Saint Louis’ Unbelievable Trash Tournament Round 11 Tossups and Boni by Sean Phillips



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Saint Louis’ Unbelievable Trash Tournament Round 11

Tossups and Boni by Sean Phillips


1. On Nasty Boys, he was Las Vegas undercover cop vice cop Eduardo Cruz and he had to wear a ninja-style outfit with the word “POLICE” emblazoned on it. On Knightwatch, he played Tony Maldonado, the head of a volunteer anti-crime patrol called the “Knights of the City.” In Demolition Man, he was a police officer named Alfredo Garcia. FTP, who is this actor, who frequently plays a member of the fuzz, possibly better known for his role as Detective Reynaldo Curtis on Law & Order and for being Julia Roberts’ ex-boyfriend?

Answer: Benjamin Bratt


2. This final track on the album Dr CC sold well as a single despite lack of airplay on radio. The listener has many questions posited to them, for example, what time of the day do they like to make love or have they ever made love on a couch? The narrator of the song relates the story of one time when he was making love in the backseat of a car and a policeman shined his light on him, to which the narrator responded that he was doing the title action, which he also does to the east, the west and to the woman that he loves best. FTP, what is this song by Clarence Carter?

Answer: “Strokin’


3. One of this film’s main characters is the son of a chicken farmer who was so impoverished growing up that had to make his shoes from tires and buy clothes ‘from that famous designer, Goodwill.” That character’s roommate in college, Garson McKellar, is forced by his father and some faculty to not pursue a writing career and instead focus on debate. Garson’s life goes to pot from there and he attempts a sexual assault on Monica and eventually suicide. Monica and her partner, the farmer’s son Tucker, continue with the debate team arguing before the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. FTP, what is this unintentionally funny 1989 movie about abortion and debate starring Jami Gertz and Kirk Cameron?

Answer: Listen to Me


4. He began his professional career as a running back for the Dallas Cowboys in 1965 and he played until 1972. Injuries slowed down his playing career allowing him to become in 1970 a player/coach and eventually the offensive backfield coach. In 1977, he became Dallas’ offensive coordinator, and in 1981 assumed dual roles again with another organization as Vice-President and head coach. While coach of that team, he became the only AFC coach in the 1980’s to lead his team to back to back Super Bowls and he became the Giants head coach after his tenure with the Broncos ended. FTP, who is this head coach of the Atlanta Falcons?

Answer: Dan Reeves


5. Tony Urbano and Corrine Orr, who used to voice Spritle and Trixie on Speed Racer, has provided his voice. Unilever owns the rights to his likeness and, in 1999, sued 300 for having a character in an advertisement for BattleTanx: Global Assault that bore too strong a resemblance. They were successful as the courts agreed that the violent video game plus the mutilation and destruction of this character in the ads was not something Unilever wanted associated with their products, so the commercials where his teddy doppelganger is tormented were pulled. FTP, what is this bear that has been peddling fabric softener for years?

Answer: Snuggles


6. One time she tried running for the school board, but her husband decided to run against her and he unleashed a rather negative campaign that involved lies and sexy pictures of her. She is a housewife who also teaches piano on the side. She is oblivious about many things like a crush a longtime companion has on her for example and the fact that her infant is hyper-verbose for his age. Did I mention the longtime companion is a dog named Brian? FTP, who is this wife of Peter Griffen on the once-again defunct show Family Guy?

Answer: Lois


7. With Richard Leacock, he invented a portable 16mm synchronized sound camera that could be held on a person’s shoulder. Some of his earlier films were about political events like his 1963 film Crisis, which was about the desegregation of the University of Alabama. Also in the political sphere was his documentary of Clinton’s 1992 bid in the film The War Room. His more famous works are found in the realm of entertainment, like his documentary of the final Ziggy Stardust concert in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. FTP, who is this filmmaker best known for the concert film Monterey Pop?

Answer: D. A. Pennebaker
8. He quit smoking in 1983 and in 1960 the comic Buster was launched which was supposed to be about his son, although the relation was implied and later ignored altogether. He first appeared in The Daily Mirror on August 5th, 1957 and in 1988 he was the subject of a TV series starring James Bolam in the title role and also starring Paula Tilbrook as his wife, Flo. Created by Reg Smythe, storylines revolving around him were often taken from Smythe’s hometown of Hartlepool, who first objected at being stereotyped as chronically unemployed. FTP, who is this bloke, the title character of a popular British comic strip?

Answer: Andy Capp


9. Her father was shot by his commanding officer in World War TI in the winter of 1942 when she was four years old. The B-side of her debut single was co-written, produced, and arranged by Jimmy Page, but the song “The Last Mile” went nowhere. In 1975, Island Records dropped her from the label after one studio effort, 1974’s The End, the title track of which was a cover of her ex-lover’s classic Doors’ song. FTP, who was this singer best known for recording the songs “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” “Femme Fatale,” and “All Tomorrow’s Parties” with The Velvet Underground?

Answer: Nico (Accept Christa Paffgen)


10. Originally edited by Bob Martin, its original title was changed after a lawsuit from Fantastic Films. Its first issue in August 1979 featured Godzilla on the cover. For its hundredth issue in March 1991, the cover reflected what the content became over time as it featured Freddie Kruger’s hand and the articles included interviews with Clive Barker, Stephen King, and Wes Craven. FTP, what is this popular magazine that is devoted to new and old horror films?

Answer: Fangoria


11. Her boyfriend was played by three men in as many years including Percy Harris and Dooley Wilson. In fact, all the principle characters on that show had to be recast including all three members of the Henderson family, the people who employed her. Originating on the Fibber McGee and Molly program in 1944, Hattie McDaniel played her for four years on radio and was hired to play her on television in 1952, but had to quit after a few episodes after being diagnosed with breast cancer. FTP, who was this maid now viewed by such groups as the NAACP as a negative stereotype that was also played by Ethel Waters and Louise Beavers?

Answer: Beulah


12. In his rookie season, he tied Hal Trosky’s record with 374 total bases. It is said the owner of the team he played for voted to adopt the designated hitter rule solely because it would mean this man could play despite torn cartilage in his right knee. He retired in 1976 never frilly regaining the form he had when he was Rookie of the Year in 1964 or the next year when he helped his team make the postseason for the first time in Minnesota. FTP, who was this longtime Minnesota Twin, the winner of American League batting titles in 1964, 1965, and 1971?

Answer: Tony Oliva


13. This group took part of its name from a small Washington town near where their lead singer grew up. They appeared in concert wearing blue-and-gold Civil War uniforms, which may have had had as much to do with their breakup four years after their founding as the fact that they ceased to have hits on the level of ‘Don’t Give Into Him” and “This Girl Is a Woman Now”. FTP, what was this act which also had hits with “Woman, Woman,” “Lady Willpower,” and Young Girl”?

Answer: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap or The Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett


14. Its alternate name is suffragium asotas and Lifekey Healthcare, Inc markets it. They advertise it as “the effective, reliable way to natural male enhancement’ and studies show on average a twenty-four percent increase in a man’s erection size and fullness. FTP, what is this product that claims to be ‘the reliable non­prescription supplement for natural male enhancement”?

Answer: Enzyte


15. An orphaned teenager, his best friend is resentful at always having to be rescued by him. He meets up with Kay following his friend’s abduction and together they try to rescue him. His friend Tetsuo was racing through the streets of Neo-Tokyo when he crashed into Takashi and was affected by Takashi’s powers. By the time Kay and him get there, Tetsuo’s own powers are unleashed as a manifestation of an evolutionary experiment that caused World War III. FTP, what is this character whom in 2019 battles to decide the fate of Neo-Tokyo in Kasuhiro Otomo’s Akira?

Answer: Kaneda


16. He and his wife Marge used to take a class together at East Aurora High School where she would help him cheat by passing him answers. On November 21, 1965, bad weather grounded his flight after a football game in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This would be the only excuse until December 16, 2001, that he would have for missing work as he called 3,338 games in that span. Known for inventing such phrases as “slam dunk” and “air ball,” he died on August 5, 2002. FTP, who was this longtime broadcaster for the Los Angeles Lakers?

Answer: Francis Dayle “Chick” Hearn


17. In this song, the narrator observes her daughter playing with a neighbor’s child. Feeling something is

amiss, the narrator checks on the kids and becomes ashamed at her daughter’s refusal to participate in a game with him. The daughter explains to the boy that she is refusing because when her parents acted the game out in real-life, it led to her father abandoning the family. FTP, what is this song, a 1967 number one Country and Western hit for Tammy Wynette, which opens with the lyrics: “Today I sat alone at the window/and I watched our little girl, outside at play”?

Answer: I Don’t Want to Play House
18. The Japanese version of this game set it in 2361 but the American version, according to the manual, takes place around its original American release in 1988. The plot deals with a meteor containing aliens which crash landed on an island somewhere in South America. They plot to take over the world under the leadership of Red Falcon. The threat is so serious that the world government sends in Scorpion and Mad Dog to stop the aliens. FTP, what is this Nintendo game featuring these commandos and the famous cheat up up down down left right left right B A for an obscene amount of lives?

Answer: Contra


19. The name is the same. One is a movie in which Heather Locklear’s character is having her career and personal life destroyed slowly by her conniving secretary played by Linda Purl. Another is a game show hosted by Tom Kennedy in which the bonus round, a contestant has a celebrity pantomime words for sixty seconds and each word the contestant guesses correctly is worth $100. Another is a Tom Berenger film in which he plays a lawyer who falls for a stripper and they kill her husband. These all share, FTP, what name which is also a Queen song from the album Hot Space with the lines “You got red lips snakes in your eyes/Long legs great thighs/You got the cutest ass I’ve ever seen/Knock me down for a six any time.”?

Answer: Body Language


20. His career started in radio as a White House correspondent for Westinghouse Broadcasting. In 1977, he became ABC’s Latin America correspondent where he worked for three years. Before he retired in February 2001, he co-anchored such shows as Inside Politics, CNN Worldview, and CNN&TIME and had spent twenty years with the cable network. FTP, who is this journalist who, with two others, gained nationwide exposure for their continuous coverage of Operation Desert Storm while American missiles were dropping on them in Baghdad?

Answer: Bernard Shaw

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