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CULT Nationals 2010

Round 20 (Finals 2)

 

Tossups:

 

1) He had a small role as Goldilocks in Robert Townsend's super hero send-up, The Meteor Man.  Later, this actor played a music teacher named Sylvester whose Florida hometown is decimated by a white mob in John Singleton's film, Rosewood.  After a "tire shop on wheels" business he co-owns with Sean Penn's Sam Bicke fails to get a small business loan, (*) Bicke attempts to kill the president in The Assassination of Richard Nixon.  He plays Luke Graham, the only survivor of a violent dust storm that wipes out the rest of his crew in the beginning of Mission to Mars.  Also the presenter of the 2006 “Make Your Own Superbowl Ad” commercials, he worked to prevent Bruce and Andi from ending up in a foster home in Hotel for Dogs.  He captured a Best Actor nomination for playing Paul Rusesabagina in a 2004 Terry George film about genocide.  For 10 points, name this star of Hotel Rwanda.

ANSWER: Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle

 

2) A rap-rock band with this name was formed by Brooks Buford and Danny Boone, the latter of whom would host Trailer Fabulous on MTV; that group also recorded Southern Discomfort.  "Evil Woman" concludes an album of this name, which ended up being Kevin DuBrow's final Quiet Riot album before dying of a cocaine overdose.  A song with this name was performed as a dis after "Cry Me a River" during a 2007 summer tour by Justin (*) Timberlake, and was the first song on the Grammy-winning album Back to Black.  That most famous song with this title has "the man" asking the singer "Why do you think you here?" before the singer proclaims "I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby".  The biggest hit of a one-time wife of Blake Fielder-Civil, for 10 points, name this place where the singer "won't go, go, go" in the title of an Amy Winehouse song.

ANSWER: "Rehab"

 

3) He'd return to baseball as a First Base Coach in the same year his team hired back an announcer who used to urge this owner of a fried chicken restaurant to hit a homer to "spread some chicken on the Hill", Bob Prince.  His 13 year streak of hitting over 20 homers a year ended in a season where he was injured breaking up a fight between Mike Schmidt (*) and Bruce Kison.  This player hit six of the only 27 total homers ever launched over the 86-foot high wall in his home stadium, and awarded gold stars to his teammates for excellent play.  Until Reggie Jackson surpassed him, his 1,936 career strike outs put him first in that statistic.  One of his most memorable home runs came off of Scott McGregor in the 1979 World Series, a year in which he tied Keith Hernandez in the NL MVP vote.  Becoming one of his team’s leaders after the death of Roberto Clemente, for 10 points, name this Pirates great.

ANSWER: Wilver Dornel "Willie" Stargell (or Willie “Pops” Stargell)

 

4) One person with this surname moves to New York where he meets Broadway dancer Daisy Garner, and he earlier established the Chronicle.  A man with this surname and the given name Rome was the ancestor of a youth who wrote the song, "Will You Be Mine".  Characters with this surname take in a runaway named Jenny Pendleton, (*) and one person with this last name temporarily disappeared because of actress Ellen Corby's stroke.  Ike Godsey, owner of a General Merchandise Store, married into this family, which includes children Elizabeth and Mary Ellen.  Also the surname of Zeb, Esther and other residents on a namesake Jefferson County mountain, GEICO parodied their lengthy bed-time ritual.  For 10 points, name this surname of John and Olivia, who appear on a namesake TV show set during the Depression.

ANSWER: Walton (or The Waltons)

 

5) Mary Ann and Wolfgang Sell wrote a book titled [This Toy's] Memories, and one predecessor to this portable device was developed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  The modern form of this device arose from a chance meeting of Harold Graves and William Gruber.  It wasn’t marketed to kids until the rights to make it were purchased from Sawyer’s, and the first "Talking" version of this toy added a clear record (*) to the back of its necessary accessories.  The Mole uses one of these to spy on Terrance and Phillip in the South Park movie, and Fisher-Price now makes a projector for this toy, which is operated by inserting wheels composed of seven sets of double images.  For 10 points, identify this usually red toy that allows users to see stereoscopic 3-D images.

ANSWER: View-Master

 

6) This artist's namesake band lost Daisy Berkowitz after the release of an album that originally contained unlicensed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory samples and the two-part track, "Abuse".  After his group got a chance to open for Nine Inch Nails, that group released a debut record containing "Lunchbox", (*) Portrait of an American Family.  A woman reaching climax yells "Fuck Frankie" on a track from one of his most successful albums, Smells Like Children.  One of his band’s biggest hits states, “the cops and queers make good looking models”, and his namesake group used to be called “[Him] and the Spooky Kids”.  Known for doing things like tearing up a Book of Mormon on stage in Salt Lake City, he found success with a 1995 cover of The Eurythmic's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".  For 10 points, name this artist behind "The Dope Show".

ANSWER: Marilyn Manson (or Brian Warner)

 

7) Two answers required.  Prior to the only Super Bowl meeting between these two teams, a player for one stated "I feel, honestly, this was the Super Bowl" because of a 38-28 victory over Dallas in the NFC Championship.  Before the Super Bowl meeting between them, one side's safeties Stanley Richard and Darren Carrington (*) bragged about who would have the better game.  The winner in the Super Bowl between them had signed ends Rickey Jackson and Richard Dent in the off-season, while the loser in that Super Bowl got their first points on a run by Natrone Means.  The second touchdown in the Super Bowl between them saw Junior Seau bite on a fake to William Floyd, allowing Ricky Waters to score.  That meeting earned Deion Sanders’ first Super Bowl ring.  For 10 points, name these two teams that met in Super Bowl XXIX [29], led by quarterbacks Stan Humphries and Steve Young. 

ANSWER: San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers (accept either team or city for each; also accept Super Bowl XXIX before mentioned)

 

8) Nathan, one of the hero’s children in this film, proclaims “I hate turnips!” in an early scene where a plate is broken while the protagonist stares at an apple tree.  A recurring motif in this film sees the lead gazing up at the North Star in remembrance of his wife, Elizabeth.  That hero of this film now has his children in the care of Aunt Charlotte, (*) played by Joely Richardson.  A pivotal scene in this film takes place at the Pembroke Village Church, a scene in which Adam Baldwin's character "finds no honor in".  In this Roland Emmerich film, the title character's son Gabriel is sentenced to be hanged by Tavington; that son was played by Heath Ledger.  Spike Jonze criticized the character of Occam in this movie for "whitewashing" slavery.  Loosely based on the story of Francis Marion, for 10 points, name this film set during the Revolutionary War starring Mel Gibson.

ANSWER: The Patriot

 

9) Atari's only title to use this technology was a game adaptation of the Clint Eastwood film, Firefox, while another game saw Buck attempting to collect the bounties on Doug and Gas.  One game utilizing this technology was adapted from Lupin III and involves the protagonist’s attempt to rescue Clarissa from Count Draco; that game was called (*) Cliff Hanger.  Another game made for this technology sees the evil Commander Borf using an Infanto Ray and is called Space Ace.  The most popular arcade game utilizing this technology featured Don Bluth animation and had players hitting the joystick or sword button at the precise moment to save Dirk the Daring from harm.  For 10 points, name this game media used in the original Dragon's Lair arcade game, a predecessor to DVDs.

ANSWER: Laserdisc

 

10) As a youth, this character is given the female doll in a set of toys by a girl he makes a miniature volcano with, Annie.  Although he gives Carlos Castaneda's Separate Reality to an imprisoned character, that character goes on to shoot him during a jailbreak.  Along with Bakir, he spies on the funeral of Nadia (*), and an X-Ray reveals he was suffering from a deadly tumor in his lower spine.  At the end of the series he is told he has been a “Great #2”.  He also murdered his father Roger with poison gas and sacrificed his daughter Alex to mercenaries sent by Charles Widmore.  His false alias of Henry Gale is exposed by Sayid while he’s imprisoned in the Hatch.  For 10 points, name this one-time leader of the Others and chief antagonist on the early seasons of Lost.

ANSWER: Benjamin Linus (or Henry Gale; accept either underlined answer for either part)

 

11) This group's live shows featured drummer Randy Seol lighting his hands on fire to play the bongos.  The band Oliver released a more popular cover of “Good Morning Starshine” than this band at roughly the same time, and for a spell both George Bunnell and Gary Levetro played bass for them.  This group's second album, Wake Up... It's Tomorrow, produced minor hits like "Barefoot (*) in Baltimore" and "Sit with the Guru", while their guitarist Ed King would later join Lynyrd Skynyrd.  This group's biggest hit, sung by non-band member Greg Munford, initially was released as a B-Side to "The Birdman of Alkatrash" and contains the lyrics "Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind" and "Who cares what games we choose?"  For 10 points, name this psychedelic '60s band best known for "Incense and Peppermints".

ANSWER: Strawberry Alarm Clock

 

12) Late in his career, this NHL player spent time with the minor league Aces, Clippers and Hornets before closing out his career with the expansion St. Louis Blues in 1969.  He later joined the Canadiens as a scout before dying of cirrhosis. His unusual offensive prowess contributed to six Stanley Cups, including (*) five consecutive, and his 540 points were most at his position at his retirement. In twelve consecutive seasons, starting in 1952, he was named to the All-Star team, ranking second at his position behind only Ray Bourque. In 1961, he won his seventh Norris Trophy in eight years while with the New York Rangers, where he was a player-coach. For 10 points, name this Hall of Fame defenseman, who, in 1985, had his number two retired by the Montreal Canadiens.

ANSWER: Doug Harvey

 

13) Rockne “Black Samson” Tarkington allegedly backed out of this film because of an unfilmed white slavery subplot.  The protagonist of this film dishes out wisdom like "a good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously".  The star of this film abandoned Game of Death (*) to appear in it and it was originally titled Blood and Steel.  O'Hara is killed early on in this film after he attacks the protagonist with a glass bottle.  Supporting characters in this film include Braithwaite, who informs the protagonist of the extra-judicial nature of the island where most of it is set.  Co-starring Jim Kelly as Williams, its director, Robert Clouse, drew inspiration from Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai in its concluding Hall of Mirrors scene where the chief antagonist, Han, is killed following a martial arts tournament he organized.  For 10 points, name this last film in which Bruce Lee completed his role.

ANSWER: Enter the Dragon (or The Deadly Three; accept Blood and Steel before mentioned)

 

14) This country hosts the world's two largest timed cycling events, including the 94.7 Cycle Challenge, while it also hosts the long-running Comrades Ultramarathon.  A musician from here released a series of solo albums dubbed “Plain Music” and was the partial namesake of a group where bandmate Paul Jones sang on the reasonably successful songs, "Pretty Flamingo" (*) and "Come Tomorrow".  Another musician from this country was once in Tribe of Heaven with Mark Roebuck but is better known for the solo album, Some Devil, and, with his most famous band, 1998's Before These Crowded Streets.  The birthplace of Manfred Manns, a feature film set here was adapted from a short film by director Neill Blomkamp and saw the MNU policing the Prawns.  For 10 points, name this setting of District 9, also the birth country of Dave Matthews.

ANSWER: South Africa

 

15) One series on this network was developed in response to the popularity of an infomercial called “Chopper Show” starring Josh Towbin.  Before E! gained the rights, this network aired re-runs of Late Night with David Letterman in the early '90s, and it also produced and aired the mini-series Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years. (*)  More recently, it has aired a reality show about women like "Punky Bruiser" and "Lux", Rollergirls, and it garnered some of its highest ratings when it aired the made-for-TV film, Flight 93.  Booting and towing cars is the subject of its Parking Wars show, and it is the TV home of Duane Chapman.  For 10 points, name this cable network where you can find Gene Simmons Family Jewels and Dog the Bounty Hunter.

ANSWER: A&E (or Arts & Entertainment)

 

16) This school was able to recruit local high school stars like Skip Dillard and Teddy Grubbs after it signed a phenom out of Westinghouse High School.   Their best post-season run saw them take down Penn in the 3rd Place Game, while they lost to LSU in the 1987 semi-finals thanks to poor play from center Dallas (*) Comegys.  The alma mater of Bucks All-Star Terry Cummings, they've failed to make the tournament since 2004 despite the efforts of coaches Jerry Wainwright and Tracy Webster.  One of their greatest players would go on to play with the American Gears, located in the same city as this school.  They’re not Michigan State, but in 1979 they lost to a Larry Bird-led Indiana in Mark Aguirre’s first year.  The alma mater of George Mikan, they were coached for many years by Ray Meyer.  For 10 points, name this Big East school located in Chicago and nicknamed the Blue Devils.

ANSWER: DePaul University (prompt on “Blue Devils” before mentioned)

 

17) He proclaimed "I don't feel like I'm a gangsta so you claim I'm a sellout / when we meet on the street, then we'll see who bail out" on "It's All Good".  He debuted “This is the Way We Roll” on a live album backed by a real band, while in another song he declared, “I don’t like ‘em stiggity fat / I like ‘em stiggity stacked”; that song appeared on his album, (*) The Funky Headhunter.  His first album contained the single, “Turn this Mutha Out”.  His biggest hit, which samples "Super Freak", sees him state, "It feels good, when you know you're down / A super dope homeboy from the Oak town".  “Pray” and “Have You Seen Her” appeared on this rapper’s best selling album, while he also recorded the song “Pumps and a Bump” and the record Too Legit to Quit.  Pleaded to Don’t Hurt ‘Em on one album title, for 10 points, name this parachute pants-wearing rapper behind “U Can’t Touch This”.

ANSWER: MC Hammertime (or Stanley Kirk Burrell) 

 

18) This phrase is repeated with increasing speed at the end of the song "No Head" by Atom and His Package, while it's also used in the chorus of a Joe Piscco rap that notes "every rappin' cat I know" consumes the product associated with it.  The two components of this phrase engage in a softball game where Rodney Dangerfield gives up a 15 run lead in the 9th inning, while the "old coochy coochy play" is used to win an All Star Super Bowl Game between two teams whose name makes up this phrase.  This slogan is repeated at increased volume (*) as two women begin to fight in the infamous "Catfight Commercial", and it was the original slogan for a company that now hawks the "Tailgate Tested, Tailgate Approved" products.  For 10 points, name this Miller Lite slogan that advertises how the product is healthier without losing its flavor.

ANSWER: Great Taste Less Filling (or Tastes Great Less Filling)

 

19) Her second husband directed her performance in the plays The Sleeping Prince and The Skin of Our Teeth, which she performed with the Old Vic Company.  Later, she'd earn a Tony Award for her first American musical, Tovarich.  In the years following her biggest film hit, she played Myra Lester, who meets Robert Taylor's Roy Cronin during an air-raid in London in the 1940 (*) version of Waterloo Bridge.  Although she'd make The Masque of Virtue and Fire Over England with Alexander Korda in England, she'd go over to MGM for a role as Elsa Craddock in A Yank at Oxford.  In her most famous role, she requests "don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar" after exclaiming "great balls of fire", and gets upset when Brent and Stuart Tarleton continually talk about war.  For 10 points, name this one-time spouse of Laurence Olivier who played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.

ANSWER: Vivien Leigh, Lady Oliver (or Vivian Mary Hartley)

 

20) On one short-lived series, this actress was a writer alongside Kate Griffin and Jack and Charlie Davis on the Candid Camera-esque program, Here's Looking at You.  In addition to playing Alex Burton on Going Places, one of her first major roles saw her raised on the amateur racing circuit before marrying Steven (*) and making enemies of Fallon and Alexis.  Another early TV role saw her playing the partner of Officer Jim Corrigan on a show whose title character was paired with Adrian Zmed's Vince Romano.  She was a recurring "special guest star" in a role that saw her playing the boss of Alison Parker at D&D Advertising, and she also played Officer Stacy Sheridan on T. J. Hooker.  The actress who played Sammy Jo Carrington on Dynasty, for 10 points, name this actress who was Caitlin on Spin City and Amanda Woodward on the original Melrose Place.

ANSWER: Heather Deen Locklear

 

21) One of the chief characters in this film describes the best thing about pain is that "it lets you know when you're not dead", while Salem complains that perfume is "interfering with the scent of my fine three-dollar-and-seventy-nine-cent cigar."  James Caviezel plays a hard-ass named Slov (*) in this film, and one sub-plot involves the potential base closings if Senator Lillian DeHaven refuses to withdraw her support from the title character.  The climax of this film involves a mission to extract plutonium from a downed satellite in Libya.  Viggo Mortensen co-stars as Master Chief John Urgayle, a character who puts the hero through "Hell Week", and it contained a famous head shaving scene.  For 10 points, name this film starring Demi Moore as a Navy SEAL.

ANSWER: G. I. Jane

 

Bonuses:

 

1) Carly McKillip plays a woman of this first name on a Canadian series titled, [This Character], I Think.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this first name of Ann B. Davis’ maid character on The Brady Bunch.

ANSWER: Alice

[10] This restaurant was the principle setting for the show, Alice.  Its namesake proprietor, played by Vic Tayback, was known for always wearing a white naval hat.

ANSWER: Mel's Diner

[10] Philip McKeon, who was Tommy Hyatt on Alice, is the sibling of Nancy McKeon, who played the motorcycle-riding Jo on this '80s sitcom.  In later seasons, Cloris Leachman played Beverly Ann Stickle.

ANSWER: The Facts of Life

 

2) The title character of this film is met after he recognizes his brother driving a 1949 Buick Roadmaster.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this Oscar-winning film about Raymond Babbitt, an autistic-savant brother of Tom Cruise's character.

ANSWER: Rain Man

[10] Charlie and Raymond sing a duet of this Beatles’ song in one scene from Rain Man.  The first track on Please Please Me, the singer’s “heart went boom / when I crossed that room” in this song.

ANSWER: “I Saw Her Standing There”

[10] Rain Man got off the ground when Roger Birnbaum gave it the greenlight.  Birnbaum would later go on to co-found this movie and TV studio with Gary Barber whose logo depicts a man peering through an instrument in front of some water.

ANSWER: Spyglass Entertainment

 

3) Their debut album, Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They're Vanished, was originally called Avey Tare and Panda Bear.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this Baltimore-based indie group with a zoological-themed name, who earned Pitchfork's Top Album of the Year Award for 2009 with their album, Merriweather Post Pavilion.

ANSWER: Animal Collective

[10] The actual Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland was the site where this band recorded the video for "Many Too Many".  Drummer Phil Collins took over on vocals for this group after Peter Gabriel left, and they’re known for “Mama” and “No Son of Mine”.

ANSWER: Genesis

[10] Meanwhile, this excellent track from Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion album has the singer stating "I just want four walls and adobe slabs" for the titular people.

ANSWER: "My Girls" (or "House")

 

4) In 2006, the backup punter for this school, Mitch Cozad, attempted to murder starter Rafael Mendoza supposedly to gain the starting job.  For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Big Sky school, a cross-state rival of the Rams and Buffaloes.

ANSWER: University of Northern Colorado (prompt on "UNC")

[10] This school left the Big Sky conference in 1979.  Their basketball team has produced players like Austin Day, Adam Morrison and John Stockton and they play in the yearly Battle in Seattle. 

ANSWER: Gonzaga University Bulldogs (accept either underlined answer)

[10] One of the best players to come out of Northern Colorado was this wide receiver, who now plays for the Chargers.  He stupidly kicked a challenge flag thrown by Rex Ryan in a playoff loss to the Jets in 2010.

ANSWER: Vincent Jackson

 

5) Content not good enough to make it on this show airs on Street Patrol, another series developed by its co-creator, John Langley.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this long-running FOX program that's spawned the DVDs Caught in the Act, Bad Girls and Shots Fired.

ANSWER: COPS

[10] One of the many shows to parody COPS was this other FOX show of the early '90s, which put police officers in historical periods like the Salem Witch Trials.  Janeane Garofalo appeared on it, as did Andy Dick, who got his own semi-spin off.

ANSWER: The Ben Stiller Show

[10] Another sketch comedy show to parody COPS was Mr. Show, which starred Bob Odenkirk and this comedian, whose later roles included a character married to Lindsay and father of Maeby on a critically acclaimed sitcom.

ANSWER: David Cross

 

6) The inspiration for a song about one of these items of clothing came from writer Paul Vance watching his two year old daughter.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this general type of clothing, worn by a woman “afraid to come out of the locker” “for the first time today” in a 1960 novelty song.

ANSWER: Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Bikini

[10] “Itsy Bitsy” was made popular by Brian Hyland, who also recorded this song, alternatively titled “Four Little Heels”.  Those four little heels make the titular noise in this song.

ANSWER: “(The Clickity Clack Song) Four Little Heels”

[10] Ten years later, Brian Hyland would reach the charts again with a cover of a song by The Impressions about this type of woman.  Jimi Hendrix released a live album in 1970 named for a group of these people which included the track, "Machine Gun".

ANSWER: Gypsy (or Band of Gypsies)

 

7) He now owns the Sharks in his home country, and his injury against the Lakers in the 2009 playoffs led his team to sign Trevor Ariza with a disabled player exception.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this seven foot six star center for the Rockets.

ANSWER: Yao Ming

[10] Now playing Yao’s Shanghai Sharks, in college he hit a game-winning shot that helped Oklahoma State advance to the Final Four over St. Joseph's in 2004.  His father of the same was involved in the cocaine scandal that plagued the Rockets in the mid '80s.

ANSWER: John Lucas III

 [10] Although he claimed "I'm good enough to be on an NBA team", this player has decided to play for Shanxi to promote his shoe line.  In 2008 his coach, Mike D'Antoni, chose to start Chris Duhon over him in training camp.

ANSWER: Stephon Xavier Marbury

 

8) Her most popular series is set in Santa Teresa, California and centers on female detective Kinsey Millhone.  For 10 points each:

[10] Name this author of a series of books beginning with "A" Is For Alibi.

ANSWER: Sue Taylor Grafton

[10] As of the writing of this question, Grafton is up to this letter in her alphabet series.  Products that have heksher certification usually have this letter circled on their packaging.

ANSWER: U

[10] Grafton allegedly wrote a story called “The Lying Game” for the 40th anniversary of this company’s mail-order catalog.  Known for their “Guaranteed. Period” policy, they take their name from a region in southwestern Cornwall, England.

ANSWER: Lands' End

 

9) Sites here include the Floating Mountains and the Neon Forest.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this location, whose most prominent natural feature is destroyed on orders from Miles Quaritch.

ANSWER: Pandora

[10] Pandora is the setting for this film centering on Jake Sully.

ANSWER: Avatar

[10] This actor did his best Jeremy Pivin impersonation as Parker Selfridge, the unobtanium-obsessed business commander of the company at the center of Avatar.  He also played Alvin Karpis in Public Enemies.

ANSWER: (Antonino) Giovanni Ribisi

 

10) One unique feature of this device is the "LendMe" sharing option.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this eReader, which contains a second, smaller color screen under its main display. 

ANSWER: Nook

[10] The Nook is an eReader produced by this retailer, which also runs a sizable chain of college bookstores and is a rival of Borders.

ANSWER: Barnes & Noble, Inc.

[10] This technology columnist for the New York Times noted that "every one of the Nook's vaunted distinctions comes fraught with buzz kill footnotes".  He's written numerous Mac OS X entries in the Missing Manual series as well as the book, The World According to Twitter.

ANSWER: David Pogue

 

11) In one memorable line, the protagonist of this film proclaims "Mozart?  Mozart is dead, his problems are over.  Help Meeee".  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this 1986 film co-starring Shelley Long as Anna Crowley, whose protagonist also states "Here lies Walter Fielding.  He bought a house, and it killed him."

ANSWER: The Money Pit

[10] The Money Pit starred this man as the male lead.  You may also remember him as the manager in A League of Their Own and the voice of Woody in Toy Story.

ANSWER: Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks

[10] 1948's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House inspired both The Money Pit and this more recent comedy as well.  John C. McGinley’s Chuck Mitchell interferes with Nick’s attempts to move to the suburbs in this film, starring Ice Cube.

ANSWER: Are We Done Yet?

 

12) She apparently “ralphed” in Paris Hilton’s closet after singing backup vocals on a song from Hilton's debut album, Paris.  For 10 points each:

[10] Name this artist behind the hit, “TiK ToK”.

ANSWER: Ke$ha Rose Sebert (accept either underlined answer)

[10] This group contributed to Ke$ha's track "Blah Blah Blah".  Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte of this group did a unique hand sign a lot on the 2009 Warped Tour, and Katy Perry appeared on their track, "Starstrukk".

ANSWER: 30H!3 ["Three-oh-Three"] 

[10] This man served as a producer for some of Ke$ha’s songs from her 2010 Animal album.  In his best known song he admits, “And I know karma’s gonna get / me back for being so cold / Like a big bad wolf I’m born / To be bad to the bone”.

ANSWER: Taio Cruz (or Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere)

 

13) On a December 2009 episode of this show, its host traveled to Hartford, Connecticut to consume a 10-pound pizza.  For 10 points each:

[10] Name this show wherein host Adam Richman performs various eating stunts.

ANSWER: Man vs. Food

[10] Man vs. Food airs on this cable network, whose other food-related programming includes Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations.  Dhani Tackles the Globe is a show more directly tied to the network’s namesake theme.

ANSWER: The Travel Channel

[10] Host Andrew Zimmern travels around the world eating the titular weird stuff like Volba, haggis and fried grasshoppers on this other Travel Channel program.

ANSWER:  Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern

14) [NK] Identify the following about some golfers who did well at the 2009 US Open, for 10 points each.

[10] David Duval, who ended up tied for second at the 2009 US Open, is probably best known for winning this other tournament in 2001.  Ben Curtis won it two years later.

ANSWER: British Open (prompt on “The Open” or “The Open Championship”)

[10] Much of the final round at the 2009 US Open at Bethpage Black was between Ricky Barnes and this man, who won the tournament despite shooting three over par in the final round.

ANSWER: Lucas Hendley Glover

[10] This “lefty” finished tied for second with Barnes and Duval despite leading through 67 holes.  He also won this year’s Masters.

ANSWER: Philip Alfred "Phil" Mickelson

 

15) Identify the following about the career or Italian director and actor Vittorio Gassman, for 10 points each.

[10] In an American remake, Vittorio Gassman's character was replaced by a blind former army officer played by Al Pacino in this Martin Brest film co-starring Chris O'Donnell as his assistant.

ANSWER: Scent of a Woman (or Prufumo di donna)

[10] Gassman had a turn as Anatole in King Vidor’s 1956 adaptation of this classic novel.  Audrey Hepburn played the chief female lead in this film, while Henry Fonda was a very “Yankeefied” Pierre.

ANSWER: War and Peace

[10] Curiously, Gassman played a KAOS agent in the 1980 film The Nude Bomb, which sought to revive this television character.  A more recent revival saw him played by Steve Carell and betrayed by Agent 23, played by Dwayne Johnson.

ANSWER: Maxwell Smart (accept either underlined answer)

 

16) Identify the following about some people who have won a Grammy for Best New Artist, for 10 points each.

[10] Culture Club's 1984 win deprived Men Without Hits of a Grammy for this song.  It informs us that “if [your friends] don’t dance, well they’re no friends of mine.”

ANSWER: “The Safety Dance”

[10] Thanks to Ivan Ulz singing this woman’s song "Easy Money" over the phone to Lowell George, George included it on his album, Thanks I'll Eat It Here.  However, this artist’s Grammy came for her 1981 album, Pirates.

ANSWER: Rickie Lee Jones

[10] This group captured the award in 1977, mostly thanks to a song that asks, “Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night / When everything's a little clearer in the light of day”, “Afternoon Delight”. 

ANSWER: Starland Vocal Band

 

17) This level sees the protagonist, Joseph Allen, operating under the pseudonym of Alexei Borodin in an effort to gain the trust of Vladimir Makarov.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this controversial and skippable level in a popular FPS, set at the Zakhaev Airport and involving a lot of killing of civilians.

ANSWER: "No Russian"

[10] "No Russian" is a level in the single player campaign of this FPS, the best-selling game of 2009.

ANSWER: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (or Call of Duty 6; do not accept "Call of Duty 2" or just “Modern Warfare”)

[10] One of the new features in the Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer modes is the ability to call in a missile strike from one of these objects after achieving five kills.  It's not to be confused with a Harrier, which you can call in after 7 kills.

ANSWER: MQ-1 Predator Drone

 

18) One of his TV characters worked as a private eye in Chicago after being released from jail for shooting his partner.  For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this man who played Gabriel on Gabriel’s Fire and Papa Jenkins in Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins.

ANSWER: James Earl Jones

[10] Jones’ most lasting TV contribution might be providing the narration for this cable network’s slogan.  It’s where you can watch The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.

ANSWER: CNN (or Cable News Network)

[10] Jones also appeared on Paris, a short-lived 1979 drama that was the first show that this man produced.  He'd later create L. A. Law and NYPD Blue.

ANSWER: Steven Ronald Bochco

 

19) Answer some questions about unusual ways to hit a baseball, for 10 points each.

[10] Casey Stengel, the first manager of this team, had earlier taught some Yankees players how to do a backwards bunt like Jake Beckley had used to some effect in the 19th century.  Nolan Ryan began his career with this team.

ANSWER: New York Mets

[10] A hard surface near home plate allowed a team in this city to perform its namesake chop of intentionally hitting the ball into the ground in order to produce a hard bounce.  The current team in this city has Matt Wieters, Adam Jones and Miguel Tejada in the lineup.

ANSWER: Baltimore Orioles (accept either underlined answer)

[10] This player claimed to have invented the practice of swinging three bats at once in the On-Deck Circle after seeing a teammate swing two at practice.  He notably lost a hitting percentage contest to Nap Lajole, depriving him of a chance to win a car in one of his early seasons.

ANSWER: Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb

 

20) Answer some questions about these related comic book characters, for 10 points each.

[10] After falling in love with Janet Van Dyne, a friend of his former lover Lucy Barton, he attempted to destroy Van Dyne's boyfriend, Goliath.  He projects his namesake weapons from his wrists.

ANSWER: Living Laser (or Arthur Parks)

[10] The Living Eraser once tried to take this female superhero as his bride.  The alter-ego of Jennifer Walters, you may also be interested to know that she's Bruce Banner's cousin.

ANSWER: She-Hulk

[10] The Living Lightning was a one-time member of the West Coast branch of this team.  The self-described "Earth's Mightiest Heroes", they originally included Wasp and Ant-Man in their ranks and share their name with a British spy series.

ANSWER: The Avengers

 

21) Answer some questions about the exciting world of African hip-hop, for 10 points each.

[10] Kalamashaka, a group who hail from this country, found some cross-over success with their track, "Ni Wakati".  It won the most medals for an African country at the Beijing Olympics, in part thanks to Samuel Wanjiru's gold in the marathon.

ANSWER: Kenya

[10] One of Africa's best known rappers, this Francophone rapper moved from Senegal to Paris as a youth and released the highly praised album Prose Combat in 1994.  He also teamed up with Guru on "Le Bien, le Mal" from Jazzmatazz, Volume 1.

ANSWER: MC Solaar (or Claude M'Barali)

[10] Peter Shaprio described the style of South Africa's Prophets of Da City as "[sounding] alarmingly like Del Tha Funky Homosapien", a rapper who was once a member of this fictional band behind the popular tracks "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel Good Inc."

ANSWER: Gorillaz

 

 

 

 

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