Subject: Caltech Crunchy Frog (Trash B) Toss-ups
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:15:13 -0700
From: [email protected] (Asmin Pathare)
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>From [email protected] Fri Apr 4 04:50:06 1997
From: [email protected] (Richard Mason)
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 97 04:50:49 PST
Subject: Caltech Crunchy Frog (Trash B) Toss-ups
UCLA Trash Tournament April 1997
Caltech Crunchy Frog a.k.a. Richard's Pack
Sports question by Albert Chiu; all other questions by Richard Mason
TOSS-UPS
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1. Contrary to popular belief, the title of this song is not "Sail
Away, Sail Away, Sail Away..." For a quick ten points, give the real
title of the song that made Enya a star, which contains the name of
the river near the mouth of which Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked.
ANSWER: _ORINOCO FLOW_
2. He was just seven when his dad was jailed for killing a federal
judge, but now he's investigated the case himself. He told Barbara
Walters, "I know my father was a CIA operative." He claims that his
father was framed by the Agency and didn't receive a fair trial. For
ten points, identify the Academy-Award-nominated actor and yoga expert
who plans to take his father's case back to court.
ANSWER: Woody _HARRELSON_
3. This character started out as a redshirt with no name. After a few
episodes the writers gave him a name and he started to develop a
personality. He evolved into a significant role, got married, and
made the leap to another Star Trek series, where he is one of the
leading characters. For ten points, identify this engineer and former
transporter chief.
ANSWER: Chief Miles _O'BRIEN_
4. She briefly studied chemical engineering at Northwestern but gave
it up. Early in her career she was called "Baby Gia" because of her
striking resemblance to now-dead model Gia Carangi. She appeared on
the cover of Vanity Fair shaving k.d. lang; this did nothing to stifle
rumors of her bisexuality. For ten points, name this woman who is
probably the world's most widely recognized supermodel.
ANSWER: Cindy _CRAWFORD_
5. In 1969, he became the Houston Astros' first twenty game winner. In
1979, he became the club's principal color analyst on radio and
television, in addition to making several network television
appearances. For ten points, name the man who this year will be in the
dugout as the Astros' twelfth manager.
ANSWER: Larry _DIERKER_
6. All of Britain was stunned when this group revealed that they were
supporters of the Conservative Party, saying that John Major was a
"boring pillock" but better than the alternatives. I don't know what
the hell a "zigah-zigah" is, but apparently they really really want
one, according to their hit single "Wannabe". For ten points,
identify this remarkably brainless girl group from Nottingham.
ANSWER: _SPICE GIRLS_
7. This once-precious substance has to be vomited up to be useful; if
it passes through the intestines it is contaminated with excrement.
Thus chapter 91 of _Moby Dick_ is probably incorrect when it shows
Stubb successfully recovering six handfuls from the guts of a dead
whale. For ten points, identify this sort of aged whale sputum,
formed around indigestible squid parts, that has historically been
used in perfumes.
ANSWER: _AMBERGRIS_
8. "No Jumbo Sized Cocktail Rats were harmed during the production of
this motion picture." "No Ambrosia was spilled, spoiled, or in any
way harmed during the production of this motion picture. (Thanks to
the indefinite shelf life of marshmallows.)" "No Bible myths or icons
were irreparably mangled during the production of this motion
picture." These are a sampling of the disclaimers appearing at the
end of most episodes of, for ten points, what television show
featuring a mighty princess, forged in the heat of battle?
ANSWER: _XENA_: Warrior Princess
9. This class of diseases, caused by overproduction of reddish
constituents of heme, may have contributed to the legends of vampires
and werewolves. Sufferers become sensitive to light and may blister
on exposure to sunlight; they experience abdominal pain and become
mentally disturbed. They are often anemic and conceivably could try
to treat themselves by drinking blood. For ten points, identify
this disease, also thought to have caused the madness of King George III.
ANSWER: _PORPHYRIA_
10. In order to tune one of these to detect cocaine, take a Polaroid
photograph of some cocaine and repeatedly enlarge it with an office
copier, until the molecular structure can be seen. Insert a small
piece of the picture into the device and you're ready to find drugs by
their molecular frequency. A year ago school districts and police
departments across America were buying this device for $995 apiece
until the FBI Economic Crimes Unit stepped in. For ten points,
identify this "high-tech" dowsing rod.
ANSWER: _QUADRO_ QRS 250G Tracker
11. To give you a reference point, in 1635, one florin would buy you
about eight pounds of cheese. On the other hand, an Admiral Van der
Eyck cost 1260 florins; a Viceroy cost 3000 florins; an Admiral
Liefken cost 4400 florins; and a single Semper Augustus cost 5500
florins. For ten points, these were all roots of what type of plant,
whose prices were driven insanely high by a speculative mania in
seventeenth-century Holland?
ANSWER: _TULIPS_
12. Face cards and tens are counted as zero; all others take their
number value. The value of a hand is the sum of the cards modulo ten,
so an 8 and a 5 add to 3. Players aim for a count of 9, or as close
as they can get, with two or three cards. For ten points, what is
this game, the Chemin de Fer variation of which was introduced at Las
Vegas in the 1950s?
ANSWER: _BACCARAT_ or _BACCARA_
13. "Misc.writing" and hundreds of other Usenet newsgroups were
spammed by ads from this agency offering to represent new writers.
When people including Jayne Hitchcock and Jack Mingo pointed out that
the company was a scam, the mysterious people behind this operation
began a campaign of harrassment, forging email in Hitchcock's name and
putting her phone number on alt.sex groups, and telling the FBI that
Mingo was making death threats. For ten points, identify this
shady business.
ANSWER: The _WOODSIDE_ Literary Agency
14. At the Golden Raspberry Awards two weeks ago, this film collected
the awards for Worst Song, Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, Worst
Actress, Worst On-Screen Couple, and Worst Picture. For ten points,
identify this tale of a congressman in the pocket of Miami sugar
interests, and the single mother with whom he develops an obsession.
ANSWER: _STRIPTEASE_
15. New York Post reporter A.J. Benza claimed in print to have seen
this man drinking a beer in the Mondrian Hotel Sky Bar in L.A. That
would constitute a violation of this man's parole, since he is on
probation for cocaine possession. For ten points, who claims that he
wasn't even in Los Angeles on that day, but in Savannah, Georgia,
working on a film with Roger Altman?
ANSWER: _ROBERT DOWNEY_, Jr.
16. He played goalie for a hockey team, jumped out of a troop
transport plane, and helped the U.S. Dream Team play basketball. Good
thing those Rold Gold pretzels are low in fat. For ten points,
identify this "Seinfeld" star.
ANSWER: Jason _ALEXANDER_
17. He studied armor warfare in England, but he never liked the
country. When England closed his country's embassy in London, he was
so incensed that he ordered England deleted from all maps in his
country. It was replaced by sea, so that Scotland and Wales became
separate islands. Believe it... or not. For ten points, identify
this man of many transliterations.
ANSWER: Muammar _KADDAFI_
18. One timber and one brick build a road. One timber, one brick, one
wheat and one wool build one settlement. Two wheat and three ore
upgrade a settlement to a city. The robber prowls the land. For ten
points, identify this award-winning boardgame originating in Germany,
which unfortunately is hard to get in the US right now since Mayfair
Games went belly-up.
ANSWER: _DIE SIEDLER_ Von Catan (or: The _SETTLERS OF CATAN_)
19. Terry Gilliam has periodically been interested in doing a film
adaptation of this, which he calls the "War and Peace" of comic books,
although the movie would have to be three and a half hours long.
Gilliam has even been seen wearing a bloodied smiley badge. If you
read one superhero comic book in your life it should probably be, for
ten points, what Alan Moore masterpiece, featuring the characters
Rorschach, Ozymandias, Nite Owl, and Dr. Manhattan?
ANSWER: _WATCHMEN_
20. In the first season of "Mad About You", they were played by Paul
Dooley and Nancy Dussault. In the third season, they were played by
John Karlen and Penny Fuller. In the hundredth episode and
subsequently, they have been played by Carroll O'Connor and Carol
Burnett. For ten points, identify these characters, mysteriously
absent from the second and fourth seasons.
ANSWER: _GUS AND THERESA STEMPLE_ or _MR. AND MRS. STEMPLE_
or _JAMIE'S PARENTS_
21. Mattel, which manufactures the "See 'n' Say" line of talking toys,
is pursuing a lawsuit against her for using that copyrighted phrase
to sell her sex-related products and services on the Internet. For
ten points, identify this woman with a doctorate in education whose
web site hawks her "Encyclopedia of Sex" and "Sex for Dummies".
ANSWER: Dr. Ruth _WESTHEIMER_
22. The high-speed driving sequence at the beginning of the movie is
through Edinburgh's New Town, where the apartment is supposedly
located, but in fact the spacious apartment was really a warehouse in
Glasgow. The three occupants of the apartment delight in humiliating
applicants for the vacant fourth room. When they finally accept
a roommate, he dies of a drug overdose, in, for ten points, what
1995 movie directed by Danny Boyle?
ANSWER: _SHALLOW GRAVE_
23. This syndicated show, hosted by Shannon Lee, is one of the
clearest examples of the stupidity of the current TV ratings system.
It consists of practically nothing but violence and mayhem, but is
rated "G" since the targeted viewers are young children. For ten
points, identify this show where martial artists endlessly fight one
another to gain "ki" [kee] symbols and ultimately the coveted Dragon
Star Championship.
ANSWER: _WMAC MASTERS_
24. They were said to be emitted by every substance except dead wood.
They could be refracted by prisms and lenses made out of aluminum.
After they were discovered in 1903 by the distinguished French
physicist Rene Blondlot, many scientists reported seeing them, until
Robert Wood showed that, for ten points, what kind of radiation was
only wishful thinking on the part of experimenters?
ANSWER: _N RAYS_
25. His Gospel, discovered among Coptic Gnostic papyri found in 1945,
is not considered canonical. It relates acts of Jesus such as turning
a stone into a bird for a child to play with, and magically improving
a wooden chair made by Joseph. For ten points, identify this apostle,
who was the first to acknowledge Jesus' divinity, but only after he
had been provided with first-hand proof.
ANSWER: _THOMAS_ (accept Gospel According to Thomas on an interrupt)
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Subject: Caltech Crunchy Frog (Trash B) Bonuses
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:15:20 -0700
From: [email protected] (Asmin Pathare)
To: [email protected], [email protected]
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>From [email protected] Fri Apr 4 04:50:25 1997
From: [email protected] (Richard Mason)
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 97 04:51:04 PST
Subject: Caltech Crunchy Frog (Trash B) Bonuses
UCLA Trash Tournament April 1997
Caltech Crunchy Frog a.k.a. Richard's Pack
Sports question by Albert Chiu; all other questions by Richard Mason
BONUSES
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1. In the Simpsons episode "Homer the Great", the Stonecutters' song
lists eight nefarious things that the secret society of Stonecutters
does. For five points apiece, give any six of the eight.
ANSWER: The Stonecutters -- control the _BRITISH CROWN_
keep the _METRIC SYSTEM_ down
leave _ATLANTIS_ off the maps
keep the _MARTIANS_ under wraps
hold back the _ELECTRIC CAR_
make Steve _GUTENBERG_ a _STAR_
rob _CAVE-FISH_ of their _SIGHT_
_RIG_ every _OSCAR_ night
[Accept equivalents.]
2. If you watch the cartoon show "Gargoyles" and close your eyes, you
might think someone had changed the channel to "Star Trek". I'll name a
character on "Gargoyles"; you get five points for identifying the
actor who does the voice, and another five points for identifying their
"Star Trek" character.
a) David Xanatos (zah-nah-TOHS)
ANSWER: Jonathan _FRAKES_ --- Commander William _RIKER_
b) Demona
ANSWER: Marina _SIRTIS_ --- Counselor Deanna _TROI_
c) Puck
ANSWER: Brent _SPINER_ --- _DATA_
3. Identify the fictional drug from the slogan for ten points each.
a) "A gram is better than a damn."
ANSWER: _SOMA_
b) "It's a party in a can."
ANSWER: _JOOKY_ Cola
c) "It makes you feel like it's seventy-two degrees in your head all
the time."
ANSWER: _GLEEMONEX_
4. Answer the following about the movie "Blade Runner" for ten points each.
a) What generation of replicant were Roy Batty and his friends?
ANSWER: _NEXUS SIX_
b) What is the full name of the machine that measures emotional
response to questions (and determines whether or not you are a
replicant)?
ANSWER: _VOIGHT-KAMPFF_ machine (or test)
c) The chess game between Tyrell and Sebastian echoes a famous 1851
game between Anderssen and Kieseritzky, considered one of the most
brilliant of all time. By what nickname is this game known?
ANSWER: The _IMMORTAL_ Game
5. Do you like sushi? I'll give you the Japanese word for a type
of sushi, you give me the English translation for five points each.
a) hamachi (hah-mah-chee) ANSWER: _YELLOWTAIL_
b) saba (sah-bah) ANSWER: _MACKEREL_
c) maguro (mah-goo-roh) ANSWER: _TUNA_
d) tamago (tah-mah-goh) ANSWER: _EGG_
e) tako (tah-koh) ANSWER: _OCTOPUS_
f) ebi (eh-bee) ANSWER: _SHRIMP_
6. This is a musical urban geography question. Identify these
neighborhoods which are discussed in old songs for ten points each.
a) Ten cents won't command the services of a boot-boy in this pricey
area of New York.
ANSWER: _BROADWAY_
b) Lycanthropes seek Oriental delicacies in this district of London.
ANSWER: _SOHO_
c) If you go to this part of Chicago you'd be well advised to watch
out for Leroy Brown.
ANSWER: _SOUTH SIDE_
7. Ever wanted a love potion? Real aphrodisiacs do exist, but they
have drawbacks. Answer the following questions for ten points each.
a) The "blister beetle" _Lytta vesicatoria_ secretes a substance
called cantharidin, which stimulates sexual arousal by irritating the
urinary tract. It works when fed to male cattle, but in humans it
produces skin blisters on contact and ingesting it is hazardous. What
is the common name for _Lytta vesicatoria_?
ANSWER: _SPANISH FLY_
b) This alkaloid derived from the bark of an African tree works in a
similar manner to Spanish fly. Unfortunately small doses may only
have a placebo effect. Doses large enough to have a physical effect
are toxic. What is this substance?
ANSWER: _YOHIMBINE_ (accept _YOHIMBE_ tree bark)
c) This substance, with chemical formula C 21 H 22 N 2 O 2, causes
sexual arousal, and generally increased sensitivity, by increasing the
reflex irritability of the spinal cord. If you give it to your loved
one, be careful with the dosage or you'll be tried for murder.
What is this deadly poison?
ANSWER: _STRYCHNINE_
8. Given the name of a type of fortune-telling, identify the
mechanism used to foresee the future, for ten points each.
a) Oneiromancy. ANSWER: Divination by _DREAMS_
b) Tephromancy. ANSWER: Divination by _ASHES_
c) Astragalomancy. ANSWER: Divination by _DICE_
9. Identify the company, 30/20/10:
(30) -- The advertising agency BBDO West made a television commercial for
this company that won the 1995 Grand Clio Award in the TV category.
(20) -- The award-winning commercial was called "Bridge".
(10) -- The award-winning commercial featured footage of the Tacoma
Narrows disaster.
ANSWER: Auto CD / _PIONEER_
10. Identify the crackpot from a description for ten points each.
a) This tenured Iowa State math professor made the cover of Weekly
World News a few years back with his plan to make Earth a paradise
by blowing up the Moon.
ANSWER: Alexander _ABIAN_
b) This biologist's theory of "morphic resonance" holds that tasks get
easier after someone does them. Thus, it is easier for you to do a
crossword puzzle if someone on the other side of the world has already
done it.
ANSWER: Rupert _SHELDRAKE_
c) This Apollo 14 astronaut attempted to send his brain waves
back from outer space to psychics on Earth. He was later a fan
of Uri Geller, and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to
support all things flaky.
ANSWER: Edgar _MITCHELL_
11. Given the recipe, identify the popular mixed drink for ten points
each.
a) 2 ounces vodka, 1 ounce kahlua, fill with light cream.
ANSWER: _WHITE RUSSIAN_
b) 1 ounce vodka, 3/4 ounce peach schnapps, fill with cranberry juice
and grapefruit juice
ANSWER: _SEX ON THE BEACH_
c) 1 ounce vodka, 1 ounce triple sec, 1 ounce lime juice
ANSWER: _KAMIKAZE_
12. Identify the cerebral science fiction writer, 30/20/10:
(30) -- While he was an engineer working for Procter and Gamble,
he designed the machine that makes Pringles potato chips.
(20) -- He is a devout Catholic, but he believes that the pagan
gods of antiquity were in some sense real. The Olympian
gods appear frequently in his two books about a early
Latin-speaking soldier from the army of Xerxes.
(10) -- Probably his best known work is the five-volume Book of
the New Sun.
ANSWER: _GENE WOLFE_
13. Siskel and Ebert don't like to predict who actually WILL win the
Oscars, but they're willing to say beforehand who they think SHOULD
win. Answer the following for ten points each:
a) Which movie did both Siskel and Ebert pick this year as Best
Picture?
ANSWER: _FARGO_
b) Whose nomination did Siskel choose as the least-deserved Oscar
Nomination of the year?
ANSWER: Lauren _BACALL_
(Best Supporting Actress for "The Mirror has Two Faces")
c) Whose nomination did Ebert choose as the least-deserved Oscar
Nomination of the year?
ANSWER: Kenneth _BRANAGH_
(Best Adapted Screenplay for "Hamlet")
14. a) At a Christmas party, one of them pulled up his shirt and
demanded that female co-workers "pay homage to his physique". For ten
points each, which two producers of "The X Files" are being sued for
sexual harassment for, among other things, displaying pornographic
magazines and tapes with titles such as the "Sex Files"?
ANSWER: Chris _CARTER_ and Howard _GORDON_
b) For an additional ten points, what obscure B-movie has become a
hot video rental since it features a 30-second nude scene by
Gillian Anderson, who plays Agent Scully on the X-Files?
ANSWER: _THE TURNING_
15. Answer the following about James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of
Martin Luther King, Jr., for ten points each.
a) In what country was Ray arrested after the assassination?
ANSWER: _ENGLAND_ (accept _GREAT BRITAIN_, etc.)
b) Ray claims that he was set up by a mysterious man known to him by
what name?
ANSWER: _RAOUL_
c) Who is Ray's attorney, currently working to re-open his case?
ANSWER: William _PEPPER_
16. Your question writer has been to Harvard and Caltech, which
inspires this bonus -- for five points each, were the following people
Harvard graduates, Harvard drop-outs, Caltech graduates, Caltech
drop-outs, some combination, or none of the above?
a) William Henry Gates III. ANSWER: _HARVARD DROP-OUT_
b) Buckminster Fuller ANSWER: _HARVARD DROP-OUT_
c) Larry Niven ANSWER: _CALTECH DROP-OUT_
d) Jerry Harrison ANSWER: _HARVARD GRADUATE_
e) Frank Capra ANSWER: _CALTECH GRADUATE_
f) Edward Albee ANSWER: _NONE OF THE ABOVE_
17. a) For ten points, what TV show features Bryan Callen, David
Herman, Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr, Artie Lange, Mary Scheer, Nicole
Sullivan, and Debra Wilson?
ANSWER: _MAD TV_
b) For five points apiece, what two MAD TV characters are the
anchors for "X News"?
ANSWER: _AMY_ and _MARSH_
c) For a final ten points, in what movie does a cyborg from the future
travel back in time to protect Jesus Christ from termination?
ANSWER: _THE GREATEST ACTION STORY EVER TOLD_
18. Identify the actress, 30/20/10:
(30) -- For three years she played the nefarious Blake Thorpe on the soap
opera, "The Guiding Light".
(20) -- She played Laura Kelly, the estranged wife of David Caruso's
character on "NYPD Blue".
(10) -- She played Dr. Susan Lewis on the medical drama, "ER".
ANSWER: Sherry _STRINGFIELD_
19. Answer the following questions about Pink Floyd for ten points
each.
a) Which Pink Floyd song has the shortest title?
ANSWER: _IF_
b) Which Pink Floyd song has the longest title?
ANSWER: _SEVERAL SPECIES OF SMALL FURRY ANIMALS GATHERED TOGETHER IN
A CAVE AND GROOVING WITH A PICT_
c) Which Boomtown Rat played the character "Pink Floyd" in the film
version of "The Wall"?
ANSWER: Bob _GELDOF_
20. Answer the following for ten points each.
a) What religious cult, arising out of Yoruba traditions and
incorporating elements of Roman Catholicism, was developed in
Cuba before spreading to neighboring islands and the United States?
ANSWER: _SANTERIA_
b) What term in Santeria refers to the emissaries of God, which
rule over the forces of nature and are also identified with saints?
ANSWER: _ORISHAS_
c) This orisha is the owner of roads and doors and stands at the
crossroads. Because he is the opener of doors and roads, he is
always propitiated and called first in any ceremony.
ANSWER: _ELEGBA_ or _ELEGGUA_
21. Given a celebrity martial artist, identify the martial art he
practices for ten points each.
a) Jackie Chan. ANSWER: _KUNG FU_
b) Steven Seagal. ANSWER: _AIKIDO_
c) Jean Claude Van Damme. ANSWER: _KARATE_
22. Answer the following questions for ten points each.
a) Who wrote the novel "The Silence of the Lambs"?
ANSWER: Thomas _HARRIS_
b) Which novel by Harris is a prequel to "The Silence of the Lambs"
and also features Hannibal Lector?
ANSWER: _RED DRAGON_
c) In "The Silence of the Lambs", the newspapers referred to Jame Gumb
as "Buffalo Bill". By what fanciful name did the media refer to serial
killer Francis Dollarhyde in "Red Dragon"?
ANSWER: The _TOOTH FAIRY_
23. a) This past Tuesday, the 1997 Pigasus Award for the Scientist who
says or does the silliest thing related to the supernatural went to,
for ten points, what man, the head of the CIA's "remote viewing"
project which spent $20 million over 10 years on "gifted psychics"?
ANSWER: Ed _MAY_
b) For ten points apiece, what two Congressman were vocal supporters
of the CIA's psychic program, one a Senator from Rhode Island, the
other a Representative from North Carolina?
ANSWER: Sen. Claiborne _PELL_, Rep. Charlie _ROSE_
24. Francis Tresham's boardgame "1829", involving the rise of
railroads in nineteenth-century England, spawned a whole line of
"18xx" train games. Given the title of a game, identify the area in
which the players are building railroads, for ten points each.
a) "1835". ANSWER: _GERMANY_
b) "1853". ANSWER: Imperial _INDIA_
c) "1856". ANSWER: _CANADA_ (accept: southern _ONTARIO_)
25. The king of England had homosexual tendencies. Robert Kerr became
his lover, partly through the efforts of the king's secretary. Later
Kerr and the secretary had a falling out, and Kerr arranged for the
secretary to be imprisoned in the Tower of London and then poisoned to
death. When the murder was uncovered, Kerr was sentenced to death,
but the king would not sign the death warrant and only imprisoned him
for five years. For ten points each, identify the king, the king's
secretary, and the noble title by which Kerr was known.
ANSWER: King: _JAMES I_
Secretary: Sir Thomas _OVERBURY_
Kerr's title: Viscount _ROCHESTER_
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