2008 TRASH Regionals Round 04 Tossups

1. This film set the template for countless pornos with a scene in which a bookish woman, played by Dorothy Malone, takes off her glasses - revealing that she is hot - and gets intimate with the hero. In the late 1990s, a substantially different version was discovered, one which makes the plot much easier to follow ... but we still don't know what happened to Owen Taylor. General Sternwood hires the main character to resolve his slutty daughter's gambling debts, leading to a convoluted series of events climaxing with the shooting of Eddie Mars by his own hoods. For ten points, name this Howard Hawks noir co-scripted by William Faulkner and based on a Raymond Chandler mystery novel about Philip Marlowe, the second pairing of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.

Answer: The Big Sleep

2. He apparently didn't learn his lesson after a prostitute that he entertained in the Sanderson Hotel falsely accused him of rape in 2005, as he played host in his home to an August 2007 five-hooker orgy including a couple of teammates. In January 2008, he picked up two more hookers in Rome to celebrate a FA Cup match win there over Aston Villa. However, there's no word of hookers being used to celebrate his 2002 Golden Boot, 1998 Golden Ball, or all-time goal- scoring mark in the World Cup Finals. For ten points, name this three-time FIFA World Player of the Year who hails from Brazil.

Answer: Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima

3. Its creation was partially a result of all the writers in the forest getting very mad with the Forest Kings and declaring a work stoppage. It temporarily vanished into the night like a phantom before becoming available for download, though it's now viewable after sitting through some ads. Many scenes are set at the laundromat. It chronicles the attempts of Billy to pull off a heist big enough to join Snake Bite and Fake Thomas Jefferson. To do this, he hijacks a courier van transporting Wonderflonium to complete his freeze ray and inadvertently sets up Penny, played by Felicia Day, with his archnemesis. For ten points, name this musical Internet miniseries featuring the titular blogger who seeks to join the Evil League of Evil and defeat Captain Hammer, a Joss Whedon project starring Neil Patrick Harris.

Answer: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

4. Samples of Trouble Funk's "Pump Me Up" and the Dramatics' "What You See Is What You Get" are difficult to discern, but the first verse acknowledges James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and its title is a nod to a 1975 Isley Brothers hit. While anticipating commemorative stamps for John Wayne and Elvis Presley that weren't yet issued in 1989, the lyrics diss Bobby McFerrin's biggest hit. Two videos were made for this song, both directed by the man whose film helped make it famous. For ten points, name this closing track from Fear Of A Black Planet, featured prominently in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, the signature song of Public Enemy.

Answer: "Fight The Power"

5. This woman replaced Hinton Battle as "Cat" in the second version of the pilot for a proposed US remake of Red Dwarf. On an episode of Quantum Leap, she played a navy nurse whose death led to Al being replaced by "Edward St. John V." Her first regular TV role, Laurie Caswell in Paper Dolls, drew on her background as a fashion model, and she also played the ex-model who ran Reggie's Diner on Becker. For ten points, name this actress best known as Trill science officer Jadzia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Answer: Terry Farrell 6. An arrow in this game indicates that the player can teleport to the screen adjacent to the direction the arrow is pointing. The most aggravating feature of this game is probably the wells in which the main character must levitate to escape. Players must watch out for the FBI agent who steals one of the three pieces of an interplanetary telephone the main character must assemble before calling a ship and heading to the landing pad. If this design sounds rushed, it's because Howard Scott Warshaw was given less than two months to create this game that had tons of copies allegedly buried in an Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill. For ten points, name this Atari 2600 game considered one of the worst games of all- time in spite of being based on the hit 1982 Steven Spielberg movie.

Answer: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

7. The 2002 film Oasis, from this country, is about the difficult romance between an ex-prisoner and a woman with cerebral palsy, while a huge 1999 hit dealt with a spy whose fish-loving girlfriend turns out to be a terrorist planning to explode "CTX" at a crowded soccer match. One of the biggest breakthroughs of its national cinema was a 2001 romantic comedy in which a college's student life is changed when he meets a drunk girl on a train. Its more recent films include a 2003 thriller centering on a man locked in a room for 15 years and a 2006 environmental horror flick that depicts a monster emerging from Han River. Shiri, My Sassy Girl, Oldboy, and The Host are all exports of, for ten points, what world capital of plastic surgery and sappy melodramas, also the home of Lost's Sun and Jin?

Answer: South Korea

8. NY Times cartoonist Artie Ten illustrated five of the original compilations of this series of trade paperbacks in the 1980's. Derived from the HBO program Not Necessarily the News, the segment did not move to Saturday Night Live when its creator joined SNL in 1984, mostly since Tim Kazurinsky's Dr. Jack Badovsky was already doing word play segments on Weekend Update. However, Rich Hall's creation made it onto the book charts for its use of portmanteau, even soliciting help from viewers and readers for words like "funching" and "burgacide." For ten points, name these words that should be in the dictionary, but aren't.

Answer: Sniglets

9. WARNING: YEAR AND EVENT REQUIRED. This series marked the last time Keith Van Horn played a game. The eventual loser displayed erratic behavior, including a post-game kicked ball that incurred a fine and the suspension of a player due to a flagrant foul committed against Shaquille O'Neal. These frustrations were likely due to game three, when the visiting team gave up 13 points in just over six minutes and never recovered, dropping the next four games after building a 2-0 lead. It was also notable for several veterans winning a first ring, including Alonzo Morning, Antoine Walker, and Gary Payton. Dwayne Wade was the MVP of, for ten points, which NBA Finals match-up that saw the Dallas Mavericks lose to the Miami Heat?

Answer: 2006 NBA Finals

10. It was covered by The Poorboys for the D2: The Mighty Ducks soundtrack. First appearing on the 1974 album Not Fragile, it was originally meant as a joke to make fun of the speech impediment of the songwriter's brother Gary. The lyrics chronicle a trip to the doctor and an encounter with a devil woman as well as the singer's opinion that "any love is good love." A woman looks at the singer with big brown eyes and says, for ten points, "b-b-b-baby," this, according to a number one hit by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Answer: "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" 11. In an episode of Pepper Ann, a statue of him was erected in the town of Hazelnut, while he earlier appeared on television as Private Sturgis in an episode of MASH. His first professional appearance was as a dancer for Disney on Parade, and his first film role was as "Ace" in Skatetown, U.S.A. He co-wrote and recorded vocals for "She's Like the Wind," a song originally meant for Grandview, U.S.A., but which became part of one of his most iconic films, released the same year -- Red Dawn. Diagnosed in early 2008 with pancreatic cancer, name, for ten points, this actor more famous for his roles as Sam Wheat in Ghost and Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing.

Answer: Patrick Swayze

12. This person pushed sister Chloe to her death from a treehouse out of jealousy over the love of their father, a ventriloquist billed as "The Great Rainone." Izzy Delancy and Penny Garden had both employed her as a cleaning lady, and their murders - as well as that of Raymundo Suarez - were likely triggered by her obsession with bleach. Her foster father, model train enthusiast Ernie Dell, took the blame for her crimes, leading her to abduct Sara Sidle as revenge against Gil Grissom. For ten points, name this Jessica Collins-portrayed serial murderer who was the focus of a major seventh-season story arc on CSI, and whose trademark was to leave behind small-scale replicas of crime scenes.

Answer: Natalie Davis (accept either first or last name) or The Miniature Killer

13. Grezblam's was allegedly by Ova Hamlet. Anda's involves battling and later unionizing Chinese gold farmers. Gerald's leads to the appearance of a hallucinatory figure called "The Space Cowboy" as his wife is handcuffed to a bed for days. The Enchanters' End sees the imprisonment of Zedar the Apostate and the death of the Mad God Torak. Andrew Wiggins goes through two, one involving a dead giant and another a supposed simulation of space battle. For ten points, what completes the title of these works by Richard Lupoff, Cory Doctorow, Steven King, David Eddings, and Orson Scott Card?

Answer: Game

14. In a 1986 TV pilot, this character was played by Ed O'Neill. Based on Eddie Egan, he is first seen dressing as Santa Claus and threatening a man for picking his feet in Poughkeepsie. He eventually kills "Frog One," aka Alain Charnier, at the end of a 1975 sequel, but he and Buddy Russo are hampered by his unintentional shooting of Mulderig. More famously, he chases a sniper played by Marcel Bozzuffi under some subway tracks after commandeering a car and swerving to narrowly avoid a woman with a stroller. For ten points, name this foe of NYC drug traffickers, a narc portrayed by Gene Hackman in The French Connection.

Answer: Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (accept either underlined name)

15. They were created in the late 1960s by Marvin Wernick, who observed a doctor in an emergency room check a child's temperature with a strip of thermotropic material. They conceal a liquid crystal display with a quartz or glass sheath. The device was later popularized by Thighmaster inventor and tobacco heir Joshua Reynolds, who sold millions in the 70s. Black means tension, gray nervousness, and blue calmness according to, for ten points, what supposedly mind-reading piece of jewelry?

Answer: Mood Ring

16. He won the NAIA title in his discipline in 2000 for Asuza Pacific, where he still trains. He broke through internationally in 2003, when he placed second in the US outdoor nationals and ranked fifth in the world. He would earn a silver at the Athens Olympics, and avenge the defeat by winning the 2005 world title by 221 points over Athens gold medalist Roman Sebrle. Injuries plagued his 2007 season, but he healed in time to post the largest Olympic win in his event since 1972, 240 points. Name, for ten points, this American who earned the title of World's Greatest Athlete with his decathlon win in Beijing.

Answer: Bryan Clay 17. Formed in the mid-90s in their native East Sussex, they were reduced to a trio after the departure of Dominic Scott. The label Fierce Panda first signed this band, originally known as the Lotus Eaters, and released the single "This Is The Last Time," which later turned up on their debut album Hopes & Fears. Singer Tom Chaplin and pianist Tim Rice-Oxley form the core of, for ten points, what British piano rock band whose hit songs have included "Bend And Break," "Is It Any Wonder," and "Somewhere Only We Know?"

Answer: Keane

18. This man was spotted standing outside The Comedy Store by Czech director Ivan Passer and offered a part in Silver Bears. He appears as a carpenter who says, "This is distressing!" in Fun with Dick and Jane and as "Poopy Butt," who loses a boxing match to his mother, in Americathon. His only starring role in film came opposite Pat Morita in Collision Course. The sponsor of the Duesenberg Scholarship in auto restoration at McPherson College, he was portrayed by Jimmy Kimmel in E!'s reenactments of the Michael Jackson trial and Daniel Roebuck in The Late Shift, based on Bill Carter's book about how he got his current job over David Letterman. For ten points, name this man who, in 1992, replaced Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show.

Answer: Jay Leno

19. This man's early roles include a bishop's son gored to death by a bull in Peter Greenaway's controversial The Baby of Macon, a bit part in the first Prime Suspect, and T.E. Lawrence in A Dangerous Man. He starred opposite Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid in the 2006 Broadway production of Faith Healer, while his film debut came as Heathcliff opposite Juliette Binoche's Catherine in Wuthering Heights. His current companion, Francesca Annis, played Gertrude opposite his Tony-winning Hamlet in 1995, while 1996 saw him re-team with Binoche as Count Laszlo in the film that won her an Oscar. For ten points, name this star of The English Patient, Quiz Show, and Schindler's List who can now be seen as the Harry Potter franchise's Voldemort.

Answer: Ralph Fiennes

20. It is based on a painting by Millard Sheets and composed of 324 stone panels. Measuring 134 feet high and 68 feet wide, it was installed during the spring of 1964 on the south face of Hesburgh Library. Its official title, "The Word of Life," comes from a passage from the Book of John that suggested an unbroken line of thinkers and scholars, with the main figure at its head. The upraised arms of that main figure took on greater significance thanks to its visibility from the adjacent football stadium. For ten points, give the better-known nickname for this artwork, in which the Son of God appears to be signaling another six points for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Answer: Touchdown Jesus

21. Kamon Nandaba engages in this on an episode of FLCL in which he refers to Monkey Punch. The Akihabara district in Japan has a number of cafes dedicated to this, while the Harajuku district is a very popular spot to engage in it. While the performance art form most commonly associated with it originated in Japan in the late 1970s, Nov Takahashi coined the term for it while reporting on the 1984 Los Angeles Worldcon and the trend is generally more popular in the United States, though the media sources used for it have expanded to popular movies, video games and science fiction. For ten points, identify this artform popular at anime conventions wherein participants dress up and act as characters.

Answer: Cosplay