Madman Pack 4: This would be in 4D but I can’t throw water or smells at you from a computer screen
Note: Don’t tell people this is tossup 0.
0. The title of a song by the Pop Group that begins with the line “my little girl was born of a ray of sound” is a
reference to an album by this artist. A song by this artist includes the lines “O man, take care! What does the deep
midnight declare?”. On one track, this artist claimed only the Englishman strives for happiness; that artist also said
that another group, who he calls “mostly Englishman”, do not amount to much. In a diss track about this artist,
another artist wrote that “he condemns Christian love because he thinks it is an outcome of fear”. An album by this
artist includes tracks called Why I Am So Clever, Why I Am So Wise, and Why I Write Such Good Books. On a
song about monsters, this artist wrote “and if you gaze into the abyss long enough, the abyss will stare back at you”.
The Kanye West song Stronger references this artist’s line “that which does not kill us, makes us stronger”. For ten
points, identify this rapper who recorded albums like Ecce Homo and Beyond Good and Evil.
ANSWER: MC Frederich Nietzsche or Yung Nietzsche or A$AP Nietz$che
1. DLC maps in the first game with this subtitle include a research station in Alaska called Discovery, and
Hazard, a Cuban golf course with incredibly long sight lines. In the third game with this subtitle, Ruin is a
playable character that can slam the ground with Gravity Spikes to clear enemies in an area around the
player. A popular map from the first game with this subtitle was remade in the second as a movie studio, and
transformed the wooden structure at the center into a fake castle. Another map from the first game with this
subtitle featured two suburban 50s style homes and mannequins in a nuclear test facility; that map, Nuketown,
has been remade in the next two games with this subtitle. For ten points, identify this mini-series within the Call of
Duty franchise that begun with a game set in the Cold War that pitted the title covert American operatives against
the Spetsnaz.
ANSWER: Black Ops
2. The Flasstradamus remix of this group’s song Original Don is possibly the first use of the “damn son,
where’d you find this” soundbite. On a song by this group, Busy Signal repeats the title line “watch out for
this a di maddest lyrics”. An eccentric music video for a song by this group features several couples daggering
with psychedelic backgrounds. On another song by this group, Tarrus Riley and Ellie Goulding sing “there’s
an energy, when you hold me, when you touch me” before singing the title line. MØ has sung on several songs by
this group, including a song where she sings “save me from my rocking boat”. In that song, Justin Bieber sings “I’ll
be your life line tonight” on a song by this band. For ten points, identify this dancehall group behind songs like Pon
de Floor, Lean On, and Cold Water.
ANSWER: Major Lazer
3. After watching a documentary about tight roping, a character on this show walks on one himself with a
bicycle helmet on. In one episode of this show, a character misremembers another liking Spandau Ballet,
leading her to hire a fictional member of the band played by Edward Norton for a performance of their song
True. A couple in this show lose out on a place for their daughter at “the Harvard of Preschools” to an
interracial, disability-having lesbian couple who also have an adopted child; Cameron then pretends to be part
Cherokee in a vain attempt to be more diverse. The first episode of this show introduces us to the three main groups
of character individually, before revealing that they are all related. For ten points, identify this show that depicts the
lives of three generations of the Dunphy family.
ANSWER: Modern Family
4. In a song about this character’s naivety, another character admonishes “have you forgotten how put down
we are” and “it was beautiful, now it’s sour”. This character asks “why should you want to know, why are
you obsessed with fighting” to a group of impetuous men. In another song about this character, one person
sings in an outrageously low voice “we need a more permanent solution to our problem” before the group
gathered agrees this character Must Die. In one song, this character sings “I only want to say, that if there is a
way, take this cup away from me”. A song about this character begins “every time I look at you I don’t understand,
why you let the things you did get so out of hand”; that song, Superstar, is sung by Judas from Hell. For ten points,
identify this title character of a rock opera musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
ANSWER: Jesus Christ
5. Paradoxically, the idea that a character from this show is not a meme became a meme-in-itself, even if one
user got godly luck. A character leaves a fictional TV show on this show, saying “I must go my planets needs
me”, while a superhero says “the goggles, they do nothing”. A skiing character shaking his butt in ski gear led
to another meme . A newscaster says “I, for one, welcome my new overlords” in another meme from this show. In
a newer meme, a character on this show asked “am I out of touch? No, it is the kids who are wrong”. One character
from this show coined the phrasing “Worst”. X. Ever”. For ten points, identify this TV show that has given us
numerous memes from characters like Comic Book Guy and Principal Skinner.
ANSWER: The Simpsons
6. On the song Caroline, Aminé compares the title woman to Megan Good and this person. One song
describes how this person doesn’t talk during Sex and the City and gets Carrie Fever, and in another song
this person is compared to the Mona Lisa “but with better features”. A song by Drake entitled “Girls Love”
this person interpolates a chorus they sung, which notes “you actin’ kinda shady”. On the song All We Got,
Chance the Rapper compares his baby mama to this person and calls her Auntie. In a song on Watch the Throne, an
artist married to this person rhymes her name with Andre and claims she is worth three stacks. For ten points,
identify this artist described in several songs by her husband Sean Carter.
ANSWER: Beyoncé Knowles
7. Description acceptable. During this event, the camera pushes in on the central character to obscure park
benches, a country road, and a blue car. The song central to this scene includes the lines “all my instincts,
they return, and the great façade, so soon will burn”. A parody of this scene in a 2010 film also references
Can’t Buy Me Love by riding a lawn mower and uses the song from the iconic ending of Breakfast Club
instead of the original song. That homage to this event occurs after Olive tells a webcast that she wants her life
to be like an 80s movie. While Diane Court hears the music from this event, she does not get out of bed to talk to the
character played by John Cusack after breaking up with him. For ten points, identify this scene where the Peter
Gabriel song In Your Eyes is used in a romantic gesture from the film Say Anything.
ANSWER: the John Cusack boombox scene from Say Anything (accept anything involving a boombox)
8. Country and thing required. In the Lunch Box, one character chops vegetables while on one of these things in
this country, which leads his pants to smell of food. The famous Chaiyya Chaiyya scene from the movie Dil Se
takes place on one of these things. Paper Planes by M.I.A. plays during a scene where the protagonist of one
film recalls one of these things. In one film, the protagonist Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason
Schwartzman use one of these things after their father dies. The climactic scene of The Slumdog Millionaire
happens in a station for these things in this country; the subsequent dance sequence to Jai Ho also takes place in a
station for one of these things. For ten points, identify this kind of vehicle central to the plot of Lion and The
Darjeeling Limited, films set partially in this nation.
ANSWER: Indian trains
9. According to one text, these kids “tasted heaven” and “were gifted food from the gods” with depictions of
the sweet treats they consumed. That text also depicts the MASH game these people played to predict the
future and their belief in the guidance of Feeny. These people drank a colourless liquid described as “crystal”
and ate cookies packaged with sugary dip made for “dunking”. A ritual of these people involves claiming
experiences as exclusively for them, and claiming that only people of their kind would remember such an
experience. For ten points, identify these people who drank Crystal Pepsi, watched Boy Meets World, and ate
dunkaroos, that are the only people who could possibly remember anything from their namesakes decade.
ANSWER: 90s Kids
10. In one film by this director the brother of the successful banker protagonist, a wasteman played by Sean
Penn, hires the mysterious firm Consumer Recreation Services to organize the title event. That film is the San
Francisco-set The Game (which you just lost) starring Michael Douglas. Another film by this director also set
in San Francisco follows a newspaper cartoonist who become obsessed with investigating Arthur Leigh Allen.
The first and last shot of a film by this director are the same view of the protagonist’s wife, though her expression is
notably different. That character resents being a “Cool Girl” and being Amazing Amy. A film by this director
depicts the arson of an apartment full of Ikea furniture and the organization of Project Mayhem. For ten points,
identify this director behind films like Zodiac, Gone Girl, and Fight Club.
ANSWER: David Fincher
BONUSES
1. You are a soundcloud rapper in the 2010s who wants to get famous for the firest mixtape since Principia
Mathematica. Answer some questions about the ways you can fit in with the modern hip-hop game, FTPE.
[10] You could try to record songs in this controversial style of hip-hop that renders lyrics hard to understand or
inaudible. Artists accused of being this derisively named style include 21 Savage and Lil Yachty.
ANSWER: Mumble rap
[10] Mumble rap, if it is a real genre, was invented by this hip-hop artist behind songs like Lowlife and Fuck Up
Some Commas. This artist invented the style when he recorded a verse high and liked it the next morning.
ANSWER: Future
[10] Instead of mumble rap, you could try your hand at this atmospheric style of hip-hop innovated by producer
Clams Casino and artists like Lil B and Yung Lean. The name of this style comes from Lil B’s anecdote about a
castle surrounded by the title objects.
ANSWER: Cloud rap
2. The first two title characters in Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl make low-cost and low-effort parodies of classic
films. For five points each, identify some things about the films they parody in their DIY movies, or the parody title.
[5] Their parody of this film replaces the title time with 2:48 pm. Earl wears the western clothing similar to the title
character of this film, but their parody does not include Dustin Hoffman almost being struck by a taxi.
ANSWER: Midnight Cowboy or 2:48 pm Cowboy
[5] In the parody of this dialogue heavy film starring Wallace Shawn, the title character has been replaced with the
enormous actor who was also in The Princess Bride. The parody uses a child actor to make their clearly fake torso
seem even larger, and presumably the title character has no experiences with artistic retreats in Poland.
ANSWER: My Dinner With Andre or My Dinner with Andre the Giant
[5] Greg and Earl add an E to the title of this Jean-Luc Goddard film, which suddenly makes it a threatening title of
a shlocky action movie. Earl holds a gun in an alley, presumably shooting at Michel who is wanted for the murder of
a cop.
ANSWER: Breathless or Breathe Less
[5] Greg frequently and effectively imitates this German director of films like Grizzly Man and Aguirre, the Wrath
of God. Greg and Earl also make Burden of Screams, a parody of the making-of documentary of this director’s film
Fitzcarraldo.
ANSWER: Werner Herzog
[5] The parody of this Stanley Kubrick film is made with sock puppets, with Alex’s signature mascara made around
a googly eye. How exactly Greg and Earl depict ultraviolence with sock puppets is unknown.
ANSWER: A Clockwerk Orange or A Sockwork Orange
[5] Greg and Earl add the words “Because a Creepy-Ass Dwarf is About To Kill You!!! Damn” to the title of this
Nicolas Roeg film, known for its controversial sex scene with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.
ANSWER: Don’t Look Now
3. In one game called No Need to Hide When Its Dark Outside, this character enters a spooky world through his
closet. FTPE:
[10] This character, known for his signature bed time clothes, enters the World Wide Weather in Thunder and
Lightning Aren’t so Frightening and in another game visits a world of talking food.
ANSWER: Pajama Sam
[10] Pajama Sam is a series in this simplistic genre often made for young children. The Freddy Fish and Putt Putt
series are also in this genre, while Telltale Games has made Game of Thrones games in this genre for more mature
audiences.
ANSWER: Touch and click or Point and click
[10] Another game in the Pajama Sam series is a puzzle game where the player must toggle the direction of
conveyor belts and chutes to carry these objects into the correct bin. In the fourth game in the regular touch and click
series, these objects are searched for in Agitator Lake.
ANSWER: Socks
4. Before Facebook and other modern social media sites, people had other ways of connecting with the internet. Get
your dial-up modem ready, FTPE:
[10] This website, seen as a punchline now, allowed people to create their own pages with crazy visuals. This
website attempted to rebrand as a music-focused network in the current decade.
ANSWER: Myspace
[10] This webhosting service was purchased by Yahoo in 1999, who closed it ten years later except in Japan. The
old websites on this service are available in a 689 GB torrent, in which one can view the horrible clip-art and
graphics that characterized personal websites during the 90s and early 2000s.
ANSWER: Geocities
[10] Eons ago, internet denizens used this discussion platform, organized through newsgroups. Denizens of this
website are responsible for the conspiracy that Bielefeld, Germany does not actually exist.
ANSWER: Use.net
5. A song on this album, Space Program, compares the title project to the lack of social mobility for African Americans
and the effect of gentrification on black neighbourhoods, and ends with a sample of the Oompa Loompa song. For ten
points,
[10] This album with tracks like The Donald and Dis Generation also includes several tributes to the deceased Fife
Dawg and several guest verses from Busta Rhymes.
ANSWER: We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
[10] We got it from Here… is an album by this hip-hop group, known for their jazzy production on albums like The
Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Their song Can I Kick It samples the Lou Reed song Walk on the Wild
Side.
ANSWER: A Tribe Called Quest
[10] The song Solid Wall of Sound on We got it from Here… contains a sample of the title phrase from this Elton
John song. This song asks “say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet” about the title group.
ANSWER: Bennie and the Jets
6. Somehow, I went from a child obsessed with cars and vehicles to a 21-year old wasteman who doesn’t even have
a full driver’s license yet. Identify some critical elements of my childhood, FTPE:
[10] This brand of toy cars made by Mattel also offers material to build crazy tracks with sick loop-de-loops and
boosters with spinning rubber wheels to make your cars go fast. This brand has also produced video games like
World Race and animated movie of the same name focusing on Josef “Vert Wheeler” journey to be the greatest race
car driver.
ANSWER: Hot Wheels
[10] This show that aired on Treehouse and TVO includes episodes on cranes, bulldozers, and dump trucks that a
construction worker might use. Other examples of the title vehicles include a fire engine with the voice of Elvis and
several airplanes.
ANSWER: Mighty Machines
[10] This brand of toy trucks made sick games including Search and Rescue, Raceway, and Construction. A
competitor to Hot Wheels, this company was founded in Minnesota in 1946 and has been inducted in the Toy Hall
of Fame.
ANSWER: Tonka
7. Richard Linklater’s film Boyhood is another entry in a long line of the cinematic depiction of a single childhood.
FTPE:
[10] This film by Francois Traffaut is the first appearance of the character Antoine Donel. In this film, Antoine
steals a typewriter from his stepfather’s office, and sets up a small shrine to Balzac which burns down after a candle
falls over.
ANSWER: The 400 Blows
[10] This film by Andrei Tarkovsky follows the title character during the brutal eastern front of World War II. The
protagonist is interrogated by a soldier who does not realize he was sent on a recon mission.
ANSWER: Ivan’s Childhood or My Name is Ivan
[10] Released only three years before Boyhood is the film Tree of Life by Terrance Malick, which follows the
reflection of an architect on his childhood relationship with his father, who is played by this actor. This actor also
played a man who ages backwards in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
ANSWER: Brad Pitt
8. On one song by this artist, Rivers Cuomo sings a hook that brags “I’ve got the magic in me” and “every track I
touch turns into gold”. For ten points each:
[10] This artist behind the song Magic also recorded a song that begins a verse with the lines “someone take me
back to the day, before this was a job, before I got paid”.
ANSWER: B.O.B.
[10] In that song, Hayley Williams asks if she can pretends the title objects “in the night sky are like shooting stars”
and admits “’cause I could really use a wish right now”.
ANSWER: Airplanes
[10] In one meme, the song Shooting Stars by this band is played while a short gif of a person moving in a funny
way travels through space and other crazy environments.
ANSWER: The Bag Raiders
9. Snoop Dogg apparently watches Game of Thrones for “historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was
based on before I got here”. Answer some questions about shows actually set in the past of our Earth, FTPE:
[10] My mom is a huge fan of this show about a nurse who is transported back in time to 1743 during a visit to
Scotland, where she meets a descendent of her husband. Once familiar with her situation, Claire wishes to avoid the
Battle of Culloden that led to defeat for the Jacobites.
ANSWER: Outlander
[10] A Netflix show starring Richard Madden, known for his portrayal of Robb Stark, follows this family as they vie
for control of the title city after the poisoning of their father. Though the show is mostly set in 1434, flashbacks to
1414 detail the relationship of protagonist and his brother with their father, who is played by Dustin Hoffman.
ANSWER: Medici
[10] Jonathan Rhys Meyers starred as the king of the title dynasty on this 2007-2010 show. Natalie Dormer of
Thrones fame was also on this show for the first two seasons before being beheaded, which should not be spoilers
for anyone really.
ANSWER: The Tudors
10. This artist begins a song with the lines “hey, slow it down” before singing “It messed me up, need a second to
breathe, just keep coming around”. FTPE:
[10] This artist compared his heart to a ghost town on one song, and sang “Just don’t give up, I’m working it out” on
his song Whataya Want From Me.
ANSWER: Adam Lambert
[10] Adam Lambert’s career was launched by this television show, where he was runner-up. This show also
launched the careers of Carrie Underwood and Jordin Sparks.
ANSWER: American Idol
[10] On the song Lay Me Down, Lambert collaborated with this artist behind songs like Addicted to You, Waiting
for Love, and the smash hit Wake Me Up that features bluegrass elements. This artist’s song Levels was remixed by
Flo Rida for Good Feeling.
ANSWER: Avicii
TOSSUPS PART 2
11. Description acceptable. (20) One character sarcastically points out “the barbeque from outer space” from
a room in this building, while aliens were actually interested in the jive-talking dad’s new invention the
“scare-amin”. A pulley system that utilizes a pencil is used to carry a character to a desk in this building. A
system of tubes similar to Elon Musk’s madman proposal installed in this building allows one character to
travel very fast between its rooms; that system is then used by aliens that visit this building after landing
outside. A resident of this building attempts to build a moat around a picnic to protect cupcakes from ants as
large as the title protagonist in this building’s backyard. For twenty points, identify this building, the central location
of a YTV show that follows a very small child who is not a mouse.
ANSWER: George Shrinks’ house
12. (15) Andy “Mushroom” Vowles left the group behind this album after its release. A song on this album
includes lyrics like “I could be yours, we could unwind” and “don’t frown, it tastes better on the way back
down”. Another song on this album that features the lyrics “you see a man’s face, but you never see his
heart” is repeated as an instrumental version, with brackets added around the title. The title track on this
album begins with the line “I’m a little curious of you in crowded scenes” and describes something “not
thicker than water, not thicker than mud”. An arena-staple song on this album describes the title figure as
someone who “come from way above, to bring me love”. The intro song of House is on this album, which begins
with the lyrics “love, love is a verb” and describes the title object “fearless on my breath”. For fifteen points,
identify this 1998 seminal album by Massive Attack that includes the songs Angel and Teardrop.
ANSWER: Mezzanine
13. (15) A daily third prize winning game posted on this site involved simply pressing the space bar many
times to complete; a review of that game that only gave it a 1 “beacuase the voices where pretty good” was
dramatically read in Dot Dot Dot. Egoraptor, the video creator behind the Awesome series of video games
parodies, began creating content for this website. Before making a Youtube account, Gary Brolsma gained
fame for uploading a video of him lip-syncing to Dragostea din tei, or the Numa Numa song, onto this website.
The first Charlie the Unicorn video was posted on this website, as were the first videos in the creepy Saladfingers
series. For fifteen points, identify this important website on the early internet that hosted games and videos, some of
which were quite adult.
ANSWER: Newgrounds
14. (15) It’s not a painting by Velazquez, but a song by GZA/Genius, Cold World, describes a location that
provides this stuff being “shot up” “for this kid named Lamont”. In 25 Bucks, Danny Brown proclaims “if
you really balling/mommy cop” this stuff. Patrice Wilson appears on Alison Gold’s song and spends part of
the music video for that song disguised in an animal suit; that song begins with the line “after balling, I go
clubbing” about this stuff. The first verse of Werewolves of London describes the pursuit of this stuff. On an
episode of Seinfeld, Elaine pretends to live in a closet to acquire this stuff from a business that refuses to serve her
because of where her apartment is. According to the Barenaked Ladies song One Week, one variety of this stuff will
make your brain “stop ticking” and according to one hit wonder band LFO, this kind of stuff makes them sick. For
fifteen points, identify this culinary good sold in locations around the world.
ANSWER: Chinese food (accept Chinese chicken, prompt on just chicken)
15. (15) In this film, a new suit causes one character to tell another that they look like Barack Obama. In this
film, one character shaves another to look like the Pope, his grandfather, and then Hitler. In one scene, a
character in this film recognizes a section of the Four Seasons as the music he hears when calling the local
unemployment agency; that character then plays what he considers classic music, Boogie Wonderland.
During the opening credits of this film, the two main characters drive through a tunnel while singing along to
another Earth Wind and Fire song, September, after one character fakes a seizure. One character in this film
is paralyzed from an paragliding accident that killed his wife. Driss first interviews for the job central to this film so
he can tell the unemployment agency that he had searched for work. For fifteen points, identify this French film
about a Senegalese immigrant who becomes a caretaker to the wealthy but paralyzed Phillipe.
ANSWER: The Intouchables
16. (15) A music video for a song by this group begins with each member pretending to be a mannequin after
until the clock strikes 2. A song by this group is introduced with the lines “Uh huh, listen boy, my first love
story, my angel and my girls”. This group recorded a song written by Kesha that tells the title character, the
Devil, “you better run run run run run, and another repeats the lines “I’ve Got A Boy” along with words in
their native language. Another song by this group includes the lyrics “one more round, dance dance dance,
till we run this town” before repeating the words oppa and down. This group’s song that repeats the title
word and baby has been called the most iconic k-pop song in the past ten years. For fifteen points, identify this
girl group from South Korea known for songs like Oh and Gee.
ANSWER: Girl’s Generation or SNSD
17. (15) A song in a genre described with this word repeats variations of the lines “discipline, discipline, we
need some discipline in here” in one recording of it. That song is by Throbbing Gristle, a pioneering group in
a genre described with this word who also recorded the misleadingly named album 20 Jazz Funk Greats. The
song Ich Will and Du Hast are by Rammstein, a German band that plays a metal genre described with this
word. Another artist known for that genre recorded songs like The Beautiful People and a cover of Sweet
Dreams (Are Made of This). Before becoming a well-regarded film score composer, Trent Reznor recorded the
albums Pretty Hate Machine and Downward Spiral with a band known for a metal genre described with this word.
For fifteen points, identify this word that describes the metal sound of Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails that
reflects it inspiration in factories and machinery.
ANSWER: Industrial
18. (15) An adapted film from this country includes a scene where two characters fight a pig demon with
golden rings, and another where a character has her body controlled by a friend to seduce the protagonist,
which goes horribly wrong. A thirty-year-old turn-based strategy game series based on a literary work from
this country includes titles named Dragon of Destiny and Wall of Fire. A Smite character and a League of
Legends champion based off a literary character from this country wields a magic cudgel that grows longer to
make special attacks. A fighting game spin-off of that strategy series, Dynasty Warriors, has itself been crossed over
with the Legend of Zelda series in Hyrule Warriors. For fifteen points, identify this country that has seen adaptations
of its literary classics Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
ANSWER: China
19. Country and type of building required. (15) In one film, a character researching a Russian composer
declines to enter one of these buildings in this country, so his interpreter Eugenia goes in by herself. That film
ends with a shot of one of these buildings that is ambiguously in Russia or in this country. In another film,
Stiener plays a piece by Bach for an audience of one in one of these buildings in this country. In another film,
two characters follow an old man into one of these buildings in this country, where people are gathered to eat.
That scene sees the protagonist kicked out after repeatedly questioning the old man about a crime he
witnessed. According to a Dan Brown adaptation, four men branded with the words of four elements are found
mutilated in or outside these buildings, which house artworks like the Ecstasy of St. Teresa that he uses as clues. For
fifteen points, identify this kind of building often visited in films in this country, the setting of La Dolce Vita and
The Bicycle Thieves.
ANSWER: Italian churches (accept Vatican churches)
20. (15) One name used for these things is an acronym that usually includes the words “unilateral neurolink”. Two of these things, Freedom and Justice, are nuclear powered and conveniently colour coded for two
main characters. Lieutenant Quattro uses the Rick Dias model of one of these things. A massive one of these
things is used to terrorize an unnamed Eastern European city until it is destroyed by Shin. Z.A.F.T. utilizes
Blitz, Zaku, and Ginn models of these things in an attack on Panama. Amuro first uses one of these things
during an attack on Side 7 lead by Char Aznable. Similarly, Kira Yamato first pilots one of these things when
Heliopolis, his home satellite, is attacked by Rau Le Creuset. For fifteen points, identify these giant robots used to
fight in a namesake anime series that includes seasons like Zeta and SEED.
ANSWER: Gundam or Mobile Suit