Madman Pack 2: Electric Overdone Joke

1. The final level of a game in this series is set on a battleship which has a corridor full of microwave emitting equipment the player must crawl through. One enemy in this series can read the memory card of the player’s PlayStation and comments on the games they play; that enemy can only be defeated by unplugging the controller from the first player port to the second. The protagonist of this series is constantly told by his brother antagonist that his genetics are inferior, which does not prevent him from defeating him in combat several times. In the first game of this series taken places on Shadow Moses Island in Alaska, where the title objects are being built. For ten points, identify this series of stealth games that sees Solid Snake infiltrate hostile environments with the help of sophisticated technology and cardboard boxes.

ANSWER: Metal Gear Solid

2. Similar to the 400 Blows, the last shot of this film sees the young protagonist look behind him while standing on the beach, though not directly at the camera. In this film, one character informs another of Grandma’s rule: “you eat, you talk”. Those characters’ relationship is foreshadowed in a scene where they wrestle; in which one character tells another “I knew you weren’t soft”. The protagonist asks two adults about the definition of faggot in one scene in this film. The first and third chapters of this film are entitled Little and Black, two nicknames of the protagonist. In an early scene in this film, one character explains to another how they got the nickname Blue, explaining that the title phenomenon makes “black boys look blue”. That character, played by Mahershala Ali, teaches the protagonist how to swim. For ten points, identify this 2016 film about Chiron, a troubled African-American from Miami,

ANSWER: Moonlight

3. In one text, these thinkers compare themselves to a future head of state by claiming to be “up like” him, and describe how they read a magazine like the Bible. In another text, these thinkers refute the existence of multiple external substances, explaining “H20 lean same thing”. These thinkers wrote extensively about negative people, noting that they were “mad for whatever reason” and “I had haters when I was broke, I’m rich, I still got haters”. In a text supporting diversity, these thinkers rejected personality typologies, elaborating that the only thing their potential mate needed was to be “bad”. In another text, these thinkers imagine a place where no one lies, writing “they know better, they know better”. These thinkers compared their success to a famous rock band in one text, though they did not care to self-apotheosize like John Lennon. For ten points, identify these thinkers behind texts like No Type, No Flex Zone, and Black Beatles.

ANSWER: Rae Sremmerd or the brothers Brown or Swae Lee and Slim Jximmi

4. Description acceptable. Several painted whales and blue, shiny curtains are décor for this event’s aquatic theme. During this event, one character is told to scram because a douchebag is “cutting in”; that intruder is shoved to ground after one character says “excuse me”. Both of those things happen during the performance of a song that features the lyrics “my darling dear, love you all the time”. A man makes a phone call during this event, yelling “it’s your cousin, Marvin Berry” before putting the phone up to the music to show him “that new style you’re looking for”. The song Johnny B. Goode is introduced as “an oldie, at least where I come from”; a solo played at the end is received with confusion, with the performer explaining “I guess you’re not ready for that yet… but your kids will love it”. For ten points, identify this event that sees Marty McFly plays guitar at his parents’ high school

ANSWER: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance or the dance from Back to the Future

5. Description acceptable. In a black and white scene in one of these places in American History X, the mother of the protagonists tells their father “they don’t teach Tom Clancy in school” after he complains about his son

reading Native Son. In another scene in one of these places, Lester yells “don’t interrupt me honey” and expresses his own and his daughter’s dislike for “this Lawrence Welk shit”. In a scene in one of these places, one character admits she is voting for Dukakis and tells her brother to suck a fuck; that brother, Donnie, asks in response “oh please tell me Elizabeth how does one suck a fuck”. In another scene set in one of these places, Mr. Focker asks “I have nipples Greg, could you milk me?” For ten points, identify this kind of place where families gather ostensibly for predictably embarrassing moments or for loud arguments.

ANSWER: Dinner table or dining room (accept anything indicating people siting at a table to eat)

6. In one film from this country, one character shows how he edited a wedding video to reference 2001: A Space Odyssey; those characters produce fake news broadcasts after one of their mothers has a stroke. In another film from this country, a character writes the book “Sonata for a Good Man” dedicated to another character known as HGW XX/7. That book is named after a piece the author played for the other over a wire tap. Another film from this country sees a man who committed suicide resurrected and become a TV star because everyone thinks he is an actor. That man is also the primary character of a film that sees him enraged over Steiner’s inability to mount an attack. For ten points, identify this country, the setting of the Lives of Others and Downfall.

ANSWER: Germany (accept West or East Germany)

7. The last song on this album includes the lyrics “sometimes I get overcharged, that’s when you see sparks” and repeats the phrase “slow down” during the chorus. A song on this album was originally written for Baz Luhrmann’s film Romeo + Juliet, and plays over the credits of that film. The first song on this album begins with the lyrics “In the next World War, in a jackknifed juggernaut, I am born again”. A short track on this album describes someone who is “concerned but powerless, an empowered and informed member of society”; that song, Fitter Happier, is read by a computerized voice. A song on this album includes the lyrics “ambition makes you look pretty ugly” and “when I am king, you will be the first against the wall”. The outro of another song

on this album repeats the lines “for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself” and a chorus that repeats the lines “this is what you’ll get”. For ten points, identify this 1997 album by Radiohead that includes the songs Paranoid and Karma Police.

ANSWER: OK Computer

8. A music video for a song by this artist includes narration that notes “You almost wish you could have all that bad stuff back, so you could have the good”. An underrated album by this artist begins with a song that includes the lyrics “I came fluttering in from Neverland” and “let me cover your shit in glitter”. Another song on that album includes the lyrics “what are you willing to do” and “kiss kiss it better baby”. A song by this artist includes the lyrics “hold me like a pillow, make me feel alright” and “like I’m the only one who knows your heart”. A song by this artist begins with the line “yellow diamonds in the light”, while another describes someone who is beautiful like “diamonds in the sky”. Another song by this artist affirms “now that is raining more than ever, know that we still have each other”. For ten points, identify this artist behind songs like We Found Love and Umbrella.

ANSWER: Rihanna or Robyn Rihanna Fenty

9. Description acceptable. One of these actions leads to the foundation of a radio station in a treehouse operated by Double T. In a surprisingly dark episode, one of these actions leads to an episode that closely follows the plot of It’s A Wonderful Life; that action can only be reversed by finding someone worse off from it, which is revealed at the end to be a test after everyone really is better off after. One of these actions leads to the alien Mark Chang coming to Earth from Yugopotamia to take a babysitter to his planet. One of these actions greatly improves the baseball playing ability Chester, whose father wears a bag on his head, and leads to the defeat of the New York Bankees. The first of these actions results in the protagonist turning into an adult, who cannot be granted wishes according to Da Rules. For ten points, identify these actions performed by Cosmo and Wanda that fulfill the desires of Timmy Turner on Fairly Odd Parents.

ANSWER: a wish made by Timmy Turner

10. A song tells a young person with this profession “don't let it get to your head” because “the road is long and filled with danger”. In a board game inspired by this profession, players begin with pink star-shaped chips before travelling a map and acquiring other chips of increasing value. In one work, an elite man of this profession can be met in Meteor Falls after being replaced in one role by Wallace. In one game, an NPC with this profession tells the player that he loves shorts, because they are “comfortable and easy to wear”. The most famous song about this profession begins with the lyrics “I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was”. For ten points, identify this profession of Gary Oak, Misty, Brock, and Ash Ketchum that seeks to “catch ‘em all”.

ANSWER: Pokemon trainer or pokemon master or pokemon champion

BONUSES

1. Identify some examples of man’s best friend in movies, FTPE:

[10] This film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston and the title dog. Wilson’s character John Grogan writes about the title dog’s antics in a newspaper column.

ANSWER: Marley & Me

[10] In an unbelievably long series, this dog plays all sorts of sports, including basketball, soccer, and volleyball in Spikes Back. Characters cite the fact that there isn’t a rule that a dog can’t play the sport central to the movie.

ANSWER: Air Bud

[10] In Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon’s character Elle owns a dog with this name. In 2016 she confirmed that this dog had died in a sad Instagram post. That dog with this name is not to be confused with the larger dog that Elle secures for her friend from her dead beat ex-boyfriend.

ANSWER: Bruiser Woods

2. Neil Cicirega recently released his third mashup album, Mouth Moods, to positive reviews. Answer some questions about the songs mashed up on the album, for the stated amount of points:

[5] Neil’s previous album Mouth Sounds was mostly mashups of this song by Smash Mouth, which begins with the lyrics “Somebody once told me”. This song is not heard as much on Mouth Moods, but is in a mashup with Under Pressure.

ANSWER: All Star

[5 each] Neil mashed up the vocals of this song by Was (Not Was) that includes the lyrics “Open the door, get on the floor” with the instrumental to this Beatles song that normally includes lyrics “the sun is up, the sky is blue, it’s beautiful and so are you”.

ANSWER: Walk the Dinosaur and Dear Prudence

[5 each] On another track, Neil combined this song by Survivor with Need You Tonight by this band. The lyrics of the Survivor song are cut to almost exclusively be about the title animal, though it still includes lyrics about “rising up” and “the thrill of the fight”.

ANSWER: Eye of the Tiger and INXS

[5] Neil composed a spoof of Revolution 9, utilizing a clip of Lou Bega announcing the title of this song instead of “number 9, number 9”. A murky version of the bass line to All Star can be heard during the track.

ANSWER: Mambo No. 5

3. You are grunge musician in the 1990s who wants to be famous for your gravely voice and all 3 of the plaid shirts you have bought with money you earn working at the seediest thrift stores. Answer some questions about bands you are almost certainly going to copy completely, FTPE:

[10] Perhaps you will adopt the nose yodeling of Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, best known for this song about a child bullied in school. In the music video, the title character of this song shoots himself in the head, and his daddy “didn’t give attention to the fact that mommy didn’t care”.

ANSWER: Jeremy

[10] You are grateful for the success of this 1991 album by Nirvana in opening up grunge music to the mainstream. You wish to write a song as iconic as this album’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, or at least as good as tracks like Come As You Are or Lithium. Perhaps you will not include a naked baby your own album cover.

ANSWER: Nevermind

[10] Maybe you think that Nirvana sold out with Nevermind and prefer this first album by Nirvana, which includes songs like Sifting and Big Cheese. The song About a Girl on this album includes the line “But I can’t see you every night, free” and the cover is an inverted colour picture of the band.

ANSWER: Bleach

4. After starring in this film, the actor had an epiphany about the way he treated women that he did not consider attractive, a story he told in an emotional interview. For ten points each:

[10] Identify this film that sees the actor Michael Dorsey dress as a woman to get a role on a hospital soap opera.

ANSWER: Tootsie

[10] This actor, the star of Tootsie, also played the title character of Rain Man who can count dropped toothpicks extraordinarily quickly. Another character played by this actor asks the famous question “Mrs. Robinson are you trying to seduce me?”

ANSWER: Dustin Hoffman

[10] Hoffman played an existential detective in this David O. Russell film, in which protagonist played by Jason Schwartzman seeks to have a coincidence regarding a tall Sudanese man investigated. Vivian, played by Lily Tomlin, and Hoffman’s character Bernard have an ongoing beef with their ex-student, the depressing author Catherine Vauban, who instructs two characters to hit each other with exercise balls to stop thinking in this film.

ANSWER: I Heart Huckabee’s

5. The internet has a long history of what experts call “single serving websites”. FTPE:

[10] Dank internet users have taken to linking people to this website when good humour is present. The website is solely the title two words in black letters on a white background, with a man’s voice announcing the two words. It’s domain uses a Montenegrin domain name.

ANSWER: Niceme.me

[10] Question sites like IsMargaretThatcherDead.co.uk show this word in big letters, answering the title question positively. Some will only display this word and nothing else. The paper on isthisyourpaperonsingleservingsites.com also features this word in large print.

ANSWER: Yes

[10] The sexy voice in this website claims you can do anything on this website, which only consists of the address in multi-coloured letters and rotating circles. The only limit is yourself and the unattainable is unknown on this website.

ANSWER: Zombo.com or Zombo Com

6. Pronunciation guides will not be provided for the following bonus because Danish makes some very weird sounds. Answer some questions about the New Nordic Cuisine movement, FTPE:

[10] New Nordic Cuisine is centered around this city, home of the 4-time #1 ranked restaurant in the world Noma, in its Christianhavn neighbourhood. Noma is currently closed and will reopen as an urban farm in this city on Zealand.

ANSWER: Copenhagen

[10] Noma is run by Claus Meyer and this chef of Albanian descent. This chef forages for ingredients to use for crazy dishes at Noma, which have included live ants and moss.

ANSWER: René Redzepi

[10] Despite not originating in Europe, New Nordic cuisine utilizes the “new” form of this crop, which are unprocessed and brought to the market right after being harvested and are often served alongside meat.

ANSWER: New potatoes

7. An expansion to a game in this series introduced the Huns, who did not need to construct houses. FTPE:[10] This historical series included a classic second entry set during the Middle Ages, which included monks that converted enemy units to your side and collected relics. The third entry in this series is set during the colonization of the New World and include the Ottomans and the Portuguese as playable factions.

ANSWER: Age of Empires

[10] A level in the added campaigns of the Age of Conqueror expansion for the second game in the series depicts La Noche Triste, a battle that occurred in this civilization’s capital. This civilization uses Eagle Warriors, fast soldiers that replace cavalry units.

ANSWER: Aztecs

[10] In the second expansion of Age of Empires III, this civilization recruits it villagers with wood, for whatever reason. Because wood is collected at a slower rate than gold and food, this civilization was considered weak on release.

ANSWER: India

8. For some reason, this reality TV show had a cross over episode with iCarly. FTPE:

[10] The intro of this show, starring Rick Harrison, explains how he works at his store with his old man and his son, and that you never know what is going to come through that door. Things that have come through that door include an 1890 Horchkiss cannon and a Jimi Hendrix guitar that he did not buy.

ANSWER: Pawn Stars

[10] This first spin off of Pawn Stars features Rick Dale, an expert that appeared many times on the show. This show depicted the fixing and repairing of antique items in Rick’s shop for 6 seasons before a seventh season featuring Bodie Stroud Industries.

ANSWER: American Restoration

[10] Another show focusing on America’s obsession with junk is this show that revolves around quick auctions of the random contents in a locker. Personalities on this show include the Sheets brothers and the married couple of Jarrod Schultz and Brandi Passante.

ANSWER: Storage Wars

9. This song repeats the line “Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back” and describes the title group of people in 50 Cent music videos. FTPE:

[10] This song by P!nk declares “I don’t wanna be your” one of the title group of people and asks “Oh where, have the smart people gone”.

ANSWER: Stupid Girls

[10] Stupid Girls is on the album I’m Not Dead, which also features this political song that asks “and what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?” and “how do you sleep while the rest of us cry?”. This song also describes children “all sitting in your cells, while you pave the road to hell”.

ANSWER: Dear Mr. President

[10] On the song Just Give Me a Reason, P!nk (say P-exclamation mark-nk) collaborated with Nate Ruess, the lead singer of this band with an equally annoying name behind songs like We Are Young and Some Nights.

ANSWER: Fun. (say Fun-period)

10. Answer some questions about historical figures and places commemorated in reggae songs, for ten points each.

[10] An emperor of this modern-day country is an important figure in Rasta so he is logically a subject of reggae songs, including a Bob Marley song that calls him “the Chapel”. Reggae group The Abyssinians are titled after this country’s historical name.

ANSWER: Ethiopia

[10] In the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, Jimmy Cliff sings about the Rivers of this city. In the biblically-inspired song Exodus, Bob Marley sang “we’re leaving” this city to echo the Jewish captivity there before Cyrus the Great

ANSWER: Babylon

[10] This reggae band released an album titled after Marcus Garvey, owner of the Black Star line. A song by this band asks “do you remember the days of slavery” and they released an instrumental version of Marcus Garvey called Garvey’s Ghost.

ANSWER: Burning Spear

HALF 2 TOSSUPS

11. Description acceptable. (15) One of these places is located where Donald Trump Jr’s chin should have been. Kate Moss is mistaken for a Pakistani family that cuts the line at Universal Studios in one of these places. Another one of these places is called Booooooooof and is located in an abandoned orphanage in the Lower Lower East Side of Chelsea. One of these places called Taste has 10 jacked homeless guys in old-fashioned bathing suits instead of a bouncer and 300-pound Chinese baby as a DJ. One of these places is called Gush and answers the question “Nooow?” and another is called Spicy is operated on the Upper East Side of a dumpster. Another one of these places is called “Kevin?” is managed by Blowjay Simpson and has a VIP room for football jellyfish. For fifteen points, identify these nightlife establishments described by Stefon on Weekend Update.

ANSWER: New York’s hottest clubs as described by Stefon (accept any answer involving Stefon or New York and nightclubs)

12. (15) In one shot in this anime, one character tells another that they look like a “ravenous beast… with a thirst for blood” below a stained glass window being throwing him out of it. The victim of that act recalls the one of the first shots of this anime, a red rose being dropped into a puddle which is later explained to be a flashback. In one episode, the main characters visit Venus, which has Middle-Eastern architecture and floating islands the drop spore that has blinded a character they meet. The main characters of this anime acquire a dog loaded with data that they name Ein, and the gambling-lover Faye Valentine is introduced in the next episode. One character is fond of the phrase “see you later space cowboy”, which is usually accompanied by

finger gun gesture. For fifteen points, identify this anime about the bounty hunter Spike, named for its jazzy soundtrack.

ANSWER: Cowboy Bebop

13. (15) In one scene, this character tells us how much she enjoys finding details films like Jules and Jim, but hates in American movies how people never watch the road. After this character’s mother buys her a camera, a neighbour makes her believe that by taking pictures she causes accidents; after realizing this was a lie, this character messes with the man’s TV antenna during an important soccer match. This character befriends an old man who repaints Luncheon of the Boating Party annually, who gives her romantic advice by talking in third person about a girl in the painting. In one scene, this character sets up an elaborate game in a park by drawing arrows and hiding from a man who collects the remains of ripped pictures from under photo booths. After hearing of the death of Princess Diana, this character including returning a box of old toys and kindling a romance between a co-worker and a regular at the café. For fifteen points, identify this title character of a 2001 French film, a shy young woman who resolves to better the lives of the people of Paris.

ANSWER: Amélie

14. (15) In one episode, this character explains that the best words for singing death metal start with the letters de, including decay, decrepit, deranged, and deloused. In another episode, this character imagined creatures like a fangly fish with a deck for dinner and dancing, El Pardack, and Sterance. This character’s backyard includes a white picket fence, behind which a bear-holding-shark once appeared, and a tire. In another episode, this character draws a dragon with consummate v’s and a beefy arm. This character then sings a song about the dragon, Trogdor, who burninates the countryside and thatched roof cottages. In an early episode, this character is asked how he types with boxing gloves on. For fifteen points, identify this luchador-inspired character from Homestarrunner.com that checks his emails in a long running series.

ANSWER: Strong Bad

15. (15) Not to be confused with a similar song about Notorious B.I.G., Diana Ross’ song Missing You commemorates this person. Along with singer Jackie Wilson, the original version of the Commodores’ song Nightshift is a tribute to this person. That song begins with the line this artist, “he was a friend of mine” and later alludes to one of his songs by singing “aw talk to me, so you can see” before namedropping his 1971 album. A horrible nu-wop song titled after this artist somehow uses this man’s name as a verb and claims “you’ve got that healing that I want”. That song also features Meghan Trainor and repeats the lines “just like they say in the songs” and “I’m saying mercy, mercy please”. For fifteen points, identify this soul artist who was tragically murdered by his father in 1984 and is best known for songs like “What’s Goin’ On” and “Let’s Get It On”.

ANSWER: Marvin Gaye

16. (15). 2-step originated in this city as an offshoot of garage music. The artist Burial, known for his future garage album Untrue, is from this city A rapper from this city, begins a verse with the lyrics “Everybody thinks to MC tough/Your lyrics must be about negative stuff” and repeats the line “if you don’t wanna dance to the beat, just bop your head to the beat”. That rapper, JME, references that song in a guest verse on That’s Not Me, a song by another rapper from this city. Other songs by that artist, Skepta, include Man and Shutdown, which begins with a sample of a Drake vine. For fifteen points, identify this European city, the birthplace of Grime music and the largest home of UK Garage.

ANSWER: London

17. Description acceptable. (25) It’s not a sequel to the award-winning film The King’s Speech, but at the resolution of this conflict, one of the participants wrote “your ego seeks conflict; it loves nothing better to win battles for you, sadly as it wins, you often lose respect and friendships” and that he now had not one, but two strongest allies. A participant in this conflict admitted online that if another participant came up to him and apologized, he would embrace him and called another participant in this conflict a “very passionate and humble person”. In announcing this conflict, one of the participants wrote that his enemy was acting “proudy” and that “those who shows me Attitude, I keep them under my foot”. A notable image created because of this conflict announces one participant’s support for Salman and condemnation of a former ally, who is portrayed in two clipped pictures with green X’s. That image announces “friendship ended with” one participant in this conflict. For twenty-five points, identify this online beef between two Pakistani friends.

ANSWER: Mudasir vs. Asif Facebook unfriending

18. (15) The first shots of this film show a monument in front of a river busy with boat traffic, before cutting to children going to school and holding lunchboxes. The last shot of this film shows the same river after a main character tells a friend dropping by that “I think the days will seem very long”. In this film, two characters visit their daughter-in-law after leaving early from a stay at a hot spring spa. One of the main characters encourages her host to find a new husband after the death of her son, while the other gets belligerently drunk with two old friends in this film. Those scenes come after Niroko takes her parents-in-law on a trolley-bus tour that ends on top of a skyscraper, where the two elderly visitors are awed by the view of the title city. For ten points, identify this film directed by Yasujiro Ozu that follows elderly Hirayama couple on a trip from their rural hometown of Onimichi to visit their children in the title city.

ANSWER: Tokyo Story

19. (15) It’s not indie or alternative or pigfuck, but the band Big Black recorded the fabulously named album Songs About Fucking and played a rock genre known by this word that also includes albums like Goat and Liar by The Jesus Lizard. Another Japanese artist, Merzbow, composes music in the “harsh” variety of a genre named for this word. Sonic Youth’s albums like EVOL and Daydream Nation are works in the rock genre known by this word. Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music is an infamously obnoxious album in a genre described with this word. A pun on a state name with this word, a reference to a song by Slade, is not actually part of the official title of Sufjan Stevens fifth album. For fifteen points, identify this abrasive and experimental genre that blurs the line of what is considered music.

ANSWER: Noise (accept drone I guess)

20. Description acceptable. (15) In the bridge of his song Habitat, Mos Def uses this lyrical device at the end of six lines. At the end of his song I Own Swag, Lil B uses this device while giving shout outs. A Ludacris song uses three letter digits instead of words when using this device to emphasize his sexual ability. On a song with Chris Brown, the most notable user of this device uses examples of it like “Down in DR they looking for visas”. That artist is also on the song On the Floor with Jennifer Lopez, in which both of them use this device at the end of each verse. For fifteen points, identify this device used frequently by Pitbull as part of his Mr. Worldwide persona.

ANSWER: Listing different places (accept any answer indicating involving cities or countries, anti-prompt on listening area codes)