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TOSSUPS TRASHMASTERS 1998

Questions by Walrus and the Eggmen and CSAS Milli

1. Spaniard Huevos y Bacon, Britisher Mykingdomforanos, and Roman legionary Gluteus Maximus are among those who have encountered this Gallic warrior. His adventures, chronicled in over thirty-five books and four movies since 1961, have included participating in the Olympics, traveling to Corsica, Switzerland and America, meeting Cleopatra and fighting against Pompey for Caesar. For ten points, who is this creation of the Belgian cartoonists Goscinny and Uderzo, who is always accompanied on his adventures by his best friend Obelix? Answer: ASTERIX

2. Half of our team first heard this song in promos for the 1983 ABC movie of the week ‘Making of a Male Model’ starring Joan Collins. On the other hand, one of our team members first heard the cover version of this song by Marilyn Manson. For ten points, what was this first top 40, and only number one, hit for Eurythmics?

Answer: SWEET DREAMS (Are Made of This)

3. The only ball to hit the center field scoreboard from the home plate of Wrigley Field was hit by this man, in the opening day pregame ceremonies of 1951, with a golf club. Credited with 135 tournament victories (although he claims 185 wins) over his long career, he was the PGA’s leading money winner in 1938, 1949, and 1959. For ten points each, who was this native of Hot Springs, Virginia, who became the oldest champion of a PGA event when winning the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open at age 52? Answer: Sam SNEAD

4. He claimed to be planning to fake his own death and then reappear on his fiftieth birthday, so if he does emerge from hiding in 1999, we shouldn’t be too surprised. The subject of the REM song “The Man in the Moon”, his only starring movie role, filmed shortly before his death in 1983, was as a lovelorn robot in “Heartbeeps”. For ten points, who was this stand-up comedian, best known for his role as mechanic Latka Gravas on the sitcom “Taxi”? Answer: Andy KAUFMAN

5. This 1995 book and its three sequels, “Tribulation Force”,”Nicolae”, and “Soul Harvest”, have sold 3 million copies between them, about as many as a typical John Grisham opus. Written by Tim Lahayeand Jerry Jenkins, they are best sellers in the contemporary Christian fiction market, and feature the appearance of the Anti-Christ, world government and other shibboleths of apocalyptic literature. For ten points name the first book of the series, whose title refers to those people remaining on Earth following the Rapture.

Answer: LEFT BEHIND

6: Currently known as Sentinel, the original bearer of this code name has after fifty years overcome his vulnerability to wood, and, in his secret identity, is the owner of the Gotham Broadcasting Company. Sentinel’s daughter, Jenny, previously known as Jade, recently gained this name, after being given a ring by her boyfriend, and predecessor, Kyle Rayner. For ten points, what is the code name that has been applied also to John Stewart, Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, and Hal Jordan, who charged his power ring while saying, “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight…” Answer: GREEN LANTERN

7. Your genial tournament director is so old, the first time someone told him about this woman, he assumed they meant the woman by the same name who was among the 4 students killed at Kent State in 1970. The top selling recording artist in the history of Rounder Records, she includes among her major influences the hard rock group AC/DC, whose cover photo for “Highway to Hell” is imitated on her Grammy-winning album, ‘So Long, So Wrong’. Performing with her four piece back-up group,collectively known as Union Station, her pop breakthrough was her cover of the Foundations’ ‘Baby, Now That I’ve Found You’. Name this singer, born in 1973, currently considered the world’s most popular bluegrass singer. Answer: Alison KRAUSS

TRASHMASTERS 1998 Questions by Walrus and the Eggmen and CSAS Curly

8. As co-negotiator with his superior, he arranged for the release of Johnny Fontane from an unfavorable music deal. He was less successful in negotiating with Sollozzo, which led to a symbolic delivery of seafood to his patron’s home. FTP name this Mafioso, who nervously rehearses his speech thanking Don Corleone for inviting him to his daughter’s wedding in The Godfather. Answer: Luca BRAZZI

9. The first use of the word ‘gay’ in a major Hollywood film to represent homosexuality is generally considered to have been in this film, when the male star, asked why he’s dressed in a frilly ladies robe, responds, ‘I’ve just turned gay all over!’ Its screenwriter, Dudley Nichols, had two years earlier become the first person to refuse an Academy Award. For ten points, what is this 1938 Howard Hawks screwball comedy, whose second half largely concerns the search for the pet leopard named in the title, pursued through the hinterlands of Connecticut by Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant? Answer: BRINGING UP BABY

10. The likeliest story about its origins places its first appearance in San Francisco about the time of the Civil War, although by the 1890s it had spread nationwide. As these early forms generally included a significant amount of sweeteners, however, it did not reach its modern form until World War II. General Patton called his favorite type a ‘Montgomery’, as, according to Patton, Monty would never attack until the ratio of troops was twelve to one, the same as Patton’s preferred ratio of gin to vermouth. For ten points, what is this mixed drink, commonly drunk in glasses with a triangular cross section, and garnished with an olive?

Answer: MARTINI

11. His career shift was presaged by an appearance at a costume party as Elvis. The scion of a perfect family, this “Teenage Idol” became a “Travelin’ Man” in many a “Lonesome Town.” But despite a miracle comeback in 1972, this “Poor Little Fool” found out life was no “Garden Party.” FTP name this juvenile TV star turned singing sensation, who died in a New Year’s Eve plane crash in 1985. Answer: Rick(y) NELSON

12: Have a take, and don’t suck. These are the two rules of ‘The Jungle’. This nationally syndicated radio program, with its multitude of obscure lingo, is hosted by a man so bold as to once refer to quarterback Jim Everett as ‘Chris Evert’ to his face, causing him to get smacked live on ESPN2. For ten points, name this SoCal-based personality, also host of Fox Sports Networks’ The Last Word. Answer: Jim ROME

13: The members of this group are named Guy O’Brien, Michael Wright, and Henry Jackson, but they are better known as Master Gee, Wonder Mike, and Big Bank Hank. Produced by Sylvia Robinson of the former pop duo Mickey and Sylvia, they have had eight R&B top 40 hits over the last two decades, including ‘Eighth Wonder’ and their cover of ‘Apache’; however, their significance is in recording the first rap single to reach the pop Top Ten, the 1979 ‘Rapper’s Delight’. For ten points, what was the first group to record rap music?

Answer: The SUGARHILL GANG

14: Ralphie wears his hat backwards every day. Carlos makes bad puns all the time. D.A. says “According to my research” a lot. Arnold is worried all the time. And Miss Frizzle has all the magic to make stuff happen. FTP name this TV show that teaches kids about “the mysteries of science.”

Answer: The MAGIC SCHOOL BUS

EDITOR’S NOTE: The preceding tossup was written, with very little editing, by Ansley Steinhice, who after one of her daddy’s puns inevitably groans, “Car-los!”.

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15: In the 1964 Martin Ritt film ‘The Outrage’, Paul Newman plays a Mexican bandit whose trial is complicated by the contradicting accounts of four different eyewitnesses to his crimes. It is a remake of the 1950 winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, in which the mutability of truth is demonstrated through the retellings of an attack by a wandering samurai, played by Toshiro Mifune. For ten points, what was the name of this influential film, that introduced director Akira Kurosawa to a western audience?

Answer: RASHOMON

16: If it isn’t the most valuable franchise in professional sports, it’s pretty close. Founded in 1892 as ‘the Heathens’, its run of dominance in the 1950’s under the leadership of Sir Matt Busby was ended prematurely by the 1958 plane crash outside Munich that claimed the lives of eight of ‘Busby’s Babes’. Current stars include David Beckham, Paul Scholes, and Gary Neville. For ten points, name this English soccer club, playing its home matches in Old Trafford Stadium, under negotiation for purchase by News Corp. for 623 million pounds.

Answer: MANCHESTER UNITED

17: Based in Austin, Texas, the computer bulletin board system setup by this company in 1983 to discuss its products has become a commercial internet service provider, Illuminati Online. From its first release, Ogre, through the endless supplements to the popular Car Wars, it has continued to thrive, with its current product line focused around collectible card games such as Illuminati: New World Order, and GURPS, the Generic Universal Role-Playing System. For ten points, what is this game company founded in 1980, named for its founder?

Answer: STEVE JACKSON Games

18: His name is Joe, but he’s not called that often. Created by Pat Mills, John Wagner, and Carlos Esquerra, he first appeared in 1977 in issue #2 of the magazine 2000 AD, and has appeared in many of the over 1000 issues of that comic. Set in a post-holocaust world dominated by ‘megacities’, he rides a heavily armored motorcycle, costumed in a face-concealing helmet and exaggerated black leather costume, dispensing justice to all law-breakers he finds. For ten points, who is this British comic character, depicted in a not-terribly-bad 1995 American movie by Sylvester Stallone?

Answer: JUDGE DREDD

19: Although he published his first story, ‘The Hades Business’, in 1963, he continued to work full time until 1987, when he left his job as a a public relations officer with the Central Electricity Generating Board. Many of his novels have been written as parodies, or simply with a great deal of humor, including ‘Strata’, and ‘The Dark Side of the Sun’. For ten points, name this British writer, best known for two fantasy series: ‘The Book of Nomes’, and ‘Discworld’?

Answer: Terry PRATCHETT

20: Steven Tyler plays the drums, ‘Colonel’ Steve Cropper the bass, and Tom Petty sings backup on a new cover version of Dobie Gray’s hit ‘Drift Away’, found on this performer’s new album, ‘Vertical Man’. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, he had seven solo top ten hits in the early seventies, including ‘Back Off Boogaloo’, ‘Oh My My’, ‘It Don’t Come Easy’, and ‘Photograph’.. For ten points, name this Liverpudlian, who in 1961, left Rory Storme’s Hurricanes to play drums for the Beatles.

Answer: Ringo STARR

21: One of the founders in 1973 of the bluegrass supergroup Old & In the Way, he had recorded his first solo album, ‘Hooteroll?’, two years earlier. However, he’s best known as the vocalist of a band whose first hit album, ‘In the Dark’, came 22 years after their founding as the Warlocks in 1965. For ten points, who was this songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist for the Grateful Dead?

Answer: Jerry GARCIA

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22: Originally an architectural design firm which specialized in improving acoustics of facilities such as Avery Fisher Hall in 1997 this Boston-based company was bought by GTE for 625 million dollars. This price might be exorbitant for a small design firm, but isn’t for the nationwide broadband backbone network and its associated network access and management business. For ten points, what is this company, named for its three original partners, which designed and built the original architecture for the Internet.

Answer: BOLT, BERANEK, AND NEWMAN (accept BBN or BBN PLANET)

23: The Challengers of the Unknown. Captain America. Devil Dinosaur. The Fighting American. Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth. Mr. Miracle. The Silver Surfer. The Fantastic Four. All of these characters were created or co-created by this comic book artist, whose name currently appears in the title of a DC comic featuring the New Gods, whom he created in 1969. For ten points name this former partner of Joe Simon and Stan Lee, nicknamed “the King”.

Answer: Jack KIRBY

BONI TRASHMASTERS 1998

Questions by Walrus and the Eggmen and CSAS Curly

1. Hey, cats and chicks - if you wanna know anything about entertainment in the last fifty years, ya gotta start with one name - Francis Albert Sinatra. For correctly ellucidatin’ da title of each of da following movies starrin’ Ol’ Blue Eyes, you’ll get what’s comin’ to youse - kapische?

a) (10 smackers) The Boy from Joisey made his debut as a Hollywood star in dis Gene Kelly musical, in which, as sailors, dey sing “New York, New York, a Wonderful Town” - ON THE TOWN

b) (5 smackers) Afta da tragic rupturin’ of his vocal chords, Frankie came back big time in dis James Jones novel adaptation, winnin’ an Oscar in da process - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

c) (15 smackers) Da Chairman leads ova half a dozen of da Rat Pack as some charitably-minded gangsters. Oh, and he sings dat Chicago is “My Kind of Town” - ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS

2. One of the best selling and most ubiquitous pop albums of recent years was the 1994 release Cracked Rear View, by Hootie and the Blowfish. On the booklet enclosed with the CD are excerpts from the lyrics of each song. For five points each, match six of these lines to the songs they come from. As an aid, the six songs are: “Hannah Jane”, “Hold My Hand”, “Let Her Cry”, “Only Wanna Be With You”, “Running From an Angel”, and “Time”.

a) “Ain’t Bobby so cool” - ONLY WANNA BE WITH YOU

b) “Children killing in the street, dying for the color of a rag” - TIME

c) “Every time I see you it makes me want to cry.” - RUNNING FROM AN ANGEL

d) “I was wasted and I was wasting time” - HOLD MY HAND

e) “So I sat back down, had a beer and felt sorry for myself.” - LET HER CRY

f) “We’ll get drunk and go out after dark, searching for someone we could take home” - HANNAH JANE

3: As of November 1998, the following television series are all regular scheduled on US basic cable channels. Five points each, given each series, name the channel you would find it on:

‘Penn & Teller’s Sin City Spectacular’ - FX

‘Inquizition’ - The GAME SHOW NETWORK

‘The Powerpuff Girls’ - CARTOON NETWORK

‘The Upright Citizens Brigade’ - COMEDY CENTRAL

‘La Femme Nikita’ - USA

‘Going Deep’ - FOX SPORTS Net

4. In the summer of 1959, Martians landed on the South Side of Chicago. Answer these questions about this invasion:

a) The four alien visitors landed their helicopter at second base in Comiskey Park, where they attempted to enlist the aid of the equally diminutive second baseman and shortstop of the White Sox. For five points each, name this Hall of Fame double play combo - Nellie FOX, Luis APARICIO

b) The mastermind of the invasion, the owner of the White Sox, also invented the exploding scoreboard and planted the ivy in Wrigley Field. For ten points, name this executive with the Cubs, White Sox, Browns, and Indians - Bill VEECK

c) One of the four “Martians” is more notorious for being, at three feet seven inches, the shortest batter in major league history. For ten points name the man who, in his one career plate appearance, in 1949 with the St. Louis Browns, drew a walk - Eddie GAEDEL

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5. As your intrepid question writer is a cubicle warrior, his favorite comic strip is, of course, Dilbert. Answer these questions for the stated number of points:

a) Among Dilbert’s co-workers is a extraordinary woman, constantly punished by the corporate culture for working too hard. For five points, name this workaholic with a triangular hairstyle - ALICE

b) Dilbert’s supervisor, who rivals Odie the dog as having the lowest IQ in comic strip history, is a nameless character, frequently referred to by a three word phrase abbreviated as PHB. For five points, what does PHB stand for? - POINTY HAIRED BOSS

c) In a memorable strip, we discovered that the Pointy Haired Boss’s brother was this character, a devil who, rather than a trident, carries a large spoon, and bears the title of Prince of Insiufficient Light. For ten points, name the ruler of Heck - PHIL

d) One of the most popular characters in Dilbert is his pet dog and erstwhile ruler of the universe, Dogbert. When Scott Adams first created the strip, however, Dogbert had another name, which Adams changed after it was pointed out that could potentially be offensive. For a final ten points, what was Dogbert’s original name? -

DILDOG

6. Time for more song lyrics. Each of the following lyrics can be heard in a particular attraction in either Disneyland or Walt Disney World. Name the associated attraction for each one, ten points each:

a) ‘We're rascals, scoundrels, villans and knaves/Drink up me 'earties, yo ho/We're devils and blacksheep and really bad eggs/Drink up me 'earties, yo ho!’ - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

b) ‘There is just one moon and one golden sun/And a smile means friendship for everyone’ - IT’S A SMALL WORLD

c) ‘Everybody's got a laughing place/A laughing place to go/Take a frown, turn it upside down/And you'll find yours we say we think’ - SPLASH MOUNTAIN

7. A while back, I was browsing in a book store when I was startled to hear on the in-store radio the song “Hooray for Captain Spaulding” … being sung in French. Answer these questions about this song for the stated number of points:

a) For ten points, “Hooray for Captain Spaulding” first appeared in what 1928 Broadway play, made into a movie in 1929? - ANIMAL CRACKERS

b) For five points, in Animal Crackers, what comedian played Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, “the African explorer, (at least he’s not a snorer), hooray, hooray, hooray”? - GROUCHO MARX

c) “Hooray for Captain Spaulding” later served as the theme song for a long running TV game show. Five points for one, fifteen points for both, give the name under which the game show was originally aired from 1949 to 1960 , and the name under which it has appeared in syndication since it went off the air in 1960? - YOU BET YOUR LIFE, THE BEST OF GROUCHO

8. Scott doesn’t know much about alternative music - but he is familiar with the songs of Weird Al Yankovic. Knowledge of either may help you with this bonus. Given a line from Weird Al’s medley “The Alternative Polka”, name the song it oringinally appeared in for five points and the original artist for five.

a) Lyric: ‘I know you want what’s on my mind/I know you like what’s on my mind/I know it eats you up inside’

Artist: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS ANSWER: SEX TYPE THING

b) Lyric: ‘Help me, I broke apart my insides/Help me, I’ve got no soul to sell’

Artist: NINE INCH NAILS ANSWER: CLOSER

c) Lyric: ‘Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage’

Artist: SMASHING PUMPKINS ANSWER: BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS

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9. FTSNOP, given a film, name the character Robert DeNiro played in it:

a) 5 pts.: Taxi Driver Travis BICKLE

b) 5 pts.: Raging Bull Jake LAMOTTA

c) 10 pts.: Goodfellas Bobby DOYLE

d) 10 pts.: Casino Ace ROTHSTEIN; accept Ace

10. Between turning pro in 1985, and joining the Buffalo Bills in 1998, 1984 Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie has played for six professional football teams. (yes, it’s another six-part list bonus) For five points apiece, name these six teams. Hint: two of them are in the NFL, three in the Canadian Football League, and one in the ill-fated USFL.

Answer: New Jersey Generals (USFL), Chicago Bears (NFL), New England Patriots (NFL), B.C. Lions (CFL), Toronto Argonauts (CFL), Calgary Stampeders (CFL)

11. One of the most bitter copyright disputes of the past thirty years has involved ownership of a song library including “Lodi” and “Fortunate Son”.

a) For five points, identify the band of the late sixties and early seventies that performed these songs, as well as “Proud Mary” and “Bad Moon Rising” Answer: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL (accept CCR)

b) For five points, name Creedence Clearwater Revival’s songwriter and lead singer, who because of this ownership dispute is perhaps the only person ever sued for plagarizing himself.

Answer: JOHN FOGERTY

c) John Fogerty has focused his anger in this dispute with Fantasy Records on Fantasy’s president, even mentioning him in a song on the Centerfield album in which he says that “he’ll steal your money”. For ten points, name either this executive, or the song about him.

Answer: Saul ZAENTZ, or “ZANZ KANT DANZ” (original title) or “VANZ KANT DANZ” (retitled)

(accept reasonably close pronunciations)

d) Interestingly, Saul Zaentz was the recipient of the 1996 Irving Thalberg Award for his achievements as a movie producer. For five points each, name any two of the three movies for which Zaentz has received the Best Picture Oscar.

Answer: THE ENGLISH PATIENT, AMADEUS, or ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

12: One of the most appealing filmmakers of recent years (for your question author’s demographic, anyway) is Kevin Smith. Answer these questions about him:

For five points each, name the two characters, one played by Smith himself, who have appeared in all of his movies to date. Answer: Junkie JAY and Silent BOB

One of the most interesting bits of casting in Smith’s next movie, Dogma, is that this popular singer will be playing God. Apparently the Supreme Being is a Canadian former cast member of You Can’t Do That on Television, then. For ten points, name her. Answer: Alanis MORISSETTE

Over the next few months, Smith will take over writing duties for two long running comic characters, one each at DC and Marvel. For five points each, name these two characters, whose secret identities are currently Matt Murdock and Connor Hawke. Answer: DAREDEVIL, GREEN ARROW

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13: Answer each of these clearly unrelated questions for five points each:

The female part of Meat Loaf’s ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’ was sung by Ellen Foley, who for its first season played a public defender on what sitcom? Answer: NIGHT COURT

Frequent Night Court guest star Mel Torme played a hoodlum in the 1959 movie Girls Town, which starred what blonde sexpot? Answer: Mamie VAN DOREN

Mamie Van Doren was unsurprisingly not related to Charles Van Doren, the all-time money winner on what scandal-racked game show of the 1950s? Answer: TWENTY-ONE

What British actor played Charles Van Doren in the movie Quiz Show, after appearing in Schindler’s List?

Answer: Ralph FIENNES (Pronounced ‘Raif Fines’)

Ralph Fiennes appears in the movie version of The Avengers as British superagent John Steed. Who played Steed on the original 1960s TV series? Answer: Patrick MACNEE

Patrick MacNee also appeared in A View to a Kill as British superagent James Bond’s chauffeur. Likewise, who appears in the movie SpiceWorld as chauffeur to the Spice Girls, who are definitely in need of a super-agent? Answer: Meat LOAF

14: Among the most influential science fiction writers of the last forty years is Richard Matheson, winner of a 1958 Hugo for The Incredible Shrinking Man. Well, OK, he’s not that influential, but answer these questions about Matheson’s work for ten points each:

Matheson’s first and best known novel, about the last post-holocaust survivor, has been adapted into movies twice, as The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price in 1964, and in 1971 as The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston. Name the book. Answer: I AM LEGEND

In 1971, Matheson wrote the screenplay for the TV movie Duel, starring Dennis Weaver as a terrorized motorist. What Oscar-winning director began his career with this film? Answer: Stephen SPIELBERG

X-Files creator Chris Carter considers Matheson to be one of his major influences, due to his creation of this seventies series about the adventures of a reporter, played by Darren McGavin, who is constantly battling vampires, werewolves and other monsters, but is never believed by others. Name either this series, or McGavin’s character. Answer: Kolchak, THE NIGHT STALKER (accept Carl KOLCHAK)

15: (This bonus written under the influence of a lovely Harp) In the words of Tom T. Hall, ‘I like beer – it makes me a jolly old fellow.’ Identify the following varieties of beer FTPE, from clues – sorry, no free samples:

a) One of the flavor characteristics of beer, contributed by the hops. In Britain, it’s a golden brown, top-fermented variety that's usually highly hopped, dry and lightly carbonated that accounts for about 80% of draft beer sales in English pubs. - BITTER

b) A very strong lager traditionally brewed in winter to celebrate the coming spring, it is full-bodied, malty, well-hopped. - BOCK

c) A general name for pale, golden-hued, highly hopped, bottom-fermented beers, its name comes from the Bohemian town where the originalwas first brewed, in 1842. - PILSNER

16. One of my favorite documents to peruse is the on-line Jargon File, featuring various terms developed for the amusement of the computer hacker community. Given the following excerpts from the Jargon File (version 4.0.0), identify the semi-whimsical term being defined, for ten points each:

The universal data sink. Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have gone here. - BIT BUCKET

An idea that spreads, with the connotation that it acts as a parasite, getting people to propagate it much as viruses do. - MEME

The protective plastic bag that accompanies 3.5-inch microfloppy diskettes. - CONDOM

TRASHMASTERS 1998 Questions by Walrus and the Eggmen and CSAS Curly

17. In 1998, Joe Torre became the seventh manager to lead the New York Yankees to more than one American League Championship. (‘Aha!’ Scott cried. ‘A bonus!’) For five points apiece, name the first six. (Reader: Give fifteen seconds)

Answer: Miller HUGGINS, Joe MCCARTHY, Casey STENGEL, Ralph HOUK, Billy MARTIN, Bob LEMON

18. Among the most popular TV shows of the last decade is Seinfeld. Answer these questions about it for the stated number of points:

a) When George makes up a lie, he frequently uses this name, often as an importer/exporter of latex. For five points, what is this all-purpose fake name?

Answer: Art VANDELAY

b) In the episode ‘The Junior Mint’, Jerry is going out with a woman whose name he doesn’t remember, but which rhymes with “a female body part”. For five points each, what does Jerry think her name is, and what is it actually?

Answer: MULVA, DELORES

c) In ‘The Doorman’ , Kramer and Frank Costanza invent an undergarment for men who need, um, upper body support. For five points, give either of the two proposed names for this device.

Answer: BRO or MANSSIERE

d) In the notorious episode “The Contest”, Jerry is dating a virgin who ends up in bed with John Kennedy, Jr. For five points, what actress, now a co-star on another NBC sitcom, played the virgin?

Answer: Jane LEEVES

e) For a final five points, if George were a porn star, what name would he use?

Answer: Buck NAKED

19: It’s time for the review of New York Christmas Shows! Identify these performers, ten points each, appearing this winter in some rather odd shows in Manhattan:

a) Playing through December 27 is ‘A Christmas Carol: The Musical’, featuring this performer as Scrooge. The originator of the title role of a long-running Broadway show, a video of the 1970 Isle of Wight concert by him and his bandmates was also recently released. If you have understood these clues, then perhaps you ‘won’t get fooled again.’ Name him. - Roger DALTREY

b) Headlining ‘A Singin’ Swingin’ Christmas’, at Avery Fisher Hall is this woman, whose fame as a vocalist is now exceeded by brother’s hosting duties on American Movie Classics, and her nephew’s ability at looking smug. It’s not known whether she is planning on performing ‘Mambo Italiano.’ - Rosemary CLOONEY

c) It’s not a Christmas show by any stretch of the imagination, but worth noting that this woman currently occupies the Booth Theatre with her latest one-woman show, ‘I’m Still Here…Damn It!’ She’s showing few lingering effects from her recent pregnancy; I wonder if she and Madonna are using the same baby sitter… - Sandra BERNHARD

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20: On January 2, 1870, in a cabin outside Kansas City, was born the greatest sports promoter of the first half of the twentieth century: George Lewis Rickard, nicknamed ‘Tex’. Answer these questions about him:

Tex Rickard’s first promotion was the July 4, 1910 ‘Great White Hope’ heavyweight boxing title fight, in which he lured a white former champion out of retirement to fight the black titleholder. For five points each, name the two boxers involved - Jack JOHNSON, James JEFFRIES

The primary arena which he used for many of his events was demolished in 1924. However, Rickard built a new one several blocks away, at Eighth Avenue and Fiftieth Street in Manhattan. For ten points, name ‘The House that Tex Built’ - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (It’s MSG III, if they get more specific, but it’s not necessary)

In between his highly successful events, Rickard needed a regular tenant to provide a full slate of dates. This led to his founding of this professional sports franchise, which survives to the present. For ten points, what is this team, whose name is a punning reference to the nickname of their founder? - New York RANGERS

21. One subject that interests Scott immensely (some would say inexplicably) is the evolutionary history of American corporations. One of the most interesting of these has been the peregrinations of the former American Can Corporation. Answer these questions about its history, for ten points apiece.

Over the course of the early eighties, American Can sold off all of its manufacturing operations. In 1987, having completed its transformation into a rather nebulous financial services conglomerate, it changed its name. For ten points, name this holding company, booted off the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1991.

ANSWER: PRIMERICA

Over the next few years, Primerica continued to acquire financial services firms, culminating in a 1995 merger bringing one of the nation’s largest insurance companies under its umbrella. It assumed both the name and symbol of its better known merger partner. For ten points, name this company.

ANSWER: TRAVELLERS Group

In October of 1998, Travellers completed its latest merger, a combination with the U.S.’s largest bank. The new name preserves the first four letters of the bank’s name, and the ‘group’ part of Travellers’ name. For ten points, name this bank.

ANSWER: CITIBANK (Accept ‘CITIGROUP’)

22: Four novels and fifty-six short stories make up what fans of Sherlock Holmes refer to as ‘the canon’; those stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the great detective. Following are a list of twelve titles. Some are in the canon; some are not. You’ll receive five points for every two you identify correctly as ‘CANON’ or ‘NOT CANON’. Note: in some cases the words ‘the adventure of’ may have been omitted; this will not affect the answer.

Titles: The Hound of the Baskervilles (CANON); The Great Speckled Bird (NOT CANON); The Giant Rat of Sumatra (NOT CANON); The Red-Headed League (CANON); A Whiff of Death (NOT CANON); Wisteria Lodge (CANON); The Seven Percent Solution (NOT CANON); The Musgrave Ritual (CANON); The Last Question (NOT CANON); The Cardboard Box (CANON); The The Engineer’s Thumb (CANON); The Devil’s Foot (CANON)

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