Round 7: Tossup 9

Henry Mancini composed a “polka” named for this sort of event for a scene in which a man in monks’ habit ignores one of them while shouting “hey professor!” (15[1])It’s not boxing, but in 2015, a toxicologist who operates lonchaney.org found a lost reel depicting this sort of event from the film The Battle of the Century. In a 1974 film, (15[1])a man opens a bathroom (15[1])door to witness one of these events, then closes it, but reopens it to reveal it has spread inside. Ping-pong balls were shot out of props called “splurge guns” for a climactic scene depicting this sort of event in (*) Alan Parker’s kid gangster musical Bugsy Malone. One of these events in the War Room was Terry Southern’s (10[1])original (10[2])ending for Dr. (10[1])Strangelove. (10[2])A man in all white nearly manages to emerge unscathed from one of these events that pays homage to Mack Sennett in Blake Edwards’s The Great Race. For 10 points, the Three Stooges’ go-to slapstick gag was what sort of event involving flung confections? ■END■ (10[1])

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