Trash Bowl Alabama “It should be called ‘legpuck’” Written and Edited by: Brandon Jones, Brody Marshall, Mark Simmons, Jeremy Cummings, Morgan Potts, and Liz Turner. NOTE TO MODERATOR: ALL TOSSUPS AND BONUSES ARE PAIRED AND, IF ANY TOSSUP GOES DEAD, ITS BONUS SHOULD ALSO BE SKIPPED. Packet 9 1. In this show, the protagonist rejects the Series B term sheet from V.C. fund Bream-Hall in favor of an I.C.O. which causes Laurie Bream to partner with his company’s Chinese competitor YaoNet. This show’s Jared, whose real name is Donald, has a very long, tragic backstory that is only brought up in passing details which include: being homeless for long stretches of time, working as an underage (*) prostitute, and finding a fraud pretending to be his biological father in a militia in the Ozarks. In this show, Richard cracks middle-out compression while arguing about the fastest way to give a handjob to everyone in an audience. In one scene, the employees of Raviga stage an intervention after they find out that Monica smokes cigarettes during a pitch meeting for an app called a “pedophile’s dream.” For 10 points, name this 2014 HBO comedy show about tech startup Pied Piper. ANSWER: Silicon Valley <TV> [BM] 1. Some people enjoy locating, exhibiting, and cataloguing various objects. For 10 points each, answer the following about collection-based hobbies: a. The hobby of collecting these objects is known as scutelliphily (“skew-tih-LIGH-fuh-lee”) and the study of these objects is known as phaleristics (“fal-er-ISS-ticks”). Common variants of these objects include Scout, military, and souvenir varieties. ANSWER: Badges [or Patches] b. Due to increasingly being made of flammable materials, collectors should keep badges away from full matchboxes, the collection of which is known by this term. This term comes from a combination of a Greek word for love and a Latin word for light. ANSWER: Phillumeny [accept alternate word forms] c. Although it might be less useful for phillumeny and scutelliphily, many collection hobbies employ the use of this electronic tool that is useful for numismatics and beach combing. A typical version of this tool contains a search head with transmitter and receiver coils that transmit and detect disturbances in a magnetic field, respectively. ANSWER: Metal detector <Activities> [BJ] 2. Andy Hull, the composer of this film’s mostly a cappella soundtrack, appears as a cameraman at the end of this film. The last spoken line of this film, “What the fuck?” is delivered by Sarah who is played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and appears as the protagonist’s phone background. One character in this film hums along to the theme of Jurassic Park despite not knowing what Jurassic Park is. The protagonist of this film has trouble (*) masturbating because it reminds him of his dead mother. He attempts to remind another character of home by sticking a finger covered in cheese dust into their mouth. At the beginning of this film, the protagonist nearly hangs himself until he sees another character wash up on shore whose farts are used to escape a deserted island. For 10 points, name this film in which Daniel Radcliffe plays Manny, a corpse with many unusual abilities. ANSWER: Swiss Army Man <Film> [BJ] 2. Boy, frogs sure are funny! For 10 points each, answer the following about frogs that aren’t Pepe or Kermit: a. In 2017, memes about frogs concerned with this concept emerged, with a strong political divide between those frogs who wish you to “hippity-hoppity get off” this thing and those who wish to abolish it. ANSWER: Private property b. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a story featured in this 1985 Claymation movie, although a segment based on The Mysterious Stranger is more well-known, as it’s regarded as one of the darkest segments in any children’s movie ever made. ANSWER: The Adventures of Mark Twain [accept—sigh—Comet Quest, as that’s apparently the name it was given in its UK release] c. Similar to Mark Twain’s frog, this one that was created for a 1955 cartoon is capable of remarkable feats in private but fails to perform when it’s needed. The antics of this frog, who is named for a Midwestern state, inspired the diner scene in Spaceballs, as well as Dancin’ Daryl, a playable hero in Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds mode. ANSWER: Michigan J. Frog [Accept either underlined portion] <Internet Culture> [MS] 3. The first release of this game, along with The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower, was the subject of Operation Rainfall: a fan initiative to release Japanese-only games in North America. This game’s hardest superboss, called Avalanche Abaasy, is level 120 and can only be fought during blizzards. One type of creature in this game is referred to as a “Dinobeast” by one of the main characters. One city in this game is ruled by Emperor Sorean Antiqua and is home to a race of humanoid beings with wings growing from the sides of their (*) heads. The protagonist’s hometown of Colony 9 is located near the knee of the Bionis, one of the two titans that this game takes place on. For 10 points, give the name of this JRPG which was remade for the Switch, in which the Monado grants visions of the future to the protagonist, Shulk. ANSWER: Xenoblade Chronicles [also accept Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition or Xenoblade Chronicles 3D] <Video Games> [BJ] 3. Its fan base might lack the fervency of the YA genre, but middle grade books hold a special place in many people’s hearts. For 10 points each, identify these popular middle grade series, all named after their protagonists: a. This medieval-inspired series by Angie Sage revolves around the seventh son of a seventh son with extraordinary magical powers. Most books in this series are titled after a common English word unusually spelled with a Y, such as “Flyte” and “Magyk.” ANSWER: Septimus Heap b. Among the initiators of the “smart middle grade” trend was this series about an Irish boy genius and his discovery of fairies. Its author later went on to finish the last book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. ANSWER: Artemis Fowl c. The effect of this series’ brilliantly conceived structure was ruined by Scholastic’s refusal to publish the fifth book, forcing its author to republish with Tor. Known for its extreme absurdism, villains in this series are named after mountains, while heroes are named after prisons, including its eponymous character. ANSWER: Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians [accept either underlined portion] <Literature> [JC] 4. The fourth book in a lesbian romance series by Aurora Rey is named Autumn’s [this word]. In The Comedy of Errors, Dromio of Syracuse complains about wenches described by this word. Drafting is a magic system that controls one aspect of this word. The last Wheel of Time novel is titled for a memory of (*) this word, which also titles a Shel Silverstein collection about this word in the attic. The Declaration of Independence warns about changing governments for causes that are “[this word] and transient.” Tsugumi Ohba is best known for writing a series about a character with this name and his rival L; that manga is Death Note. For 10 points, an Anthony Doerr novel is titled for all of what word that we cannot see, referring to a character’s blindness? ANSWER: Light [anti-prompt on color by asking “the color of what?”] <Literature> [JC] 4. Nine years before this composer’s first Oscar-nominated soundtrack, he was briefly seen in the music video of The Buggles’s “Video Killed the Radio Star.” For 10 points each: a. Name this film composer known for fusing orchestral and electronic music. This frequent collaborator with Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan’s recent works include Blade Runner 2049 and Wonder Woman 1984. ANSWER: Hans Florian Zimmer b. Hans Zimmer collaborated with Lisa Gerrard (“juh-RAHRD”) for the score of this 2000 Ridley Scott film which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. This film’s vocal song “Now We Are Free” occurs after the climactic fight with Commodus. ANSWER: Gladiator c. For the vocal parts of the Gladiator score, Zimmer originally wanted to collaborate with this Israeli Yemenite singer who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in February 2000. This singer of The Prince of Egypt’s “Deliver Us” was known in the West as The Israeli Madonna and was known for worldbeat songs such as “Galbi” and “Im Nin’Alu.” ANSWER: Ofra Haza [or Bat-Sheva Ofra Haza-Ashkenazi] <Film> [BJ] 5. This is the cost of the card “Combat Cycle” in Calculords, and in vanilla Terra Mystica, it is (emphasize) half the number of faction combinations available in a two-player game. The minor planet with this numerical designation is named “Isis.” It’s not 14, but in some versions of the Osiris myth, the god’s body is divided into this many pieces, one for each traditional Egyptian nome. An inquiry about this number was finally solved in 2019 and involves the (*) cube of a seventeen-digit negative number. A fictional inquiry about this number is resolved by drawing Scrabble tiles from a bag and suggests that it is the product of six and nine, which is true in base 13. For 10 points, give the sum of all pips on two standard, six-sided dice and the only jersey number to be retired from every Major League Baseball team. ANSWER: 42 <Miscellaneous> [MS] 5.