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GRAB BAGNovember 2017By Mike BentleyRound 1?Tossups?1. This earlier film inspired a 1987 movie where Dr. Margaret Canker, played by Fiona Lewis, tries to steal a key piece of technology and which starred Martin Short and Dennis Quaid. This film was parodied after a Jack the Ripper section in "Treehouse of Horror XV (15)". A Rick and Morty episode combined a parody of this film with one of Jurassic Park. Another show parodied this film in an episode where the protagonist is miraculously healed after a lead pipe goes through his chest as (*) Scruffy is reading Zero-G Jugs. In that same parody of this film, the protagonist takes up the Holophonor after eating an egg salad from a gas station vending machine. This film is parodied in Futurama's "Parasites Lost". The episodes "Makes a Stink", "Goes Cellular", "For Lunch" and "Inside Ralphie" are all Magic School Bus riffs on this film. For 10 points, name this sci-fi film where a scientist's brain is healed by a miniaturized submarine crew.ANSWER: Fantastic Voyage?2. This character is "Saying Nothing" in a book where Cambridge lecturer Andy Martin observes his author writing a new novel about him, each one of which is started on the September 1st anniversary of the author being fired from a TV show. A recent novel sends this character to Hamburg after attending the "Impact on Recent Forensic Innovation on Inter-Agency Cooperation" training course. He struggles to escape an underground complex about to be ignited with jet fuel in an incident ignored in the follow-up book, Worth Dying For. He has never shaken hands with his touch-phobic love interest Frances L. Neagley. Night School is one of the novels set before this drifter has left the (*) Army Military Police Corps. His first film opens with a sniper in Pittsburgh, and in the next film he suspects Susan Turner is being framed for killing some soldiers in Afghanistan. For 10 points, name this character created by Lee Child and played on film by Tom Cruise.ANSWER: Jack Reacher [or Jack Reacher]?3. In a Fresh Prince episode where he confronts an old bully, Will has his wallet stolen when he's passed out from having performed this action. The first filmed version of this action followed sequences in Bound for Glory and Marathon Man as being one of the first Hollywood scenes shot with a Steadicam. A statue commemorating this action by A. Thomas Schomberg has sometimes been placed outside of the (*) Spectrum. Immediately before the first film version of this action, a man high-fives people displaying Italian flags and is followed by a large contingent of running children. A character suffering from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma has to be encouraged by a mentee born Adonis Johnson to complete this action in a 2015 Ryan Coogler movie. The first on-screen instance of this action was done to the accompaniment of "Gonna Fly Now". For 10 points, name this common action done in montage scenes by Rocky Balboa.ANSWER: running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art [accept Rocky steps before the end]?4. A film rendition of this song breaks out in a military procession passing by a large pillar of an elephant. The Telegraph reported how this song was adopted as the anthem of the Occupy Central protesters in Hong Kong in 2014. The guards start singing this song in a bar after Caputo agrees to be the leader of their union in a Season 3 episode of Orange is the New Black. This song is the last on a soundtrack of 15 others written by Herbert Kretzmer and follows "Red and Black". One singer in this song asks the listener, "Will you join in our (*) crusade?" A solo verse in this song has Feuilly prophesizing that "The blood of the martyrs will water / The meadows of France!" Its chorus describes a time period "When the beating of your heart / Echoes the beating of the drums". For 10 points, name this song from Les Miserables where the title group are "Singing a song of angry men".ANSWER: "Do You Hear the People Sing?" [or "? la volonté du peuple"]?5. This series opens with a blond haired infant climbing over a heap of baby corpses. One scene in this series cuts from the title character getting formally dressed to the tune of "Sexy and I Know It" to a shot accompanied by John Tavener's "Song for Athene". A scheme to catch the title character of this show in an affair with Esther fails when Esther becomes pregnant after being (*) forgiven by her target. The title character of this show was abandoned by his Hippie parents to an orphanage. Kurtwell, an accused pedophile, is banished to Alaska in one of the final episodes of its first season. Stefano Accorsi plays the Italian Prime Minister on this show and Diane Keaton is Sister Mary, the woman who has raised the title character. For 10 points, name this Paolo Sorrentino HBO series where Jude Law plays the pontiff of Rome.ANWER: The Young Pope?6. Early in his career, this man played with the Saddlemen as the "Rambling Yodeler". One of his first UK successes was a somewhat bowdlerized cover of Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll". This man sexed up a Jackie Brenston cover by adding a revving motor to his version of "Rocket 88". He once appeared on a double bill in Chicago with Dizzy Gillespie after his single "Crazy Man Crazy" got him booked on the jazz club circuit. The louder-than-desired drums on his biggest hit were not re-recorded because it began life as a B-Side to another tune, (*) "Thirteen Women". This man's signature tune plays as kids destroy their teacher's jazz records in the opening scene of Blackboard Jungle. That song instructs the listener to "put your glad rags on and join me hon' / We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one". For 10 points, name this singer who was accompanied by "His Comets" on "Rock Around the Clock".ANSWER: Bill Haley?7. A character in this film named Wiloughby promises that Chapter 9 of Carl Sagan's Cosmos will blow the protagonist's mind. In this film, Finn declares, "You accept your chumpification and move on." One early shot in this movie traces a garden hose up to a bedroom where someone is filling up a waterbed. A hazing scene in this film has some characters duct-taped to a border fence and barraged with balls. Several of its characters sing along to "Rapper's Delight" in a car ride shot, and it opens with the protagonist carrying a box of records into a house after driving around in his Oldsmobile to the sounds of "My Sharona". This film centers on Jake, played by Blake Jenner, who is a freshman (*) pitcher at an unnamed Texas university. For 10 points, name this most recent film by Richard Linklater, a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused!!ANSWER: Everybody Wants Some!!?8. Probably the best entry in Codemasters's Seymour series of games is the one where he takes on this occupation in levels such as Licensed to Spill. A PS2 game titled for this occupation has you moving towards lots of yellow circles in levels such as "A Whoppin and A Hollerin". A PS3-era game titled for a person in this profession by Paradigm Entertainment has you doing a lot of driving on projects such as Night Avenger, Strike Force Omega and Aftershock. Success in that game, subtitled Ignition, earns the player (*) nominations. Before it worked on No Man's Sky, Hello Games made a couple of side-scrolling games starring a character in this profession who rides through the Old West doing lots of loops on his motorbike. Joe Danger is a character in this profession. For 10 points, name this occupation of a character in a PS2 game who drives cars through explosions for movie trailers.ANSWER: stuntman [or stunt driver; prompt on motorcycle driver or motorbike driver before mentioned]?9. Two characters in this film are pulled over by a police officer because one is driving without a license on a quest to get free pancakes two weeks before the protagonist’s actual birthday. The protagonist of this film is given a series of citations after landing a plane in the middle of the street by a police officer voiced by Ricky Gervais. Its heroine moves with her mother to a new house after she flubs a question to get into the prestigious Werth Academy. Part of the protagonist’s house is destroyed in this movie when her elderly neighbor, voiced by (*) Jeff Bridges, starts up his airplane. This film concludes with the unnamed protagonist hearing that the Aviator reunited on Asteroid B612 with the title character. For 10 points, name this film based on a classic French children’s book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.ANSWER: The Little Prince?10. Through Project Homeward Bound, organizers of this event gave homeless people one-way bus tickets out of the city. During the build-up to this event, the cash-strapped CODA offered American Express the chance to become the city's official credit card in a blackmail move against Visa. Traffic disasters during this event prevented Georgian athlete David Khakhaleishvili from defending his judo title. Time called the mascot of this event, "A (*) sperm in sneakers". Techwood Park was demolished in order to make way for its Centennial Park. The lightning bolt eyebrows of this event's mascot, Whatizit, were removed prior to the opening ceremonies. A Turkish cameraman had a heart attack after one of Eric Rudolph's pipe bombs went off during this event. Despite having an injured ankle, Magnificent Seven member Kerri Strug still performed the vault during the gymnastics events at this event. For 10 points, name these Olympics held in Georgia.ANSWER: 1996 Summer Olympics [or Atlanta Summer Olympics]?11. A 2016 New York Daily News headline claimed that this man's "filthy bedbug and rodent-infested condo is making his neighbors … miserable". He appeared on a Daily Show segment with John Hodgman where his face was superimposed on that of the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. With Gary Govino, he hosted The Wild Room. A recording of this man saying that "everyone has a story to tell" is Diane's ringtone on the fifth episode of BoJack Horseman. In an interview with People, (*) David Sedaris credits this man with making him popular. For the pilot of a Showtime series, he and Jane Feltes investigated a couple who wanted to clone their bull Chance. An episode of a show he hosts titled "The Giant Pool of Money" was spun-off to become Planet Money. This man's best known show is produced by WBEZ and spawned a medium-defining podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig titled Serial. For 10 points, name this radio host of This American Life.ANSWER: Ira Glass?12. After gossip columnist Louella Parsons broke the news that this actress was pregnant, Edwin C. Johnson denounced her as a "free-love cultist" on the Senate floor. In one role, she played a Polish noblewoman named Elena Sokorowska who helps men figure out their destinies. This star of Jean Renoir's Elena and Her Men was a German chemist's wife who is blackmailed about her affair by Renate Mannhardt's character in Fear. She had an affair with the director of her films (*) Stromboli and Voyage to Italy, Roberto Rossellini. One of her characters eventually concludes that a wheel in a Salvador Dali-designed dream sequence was actually a revolver belonging to Dr. Murchison. Another of her characters laments, "With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love" and asks Sam to "Play 'As Time Goes By'". For 10 points, name this actress who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious and Spellbound and who played Ilsa Lund in Casablanca.ANSWER: Ingrid Bergman?13. After one character in this film relates that "Bayard" may be able to secure Harry Belafonte, the room erupts in a spontaneous singing of "Day O". In the opening scene of this film, the protagonist struggles to properly tie an ascot. The closing credits of this film relate what happened to people such as Viola Liuzzo. Martin Sheen has a small role as Judge Frank Minis Johnson in this film, while (*) Tim Roth has a larger role as a governor. Text from FBI reports are periodically placed over establishing shots in this film. Because the creators of this film did not have the rights to the central figure's speeches, this film concludes with a slightly altered version of "How Long, Not Long". A central scene in this film takes place on the Edward Pettis bridge on Bloody Sunday. Tom Wilkinson plays a reluctant Lyndon Johnson in this film. For 10 points, name this 2014 biopic where David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King, Jr.ANSWER: Selma?14. This artist once tweeted New York Times reporter Lynn Hirschberg's personal phone number because she was pissed off at her. She used WhatsApp to co-write a song with Zayn Malik that has the lyric, "Send me your money and I'll send you my song". On that same album, this artist of "Freedun" declared, "We climb over the fence / We don’t want to cause an offense / Then we get a Benz, flatscreen TV" on "Foreign Friend". Her mixtape, (*) Vicki Leekx, was one of the earliest "surprise" releases. This artist was dropped from London's Afropunk Fest after asking, "Is Beyoncé … going to say Muslim Lives Matter?" and was sued for $16.6 million by the NFL following a guest spot in the 2012 Super Bowl. She bragged, "If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name" on her breakout track, whose gunshots were censored by MTV. For 10 points, name this rapper behind "Paper Planes", whose family is from Sri Lanka.ANSWER: M.I.A. [or Maya Arulpragasam; or Mathangi Arulpragasam]?15. The first person to successfully perform this action died eight years later at Niagara Falls. Mille Gade Corson celebrated herself as the first mother to achieve this feat. The society governing this action requires you to receive food by pole but does allow one to grease up beforehand. The first woman to perform this action had previously failed in front of a team of reporters watching from La Morinie. It was first achieved in 1875 by a shipmaster named Matthew Webb in a little under (*) 22 hours. Members of the CSA performing this action often start at Shakespeare's Cliff. The first woman to accomplish this feat did so in 1926 and was named Gertrude Ederle; Ederle's American crawl earned her the nickname The Queen of the Waves. For 10 points, name this feat where a person, using only their own power, travels between France and England.ANSWER: swimming across the English Channel?16. One character in this film replaced a relative who caused Moose Lake to explode. John Denver's "Annie's Song" plays while an underground shopping mall is being destroyed in a memorable scene from this film. A minor character in this movie is beaten up for violating the notion that "translation is sacred" when it's revealed that he lied about the protagonist agreeing to an undercover mission in New York. A character in this film is reluctant to eat a (*) tomato since all food production has a negative impact on the planet. The company at the center of this film, the Mirando Corporation, stages a beauty pageant to cover up the horrors of factory farming and has a CEO played by Tilda Swinton. The first sequences in this film take place on a mountaintop in South Korea where Mija is raising the title creature. For 10 points, name this Netflix film directed by Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho about a superpig.ANSWER: Okja?17. One song titled for this city describes "ladies, pleasant and demure / Sallow-cheeked and sure / I can see your undies" and describes it as a "ditch of iniquity and tears". In another song shitting on this city, the singer declares, "If I was smart I'd run fast / Out of this town / Sometimes I want to shout and scream / Fuck [this city]". That song, "The City with Two Faces", appeared on the self-titled album by (*) Goldfinger. The opening notes from the "Star-Spangled Banner" start a song about a woman from here. Neil Young described how in this city "The mountains erupt / And the valley is sucked / Into cracks in the earth". In this city "is where I drew some blood" by the singer of "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. For 10 points, name this city that Neil Young also described as the "Uptight city in the smog", and which 2Pac described living and dying in.ANSWER: Los Angeles [or LA]?18. Bob Kushell was fired as showrunner for this series in the middle of the first season. One character on this show declares "I hate these [reality show style] interviews" before a cut to an earlier shot where he stated "I love these interviews! Great device." Ed Helms sings "Don't Stop Believin'" at an after-work party on an episode of this show where an audience member is hospitalized by a t-shirt canon. The star of the show-within-a-show on this series has a bitter rivalry with Reese Witherspoon, who beat her out for the lead in Walk the Line. In its pilot, a character tells Becky's parents he doesn't get a lot of dates with an online profile that reads, "passionate bear looking for love". The characters on this show sometimes party at (*) Rowlf's Tavern. In one episode, Scooter has a crush on Chelsea Handler. For 10 points, name this 2015 ABC show starring characters who produce the show Up Late with Miss Piggy.ANSWER: The Muppets [do NOT accept "The Muppet Show"]?19. Note: this question is not looking for a type of business. So don't give an answer like "laundromat". One business with this theme was founded in 1959 by a minor league baseball player and boosted its profits in the 2000s by being an early adopter of the Rotary Air Impingement Oven. At a business with this theme, Sanford Waterman supposedly pulled a gun on Frank Sinatra. At that same business with this theme, the Health Department prevented magnate Jay Sarno from nightly sacrificing a baby piglet into a pool filled with piranhas. That same Vegas hotel with this theme featured (*) "goddess" waitresses who would proclaim "I am your slave" to guests. A pizza chain with this theme, once common in K-Marts, was founded by one-time Red Wings and Tigers owner Mike Ilitch. The pizza chain with this theme had a slogan of "Pizza! Pizza!" For 10 points, name this theme exemplified by the Caesar's Palace casino.ANSWER: ancient Rome [or Roman Empire theme; accept Caesar them before mentioned; prompt on Classical theme]?20. The first game in this series was planned to team up the cyborgs Gelzer and Dewey and emerged from Tokuro Fujiwara's attempts to follow-up the Famicom RPG Sweet Home. A game in this series originally planned for the N64 added "partner zapping" where the player can quickly switch to and from Billy Coen. The first boss encountered in this series is a large snake known as Yawn; in that same game, you can die if you don't replace a mantelpiece (*) shotgun in the ceiling room with a broken one. A return-to-form entry in this series was introduced to the public as KITCHEN, a VR demo at E3 in 2016, and features enemies called Molded, made from bacteria colonies. The first game in this series takes place in a mansion owned by the Baker family. Most games in this series have something to do with the Umbrella Corporation and the T-Virus. For 10 points, name this Capcom zombie series.ANSWER: Resident Evil [or Biohazard]?21. The critic Rick Moody wrote admiringly about an episode of one program of this type that chronicles Bruce Pitcher, a high school football coach who was abused by his father. Two contestants on a Second Chances entry in a series about this subject were hospitalized in its first episode. Internet access and cash rewards were two of the "temptations" in a season of a popular reality show on this subject hosted by Bob Harper, who has taken over from Alison Sweeney. It's not a singing program, but (*) Ruben Studdard gave a performance of "Meant to Be" on the season finale of one program in this genre. One of these shows is hosted by Chris Powell, who describes himself as a "transformation specialist" and spends about a year with each subject. Another made a star out of Jillian Michaels. For 10 points, name these types of reality shows, exemplified by The Biggest Loser.ANSWER: weight-loss programs?Bonuses?1. Adolfo Cambiaso, a star in this sport, won a 2016 event by going through six different clones of his former champion, Cuartetera. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this sport, whose tolerance of cloning has been a boon for Alan Meeker's company Crestview Genetics.ANSWER: polo[10] Cambiaso hails from this Latin American country, a polo powerhouse since the days of gauchos roaming its pampas.ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic][10] This other equestrian sport is sort of like polo, except that the ball is replaced with a goat carcass. John Rambo calls this sport "Sheep Ball" while playing it in Afghanistan in Rambo III.ANSWER: buzkashi [or bozkashi; or tūdabarāy; or qarajāy]?2. The title character of this film lies to a waiter pretending that she got the time wrong for a meet-up with the Instagram star she's stalking. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this debut film by Matt Spicer which centers on the title character's obsession with social media star Taylor Sloane, played by Elizabeth Olsen.ANSWER: Ingrid Goes West[10] Ingrid Goes West stars this actress, whose breakout role was as apathetic intern April Ludgate on Parks and Rec.ANSWER: Aubrey Plaza [or Aubrey Cristina Plaza][10] Plaza's unbelievably lenient landlord in Ingrid Goes West, played by Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr., has an obsession with this character. NPR contributor Glen Weldon wrote a book about this character and the rise of nerd culture.ANSWER: Batman [or Bruce Wayne]?3. One tweet from a member of this group states, "Put the chicken wings down n come to jihad bro". For 10 points each:[10] Identify this terrorist group whose other tweets include, "The Syrian guy next 2 me is so stoked for our op he almost shot his foot off. Come on bro--safety 1st". It also apparently puts out a glossy magazine called Dabiq.ANSWER: ISIS [or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; or ISIL; or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; or IS; or Daesh][10] In 2015, ISIS members started promoting a hashtag bragging that this agreement "is over". ISIS members bulldozed part of the border between Syria and Iraq to reinforce the message that this 1916 agreement, emerging from a finger wave done at 10 Downing Street, was finished.ANSWER: Sykes-Picot Agreement [or Asia Minor Agreement][10] The ISIS-affiliated Al Hayat Media was run by Abu Talha al-Almani, who before joining ISIS was living in Germany and working in this profession and was born Denis Cuspert.ANSWER: rapper [or MC; or emcee; prompt on musician; prompt on or recording artist]?4. Members of the title group on this show drive blue Priuses and hope to live on pure light. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this show, which is about a cult devoted to Hugh Dancy's character Cal Roberts.ANSWER: The Path[10] The Path is being broadcast on this streaming service, which also picked up The Mindy Project after it was cancelled by FOX. This joint-venture between Disney, FOX, Comcast and Time Warner's bread and butter is streaming network TV shows.ANSWER: Hulu Plus[10] This actor stars as Eddie Lane on The Path. In a Conan interview, this actor said that "Gatorade me bitch" is one of his favorite ways his best-known character has ever used the phrase "bitch" in a sentence.ANSWER: Aaron Paul [or Aaron Paul Sturtevant]?5. Identify the following about the music industry's attempt to kill the single in the 1990s, for 10 points each.[10] This band's album Ten ended up selling more than rival grunge act Nirvana's Nevermind because its label didn't commercially release singles "Alive" and "Even Flow" in the US market. This band's vocalist is Eddie Vedder.ANSWER: Pearl Jam[10] Some labels would only release singles on vinyl records of this diameter intended for DJs and including extended dance mixes, so that the songs were eligible for the Billboard Hot 100 chart but inconvenient for home use.ANSWER: 12-inch [or 30 cm; or one foot I guess][10] This song was the most-played in America for 16 weeks, but was not a #1 hit because it was never released as a non-promotional single. The third verse from this track on Tragic Kingdom has a lyric about "You and me / I can see us dying".ANSWER: "Don't Speak"?6. Circa 2002, players of Mike Bentley's Golden Sun fan-game War of the Adepts spent a lot of time comparing it to this more commercially successful rival game. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this MMO by Jagex whose original atrocious graphics can still be seen in all of their Java applet glory in the still-available "Old School" version of the game.ANSWER: Runescape[10] PvP in Runescape was once restricted to zones of this name. An 1864 Civil War battle of this name saw fighting along the Orange Turnpike.ANSWER: The Wilderness[10] This even more successful game than Runescape shares some of its elements of being able to transform raw materials into more useful stuff, such as blocks. Notch, the creator of this game, made a lot of money when Microsoft purchased the rights to it in 2014.ANSWER: Minecraft?7. Barry Sandrew's American Film Technologies developed a way to perform this process based on his earlier career in medical imaging. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this controversial practice applied to films such as The Bells of Saint Mary's. At one point, Ted Turner was applying this process to dozens of films per year.ANSWER: film colorization[10] On his deathbed, this director allegedly yelled, "Keep Ted Turner and his crayons away from my movies!" Those movies included Citizen Kane.ANSWER: Orson Welles[10] An early feature length film to be stencil colored via the Pathechrome process was a 1926 Italian adaptation of this novel. The novel itself was based on a Karl Briullov painting and concludes with a blind flower girl named Nydia drowning herself.ANSWER: The Last Days of Pompeii?8. Guitarist Nile Rodgers served as the bandleader for a recent concert by this group at Madison Square Garden with opening act Earth, Wind & Fire. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this band, who had a hit with a song that evokes "the days of 'Stompin' at the Savoy'". Other popular tracks by this group include "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)".ANSWER: Chic[10] Chic’s “Le Freak” was one of the most popular songs in this genre. In an action fraught with racial undertones, mostly white fans smashed records in this genre at a Demolition Night in Chicago in 1979.ANSWER: disco [10] Chic were the headliners of the 2014 iteration of this event, also the destination of the women in Girls Trip. It’s named for a magazine.ANSWER: Essence Festival?9. This restaurant staged a First-Time Diner's Lunch where it gave free meals to kids and their parents to try to drum up some good publicity following a savage review by Pete Wells. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this fancy New York restaurant operated by Thomas Keller.ANSWER: Per Se[10] As part of the lunch, chocolate bars were distributed that randomly contained one of these objects, redeemable for a dinner at Per Se. Collecting one of these objects from a Wonka Bar allows Charlie to visit Wonka's factory in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.ANSWER: golden ticket[10] Keller apparently taught Adam Sandler how to make "the world's greatest sandwich" for Sandler's role in this film. The Times gives Sandler's restaurant a four star review in this film, which centers on Flor and her bilingual daughter Cristina.ANSWER: Spanglish?10. Anthony Lane described the odd tone of this movie as being as if "the Michael Fassbender character from Shame had been teleported into a romantic comedy". For 10 points each:[10] Identify this 2012 Stuart Blumberg film where characters like Mike, played by Tim Robbins, confer with dudes like Mark Ruffalo about sex addiction.ANSWER: Thanks for Sharing[10] This actress's character Dede helps Neil burn his porn collection in Thanks For Sharing. She hit peak pop-star status with her Missundaztood album which spawned smashes such as "Get the Party Started".ANSWER: Pink [or Alecia Beth Moore][10] Pink's film debut came in this film, whose opening scene reminded Roger Ebert "of Zhang Yimou's choreography for the 2008 Olympics." Ebert also wondered how the title creatures in this animated sequel centering on Mumble and Erik "found out about Puccini".ANSWER: Happy Feet Two?11. Suki Lopez recently joined the cast of this show, playing a character who works at a bike shop. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this long-running show, which in 2015 moved to airing new episodes first on HBO. The new season has reduced the length of each episode from 60 minutes to half-an-hour.ANSWER: Sesame Street[10] The new Sesame Street episodes have trimmed most of the cast, although this favorite has remained. As of 2006, this character's favorite food has become a "sometimes snack".ANSWER: Cookie Monster[10] Another regular on the new episodes of Sesame Street is this character, whose first appearance in 2006 centered on her quest to fix her broken wand. She's fluent in a language called Dragonfly.ANSWER: Abby Cadabby [or Abby Cadabby]?12. Identify the following about some athletes who have suffered from the Yips, for 10 points each.[10] One alternate name for the Yips is Steve Blass Disease, a reference to a pitcher and announcer for this team who developed the Yips in 1972. The slogan "We Are Family" was the rallying cry of this team's 1979 World Series win.ANSWER: Pittsburgh Pirates [or Pittsburgh Pirates][10] Chuck Knoblauch's case of the Yips once caused him to misfire a throw from second to first so badly that it ended up in the stands, where it hit this man's mother. This former host of MSNBC's Countdown also hosted an ESPN show where he identified the "World's Worst".ANSWER: Keith Olbermann [or Keith Theodore Olbermann][10] The protagonist of this Chad Harbach novel may suffer from The Yips. This novel centers on Henry Skrimshander who plays baseball at the Melville-obsessed Westish College.ANSWER: The Art of Fielding?13. In one role, this actor's character of Kenny Wells travels to Indonesia in an effort to save the mining business he inherited from his father. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this star of Gold. In a better movie, he played Dallas, who owns a business called Xquisite.ANSWER: Matthew McConaughey [or Matthew David McConaughey][10] Gold was not McConaughey's first gold-related film. He also starred in Fool's Gold alongside this actor, who played a character improbably named Bigg Bunny Deenz. After his comedy specials took off, this actor had a starring role alongside Ice Cube in the Ride Along franchise.ANSWER: Kevin Hart [or Kevin Darnell Hart][10] McConaughey is also a prospector in this 2005 film based on a Clive Cussler novel. This film centers on some treasure aboard the CSS Texas ironclad.ANSWER: Sahara?14. Identify the following about some second-generation musicians making names for themselves, for 10 points each.[10] James Jagger plays Kip Stevens, the frontman for the band Nasty Bits on this cancelled HBO series. The first episode of this show was directed by Martin Scorsese, who apparently wasn't familiar with Ray Romano before casting Romano as Richie Finestra's father.ANSWER: Vinyl[10] Joey Armstrong plays in a pop-punk band, much like his father Billie Joe, who is the frontman for this group. This band's high point was probably American Idiot. ANSWER: Green Day[10] Aimee, an artist from this musical family, has found YouTube success with a cover of LCD Soundsystem's "I Can Change" and "Raining Gold", released under the name ARO.ANSWER: the Osbournes?15. Rose Cooper, one of the protagonists of this film, has her last name become an eponym after she tasers a guy due to being unfamiliar with the phrase "shotgun". For 10 points each:[10] Identify this awful 2015 film, ostensibly a comedy. Cooper is tasked with bringing Sofia Vergara's Daniella, the wife of a cartel informant, to Dallas in this movie. It also shares its title with a Need for Speed game.ANSWER: Hot Pursuit[10] This actress starred as Rose Cooper in Hot Pursuit but was a lot funnier as the star of the Legally Blonde movies.ANSWER: Reese Witherspoon [or Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon][10] A joke in Hot Pursuit that was amusing once, but pretty boring after it was repeated for the third time, was news reports progressively giving a more unrealistic value for this trait of Reese Witherspoon's character.ANSWER: her height?16. Let's remember some of the top songs of 2015, for 10 points each.[10] So this Fetty Wap song is about the title person's expertise in cooking crack or something? At one point in the video, that title character of this song removes a pie from the oven, in a literal interpretation of a line from the chorus.ANSWER: "Trap Queen"[10] This surprisingly stripped down song by Little Big Town describes how the singer "hates to admit it" that she has the title infatuation. The singer of this song "wants everything she has".ANSWER: "Girl Crush"[10] “Shock Me” by Baroness was inspired by the group having survived one of these disasters. Metallica’s bassist Cliff Burton was killed in one of these incidents in 1986.ANSWER: their tour bus crashed [or car crash]?17. In a book where this character "saves the day", she discovers a profitable honey tree. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this immigrant to the Minnesota territory. Her holiday collection included a Saint Lucia gown. She was released alongside Samantha Parkington and Molly McIntire.ANSWER: Kirsten Larson [or Kirsten Larson][10] Kirsten Larson was one of the three original dolls created for this series of toys. A later addition to this collection, Addy, is a slave girl who was once forced to eat a worm by the foreman.ANSWER: American Girl dolls[10] Another American Girl character, Kit Kittredge, got a PC game where you win prizes to customize one of these things. The QA group at Nintendo of America has this name, derived from Donkey Kong’s residence.ANSWER: treehouse?18. Identify the following about Argonaut Games, for 10 points each.[10] The company was Nintendo's go-to studio for early 3D games, including the first two entries in this series. The second game in this space shooter series starring a certain Mr. McCloud was officially released for the first time on the SNES Mini.ANSWER: Star Fox[10] The Argonaut game Croc was originally slated to star this Nintendo character. In one lame N64 appearance, he hides on the roof and gives your character 100 lives.ANSWER: Yoshi[10] Some GameCube editions of an Argonaut game titled for one of these characters included a copy of Pac-Man Vs. The player battles Emperor O-Dor in the Argonaut game titled for these characters, and another starred in a 1991 Tecmo sequel subtitled The Ancient Ship of Doom.ANSWER: ninja [or I-Ninja]?19. The protagonist of this show spits out a macaron offered to her in a bathroom sink during an event where similarly dressed people do a lot of chanting of the words "push" and "breathe". For 10 points each:[10] Identify this series, which also features a character getting an eye gouged out for being defiant in a classroom. Yvonne Strahovski's character gets a backstory in its episode "A Woman's Place". ANSWER: The Handmaid's Tale[10] This actress, who played Peggy on Mad Men, stars as Offred on The Handmaid's Tale.ANSWER: Elisabeth Moss [or Elisabeth Singleton Moss][10] This on-the-nose song plays at the end of the second episode, when Offred learns that Ofglen has been replaced with another woman of that name. It also plays at the end of the tearjerker Futurama episode "Luck of the Fryrish".ANSWER: "Don't You (Forget About Me)"?20. This man refused to kiss Shirley Jones in the film April Love because he was married, and he downright refused to star in a film alongside Marilyn Monroe. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this musician known for ballads such as "Love Letters in the Sand" and "Friendly Persuasion".ANSWER: Pat Boone [or Charles Eugene Boone][10] Boone's clean-cut image was challenged in the 1980s when this magazine claimed it had a picture of a young Boone sticking his penis through a glory hole. It's not Penthouse, but Larry Flynt founded this magazine as a newsletter for the strip club he owned.ANSWER: Hustler[10] Boone's long interest in basketball includes owning an ABA team in this city, originally nicknamed the Americans. A baseball team came to this city under owner Charlie Finley, who liked to use gimmicks like orange baseballs.ANSWER: Oakland, California [do NOT accept "San Francisco"]?21. This actor switches between three different phones and some 40 different personas in his one-man Broadway show, Fully Committed. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this one-time judge on So You Think You Can Dance. His signature role has him in a relationship with Cam, played by Eric Stonestreet.ANSWER: Jesse Tyler Ferguson[10] Ferguson plays Mitch Pritchett on this ABC comedy, which has won approximately six quintillion Emmys.ANSWER: Modern Family[10] Ferguson's other stage work includes originating the role of Leaf Coneybear in this Tony-winning show. Al Sharpton was chosen for the audience participation part of this musical at the 2005 Tony Awards, and its songs include "My Friend, the Dictionary".ANSWER: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ................
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