Quizcats 2019 – Round Two

1. This condition is named after the state of four hostages of the 1973 Norrmalmstorg square
robbery of a Swedish Kreditbanken. The hostages, kept in the bank’s vaults for six days,
upon release, instead of seeking justice, began to raise money for the legal defense of their
captors. The condition is characterized by four main constituents: absence of prior hostage-
captor relationship, non-cooperation with police by hostages, hostage’s alignment of values
with captor, and most importantly: hostage development of positive feelings toward captor.
For ten points, name this condition of hostages developing psychological alliance with their
captors as a survival strategy.
Answer: Stockholm Syndrome

Bonus: Identify people/groups who have released works titled “Stockholm Syndrome”.
a) This pop punk band was founded in Poway, California in 1992 by Tom DeLonge, Mark
Hoppus, and Travis Barker. Excluding the 2006-2008 hiatus, the band has, over the course of
24 years, released albums such as Enema of the State, California, and Cheshire Cat.
Answer: Blink-182
b) This pop boy band was an X Factor finalist in 2010. In 2015, one of its members, Zayn
Malik, left, and in 2016, the band went on an indefinite hiatus. Popular songs by this band
include “What Makes You Beautiful”, “Story of My Life”, and “Drag Me Down”.
Answer: One Direction
c) This Los Angeles documentary filmmaker spent a year at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. He is often employed by Fox News, and has made films Ami on the Street, U.N.
Me, Showdown Wisconsin, and more.
Answer: Ami Horowitz

2. This man was born Tracy Lauren Marrow on February 16th, 1958. He began his career as
an underground rapper in the 1980s and released songs “Colors”, “O.G. Original Gangster”,
and “99 Problems”. In 1988, he founded Rhyme $yndicate Records, and in 2000 he
premiered in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Odafin Tutuola, a transfer from
the NYPD’s Narcotics Unit. For ten points, name the voice actor of Madd Dogg in Grand
Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Answer: Ice-T

Bonus: Name the following related to Ice-T.

a) A novel by this African-American author and pimp has been featured by Harvard
University as “transgressive”. This man is the namesake of rappers Ice-T, Ice Cube, and
Pittsburgh Slim. In “Who You Wit”, Jay-Z refers to himself as this man, a Tuskegee
University alum, who wrote about beating his hookers with wire hangers.
Answer: Iceberg Slim
b) In 2016, Ice-T did a commercial for this auto insurance company where he runs a
lemonade stand, and upon being asked “Is that Ice-T?”, replies “No, it’s lemonade.” This
company’s name is short for Government Employees Insurance Company and its mascot is a
gold dust day gecko.
Answer: GEICO
c) In 1997, Ice-T’s pay-per-view special, Ice-T’s Extreme Babes, appeared on Action PPV,
which was then owned by this network, short for Black Entertainment Television, whose
slogan is “Yes to Black”.
Answer: B.E.T.
3. This man, born in New York City in 1953, was the first person in his family to attend
college. He is well-known for his stance on unions and employee benefits as well as for being
the defendant in multiple civil lawsuits in his hometown of Seattle. From 1986-2000 and
again in 2008-2017, he was the Chairman and CEO of Starbucks. For ten points, name this
man who announced he was considering running for President in 2020 as an independent.
Answer: Howard Schultz

Bonus: Answer the following about Howard Schultz.

a) In addition to earning the contempt of Seattle locals through misappropriation of public
property, Mr. Schultz further, to be informal, pissed them off by buying this basketball team
in 2001 and selling them in 2006, whereafter they became known as the Oklahoma City
Thunder.
Answer: Seattle SuperSonics
b) In 2014, Schultz published his book For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach
Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice. This action of publishing a tale of patriotic
valor has been considered reminiscent of the same one by this man, 35th President of the
United States (whose sister-in-law, Lee Radziwill, is recently deceased).
Answer: John F. Kennedy
c) As aforementioned, Schultz has for many years been the recipient of complaints by
Seattleites for his use of Viretta Park as a driveway. In a court filing, Schultz claimed the
plaintiffs were willfully ignorant of the fact that he committed the same actions as this un-
inculpated woman, widow and manager of the estate of Kurt Cobain.
Answer: Courtney Love

4. Often thought to be one of if not the greatest and most influential filmmaker in cinematic
history, this man is known for his perfectionism and high-demand employment. He directed
such films as Lolita and A Clockwork Orange, obtained the Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7, a
lense developed for NASA’s Apollo lunar program, to film natural candlelight scenes in
Barry Lyndon, and was one of the first directors to utilize the Steadicam. For ten points, name
this man who, despite being American-born and creating outstanding films, refused to widen
the range of filming location of his later projects from walking distance of his home in
London.
Answer: Stanley Kubrick

Bonus: Answer the following related to Stanley Kubrick.

a) This Kubrick-directed film starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. It’s Overlook Hotel
is believed to have been based off of Colorado’s Stanley (unrelated to Mr. Kubrick) Hotel.
Answer: The Shining
b) Kubrick’s film The Shining was based off of a namesake novel by this man, who expressed
great dissatisfaction with Kubrick’s representation of his work.
Answer: Stephen King
c) The Kubrickian film A Clockwork Orange features a brief scene in which the main
character, Alex DeLarge as played by Malcolm McDowell, and his “droogs” break and enter
the house of, steal from, rape the wife of and cuckold the writer of the movie’s namesake
while singing this song performed most notably by Gene Kelly in a movie of the same name.
Answer: “Singin’ In The Rain”

5. This NYC-based sitcom ran from 2005 to 2014, although it takes place in 2030. Thought to
have the worst finale in history, its episodes are narrated by the main character, Ted, as he
tells his children each individual story leading up to how he established contact with their
maternal figure. For ten points, name this CBS television show narrated by Bob Saget.
Answer: How I Met Your Mother
Bonus: Identify the following about cast members of How I Met Your Mother.
a) This man played Barnabus Stinson, womanizer and P.L.E.A.S.E. (Provide Legal
Exculpation And Sign Everything) guy for company Altrucell, on HIMYM. His other multi-
series roles include Doogie Howser, M.D. as well as Count Olaf in Netflix’s A Series of
Unfortunate Events.
Answer: Neil Patrick Harris
b) From March to August 2014, Neil Patrick Harris played the lead in Broadway’s first
production of this musical, whose plot centers around the titular Hedwig Robinson, a
transgender East German rockstar.
Answer: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
c) This man, professional chef and actor, plays Scooter on How I Met Your Mother and is
married to Neil Patrick Harris.
Answer: David Burtka

6. This event took place in Dealey Plaza in 1963. A national tragedy, this event has been the
subject of controversy since even before the Warren Commision falsely placed the fault of
the event squarely on the shoulders of Marxist Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. For ten points,
name this event after which Parkland Memorial Hospital pronounced the 35th President dead.
Answer: Assassination of JFK, Kennedy’s Assassination, clear knowledge
equivalents; DO NOT ACCEPT OR PROMPT ON “Assassination”

Bonus: Answer the following pertaining to JFK.

a) This son of John F. Kennedy was born two weeks after his father assumed the Presidency.
His almae matres include Brown and New York University. For ten points, name this oldest
son of the Kennedy family who died in a place crash with his wife and sister-in-law in 1999.
Answer: JFK Jr., John F. Kennedy Jr., John-John
b) On February 15th, 2019, this sister of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy died. She had
previously been married to a Polish-Lithuanian Prince, hence her most popular last name
being that of the royal Radziwill family.
Answer: Caroline Lee Radziwill, Lee Bouvier, Lee Canfield, or Lee Ross
c) This science fiction miniseries was executively produced by J.J. Abrams and based on the
Stephen King book of the same name. For ten points, name this Hulu show theorizing the
events prior to the JFK assassination that stars James Franco.
Answer: 11.22.63

7. This flight, not to be confused with its counterpart that was shot down in Ukraine in the
same year, was operated by Malaysia Airlines. The plane used, a Boeing 777-200ER, ceased
communication with Air Traffic Control 38 minutes after takeoff and disappeared without
explanation an hour later. The second deadliest incident in Malaysia Airlines history, with all
239 people onboard presumed dead, this flight has been described as “one of the biggest
mysteries in modern aviation history”.
Answer: Flight MH370 or MA S370

Bonus: For ten points each, name the following popular works regarding people surviving the
disappearance of vehicles.
a) This NBC television series premiered in 2018 and follows the survivors of Flight 828, a
previously missing commercial airliner, who show up out of nowhere after being presumed
dead for five years.
Answer: Manifest
b) This ABC television series aired from 2004 to 2010, lasted 6 seasons and 121 episodes,
and followed the survivors of Sydney to Los Angeles Flight 815.
 Answer: Lost
c) This 1954 William Golding novel focuses on British boys stranded on an unidentified
island in the Pacific Ocean trying to govern themselves during WWII.
Answer: Lord of the Flies

8. This character first appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 work A Study in Scarlet.
An icon of British culture that holds the Guinness World Record for “most portrayed movie
character”, this consulting detective now owns on the stage set for him by Edgar Allan Poe’s
own C. Auguste Dupin. For ten points, name this character depicted by both Robert Downey
Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Bonus: Answer the following pertaining to the 20th century.

a) This name is shared by both Sherlock Holmes’ physician roommate and William Baxter’s
friend, the latter of Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summertime and the Baxter Family,
Especially William.
Answer: John Watson or Johnnie Watson
b) One of only three novelists to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction on multiple occasions, this
man wrote Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summertime and the Baxter Family, Especially
William.
Answer: Booth Tarkington
c) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and knight, in 1922 wrote a book title The Coming of
the…; for ten points name these creatures whom ACD believed had been captured in
photographs in 1917, alternatively a derogatory term for a male homosexual.
Answer: Fairies

9. This woman, born Frances Gumm, was the first to win a Grammy Award for Album of the
Year. Partnered frequently with Gene Kelly and Mickey Rooney, this woman played Esther
Blodgett in the 1954 version of A Star Is Born. In 1944, this woman had an affair with Orson
Welles, who was then-married to Rita Hayworth. For ten points, name this woman whose
film debut was The Wizard of Oz and whose death was rumored to have incited the Stonewall
Riots.
Answer: Judy Garland

Bonus: Answer the following related to Judy Garland.

a) This man released Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall in 2007. For ten points, name this
son of Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle.
Answer: Rufus Wainwright
b) On the set of Meet Me In St. Louis, Judy Garland met Vincente Minnelli, who later
fathered this child of hers, most noted for her performance in the 1972 production of Cabaret.
Answer: Liza Minnelli
c) This biopic, set to be released September 27th, 2019, will star Renée Zellweger as Judy
Garland performing London concerts in 1968.
Answer: Judy

10. In 2001, shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center, this band was formed by its
lead singer and ex-drummer. In 2002, this band released its first album, I Brought You My
Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, through Eyeball Records. On March 22nd, 2013, this
band announced its breakup after 12 years of creating music. For ten points, name this band
whose albums include Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, The Black Parade, and Danger
Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.
Answer: My Chemical Romance
Bonus: Answer the following related to My Chemical Romance.
a) In 2011, this conservative political commentator accused My Chemical Romance of
promoting propaganda through their song “Sing”. For ten points, name this CEO and founder
of Mercury Radio Arts.
Answer: Glenn Beck
b) This lead singer and brother of the bassist of My Chemical Romance released his solo
album Hesitant Alien in 2014. For ten points, name this co-founder of DC Comics’ Young
Animal imprint.
Answer: Gerard Way
c) This Netflix series is adapted from Gerard Way's Eisner Award winning comic book series
of the same name and premiered on February 15th, 2019.
Answer: The Umbrella Academy

11. This fictional character was created by J.K. Rowling in the late 1990s and his series has
since become the best-selling one in history. This character married Ginny Weasley after the
second wizarding war. This character is identified primarily by a lightning bolt-shaped scar
on his forehead that burns whenever his enemy, Lord Voldemort, is near. For ten points,
name this young wizard whose series is the dedicatee of a series of rides and themed stops in
Universal Orlando Resort.
Answer: Harry Potter

Bonus: Answer the following stemming from Harry Potter.

a) This parody musical was produced in 2009 at the University of Michigan. Two later
installments of this musical were called A Very Potter Sequel and A Very Potter Senior Year.
For ten points, name this musical whose arguably most iconic line is “Well, the medallion
says that's dumb so we're not gonna do that.”
Answer: A Very Potter Musical
b) This production company was founded in 2009 at the University of Michigan. In addition
to A Very Potter Musical, this musical theatre company has released Me and My Dick,
Starship, The Trail to Oregon, and more.
Answer: Team Starkid or Starkid Productions
c) This Team Starkid musical is named after the lead, Paul, who is contemptuous of musical
theatre. So when aliens take over the planet and infect their hosts by getting them to sing and
dance in sync as if they're in a musical, Paul becomes upset as he must protect his coworkers
and favorite barista, who offers shelter with her professor, whose class she is taking to start
her own pot farm.
Answer: The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals