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Penn Bowl Trash II

Round 1- Toss-Ups

Packet by Maryland—Logan Anbinder, Jeremy Eaton, and Jack Kennedy

Edited by Ben Frank and Joe Nguyen

1. They’re not Nickelback, but this band’s first album features the songs “Someday” and “American’t,” and is entitled Midget Tossing. The entirety of this band’s third album is featured in the video game Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding, includes songs like “Trembling” and “Big Apple Heartbreak,” and is entitled One For the Kids. A single from this band’s best-selling album begins, “I think I’m breaking out/ I’m gonna leave you now/ There’s nothing for me here it’s all the same,” but that song, “Way Away,” is not as well known as the album’s eponymous track, which reminisces about “a place on the corner of Cherry Street” where “We were both 18 and it felt so right,” a feeling that also comes from the titular seaside location. This is the partial resume of, FTP, what Jacksonville-formed and LA-based pop-punk band who released “Ocean Avenue,” whose name is also a warning device issued to players in soccer?

A: Yellowcard

2. This character has appeared as the Golden Oldie, a herald of Galactus who discovered a baker of planet-sized snack cakes to assuage his hunger, and an April Fool’s joke indicated that she would be a playable character in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. She was once the target of the Chameleon, but outsmarted him by feeding him oatmeal-raisin cookies laced with Ambien, and at one point developed a romantic relationship with the Avengers’ butler, Jarvis. She was brought back from the edge of death by Mephisto at great cost to the superhero with which she is most associated, whose marriage was thus erased from the timeline. That near-death experience occurred as a result of a botched assassination attempt on that hero after he unmasked himself during Marvel’s Civil War, and the hit was ordered by the Kingpin. FTP, name this widow of Ben, the surrogate mother and biological aunt of Peter Parker.

A: Aunt May Parker (prompt on Parker… or, y’know, Aunt)

3. In a 2009 YouTube video, a fictional character named Brantford Winstonworth states that while he does play this sport, and does get chicks, he doesn’t get chicks because he plays this sport, but rather because he is very affluent. A Facebook group with over 14,000 members claims in its title that 90% of this sport is in “the flow,” referring to the stereotypical hair styles featured by many players of the sport. It is the sport seen played in American Pie by Stiffler and Oz. The most recent champions of the highest professional league in this sport were the Toronto Nationals, while the most recent collegiate champions are Syracuse University, who has won 10 NCAA Championships, 1 more than the second-placed team, Johns Hopkins. FTP, name this originally Native American sport played with a rubber ball and a netted stick.

A: Lacrosse (accept: Lax) 


4. One episode of this show, “Wheel of Fortune,” featured guest appearances by Pat Sajak and Vanna White as themselves, and this show has also guest-starred Hulk Hogan. The first four seasons of this show did not have overarching plots, but included such single-episode storylines as the titular group’s search for a professor who invented a foolproof Las Vegas gambling system and that group’s shutdown of a small town preacher’s illegal moonshine operation. In the fifth season, that group is finally apprehended for the alleged misdeed referred to in this show’s introduction, and that introduction is repeated almost verbatim in the trailer for a 2010 movie remake of this show, and is also used in the Family Guy episode where Peter, Joe, Quagmire and Cleveland win a costume contest at an 80’s TV convention. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can buzz in and, FTP, name this 1980s TV show whose titular group features Hannibal, Face, and Murdock, as well as Mr. T. as B.A. Baracus.

A: The A-Team

5. This song features a sample of “Love on a Two-Way Street” by The Moments, and is used in the first half of the trailer for Sex and the City 2. The artist who collaborated with this song’s lead artist released a Part Two of this song on her most recent album, The Element of Freedom, and the rap vocals of this song were replaced with an ode to suburban life when that artist performed on The Colbert Report. This song was the entrance music for Derek Jeter during the 2009 MLB season, and this song’s rapper claims that “I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.” Alicia Keys sings about a “concrete jungle where dreams are made of” in, FTP, what 2009 Jay-Z song about a certain region of the Northeastern US that features Times Square and the Statue of Liberty?

A: Empire State of Mind

6. In one sequence in this film, the main character looks at his reflection in a car window and sees Han Solo winking at him while the people around him dance to Hall & Oates’ “You Make My Dreams”. The opening of this film sees the disclaimer, "Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely accidental …” but it then follow with the direct comment “Especially you, Jenny Beckman ... Bitch." The starring couple first speak in an elevator, as the male lead is surprised to learn that the female lead is a fan of the Smiths. The two main characters would eventually break up during a pancake dinner after watching “The Graduate” at the movie theatre. Heartbroken, Tom Hansen quits his job writing greeting cards and begins working at his dream of becoming an architect, which leads him to meet a girl named Autumn played by Minka Kelly at the end of the film. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars opposite Zooey Deschanel in, FTP, what 2009 indie film about spending the titular amount of time with the title female and not about the possible prospects of global warming.

A: “(500) Days of Summer”

7. This song has been sampled in Nas’s song “New World”, as well as Jojo’s single “Anything.” In it, the singer talks about things such as stopping an old man along the way, and wild dogs crying out in the night. The music video opens with an image of a spinning globe, and later a man throws a spear that starts a fire in a library, just as the lead singer finds a book sharing its title with this song. In the chorus, the singer states that “there’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do,” before saying that he blesses the rain down in this titular location. For ten points, name this 1982 hit by Toto, which shares its name with the continent on which Nigeria is located.

A: “Africa”

8. It is from this location that the protagonist first departs for One Island, and this location is home to a building that houses the Secret Key. Its appearance changes drastically in the sequels to the original games in which it appears, since a volcanic eruption in the second iterations obliterated all the buildings here except one. The resulting volcano can be scaled with the Rock Climb technique in an upcoming release, and before the eruption, this location featured a lab whose researchers could bring the fossilized Omastar or Kabuto back to life. Its most infamous feature is perhaps its eastern coast, where in the original versions of the game the player could Surf to activate the Missingno glitch. The gym leader Blaine can be found on, FTP, what isolated area of the Kanto region from the Pokemon franchise?

A: Cinnabar Island

9. At age 10, this actor submitted his resume to the Carol Burnett Show, and Tupac Shakur declared himself a big fan of this man. He had roles in All in Good Taste and Finders Keepers, but his first big role was in 1985’s Once Bitten, where he played a high school virgin who is seduced by a centuries old vampire. More recently, he played a man whose entire life is an internationally-televised reality show in The Truman Show, and Fletcher Reede, a man whose son’s birthday wish forces him to tell the truth for an entire day. Receiving critical acclaim for his role as the ex-boyfriend of Kate Winslet’s Clementine who has his memories of her erased in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, this is, FTP, what Canadian-born actor whose used the catchphrase “Alrighty then!” in his role as the titular animal investigator in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective?

A: Jim Carrey

10. According to his official website, this man was the first ever male spokesperson for Neutrogena, and was named number 1 in a “Top 10 hottest male athletes poll” by SI for Women. This player, the 2007 Walter Payton Man of the Year, is the all-time career leader in the NFL for fumbles returned for touchdowns. A former Akron Zip, he led the league in sacks in 2002 and was named the 2006 AP Defensive Player of the year. Additionally, he leads all active players in career sacks. After 2007, he was traded away to Washington, but only spent one season with the team before resigning with the team he had started his career with in 1997. A one-time Dancing With the Stars runner-up, FTP, name this long time star defensive end who has played all but 1 of his seasons with the Miami Dolphins.

A: Jason Taylor

11. One music video parodying this artist features a corresponding fictional male counterpart and includes the lyrics, “I give good headache, I’ll make you scream/ Is this reality or just a fever dream?,” and songs from her most recent album include “Alejandro,” “Speechless,” and “Telephone,” the latter of which features Beyoncé. A better-known song from that album references Hitchcock films with the lyrics, “I want your psycho/ Your vertigo stick/ Want you in my rear window/ Baby you’re sick.” One song from this artist’s debut album, The Fame, was described by this artist as being about the use of the title concept to mask one’s sexuality, and was covered in a partial rendition by Christopher Walken, including the line, “I’ll get him hot, show him what I got.” A costume made entirely of plastic bubbles and a Kermit the Frog suit have been among the crazy fashion choices of, FTP, what singer of “Bad Romance” and “Poker Face?”

A: Lady Gaga (accept Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, but geez)

12. This movie is paid homage to by a Robert Coover short story that uses exact quotes from this movie, features an explicit sex scene between this film’s two protagonists, and is entitled “You Must Remember This.” Characters in this movie include Annina Brandel and Signor Ferrari, the latter of whom is a business rival of this film’s male protagonist, and one notable scene shows a group of German officers attempting to drown out a rousing chorus of “La Marseillaise.” One apocryphal story about this movie is that the female lead did not know until the end of filming if she would end up with Victor Laszlo or the man who delivers four of the six lines this movie has in AFI’s Top 100 Quotes list. With such classic lines as, “Here’s looking at you, kid,” this is, FTP, what 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, named after a certain city in Morocco?

A: Casablanca

13. It is mentioned on the CBS vampire drama Moonlight in a list of things that the vampire Mick St. John is glad he lived long enough to see, along with tee-ball, and in TNT’s Leverage characters in this are referenced as a metaphor for one of the show’s character’s waiting for another to fail, so that he can save the day. In Stargate Atlantis, a diversion is caused when one character is distracted by another who pretends that this activity is “a silent passion” of hers. In How I Met Your Mother, Ted meets a handbag designer remembered only as “Blah-Blah” while engaged in this activity, and in another episode, after Ted and Barney agree to a challenge, Barney leaves the room yelling his name in an allusion to a notable participant in this activity. One South Park episode featuring it sees the use of a 1 gigabyte flash drive to store the Sword of a Thousand Truths—an extremely powerful item from, FTP, what game that in The Big Bang Theory sees Sheldon’s Night Elf Rogue teleport away from the rest of his party after obtaining the Sword of Azeroth, the world’s most popular MMORPG?

A: World of Warcraft or WoW

14. There are seven simple vowels and four diphthongs in this people’s language, and this group relies on a base-eight number system. Animals found in proximity to this group include Hexapedes and Viperwolves, and a species known by this people as Ikran are central to one of this culture’s rites of passage, in which the creatures are mounted and a bond is formed between mount and rider. Only a Toruk Makto can ride a bigger mount, and in their most recent time of great sorrow this people united under the Omaticaya Clan, whose invocation of the deity Eywa allowed them to defend the Tree of Souls and the nearby deposit of unobtanium. Jake Sully ultimately becomes a member of, FTP, what tall, blue skinned alien race of the moon Pandora, central to James Cameron’s Avatar?

A: Na’vi

15. This woman has a half-brother named Simon Marsden, and when she was placed on special assignment by FBI agent Dana Lewis, she was temporarily replaced in her most notable position by Dani Beck. In one episode, a reporter boyfriend of this woman leaks information about an open case to the press when she refuses to act out his rape fantasies, and this woman is the product of her mother’s rape. She was almost raped herself in an episode where she went undercover in a woman’s prison, until a fellow member of her squad, Fin Tutuola, saved her. Though this woman has pursued cases with Fin, he is most often paired with detective John Munch, and she with a man portrayed by Christopher Meloni. Often empathizing with the victims of the sexual abuse cases she investigates, this is, FTP, what NYPD detective and partner of Elliot Stabler, portrayed by Mariska Hargitay on Law & Order: SVU?

A: Olivia Benson

16. His father John Paul, whose original surname was Wieczorek, meets his mother Theresa when she TAs a section of his Human Community class. The story of that meeting, “Teacher’s Pest,” appears in a collection entitled First Meetings which includes the story of this character’s initial encounter with Jane, as well as the original novella in which this character first appeared. In the book based on that novella, this character utterly destroys attackers on two different occasions, Stilson and Bonzo Madrid. A “parallel” book to the novel in which this character first appears is titled this character’s “Shadow,” and his genius is shared by his two siblings, who use the pseudonyms “Locke” and “Demosthenes” in the first novel featuring this character. FTP, name this brother of Peter and Valentine, the Battle School-trained defeater of the Buggers, whose “game” is the title of a novel by Orson Scott Card.

A: Ender Wiggin or Andrew Wiggin (accept any underlined part)

17. In an appearance in a 2005 Dove shampoo commercial, this character exclaims, “My hair doesn’t move!”

and in Venture Brothers, Action Johnny mentions that though everyone assumes this character is a lesbian, she gave him herpes. In one TV appearance, it is revealed that she has a fear of clowns, since one destroyed an encyclopedia that was a birthday present. In another series, she is depicted as a junior high student with a rapid gait and the ability to pull a large supercomputer out of a tiny briefcase, and she is far less inclined than another of her friends to suspect Red Herring of any wrongdoing. She is portrayed by Linda Cardellini in two live action films, and though she is almost blind without her glasses, she excels when her gang splits up to look for clues, often declaring, “Jinkies!” FTP, name this orange sweater-wearing member of Mystery, Inc. who solves crimes with Fred, Daphne, Shaggy, and her show’s titular canine.

A: Velma Dace Dinkley

18. This player played at Mississippi State before being drafted in the first round in 1985. He made his first all-star appearance 3 years later playing with the Cubs. Later, playing for Baltimore, he was one of the leaders of the Orioles’ playoff runs in 1996 and 1997, finishing in the top 15 in MVP voting both years and winning his first gold glove, at 1st Base, in 1997. In a second stint with the Orioles in 2005 after a second stint with Texas, he became only the fourth player in history to join both the 3,000-hit and 500-home run clubs, though the glory was short-lived as he was soon suspended for a failed drug test. FTP, name the baseball player who defiantly, and as we later found out dishonestly, told Congress, “I have never used steroids, period.”

A: Rafael Palmeiro

19. This word titles a 1996 Hindi children’s movie directed by Santosh Sivan that tells the story of a child searching for her lost puppy in Mumbai, and a Filipino dish that coincidentally shares its name with this word was featured as a Quickfire Challenge dish in the fourth season of Top Chef. One song by this name declares that “One day soon I’ll disappear/and if you’ll come/I’ll take you somewhere to go/to keep from growing old,” but that song by the Foo Fighters is less recent than a song by this name that reminisces “Remember those walls I built/well baby, they’re tumbling down,” before the chorus proclaims “Everywhere I’m looking now/I’m surrounded by your embrace.” This word also names a video game series in which the titular megastructures were built by the Forerunners to contain a parasitic alien species, the Flood. FTP, give this word that names both a 2009 song by Beyoncé and a Bungie-developed video game franchise starring Master Chief.

A: Halo

20. This team made its first and only finals appearance in 1976, when they lost to the Nets in the final ABA Championship before that league’s merger into the NBA. Originally known as the Rockets, this team was the first professional team to be coached by Larry Brown. The team enjoyed some of its best years during the 1980’s under coach Doug Moe, the 1987-88 NBA coach of the year. In 1983, this team lost to the Pistons 186-184 in the highest scoring game in NBA history. Later, Mike D’Antoni’s held his first NBA coaching job with this team, before being followed by a former star of this team, Dan Issel, before ultimately George Karl became head coach. Current players include Arron Afflalo, Nene, and a player that was acquired in exchange for Allen Iverson in 2008. For ten points, Chauncey Billups and Carmelo Anthony play for what Western Conference team that plays in Colorado.

A: Denver Nuggets

Penn Bowl Trash II

Round 1- Bonuses

Packet by Maryland—Logan Anbinder, Jeremy Eaton, and Jack Kennedy

Edited by Ben Frank and Joe Nguyen

1. Answer the following about friends from Friends, FTPE:

[10] This ladies’ man and soap opera star, played by Matt LeBlanc, was the only one of the Friends to have a spinoff. His catchphrase is, “How you doin’?”

A: Joey Tribbiani

[10] Chandler’s ex-girlfriend is this woman with an exaggerated New York accent and her own catchphrase: “Ohhh my god!” After Monica and Chandler’s marriage, she almost buys a house next to them until Chandler scares her off by pretending he still loves her.

A: Janice Litman-Goralnick (née Hosenstein!)

[10] Much of the series takes place in this coffee shop, the Friends’ favorite hangout. After the series finale, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was filmed on this set with the cast as guests.

A: Central Perk

2. Ever wondered about the origin of Longcat, or that bunny with a pancake on its head? houses that information and more! Answer the following about some of the more infamous memes to strike the Internet, FTPE.

[10] One man launched his son to Internet stardom when he uploaded a video of this drugged kid “After Dentist.” One remix shows Darth Vader in an identical predicament.

A: David

[10] Though it is really a prairie dog, this creature is known by a different name in a clip from a Japanese game show that shows it turning its head while music from Young Frankenstein plays. This animal was named by People Magazine as one of the 10 Wildest YouTube Stars of 2007.

A: Dramatic Chipmunk

[10] This t-shirt with a certain number of animals on it was worn by The Office’s Dwight Schrute. It became one of ’s top selling clothing items in 2009 after a review posted on the company’s website called it “intrinsically sweet” and described how it attracted several women.

A: Three Wolf Moon

3. He and his eventual runner-up performed “We Are the Champions” with two members of Queen before he was declared the winner of American Idol. FTPE:

[10] Name this winner of the eighth season of the show.

A: Kris Allen

[10] Allen won an upset victory over this second place contestant, who came out shortly after the show ended, during which a picture had surfaced of him kissing a man, which he thought probably had an impact on the voting.

A: Adam Lambert

[10] The current season of American Idol is the first without Paula Abdul as one of the judges. Starting after the contestant auditions, this talk show host and former sitcom star will replace Paula as the “nice vote” on the judges’ panel.

A: Ellen DeGeneres

4. Their inclusion in the 2010 World Cup became a source of significant controversy after benefiting from a very controversial goal. FTPE:

[10] Name this European nation that needed a very dubious goal assisted by Thierry Henry’s obvious handball to defeat Ireland in a playoff and qualify for this summer’s tournament.

A: France

[10] After Henry’s handball in extra time, the ball was headed in by Nicolas Anelka past this Irish goalkeeper who currently starts for Manchester City F.C.

A: Shay Given

[10] By qualifying for the World Cup, this much-maligned coach of France’s job was likely saved for the time being. After leading France to the final in 2006, several disappointing performance in subsequent competitions have seen numerous calls for him to be fired.

A: Raymond Domenech

5. He played Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket and Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard. FTPE:

[10] Name this actor, who currently stars as agent John Casey on NBC’s Chuck.

A: Adam Baldwin

[10] Baldwin played this space mercenary on Joss Whedon’s horrifically short-lived space western, Firefly.

A: Jayne Cobb

[10] Baldwin is unrelated to this man with the same surname, whose 24 year-long film career has seen him appear in Beetlejuice and The Hunt for Red October, recently star opposite Meryl Streep in It’s Complicated, and play Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock.

A: Alec Baldwin

6. Are you white and nerdy? Prove it by naming the original songs on which these Weird Al Yankovic parodies are based, given a lyric, FTPE. You get five points if you need the artist of the original song.

[10] “We’ve been spending most our lives living in an Amish paradise/ I’ve churned butter once or twice living in an Amish paradise”

[5] Coolio, featuring L.V.

A: “Gangsta’s Paradise” (Weird Al version: “Amish Paradise”)

[10] “Pizza party at your house/ I went just to check it out/ nineteen extra larges, what a shame, no one came.”

[5] Avril Lavigne

A: “Complicated” (Weird Al version: “A Complicated Song”)

[10] “Had to park my car for just five minutes/I had to go inside to use the phone/When I came back again my car was gone/Well, I didn’t know it was a loading zone”

[5] Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty

A: “Stop Dragging My Heart Around” (Weird Al version: “Stop Dragging My Car Around”)

7. Alabama’s victory in the 2010 BCS National Championship game will likely be remembered for the absence of opposing quarterback Colt McCoy. FTPE:

[10] McCoy left the game early in the first quarter after suffering an arm injury as a result of a hit by this Crimson Tide player.

A: Marcell Dareus

[10] Without their star quarterback, Texas still made it a game in the second half, behind the play of this true freshman backup to McCoy.

A: Garrett Gilbert

[10] Gilbert threw 2 second-half touchdowns in the game, both to this Longhorn receiver, who had been McCoy’s leading receiver for the last 2 seasons.

A: Jordan Shipley

8. Answer the following about the career of John Travolta, FTPE:

[10] Audiences watched the hair of John Travolta when he stayed alive as Tony Monero in this 1977 disco movie.

A: “Saturday Night Fever”

[10] Travolta was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of this hit man and partner of Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction.

A: Vincent Vega

[10[This upcoming film stars Travolta as an American spy trying to thwart a terrorist attack in the titular city. Its name is an allusion to a certain James Bond movie.

A: From Paris with Love

9. This bonus is pretty sweet! Name the following candy brands that all have something in common, FTPE:

[10] This candy produced by the Ferrara Pan Candy Company is a round yellow hard candy that is sold alongside similarly named grape, cherry, melon, apple, and orange varieties.

A: Lemonheads

[10] This other sour candy features a mascot named Wally, whose head is shown exploding on the packaging of this candy, and it was developed in Taiwan. After several seconds, the intense sour flavor recedes as the coating of the candy dissolves.

A: Warheads

[10] Recently promoted by the Jonas brothers, this lollipop can be dipped into powder, which comes in sweet and sour varieties. It gets its name from the shape of the lollipop.

A: Baby Bottle Pop

10. He’s had Final Four seasons officially vacated by the NCAA at two different universities, most recently the 2007-08 team at Memphis. FTPE:

[10] Name this former Tigers coach, who left in 2009 to take the head coaching position at Kentucky, just as Memphis got into trouble over the allegations that Derrick Rose had had another person take the SAT for him.

A: John Calipari

[10] Calipari’s previous vacated final four was at this Northeastern school, who reached the semifinals in 1996 before losing to Kentucky.

A: University of Massachusetts (accept UMass)

[10] The 1996 Final Four was vacated because this 1995-96 National Player of the Year was discovered to have taken payments from agents. He would go on to have a long NBA career with the Raptors, Knicks and Nuggets.

A: Marcus Camby

11. This feature is currently the only way to access games like My Pokemon Ranch and Castlevania the Adventure: Rebirth, FTPE.

[10] First, name this download feature on the current Nintendo home system that allows players to buy original games often by independent developers, an extension of the Virtual Console.

A: WiiWare

[10] Set for release sometime in March, this upcoming 8-bit style WiiWare game will feature a boss called Sheep Man who must be defeated by "the Blue Bomber" along with 7 other robot masters.

A: Megaman 10 [do not accept Megaman X]

[10] Developed by Frontier Entertainments and SquareEnix, this platformer game exclusive to WiiWare allows that player to control the young boy, Toku and use the WiiMote to draw air currents on the screen which can be used to solve various puzzles.

A: LostWinds

12. This 2009 Oscar winner for Best Picture was based on the book Q & A by Vikas Swarup. FTPE:

[10] Name this movie, directed by Danny Boyle, in which Jamal Malik wins both a fortune and the love of his life after winning at the Indian version of a popular game show.

A: Slumdog Millionaire

[10] Jamal is played by this British Indian actor, who is currently dating the actress who portrayed his love interest onscreen, Freida Pinto. His black belt in taekwondo will come in handy when he plays Zuko, the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, in the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender movie.

A: Dev Patel

[10] This Bollywood actor, who played the host of India’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” in Slumdog, is known in his native country for such roles as Vinay Malhotra in Salaam-E-Ishq: A Tribute to Love, but may be better known in the US for playing President Omar Hassan in the eighth season of 24.

A: Anil Kapoor

13. Identify the following platformers from the PS1 era, FTPE.

[10] Probably the character that could have best been described as Sony's answer to Mario, this marsupial hero broke open a bunch of crates and collected tons of Wumpa fruit in his journey to defeat Dr. Cortex.

A: Crash Bandicoot

[10] This 1999 game stars the young boy Spike as he travels through time attempting to capture the simian minions of Spectre who received great intelligence after donning the Peak Point Helment.

A: Ape Escape

[10] This side-scrolling game features the titular pink-haired lad's quest to defeat the Evil Koma Pigs using items like the Funky Parasol and his ability to learn languages by body-slamming foreigners' heads.

A: Tomba!

14. Name the following Elton John songs, FTPE:

[10] With a chorus that is often misheard as “hold my clothes and tie me down, sir,” this 1971 tune has been covered by the likes of Ben Folds, Tim McGraw, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and implores the listener to “count the headlights on the highway.”

A: “Tiny Dancer”

[10] This song, that was inspired by its lyricist’s sighting of a distant object in the sky, was the subject of a spoken-word interpretation by William Shatner that has been parodied on Futurama, Animaniacs, and Family Guy, to name a few.

A: “Rocket Man”

[10] The original recording of this song included a harpsichord instead of a piano, reflecting its original composition as a hymn. It begins with the titular animal’s request, “Turn me loose from your hands/ Let me fly to distant lands.”

A: “Skyline Pigeon”

15. Name some Washington Nationals players FTPE

[10] After 2009, the Nationals signed this 14-time all star free agent catcher, who had spent most of his career with Texas, but won a world series in 2003 with the Marlins.

A: Ivan Rodriguez

[10] Probably the Nats’ best player in 2009 was this third baseman, who made his first All-Star game as well as winning the gold glove and silver slugger.

A: Ryan Zimmermann

[10] Viewed by many as a future face of the franchise, the Nationals in 2009 drafted this phenom pitcher first overall out of San Diego State.

A: Stephen Strasburg

16. Name the following bands whose songs have some rather downbeat lyrics, FTPE:

[10] This band that is featured on the soundtracks to both Transformers movies and collaborated with Jay-Z on Collision Course sings such glum lyrics as “I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn’t even matter” in “In the End,” and “Everything that you thought I would be has fallen apart right in front of you” in “Numb.”

A: Linkin Park

[10] This depressingly named Washintgon state-based band released the singles “I Will Posess Your Heart” and “Cath…” off their most recent album, Narrow Stairs.

A: Death Cab for Cutie

[10] Hailing from Cardiff, Wales, this indie pop band proclaims, “Oh we kid ourselves there’s future in the fucking, but there is no fucking future” in “We are Beautiful, We are Doomed,” and laments that “Every midnight sees a countdown to another awful day” in “My Year in Lists.”

A: Los Campesinos!

17. Answer the following about unlikely candidates for music mashups that have, in fact, been combined.

[10] The song “99 LuftProblems,” credited to the artist “Jay-Zena,” is a mashup of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” with this English version of a song about the same number of colored inflatable objects.

A: “99 Red Balloons”

[10] This DJ whose real name is Jordan Roseman has been noted for his mash-ups of recent Billboard hits called the United State of Pop, as he normally combines the top 25 Billboard hits of the year making Kings of Leon and Miley Cyrus totally compatible.

A: DJ Earworm

[10] Another mashup combines the Ghostbusters theme with this song that claims, “woman, you cute and you don’t need no make up” because she is “physically, physically, physically fit,” before the better-known, titular declaration.

A: “I Like To Move It”

18. When this movie debuted in theaters, it was shown with three different endings, but the ending that the DVD declares is “what really happened” sees Mr. Green kill Mr. Boddy, in the hall with the revolver. FTPE:

[10] Name this 1985 mystery spoof based on a board game that, in addition to Mr. Green, features Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, Ms. Scarlet, Professor Plum, and Colonel Mustard.

A: Clue

[10] This man, who played Rooster in the film adaptation of Annie and provided the voice for Nigel Thornberry on Nickelodeon’s The Wild Thornberries, played Wadsworth the Butler in Clue. When asked what his job as a butler entails, he responds, “I buttle, sir.”

A: Tim Curry

[10] This woman, who played Sam Diamond’s lover Tess Skeffington in the similarly themed Murder By Death, played Mrs. Peacock in the film. She received an Oscar nomination for her role as Captain Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin.

A: Eileen Brennan

19. Name these characters from “The Godfather” given a description of each character’s death, FTPE:

[10] Gets riddled with bullets at a toll booth while on his way to kill Carlo.

A: Sonny Corleone

[10] Gets shot in the eye while getting a massage after refusing Michael’s offer to buy out his casino.

A: Moe Greene

[10] Gets decapitated, supposedly by Luca Brasi from a deleted scene in the film. Gets found by owner Jack Woltz next to him in his bed.

A: Khartoum, his racehorse

20. Identify the following TV shows or characters related to the country of Vietnam, FTPE.

[10] This Vietnamese bisexual and MySpace celebrity starred on the VH1 reality series “A Shot of Love”.

A: Tila Tequila (accept Tila Nguyen)

[10] Among the residents of the Sunset Arms boarding house in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold is this Vietnamese gentleman who ironically works in a Mexican restaurant. He once took the country music world by storm with his amazing sing voice and song called "The Simple Things".

A: Mr. Hyunh [hwin or win]

[10] Proficient in the Praying Mantis Kung Fu style, this Vietnamese character battled against Rita Repulsa as the original Yellow Ranger before being replaced by Aisha in Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.

A: Trini Kwan

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