MO VANITY TRASH: but You Already Knew That!

MO VANITY TRASH: But You Already Knew That!

Round One

Questions by Charles II of England

Tossups

1. In one appearance, this character’s love interest is betrayed by her superior, A. Foster, who is working with H.P. Clancy to create BIO-NOIDS. This man says “Just a girl. Get out of here!” before being shot by a woman after defeating the villain Barbarian. The love interest of CIA agent Irene Lew, this character is first introduced receiving a family heirloom in the mail from his father, who was killed by the Malice Four, who work for Jaquio in his attempt to revive the Demon. This man is the protagonist of video games subtitled The Dark Sword of Chaos and The Ancient Ship of Doom.In a more recent game, he teams with the large breasted “fiend hunter,” Rachel. In that 2004 game set in the Dead or Alive universe, this character fights the Holy Vigoor Emperor and attempts to reclaim the Dark Dragon Blade. For 10 points, name this protagonist of the Ninja Gaiden series.

ANSWER: Ryu Hayabusa [accept either]

1. A version of this song by the Womenfolk, at just one minute and three seconds, is the shortest single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Figures in this song include people who “all went to the university” and who “play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry.” On one television show, it plays as identically dressed people emerge from the “It’s a Grind” coffee house. The songwriter was inspired by looking at the Westlake neighborhood around Daly City. Called the “most sanctimonious song ever written” by Tom Lehrer, this song notes “there’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one” and says the title objects “on the hillside” are “made of ticky tacky” and are “all the same.” It may be best known for being the theme song for multiple seasons of the show Weeds.For 10 points, name this Malvina Reynolds song making fun of suburban houses.

ANSWER: “Little Boxes”

1. In 2004, this man aroused controversy by giving a Nazi salute during a WWE show in Munich. During his early days in the WWE, he used the nickname “Hawk” and was managed by “Uncle Zebekiah,” before later teaming with Barry Windham as part of the New Blackjacks. This man was Michael Cole’s first choice to be the guest referee in Cole’s match with Jerry Lawler at WrestleMania, but was given a Stunner by Steve Austin. He once hired Jillian Hall as his “fixer” and quit after losing an Intercontinental title match to Rey Mysterio in 21 seconds. The former partner with Ron Simmons in the Acolytes Protection Agency, this man’s most notable gimmick was based on his real life experience as a stock market investor. In that gimmick, he led a stable known as the “Cabinet” and always entered the ring in a limo. For 10 points, name this wrestler best known for his cowboy hat wearing rich businessman persona, who is also known as “Bradshaw.”

ANSWER: John Charles Layfield [accept Bradshaw until mentioned, accept JBL, accept Blackjack, prompt on Hawk until mentioned]

1. This city was where activist Daisy Bates was arrested for failing to provide information for the public record. Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials written in this city. The Supreme Court case Cooper v Aaron originated from an incident here. A song beginning with the lyric “Oh, Lord, don’t let ‘em shoot us!” was written by Charles Mingus about this location and was titled “Fables” of one leader from here. The memoir Warriors Don’t Cry was written by Melba Beals about her experiences in this city, while Minnijean Brown was forced to leave one location here after splashing boys with chili in the cafeteria. In this city, the National Guard was called out by Orval Faubus to prevent nine people from entering a school. For 10 points, name this city in which the U.S. Army entered on Dwight Eisenhower’s orders to integrate its Central High School.

ANSWER: Little Rock

1. One member of this family played the Jimmy Stewart role in a gender reversed 1977 TV-movie version of It’s a Wonderful Life. Another member played an alien in a memorable Dick Van Dyke episode involving walnuts. A member of this family wrote the book Free to Be…You and Me and appeared on a television show where her character became engaged to boyfriend Don Hollinger. This was the surname of the man who played the title character on the sitcomMake Room for Daddy and who vowed if he found success, he would establish an institution dedicated to the patron saint of hopeless causes. A more recent member of this family is married to Phil Donahue, starred on the show That Girl, and like her father, is extremely involved in St. Jude’s Memorial Hospital. For 10 points, name this family, whose members include comedian Danny and his daughter, Marlo.

ANSWER: Thomas [accept Kairouz]

1. This football coach missed out on a perfect season after an offsides penalty on his team resulted in a successful do-over attempt for opposing kicker Jeremy Ito. In 2003, Auburn’s president apologized for holding a secret meeting with this man as a possible replacement for Tommy Tuberville. In one of his college coaching seasons, he guided quarterback Brian Brohm to a 12-1 season ending in a BCS win over an improbable Wake Forest team. This man ended one coaching job by leaving a four-sentence note of resignation at the locker of each of his players. After winning the 2007 Orange Bowl with the Louisville Cardinals, this man left to briefly coach the Atlanta Falcons. His most recent job came to an end after he was involved in a motorcycle crash with a woman he was having an affair with. For 10 points, name this recently fired football coach at the University of Arkansas.

ANSWER: Robert “Bobby” Petrino

1. This man was wounded when trying to stop the fighting in the Battle of Liberty Place in New Orleans. He became more somber after three of his children died in one week in a Richmond scarlet ever epidemic. This man hired the actor turned spy known as Harrison, who told this man’s superior about forces moving north from Maryland. At the Battle of the Wilderness, he was accidentally shot by his own men. This man was blasted by Douglas Southall Freeman for being slow in the Second Battle of Bull Run. Known as “Old War Horse,” he was attacked as a scalawag for being the only senior Confederate to join the Republican Party during Reconstruction. The Lost Cause movement harped on this man’s supposed delays and insubordinate disagreement with his superior over Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg. For 10 points, name this principal subordinate of Robert E. Lee during the Civil War.

ANSWER: James Longstreet

1. On one failed TV show, this man played a social worker who works with the Laurie Metcalf played Laurie in helping people like a Nikki Cox played prostitute. Besides that show in which he played a former NHL player, this man played a character who moves to Waterford Falls, Wisconsin, to learn about Middle America for his weekly minute-long commentaries. In an appearance on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, he was talked out of giving the correct answer “the Greenbrier,” failing to win a million dollars for his charity.This man frequently used the non sequitur punch line “you guessed it, Frank Stallone,” and one of his characters insists on being called Turd Ferguson. He angered NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer for his constant jokes about O.J. Simpson delivered while this man was Weekend Update anchor. For 10 points, name this comedian noted for his impressions of Bob Dole and Burt Reynolds on Saturday Night Live.

ANSWER: Norman Gene “Norm” Macdonald

1. One of this author’s works ends with the throwaway line that a character “contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab.” In another of his works, a character thinks of a millionaire who “spoke without moving his lips” as he drinks “coffee according to Hopkins.” This man wrote a work in which a character’s version of the Lord’s Prayer reads “Our nada who art in nada, nada by thy name…” In that story, two waiters in a café discuss why an older man would try to commit suicide. This man created a character whose father is a doctor forced to perform an emergency caesarean section using a jack-knife at an Indian camp. That character later returns to Michigan to fly fish after his time spent in World War I. For 10 points, name this author of the short stories “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” and “Big Two-Hearted River,” the latter of which features his recurring character, Nick Adams.

ANSWER: Ernest Miller Hemingway

1. During this event, reporter Bob Tur took footage which was frequently run on national television without permission. One notable participant, Damian Williams, was personally arrested by Daryl Gates, and this event began shortly after an announcement involving men like Lawrence Powell and Stacey Koon. During it, a dusk to dawn curfew was set up by Mayor Tom Bradley. In response to it, Maxine Waters defined it as a rebellion against poverty, while Dan Quayle labeled it as an example of “poverty of values.” During this event truck driver Reginald Denny was viciously beaten, Korean-Americans formed armed defense groups to protect their stores, and one figure asked “can we all get along?” For 10 points, name this series of April 1992 riots that broke out after the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating Rodney King.

ANSWER: 1992 Los Angeles riots [accept Rodney King riots, do not accept “Watts riots”]

1. A member of this group goes to a supermarket, where he tells a woman named Marion that his cucumber is bigger. Some members exploit the apparent death of a girl named Fawn Leibowitz in a kiln explosion. One member of this group is last seen driving off with Mandy Pepperidge, although he is later said to become a senator. This group hires Otis Day and the Knights to perform at a function. Another member, Larry Kroger, is called a “homo” by his evil conscience for not taking advantage of the mayor’s daughter and eventually becomes the editor of National Lampoon magazine. Members of this group include D-Day, Flounder, and Otter, all of whom are placed on “double secret probation” by Dean Wormer. For 10 points, name this group whose members include the John Belushi played Bluto, a rowdy fraternity in the movie Animal House.

ANSWER: Deltas [accept Delta Tau Chi members, prompt on Animal House]

1. This character’s brother, Barney, died thanks to the supervillain Egghead. During the late ‘80s, this hero went deaf due to the effects of one of his own weapons. One of his old mentors was the Swordsman, and his wife, Bobbi Morse, was killed in a confrontation with the demon Mephisto. This character appeared to die when he sacrificed himself by flying into a Kree warship to save his teammates. Once married to Mockingbird, he was the second person to adopt the “Ronin” identity. After becoming a carnival star, he briefly becomes a criminal after being seduced by the Black Widow, but soon joins Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch as part of Captain America’s “Kooky Quartet.” On film, this character has a cameo in Thor and a major role in The Avengers and is played by Jeremy Renner. For 10 points, name this Marvel comics hero, an archer.

ANSWER: Hawkeye [accept Clint Barton, either part; accept Goliath, accept Ronin]

1. In one early scene, this character describes how he sits in his apartment “all alone” and thinks “of the rent” he pays before noting now that he has “his own apartment, a car, and plenty of women” but is “lonely.” He describes how his date, Charlotte, is engaged to a prospective vice-president at his workplace. The assistant to the assistant buyer at a department store, he proposes forming two basketball teams to go on tour to promote sporting goods. At Frank’s Chop House, this man claims his brother is a quarterback for the Giants and that his father is “just a guy” while talking with two women. He is last seen proclaiming that he will show everyone that his “father did not die in vain” and that he’s “gonna win it for him,” even though his older brother denounces the dream. For 10 points, name this younger brother of Biff and son of Willy in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

ANSWER: Harold “Hap” Loman [accept either, accept Happy]

1. In some appearances, this character is assisted by the female Ann Reilly. He poses as another man’s uncle and talks about “everything for a man on holiday” when he shows up in Isthmus City, Panama, in one appearance. When using the name Algernon, this character once makes a plea for some “gratuitous sex and violence.” In his final appearance, he says “never let them see you bleed” and “always have an escape plan,” as he descends out of sight when asked his about his retirement. When asked if he is joking about an ejector seat, this character says he never jokes about his work. His real name is Major Boothroyd, a reference to a firearms expert who complained to Ian Fleming. Almost always played by Desmond Llewelyn, he was replaced in some recent films by John Cleese as “R.” For 10 points, name this character who provides James Bond with his gadgets.

ANSWER: Q [accept Major Boothroyd until mentioned or Algernon/Algy until mentioned]

1. Specific year and event OR the two teams involved are okay. This was the first World Series for a St. Cloud, Minnesota, native noted for his struggles with Tourette syndrome. The losing manager was the shortstop the New York Mets acquired in the Nolan Ryan trade. At one point, pitcher Todd Stottlemyre was thrown out trying to make an awkward dive into third base, causing him to be mocked by Mayor Ed Rendell. During one game in this event, announcer Tom Cheek famously told one player to “touch ‘em all—you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life.” Memorable games included the 15-14 Game 4, which was followed by a Curt Schilling pitched shutout, the final postseason game at Veterans Stadium. This event was ended by Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams serving up a walk off home run to Joe Carter. For 10 points, identify this event in which a MLB team from Canada won its second straight championship against a John Kruk led NL team.

ANSWER: 1993 World Series OR Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies [accept any combination of Toronto and/or Blue Jays AND Philadelphia and/or Phillies]

1. This character was inspired to change her career after talking with frequent customer Jimmy Tadero. Her biological father was killed by Joe Hirschoff in the “Built to Kill” two-parter. This character’s final appearance to date featured her as the target of her former friend, the Annabeth Gish played Laura. In the third season, this character’s ex-husband, Eddie, is killed in the episode “Lady Heather’s Box,” in which she also rescues her daughter Lindsey from a car filling with water. She is the daughter of the suspicious casino owner Sam Braun and once worked as a stripper before entering law enforcement. This character, who recently took a job at the FBI, was replaced by the Ted Danson portrayed D.B. Russell as Night Shift Supervisor after herself replacing long time colleague Gil Grissom. For 10 points, name this Marg Helgenberger played forensic scientist who recently left the show CSI.

ANSWER: Catherine Flynn Willows [accept any part]

1. This actor played a scientist who encounters the comedy team of Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo. In another movie, he plays a man who has an assistant named Lobo and is hit with lightning while fighting an octopus, prompting another character to say “He tampered in God’s domain.” Besides appearing in a film where he “meets a Brooklyn Gorilla,” this actor nonsensically narrates the pro-cross dressing filmGlen or Glenda? In one film role, he played an old man whose younger wife is played by Vampira. Martin Landau won an Oscar for playing this man in Ed Wood, which shows him performing in the film Plan 9 from Outer Space. In a 1931 film, he plays a character who talks about the “children of the night” before making Renfield his slave.For 10 points, name this Hungarian actor best known for originating the role of Dracula on film.

ANSWER: Bela Lugosi

1. One employee of this institution wrote the essays “And the Fair Land” and “The Desolate Wilderness,” both of which are Thanksgiving themed. Besides the entertainingly named Vermont Connecticut Royster, another employee of it wrote the collection At Home in the World, inspired the collection I Am Jewish, and was played by Dan Futterman in the movie A Mighty Heart. Employees for this institution later expanded their work into the books Barbarians at the Gate and Den of Thieves. In 2002, this institution was criticized for using the term “lucky duckies” to refer to Americans who pay no federal income tax because they are below the tax line. Its South Asia Bureau Chief, Daniel Pearl, was beheaded in Pakistan. This publication has appeared since July 1889 when founded by Dow Jones & Company. For 10 points, name this American newspaper, noted for covering business and economic news.

ANSWER: The Wall Street Journal [accept WSJ]