Taco Bell Soap

Taco Bell Soap denotes any tossup which contains uninformative, useless, and usually asinine lead-in clues from which no player would be able to even hazard a rational guess. "Taco Bell Soap" lead-ins and "curved yellow fruit" giveaways are considered the pinnacle of bad question writing.

The original "Taco Bell Soap" question appeared as Tossup 3 in the "Fair Game" Theme Packet by Shaun Cassidy & the Grapico Kid for Ghetto Warz III. It was later revealed by the question's author, Dwight Wynne, that this question had in fact been submitted as a literature tossup.

The intentional writing of Taco Bell Soap questions is an attempted violation of Weiner's Law #1, though it only serves to reinforce it.

(Quasi-)Complete Text of the Original Taco Bell Soap Question

3. A Taco Bell on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Merced uses this brand of hand soap. It is the last name of a modern poet who wrote the science fiction novel A World of Difference, co-authored The Egyptologists with Kingsley Amis, and serves as literary editor of the London Spectator. In a sample game of Scrabble used to demonstrate how to score the game, it is worth two hundred twelve points. In The Last Chronicle of Barset, Messrs. Crawley and Robarts discuss Crawley's daughter Grace making one out of Archdeacon Grantly. For 10 points, identify this eight-letter word that also names a USC fight song.
ANSWER: (Robert) Conquest