Trashionals 12 Round 4 Toss-Ups
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TRASHionals 12 Round 4 Toss-Ups 1. The name of one of the earliest all-boy adolescent Mandopop bands in China, a pornstar with this first name formerly hosted the The Porn Hunnies Smut Top 20 and Tushy Talk on KSEX radio. A recent videogame by this name was released for the PlayStation 3, in which one utilizes the Sixaxis motion control to direct pieces of them around the world to trigger releases of color. One animal by this name became the leader of the Whiskers clan in 2002 on Meerkat Manor, though she died late in the third series after being bitten by a King Cobra. In Stranger than Fiction Harold Crick plays with a pun on them to give Ana Pascal a gift, while Pete Seeger asked where have all the real ones gone. For ten points, identify this name for the reproductive part of numerous plants, a name shared with the male Skunk from Bambi. Answer: Flowers 2. During a local outbreak of xenophobia, he's told that the only thing exchanged by letting him study in the US is our national dignity. The son of a Dusseldorf gum manufacturer, he has an affinity for strange candy, including flavor wax and Marzipan Joy Joys with Iodine. In a Halloween episode he is eaten as a type of sausage, but his actual disappearance occurs when a field trip gone wrong sees him left behind and at the mercies of the reenactors of the Ninth Bearded Infantry. His parents are seen talking with the school principal about finding him, and in a later episode he is seen stuck in a cobweb in one of Springfield Elementary's air ducts. Voiced by Russi Taylor, name, for ten points, this German exchange student on The Simpsons. Answer: Uter Zorker 3. After successful stints on the "Warped" and "Taste of Chaos" tours, this Tennessee band were signed to the label Fueled by Ramen in 2005. The departure of bassist Jeremy Davis inspired several of the songs on their debut album All We Know Is Failing; he returned to the band for their platinum sophomore effort, Riot! "Decode" is the lead single from the soundtrack to the film adaptation of Twilight; other singles include "Emergency," and "Crushcrushcrush." For ten points, name this pop-punk band, on tour this summer opening for No Doubt, whose orange-haired lead singer Hayley Williams appears as a playable character in Guitar Hero: World Tour, performing their biggest hit to date, "Misery Business." Answer: Paramore 4. He claims he walked away from football in 1988 in part due to a looming third failed steroids test, but league policy at the time wouldn't have punished him. He attempted a comeback with the CFL's BC Lions, which lasted four games in 1990. He also tried boxing, going 15-2 though many of his opponents, including Derrick Dukes, claim they were told to take a dive. He went to prison in 1999 when he violated parole stemming from a domestic abuse conviction. As a player he was known for being flashy, from his dating actress Brigette Neilsen to the dances he did after each of his 107.5 career sacks. Name, for ten points, this flamboyant defensive end who still holds the single-season and career sack records for the New York Jets. Answer: Mark Gastineau 5. This director told the inspirational story of Harlem music teacher Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart, while a Harvard anthropologist gets caught up in voodoo rituals in Haiti in his The Serpent and the Rainbow. His first film was an uncredited remake of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring; he also cast himself as himself in the ambitiously "meta" New Nightmare, while 2005's werewolf thriller Cursed reunited him with Kevin Williamson, the screenwriter of the trilogy for which he is now best known. For ten points, name this director of Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and all three Scream movies. Answer: Wes Craven 6. The last piece of it that was opened to traffic was at Glenwood Canyon in 1992. Some of the amazing feats of engineering required to build it include its passing through the aforementioned canyon, the San Rafael Swell and the Eisenhower Tunnel, the highest elevation in the Interstate Highway System. At 2,153 miles long, it is the fifth longest highway in the system after its counterparts connecting Wilmington to Barstow and Jacksonville to Los Angeles. At one end of it, drivers are informed of the distances to various stops along its route, including the terminus located 2200 miles from the sign, as well as Denver at 1700 miles, St. Louis at 845 miles and Columbus, only 420 miles away. For ten points, identify this Interstate connecting Cove Fort, Utah with Baltimore, Maryland. Answer: Interstate 70 7. [AUDIO] Given a snippet of dialogue from a cutscene, name the game for ten points. [Track #14] Answer: Kingdom Hearts 8. He attended Passaic Community College during his 2006 call-up, and got rides to practice with his mom, Gisele, as he did not have a license. That season he became the youngest player ever to find the net in the playoffs with his team's lone goal against DC United. In 2007 he made more noise at the under-20 World Cup, where he led the US with four goals, including both in a 2-1 upset of Brazil. In 2008 he became the subject of the richest transfer for a MLS player, when Villareal paid $10 million for his services. He's stayed in the US spotlight thanks to his play for the men's national team, where he has six goals in nine appearances. Name, for ten points, this former New York Red Bulls striker who netted a hat trick in an April 1 World Cup qualifier against Trinidad and Tobago. Answer: Josmer "Jozy" Altidore 9. This performer headlined a 1985-86 show on CBS that starred a pre-Y&R Kristoff St. John and a pre-Urkel Jaleel White, and appeared in ads for Colgate at that time for their then-new attached toothpaste lid. In the 1970's a pull-string doll with this performer's likeness was sold with one of the phrases saying, "help, somebody get me out of this doll." The doll had a dual-sided surface which allowed for his normal persona, and a second side with him in drag that made pull- string statements like, "The devil made me wear this dress." For ten points, name this star of Charlie and Company, a frequent guest on Laugh-in until he hosted his own 1970's NBC variety show that featured his story jokes, and a special handshake and bump with guests. Answer: Clerow "Flip" Wilson 10. The mellow musical accompaniment and sing-song nature of the lyrical flow mask the fact that the lyrics depict a brutal gunpoint mugging followed by a retaliatory killing, mostly set at or near the intersection of East 21st St and Lewis Avenue in Long Beach, California. Featured in the film Above The Rim its backing track incorporates Bob James' "Sign of the Times" but mostly lifts from Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin." Inspired by a word often invoked in the film Young Guns, which some versions of it sample, this hit song helped popularized the term "G-Funk." For ten points identify this 1994 hit song which featured Nate Dogg and starred Warren G. Answer: Regulate (G-Funk Era) 11. This woman was born in Muscat, Oman, and named for a location in Scotland. As a teenager, she co-wrote the bestselling novels Bewitched and Seduced by Fame while playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. After supporting roles in Scooby-Doo and I Heart Huckabees, she starred as the love interests for Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Lookout and Ryan Reynolds in Definitely, Maybe, while her breakthrough came as the nymphomaniac Gloria Cleary, who becomes a "stage five clinger" to a character played by Vince Vaughn. Recently seen as Rebecca Bloomwood in a Sophie Kinsella adaptation, this is, for ten points, what Australian star of The Wedding Crashers and Confessions of a Shopaholic? Answer: Isla Fisher 12. A former prizefighter, he coached Golden Gloves teams for Oklahoma and the US Army. His time as a hobo and on a tramp freighter gave him material for his early writing career; when the market for adventure fiction dried up after World War II, he moved on with Hopalong Cassidy novels and his first original novel, Westward the Tide. He said he wrote to dispel frontier myths like a single gunslinger being able to terrorize a town filled with rifle owners. Near the end of his life he tried to construct an entire fake Old Western town that would be rented as a movie setting, named after one of his novels, Shalako. For ten points name this western author of the Sackett series and Hondo, nicknamed "America�s storyteller." Answer: Louis L'Amour 13. It has only two events scheduled for 2009, a concert featuring Jackie Chan and a performance of Turandot one the one year anniversary of its opening, with both events directed by the same man. It may still host the Italian Supercoppa, but will not be the home for Guoan, a soccer team who was to make it their home pitch, but backed out as they didn't want to put their average 10,000 fans per game in a stadium seating 80,000. Citic Group, who currently operate it, plan to turn it into a shopping and entertainment venue by 2014, thus ending the athletic career of, for ten points, what iconic site of the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics? Answer: Beijing National Stadium or The Bird's Nest 14.