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 The main character in this game will catch fire due to Smolderin’ Stu, but not by his “Strollin” counterpart. A four star hotel in this game is attacked by the Phantamanta along with the surrounding areas along Sirena Beach. A mini course in this game whose portal is near a boathouse sees the title character navigate a Pachinko Machine to collect (*) red coins. On certain levels, one can utilize the Rocket Nozzle to reach high places and the Turbo Nozzle to run on water. This game sees a plumber framed for a crime by Bowser Jr., leading to him using FLUDD to clean an island. For 10 points, name this Gamecube game which sees Mario, Peach, and five Toads take a vacation to Isle Delfino. ANSWER: Super Mario Sunshine A scene in this film sees the main couple assist the Molombo people while in the Peace Corps, bringing western culture like Superware products and basketball. In this movie, the top is taken off of the WZAZ Chicago building, a station whose name is derived in part from the initials of the writers’ last names. When an elderly lady in this film is offered whiskey, she scoffs and does a (*) bump of cocaine instead. A Lorna Patterson played character knocks an IV out of a sick girl while playing guitar in this film. The phrase “I just wanna tell you good luck, and we’re all counting on you” is uttered three times by Dr. Rumack in this film. Earlier, a child identifies the co-pilot Roger Murdoch as being the same person as Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. For 10 points, name this parody of the disaster genre starring Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen. ANSWER: Airplane!Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell had this event happen to him in the middle of the game, but finished regardless. This incident befell Lee Trevino in the 1975 Western Open. All 11 members of a Congolese football team were killed in one of these events that left the entire home team unscathed. Moments after Lee Corso predicted that the Hokies would not make the national championship in 1999, his car was destroyed in this manner. The University of Florida canceled their 2014 season opener against Idaho after one play because of this event, costing them $975,000, and LSU cancelled a 2015 game after a four hour delay due to this. 17% of these events affecting Americans happen during (*) outdoor sporting events, and many states require delays or cancellations of games during times when this event would be most likely. For 10 points, name this event that happens when plasma comes from the sky, and is heard as thunder. ANSWER: Lightning, being struck by lightning, anything involving lightning <Brad>In 2004, this show’s longtime host proposed a revival which Ryan Seacrest later developed into the dance competition series So You Think You Can Dance. This program’s original host, Bob Horn, was fired after a drunk-driving arrest when it was being locally broadcast in Philadelphia. Sia’s video for “Cheap Thrills” was inspired by this television program while the series American Dreams revolves around the production and broadcasting of this program. The Beatles’ “She Loves You” received a rather mediocre score on this program’s long running segment “Rate (*) -a-Record” in 1963. Its host was known as “America’s Oldest Teenager” and this program’s content was largely teenagers in studios dancing to Top 40 hits. For 10 points, name this long running music performance show that aired nationally from 1957 to 1989, hosted by Dick Clark. ANSWER: American BandstandThis woman appeared in commercials for Clingfree and Well Guards as a child. Later, this celebrity was the spokesperson for the plus-sized perfume Enorme and for the Japanese drink Whizz. This actress lent her voice to various female characters in the video game Gorgasm: The Legend of Dong Slayer, a role for which she was not compensated. This woman has been a judge on (*) America’s Kidz Got Singing and gained weight after having to eat 32 slices of pizza per week in a Broadway adaptation of Mystic Pizza, leading to the “Me Want Food” sketch, which Frank Rossitano wrote for a show on which she has played Paris Hilton, Laura Bush, and "Pam, the Overly-Confident Morbidly Obese Woman”. For 10 points, name this TGS star played by Jane Krakowski on 30 Rock. ANSWER: Jenna Maroney [Accept either] One character in this film threatens a musician receiving a shoe-shine before chastising her grandson for entering the town square. The dog Dante leads the main character of this film to Oscar and Felipe; that protagonist runs away to a talent show after being informed by his aunt that that he would be put to work making shoes. One character in this movie steals a headless photo of his great-great-grandfather from an (*) ofrenda, cursing him, and later steals a guitar from the grave of Ernesto de la Cruz. In Mexico, this is currently the highest grossing movie of all time and, because it took from 2011 to 2017, had the longest production schedule of any Pixar film ever. For 10 points, name this winner of the Best Animated Picture Oscar, centering around the Dia de los Muertos.ANSWER: Coco <Brad>An obscure NFL rule allows that, if a fair catch is called with zero seconds left on the clock, this play can immediately follow. In Arena Football, rebound nets are used for these plays. Antonio Cromartie and Devin Hester are two of the four NFL players to ever score a touchdown on one of these plays and after R.C. Owens broke up one of these plays, the NFL made goaltending illegal. Tom (*) Dempsey’s record for one of these plays stood for 43 years, though it is often tied in Denver. Appalachian State thwarted a game-winning one of these plays in 2007 against Michigan. After Alabama botched an attempt at one of these plays, Auburn returned the ball 109 yards in the 2013 Iron Bowl. Historic players specializing in this play include Mike Vanderjagt and Rob Bironas, and modern players include Stephen Gostkowski and Matt Prater. For 10 points, name this play that often results in three points.Answer: Field Goal <Brad>This album’s cover was inspired by the cover of the Howard Hanger Trio’s album A Child is Born. A track on this album closes with a trumpet outro by the artist’s father, Olu Dara, meant to be evocative of the main artist’s childhood. The main rapper on this album claims to rap for Bluntheads, Fly Ladies, and Hennessy-Holders on a track subtitled “Sittin’ in da Park”. One song on this album includes the lines “To my man (*) Ill Will/God bless your life,” referencing the artist’s collaborator and friend Will Graham who was shot in 1992. This album’s opening track claims that “my rhyming is a vitamin, hell without a capsule” after stating “I never sleep, ‘cause sleep is the cousin of death”. For 10 points, name this 1994 debut album of Queens rapper Nas.ANSWER: IllmaticAfter Kenny eats dead manatee spleen for money, this member of the Council of Nine calls Kenny a “prostitute” on television. This man is angered when his namesake show loses a ratings battle to Huntin’ and Killin,’ hosted by Ned and Jimbo. In “Red Sleigh Down,” Stan, Kyle, and Cartman contact this man for assistance to break Santa out from an (*) Iraqi torture den. In the episode “Fantastic Easter Special,” this figure kills Bill Donahue with a five sided sword similar to one from the film Krull. In The Stick of Truth, Father Maxi says you can find this man in the church, behind the podium. For 10 points, name this member of the Super Best Friends who performed the parlor trick of turning water into wine and is claimed by some to be the son of G-d. ANSWER: Jesus [or Accept his true name, Isa ibn Maryam] This actor plays John Plummer who, along with a Tom Green played landscaper, resorts to crime to pay for his niece’s tuition in the film Stealing Harvard. An early gig for this actor was in Spike Jonze’s video for Sonic Youth’s “100%” where Jonze and this actor skateboarded in an urban area. This man named his son with Beth Miesgradf “Pilot Inspektor” after a song by the band Grandaddy. This actor won an Independent Spirit Award for portraying a character who created the comic Bluntman and Chronic along with the Ben Affleck played Holden (*) McNeil in Chasing Amy. This man voiced Syndrome, the primary villain of The Incredibles, and later played Dave in the Alvin & the Chipmunks franchise. For 10 points, name this actor and former Scientologist who played the title character in My Name is Earl. ANSWER: Jason LeeAfter retiring, this athlete co-launched a $100 million dollar venture capital firm with Jeff Stibel, focusing on technology and data. The only man to play 20 seasons with the same team, this player was named to 18 consecutive All-Star games. This guard was the NBA’s leading scorer in (*) 2006 and 2007 while playing with Luke Walton, Kwame Brown, and Andrew Bynum. This player dropped 60 points on the Jazz in his final game, ending his career playing alongside D'Angelo Russell and Nick Young. For 10 points, name this NBA star who won three consecutive championships playing alongside Shaquille O’Neal. Answer: Kobe Bryant (Accept either) <Brad>A representative in this organization named Lux unknowingly ordered the massacre of the Ming Po people while colluding with the Death Watch terrorist syndicate. This organization orchestrated the kidnapping of Chairman Papanoida’s daughters Che Amanwe and Chi Eekway to coerce Pantora into siding with this organization. Members of this organization include a Skakoan foreman who heads the Techno Union and Archduke Poggle the Lesser. One leader of this organization fails to convince the governor of Eriadu, Wilhuff Tarkin, to defect during dinner. The last leaders of this organization, Wat Tambor and (*) Nute Gunray, are murdered by Palpatine’s new apprentice, Darth Vader, on Mustafar. For 10 points, name this belligerent organization formed by Count Dooku which employs the likes of Droidekas and Droids as combatants, who have seceded from the Galactic Republic. ANSWER: Confederation of Independent Systems [Accept Trade Federation or Separatists]A song by this group tells of a freshman who is afraid to admit he likes Duran Duran and how he has “got a red leather tie and a pair of rugger pants.” That same song by this group has the main figure try his best to “not look like a minor niner” and eventually he is called names like “buckwheat” and “Eddie.” A song by this band for the Chicken Little soundtrack opens by saying “it was a recipe for disaster/four course meal of no siree.” That single, “One (*) Little Slip,” was released the same year on an album by this band often abbreviated BLAM. This band’s major label debut was the album Gordon while the album Stunt included the single “It's All Been Done.” For 10 points, name this Canadian band who scored a number one hit with “One Week,” and composed The Big Bang Theory theme song. ANSWER: Barenaked LadiesA short lived series on this channel saw Steve Coogan play a depressed middle aged man married to the Kathryn Hahn played Lee and its first episode was titled “Starring Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus and Dr. Alois Alzheimer." A 2017 series on this channel was written and directed by its star, Frankie Shaw, who plays a single parent whose mother, Tutu, is played by Rosie O’Donnell. A character on this network, (*) Sheila Jackson, is a dildo-obsessed agoraphobe played by Joan Cusack. In another show on this channel, set in the fictional suburb of Agrestic, a woman finds out that her boyfriend is a DEA agent. That show on this channel is centered on Nancy Botwin, who sells the title commodity to stay afloat after her husband dies. For 10 points, name this premium television network of Shameless and Weeds. ANSWER: ShowtimeA funeral oration given in this realm sees the king repeat the lines “Father, into thy hands I commend her spirit,” likely due to words he had previously heard in church. In this realm, a false love letter addressed to Willard Hughes is crafted by two denizens to torment a bully named Janice. This realm’s queen claims that evil spirits cause excessive rain, so the two monarchs go to this location’s Sacred Grove to pray for deliverance. A member of realm’s royal house is named (*) P.T; that prince was a dog given to a girl as a Christmas gift. This realm’s King and Queen are two fifth graders from Lark Creek, Virginia; Queen Leslie died on her way there after falling into a flooded creek while the King was in Washington, DC. For 10 points, name this fictional kingdom which Jesse Aarons builds a literal “Bridge to” at the end of Katherine Paterson novel.ANSWER: Terabithia [accept any answer with Terabithia in it] This song used the compressed electronic vocalizations from Afrika Bambaataa’s seminal track “Planet Rock” in its second and third verse. The intro to this song is a speech given by attorney Thomas Todd about Vietnam War deserters, lifting a catchphrase from a Tareyton cigarettes commercial. This song states that “Elvis was a hero to most/but he never meant shit to me” and later says “fuck him and John Wayne”. This track was first used in a film during a scene where Buggin' Out, Radio (*) Raheem, and Smiley enter a pizza place to demand Sal put black celebrities on his “Wall of Fame”. That film was Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”. This song’s music video is set at the “Young People's March to End Racial Violence” and sees young black youth where shirts with this song’s title on it. For 10 points, name this hip-hop anthem from Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy. ANSWER: “Fight the Power” A parody of a Ring Pop commercial features this actress, who later is given a red one by a man best known for playing Toofer Spurlock in one show. In one film, this actress plays a character who used to date Sex Bob-omb frontman Stephen Stills. Another film sees this actress play a Boise teen named Brandy who resolves to get laid by the end of the summer in The (*) To-Do List, and she later voiced Grumpy Cat in a TV movie. This actress plays an intern who initially dated the openly gay Ben but later marries Andy Dwyer. For 10 points, name this actress who plays April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation.ANSWER: Aubrey Plaza This team was the subject of the documentary An Impossible Job, which focused on Graham Taylor’s firing by this nation after failing to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. This nation’s soccer team was on the losing end of the “Hand of God” play, and this nation went winless in the 2014 World Cup, upset by Costa Rica and Uruguay despite being heralded as group favorite. This nation won the only World Cup it hosted in 1966. This nation’s most capped player ever was keeper (*) Peter Shilton, and Gordon Banks is considered to be this nation’s best keeper ever. For 10 points, name this national team that recently lost Wayne Rooney, based out of London.Answer: England <Brad>A game show based on this game was hosted by Justin Willman and debuted on the Hub in 2011. In official tournament play for this game, an asterisk denotes an illegal play while an exclamation point indicates an offensive play. This game’s creator said that Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold Bug” influenced the tile distribution. Originally called (*) Lexiko, this game has a Super version which adds 216 squares and twice the letters. The “Triple-Letter” square is often dark blue while the “triple word” is red and is on the sides of the board. For 10 points, name this Hasbro game where a player must form words with seven tiles. ANSWER: Scrabble <Games> This character is said to only spend .1% percent of his time critically thinking and has an alter ego called Blind Guy McSqueezy to feel up women. After quitting a job as a telemarketer, this character mimics John Bender’s pose at the end of The Breakfast Club. This man spanks his Evan Peters played nephew in front of his co-workers, and makes home a film named (*) Threat Level Midnight. This man was preceded in his highest position by Ed Truck, who died after being decapitated in a car crash, while he was succeeded by the DeAngelo Vickers, played by Will Ferrell. This character has two children with Holly Flax after they move to Colorado at the end of Season 7. For 10 points, name this branch manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton throughout most of The Office. ANSWER: Michael Scott [Accept either] Miranda Cosgrove’s album of this name containts songs like “Kissin’ U,” and succeeded her first EP, About You Now. For 10 points each: [10] The name is shared by this fifth single off Taylor Swift’s album, Speak Now. That singer, Taylor Swift, wrote a song with this name that claims to see the title phenomenon when her love interest smiles. ANSWER: Sparks Fly [10] Now that we’re talking about Taylor’s best album, let’s see if you know this non-single on Speak Now that was supposedly written about Camilla Belle after she stole Joe Jonas from her. Taylor claims Camilla is “better known for things she does on a mattress” in this song. ANSWER: “Better than Revenge” [10] In this better known song, Taylor claims she “was a flight risk, with a fear of falling." This first song on Speak Now claims the love interest “Made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter." ANSWER: “Mine” My Life as a Teenage Robot was an underrated gem. For 10 points each: [10] It centered on this gynoid created by Dr. Nora Wakeman. She is accompanied by Brad and Tuck Carbunkle in most episodes, and the nerd Sheldon is in love with her. ANSWER: Jenny [if they say XJ-9, the moderator must get up and high five them] [10] Rob Renzetti developed My Life as a Teenage Robot with this studio founded by Fred Seibert. This studio also produced Chalkzone and Fairly Oddparents. ANSWER: Frederator Studios[10] The first two seasons of My Life as a Teenage Robot were broadcast on this network of the aforementioned Fairly Oddparents and Rugrats.ANSWER: NickelodeonName some awful football coaches for 10 points each:[10] This coach went an abysmal 5-15 with the Raiders in 2007-2008, but is better known for jumping ship from Tennessee after one year to become a failed coach with the USC Trojans. He’s found redemption at FAU… for now.ANSWER: Lane Kiffin[10] After going 11-2 in his first year at Michigan, this coach went 20-18 in the three years following. After missing a bowl game in 2014 he was canned for Jim Harbaugh. This man also served as the interim head coach when Butch Jones was fired at Tennessee in 2017.ANSWER: Brady Hoke[10] In 18 years with his current team, this coach hasn’t had a player go on to win a Heisman, or even coached a BCS game, and is the third highest paid coach in the NFL. That said, he’s won his division 14 of the last 15 years and coached a remarkable comeback after being down 28-3 in the 2017 Super Bowl.ANSWER: Bill Belichick <Brad>After you win this tournament, you’re going to Disney World, right? Talk us through your trip to the parks, for 10 points each:[10] You’ll stay in this A-Frame resort designed in part by Welton Becket. This hotel was where Richard Nixon gave his “I am not a Crook” speech. ANSWER: Disney’s Contemporary Resort[10] The Contemporary Resort is connected to Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, and other resorts via this system of transit in Walt Disney World. Even Homer Simpson could tell you that its name means “One Rail”ANSWER: Walt Disney World Monorail System[10] To kill time and get out of the sun, you may go on this other transit within Magic Kingdom. This transport takes passengers on a tour of Tomorrowland rides like Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin and Stitch's Great Escape!. ANSWER: Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover [Accept either or WEDWay PeopleMover] Twenty European merchants travel to China in this film to find the secret of gunpowder and bring it back to the west. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 2016 monster film by Zhang Yimou where that party of mercenaries are taken prisoner by the Nameless Order near the namesake structure. ANSWER: The Great Wall[10] The Great Wall stars this American actor as William Garin. Other recent roles include Gardner Lodge in Suburbicon and Mark Watney in The Martian, while his older work included Sergeant Colin Sullivan in The Departed and Will in Good Will Hunting.ANSWER: Matt Damon[10] This Chilean-American actor played Pero Tovar in Great Wall, and he can be seen on TV as Oberyn in Game of Thrones and DEA Agent Pe?a in Narcos. ANSWER: Pedro PascalThe Carringtons and the Colbys are two oil-rich families from Denver, Colorado in a certain TV show that I’ll never watch, for 10 points each:[10] This Geno Auriemma program won four consecutive women’s basketball national championships until South Carolina won last year. Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart played for this school.ANSWER: University of Connecticut (accept UCONN)[10] This college basketball team won ten national championships in a 12 year period including a record 7 in a row, thanks to players like Bill Walton and then Lou Alcindor.ANSWER: UCLA (Or University of California, Los Angeles, but make sure to roll your eyes at them)[10] The University of Kentucky won three championships in 4 years with this coach, and they’ve named their arena after him. We appreciate his contributions to the idea of zone defense and try to forget that he wouldn’t recruit black people for most of his career, as seen in Glory Road.ANSWER: Adolph Rupp (If someone doesn’t get the lead-in gag, these are all notable basketball *dynasties*) <Brad>A strange article on Noisey claimed that Canadian songwriter and singer Grimes was “Better than you” at this game. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Action-RPG created by FromSoftware which includes a player character simply known as “The Hunter”. This game is set in the Gothic city of Yharnam, and the goal is procuring an item called the Paleblood. ANSWER: Bloodborne[10] FromSoftware also publish this series featuring the “humanity system,” which requires the player to collect “humanity” post-mortem to return to human form. Some people have upped the already notoriously high difficulty with self-imposed challenges like beating it with the Rock Band drum kit and the DDR Dance Mat. ANSWER: Dark Souls [10] Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki earlier worked on this franchise with FromSoftware which revolves around controlling a mech in the third person. The fourth game in this series is set in a dystopian future where the corporations have taken over world governments in a new order known as Pax Economica.ANSWER: Armored Core All good sports are already spoken for, so name things about cycling, for 10 points each.[10] The Tour De France has been won by this man four times in the last five years, making this Brit the most beloved racer among the seven people who have heard of him.ANSWER: Chris Froome[10] Of course, this monotesticular American raced for 7 consecutive titles but they were later stripped when everyone found he was American or something.ANSWER: Lance Armstrong[10] This article of clothing is given to the leader in each stage of the Tour de France, I assume to mark them for bounty. Fabian Cancellara has worn this item for 29 days without winning the Tour. ANSWER: Yellow Jersey <Brad>One writer for this film can only be seen at 16 minutes, 12 seconds in this film while peering up from a book. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1944 neo-noir film where Phyllis Dietrichson tries to trigger the title clause that pays out twice on a certain policy’s face value by killing her husband, Tom.ANSWER: Double Indemnity[10] This author co-wrote Double Indemnity with Billy Wilder and also created Philip Marlowe for his novel, The Big Sleep. ANSWER: Raymond Chandler[10] Barbara Stanwyck, who played Phyllis, was nominated for Best Actress for Double Indemnity, but lost out to this actress for her performance in Gaslight. This actress is better known for starring opposite of Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca as Ilsa Bund. ANSWER: Ingrid Bergman This band notably performed as “Grupo de Rock n’ Roll” at their first show as it was a Sandinista Rally. For 10 points each: [10] Name this alternative band made up of John Flansburgh and John Linnell who have had success with 1990’s Flood and the kid’s album Here Come the ABCs.ANSWER: They Might Be Giants[10] This song from Flood is from the perspective of a night light shaped like a canary. This songs sees that night light claim “I have a secret to tell/From my electrical well." ANSWER: “Birdhouse in Your Soul” [10] This other song from Flood describes how Universe Man is “Usually kind to smaller man” and how Person Man “was hit in the head with a frying pan." ANSWER: “Particle Man” Name some residents of Elwood City for 10 points each:[10] This titular Aardvark’s series is set in Elwood City. This brother of DW is a third grader in Mr. Ratburn’s class. ANSWER: Arthur Read[10] This girl in Arthur’s class is the daughter of Ed and is wealthy due to her dad’s car dealership. This girl is best friends with Francine and has the same birthday as Arthur. ANSWER: Muffy Crosswire[10] A skilled ventriloquist and carpenter, this dyslexic moose celebrates Christmas differently than the rest of the town because his mother is a Swede. ANSWER: George LundgrenName some things about Sega’s corporate structure for 10 points each. [10] As president of Mattel, this man green-lighted He Man and G.I. Joe as shows just to sell toys. He grew SEGA 2000%, created the Scream, and pioneered anti-Nintendo ads.ANSWER: Tom Kalinske[10] SEGA was forced to restructure after the commercial failure of this fifth and final home console. It was the first console with a built-in modem for online play, but it got swept by the Playstation 2.ANSWER: Dreamcast[10] SEGA stands for Service Games, installing slot machines for soldiers on military bases in this nation where it is now headquartered. Nintendo is also headquartered here. ANSWER: Japan <Brad>A fictional version of this country include the denizens Boltok, who is the “town rapist,” and a man whose sister is the number 4 prostitute in this country. For 10 points each:[10] Name this “Land of the Wanderers” which is the home nation of the reporter Borat, although the actual film scenes were shot in Glod, Romania. ANSWER: Kazakhstan [or Qazaqstan] [10] When Azamat is dressed up as this silent era actor, Borat mistakes that costume for Adolf Hitler. This British actor first appeared with his most famous partner for the first time in 1921’s The Lucky Dog and later The Music Box. ANSWER: Oliver Hardy[10] Pamela Anderson’s relationship with this musician ended after he called her “a whore” for appearing in Borat. This douchebag, who admittedly smells like “fresh farts and cigars,” has threatened to run as a Republican Senator from the state of Michigan. ANSWER: Kid Rock [Accept Robert Ritchie] “Get out!” if you can’t recite some memorable Seinfeld quotes, for 10 points each.[10] This two word greeting is used by Jerry and his mother when encountering a certain postman neighbor who is jealous of Jerry’s relative fame. ANSWER: “Hello, Newman” [10] Elaine is told this line after comparing a chef to Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. That chef also says this phrase after George complains about not receiving bread. ANSWER: “No soup for you” [10] Before the events of “The Contest,” George is caught masturbating by his mother, leading to her falling over and needing medical care. While in the hospital, Mrs. Costanza claims George treated his body like one of these places. ANSWER: An Amusement Park This studio was started when high schooler John Janick teamed up with Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Gainesville based record company that represents the likes of Nate Ruess, twenty ?ne pil?ts, and Dashboard Confessional. ANSWER: Fueled by Ramen[10] Fueled by Ramen represents this rock band fronted by Hayley Williams that has released tracks like “Ain't it Fun” and “That’s What You Get." ANSWER: Paramore[10] The first Fueled by Ramen release by this indie rock band was the album Back on Top, which had singles like “Cough it Out” and “HELP.” This group with members Brian Sella and Mathew Uychich released Going Grey in 2017 along with the tracks “Raining” and “Vacation Town.”ANSWER: The Front BottomsThe Florida Marlins 2003 season had many ups and downs, ending in an improbable World Series win. For 10 points each:[10] The Marlins signed a man with this last name, also known as “Pudge,” midway through the season. A Yankee with this name used performance enhancing drugs and was implicated in the Biogenesis scandal. ANSWER: Rodriguez [Accept Ivan Rodriguez or Alex Rodriguez] [10] The Marlin’s MVP of the 2003 World Series was this pitcher would go on to win another World Series with the 2007 Red Sox before retiring as a Dodger.ANSWER: Josh Beckett[10] Jeff Torborg was fired by the Marlins midway through the 2003 Marlins season, leading to the hire of this manager, 72 years old at the time. This man would write the autobiography I’m Just Getting Started and was twice named NL manager of the year. ANSWER: Jack McKeon The first scene of this film sees Osborne Cox quit his job as a CIA analyst after facing a demotion. For 10 points each:[10] Name this film starring John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton, who cheats on her husband with the George Clooney played Harry Pfarrer. Harry shoots Chad halfway through this Coen Brothers film after he surprises Harry by appearing in a closet. ANSWER: Burn After Reading[10] The Hardbodies employee Chad Feldheimer is played by this actor who later starred as Billy Beane in Moneyball and Gerry Lane in World War Z. ANSWER: Brad Pitt[10] Osborne Cox kills a Richard Jenkins-played character with a hatchet in Burn After Reading. Jenkins also played the deceased patriarch of this TV family which includes members Nate, Ruth, and David in Six Feet Under. ANSWER: The Fischer FamilyOne character claims that she rather have a whole Greyhound Bus spit in her mouth than have sex with one of this series’ protagonists. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 2018 series starring and written by Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo, which stars them as two millenials who lead a platonic friendship that is often mistaken by observers as a romantic relationship. ANSWER: Alone Together[10] Alone Together was produced by this comedy trio whose most famous member is Andy Samberg. This trio has written and performed songs like “I Just Had Sex” and “Jack Sparrow”.ANSWER: Lonely Island[10] Esther Povitsky was a guest star in 2016 on this series where Samberg plays Jake Peralta, a goofy cop of the namesake precinct. ANSWER: Brooklyn Nine-NineA bunch of foreign celebrities have been banned from the US for a variety of reasons. Name some of them for 10 points each.[10] This soccer player was banned from the US in 1993 for cocaine-related arrests and barred from entering in 2013 when trying to go to Disney with his grandson. This Argentine is known for his “Hand of God” goal and for his time coaching Argentina’s National team. ANSWER: Diego Maradona[10] This singer was banned from the US in 2007 after assaulting a cameraman. This British singer is known for her albums Alright, Still and It’s Not Me, It’s You. ANSWER: Lily Allen [10] This singer was banned from the US between 2004 and 2006 due to mix-up causing him to be on a “no-fly list." This Muslim convert said that “there’s a million things to be” in his song “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out”.ANSWER: Yusuf Islam [or Cat Stevens] Name some out-of-game tragedies that occurred in soccer stadiums for 10 points each:[10] One hundred and fifty of this dictator’s opponents were killed in a massacre wherein soldiers from Equatorial Guinea were dressed as Santa Claus. The Mary Hopkins song "Those Were the Days" played over the speakers during that massacre ordered by this man. ANSWER: Francisco Macías Nguema[10] The worst sporting accident in this nation was the Ellis Park disaster, in which forty-three spectators were killed by the crowd rushing into the stadium to watch the Soweto derby between the Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates.ANSWER: South Africa[10] During a 1989 FA cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, a tunnel this stadium in Sheffield, England killed 96 fans, crushed by the sheer mass of people pushing through.ANSWER: Hillsborough Stadium ................
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