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F.O.G.H.A.T. 2011: Observing a Moment of “Slowride”

Packet #8

Toss-ups written by Jeremy White and Ben Lea (TU 12)

Bonus written by University of Washington

Toss-ups

1. This person engineered Stage Fright, The Band’s third album, shortly after leaving The Nazz. This person has a noose around his neck while seated at a piano in the cover photo of an album featuring songs like “Wailing Wall” and “Long Flowing Robe.” England Dan and John Ford Coley’s hit “Love is the Answer” is a cover of a song this person wrote for the band Utopia. In 2006, this person joined Greg Hawkes and Elliott Easton to form The New Cars. One of this person’s best known solo songs describes someone who did not need toys and candy as a child, but instead “took a stick and an old coffee can.” For ten points, name this singer and songwriter of “Hello, It’s Me” and “Bang the Drum All Day.”

Answer: Todd Harry Rundgren

2. One of this series’ main characters was advised to “grab a spoon” in its pilot and once claimed a self-defense class was useless unless students attained a state of self awareness called “Unagi.” Another character on this series slept with “the wine guy” in its pilot and initially worked at a restaurant named Iridium. One of this series’ characters once made a beef trifle for Thanksgiving dinner and another character starred in a TV series called Mac and CHEESE. For ten points, name this sitcom in which the coffee shop Central Perk was a hangout for characters like Joey, Monica and Rachel who were played by Joey LeBlanc, Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston.

Answer: Friends

3. In 2011, this person sued the cafeteria in the Longworth House Office Building after finding an olive pit in a wrap. At the Cleveland Indians’ 1978 home opener, this person threw out the first pitch while wearing a bullet proof vest. In 2007, Glenn Beck said this person looked like Gollum and that his wife must be under the influence of a date rape drug. His daughter’s godmother is Shirley MacLaine, whose memoir Sage-ing While Age-ing reported that this person had once seen a UFO. For ten points, name this person who has twice been an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and is the current Congressman from Ohio’s tenth district.

Answer: Dennis John Kucinich

4. This person played a character in a 2010 film who advised that “reverse cowgirl is terrific for anyone with osteoporosis, gout or goiter.” This person played a young mother who fantasizes shoving her mother’s face into a cake at an anniversary party and visiting an African tribe in Up the Sandbox. In another film, this person played a literature professor whose lecture on chaste love leads to an initially loveless marriage with a character played by Jeff Bridges. In this person’s directorial debut, she sang “The Way He Makes Me Feel” and “Papa Can You Hear Me?” For ten points, name this director of The Mirror Has Two Faces and Yentl who both acted and sang the theme song in The Way We Were.

Answer: Barbra Streisand

5. A statue of this person teaching a child is on the grounds of Muirfield Village and this person is the only four-time winner of The Tradition. This person beat Tommy Jacobs and Gary Brewer in an eighteen-hole playoff to become the first ever back-to-back winner of The Masters. This person lost the “Duel in the Sun” to Tom Watson and won a playoff against Arnold Palmer to win his first major at the U.S. Open in 1962. For ten points, name this golf legend who won a record eighteen major championships and is nicknamed The Golden Bear.

Answer: Jack William Nicklaus

6. This is the name of the opening track on Morcheeba’s album Big Calm and it breaks, crushes and cleans everything according to the title track of Corrine Bailey Rae’s second album. Referencing a line in the song “Killing an Arab”, The Cure named a singles compilation “Staring at” this. Jealousy is turning saints into this according to the lyrics of The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside” and The Marvelettes reported finding too many fish in it. For ten points, Bobby Darin and a crab named Sebastian sang about going beyond and under what location?

Answer: The Sea

7. The thirteenth track of Sheryl Crow’s C’mon C’mon is named for this network. Dr. Greg Forbes is one of this network’s on-air personalities and its founder, Frank Batten, wrote a book about it subtitled “The Improbable Story of a Media Phenomenon.” “Life on the Bayou” and “Surviving Death Valley” are titles of recent episodes of this network’s program entitled Cantore Stories. In 2009, this network added a new morning show, Wake Up with Al starring Al Roker. For ten points, what cable network’s programming includes “Local on the 8s” and “Film and a Forecast.”

Answer: The Weather Channel

8. This band describes a “bad-hearted, boy-trap baby doll” in their song “You’re So Damn Hot” and they covered The Zombies’ “This Will Be Our Year” for a benefit album. This band’s most recent album includes a song that insists “everyone needs to sleep at night, everybody needs a crutch” and another single with a video in which a toy truck with a State Farm Insurance logo starts a Rube Goldberg machine. “White Knuckles” and “This Too Shall Pass” are recent singles from, for ten points, what Chicago-based band fronted by Damian Kulash who are seen in the video for “Here it Goes Again” performing a choreographed treadmill dance?

Answer: OK Go

9. This person played Dr. Jeremy Hanlon on the last season of Chicago Hope and from 1986 to 1989, this person played Julie, a teen adopted by Ross Chandler on All My Children. In a more recent TV role, this person played a character who blamed arms dealer Rene Benoit for her father’s death, had an unspecified terminal illness and had been Gibbs’ lover in Europe before replacing Thomas Morrow as the Director of NCIS. For ten points, name this actress who played a sheriff’s deputy on Picket Fences and, after playing the object of Lloyd Christmas’ desire in Dumb and Dumber, spent a brief time married to Jim Carrey.

Answer: Lauren Holly

10. This word describes the job of Ron Galella, the subject of a Leon Gast documentary shown at the 2010 Sundance Festival. A 2004 film with this word as its title was produced by Mel Gibson and featured Daniel Baldwin and Tom Sizemore as titular characters. People described by this word provide much of the footage shown on a TV program with on-air personalities like Nina Parker, Todd Frangella and Harvey Levin. This word is also the title of a song with the lyrics “We are the crowd, we’re coming out. Got my flash on, it’s true, need that picture of you.” For ten points, name this Fellini-inspired word that is the title of a Lady Gaga single and describes those who photograph celebrities.

Answer: The Papparazi Accept Paparazzo or Photographer before ”Mel Gibson”

11. This film uses footage from the 1967 film Poor Cow in a flashback sequence. This film’s climax involves a chase over a Big Sur beach during which a music producer breaks his ankle. Early in this film, the title character talks to acting school students played by Luis Guzman and Lesley Ann Warren hoping to learn about his daughter Jenny’s car accident. For ten points, Peter Fonda plays Terry Valentine in this Stephen Soderbergh film in which the titular armed robber is played by Terence Stamp.

Answer: The Limey

12. In 1946, this school’s head coach, after winning the Southern Conference men’s basketball tournament, started the collegiate tradition of cutting down the nets. The father of Pete Maravich succeeded the aforementioned Everett Case as head basketball coach at this school. A 76 to 64 win over Marquette earned a national championship for this school’s team that featured Monte Towe, Tom Burleson and David Thompson and was coached by Norm Sloane.  For ten points, Sidney Lowe recently resigned as head coach of what ACC university whose second men's basketball championship came during the tenure of Jim Valvano?

Answer: North Carolina State University Wolfpack

13. This word is the surname of the man, who along with Dan Fulp, designed the game Castle Crashers. In Diablo 2, shields can only be used as a weapon by characters described by this word. This word describes the role of the liontaur Rakeesh in Quest for Glory and is the nickname of James Taggart, as played by John Rhys-Davies, in Wing Commander 3. Both Uther the Lightbringer and LeeRoy Jenkins are examples of this World of Warcraft character class. For ten points, name this word that names the Dungeon and Dragons character class composed of crusading holy knights.

Answer: Paladin

14. This film’s direct-to-DVD sequel featured Jack Palance playing grouchy Old Man Richards and the title character biting a vice principal played by Michael O’Keefe. Roger Ebert’s three-star review of this film said it was redeemed by Rebecca Harrell’s performance as Jessie, who does chores for a woman played by Cloris Leachman to buy a bag of oats and writes a letter later printed in a newspaper with the headline, “Yes, Santa There is a Virginia.” For ten points, name this 1989 film in which Sam Elliott plays the father of a young girl who believes an injured reindeer is one of Santa’s.

Answer: Prancer

15. Identical twins Peter and Chris Ferraro were members of a national championship team at this college and Alfie Michaud was named tournament MVP for another championship team at this school. This university is the alma mater of 2006 Mr. Irrelevant, Kevin McMahan, and Kirk Ferentz’s first college head coaching job was at this school. A Jim Montgomery hat trick, with all three goals assisted by Paul Kariya, led this school’s hockey team to a win over Lake Superior State in the finals of the 1993 championship tournament. For ten points, Alfond Stadium and Alfond Arena in Orono are the site of the home football and hockey games of what Colonial Athletic and Hockey East school with teams nicknamed the Black Bears?

Answer: The University of Maine Black Bears

16. In a 1973 film, this person plays a prostitute named Iris who is dating a demolition derby enthusiast trying to refurbish a seaplane. After playing a Connecticut widow named Iris who helps an illiterate learn to read, this person took a fifteen year hiatus from acting. In 2010, this person’s “Prime Time” DVDs ended her fifteen-year hiatus from fitness videos. In recent films, this actress has played a grandmother of a teen played by Lindsay Lohan and a recently fired newscaster whose assistant is played by Wanda Sykes. For ten points, name this person who won Oscars for Klute and Coming Home, played the title characters in Barbarella and Cat Ballou and is the ex-wife of Ted Turner.

Answer: Jane Fonda

17. This band played on “All on Alone on Christmas”, Darlene Love’s track for the Home Alone 2 soundtrack. This band’s namesake location is also in the title of a song about Little Angel and Power 13. The drummer of the Jim Marino Band joined this band after “Boom” Carter and David Sancious left it. This band played on a top-ten Edwin Starr cover from the five-LP live album that presented highlights of their work backing the vocalist who described them as “heart-stopping, pants-dropping” and “house-rocking” during a tour promoting the album Magic, which included the Super Bowl 43 halftime show. For ten points, Clarence Clemons, Little Steven and Max Weinberg have all been members of what band that often plays on record and in concert with Bruce Springsteen.

Answer: The E Street Band

18. In the 2010 off-season, this team took the only UNC Tar Heel selected in the NBA Draft and traded with Phoenix to acquire a former Sixth Man award winner. Another 2010 acquisition, Julian Wright, refused to enter this team’s game against the Warriors in March. A few weeks earlier, this team lost a triple overtime game with the Nets in London that ended with an unsuccessful at-the-buzzer shot by the player they drafted first overall in 2006, Andrew Bargnani. For ten points, Jay Triano is the coach of what franchise in the NBA’s Atlantic Division that has struggled since trading away its all-time leader in points and rebounds, Chris Bosh.

Answer: Toronto and/or Raptors

19. Novelty musician Rob Paravonian says this two-word phrase “tricked me out of my soul” and this is the name of Beep Beep’s first album. Conan O’Brien said in a September, 2010 tweet that he had been to the worst orgy ever because it was this two-word phrase. “Hot Mess”, “Don’t Turn the Lights On” and “Night by Night” are songs on the Chromeo album with this two-word phrase as its title. In 2005, a new NBA policy controversially mandated players meet this two-word phrase when arriving to the arena. For ten points, the Dockers brand is associated with what popular yet somewhat vague dress code in which employees are expected to dress professionally but not to wear suits or ties.

Answer: Business Casual

20. This status was given to Prancer and holly on a DVD advent calendar. Cards indicating this status travel from Bangalore to Bangor by train, truck and eagle. Todd Rundgren and OK Go were given this status by Ric Ocasek and a Rube Goldberg machine respectively. Among those to lose this status are Dennis Kucinich, who did so by emptying his pockets; the sea and The E Street Band, who were both forgiven; and the Toronto Raptors, who moved to “Dead to Me.” An NC State professor earned this status for misattributing “truthiness.” The Weather Channel, limey squirrel eaters, business casual, the cast of Friends, Braedon Ironmantle: Paladin of Tyr, Barabara Streisand, Jane Fonda fantasies, the Papparazi and bears have, for ten points, been given what status after provoking the anger of Stephen Colbert.

Answer: On Notice

21. This person’s first live album features “A Very Strange Medley”, which includes “You deserve a break today”, “I am stuck on Band-Aid” and other commercial jingles that this person composed. While attending one of this person’s concerts, Peter Griffin lost his wallet. After working as musical director on a 1972 Bette Midler tour, this person released a self-titled debut album on which he sang “sweet Melissa, angel of my lifetime” on a track called “Could it Be Magic?” This person’s other hits included “Can’t Smile Without You” and a song written by Bruce Johnston entitled “I Write the Songs.” For ten points, name this singer and songwriter best known for “Copacabana” and “Mandy.”

Answer: Barry Manilow or Barry Alan Pincus

22. This person was the titular figure of a short-lived 1972 sitcom about an ad man married to a character played by Louise Sorel. This person twice played Maxwell Smart’s war buddy Sid Krimm. Johnny Carson once interrupted a taping of C.P.O. Sharkey to complain that this person broke a cigarette box during an appearance on The Tonight Show. This person played the father of Richard Lewis’ character in Daddy Dearest, played a con man named Sergeant Crapgame in Kelly’s Heroes and was known to call hecklers “hockey pucks.” For ten points, Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story series is voiced by what insult comic who was the subject of a documentary called Mr. Warmth?

Answer: Don Rickles

Bonus

1. To the horror of many moral crusaders, video game characters occasionally stop killing one another long enough to have sex. Answer these questions about such instances for ten points each.

(10) Hacking GTA: San Andreas infamously unlocked this terrible sex mini-game, whose name derives from the euphemism the player’s girlfriend used for the act.

Answer: hot coffee

(10) This Bioware game shocked prudes by allowing romantic encounters not just with opposite-sex partners, but also providing homosexual options.  Set in Ferelden on the continent of Thedas, one piece of DLC for this game is armor also usable in Mass Effect 2.

Answer: Dragon Age: Origins

(10) Rather than asking about something like Beat ‘Em and Eat ‘Em for the Atari 2600, this question will instead ask you to identify this non-sex related VCS title, originally a system pack-in.  You could fire guided missiles at the other player in a tank, jet or biplane in this game.

Answer: Combat

2. Name the following heist films for ten points each.

(10) Remade in 2001, this film’s ensemble cast included Henry Silva and Cesar Romero.  Frank Sinatra played the title character, who launches a plan to rob five separate Vegas casinos in one night.

Answer: Ocean’s 11

(10) Al Pacino’s character and Robert de Niro’s character talk on and on and on about the criminal life over coffee in this heist film directed by Michael Mann.

Answer: Heat

(10) Loosely based on a 1971 robbery of a central London bank branch, this film features Jason Statham’s character leading a heist with a take that includes racy photos of Princess Margaret.

Answer: The Bank Job

3. The first episode of this series was released in theatres as Saga of a Star World, although the pilot’s original TV broadcast was interrupted by a news broadcast announcing the signing of the Camp David Accords.  For ten points each:

(10) Identify this series which featured characters like Serina, played by Jane Seymour, and a medical technician named Cassiopeia.

Answer: Battlestar Galactica

(10) Both the original series and the revival have centered on a war between the Twelve Colonies and this race of machine-like creatures that include humanoids like Simon, aka Number Four.

Answer: Cylons [or Toasters]

(10) Both series also had plot arcs involving this second surviving Colonial ship, commanded by a character with the last name of Cain.

Answer: Pegasus

4. The NFL has a number of odd rules.  For ten points each:

(10) A playoff match between the Patriots and the Raiders known as the Tuck Rule Game hinged on a play where this New England quarterback was stripped of the ball as his arm went forward.

Answer: Thomas Edward Patrick “Tom” Brady Jr.

(10) This Detroit Lions wideout was robbed of a game-winning touchdown on a last-second play against the Bears in 2010 by a rule--now often given his name--requiring receivers to maintain possession throughout the action of a catch, even as he went to the ground.

Answer: Calvin Johnson Jr. [or Megatron]

(10) This Raiders cornerback and teammate of Howie Long was known as the Molester for his tight coverage and is the namesake of a rule banning adhesives due to his use of Stickum to assist in interceptions.

Answer: Lester Hayes

5. Tracks like “White Limo” and “Bridge Burning” appear on their most recent album, Wasting Light.  For ten points each:

(10) Identify this band, founded by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.

Answer: The Foo Fighters

(10) This single off of the Foo Fighters’ 1999 album There is Nothing Left to Lose sees the singer “think I’m done nursing the patience / I can wait one night” and state that he’s “looking for a complication”.

Answer: “Learn to Fly”

(10) The Foo Fighters’ “The One” followed this band’s track “Story of My Life” on the soundtrack for the film, Orange County.  This California punk rock band featuring members like Mike Ness is known for such songs as “Ball and Chain”.

Answer: Social Distortion

6. Answer some questions about a classic legal drama, for 10 points each.

(10) This show won several Emmys in 1964 for its episode on the Hollywood blacklist and “The Benefactor” was another controversial episode of what show that starred Robert Reed and E. G. Marshall as the titular lawyers?

Answer: The Defenders

(10) The aforementioned abortion episode of The Defenders was a plot point on an episode of this AMC show, at the time largely centered at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency.

Answer: Mad Men

(10) The recent revival of The Defenders cast this man as lawyer Nick Morelli.  He previously played a man whose wife was played by Courtney Thorne-Smith on a critically derided ABC sitcom.

Answer: James Adam “Jim” Belushi

7. On the final episode of Season 9 of American Idol, this woman performed one of her recent singles, “You Lost Me”.  For ten points each:

(10) Identify this artist who also released “Not Myself Tonight” and “Woohoo” from her relatively unsuccessful album, Bionic.

Answer: Christina Maria Aguilera

(10) Besides containing tasteful lyrics like “all the boys think its cake when they taste my…”, “Woohoo” featured a guest appearance by this artist.  She’s found success with songs like “Your Love” off of her album Pink Friday.

Answer: Nicki Minaj [Onika Tanya Maraj]

(10) For her earlier album, Back to Basics, Aguilera sometimes adopted this alias, a reference to a 1962 film starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.

Answer: Baby Jane

8. This team has never been to the Stanley Cup Finals since coming into the league in 1991, although they did win the President’s Trophy in 2009.  For ten points each:

(10) Identify this NHL team featuring players like Scott Nichol, who play their home games in the HP Pavilion in Silicon Valley.

Answer: San Jose and/or Sharks

(10) This Russian goalie won the Calder Trophy for best rookie as a member of the Sharks during the 2000-2001 season.

Answer: Evgeni Nabokov

(10) This former Shark led the league in goals with 56 during the 2005-2006 season. He returned to the organization with their minor-league affiliate in 2010.

Answer: Jonathan Cheechoo

9. Identify the following about professional poker, for ten points each.

(10) This most commonly televised variety is played in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker.

Answer: No-Limit Texas Hold’em

(10) This phenomenal asshole won the 1989 Main Event and has a record 11 World Series of Poker bracelets.  He once walked off the set of Poker After Dark when other players mocked his insistence on their silence.

Answer: Phil Hellmuth

(10) This talent agent won the 2006 Main Event, defeating Paul Wasicka in heads-up play.

Answer: Jamie M. Gold

10. Identify the following about some movie musicals of the 1970s, for ten points each.

(10) Bob Fosse beat out The Godfather’s Francis For Coppola for the Best Director Oscar with this film starring Michael York and Liza Minnelli and set in 1930s Berlin at the Kit Kat Klub.

Answer: Cabaret

(10) This comedian strangely played the title role in 1974’s Mame.  She had co-starred with her husband in The Long, Long Trailer and with Gale Gordon on some of her later TV programs.

Answer: Lucille Desiree Ball

10) This musical based on a rock album involved B. D. Brockhurst trying to steal the magical musical instruments of some associates of Peter Frampton’s character.

Answer: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

11. Its chorus was adapted from “La Di Da Di” and it was the first posthumous number one single since “Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay”.  For ten points each:

(10) Name this song, which claims that the artist “pushes sticks on the Lexus LX” and “Your daughter's tied up in a Brooklyn basement.” Julia Stiles table dances to this song in 10 Things I Hate About You.

Answer: “Hypnotize”

(10) “Hypnotize” is the first single from this artist's second album, Life After Death.  His collaborations include “Dead Wrong” with Eminem and “Runnin' (Dying to Live)” with his rival, Tupac Shakur.

Answer: The Notorious B.I.G. Also accept Biggie Smalls or Christopher Wallace

or Big Poppa or The Black Frank White

(10) This Notorious B.I.G. debut album has been rated among the 500 greatest of all time by Rolling Stone, and spawned the singles “One More Chance”, “Big Poppa”, and “Juicy.”

Answer: Ready To Die

12. In a recent role, this actor played Colter Stevens, a helicopter pilot who has to figure out who blew up a Chicago commuter train in Source Code.  For ten points each:

(10) Identify this actor who has also appeared in Love & Other Drugs and played the title role in Prince of Persia.

Answer: Jacob Benjamin “Jake” Gyllenhal

(10) Duncan Jones, the director of Source Code, made his feature-length debut with this Sam Rockwell sci-fi flick that also featured a robot named GERTY voiced by Kevin Spacey.

Answer: Moon

10) Duncan Jones is rumored to be involved in the upcoming film The Wolverine, which may possibly reboot this character, who was played by Ryan Reynolds in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Answer: Deadpool [or Wade Wilson; accept any underlined answer]

13. Answer these questions about walk-off hits in the World Series for ten points each.

(10) The only two home runs to end a World Series were Bill Mazeroski’s in 1960 and the three-run dinger off Mitch Williams that this Blue Jays outfielder hit to sink the Phillies in the 1993 series.

Answer: Joseph Christopher “Joe” Carter

(10) This outfielder had over 2,500 career hits, but none was bigger than the single he hit off Mariano Rivera to win the 2001 World Series for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Answer: Luis Emilio Gonzalez

(10) Following a complete game by Tommy Bridges, Goose Goslin’s walk-off single plated Mickey Cochrane clinching what team’s defeat of the Chicago Cubs in the 1935 World Series?

Answer: Detroit and/or Tigers

14. Answer some questions about stylistically similar video games. For 10 points each

(10) In this sequel to a 1994 game, you again fight SHODAN aboard spacecraft using guns, psionics, and hacking. An alien infestation called the Many is one antagonist.

Answer: System Shock 2

(10) This 2000 game influenced by System Shock sees JC Denton fight and investigate a number of conspiracies while augmenting his skills with nanotechnology.  A disappointing sequel subtitled Invisible War simplified many of the complex mechanics of this game whose settings include Hell's Kitchen, Area 51, Paris, and Hong Kong.

Answer: Deus Ex

(10) This 2007 game and spiritual successor of the System Shock games uses a version of the classic game Pipe Dream as a hacking mechanic and is set in an underwater Objectivist hideout.  It features Big Daddies.

Answer: BioShock

15. Identify the following about some animal related Internet memes for ten points each.

(10) This character is often seen with text like “Religion?  It’s the catnip of the purrrrletariat” and “you can not has cheezburger until all cats can has cheezburger”.

Answer: Lenin Cat

(10) Jonathan Ware, who was wearing zombie face makeup at the time, became an Internet celeb after telling a reporter that he likes these reptiles.

Answer: Turtles

(10) An Internet meme proclaims “All Glory to the Hypnotoad”, the amphibian who defeated Nibbler and Zoidberg in a pet show on an episode of what TV series?

Answer: Futurama

16. Identify the following about a certain novel, for ten points each.

(10) The title character of this first novel in the Old Kingdom series frees her father from an underground reservoir while accompanied by a talking white cat and a prince formerly entombed in the masthead of a ship.

Answer: Sabriel

(10) This fantasy author of Sabriel also penned The Keys to the Kingdom, a series in which adoptee Arthur Penhaligon is saved from a premature death by a key shaped like a clock hand.

Answer: Garth Nix

(10) Garth Nix hails from this country, as do writers like Colleen McCullough who wrote The Thorn Birds; Patrick White who wrote The Eye of the Storm; and Banjo Paterson who wrote “Waltzing Matilda.”

Answer: Australia

17. At one point this character goes to a “fat spa” where she meets Gloria, a plot arc used to cover the pregnancy of actress Jane Leeves.  For ten points each:

(10) Identify this character who serves as a caretaker in an apartment home to Martin and his dog Eddie.

Answer: Daphne and/or Moon [also accept Daphne Crane]

(10) Daphne is a character on this Cheers spin-off whose episodes concluded with Kelsey Grammar stating, “Goodnight Seattle”.

Answer: Fraiser

(10) This host of a sports show at KACL frequently tried to get with Roz.  He often yelled, “This stinks!  This is total BS!”

Answer: Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe [accept any underlined answer]

18. Character in this film include Lewis Prothero, the so-called “Voice of London”.  For 10 points each:

(10) Identify this Wachowski Brothers film whose title character wears a Guy Fawkes mask.

Answer: V for Vendetta

(10) This actor provided the voice for V.  He previously appeared as Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and as Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy.

Answer: Hugo Weaving

(10) This man played talk show host Deitrich in V for Vendetta.  You may have also seen him as a detective in Gosford Park and narrating a film that cast Zooey Deschanel as Trillian Astra.

Answer: Stephen Fry

19. He may be better known for being the Kardashians’ stepfather. For 10 points each, name some things about Bruce Jenner’s athletic career.

(10) Jenner competed in this event at the 1976 Olympics, setting a world record for points and winning the gold.  Recent winners in this Olympic event have included Bryan Clay.

Answer: Decathalon

(10) Jenner was less successful when he competed in the 1972 games in this city, better known for being the site of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes.

Answer: Munich, Germany

(10) After his track career, Bruce Jenner started racing in the GT Championship, a series sanctioned by this car racing body.  Today it sponsors endurance races in the American Le Mans Series.

Answer: International Motor Sports Association or IMSA

20. For ten points each, answer the following questions about characters on M*A*S*H.

(10) Taking over from Donald Sutherland, this man played Captain Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H.  He’d later play Republican presidential candidate Arnold Vinick on The West Wing and Jack Donaghy’s biological father on 30 Rock.

Answer: Alan Alda

(10) Nicknamed for his uncanny ability to appear at Colonel Blake’s side just as he was about to call him, as well has being able to hear incoming helicopters before anyone else, this is the only character who is played by the same actor in both the film and the series.

Answer:  “Radar” or Corporal Walter Eugene O’Reilly

(10) In the series finale, this Jesuit ends up losing most of his hearing when trying to save some POWs.  He was played by William Christopher.

Answer: Father John Patrick Mulcahy [or Dago Red; accept any underlined answer]

21. Their rivalry embodied different styles of play and different backgrounds. For 10 points each, name some things about the Duke-Michigan rivalry of the early 90s.

(10) The Michigan players were known by this epithet. Among the members of this group were Jalen Rose and Chris Webber.

Answer: The Fab Five

(10) Duke made it to the championship game against Michigan after a buzzer-beater by this player.  He’d serve as the only college player on the 1992 Dream Team.

Answer: Christian Donald Laettner

(10) After Jalen Rose criticized the black Duke players in an ESPN documentary, this former Duke player responded, touching off a large debate.  He and Jason Kidd split the Rookie of the Year Award in the 1994-1995 season.

Answer: Grant Henry Hill

22. For ten points each, answer these questions related to a song in which the singer of this song is told “you’ve been in the house too long”, causing him to flee.

(10) Identify this 1984 song where the singer bemoans the titular line after finding a job and being passed by two entwined lovers.

Answer: “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”

(10) “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” and “How Soon Is Now” were released by this band with a generic sounding name, fronted by lyricist and singer Morrisey.

Answer: The Smiths

(10) “Suedehead” and “Everyday Is Like Sunday” are both from this album, the first of Morrisey’s solo career.

Answer: Viva Hate

23. Identify the following about some films of the 1980s for ten points each.

(10) Oliver Stone netted a Best Director Oscar for this 1986 film about the Vietnam War, which starred men like Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen.

Answer: Platoon

(10) Although this film was bested in Best Picture by The Last Emperor a year after Platoon, it did sweep the actress category with Olympia Dukakis and Cher both winning.  Nicholas Cage played a character missing a hand in this film.

Answer: Moonstruck

(10) A year after Moonstruck, this film lost out to Rain Man in the Best Picture race.  Directed by Mike Nichols, Sandra Bullock later played the character of Tess McGill, an employee of Katherine Parker, in a TV spin-off of this film.

Answer: Working Girl

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