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F.O.G.H.A.T. 2011: Observing a Moment of “Slowride”

Packet #5

Written by Jeremy White

Toss-ups

1. In the 2007 Copa Sudamerica, this team was eliminated during the round of 16 by Chivas Guadalajara. Honduran midfielder Andy Najar won Rookie of the Year playing for them in 2010. Oscar Zambrana is credited with creating its very dedicated fan group called La Barra Brava, in front of whom Marco Etcheverry would clap after games in their early seasons. This team’s most recent league championship came in the same year they drafted then fourteen-year-old Freddy Adu. Jaime Moreno is this team’s career leading scorer and was on their roster for each of their record four league titles. For ten points, name this MLS team that plays home games in RFK Stadium.

Answer: D. C. United

2. The Urban Cowboy soundtrack featured Mickey Gilley’s country-chart-topping cover of this song. Spyder Turner and Maurice White both hit the Hot 100 with covers of it. Another cover of this song was the first single of the album John Lennon made to repay Morris Levy for plagiarism in “Come Together”. This song’s original version was recorded by its co-composer after sessions for “Spanish Harlem” and after it had been rejected by the group for whom he sang “Save the Last Dance for Me.” For ten points, “I won’t be afraid if you” perform the titular action of this rock standard by Ben E. King.

Answer: “Stand By Me”

3. “Mandolin Strum” was the B-side to this song, which was sung at the beginning of The Cleveland Show episode in which Lester faked his death. One of its composers noted “the idea that high school is the portal to hell seems pretty realistic” in commenting about this song in the liner notes of In Time. Mark Owen of Take That sang “Take comfort in your friends” on the British charity single cover of this song that raised funds for victims of the Haiti earthquake. “There’s nothing I can do” is among the subtitles in its original recording’s video, which depicts a San Antonio traffic jam. For ten points, name this fourth track on Automatic for the People, an R.E.M. ballad asserting that suffering is universal.

Answer: “Everybody Hurts”

4. This person played a compulsive gambler in Going for Broke, a Lifetime movie also starring this person’s spouse. This person played Eve, a co-worker to Mel Gibson’s character in What Women Want, and is the author of a book subtitled Eve Wasn’t a Size 6 and Neither Am I. This person played a character who assumed ownership of the California Bulls through a divorce settlement on the HBO series 1st and Ten and played Mary Cherry’s mother on Popular. This person is best known for playing a character who became a senator in Women of the House after starting a business that employed Mary Jo and Charlene with her sister Julia. For ten points, name this spouse of Gerald McRaney who portrayed former beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker on Designing Women.

Answer: Delta Ramona Leah Burke

5. Represented by a plus sign in both PGN and algebraic notations, this term is analogous both to the obsolete term “garde” from the same game and to “atari” in go. Although optional in standard rules, Hooper and Whyld’s Oxford Companion require that this situation be announced. Castling is not allowed during this situation and a king cannot be placed next to an opponent’s king since rules forbid any moves putting one’s self in this situation. For ten points, name this chess status that becomes augmented with “mate” if it cannot be disrupted on the next turn.

Answer: Check

6. Ted Nugent performed at a 2009 Tea Party Tax Day protest held at this structure. Rolling Stone reported Phil Collins owns the world’s largest private collection of memorabilia about this place. Oklahoma State beat Arizona 36 to 10 in the most recent edition of the bowl game named for this location, which is also the namesake of a theater chain that screened The Poseidon Adventure on the Queen Mary for its Rolling Roadshow. Madame Ruby says this structure’s non-existent basement is where the title character will find his bicycle in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. For ten points, name this titular structure of John Wayne’s directorial debut in which The Duke plays Davy Crockett to Laurence Harvey’s William Travis.

Answer: The Alamo Prompt on San Antonio until after the word “structure”

7. An explosion in this location’s cafeteria destroyed Dr. Magnusson’s casserole. One security guard working at this location is named Barney Calhoun and Adrian Shepherd is the name of a Marine corporal on the HECU team assigned to kill or silence everyone in this facility. One notable experiment conducted in this location involved a crystal provided by the mysterious G-Man being tested through an anti-mass spectrometer, which led to a resonance cascade that allowed Xen creatures to come to earth. For ten points, name this New Mexico scientific complex that is the site of the action in the game Half Life.

Answer: Black Mesa Research Facility

8. In a June 5, 2006 ESPN: the Magazine column, Bill Simmons advised bringing these back because Daniel Ewing was inserted for a decisive moment of a Clippers playoff game. Coincidentally, injuries to Jeff Grayer and Sidney Moncrief had caused the person who put Ewing into the aforementioned game to briefly become one of these in 1989. Upon Joe Fagan’s retirement, Kenny Dalglish became one of these for Liverpool FC and Lou Boudreau was one of these during the most recent World Series win for the Cleveland Indians. For ten points, name this now rare sports dual role held by Ty Cobb during his last five seasons with the Detroit Tigers and by Pete Rose while breaking Cobb’s career hits record.

Answer: Player-Coach or Player-Manager Accept equivalents as long as the answer

establishes a player is simultaneously coaching or managing a team

9. On this series, injections to control a bromelain allergy led Linda Park’s character to deduce a co-worker liked pineapple. On this series, an experiment led by Dr. Emory Emerson was revealed to actually be a search for Emerson’s son. Matt Winston played Daniels, who sent its main characters back in time where they found Nazis in control of the eastern United States. A multi-episode arc in this series involved an attempt to steal Augment embryos by a criminal played by Brent Spiner. Major characters on this series included Trip and T’Pol, whose DNA was the source for the first human-Vulcan hybrid. For ten points name this former UPN series starring Scott Bakula as Archer, the captain of the titular spacecraft.

Answer: Star Trek: Enterprise

10. Rush drummer Neil Peart wrote the lyrics of “Even Now”, the closing track on this band’s most recent album, which was their first since 2005, the year they lost long time drummer Ed Toth to The Doobie Brothers. Gary Allan had a country hit covering this group’s song with a chorus that claims, “it’s not too bad, you’re only the best I ever had.” Tiffani Amber Thiessen appeared in the video for their song featuring the lines “I’ve been unable to pull you down. I’m still learning the things I ought to know by now.” Another hit from the same album describes someone who “says all the right things at exactly the right time but means nothing to you.” For ten points, name this DC-based rock band that had late 90’s success with “You’re a God” and “Everything You Want.”

Answer: Vertical Horizon

11. One of this film’s titular characters is a homeless man who uses the namesake ability in a mall to get food and is later revealed to be the brother of the leader of The Ripe Program. Dr. Paul Ruth, an employee of Con Sec, explains this film’s title characters can suppress the namesake ability through a drug named Ephemerol, which is later revealed to create these characters when prescribed to pregnant women. For ten points, Jennifer O’Neill and Patrick McGoohan are among the stars of what film directed by David Cronenberg, which is today best known for a shot of a man’s head exploding.

Answer: Scanners

12. This musical has been running at Chicago’s Apollo Theater since October, 2008 and has been at Broadway’s Nederlander Theater since April, 2010. Based on a real event on December 4, 1956, it adds the fictional, Dyanne, who sings “Fever” and “I Hear You Knockin” in it. Levi Kreiss won the Best Featured Actor Tony for this musical in which a session to record “Matchbox” is interrupted when a notable visitor arrives to see Sam Phillips. For ten points, name this Tony-nominated musical about a Sun Studios jam session featuring Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

Answer: Million Dollar Quartet

13. In 1965, this conference’s track and field championship meet was the site of the first official 70-foot shot put. In 1962, John F. Kennedy used a game then played annually in this conference as an example of a difficult endeavor in the “we choose to go to the moon” speech. While Gary Cartwright wrote in Sports Illustrated that football in this conference effectively ended with the resignations of Frank Broyles and Darrel Royal, the 1995 Bayou Bucket Classic was actually its last game. This conference never produced a national men’s basketball champion, but the team nicknamed Phi Slamma Jamma came closest in 1983. For ten points, name this conference that ended in 1996 after Rice and two other schools joined the WAC and the Big 8 added four schools including Texas.

Answer: Southwest Conference Prompt on SWC

14. Former Survivor contestant Colby Donaldson plays a Secret Service agent and Jack Scalia plays the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in this film that was named Choice Thriller at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards. This film’s lead character is the manager of the Lux Atlantic and is threatened with the murder of her father, who is played by Brian Cox, if she does not cooperate in an assassination attempt involving an underwater missile. For ten points, the villainous Jackson Rippner is portrayed by Cillian Murphy in this Wes Craven film in which Rachel McAdams’ character foils a terrorist plot during a late-night flight.

Answer: Red Eye

15. The titular figure of this series had a guest role in “To Sirloin with Love”, the final new episode of King of the Hill that aired on Fox. Zoomerang, Tom Clancy’s status as the only American beefeater, the Broadway premier of Crybaby, the 100th episode of Lost and Martina Navritilova’s 50th birthday all inspired projects on this series. Manager Mary Alice and sous chef Geof are often key figures in projects tackled on this series, which have required the invention of construction materials like a Rice Krispy canoli and have produced replicas of the Hubble telescope and Wrigley Field. For ten points, a Baltimore business named Charm City owned by Duff Goldman is the focus of what recently concluded Food Network series about the construction of elaborate celebratory desserts.

Answer: The Ace of Cakes

16. Piper and this series’ titular figure met two professional racers named Martin Buser and Mitch Seavy in one of its episodes. This series’ final episode to date was a clip show named “Follow Me There” after the Third Day song that is its theme. Its second episode featured a road trip to Homer for a deep-sea fishing trip and a cross-over episode featured the titular figure taking Kate Gosselin to rifle practice and a bear safety class. For ten points, “Mama Grizzly” was the name of the pilot episode of what reality series about the exploits of a half-term governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate?

Answer: Sarah Palin’s Alaska

17. The Blu Ray of this film features an interview with Sonny Grosso, the real-life inspiration for its main character, and a controversial re-tinting that was called “atrocious” by Owen Roizman, the cinematographer who received his first Oscar nomination for this film. Ed O’Neill played this film’s main character in a TV movie and its sequel starred Bernard Fresson as the cop who coaxes this film’s main character through withdrawal. A car with a “Drive Carefully” bumper sticker hits a commandeered Pontiac LeMans that is chasing an elevated train in its most famous sequence. For ten points, name this Best Picture winner in which a drug cartel is investigated by “Popeye” Doyle, as played by Gene Hackman.

Answer: The French Connection

18. This band contributed “So Far Around the Bend” to the Red Hot compilation, Dark Was the Night. This band’s eponymous debut album featured “American Mary”, a song title that became their website’s URL. This band sold pro-Obama T-shirts with the caption “Mr. November”, a title of a song from their album Alligator. “A tense drawn-out build with Matt Beringer’s baritone lording over everything” is how Pitchfork described their “Bloodbuzz, Ohio,” and their song “Start a War” has been used in several television programs. For ten points, name this band whose albums include The Boxer and High Violet.

Answer: The National

19. This film’s titular character is given the keys to a Fiat by an old handler in Rome after narrowly escaping a sniper attack in Sweden. This film’s title character is equivalent to “Mr. Butterfly” in A Very Private Gentleman, the Martin Booth novel on which it was based. The title character is befriended by a priest named Benedetto and hires a prostitute named Clara, played by Violante Placido, while posing as a photographer and taking the stereotypical “one last job” to build a custom sniper rifle. For ten points, name this 2010 Anton Corbijn film in which the titular assassin is played by George Clooney.

Answer: The American

20. In the 2001-2002 college basketball season, this person scored 22 points and Trevor Huffman scored 17 in a 78 to 73 upset win over Pittsburgh that put his alma mater in the Elite Eight. On FX’s The League, Ruxin complained to this person in a hot tub about losing a fantasy game due to his 40-point performance. In the 2011 Pro Bowl, Zach Miller took this person’s place when a plantar fascia injury kept him from making a seventh consecutive start for the AFC. Two years after leaving Kent State, this person caught thirteen touchdown passes from Drew Brees in the 2004 season, which set a record for his position later tied by Vernon Davis. For ten points, name this tight end for the San Diego Chargers.

Answer: Antonio Gates

21. This song’s name is preceded by “I’d” in the title of a Richard Cheese album. Harold Zidler uses this song to explain why Satine missed dinner with the duke and then went to morning confession in Moulin Rouge. This song describes the singer’s reaction to a gigantic penis according to a theory posited by Mr. Brown in the opening sequence of Reservoir Dogs. A notable performance of this song involved a “Boy Toy” belt buckle and a giant cake while its video prominently featured a lion and a gondola ride. This song became an account of the formative professional experiences of a medical intern as parodied by “Weird Al” Yankovic. For ten points, name this song in which Madonna feels touched for the very first time.

Answer: “Like a Virgin”

22. A Todd McEwan essay for Granta argued this film is really about what happened to a suit that in 2006, GQ proclaimed to be the best item of men’s clothing in cinema history. The main character claims the O on his matchbooks stands for nothing, is forced to drink bourbon in an attempt to stage a car accident and places silly bids at an auction in order to escape from the henchman of a man who has mistaken him for George Kaplan. For ten points, a crop duster plane shoots at Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant, in the most famous sequence of what Alfred Hitchcock film?

Answer: North by Northwest

Bonus

1. Answer these questions about sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson for ten points each.

(10) Robinson and Maguire are multi-instrumentalists who, along with vocalist Natalie Maines, form what country trio whose songs include “Goodbye Earl” and albums include Taking the Long Way.

Answer: The Dixie Chicks

(10) A Dixie Chicks track listing both Maguire and Robinson as writers is this song about an event involving a woman who “shouldn’t be wearing white” and a man who “can’t afford no ring.”

Answer: “White Trash Wedding”

(10) “The Coast” and “It Didn’t Make a Sound” are among the singles Robinson and Maguire released in 2010 under this side project band name during a Dixie Chicks hiatus.

Answer: Court Yard Hounds

2. Answer these questions about North Carolina in the 1997 NCAA men’s basketball tournament for ten points each.

(10) The Tar Heels lost in the Final Four to this eventual champion whose players that year included the tourney’s Most Outstanding Player, Miles Simon, and freshman point guard Mike Bibby.

Answer: University of Arizona

(10) Carolina’s leading scorer in the Final Four loss to Arizona was this current Phoenix Suns guard who won NBA Rookie of the Year and a slam dunk contest while with the Toronto Raptors.

Answer: Vincent Lamar “Vince” Carter

(10) A 26-point performance by Greg Francis led to a near upset of Carolina by this 16th-seeded school that had won the Metro Athletic Conference tournament despite an 11-18 regular season record.

Answer: Fairfield University

3. For ten points each, name these hosts of defunct movie review programs.

(10) In 2005 and 2006, ran a bi-weekly film criticism web series subtitled “From the Balcony” that starred these two cranky Muppets.

Answer: Jerry Statler and Conrad Waldorf

(10) This current conservative talk radio host on the Salem Network was accused of giving away the plot to Million Dollar Baby during his time as co-host of the former PBS series Sneak Previews.

Answer: Michael Medved

(10) From mid-2009 until its cancellation by Disney, the long-running syndicated series At the Movies was hosted by The New York Times’ A. O. Scott and this Chicago Tribune critic.

Answer: Michael Phillips

4. Name these role-playing video games based on Dungeons and Dragons rules for ten points each.

(10) This Lucas Arts game released for Xbox and Windows in 2003 is based on the d20 system and sends players on a quest to find the Star Forge and defeat the Sith Lord Darth Malak.

Answer: Knights of the Old Republic

(10) Based on 2nd edition rules and featuring a number of Forgotten Realms characters, players of this 1998 game are given the exciting task of solving an iron shortage before trying to stop Sarevok from becoming the Lord of Murder.

Answer: Baldur’s Gate

(10) Based on third edition rules, this game released for Windows in 2002 sends the player on a quest from Lady Aribeth to find four monsters needed to cure a plague in the titular city.

Answer: Neverwinter Nights

5. Answer these questions about actors who have portrayed Tony Blair for ten points each.

(10) This actor’s appearances as Blair include TV movies named The Deal and The Special Relationship and the feature film, The Queen.

Answer: Michael Christopher Sheen

(10) Shockingly, Tony Blair was portrayed not by Sheen but by Ioan Gruffud, best known for playing Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four, in what Oliver Stone film?

Answer: W.

(10) A British comedy sketch once depicting a beleaguered Blair re-generating into the body of this actor who spent five years playing the tenth Doctor Who.

Answer: David Tenannt

6. For ten points each, name these defensive lineman taken in the 1979 NFL Draft.

(10) This Arkansas alum was taken fourth overall, notched 57 sacks all with the Chicago Bears and made the Hall of Fame in 2002 despite declining to appear in the immortal Super Bowl Shuffle.

Answer: Daniel Oliver “Dan” Hampton

(10) This end racked up 74 sacks in his career after being taken in the 2nd round by the Jets in 1979, the same year he married his first wife, future reality TV star Lisa.

Answer: Marcus Dell “Mark” Gastineau

(10) This nose tackle and author of the book By a Nose had 18-and-a-half sacks and five pro bowl appearances playing for the Buffalo Bills in the 1980s.

Answer: Frederic Charles “Fred” Smerlas

7. For ten points each, name these films depicting children involved in amateur filmmaking.

(10) According to pre-release hype, in this J. J. Abrams film, kids making a zombie film with the titular film system witness a train wreck that releases something inhuman.

Answer: Super 8

(10) Will Poulter and Bill Milner play English schoolboys who collaborate on an action film inspired by a Sylvester Stallone flick in this film directed by Garth Jennings.

Answer: Son of Rambow

(10) In this film, several children participate in the making of an amateur documentary about Fats Waller spearheaded by the inventors of “sweding.”

Answer: Be Kind, Rewind

8. Answer these questions about the later musical projects of members of the band The Small Faces for ten points each.

(10) The Small Faces’ drummer, Kenney Jones, has played on albums like Face Dances and It’s Hard since becoming this band’s drummer after the death of Keith Moon.

Answer: The Who

(10) Post-breakup, three of the Small Faces formed a new band simply known as Faces by hiring future Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and this singer who was at the time also making solo singles like “You Wear it Well” and “Maggie May.”

Answer: Roderick David “Rod” Stewart

(10) This lead singer and guitarist left The Small Faces to help Peter Frampton come alive by forming the band Humble Pie.

Answer: Steve Marriott

9. Answer these questions about a plant species in science fiction novels for ten points each.

(10) A 2001 Simon Clark novel presented the “The Night of” these carnivorous, seven-foot-tall plants that have venomous stingers and are capable of walking with their three root appendages.

Answer: Triffids

(10) Triffids were introduced with the 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, written by this English author who also wrote The Midwich Cuckoos, which was filmed as Village of the Damned.

Answer: John Wyndham

(10) “I got really hot when I saw Jeannette Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and kills” is a line from “Science Fiction Double Feature”, the opening song of what musical made into a film starring Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon?

Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

10. In the 2010 Winter Olympics, the U.S. hockey team won preliminary Group A with an upset 5-3 win over Canada, the U.S. team’s first win over Canada since 1960. For ten points each, name these stars of that game.

(10) Although the US ultimately lost gold to Canada, the Olympic tourney MVP award went to this Buffalo Sabres goalie and 2010 Vezina Trophy winner who made 42 saves in the win over Canada.

Answer: Ryan Miller

(10) This Red Wings’ defenseman was the offensive hero of the win over Canada by scoring both the first goal of the game and the ultimate game winner.

Answer: Brian Christopher Rafalski

(10) Another key goal in the game was scored by this New York Ranger center whose achievements include being the only person to win both the Calder Trophy and the Hobie Baker Award.

Answer: Christopher “Chris” Drury

11. For ten points each, answer these questions about commercials involving car washing.

(10) This person slinked around in a black one-piece and pretended to wash a car in an ad for a Carl’s Jr. barbecue burger that ended with the tagline, “That’s hot.”

Answer: Paris Whitney Hilton

(10) The tagline “Daddy Like” closes a commercial for this automaker in which a man forces his toddler daughter to wash and detail a Sienna minivan.

Answer: Toyota

(10) This former WWE wrestler had a series of matches with Beth Phoenix for the women’s title. She washed a car in the desert, seduced a TV executive and had a wardrobe malfunction before Congress in a series of Go commercials.

Answer: Candice or Candice Michelle or Candice Michelle Beckman-Ehrlich

12. For ten points each, answer these questions about a singer and songwriter.

(10) This singer’s “Have a Little Faith in Me” was on the Benny and Joon soundtrack and his “Riding with the King” was covered as the title track of Eric Clapton and B.B. King’s collaborative album. He also wrote Bonnie Raitt’s “Thing Called Love.”

Answer: John Hiatt

(10) Hiatt wrote “Angel Eyes”, which became a hit in 1989 for the namesake band of this late blind Canadian singer and guitarist.

Answer: Norman Jeffrey “Jeff” Healey

(10) This band’s 1970s hits included covers of Hiatt’s “Sure As I’m Sittin’ Here”, Harry Nillson’s “One”, Randy Newman’s “Mama Told Me Not to Come” and Hoyt Axton’s “Joy to the World.”

Answer: Three Dog Night

13. For ten points each, answer these questions about New York Mets making the 30-30 club, meaning a player hitting 30 home runs and stealing 30 bases in the same season.

(10) The most recent Met to go 30-30 is this player who did so in 2007 and has since suffered a concussion from a Matt Cain pitch in 2009 and started at third for the NL All-Star team in 2010.

Answer: David Allen Wright

(10) The first Met to make the 30-30 club was this switch-hitting Mets third baseman of the late 1980s and early 90s who did so in 1987 before accomplishing the feat two more times.

Answer: Howard Johnson

(10) In 1987, Johnson and Daryl Strawberry became the first teammates to make the 30-30 club in the same season. In 1996, Ellis Burks and Dante Bichette, one of the “Blake Street Bombers”, became the second teammates to do so in one season while playing for what team?

Answer: Colorado and/or Rockies

14. Answer these questions about TV series featuring African American nurses for ten points each.

(10) Jada Pinkett Smith plays the titular Richmond Trinity Hospital CNO on what TNT drama?

Answer: HawthoRNe

(10) Diahann Carroll played the titular nurse and single mother on this 1970s series, which was the first since the 1950s to have an African American lead character.

Answer: Julia

(10) Rapper Deezer D played what wise-cracking nurse for the entire 15-season run of ER?

Answer: Malik and/or McGrath

15. For ten points each, name these musical artists who have collaborated with Pink.

(10) Pink collaborated with several other female artists on a hit cover of “Lady Marmalade” for the film Moulin Rouge. This participant on the track is best known for singles like “Case of the Ex” and “My Love is Like…Wo.”

Answer: Mya or Mya Marie Harrison

(10) Pink addressed her issues with W on “Dear Mr. President”, a song also featuring Amy Ray and Emily Sailers, a duo better known by this collective name under which they have released songs like “Galileo.”

Answer: Indigo Girls

(10) Coincidentally, the 4 Non Blondes’ first single was entitled “Dear Mr. President” and this 4 Non Blondes singer co-wrote songs like “My Vietnam” and “Misundaztood” with Pink.

Answer: Linda Perry

16. Answer these questions about an actor for ten points each.

(10) What actor won Oscars for playing title roles in the 1931 version of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde and for portraying a World War II veteran who becomes a bank VP in The Best Years of Our Lives?

Answer: Fredric March or Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel

(10) March played prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady to Spencer Tracy’s defense attorney, Henry Drummond, in what courtroom drama based on a play based on the Scopes “Monkey Trial”?

Answer: Inherit the Wind

(10) Burt Lancaster plays a general who plots to thwart March’s president character from signing a nuclear reduction treaty in what John Frankenheimer political thriller?

Answer: Seven Days in May

17. For ten points each, name these former Miss America pageant winners from their current TV jobs.

(10) This 1984 pageant winner whose music career produced hits like “Saved the Best For Last” plays bitchy interior designer Renee Perry on Desperate Housewives.

Answer: Vanessa Lynn Williams

(10) This 1955 winner and former Catwoman currently plays Ruth Martin on All My Children.

Answer: Lee Ann Meriweather

(10) What 1989 winner is, along with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, a co-host of the morning show Fox and Friends?

Answer: Gretchen Carlson

18. For ten points each, name these television series about a comic writer or artist for ten points each.

(10) This late 90s NBC sitcom often focused on the relationship between the writer and inker for the titular comic strip, who were played by Lea Thompson and Malcolm Gets.

Answer: Caroline in the City

(10) Re-labeled The Ted Knight Show in its last season, this series focused on the creator of the strip Cosmic Cow who lived in a small San Francisco house with his wife and two grown daughters.

Answer: Too Close for Comfort

(10) The title character of this 90s sitcom created a revival of his comic book Mad Dog in its first season and worked at a greeting card company owned by Betty White in its second season.

Answer: Bob

19. If you’re blue and you don’t know what to do, answer these questions about notable renditions of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” for ten points each.

(10) In Young Frankenstein, a duet of Puttin’ on the Ritz is performed by the titular doctor played by Gene Wilder and the monster played by this actor who went on to sitcom fame as father of the title character on Everybody Loves Raymond.

Answer: Peter Lawrence Boyle Jr.

(10) The synth pop version of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” that charted in 1983 was the only US top 40 hit for what Indonesian-born singer?

Answer: Taco Ockerse

(10) This actor’s only on-screen song and dance number was a performance of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in the 1939 film Idiot’s Delight that was later included in the compilation film That’s Entertainment.

Answer: William Clark Gable

20. For ten points each, name these movies featuring the first appearance of a Bette Midler song.

(10) Midler’s cover of The Wind Beneath My Wings debuted in this tear-jerker focusing on the friendship of Midler’s singer character and Barbara Hershey’s character.

Answer: Beaches

(10) A river, a razor and a hunger are some of the things some say love is in this song, which was the title song of a film in which Midler played a fictionalized version of Janis Joplin.

Answer: The Rose

(10) Midler’s single “Every Road Leads Back to You” was on the soundtrack of this film in which Midler and James Caan played USO performers.

Answer: For the Boys

21. Answer these questions about sports monsters for ten points each.

(10) The right field wall known as the Green Monster is a distinctive element of what home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox?

Answer: Fenway Park

(10) The Big Red Monster is among the nicknames of Glenn Thomas Jacobs, who is best known as this wrestling character who is the half-brother of The Undertaker.

Answer: Kane

(10) The Blue Monster golf course at this resort near Miami hosted an annual PGA event known by names like the Eastern Open and the Ford Championship until 2006 and now hosts the WGC Cadillac Championship.

Answer: Doral

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