Spring Trash 2014
Packet #7 by Dan Pechi, Siva Gangavarapu, Andrew SalijWaleed Ali
1. In Stewie Griffin: the Untold Story, Stewie drunkenly sings the theme song to this show at The Drunken Clam. An inscribed Winchester cartridge is given to a man whose plane home is later shot down in one episode of this show, “Abyssinia, Henry” and this series ended with a movie in which one man says goodbye by arranging white seashells (*),Goodbye, Farewell and Amen. On this show, a scrawny clerk sleeps with a teddy bear and that character also works alongside a woman that was known as “Hot Lips” in early seasons of this show. Two helicopters and yellow lettering are featured in the opening of this show which includes characters like the oddly-dressed Klinger, “Radar” O’Reilly and Captain Hawkeye Pierce. For 10 points, name this sitcom starring Alan Alda which chronicled the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War.
ANSWER: M*A*S*H
Bonus: Identify these ABC programs televised entirely or partner during the 1980’s, for 10 points each:
[10] This television show set in San Francisco sees a clean-freak father work at a television station while managing his household alongside his brother-in-law and best friend. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen appeared onscreen together as Michelle only in the final episode.
ANSWER: Full House
[NOTE: Mary-Kate and Ashley also appeared together one other time with one of them playing a lookalike cousin with dark hair, but not as Michelle]
[10] This earlier show, which is the source of term “jumping the shark,” featured a character whose catchphrases included “Eyyy” and “Sit on it.” Cuts from this show were used as a large part of Weezer’s video to the song “Buddy Holly.”
ANSWER: Happy Days
[10] This television show is the namesake of an incident in which a Chicago television broadcast was briefly disrupted. Eminem’s video for “Rap God” parodies this program which features a stuttering, fibreglass suit-wearing figure in front of a rotating cube.
ANSWER: Max Headroom
2. This comedian co-wrote The Simpsons episode “Homer the Whopper” and he provided the voice for B.O.B. in the film Monsters vs. Aliens. This man played a character named in the credits as “Eager Cameraman” in both Anchormanand Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: the Lost Movie. The artist Rachel’s affair is revealed by this actor’s character in a film which sees him help another man deal with his cancer. Evan Goldberg(*) co-directed a recent film featuring this actor in which he is transported with Jay Baruchel by a blue beam from an apocalyptic Hollywood. This actor from 50/50 is set to play a family man who lives next door to a rowdy frat house owner played by ZacEfron in the May 2014 release Neighbors. For 10 points, name this Jewish comedian who starred in The Green Hornet and Judd Apatow’sKnocked Up.
ANSWER: Seth Rogen
Bonus: Identify these other films featuring Seth Rogen, for 10 points each.
[10] In this film, Rogen plays a cop who is “fooled” by a man who possesses an I.D. identifying him as a Hawaiian organ donor with a single name. That character attempts to attend a party with characters played by Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, but run into various obstacles before night’s end.
ANSWER: Superbad
[10] Rogen plays a Pittsburgh Penguins fan who works at a coffee shop in this film which sees him and his female roommate try to make a video parodying Star Wars. Eventually, the roommates discover they are in love with each other and get married.
ANSWER: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
[10] A school bully played by Rogen in this film harasses the title character’s love interest at a bus stop and in an art class. The title character who is heavily influenced by Frank the Giant Bunny is eventually killed by a jet engine crash in his bedroom.
ANSWER: Donnie Darko
3. This band included the song “My Buddy” by Alvino Rey on the B-side of two singles subtitled “Laika” and “Tunnels.” The Jeremie Vespers massacre in Haiti is the subject of another song from the first album by this band which wrote most of the soundtrack for the film her. This band which included Owen Pallett contributed a song which states “I guess we’ll just have to adjust” to the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack (*). A later song by this group features the lyric “I’m movin’ past the feeling” and appears on an album whose cover depicts a car in front of a house. This band’s most recent album contains the single afterlife and the title track and is called Reflektor. For 10 points, identify this Montreal band founded by Win Butler which won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards for The Suburbs.
ANSWER: Arcade Fire
Bonus: Name these other Montreal music acts, for 10 points each.
[10] This aging poet and musician wrote the songs “I’m Your Man,” “Suzanne,” and the oft-covered “Hallelujah.”
ANSWER: Leonard Norman Cohen
[10] This post-rock band released the album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven in 2000 and were suspected of being terrorists in 2003. After a seven year hiatus, this band got back together and released the album ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
ANSWER: Godspeed You! Black Emperor [prompt on “Godspeed” or “GY!BE”]
[10] This female artist recently addressed her flexibility with being vegan and released the album Halfaxain 2011. This artist’s 2012 album Visions included such hits as “Genesis” and “Oblivion.”
ANSWER: Grimes or Claire Boucher
4. This action was popularized by Yannick Noah and Guillermo Vilas. Female players who popularized this action include Gabriela Sabatini, who also names a variation on this action. After performing this action against Novak Djokovic in a US Open Semifinal match, Roger Federer called it “the best shot of his life.” This type of shot is usually performed after the opponent hits an offensive lob, and it is also known as a “hotdog.” Sharing its name with a description of a basketball player who is stuck between two positions because of size or ability, for 10 points, name this trick shot in tennis that involves hitting the ball between one’s legs while running back from the net.
ANSWER: tweeners
The United States holds the record for the most titles held in this event, for 10 points each:
[10] Name this cup for men’s tennis, mirrored by the Fed cup, that features teams of countries competing against each other to win the title cup.
ANSWER: DavisCup
[10] This Davis Cup team features international superstars Roger Federer and StanislasWawrinka. In the 1992 Davis Cup, this team had its best performance by finishing runner-up.
ANSWER: Switzerlandor Swiss
[10] The 1992 Davis Cup champion U.S. team was composed of Jim Courier, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, and this player, who married female player Steffi Graf in 2001.
ANSWER: Andre Agassi
5. This director felt forced to abandon filming of his next film, The Hateful Eight, after the script was leaked and his most recent appearance as an actor came when he played an employee of a mining company in a 2012 film. The ending of one of his films uses a track from the Japanese film Lady Snowblood, and that track is played during the death of a character referred to as Cottonmouth. He based one of his films off the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard and in another of his films, a character incorrectly pronounces “Arrivederci” while at a party (*) with a character played by Diane Krueger. One of his films was paired with Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror in a “double feature” titled Grindhouse and in another one of this man’s movies, one character looks for a Gold Watch and another shoots Marvin. This is for 10 points, what director of InglouriousBasterds and Pulp Fiction.
ANSWER: Quentin Tarantino
Bonus: This actor frequently defended racial controversies surrounding a film he starred in against director Spike Lee. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this American actor who played Stephen, the house slave on the Candyland plantation in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
ANSWER: Samuel L. Jackson
[10] Another frequent collaborator with Tarantino is this actress, who played a character that needed to be stabbed in the breastplate with an adrenaline shot after overdosing on heroin and another who wore a yellow jumpsuit to fight the Crazy 88.
ANSWER: Uma Thurman
[10] This film editor also worked extensively with Tarantino in movies such as Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill, and Pulp Fiction.
ANSWER: Sally Menke
6. The actor who portrays this character described playing him as “turning Mr. Chips into Scarface” and this character, whose middle name is Hartwell, watched a tattoo artist overdose on heroin, spent an entire episode trying to catch a fly and drives a green (*) Pontiac Aztek. This character notably threw a pizza on his roof and worked with the owner of Los PollosHermanos. This former founder of the billion-dollar company Gray Matter Technologies left the company at the beginning of the series, selling his shares for a mere $5,000.and this former employee of Bogdan’s car wash has a son, Flynn, with cerebral palsy who attends a school where this character formerly taught. Jesse Pinkman is contacted by this man, who also goes by Heisenberg, to pay for his rising cancer treatment bills. For 10 points, identify this meth-cooking protagonist of AMC’s Breaking Bad.
ANSWER: WalterWhite [accept anything that indicates he is the father of the White family, accept Heisenberg before mentioned]
Bonus: On this television show, a sheriff awakens from a coma to find the world infested by zombies. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this AMC show based upon a comic book series that sees the sheriff and others he met on a farm eventually settle into a prison.
ANSWER: The Walking Dead
[10] This aforementioned sheriff on The Walking Dead is played by Andrew Lincoln. This character’s wife Lori has a child named Judith and this man leaves the prison with his son Carl at the mid-Season 4 finale.
ANSWER: RickGrimes (accept either underlined portion)
[10] In Season 3 of The Walking Dead, Rick and others at the prison come into conflict with this town which is run by Brian, The Governor. The Governor ends up killing the remaining members of this town because they lost their battle against Rick’s settlement.
ANSWER: Woodbury
7. An actress who appeared in this song’s video had earlier played Gibby’s girlfriend Tasha on one Nickelodeon show and starred in Maroon 5’s video for “Love Somebody.” This song’s video, which features Emily Ratajkowski was parodied by the Auckland Law Revue and that video features three women in director chairs. The family of Marvin Gaye (*) sued the artist of this song who wrote it with a man who also sings with Daft Punk on “Get Lucky.” This song’s singer asks “what rhymes with hug me?” and performed the song in a black and white suit at the 2013 VMA’s. The video for this song was removed and subsequently reinstated on YouTube due to its nude content. For 10 points, name this arguably misogynistic song about good girls gone bad performed by Robin Thicke.
ANSWER: “Blurred Lines” [accept “Love Somebody” before Maroon 5 is mentioned]
Bonus: Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” was featured in a mash-up of 2Chainz’s “Give it 2 U” and this other song at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this song in which the singer claims “it’s our party, we can do what we want to.”
ANSWER: “We Can’t Stop”
[10] “We Can’t Stop” was written by this American pop star who notably twerked against Robin Thicke at the VMA’s in a mouse one-piece.
ANSWER: Miley Ray Cyrusor Destiny Hope Cyrus
[10] Alongside twerking, the video for “We Can’t Stop” features cut-scenes of a white human face created using an early example of this technology.
ANSWER: Computer Animation or CGI Animation [accept common knowledge equivalents]
8. This man appears in a film which sees the struggling Rob Haley relocate his business to the countryside and this former Rangers soccer player nearly died in 2008 when he fell off a cliff into icy water while looking for puffins in Iceland. He voiced a character named Chef on a 2013 episode of Phineas and Ferband this man’s flagship business is located in Chelsea. That business earned this man his third (*) Michelin Star in 2001, becoming the first man from this country to achieve the feat. This host of The F Word hosts another show in Los Angeles which features a “red” team of women and “blue” team of men and another of this man’s shows sees him help out struggling restaurant owners. For 10 points, name this hot-headed, Scottish host of Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen.
ANSWER: Gordon James Ramsay
Bonus: Name these Scottish foods, for 10 points each:
[10] This orange carbonated beverage is the top-selling soft drink in Scotland and is manufactured by the Barr company.
ANSWER: IrnBru
[10] This dish is the entree of a Burns supper and consists of oatmeal, beef fat, and sheep innards. This dish is thrown in its namesake hurtling contest and is illegal to import into the US and UK.
ANSWER: Haggis
[10] Haggis is traditionally served beside neeps, or turnips, and this other foodstuff which is pretty much the only thing in Idaho.
ANSWER: Potatoes or Tatties
9. One work titled after these objects sees the “chain” Alice save Oz Vessalius from “the Abyss.” Computers that display these objects are shot up by Yuri Nakamura, and members of a group named after this object include the Capricorn-possessing Zoldeo and the Sensory Link-using Meredy. That guild led by Precht, a.k.a. Hades, assaulted Tenrou Island in an attempt to awaken Zeref. KanadeTachibana (*) has one of these objects that initially belonged to Otonashi, which he donated after being trapped by a train accident. For 10 points, name this organ, the namesake of the dark guild “Grimoire [this object]” and the symbol typically shown when a character falls in love.
ANSWER: hearts [accept common knowledge equivalents]
Bonus: The “state” variety of these individuals works for the Amestrian State Military. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these pseudo-scientific characters that include the “Sewing-Life” Shou Tucker and the “Fullmetal” Edward Elric. They carry around or make Transmutation Circles, and they must follow the rules of Equivalent Exchange.
ANSWER: alchemists
[10] These creatures are made when alchemists deal with human transmutation. In Fullmetal Alchemist, they carry the Ouroboros mark, embody the seven deadly sins, and are led by Father.
ANSWER: homunculi [accept homunculus]
[10] Father teaches this father of the Elric brothers alchemy when he is a slave in Xerxes. He is a human Philosopher’s Stone and is known as the “Sage of the West” to the Xinghese (SHING-ees) since he teaches them alchemy.
ANSWER: Van Hohemheim [accept Hohemheim of Light]
10. Although he is not Dracula, this man’s bones are collected and put into a furnace at the end of one video game. Three snakes give power to this man who invaded Jesse Walsh’s body in order to kill Lisa in one film featuring this man. Johnny Depp made his first on-screen appearance in a film about this figure and that film ends with a convertible driving away on its own. In this character’s most-recent film appearance, he was played by a man who had starred as (*) Kelly Leak as a child. A song about this figure includes the line “5, 6, grab your crucifix” and this former preschool gardener from Springwood, Ohio worked in a boiler room and was burned alive by angry parents. Nearly invincible in dreams but completely mortal in the real world is for 10 points, what red-and-green sweater wearing and bladed glove-wielding antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series?
ANSWER: FreddyKrueger
Bonus: For 10 points each, name these iconic 1980’s horror films.
[10] In this film, the serial killer Charles Lee Ray is transferred into the body of an orange-haired Good-Guy doll who goes on to terrorize Andy Barclay’s family.
ANSWER: Child’s Play
[10] This 1980’s horror flick sees the title creatures descend to earth in a comet-like object and capture humans in cotton candy cocoons.
ANSWER: Killer Klowns from Outer Space
[10] One man is sucked through a kitchen sink drain by the title entity in this 1988 horror film which was a remake of a 1955 film of the same name. The title entity is eventually destroyed by being covered in liquid nitrogen.
ANSWER: The Blob
HALFTIME - PAUSE FOR SCORE CHECK AND SUBSTITUTIONS
11. This album, which was inspired by Le Corbusier’s “Escargot” lamp, spawned pop-up stores in New York and Chicago with Confederate flag-adorned merchandise. The Ponderosa Twins Plus One are currently suing the artist over one song from this album which was parodied by James Franco (*). That song sees the artist ask “what would JeromeyRomeyRomey Rome think?” and embrace his fiancé while on a motorcycle. Another song from this album sees the artist claim he is “the only rapper compared to Michael” and that you should hurry up with his damn croissants. This album’s cover art consists of a single piece of red tape. For 10 points, name this album which includes the songs “Bound 2” and “I Am A God,” released in 2013 by Kanye West.