Written by Mike Cheyne, George Berry, and Donald Taylor
VCU Open Trash
Round Four
Written by Mike Cheyne, George Berry, and Donald Taylor
Tossups
1. This team is not the Knicks, but it was once coached by current NBA VP and disciplinarian Stu Jackson. One trade for this team saw them acquire retired throw-in Aaron McKie for purely financial reasons. In 2009, Allen Iverson tweeted that God chose this team for him to continue his career. In 2001, it traded star player Shareef Abdur-Rahim, and in 2008, it acquired Javaris Crittenton and Kwame Brown. This team was the final coaching stop for the “Czar,” Mike Fratello, as well as Hubie Brown, who failed to win a game in three playoff appearances with players such as Shane Battier. Behind Zach Randolph, this team upset the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2011 playoffs. For 10 points, name this Tennessee-based NBA team formerly located in Vancouver.
ANSWER: Memphis Grizzlies [accept either, accept Vancouver Grizzlies until mentioned]
2. Villains in this game are leaders of the organized crime syndicate The First Sons. A series of coded messages is left on satellite receivers by John, who is revealed to work for the NSA. One character in this game forces the player to choose between saving six doctors and saving Trish, but regardless of your choice, Trish falls to her death. After being mortally wounded, that foe reveals he is a time traveling version of the protagonist, who has come back to get that character ready to fight The Beast. Events in this game are set in motion by a box being opened and the Ray Sphere wiping out six city blocks.Players choose a karma path that determines how certain events play out. For 10 points, name this PS3 game in which Cole MacGrath discovers and develops electrical superpowers.
ANSWER:Infamous
(George)
3. Mean Magazine released the script for this film under the title Dark Forces. The villain in this film has been punished for an affair involving “the Senator’s daughter.” Early scenes include the protagonist first meeting Carlo at an abandoned miniature golf course, where he is startled by an apparent dragon. Scenes include repetition of the phrase “endless options for renewal,” a villain decapitating “our friendly bartender,” and the villain stupidly believing the protagonist enjoys eating rats. This film opens with text proclaiming “Man is an endangered species.” Forest Whitaker appears as security chief Terl in this movie, whose plot is about Jonnie Goodboy Tyler defeating the evil Psychlos. For 10 points, name this awful film starring John Travolta and based on a L. Ron Hubbard novel.
ANSWER: Battlefield Earth
4. On one album, this band is pitted against the Beatles in the “International Battle of the Century.” They are not the Spinners, but this band recorded a song with the lyric “I played around like I was free, thought I could have my cake and eat it too.” One of their songs features the lyric “I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder,” while another asks “why don’t you come out with your red dress on?” This band of “Working My Way Back to You” proclaimed “No woman’s worth crawlin’ on the earth” and “You’d be like heaven to touch.” They had a hit with a song describing the singer’s first time with a woman, back in “December, 1963.” For 10 points, name this band who recorded “Walk Like a Man” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” a group led by Frankie Valli and the subject of Jersey Boys.
ANSWER: The Four Seasons [accept Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, accept Four Lovers, accept The Wonder Who?]
5. One member of this race changed her appearance through plastic surgery and employed the traitor Michael Jonas. That member of this race died shortly after having a baby with Culluh. Another member of this race had his wife abandon him after the discovery of his daughter Ziyal. These beings had an intelligence system called the Obsidian Order which was led by Enabran Tain. This race’s Lakarian City was destroyed after a revolt led by Damar. One member of this race tried to force a victim to admit there were five lights instead of four. Besides torturing Picard in that manner, these beings ran the station Terok Nor during their occupation of the Bajorans. For 10 points, name this alien race of Garak and Gul Dukat within the Star Trek universe.
ANSWER: Cardassians [do not accept Bajorans]
6. Team and position required. A longtime holder of this position was Doug Pederson, who left for what turned out to be a temporary starting gig in Philadelphia. After leaving Kansas City in the hands of Elvis Grbac, Steve Bono took this position, which was also the very first job held in the pros by Mark Brunell. Jim McMahon ended his career while playing this position. This was the first job held in the pros by a Boston College alum who, after being traded to a different team, once proclaimed “We want the ball, and we’re going to score!” In addition to pre-Seahawks Matt Hasselbeck, a holder of this position was a University of California alum who patiently waited for a certain man to be traded to the New York Jets in 2008. For 10 points, name this job held by Aaron Rodgers until Brett Favre left.
ANSWER: Green Bay Packers backup quarterback [accept Green Bay backup quarterback, accept Packers backup quarterback, accept Brett Favre’s backup until Favre is mentioned, accept “second-string” instead of backup, prompt on partial answer]
(George)
7. In one scene in this movie, the obnoxious Otho dismisses a location’s décor by saying “Deliver me from LL Bean.” The antagonist graduated from the Harvard business school and has seen The Exorcist 167 times. The protagonists of this film are assisted by their chain-smoking case worker, Juno. This film ends with dancing football players and the antagonist having his head shrunk when he tries to cut in line. When the main characters try to leave their house, they encounter enormous sand worms. The title character is summoned to aid Adam and Barbara in driving off the obnoxious Deetz family, using such stunts as a forced singing of “Day-O.” For 10 points, name this Tim Burton film featuring a recently deceased couple and Michael Keaton as the title “bio-exorcist” ghost.
ANSWER: Beetlejuice
8. This man was accused of faking the signature of comatose millionaire Lewis Rosenstiel. Michael Chabon’s character Kavalier performed at this man’s bar mitzvah. A Simpsons episode has Paul Harvey claim “that little boy that nobody liked grew up” to become this man, while another episode has Chuck Garabedian say he got his suit cheap because this man died in it. He was believed to be the target of the line “a pixie is a close relative of a fairy,” possibly a reference to his relationship with G. David Schine, whom he pressured the Army on behalf of. The inspiration for Mr. Burns’ blue-haired lawyer, he appears dying of AIDS while haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg in the play Angels in America. For 10 points, name this chief counsel for Joseph McCarthy.
ANSWER: Roy Cohn
9. A real-life man with this surname was played by Daniel J. Travanti in two TV-movies, the second of which was subtitled His Song Continues. One character with this last name owned a car named Mondale and was a co-editor of the CU Condor. Another character with this surname left her show when she attended London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. A family with this surname took in the disturbed Valerie Malone and had a son who loved Kelly Taylor. Two fictional teenagers with this last name moved from Minneapolis to California with parents Jim and Cindy, while the most famous person started his TV show after the kidnapping and murder of his son Adam. For 10 points, give this surname, held by Brandon and Brenda on Beverly Hills, 90210, and John, the host of America’s Most Wanted.
ANSWER: Walsh
10. A singer with this first name asked “what about all of the eyes that you gave” in the song “What About Us?” A woman with this name is said to wear “a braided chain” made of northern Spanish silver. A performer with this first name played Diana Ross’ daughter in the TV movie Double Platinum and recorded such albums as Full Moon and Afrodisiac. One singer with this first name played Cinderella in a 1997 Disney movie and recorded such songs as “The Boy is Mine” and “Have You Ever?”, both of which were on the album Never Say Never. Another person with this name is told “what a good wife you would be” by a man who says “my life, my lover, my lady is the sea.” For 10 points, give this name shared by Looking Glass’ “fine girl” and also by Moesha star Ms. Norwood.
ANSWER: Brandy
11. This character was targeted by Trula Twyst and her J.U.S.T. organization. He once became a skater punk and had such friends as Sassy Thrasher and the band the Potholes. This character was once assisted by Deputy January in a short-lived comic about his Time Police. The cousin of That Wilkin Boy, he can become the superhero “Captain Hero” and occasionally draws a feature called “Dipsy Doodles.” This character owns the pet Hot Dog and is the older brother of Forsythia, who is better known as Jellybean. The object of Big Ethel’s affections, he plays the drums in a band formed by his best friend. This character generally wears a sweatshirt with an “S” on it and a crown-like fedora hat. For 10 points, name this food-obsessed sidekick of Archie Andrews.
ANSWER: Jughead Jones [accept either, accept Forsythe Jones, either part]
12. This man is the first living non-royal to be featured on a United Kingdom banknote. He has four wins at “The Tradition,” more than any other man. This man once defeated Isao Aoki by two strokes at the U.S. Open. He once conceded a Tony Jacklin putt resulting in a tie between the U.S. and the U.K. for the Ryder Cup. This man claimed the most thrilling one-on-one battle was a second place finish at Turnbury in Scotland, in which he lost the “Duel in the Sun” to Tom Watson. Announcer Verne Lundquist’s call of “Maybe…yes sir!” came when this man sealed a notable 1986 Masters victory. He founded the Memorial Tournament in his native Ohio. His last Masters victory came at the record age of 46 years old. For 10 points, name this golfer known as the “Golden Bear.”
ANSWER: Jack Nicklaus
13. One character on this show has a brother named Chad who is thought to be cool but is actually a nerd. Characters on this show love the hero Senor Fusion, and its central location was named for Thaddeus Third. In one episode of this show, the villainous Dr. Slicer replaces Peter Prickly at the central location. The protagonist frequently used the expression “This womps!” and ran afoul of both the organized Menlo and the despised Randall. An authority figure on this show was King Bob, while a pesky clique was known as the “Ashleys.” The protagonist’s friends include Vince and Spinelli, and all of them are persecuted by Miss Finster. For 10 points, name this cartoon about a group of kids led by T.J., which primarily takes place during the title period of school.
ANSWER: Recess
14. This man is thanked for a gift in the title of the last track of theFight TestEP by The Flaming Lips. In 2008, he collaborated on a movie song with the lyrics “A door left open, a woman walking by, a drop in the water, a look in your eye.” This man has named his instruments “Veronica Lake” and “Rita Hayworth.” Besides singing “Another Way to Die” in Quantum of Solace, he is the lead vocalist of The Dead Weather. This man once claimed that he and his wife were siblings, two of ten. In one song released while collaborating with that wife, this man claimed that “every single one’s got a story to tell, from the Queen of England to the hounds of hell.” For 10 points, name this musician who recorded “Seven Nation Army” in a band formed with his now ex-wife Meg.
ANSWER: Jack White
(George)
15. This character once used the alias Nick “the Slasher” McGuirk, and he once killed five actors performing Julius Caesar during Shakespeare in the Park. In one appearance, he rescues the crippled Dr. Meinheimer from the evil Quentin Hapsburg. He eventually marries Vincent Ludwig’s former assistant, Jane Spencer. On screen, this character is first seen beating up Gorbachev and various world dictators. This character reports to Captain Ed Hocken and is assisted by the O.J. Simpson played Nordberg. In his first appearance, he poses as opera singer Enrico Pallazzo and a baseball umpire to stop Reggie Jackson from assassinating the queen. For 10 points, name this intrepid Leslie Nielsen played police officer, the protagonist of The Naked Gun series.
ANSWER: Frank Drebin [accept either part]
16. The first blown save at this stadium was committed by home team pitcher Mike Munoz, while the first postseason game played here was started for the home team by Kevin Ritz and was lost by reliever Curtis Leskanic. The first manager at this ballpark is currently the Diamondbacks hitting coach and is named Don Baylor. A tiebreaker game here was won by the home team on a disputed call involving catcher Michael Barrett and a blown save by the San Diego Padres. Due to dinosaur bones being found during construction, this stadium features the dino mascot “Dinger.” It is most noted for being the home field of the “Blake Street Bombers” which included Larry Walker. For 10 points, name this stadium where baseballs are stored in a humidor, the home of the Colorado Rockies.
ANSWER: Coors Field
17. This event is the subject of David Robie’s book Eyes of Fire. The two people arrested afterwards were eventually allowed to return home, one because she was pregnant. Those people were found after this event while posing as a couple named “Sophie and Alan Turenge.” This event led to the eventual resignation of Charles Hernu and shortly after, Laurent Fabius admitted “The truth is cruel.” The brother of Socialist politician Segolene Royal has been accused of placing the bomb used in this event. It took place in Auckland and was authorized by Francois Mitterrand, with the intent to prevent protests waged against Pacific nuclear testing. For 10 points, identify this 1985 event, in which the French foreign intelligence service destroyed the flagship of Greenpeace.