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GRAB BAGNovember 2017By Mike BentleyRound 3?Tossups?1. One character in this film tries to explain his compatibility with the protagonist's wife by spinning two coat hangers together. The protagonist's father is killed after saying "Hey" to the man played by Alex Pettyfer who raped his wife. Producer Sheila Johnson secured funding for this film before she died, and its director had previously made The Paperboy. A dinner conversation in this film turns into a heated argument over (*) In the Heat of the Night. This film's protagonist refuses to meet with his son Louis because Louis refused to attend the funeral of his other son, Cecil, who died in Vietnam. Earlier, Lewis had survived a Molotov cocktail thrown into a bus in Alabama. The title character's wife is played by Oprah Winfrey in this film, which co-stars Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower. For 10 points, name this film where Forest Whitaker is title White House servant.ANSWER: Lee Daniels' The Butler?2. One band named for these animals has a video where the singer walks past a cop with a reptilian tongue and a man with a leafblower who sets the Creep-O-Meter off the charts. That same band named for these things wrote a song where the singer requests "get me white wine and Vicodin" and to "sew a scarlet letter on my bathing suit". The songs "Hey Girl" and "Crimson Wave" were recorded by a Seattle punk band named for these animals. Another band named for these animals had a breakout hit that borrowed from the chorus of "Swass" by (*) Sir Mix-a-Lot. The aforementioned Seattle band pairs "taco" with this word. A group named for these animals asks, "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" in one hit. Alexander Cabot III manages a band named for these animals whose members include Valerie and Melody. For 10 points, name these animals, which name the backup band of the Archie character Josie.ANSWER: cats [or pussycats; or Tacocat]?3. This character reached a national US audience thanks to the 1930s radio plays of The New Penny writer Edith Mesier. A highlight of Soviet television in the late '70s was Vasily Livanov's portrayal of this character. Ronald Knox satirized applying Higher Criticism to the Bible with his lecture on the "Studies in the Literature of" this character. Franklin Roosevelt was an honorary member of a club devoted to him founded by Christopher Morley in 1934 and FDR even believed this character was born in the US. Members of Morley's trivia-obsessed organization devoted to this character participated in the (*) "Great Game" and were called "irregulars". This character's hat derives from non-textual illustrations by Sidney Paget and is called a deerstalker. The actor William Gillette created this character's catchphrase and gave him a curved pipe to smoke. For 10 points, name this detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.ANSWER: Sherlock Holmes [or Sherlock Holmes]?4. The Turkish version of this show, Ver Firina, encouraged contestants to dance. The inaugural episode in a behind the scenes look at contestants on this series featured guest-stars Paul Rankin and Roisin Conaty and was hosted by Jo Brand. This show really took off in its second season with a Twitter-baiting shot of a squirrel revealing his large testicles. An all-star version of this series included a team from retailer Marks & Spencer, and the first season of a kid’s version of this show was won by a 10-year-old named Freya. The success of this show has spawned similarly named programs about (*) sewing bees and pottery throwdowns. One scandal on this show involved Diana Beard stealing an Alaska from Iain Watters. David Cameron was reported to be backing the hijab-wearing Nadiya to win one of its seasons. The judges on this show are Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. In one episode of this show, John recreated the Roman Colosseum in gingerbread form. For 10 points, name this quaint BBC food competition.ANSWER: The Great British Bake-Off [or The Great British Baking Show; or GBBO]?5. This musician has most frequently collaborated with songwriter Dean Dillon after abandoning writing his own songs like the weird "I Just Can't Go on Dying Like This". A lightly fictionalized version of this man declares "I’m going to play the guitar and sing" in a movie that became a huge VHS hit and produced the best-selling album of his career. His 2015 album Cold Beer Conversation was his first not to produce a Top 10 hit. He runs a yearly Team (*) Roping Classic. His track "Give It All We Got Tonight" failed to become his 60th #1 hit; he plays the other 59 over two nights in Vegas. In one of his best known songs, the singer declares "I hang my hat in Tennessee" due to the title problem. Another of his hits has the singer coming "up from San Antone". For 10 points, name this country music icon behind hits such as "Amarillo By Morning" and "All My Ex's Live in Texas".ANSWER: George Strait [or George Harvey Strait]?6. In 1957, Harpo Marx delivered a wordless pitch for Pepsi during a "spectacular" rendition of this musical. As a kid, I saw a Tony-winning revival of this musical where Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat and Ron Holgate starred in the main roles. A song written for this musical which titles a 1954 Ethel Merman film discusses how even though "your pa and ma have parted, you're broken-hearted, but you go on" and opens by noting how "The (*) butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk / are secretly unhappy men because" they don't receive applause. Dolly is caught tampering with the title character's equipment before a match on Governor's Island in this musical, where two characters plan to get married in "An Old-Fashioned Wedding". "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "Anything You Can Do" were written for this show, whose characters include Pawnee Bill and Chief Sitting Bull. For 10 points, name this Irving Berlin musical about a female sharpshooter.ANSWER: Annie Get Your Gun?7. The protagonist of this film offers up "Stonehenge" as an example of a word that can't be easily rhymed to a man who admits he cheated on his wife at a math conference. In this movie, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Vella Lovell plays one of the more substantial of the women who "drop by" a suburban house to offer a headshot for the protagonist's "X-Files" collection. The final scene in this film reprises dialogue from the meet cute about whether yelling "woo" counts as heckling or not. Its protagonist, a comedian, stages an embarrassing one-man show where he lists (*) cricket positions and recounts the history of his home country. This Michael Showalter film co-stars Holly Hunter and Ray Romano as the parents of Emily, who gets put into a medically induced coma. For 10 points, name this romantic comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani.ANSWER: The Big Sick?8. The mastermind of these events was mocked in a political cartoon as a gynecologist for his obviously false boast that they "can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby". Some artists protested these events with sculptures of Mickey Mouse fingers pointing out especially expensive new infrastructure. The "Big Owe" was created for this event, as were two no-bid concrete pyramids costing $80 million. The song “Cotton’s Dream” became a hit due to this event. This was the first time the host nation failed to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Alberto Juantorena of Cuba became the first and only person to win gold in both the 400 and 800 meters at this event. The Omega SA (*) scoreboard did not have enough digits to display a feat first accomplished at this event. Tyrannical mayor Jean Drapeau oversaw these events. Seven perfect tens were awarded to Nadia Comaneci at this event. For 10 points, name this sporting event in a Canadian city.ANSWER: Montreal Summer Olympics [or 1976 Summer Olympics]?9. The opening shot of this film is of the back of a police officer walking down a hallway in 1976. The voice of Richard Jenkins tells a character in this film that he expects a certain number to be "as high as 90". One of the bigger laughs in this movie is an establishing shot where a billboard for AOL is visible. Stanley Tucci plays an eccentric (*) Armenian lawyer in this film named Stephen Kurkjian. At a dinner early in this film, one character admits that although he doesn't like baseball, he has been reading The Curse of the Bambino. One character in this film is pulled off the central case to travel to Florida investigate the 9/11 hijackers. A Jewish character in this film named Marty Baron is given a gift of the Catechism by Bernard Law. Robby Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, heads the title team that interview survivors in this film. For 10 points, name this 2015 film about the Boston Globe's investigation into the Catholic sex-abuse scandal.ANSWER: Spotlight?10. The actor who plays this character told oral historian James Andrew Miller that he got this role while driving back from a horrible Pennsylvania comedy club in a blizzard. A DVD bonus feature has him telling you to "always read the paper to know what the fuck is going on" as part of his namesake guide to New York City. He gets into a debate about the name of the aunt from Bewitched in an episode where the protagonist declares his five-second rule about hugging and erections. This character doesn't leave after his roommate breaks up with his sister while she's dealing with (*) cancer. He declares he "likes a woman with a smart ass mouth like that" to Susie Green and is introduced as the brother of Loretta, who is staying at Larry's house following Hurricane Edna. For 10 points, name this character played by J. B. Smoove on Curb Your Enthusiasm.ANSWER: Leon Black [or Leon Black]?11. Arun Venugopal interviewed Bernie Telsey for an episode of Slate's Working podcast that asked, "How Does [someone in this profession] Work"? In a New Yorker profile titled "The Nerd Hunter", Stephen Rodrick credited one person in this profession named Allison Jones with reshaping American comedy thanks to her collaboration with directors such as Judd Apatow. A legendary person in this profession named Marion Dougherty was the subject of a 2012 documentary by Tom Donahue. That film prompted Woody Allen to write a letter to The Hollywood Reporter celebrating Juliet Taylor, another woman in this profession. A company that helps out the person in this role on a movie originally divided (*) people into categories such as "dress" and "atmosphere". Unethical people in this profession might make applicants trade sexual favors on a namesake "couch". For 10 points, name these people who issue "calls" to find actors for movies and TV shows.ANSWER: casting director [or casting agent; do NOT prompt on just "director"]?12. One of the funnier tasks in this game has you assist a cannon deliver "wonderful birthday gifts" in the form of cannonballs to some flying platforms. Defeating a boss in this game turns back on the steam from Burnie the boiler. Its third level features NPCs in the form of talking shopping carts. The final boss of this game taunts you with messages about the vileness of his upcoming quarterly statement. It's not a (*) Mario game, but one character in this game can consume a honeycomb to become sticky to climb ramps in Glitterglaze Glacier. A patch thankfully let you silence the gibberish voices that show up in its cutscenes. In each level in this game, finding a token allows the player to play one of Rextro's arcade games. It soared past its Kickstarter goal thanks to its developers, Playtonic, being former Rare employees. For 10 points, name this 3D platformer, a spiritual successor to Banjo Kazooie.ANSWER: Yooka-Laylee?13. Colin Campbell's unpublished 29,000 word essay on this song notes that it's the only one by its band to take place over a fixed period of time, and, until "Dr. Robert" was released 10 days afterwards, the band's only song about an individual. The last name of the man described in this song was picked from the phone book to avoid confusion with the songwriter's actual father. According to an interview with Hunter Davies for the Sunday Times, the original title figure of this song was named Daisy Hawkins, but was changed after the songwriter saw a name on a signboard in Bristol. The band's drummer suggested the line about (*) darning socks in this song. This second track on Revolver had "Yellow Submarine" as its B-Side. Its title figure "died in the church" and was "buried along with her name". John Lennon added the line "all the lonely people" to this song. For 10 points, name this Beatles song about a title woman.ANSWER: "Eleanor Rigby"?14. His most recent novel has a character who considers herself "part of a hipster reverse migration" from Brooklyn to the suburbs of Haddington; that novel's title character, Eve, takes a Gender and Society class and becomes obsessed with amateur porn after receiving a text message "U r my MILF!". He wrote of a divorced sex-ed instructor in The Abstinence Teacher and wrote Mrs. Fltecher. One of his characters takes to obsessively watching the kid's show loved by her missing children and is named (*) Nora Durst; Nora develops a relationship with a mayor of Mapleton who has to deal with the Guilty Remnant. His best-known novel was adapted into an acclaimed but little-watched HBO series co-created by Lost's Damon Lindelof and starring Justin Theroux; that novel centers on the mysterious disappearance of 2% of the world's population. For 10 points, name this author of The Leftovers.ANSWER: Tom Perrotta [or Thomas R. Perrotta]?15. In 2007 there were two separate biopics planned about this person, although one was delayed because Oliver Stone made W. instead. This character heads an organization that places a car bomb under the Gremlin owned by the protagonist's loser brother-in-law JB. In that same film, this character bets with his less famous colleagues on whether a former TWA pilot will survive taking off from an extremely short runway. Mark Bowden wrote a book titled for killing him. This character and his colleagues have their pictures taken by Tom Cruise's character, a onetime business partner named (*) Barry Seal in the film American Made. Billy Walsh directs a poorly received biopic about this man starring Vincent Chase on Entourage. He goes into business with the chemist Cockroach and battles with DEA agents in the TV series Narcos. For 10 points, name this head of the Medellin cartel.ANSWER: Pablo Escobar [or Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria]?16. This singer went on an angry drive in his Corvette before agreeing to lay down the mellow vocals that producer Willie Mitchell wanted of him for one of his biggest hits. A girlfriend of this artist gave him third-degree burns by flinging a pot of boiling grits onto him before tragically killing herself. He got into a money dispute with Tennie Hodges, the guitarist on many of his biggest hits who co-wrote a song whose first title concept "Make you come home early / Make you stay out all night long". He recorded the track (*) "Jesus is Waiting" after a spiritual conversion in his hotel room at Disneyland in 1973. His signature song insists, "Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad", he and the woman he's in love with should perform the title action. This man had a hit with "Love and Happiness". For 10 points, name this soul singer and reverend behind "Let's Stay Together".ANSWER: Al Green [or the Reverend Al Green; or Albert Leornes Greene]?17. The female lead in this film is yelled at for bringing a "sodium bomb" in the form of matzo ball soup to the main character's home. A maid named Gloria helps secure a will which brings about the downfall of this film's chief villain. One scene in this movie has the main character asking for more bobby pins to put in a piano. Late in this film, the protagonist's father tells him that he's peaked and that he's sold the publishing rights for $750,000. One of the first shots in this film is set within a (*) Cadillac at a car dealership where the protagonist writes on a business card that he's miserable to the female lead, Melinda Ledbetter, played by Elizabeth Banks. The younger version of the main character is played by Paul Dano and the older version by John Cusack. Much of the beginning of this biopic chronicles the experimental recording of Pet Sounds. For 10 points, name this film about Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.ANSWER: Love & Mercy?18. Vance Joy opened most of the shows for the tour for this album. In one show in support of this album, the artist brought Natalie Maines onstage to sing a duet of "Goodbye Earl" and had Ellen DeGeneres perform during the catwalk segment. In another show on the tour for this album, Justin Timberlake performed "Mirrors" while Lisa Kudrow was brought out to sing "Smelly Cat". In a Halloween show on the tour for this album, the star dressed in an Olaf suit while Idina Menzel sang "Let It Go". One of the few songs not on this album regularly played during its tour is generally performed the artist on her back and is titled "I (*) Knew You Were Trouble". Despite never reviewing any of the artist's albums, Pitchfork reviewed a cover album of it by Ryan Adams. The tour for this album typically opened with the song "Welcome to New York" and concluded with "Shake It Off". For 10 points, name this most recent Taylor Swift album.ANSWER: 1989?19. In this show's final scene, the protagonist almost destroys a vase which a secretary had repaired in the first episode. The Jewish protagonist of this show pretends he's giving a plot description to a priest in a confessional after he accidentally kills a man. A female character adds a clause into her contract that gives her the right to see men's penises and is secretly the daughter of her African American maid. One character on this show commits suicide from a balcony after urinating onto Tomas Szep ("Zep"). Lily Collins's character on this show hatches an idea to force the hand of George Gyssling by imagining an oppressive state very similar to Nazi Germany; that project is killed in favor of the debut of (*) Sally Sweet despite having Fritz Lang as a director. Kelsey Grammar plays studio boss Pat Brady on this program. For 10 points, name this Amazon series based on an unfinished Hollywood novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.ANSWER: The Last Tycoon?20. A Swede named Humphrey Siesage died at this event in 1996. An iconic three-part photo of this event was taken by Harry Trask and shows an irate Jock Semple attempting to rip off part of the uniform of Kathrine "K. V." Switzer. A man named Jeff Bauman who was injured during one of these events is played by Jake Gyllenhaal in a 2017 film. The protagonist of another film about this annual event complains to his wife, played by Michelle Monaghan, that he has to wear a (*) day-glo vest while working here; that film also features Kevin Bacon as an FBI agent pouring over a lot of CCTV footage. The IAAF ruled against a record-breaking performance by Geoffrey Mutai at this event in 2011. Peter Berg directed the 2016 Mark Wahlberg film Patriots Day about an incident that took place at this sporting event. For 10 points, name this race marred by a 2013 bombing.ANSWER: Boston Marathon?21. This man gave $50,000 to Melvin Van Peebles to finance a film "rated X by an all-white jury" titled Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. John Lennon's Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins was released on a record label co-founded by this man named Tetragrammaton. He played Caleb Rivers in the Western bomb Man and Boy and once put in an unsuccessful bid to buy NBC. Autumn Jackson was eventually convicted of conspiracy and other counts for attempting to blackmail this man. This man controversially described his 23-year-old daughter (*) Erinn as "really very selfish" in an interview responding to reports that he had put her in a rehab clinic. His son Ennis was killed in 1997. His best known TV character was a doctor married to Clair, played by Phylicia Rashad. For 10 points, name this comedian marred by rape scandals, who once played Cliff Huxtable.ANSWER: Bill Cosby [or William Henry Cosby Jr.]?Bonuses?1. After the release of their album Trouble Will Find Me, this band played a six hour set at MOMA P.S. 1 where they performed their song "Sorrow" over and over again. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this band fronted by Matt Berninger, who writes about his wife Carin Besser on the track "Carin at the Liquor Store" on their most recent album, Sleep Well Beast.ANSWER: The National[10] The National's "Lean" appeared on the soundtrack for one of the films in this series. Taylor Swift's track "Safe & Sound" was commissioned for one film in this franchise.ANSWER: The Hunger Games[10] This group's "Gale Song" also appeared on the soundtrack for Catching Fire. This band's breakout hit was "Ho Hey", and they also released the album Cleopatra.ANSWER: The Lumineers?2. Identify the following about filmmaker Marc Levin, for 10 points each.[10] Levin is keen on documenting these types of events through the eyes of clueless celebrities. For instance, Levin's 1992 film The Last Party chronicled one of these events with Robert Downey, Jr.ANSWER: presidential elections [or presidential campaigns][10] Levin's film for the 2000 campaign featured this actor. He played CIA officer Gust Avrakotos in a scene-stealing performance in Charlies Wilson's War and won an Oscar for playing Truman Capote.ANSWER: Philip Seymour Hoffman[10] For the 2004 election, Levin documented Andre 3000. During that election, other musicians appeared on the Rock Against Bush compilations put together by Fat Mike, the frontman for this punk band behind Punk in Drublic.ANSWER: NOFX ("no eff-ex")?3. A surprising number of celebrities have been granted US patents. Identify the following about them, for 10 points each.[10] This actor and conga enthusiast received a patent in 2002 for a method for tightening of a conga drum. He also helped popularize the white t-shirt through a 1951 film adaptation of a Pulitzer-winning play.ANSWER: Marlon Brando, Jr.[10] A member of this family received a patent for his Marman Clamp, which was used to keep the Little Boy atomic bomb secure in the Enola Gay's bomb bay. That member of this family, Zeppo, left the pictures to focus on his engineering career after starring in Monkey Business and Animal Crackers with his brothers.ANSWER: Marx [or Marx Brothers][10] This man's patented Memory Builder trivia board game began as a way to teach his kids about the kings and queens of England. He lost a lot of money investing in the Paige Compositor, a type of automated typesetter.ANSWER: Mark Twain [or Samuel Clemens]?4. Identify the following about things that Mike Scully did besides ruin The Simpsons, for 10 points each.[10] Scully is an executive producer of this recently cancelled NBC show, which aired an episode about the Bill Cosby scandal in March 2016. The star of this show appeared on Chelsea the same day that NBC decided to not air this series's episode on a mass shooting.ANSWER: The Carmichael Show[10] Scully co-wrote an animated TV adaptation of this film which only lasted six episodes. I once saw someone running for a local office in Bellevue, Washington adopt the "Vote for Pedro" slogan from this film for his campaign.ANSWER: Napoleon Dynamite[10] Scully wrote a Season Two Parks and Rec episode titled for one of these creatures. The episode centers on Leslie attempting to catch one of these animals which bit the mayor's dog.ANSWER: possum?5. Dan Nosowitz wrote a story in Esquire chronicling how Kobe Bryant helped kill these types of sneakers. For 10 points each:[10] Identify these types of shoes that go way-up over the wearer's ankle. The Converse All-Stars are a classic example.ANSWER: high-tops[10] The fourth iteration of Kobe's Zoom line is downright minimalist compared to the excesses of Reebok's "The Question", a shoe manufactured for this athlete. The 30 for 30 documentary No Crossover is about a trial following a high school brawl this athlete was involved in.ANSWER: Allen Iverson[10] A recent Planet Money episode examined this athlete's quest to design a discount basketball shoe in partnership with the shoe firm Steve & Barry's. He played many seasons with the Beijing Ducks.ANSWER: Stephon Marburry?6. Identify the following about recently retired New York Times Book Review critic Michiko Kakutani, for 10 points each.[10] This author called Kakutani "the stupidest person in New York" after she referred to his memoir The Discomfort Zone as "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass." In 2015, he told Weekend magazine that he considered adopting an Iraqi orphan in order to get better in touch with the younger generation.ANSWER: Jonathan Franzen[10] On an episode of Sex and the City, this main character revealed she was terrified of receiving a review from Kakutani. Her namesake Diaries titled a CW revival.ANSWER: Carrie Bradshaw [or Carrie Bradshaw; or Caroline Bradshaw][10] Kakutani is reclusive enough that the photo displayed for her in a Google search is instead a headshot of this author. In 2015, this then-80 year old was featured in fashion ads for Celine.ANSWER: Joan Didion?7. Kurt Loder apparently reviews movies. Identify the following about some of his reviews, for 10 points each.[10] In the intro to a collection of his reviews, Loder declares "that's me in a two-second shot of a pair of eyeballs peeping over the top of a restroom stall" in The Paper, a film by this director. Nevertheless, Loder claimed that this director "has thrown up his hands and gone native" in his crappy film where "Tom Hanks is back, minus the mullet", Angels & Demons.ANSWER: Ron Howard[10] Loder praised the screenplay Martin McDonagh wrote for this movie, such as the line delivered by Colin Farrell's character Ray that "If I'd grown up on a farm, and was retarded, [the title city] might impress me. But I didn't."ANSWER: In Bruges[10] Loder begins his review of this film by declaring, "Most of us think of a penis as having two purposes" but goes to note how he's since been enlightened by the Helicockter scene from this film. Other scenes in this second sequel include a man literally pissing in the wind, and it was "co-written" by Preston Lacy.ANSWER: Jackass 3D?8. Identify the following about some free-to-play games published by major videogame publishers, for 10 points each.[10] This Xbox One launch title was released for free, although you only got one free character, Jago, to play with. You could buy the Combo Breaker Pack to unlock more characters.ANSWER: Killer Instinct[10] In 2015, Nintendo released a "free to start" version of this game. A Mario-themed version of this puzzle game is something of a cult classic for the original Game Boy, although I prefer the 3D version for the DS by HAL Laboratory.ANSWER: Picross[10] EA is the publisher of a popular mobile game centered on this franchise subtitled "Tapped Out". The Churchy Joes character collection in that game includes characters such as Helen Lovejoy from this long-running animated series.ANSWER: The Simpsons?9. This group's final show, at least until a recent resurrection, was captured in the concert documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this group whose newest album has a track called "Tonite" which is a meta-commentary on dancefloor albums. They're probably best known for a song where the singer "got everybody's PA in my house" since that's also where Daft Punk is playing.ANSWER: LCD Soundsystem[10] LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy was too overwhelmed at the time to produce this man's final album, Blackstar. Decades earlier he had his first chart hit with "Space Oddity".ANSWER: David Bowie [or David Robert Jones][10] LCD Soundsystem's first single after reuniting was titled for how this event "Will Break Your Heart". A Destiny's Child song about this event talks about "a crop jacket with dirty denim jeans" and "a pair of Chloe shades and a diamond belly ring".ANSWER: Christmas [or the 8 Days of Christmas]?10. Identify the following about some of the more amusing chyrons or captions used on the Bachelor and Bachelorette series, for 10 points each.[10] JJ on Bachelorette Season 10 was given an occupation that combined these things with "entrepreneur". Wikipedia's long article on women and these things notes that Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to be seen with them in public.ANSWER: pants [or trousers][10] Paige Vigil on Season 17 was described as an operator of one of these things. Texas's Carthage High School spent $750,000 to install one of these things for their football team's stadium.ANSWER: a jumbotron [or scoreboard][10] Tiara from Season 20 was described as being an enthusiast for these animals. Joshua Foer's book Moonwalking with Einstein discusses people whose job it is to identify the sex of these animals, a non-trivial task.ANSWER: chickens [or chicks]?11. Rather than drafting really tall, injury-prone players, many NBA teams are turning to slightly smaller players who have unusually large wingspans. Identify the following about some such players, for 10 points each.[10] This man, drafted 22nd overall by the Nets in 2013, was a better pick than a host of 7-footers who were chosen before him. Now with the Nuggets, this center was on the 2010 National Championship-winning Duke team with his older brother, Miles.ANSWER: Mason Plumlee [or Maxon Alexander Plumlee][10] Although this player is "only" 6-10, he has the reach of a 7-5 player. This Texas alum won the league MVP award in 2014 while playing for the Thunder, and apparently has a secret Twitter account he uses to promote his legacy.ANSWER: Kevin Durant [or Kevin Wayne Durant][10] David Epstein, whose day job is as a reporter on this non-sports website, noted how most of the players with extremely long wingspans had Marfran syndrome in his book The Sports Gene. It became the first online-only reporting site to win a Pulitzer in 2010, and it broke the story of the IRS targeting conservative non-profits.ANSWER: ProPublica?12. A festival devoted to this type of food in Queens each July awards the Dutch Pot Trophy to the top chef. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this food where a namesake spice made up of thyme, ginger and peppers is applied to the meat. This cuisine may trace its origins back to slaves taken from the Coromantee people.ANSWER: Jamaican jerk chicken[10] If you're in Queens, you might attend the Queens Night Market where you can dine on a burger that emulates those from this country's popular Ramly chain. You can get Indian food at Mamak stalls in this country.ANSWER: Malaysia[10] I've attended a couple of festivals in Beach Haven, New Jersey devoted to this food. I haven't found a good vegetarian version of the Manhattan type of this soup, which is red rather than the creamy New England variety.ANSWER: clam chowder [or chowda]?13. Identify the following about some of the not so great music biopics released in 2016, for 10 points each.[10] Don Cheadle starred as this jazz musician in a poorly received film that Cheadle also directed. The film most centers on this artist's relatively quiet phase in the late '70s, rather than, say, his recording of Kind of Blue. ANSWER: Miles Davis[10] Another 2016 jazz trumpeter biopic, Born to be Blue, stars this actor as Chet Baker. His other music-themed projects include directing Seymour: An Introduction about pianist Seymour Bernstein. Oh, and he co-starred with Lena Headey in The Purge.ANSWER: Ethan Hawke[10] Hank Williams III criticized Tom Hiddleston's covers of his grandfather's songs in this biopic also starring Elizabeth Olsen as the country musician's wife.ANSWER: I Saw the Light?14. Given a description of the mobile game, identify the celebrity whose name is attached to the game, for 10 points each. If you need an additional clue, you'll only receive 5 miserable points.[10] Your nemesis in this person's American Dream game is the pink-haired Aston Kole.[5] An investigation into why this pop star was photographed with a copy of To Feel Stuff by Andrea Seigel was the subject of an episode of the podcast The Mystery Show. She did the Piece of Me shows in Vegas.ANSWER: Britney Spears [or Britney Jean Spears][10] In this person's popular Hollywood game, your rival is the Paris Hilton-esque Willow Pape.[5] Kanye stopped a performance of one of his shows after this person was robbed in Paris.ANSWER: Kim Kardashian [or Kimberly Kardashian West][10] Ok, I can't actually find anything interesting about this star's Path to Fame game. I think you maybe play as Sam. SkittlesWolf12 said that she(?) was forced to make her player character cry after a "glammy party on season 1 episode 2" in an iTunes review of the game.[5] This Camp Rock star released an album titled Here We Go Again.ANSWER: Demi Lovato?15. Identify the following about promotional schemes targeted at children during the early days of TV advertising, for 10 points each.[10] Hey kids, want some dirt from Alaska? Just send in 25 cents and a box top from this company, which also manufactures Cap'n Crunch cereal.ANSWER: Quaker Oats Company[10] Masks from this character were included in boxes of Wheaties. Johnny Depp starred as this character's sidekick in a lackluster 2013 film where he was played by Armie Hammer.ANSWER: The Lone Ranger[10] If you convinced your parents to check out a demonstration of GE's new refrigerators, you could win a toy circus or one of these cooler toys. Some fictional items of this type rely on Tibanna gas going into an Xciter.ANSWER: raygun [or blasters; or laser gun; or zap gun; or laser pistol; or phaser; prompt on gun or pistol]16. One section of this work depicts "the girl" resting in bed at different points in her life. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this 2012 graphic novel by Chris Ware. Largely set in a brownstone, it can be read in a nonlinear order.ANSWER: Building Stories[10] A 2015 Chris Ware work of this type was paired with a segment from This American Life describing a girl dressing up as Hillary Clinton for Halloween. Another Ware work of this type titled Protocol is set in a medical clinic and has people obtaining flu shots.ANSWER: New Yorker cover [prompt on magazine cover][10] Ware also designed a rejected cover for this magazine in 2010 for its annual "500" issue. This Henry Luce business publication ran 26 of Jacob Lawrence's Migration series paintings in 1941.ANSWER: Fortune?17. Identify the following about some stations honored during Seattle radio station KEXP's National Radio Week celebration in 2017, for 10 points each.[10] Rodney on the ROQ, a DJ in this city, is credited with breaking all sorts of local punk bands including the Germs and The Go-Go's.ANSWER: Los Angeles [or LA][10] KEXP DJ Kevin Cole did an appreciation of REV105, a "revolutionary" station in this city where he used to work. Cole also hosted a program called "Nothing Compares 2 U" where he recounted DJing for Prince in the late '70s and early '80s in venues around this most populous city in its state.ANSWER: Minneapolis[10] The frequency owned by Georgetown's "one nation underground" station WGTB was sold to the University of the District of Columbia and then sold to this organization in 1997. This organization also produces Book TV.ANSWER: C-SPAN [or Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network]?18. In 1997, this animator released "the first animated series created exclusively for the World Wide Web". For 10 points each:[10] Identify this man who created The Goddamn George Liquor Program. Years later, he resurrected George Liquor for a Kickstarter campaign that advertised that it would contain tweening, unlike that early Flash venture.ANSWER: John Kricfalusi [or Michael John Kricfalusi or John K][10] George Liquor was a character created for The Ren & Stimpy Show, the edgiest of the original slate of these programs. Later programs of this type included The Fairy OddParents and Aaahh!! Real Monsters.ANSWER: Nicktoons [prompt on cartoons][10] The first episode of the Goddamn George Liquor Program opens with an anthropomorphic one of these things rising from the ground. A South Park character of this type was introduced in the Christmas episode where Cartman sang "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch".ANSWER: poo [or dog poop; or hankey; or Christmas poo]?19. A recent documentary about this director has him revisiting all of his past films including Phantom of the Paradise and Dressed to Kill, the latter heavily influenced by Psycho. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this director who included an infamous power-drill murder scene in his 1984 film Body Double.ANSWER: Brian De Palma[10] This De Palma film was advertised with the tagline, "De Mented. De Ranged. De Ceptive. De Palma." John Lithgow plays a psychotic child psychologist in this 1992 film, which Owen Gleiberman described as "De Palma ripping off himself ripping off Hitchcock".ANSWER: Raising Cain[10] Universal keeps pressing De Palma to let them release a new version of this film with a hip hop soundtrack. Although poorly received at the time, this Al Pacino cocaine flick went on to essentially be the plot of GTA: Vice City.ANSWER: Scarface?20. The music video for this song opens with the text, "A Film By Brad Furman" in a very Back to the Future font appearing on a shot of a motel. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this single co-written by Poo Bear and Mason Levy from the 2015 album Purpose. The title question of this song is asked, "When you nod your head yes / But you wanna say no."ANSWER: "What Do You Mean?"[10] "What Do You Mean?" is a song by this artist, now in his Justin Timberlake-like SexyBack phase of being treated seriously. This one-time teen idol sure used the word "swag" a lot in a 2011 Rolling Stone cover story that talked about his discovery by Scooter Braun.ANSWER: Justin Bieber [or Justin Drew Bieber][10] This actor co-stars in the "What Do You Mean?" video, exchanging a big wad of cash with Bieber in the intro. He narrated the Nickelodeon show The Brothers Garcia and was Tybalt in Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet.ANSWER: John Leguizamo [or John Alberto Leguizamo]?21. The male protagonist of this film offers to cuddle with the female lead for "meteorological reasons" to keep warm while they're hiding out in a pool shed. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this Netflix independent film directed by Adam Leon. Danny, the Polish-speaking male lead in this film, grabs the wrong briefcase on a train platform, sparking a series of adventures with Ellie, played by Grace Van Pattern.ANSWER: Tramps[10] Tramps reminded me a lot of this Oscar-winning Woody Allen film. Alvy grows up by Coney Island's Thunderbolt in this film starring Diane Keaton as the title character.ANSWER: Annie Hall[10] Adam Leon's earlier film Gimme the Loot won the Grand Jury Prize at this festival in in 2012. Twitter first entered the mainstream at the 2007 iteration of this event.ANSWER: South by Southwest Film Festival [or SXSW Film Festival] ................
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