Packet 8: Tossup 2

Speakers of Papua New Guinea’s Tok Pisin language use a contraction of this actress’s name to refer to some third gender people. A February 2025 video essay by the YouTuber mothcub lambasts a film in which this actress’s character, who admires a legend about Alida’s lover Taroo becoming a hummingbird, is advised by a “Zodiacal council” including Sadhguru (“SUD-goo-roo”) and Neil (15[1])DeGrasse Tyson. Martin (15[1])Brest quit directing (15[1])after the flop (15[1])of a film in which (15[1])this actress shakes (15[1])her (15[1])(*) legs (10[1])on a bed and says “turkey time; (10[1])gobble gobble.” (10[3])The development of Google Images was motivated by a (10[1])rush of search (10[1])queries in 2000 about this (10[1])actress’s green Versace dress. (10[1])This star (10[1])of Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight broke through as a lead actor in a biopic of a murdered Tejano singer. For 10 points, what Nuyorican star of Selena was part of a celebrity power couple nicknamed “Bennifer?” ■END■

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