TrashMasters 2009
Questions by James Quintong, Brian Hight, Jeremy White and Mark Richey
Tossup Questions
1.THE NAME'S THE SAME: the original one, with the last name of Myree, had a solo hit with "King Heroin" in 1983 and was part of the Funky Four Plus One on their biggest hit, 1981's "That's the Joint." The other artist has recorded the solo album Magnificent in 2002 and the mix CD Hip Hop Forever II in 2004. Born with the last name Townes, he is a successful DJ and producer with his A Touch of Jazz production company. However, he's best known for his collaborations on albums such as Homebase and He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper with Will Smith. For ten points, give this two-word moniker, with the former adding MC before it and the latter using DJ when performing with the Fresh Prince.
ANSWER:DJ Jazzy Jeff or MC Jazzy Jeff
2.Like Fogell and Evan in Superbad, the protagonist of this film is headed to Dartmouth, specifically to a writing seminar led by Kurt Vonnegut. Before leaving for the trip, the protagonist runs into an angel stripper played by Jenna Elfman, gets accosted by Melissa Joan Hart to sign a yearbook, and encounters the future stars of How I Met Your Mother, American Pie, Six Feet Under, and Robot Chicken at one big graduation party, an occasion which the character finally expresses feelings for the newly single Amanda Beckett. For ten points, name this 1998 cavalcade of young stars where Ethan Embry pines for and eventually lands Jennifer Love Hewitt.
ANSWER:Can't Hardly Wait
3.A recently unearthed video features this company's CEO claiming to have done "every horrible thing in the book" to fund it. Amidst pressure from people like TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, that CEO, Mark Pincus, announced new policies for the company. Named after Pincus' pet American Bulldog, their smaller games include Scramble and Word Twist. The recent launch of their aquatic-themed game was temporarily suspended due to ad violations and they needed less than a week for their game Café World to surpass rival Playfish's Restaurant City. For ten points, name this social game company responsible for the Facebook games YoVille!, Mafia Wars, and Farmville.
ANSWER:Zynga
4.He sang a version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" that played while he performed with Shae-Lynn Bourne on CBC's "Battle of the Blades." A second-round pick in 1983 by Montreal, he scored one point with the San Jose Sharks during a short-lived comeback in 2009 at age 43. While he had 786 regular-season points with six teams, he's better-known for his postseason exploits, scoring 80 playoff goals, winning a Conn Smythe Award, and making a vicious hit on Kris Draper that elicited the line, "I can't believe I shook that friggin' guy's hand." For ten points, name this player who won four Stanley Cups with the Canadiens, Devils and Avalanche, but is not related to Super Mario.
ANSWER:Claude Lemieux
5.Named after the lead character in Jacqueline Susan's Once Is Not Enough, she moved from South Dakota to New York at age 18 to take up modeling. She moved into acting soon after, although one-time boyfriend Ashton Kutcher thought she wouldn't make it. Among early roles include playing a ditzy American flirt in Love, Actually, a lesbian porn star in Anger Management and Alyson Hannigan's sister in American Wedding. Her most famous character had an affair with gubernatorial advisor Henry Sterling, is the mother of Sally, Bobby and Eugene and married to a man whose real name is Dick Whitman. For ten points, name this actress who plays Betty Draper on Mad Men.
ANSWER:January Jones
6.In 1988, The Question tried to emulate this character but ultimately decided he sucks. A dress meant for Kitty Genevieve was the source of a trademark item of clothing worn by this character who once crossed Antarctica wearing only a trenchcoat as outerwear. This character once investigated Blair Roche’s disappearance and remained active despite passage of the Keene Act. The New Frontiersman received this character’s last writings after he was killed by Dr. Manhattan. For ten points, name this character in The Watchmen who wears a constantly changing mask and was played by Jackie Earle Haley in the 2009 film.
ANSWER:Rorschach or also accept Walter and/or Kovacs
7.He lost both legs in a car accident at age 20 but then won four Paralympic golds in 1984 and 1988. In the early '90s, he was a physician dealing in orthopedic sports injuries when he turned to music full-time. He won the BBC talent show Go For It and made his operatic debut as Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly. He joined the Irish Tenors in 1998 before going solo in 2005, and CDs include My Life Belongs to You and Dawning of the Day. A singer at Ronald Reagan's funeral in 2004, he lost his highest-profile gig because of an anti-Semitic joke. For ten points, name this man recently let go as the singer of "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium.
ANSWER:Ronan Tynan
8.He upset pros Allen Cunningham and Ted Forrest en route to the quarterfinals of the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championships. He is better known for winning 204 games and sporting a career 3.48 ERA over 18 seasons, though he was dropped from the Hall of Fame ballot in 2007 after just two years. His career postseason numbers of 8-3 with a 2.59 ERA include two games lost while pitching in the 1997 World Series for Cleveland and a 3-0 record with a 1.05 ERA in the 1988 playoffs. For ten points, name this pitcher who, in 1988, won the NL Cy Young Award, set the major league record for most consecutive shutout innings, and led the Dodgers to a World Series title.
ANSWER:Orel Hershiser
9.Originally portrayed by Toby Towson in 1977, he has since been played by Brian Muehl, Fred Garber and Bruce Connelly. His first major appearance was in A Special Sesame Street Christmas, and was a regular in his main show's closing credits for years. He's also served as Big Bird's primary companion in journeys to both China and Japan. Originally owned by Linda, he can understand the American Sign Language signs for "sit" and "stay" but otherwise does very little verbal communication outside of barking. For ten points, name this Sesame Street Muppet, formerly named Woof-Woof, an oversized orange and white sheepdog.
ANSWER:Barkley
10.NME suggested this album’s cover art was plagiarized from Blur’s Think Tank cover. Christian and Gloria are its main characters, and "born into Nixon, I was raised in hell" and "my generation is zero, I never made it as a working class hero" are lines from its title song. "Heroes and Cons", "Charlatans and Saints," and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades" are its three acts and its settings include "Murder City" and "East Jesus Nowhere." For ten points, "Know Your Enemy" and "21 Guns" are among the hit singles taken from what 2009 concept album by Green Day?
ANSWER:21st Century Breakdown
11.This establishment's TV ads feature parodies of "Super Freak" and "My Sharona" and there are two musical venues on site -- a 9,500-seat arena and a smaller Wolf Den theater that features free shows of artists including Colin Hay and They Might Be Giants. Bobby Flay, Todd English and Michael Jordan all have eateries here, and there's a branch of New Haven pizza institution Frank Pepe's here as well. Its newly built Casino of the Wind introduced a poker room, to help it compete with nearby Foxwoods. For ten points, name this casino/hotel in Uncasville, Connecticut, also home to the WNBA's Connecticut Sun.
ANSWER:Mohegan Sun
12.Pop Warner finished his coaching career here and led their team to the inaugural Sugar Bowl in 1935. Theirlast bowl appearance came in 1979 when they went 10-2 and won the Garden State Bowl. They joined the Big East in 1991, but were kicked out in 2004 and moved on to the Mid-American Conference in 2007. Notable alums include 1986 Heisman runner-up Paul Palmer and former Jets star Joe Klecko. In 2009, their 9-game winning streak has made them bowl eligible and led to their first winning season in nearly two decades. For ten points, name this Philadelphia school whose athletic teams usually play in the Atlantic-10 and whose best known ex-player is still Bill Cosby.
ANSWER:Temple University Owls
13.The supposed origin of this movement was in 2003 when a handful of guys from Melbourne pined for the return of a certain fashion statement. They turned it into a fundraiser for men's health causes, such as the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation in the United States. Culminating in a Gala Parte where participants honor people like Tom Selleck and Ron Burgundy, it features men growing out mustaches for month. For ten points, name this recently concluded month of the mustache.
ANSWER:Movember (pronounced like November)
14.Investigating the murder of college girlfriend Ellie Cox led this character to travel to Nigeria in search of a gangster known as The Tiger. This character’s wife Maria was killed by Michael Sullivan, a Mafia hitman known as the Butcher. He has investigated criminals like the DC Audience Killer, Gary Soneji, Cassanova, Kyle Craig—aka the Mastermind—and The Gentleman Caller. For ten points, name this detective who is the hero of a series of novels by James Patterson, including Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls.
ANSWER:Alex and/or Cross
15.He has written three off-Broadway plays, including Diverting Devotion and Searching for Certainty. As an actor, his short-lived TV projects include voicing the father in the animated version of Baby Blues, playing the lead in Life with Roger, and a disastrous eponymous NBC sitcom in 1999. More recently, he's played a gay cop on My Name Is Earl and the father of the gay teen Kurt on Glee. For ten points, name this actor best known for playing "The Rick" in a series of ESPN ads, hosting Nickelodeon's Figure It Out and Guts, and starring opposite Anthony Clark on CBS' Yes, Dear.
ANSWER:Mike O'Malley
16.In 1993, he played opposite Ian Holm in a staging of Harold Pinter's Moonlight. His father is a part-time Jack Nicholson impersonator, fitting given the number of real-life figures he's portrayed on stage and screen, including Robbie Ross, Brian Clough, Nero and H.G. Wells. He has a daughter with Kate Beckinsale, although they broke up during the filming of Underworld. Despite that, he's back in the vampire game, playing Aro in New Moon. For ten points, name this actor who gained most prominence for playing Tony Blair in The Queen and David Frost in the stage and film adaptations of Frost/Nixon.
ANSWER:Michael Sheen
17.It took approximately 60 years for this song to be put to music and released commercially, as the lyrics were originally written in 1945 by Woody Guthrie but didn't appear until the 2005 album The Warrior's Code. It's a simple story of a pirate in search of his wooden leg, although the song's instrumentals are more distinctive than Guthrie's silly lyrics. It has been Jonathan Papelbon's entrance music since 2007, one year after it was featured prominently in The Departed. For ten points, name this most notable song by the Dropkick Murphys.
ANSWER:"I'm Shipping Up To Boston "
18.This number was worn by Hall of Famer Neil Johnston while with the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1950's. For a single season with the Orlando Magic, it was worn by Patrick Ewing. The Suns retired it for Walter Davis and the Spurs did the same for Avery Johnson. New Nugget Arron Afflalo received it from Kenyon Martin in 2009, while other current players to wear this number include Andrew Bogut and Mario Chalmers. It is the proposed new number for LeBron James, a number that would allow James to join previous wearers Julius Erving and Bill Russell. For ten points, identify this number that the Sacramento Kings appropriately retired for their fans.
ANSWER:6
19.One of this character's first appearances was by Mark McDermott in 1910. H.V. Esmond's version was included in 1922's Tense Moments with Great Authors. Ronald Sinclair played him as a young man in 1938. Made-for TV variations include Basil Rathbone on The Alcoa Hour, Susan Lucci as a store owner, Vanessa Williams as a pop singer, and James Earl Jones in a 1994 reading. More famous variations include Michael Caine in 1992 with the Muppets, Mr. Magoo in 1962, and Buddy Hackett in a 1988 film starring Bill Murray. Recently, Conan O’Brien ran a montage of this character saying his catchphrase. For ten points, name this classic miser, most recently played on film by Jim Carrey.
ANSWER:Ebenezer Scrooge
20.This company, a sponsor of a 1998 Stevie Nicks tour, acquired Speakeasy, Inc. in 2007. On Saturday Night Live, Will Forte claimed his sex tape was available here, while Mr. T sued this company in 2003 for having used altered footage from Rocky III in a commercial. It exclusively markets Dynex, Insignia and Rocketfish products and operates high-end Magnolia stores, allows users to join its Reward Zone and offers the services of its Geek Squad. For ten points, name this Minnesota-based retailer best known for its namesake big box stores that usually feature a yellow-tag logo against a blue background.
ANSWER:Best Buy Company, Inc.
21.First introduced in 1987, this franchise was surprisingly rebooted in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus with a new adventure starring the nephew of the original character. A 2009 sequel, Box Office Bust, featured the voice talents of stars like Jay Mohr and Jeffrey Tambor, but was critically panned. The 1996 title, Love for Sail!, was the last of the series featuring the writing talents of Al Lowe, who created the series as sort of an adult version of Sierra's popular King's Quest series. For ten points, name this series of R-rated PC games that started with the Land of the Lounge Lizards, featuring the original 40-year-old virgin trying to seduce shapely pixilated women.
ANSWER:Leisure Suit Larry
22."I’m Stuffed" and "Boat Trash" are varieties of its menu items and it also serves "Lotsa Lava" cocktails and "Mama's Cinnamon Bread Pudding" for desert. Founded in 1996 on Cannery Row in Monterey, California, they claim 19 different ways of serving the item that is their speciality. It was named after a fictional business that was founded with ping pong paddle endorsement money and named in part for a fallen soldier played by Mykelti Williamson. For ten points, name this real seafood chain, which is named after the fake company started by Lieutenant Dan and the Tom Hanks-portrayed title character of a Best Picture winner.
ANSWER:Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
TrashMasters 2009
Questions by James Quintong, Brian Hight, Jeremy White and Mark Richey
BonusQuestions
1.Please turn off your cell phones before answering these questions about recent developments in mobile phone hardware and marketing for ten points each.
[10] Verizon has been advertising this Motorola smartphone running a Google operating system for all of the things it does that the iPhone doesn't.
ANSWER:Droid
[10] AT&T was not happy that the iPhone was shunted to the Island of Misfit Toys because of its perceived lack of 3G coverage, so it fired back with ads featuring this actor tossing postcards around a giant map.
ANSWER:Luke Wilson
[10] Some users of this T-Mobile product are still trying to recover all of their data thanks to a server crash in October.
ANSWER:T-Mobile -or- Danger Sidekick -or- Hiptop
2.It wasn't just about Serena Williams trying to shove a ball down a lineswoman's throat. Identify these women with breakthrough performances during the 2009 U.S. Open for ten points each.
[10] This unseeded Marietta, Georgia, teenager ousted seeded Russians Elena Dementieva, Maria Sharapova and Nadia Petrova in the first week before falling in the quarters.
ANSWER:Melanie Oudin
[10] Oudin was eliminated by this rising Danish star, who entered the tournament as the No. 9 seed. She lost in the finals to eventual champion Kim Clijsters.
ANSWER:Caroline Wozniacki
[10] Wozniacki reached the finals by beating this unseeded Belgian who was recently suspended one year for violating drug-testing policy
ANSWER:Yanina Wickmayer
3.Some Christmas carols are timeless. And others say it’s time to change the radio station. Answer these questions about songs in the latter category, for ten points each.
[10] This 1984 charity single by Band Aid ran into controversy with lyrics that imply it never rains in Africa, nor does anything ever grows there. Bono screaming out, "Tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you!" didn’t help matters.