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GRAB BAGNovember 2017By Mike BentleyRound 6?Tossups?1. Description acceptable. Entertainment Weekly reporter Leah Greenblatt recounted visiting one of these locations that is so quiet that "sometimes the [pet] doves are noisy" and which looks "office-park anonymous" from the outside. One of these places was opened to the public for a 2013 performance by the bands 3rdEyeGirl and New Power Generation. One of these locations is the site of "the shirts against the blouse" game between the Revolution and the narrator of the (*) "True Hollywood Stories" segment. The aforementioned EW reporter visited this location for a listening party for HITNRUN. Madonna's Like a Prayer album was recorded at one of these places. Charlie Murphy related playing basketball in one of these locations on Chapelle's Show. The best known of these locations is named Paisley Park and is located in Minnesota. For 10 points, name these locations where the artist behind "Little Red Corvette" lived.ANSWER: Prince's houses [or Prince's mansions; anti-prompt on Prince's recording studios; accept Paisley Park before mentioned]?2. Shortly before this series ended, Christopher Caldwell wrote an essay "against" its most iconic character for "never [being] a full participant in the tangle of relationships that drove [this work]", but Jonathan Franzen defended that character as being "the protean trickster". John Waters particularly liked when the B-3 pen was used to draw the extra-angry "total warfare frown" of a character in this series, and in a Fantagraphics introduction Alec Baldwin admired "trudging, Jimmy Stewart-like decency and predictability" of its main character. Following the Apollo 1 fire, NASA adopted a character from this work to be its safety mascot. This (*) strip arguably jumped the shark when characters such as Olaf, Andy, Marbles and Belle were introduced. In reruns since 2000, one of its characters is usually on the MetLife blimps. For 10 points, name this comic series created by Charles Schulz whose worst character is Snoopy.ANSWER: Peanuts?3. The second episode of this series opens with two border guards asking a car bomber to tune his radio to a gymnastics broadcast. Stanley Kubrick was a fan of this show according to an introduction by Jon Ronson. While undercover at a party, one of its heroes is drugged and filmed being raped. Most characters on this show mispronounce the name of Jordache blue jeans. A character in this show explains how the board game Monopoly is used to teach American kids the horrors of (*) capitalism. The protagonist's partner is killed in the first episode by a man wearing a Ronald Reagan mask. This show is somewhat inspired by Thirty Cases of Major Zeman, which aired in Czechoslovakia. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum provide the dubbed voices of the heroes on this show. For 10 points, name this Amazon series which purports to be a lost Romanian cop program from the Communist era.ANSWER: Comrade Detective?4. John McKenna and Gabriel Clarke directed a 2015 documentary about one star's attempts to make a film about this place. A movie star founded Solar Productions to make a movie about this place, and Derek Bell almost died during the shooting. At this place in 1967, Dan Gurney became the first person captured on camera spraying champagne on someone. Eddie Hall gained fame for a solo completion of one event at this place in 1950. The aforementioned film titled for this place was directed by Lee Katzin, is nearly dialogue free, and was bankrolled by its star, (*) Steve McQueen. Group C fuel restrictions were added for an event at this place during the oil embargo. The first sand-filled barrels for a racing course were developed following a 1955 accident here in which 83 spectators died. It makes up a triple crown with Monaco and the Indianapolis 500. For 10 points, name this French town, the site of a noted 24-hour-long race.ANSWER: Le Mans?5. In 2016, Julia Claiborne Johnson won an award for the best woman working in this profession. A director whose first feature film focused on people in this profession followed it up with a middling comedy about the marriage of characters such as Ed Helms's Noah titled I Do… Until I Don't. A recurring panel at Seattle's Emerald City Comicon has featured people in this profession such as Kevin Conroy making the (*) Star Wars films more entertaining. George Guidall is best known for working in this profession. Carol Solomon, played by director Lake Bell, works in this profession and tries to secure a gig for The Amazon Games in the 2013 comedy, In a World… Early in that film, a GEICO commercial featuring a now deceased legend in this profession named Don LaFontaine is shown doing his "God"-like work. For 10 points, name this profession of the people who describe the premise in a movie trailer.ANSWER: voiceover acting [or audiobook narrators; or movie trailer narrators; prompt on actors]?6. In his recent history of these people, W. J. Rorabaugh makes a not very convincing argument that they gave us J. K. Rowling and Harry Potter. One of my least favorite Bad Religion songs from the No Substance album set during "Our Apocalypse, 1981" is titled for "killers" of these people. Large numbers of these people attended the Piedra Roja in Chile. Journalist Herb Caen popularized the term for these people. The (*) Pudding Shop in Istanbul was a frequent stop on a so-called trail named for these people. Congregations of these people often produced graffiti with the slogan “Frodo Lives!” A large congregation of these people was officially called the Gathering of the Tribes. A 2005 episode of South Park has Cartman running a pest control service to eliminate these people who “smoke pot, wear crap and smell bad”. For 10 points, name these type of people who attended the Summer of Love in San Francisco.ANSWER: hippies?7. After two characters in this film attend a concert, they use the flash on a camera to light their path back in the dark. One character in this film describes the ending of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest after another character reveals that she left the film mid-screening because she had gotten her first period. This film’s final shot is one of its oldest protagonist flying in a propeller plane. A character in this film develops cervical cancer due to a fertility medicine her mother took. The matriarch in this film samples albums by the Talking Heads and Black Flag after the name of the latter band is spray-painted on her car. The boy at the center of this film frequently sleeps with, but does not have sex with, the (*) Elle Fanning-played character who climbs into his bedroom window most nights. Set in California in the late '70s, for 10 points, name this 2016 Mike Mills film starring Annette Bening.ANSWER: 20th Century Women?8. A legendary punk rock club in this city was founded by members of the Sillies in order to have somewhere to play and was called Bookie's Club 870. A sandwich restaurant in this city that started booking jazz musicians in the 1930s claims to be the country's oldest operating jazz club. The Baker's Keyboard Lounge is in this city, as was the Art Deco jazz joint the Vanity Ballroom. The headquarters of Submerge in this city houses a museum that honors a music genre started here by artists such as Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins that became the soundtrack of a reunited (*) Berlin. This city's Music Institute was the only place in this city for quite some time where you could hear its namesake brand of techno at suitably loud volume. Lots of songs produced in this city had band tracks produced by the Funk Brothers under the supervision of Berry Gordy, Jr. For 10 points, name this city where Motown Records was based.ANSWER: Detroit?9. Nicole Chang, played in a yellow-face role by Shirley MacLaine, is recruited by Michael Caine's Harry Dean in order to commit this type of crime in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Dammuz in a film remade in 2012 starring Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz. In order to prevent the exposure of a different crime, Nicole, played by Audrey Hepburn, convinces Peter O'Toole's Simon Dermott to help her perform this action in a 1966 film directed by William Wyler. Both versions of (*) Gambit are about this type of crime. The film How to Steal a Million centers on this type of crime. A 1999 remake sees Catherine Banning, played by Rene Russo, tasked with finding the man played by Pierce Brosnan who committed this crime while security guards were distracted by other imposter guards. For 10 points, name this crime committed in the opening scene of the Thomas Crown Affair remake where The Met's San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk is taken.ANSWER: stealing a work of art [or stealing a painting; or equivalents]?10. Description acceptable. One of these men played Blue Beret on the X-Files episode "Little Green Men", the one where Mulder goes to Puerto Rico. That same member of this group belongs to the International Brotherhood of Magicians. A how-to ostensibly written by these people opens by describing how as kids they were paid 25 cents per section to repaint fences for their dad. One of these men is a producer on Toddler Vs. Toddler. These guys got their start while attending the University of Calgary and their dad gave them the lease to the family ranch. These men host programs such as (*) Buying and Selling. Their best known show usually opens with some couple being shown a much-too-expensive option before settling for a lower-priced option that is subsequently renovated. One of these people is a licensed contractor, while the other is a realtor. For 10 points, name these siblings who host four separate shows on HGTV.ANSWER: The Property Brothers [or Jonathan and Drew Scott or the Scotts]?11. In one song, this artist imagines St. Peter telling people that "You got to have a wristband". In a scathing review of a soundtrack album by this artist, Rob Sheffield declared he "tries really hard with the word 'motherfucker.' But he has trouble with it." This artist rebounded with an album whose title track begins, "May twelve angels guard you while you sleep. Maybe that's a waste of angels, I dunno." Robert Christgau called his style "studied wimpiness". This artist behind You're The One has featured (*) Cameroonian guitarist Vincent Nguini on all of his albums since The Rhythm of the Saints. Beavis once called him "that dude from Africa that used to be in the Beatles", a reference to his work with the Boyoyo Boys and other South African artists on an album which produced "You Can Call Me Al". For 10 points, name this artist of Graceland, who used to be in a band with Art Garfunkel.ANSWER: Paul Simon [or Paul Frederic Simon]?12. In a flashback, the protagonist of this series starts eating the names in a hat after lying about Betsy being the designated driver. The protagonist of this show's favorite book is Kendall Jenner's Instagram feed. A recurring joke on this show is the awfulness of clam chowder. In the second episode of this series, the protagonist is guilted into cleaning up trash rather than learning how to fly. Earlier, flying (*) shrimp attacked the title location. One character on this show reveals that he was actually a wanna-be DJ and drug dealer from Jacksonville and not a Buddhist monk. That character is the supposed soulmate of Tahani on this series. The title neighborhood of this show was designed by Michael, played by Ted Danson. For 10 points, name this NBC comedy where Kristen Bell's morally questionable character is sent to the afterlife.ANSWER: The Good Place?13. Bob Fitch recreated this game's engine while the other developers were helping out on the first title from a studio originally known as Condo. At its first E3, this game was upstaged by what turned out to be fake footage from Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3. Burning Ground is one of the more popular total conversion mods for this game. The UMS map Save Our Ship was included in an awful unauthorized expansion for this game titled Stellar Forces. A not much better authorized expansion for it by Aztech New Media added a campaign involving the Fist of Redemption and was called Insurrection. In the beta for this game, a unit without direct attack abilities could use (*) Psi Assault, and a machine gun and flamethrower were in the arsenal of the Goliath. The beta also featured Valkyries, a unit re-added in the only good expansion for this title. For 10 points, Hydralisks are in what seminal sci-fi real time strategy game by Blizzard?ANSWER: Starcraft [or Starcraft: Brood War]?14. This author complained that Paintings of Cole "was inconveniently shown on the Upper West Side" and "written by a guy I envy" in his "An Honest Film Review". Another of his characters yells "Are you blind?" at a ref at a basketball game, but then follows it up with, "If so, it would be amazing that you've been accurately officiating". He included stories such as "A Marriage Counselor Tries to Heckle at a Knicks Game" in his book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories. As an actor, he played the title role in Limp Bizkit's film, The Education of Charlie Banks. This man played author David Lipsky, who (*) interviews a Jason Segel-played David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film, The End of the Tour. He also starred alongside Kristen Stewart as a character who gets a part-time job at the title amusement park in Pittsburgh in Adventureland. For 10 points, name this actor who played a young Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.ANSWER: Jesse Eisenberg [or Jesse Adam Eisenberg]?15. A public demonstration of this product was held at the PS1 annex of the MoMA in March, 2015 in an event moderated by Sasha Frere-Jones. A Kickstarter campaign centering on this product raised only $15,406. This product was packaged in a hand-made box with a 174 page booklet giving background information on it. For about 10 minutes in August 2017, this "donation" was livestreamed to the world while its owner had an interview with a reporter. Apparently (*) Cher contributed to this project. It's not Kurt Cobain's Visa card, but this object was purchased by a man infamous for raising the price from $13.50 to $750 for a pill of Daraprim as head of Turing Pharmaceuticals. The complete version of this product was only heard by Cilvaringz and RZA before it was sold for two million dollars. For 10 points, name this rare album by the Wu-Tang Clan.ANSWER: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin?16. The Japanese company Mizuno, which sponsored the torch relay at this event, was pissed off that many of the host athletes were wearing Adidas shoes instead. Joao de Oliveira and Ian Campbell were both penalized by judges in the triple jump during this Olympics. Manfred Donike conducted his own drug tests at this event, debunking official claims that no one had doped. After being booed, the Polish pole vaulter Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz had an "involuntary arm spasm" and gave his eponymous fuck you gesture to the crowd during this event. The Mexican diver Carlos Giron was robbed of a gold medal after an athlete from the host country was controversially given a second chance. The opening ceremonies here featured a video piped in from (*) Salyut-6. A brown teddy bear named Misha was the mascot of this event. For 10 points, name these Olympics, boycotted by many countries opposed to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.ANSWER: Moscow Olympics [or 1980 Summer Olympics]?17. The protagonists of this film meet at a salad bar where the older of the two admires "those little bits of toast", aka croutons. This film ends with the title character explaining how "not in a million years" had she suspected that a noblemen admiring a beautiful cloak was actually admiring the weaver who made it in a novel she had just finished. The protagonist of this film repeatedly claims that the male lead is from the "News at 10" rather than the (*) BBC. In one scene, the title character in this film suggests staying in to watch Big Momma's House rather than visit the Lincoln Memorial. A flashback reveals that its protagonist gave a difficult breech birth without doctors present at Sean Ross Abbey to a man who would go on to serve in the Reagan administration and die of AIDS. It was based on a book by Martin Sixsmith, who is played by Steve Coogan. For 10 points, name this film starring Judy Dench as the title Irish woman who had her child taken away from her.ANSWER: Philomena?18. On a Season 4 episode of Bar Rescue, an establishment called Undisputed in this city was remade as So Yo Craft Beer. A character raised in this city once worked as a golf caddy and is now under investigation by Chuck Rhoades, a character played by Paul Giamatti. Damian Lewis' hedge funder Bobby on Showtime's series Billions grew up in this city. One series set in this city opens and closes with the protagonist at the grave of his father, where he ultimately shoots himself. Jim Belushi played the race-baiting Angelo Martinelli, who briefly gets himself elected mayor of this city on one show. Jay and Arty move in with Aunt Bella in this city in a 1991 play. This city is the setting of a (*) David Simon miniseries where Mayor Nick Wasicsko, played by Oscar Isaac, attempts to integrate its neighborhoods. This city is the setting of HBO's Show Me a Hero. For 10 points, name this city in Westchester County, New York, which titles a Neil Simon play about being "Lost In" this place.ANSWER: Yonkers, New York?19. Jim Walsh, Alan Dershowitz, Matthew Kroenig and Fred Kaplan used this unusual venue to debate the Iran Nuclear Deal in September 2015. On the podcast Tuesdays with Stories!, Mark Normand complained about how a table reserved for regulars at this establishment's connecting restaurant was moved to be too close to the general public; the table here had been set up in the '90s by Nick Di Paolo. This club is connected to the Olive Tree Restaurant and is a rival of the nearby Bitter End. The fictional character Andre Allen declares, "Please lower your expectations, It's not gonna be that good" during a surprise appearance here in the film (*) Top Five. The original location of this place is on 117 Macdougal Street in the West Village. Jon Stewart's first post-Daily Show standup gig was at this venue, which appears in the opening sequence of Louie. For 10 points, name this stand-up venue in New York City, noted for being in a basement.ANSWER: Comedy Cellar?20. Artist and song required. This song was popular enough to spawn an instrumental version recorded a few weeks later by Bruce Hornsby. The recording of this song was done in one take on minimal practice because the singer was busy working on a screen test for director Mick Jackson. Its singer was backed by the Florida Orchestra, conducted by Jahja Ling. Rickey Minor had to track down a VHS tape of Marvin Gaye performing the same version of this song in 1983 to figure out its arrangement. A live version of this song was done for the (*) Welcome Home Heroes special although the most famous rendition was lip synced. This recording, unusually played in 3/4 time, was performed at an event where security concerns forced the Goodyear Blimp to be grounded. While singing this song, the singer wore Nike Cortezes shoes and a white track suit. For 10 points, name this song, notably performed at Super Bowl XXV during height of the Gulf War by the co-star of The Bodyguard.ANSWER: Whitney Houston's rendition of the "National Anthem" [or Whitney Houston's version of the "Star Spangled Banner"]?21. After their van broke down near Fresno, this band hitchhiked 800 miles to play a show in Seattle in a tour that cemented their sound. Stephen Davis' book Watch You Bleed is about this band, and restaurant owner Marc Canter published a photo history of them titled Reckless Road. Mike Clink produced their first album, the best-selling debut album of all time, which concludes with a track whose chorus declares, "I might be too much, but honey you're a bit obscene". This band recorded (*) "Rocket Queen" and a title track that opens, "It don't really matter / Gotta find out for yourself". Their recent Not in This Lifetime tour included a few songs from their cover album The Spaghetti Incident? Their long-awaited album Chinese Democracy was released in 2008. For 10 points, name this band behind the album Appetite for Destruction, whose members included Slash and Axl Rose.ANSWER: Guns N' Roses?Bonuses?1. Identify the following about 20th century British fashion, for 10 points each.[10] On Whitsun weekend in May 1964, scooter-riding and smartly dressed youths who followed this fashion trend got into a series of disturbances with their rivals, the Rockers.ANSWER: Mods[10] "Boys" named for this type of clothing title a 1964 drama where Reggie starts a homosexual relationship with Pete. Rockers tended to wear a lot of clothing made from this material.ANSWER: leather[10] If you were a working class punk kid in West Ham in 1980, you might have a mohawk and be into this subgenre of punk whose two-letter name was coined by Garry Bushell. ANSWER: Oi!?2. In "The End", an episode of the Mike Tyson Mysteries, it turns out this author didn't die but instead turned into the Chupacabra. For 10 points each:[10] Name this author who described himself as "basically well-disposed toward The Simpsons" after appearing as himself in the "Insane Clown Poppy" episode. He also wrote the Bech books.ANSWER: John Updike [or John Hoyer Updike][10] In the "Heavyweight Champion of the Moon" episode, Tyson gets into a car accident and kills this astronaut. This second man on the moon played a lover of Liz Lemon's mother on the 30 Rock episode "The Moms".ANSWER: Buzz Aldrin [or Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.][10] This comedian voices the Mystery Team's pool guy. He's probably best known for playing Murray, the band's manager on Flight of the Conchords.ANSWER: Rhys Darby [or Rhys Montague Darby]?3. Genius helpfully notes that this person's name "is a stereotypical-sounding name in the Black community given to average White women". For 10 points each:[10] Identify this person who the singer says "He better call" in the end of a song that begins, "Sorry, I ain't sorry".ANSWER: Becky with the Good Hair [prompt on Becky][10] "Sorry" is a track from this artist's "surprise" release, Lemonade.ANSWER: Beyonce[10] In this ballad from Lemonade, Bey admits that even though "I scratched out your name and your face / What is it about you that I can't erase, baby?" The chorus of this song notes, "Every promise don't work out that way".ANSWER: "Sandcastles"?4. This man's years-long quest to star as King Herod alongside Jessica Chastain was chronicled in the documentary Wilde Salome. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this actor whose character Sonny Wortzik robs a bank in Dog Day Afternoon. He starred opposite Robert De Niro in Heat.ANSWER: Al Pacino [or Alfredo James Pacino][10] Pacino, playing Satan, ad-libbed singing Frank Sinatra's "It Happened in Monterey" to this actor's character in the 1997 film The Devil's Advocate. This man also played an outcast named Kai in the remake of 47 Ronin.ANSWER: Keanu Reeves [or Keanu Charles Reeves][10] Pacino's directorial debut was for a documentary about this play. Ian McKellen played the title role in a '90s film adaptation of this play set in pre-World War II England.ANSWER: Richard III?5. In 1937, this organization went on a "salvation tour" of the United States to raise money. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this football club which more recently played rival Real Madrid to sixty thousand fans in Miami.ANSWER: FC Barcelona [or Barca; or Futbol Club Barcelona][10] Another club bent on American expansion, AS Roma, recently trained at this college's campus and housed its (American) football team during the summer. This school's men's hockey team holds the record for most Division I championships.ANSWER: University of Michigan [or Wolverines][10] A July 26, 2017 game between Real Madrid and Manchester City attracted over 93,000 spectators, the most ever in this venue. Nude statues modeled on water poloist Terry Schroeder and long jumper Jennifer Inniss stand in front of this stadium, which was dedicated to World War I veterans when it opened in 1923.ANSWER: LA Coliseum [or Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; prompt on just Coliseum]?6. The keyboardist in this band, Keith Emerson, once had to be rescued by roadies during a show when he got trapped underneath his gigantic Hammond organ. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this prog rock band with a law firm-like name whose 20-minute long song "Tarkus" is apparently about an armadillo turned war machine. They're best known for "Lucky Man".ANSWER: ELP [or Emerson, Lake & Palmer][10] One ELP hit was a prog rock version of this piano composition by Modest Mussorgsky. "The Great Gate of Kiev" is one movement from this piece.ANSWER: Pictures at an Exhibition[10] ELP was not the only prog rock band to dig into the classical music canon. This group played "Mars, the Bringer of War" at the end of their Hyde Park set as the opening band for the Rolling Stones. You probably know them best for Kanye West's sample of their track "21st Century Schizoid Man".ANSWER: King Crimson?7. Former SNL writer Bruce Handy's recent book Wild Things contains lots of pithy literary judgments of children's books. Identify the following about some of these, for 10 points each.[10] Handy speculates whether Philip Roth had this author's The Runaway Bunny in mind when he was writing Portnoy's Complaint. This author died from a blood clot that developed from an especially exuberant cancan kick.ANSWER: Margaret Wise Brown [or Timothy Hay; or Golden MacDonald; or Juniper Sage][10] According to Handy, the only instruction that Margaret Wise Brown gave to illustrator Clement Hurd for Goodnight Moon was to study this artist's painting The Red Boy. The novelist Siri Hustvedt spent so much time staring at this artist's Third of May that she supposedly found an undiscovered self-portrait in the canvas.ANSWER: Francisco Goya [or Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes][10] Handy described this work as an "inexplicably popular retelling of Stella Dallas and Mildred Pierce for nursery schoolers". Spike Jonze's film about two robots titled I'm Here was based on this book.ANSWER: The Giving Tree?8. Identify the following about some of best scenes from 2015 movies, for 10 points each.[10] Early rumors stated that Leonard DiCaprio's character gets raped by a bear in a violent scene from this Alejandro Inarritu wilderness quest, although turns out that doesn't happen.ANSWER: The Revenant[10] About 40 minutes into this film, Jack and his mom, played by Brie Larson, escape the title location and Jack gazes up at the sky for the first time from the back of a pickup truck.ANSWER: The Room[10] I hear there's a cool 17-minute long scene in this Robert Zemeckis film, although I've only watched the documentary it was based on. This film, like the documentary, centers on Philippe Petit.ANSWER: The Walk?9. On a "Yes/Yes/No" segment of the Reply All podcast, Adam West claimed that his lowest moment was when he took money in exchange for performing this action. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this action, surprisingly at the center of the Supreme Court case of Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. The distance record for this action belongs to David "The Bullet" Smith.ANSWER: getting shot out of a cannon [do NOT accept "getting shot with a cannon ball"][10] In an excellent Simpsons episode, Homer secures a gig getting shot with a cannonball on a parody of this alternative music festival tour. It's now a festival each summer in Chicago that often makes Chicago Open traffic awful.ANSWER: Lollapalooza[10] That Simpsons episode may have been based on Frank "Cannonball" Richards who once let this guy punch him in the stomach. He can be seen falling out of the ring onto a reporter in a George Bellows painting depicting his match against Luis Angel Firpo.ANSWER: Jack Dempsey?10. Emily Nussbaum praised this actor's "Bob's Big Boy swerve" in his role as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather on The Strain. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this actor. In one of his better known roles, his character Peter Russo falls for Rachel Posner, ending his campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania.ANSWER: Corey (Daniel) Stoll[10] Stoll played a Congressman on the first season of this Netflix show, starring Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood.ANSWER: House of Cards[10] One of Stoll's bigger movie roles was playing this man in a Woody Allen film. This character once wrestled Mankind on an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch and TCM host Robert Osborne once noted that this man wasn't very happy that Harry, played by Gregory Peck, survives in a 1952 adaptation of one of his stories.ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway?11. Richard Jenkins plays a radical history professor in this film. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this movie about a former member of the Weather Underground who seeks help from his old companions played by Nick Nolte and Julie Christie.ANSWER: The Company You Keep[10] The Company You Keep was directed by this man. He won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People, and as an actor played the title Sundance Kid alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.ANSWER: Robert Redford [or Charles Robert Redford Jr.][10] This other Redford film was based on a book by Norman MacLean. Paul, the younger brother in this film, aspires to stay in Montana working for a newspaper and was played by a young Brad Pitt.ANSWER: A River Runs Through It?12. It’s not Dota, but a site called this game's Lounge is pretty much just a way to bet on eSports. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this game, rocked by a cheating scandal in January 2015 when the team iBUYPOWER deliberately lost a match in order to receive skins through the aforementioned Lounge site.ANSWER: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [or CS:GO; prompt on Counter-Strike][10] This company, which makes CSGO, has largely pretended that the gambling associated with the game's skins doesn't exist. They also develop Steam.ANSWER: Valve Corporation[10] Sierra, the original publisher of Half-Life, had earlier found success with adventure games such as a series starring Sonny Bonds, a man in this profession. Players control either Michael Handy or James Cools in an early SEGA 3D light-gun game titled for people in this profession.ANSWER: police officers [or cops; or Virtua Cops; or police detectives]?13. The Burt Lancaster vehicle The Train shares the same basic premise as this 2014 film. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this movie where Lt. Stokes and his crew--including the John Goodman-played Walter Hancock--search mineshafts for the title objects.ANSWER: The Monuments Men[10] The Monuments Men was directed by this actor, who has also directed films such as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night, and Good Luck.ANSWER: George Clooney [or George Timothy Clooney][10] Jean Dujardin, who played Jean-Claude Clermont in The Monuments Men, is probably best-known for his role as George Valentin in The Artist, where he's saved by his dog Jack after this event happens.ANSWER: he falls asleep and his nitrate film catches on fire?14. Identify the following about the early days of television advertising, for 10 points each.[10] He's not Bing Crosby, but this man once spoofed his ubiquitous Road movies with an episode of the Star-Spangled Revue about "The Road to Frigidaire". He liked to tell lots of golf jokes.ANSWER: Bob Hope [or Leslie Townes Hope][10] When not hawking Lipton or Pillsbury, Arthur Godfrey helped convince Americans that this industry was safe because he said so. A once-prominent company in this industry had a logo nicknamed the Blue Meatball and was the namesake of a short-lived 2011 series on ABC starring Christina Ricci.ANSWER: air travel industry [the company is Pan-Am][10] Jack Benny helped pioneer integrated advertising and was a long-time shill for this brand. Poet Dana Gioia helped turn this brand around in the 1980s by coming out with cookbooks that emphasized its availability as a finger food in "fun shapes".ANSWER: Jell-O?15. Identify the following between the intersection of science fiction and right wing politics, for 10 points each.[10] This man's article in The Ornery American titled "Homosexual 'Marriage' and Civilization" prompted Geeks OUT to found the website which urged people not to see the film based on this guy's book.ANSWER: Orson Scott Card[10] This Utah Congressman described what happened after some large electromagnetic pulses caused a big political upheaval in his Great and Terrible novels. He shares a surname with the actress who co-starred as Nila alongside Nicholas Hoult in the 2016 indie sci-fi film Equals.ANSWER: Chris Stewart [who shares a surname with Kristen Stewart][10] This man wrote speeches for LAPD chief William H. Parker before he got into TV. The show Andromeda was produced by his widow, Majel Barrett.ANSWER: Gene Roddenberry [or Eugene Wesley Roddenberry]?16. One of these type of people, Guo Meimei, once posted a picture of herself with 5 million yuan in poker chips as part of a rivalry with another of these people over who had more money. For 10 points each:[10] Give this term for the second generation of Chinese rich kids. It literally means "the wealthy second generation".ANSWER: fuerdai ("foo-arr-dye")[10] Wang Jianlin, the son of the richest dude in China, didn't make a lot of friends when he uploaded a picture of his dog wearing two of the $10,000 version of these products. This product is a rival of the Pebble.ANSWER: Apple Watches[10] Another apparently popular thing to do if you're a fuerdai is to work for this company in order to pick up young women to sleep with. This market-leading American company lost its war in China with rival ride-sharing firm Didi Kuaidi.ANSWER: Uber?17. The Three Mile Island accident prompted a number of artists to form Musicians United for Safe Energy. Name some MUSE members, for 10 points each.[10] The film documenting the MUSE concerts in New York City were the first time that this group was captured on camera, performing the classic song "The River". Today their hours-long shows might include "Born to Run".ANSWER: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band[10] Carly Simon performed a pretty awful duet on "Mockingbird" with this artist at a No Nukes concert. He won Grammys for songs such as "Handy Man" and "You've Got a Friend".ANSWER: James Taylor [or James Vernon Taylor][10] For one of the concerts, this artist wrote a protest song titled "Barrel of Pain" where he recounts seeing "glowing children". All members of the band he was in released solo albums following 1970's Deja Vu, with his titled Songs for Beginners and including the mild hit "Chicago".ANSWER: Graham Nash [or Graham William Nash]?18. Identify the following about shady multi-level marketing company AdvoCare, for 10 points each.[10] The public face of AdvoCare is this quarterback, who appears on its DB9 line of nutrition bars. He led the Saints to their first Super Bowl victory.ANSWER: Drew Brees [or Drew Christopher Brees][10] Charlie Ragus, who founded AdvoCare after leaving Herbalife, once played defensive end for this team. Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson catapulted this team to the Super Bowl IV championship.ANSWER: Kansas City Chiefs [or Kansas City Chiefs][10] AdvoCare's fortunes suffered in the early 2000s when the FDA banned this substance, which had been linked to the death of Vikings offensive tackle Korey Stringer. Michael Ellis was convicted of lying to the FDA about the dangers of this substance in Metabolife 356.ANSWER: ephedra?19. Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo made a number of contributions to film history. Name some of these, for 10 points each.[10] The first Hollywood adaptation of Laszlo's play Parfumerie was The Shop Around the Corner, which starred this actor as Budapest leather-goods salesman Alfred Kralik. He played Charles Lindbergh in the 1957 biopic, The Spirit of St. Louis.ANSWER: James Stewart [or Jimmy Stewart or James Maitland Stewart][10] The Shop Around the Corner was remade into a musical starring this actress in 1949. The only time she played a character who died on screen was in the 1940 musical comedy Little Nellie Kelly.ANSWER: Judy Garland [or Frances Ethel Gumm][10] Most recently, Parfumerie was turned into this Nora Ephron film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The leads in this romantic comedy meet in an "over-30s" chatroom, whose title derives from a common AOL soundbite.ANSWER: You've Got Mail?20. At least one hundred thousand people have watched a YouTube video of the famous drum fill from this song looping for 30 minutes. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this song, which is playing as Mike Tyson punches out Zach Galifianakis's character in the first Hangover movie.ANSWER: "In the Air Tonight"[10] "In the Air Tonight" was the first solo single released by this man, who had gained fame drumming for Genesis. He also has an extensive collection of memorabilia from the Alamo.ANSWER: Phil Collins[10] As a teenager, Collins played the congas for recording sessions for this George Harrison album, although none of the recordings made it onto the album. This triple album included tracks such as "Isn't It a Pity" and "My Sweet Lord".ANSWER: All Things Must Pass?21. After Peter Jackson pulled out of directing the planned Halo movie, he recommended to Microsoft that this young director film it instead. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this director who rose to prominence with shorts such as the Office Space-esque "Tempbot". His live-action short films for Halo 3 were collectively known as Landfall.ANSWER: Neill Blomkamp[10] Blomkamp is probably best known for this film, which got him enough attention to direct the bigger budget Elysium. An alien named Christopher Johnson tries to escape from the title location in South Africa in this film.ANSWER: District 9[10] Blomkamp also directed the commercial "Alive with Technology" for this car company in 2004. This French company's first real success was the Traction Avant from the 1930s, and since 2014 it's been controlled by the Dongfeng Motor Corporation as part of the PSA group with Peugeot, DS, Opel and Vauxhall.ANSWER: Citroen ................
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