TRASHMASTERS ROUND 7
Packet by UNC A Team (Noah Brisban, Lenny Evans, Gregg Godwin, Rebecca Kirk, Ryan Peeks, Zack Tyman)
1.He retired Bobby Grich but gave up singles to Paul Molitor and Steve Finley in the first inning of the 2009 Hall of Fame Classic. This author of Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom he never played in the minors and was originally signed by a major league team for the grand total of $1 and an autographed baseball. He led the American League in strikeouts seven times over eighteen seasons, and most experts agree he would have easily made 300 wins had he not missed four seasons due to Navy service in World War II. The third oldest living Hall of Famer, he remains the only pitcher to record an opening-day no-hitter, and some sources still credit him with the fastest pitch ever recorded, 107.1 miles per hour. FTP name the winningest pitcher in Cleveland Indians history, whose nicknames included "Rapid Robert."
ANSWER: Bob Feller
2.Their most recent compilation is 2005’s Private Investigations, which featured a duet with Emmylou Harris titled All The Roadrunning. In their early days, they would ask pub owners to turn down their concerts so that customers could talk while the band played. They regrouped in 1988 for Nelson Mandela’s 70th Birthday Tribute, and once invited Vince Gill to join the band full time, even though he declined. This band’s final studio album, On Every Street, sported songs like “Calling Elvis” and reached #1 on the UK charts. Their second album, Communiqué, went to #1 on the German album charts, while their more popular debut was simultaneously at #3. Better known songs include “Tunnel of Love” and “Romeo and Juliet” off the 1980 album Making Movies, and this group’s best known single was parodied by Weird Al in a song whose lyrics discuss the Beverly Hillbillies. For 10 points, name this English rock group fronted by guitar maestro Mark Knopfler.
ANSWER: Dire Straits
3.When this figure was spotted by two cows being interviewed by a reporter who asks them, “any plans for summer?” the cows immediately disintegrate in fear. When spotting three women dancing at the bottom of the ocean the figure says, “Get out of my way all of you. This is no place for loafers. Join or die. Can you do any less?” The women accept his challenge, and he turns them into Sumo wrestlers while a toy monkey plays the drum. He was created when Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern merged, thus combining the two companies logos in to a “fish-bulb design”. The writing on the front of this figure’s product’s box translates to, “I will banish dirt to the land of wind and ghosts.” For 10 points, name this corporate mascot who coincidentally looks a lot like Homer Simpson, appearing on the episode “In Marge We Trust” from Fox’s The Simpsons.
ANSWER: Mr. Sparkle
4.This actor starred as Cunda in 1990’s The 5th Monkey, and later appeared as himself in one episode of season six of The Sopranos. He played Mosca in a 1977 London stage production of Ben Jonson’s Volpone, warred with Gabriel Byrne in Weapons of Mass Distraction, and predated Johnny Depp with back-to-back movies about Sweeney Todd and Alice In Wonderland. He was triply nominated for a Golden Raspberry in 2008, with roles in The Wackness, War, Inc., and The Love Guru. However, he is still highly regarded for his breakout role in a 1982 biopic. For ten points, name this English actor of part Gujarati descent who played Itzhak Stern in Schindler’s List and the leader of the nonviolent Indian independence movement in Gandhi.
ANSWER: Ben Kingsley
5.While there are multiple versions of this man's confrontation at Jimmy Fazio's House of Ribs in Ft. Lauderdale, all agree that he talked trash to Lou Michaels and then paid the bar tab for Michaels and a teammate. He made the Hall of Fame despite having a career QB rating of only 65.5. He was featured in the films Chattanooga Choo Choo, Norwood, and C.C. Ryder, and his business interests included an employment agency in partnership with Mickey Mantle and endorsements of the arthritis drug Mobic, Noxzema, and Beautymist pantyhose. He finally completed his college degree 43 years after leading his alma mater to a national championship in 1964 under Bear Bryant. FTP name this former NFL quarterback best known for delivering on his guarantee that his Jets would win Super Bowl III.
ANSWER: Joseph William "Joe" Namath
6.Their members have also been part of Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom, Little Melvin & the Invaders, the Downtown Tangiers Band, the Jaywalkers and Moment of Truth. They’ve recorded songs with a variety of artists including Bob Dylan, Meatloaf, David Bowie, and Sting. They’ve been known alternately as the Disciples of Soul, and they can be heard on Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell and Air Supply’s Greatest Hits. One of their sub-groups is The Miami Horns, and their drummer’s son recently replaced him on their 2009 tour, marking a 49 year age difference with Clarence Clemons. For 10 points, name this heart-stopping, pants-dropping, house-rocking, earth-shaking, booty-quaking, Viagra-taking, love-making band that performed at the Halftime Show of Super Bowl XLIII.
ANSWER: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
7.A self-published fan-fiction ending for this series was created by Tajima T. Yasue in which the title character of the series dies and the protagonist must decide between reviving the title character at that time in which case he would lose his memory or becoming a robotics expert to revive him later. The title character takes the protagonist into the future using a time machine stashed a desk drawer. In the future, the protagonist sees that Minamoto Shizuka will end up with him and not Hidetoshi Dekisugi, which gives him assurance. The protagonist is constantly bullied by Honekawa Suneo and Goda Takeshi, better known as Gian. The titular character gives the protagonist machines from the future to help him, but the protagonist usually ends up abusing most of these items. For 10 points, name this Japanese manga series in which Nobi Nobita is helped by the titular blue cat robot from the 22nd century.
ANSWER: Doraemon
8.On 3rd Rock, Dick Solomon says that Thanksgiving is just like Big Giant Head day, except this doesn’t happen to anyone. This was the final fate of the Martian Manhunter’s brother, Malefic, along with Solomon Grundy and The Sentry. In Dragonball Z, Goku defeats Cooler and Broly in this way. Out of her jealousy for Stan, Wendy Testaburger has Iraqis do this to their lesbian substitute teacher. Marvin The Paranoid Android does it during a Disaster Area concert, Homer Simpson has this happen to him alongside Pauly Shore and Courtney Love, while Professor Farnsworth wanted it done to a box containing an alternate universe. Tommy does it to The Sphere in 2006’s Prey, and it’s how you defeat the final boss in Bayonetta. FTP, this is what finally destroyed the Galactica Fleet, an action done to all the world’s nuclear weapons in Superman IV.
ANSWER: Getting thrown into the sun (accept close equivalents that mention a sun)
9.For its original production, the author of this opera has specific instructions for its first production, including having Ubaldo Piangi lose some weight, and having Ms. Giudicelli learn how to act instead of simply running around the stage. In the first act, the title character and servant Passarino make plans to seduce Aminta, which involve the title character and his servant Passarino to pretend to be the other. In its first, and perhaps only performance, the author of this opera changes places with Piangi after strangling him and sings “The Point of No Return.” Ms. Daae(Dye-Ay), who is playing Aminta, reveals the hideous face of the author of the opera, and gets abducted deep into the opera house. For 10 points, name this adaptation of Mozart's Don Giovanni that is written by Erik, the phantom of the opera.
ANSWER: Don Juan Triumphant
10.The gauche version of this describes a socialist who doesn’t practice what he preaches, while a band by this name was featured on the soundtrack to Charlie’s Angels with the song ‘Tangerine Speedo’. Malossol types of this contain little salt, blackeyed peas are combined with peppers and Italian dressing to make the “Texas” type of this, and the aubergine type of it is made of squash spread. Iran is the largest exporter of it, while molecular gastronomists combine fruit liquids with sodium nitrogenase and calcium carbonate to make artificial forms of it. In Japanese cuisine, it is identified as one of the world's three greatest tastes. FTP, the best known variety of it is often served on blinis, potato pancakes, or bread, name this unfertilized egg of fishes, usually referring to sturgeon roe.
ANSWER: caviar
11.Mentioned in an O. Henry story “A Municipal Report” this company ranked Yuba City, CA 330th and last among U.S Cities for “quality-of-life” ranking. Bart Simpson mistakenly identifies this company's logo for a country in “Bart VS. Australia” and Jason Mraz wrote a song about the dream life of this company mentioning “There’s never been any place quite like home” and “I had a chance to visit the north pole but it was way too cold to smoke.” Founded in Chicago to make tickets and timetables for the railroad industry their headquarters is now based in Skokie, Illinois, FTP name this children's book publisher, creator of IntelliRoute truck routing software, and perhaps more famously know for making America’s #1 Road Atlas.
ANSWER: Rand McNalley
12.He was originally known as Ivan the Space Biker, or Dyson Poincare. His first job consisted of hitting a button and pushing a cart, even though he would successfully evade Adrian Shepard and later assist Arne Magnusson in launching a rocket. His use of the Anti-Mass Spectrometer caused a catastrophe known as a resonance cascade, probably because he didn’t “prepare for unforeseen consequences” His doctoral thesis at MIT, where he earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array. He’s a messianic figure to the people of City 17 and the Vortigaunts, while he’s a close friend of Isaac Kleiner and Barney Calhoun. For 10 points, name this former employee of the Black Mesa Research Facility.
ANSWER: Gordon Freeman
13.The lead actor might be recognizable to fans of SciFi’s Lexx, as the terrifying Mantrid. Tom Byron will be playing the lead in the inevitable porn version of this film, while Roger Ebert gave this film no stars, and said it “is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine." The sequel to this movie is currently being filmed to be released in 2011 and a trailer was shot showing the main character with a cardboard box over his head, while the director claims that the first movie is My Little Pony compared to the sequel. Originally a kidnapped trucker was supposed to be a part of it, but the trucker was somehow not a match, so Katsuro, played by Akihiro Kitamura, was chosen for the position. The surgical procedures shown in this movie were purportedly reviewed by a doctor, confirming the tagline that the movie is 100% medically accurate. For 10 points, name this Tom Six horror movie in which three tourists are joined mouth to anus forming the title object.
ANSWER: The Human Centipede
14.2005’s Munich was mostly based on a George Jonas book with this title. On film, it is the most recent film to co-star 50 Cent and Danny Trejo, while it could also be used to describe a young mother wrongfully accused of killing a schoolboy, and a deaf-mute man searching for a kidney. As a subtitle, it’s the most recent game in the Tribes series. The WWE’s Night of Champions had this name until 2008, as does the rhythm guitarist for the band behind Welcome to the Family and Bat Country. FTP, identify this word used by Charles Dickens to name Madame DeFarge’s lieutenant, and the type of spirit that possesses Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze.
ANSWER: Vengeance
15.According the BBC, the first example of this internet meme appeared in mid-2007 when Chris Bowley uploaded a edited video about being banned from Xbox Live. It has been applied to a variety of subjects, most commonly sports and politics, such Cristiano Ronaldo switching teams and Sarah Palin resigning. The source video, a three-minute 50-second clip, comes from a 2004 film and while the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has expressed amusement over the meme, the production company was not as amused, and started to send takedown notices to YouTube in early 2010, although they stopped a few months later. For ten points, give the collective name of these videos, which feature actor Bruno Ganz yelling at subordinates in an underground conference room.
ANSWER: Hitler Memeor “Hitler Finds Out”or Downfall
16.Their “new” albumwas released by Yansey records and contained their hit song “Where's My Sock?”. In Disney's production of the show in which they appear, they break up, but have a break-up concert in an early season. Their first album contains a microscopic picture of the drummer Chap Lipman, and for guessing this fact, the protagonist of the show in which this band appears gets tickets to attend their show. The protagonist's best friend is grounded and cannot go to the concert, but is later joined by this band at the Honker Burger on the night of the concert. With hits such as “I Need Mo Allowance” and “Killer Tofu”, this is for 10 points name this band that mocks the Kinks and the Beatles, that was described as the “best band ever” in Nickelodeon's Doug.
ANSWER: The Beets
17.The actress playing this female guidance counselor and mother of two was nominated for an Emmy in 2010. This character, promoted to principal at the local high school after the first season, is notable for treating all students equally, despite the powerful and rich football boosters in the community, with whom she has a turbulent relationship. Early in the how, she took a special interest in student Tyra and recently helped Becky who was pregnant, though she was publicly attacked for encouraging a girl to get an abortion despite not having done so. For 10 points, name this principal of Dillon High, the mother of Julie and wife of Panthers’ Coach Eric from NBC’s Friday Night Lights,
ANSWER:Tami Taylor [Prompt on Taylor]
18.The three main antagonists are a well spoken man with a law degree, a Vietnam War veteran, and the best-selling author of Reflections in a Diamond Eye. The hero plants clues on a dead body, gets a DEA agent and 3 other men murdered, and is responsible for the deaths of countless police officers, even going so far as to assist another man in the destruction of a Corvette with license plate AZZ KIKR. He releases a cannibal into the streets before blindly murdering his foes by running one over with a fire truck, and crushing the head of another in a hydraulic press, only after destroying half of the Vegas Strip. All for a freaking bunny. For 10 points, name this 1997 film featuring John Malkovich and Nicolas Cage, whose plot centers around the hijacking of a federal plane by criminals.
ANSWER: Con Air
19. He began his career as an actor in 1999, when he starred, directed, and produced his own sketch comedy movie. He would later sue Twentieth Century Fox for allegedly stealing parts of his movie to use in There’s Something About Mary. The Church of Scientology declared him a criminal and launched a smear campaign against him after he left the church in 2004. That movie, The Underground Comedy Movie was distributed through direct marketing and inspired this man to pursue his current career. He appeared in a spoof commercial for Eminem’s Recovery CD. He was arrested in 2009 for allegedly beating up a prostitute after she allegedly bit his tongue. For 10 points, name this man whose nuts you’re going to love, pitchamn of the Slap Chop and Shamwow.
ANSWER: Vince and/or Offer or Offer "Vince" Shlomi
20.In their home arena, this team retired a silhouette of a microphone in honor of longtime broadcaster Dave Zinkoff. They changed their logo in 1997 to feature a blue, black and gold scheme, but reverted in 2009 to the older logo they began using in 1977. Founded by Danny Biasone in 1946, they moved to their current host city in 1963 from the city where they had won the 1955 NBA championship, Syracuse. This team put up the worst single season record in 1972-73 when they amassed a 9-73 record. The team actually went "fo fi fo" on their way to the 1982-83 Championship, not the "fo fo fo" sweep of all three series famously predicted by Moses Malone. For 10 points, name this basketball team, home to Hall of Fame players Julius Erving, Charles Barkley, and Wilt Chamberlain.