2003 TRASHionals
Round 06: When Madonna speaks, we listen.
Tossups
- The Macarena's chart dominance was ended by a four-week run at Number One by this song, winner of a Grammy for best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group "Word is bond, faking jacks ain't never been me," according to Queen Pen, who appears on this song that tells the playette to "play on." Although Teddy Riley kept the album Another Level mostly rap-free, Dr. Dre appeared on, for ten points, what biggest hit by BLACKstreet?
ANSWER: No Diggity - His real name was Johnny Bart, and he began his superhero ways by killing the owl-hoots responsible for murdering his Texas Ranger Uncle Ben. Drawn by John Severin, he was Marvel’s second-longest-running Western series in its history, with more than 150 issues from 1955 to 1979. Always shy with the ladies, he returned in 2003 with an open preference for his fellow cowboys. For ten points, name this Marvel Western superhero, who in 2003 became the first openly gay title character in Marvel history.
ANSWER: The Rawhide Kid - The first competitions took place in 1862, but it didn’t become an Olympic event until 1964. In this sport, competitors travel down the in-run, then use a telemark landing around the K-point to get points. While gold medalists include Toni Nieminen and Matti Nykanen [nuke-ah-nen], its most well known competitors are the infamous Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards and Vinko Bogataj [bow-go-tie] of Wide World of Sports fame. For ten points, name this Winter Olympic sport in which Simon Ammann won two golds in 2002.
ANSWER: Ski jumping - The author of a web-exclusive column "Downlinks," his current partner is Heidi Collins on the weekends. Less successful was his partnership with Andrea Thompson as co-anchors on the prime time revamp of Headline News, although a successful team-up was with Walter Cronkite in coverage of John Glenn's return to space. For ten points, name this CNN weekend anchor and space correspondent who shares his name with a Starfleet engineer.
ANSWER: Miles O'Brien - Mark Peterson, a former executive of defunct Vanguard Air, is the CEO of this company that launched last month. North Carolina-based Pace Airlines will operate the bright orange Boeing 737 planes that will be used for its flights between Atlanta, Myrtle Beach and Newark. There will be no wings served on board, and there will be traditional flight attendants in addition to its parent company's signature employees. For ten points, name this new airline that shares its name with an infamous chain of restaurants.
ANSWER: Hooters Air - In 1960, its members included Peter Rheimer, Josh Howard, Mushy O'Connors, Tony Bergdorf, Jimmy Foster and Sam Harmon. In 2001, its members included Saul Bloom, Linus Caldwell, Russ Ryan, Virgil and Turk Malloy, Reuben Tishkoff, Frank Catton and Basher Tarr. Both are led by a guy named Danny, and their objective is the same -- robbing multiple casinos of money. For ten points, give the shared name of these groups, the title characters of movies first starring Frank Sinatra and then George Clooney.
ANSWER: Ocean's Eleven - He wrote the minor Elvis hit "It Hurts Me" and was a popular session musician, playing in Leonard Cohen's touring band and appearing on Bob Dylan's country-influenced albums. His early career included the Top Ten hit "Uneasy Rider." His namesake band's later hits include "Still in Saigon," but remains best known for a 1979 song covered by Primus. For ten points, what fiddler can be heard on "The Devil Went Down to Georgia?"
ANSWER: Charlie Daniels
- Illinois State Rep. David Miller is sponsoring legislation requiring this to be performed "only by a doctor or dentist," and then only for medical reasons. A similar bill in Michigan failed last year. Side-effects of this process may include infection, excess bleeding, and speech impediments, while proponents claim each side can move and sense independently -- and they think it looks cool. For ten points, name this body-modification practice designed to make people look more reptilian.
ANSWER: tongue-splitting (acc. equivalents) - He began his movie career in 1969 as a production assistant and script supervisor at Cathay Studio. He later moved on to Shaw Brothers, where he directed his first film, 1973's The Young Dragons. The movie impressed Golden Harvest, who signed him to a contract. Following international success with Once a Thief and Hard-Boiled, Jean-Claude Van Damme asked him to direct what would be this director's U.S. debut, Hard Target. For ten points, name this Hong Kong action director, whose other U.S. films include Mission Impossible 2, Windtalkers and Face-Off.
ANSWER: John Woo - We first meet him at the 1984 L.A. Olympics, where he knocked out a "supine Swede" to win gold. After being incarcerated for assault and stealing cable, he returned to beat a guy named Watson in "The Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out." Managed by Lucious Sweet, he was jailed again for pushing his mother down the stairs. But he returned to the ring, winning by first-round DQ over Homer Simpson. For ten points, name this Springfield native and recognized heavyweight champion of nine of the 14 sanctioning bodies.
ANSWER: Drederick Tatum - On August 21, 1999, he became the most recent player in major league history to hit a leadoff home run in both games of a doubleheader. In 1992, he became the first player to hit 20 homers, steal 50 bases and collect 80 RBI in a year. In 2003 he is starting the season in Portland, as he failed to make the Padres’ opening-day roster. For ten points, name this long-time Oriole lead-off hitter who, in 1996, became the 14th player to hit 50 homers in a season.
ANSWER: Brady Anderson - The original version was created by Peter Moore and unveiled in 1985 with a then-innovative double set of laces. Version Five was said to be inspired by the World War Two Mustang fighter jet. The 12th incarnation was the first not to feature a swoosh. The 14th was said to be inspired by the namesake’s Ferrari 550-M, and featured seven Jumpmans on each shoe. Version 17, released in 2002, featured a removable mid-foot cover that decided whether the laces could be visible. For ten points, name this brand of Nike sneakers, named for a Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards legend.
ANSWER: Air Jordans - This 1987 film sparked rumors that it was filmed in an apartment where a nine-year-old boy committed suicide, and his ghost could be seen behind the curtains of a window. Turns out the "ghost" was in fact a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson, who played Jack Holden, one of a trio of bachelors who must take care of an infant girl left at their front door by the girl's mother, an ex-girlfriend of Jack's. For ten points, name this Leonard Nimoy-directed film, starring Danson, Steve Guttenberg and Tom Selleck.
ANSWER: Three Men and a Baby - He currently can be seen as the “affordable celebrity” arm wrestling old women in ads for I-N-G Direct. He can be heard as the voice of Mitch Baker in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. He was a serious contender for major roles in North Dallas Forty and Midnight Cowboy, rejecting the latter to continue playing Heath Barkley on The Big Valley. He gained the most fame in the ‘70s and ‘80s playing Colt Seavers and Steve Austin. For ten points, name this star of both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy.
ANSWER: Lee Majors or Harvey Lee Yeary - (AUDIO) Given a snippet from an entrance theme song, identify the pro wrestler, for ten points. (Track 13)
ANSWER: Shawn Michaels
- Dominic Leung directed this song's music video, filmed in London's ExCel Building. This piano-driven song about love that doesn't work out begins: "Lights go out and I can't be saved / Tides that I tried to swim against / You've put me down upon my knees. / Oh I beg, I beg and plead singing / Come out of things unsaid, shoot an apple off my head and a / Trouble that can't be named, tigers waiting to be tamed singing." For ten points, name this first U.S. single off A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay about timepieces.
ANSWER: Clocks - She married Ernest White, a doctor, after World War II, but his mental illness forced her to support their family by working as a hospital administrator. She wrote her first book, Cover Her Face, over a period of three years, writing for two hours a day in longhand. A decade as an administrative assistant for the police gave her a solid background for mystery writing, which she took on full time after retiring in 1979. Her works are set in her native East Anglia and her main character is named for a former teacher. Name, for ten points, this mystery writer behind the Adam Dalgliesh series of mysteries.
ANSWER: P(hyllis) D(orothy) James - Nicknamed "Elefantino" due to his bald head and big ears, he recently underwent cosmetic surgery to pin back his ears. He first made his name in 1995 when he was willing to challenge Miguel Indurain on mountainous terrain, and has been in the news with a suspension being reduced. For ten points, name this winner of the 1998 Tour de France, an Italian who has gotten into trouble for banned substances.
ANSWER: Marco Pantani - A sound test in North and South. Full options in Nemesis. Full energy in Zombie Nation. Unlock Spider-Man in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 for GameBoy Advance. Lose a life in Gradius 3. Full options in Gradius. For ten points, many Konami games used what 11-button sequence that got you 30 lives in Gyruss and Contra?
ANSWER: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start (accept "Konami code" before "Konami" is mentioned, otherwise prompt) - In 1942, she appeared as Roxie Hart in the non-musical comedy of the same name, and won a Best Actress Oscar in 1944 for Kitty Foyle. She sang "We're In the Money" in Golddiggers of 1933, including a verse in pig latin. That same year she got fourth billing in Flying Down to Rio, which marked her first pairing with her leading man for nine more successful musical comedies, including Follow the Fleet and Shall We Dance. For ten points, name this actress, the best-known dance partner of Fred Astaire.
ANSWER: Ginger Rogers or Virginia Katherine McMath - It was created in 1981 by a committee chaired by Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke. Its basic formula consists of 25 percent for the team’s winning percentage, 50 percent for the opponents’ average winning percentage and 25 percent for the opponents’ opponents’ average winning percentage. Secret adjustments made to the formula include strong non-conference schedule and penalties for losing to non-Division One teams. For ten points, name this computer formula used to determine the top teams in NCAA Division One college basketball.
ANSWER: Ratings Percentage Index or RPI
2003 TRASHionals
Round 06: When Madonna speaks, we listen.
Bonuses
- Identify these actors who have recently played the emcee in the current Broadway revival of Cabaret given his TV background, for ten points each.
- This actor currently playing the emcee will be the voice of Peter Parker on an upcoming Spider-Man cartoon. However, he is still best remembered as playing the title role on Doogie Howser, M.D.
ANSWER: Neil Patrick Harris - Just before Harris took the role, this fellow veteran of the ABC sitcom family played the emcee. He played Blackie Parrish on General Hospital but spent eight seasons as Jesse on Full House.
ANSWER: John Stamos - Surprisingly, Cabaret marked the Broadway debut for this renowned stage actor who has snared a handful of nominations playing gay funeral director David Fisher on Six Feet Under.
ANSWER: Michael C. Hall - For ten points each, name the sports league which had the following MVPs in their most recent season.
- Sheryl Swoopes.
ANSWER: WNBA or Women's National Basketball Association - Milt Stegall
ANSWER: CFL or Canadian Football League - Carlos Ruiz
ANSWER: MLS or Major League Soccer - For ten points each, name these characters from Stranger in a Strange Land.
- This doctor-slash-lawyer-slash writer finds himself in custody of Michael Valentine Smith, the Man from Mars.
ANSWER: JubalHarshaw (accept either) - A former Fair Witness, this secretary of Jubal Harshaw is strongly implied to be the one who initiated Mike into sex.
ANSWER: Anne - This muckraking reporter endeavors to interview Mike after he is brought back from Mars, enlisting the aide of his nurse and friend Gillian Boardman.
ANSWER: BenCaxton (accept either) - Name these musical svengalis, for ten points each.
- A cousin of Art Garfunkel, this Florida svengali has made millions creating and managing such teeny-bop groups as the Backstreet Boys, N-Sync and O-Town.
ANSWER: Louis Pearlman - This Boston-based svengali created such groups as New Edition and New Kids on the Block.
ANSWER: Maurice Starr - This talent scout and Sun Records owner discovered such rock-n-roll legends as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Howlin' Wolf.
ANSWER: Sam Philipps - For ten points each, answer these questions about the non-fiction work of Erik Larson.
- In his latest book, The Devil in the White City, Larson juxtaposes this 1893 event with this man, Illinois’ most notable 19th century serial killer, who did his crimes in the same neighborhood as the event.
ANSWER: Columbian Exposition OR Chicago World’s Fair, Herman Mudgett OR H. H. Holmes - In Isaac’s Storm, Larson recounts the 1900 hurricane that leveled this Texas coastal city, of which Isaac Cline was chief meteorologist.
ANSWER: Galveston - Name these fake musical acts from movies, for ten points each.
- Zeb Zoober plays fiddle, Ted Bedderhead sings and plays guitar, Tennessee O'Neal plays "one-strang thang" and Fred Bedderhead plays harmonica in this bluegrass outfit, the title band of a 2002 Disney film apparently aimed at plushies.
ANSWER: The Country Bears - Played by David Alan Grier in Amazon Women on the Moon, his work includes "Chim Chim Cheree" and "Tie A Yellow Ribbon." B.B. King is the spokesperson for Black Without Soul, an organization formed to help this person and others.
ANSWER: Don "No Soul" Simmons - In 1994's The Flintstones, this band, played by Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland, and Fred Schneider, appear at a club and play "The Bedrock Twitch."
ANSWER: The BC-52s (do not accept the "B-52s") - Given a Television Without Pity description of a show now on permanent hiatus, name the show, for ten points each.
- BLANK moved to New York. BLANK hooked up with Noel. BLANK cut her hair. BLANK hooked up with Ben. BLANK graduated. BLANK got cancelled.
ANSWER: Felicity - Kevin Williamson described his bizarro Dawson's Creek/Scream franchise hybrid show as "sort of like a funny Northern Exposure." Except with killer clowns instead of moose. And, instead of snow, there were people getting bludgeoned, drowned, ex-sanguinated, stabbed, shot, harpooned, and flattened by pianos. You figure it out.
ANSWER: Glory Days - Proof positive that not everything Dick Wolf touches turns to gold, BLANK joins Hyperion Bay on the "debit" side of Mark-Paul Gosselaar's career ledger. Keckler sat through all four episodes, but the WB had better things to stick in that time slot.
ANSWER: D.C. - For ten points each, name these musicians who will be taking part in this year's Playboy Jazz Festival.
- This grouping is best known for the album Time Out and the song "Take Five."
ANSWER: Dave Brubeck Quartet (do not accept "Dave Brubeck," as its asks for the group) - He is the only singer to win Grammys in R&B, jazz, and pop categories, although none of those awards were for his scat version of "Take Five" or for "We're In This Love Together."
ANSWER: Al Jarreau - This former member of the Steve Miller Band is supporting his first jazz album, But Beautiful.
ANSWER: William Royce "Boz" Scaggs - 40-30-20-10-1. Name the thing.
- (40) It is made of matter.
- (30) In Apollo 13, Jim Lovell's mom says that if they could get one of these to fly, he'd be able to land it safely.
- (20) The Sonic Youth album by this name, released the same year as Live in Holland, includes not only the title track but also songs such as "Little Trouble Girl" and "The Diamond Sea."
- (10) On The Simpsons, Homer's half-brother Herb sold theirs, along with its most common companion household appliance, to Moe, who raced it in his bar. Common models include the Maytag Atlantis and the Whirlpool Duet, a front-loader that saves water.
- (1) If yours is broken, you can learn how to fix it by reading Douglas Emley's Cheap and Easy Washing Machine Repair: 2000 Edition, available at Amazon.com.
ANSWER: washing machine