Toss-ups by Jeremy White and Ben Lea - Trash



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F.O.G.H.A.T. 2004: Fifth Time I Was a Fool

Packet 13

▪ Based on a theme by Jeremy White

▪ Toss-ups by Jeremy White and Ben Lea (3, 9, 11, 13, 21)

▪ Bonus by Jeremy White, Ben Lea (5, 6, 17, 19)

Toss-ups

1. Award-winning playwright Erica Barry finds plenty of inspiration after daughter Marin returns home to the Hamptons with an older boyfriend named Harry, a record company exec who was once briefly engaged to Diane Sawyer. After having a heart attack, Harry moves in with Erica for a while and a romance blooms. For ten points, name this 2003 film starring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.

Answer: Something’s Gotta Give

2. His second album, Pointless Nostalgic gained him some BBC airplay, which provided the career momentum fueling the success of his latest release. He displays eclectic tastes on his new album by including covers of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “I Could Have Danced All Night”, Radiohead’s “High and Dry” and Pharrell’s “Frontin’.” For ten points, name this singer, promoted as a "one-man British invasion", who melds rock and piano-based jazz on his album Twentysomething.

Answer: Jamie Cullum

3. His story suggests appendectomies in the Dominican Republic are something to avoid.  He was 21 years old and coming off a promising 2000 in which he hit .290 and slugged 20 home runs when he had an appendicitis attack and surgery in his native Santo Domingo that laid him low for the better part of three seasons.  On the verge of release following 2003, this third baseman rebounded with a stellar 2004 that included being named NL player of the month for September.  For ten points, name this NL MVP candidate, who hit .334 with a league-leading 48 homers for the LA Dodgers.

Answer:  Adrian Beltre

4. She had a recurring role on thirtysomething as Dr. Silverman and lately she has been displaying her shopping acumen in a series of commercials for the grocery store chain, Jewel. She played a producer working for her mother, portrayed by Linda Lavin, on Room For Two and she played the mother of the Stepjack family on Someone Like Me. She is also a devoted mother in her current sitcom role, although arguably her funniest moments are the acrimonious exchanges with her TV mother-in-law played by Doris Roberts. For ten points, name this actress who plays the wife of the title character on Everybody Loves Raymond.

Answer: Patricia Heaton

5. The rules sheet for this Steve Jackson Games offering says it is something of an homage to a similarly named 1981 Milton Bradley game. All turns but the final one end by rotating the three-dimensional title structure in the board’s center. Players try to defeat the evil wizard Z’mindrik who has cursed the land of Aurora with monsters. Players control characters, such as Amazona or Elrond Hubbard. For ten points, name this board game based on a comic by John Kovalic.

Answer: Dork Tower

6. It was the final film shown at Roger Ebert’s first Overlooked Film Festival and was presented in 70 millimeter by director Steven Lisberger and actor David Warner who played Sark. Lisberger criticized some of the films it has inspired for combining their "messiah" and "warrior" characters into one instead of keeping them separate like Flynn and the title character who together battle something called the Master Control Program. For ten points, name this 1982 film in which Bruce Boxleitner and Jeff Bridges fight through a video game.

Answer: Tron

7. He won his only Grammy Award in 1990 along with Alonzo Miller and Stanley Burrell for Best R&B song. Some of the most successful products of his career as a producer were Teena Marie’s debut album Wild and Peaceful, The Temptations 1982 Reunion album and Eddie Murphy’s song “Party All the Time.” The former two artists both appeared on his biggest LP, Street Songs with Marie singing on the duet “Fire and Desire” and the Temptations doing background vocals on his biggest hit. For ten points, name this late composer, producer and musician who was something of a “Super Freak.”

Answer: Rick James

8. This two-word phrase has appeared at the start of the titles of eleven novels, most recently in 1997 when it preceded “in the Old West” and in 1995, when it preceded “at the Scary Movie.” All the entries in the series focus on two plucky young amateur sleuths named Gwen and Jill who solve mysteries with the help of Gwen’s dog Fletcher. For ten points, name this two-word phrase that begins a series of children’s mystery novels by Elizabeth Levy.

Answer: Something Queer

9. In a March 27, 2004 game against the Nets, he managed something of a rare feat, namely notching career highs in both scoring with 41 points and assists with 13.  None of the passes went to Bernie Mac, as a Nike ad suggested.  Like a good pitchman, he lists his favorite shoe as the Jordan XI and like a tool of Satan, he appears in a Powerade commercial pretending to drain 80-footers.  For ten points, name this 2004 NBA Rookie of the Year who wears #23 for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Answer:  LeBron James

10. His editorial “Something Bad Has Begun” was published in the Los Angeles Times on September 28, 2004. In the piece, he reflected on his experience one week earlier on United Airlines flight 919, which was diverted from its scheduled destination in New York to Bangor, Maine. The plane was diverted because he was on Homeland Security’s terrorist no-fly list. For ten points, name this man who will now presumably be forced to travel by “Peace Train.”

Answer: Cat Stevens or Yusuf Islam

11. Sebastian Haff had carved out a pretty good life touring Texas with a road show when one day Haff’s idol walked in and wanted to switch identities.  Not even the Memphis Mafia noticed something had changed, but Haff’s bad habits and worse ticker led the public to believe the superstar had died in 1977. That event combined with a trailer fire and a stage accident left the true superstar stuck with the name Sebastian Haff in a Texas nursing home being terrorized by an Egyptian soul sucker.  For ten points, this is the back-story of what 2002 movie, featuring Ossie Davis as a black JFK and Bruce Campbell as both Sebastian Haff and Elvis?

Answer:  Bubba Ho-Tep

12. He drove the pace car before the start of the 2002 Indianapolis 500. His Indy introduction mentioned nothing about his first film role as an airline clerk in My Own Private Idaho, but did mention something about his starring roles in High Crimes and The Count of Monte Cristo. For ten points, name this actor who shares his initials with the character he portrayed in The Passion of the Christ.

Answer: James “Jim” Caviezel

13. For October, Bridget is wearing a Monet bracelet, earrings by JLo, and Jimmy Choo Shoes, all courtesy of Saks Fifth Avenue.  No mention of the provenance of her hat is made, but her ensemble is completed with a jeweled piece by Janet Reger, courtesy of Girl Pye, that most certainly could not be shown by Gregg Easterbrook on , for thong-related reasons.  For ten points, identify this calendar, which is both an opportunity for further exposure of an NFL trademark and something endlessly (and deservedly) shilled for by Tuesday Morning Quarterback.

Answer: Philadelphia and/or Eagles Cheerleaders' Lingerie calendar

14. She played Shirley Johnson in the 1961 movie, Something Wild. In a 1962 episode of The Defenders, she played a murder witness who pointed to a murderer played by the man who later played her TV husband. Almost as ironic, she played a mayor’s wife named Edith in Cold Turkey which was directed by Norman Lear, the producer of the sitcom in which she played her most famous character, Edith. For ten points, name this actress who played the “dingbat” wife of Archie Bunker.

Answer: Jean Stapleton

15. He is embarrassed when the hostess of his talk at American University in Paris introduces him by quoting a Boston Magazine profile that calls him a “40-something academic” with “more than his share of scholarly allure” and “Harrison Ford in Harris tweed.” Hours after giving his talk on pagan inscriptions on stones in Chatres, he is awoken by a call informing him of the death of Jacques Sauniere, the curator of the Louvre, which leads him into a strange mystery. For ten points, name this Harvard Professor of Religious Symbology, the lead character of The DaVinci Code.

Answer: Professor Robert and/or Langdon

16. She created a not-for-profit organization promoting the encouragement of women called The Starlet Fund. She released her first book in 1999, entitled You Have to Stand for Something or You’ll Fall for Anything and she also started a home shopping show for ShopNBC called “It’s All About You.” Plus, as Tracy Morgan would frequently remind us, yes, she is a lawyer. For ten points, name this woman, the only African American host of The View.

Answer: Star Jones

17. Its first host often began it by playing “This Could Be The Start of Something Big” at the piano. In 1957, Jazzbo Collins became its third host in less than three years. In 2009, it is projected to have only its third regular host in thirty-seven years because that is when Conan O’Brien is scheduled to take over the reins from its current host, Jay Leno. For ten points, name this NBC program that became an institution while hosted by Johnny Carson.

Answer: The Tonight Show

18. They played the Graham Gouldman song, “Listen People” in the movie When the Boys Meet the Girls. They played a concert at the Rose Bowl and had their name placed on a NASA spaceship in their movie Hold On! The Naked Gun included a parody music video to the tune of their first single, “I’m Into Something Good.” For ten points, name this English group that is best remembered for their hit, “I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am.”

Answer: Herman’s Hermits

19. He was the fifth pick in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft and the next year he set the record for most assists in a Stanley Cup finals. His number 68 was chosen to honor the year of the Prague Spring rebellion in which both of his grandfathers were killed. named him the number one player with something to prove in the 2002-2003 season and he may not have proven anything since the next season the Capitals traded him to the New York Rangers for Anson Carter. For ten points, name this Czech right-wing who beginning in 1998 won four consecutive Art Ross trophies.

Answer: Jaromir Jagr

20. This city is the location of Pacer’s, which was the first American strip club to have its employees unionize, and it is the hometown of the rock band Switchfoot. It was named for a German word-meaning whale’s vagina, or at least that is something believed by the title character of the film Anchorman. It was the site of The Real World 14, the one with Frankie who had cystic fibrosis. For ten points, name this home of Qualcomm Stadium and the Chargers.

Answer: San Diego

21. Of the 14,368 yards he gained throughout his career, 2142 were on receptions, with another 990 on kickoff returns and for 11 seasons, gaining 11,236 yards rushing is no mean feat.  Known as both a power runner and a slasher, he was a 5-time unanimous All-Pro and winner of 4 NFL rushing titles.  For ten points, name this 1968 Heisman trophy winner who is today better known for something outside of football, namely being found responsible for, but not guilty of, his ex-wife Nicole’s death.

Answer: O. J. Simpson

(Oh come on…  A power runner *and* a slasher!)

Bonus

1. Answer these questions about music relating to Breakfast at Tiffany’s for ten points each.

a. This band had its lone hit single with a song entitled “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Answer: Deep Blue Something

b. This Oscar winning song first appeared in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and it now serves as the third encore of Andy Williams’ Branson show according to Nelson Muntz.

Answer: Moon River

c. This English singer and songwriter shares her name with a Breakfast at Tiffany’s character. She sang with the band Thee Headcoatees and has released the solo album Truly She Is None Other.

Answer: Holly Golightly

2. For ten points each, name these offerings from Rockstar Games for ten points each.

a. This sixth release in the Grand Theft Auto line will be released this week and features environments inspired by early 90s LA.

Answer: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

b. This game attempts to meld the sensibilities of GTA to the story of the revenge-seeking titular cowboy bounty hunter produced something Jeremy’s friend Rob calls Grand Theft Horse.

Answer: Red Dead Revolver

c. Spanky, MacNeil, Bull, Libra and Phreak, all members of The Freedom Movement, battle the forces of The Corporation in this game that puts players in the midst of a large city riot.

Answer: State of Emergency

3. Joss Whedon called it something that would have to be seen to be believed. He wasn’t kidding. For ten points each, answer these questions about the puppet episode of Angel for ten points each.

a. What was the name of the Angel puppet episode? It was named for the popular children’s television show in the episode that starred puppets and was draining the life force of children.

Answer: Smile Time

b. A curse at Smile Time turns Angel into a puppet that at certain angles bears a disturbing resemblance to what Sesame Street game show host?

Answer: Guy Smiley

c. After the puppet curses are lifted, “Smile Time” ends with Wesley being kissed by this physicist character played by Amy Acker

Answer: Winifred “Fred” Burkle

4. Name these hip musical acts that have covered songs by….Phil Collins?????

a. A cover of "I Don't Care Anymore" is a bonus track on her Wanderland album, which was released only in Europe roughly two years before her “Milkshake” brought all the boys to the yard.

Answer: Kelis

b. This side project band for Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie steals the show on the Wicker Park soundtrack with their cover of "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)."

Answer: Postal Service

c. This Canadian singer who had a number one R&B duet with R.L. called "We Can't Be Friends" sings a cover of "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" on her club album Remixed.

Answer: Deborah Cox

5. Among the wagers you and your foursome can make on the golf course is "Best At Something", where a point is awarded for fairways hit, greens hit, and one-putting a green, while a point is deducted for losing a ball and stuff like that.  For ten points each, identify these somewhat more familiar golf terms. HINT: they all begin with the same letter.

a.  As opposed to the eagle-birdie-par-bogie system, this scoring system awards points for the number of strokes you are under a set score.  Several PGA tournaments use a modified version of this system, wherein a birdie, for example, earns 2 points.

Answer:  Stableford

b.  This popular game values each hole equally, and the winner of each hole takes the prize.  If the hole is halved, the value carries over to the next hole.

Answer:  Skins

c.  A side bet named for one of the greats of Spanish golf, a golfer wins this bet if he pars the hole without having hit the fairway or if he pars the hole after hitting a tree.

Answer:  Seve

6. For ten points each, name the SEC schools from particularly noteworthy football players.  If you need the head coach, you'll earn only 5 points.

a. 10 points)  40-something year old Tim Frisby, a Desert Storm & Kosovo vet as an Army Ranger, who went back to school and walked onto the football team.

5 points)  Lou Holtz

Answer:  South Carolina

b. 10 points)  Carnell "Cadillac" Williams, a preseason Heisman hopeful.

5 points)  Tommy Tuberville, though the AD flew to Louisville last year to interview his potential replacement.

Answer:  Auburn

c. 10 points) Danny's nephew Erik Ainge and Reggie Cleveland All-Star Brent Schaeffer, the freshmen who rotate at quarterback.

5 points)  Phil Fulmer

Answer:  Tennessee

7. And now for something completely different from something completely different. For ten points each, answer these questions about television series featuring members of the Monty Python troupe.

a. Eric Idle joined the cast of this series in 1999 as the new boss at the magazine named The Street.

Answer: Suddenly Susan

b. This Python has hosted three travelogue series for the BBC that were also aired on PBS, namely Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole and Full Circle.

Answer: Michael Palin

c. John Cleese had a recurring role on this series as Lyle Finster, who almost married Karen Walker.

Answer: Will and Grace

8. For ten points, name these films named after pre-existing songs for ten points each.

a. Jaynie and Lynn, played by Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt respectively, audition for a spot on Dance TV in this 1985 movie.

Answer: Girls Just Want to Have Fun

b. It was originally to be called Grace Under Fire, but to avoid confusion with Brett Butler’s series, this Lasse Halstrom directed Julia Roberts flick was re-named for a hit song by Bonnie Raitt.

Answer: Something to Talk About

c. Soul singer Cody ChesnuTT appears in this Eric Byler film about a Japanese American mechanic torn between an alluring stranger and a friend, but it is named for a song written by Robert Smith.

Answer: Charlotte Sometimes

9. Name these bands given the title of a power ballad of theirs that hit the top 40 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in 1990.

a. "Something to Believe In"

Answer: Poison

b. "Without You"

Answer: Motley Crue

c. “The Ballad of Jayne”

Answer: LA Guns

10. Jasper Fforde's latest novel is called Something Rotten, and it details, among other odd plot lines, just what happens when Hamlet shows up in 1980s-era England. 

a. For ten points, "Something Rotten" is the fourth novel featuring this "literary detective", able to solve crimes both inside books and in the real world.

Answer: Thursday Next

b.  For ten points each, name any two of the first three books in the series.

Answer:  The Eyre Affair, The Well of Lost Plots, Lost in a Good Book

11. Name these stand-up comics given a description of a CD that contains some of their material.

a. Rhino’s Something Like This compiles his best stand-up and is named for the phrase he would use to introduce his classic bits like "The Driving Instructor" and "Introducing Tobacco to Civilization."

Answer: Bob Newhart

b. His debut album Drunk in Public is named for a key phrase in his story about being thrown out of a bar in New York that he told during The Blue Collar Comedy Tour movie.

Answer: Ron White also accept "Tater Salad"

c. This comedian’s 2003 debut CD is entitled Harmful if Swallowed.

Answer: Dane Cook

12. Name these rock bands given the names of all of their songs that have hit the Billboard modern rock charts.

a. "If U C Jordan" and "Space"

Answer: Something Corporate

b. "California" and "Big Brat"

Answer: Phantom Planet

c. "Freak of the Week"

Answer: Marvelous 3

13. It has been something of a transition year for NASCAR’s top series as the Winston Cup is now the Nextel Cup and the sanctioning body has adopted or announced a variety of new rules changes. Answer these questions about them for ten points each.

a. NASCAR changed the way the series champion was determined so that after the first 26 races, the field of drivers eligible to win the championship is pared down. A minimum of how many drivers continue in the “Chase for the Championship” after race 26?

Answer: Ten

b. Reacting to criticism this summer that many races were ending under caution, NASCAR adopted a policy of extending races when required so that a race can finish under racing conditions. This policy is known by what three-word term that names the series of flags that would be displayed during the two-lap extension?

Answer: Green-white-checker

c. On August 18th, NASCAR announced that next year spoilers would be lowered by one inch and all cars would be required to run a standard one of these for the first time.

Answer: Gear ratio

14. Name these movies based on literary works by Ray Bradbury for ten points each.

a. In this film, Mr. Dark grants the residents of Green Town one wish in exchange for them forever joining his freak show.

Answer: Something Wicked This Way Comes

b. In this film version of a Bradbury story and play, Joe Mantegna plays an East LA con man named Gomez who pools money with four other men to buy the magical title garment.

Answer: The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

c. Frank Darabont has been signed on to direct a remake of the original Francois Truffaut film of this Bradbury novel.

Answer: Fahrenheit 451

15. Name these unrelated short-lived NBC television series that have something in common given a description for ten points each.

a. Based on a 1988 mini-series, this series followed cop Jack Breslin and alien doctor Ta’ra as they tried to stop a monster from outer space.

Answer: Something is Out There

b. Gene Wilder starred as an adman and Hillary Smith as his wife in this 1994 series.

Answer: Something Wilder

c. The longevity champ among the series in this bonus is this Jere Burns and Mel Harris series about a newlywed couple who had each been through a divorce.

Answer: Something So Right

16. Name the comic strip given a title of a book compiling some of its strips for ten points each.

a. Something Under the Bed is Drooling

Answer: Calvin and Hobbes

b. Am I a Mutant or What?

Answer: Foxtrot

c. The Legal Lampoon: A Biased, Unfair and Completely Accurate Law Review

Answer: Non Sequitur

17. "If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day.  That's a heck of a day.  You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."  So the first recipient of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award said, during his acceptance speech, on March 4, 1993.   For ten points each, answer these questions relating to that speech.

a. First, name the recipient of that award, who passed away less than two months later from cancer.

Answer:  Jim Valvano

b.  Second, identify the awards show at which this speech took place.

Answer:  ESPYs

c.  Finally, at the end of that speech, Valvano announced the forming of the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research.  Among the luminaries on the board of directors of the V Foundation was this man who introduced Jim at the ESPYs.  Name him.

Answer:  Dick Vitale

18. Give the first and last name of the SNL character created by Gilda Radner given one of the catchphrases started by that character.

a. “It’s always something.”

Answer: Roseanne Roseannadanna

b. “Never mind.”

Answer: Emily Litella

c. "That was so funny I almost forgot to laugh."

Answer: Lisa Lupner

19. 30-20-10, name the baseball player.

30)  Part one of Howard Rosenberg's two-part biography of him is entitled When Captaining a Team Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years.

20)  Born with the first & middle names "Adrian Constantine", he probably got his nickname during his 18-year stint managing the Cubs. 

10)  He was also playing for the Cubs in those seasons, becoming the first to reach 3000 hits when he did so in late 1894.

Answer:  Cap Anson

20. Given the title of a double album they released in the 1970s, name the artist for ten points each.

a. Something / Anything

Answer: Todd Rundgren

b. Exile on Main Street

Answer: The Rolling Stones

c. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Answer: Genesis

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