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Super ACRONYM - Round 1 1. Description acceptable. This character grabs a woman and tells her, "Americans, you're ​ all the same, always overdressing for the wrong occasions," then unveils an ominous apparatus that turns out to be a coat hanger. Ronald Lacey plays this character, who sustains an injury at a tavern called the Raven that prompts him to arrange (*) an ​ excavation near Cairo to locate the Well of Souls. That injury is later seen in close-up when this character gives a Heil Hitler, showing one side of the headpiece of the Staff of Ra seared onto his palm. For 10 points, name this villain who dies in an absolutely amazing way in Raiders of the ​ Lost Ark. ​ ANSWER: The Nazi whose face is melted off (or Major Arnold Ernst Toht; accept any answer ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ indicating the Nazi whose face is melted by the Ark of the Covenant; accept answers indicating ​ ​ ​ ​ the Nazi who wears glasses or similar; prompt on answers like "that one Nazi (from Raiders)") ​ ​ <Vopava> 2. In 1920, baseball owners briefly considered imposing an automatic balk as a penalty for ​ taking this action. Chris Rose and Kevin Millar host an MLB Network talk show whose name parodies this action. In 2006, Todd Williams badly botched one of these actions against Miguel Cabrera. In a 1998 game, Buck Showalter had (*) Gregg Olson of the ​ Diamondbacks do this with the bases loaded against Barry Bonds, who accumulated 120 of these actions in 2004. Beginning in 2017 at the Major League level, no actual throws were necessary to issue, for 10 points, what baseball action that deliberately lets a man on base? ANSWER: intentional walk (or intentional base on balls; prompt on "walk" or "base on balls" ​ ​ ​ ​ without the word "intentional") <Nelson> 3. A website that allows users to "discover" this place features the chatbot Aeden. The ​ northern portion of this location includes Python Pass, which is home to a woodcutter. Destin Levy, a technician whose work supported this place, was criticized as a "necro perv" by behavior analyst Elsie Hughes. (*) The company that operates this place and its sister ​ locations formerly used the slogan "Boy, Have We Got a Vacation for You!" The Ghost Nation is a tribe that resides on the outskirts of this place. Anthony Hopkins played Robert Ford, a co-creator of, for 10 points, what Delos theme park that features lifelike robots, and which titles a 2016 HBO series? ANSWER: Westworld <Vitello> ​ ​ 4. A rip-off of this game's first level was made by id Software under the name Dangerous ​ ​ Dave in Copyright Infringement. An enemy that made its first appearance in this game will ​ break free of its namesake constraint on its 50th attempt to do so. This game was bundled with its respective console in the "Challenge (*) Set." A certain musical instrument can be ​ reached by crouching on a white block in the third level of this game, which Jimmy Woods finds to win a competition in the climax of the film The Wizard. The Goomba's shoe and Tanooki suit ​ ​ were introduced in, for 10 points, what last 8-bit game in the "Super Mario" series? ANSWER: Super Mario Bros. 3 (accept SMB3 but do not accept or prompt on partial answers) ​ ​ ​ ​ <Nelson> Super ACRONYM - Round 1 5. Rolling Stone described this song as having a "simple, vicious loop" that treats a certain ​ ​ network "as a punching bag." This song includes a clip of Geraldo Rivera noting that "hip hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years." This song's music video opens with its rapper in an interrogation room before (*) Don Cheadle ​ enters and lip-syncs its lyrics, which include lines like "backbone don't exist, born outside a jellyfish" and "I kill shit" due to the title thing. Things like "war and peace," "loyalty," and "royalty" are said to be in the title material of, for 10 points, what second track on Kendrick Lamar's Damn? ​ ​ ANSWER: DNA. <Vitello> ​ ​ 6. In 2011, Kendall Hunter started one game in place of this player, who has not missed a ​ start since. In his second pro season, this player broke his team's one-game rushing record held by Charlie Garner and earned a starting job after Kevan (*) Barlow was traded. This ​ player, who allegedly scored a 6 on his Wonderlic test, joined his current team in 2015 despite numerous reports that he would replace LeSean McCoy with the Eagles. In 2016 this player, who is by far the active leader in career rushing yards, became the first 1,000-yard rusher for his current team since Joseph Addai [uh-”DIE”]. For 10 points, name this former 49ers and current Colts halfback. ANSWER: Frank Gore (or Franklin Delano Gore) <Nelson> ​ ​ ​ ​ 7. In 2016, one of these people tweeted a photo of the other inexplicably captioned ​ "Potato." One of these two people jokingly mocked the other's "Songbird," which was the first commercial single to be written by the latter. One of these people pulled out of an MTV Unplugged (*) performance at the last minute, and then spent the performance heckling ​ ​ the other of these people from a balcony. Though they are most well-known for their work together, these men have also performed with Beady Eye and a namesake group partially named High Flying Birds. For 10 points, name these brothers who utterly despise each other and who fronted Oasis. ANSWER: Gallagher brothers (or Noel and Liam Gallagher; prompt on "Oasis") <Nelson> ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 8. One hero known by this name comforts his stepmother Dana after his father Jack is ​ murdered by Captain Boomerang. The origin story of a character with this name heavily involves the mobster Tony Zucco. In 1988, a poll was conducted via a 900 number to decide if a hero with this moniker should die, resulting in the pivotal moment of the story (*) A ​ ​ Death in the Family. Stephanie Brown and Carrie Kelley are females who have held this role. ​ The first hero with this name abandoned it to become Nightwing and was an orphan from a family of acrobats. For 10 points, named this comic book hero that has been the alter ego of Jason Todd and Dick Grayson. ANSWER: Robin <Nelson> ​ ​ Super ACRONYM - Round 1 9. In a 1992 film, Moira Kelly starred as an impossible-to-deal-with competitor in this ​ sport. A real competitor in this sport is the subject of the made-for-TV movie A Promise ​ Kept. A 2018 film by Craig Gillespie will star Margot Robbie as an infamous competitor in ​ this sport. Michelle Trachtenberg played (*) Casey Carlyle, a physics whiz torn between ​ attending Harvard and pursuing this sport, in a 2005 Disney film . In a 2007 comedy, two male competitors in this sport, including one played by Jon Heder, begrudgingly compete as a pair. For 10 points, name this sport central to Ice Princess and Blades of Glory. ​ ​ ​ ​ ANSWER: figure skating <Vitello> ​ ​ 10. John Mellencamp's hit "Pop Singer" appears on an album with this name. Baseball ​ player Rick Reuschel and boxer Riddick Bowe both had this nickname, which senator Robert Byrd applied to himself in 2006. A film with this name features the protagonist Sonny Koufax. Damon McCready, who uses the phrase "baby doll" to describe his (*) daughter Hit Girl, goes by this name in Kick-Ass. A group of video game enemies with this name ​ ​ protect characters that can harvest ADAM in Rapture. The diving suit-wearing guardians of the Little Sisters in Bioshock have, for 10 points, what name shared by an Adam Sandler film in ​ ​ which he learns he has a son? ANSWER: Big Daddy <Nelson> ​ ​ 11. One ad for this product tells viewers to "stop jumping up and down like idiots" before ​ introducing an "action" version of it that has a beard. Other variants of this product include "dream date" and "high fashion" editions, the latter of which simply has a small wedding dress (*) nailed to it. In the first ad for this product, a boy rejects both a bicycle and a ​ video game before stating he wants one of these. A jingle for this Blammo! product dubiously claims it's "great for a snack," though it more believably is said to "run over your neighbor's dog." For 10 points, name this toy seen on The Ren & Stimpy Show that is just a piece of wood. ​ ​ ANSWER: Log (accept Log for Girls or Action Log) <Nelson> ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 12. In 2014, this musician's album One Mind was re-released by a questionable non-profit. ​ ​ ​ Guns 'n' Roses' album The Spaghetti Incident includes a cover of this man's "Look at Your ​ ​ Game, Girl," which was released on this man's debut album Lie, whose cover parodies Life ​ ​ magazine. This man's song "Cease to Exist" was re-worked into the single "Never Learn Not To Love," though the latter is officially credited to (*) Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. ​ This man's surname was adopted as half of the stage name of shock-rocker Brian Warner. For 10 points, name this aspiring songwriter who co-opted the phrase "Helter Skelter." ANSWER: Charles Manson (or Charlie Manson) <Nelson> ​ ​ ​ ​ Super ACRONYM - Round 1 13. A character in this film quotes Dostoevsky's The Idiot by noting how "the most terrible ​ ​ ​ part of the whole punishment” is that "your soul must quit your body." In an early scene in this film, a girl seen fleeing to a beach is later found dead with her leg snapped backwards. The advice to not "go into a place with only one (*) exit" is given in this film by ​ Hugh, who abruptly leaves a movie theater before tying his girlfriend Jay to a wheelchair as an entity posing as a nude woman approaches her.

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