Trashionals 12 Round 17 Toss-Ups

TRASHionals 12 Round 17 Toss-Ups 1. In 2005 he was the top-ranked player on the Outback Champion Series, which is operated by InsideOut Sport & Entertainment, which he helped found. At the other end of his career, he won the Orange Bowl junior tournament in 1986 and 1987. His best year was 1992, where he won two Grand Slam tournaments, was on the US team that won the Davis Cup, and had a 25 match winning streak, all of which added up to him ending the year ranked number one. He'd add two more Grand Slam titles, giving him two Australian and French Opens each. He made the US Open final in 1991 but lost to Stefan Edberg, and the Wimbledon final in 1993, losing to Pete Sampras. Name, for ten points, this all-surface threat known for his red hair and omnipresent baseball hat. Answer: Jim Courier 2. This man has scored four films, including The Week That Girl Died and the Eriq La Salle-directed Psalms from the Underground and Rebound, as well as the PBS documentary series Black Westerners. He also released several jazz albums, including Shadow Prophets and Spirit Talk. He played Paul Wolf in a 2000 episode of V.I.P and played himself in the Christmas episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Named the world's sexiest vegetarian male by PETA in 2007, he is best known for replacing Branford Marsalis in a role that sees him support Philadelphia sports teams and be the butt of jokes implying homosexuality and marijuana use. For ten points, name this bandleader of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Answer: Kevin Eubanks 3. The lyrics of this song reference the rise of hard drugs in the counterculture, referring to a character named "Sweet Jane" who lost her sparkle. They also expresses exasperation about a real-life New Orleans drug bust, in addition to referring to travels to places such as Buffalo and Dallas over a mid-tempo shuffle beat. Declared a National Treasure by the Library of Congress in 1997, it's the closing track and lead single from the 1971 album American Beauty. For ten points name this song famously featuring the line "What a long strange trip it's been," perhaps the signature song of the Grateful Dead. Answer: Truckin' 4. The episode of Father Ted featuring Fintan Stack shares its name with this movie. Inspired by "Kids Killing Kids," a 1987 Village Voice article by screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper, it features the director as Detective Stone and a young Chris Rock as Pookie, an undercover informant who works at "The Carter." At the end, after Kareem Akbar is set up to take the fall, a deus ex machina comes in the form of an old man who says, "Your soul is required in hell!" before killing Nino Brown outside a courthouse. Scotty Appleton infiltrates the Cash Money Brothers in, for ten points, what first feature directed by Mario Van Peebles, starring Wesley Snipes as a drug kingpin and Ice-T as the undercover cop who brings him down? Answer: New Jack City 5. Originally adapted from a Phil Stong novel and written for a film version, it was finally adapted for the stage half a century later. Taking place in the late summer of 1946, Dave miller, a neighbor, bets the patriarch of the main family $5 that something will go wrong for at least one of them over the course of the next three days. Father Abel is concerned over the prospects of Blue Boy, whilst Melissa fusses over her mincemeat. Margie and Wayne, however, are more concerned with romance; though Harry continually asks Margie to marry him, she falls for newsman Pat Gilbert after sharing "Isn't It Kinda Fun?" and she expresses her feelings in "It Might As Well Be Spring." For ten points, name this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in which the Frake family set out for Des Moines Iowa for the titular event. Answer: State Fair 6. [AUDIO] TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. For ten points each, name the Grammy-winning song from the '80s and the artist performing it: [Track #64] Answer: "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by the Police 7. Foods from this land include Ding Ding Mac-Mood (or pig snout), the dessert bibibobacas, and eel wrapped in grape leaves. Although a picture of a cow is featured on its currency, sheep-herding is its number one occuptation. For ten points, name this small Mediterranean island which was the pre-Chicago home for "Cousin Balki" Bartokomous of Perfect Strangers. Answer: Mypos 8. It was given to attendees of the opening keynote at the 2009 Game Developer's Conference. Activities in this game include mixing up the ingredients of romance in the Love Lab, helping a monk eat dumplings, and participating in the mating ritual of a fictional lizard. Another level is an attempt to join The Dazzles while yet another level features a performance of "Thrilling! Is This Love?," during which the phrase "I Suppose" indicates that the player should perform three taps followed by a flick. Scratching a record on a turntable and keeping in sync with a glee club are among the other activities performed in, for ten points, what Nintendo DS music game? Answer: Rhythm Heaven (accept Rhythm Tengoku Gold, do not prompt on Rhythm Tengoku) 9. This man co-starred with Alan Thicke as two buddies at a Club Med-run Colorado ski resort in Copper Mountain and played a teenage virgin pursued by a Lauren Hutton-portrayed vampire in Once Bitten. Francis Coppola cast him as a nerd who becomes a dentist in Peggy Sue Got Married, and he was murdered rock star Johnny Squares in The Dead Pool and the "red alien," Wiploc, in Earth Girls Are Easy. Aside from a cameo as the adult Joe Wenteworth in Simon Birch, he has played almost exclusively lead roles since his breakout performances as Lloyd Christmas and Stanley Ipkiss. For ten points, name this Canadian cut-up who attempted serious drama as Peter Appleton in The Majestic and Walter Sparrow in The Number 23 but will always be Ace Ventura. Answer: Jim Carrey 10. Opening in 1875, it served as a replacement for venues such as Oakland and Woodlawn. Named after the two men who leased land to their nephew, Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark, its features include Pierre Bellocq's mural of almost 100 champions and the Twin Spires of the grandstand. It has an 80-foot-wide, one-mile-long main track. 1875 saw the debut of the Oaks, the Clark Handicap, and its signature event. For ten points, name this home of the Kentucky Derby. Answer: Churchill Downs 11. This song's lyrics detail a night on the town rolling around on Pirelli tires and making it rain at the club with the speaker's "Benjamin Frank-a-lins." In spite of such simple subject matter, it set the record for most digital downloads during the first week of sales With a over 600,000 downloads. Its video is slightly more unique, featuring both a spinning platform and disco ball in reference to the video of the song it samples. The first single off of the album R.O.O.T.S., it features the singer Kesha singing along with its chorus. For ten points, name this recent number one hit for Flo Rida that takes a sample and its name from the Dead or Alive song about spinning a record. Answer: "Right Round" 12. This variety is still indicated by six remaining letters on the label of the Warhol work Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can that sold at auction in 2006 to SunAmerica founder Eli Broad for over $11 million. The origins of this soup come from the harsh winter at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War, with a mess captain tasked to make something palatable from the scraps available including beef tripe and root vegetables. Marketed only in certain areas of the country including its native eastern Pennsylvania, name, for ten points, this soup that sounds like the high-pitched ladies from the Monty Python skits or the singular version of Gwyneth Paltrow's character in Iron Man. Answer: Philadelphia Pepper Pot 13. This woman won a Tony as the pregnant Tonya in King Hedley II. She can be heard as the offscreen voice of a parole board member in Ocean's Eleven; Steven Soderbergh had previously cast her in small roles in Out of Sight and Traffic and she worked with George Clooney again in a cameo as the CIA Chairwoman in Syriana. She played the maid Sybil in Far from Heaven, 50 Cent's grandma in Get Rich or Die Tryin', and Fantasia's mother in Life Is Not a Fairytale, but her most memorable maternal character argues that Sister Aloysius should leave Father Flynn alone. For ten points, name this actress whose lone scene as Mrs. Miller got her an Oscar nomination for Doubt. Answer: Viola Davis 14. This comic was a dominating Little League pitcher in Houston but decided to dedicate himself to learning routines by Richard Pryor and Woody Allen as a teen. During the height of Rick Astley's popularity in the late 1980's, this comedian ridiculed Astley's pop stylings and the "wussification of rock" by contrasting it against Jimi Hendrix's ï¿½Voodoo Child.ï¿½ On January 30, 2009 this comedian's mother appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to watch and comment on a standup routine cut from the program fifteen years earlier, ostensibly for a line about pro-life protesters needing to join hands and block the cemetery.

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