2008 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Memorial Open



2009 Ferdinand Tönnies Memorial Trash Open

“Gemeinschaft und Abfall”

Round 3

1. The very last play in this player’s career saw him hit a three-quarter-court shot against the Hornets, while playing mop-up minutes as David Robinson’s backup. In another memorable incident, this player used his Soricesque deep voice to predict a sweep through the playoffs, leading to the nickname “fo’, fo’, fo’.” This player’s first season with the first team with which he is most associated saw him obliterate a record held by Paul Silas; a subsequent season saw him begin a string of five seasons leading the NBA in rebounding, a streak which he would continue after leaving the aforementioned team during the off-season in which it drafted Ralph Sampson. FTP, name this three-time NBA MVP, a man who won a championship after leaving Houston for the ’83 76ers and who was the fifth player to jump directly to pro ball from high school.

ANSWER: Moses Eugene Malone (prompt on Malone)

2. One version of this song discusses Kate Moss and her "imaginary crimes" and takes its lyrics from spliced words selected from George Bush's 2004 RNC speech. Besides that DJ-RX version, another version uses "pipeline" exclusively instead of alternating it with "high price" as backing vocals. Built over a baseline sampled from Liquid Liquid's "Cavern," characters in this song include a street kid arrested for three years who is contrasted with a businessman getting bail. Omitted in the Duran Duran cover of this song is a naked Jack Horner who trades his clothes for some of the titular substance. This song discusses "a million magic crystals" which are "twice as sweet as sugar and twice as bitter as salt," while other repeated elements include the exortation "get higher baby" and chants of "freeze! rock!" and "freebase!" Actually by Grandmaster Melle Mel, FTP, identify this song about cocaine, attributed to Grandmaster Flash.

ANSWER: “White Lines (Don't Do It)” (accept either)

3. One film named for these creatures centers on Kay Hoog, who battles an organization led by Lio Sha and tries to find a lost Incan civilization. That film in two parts began with The Golden Sea and was directed by Fritz Lang. This creature appears in the title of a film about Washington Day School teacher and serial killer Gary Soneji, who kidnaps the daughter of Senator Hank Rose. Miranda Richardson starred as Mrs. Cleg, the title character’s murdered mother, in a 2002 film of this title based on a Patrick McGrath novel. That film, which starred Ralph Fiennes as the title schizophrenic, was directed by David Cronenberg. Forensic psychologist Alex Cross was played by Morgan Freeman in a 2001 film adaptation of a James Patterson novel whose title is “along came [one of these].” FTP, identify this creature which also figures in a trilogy of popular Sam Raimi-directed films, all of which star Tobey Maguire.

ANSWER: Spider (accept The Spiders or Die Spinnen on the first two sentences)

4. On an episode of Match Game, one of these people notoriously misspelled "ice cube" as "e-i-s q-u-i-b" and to save money exclusively called Merv Griffin through an 800 number. The least famous of these people performed in a long run of The Play's The Thing and made her only film appearance in 1937's Today's Girls. One of them starred in The Mad Magician, Wake Me When the War is Over, and the remake of Artists and Models. George Sanders was married to two of them, while another had legal difficulties immortalized in the film The People vs. her. Those “difficulties” include an episode when she slapped Paul Kramer, a Beverly Hills police officer, and that woman, the only of the three still living, had nine of this threesome's 20 total marriages. FTP, identify these Hungarian sisters whose first names are Magda, Eva, and Zsa Zsa.

ANSWER: the Gabor sisters (prompt on less specific answers like "Hungarians" or "socialites" or whatever until "The Play's the Thing")

5. During road games in Texas, this man started games in place of a hungover Bobby Layne, but joined his best-known team after being traded for Junior Wren to the Browns, who released him so he could sign with a former college backfield coach. This man faced scrutiny after being linked to a Detroit mob gambler named "Dice," with the story of the FBI investigation being broken the Tuesday before his only Super Bowl appearance; he got to that game by completing a 35-yard pass from his own 2 yard-line to Otis Taylor on a drive to beat the Raiders. In that game, he completed passes to Wendell Hayes and Mike Garrett and called a reverse for Frank Pitts that set up a Jan Stenerud field goal. He was named Super Bowl MVP in Super Bowl IV, a win over the Vikings. FTP, identify this long-time quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs who gave his name to the “creek” where a long-time WB series was set.

ANSWER: Len Dawson

6. In the penultimate episode of this show’s first season, a convent was stricken with typhoid while one character went on a date with a man who had a shoe fetish. One character on this show was discovered to have a young daughter named Betsy, and is played by an actor who had previously appeared as Piz on the dreadful third season of Veronica Mars, Chris Lowell. Other characters on this show include Cooper Freedman, who has a crush on Violet, and an expert on Oriental culture named Pete Wilder. However, the show centers on the director of Oceanside Wellness Center, who responded to the unfortunate wedding of Christina and Burke by moving to Los Angeles after resigning from Seattle Grace. FTP, name this ABC drama in which Addison Montgomery is played by Kate Walsh, a show which is allegedly even more dismal than the show from which it spun off, Grey’s Anatomy.

ANSWER: Private Practice

7. The box set for the band that made this musician famous recounts that their first acquaintance with him occurred when he wore a ginger-colored suit to a High Numbers concert, taunted a member of that band into retirement, and took over for him. The Australian version of one of this musician’s band’s albums shows him using Clearasil, though other versions of that album have him treating a giant zit with a tube of Medac. One vocal for this musician has him lauding a place where “The ‘olliday’s forever!” while another has him proclaiming that he works “in an ‘otel / All gilt and flash!” To promote that second appearance, this musician appeared semi-nude in Bellboy Magazine, which was created as the program for the Quadrophenia tour, on which he performed percussion. FTP, name this drummer who occasionally sang for the Who until he died from doing massive drugs.

ANSWER: Keith Moon

8. A current summer feature on this website includes rants against Labradoodles, umbrellas, and Ellen DeGeneres' dancing. Besides "This Week in Fuck You," other recurring features include mockery of a certain columnist's love of coffee, as well as dialogues with characters like one who frequently says "bulee dat," and another who uses bizarre nicknames to mock Wade Phillips' obesity. Besides that deconstruction of Peter King columns and the caricatures of Pacman Jones and Jerry Jones, other posts include non-sports related mock drafts and shilling for Men With Balls, a book by Drew Magary, a contributor to both Deadspin and this spinoff site. With contributors like Monday Morning Punter and Christmas Ape, FTP, identify this NFL blog named after what a drunk Joe Namath wanted to be doing during a 2003 Monday Night Football game.

ANSWER: Kissing Suzy Kolber (accept KSK)

9. Much like Andrew Hart, one character played by this man doesn't understand "uppers" and "downers," confusing them in a conversation about asthma pills with Lloyd. Another of this actor's characters asks a woman out to a Sonny Chiba triple feature after he confides that if he had to, he would fuck Elvis. Another character portrayed by this actor calls his dad "sport" and "son" while his dad calls him “father”; that character kills Ram and Kurt, but stages their deaths as a gay suicide pact. Those characters played by this actor are Clarence Worley, who loves the Patricia Arquette-played Alabama, and J.D., a creepy high schooler who tries to kill three of the title girls. FTP, identify this star of True Romance and Heathers, who also starred in the short-lived TV series My Own Worst Enemy.

ANSWER: Christian Slater (the original film is The Legend of Billie Jean)

10. This word designates nature spirits who, in the mythology of Australian aborigines, live in the rock walls of caves to avoid being broken apart by the wind; according to Robert Lawlor, they "taught sexuality in all its diverse forms" to the Aborigines. This is also the first name of the wife of Alan Sparhawk, a musician who collaborates with him in the "slowcore" group Low. This is the first name of a character who sings "Out Tonight" and joins with Roger for the song "Light My Candle" in Jonathan Larson's musical Rent. This name also appears in the title of a 2005 album which included a collaboration with Jermaine Dupri, "Get Your Number," as well as a collaboration with Snoop Dogg, "Say Somethin'." Those tracks, along with "It's Like That" and "We Belong Together," appeared on that album about the "emancipation" of this figure. FTP, give this four-letter name which can be used to refer to Mariah Carey or possibly to a fat secretary who tormented the title character of The Drew Carey Show.

ANSWER: Mimi

11. This author wrote about a Scotland Yard psychiatrist named Richard Greville who investigates the murders of all the adults living in Pangbourne Village in one work. In another work, he wrote about architect Robert Maitland, who finds himself trapped in a strange urban location. In addition to Running Wild and Concrete Island, he wrote about a doctor who discovers a jungle being destroyed by the title phenomenon in The Crystal World. However, he is better known for novels featuring the fetishistic Robert Vaughan and about a boy growing up in Shanghai, both of which were turned into movies. FTP, name this author of Crash and Empire of the Sun who died in 2009.

ANSWER: J(ames) G(raham) Ballard

12. One announcer with this nickname was fired after deploring the low attendance at a 1966 Yankees game, while on the Dan LeBatard Show, the character “Fake Howard Schnellen-fraud" insists every sports team needs someone named this. A coach with this name succeeded John Ralston, but his Craig Morton-quarterbacked team lost to the Cowboys in Super Bowl XII. ESPN named a running back called this the greatest college player of all time for his stint at Illinois; that back was also called "The Galloping Ghost." The most famous man with this moniker recently was surpassed by Phil Jackson as the coach with the most NBA titles. FTP, give the shared nickname of announcer Barber, Broncos coach Miller, Bears running back Grange, and famed Celtics coach Auerbach.

ANSWER: Red (accept "Redhead" or "Ol' Redhead" until the end of the first sentence)

13. Ming-Na and Kurtwood Smith starred in a 2002 film written and directed by this man which was set at the "Zambezi Glen," a camp modeled on the notorious men's gathering known as the Bohemian Grove. In addition to Teddy Bears' Picnic, this man collaborated with Tom Leopold on a musical whose characters included Clyde Tolson and his possible gay lover. This co-creator of J. Edgar! The Musical has recently written a novel about the Native American experience, Not Enough Indians, though he may be better known for an unamusing radio program which originates at KCRW in Santa Monica and offers such feeble satirical features as "Apologies of the Week." However, the voice of this host of Le Show may be better known to TV viewers, as he can be heard portraying such characters as Lenny, Reverend Lovejoy, and Rainier Wolfcastle. FTP, name this contributor to The Simpsons who played Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap.

ANSWER: Harry Shearer

14. This man was the financial backer of the Fantastic Force, and he was once engaged to singer Monica Lynne. Like Daredevil, he can be unlocked in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance by collecting five action figures, and his father was murdered by the Dutchman Klaw. He once acquired the legendary King Solomon's Frogs, which showed him a vision of the future in which he was going to die from a brain aneurysm. He must protect his homeland from enemies like Man-Ape and Erik Killmonger, who are after its reserves of the valuable mineral Vibranium. FTP, name this Marvel superhero, also known as T'Challa, who is married to Storm and rules the fictional African nation of Wakanda, a hero who gave his name to a party cofounded by Bobby Seale.

ANSWER: Black Panther (accept T'Challa before it is mentioned)

15. This seven-letter word appears in the title of a song which begins “Sweet sister, can’t you find the words to say.” That song, which proclaims that “In a dark room I can see you shining bright,” describes a kind of “love” and is performed by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. The lines “Almost every day / I see the same face / On broken picture tube” begin a song by Pantera whose title refers to this kind of hostility, while “songs about” this activity was the title of the second, and last, Big Black album. This word appears as a noun in a song which notes that “we should talk about” the title activity, as the “ladies don’t really like” it. In addition to that song by Tenacious D, The Insider’s Pat O’Brien appears in a video to confirm that this activity is being performed “in the car,” “up against the mini-bar,” and in other places, by Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon. FTP, give this seven-letter gerund which rather coarsely describes a form of human intercourse.

ANSWER: fucking (accept “This Love Is Fucking Right” before Pantera is mentioned)

16. Roles played by this actor include that of an officer named Abe Lincoln in a 1995 chick flick and that of Baldwin in Amistad, while this man also narrated The Story of Darrell Royal. One film starring this man saw his best friend, played by Bradley Cooper, woo Zooey Deschanel; that film traumatized America with the sight of a naked Terry Bradshaw, who played this actor's father. This actor fought dragons in Reign of Fire and recently received a producer credit for the film Surfer Dude. Another recent film starring this man saw him receive spectral assistance in wooing a character played by Jennifer Garner, The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, and he played the sleazy Wooderson in Dazed and Confused. FTP, name this actor who has starred in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, We Are Marshall, and Sahara.

ANSWER: Matthew McConaughey 

17. Probably named for his resemblance to another player who was the son of a circus strongman, this player was traded to the Dodgers via the Cardinals for Burleigh Grimes, the last grandfathered spitballer. Earlier, this player was a controversial Rule 5 draftee while playing for Toledo of the American Association, with his transfer requiring a special ruling from Kennesaw Mountain Landis to allow the team with which he is most associated to steal him from the New York Giants. This player split his best year’s MVP award with Bill Terry after teammate Rogers Hornsby won the last NL League Award the previous season; that best year saw this player post 105 walks and 56 home runs, the latter an NL record that stood for 68 years. FTP, name this center fielder best known for his 1930 season with the Cubs, during which he set a standing Major League record by driving in 191 runs.

ANSWER: Lewis Robert “Hack” Wilson

18. One item that the player can find in this game is a necklace made of human fingers, and an aquatic boss is fought in this game’s chapter called "Brackish Waters." One vehicle used in this game is the Centaur Tank, and early on the player meets Dizzy Wallin, who drives "Betty." This game’s third act, "Gathering Storm", sees the first appearance of the deadly precipitation Razorhail; that’s found outside the New Hope facility, in which the player must fight through numerous Sires. New enemies in this game include Bloodmounts, Kantus Priests, and Grinders, all of which can be fought in Horde Mode, and this game's final boss is a Lambent Brumak. FTP, name this 2008 XBOX 360 sequel which once again follows Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago as they attempt to defeat the Locust.

ANSWER: Gears of War 2 (do not accept or prompt on “Gears of War”)

19. Prior to being murdered by followers of Charles Manson, Sharon Tate appeared on it as a secretary named Janet Trego. Fans of this series were not pleased by the appearance of marine biologist Mark Templeton, who was mistaken for an amphibian, while another storyline featured thespian Dash Riprock, who became enamored of one of this show's central female characters. Other characters on this program included Jane Hathaway, who worked for a banker named Mr. Drysdale. Among the actors who appeared on this long-lived comedy were Donna Douglas and Irene Ryan, who played the central male character's mother-in-law, Daisy May. Starring Buddy Ebsen as the leader of the title family, FTP, name this sitcom about the Clampett family, who gain fabulous wealth after oil is discovered in their swamp, whereupon they relocate to California.

ANSWER: The Beverly Hillbillies

20. When Beavis and Butthead watched the video for this song, they complained that the “whole point of college music” is “like, to make the suburbs look bad,” before Butthead chastised Beavis for talking about “stools.” That video for this song features two fake-looking houses side by side, and includes a cameo by Fabio. A video for another song of this name features DJ Skeet Skeet, who is seen lying in bed at the end, as well as an unnamed cat being held by the singer before she starts cavorting with feathers. That song appears before “Waking Up in Vegas” and after the title track on the 2008 album One of the Boys. FTP, given the name shared by those songs by Jill Sobule and Katy Perry, which titillated Americans of two decades with their coy allusions to lesbianism.

ANSWER: “I Kissed a Girl”

Bonuses:

1. This song was the opening track on 1983’s 90215 album, and reflects the band’s interest in Objectivist teachings, as it insists that someone give their “free will a chance.” FTPE:

[10] Name this song, which also includes exhortations to “move yourself” and “shake yourself.”

ANSWER: “Owner of a Lonely Heart”

[10] “Owner of a Lonely Heart” was a bit hit for this English group, whose members included bassist Chris Squire.

ANSWER: Yes

[10] This sprawling two-disc concept album by Yes features four interminable songs, each of which represents an idea expounded upon by Paramahansa Yogananda.

ANSWER: Tales from Topographic Oceans

2. FTPE, answer the following about a program whose existence was unknown to Stanford at 2009 ACF nationals: I Love the New Millennium.

[10] In the show’s “How Gay Was It?” segment, this Internet “celebrity” uses his gaydar to rate people and events on a gayness scale. He also helped judge the Miss USA 2009 pageant.

ANSWER: Perez Hilton (accept Mario Lavandeira)

[10] One thing the show “loved” from 2005 was this OK Go song, whose renowned video saw the band dancing like idiots on treadmills.

ANSWER: “Here It Goes Again”

[10] This comedian impersonates George W. Bush on the show; his Bush impression has also appeared in the Norwegian film Long Flat Balls II and on episodes of JAG and NCIS.

ANSWER: Steve Bridges

3. Answer the following about that most nefarious of legions, the Legion of Super-Villains, FTPE:

[10] This member of the Legion kidnapped Timber Wolf and had a bionic gun in place of one arm, a characteristic inspired by the Norse war god who gave him his name.

ANSWER: Tyr

[10] The Legion included this extremely dangerous native of the planet Neptune, who possessed the terrifying ability to make his body flat.

ANSWER: Ron-Karr

[10] The Legion also included Eve Aries, who was known as the “queen” of this planet; another “girl” named for this planet was a telepath who was played by Alexz Johnson on one episode of Smallville this year.

ANSWER: Saturn (accept Saturn Queen or Saturn Girl)

4. Answer the following about the most terrifying defenses of the 1980s in the NFL, FTPE:

[10] The Giants’ ferocious defense was predicated around this cocaine-using, Joe Theismann-leg breaking linebacker.

ANSWER: Lawrence Taylor

[10] The Philadelphia Eagles defenses of the late '80s were coached by this man, who had previously served as the defensive coordinator for the 1985 Bears.

ANSWER: Buddy Ryan

[10] That 1985 Bears team featured players such as William Perry, Richard Dent and this linebacker, a graduate of Louisville who had 10.5 sacks for the Bears that season.

ANSWER: Otis Wilson

5. The creepy acronym “MEF” appears on a computer screen in this film, terrifying Claire Spencer. FTPE:

[10] Name this suspenseful 2000 film, in which Michelle Pfeiffer played Claire and Harrison Ford played her husband, Norman.

ANSWER: What Lies Beneath

[10] What Lies Beneath was directed by this man, whose more recent projects include 2007’s Beowulf.

ANSWER: Robert Zemeckis

[10] In addition to What Lies Beneath, in 2000 Zemeckis directed this film about Chuck Noland, who spends much of the movie “chatting” with an inanimate object named Wilson.

ANSWER: Cast Away

6. This song inspired a 1991 film in which John Candy played a police officer who fell in love with Ally Sheedy. FTPE:

[10] Name this song, which expresses the faint hope that “maybe tomorrow” a “new romance” will bring “no more sorrow.”

ANSWER: “Only the Lonely”

[10] “Only the Lonely” was the first big hit for this singer, who also had hits with “Crying” and “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

ANSWER: Roy Orbison

[10] A “candy-colored clown they call the Sandman” figures in this creepy Orbison song, which was memorably performed by Frank Booth in Blue Velvet.

ANSWER: “In Dreams”

7. Name these board games, all of which are produced by Hasbro, FTPE:

[10] Eleanor Abbott developed this game, whose characters include Mr. Mint, Queen Frostine, and a monster named Gloppy.

ANSWER: Candy Land

[10] This game features a board which is a 10 by 10 square and which sports two lakes in the middle. Each side has eight scouts and five miners.

ANSWER: Stratego

[10] In this game, you can use traps to kill other players while pursuing Agatha’s fortune. Characters include Poopsie, who is perhaps pleonastically described by Wikipedia as a “sadistic cat,” and Spritzy, the stylist.

ANSWER: 13 Dead End Drive

8. Everyone remembers Nicktoons, they say. But how much do you remember about Nickelodeon's assortment of live action TV shows? FTPE:

[10] Camp Anawanna was the setting for this program, which detailed the exploits of characters like Donkey Lips.

ANSWER: Salute Your Shorts

[10] This program, part of the network's SNICK line-up in the 90s, starred Larissa Oleynik as the titular high school girl. She had the ability to turn herself into a silvery liquid.

ANSWER: The Secret World of Alex Mack

[10] Seth Teitler auditioned for the lead role on this series, which debuted in 2004. However, Seth resigned himself to going to grad school after the role of Addie Singer instead went to Julia Roberts' niece Emma in an appalling case of Hollywood nepotism.

ANSWER: Unfabulous

9. Answer each of the following about rock bands pulling the ultimate culture fail by pretending to be British, FTPE:

[10] Annoying-as-fuck British-talking band Weezer began this crappy single with the conditional “When you’re on a holiday.”

ANSWER: “Island in the Sun”

[10] Arch-fake-Britons Green Day included a highly Eurovision-like sideswipe at Bush, who equals dumb, on their single “Holiday,” in which “the Representative from California” issues a “sieg heil” to a President by this name.

ANSWER: Gasman

[10] The South Park episode “Kenny Dies” sees Kenny reject a hospital visit from this former wife of actual Briton Guy Ritchie. Kenny correctly claims of her that she’s “an old, anorexic whore who wore out her welcome years ago.”

ANSWER: Madonna Louise Ciccone (accept either underlined part)

10. This game featured voice actors like Kiefer Sutherland and Gary Oldman, and saw missions in which players performed tasks like taking the Reichstag. FTPE:

[10] Name this 2008 first person shooter, the follow-up to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

ANSWER: Call of Duty: World at War (prompt on Call of Duty)

[10] One of the most popular aspects of World at War was a game mode where players fought waves of these enemies while trapped inside an old building.

ANSWER: Nazi Zombies (accept equivalents; prompt on “zombies”)

[10] Two of the missions in World at War see the player re-enact parts of this battle, such as the taking of Shuri Castle. The Americans took this island just a few weeks before the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

ANSWER: Battle of Okinawa 

11. Answer the following about Jews and basketball, FTPE.

[10] This old coot once pointed out that “everyone says basketball is a black man’s game, but in my day it was a Jewish game.” In 2008 this man broke a record held by Amos Alonzo Stagg for most seasons coaching at the same school.

ANSWER: Joe Paterno (accept Joe Pa)

[10] This 2009 Kings draft pick is noted for his love of hummus, and is the first Israeli to be selected in the first round.

ANSWER: Omri Casspi

[10] One man with this last name was a journeyman center in the ‘80s and ‘90s, while his father is in the Hall of Fame. The father played mostly for the Syracuse Nationals, while the son went to Syracuse.

ANSWER: Dolph and Danny Schayes

12. Answer the following about a cable channel now mysteriously known as “Syfy,” FTPE:

[10] The old Sci-Fi's Channel’s biggest hit was this series which detailed the relationship between humans and Cylons.

ANSWER: Battlestar Galactica

[10] The Sci-Fi original movie Frankenfish dealt sensitively with the plight of monstrous versions of this Asian fish species, which has become ubiquitous in some Maryland lakes and rivers in the past few years.

ANSWER: Northern Snakehead

[10] This Sci-Fi series was a CGI parody of Star Trek. Stephen Root voiced the main character, a spaceship captain named Chode McBlob, while other cast mebers included Carmen Electra.

ANSWER: Tripping the Rift

13. This figure shut down his telegraph service in 1922 to found a radio service initially dedicated to hours-long tirades against Louise Brooks. FTPE:

[10] Name this Mike Wehrman look-alike, the namesake of a September 21 holiday.

ANSWER: T. Hermann Zwiebel

[10] T. Hermann Zwiebel is the longtime attributed editor of this publication.

ANSWER: The Onion (accept The Mercantile-Onion)

[10] Unfortunately, T. Hermann Zwiebel’s columns have appeared in The Onion only rarely since he suffered this fate in late 2000.

ANSWER: he was launched into space (accept clear-knowledge equivalents)

14. Identify the following cameos by athletes in recent music videos, FTPE:

[10] In Keri Hilson's video for "Knock You Down," this Charger linebacker and steroid abuser appears but refrains from doing his signature "Lights Out" dance.

ANSWER: Shawne Merriman

[10] This MMA fighter gets kicked in the nuts by Mandy Moore in her video for "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week." He won his title by beating Randy Couture, but lost it to Rampage Jackson.

ANSWER: Chuck Liddell

[10] Robinson Cano, Melky Cabrera, and Jose Reyes appear alongside many bikini-clad hotties in the video for "Pa La Tumba" by this Def Jam Reggaeton artist. Collaborator with Tito El Bambino, he tragically now only releases Christian albums.

ANSWER: Hector "El Father" Delgado (accept any part)

15. This man recently directed a film for ESPN that focuses on the title figure during a 2008 game against the San Antonio Spurs, Kobe Doin' Work. FTPE:

[10] Name this director of such classic films as Freak.

ANSWER: Spike Lee

[10] Lee also directed this film which depicts the last day before a character played by Ed Norton begins a prison sentence.

ANSWER: 25th Hour

[10] This Spike Lee joint parodies TV by showing the success of The New Millennium Minstrel Show. In it, one of the stars of the show is murdered by the Mau Maus, a revolutionary group led by Mos Def.

ANSWER: Bamboozled

16. One native of this country is nicknamed "The Duck," though he may be better known for his smoking habit. FTPE:

[10] Name the country which is home to Angel Cabrera, a golfer who was once awarded a certain city's "Silver Laurel Award"; that award has also been given to Adolfo Bioy Casares.

ANSWER: Argentina

[10] Two prominent Argentine golfers share this surname. Eduardo is notorious for refusing to practice golf, while Andres has twice finished in the top 10 at the British Open.

ANSWER: Romero

[10] Before Cabrera, this was the only Argentine to win a major, though he may be more famous for saying "what a stupid I am" after signing a wrong scorecard to cost himself the 1968 Masters.

ANSWER: Robert(o) De Vincenzo

17. Name these songs by The Temptations, FTPE.

[10] This song declares "When it's cold outside I've got the month of May," thanks to the titular female.

ANSWER: "My Girl"

[10] This Grammy-winning song is believed by many to be about using drugs. In it, the Temptations claim that "I'm feeling fine" on the titular location.

ANSWER: "Cloud Nine"

[10] Various members of the group sing lyrics such as "I can turn the grayest sky blue" and "I can build a castle from a single grain of sand" in this song. It was the only number one hit from their album Puzzle People. 

ANSWER: "I Can't Get Next To You"

18. Answer the following about things related to the name Dashiell, FTPE:

[10] Sydney Greenstreet and Mary Astor appeared in this film based on a Dashiell Hammett novel; it was the first film directed by John Huston.

ANSWER: The Maltese Falcon

[10] Dashiell Bennett, who writes for Gawker Media, originally worked as head editor of this blog that has "Straight" and "Gay" options.

ANSWER: Fleshbot

[10] Someone named Wally Dashiell played precisely one game for this team in 1924. Better known players on that 1924 team included Willie Kamm, Sarge Connally, and Hall of Famer Eddie Collins.

ANSWER: Chicago White Sox (prompt on Chicago)

19. Near the end of this film, the British mercenary Bernard Ryder commits suicide by electrocution. FTPE:

[10] Name this film which centered on a group of hijackers who threaten to kill one passenger per minute until New York City pays them one million dollars.

ANSWER: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three or The Taking of Pelham 123

[10] In a 1998 remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, this man played the role of Bernard Ryder. He played Vince Vaughn’s weird brother Dennis in The Break Up.

ANSWER: Vincent D'Onofrio

[10] 2009’s remake of Pelham stars this man as Mr. Green, who was played by Martin Balsam in the original. He provided the voice of Ricardo Diaz in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

ANSWER: Luis Guzman

20. This television show centered on The Cougars, a team in The League, whose star running back D.H. is eerily similar to Mike Sorice in his smoking crack during games and considering Snoop Dogg his brother. FTPE:

[10] Name this television series that is currently chagrining Matt Weiner by coming up in spite of having been cancelled after only one season several years ago.

ANSWER: Playmakers

[10] Playmakers largely centered on the internal monologue of this Cougars linebacker who paralyzed an opponent with a hit in the first episode and whose brother was killed in a high school football game.

ANSWER: Eric Olczyk (accept either underlined part)

[10] Playmakers was the first original dramatic series created by this network, which probably pulled the plug on the show due to pressure from the NFL.

ANSWER: ESPN

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