Welcome to Side Event of a Madman, the side event Canada doesn’t need or deserve. Packs are split between a normal round with power-marked tossups and 10 bonuses and a harder round with tossups worth 15 or 20 marked for power and super powers. This tournament has arcane answerlinesand niche topics, so is easier then I thought, so keep in mind the notes at the beginning of tossups and I apologize (a little bit) if you don’t get anything. Some artists and directors might be used as clues for more than one tossup but answerlines are not repeated. Complaints should be sent to Isaac Thiessen – President of Waterloo Quizbowl - even though he isn’t responsible for these packs. Thanks to Aaron Dos Remedios for writing an additional pack.Apologies for any editing mistakes or poor grammar. Good luck have fun.
Madman Pack 1: The Chamber of Secrets
1.On ABC, this man demonstrated how to enter the water like a stealth ninja, instead of belly flopping like people expect him to. A gif of this man kissing a fan has been interpreted as him sucking out of her life force. This man was threatened to lose his Maricopa County sheriff badge after a freestyle that included a savage diss of Kobe Bryant. A video game depicts this man’s martial art prowess in rescuing Nezu from the Second World.A song by Aaron Carter records the young singer’s encounter with this man, who asks for a 1v1. For ten points, identify this paragon of culture, a enormous basketball player notorious for missing free throws.
ANSWER: Shaquille O’Neal
2. In the Odd Future song Rella, an aside complains about the DJ’s lack of works by this person and adds “I’ve bet you’ve got some J-Kwon”. On one song, Logic describes himself as angrier than this person “talking about clothes”. The ninth track on Young Thug’s mixtape Jeffrey features Wycleaf Jean but is titled after this person, though the lyrics have nothing to do with their work. A song about this person has a music video that follows a maid on a Cinderella-like journey through hot clubs after finding a dress in a house she is cleaning, and repeats the line “I’ll be the king of me”. A song about this person opines “I miss the old” version of this person and the “chop up the soul” version of this person. For ten points, identify this subject of songs by the Chainsmokers and, appropriately, himself.
ANSWER: KanyeWest (accept either part individually)
3. In an episode of this show, Anton Yelchin plays a troubled high schooler who slashes his wrists and hires a prostitute the day before being institutionalized. In another episode of this show, Jason Alexander wearing a large grey wig plays Professor Rothschild, who was obsessed with the Fibonacci Sequence. That character is as sibling of William Grace, who Agent Rossi had captured years before. A character on this show was forced to confront a man who sexually abused him when in Chicago on a case; that character, Derek Morgan, is played by Shermar Moore. Another main character on this show, Aaron Hotchner, would often read the quotes that bookended episode of this show. For ten points, identify this show somehow still being made about the Behavioural Analysis Unit that investigates and catches serial killers.
ANSWER: Criminal Minds
4.Youtube account nalobi posted 4 videos of two brothers lip syncing a song associated with one of these animals. In a meme produced by the goons at Something Awful, one of these animals says “get out”. In another meme, one of these animals is a Foul Bachelor that does disgusting things stereotypical of university students. One of these animals riding a unicycle is welcomed with the phrase “o shit waddup”. Similar to newspaper cat, one meme sees one of these animals drinking lemonade and admitting “but that’s none of my business”. That same character also disagrees with his evil side, who wears a black hood, in a meme depicting our internal struggles to make moral decisions. A character that is one of these animals was declared a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League. For ten points, identify this kind of animal that have dominated memes in recent memory, including Pepe and Kermit.
ANSWER: crazyFrog
5. A common avatar of this deity was named “Brass” and is depicted in stories about the smashing of a money ring and murder in the air. Depictions of this deity with advisors often paired him with his favourite food, a variety of sweet and colourful beans. Some believers in this deity believed he had domain over spoken language, calling him the “Great Communicator”. One text brought about by followers of thisdeity observed “there is a bear in the woods… for some it is easy to see”. This deity declared that it was morning again in his land after ruling it for four years, while in another episode he visited a land in the east and demanded the dismantling of a wall that bisected a city. For ten points, identify this deity of conservatism and arch enemy of the Soviet pantheon.
ANSWER: RonaldReagan or Ronnie
6. The first song on the album about this character opens with the lyrics “pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing” while the last song asks “gimme your hands cause you’re wonderful”. In one song, this character is described with “screwed up eyes and screwed up hairdo, like some cat from Japan” and “the kid was just crass, he was the naz”. Songs on the album titled after this character include It Ain’t Easy and Moonage Daydream. According to an interview with William S. Burroughs, this character is not actually the Starman “waiting in the sky”, but just his messenger on Earth. For ten points, identify this character who played guitar with his left hand and is paired with The Spiders from Mars in the title of a David Bowie album.
ANSWER: Ziggy Stardust
7. Description acceptable, actor and kind of thing required. It’s got nothing to do with to do with s-orbitals, but a large amount of currency that is this kind of thing is burned after Will Montgomery, played by this actor, is captured by an FBI agent. One of these kinds of things belongs to a local furniture store owner and is searched for by a shotgun-wielding bounty hunter that kills wildlife with grenades. That one of these things is called Nathan Jr. and is taken from their bedroom. Another one of these kind of things was created by John Wilkes Booth, an ancestor of the man seeking it out. The most famous one of these things was chiefly written by Thomas Jefferson and is housed in the National Archives. For ten points, identify these cinematic entities obtained by a certain memetic actor.
ANSWER: Things stolen by Nick Cage in movies
8. In one role, this actress tells Dirk Diggler “that is a big cock” and in a dramatic speech explains that he is like a son to her. In one role, this actress is offended when a pharmacist warns her about taking the combination of drugs she is picking up for her dying husband, Earl Partridge. A character played by this actress visits her ex-wife Theo to recruit him for The Fishes. Another character played by this actress shits her pants after forgetting where the washroom is in her summer home; that character is a linguistics professor who develops Alzheimer’s disease. In another film, this actress plays the leader of the resistance to President Snow who seeks to use Katniss for propaganda. For ten points, identify this star of Still Alice and Alma Coin from the Hunger Games Trilogy.
ANSWER: Julianne Moore
9. In one song, this band repeats the line “she knows the high stakes” and describes a woman who needs “wide open spaces”.In another song, this band repeats the line “You can’t afford no ring” and “I shouldn’t be wearing white”. A song by this band includes the lyrics “I cried, never gonna hold the hand of another guy”; that song is Travelling Soldier. Perhaps the most famous single by this band is their 2002 cover of a song originally recorded by Fleetwood Mac, which begins with the line“I took my love, I took it down”. At a concert in London the next year, this band denounced the presidency of George W. Bush and the Iraq War, which lead to their ostracism from the mainstream country community. For ten points, identify this female country band who recorded a famous cover of Landslide and the song Not Ready to Make Nice.
ANSWER: Dixie Chicks
10. In a memetic clip from Entourage often played backwards, a man best known for this profession smiles and drives away after making fun of Turtle’s car. While on the Bill O’Reilly show, a man of this profession asked the memetic phrase “U mad?” twice during an argument with the FOX News Anchor. DatPiff.com is a website that hosts the work of people of this profession, and a frequent user of that site is often honoured with the acronym TYBG. Two men of this profession suspicious of science asked “fucking magnets, how do they work”. A looped gif of a man of this profession rotating his arm in a circle usually accompanies the phrase Smoke Weed Everday. For ten points, identify this profession of Lil B, 50 Cent, and DJ Khaled.
ANSWER: Rapper (accept anything regarding hip-hop music)
BONUSES:
1. At the 2017 Oscars, this director was lead to believe he had won Best Picture after a mishap involving envelopes; internet denizens then posted the picture of his disappointed face with the caption “hello darkness, my old friend”. For ten points each:
[10] This director still won Best Director for Lala Land, which sees the Ryan Gosling-played main character open a jazz club and Emma Stone tell a story about her aunt in Paris.
ANSWER: Damien Chazelle
[10] Chazelle was earlier nominated for Best Picture for this film about aspiring jazz drummer Andrew Neiman and his conflict with an abusive teacher. In one scene, Neiman punches through a drum in frustration.
ANSWER: Whiplash
Whiplash is named after a piece by Don Ellis that Neiman plays in a pivotal scene of the movie. Ellis also composed the score for this crime movie about drug smuggling in New York. In a famous car chase scene in this film, a detective follows an elevated subway train and gets into unintended accidents with stunt drivers.
ANSWER: The French Connection
2. Identify some songs that sparked a dance craze that you either love or hate, FTPE:
[10] This song by Soulja Boy includes directions to “superman” and “watch me roll” to the beat of iconic steel drums. In his song Watch Me, Silento includes this song’s dance as one of the several he instructs the listener to do.
ANSWER: Crank That (Soulja Boy)
[10] This country dance song has steps involving grabbing the foot suspiciously similar to Crank That, but also involves rotating 90 degrees at the end of every cycle. The singer asks “where did you come from, where did you go” of the title character.
ANSWER: Cotton-Eyed Joe
[10] + [√2] The song Cha-Cha Slide Part 2 is perhaps the easiest song to dance to ever, because the artist instructs you exactly what to do. For 10 points, identify 6 unique actions you are instructed to do during the song. Different numbers of the same action do not count. If you can name 12 you are awarded an extra root 2 points.
ANSWER: Cha cha real smooth, Go to work, Criss-cross, right foot stomp, left foot stomp, clap your hands, freeze, take it back now y’all, to the left, get funky with it, hop, turn it out, to the right, slide to the left, slide to the right, hands on your knees, how low can you go all the way to the floor, Charline Brown, reverse
3. In one uncivilized country, this word refers to a bagged wine drank by bogans. FTPE:
[10] Identify this word that describes cheap boxed wine, packaged usually in silver 1 litre bags in a box.
ANSWER: Goon
[10] Goon is drank by the insane population of this scorching hellhole of an island. Other pastimes of this country include “doof” outdoor raves, surfing, and getting absolutely stupidly drunk in Bali.
ANSWER: Australia
[10] Most Burger King restaurants in Australia are known by the name of this franchise because a restaurant in Adelaide had already trademarked the name Burger King. After a lawsuit sparked by Burger King opening its own restaurants when the trademark expired, all Burger King’s restaurants were rebranded with this name.
ANSWER: Hungry Jack’s
4. A glitch in the second game in this series allowing for combos was only found by onedeveloper, who left it in because he naively thought it would be too difficult for players to abuse. FTPE:
[10] That game introduced combos to the fighting game genre. Characters in this series include Ryu, Ken, and Chun Li, and its fifth edition was released in 2016.
ANSWER: Street Fighter
[10] Both Ryu and Ken can shoot these projectiles out of their fists by rotating the stick up towards the opponent and punching.
ANSWER: Hadouken or a fireball (accept descriptions of energy balls or something like that)
[10] The most famous clip of competitive Street Fighter play was when Daigo completed 15 of these moves during a special attack with a sliver of health left, a harder version of blocking that requires pixel perfect timing. Using this move against a special attack does not lose the play health unlike blocking.
ANSWER: perfect Parry
5. Reddit is a fascinating place where people can share personal stories and relate to each others life experiences. Answer some questions about the subreddits that are not about those things, FTPE.
[10] This subreddit originally was a place to share depressing humour often revolving around anxiety, but now is a hub of memetic activity. In October of 2016 this subreddit realized it had no meme of the month, so it fought over whether Bear in the Big Blue House, Bioncles, or Crusaders would hold that title. All post must be called the title phrase.
ANSWER: me_irl
[10] The subreddit associated with this politician can no longer appear on the r/all because of its reputation for hate speech and contributing to the Pizza Gate conspiracy. Subreddits called March Against this politician and Enough this politician Spam have arose to share horror stories about this politician’s administration.
ANSWER: Donald Trump
[10] A similar subreddit to r/The_Donald that satirizes that community supports this German politician, who is the SPD’s candidate for Chancellor running against Angela Merkel. Fans of this politician want to build bridges instead of walls and spam “keinebremsen”.
ANSWER: Martin Schulz
6. Let’s do some math involving numbers in music, FTPE:
[10] Adding the distance The Proclaimers claimed they would walk in I’m Gonna Be (but not the second amount they would walk more) to the distance Vanessa Carleton would walk if she could be the one who sees you tonight will gives you this distance.
ANSWER: 1500 miles
[10] Add the number of problems that Jay-Z has to the number of objects in a Green Day song that asks “lay down your arms, give up the fight”, then multiply by the title number of a Britney Spears song that notes “and I’m caught in between”.
ANSWER: 360 [(99 + 21) x 3]
[10] Subtract the title number of a song by The Game that claims people from LA “be the craziest” from the title number of wooden pieces in a Led Zeppelin song.
ANSWER: -96
7. The French title of this film translates as The Life of Adele – Chapters 1 & 2, which makes it far more obvious that a sequel to this movie is intended. FTPE:
[10] This film, with controversially explicit sex scenes, follows Adele’s lesbian relationship with Valentin after they meet in a gay bar. The English title is a reference to Valentin’s dyed hair, which disappears as she grows into an established artist.
ANSWER: Blue is the Warmest Colour
[10] This other film about an attractive roughly 17 year old French woman discovering her sexuality which was in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival follows Isabelle as she enters the world of prostitution after losing her virginity to a German boy. Isabelle meets her clients online while she studies literature at the Sorbonne.
ANSWER: Young and Beautiful
[10] Another French film that depicts a young French woman in a relationship with a German man is this Alain Resnais film about the last days of the relationship between Lui and Elle. Elle tells her Japanese boyfriend about her affair with a German soldier during World War II, a relationship she was shaved bald for after the liberation of France.