Jaryd W. Gilts Memorial Tournament
Round 5 Tossups
Written by Steven Wellstead and Ike Jose
1. One episode in this series focuses on the fictional Groat’s Syndrome, and in the 1st season finale the protagonist uses the alias Todd while at an incest survivor meeting. The most recent season saw Catherine O’Hara play a crazed character named Bam Bam, while another episode involved the death of a golf club owner’s pet black (*) swan. Marty Funkhouser and Richard Lewis are close friends of the protagonist, who, after being dumped by Loretta Black, plans to get his ex-wife, Cheryl, back by giving her a part in the Seinfeld reunion special. For 10 points, identify this HBO series focusing on the hilarious misdeeds of celebrity Larry David.
ANSWER: Curb Your Enthusiasm
2. One character in this novel says that he rambles to convince the police he is an idiot, and in the penultimate chapter, rain causes it to be impossible to work as cars are washed away in mud. A dead grandfather in this book is left in a coroner’s office, and Noah chooses to stay at a (*) river and fish for survival. The main character of this novel starts out returning from prison, only to find his house empty before encountering Jim Casy. Rose of Sharon delivers a stillborn baby in, for 10 points, what novel focusing on the Joads as they travel to California, a work by John Steinbeck?
ANSWER: The Grapes of Wrath
3. Upon hearing of it, Pope Clement VIII exclaimed “This crucifies me!” Inspiration for it was drawn from the Treaties of Nerac and Bergerac, and it was partly annulled by the Peace of Alais. Frederick Wilhelm issued the Edict of Potsdam following its official renunciation, and one of its 92 articles included a provision for the defense of (*) La Rochelle, although its subjects were still not allowed to publish books or practice their religion in other areas, including within 15 miles of Paris. For 10 points, identify this agreement revoked by Louis XIV with the Edict of Fontainebleau, a 1598 edict issued by Henry IV granting many rights to French Protestants.
ANSWER: Edict of Nantes [or L’Edit de Nantes]
4. In one song off this man’s debut album, the singer states “I’m a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.” The title single from that album contains the lyrics “I’m goin down down baby, yo street in the Range Rover” and is called “Country Grammar.” His second #1 single was a duet with Kelly (*) Rowland, while his first #1 begins “I was like, good gracious ass bodacious.” In his most recent #1, off the album Sweatsuit, the singer has his mouth “lookin’ something like a disco ball” and says to “call me George Foreman cuz I’m selling everybody” the title accessories. For 10 points, identify this St. Louis native known for “Dilemma,” “Hot in Herre,” and “Grillz.”
ANSWER: Nelly [or Cornell Haynes Jr.]
5. Named “Meta Incognita” upon its discovery, this island’s Koukdjuak River drains Nettilling Lake west of the Cumberland Peninsula, on which one can find Mts. Odin and Asgard inside Auyuittiq National Park. Prince Charles Island lies in the Foxe Basin off the western shores of this island, whose largest city lies on (*) Frobisher Bay. Bordered to the north by the Lancaster Sound and to the east by the Davis Strait, it is separated from Quebec by the Hudson Strait and from Greenland by a namesake bay that is named after a 17th century English explorer named William. For 10 points, identify this site of Nunavut’s capital, Iqaluit, the largest island in Canadian.
ANSWER: Baffin Island
6. One author from this country used his time at Stanford as basis for his first novel, The Golden Gate, while another author from here is best known for a poetry collection that translates as “Song Offerings.” Another author born here is best known for writing about a large-nosed telepath born in the early hours of August 15, (*) 1947, in addition to a pair of actors who survive a plane crash over the English Channel. This country was also the setting of the works Kim and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, who was born here. For 10 points, identify this Asian country that was the birthplace of Salmon Rushdie and Rabindranath Tagore, and Vikram Seth.
ANSWER: Republic of India [I suppose you can accept “British India” from punks who fancy themselves smart]
7. This ruler employed the services of architect es-Saheli, and his reign saw the capture of Gao by General Sagmandia. Ruler during the height of Sankore University, this descendent of Sundiata was succeeded by his son Maghan I and is best known for accounts given by historian al-Umari, who witnessed the (*) effects of this man’s kindness twelve years after the fact. That kindness resulted in this ruler having to take out a loan in order to get back to his kingdom despite leaving his capital Niani with over 12 tons of gold. For 10 points, name this 14th century Malian Emperor who gave away uber amounts of gold on his hajj across Africa.
ANSWER: Mansa Kankan Musa I (prompt on “Mansa”)
8. One of his works features a man painting a hummingbird while an egg sits on a nearby table, and another work features a well dressed man listening to a phonograph next to a bloodied, nude woman. In addition to Clairvoyance and The Menaced Assassin, he depicted three identical men, each underneath a crescent moon, in his The (*) Mysteries of the Horizon. Better known works include one featuring an empty dining room with a locomotive coming out of its fireplace, and another featuring the French phrase for “this is not a pipe.” For 10 points, identify this Belgian surrealist of Time Transfixed, The Treachery of Images, and The Son of Man.
ANSWER: Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte
9. This man quipped that “if there is a hell, it is modeled after junior high” in his 2005 autobiography Nothing’s Scared. He claimed that all candy corn ever made was created in 1914 in one work, in which he also stated that we should nominate the dead Ronald Reagan as president. The man behind the albums The End of the (*) Universe, Anticipation, and Rules of Enragement, he released the HBO special Red, White, and Screwed in the same year in which he starred as cranky airport employee Oliver Porter in Unaccompanied Minors and fake school dean Ben Lewis in Accepted. For 10 points, identify this comedian who hosted Comedy Central’s Root of All Evil.
ANSWER: Lewis Niles Black
10. It imagines a woman with “garlands drest” a “pious mourn” and wonders if a certain town’s street will be silent evermore. This poem imagines “marble men and maidens overwrought / with forest branches and the trodden weed.” Its first stanza ends with a series of questions asking “What mad pursuit? What (*) struggle to escape? / What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?” At the beginning, the title addressee is called an “unravish’d bride of quietness” and “foster-child of Silence and slow Time.” It ends with the words “that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” For 10 points, identify this poem by John Keats about a vase.
ANSWER: Ode on a Grecian Urn
11. His first term as governor came after defeating incumbent Culbert Olsen, and today he is still the only man to have been elected as California’s governor three times. The unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate under Thomas Dewey in the Election of 1948, this man’s appointment to his highest position was called the (*) “biggest mistake that I ever made” by Dwight Eisenhower, due in part to rulings this man made in favor of Oliver Brown and Ernesto Miranda. For 10 points, identify this Supreme Court Chief Justice from 1953 to 1969 who headed a namesake Commission to investigate the death of John F. Kennedy.
ANSWER: Earl Warren
12. In addition to Parkinson’s, this disease has been shown to be linked to the genes PACRG and PARK2. The Fernandez reaction indicates a positive result in one test for this disease, an acute form of which is named after Lucio. This disease is classified into paucibacillary and multibacillary forms, the latter of which is cured with doses of (*) clofazimine, rifampicin, and dapsone. Also susceptible to armadillos, this disease causes nerve damage and, most notably, skin lesions. For 10 points, identify this affliction also known as Hanson’s Disease, whose sufferers have historically been segregated into namesake, isolated “colonies.”
ANSWER: leprosy [accept Hanson’s Disease on early buzz]
13. The jersey numbers of Don Wilson and Jim Umbricht were retired by this franchise, whose first mascot was a soldier named Chester Charge. Rusty Staub and Joe Morgan made their debut for this team while still called the Colt 45’s, and other men to make their debut for this franchise include Kenny Lofton and Ken (*) Caminiti. The Crawford Boxes and Tal’s Hill are features in the current stadium of this franchise, which once featured a trio of power hitters called “The Killer B’s” consisting of Jeff Bagwell, Lance Berkman, and Craig Biggio. For 10 points, identify this MLB franchise that plays its home games in Minute Maid Park in a Texas city.
ANSWER: Houston Astros [accept either]
14. This man becomes acquainted with Adrian Singleton while frequenting opium dens, which is also where this man first encounters a sailor named James, who is later shot dead by Geoffrey Clouston during a hunting party. Scientist Alan Campbell commits suicide after disposing of a body for this son of Margaret Devereux, who is referred to as (*) “Prince Charming” by Shakespearean actress Sibyl Vane. Raised by his grandfather, Lord Kelso, this title character is corrupted by cynic Henry Wotton, culminating in this man’s murder of artist Basil Hallward. For 10 points, identify this ageless Oscar Wilde creation who dies after stabbing a titular portrait.
ANSWER: Dorian Gray [prompt on partial answer; DO NOT ACCEPT “The Picture of Dorian Gray”]
15. This body of water is home to the Brijuni Islands, which lie across the Fazana Strait from the Istrian Peninsula. Extensions include Kvarner Gulf and the Gulf of Manfredonia, the latter of which lies south of Mount Gargano. Ports found on its eastern shores include Durres, Split, and (*) Dubrovnik. Known in ancient times as Mare Superum, it is connected to the Ionian Sea by the Strait of Otranto and has its northern extension at the Gulf of Trieste. The Po River empties near the city of Venice into, for 10 points, what European sea that separates the Balkan and Italian peninsulas.
ANSWER: Adriatic Sea
16. The second ruler of this House survived being shot in the face with an arrow at the Battle of Shrewsbury; that man’s predecessor successfully put down the Epiphany Rising plot and the Owain Glyndwr-led Welsh Revolt. Its final ruler was deposed after the Second Battle of St. Albans, restored with the help of France’s (*) Louis XI, and deposed again six months later by Edward IV. Descended directly from John of Gaunt, this House began with the ascension of Henry Bolingbroke in 1399 and ended in 1471 with the death of Henry VI. For 10 points, identify this English House that threw down against the House of York in the War of the Roses.
ANSWER: House of Lancaster
17. In one scene from this film the protagonist is blackmailed into buying 40 magazine subscriptions of Vibe, while earlier he is forced to miss poker night to see an occupational hypnotherapist who eventually dies from a heart attack. That character dates Joanna, a former waitress who quit her job at (*) Chotchkie’s after an argument over pieces of “flare,” and schemes against his employer along with Samir and Michael Bolton, the latter of whom develops a computer virus to steal over $300,000 in revenge for his firing. For 10 points, identify this 1999 comedy starring Ron Livingston as software engineer Peter Gibbons and Gary Cole as Initech VP Bill Lumbergh.
ANSWER: Office Space
18. This man wrote a work with W.H. Auden doing the libretto about Tom Rakewell’s life. Another of his works was Jean Cocteau’s setting of Oedipus Rex. C Major and F sharp triads playing together constitute the chord of one of this man’s characters, in which the Ballerina is attracted to the Moor. In addition to composing a (*) ballet about a puppet made of sawdust, he also made another work in which the two parts are “The Exalted Earth” and “A Kiss of the Earth.” For 10 points, identify this creator of the ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring.
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky
19. One character in this work complains about “eating stewed chickweed and acorns” and how young folks will “be wanting to go back to living in caves.” Characters in this work include the Delacroix family, Old Man Warner, and postmaster Mr. Graves, who at one point carries a stool that is used by Joe (*) Summers to hold up a black wooden box. Set on the morning of June 27th, this story begins with three hundred villagers gathering for the titular event, which concludes with Tessie Hutchinson being stoned to death to ensure good crop harvests that fall. For 10 points each, identify this short story by Shirley Jackson.
ANSWER: “The Lottery”
20. A border dispute between British Guinea and Venezuela caused Secretary of State Richard Olney to cite it, and less than a decade later it was invoked by Luis Maria Drago, who applied it to foreign debt. The subject of the 1928 Clark Memorandum, it was initially introduced in opposition to the (*) Holy Alliance and extended to allow intervention in Latin American affairs in its most famous addendum, the Roosevelt Corollary. Stating that “the American continents…are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers,” for 10 points, identify this 1823 policy delivered by America’s fifth president.