ASS II – Extras – Page 1
ASS II
Extra Questions
Note that these tossups have largely not been edited, and some contain repeats. The ones that contain repeats are marked, and should only be used as a last resort. They’re also listed in a general order of quality.
TOSSUPS:
1) The movie fails to address the title character’s efforts on the mainland to get to Venezuela in addition to misrepresenting the respective ages of the two main characters. The bond between those characters forms over one’s protection of the other’s plan, which is where one’s money was kept, in exchange for help with his own machinations to escape from hard labor resulting from a wrongful murder conviction. Based on an autobiography whose title derives from the nicknamed afforded to the main character because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest, name, FTP, this film starring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen in which Louis Dega and Henri Charrière work to escape from the Devil’s Island Penal Colony.
ANSWER: Papillon
2) The winner of the 1951 Academy Award for Best Original Song, this Hoagy Carmichael tune with lyrics written by John Mercer appeared in the romantic comedy Here Comes the Groom. The movie featured Bing Crosby and the ex-wife of Ronald Reagen, Jane Wyman, in the lead roles, and it is in those roles that they sing this song, mentioning a variety of conditions upon which they will attend a party. Also mentioned are a variety of animals, including a bumblebee that says, “Oui”, a prairie hen asking “When?”, a dinosaur who says “Sure,” a grizzly bear wondering “Where?” and a jackass attending the fracas. FTP, identify this song in which a man and woman instruct us to “Tell ‘em we’ll be there” at the thrice described time of day.
ANSWER: “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening”
3) Early problems in this conflict include immigration disputes in January 1969 that resulted in non-natives being expelled from farms near the border. During it, one army was largely crippled after pushing their opponents back eight kilometers due to the destruction of oil reserves. Some tensions were released in Tegucigalpa during a 1-0 clean sheet. Heckling during a national anthem and rioting during a match that drew the group stage of World Cup qualifying with a 3-0 victory in San Salvador the next week is credited with sparking this conflict. For ten points, identify this 100-hour long war between El Salvador and Honduras.
ANSWER: Soccer War
4)Julian Schnabel’s first film depicted the death of his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat as this. In the beginning of Eyes Wide Shut Ziegler’s prostitute suffers this. Until the 1930s it could occur legally with the use of Trivalin. Many speculated that it was an April Fools joke when it happened to Mitch Hedberg in 2005. Chris Farley was victim to a modified version of this, substituting one ingredient with morphine, while a more famous incidence of this happened outside of Los Angeles’s Viper Room. For ten points, identify this death after taking mix of cocaine and heroin that took the life of River Phoenix as well as John Belushi.
ANSWER: speedball overdose (prompt on “overdose,” “heroin overdose,” or “cocaine overdose,” accept “death by overdose on speedballs,” “poly-drug overdose” or answers including overdose, heroin, and cocaine)
5) She portrayed Etta Place in Mrs. Sundance Rides Again, a TV movie where she reprised her role as the female third of a love triangle from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. She met husband Sam Elliott on the set of The Legacy although Butch Cassidy was the first movie where they were both in the cast. One would think her character Elaine would have been creeped out when her boyfriend slept with her mother, but she left a respectable young man at the altar to run off with Benjamin Braddock onto a bus while still wearing her wedding dress in The Graduate. For 10 points, name this actress who portrayed Dr. Lillian Thurman, the psychiatrist of the title character in Donnie Darko.
ANSWER: Katharine Ross
6) Larry Butler won an Academy Award for Thief of Bagdad in 1940 for developing this technique. In the early days, when more than one image had to photographed at the same time, technicians carefully aligned the images so that the black lines of their borders wouldn’t appear in the final product. The process involves selecting a color, which becomes transparent, enabling a different shot to appear, substituting for that color. Although theoretically any color could be used, blue and green are the most common because they don’t appear in skin tones. For 10 points, identify this special effect whose most common everyday usage is enabling a weathercaster to stand in front of a video image of a map behind them.
ANSWER: Chroma key(or bluescreen or greenscreen; accept traveling matte before the word “color”)
7) Despite all that happens in this film, it’s hard to remember the entire point was getting the main character into Princeton. This movie would compete with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as the most famous motion picture about the adventures of a 1980s Chicago area high school kid. Ron Reagan parodied one of its scenes on Saturday Night Live by dancing in what is supposed to be the White House in his underwear to “Old Time Rock ‘N Roll.” Tangerine Dream provided the soundtrack to erotic scenes of Lana’s dress blown by the wind, and Lana and Joel making love on a rocking chair and on the El. Name this 1983 film starring Bronson Pinchot, Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise.
ANSWER: Risky Business
8) It’s a gated community in the suburbs of Sao Paolo developed by Albuquerque & Takaoka with access to the Castelo Branco Highway, 20,000 residences and a university. It’s also a 1980s German New Wave synthpop trio whose biggest hits were “Big in Japan” and “Forever Young”, which was an earlier name of the group. It’s the name of a production company whose releases include Mallrats, The Mummy and The Cat the Hat. It was one of the thirteen Production Cities of the The Sims Online before it was renamed EA-Land prior to scheduled shutdown in August 2008. For 10 points, what one name encompasses all these items as well as the 1965 Jean-Luc Goddard film set in a totalitarian dystopian city where film-noir style protagonist Lemmy Caution poses as a journalist.
ANSWER: Alphaville
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9) The early episodes had a historical flavor intended to be educational for children. The title character was portrayed by Rowan Atkinson, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Richard E. Grant and Joanna Lumley for a spoof version in 1999. The chief time machine has a broken chameleod circuit so that instead of blending in with its surroundings, its exterior appearance is locked to that of a 1950s British police box. Changes in the lead actor are explained that the character is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who can regenerate, changing their physical appearance. For 10 points, name this BBC television show that premiered the day after John F. Kennedy was assassinated whose most recent incarnation stars David Tennant in the title role.
ANSWER: Doctor Who
10) Her first regular television role was as Bridget Fitzgerald, an Irish Catholic from a rich family who marries a Jewish cabdriver in Bridget Loves Bernie. She had a small role in All the President’s Men as Debra Sloan, wife of Committee to Re-Elect the President Treasurer Hugh Sloan. On the series Family, she played the oldest sister Nancy who divorced her husband when she caught him in bed with one of her friends. She’s been nominated for four Emmies and played Lily Rush’s alcoholic and abusive mother Ellen on Cold Case. For 10 points, name this actress who portrayed mother Elyse Keaton on Family Ties.
ANSWER: Meredith Baxter(or Meredith Baxter Birney)
11) The road to this song’s success began when the vocalist appeared at the Apollo and was encouraged by a white doowop group called The Fireflies. The vocalist previously sang with a gospel group called the Beltones and it was a good omen whe he stopped in at Beltone Records to find The Fireflies in the label’s stable of artists. Written by Ritchie Adams, lead singer of The Fireflies, and Beltone owner Joe Rene, Billboard named it the fifth best-selling song of the rock era in a 1970s countdown. Its incredible success resulted in Beltone releasing their first-ever album. For 10 points, name this song of insomnia that was number one for seven weeks in 1961 and recorded by Bobby Lewis.
ANSWER: “Tossin’ and Turnin’”
12) She sang with her sister Betty, the Tony Pastor Band and in duets with Marlene Dietrich. Her #1 Billboard songs were “Half As Much”, “This Old House”, “Hey There” and “Come On-a My House”. She had her own variety show during the 1950s and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. The films Mickey Blue Eyes, Married to the Mob and Big Night feature her version of “Mambo Italiano” on their soundtrack. In the late 1970s, she advertised Coronet paper towels on television and in the 1990s, she appeared in two episodes of ER as Alzheimer’s patient Mary Cavanaugh AKA Madame X. For 10 points, name this star of White Christmas who is the mother of Miguel Ferrer and aunt to George Clooney.
ANSWER: RosemaryClooney
13) The cover was an ad for wigs, die-cut to show faces of the band and, in the original version, those of Lucille Ball, Farah Fawcett, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Racquel Welch, but those women were removed in later pressings due to objections from them or their estates. The one cover song was“Just My Imagination”, originally a hit for the Temptations. The title track could be considered a more sexist expression of the feelings in “California Girls” including the controversial line about black girls wanting intercourse all night. Name this 1978 Rolling Stones album that reached #1 in the United States as did the single “Miss You”.
ANSWER: Some Girls
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14) A monologue beginning season one states that this is being attempted on a Maryland Senator. One episode in season five sees this happen concurrently in four places though only ones in an underground office and in the Sunrise Hills Shopping Mall are successful. Kate Warner has information to stop one of these in season two. This event occurs multiple times in season four, including a triggered meltdown of nuclear facilities, the kidnapping of James Heller, and the launch of a nuclear weapon by Habib Marwan. Another of these occurs in season six at around 10 a.m. with the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Valencia. For ten points, identify this type of catastrophic event fictionally seen in 24 and seen less fictionally on September 11th, 2001.
ANSWER: terrorist attack on 24 (accept clear knowledge equivalents and prompt on "assassination" on first clue)
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15) On one show, this actor’s character cracked jokes with Mrs. Emilia Rothschild while fighting for Jefferson’s America as the Daring Dragoon. On another, this actor used a pistol, arrow, and “Chinese Death Star” to kill Pete Hutter, only to have him constantly return to plague his search for the Orb, and in a recurring role on two related series, he nearly gets Iolalus executed for his thefts. More recently than starring in Jack of All Trades and The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., he has played Sam Axe on Burn Notice and starred in the “Experience” commercials for Old Spice. This author of If Chins Could Kill is best-known for playing an S-Mart employee who has frequent encounters with the Necronomicon. For 10 points, name this favorite actor of Sam Raimi, who plays Ash in the Evil Dead movies.
ANSWER: Bruce Campbell (accept BriscoCounty Jr., early)
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16) As a senior, he averaged 20 points and 20 rebounds a game at AmericanUniversity, earning a spot on the All-American team. Drafted with the fifth overall pick, he initially was caught in the middle of a power struggle on his initial team between a coach who didn't want to use him and a front office that wanted him to gain experience. After 1978, he played for the Celtics, Trail Blazers and Clippers, and after a five-year retirement he launched a short comeback attempt with the Warriors. He was regarded as a great defender and one of the strongest players in the league, and he was named to the All-Star game once. However, the event that created his infamy came about from his acting as an enforcer for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the Lakers. Name this basketball player, best known for ending the career of and nearly killing Rudy Tomjanovich with a single punch.
ANSWER: Kermit Washington
BONUSES:
1) !Answer the following about Disney movies that have gone to the dogs, FTPE.
[10] The sequel to this 1955 animated feature follows the adventures of Scamp, the offspring of the two title characters and his attempts regain the street cred formerly held by his father.
ANSWER: Lady and the Tramp
[10] Pongo and Perdita serve as the patriarch and matriarch of the titular clan of canines in this 1961 animated feature that was shot as a live-action film starring Glenn Close in 1996.
ANSWER: 101 Dalmations
[10] Tod and Copper are the unlikely titular duo in this 1981 based on a novel by Daniel Pratt Mannix IV.
ANSWER: The Fox and the Hound
2) !It was used as the base of operations for the villain Red in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2. FTPE:
[10] Name this former prison located in the San FranciscoBay whose name is Spanish for “pelican.”
ANSWER: Alcatraz (prompt on “The Rock”)
[10] Ed Harris leads a group of renegade Marine Force Recon commandos on Alcatraz in this 1996 MichaelBay vehicle starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery.
ANSWER: The Rock
[10] A group of terrorists use Alcatraz as a base of operations after the Mayor of San Francisco is kidnapped in this third installment of the Dirty Harry series.
ANSWER: The Enforcer
3) ESPN showed their issues with the Y2K bug in a 1999 advertisement. FTPE:
[10] The advertisement was part of this line of plugs showing fake behind the scenes antics on their flagship highlights show.
ANSWER: This is Sportscenter
[10] During the melee that ensued, this former St. Louis Cardinals slugger was seen bashing a keyboard with a bat.
ANSWER: Mark McGwire
[10] The end of the spot shows this then anchor and current Los Angeles Dodgers announcer wearing a tie over his head and screaming, “Follow me! Follow me to freedom!”
ANSWER: Charley Steiner
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4) London's Daily Mail wrote a lengthy article about a teenager's suicide in May 2008. For ten points each...:
[10] The suicide, the Mail claims, was due to her obsession with this rock genre, whose fans they call a "suicide cult."
ANSWER: emo
[10] The article cites her newfound fandom of this Gerard Way fronted band known for songs like "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" as a further cause of death.
ANSWER: My Chemical Romance
[10] According to the article, emos believe that this place, the title of My Chemical Romance's 2006 album, is where they go when they die.
ANSWER: The Black Parade
5) Answer these questions about acclaimed short film “Muffins” for ten points each…:
[10] “Muffins” was made by this comedian and creator of Internet videos, the man behind “Shoes” star Kelly.
ANSWER: Liam Kyle Sullivan (don’t accept “Kyle Sullivan,” prompt on “Liam Sullivan”)
[10] This flavor of muffin involves Sullivan bashing two muffins together sans a wall separating the West Bank.
ANSWER: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
[10] The commercial begins with Sullivan asking this grandson what he wants for breakfast. At the end, he declares that he, “lost his appetite.”
ANSWER: Johnny
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6)Answer these questions about movies where Viggo Mortensen kicks serious amounts of ass for ten points each:
[10] This 2007 film sees Mortensen win in a brutal knife fight. While naked.
ANSWER: Eastern Promises
[10] Mortensen summons the Army of the Dead at the Battle of Minas Tirith while playing this character in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
ANSWER: Aragorn
[10] Mortensen eats the heart of the angel Gabriel, played by Christopher Walken, while playing Lucifer in this 1995 film.
ANSWER: The Prophecy
7) Game 3 of the 2003 ALCS saw what may possibly be the most epic fall down in history. For ten points each…:
[10] During a fight at FenwayPark, this New York Yankees bench coach was assisted to the ground by a Red Sox pitcher as he lunged toward him.
ANSWER: Don Zimmer
[10] This then-Sox pitcher pushed Zimmer after plunking Karim Garcia in the back the previous inning.