2005 TRASH Regionals
Round 04
Tossups

1. He set the U.S. men's record for points in an Olympic basketball game with 31, helping knock undefeated Spain out in the quarterfinals, but that occurred in the bronze medal year of 2004. His Arizona residence is one of the settings for the NBA Ballers game whose cover he graced. He ate Vaseline, cried, admitted to smoking weed, and got in a car wreck while streaming internet video. He may have punched Isiah Thomas. For ten points, name this well-traveled point guard with stops in Minnesota and New Jersey before his inactivation and refusal to play for the New York Knicks.

Answer: Stephon Marbury

2. It has an early role for Lost's Josh Holloway as a would-be purse snatcher. A cheating boyfriend is played by Stephen Dorff. In between clips of the band playing in a historic church in New Bedford, Masssachusetts, near their home base of Boston, the protagonist has her belly button pierced and jumps off an overpass in front of her ex-boyfriend in a seeming suicide attempt, but she flips him the bird after it turns out she has a bungee cord. All the while, the band refers to different loves as "the killin' kind," and as "sweet misery." So goes the music video of, for ten points, what 1993 song, taken from the album Get A Grip by Aerosmith, the first in the trilogy starring Alicia Silverstone?

Answer: "Cryin'"

3. He's called Carlos Luz in Portugal and Henk Gimlach in the Netherlands, while in the US he's stated that his birth name was Bernie Liederkrantz. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have used his image as a visual when talking about Mitt Romney. He made his first TV appearance in 1969, but has only been seen sporadically since 1990, with appearances performed or voiced by people including Steve Whitmire, Don Reardon, and Eric Jacobsen. The star of such parodies as Beat the Time, Name that Sound! and Here is Your Life, name, for ten points, this Sesame Street character who is America's favorite game show host.

Answer: Guy Smiley

4. An extra on this film's DVD is a Jake Gyllenhaal-narrated animation based on a Caldecott-winning children's book by Mordicai Gerstein about the same event. Josh Ralph composed the music heard over the titles as a favor to the director, but much of the score is taken from soundtracks by Michael Nyman. It features Fame's Paul McGill and interviews with "Quality Guy," "The Australian," and "Donald," who confessed to using pot daily for 35 years and had to walk down 22 flights of stairs after backing out of the plan. Also depicting similar events at Sydney Harbor Bridge and Notre Dame Cathedral, it focuses on an August 7, 1974, incident. For ten points, name this Oscar-winning documentary about Philippe Petit walking between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

Answer: Man on Wire (prompt on "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers")

5. Founded in 1917 by Antonio Pasin as the Liberty Coaster Company, during World War II it produced 'blitz cans' for the US Army. Past versions of its signature product have included Davy Crockett, Evel Knievel, and the Spirit of '76. Innovations included the Congo Thousand Mile Bearing and Big Mag Slicks, and the company now makes Hasbro's Inchworm. Made in China since 2004, recent product lines include an ATW trailer. In A Christmas Story, its product sits next to the Red Ryder BB Gun, and one is used to escape child abuse in a Richard Donner film. For ten points, name this company best known for the #18 Classic Red Wagon.

Answer: Radio Flyer

6. Al Franken suggested that this man's 1996 Presidential Campaign was a failure because his last name sounded too ominous. In 1967 he debated Jim Garrison on TV after serving on the legal staff of the Warren Commission. In 2008 he made news in the sports world by requesting a special investigation into the New England Patriots clandestine videotaping practices known as "spygate." Faced with a difficult 2010 re-election campaign, name, for ten points, this five-term Senator from Pennsylvania who announced in April 2009 his intention to caucus with author-turned-Senator Franken as a moderate Democrat.

Answer: Arlen Specter

7. Fans of this team rejected names such as Republic and Alliance, instead writing in a name appealing to local history. Fans can also vote out the general manager through a fan association based on Barcelona's that was the idea of minority owner Drew Carey. Columbian loan Fredy Montero, Swedish midfielder Freddie Ljungberg, and goalkeeper Kasey Keller are among the stars of, for ten points, what most recent addition to Major League Soccer that plays home games at Qwest Field?

Answer: Seattle Sounders FC (accept either)

8. Originally subtitled "Just for the Record," this was the first feature directed by Peter Segal, who also cameos in it as the producer of Sawdust and Mildew and the voice of Phil Donahue. The protagonist goes undercover as Nick "The Slasher" McGuirk to share a cell with would-be bomber Rocco Dillon, and later disguises himself as Weird Al Yankovic while his wife impersonates Vanna White. Opening with a spoof of the baby-carriage sequence in The Untouchables and climaxing at the Academy Awards, it earned Razzies for cast members Anna Nicole Smith and O.J. Simpson, the latter reprising his role as Officer Nordberg. For ten points, name this final entry in the franchise spun off from the Police Squad! TV series, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin.

Answer: Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (do not accept "Naked Gun"; prompt on "Naked Gun 3")

9. Based on a Valiant comics character, it saved publisher Acclaim from bankruptcy while pushing the limits of an 8-meg cartridge. Players begin in a central hub level, and find keys to enter various other parts of the jungle. Making heavy use of distance fog, this 1997 title featured the heir to the Fireseed line battling poachers, tribesmen, as well as bigger game, while seeking the Chronoscepter. Sequels have included Rage Wars and Shadow of Oblivion, while a 2008 reboot features Private Joseph crashlanding a starship onto a terraformed planet full of enormous primitive life. For ten points name this game that launched a dino-battling franchise.

Answer: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

10. Raised in Harlem and Brooklyn, her father owns the Familiar Faces label which released her first album. Also a judge on the MTV show America's Best Dance Crew, she released a well-known remix of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend." For ten points name this rapper, born Niata Kirkland, whose debut album VYP: Voice of the Young People includes the hit singles "Shawty Get Loose" and "Lip Gloss."

Answer: Lil' Mama

11. Written by a researcher for the UN's Postwar Commission Report, it was published 12 years after VA Day. Interviewees include Roy Elliot, the director of Victory at Avalon: The Battle of the Five Colleges, and Breck Scott, the creator of the useless Phalanx vaccine. It chronicles the first outbreaks at New Dachang, the failure of high-tech weaponry at the Battle of Yonkers, Israel's self-quarantine, the nuclear exchange between Iran and Pakistan, and the adoption of South Africa's Redeker Plan, which created strongholds protected, in part, by the people shut out to serve as bait. Name, for ten points, this book by Max Brooks, an oral history of the Zombie War.

Answer: World War Z

12. In an episode of Barney Miller set during a water crisis, Detective Wojo boils this as a substitute for coffee to the disgust and dismay of the captain. The subject of a series of well-choreographed commercials starring a pre-werewolf Makin' It sensation David Naughton, a current campaign features Naughton's fellow 70's icons Julius Erving and Gene Simmons, who along with Andre Young appeal to the over 40-crowd with a fondness for a soft drink that promotes its 23 flavors. For ten points, name this beverage that is encouraged to be enjoyed at 10, 2 and 4.

Answer: Dr Pepper

13. This actress played the muse of James Mason's elderly artist in Michael Powell's Age of Consent and co-starred as Hermia in Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other roles include cosmonaut Tanya Kirbuk in 2010, Patricia, one of Alan Price's groupies and the daughter of Sir James, in O Lucky Man!, the evil Morgana in Excalibur, and companions of cruel gangsters in both The Long Good Friday and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. First Oscar-nominated as Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George, she got a second nod as the woman revealed to be Clive Owen's mother in Gosford Park. More recently seen as Emily Appleton in National Treasure: Book of Secrets, this is, for ten points, what GILF-y Englishwoman who won an Academy Award as The Queen?

Answer: Helen Mirren

14. The father was an All-American at Ohio University drafted by the White Sox and packaged in a deal for Steve Stone to send him the Cubs where this catcher's most active season saw him strike out 80 times in 411 plate appearances. The son was drafted out of Ohio State and rang up 110 strikeouts in 522 plate appearances while placing sixth behind Huston Street in the 2005 Rookie of the Year balloting, and amassed 152 strikeouts and 35 homers in his sophomore season. Connoting a tendency to swing and miss, for ten points, give the family name of journeyman catcher Steve, and current Yankees first baseman Nick.

Answer: Swisher

15. This phrase caught on after the 1896 publication of Charles Sheldon's book, In His Steps, while in 2005 Gary Willis added the word "really" to it. This expression has become a "snowclone", with derivatives like a website that spouts advice and guidance based on Journey lyrics and the Morgan Spurlock-produced 2007 documentary in which the last word of it is replaced with "Buy," which focuses on the commercialization of Christmas. Other instances of modifications include appending "for a Klondike Bar" and replacing the subject of pondering with Brain Boitano. For ten points, identify this often-abbreviated four-word phrase that people use to remind themselves of how the son of God might act.

Answer: What Would Jesus Do

16. They reunited in 2002 to tour and release Cruelty Without Beauty. They've had seven UK Top 40 hits, including "What?" "Torch," and "Bedsitter," the latter of which appears on their 1981 LP Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, along with the notorious gay-S&M-themed "Sex Dwarf" and sentimental ballad "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye." Consisting of instrumentalist David Mall and singer-songwriter Marc Almond, their biggest hit by far in the US is a cover of a song originally done by Northern soul singer Gloria Jones; it is often paired in a medley with a version of The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go?" for ten points name this British synth-pop duo best remembered for the "beep-beep"-laden hit "Tainted Love."

Answer: Soft Cell

17. On Broadway, she originated the role of Dinah the Dining Car in Starlight Express, was nominated for a Tony as the secretary Flaemmchen in Grand Hotel, and won a Tony as Carla in the revival of Nine. She is best known for two TV characters, one the inventor of the face-bra, the other the originator of Pam, the Overly-Confident Morbidly Obese Woman. For ten points, name this portrayer of Cage-Fish employee Elaine Vassal and TGS star Jenna Maroney.

Answer: Jane Krakowski

18. This is the city where Werner Herzog famously ate his shoe after losing a bet to Errol Morris, and its no-longer-extant Cinema Guild Theater was managed by Pauline Kael before she became a critic. Paul Schrader's seminal book about transcendental style in the films of Ozu, Dreyer, and Bresson grew out of program notes he wrote for the Pacific Film Archive repertory theater here. On screen, it names a 2005 independent movie, co-starring Henry Winkler, about '60s college student Ben Sweet; more famously, it is the city to which Benjamin Braddock pursues Elaine after breaking up with Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. For ten points, name this Bay Area locale, home to the flagship campus of the University of California.

Answer: Berkeley

19. It was the first TV series to use Sony's HDW-F900 high definition camcorder, rather than 35-mm film. Many characters are members of a resistance founded by Jonathan Doors, including Renee Palmer, William Boone, and Liam Kinkaid. The only regular character for all five seasons was FBI Agent Ronald Sandoval, who formed an alliance with Howlyn, the Atavus leader, and served as protector to Zo'or, who became leader of the Taelon Synod. For ten points, name this sci fi series in which aliens come to Earth offering advanced technology which was based on the notes of Gene Roddenberry.

Answer: Earth: Final Conflict

20. He chose the panel that heard Norm Coleman's objection to the certified 2008 Minnesota Senate race. In 2002 he was on the short-list with Walter Mondale to fill in for the late Paul Wellstone against Coleman. His ties to Minnesota were still strong despite being cut by the Vikings in 1979 for reporting in at 225 pounds, twenty below his listed weight, a result of becoming a marathoner during the off-season. He collected 40 more sacks for the pre-Ditka Bears, retiring with an unofficial count of 148.5 in his 15 year career. A member of the college and pro football Halls of Fame, for ten points, name this Associate Justice of Minnesota, who won the NFL MVP award in 1971 as a 'Purple People Eater.'

Answer: Alan Page

21. Author Christopher Morley started a literary society named after this group. The original group of this name had tasks such as keeping watch over Henry Wood, as reported by Simpson, to find a steam launch named ~Aurora~, and to help on the Brixton case. Described by the narrator as "ragged street Arabs" when first encountered, they are given wages of a shilling. Wiggins serves as spokesman for these urchins who can ferret out clues where an official-looking policeman won't do. For ten points, name these young accomplices of Sherlock Holmes.

Answer: Baker Street Irregulars