MO VANITY TRASH: Get the Tables

MO VANITY TRASH: Get the Tables

Round Four

Questions by Czar Alexander II’s Irish Setter

Tossups

1. One of the pioneers of using this object was Edwin Davis, who was criticized for his “awful spectacle” he put on with William Kemmler. This specific object was the subject of the Supreme Court case Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber. On August 8, 1942, the participants in the failed Nazi sabotage plan “Operation Pastorius” used one of these objects. An infamous New York Daily News photograph pictured Ruth Snyder using one of these objects. These were designed by Fred A. Leuchter Jr., the protagonist of an Errol Morris film focusing on his Holocaust denial. In Florida, one of these objects brutally killed Allen Lee Davis and Jesse Tafero and was known as “Old Sparky.”This object was responsible for killing such people as Ted Bundy and Sacco and Vanzetti. For 10 points, name these objects used in prisons to shock people to death.

ANSWER: electric chairs

1. At one point in this story, a man accuses the title character of making a “grating sound” with his teeth which is explained away as a parrot at the window. The antagonist “would have preferred Rabelais’ Gargantua to the Zadig of Voltaire” and is said “to live only for joking.” This story’s protagonist suggests the removal of a chandelier, allowing him to use a chain to trap his enemies while stating “I can soon tell who they are.” The title character convinces a group of eight to put on tar and flax as part of a diversion to frighten women. This story ends with the protagonist running off with Trippetta after proclaiming he has made his “last jest.” The title character is a dwarf who convinces a boorish king and his friends to dress up like orangutans only to incinerate them all. For 10 points, name this Edgar Allan Poe story about the title vengeance-seeking jester.

ANSWER: “Hop-Frog”

1. A fictional character on this non-animated show is the secretary Constance Goodheart, who is taken captive by the fiendish Satan’s Robot. The chief authority figure occasionally received advice from the John Rhys-Davies played Leonardo da Vinci. One character on this show was born with the name Annika Hansen and befriended the child Naomi Wildman. Another character used such aliases as “Schweitzer” before ultimately choosing “Joe” as his real name; that character wrote the novel Photons Be Free. Early villains on this show were the Kazon.This series begins during a pursuit of a Maquis ship, an event that results in the title craft becoming stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Its notable characters include a holographic doctor and the Jeri Ryan played Seven of Nine. For 10 points, name this series set aboard the title Starfleet vessel captained by Kathryn Janeway.

ANSWER: Star Trek: Voyager [prompt on Star Trek]

1. A Teresa Brewer song about this man says he “drives me batty every spring.” He once thought about quitting as a youngster only for his father to tell him “I thought I raised a man. I see I raised a coward instead.” This deceased man was once placed on the “permanently ineligible” list by Bowie Kuhn after working as a greeter at an Atlantic City casino. During one World Series game, he caught his cleats on a drainage cover in the outfield grass, badly injuring his right knee. This man notoriously hit his 535th career homer on an intentionally easy pitch thrown by Denny McLain. At his 1995 funeral, this man was eulogized by Bob Costas as the “fragile hero.” Known as the Commerce Comet, he hit 54 home runs in 1961 to finish behind teammate Roger Maris. For 10 points, name this beloved New York Yankees center fielder who succeeded Joe DiMaggio at that position.

ANSWER: Mickey Charles Mantle

1. In one game in this series, the villain starts RoboCy Corporation and hires Dr. Dahm to make robot versions of city officials. In the first game, if you choose to accept the bad guy’s offer, the caption “You Became the Boss! You are Great!” appears followed by “BAD END.” The head villain in this series had a chief henchman named Shiva and a controversial homosexual stereotype henchman named Ash, who was cut out the U.S. version. In the third game, which featured the cyborg character Dr. Zan, the players could obtain for their team a fighting kangaroo named Roo. The main villain in this series was “Mr. X,” who employs fire-breathing fat henchmen and is opposed by Max Thunder. While other characters included the youthful “Skate,” the main characters in each game were the female Blaze and the fighter Axel Stone. For 10 points, name this series of beat ‘em up games for the Sega Genesis.

ANSWER: Streets of Rage [accept Bare Knuckle]

1. This actor played a nightclub performer who is attacked by the mob, causing him to become a comedian. In another film, he played a man who is put in a prison of war camp \and receives the insulting nickname “von Ryan.” This actor played the title heroin addict in The Man with the Golden Arm, while another of his characters is called a “tough monkey” and then killed by the racist Sergeant Fatso Judson. In one role, he shouts “how did the old ladies turn into Russians?” while fighting a Chinese agent.This man won an Oscar for playing Maggio in From Here to Eternity and was the inspiration for the character of Johnny Fontane in The Godfather. He was the original actor to play Danny Ocean on film.For 10 points, name this actor and singer who made many movies with “Rat Pack” co-stars Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.

ANSWER: Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra

1. This man’s alleged pursuit of a woman engaged to Alex von Furstenburg may have resulted in a banner reading “STOP PURSUING MARRIED WOMEN” to be flown over Malibu. The subject of the documentary Winning Time, this man’s selection as the 1987 first round pick was booed by fans wanting the hometown hero Steve Alford. One of his top moments came when he stole an inbounds pass from Anthony Mason and tied the game seconds after scoring on a pass from Mark Jackson.In the 2004 playoffs, this man’s attempt at a game-tying layup was blocked by a scrambling Tayshaun Prince. During the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals, he infamously gave the “choke sign” at Madison Square Garden to his frequent nemesis, Spike Lee. The brother of a gold medalist and basketball Hall of Famer, this man only trails Ray Allen for the most career three pointers. For 10 points, name this shooting guard, the career leader in most stats for the Indiana Pacers.

ANSWER: Reginald Wayne “Reggie” Miller

1. This man reportedly joked “Oh, you make cement shoes!” after meeting an Italian construction company owner. This governor’s Attorney General had twelve speeding tickets and four bench warrants issued for her arrest and is named Zulima Farber. In 2007, he suffered broken bones after his motorcade’s SUV, while going over 90 miles per hour, was hit by a truck. This politician had an affair with union president Carla Katz and in the 2000 and 2005 elections, he spent over 100 million dollars. The final CEO of MF Global, he was replaced in 1999 by Henry Paulson as CEO of Goldman Sachs. As governor, his state suffered a 2006 shutdown in which 36,000 casino workers were given leave. This man tried to earn money by leasing the Garden State Parkway. For 10 points, name this former Governor of New Jersey who was succeeded by Chris Christie.

ANSWER: Jon Stevens Corzine

1. As a child, this character owned a teddy bear named Osito, which has a hole in his back to hold a knife. This man’s father is Edmund Dorrance, a British mercenary known as “King Snake.” He was served by men named Trogg, Zombie, and Bird, and was born in a prison in the Caribbean Republic of Santa Prisca. In the “Veritas Liberat” storyline, he thinks he might share a father with his arch enemy, while in a more famous storyline, he is responsible for Jean-Paul Valley assuming a superheroic identity. Given superhuman strength by the drug known as Venom, this character is hired in a film by John Daggett for a hostile takeover but reveals that he actually plans to use a nuclear weapon to destroy a city on the behest of the League of Shadows. In his first major storyline, he ends up breaking his enemy’s back in the Knightfall arc. For 10 points, name this masked Batman villain, recently played by Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises.

ANSWER: Bane [accept Dorrance until mentioned]

1. In this character’s last appearance, he is confronted by the obnoxious David Pritchard, who ends up drowning in a pond. Along with two Englishmen, he recruits the disturbed Bernard Tufts in a plan to fake the paintings of Philip Derwatt. Married to a woman named Heloise, he uses an oar to beat to death a companion during a holiday in Italy. He later uses an ashtray to murder Freddie Miles and ends his first appearance by wondering if he is “going to see policemen waiting for him on every pier that he ever approached.” This character appears in novels in which he is “Under Ground” and “Under Water.”In his first appearance, he is paid to go to Italy to bring back Dickie Greenleaf before using his gifts of impersonation to kill Greenleaf and pose as him. For 10 points, name this Patricia Highsmith character, a “talented” con man played on film by Matt Damon.

ANSWER: Thomas “Tom” Ripley [accept any part]

1. This man’s father was an opera composer who named him after the protagonist of one of his operas, Amen.The Harry Turtledove novel The Man with the Iron Heart features this man as the title character. This man’s engagement to Lina von Osten resulted in him being dismissed from the navy by Admiral Erich Raeder. One theory claims he died from botulism as a grenade thrown at him was modified to contain botulinum toxin, and he was killed by the group Out Distance while riding in an open-top Mercedes near the suburb of Liben. After this chair of the Wannsee Conference was killed in Operation Anthropoid, the village of Lidice was razed to the ground. This man opened a meeting with men like Adolf Eichmann by discussing the “future final solution of the Jewish question.” For 10 points, name this architect of the Holocaust who was killed by a team of Czech operatives in 1942.

ANSWER: Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich

1. The chorus to this song originally featured a reference to Humphrey Bogart and it arose out of an unused track called “The Law of the Jungle” for the album Partners in Crime. In the film The Sweetest Thing, Christina Applegate and Cameron Diaz sing it while taking off their clothes at a roadside stop.The speaker in this song knows one woman’s smile in an instant and the curve of her face. Played while the magic mirror introduces Princess Fiona in Shrek, this song features a figure who is not into yoga and likes making love at midnight in the dunes. The speaker schedules a rendezvous with a woman at a bar called O’Malley’s. The plot of this song involves a man putting out a classified ad to cheat on his partner, who herself answers the advertisement. For 10 points, name this most successful song of Rupert Holmes, which is popularly known by a title referring to a rum-based cocktail.

ANSWER: “Escape” or “The Pina Colada Song” [accept either]

1. Name of episode or general description is okay. One joke in this episode involves a character continually gaining and losing weight until smoking a Navajo peace pipe. One of its last lines is a character saying “you really ought to wear more sweaters” to his wife. This episode features a young Lisa Kudrow as one of three talkative wives, who are shockingly told to be quiet by their husbands. This episode’s main plot involves the setting being sold to a Japanese tycoon and it seems to end with its protagonist getting hit in the head with a golf ball. In its last scenes, the studio audience gleefully responds to seeing Suzanne Pleshette as Emily in bed with the protagonist, who tries to explain such characters as Larry, Darryl, and Darryl. For 10 points, identify this episode which ended a sitcom about a Vermont innkeeper by revealing it to be all a dream of the star’s earlier character, Dr. Bob Hartley.

ANSWER: The final episode of Newhart [accept “The Last Newhart,” accept general descriptions involving Newhart and dream until “dream is mentioned, do not accept “the final Bob Newhart Show” episode]

1. The film Return Engagement details this man’s tour and debate with former foe G. Gordon Liddy. This man’s writings include Start Your Own Religion and Design for Dying, written before his death due to prostate cancer. He is described as “outside looking in” in the opening lines to the Moody Blues song “Legend of a Mind,” while the Beatles song “Come Together” was inspired by his gubernatorial campaign. With his wife Rosemary, this man was smuggled out of the country by the Weathermen, who were paid $25,000 to do so.Along with Richard Alpert, this man supervised the Concord Prison and Marsh Chapel Experiments as part of his Harvard Psilocybin Project, with the latter featuring students trying to enter religious states through substance usage. For 10 points, name this psychologist and LSD advocate who popularized the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out.”

ANSWER: Timothy Francis Leary [accept G. Gordon Liddy until mentioned]

1. One man with this surname infamously said “That’s tradition, WCW! Bite this!” when he attacked Larry Zbyszko at Souled Out 1998 and revealed himself to be a New World Order member. Another wrestler with this surname made a series of apparently Christian promos sponsored by the group Evangelists Against Television, Movies, and Entertainment. One man with this surname was mocked by the naming of Ted DiBiase’s sidekick as “Virgil” and had a theme song with the lyric “He’s just a common man, working hard with his hands.” A current wrestler with this surname once wore a clear protective mask over his face during his “Dashing” gimmick. An older wrestler with this surname wore yellow polka dots and was known as the “American Dream.” The wrestler Goldust was a member of this family. For 10 points, name this family of wrestlers which includes current wrestler Cody and his father Dusty.

ANSWER: Rhodes [accept Runnels]

1. In one appearance, this character recruits the detective “Colambo” to find one of his missing possessions. In the West Wing episode “Eppur Si Muove,” he sits down on a bench next to C.J. This character says the most remarkable word he has ever seen is the alphabet, not realizing it is not a word, and he sings a song about being too short called “Tall Enough.” This character goes to Japan in one appearance with the dog Barkley. In a 1985 film, he is exploited by the Sleaze Brothers who display him in a cage after he runs away from living with the Dodo family. This character owns a teddy bear named Radar and in one episode, had to be explained what the death of Mr. Hooper truly signified. During a 2012 debate, Mitt Romney said he loved this character but would still cut PBS funding. For 10 points, name this tall yellow avian featured on Sesame Street.

ANSWER: Big Bird

1. The protagonist of this film jokes that a “prickly and hard to eradicate” shrub should be named after him. This movie ends with the protagonist and his friend playing a piece of music by Boccherini. Its main character takes inspiration from a stick insect in utilizing deception and inspires a group by asking if they want their children to sing “La Marseillaise.” One subplot in this film deals with the character of Hollom, who commits suicide after being labeled a Jonah figure. Another subplot in this movie involves a character determined to collect specimens at the Galapagos Islands. It begins with the protagonist and the crew of the Surprise dispatched to capture the Acheron. This movie is adapted from three novels in Patrick O’Brian’s series about the protagonist and his friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin. For 10 points, name this film in which Russell Crowe plays Captain Jack Aubrey.

ANSWER: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

1. One governor of this state made it the first to adopt eugenics legislation with the 1907 Compulsory Sterilization Law. Another figure from here was convinced for the murder and rape of Madge Oberholtzer; that man, D.C. Stephenson, was the Grand Dragon of the KKK in this state. This was the home state of a politician who famously joked that “what this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.” Besides being the home state of Vice-President Thomas Marshall, this state was the home of a man who gave a speech denouncing the “poverty of values” in the show Murphy Brown and who was also the subject of the Lloyd Bentsen zinger “you’re no Jack Kennedy.” This was the home state of George H.W. Bush’s Vice-President, Dan Quayle. For 10 points, name this Midwestern state known as the “Hoosier State.”

ANSWER: Indiana