and dreams for the future are gone, and that the guy was not a prince on one of these.
    Answer:White Horse

10. He first appeared in a 2001 Walter Kirn novel in which he works for Integrated Strategic Management and is trying to get hired by the Omaha-based MythTech. For ten points each:

  1. Name this frequent flier and professional downsizer who has a relationship with Alex Goran in a 2009 movie.
    Answer:RyanBingham (accept either underlined name)
  2. Ryan is the protagonist of this Jason Reitman-helmed comedy-drama starring George Clooney and Vera Farmiga.
    Answer:Up in the Air
  3. Another man named Ryan Bingham is a former bull rider and singer-songwriter who won an Oscar for "The Weary Kind," the theme song from this film about country musician Bad Blake.
    Answer:Crazy Heart

11. Name these children's magazines for ten points each.

  1. With features like Hidden Pictures, The Timbertoes, and Goofus and Gallant, this magazine claims to be Fun With a Purpose .
    Answer:Highlights
  2. Published by the Education Department of the National Wildlife Federation, the title character in this heavily-illustrated magazine is a raccoon from the Deep Green Woods.
    Answer:Ranger Rick
  3. With different editions targeted to Cub Scouts and older children, this publication of the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1911 and features Pee-Wee Harris comic strip adventures.
    Answer:Boy's Life

12. Identify these lyrical fixations of the Red Hot Chili Peppers which are neither sex nor heroin, for ten points each.

  1. Anthony Kiedis loves to shout out to earlier artists with cultural cachet, like this rock legend he mentions in countless songs and the band often covers live, such as "Castles Made of Sand," "Little Miss Lover," and concert staple "Fire."
    Answer: Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
  2. Several Chili Peppers' songs, including "Knock Me Down," "My Lovely Man," and "This Is The Place," are tributes to their late guitarist, who died of a heroin overdose in 1988.
    Answer: Hillel Slovak

  1. This character is at the center of a trilogy of songs; the title tracks of Californication and By The Way, and the song named for her, the lead track and single from Stadium Arcadium, which chronicles her presumed death.
    Answer:Dani California

13. For ten points each, answer these questions about recent films linked by a common word.

  1. Two films were released in 2009 with this title; one of them dealt with the struggle of the Stitchpunks to use the Talisman to destroy the Fabrication Machine. It was expanded from Shane Acker's 2005 Oscar-nominated short and featured the voices of Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly. The other was a Fellini-inspired musical.
    Answer:9 (or Nine)
  2. Also expanded from the director's earlier short film, this Neill Blomkamp-helmed movie used Wikus van de Merwe's encounters with "prawns" as a metaphor for apartheid in South Africa.
    Answer:District 9
  3. Based on stories by Israeli author Etgar Keret, this Australian stop-motion animated film deals with unemployed philosopher Dave Peck and his neighbors in a Sydney apartment building.
    Answer:$9.99

14. Breakfast cereals that pretend to be something else. For ten points each:

  1. In 2010, Post introduced this flavor to their Flintstones-themed cereals to hit on a foodie trend. The cereal is white with rainbow sprinkles. Yum?
    Answer:Cupcake Pebbles
  2. This other Post offering originally had a bunch of old ladies who allegedly made the cereal as its mascot. This changed to an anthropomorphic version of the food the cereal imitates, who often has to protect it from Professor Burnt Toast.
    Answer:Waffle Crisp
  3. Kellogg's introduced this knock-off of Cookie Crisp in 2008. This version was made by their tree-dwelling elves.
    Answer: Keebler Cookie Crunch

15. You may never have heard of the English prog rock band Spooky Tooth, but you might still get some points on this bonus dedicated to them anyway. For ten points each...

  1. Guitarist Mick Jones went on to co-found a different band with singer Lou Gramm; their self-titled debut featured hits "Cold As Ice" and "Feels Like The First Time."
    Answer:Foreigner
  2. One of Spooky Tooth's two main singers and the band's principal songwriter, this keyboardist had a huge 1976 solo hit with "Dream Weaver."
    Answer: Gary Wright
  3. One of Wright's compositions for Spooky Tooth, "Better By You, Better Than Me" became the centerpiece of an infamous 1990 trial when it was alleged that this metal band's 1978 cover of the song contained the subliminal message "do it," prompting two teenagers to commit suicide.
    Answer:Judas Priest

16. Sports commentators and play-by play men who are now calling the big game in the sky for ten points each.

  1. This former Philadelphia DJ moved to Washington and started a syndicated highlight show called the Sports Machine, He passed on Christmas Eve 2009
    Answer: George Michael
  2. This former Philadelphia Eagles defensive back co-hosted NFL Films' highlight show with Pat Summerall in the 1970's, his CBS booth partner for SuperBowls 10, 12, and 14
    Answer: Tom Brookshier
  3. This former NFL Films narrator was given an ornate send off at CitizenBankPark during last year's TRASHionals. He passed before calling a game between the Phillies and Nationals
    Answer: Harry Kalas

17. Answer the following about the escapades of Henry Higgins, for ten points each.

  1. Henry Higgins develops a good friendship with this linguist who has studied Indian dialects extensively.
    Answer: Colonel Pickering
  2. Act One of My Fair Lady begins under the arches of this famous London opera house.
    Answer:Covent Garden
  3. For her first outing as someone with a passable manner of speech, Higgins takes Eliza Doolittle to his mother's box at this racecourse where the prestigious King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes are run every July.
    Answer:Ascot Racecourse

18. Name these Michael Chabon works with a common theme for ten points each.

  1. Chabon s first big-seller was this 2000 piece about Jewish comic book creators.
    Answer:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  2. With a working title of Jews with swords , this 2007 novel about rogues taking on the Khazar empire was serialized in the NY Times.
    Answer:Gentlemen of the Road
  3. An alternate-historical novel in which European Jews get resettled in Sitka, Alaska, this 2007 work is basically a police procedural.
    Answer:The Yiddish Policemen's Union

19. Answer these meaty questions for 10 points each:

  1. This movement from Aaron Copland's Rodeo Suite was made popular in the media by the "Beef: It's what's for Dinner" commercials of the 80's and 90's.
    Answer:Hoedown
  2. This advertising slogan was developed for the National Pork Board in 1987, and according to the United States Department of Agriculture, is inaccurate.
    Answer: Pork. The Other White Meat
  3. The "Eat Mor Chikin" cows from Chick-fil-a were created by The Richards Group to replace this old chicken mascot who still appears in the company's logo.
    Answer:Doodles

20. Given the start point and purpose of a race on the BBC's Top Gear, name its end point for ten points each.

  1. The hosts started in Switzerland with a goal of only using one tank of gas to get to this coastal English city to turn on its holiday lights.
    Answer:Blackpool
  2. Pretending to race in 1949, a vintage motorcycle, Jaguar and newly-built steam locomotive were the vehicles racing from London to the Waverly rail station in this city.
    Answer:Edinburgh
  3. Jeremy drove a Mercedes SLR McLaren out of London, while James and Richard took a plane, a ferry, a speedboat and eventually a bus to reach this Scandinavian destination.
    Answer:Oslo

21. For ten points each, name the European club team that currently or has most recently employed these US soccer players.

  1. Landon Donovan
    Answer:Everton
  2. Clint Dempsey
    Answer:Fulham
  3. Oguchi Onyewu
    Answer:A.C. Milan

22. And now it s time for Silly Songs with Larry. The part of the tournament where we ask you about (pause) Silly Songs for ten points each.

  1. Silly Songs serve as the intermission to this long-running children s home video series created by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki who voice Bob and Larry
    Answer:VeggieTales
  2. Archibald Asparagus, who introduces the Silly Songs, is taken from The General, a skit from this comedy troupe. VeggieTales also borrowed their fish-slapping sketch to prove the evilness of Ninevites in the Jonah movie
    Answer:Monty Python
  3. Silly Songs was mockingly suspended by Archibald because of this travelogue song where Larry met some South American bovines, one sick, one sad, and one mute
    Answer:Song of the Cebu