Uni Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophilic Trash Set November 2017
Questions by Uni High Laboratory High School (Ethan Ashbrook, Matthew Tang, Dylan Bowman)
Edited by no one because this isn’t serious, but I guess Dylan did the formatting
Round 1 of 1
Tossups
1. This game has releases such as the promotional Southern Islands set and an outdated Fossil variety. The most recent release is Crimson Invasions. The musician TomoakiImakuni was featured in four parts of this game and appears randomly in another game associated with it. That game has you fighting through various clubs to beat the master Ronald. Electromagnetic (*) waves caused certain creatures to switch types, the delta species. The most powerful creatures include the level GX and level EX varieties. In 2015, this game introduced the fairy type into its canon. For 10 points, name this game that is a spinoff of its main series, featuring characters such as Empoleon and Pikachu.
ANSWER: Pokemon Trading CardGame (prompt on “Pokemon”, accept Pokemon TCG) <Ashbrook>
2. This series has featured the real semi-celebrities Stepney, the City of Truro, and the Flying Scotsman. The narration and facial expressions are supposedly there to help children with autism understand what’s going on. One common use of this show is the phrase, “The Fat (*) Controller laughed. ‘You are wrong.’” Various online videos feature things like the theme song remixed with Biggie Smalls’s raps, and the main character trying to rape someone in the setting of “An American Werewolf in London”. This show’s music and original narration was by Ringo Starr. For 10 points, name this show about railway cars, with one character often referred to as a “dank” engine.
ANSWER: Thomasthe Tank Engine <Ashbrook>
3. An Italian disco record from 1986 gained fame due to it having this name. A term often associated with this name came from World of Warcraft and is in reference to Savitri Devi. A submission of this was given when New Zealand asked for designs of a new national flag. This figure was retweeted by Donald Trump with the video “You Can’t Stump the Trump (Volume 4)”. This character originally appeared in a (*) MySpace comic titled “Boy’s Club”, and the term “Esoteric Kekism” refers to the worship of him. For 10 points, name this dank meme who comes in many “rare” varieties and was declared a hate symbol by the ADL in 2016.
ANSWER: Pepethe Frog <Ashbrook>
4. When one character re-merges with his other half to become his former self, one set of these objects disappear. After a character is defeated by Tambourine, a samurai gives that character one of these objects. In the first utilization of these objects, the shapeshifter (*) Oolong prevents Emperor Pilaf from taking over the world by wishing for a girl's underwear. The Namekian versions of these objects are collected by the villainous Frieza in his quest to gain immortality. For 10 points, which set of seven objects names an animated series by Akira Toriyama featuring characters such as Piccolo and Goku?
ANSWER: Dragon Balls (do NOT accept “Dragon Ball Z”, “Dragon Ball Super”, or “Dragon Ball Z Kai”, as those are names of TV shows) <Bowman>
5. The characters Lololo and Lalala in this game series appear as both allies and enemies, and were originally from the MSX computer game Eggerland Mystery. In one game, Susanna PatryaHaltmann, also known as Susie, is in charge of the Mechanizing Operation Project. In that same game, the final boss fight is a giant reference to the anime GurrenLagann. Spinoff games in this series include Avalanche, Drum Dash, and Tilt n’ Tumble. One incident with this game series came when a room in one of its games was found to resemble a (*) naked woman. Notable enemies include Nova, the queen bee Sectonia, and the Galacta Knight. With power-ups such as mike, plasma, UFO, and refrigerator, for 10 points, what game series featuring King Dedede and Meta Knight, as well as a pink puffball as the protagonist?
ANSWER: Kirby<Ashbrook>
6. The trailer for this movie’s sequel features Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” In one scene in this movie, the character played by Samuel L. Jackson is served McDonalds on a silver platter. Notable fight scenes include one in which mind controlled members of a hate-group in aKentucky church become murderous and break out into a free-for-all. Another fight scene takes place at a bar and is started after the main character says the phrase (*) “Manners maketh man” The main character fails to be accepted into the title group when he refuses to shoot a dog, but it is later revealed that the gun was filled with blanks. Richmond Valentine claimed to have created SIM cards that give the users unlimited calls and internet, but actually plans on using them to cull the human race. For 10 points, name this movie about a secret society of well-mannered suit-wearing gentleman, whose sequel The Golden Circle came out in September 2017.
ANSWER: Kingsman: The Secret Service (do NOT accept “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”) <Tang>
7. The band Cage the Elephant recorded a song in tribute to this man titled after his hometown, that song’s name is “Aberdeen”. The sign at the entrance to the town of Aberdeen tells visitors to “Come As You Are”. In 2014, he was posthumously inducted into the (*) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside bandmates KristNovoselic and Dave Grohl. His suicide note says, “It’s better to burn out than fade away”, and it ends with a message to his wife and daughter. This artist may be most famous for singing a song in which he states, “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous”, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. For 10 points, name the former lead singer for the band Nirvana.
ANSWER: Kurt Cobain <Bowman>
8. Songs that appear in the background of this show include The Rake Hornpipe and Twelfth Street Rag. One episode deals with a character almost getting sacrificed to appease a volcano, when they only actually had to sacrifice that character’s house. Another episode sees a worm grow into a butterfly and terrorize the town. The owner of that worm has a machine (*) meant to give massages nearly kill an ape in another episode. In another, two characters steal a spaceship from their friend and go alien hunting, capturing all of the residents of their town. One character describes his W.I.F.E. as a “wired integrated female electroencephalograph”, and another named Frank is better known as the “my leg” guy. For 10 points, name this series about a creature who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
ANSWER: SpongebobSquarepants (prompt on “Spongebob") <Ashbrook>
9. In Mayan myth, when Hunahpu and Xbalanque descended into the underworld, they played a form of this game. In 2010, the Bolivian president Evo Morales kneed a political opponent in the groin during a charity match of this game. In one film, Shaolin (*) Monks are enlisted to play this sport to promote Kung Fu. A war named after this sport was between El Salvador and Honduras. One player of this game was infamous for biting people, which happened on three separate occasions. Another player of this game is known as the “sweeper-keeper,” due to his aggressiveness on his position. Luis Suarez and Manuel Neuer are for 10 points, players of what sport associated with the FIFA World Cup?
ANSWER: soccer(or football) <Tang>
10. One theme associated with this game is a remixed version of the fourth movement of JS Bach’s French Suite No. 3 in B minor. Another piece more commonly associated with it is also known as Korobeiniki. This game was originally created on the Electronika60, which introduced the first use of text-based graphics to represent boxes. One issue this game had was the introduction of “easy spin” for certain ports. The hardest versions (*) of this game are considered to be the Grandmaster Trilogy, with only six people in the world having ever gotten the “Grandmaster” ranking on the third game. If you score enough points on the Gameboy version of this game, you get to see a rocket launch. For 10 points, name this game which holds the record for most units sold over all platforms, about spinning blocks to create rows.
ANSWER: Tetris <Ashbrook>
11. In one episode of this show, Kathryn Pinewood defends a burger joint that sells a 512 ounce child sized drink, which to the dismay of the main character is actually the approximate size of a two year-old child. In another episode, the main characters investigate marijuana that had been planted in the community garden, which one character thought were carrots. One character in this show, contradictory to his gruff and manly demeanor, moonlights as a (*) jazz saxophonist, discovered in Season 2 of this show. Two characters role-play as “Janet Snakehole” and “Bert Macklin, FBI”, but their real names are April Ludgate and Andy Dwyer. Set in Pawnee, Indiana, for 10 points, what TV show stars Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a devoted worker for the namesake department?
ANSWER: Parks and Recreation <Bowman>
12. This character was a hippie and planned to join the Peace Corps until his girlfriend left him for his future boss. A uniform of an Imperial Stormtrooper can be seen in this man’s apartment, along with a giant holographic head which appeared in another episode. In one episode, this character loses a bet, allowing his friend to slap him (*) 5 times, leading to subsequent episodes with names such as “Slapsgiving”, and “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap.” This character claims to have slept with over 200 women, and in one episode, he tries to pick up women in a scuba-suit, one of the absurd plays included in his “Playbook.” For 10 points, name this legen-wait for it-dary author of the Bro-Code, played by Neil Patrick Harris on How I Met Your Mother.
ANSWER: BarneyStinson(accept either) <Tang>
13. One version of this includes information about how hibernators sleep and a piece by Andrew Carnegie. More recently, another type had a portion dedicated to Don Juan Ribero and Brandon Standon and artisan foods. Another version of this object involved transferring money to a Japanese account and a certain water-to-juice ratio. That same object involved a book that savored, or rather, tasted, or rather, enjoyed, the spotlight. This object involves a part on salamanders (*) and IT workers, while perhaps the most well-known one now is about a soldier that drives a bus because he has a heart murmur. For 10 points, name this preliminary standardized test administered by the college board that you aren’t allowed to make memes about.
ANSWER: Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test <Ashbrook>
14. One of this artist’s songs used samples from a song performed by the ARC Choir. In that song he says the title character walks with the “hustlers, killers, murderers drug dealers, and even the scrippers.” That song got him nominated for Best Gospel Artist (*) despite not being a gospel artist. In another song he says he is “Living in the 21st century, doing something mean to it,” and “The clock’s ticking I just count the hours.” In one song, when asked to explain the meaning of a line, the singer responds, “No one knows what it means, but it’s PROVOCATIVE.” Another of his songs samples the line “Harder better faster stronger,” from Daft Punk. For 10 points, name this creator of the albums College Dropout, Late Registration, and The Life of Pablo, who married Kim Kardashian in 2014.
ANSWER: KanyeWest (accept either) <Tang>
15. This letter is turned into to two at the end of certain words in Britain, especially after second-syllable stressing. This letter is black/yellow checkerboard in signal flagging, a 1:30/7:30 position in semaphore, the first column in Braille, and .-.. (dit-dah-dit-dit) in Morse. This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter (*) lamedh. This letter also has a Christmas carol named after it and how it’s missing. The double version of this letter is pronounced like “hl” (hull) in Welsh and like a “y” in Spanish. For 10 points, name this 12th letter of the English alphabet, frequently taken by Tim Cho.
ANSWER: L<Ashbrook>
16. This character gets their name from a Korean soup and rice dish known as gukbap. This character is a natural disaster in the Super Nintendo version of SimCity, and this character is fought in a bathtub in one game. This character is subdued by Queen Jayde’s D-Men and thrown into prison on the Underwhere Road. In another (*) game, this character has amnesia after being shot out of a cannon and fights alongside Popple with the name Rookie. Later in that game, Cackletta possesses this character’s body. This character is represented by impostors in the first couple of worlds. For 10 points, name this main antagonist of the plumbing brothers Mario and Luigi.
ANSWER: Bowser (or King Koopa) <Ashbrook>
17. This man’s film “America Destroyed by Design” analyzes an Oklahoma City bombing and looks for links to other events. He stated during his run for representative that he would act as a “watchdog on the inside” if successful. This man markets products such as dietary supplements and (*) “brain pills” when he is on air. The Genesis Communications Network broadcasts his namesake show, in which during the 2016 U.S. presidential election he proposed the “#Pizzagate” scandal. For 10 points, name this far-right radio talk show host and conspiracy theorist who owns the site “infowars.com”.
ANSWER: Alex Jones<Bowman>
18. This singer was named Artist of the Year by Billboard, in 2011, 2012, and 2016, and with sales of over 100 million records, is one of the best-selling artists of all time. At the end one of this artist’s songs, the words “Say it ain't so,” are repeated and ends with the artist singing “Say that our love ain't” this title concept. Another song starts, “Close enough to start a war / All that I have is on the floor.” In one song this artist lamented, (*)“We could’ve had it all”, and stated “You had my heart inside of your hands.” This artist also wrote the main theme for the 2012 James Bond Movie, Skyfall. For 10 points, what English singer wrote songs such as Turning Tables, Water Under the Bridge, and Rolling in the Deep.
ANSWER: Adele<Tang>
19. The character who first said this sentence uses the HokutoShinken fighting style. One meme featuring these words is an edited clip from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, in which Uncle Phil teleports behind Will Smith. Another meme that features someone saying this is from the show (*) Family Feud, in which a woman says a common response to this phrase when asked to name synonyms for “mother”. The character known for uttering this phrase, Kenshiro, says it right before he kills an opponent. For 10 points, name this phrase from “Fist of the North Star” that means “You are already dead”, often followed by “Nani!?”.
ANSWER: OmaeWaMouShindeiru (accept “You are already dead” or close equivalents) <Bowman>
20 . In one mode in this game, defeating the boss monster gives the player The Crest of the Crushing Wrath, while in another game mode defeating the boss gives the Hand of that monster. Two characters in this game are loosely based off of Predator and the Alien, and when those two characters are in the same game, they each gain the hidden ability (*) The Hunt is On!. A gamemode released on April Fools Day featured the manatee as its mascot. Out of the past 6 international championships of this game, 4 of them have been won by Korean telecommunications teams, being SKT and SSG. This game's universe takes place in the fictional world of Runeterra, which includes city-states such as Zaun, Shurima, Noxus, and Demacia. For 10 points, what game features the map Summoner’s Rift and Howling Abyss, a MOBA created by Riot Games.
ANSWER: Leagueof Legends (accept LoL) <Tang>
Bonuses
1. Answer a few questions about your favorite mobile games. For ten points each:
[10] In this game resources such as gold, elixir, and dark elixir are spent to improve your own base and train troops to invade enemy bases.
ANSWER: Clash of Clans
[10] This game, created by vietnamese programmer Dong Nguyen, was rumored to have been taken down due to legal issues with Nintendo, but Nguyen claimed to have taken it down because it was too addicting.
ANSWER: Flappy Bird
[10] Also known as discount quizbowl, in this game the category is decided by a spinner and the first to 6 characters wins.
ANSWER: Trivia Crack
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2. The recent Netflix adaptation of this series was not well received. For 10 points each:
[10] Which anime/manga, written by TsugumiOhba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, features a namesake journal used to kill people?
ANSWER: Death Note