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

Packet #2

Written by Jeremy White (TU and B 19-21) and Brian Hight (B 1-18)

Toss-ups

1. A Texas Instruments knock off of this game featured Hoonoos and chains. Half of this game’s 256th level is filled with a string of PQ’s, quotation marks and other nonsense. Successful completion of its aforementioned “split screen” before the year 2000 would have been rewarded with one hundred thousand dollars of Billy Mitchell’s money. A firm named Rescue Time estimated 120 million dollars in lost productivity resulted from the recent playable Google doodle in honor of its thirtieth anniversary. For ten points, Clyde and Blinky are among the ghosts threatening the title character of what early Namco arcade game set in a series of dot-filled mazes?

Answer: Pac Man

2. Stone Temple Pilots described a “Bitch” from this place with a “switchblade in her suitcase.” System of a Down sings “Those vicious streets are filled with strays” and “They look at you in disgusting ways” in a song entitled “Lost in” this place. Kool and the Gang’s first number one R&B single describes “Swinging” here and on the first track of Breakfast in America, Supertramp describes having “Gone” this place. A number one hit called “Alley Oop” was by the Argyles from this place to which Billy Joel advised listeners to say goodbye. For ten points, Frankie goes to what California city for which Doris Day once said Hooray.

Answer: Hollywood

3. In 2011, Bing controversially used one of these items in a plan to donate two hundred thousand dollars for the victims of the earthquake in Japan. 50 Cent promoted H&H Imports and Columbia College professor Dan Sinker impersonated Rahm Emanuel using these items. A mother offers to help a daughter compose one of these after announcing her parents are moving in during a Sprint commercial. Biz Stone presented the first golden one of these, which said they had been re-named gurgles in honor of oil-soaked birds. These items can include hash tags and are no longer than one hundred and forty characters. For ten points, name this form of communication sent via Twitter.

Answer: Tweet

4. In one scene in this movie, a waitress is instructed to bring a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until the requestors pass out, and then to bring one every ten. Early in this film, the main character grouses that his wife has shown her Klimt to everyone. Chas Osborne’s treatment of the main character’s son Jason inspires this film’s titular action, which eventually leads to the rejection of a paper penned by Kurt Vonnegut, a discussion of Harry Truman’s Korea policy with a professor played by Sam Kinison and a successful performance of the triple lindy dive. For ten points, Thornton Melon becomes a student of Great Lakes University in this comedy starring Rodney Dangerfield.

Answer: Back to School

5. Kordeski’s training is discussed during a fight scene in this film. As this film opens, one character discusses sprouting avocado seeds and reading romance novels with a customer service operator in Kansas City while complaining about missing pension checks. At the end of this film, two characters are in Moldova carrying a device in a wheelbarrow and running from an army. Ernest Borgnine makes a cameo in it as a records keeper and John Malkovich plays the conspiracy theorist who was once part of an LSD experiment. For ten points, name this 2010 film in which Helen Mirren and Bruce Willis play retired, but extremely dangerous, black ops agents.

Answer: Red

6. This character once said “I have come to pick your baloney stones” while dressed in a leprechaun costume. This character had a red Abraham Lincoln-shaped birthmark, a moth collection and a stuffed iguana named Jeffrey and always enters a room with a long, drawn-out “Hello.” Along with the friend with whom he shares an apartment, this character is a member of the Fraternal Order of the Bass and sang “Just a Couple of Loverboys” and “If I’d Only Listened to Mama” for the Shotz Brewery Talent Show. For ten points, David Lander played what character who was almost always seen with fellow truck driver Lenny on Laverne and Shirley.

Answer: Squiggy or Andrew and/or Squiggman

7. This person announced she was pregnant with a fourth child during ESPN’s College Gameday broadcast from Boise on September 25, 2010. A town of 128 people with a name taken from a Native American word meaning silver water inspired her first name and she won a Combination silver medal at the 1993 World Championships at Morioka, Japan. This person competed against Debi Thomas on American Gladiators in 1995, a year before winning gold at the Sierra Nevada World Championships. For ten points, name this skier who appeared in Mountain Dew and Chap Stick commercials after Olympics appearances highlighted by silver in women’s downhill in 1994 and gold in Super G in 1998.

Answer: Picabo Street

8. Rick Rude was once slapped by this wrestler’s second wife, Cheryl, whose picture later appeared on Rude’s tights. This wrestler crashed the Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth wedding with The Undertaker, who defeated him in Wrestlemania 8. This wrestler is the subject of the DVD Pick Your Poison and is shown smoking crack after trying to reconcile with daughter Brandy in Beyond the Mat. This wrestler hosted the interview segment that replaced Piper’s Pit and is the credited inventor of the DDT. For ten points, name this WWF wrestler of the 80s and 90s who often came to the ring with Damien and Lucifer, a cobra and a boa constrictor.

Answer: Jake the Snake or Jake Roberts or Aurelian Smith, Jr.

9. This person’s grandfather Houston was on the 1926 NFL champion Frankford Yellow Jackets and his son Houston is a safety for Montana. Arguably, Houston was the site of this player’s most important shot, a buzzer-beating 3-pointer over Charles Barkley that sent his team to the NBA Finals. This person’s 2.8 points per game were the lowest scoring average on The Dream Team and he once reportedly agreed to a below-market-value five-million-dollar salary if his son’s hockey team got ice time at the Delta Center. For ten points, name this former point guard who holds the NBA record for career steals by himself and shares the record for games played by a pair of teammates with Karl Malone.

Answer: John Houston Stockton

10. This character’s granddaughter, Mirta Gev, killed Thrackan in the Karen Traviss novel Bloodlines, which also said this character started several false rumors in an attempt to explain now non-canon origin stories like the one saying his real name was Jaster Mareel and the one in which he was a mutinous Stormtrooper. This character is a clone of the person used as the genetic basis for the Stormtroopers according to Attack of the Clones. For ten points, name this son of Jango, the bounty hunter who landed in the Sarlaac Pit in Return of the Jedi after tracking down Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back.

Answer: Boba Fett

11. As the title character of a 1996 film, this character died while saving a newborn son from the three-headed Desghidorah. In this character’s first film appearance, a Roliscian businessman named Clark Nelson abducted The Shobijin, the two priestesses who accompany this character. This character can fire an energized silk as a weapon in larval form and once used the rubble of Tokyo Tower to make a cocoon. For ten points, name this gargantuan lepidopteran that has been both an ally and a rival to Godzilla.

Answer: Mothra

12. In this song’s video, its singer hangs photo-realistic wallpaper of a forest lake and displays photos of people playing musical instruments. This song was the biggest hit on its singer’s eponymous album, which also featured a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and “Yashanti”, a song with Hebrew lyrics. Its video introduced fewer people to this song than a commercial in which an interoffice envelope is opened to reveal a Macbook Air. This song’s lyrics describe someone “making every possible mistake” and hoping to learn “how to give and take.” For ten points, name this 2008 top ten hit for Yael Naim.

Answer: “New Soul”

13. This artist’s most recent album features “Fall Again,” a collaboration with Robin Thicke, and the title track “Heart and Soul.” This person’s music stopped escaping inmates in an Audi commercial during the 2011 Super Bowl. This person has his own line of E Series II instruments despite playing Selmer and soloed on Michael Bolton’s “Soul Provider.” “By the Time This Night is Over” and “Forever in Love” are this artist’s songs to have topped the Adult Contemporary chart. For ten points, “Songbird” was a hit for what musician who holds the record for the longest note played on a saxophone.

Answer: Kenny G or Kenneth Bruce Gorelick

14. After writing a review in The Harvard Crimson called “The Last Musical” about a Boston trial run of Follies in 1971, this person was invited to have lunch with Stephen Sondheim. This person wrote that The Passion of the Christ was a porn movie and that Moose Murders was the worst play he had seen on a Broadway stage. This person wrote a column entitled “Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito” and Stephen Colbert offered to “bump” this person during the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Books by this person include Hot Seat, The Greatest Story Ever Sold and Ghost Light. For ten points, name this long-time theater and film critic who is now a political columnist for The New York Times.

Answer: Frank Rich

15. Despite having an older brother win a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1968 Summer Olympics, this person gave up competitive swimming for music. This person’s guitar playing on “Frozen Love” led to an invitation to join a band in 1974. Recent works by this person include recording a solo album, Gift of Screws, and composing “Peacekeeper”, the first single from the album Say You Will. As a solo artist, this person’s two top 40 solo hits are “Go Insane” and “Trouble”, but “Holiday Road”, the theme song he wrote for National Lampoon’s Vacation, is arguably better known. For ten points, name this guitarist who composed “Go Your Own Way” and had a nasty romantic break-up with Stevie Nicks while a member of Fleetwood Mac.

Answer: Lindsey Adams Buckingham

16. Specials aired on this network include Food For Thought, in which Angie Martinez interviewed Clifford Harris and Notarized, its annual Top 100 countdown, which was topped by “Deuces” in 2010. One program on this network focuses on the engagement of a pediatrician named Stacy to the contractor who re-modeled her kitchen. This network is the cable home of the otherwise syndicated Wendy Williams Show and Kirk Franklin hosts Sunday Best, a talent show also seen on its Gospel-themed spin-off channel. For ten points, Robert Johnson is the co-founder of what network that airs the video countdown program 106 & Park.

Answer: B.E.T. or accept Black Entertainment Television

17. This person broke Jesse Ferguson’s nose in his first nationally televised competition. Henry Tillman caused two of this person’s three amateur losses, but later lost this person’s first fight after losing the heavyweight championship. This person cited the death of Cus D’Amato as a pivotal experience in a documentary directed by James Toback. In 2011, this person was seen competing in a new sport involving a race from Pennsylvania to rooftops in Brooklyn on an Animal Planet reality series. For ten points, name this former boxer who bit Evander Holyfield’s ear seven years after losing the heavyweight championship in a 1990 fight with Buster Douglas.

Answer: Michael Gerard “Mike” Tyson

18. In 2001, this person was named the Big East’s football Freshman of the Year. Despite needing shoulder surgery after his rookie professional season, this person’s team traded away Kevan Barlow and made him the starter. This person was the second NFL player to rush for two touchdowns longer than 75 yards in a game and in 2006, he broke Garrison Hearst’s single season franchise rushing record. This player’s 2010 season ended with a hip injury in a Monday night game against the Cardinals, which led to more carries for back-ups Anthony Dixon and Brian Westbrook. For ten points, “The Inconvenient Truth” is a nickname for what person who has for the last five seasons been the leading rusher for the San Francisco 49ers.

Answer: Franklin Delano “Frank” Gore

19. This actor played the student who gets plastic surgery as an unwitting participant in Rachel Weisz’s character’s masters thesis in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things. This actor once played a character who drove to Memphis to stop delivery of a photo of him with a stripper played by Reese Witherspoon, with whom he would also star in a 2010 film. He has played a paralyzed World War II vet in The Cider House Rules and ill-fated characters like Abel in Year One and Paris in Baz Luhrmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet. This actor played the aspiring environmental lawyer who is the eventual love interest for Cher in Clueless. For ten points, name this actor who has sold Minotaur with Sean William Scott in Role Models and brought Steve Carrell to a Dinner for Schmucks.

Answer: Paul Stephen Rudd

20. This program’s theme song often ends with its host singing non-sequitirs like “I’ve got Pac Man Fever and I’ve got it bad” and “that blue chick from Avatar needs a bra.” During its Hollywood tribute, Robin Williams tweeted how much fun he was not having. This program’s “back to school” episode featured two stars of Red and funk duo Doo Doo Man and Squiggy. Picabo Street, Jake the Snake, John Stockton, Boba Fett and Mothra have danced during episodes and Frank Rich and Lindsey Buckingham have been bumped for time. This program claims to tackle issues of the day with soul and its on-air personnel includes a Kenny G-lookalike and its host, Diondre Cole. For ten points, name this fictional B.E.T. program in Saturday Night Live sketches in which Kenan Thompson’s character has interrupted Mike Tyson, Al Gore and Paul Rudd with its eponymous theme song.

Answer: “What Up With That?”

21. On television, this person has portrayed the character who spray paints “CO77X” on walls and killed Joey Limbo. In four different 2010 films, this person played a man who did not show up for a reservation at the trendy restaurant Claw, Allen Ginsberg, a struggling actor dating writer Elizabeth Gilbert, and a man who drinks a Camelback full of urine in Canyonlands National Park prior to performing self-amputation. For ten points, name this actor who spent the 2011 Oscar telecast both as a co-host and a Best Actor nominee for 127 Hours.

Answer: James Edward Franco

22. In Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, this person played the magician who is the new owner of the sub-titular character. This actor portrayed a Compu Nerd representative in the video for Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body.” This person and Paul Scheer often tell knock knock jokes on Yo Gabba Gabba and this person voiced a folk singer in a peach orchard on The Simpsons and played Glenn, a member of Ricky Bobby’s pit crew in Talladega Nights. This person’s most famous character calls alcohol “hill people milk,” sees everyone as Muppets and once retrieved nachos from Yankee Stadium for Tracy Jordan. For ten points, name this actor who portrays NBC page Kenneth Parcell on 30 Rock.

Answer: Jack McBrayer

Bonus

1. Answer these questions about the Delaware Fighting Blue Hens for ten points each.

(10) This current Ravens quarterback was the starter for the 2007 team, which lost the FCS title game to Appalachian State at Chattanooga’s Finley Stadium.

Answer: Joseph Vincent “Joe” Flacco

(10) Another former Delaware QB is this well-traveled former pro, who threw five interceptions as the starter for the 2002 Raiders in their Super Bowl loss to Tampa Bay.

Answer: Richard Joseph “Rich” Gannon

(10) The field at Delaware Stadium is named in honor of this former coach, a master of the “Delaware Wing-T” offense.

Answer: Harold Rupert “Tubby” Raymond

2. Answer these questions about a man of letters and his kin for ten points each.

(10) This author of God and Man at Yale and subject of a wordy puppet parody on Sid and Marty Kroft’s D.C. Follies is also credited for founding National Review.

Answer: William Frank Buckley, Jr.

(10) In addition to his essays and more serious works, William F. Buckley wrote a detective series centered on what CIA agent?

Answer: Blackford and/or Oakes

(10) William F. Buckley’s son Christopher is now an accomplished novelist with works including this satirical novel about lobbyists that was turned into a 2005 Jason Reitman film.

Answer: Thank You for Smoking

3. For ten points each, answer these questions about songs associated with the Berlin Wall and/or the fall of Communism in Europe.

[10] In 1989, Germans loved “Looking for Freedom”, a cover of a Marc Seaberg hit, performed by what American television star who became a You Tube sensation for dining on the floor?

Answer: David Michael Hasslehoff

(10) In this 1985 song, Elton John sings about this would- be love interest “who’s on the other side” and who is asked “when you look up through the wire…do you see the stars at night?”

Answer: “Nikita”

(10) In this hit song, The Scorpions listen to the titular entity while following the Moskva down to Gorky Park and claim the titular entity “blows straight into the face of time.”

Answer: “Wind of Change”

4. Identify these films with connections to Oxford for ten points each.

(10) This 2007 film with Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman was based in part on Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series with scenes filmed by the Oxford campus.

Answer: The Golden Compass

(10) Oxford in the 1920’s is featured in this 1981 miniseries from an Evelyn Waugh novel, which was re-shot as an Emma Thompson movie in 2008.

Answer: Brideshead Revisited

(10) In this 2003 Amanda Bynes vehicle, she plays an American protagonist who decides to follow in her father’s footsteps by studying at Oxford.

Answer: What a Girl Wants

5. For ten points each, name these NBC series set in small town America.

(10) This series’ final season just started running on NBC in April, but since it’s already been aired on Direct TV, we know its final episode will involve Matt Saracen proposing to Julie and East Dillon playing for the Texas state championship.

Answer: Friday Night Lights

(10) Small-government advocate and Pyramid of Greatness creator Ron Swanson runs the titular Pawnee, Indiana municipal department on this NBC series.

Answer: Parks and Recreation

(10) Elisa Donavan stars in this online exclusive series about an American Family Insurance agent in the All-American town of Maple Grove.

Answer: In Gayle We Trust

6. Name these Major League Baseball players of past or present who spent time with the Wilmington Blue Rocks for ten points each.

(10) This Hall of Fame pitcher who died in May of 2010 won 286 games for the Phillies after being called up from the nearby Blue Rocks in 1948.

Answer: Robin Evan Roberts

(10) Besides Roberts, the only other Blue Rock to have his number retired is this player, who had 5 All-Star appearances and five three-hundred-plus seasons with the Royals and hit an NLDS home run for the Phillies in 2010.

Answer: Michael John “Mike” Sweeney

(10) This pitcher, who went 17 and 7 in 2010, had 3 starts in Wilmington on the way to the Majors, where he made a splash in his second MLB start in 2007 by throwing a no-hitter against Baltimore at Fenway Park.

Answer: Clay Buchholz

7. Answer these questions about the music of occasional Anderson Cooper 360 political commentator Trace Adkins for ten points each.

(10) This 2005 hit mentions a lady who has it “going on like Donkey Kong” and wonders “how she’d even get them britches on” by virtue of her possession of the title anatomy.

Answer: Honky Tonk Badonkadonk

(10) This ode to “songs about family and God” and “scars and bars and broken hearts” and “who I am” even wins over city slicker businessmen in the lyrics and video.

Answer: “Songs About Me”

(10) Adkins gets a “featuring” credit and a co-starring role in the video for “Hillbilly Bone”, a 2009 hit for this fellow country star.

Answer: Blake Tollison Shelton

8. For ten points each, answer these questions related to Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes.

(10) In a parody of Oliver Stone’s JFK, this former Met hit on Elaine and was accused—and later exonerated—of spitting on Kramer and Newman.

Answer: Keith Barlow Hernandez

(10) One of Elaine’s jobs was with this catalog, whose namesake boss was portrayed on the show by John O’Hurley.

Answer: J Peterman

(10) In “The Checks”, Elaine proposes “Witchy Woman” as a relationship song to her doctor boyfriend because of her dislike of this other Eagles song, where “You’ve been out riding fences for so long now”.

Answer: Desperado

9. I pity the fool who doesn’t 30 this bonus on the films of Mr. T. Name these films for ten points each.

(10) Mr. T’s “I pity the fool” catchphrase originated with playing Clubber Lang in what film?

Answer: Rocky III

(10) Mr. T provides the voice of Officer Earl Devereaux in this 2009 animated film featuring Bill Hader and Anna Farris and based on Judi Barrett’s 1978 children’s book classic.

Answer: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

(10) Mr. T starred in this 1983 Joel Schumacher film about a struggling small business, which has a supporting cast that includes Bill Maher, Adam Baldwin, Irene Cara, and Whitman Mayo.

Answer: DC Cab

10. Answer these questions about a 2010 re-boot of a video game series for ten points each.

(10) A 2010 game subtitled Lords of Shadow was meant as a re-boot to this game franchise in which most entries involve a member of the Belmont family fighting Dracula.

Answer: Castlevania

(10) Castlevania: Lords of Shadows is published by this company whose namesake code made Contra a lot simpler.

Answer: Konami

(10) This actor provides the voice of Zobek in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and narrates the game.

Answer: Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart

11. Name these other new Miami Heat players who joined LeBron James and Chris Bosh in “taking their talents to South Beach” for ten points each.

(10) While Shaq left Cleveland for Boston, this longtime Cavs center joined LeBron on the Heat.

Answer: Zydrunas Ilgauskas (zih-DROON-is ill-GOW-skus)

(10) After starting his career with the Heat in 2000 and winning a ring with the Celtics in 2008, this point guard from Arizona State was on the Heat in 2011 when he was fined for an obscene gesture in a game with the Thunder.

Answer: Edward L. “Eddie” House II

[10} This former Fab 5 member signed a contract with the Heat, 14 years after his first contract to join the Heat was halted by a miscalculation of the salary cap, keeping him with Washington.

Answer: Juwan Antonio Howard

12. Answer these questions related to a men’s grooming product for ten points each.

(10) This aftershave’s ads have featured Pete Rose singing in a “baseball quartet” and a long-running slogan, “There’s something about an (Blank) man”.

Answer: Aqua Velva

(10) Aqua Velva’s blue color inspired a cocktail of the same name, which was a favorite of Robert Graysmith as portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal in this film about tracking a California serial killer.

Answer: Zodiac

(10) Aqua Velva is part of the Combe Incorporated family of products, which includes both Just For Men and this other men’s hair coloring product long rumored to be used by Ronald Regan.

Answer: Grecian Formula

13. Try these questions about the music of noted Sharron Angle supporter Pat Boone for ten points each.

(10) According to Pat Boone’s website, this R&B artist claimed that he was able to buy a diamond ring from the royalties of Boone’s cover of “Ain’t That a Shame?”

Answer: Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino Jr.

(10) In 1998, Boone cut an album of heavy metal covers with the title track being this Alice Cooper classic in which the singer opened doors for little old ladies before coming to the titular resolution?

Answer: No More Mr. Nice Guy

(10) This 4-word phrase was the title of both a 1959 radio hit for Boone and his best-selling book of advice for youngsters.

Answer: Twixt Twelve and Twenty

14. We have the technology… to ask these questions about The Six Million Dollar Man for ten points each.

(10) Astronaut and title character Steve Austin was played by this actor in the 70’s TV series, who had a well-publicized relationship with Farrah Fawcett.

Answer: Lee Majors or Harvey Lee Yeary

(10) During the series run of The Six Million Dollar Man, Richard Anderson portrayed this head of the OSI, a character also mentioned in the Matin Caidin’s Cyborg novels.

Answer: Oscar and/or Goldman

(10) The Six Million Dollar Man returned in TV movies like Bionic Showdown, which featured a new Bionic Woman played by this future Best Actress winner whose current TV viewing probably does not include Monster Garage.

Answer: Sandra Annette Bullock

15. Answer these questions about highlights in the career of Yale alum Sam Waterston for ten points each.

(10) The cancellation of the original Law and Order brought an end to this character, who Waterston portrayed from 1994 to 2010.

Answer: Jack and/or McCoy

(10) Waterston earned a Best Actor nomination for his role in this dramatization of Pol Pot’s Cambodia.

Answer: The Killing Fields

(10) Waterston was part of a cast that included Elliot Gould, Karen Black, Hal Holbrook, and O.J. Simpson in this 70’s film about NASA fabricating a mission to Mars.

Answer: Capricorn One

16. For ten points each, answer questions about “The Monster Mile”, Dover International Speedway.

(10) This NASCAR legend won the first two Delaware 300 races at Dover in 1969 and 1970 and in total scored seven of his record 200 career top-level series wins at Dover.

Answer: Richard Lee Petty

(10) The 2010 Autism Speaks 400 at Dover was won by this driver whose other 2010 wins included winning the May Richmond race from the pole and a Bristol win that made him the first driver to win a Sprint Cup, a Nationwide and a truck series race in a single weekend.

Answer: Kyle Thomas Busch

(10) In September 1991, this driver, at the age of 51, won all four Winston Cup races including a dominating performance at Dover in which he was the only driver to finish on the lead lap.

Answer: Harry Phil Gant

17. Answer questions about music in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery for ten points each.

(10) This musician makes a credited appearance as he sings “What the World Needs Now is Love”, a song this person co-wrote with lyricist Hal David.

Answer: Burt Freeman Bacharach

(10) Powers fends off the Fembots by displaying his mojo via dance moves in a scene set to this Australian group’s 1991 hit “I Touch Myself”.

Answer: DiVinyls

(10) Over the closing credits, Powers is backed on a song called “BBC” by Ming Tea, a fictional band featuring the talents of Matthew Sweet and this singer, with whom Sweet has collaborated on two covers albums entitled Under the Covers.

Answer: Susanna Lee Hoffs

18. Answer these questions related to a national franchise chain’s commercials for ten points each.

(10) In 2007, Wendy’s sparked a rift between Brian Ritchie and Gordon Gano of this band when Gano sold the rights to use “Bilster in the Sun” to pitch chili in 2007.

Answer: Violent Femmes

(10) From 1989 to 2002, this Wendy’s founder appeared in advertisements for the chain.

Answer: David “Dave” Thomas

(10) In 1984, Clara Peller’s catchphrase “Where’s the Beef” from Wendy’s ads was utilized by Walter Mondale in a debate against this opponent.

Answer: Gary Hart or Gary Warren Hartpence

19. For ten points each, answer these questions about scantily clad teens in cover photos.

(10) A photo by Annie Leibowitz depicting this teen singer apparently nude and wrapped in a sheet prompted controversy when used as a Vanity Fair cover in April 2008.

Answer: Miley Ray Cyrus or Destiny Hope Cyrus

(10) This 17-year-old lead singer of The Pretty Reckless posed scantily clad and holding a shotgun on the cover of Revolver. She is better known for playing Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl.

Answer: Taylor Michel Momsen

(10) In 2008, then 17-year-old Spencer Elden thankfully wore trunks while swimming after a dollar bill to recreate the baby photo that was used as the cover of what album released in 1991?

Answer: Nevermind

20. For ten points each, name these restaurant chains where one can order a gourmet burger.

(10) This restaurant chain is promoted with the tagline Big is Better and displays signs saying “Pepsi, No Coke.” Patrons completing its Pounder burger are rewarded with a photo on its Wall of Fame.”

Answer: Cheeburger Cheeburger

(10) Claiming to sell the world’s greatest hamburgers, this chain offers a produce bar so customers can “Build Your Own” and an Exotics line featuring elk and wild boar.

Answer: Fuddruckers

(10) This chain started by Ted Turner has a stated goal of promoting conservation of the American bison, which is apparently accomplished by serving bison steaks and burgers. It uses paper straws as part of its other environmental goals.

Answer: Ted’s Montana Grill

21. For ten points each, answer these questions about baseball players born in Whittier, California.

(10) This now retired Whittier native won Comeback Player of the Year as a first baseman with the Dodgers in 2006 and won the 1997 AL Rookie of the Year award and back-to-back batting titles as a shortstop for the Boston Red Sox in 1999 and 2000.

Answer: Anthony Nomar Garciaparra

(10) Whittier native Andy Etchebarren hit into a double-play to end Game 2 of the 1966 World Series and thus became the last person to bat against what Hall of Fame Dodgers pitcher who retired due to arthritis after the Series?

Answer: Sanford “Sandy” Koufax

(10) This Whittier native and current Milwaukee Brewer played first base for the Red Sox in the 2008 playoffs and hit an inside-the-park home run during the 2006 ALDS while playing centerfield for the Oakland A’s.

Answer: Mark Steven Kotsay

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