2010 DOKTRINE
Packet by Dan Donohue & Jeff Geringer
Tossups
1. His idea of comedy is “two hobos sharing a bean,” and, according to his coworkers, no one can read his thoughts during a game of poker because he “doesn’t have any.” This character worships in the bottom of a Cuban restaurant(*); and after trying coffee, he misses a train to his home state, the“Quarter to Midnight Train to Georgia.” He sees everyone as Muppets and may have had a relationship with his coworker Cerie Xerox. He took his middle name from his mother Ellen and would never do anything “to disgrace the peacock,” often performing errands for Jenna Moroney, Tracy Jordan, and Liz Lemon. For 10 points, name this NBC page played by Jack McBrayer on 30 Rock.
ANSWER: Kenneth Ellen Parcell [accept either underlined name]
2. This work prompted one critic to say, “It’s shocking, outrageous, insulting, and I loved every minute of it!” The title character asserts, “It ain’t no mystery if it’s politics or his’try/The thing you gotta know is/Evry’thing is showbiz”. After Franz Lebkind breaks his leg, the title character is played by Roger DeBris, who declares himself “the German Ethel Merman” after saying, “Heil myself!” Featuring dancing stormtroopers and a rotating swastika, it was thought to be “the worst show ever written.” For 10 points, name this “Gay Romp with Eva and Adolf at Berchtesgaden”, a musical that is produced by Max Bialystock and Leopold Bloom in the Mel Brooks musical The Producers.
ANSWER: Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Eva and Adolf at Berchtesgaden
3. Beatrix Bloxam bastardized this work which, in its only published form, does not feature the famous “Grumble the Grubby Goat.” A knight, Asha, Altheda, and Amata travel to a spring of water that solves their problems. Another woman turns into a rabbit and hides inside a tree trunk to avoid being beheaded by a king. The most famous story in this collection concerns some men who receive a ring, cloak, and wand from Death. “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” and “Babby Rabbity and her Cackling Stump are among the stories in this collection. Willed by Albus Dumbledore to Hermione Granger, for 10 points, name this collection of six fairy tales from the Harry Potter universe.
ANSWER: The Tales of Beedle the Bard [prompt onThe Toadstool Tales]
4. In this man’s first mixed martial arts fight, he beat Min Soo Kim at K-1 Dynamite. Later, he lost his next fight at UFC 81 to Frank Mir, but he later dominated Mir at UFC 100. He hasn’t fought in months due to mononucleosis brought on by an intestinal perforation, although(*) he will fight Shane Carwin when he returns. In 2004, he played a few preseason games as a defensive lineman for the Vikings, but he was eventually cut. As a professional wrestler, his finishing move was the F-5. For 10 points, identify this professional wrestler turned UFC fighter, the current UFC heavyweight champion.
ANSWER: Brock Lesnar
5. Toward the end of this film, a character shaves and puts on glasses before leaving two treacherous brothers to fight over a gun. One character is a model whose broken leg gives some heavy-duty irony to her apartment’s view of a billboard featuring her(*). Another character wants to run away with Susana, but needs Cofi to win him a lot of money first. Nominated for the 2000 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, it was the first Mexican film to win the equivalent award from BAFTA. Its epic scope and interlocking stories are also qualities of the later film Babel by its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu. FTP, Gael Garcia Bernal had his first major role in what drama that tells three different stories of people who love their dogs?
ANSWER: Amores Perros [no one really calls it by an English name]
6. One song on this album begins “The night is black without a moon, the air is thick and still” while another contains the lines “Everybody got mixed feelings about the function and the form. Everybody got to deviate from the norm.” Those songs are “Witch Hunt” and “Vital Signs.”(*) More famous tracks on this album contain lines like “Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation” and “What you say about his company is what you say about society.” This album also contains the lyric-less track “YYZ” and “Red Barchetta.” For 10 points, name this Rush album that contains the tracks “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight” with a cover that shows men literally carrying works of art.
ANSWER: Moving Pictures
7. One player from this country was a four-year starter at West Virginia alongside players like Kevin Pittsnogle; another was a star for the University of Washington and reached the NBA finals with the Seattle Supersonics. One manfrom this country’s national team was a second-overall draft pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. Current Clippers center Chris Kaman plays for(*) this national team, as does a player drafted by the Bucks in 1998 and immediately traded to his current team. That same player lost a first-round series to the Golden State Warriors after winning the MVP for that season, 2007. For 10 points, identify this country, the home of Jan Jagla, Detlef Schrempf, and Dirk Nowitzki.
ANSWER: FederalRepublic of Germany [or Bundesrepublik Deutschland]
8. This man did not speak while playing Kit Kat, a character who is betrayed and killed by Minerva in 1991’s Hudson Hawk. In a 1995 film, he discovers a sex tape of the titular prostitute while getting it on with Linda Fiorentino. Besides starring in Jade, he played a character married to Laura Michaelswho resigns(*) after Arthur Fancy realizes he helped destroy some incriminating evidence. Besides playing detective John Kelly on NYPD Blue, he rescues Alexx Wood from Kendrick, fires Ryan Wolfe, and says puns in response to grisly murders while putting on his sunglasses to the strains of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who. For 10 points, what redhead plays Lt. Horatio Caine on CSI: Miami?
ANSWER: David Caruso
9. This Andrey Ternovskiy creation brought Jon Stewart into contact with Brian Williams, and a YouTube user used this thing to imitate Ben Folds, prompting Folds to use it to broadcast his performance of “Ode to Merton.” On the SouthPark episode “You have 0 Friends,” Cartman helps Kyle meet a Jewish boy here. The Deer Hunter inspired the name of this website, whose users can be presented with the message, “Basically, three people in the last 5 minutes didn’t like what you have broadcasted and that’s why you’ve lost this game. You’ve been blocked for 40 minutes.” Mostly featuring men masturbating, for 10 points, name this website in which webcam users are randomly paired with another user for video chat.
ANSWER: ChatRoulette.com
10. Although he didn’t even attend high school, this player served as Harvard’s pitching coach during the early 1900s. In the first World Series, he won two games for the Boston Americans en route to a series win. One year later, he threw the first perfect game(*) under “modern rules,” and, despite an illustrious career, he holds the record for most losses by a pitcher. He is the current record-holder for all time wins at 517. For 10 points, identify this old-time baseball player whose namesake award was first won by Don Newcombe and later by players like Roger Clemens, an award given to the best pitcher in the league.
ANSWER: Denton True “Cy” Young
11. A deleted scene from this movie concerns “Those Darn Homos,” and this movie’s score features “Money for Nothin/The Beverly Hillbillies.” In this movie, a blind character tries and fails several times to solve a Rubik’s cube, and the protagonist makes and eats a Twinkie wiener sandwich(*). Much to the anger of R.J. Fletcher, weird ideas like “Wheel of Fish” bring success for characters like Philo, Noodles McIntosh, and Fran Drescher’s Pamela Finkelstein. Though Channel 8 tries to stop that success with a buy-out, the antics of janitor Stanley Spadowski, played by Michael Richards, ultimately bring in enough money during Channel 62’s telethon. For 10 points, name this 1989 movie in which “Weird” Al Yankovic competes with a VHF station.
ANSWER: UHF
12. On one episode of this show, a character is mocked for doing “the wave” and fights in front of the Palace Hotel before his attacker retreats to a brunch hosted by Bart. In the current season, a movie star named Olivia Burke dates Jenny’s older brother, an aspiring poet(*). But that character, Dan, later dates Vanessa Abrams, all the while pining for the object of Nate Archibald’s affections. Chuck Bass dates Blair Waldorf, the best friend of Serena van der Woodsen, on this show, whose title character is “your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite.” Kristen Bell blogs, for 10 points, what CW series starring Blake Lively that is based on an eponymous, alliterative series of books?
ANSWER: Gossip Girl
13. “Passions burning on the fire” are discussed on one of this album’s songs, performed by Suzanne D’Mello and BlaZe. In addition to “Dreams on Fire” and “Gangsta Blues,” this album features a DFA Remix of a song that asserts, “If you catch me at the border/I got visas in my name” and(*) “All I wanna do is [gun sound effect] and [cash register sound effect] take your money.” In addition to“Latika’s Theme” and “Paper Planes,” M.I.A. also sings that she has been made shifty by sweatshops and “run[s] so fast they can’t even catch me.” For 10 points, name this album with several A.R. Rahman productions including “O Saya” and “Jai Ho,” the soundtrack of a movie about an Indian kid who wins Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
ANSWER: Slumdog Millionaire: Music From the Motion Picture [accept clear-knowledge equivalents; don’t accept any M.I.A. albums because they don’t feature the “DFA Remix”]
14. This man directed movies in which Adrien Brody engineers animal DNA, and the ghost of Dr. Cesares helps children escape an orphanage, and a 2002 sequel that sees two vampires in the Bloodpack get killed by Wesley Snipes. Those movies are Splice, The Devil’s Backbone,andBlade II. In the magnum opus of this producer of The Orphanage(*),Captain Vidal’s daughter Ofelia, eludes the Pale Man, a creature with eyes in the palms of his hands, while on a quest for the titular faun during the Spanish Civil War. He directs a franchise that features Doug Jones as Abe Sapien and Ron Perlman as the title demon. Set to direct The Hobbit, for 10 points, name this Mexican director of Pan’s Labyrinth and the Hellboy movies.
ANSWER: Guillermo del Toro(or Guillermo del ToroGómez)
15. Captain Shears tries to resurrect this character on Titania, but that plan is foiled by the Hot Rodders. Dash Bowman is this man’s grandson, and another character with lines like “Stick to the pond, Froggy” is this character’s nephew. In one game, he uses the SharpClaw clanto (*)bring him back to life and hides on the backside of a giant Krazoa statue before ascending into space. After being defeated, the boss from the Corneria level screams “You’ll never defeat” this character, who appears as a giant brain when his planet, Venom, is attacked from the top. For 10 points, name this character depicted as a giant head with disembodied hands, the villain of the Star Fox series.
ANSWER: Andross
16. This team took some serious beatdowns from Mario Lemieux’s Penguins team in the 1991 Stanley Cup finals, and they lost a 1992 playoff game to Detoit in which the first-ever use of instant replay in the NHL playoffs confirmed a Red Wings goal. They lost their first Stanley Cup final to the Islanders in 1991(*). Neal Broten played the most games for this franchise and spent the first thirteen years of his career with them. Dino Ciccarelli and Brian Bellows scored 342 and 332 with this franchise, respectively. This team played its games at the MetCenter in Bloomington. For 10 points, identify this NHL franchise that moved to Dallas in 1993 and dropped the word “North” from their title.
ANSWER: Minnesota North Stars
17. At the beginning of the video for this song, the artist poses on top of a new car with a bow on it. The vocalist in this song never answers a call when it’s private because he “ain’t a shy bitch,” and unleashes aphorisms like “It ain’t trickin’ if you got it” before asking “Where is Erykah Badu at?”(*) The rest of the video follows the vocalist through a series of chairs and dressing rooms while getting ready for a photo shoot. The rapper in this song also claims that he is “tougher than Nigerian hair” and that he is a venereal disease. For 10 points, name this Lil’ Wayne song that beings with the exclamation “young money” in which a background loop repeats the title for three minutes.
ANSWER: “A Milli”
18. The final scenes of this movie take place at Cable 54, and some characters have a watch that transports them into an underground network of tunnels. The protagonist gets a job in construction and finds a nearby church that is really a front for scientific research(*). Money reads “This is your God” and other billboards read “Marry and Reproduce” and “Obey.” Arguably the most famous line from this movie refers to “kicking ass and chewing bubble gum,” and the main character, Nada, is all out of bubble gum. For 10 points, identify this laughably bad ‘80s sci-fi flick in which Roddy Piper’s character puts on special sunglasses and discovers that his world is run by aliens.
ANSWER: They Live
19. As of 2001, Kelvin Inman worked for this organization. Founded by Gerald and Karen DeGroot, it has six stated goals, one of which involves “utopian social-” something or other. Its Cerberus Security System was headed by LeFleur, who answered to Horace Goodspeed, who answered to University of Michigan scientists(*). Funded by the Hanso Foundation, they killed the Hostiles in 1992 as part of “The Purge,” and Radzinsky released a catastrophic amount of electromagnetic energy during their “Incident.” The Swan or “the hatch” is one of their research stations, and their numbers of 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 puzzled the survivors of Oceanic 815. For 10 points, name this mysterious research organization from Lost.
ANSWER: DHARMA Initiative [or Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications]
20.All their albums except For Me, It’s You have spawned exactly one omnipresent hit single. That album’s single “Cab” reached #9 on the Adult Top 40, and their cover of “Ramble On” inspired Brendan O’Brien to produce their 2001 sophomore album. In December 2009, Nielsen announced that the title track from that album was the #2 song of the entire decade(*), measured by radio plays. Formed in 1994 by Rob Hotchkiss and Pat Monahan, their new album Save Me San Francisco, which features the triple-platinum single “Hey Soul Sister”. FTP, what bland, inoffensive rock band have been heard in the background of over 1 quadrillion commercials and TV episodes with songs like “Calling All Angels”, “Meet Virginia”, and “Drops of Jupiter”?
ANS: Train
Tiebreakers
TB1. Year and event required. In group play, a 90th-minute penalty kick gave one team a 4-3 victory over a Mohammed Zidan-led Egyptian squad. In the same group, the U.S. advanced over Italy despite the same number of points and the same goal differential. Iraq and New Zealand drew nil-nil in the other group, from which Spain advanced(*). The final saw the tournament’s high scorer, Luís Fabiano helped Brazil triumph 3-2. In the most famous game, Michael Bradley was red-carded after Clint Dempsey scored on Iker Casillas while Tim Howard held Torres and Villa scoreless. For 10 points, name this soccer tournament that saw the U.S. upset Spain, played last summer in South Africa with one team from each continent.
ANSWER: 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup [both parts required]
TB2. This work ends with the soundbyte “Ow, bitch. Bye!” A “beautiful, beautiful, beast” wears only black stilettos and removes a bottle of wine from between her legs, proceeding to drink from it in this work edited by Jonny Fly. The main dude introduces scenes on a small flatscreen TV while wearing a white hat and blue fleece(*), earlier questioning why he must leave their room on a Wednesday. That “Hotel Bathroom” scene precedes one in which the title character films her breasts to prove they are not veiny, before the final “Color Blowjob” scene. Its most famous scene is now in black and white, not blue-green. For 10 points, in what video does Rick Saloman have Nightvision sex with the star of The Simple Life?
ANSWER: 1 Night in Paris [accept ParisHilton Sex Tape and other obvious equivalents]