Seth Teitler Presents: An Intimate Engagement With Trash
Written and edited by David Seal, Nolan Esser and Brian McNamara
With the generous participation of Michael Arnold and Tommy Casalaspi
Round Seven
Tossups
1. In one song, this artist claims that “I don’t own my clothes, but I own my mind.” That song is called “Wish I Stayed”. The music video for one song by this artist shows her covered by a red veil while singing lyrics like “You promised forever and a day/And then you take it all away.” Besides Figure 8, another hit from this artist’s most recent album contains the lines “After the war we said we’d fight together/I guess we thought that’s just what humans do”. That song is “Anything Could Happen” from the album Halcyon. In a recent collaboration with Calvin Harris, this artist declares that “I need to be free with you tonight” because “when everything’s wrong you make it right”. That song is called “I Need Your Love”. In her best-selling single to date, she claims that the title objects are calling her home. For ten points, name this artist, who performs the song “Lights”.
ANSWER: Ellie Goulding
2. This man beat Freddy Garcia to win his Rookie of the Year award. He replaced Ken Griffey, Jr. on the 2004 All-Star Game roster. Allen Baird once obtained a package that included Mark Teahen, Mike Wood and John Buck in exchange for this player. This man has the first ever regular season hit in Marlins Park. Along with Barry Bonds this man holds the record for most home runs in a single postseason. In the 2006 NLCS this man struck out against Adam Wainwright to end the series. He once hit a home run in five straight postseason games. The New York Mets acquired Zak Wheeler after trading this player, who joined the Mets after leaving the Astros. For ten points, name this Puerto Rican center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
ANSWER: Carlos Beltran
3. This character met his wife playing Truth or Dare in a tree fort and he minored in Mongolian in college. In the episode “Over Logging” this character was caught masturbating to Brazilian fart porn. He once received a blowjob after taking his wife to see Wicked. This character was once a member of the Ghetto Avenue Boys and he also competed with Bono to see who could produce the world’s biggest shit. His half-brother Jimbo Kern once took this character’s son hunting near a volcano. This character once solved the problem of spontaneous human combustion, and on Wheel of Fortune this character once got the word “Naggers” wrong. For ten points, name this South Park character, a geologist who is the father of Stan.
ANSWER: Randy Marsh
4. They’re not the Chargers but one player on this team’s roster is the brother of Rob Gronkowski, Dan. This past season the Wikipedia page of one player for this team was edited to give him the nickname “DoopyPantz.” This team finished 10-6 in 2007, but lost a tiebreaker to Tennessee for the final AFC playoff spot. This team recently hired Joe Banner as president, and they traded for Davone Bess this past offseason. Josh Gordon, a receiver for this team, is suspended for the first two games of next season. This team’s last playoff appearance was a 36-33 loss to Pittsburgh in 2003 and this team’s owner is currently under FBI investigation. They were outbid by the Redskins for the Rams pick that became RG3. For ten points, name this team that currently features players like Trent Richardson and Brandon Weeden.
ANSWER: ClevelandBrowns (accept either underlined part)
5. In one film, this actor plays a man who steals a necklace for his mistress played by Jennifer Lopez. That film is Blood and Wine. In another film, this actor plays Will Randall, a literary editor who urinates on the shoes of a rival editor to “mark his territory”. In one role, this actor looked after a dog named Verdell for his neighbour Simon.This actor was nominated for both a Golden Globe and a Golden Raspberry for his role in Hoffa, and he played the author of The Iceman Cometh in Reds. One character played by this actor falls in love with Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. That character is the alcoholic astronaut Garrett Breedlove. For ten points, name this actor, who played author Melvin Udall in As Good As It Gets and who told Tom Cruise that he couldn’t “handle the truth” in A Few Good Men.
ANSWER: Jack Nicholson
6. One unit sometimes found in the game, The Count, can be used to block “paratrooping.” One spinoff of this game is “The Ark of the Covenant, which draws from the Old Testament, and one expansion to this game is titled “The Princess and the Dragon,” which add things like fairy pieces. One feature in this game are cloisters and fields in this game get points when cities are completed next to them. The players in this game draw from seventy-one terrain tiles. It was created by Klaus JurgenWredeOne type of piece in this game are sometimes referred to as “meeple” but are officially known as followers. For ten points, name this German board game, named for a medieval town in France.
ANSWER: Carcassonne
7. A British channel of this name that broadcast American wrestling like WCW and ECW ceased broadcasting on the first day of 2011. When the US channel with this name debuted in 1980, it was available two days a week, sharing time with the softcore porn channel Escapade. During the 2012 Olympic Games, this channel was responsible for covering most of the Table Tennis events. Flipping Out is a recent show on this channel, which is centered around Jeff Lewis. A host of a late-night talk show on this channel is actually a Senior Vice President for the channel. That show is Watch What Happens: Live and its host is Andy Cohen. Another show on this channel is Don’t Be Tardy..., which features Kim Zolciak. For ten points, identify this pop-culture and reality TV-oriented cable channel, home of the Real Housewives series.
ANSWER: Bravo
8. The title people of this show’s third episode share their names with a band who released the single “Let’s Go,” Matt & Kim. The title of this show comes from a shipping practice used to transport certain food products from Alaska to China without sacrificing taste. One of the only episodes to have a successful ending involved a transgender man going by the name Alyx as well as the website vampirefreaks.com. Although Max Joseph is one of the hosts of the show, he tends to take a backseat to the other host, whose 2010 documentary of the same name became the genesis for the show. This show’s name became widely used during the recent scandal about Manti Teo’s nonexistent dead girlfriend. For ten points, identify this MTV show in which Nev Schulman investigates sketchy online relationships.
ANSWER: Catfish: The TV Show
9. AlizaGur plays Vida and Martine Beswick plays Zora in this film. One character in this film says “he seems tough enough” after punching a character with brass knuckles. Pedro Armendariz plays a character who believes that “blood is the best security” in this film. One character in this film pretends to be a man named Nash and he orders red wine with fish. This movie features a catfight at a Gypsy camp. Lotte Lenya played one villain in this film, and that character was a former agent of SMERSH. That character is a lesbian who comes onto Daniela Bianchi’s character, Tatiana. The protagonist of this film fights Grant, played by Robert Shaw, on a train to Istanbul. For ten points, name this Bond film, the second to star Sean Connery.
ANSWER: From Russia with Love
10. This song was covered on the “Grilled Cheesus” episode of Glee by a recently deceased member of the cast. The symbolic images of this song’s video were supposedly inspired by the artistic works of Caravaggio as well as the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The video for this song also features images of an African-American angel and an androgynous St. Sebastian. The speaker of the song directs the listener to consider “the hint of the century” before asking, “What if all these fantasies come/flailing around?” This song is the second track on an album that includes the songs “Near Wild Heaven” and “Country Feedback” and is called Out of Time. Containing what is perhaps the most famous use of the mandolin in popular music, this is for ten points, what 1991 R.E.M. hit that is ostensibly about waning spiritual faith.
ANSWER: Losing My Religion
11. One character in this film claims that he has been rejected from the army and shoved into a Dora The Explorer backpack. Another character in this film is Cynthia-Rose, played by Ester Dean, who wrote Rihanna’sS&M. One character in this movie attempts to woo the protagonist by showing her The Breakfast Club. One of the antagonists in this film drops out of school to work for John Mayer. Elizabeth Banks plays ICCA commentator Gail Abernathy-McKadden in this film, which she also produced. This film opens with Anna Camp’s character vomiting during a performance of Ace of Base’s “The Sign.” Rebel Wilson plays Fat Amy, who is a member of the Barden Bellas, which the protagonist joins after performing “Cups.” For ten points, name this 2012 film starring Anna Kendrick as ana capella singer.
ANSWER: Pitch Perfect
12. One remix of this song features a verse in which T-Pain claims that “If you say you saw me and I wasn’t flying, that’s absurd” and the music video for this song opens with a shot of a to-do list which includes buying champagne before attending a party at The Social Trust which requires a handprint scan to get in. This song beseeches its listeners to “take that bottle to the head and let me see you fly” and claims that the “808 bump” makes you “put your hands up.” This song’s artist claims that “when sober girls around me, they be actin’ like they drunk”, and Dev sings this song’s chorus, which talks of “poppin’ bottles in the ice like a blizzard”. For ten points, name this terrible song which asserts that the “right” way to drink is to get “slizzered”, performed by the Far East Movement.
ANSWER: “Like a G6”
13. Pinstripe games is running a kickstarter campaign to get a sequel to this game. The first boss in this game, Karnov, is named after an older Data East game, and Killer Joe is another boss in this game. In Parenthood Steve Martin asks his son why this game is so difficult. Sodas are used to recover lost health in this game. Blade and Stryker are the player characters in this game. The final boss of this game is the Dragon Ninja, who is the leader of a group of kidnappers. At the end of this game the players celebrate by eating burgers with President Ronnie. For ten points, name this beat-em-up that asks if you are enough of the title type of person.
ANSWER: Bad Dudesv. Dragon Ninja
14. One player in this game described re-watching it as like “looking at a Salvador Dali painting.” Devin Green replaced one player in this game for the last four seconds. On the same day this game occurred the Suns and Sonics set a record for most 3 pointers in a game. Mike James was the leading scorer for the losing team in this game and Smush Parker scored 13 points for the winning team. In describing one player in this game Chris Bosh said, “we were just watching him shoot,” and that player went 28-46 from the field. For ten points, name this 2006 game in which a player scored the second most points in a single game in NBA history.
ANSWER: Kobe Bryant’s81 Point Game
15. In Bastion the first weapon the player acquires is one of these and in Red Faction: Guerilla players can unlock one of them that is actually just an ostrich. Poppy from League of Legends uses one of these weapons and in Assassin’s Creed II, players can buy the Condottiero one of these. In the first generation of PokemonKrabby and Kingler were the only pokemon who could use a move named for a crab one of these. King Dedede utilizes one of these weapons. These weapons provide the name for a pair of koopa brothers that throw them at Mario. For ten points, name these items that in Donkey Kong allow Mario to destroy barrels.
ANSWER: Hammers
16. This person directed an episode of Tales From The Dark Side in which a couple receives a box which contains a human soul in the mail, as well as a film in which Robert Downey Jr tries to set up his sister with a man named Leo at a Thanksgiving gathering. This actress played Anna Leonowens opposite Chow-Yun Fat in Anna and the King, and she also played the mother of a seven year old genius who enrolls in university in Little Man Tate. One character played by this actress meets an alien who looks like her father. That character is Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact. After Miggs insults a character played by this woman, he is convinced to kill himself by a fellow inmate at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. For ten points, name this actress, who played Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.
ANSWER: Jodie Foster
17. The nail polish named for this song is the “perfect way to add a bit of gloss to your look without going over the top.” The video for this song contains a scene inspired by a Brian DePalma film. One character in this song teaches another “how to shoot a combo” and that character buys three dollars of bathroom cologne according to the singer. It appears on the album Some Hearts, its singer’s debut album. One woman in this song likes fruity drinks because she can’t shoot whiskey, and sings Shania Twain karaoke. In the video for this song the singer wields a Louisville Slugger and it repeats the phrase “right now” in its verses. The singer of this song carves her name into the seats of her boyfriend’s four-wheel drive. For ten points, name this 2007 Carrie Underwood song.
ANSWER: “Before He Cheats”
18. This man will play Confederate General John B. Gordon in HBO’s To Appomattox and he played Jim Hill on 24. Jimmy Fennig serves as the Crew Chief for this driver. In 2007 he won the Busch Series and this driver was the 2003 Raybestos Rookie of the Year in the Craftsman Series. He won this years Subway Fresh Fit 500 and in 2005 he won his first Sprint Cup race, the Golden Corral 500. In 2008 he won a season high nine races, including the season finale, but he still finished second to Jimmie Johnson. In 2011 he finished second in Sprint Cup standings, after losing a tiebreaker to Tony Stewart, and he drives the No. 99 AFLAC car. For ten points, name this NASCAR driver, known for doing a backflip off his car after victories.
ANSWER: Carl Edwards
19. This man attended Haverford College and one time while staying at a hotel this character was annoyed by an Icelandic group staying on his floor. He once discovered that Chester Desmond’s car had been vandalized with the phrase “Let’s Rock. ”This character once had an affair with Caroline Earle, and he worked under Gordon Cole. He once fell in love with a woman who worked at the Double R. He addressed a woman named Diane when he spoke into his recorder, and The Man from Another Place helped him apprehend the evil BOB. For ten points, name this FBI agent who investigates the death of Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks.
ANSWER: Dale Cooper
20. This character gets in a brief discussion about how to pronounce “Shar-Pei.” Later, in an uncharacteristic action, this character drinks a milkshake at McDonalds. He lives on 81st street in the American Gardens Building in which he meets Tom Cruise in an elevator. This character gives monologues that were combined with scenes featuring newspapers, raincoats, and axes in a film adaptation of the novel this character appears in. Those monologues were about his opinions of Whitney Houston and Huey Lewis and the News. He is an extremely unreliable narrator who observes a talking Cheerio as well an ATM which asks to be fed a stray cat. For ten points, identify this Wall Street denizen and serial killer, who is Bret Easton Ellis’s titular “American Psycho.”
ANSWER: Patrick Bateman
Bonuses
1. Their members protect the entire galaxy, which they divide into 3600 sectors. For ten points each:
[10]Name this intergalactic police force, whose powers are resistant to the colour yellow, and whose members have included Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Killowog.