Spring Trash 2014 - Packet 4 (Laird)
Spring Trash 2014
Packet #10 by Mathew Laird with minimal contributions by Bob Kilner
1. When a gun goes off in a school on this show, one character finds the aftermath and remarks "that's my soda!" On another episode of this show, a woman cuts her hair short immediately before taking a ballroom dance class and breaks a porcelain figurine after the class. One character on this show is in a band called (*) The Frozen Embryos and another character is fired by his wife so that he can pursue his dream of cooking. Two episodes of this show are narrated from the perspectives of the main character's younger sister Danielle and by Brian Krakow. Following Rickie, Rayanne, Jordan, and Angela, the latter two of whom are played by Jared Leto and Claire Danes, for 10 points, identify this 90s cult classic show that was tragically cancelled after only 19 episodes.
ANSWER: My So-Called Life
Bonus: Identify these other things about shows and films that have something in common, for 10 points each.
[10] Primarily taking place at William McKinley High School, the series finale of this show reveals that the protagonist’s brother Wayne takes over the family furniture business after the death of their father Jack, played by Dan Lauria.
ANSWER: The Wonder Years
[10] Taking place at William McKinley High School, this show follows the New Directions club as its members, such as Rachel Berry and Finn Hudson try to make sense of the world, often through song.
ANSWER: Glee
[10] Justin Long plays Bartleby Gaines, a persuasive senior from the fictional William McKinley High School in Ohio in this film. When all colleges reject him and his friends, they create their own “college.”
ANSWER: Accepted
2. One example of these entities is “Torpedo Attack” and another involves snowboarding and popping balloons. Another example of these entities has cards with four numbers in the upper left corner, which can be refined into items with Quetlzacotyl’s Card Mod ability. Another of these entities features a main character who “is at that age when he should be looking for a mate... but he first needs to learn how to fly” and can do so when the player feeds him (*) Kupo Nuts. Yet another of these entities allows the player to recruit players to play for the Gullwings or the Besaid Aurochs. Including “Mog House,” located in the Golden Saucer, as well as Tetra Master, Triple Triad, and Blitzball, for 10 points, identify these playable diversions contained within a prolific series of Square Enix video games.
ANSWER: Games within Final Fantasy Games [accept common knowledge equivalents like Minigames from Final Fantasy Games; accept Games within Final Fantasy VII or Games at the Golden Saucer on a buzz during the first sentence]
Bonus: Let’s talk about meta-games. Identify the following about playable video games within other video games, for 10 points each.
[10] This Atlus game features a stand up arcade machine called Rapunzel in the Stray Sheep Bar. Its gameplay is very similar to the block moving puzzle of the main game.
ANSWER: Catherine
[10] This popular PC game allows the player to play Lost Viking, a vertical scrolling shmup, in the Hyperion Cantina. The game’s title is a play on a previous series of this game’s developer.
ANSWER: Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty [do NOT accept or prompt on “Starcraft” alone]
[10] Poker, Liar's Dice, Five Finger Fillet and Blackjack can be played around the west in this 2010 Rockstar offering that sees players roam the west as John Marston.
ANSWER: Red Dead Redemption
3. In one scene in this film, a man asks that anyone of a group of hoodlums who has blood type AB raise their hands. That same character later snaps a toothbrush in half and stabs two guards in the neck with the pieces and earlier noted that women’s hands are warm, so they usually cannot make sushi. That man also logs in as at an internet cafe and eats lots of dumplings from any restaurant named (*) “Blue Dragon.” Mi-do is the love interest of the main character, who extracts 15 teeth from a man who later has his hand cut off by Lee Woo-jin. Adapted into a 2013 Spike Lee film of the same name starring Josh Brolin, for 10 points, identify this film about Oh Dae-Su, who has been imprisoned for 15 years and is trying to learn why.
ANSWER: Oldboy
Bonus: Oldboy is an awesome live-action adaptation of a manga. Identify some other films based on manga that are pretty much the opposite of awesome, for 10 points each.
[10] This 2009 disgrace of a film stars Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as a gun-toting Bulma, and Chow Yun-fat as Master Roshi.
ANSWER: Dragonball Evolution
[10] The Wachowski siblings delivered a proverbial bag of flaming dog poop right to fans of the original series when they adapted this manga and anime into a 2008 special effects fiesta. The film starred Emile Hirsch as the title character, and Christina Ricci as Trixie.
ANSWER:Speed Racer
[10] This manga is still in the process of being adapted for American audiences, but it will probably be terrible if the rumors are true that Zac Efron is being cast as Light Yagami, the boy who finds a notebook that can kill people whose names are written in it.
ANSWER: Death Note
4. One Dance Dance Revolution song with this noun in its name begins with a woman asking “Sorry but could I have the music louder?” before Scotty D raps lyrics like “what we gotta do is build momentum / if you need the right tools invent 'em.” The Police perform a song with this word in its title that begins by stating “The general scratches his belly and thinks / his pay is good but his officers stink.” On The Battle of Los Angeles, Rage Against The Machine performs a song where they describe themselves as (*) “Calm Like” one of these and Def Leppard describes love as like one of these objects in “Pour Some Sugar On Me.” For 10 points, identify these explosive objects that Outkast describes these “over Baghdad” and The Gap Band states “You Dropped” on “Me.”
ANSWER: Bombs
Bonus: Sometimes songs and bands feature unusual instruments. Name some, for 10 points each.
[10] The Violent Femmes song “Gone Daddy Gone” features two solos for this instrument, and it is heavily featured on The Beastie Boys’ “Girls.”
ANSWER: Xylophone
[10] Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is well known for using this instrument on songs, something highly uncharacteristic of rock music.
ANSWER: Flute
[10] “Golden Brown” by the Stranglers, “For Your Love” by the Yardbirds and “Too Afraid to Love You” by the Black Keys all feature this instrument, which is similar to a piano but plucks the strings when keys are pressed rather than striking them.
ANSWER: Harpsichord (do NOT accept “harp”)
5. [Note to Moderator: don’t spell the names, just say them] A 2008 direct-to-DVD sequel to this film stars Matt Lanter as Will Farmer, who is on a quest to stop R.I.P.L.E.Y. In this film, after discussing that a tour group may be going to Disneyland tomorrow, a boss spits out his gum into his assistant’s hand, and she then proceeds to put it into her mouth. In another scene, a science teacher asks “who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex?” to which the main character replies (*) “your wife.” John Wood plays a professor who shows two children a film about the demise of the dinosaurs in this film, and his character, Falken, is despondent, due to the death of his child, Joshua. For 10 points, identify this 1983 film that sees Ally Sheedy and Matthew Broderick’s characters try to avert “Global Thermonuclear War.”
ANSWER: WarGames
Bonus: David Lightman may have been able to avoid war, but it could not be avoided in these other films, all of which are based on novels. Identify them, for 10 points each.
[10] This 1998 film, named for a line from a Kipling poem, fictionalizes a portion of the Guadalcanal campaign and stars a large ensemble cast that includes John Cusack, Nick Nolte, and Jim Caviezel.
ANSWER: The Thin Red Line
[10] This film is based on a real-life Marine Anthony Swofford’s memoir, and is named for a nickname that is given to members of the Marine Corps. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx.
ANSWER:Jarhead
[10] This film stars Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Eric Bana as soldiers taking part in the First Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.
ANSWER: Black Hawk Down
6. Despite playing most of his career for the Cubs, Ferguson Jenkins holds this MLB team’s records for most innings pitched and most complete games. This team’s only perfect game was pitched in 1994 by Kenny Rogers, and this team had the highest single-game scoring differential in the modern era when, in 2007, it defeated the (*) Baltimore Orioles 30-3. Tom Cheney holds the MLB record for most strikeouts in a game, with 21, a feat he achieved while playing for this team’s previous incarnation, the Washington Senators franchise that relocated to become this current team in 1972. Currently featuring stars such as Prince Fielder and Yu Darvish, for 10 points, identify this team that was formerly owned in part by George W. Bush, and plays its games at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
ANSWER: TexasRangers [accept either underlined part]
Bonus: In celebration of the Rangers’ 30-3 thrashing of the Orioles, identify the following about other notable drubbings in sports history.
[10] This team, the only team from Illinois ever to win an NCAA Basketball Championship, also holds the record for largest win margin in an NCAA Tournament game, beating up on Tennessee Tech 111-42 in the opening round.
ANSWER: Loyola University Chicago [prompt on Loyola alone, since there are many Loyola U’s]
[10] In 1916, while coach at this school, John Heisman notoriously ran up the score 222-0 on Cumberland College after invoking a clause that stated Cumberland would have to pay a $3000 fine if they did not show up for the game. Notable alumni of this school include Jonathan Dwyer and Calvin Johnson.
ANSWER: Georgia Tech
[10] It isn’t just human athletes who can achieve blowout victories. This thoroughbred won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, and holds the fastest time in each of the Triple Crown races.
ANSWER: Secretariat
7. The final episode of Better Off Ted sees Phil mention one of these with a tongue shaped birthmark on her tongue and on an episode of Community, a woman in the IT department states through choked-back tears that she is forced to park in Annex B like one of these. In one book, Captain Underpants had to deal with an invasion of (*) “incredibly naughty” ones of these “from space” and on Buffy, one person with this job plots to kill all the students at Sunnydale High, which Buffy learns of due to newfound mind-reading abilities. On The Simpsons, one member of this profession is the mother of Jeremy Freedman, the “Squeaky-voiced teenager” and on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, Loni Love plays one of these who can sometimes see the future “in the beans.” For 10 points, identify this profession that usually serves inedible “mystery meat” to unsuspecting students.
ANSWER: Cafeteria Ladies [accept Lunch Ladies]
Bonus: Identify the following about fictional diseases, for 10 points each.
[10] In Gold and Silver, this disease does no harm, but does let the afflicted receive double effort values in battle.
ANSWER: Pokérus
[10] The Horizon corporation wants to release the Shiva virus at the Sydney Olympics in this novel, but they are thwarted by Ding Chavez and the title anti-terrorism group.
ANSWER: Rainbow Six
[10] Mohinder Suresh uses his blood to cure evolved humans who are afflicted by the Shanti virus on this television show. In an alternate future, Nathan Petrelli, among others, is infected.
ANSWER: Heroes
8. In the animated film Everyone's Hero, this actor voiced Chicago Cubs owner Napoleon Cross and in a more famous voiceover role, he complains of his “itty-bitty living space” and that “10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck.” This actor appeared in the music video for Bobby McFerrin’s “Don't Worry, Be Happy” and named his daughter after the title princess of The Legend of Zelda. One film role for this actor sees him engage in an insult battle with (*) Rufio, and in another role he plays an android who gradually becomes more human as he acquires emotions. Those roles came in Hook and Bicentennial Man, respectively. Winning his only Oscar for his supporting role in Good Will Hunting, for 10 points, name this actor who also portrayed Genie in Aladdin and a cross-dressing Nanny, Mrs. Doubtfire.
ANSWER: Robin Williams
Bonus: Robin Williams has starred as many different types of characters over the course of his career. Identify some of them, for 10 points each.
[10] Williams first film role saw him play the title Spinach-eating character in this 1980 film. Shelley Duvall played Olive Oyl in this film.
ANSWER: Popeye
[10] Williams also starred as Alan Parrish, a man trapped in a jungle for 26 years, in this film, where two children help him to escape and beat the title game.
ANSWER: Jumanji
[10] This film sees Williams play Adrian Cronauer, an “irreverent” DJ for the Armed Services Radio Service. In the film, he hijacks an English class and accidentally befriends an enemy operative.
ANSWER: Good Morning, Vietnam
9. One episode of Frasier that takes place on this holiday sees a road trip to a wine party in an RV and on The OC, Ryan races to finally admit his love to Marissa on an episode centered around this holiday. A 1999 Family Guy episode based around this holiday led to the family weathering the apocalypse in a (*) Twinkie factory. The final episode of That 70s Show was, fittingly, based around this holiday, and an episode of Maude titled “Nostalgia Party” saw the title character host a party where everyone was to dress up to represent the year they felt was the best. An episode of Friends set on this day sees Ross and Monica attempt to show the world their famous dance routine on a nationally syndicated tv show hosted by Dick Clark. For 10 points, identify this holiday which, in 1999, saw a lot of TV shows hypothesize about Y2K.
ANSWER: New Year’s Eve [prompt on “New Years”; do NOT accept “New Year’s Day”; prompt on “Y2K” before mentioned]
Bonus: Of course, other holidays are great fodder for special episodes too. Identify some things about other holidays and other shows, for 10 points each.
[10] Dan O’Keefe, the writer of the episode “The Strike,” traces the real origins of this holiday to his father, in 1966. He claims that the original central symbol was a clock in a bag, and not an aluminum pole, though “the airing of grievances” still took place.
ANSWER: Festivus
[10] In 1991, this spooky Nickelodeon show aired a creepy Halloween twist on the story “The Monkey’s Paw.” In the series finale in 2000, Nicki and AJ move into their grandparents’ house, which they find out is haunted by a ghost that looks eerily similar to Nicki.
ANSWER: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
[10] The 24th episode of season one of this classic show was titled “An Easter Story” and focused on John-Boy’s refusal to accept that Olivia may never walk again after a polio diagnosis. Ralph Waite, who played the father on this show, died in February 2014.
ANSWER: The Waltons
10. This man played Count Paris in the 1996 Romeo + Juliet with Claire Danes and also played Bobby Newport, a bumbling manchild running for city council on Parks and Recreation. This actor will play Ant-Man in the upcoming film of the same name, and played the love interest of Alicia Silverstone’s character in Clueless. This man played Phoebe's (*) husband on the last two seasons of Friends and another of this actor’s characters mentors a boy who likes to go to medieval reenactments on the weekends, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Starring opposite Seann William Scott in Role Models, this is, for 10 points, what actor who also starred opposite Jason Segel in I Love You, Man?
ANSWER: Paul Rudd
Bonus: Since this packet was written by an English teacher, let’s talk more about Rudd’s appearance in Romeo + Juliet. For 10 points each:
[10] This man, the Romeo to Claire Danes’ Juliet in the film, was nominated for Best Actor for his role as Jordan Belfort in a 2013 film. He also spun a top that may or may not have stopped spinning at the end of another film.
ANSWER: Leonardo DiCaprio
[10] This man directed Romeo + Juliet, which was one part of his “Red Curtain Trilogy,” in addition to directing the recent adaptation of The Great Gatsby with DiCaprio.