TRASHionals 12 Round 18 Toss-Ups 1. In this film, Agent Thomas Schumer and would-be informant Andre Clement turn up dead in quick succession, and their deaths precipitate the assassination of businessman and political candidate Umberto Calvini. While investigating, Eleanor Whitman, a New York district attorney, teams up with Louis Salinger, an Interpol agent, and together they discover the scope of a conspiracy to sell Chinese arms to both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Likely to be best remembered for a chase scene set in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar and a stylish shootout that takes place in New York's Guggenheim Museum, this is, for ten points, what 2009 Tom Twyker film inspired in large part by the 1980s BCCI scandal, starring Naomi Watts and Clive Owen? Answer: The International 2. This magazine increased its digital presence in 2008 by adding the Take 5 e-newsletter, a Youtube channel, and Chris Hall and Bridget Maloney blogging their way through a top 100 list. Columns in the magazine include "Health Wise", "Family Style", and "Fast, Easy, Fresh", while recent features have included "The Joy of Passover", "The Greatest of Cheese", and the current issue's "United Plates of America". For ten points, name this Conde Nast publication about food and entertaining. Answer: Bon Appetit 3. Earlier productions by this musician include an apocalyptic view of a band of rogues discovering an abandoned recording facility with instruments left in plastic sheeting in the early 1980's. Another production tells the story of a good girl with scenes of her being proficient, but not terribly ambitious, on the half-pipe. In a collaboration with Dave Stewart, he borrowed heavily from Lewis Carroll and played the Mad Hatter character to parallel a story of a love gone wrong. He utilized actress Kim Basinger as a beautiful corpse, in a song where he commands, "Oh my my, Oh hell yes/ you got to put on that party dress." These describe some of the video art of, for ten points, this performer who worked with and without the Heartbreakers for "You Got Lucky," "Free Fallin'," "Don't Come Around Here No More," and "Last Dance with Mary Jane." Answer: Tom Petty 4. Its creator, Larry Harris, was a history student at the Sorbonne in the 60s, and used his spare time to wander around Normandy, running through What If scenarios. The first edition was put out by Nova Game Designs, and it was quickly snapped up by Milton Bradley for their Gamemaster series. Primary strategic decisions include whether or not to attempt to develop new technologies, which consume precious IPCs but can be devastating if heavy bombers are developed. One side is generally only capable of winning if it wins quickly, since the United States will eventually bring superior firepower to bear a few turns after the 1942 start. For ten points, name this classic World War II wargame. Answer: Axis and Allies 5. This character once won a science fair with a flashlight stuffed into a potato that he called a "Spud Light," and he has a cafeteria sandwich named after him that consists of pizza and french fries on sourdough bread. It is not a good idea to bother him when he is unhappy and brooding in Bathroom Number 12 at Santo Domingo High School. For ten points, name this seventh-year junior and schoolmate of Parker Lewis who was played by Abraham Benrubi. Answer: Lawrence "Larry" Kubiak or "The Kube" (accept any underlined name) 6. A founder of the association of Science Fiction artists, he illustrated the cover for Psychlone, a novel he wrote. Currently married to Astrid, the daughter of fellow author Poul Anderson, early works include collections like The Wind from a Burning Woman and Early Harvest, and novels like Eon, Eternity, and The Serpent Mage. He's credited with the first SF exploration of nanotechnology, in "Blood Music." Other novels include The Forge of God and Heads. For ten points, name this author of Queen of Angels and Darwin's Radio. Answer: Greg Bear 7. Potential sites for it included Vancouver, Tampere, Finland and Sion, Switzerland. It was the first to see bobsled and luge compete on the same track, and it was the second time Canada refused to send an ice hockey team due to a dispute with the IIHF over the use of semi-pro players. East Germany won the first of three straight four man bobsled golds, while Tatiana Avarina led all medal winners with four in speed skating. It was most noted for skiing, between West Germany's Rosi Mittermeier missing a third gold medal by twelve-hundredths of a second and Franz Klammer winning the downhill for the host country. Name, for ten points, this Winter Olympics, hosted by Innsbruck after original host Denver turned them down. Answer: 1976 Winter Olympics or XII Winter Olympics 8. Winning six Drama Desk and Tony Awards each in its debut season, it was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, and Madame Armfeldt informs her granddaughter Frederika that the summer night smiles three times on the young, on fools and on the old. Numerous trysts occur over the course of action, including one between the servants Frid and Petra, as well as between stepson Henrik and his younger stepmother Anne, who up until now has not yielded her virginity despite 11 months of marriage, which leads to Fredrik's pursuit of Desiree Armfeldt. Titled after a literal translation of a popular Mozart serenade, identify, for ten points, this Stephen Sondheim work in which Fredrick, after a lost game of Russian Roulette, instructs Desiree to Send in the Clowns. Answer: A Little Night Music 9. On this show, we watch a mild-mannered management consultant and father of two children come to the realization that his childhood memories are false and discover that Nora, his therapist, knows his secret. A clandestine government headed by Alastair Trumbull known as the Janus Collective employs spy and assassin Edward Albright and his sidekick Raymond Carter. Both men, however, were implanted by Janus with split personalities. For ten points name this cancelled 2008-09 NBC show which featured Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, and Mike O'Malley, and starred Christian Slater. Answer: My Own Worst Enemy 10. Producer Bob Ezrin's influence on this album includes the bells towards the end of "Do You Love Me", the children's choir on "Great Expectations", and the atypical use of piano and orchestra on the ballad that became the album's biggest hit. Ezrin also recorded children on walkie-talkies found on "God of Thunder" and the car sound effects on the song inspired by a fan who died on the way to a concert by the group. For ten points, name this 1976 album by Kiss featuring "Detroit Rock City" and "Beth". Answer: Destroyer 11. Despite the ultraviolent nature of the Sovereign Entertainment show within this movie, it airs Thursdays at 8pm on an unnamed network. After being sent to New York, this film's protagonist is fooled by a trio of pigeons who stool out an enforcer stray cat named Mittens. While traveling back to California, they meet a rambunctious hamster who claims to be one-sixteenth wolf, and is the protagonist's biggest fan. For ten points, name this Disney film that features Miley Cyrus voicing Penny, the owner and co-star of the eponymous dog voiced by John Travolta. Answer: Bolt 12. The third host of the Australian children's show Cheez TV, her first fame as a singer came with the Aussie group Decoder Ring. After moving to California in 2007, she gained attention as a solo artist when Telus used her song "Don't Let me Fall" for a series of Canadian TV commercials. Old Navy used "The Show" in its ads, and the song also got play on Ugly Betty. For ten points, name this single-named Australian whose song "Trouble is a Friend" punctuated one of Izzy Stephens' many hallucinatory episodes on Grey's Anatomy. Answer: Lenka Kripac (accept either) 13. This Chicago-area native was awarded custody of son Noah in late March, after being contested by Yolanda Henry, the child's grandmother. Noah's mother and sister were killed by an attorney who was litigating against this former fourth pick of the 2001 NBA draft. The murders happened only two weeks after this oft-injured center was sued by his former chauffeur for sexual harassment and unpaid wages. Hinting at his great potential in 2006-07 with a 19.5 points per game average over 81 games, for ten points, name this cursed big man who has only played two minutes this season for Mike D'Antoni's Knicks. Answer: Eddy Curry 14. Like Jim Cramer, this bald and goateed money yakker spent the 1980's trading, however this man used debt configuration in real estate to amass a fortune he later lost when he could not reconcile his debt. This led him to create a debt-free, credit-free family finance plan that focused on budgeting rather than cash flow. His personal cash flow has since been enhanced by the $120 Total Money Makeover seminars and $200, 13-week courses hosted mainly by churches called Financial Peace University, named for his first book. Amassing a fortune by telling people not to spend more than they make, name, for ten points, this Tennessee-based radioman who also hosts the Fox Business News 8pm hour. Answer: Dave Ramsey 15. This actress played Princess Sarah, who winds up with Daniel Craig's Master Kane, in the Disney fantasy A Kid in King Arthur's Court.