2008 TRASH Regionals Round 05 Bonuses 1. No one remembers Walter Tevis as a novelist, but, for ten points each, help keep his memory alive by naming these movies based on his books. 1. In this 1961 classic, Paul Newman plays "Fast Eddie" Felson, a pool shark who defeats Minnesota Fats but gets his thumbs broken. Answer: The Hustler 2. This 1976 sci-fi film stars David Bowie as a true "space oddity" - an alien who comes to our planet to find water for his dying home world. Answer: The Man Who Fell to Earth 3. Directed by Martin Scorsese, this 1986 sequel to The Hustler finds Fast Eddie mentoring a young protege played by Tom Cruise. It won Newman an Academy Award. Answer: The Color of Money 2. With the Beijing games halting their season for a month, the WNBA Finals were carried on the deuce, ESPN2, in early October. Answer questions about the series for ten points each 1. After losing last year's finals, this team swept the Silver Spurs despite not playing a game on their "home" court. Answer: Detroit Shock 2. Detroit was shunted to this University's Convocation Center in Ypsilanti when the Palace at Auburn Hills was not available for game 3, leading one Shock fan to make the sign "Not in our rental unit." Answer: Eastern Michigan University 3. This 34-year-old Buckeye grad capped her Gold-medal winning season by averaging over 20 ppg and was named MVP for the WNBA Finals. Answer: Katie Smith 3. Identify the following Jamaican imports that can get you messed up without the risk of time for possession. For ten points each: 1. This occasional sponsor of the Jamaican bobsled team and Pardon the Interruption is a lager with 4.7% alcohol by volume. Answer: Red Stripe 2. Lamb's Navy is a "smooth and mellow" 80-proof version of this spirit popular and heavily produced in the Caribbean. Answer: Rum 3. This early 20th-century patent medicine provided a convenient means of bypassing Prohibition until it was discovered that the TOCP that made it palatable was a neurotoxin that resulted in a distinctive "walk" when the use of extremities was compromised. Answer: Jake or Jamaican Ginger Extract 4. Answer the following about the singing career of Arlo Guthrie for ten points each. 1. Guthrie's signature song, played frequently on radio stations on Thanksgiving Day, is an 18-minute talking blues number that tells a story of the singer's adventures with a littering violation and at a New York draft induction center. Answer: "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" 2. Guthrie's biggest hit single was his 1972 version of this Steve Goodman song that lovingly describes a trip aboard the titular train from Chicago to the city for which the train is named; the journey is a little longer than the 500 miles suggested by the lyrics. Answer: "City of New Orleans" 3. Guthrie is depicted in the 1970 concert film Woodstock singing this song, a tale of a man attempting to smuggle "a couple of keys" worth of unspecified contraband from London to the titular city, hoping Mr. Customs Man doesn't search his bag. Answer: "Coming Into Los Angeles" 5. Name the following about the television career of Wayne Knight for ten points each. 1. Knight may be best known on TV for playing this postal worker and nemesis to Jerry Seinfeld. Answer: Newman 2. Knight played Rutherford, Ohio police officer Don Orville, Sally Solomon's love interest, on this sitcom. Answer: 3rd Rock From the Sun 3. Knight appeared in the first and last episodes of this short-lived 2007 show, once trying to sell vitamins on a morning TV program and the other time as a Roman general. Answer: Thank God You're Here 6. The three races of this game are a human organization called the Trader Emergency Coalition, another human group called the Advent who wants to forcefully take over the world, and a group of aliens called the Vasari... who want to destroy the other two. For ten points each: 1. Entrenchment is the first expansion pack for what 2008 PC space strategy game? Answer: Sins of a Solar Empire 2. Sins of a Solar Empire is published by this company whose CEO, Brad Wardell, is known for being a driving force behind a bill of rights for gamers. Answer: Stardock 3. The Antorak Marauder and the Akkan Battlecruiser are among this class of huge ships, the only ones in the game that can gain experience. Answer: capital ships 7. It seems like "Take Your Daughter to Work" is a time-honored tradition among grifters. For ten points each: 1. In this 2003 Ridley Scott drama, Nicolas Cage is Roy Waller, a con artist who discovers that he has a 14-year-old daughter played by Alison Lohman. Answer: Matchstick Men 2. Real-life father-daughter duo Ryan and Tatum O'Neal played a father-daughter pair of con artists in this 1973 comedy that won the younger O'Neal an Oscar. It also inspired a short-lived TV series starring Jodie Foster. Answer: Paper Moon 3. In this 2007 drama, Saoirse Ronan plays the daughter of a "psychic" out to con the great Harry Houdini. It was directed by Gillian Armstrong and stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce. Answer: Death Defying Acts 8. For ten points each, name these quarterbacks who made cameo appearances during week 17 games in the 2007 NFL season. 1. Rather than start David Garrard, the Jacksonville Jaguars had this back-up play the whole game, a 42-28 loss to the Houston Texans. Answer: Quinn Gray 2. When Tony Romo finally got the Dallas record for completions in a season, he gave way to this backup, a 16-year NFL vet who has played for teams including Minnesota, Washington, and Tampa Bay. Answer: Brad Johnson 3. While Aaron Rodgers is still the heir presumptive to Brett Favre in Green Bay, his sore hammy meant that this third stringer, a sixth-year player out of Northwestern State - saw his first game action in three years. He went 7 of 15 for 88 yards and a score in a win over Detroit. Answer: Craig Nall 9. The post-Amy damsels are invading, for ten points each, name these newcomers. 1. This Welsh blonde broke through on VH1 as a "you gotta know" artist for the American performance version of her video of "Mercy." Her CD Rockferry debuted in the top 10. Answer: Aimee Anne Duffy 2. While the sorrowful "Chasing Pavements" served as the breakout song in the U.K. for this zaftig London singer, "Hometown Glory" was offered as a freebie on iTunes kick-starting her American career. Answer: Adele Adkins 3. A Mercury Prize ShortList nominee for her album Shine, this jazz-infused Brit made her stateside mark with "American Boy." Answer: Estelle Swaray 10. What do Charlton Heston, Donald Rumsfeld, John Stossel, Liz Phair, Rainn Wilson, Scott Turow, and 2 members of Fall Out Boy have in common? For ten points each, name these other alumni of New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. 1. This movie star, who famously came out of the closet late in life to reveal that he had AIDS, starred in 3 popular romantic comedies opposite Doris Day and was Oscar-nominated as Bick Benedict in Giant. Answer: Rock Hudson (or Roy Scherer, Jr.) 2. Born with the last name "Olsson", this Swedish redhead starred opposite Dean Martin in Murderer's Row and Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas; she later earned Oscar nods for Carnal Knowledge and Tommy. Answer: Ann-Margret (Olsson) 3. This actor was known for portraying FDR in both the stage and film versions of Sunrise at Campobello and for losing the girl to Cary Grant in The Awful Truth and His Girl Friday. Late in life, he and Don Ameche appeared as the Duke brothers in Trading Places and Coming to America. Answer: Ralph Bellamy 11. 2008 saw only the fifth title in Marvel Comics history reach issue #500. For ten points each: 1. The first comic to hit #500 featured this mythic character in the title, although the first 126 issues were known as Journey Into Mystery. Answer: Thor 2. The first Marvel title to reach 500 under the same title featured this quartet, the first major creation by the team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Answer: Fantastic Four 3. The most recent member of the 500 club, it was officially retitled with an adjective with issue #142, the conclusion to the popular "Days of Future Past" storyline. Answer: (The) Uncanny X-Men (prompt on "X-Men") 12. At the height of the '70s detective-show boom, NBC's "Mystery Movie" franchise was running for two hours a night twice a week in primetime. For ten points each: 1. Along with McCloud and McMillan & Wife, this series anchored the "Mystery Movie" for all six of its seasons. It later moved to ABC, where it continued to air sporadic episodes until 2003. Oh yeah, and it stars Peter Falk as a guy who says, "Just one more thing ..." Answer: Columbo 2. This Jack Klugman-starring series only aired four 90-minute episodes before the "Mystery Movie" ended in 1977; however, it transitioned to a weekly drama and ran until 1984. Initially a proto-CSI forensic show, it became known for heavy-handed social commentary, particularly in the notorious "punk rock" episode. Answer: Quincy M. E. 3. The theme for the Mystery Movie was done by this composer, also known for the "Baby Elephant Walk" from Hatari! and the song "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's.