ACRONYM 12 - Round 9

1. A 2006 game starring this character is set on Vibe Island and gives this character an emotion ​ meter. This character's real name was rarely used in the U.S. until it appeared in a written invitation seen at the beginning of a 1996 platformer, in which she claims to have baked a (*) cake. ​ In the first game in which she is playable, this character can float in mid-air, an ability she has in other games with the help of her parasol. In her first appearance, the phrase "in another castle" is used to describe the location of, for 10 points, what love interest of Mario? ANSWER: Princess Peach (accept Princess Toadstool; prompt on "Princess" or similar) ​ ​ ​ ​

2. Certain inanimate objects in this work are always gently placed into red cloths and taken away. ​ This work references the Book of Revelation by way of a white horse ridden by a masked figure. Calvin the Second, a guitarist in this work, was mistakenly believed to be the father of (*) Trayvon ​ Martin. A shirtless performer in this video makes a pose resembling a Jim Crow drawing while shooting a man in the head. The gunning down of a church choir is among the symbolic images in, for 10 points, what music video for a Childish Gambino song? ANSWER: This Is America (accept answers like the This Is America music video) ​ ​ ​ ​

3. In an interview, this man asked Mel B if Margaret Thatcher "utilized girl power" by funding ​ "illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland." This man played the laid back Mike Scaggs alongside Jay Baruchel on Man Seeking Woman. Recurring sketches starring this man ​ ​ include "Bird Up!" and one in which he walks around offering people (*) ranch. This man often ​ destroys his own set at the start of a show he hosts with Hannibal Burress. For 10 points, name this black comedian who hosts an absurdist talk show on Adult Swim. ANSWER: Eric (Samuel) André [AHN-dray] ​ ​

4. One film in this series ends with an Englishman creating an impromptu poem before throwing a ​ bullseye in a knife-throwing contest. A cauliflower-eared character in this series has the inexplicable name Toll Road and is played by Randy Couture. This series's third film introduced (*) Ronda Rousey as Luna and features Mel Gibson as Conrad Stonebanks, the co-founder of this ​ franchise's title group. Jet Li and Jason Statham also star in, for 10 points, what film series in which aging actions stars like play mercenaries? ANSWER: The Expendables ​ ​

5. This NFL team popularized the "" during their 1986 season, in which they won ​ their first . Jeff Hostetler and Ottis Andersen led this team to a win in a Super Bowl that ended on a play known as "wide right." This team's opponent gave up a deliberate late to tailback (*) Ahmad Bradshaw in Super Bowl XLVI. made an against-the-helmet catch for ​ this team in a Super Bowl win that ended a Patriots' bid for an undefeated season. For 10 points, name this team that won two titles with . ANSWER: (prompt on "New York") ​ ​

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6. In 2016 HBO acquired a Vimeo series whose nameless protagonist, played by Ben Sinclair, is a ​ deliveryman specializing in this product. "Little Boxes" was the theme song for a show titled for this stuff and centered on the suburban widow Nancy Botwin. A rotating camera was used on (*) That 70's Show in scenes involving this stuff. In an episode of The Office, Michael pays $500 for a version of ​ ​ ​ this stuff that turns out to be a Caprese salad in a Ziploc bag. Mary-Louise Parker starred in a Showtime series in which she grows, for 10 points, what drug? ANSWER: marijuana (accept Weeds; accept obvious answers like pot or weed, you know what they are) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

7. A Sharon Van Etten song titled for this number opens with a claim that "I know what you wanna ​ say / I think that you're all the same." S.Coups is the leader of a surprisingly large K-Pop group named for this number. Alessia Cara claimed she "couldn't wait" to be this (*) age and wishes she ​ could "freeze time" at it. Stevie Nicks sang about "The Edge" of this age, which is also the age of a "young and sweet" girl in ABBA's "Dancing Queen." A song from The Sound of Music is titled for being "16 Going ​ ​ on," for 10 points, what slightly higher age? ANSWER: seventeen (accept The Edge of Seventeen or Sixteen Going on Seventeen) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

8. A 2011 Disney film stars Aimee Teegarden as a girl planning one of these events. The 1999 cult ​ comedy Jawbreaker culminates at another of these events. A gazebo is weirdly present at one of ​ ​ these events at the end of Twilight. A group of single parents read text messages about the (*) ​ ​ aftermath of one of these events in the 2018 film Blockers. A prank involving pig's blood at one of these ​ ​ events causes the title character of Carrie to destroy her home town. The title of Pretty in Pink refers to a ​ ​ ​ ​ dress worn at, for 10 points, what formal dance? ANSWER: prom (prompt on "dance" or "school dance" or similar) ​ ​

9. This is the name of a sheepish unicorn with hearts on his cheeks whom Woody meets at a tea ​ party in Toy Story 3. A woman with this name is the subject of a song by the Foundations that ​ ​ laments how "you told me time and again" that you'll "be over at ten" and demands to know "why do you (*) build me up?" This is the also name of the green-clad member of the Powerpuff Girls, who is ​ much more aggressive than her sisters Blossom and Bubbles. The title character of The Princess Bride has, for ​ ​ 10 points, what cute, flowery name? ANSWER: Buttercup (accept Build Me Up Buttercup or Giddyup Buttercup or Princess Buttercup) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

10. According to a song by The Hooters, all of these things should hide their faces. A Tom Petty ​ song describes a girl who is dancing at a zoo for these beings. An English band named for these beings released the groundbreaking 1968 album Odessey and Oracle, which included the song (*) ​ ​ "Time of the Season." In 2018 Bad Wolves covered a song with this title by the Irish rock band The Cranberries, whose chorus repeats the phrase "in your head." For 10 points, name these creatures that dance with Michael Jackson in the music video for "Thriller." ANSWER: zombie(s) ​ ​

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11. Herlander Coimbra claimed that the members of this real-life group were in a "galaxy far, far ​ away." A member of this group caused controversy by claiming "I don't know anything about Angola, but I know they're in trouble." Due to his success at Duke, (*) Christian Laettner was named ​ the final member of this group. Shortly after this group's final game, Larry Bird retired. A vote by FIBA to allow professionals to compete at a certain event allowed for the existence of, for 10 points, what basketball team that dominated a major event in Barcelona? ANSWER: 1992 Dream Team (accept answers describing the 1992 olympics U.S. men's basketball ​ ​ ​ team or the men's basketball team at the Barcelona olympics before "Barcelona" but prompt on partial ​ ​ ​ answers thereof)

12. In its first season finale, a character on this show abruptly moves to Ireland to fulfill the wishes ​ of her mother, who died of Alzheimer's. Another character on this show, nicknamed "Chimney," somehow survives having a large piece of rebar in his head shortly after aiding children in a bouncy house that (*) fell off a cliff. For its second season, Jennifer Love Hewitt replaced Connie Britton in the ​ cast of this show, which stars Angela Bassett and Peter Krause as a police officer and firefighter. For 10 points, name this Fox series about emergency workers. ANSWER: 9-1-1 ​ ​

13. A 2016 drama starring Nick Jonas titled for this animal concerns a horrifying frat initiation. ​ Thomasin ["TOM"-uh-sin] is temptingly asked "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?" by one of these animals in the horror film The Witch. In Jurassic Park, a still-caged tyrannosaurus is fed an ​ ​ ​ ​ entire one of these animals. A bizarre 2009 comedy about a real-life (*) CIA project depicts men who ​ can make these animals faint by staring at them. The title monster of Krampus is a demon who resembles, for ​ ​ 10 points, what horned animal? ANSWER: goats (accept The Men Who Stare at Goats) ​ ​ ​ ​

14. The highest difficulty rating among techniques used in this discipline is assigned to the Shirai ​ III, named for three-time world champion Kenzo Shirai. A 2019 viral video depicted Katelyn Ohashi performing this discipline for UCLA. In 2012 Aly Raisman (*) became the first American woman to ​ win a gold medal in this event. This discipline usually lasts 20 seconds longer for women than for men, and can include up to four tumbling runs. Women perform to music during, for 10 points, what gymnastics event performed on a namesake springed surface? ANSWER: floor exercise (or floor routine or similar; prompt on "gymnastic" or "tumbling") ​ ​ ​ ​

15. This author's The Stars: A New Way to See Them introduced several now-accepted constellation ​ ​ ​ diagrams. This author illustrated Pretzel, a book about a dachshund written by his wife. A character ​ ​ created by this man is sent by Professor Wiseman to do a parachute jump from space, for which he is given a (*) medal. Along with his aforementioned wife Margaret, this man created a brightly-dressed ​ adventurer who brings home an animal that is later hospitalized after eating a puzzle piece. For 10 points, name this author of Curious George. ​ ​ ANSWER: H. A. Rey (or Hans Augusto Rey or Hans Augusto Reyersbach) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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16. A non-existent film about a genie with this name is a prime example of the Mandela effect. This ​ word is an acronym of six biblical and mythological heroes in the name of an Egyptian wizard in a namesake comic book series. An app named for this word appears during the final round of a (*) game show host by Jamie Foxx. A lightning bolt appears on the chest of a DC superhero commonly known by this word, which the young Billy Batson shouts to transform into him. For 10 points, give this word that names an app that identifies music. ANSWER: shazam (or Shazaam) ​ ​ ​ ​

17. In 1956, this baseball player hit the only walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam in Major League ​ history. This player hit safely in all seven games of the 1971 World Series en route to becoming the first native Spanish speaker to win the World Series MVP. MLB's annual sportsmanship and community service award is (*) named for this man, for whom the Baseball Hall of Fame's "five year" ​ rule was exempted. Exactly 3,000 hits were recorded by, for 10 points, what Pittsburgh Pirate and humanitarian who died in a 1972 plane crash? ANSWER: Roberto Clemente (or Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker) ​ ​ ​ ​

18. After the drug dealer Doyle kills Frank on this show, Frank's friend says, "Time to pull the legs ​ off the spider" and nearly strangles Doyle to death. In a cliffhanger, this show's third season ended with its protagonist accidentally revealing his true face to Chloe, a homicide detective immune to the title character's powers. The nightclub (*) Lux is run by this show's title character, who is often ​ visited by his brother, the angel Amanadiel. Tom Ellis plays the title anti-hero of, for 10 points, what Fox series in which the LAPD consults the devil? ANSWER: Lucifer ​ ​

19. The opening scene of Minority Report depicts a crime carried out using this object. Margot uses ​ ​ ​ this improvised object to kill her would-be murderer Swann in Dial M for Murder. In the dream ​ ​ sequence from The Big Lebowski, the German hitmen (*) wield oversized versions of these objects, ​ ​ ​ alluding to a previous threat involving the protagonist's anatomy. In a 1990 film, Kim dances in snow made from beautiful ice sculptures created using these objects. For 10 points, name these household tools that, in a Tim Burton film, function as Edward's hands. ANSWER: scissors (accept sewing scissors or shears; accept Edward Scissorhands) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

20. This band's vocalist sits in a bathtub filled with baked beans on the cover of an album in which ​ they "Sell Out." This band's drummer suffered hearing loss after a TV stunt in which his bass drum exploded. An epic song by this group ends with its singer claiming "meet the new boss, (*) same as the old boss." A pioneering rock opera is titled for a "deaf, dumb, and blind boy" who excels at pinball. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are members of, for 10 points, what rock band behind the album Tommy and the hit "My Generation"? ​ ​ ANSWER: The Who ​ ​

ACRONYM 12 - Round 9

1. For 10 points each, answer the following about going off a sweet jump: [10] The General Lee, a car emblazoned with a Confederate flag on this south-inspired TV series, seems to always be within driving distance of a big jump whenever its title characters are in trouble. ANSWER: The Dukes of Hazzard ​ [10] After watching his friend Pedro go off a jump on a bike called the "Sledgehammer," this awkward teenager from a namesake 2004 film tries--and fails--to do the same. ANSWER: Napoleon Dynamite (accept either) ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] A dopey jock played by Chris Hemsworth tries to jump his way to freedom in this 2012 send-up of horror films, but dies after hitting an invisible force field in mid-air. ANSWER: The Cabin in the Woods ​ ​

2. For 10 points each, answer the following about the much-maligned 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game: [10] Due to the game running long and a lack of available pitchers, the game ended in this unusual manner, to the outrage of fans everywhere. ANSWER: a (7-7) tie ​ [10] The decision to end the game in a tie was made by this then-commissioner of Major League Baseball. He retired and was replaced by Rob Manfred in 2015. ANSWER: Bud Selig [see-lig] (or Allan Huber Selig) ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] Among the highlights of the game was Torii [TOR-ee] Hunter's dramatic robbing of a potential home run by this man. This all-time home run leader playfully picked up Hunter in the outfield in retaliation. ANSWER: Barry (Lamar) Bonds ​ ​

3. This actress originated the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" as Lorelei Lee in the original production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. For 10 points each: ​ ​ [10] Name this Broadway legend known for her earnest, batty personality, and enormous smile. She passed away in January 2019 at the age of 97. ANSWER: Carol (Elaine) Channing ​ [10] Channing became a household name after playing the title matchmaker of this 1964 musical, whose numbers include "Before the Parade Passes By" and "Put on Your Sunday Clothes." ANSWER: Hello, Dolly! ​ ​ [10] Despite winning several Tonys and other awards, Channing claimed the highest honor she ever received was this disgraced U.S. president putting her on his so-called "enemies list." ANSWER: Richard (Milhous) Nixon ​ ​

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4. The 2012 documentary That Guy... Who Was in That Thing studies various character actors whom people ​ ​ usually recognize by face but not by name. For 10 points each: [10] One such actor interviewed is Paul Guilfoyle ["gill foil"], who appeared alongside Marg Helgenberger on this influential drama series about police forensic investigators. ANSWER: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (accept CSI: Las Vegas, but do not accept answers involving ​ ​ ​ ​ any other city names) [10] Also featured is Stanley Kamel, a gaunt-looking actor who played Dr. Kroger, the therapist of the title obsessive-compulsive character of this light-hearted detective show. ANSWER: Monk ​ [10] A third actor featured in the film, Timothy Omundsen, is best known as the prophet Eli from this cult-favorite fantasy show that starred the impossibly-named Lucy Lawless. ANSWER: Xena: Warrior Princess ​ ​

5. For 10 points each, answer the following about the musical inspirations behind some of Ed Sheeran's dumb tattoos: [10] One such tattoo is the famous 'tongue' logo of this rock band fronted by Mick Jagger, which Sheeran got after opening for them in 2015. ANSWER: The Rolling Stones ​ [10] Sheeran also has tattoos based on his own songs, including a wing in honor of this debut single about a girl who is "Stuck in her daydream" and has "been this way since eighteen." ANSWER: The A Team ​ [10] On a TV appearance, Sheeran was given a tattoo reading "Kool Guy" by this musician and non-tattoo artist. This man's songs include "Waiting on the World to Change." ANSWER: John (Clayton) Mayer ​ ​

6. In May 2018, football player Jordan McNair collapsed during an off-season practice and died several days later. For 10 points each: [10] McNair was an offensive lineman for this university, whose coach D.J. Durkin was subsequently suspended, inexplicably reinstated, and then finally fired in the months following the incident. ANSWER: University of Maryland Terrapins (accept either, or Terps) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] Less than two months after his firing from Maryland, Durkin was controversially used as a consultant for this college football powerhouse coached by Nick Saban [SAY-bin]. ANSWER: University of Alabama Crimson Tide (accept either; prompt on "Tide") ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] In 2015, Maryland joined the Big Ten alongside this other east coast program, becoming the 13th and 14th members of the conference. Its football stadium is in the city of Piscataway. ANSWER: Rutgers University Scarlet Knights (accept either; prompt on "Knights") ​ ​ ​ ​

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7. This website's user-rated list of the "Best Books Ever" places The Hunger Games at #1, two places ahead of ​ ​ To Kill a Mockingbird. For 10 points each: ​ [10] Name this website, whose users can catalogue and review books. It was acquired by Amazon in 2013. ANSWER: Goodreads.com ​ ​ [10] The massive database on Goodreads is managed by users appropriately known by this term; a user can apply to become one of these people after leaving 50 reviews. ANSWER: librarians ​ ​ [10] In the annual Goodreads Choice Awards, every winner of the "Best Children's" award has been a book by this author, including 2017's The Trials of Apollo. ​ ​ ANSWER: Rick Riordan (or Richard Russell Riordan Jr.) ​ ​ ​ ​

8. This band is the subject of the classic concert film Stop Making Sense. For 10 points each: ​ ​ [10] Name this rock band fronted by David Byrne, who sings "And you may ask yourself/Where is that large automobile?" in the song "Once in a Lifetime." ANSWER: Talking Heads ​ [10] This single from the album Talking Heads '77 opens the movie Stop Making Sense. The refrain contains ​ ​ ​ ​ the French phrase "qu'est-ce que c'est" [kess kay say], meaning "what is it?". ANSWER: Psycho Killer ​ [10] A lesser-known Talking Heads song provided the name of this English band fronted by Thom Yorke. Their album In Rainbows was released using a "pay what you want" model. ​ ​ ANSWER: Radiohead ​ ​

9. For 10 points each, name these TV shows that feature actress Ariel Winter: [10] Winter plays the brainy middle child Alex Dunphy in this ensemble comedy, which co-stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet as her uncles Mitch and Cam. ANSWER: Modern Family ​ [10] In 2018, Winter concluded her leading role in this animated series. Its title princess lives in the lazily-named kingdom Enchancia and owns an amulet that can summon other, better princesses. ANSWER: Sofia the First ​ [10] Winter also voiced Gretchen, a member of the scout-like Fireside Girls, on this series titled for young members of the Flynn and Fletcher families. ANSWER: ​ ​

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10. After stomping on a table plank that makes a gunslinger shoot himself, this man sings "He was slick but I was slicker / he drew quick but I drew quicker." For 10 points each: [10] Name this cheery gunslinger who also sings "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" after dying in a namesake 2018 anthology film. ANSWER: Buster Scruggs (accept either; accept The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was directed by this team of filmmaking siblings, who also made 2016's Hail, ​ ​ ​ Caesar! and the Odyssey adapation O Brother, Where Art Thou?. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ANSWER: Coen Brothers (or the Coens or Joel and Ethan Coen) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] Odd, genre-bending songs have shown up in many recent Coen Brothers films, including in their 2013 film starring Oscar Isaac as this fictional struggling folk singer. ANSWER: Llewyn Davis [LOO-in "Davis"] (accept either, or Inside Llewyn Davis) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

11. Hey, you know that stupid dance everyone's doing where you just swing your arms in front of and behind yourself? Well, for 10 points each: [10] What routine activity is the dance typically named for? ANSWER: flossing ​ ​ [10] The enormous popularity of the floss dance is largely attributed to a kid also known for regularly wearing one of these items. ANSWER: a backpack (accept Backpack Kid) ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] In 2018, the Backpack Kid won the 'Dance' category of this award show that honors social media stars. Its logo features the tails of several whales, in honor of the Twitter "fail whale." ANSWER: Shorty Awards (or Shorties) ​ ​ ​ ​

12. The producer Cipha Sounds is largely responsible for the prevalence of the use of a noise made by this object in popular music. For 10 points each: [10] Name this device, which produces a loud and annoying sound commonly used to punctuate moments in rap music. Mura Masa's "Lovesick" makes extensive use of it. ANSWER: air horn (prompt on "horn") ​ ​ [10] An especially prominent air horn appears at the beginning of the remix to "Welcome to My Hood," a single by this artist behind the 2018 single "No Brainer." ANSWER: DJ Khaled (or Khaled Mohamed Khaled) ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] The first known song to use the air horn was "Ravers Version," a B-side by The Wailers, who were fronted by this legendary reggae vocalist. ANSWER: Bob Marley (or Robert Nesta Marley) ​ ​ ​ ​

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13. For 10 points each, answer the following about 2018's batch of mercifully canceled TV series: [10] Two shows titled for characters with this first name were cancelled, including an ABC series in which one of them Probably Saves the World and a CBS show in which another of them Can Wait. ​ ​ ​ ​ ANSWER: Kevin (accept Kevin Can Wait or Kevin Probably Saves the World) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] The violent dramas Damnation, Colony, and Shooter will no longer air on this network, though it will ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ probably still make a boatload of money by running SVU marathons. ​ ​ ANSWER: USA ​ [10] NBC didn't let go of too many shows, but it did put to bed this allegedly inspiring series about a drama class taught by Mr. Mazzu at Stanton High School. ANSWER: Rise ​ ​

14. For 10 points each, answer the following about Gloomhaven, a massive dungeon crawling board game that ​ ​ weighs, I kid you not, about 25 pounds: [10] Gloomhaven's players travel around boards that are separated into spaces of this shape. This shape is ​ ​ commonly used in strategy board games because it naturally tessellates. ANSWER: hexagons (or hexes or similar) ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] Gloomhaven contains elements of this increasingly popular style of game, in which the game permanently ​ ​ changes as it is played. Components are often added or destroyed in games of this type. ANSWER: legacy game(s) ​ ​ [10] The "legacy" genre was bolstered in part by a version of this cooperative board game by Matt Leacock, in which players aim to cure a series of global diseases. ANSWER: Pandemic (accept Pandemic Legacy) ​ ​ ​ ​

15. In the first Final Destination film, Terry tells her friends that they "can just drop dead!" before she is ​ ​ suddenly killed in this manner. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this action, which also occurs to the Plastics leader Regina George near the end of Mean Girls. ​ ​ ANSWER: getting hit by a bus (accept pretty much any answer identifying someone getting grievously ​ ​ ​ ​ injured by a bus; prompt with "By what?" on answers like "getting run over"; do not accept answers like ​ ​ "being pushed in front of a bus") [10] In tribute to Final Destination, the end of every movie in this horror parody franchise features a character ​ ​ getting comically killed by a bus or car. ANSWER: Scary Movie ​ [10] A baby carriage that is mercifully discovered to be full of cans, and not, you know, a baby, is struck by ​ ​ the bus central to this 1994 action film about a bus that can't slow down. ANSWER: Speed ​ ​

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16. After seven years with the boy band Menudo, this artist achieved success in his own right with "The Cup of Life," the anthem for the 1998 World Cup. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Puerto Rican singer who crossed over into English-speaking pop music with hits like "Shake Your Bon-Bon" and "She Bangs." ANSWER: Ricky Martin (or Enrique Martín Morales; do not accept or prompt on "Morales") ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] Martin burst onto the American pop scene in 1999 with this blockbuster single, whose title is partly in Spanish. It begins by describing a woman who is "into superstitions / Black cats and voodoo dolls." ANSWER: Livin' la Vida Loca ​ [10] In 2001 Martin recorded the duet "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" with this pop singer behind the 2000s albums Back to Basics and Stripped, the latter of which included the song "Beautiful." ​ ​ ​ ​ ANSWER: Christina (Maria) Aguilera (prompt on "Christina" or "X-tina") ​ ​

17. In July 2018 this service briefly shut down after running out of money, though the company lied and blamed it on technical problems. For 10 points each: [10] Name this increasingly questionable subscription service, which once allowed users to make an effectively unlimited number of theater visits for a single monthly fee. ANSWER: MoviePass ​ [10] Theater chains almost universally hate MoviePass, which has prompted some of them to introduce competing services, such as this large chain's "A-List" program. ANSWER: AMC Theatres ​ ​ [10] MoviePass also funded the distribution of a film starring John Travolta as this New York mob boss. It received a 0% rating on , inspiring ads claiming that "critics don't want you to see it." ANSWER: John Gotti (or John Joseph Gotti Jr.) ​ ​ ​ ​

18. Former UConn star Breanna Stewart won both the regular season and finals MVP awards for this team in 2018. For 10 points each: [10] Name this WNBA team, which remained at Key Arena after its NBA counterpart, the SuperSonics, moved away in 2008. ANSWER: Seattle Storm (accept either) ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] The 2018 season was the sixteenth in the career of this Seattle Storm point guard, one of the WNBA's greatest players and the league's all-time leader in games played. ANSWER: Sue Bird (or Suzanne Brigit Bird) ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] The Storm are one of four WNBA teams to not share a city with an NBA team; the former San Antonio ​ ​ Stars became the fourth such team in 2018 upon moving to Las Vegas and adopting this cool name. ANSWER: Las Vegas Aces ​ ​

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19. On one episode of this show, its title character and a disguised President of the accidentally spray themselves with "memory loss spray." For 10 points each: [10] Name this short-lived series, a spinoff of That's So Raven set in Washington, D.C. ​ ​ ANSWER: ​ [10] Cory moves to Washington, D.C. after his father, Victor Baxter, has taken this job in the White House. People with this occupation compete on the series Chopped. ​ ​ ANSWER: (head) chef ​ [10] On both Cory in the House and That's So Raven, Cory Baxter was played by this actor, who later starred in ​ ​ ​ ​ the animated show . His brother Chris starred in Zoey 101. ​ ​ ​ ​ ANSWER: Kyle (Orlando) Massey ​ ​

20. General George S. Patton was exceptionally skilled in this sport, and competed in it as part of the modern pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics. For 10 points each: [10] Name this sport. The first Barbie doll to be depicted wearing a hijab was based on Ibtihaj Muhammad, a pioneering U.S. Olympian in this sport. ANSWER: fencing ​ [10] Fencing is divided into three categories based on the type of sword being used. Name all three of those ​ ​ categories. ANSWER: foil, épée [ep-ay], sabre (accept answers in any order) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [10] The most decorated winner of Olympic medals in fencing is this country, whose most recent hosting stint was for the 2006 Winter Games. ANSWER: Italy (or Italian Republic) ​ ​ ​ ​