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PACKET ONE ­ Tossups 1. In a short film centered on one track off this album, the singer brings a female phoenix to see fireworks and they later attend a dinner party where everyone wears white. The music video for one song off this album features identical women with horns flanking the singer who stands in front of a long row of columns. Swizz Beats sings “one hand in the air, if you don’t really care” in one song off this album. In one track off this album, the singer says that “no one man should have all that power” and on another Rihanna requests that you “turn up the lights in here, baby, extra bright, I want ya’ll to see this.” For 10 points, name this Kanye West album featuring the tracks “Power” and “All of the Lights.” ANSWER: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ​ 2. This singer compiled three live show recordings for The Tigers Have Spoken. A band titled for this singer and her ​ ​ boyfriends released the albums “The Virginian” and “Furnace Room Lullaby.” This lead singer of “These Are the Fables” was replaced by Kathryn Calder for most of the Twin Cinema tour. “Hold On, Hold On” is a track off this ​ ​ singer’s album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood which was followed by the releases of Middle Cyclone and The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You. For 10 points, name this female ​ singer­songwriter who provided leading vocals for the New Pornographers. ANSWER: Neko Case ​ 3. After his head is slammed into a table, this character advises his assailant not to go for the head first because “the victim gets all fuzzy.” After robbing a mafia­held bank, this character kills his colleagues. This character’s appearance is either due to having a wife who got in trouble with loan sharks or his drunkard father attacking his mother with a knife. This character zips himself up in a body bag to get to Gambol and pretends to be a nurse to reach Harvey Dent and convince him to get revenge. Heath Ledger won a posthumous Academy Award for his portrayal of this character. For 10 points, name this clown­like Batman villain. ANSWER: The Joker ​ 4. This character’s sister thinks that Seattle is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and doesn’t understand why people like abstract art more than cat paintings. Instead of applying for a job, this character opts for getting cheese fries. Due to high levels of uranium in the water supply, this character moves from Highland to Lawndale. This character designs a science experiment about whether idiocy is genetic or environmental and uses Beavis and Butthead as her subjects. This character has a crush on Trent, the older brother of her best friend Jane Lane. For 10 points, name this teenage girl that appears on an eponymous animated MTV show satirizing high school life. ANSWER: Daria ​ 5. One actor from this show went on to play Mitch in Waiting and co­wrote Horrible Bosses. The lead singer of ​ ​ ​ ​ Feedback is revealed to be Rosso the guidance counselor on one episode of this show. One character on this show purchases a neon blue disco suit and is forced to run around the school naked in a different incident. One character on this show asks the mentally handicapped student Eli to the Homecoming Dance right before he breaks his arm. After replacing the real keg with a fake one on an episode of this show, Bill drinks the real keg and watches Dallas. ​ ​ Lindsay begins dating a character portrayed by Jason Segal in this show which also stars James Franco and Seth Rogen. For 10 points, name this one­season NBC show centering on Lindsay and Sam Weir and their friends who are all high school outcasts. ANSWER: Freaks and Geeks ​ 6. A sheriff in this movie interrupts a kiss because a perfectly good cake was left behind. The protagonist of this movie asks her husband if they ran out of soap at the Piggly Wiggly and empties their joint checking account. Bobby Ray pretends to be Melanie’s cousin in this movie to give a tour to an assistant posing as a reporter from the New ​ York Post. The protagonist of this film becomes a fashion designer and gets engaged to the son of the Mayor of New ​ York but leaves him at the altar after realizing she hasn’t signed the divorce papers and goes to the beach to kiss her childhood love. For 10 points, name this romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon that shares its name with a Lynyrd Skynyrd song about a Southern state. ANSWER: Sweet Home Alabama ​ 7. This failed politician thinks America is in the midst of a “baby holocaust” and once attempted to pass a bill making abortion punishable by the death penalty. This person loves Girl Scout cookies but supports a boycott because of transgender girls being allowed to join in Colorado. This man’s son­in­law was accused of animal cruelty after trying to sled over a cat. This man’s daughters revealed that he started locking their doors after their brother sexually assaulted them in their sleep and admitted knowing about Josh’s assaults since he was 14. For 10 points, name this patriarch of a family featured on 19 Kids and Counting. ​ ​ ANSWER: Jim Bob Duggar ​ 8. One character announces that Taco Tuesday will now be known as Freedom Friday, but will still be on a Tuesday. The protagonist of this film builds a double decker couch when escaping from Cloud Cuckoo Land with Unikitty, Batman, and others. Characters in this film sing “Everything is Awesome” to escape being captured. The Businessman who leads Octan attempts to use Kragle to destroy the world in this movie and must be stopped by the Master Builders including Vitruvius, Wildstyle, and Emmett. For 10 points, name this 2014 animated movie about a brand of interlocking building toys. ANSWER: The LEGO Movie ​ ​ 9. This youngest cover star for Teen Vogue posed naked to raise money for environmental issues in Natural Beauty ​ ​ ​ and modeled with her brother Alex for Burberry. In one role, this actress builds a raft to escape her father­in­law and gives birth to twin girls. In another role, this actress is put in jail in the cell next to Lindsay Lohan after repeatedly burglarizing Paris Hilton’s house. This actress who played Ila in Noah and Nicki in The Bling Ring will star opposite ​ ​ ​ ​ Dan Stevens in the upcoming live adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. This actress crashed the UN Women website ​ ​ when she announced she would be a Goodwill Ambassador. For 10 points, name this actress who portrayed Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series. ​ ​ ANSWER: Emma Watson ​ 10. In the music video for one song by this band, a woman is strapped to a hospital bed and remembers being sexually abused as a child before an angel saves her. Three angry teenagers throw mementos into a hill in the music video for one song by this band which opens with the lines “every time we lie awake, after every hit we take.” In another song, this band’s singer asks “so what if you can see the darkest side of me?” and says no one will ever change him. This band’s song “Never Too Late” was released on the album One­X which also includes the song ​ ​ “Animal I Have Become.” For 10 points, name this Canadian alt­metal band behind “I Hate Everything About ​ You.” ANSWER: Three Days Grace ​ 11. The drug dealer Blaine DeBeers asks the title character of this show to supply him with substances from her work with Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti. The main character develops a fear of pigeons in one episode of this show and in another episode she develops a fondness for jazz music and painting. The main character of this show gets infected at a boat party where people take a drug called Utopium and the energy drink company Max Rager is believed to be behind the infections. Liv adopts the personality of murder victims and has flashbacks that help her solve Clive Babineaux’s cases on this show. For 10 points, name this CW show about a morgue worker who eats brains. ANSWER: iZombie ​ 12. One song by this band includes the lines “only love is all maroon” and “sky is womb and she’s the moon.” That song appears on an album whose title was taken from the show Northern Exposure and recorded while the singer ​ ​ had mono at a cabin in Wisconsin. The second album by this band primarily features songs named after towns, such as “Calgary” and “Perth” and received the Best Alternative Music Album award at the 2012 Grammy’s. That self­titled album concludes with the track “Beth/Rest.” One song by this band tells the listener “I told you to be patient, I told you to be fine” and is featured on their debut album along with “Flume” and “Blindsided.” That song is “Skinny Love.” For 10 points, name this indie folk band fronted by Justin Vernon whose debut album was For ​ Emma, Forever Ago. ​ ANSWER: Bon Iver ​ 13. The music video for this song is set a “crazy long time ago” and depicts the singer killing a man because he runs out of water to quench her thirst. A guest vocalist on this track compares the singer to Jeffrey Dahmer and notes that “she can be my Sleeping Beauty.” The singer of this song instructs the listener to “make me your Aphrodite” but “don’t make me your enemy.” The music video for this song features the singer as a Cleopatra­like figure.

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