Madman Pack 6: Special Bonus DLC Platinum Edition
A special pack prepared for Paul’s Basement
1. The fourth of these four consecutive numbers titles a Red House Painters song which begins with the line “So it’s not loaded stadiums or ballparks”. An album entitled after the first of these consecutive numbers includes the songs Turning Tables and Take It All. In a song titled after the third of these consecutive numbers, one artist raps “I got lots of flavours, my kick game is major”. A Southern rapper named for the first of these four numbers has seen a chain of successor higher-numbered Savages that are firing diss tracks at him and each other. Another song rhymes the second of these numbers with “I don’t know about you” and the first of these numbers titles a band famous for songs like Heathens and Stressed Out. For ten points, identify this four number sequence that begins with the name of Adele’s smash hit 2011 album.
ANSWER: 21 22 23 24
2. Document and director required. In a film by this director, one of these documents reads “he had been killed suddenly, struck buy [sic] a cab while crossing the street”. In a parody of this director, one of these documents reads “can we murder you?”, which the Edward Norton-played Owen Wilson responds in another one of these documents reading “no you may not”. One of these documents written for Scout Master Ward announces a resignation from the Khaki Scouts of North America. Two of these simply read “Dear Suzy, When? and “Dear Sam, Where?”. One of these documents is a will that leaves the prized Boy With Apple. For ten points, identify these written documents composed by characters in the films of the director of Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel.
ANSWER: letters in Wes Anderson movies
3. Description acceptable. One of these works, titled The Baker, depicts a woman leaning pots and pan under beams of light and smoke. One of these works depicts policeman standing in a street filled with smoke and in front of a vehicle with a sign ominously reading “not in service”. In one of these works, a Russian autocrat is staring at a corpse on display flanked by guards wearing red, while another of these works depicts the murder of that man in a Turkish art gallery. Passion of the Cruz, one of these works, depicts a loud-mouthed politician in front of a golden room with an arched entrance surrounded by reporters. Another of these works, sometimes called The New Year in Manchester or Bacchanal on Well Street, depicts a man wearing blue sprawled out on the road and reaching for a beer and a woman in a red dress reacting to a man’s arrest. For ten points, identify these works, excellent photographs that recreate the artist principles of artist like Rembrandt and Botticelli while capturing real life.
ANSWER: Accidental Renaissance pictures
4. An African character is described on this album with the lyrics “you know that you came and you changed my world, just like in the movies, with two lovers in a scene”. A rock-influenced song on this album begins with the lyrics “you'll never make me stay, so take your weight off of me, I know your every move, so won't you just let me be?”. Decades after its release, a song on this album reached #2 in 2009 and includes the lyrics “if you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make a change”. While this album did not sell as much as its 1982 predecessor, it produced a record five Hot 100 #1 singles. The title song of this album includes the lyrics “your butt is mine, gonna tell you right, just show your face, in broad daylight” and “the whole world has to answer right now just to tell you once again”. For ten points, identify this 1987 classic album by Michael Jackson that includes the songs Man in the Mirror and Smooth Criminal recorded five year after Thriller.
ANSWER: Bad
5. Description acceptable. In the movie Collateral, Vincent played by Tom Cruise asks Max played by Jamie Foxx this question at a gas station, afterwards they drive to an L.A. club where Vincent buys him a drink and observing a performance before committing another murder. In another film, a character anticipates another asking this question at a movie studio after first meeting at Tunes & Tapas; she then says she hate the artform in question, which he then calls “such a blanket statement” and further explains people who answer this question negatively “don’t have context, they don’t know where it comes from”. In another movie, this question is asked from a shelf while leaning on what appears to be two bars of soap, causing another to drop the plates they are carrying. For ten points, identify this question asked by Barry Benson, the first thing he says as a bee to a human in the Bee Movie.
ANSWER: You like jazz?
6. According to the Lupe Fiasco song Kill, this time of day is for “astronauts and alcohol”, when he becomes a “satellite for strippers”. A song about this time of day and one later in the week includes the lyrics “it's the same thing, back in the cold, people know people come and go it bores me” and “this is not me, where is my revolution”. That song by K-OS repeats the line “everyday is” is this occasion, but he admits he can’t wait for the next day. In the Mark Ronson song Uptown Funk, Bruno Mars sings “and we in the spot” during this occasion. An Elton John song that includes the lyrics “get about as oiled as a diesel train, going to set this dance alight” calls this occasion “Alright for Fighting”. Ashley Simpson’s career collapsed after a disastrous performance during this time of day.. A soundtrack album named for this time of day topped the charts for 24 straight weeks in 1978 and includes the iconic song Stayin’ Alive. For ten points, identify this time of day when Tony Manero gets fever for disco music.
ANSWER: Saturday Night
7. This group came into conflict with the Indian firm Aiplex Software after their role in DDOS attacks on pirating websites, hired by film studios, became apparent. This group used a technical issue to block entry to the pool in Habbo Hotel because of rumours of racist moderation of the site towards dark-skinned avatars. This group was also involved in a protest that included a Rick Rolling of the branch of Church of Scientology in Seattle. That moment was part of the larger Operation Chanology that this group undertook against the Church that also entailed DDOS attacks and prank calls. This group is best known for Guy Fawkes masks inspired by V for Vendetta at protests both as a symbol and a way to maintain their status during protests. For ten points, identify this hacktivist group originating on 4chan, developing out of the idea that members’ identity should not be known.
ANSWER: Anonymous
8. The band behind the song about this character, which was improvised at a concert at a curling hall, was told specifically not to play it by Pat Nixon during a White House visit. The music video for a cover of the song recorded for the first Austin Powers see this character played by the female star of the film, Heather Graham. This character is told “coloured lights can hypnotize, sparkle someone else's eyes” and the intro tells how this character “gonna mess up your mind” Lenny Kravitz’s cover of the song about this character removes the solo originally played by Randy Bachman. This character is told “don’t come a hanging’ around my door, don’t wanna see your face no more” because the Canadian band “don’t need your war machines”. For ten points, identify this character that the Guess Who demands “listen to me” and “get away from me”.
ANSWER: American Woman
9. A character who attends this institution has two gay dads played by Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jeff Goldblum, though in a continuity error common to the show a picture of the characters in season 1 is not of the actors. Jacob Ben Israel is the editor of a publication created in this institution, whose documentaries are used in three seasons to review events of the previous. The leader of this institution does not understand how to say Ke$ha’s name, pronouncing it “kay-e-dollar sign-ha”, and is blackmailed with footage of a commercial for Mumbai Air. Similarly, a football player is blackmailed into joining a club at this institution after another character places weed in his locker. The closeted Dave Karofsky harasses openly gay members of this institution, including Kurt Hummel. Will Schuster, who works for this institution, reforms the central club of the show in the pilot. For ten points, identify this school, home to the New Directions, the central setting of Glee in Lima, Ohio named after a president born in the state.
ANSWER: McKinley High
10. Obscure Toronto artist Christopher Stoba had his song Sit Still in a hoax passed off as a song by this band, dubbed Putting Ketchup in the Fridge. A brief Frank Ocean track sees him put on the beginning of a song by this band, which his girlfriend dislikes and asks “what is a” this band’s name “anyway”. Daddy Yankee called this band “great, amazing” and said he had a ton of respect for them after a viral video setting his masterpiece Gasolina to one of their performances. The song this band is named after includes the lyrics “baby I'm tuned to your wavelength, lemme tell you what it says” and “transmitter, oh, picking up something good”. On her song The One That Got Away, Katy Perry describes “when we first met, we’d make out in your Mustang to” this band. For ten points, identify this band named after a song by the Talking Heads that defined the late 90s after Thom Yorke called himself a weirdo and a creep.
ANSWER: Radiohead (reward an extra 5 points for Thom Yorke and the Radioheads)
1. Identify some things about the intersection of fine dining and hip-hop music. FTPE:
[10] This large rapper behind the songs Baby Blue and Standing in the Rain is also a trained chef, appearing on Youtube and daytime TV making sandwiches and “explosive crispy chicken”.
ANSWER: Action Bronson or Arian Asllani
[10] This rapper’s 2004 album Mm… Food includes songs like Gumbo, Fillet-O-Rapper, and Kookies. This rapper has also released 10 mixtapes in the Special Herbs series.
ANSWER: MF DOOM
[10] This playlist on Spotify, currently with over 6.7 million followers has become a major tastemaker in breaking new artists and songs. Every song on this luxury-named playlist is chosen by the global programming head at Spotify, Tuma Basa.
ANSWER: Rap Caviar
2. Harness your inner MLG Pro Gamer and answer some questions about the fierce world of online gaming. FTPE:
[10] Call of Duty 4 added an unlockable system for weapons and perks, which every FPS game for the next five years promptly copied. Returning to level one from max level is called doing this action, which must be done several times to truly max out an account.
ANSWER: Prestige-ing (accept word forms)
[10] This sequel to a massively successful Xbox game that added the Elite race became massively popular for its online gameplay. This game’s playlist system streamlined the prior server-based system of the first game, which was subtitled Combat Evolved.
ANSWER: Halo 2
[10] This term refers to a new account made by experienced players with blank stats that lets them play in lower skill games to pwn innocent n00bs. This kind of account is heavily frowned upon by Riot Games, as they wish for everyone to have only one account.
ANSWER: Smurfing
3. From its humble beginnings in the dorms of Harvard, Facebook has become a center of meme culture in its own rights. FTPE:
[10] Perhaps the height of modern meme culture on the social networking site is this page that claims to be the personal collection of a Vermont Senator that challenged Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
ANSWER: Bernie Sanders’ dank meme stash
[10] One of the most bizarre Facebook meme pages is this community that pairs Japanese characters with Indian ideology. This page’s cover picture features a horned girl holding a sign that reads “akhand bharat when” and another picture depicts a Titan over a Mughal era fort.
ANSWER: Hinda Nationalist Anime Girls
[10] This page centers on images split between purple, red, blue, and green quarters. Typically images of weed are placed in the bottom left and money in the bottom right, and the admin of this page have been criticized by butthurt readers as making only one square the butt of the joke.
ANSWER: Political Chart Memes
4. On this song, Frank Ocean repeats the line “empty my bank account” and “buy that boy a pipe” with heavy voice modification. FTPE:
[10] This song that asks if you do the title action “on all your nights like this” also includes two verses by Migos, one which begins with the line “put that spotlight on her face”.
ANSWER: Slide
[10] Slide is a song by this producer and artist, known for songs like How Deep Is Your Love and This Is What You Came For with Rihanna.
ANSWER: Calvin Harris
[10] Harris’ first album from 2007 is titled “I Created” this genre, an outlandish claim. The album includes songs like Acceptable in the 80s and Neon Rocks, and the music is pretty far away from being this genre.
ANSWER: Disco
5. The Beatles! FTPE:
[10] This song, the lead track on Revolver, tells of a character who leaves “one for you” and takes “19 for me” and “should five percent appear too small” he assures “be thankful I don’t take it all”.
ANSWER: Taxman
[10] The next track on Revolver is this song, which describes a woman “wearing the face she keeps in a jar by the door” and asks “all the lonely people, where do they all come from”.
ANSWER: Elanor Rigby
[10] Revolver followed this studio album which includes the songs Norwegian Wood and Nowhere Man. This album introduced a higher level of sophistication and the sitar and harmonium to the Beatles sound and Brian Wilson was inspired by it to produce Pet Sounds.
ANSWER: Rubber Soul
6. Identify some films that portray men in steamy relationships with other men. FTPE:
[10] Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger star in this 2005 film about two Wyoming cowboys who fall in love. Social conservatives were outraged at the time, but when Jake’s character Jack Twist says “I wish I knew how to quit you” it’s easy to forget how people could be so upset.
ANSWER: Brokeback Mountain
[10] This film follows the relationship between Russell and Glen, who meet at a nightclub called Propaganda and hookup. Glen records Russel’s thoughts about the night the next morning, which is part of a larger art project that Glen thinks no one will see because its about gay sex.
ANSWER: Weekend
[10] River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves are what IMDB calls “hustlers” who “embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way” in this 1991 film. James Franco’s tribute film to Phoenix used footage from this film.
ANSWER: My Own Private Idaho
7. In honour of the Emoji Movie (dab) premiering yesterday, answer some questions about the instant classic of American arthouse cinema, FTPE:
[10] Youtuber Jacksfilms, who was invited to the premiere after making several long videos about the film, was disappointed that there were only 5 jokes about this presumably smelly emoji in the first 10 minutes of the movie.
ANSWER: Poop
[10] In a scene that is “definitely not too long” and is the perfect length, the main characters travel into this video game series’ app that is now free to download on Android and IOS. This video game series named after Lady Gaga’s debut hit single has players mimic on-screen dancers and use motion control to evaluate their accuracy.
ANSWER: Just Dance
[10 and a HUGE dab from the moderator] When the emojis go in the Youtube app, this is the video that is playing. Jacksfilms asks the viewer what video represents all of Youtube, something relevant and topical that everyone is talking about. I’m not certain whether the original length video of 69 seconds or the extended 2 minute and 33 second version is in the film.
ANSWER: Pen pineapple apple pen
8. Reviewing media on the internet is one of the easiest ways of pissing off fanboys and fangirls. FTPE:
[10] One of the biggest ooplahs over a video game review ever came as a reaction to this website’s positive review of Twilight Princess that was not high enough for rabid Zelda fans.