Prison Bowl VI
Mashups written and “edited” by Hunter College High School (William Dou, Wilton Rao, and Marianna Zhang) and Mehnaj
Ahmed, with varying amounts of input and disapproval from the rest of the Hunter team
Mashups - Tossups
1. One track on this album contains the lyric “get my blood pressure high but still stay cool”, as well as a namesake
term equal to 2.43 x 10-12 meters, h over mec. On another of this album’s tracks, the artist is “cruising down the
street in my 6-4”, while cosmic microwave background radiation cruises with increased energy from dense galactic
clusters in an example of its inverse form, the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect. Featuring the songs “Express Yourself”
and “Gangsta Gangsta” rapped by Ice Cube, it is inelastic, as opposed to a related process named for Rayleigh. For
10 points, name this debut hip hop album by N.W.A., a group whose members consist of photons which increase in
wavelength when colliding with electrons from a namesake Los Angeles suburb.
ANSWER: Straight Outta Compton Scattering <WR>
2. In the first episode of this show, Melvin gets a 95 on an algebra test while the title character only gets a 30, and a
G sharp, C sharp, E right-hand arpeggio begins its “presto agitato” third movement. The Silver Crystal in this show
was originally held by Queen Serenity, while the pedal must be held throughout the duration of its first movement,
“adagio sostenuto”. A talking black cat teaches Usagi Tsukino to become the title character in this anime, whose
nicknames include “Quasi una fantasia” and a name evoking Lake Lucerne at night. For 10 points, name this anime
composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, whose title magical girl defends the Solar System while sporting a lunar
nickname.
ANSWER: Sailor Moonlight Sonata <WR>
3. During this structure’s construction, caisson disease injured its chief engineer, who then delegated oversight to his
wife as he watched from his castle stronghold with Prince Terrien. In tribute to its designers, who ran together at
Lark Creek Elementary, this structure features an extremely wide walkway on its upper level. Michael Bloomberg
rules one side, while May Belle and Jess Owens rule the other. Multiple arrests and one fatality occurred when
Occupy protesters fleeing Zuccotti Park fell into the East River after its precursor, a rope swing, snapped. For 10
points, name this suspension bridge connecting Manhattan to a mythical land of hipsters, constructed after Leslie
Burke’s death.
ANSWER: Brooklyn Bridge to Terabithia <MZ>
4. This artist is from Englewood, Chicago, although most of the action takes place in the Alabama town of Summit,
home to Ebenezer Dorset. He was taken to a juvenile detention facility in early 2013 for parole violation as well as
throwing a brick in Bill's eye. Pitchfork Media compares him to "Waka Flocka Flame…utterly drained of the will to
live," although the kidnappers compare the protagonist to a "two-legged skyrocket” after he tires of pretending to be
a Native American. Finally, Bill and Sam return the titular unruly child after paying a sum of 1500 dollars, all the
while "Laughing to the Bank." For ten points, name this O. Henry short story with hits such as “Love Sosa” from his
mixtape Finally Rich.
ANSWER: “The Ransom of Red Chief Keef” <MA>
5. Jingle has trouble remembering the protagonist of this work's name, giving him nicknames involving words that
sound similar to “taco”, and after their train falls off the edge of a cliff, all of the characters are immersed into an
ocean. They are accompanied by various animals, including a goat, mouse, and fox, who, somewhat confusingly,
use sunflower seeds both as food and currency. The protagonist is unaware that he is in a love triangle between Boss
and Bijou, and it notably only contains 50 different words. Following the title rodent belonging to Laura and his
similarly-named friends, for 10 points, name this anime which features a man named Sam convincing an unwilling
protagonist to eat the title food combination.
ANSWER: Green Eggs and Hamtaro <MA>
6. This man graduated from Columbia Business School in 1951 to work for Benjamin Graham. Later, he wore a key
around his neck and hijacked a speedboat to evade Ash and Jesse. With Jorge Lemann’s 3G Capital, he plans to
shadow tag and buy H. J. Heinz Co. He is regarded as uber tier thanks to his devastating moveset of Encore, Mirror
Coat and Counter. He donated ten million shares of stocks to the charity of the only American with a greater net
worth than him, Bill Gates, and this Psychic-type investor never attacks first unless his black tail is threatened. For
10 points, name this blue-colored Omaha-based CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a Patient Pokemon with a dopey smile
who evolves from Wynaut.
ANSWER: Warren Wobbuffet <WR>
7. One character in this work tells another that “I can be the best soldier in your army, or the worst,” and
subsequently identifies himself as “the dwarf.” The Old Bear commands the Wall to defend the kingdom from the
North, while his brother and sister engage in online politicking as Locke and Democritus. The mother of dragons is
the last of the Targaryens after Viserys is executed, and she goes to Battle School and eventually destroys the
Buggers. For 10 points, name this work in which Andrew Wiggin and Eddard Stark play the title activity for the Iron
Throne, written by Orson Scott Martin.
ANSWER: Ender’s Game of Thrones <WD>
8. In this work, one man says “You beginner luck” when the protagonist catches an insect, while another man
repeats the line “Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon” four times. Music in this movie includes Joe Esposito's
“You’re The Best”, which plays during the Cobra Kai’s bouts, as well as the guitar-less “Idioteque” and the opening
track “Everything in Its Right Place”. Its cover art of an icy mountainscape was painted by the title character during
“wax on, wax off” defensive training. Immediately preceded by OK Computer, this work ends with Danny LaRusso
winning the tournament using a crane kick. Both Mr. Miyagi and Thom Yorke feature in, for 10 points, this martial
arts movie released by Radiohead in 2000.
ANSWER: The Karate Kid A <WR>
9. This man meets a girl at Coachella and proceeds to get high on anesthetics in one of his albums. Tony Bergdorf
has a heart attack in Las Vegas and ten thousand dollars is set aside for his widow in this 1960 film. He claims he
“thought you were cool enough to kick it” in one work, but Rusty Ryan fails to convince this man to drop his
vendetta against Terry Benedict, who is dating Tess, in this film. This man, a member of the Rat Pack along with
Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, released Channel Orange before robbing three to five casinos, including the
Bellagio. For 10 points, name this man appearing in the first of three titular films, a con-and-R&B artist.
ANSWER: Frank Ocean’s Eleven <WD>
10. In an opera by this composer, the title tsar sings that he is “travelling swallowing dramamine” as he begins a
long drive through Russia during the Time of Troubles. In another work by this musician, Chernobog uses the
speaker’s heart to cook a brain during a witches’ sabbath. This composer of Night on the Lonesome Crowded
Mountain depicted himself realizing that “the universe is shaped exactly like the earth” as he goes on a promenade
through space to view the moon and Antarctica. For 10 points, name this member of the Mighty Five indie rock
scene who released Pictures at an Exhibition, which includes the sections “The World at Large” and “Float On”.
ANSWER: Modest Moussorgsky <MZ>
11. Along with Alien X, the main character in this show can transform into an alien from Pyros, while another halfhuman must ride a stone to stay balanced; that stone has miraculously been cut all the way through, but is still
legible on both sides. Serena and Bellicus argue constantly in this series, but can do anything when in mutual
agreement. The writer’s brother is compelled by his people to create a golden statue, but later these are etched into a
block of stone. The diminutive Azmuth is the most intelligent being in the universe in this series, and these rules to
live by are the only thing written by His hand. For 10 points, name this animated Cartoon Network show, which
started when the Omnitrix did what it did after Moses smashes these two stone tablets declaring, “Thou shalt not
kill.”
ANSWER: Ben 10 Commandments <WD>
12. One character in this work tells another that baobabs are massive trees and even a herd of elephants could not eat
one, to which another character replies that little baobabs could be eaten by sheep. The main character calls his
butler “G” and his uncle “Phil”. As a young child growing up in West Philadelphia, one character in this work draws
a snake with an elephant in it. Jazz [a person] gets thrown out by Philip Banks periodically, while a child flies
through space to visit some planets. For 10 points, name this TV show in which Will de Saint-Exupery gets into
trouble with a couple of guys, up to no good, and leaves his rose to fly through space to visit a mathematician and a
drunkard.
ANSWER: The Little Prince of Bel-Air <WD>
13. This work’s narrator uses “a spell to make them balance: ‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’”
before being cleaned by M-O, who calls him a “foreign contaminant”. That protagonist has a pet cockroach, enjoys
music from Hello, Dolly!, and owns “apple trees” which “will never get across and eat the cones under his pines”.
Another character in this work was sent from the starship Axiom to Earth to find plant life; that character meets with
this work’s narrator once a year to rebuild the border between their farms. For 10 points, name this movie where the
title trash-compactor robot meets EVE and comments “Good fences make good neighbors”, a Pixar film by Robert
Frost.
ANSWER: Mending WALL-E <WR>