The Men Who Stare at Goats



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

Packet #9

Written by Jeremy White

Toss-ups

1. This two-word phrase appeared before “paté” in a Jones Soda flavor name and describes the food Rose snuck into a movie on Two and a Half Men. In French cuisine, replacing ham with the food described by this two-word phrase turns a Croque Monsieur into a Croque Norwegien. It also describes the meat in typical sushi Philadelphia rolls. President Obama said things “get more complicated” when this food item is prepared during the 2011 State of the Union address after noting different departments govern its living antecedents at sea and in rivers. For ten points, technically, lox is not described by what two-word term for a type of fish enhanced by a fire-produced flavor?

Answer: Smoked Salmon

2. In the 2010 off season, this team tried to bolster its backfield options by taking Kent State fullback Jameson Konz in the seventh round of the draft, acquiring a former USC halfback who then failed a drug test and by trading with the New York Jets to acquire a back who returned two kicks for a touchdown in a game against the San Diego Chargers, namely Leon Washington. In October 2010, this team released Julius Jones who was expendable when they traded for the back who stiff-armed Tracy Porter during a fourth quarter 67-yard run that bounced the New Orleans Saints from the playoffs. For ten points, Lofa Tatupu, Marshawn Lynch and Matt Hasselbeck were key 2010 players for what NFL franchise that made the playoffs with a sub-500 record under new head coach Pete Carroll.

Answer: Seattle and/or Seahawks

3. This person shares a name with the Chicago math rock band that released the EP Entropy in 2011. This person’s first Emmy nomination was for writing the Hill Street Blues episode in which Belker went undercover at the dog pound. A fire in a Turkish club and a guest appearance by Lesley Manville as Phyllis Gladstone were features of the first season of a series created by this person. This person also created of a series that debuted with an episode in which Rex Winters tracked bling thieves targeting young actresses. This person said “It would be like having Peyton Manning and Tom Brady as your quarterbacks, playing alternate games” to explain why Skeet Ulrich was written out of the latter series to give more screen time to Terence Howard and Alfred Molina. For ten points, name this creator of the Los Angeles, UK and all previous versions of the Law and Order series.

Answer: Richard Anthony “Dick” Wolf

4. In this film, Mother Theresa is a Newfoundland, not a Saint Bernard like in Claire Cook’s novel. Jake, this film’s main male character, builds hand-made boats that “lose beautifully.” Sarah, this film’s main female character, is a divorced teacher who is angry when a butcher suggests expanding her order of a single chicken breast. When the aforementioned characters meet in this film, Sarah accuses Jake of deception for bringing a borrowed Westie and Jake disputes Sarah’s description of herself as voluptuous on Perfect . For ten points, name this romantic comedy starring John Cusack and Diane Lane with a title taken from a three-word, animal-related phrase in a personal ad.

Answer: Must Love Dogs

5. The video for this song takes place in a club called F Me I’m Famous and at a pool party during which a bikini-clad blonde straddles an inflatable banana and popcorn is served in champagne glasses. The third track on the album One Love, this song’s title character is a diva and has properties making it difficult for the vocalist to describe her without being disrespectful. In short, the title character is nothing you can compare to your neighborhood whore. For ten points, name this 2010 top five single and dance-chart-topper by David Guetta and featuring Akon.

Answer: “Sexy Bitch” or “Sexy Chick”

6. Gabe Hassad’s Christmas vacation in Egypt, an investigation of Coffman House and Amanda Benson’s family relocating to Dark Falls are scenarios presented in early installments of this literary series. One recurring character in this series was purchased for Amy Krammer at a pawn shop, is animated by the phrase “Karru marri odonna loma molonu karrano” and was crafted from coffin wood by a sorcerer. Besides Slappy the Dummy, another recurring entity in this series was Monster Blood, which was featured in its finale. Welcome to the Dead House was the first book in, for ten points, what children’s horror series written from 1992 to 1997 by R. L. Stine?

Answer: Goosebumps

7. This character and “Turkey” Turquett started a PI business in a TV episode that revealed his surname was Brown. This character’s usual business venture was running a bar named The Pits. Despite being useful so often, Captain Dobey suggested this character belonged in a zoo. In a 2004 film, this character delivered intelligence on a plot to smuggle drugs in Volkswagen Karmann Ghias but made clear he was not a snitch. On television, this character was played by the father of the 2008 Oakland Raiders’ leading rusher. For ten points, name this flamboyantly dressed informant played by Snoop Dogg and Antonio Fargas in the big- and small-screen versions of Starsky and Hutch.

Answer: Huggy Bear

8. Originally, it featured “Splash Page” near its opening which presented a discussion between Jimmy-6, Grim Hunter and Miss Arrow. Other characters in it include Swiss Miss, who is a member of the Sinister 6. “Love Me or Kill Me” near this show’s end presents a choice offered by a character who was played by T.V. Carpio after Natalie Mendoza left it due to being struck in the head during previews. Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming also were early high-profile exits from its cast. For ten points, a book by Julie Taymor and music by Bono and the Edge are the basis for what trouble-plagued Broadway musical about a superhero?

Answer: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Prompt on Spider Man

9. In 2010, 75-year-old Grace Crass filed a lawsuit claiming this character’s actions caused a need for a knee replacement. Originally performed by the son of college basketball coach Tubby Raymond, this character was introduced in 1978 on the TV program Captain Noah and His Magical Ark. In the 1990s, this character often danced with Eric Gregg, who hailed from the same hometown, and in 1988, Tommy Lasorda had a fistfight with this character, whose uniform number is a star. For ten points, Citizens Bank Park visitors can watch what green mascot for the Philadelphia Phillies?

Answer: The Phillie Phanatic

10. According to the book Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, this song would have been sung in a censored sketch entitled “Jesus of Nashville.” This song’s co-composer, Harlan Howard, helped Sara Evans get a record deal after hearing Evans’ cover of it. Inspired by an Esso advertising slogan, this song was the basis of a Cletus T. Judd parody that describes the savage beating of a professional golfer. The vocalist says the “pace we’re living takes the wind from my sails” and reports “losing weight” and “turning mighty pale.” For ten points, “there won’t be much left when it gets through with me” in what Buck Owens hit with a titular metaphor about grasping a big cat?

Answer: “I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail”

11. In the Mickey’s 60th Birthday TV special, this character found Mickey Mouse just after the rodent had been freed from a spell. In this character’s first appearance, he wanted to know why the DeGreasy Brothers had reneged on a promised solo career, but was an employee of R.K. Maroon in a more famous appearance. This character wrote a love poem containing lines like “Let me count the ways, one one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand” on the will of businessman Marvin Acme, who was the same businessman seen in patty cake blackmail photos with this character’s wife Jessica. For ten points, Charles Fleischer provided the voice of what title character of a 1988 mystery film starring Bob Hoskins as a detective solving a crime in Toontown?

Answer: Roger Rabbit

12. This phrase names the Supernatural episode in which a nineteen-year-old named Adam asks Sam and Dean to look for a man named John Winchester and The X-Files episode in which The Lone Gunmen are killed by a bioterrorist. In a 2010 Los Angeles Times article, Fred Fox, Jr. debated this phrase’s applicability to “Hollywood, Part 3 of 3.” In a 2010 Rolling Stone interview, Leonardo DiCaprio claimed to be unaware of this phrase or how it is said to apply to his introduction as Luke Brower on Growing Pains. In 2008, an analagous phrase for a film series was inspired by Indiana Jones and the Kindgom of the Crystal Skulls, namely “Nuking the Fridge.” For ten points, name this phrase inspired by a Happy Days episode with a Fonzie stunt now used to describe any TV-series-ruining episode or event.

Answer: Jump the Shark or Jumping the Shark

13. This magazine’s November, 2010 cover story was “Little Houdinis”, an Elisa Jordan-penned profile of Savannahs, and the September issue’s “Snapshot” featured a Cymric. Stephen Colbert read this magazine during the 1,000-meter speed skating finals. This magazine’s June 2009 issue was a double issue launching its “Natural” sister magazine and featured Jenna Fischer on the cover, even though Fischer’s character on The Office is less associated with the titular entities than Angela Kinsey’s character. For ten points, name this magazine with regular features like “Ask the Veterinarian”, “Garfield Weighs In”, “Gallery of Breeds” and “Life’s Purr-fect.”

Answer: Cat Fancy

14. This horse finished last in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile won by Midshipman and finished ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic won by Zenyatta. This horse was driven by Chip Woolley from New Mexico to its most famous race win, in which only Atomic Rain and Join in the Dance had longer odds than its 50-1. This horse supposedly watched restricted Super Bowl footage while wearing a mink Snuggie during Conan’s last week on The Tonight Show. Calvin Borel was this horse’s jockey in its lone Triple Crown win, but in the Preaknesss, Borel chose instead to ride Rachel Alexandra to which this horse finished second. For ten points, name this winner of the 2009 Kentucky Derby whose dam was Mining My Own and whose sire was Birdstone.

Answer: Mine That Bird

15. This song was sung by Nicole Kidman in an SNL sketch featuring Mike Myers as the “hyper hypo”, was performed on Frasier by Elvis Costello and was used as Outback Jack’s WWF entrance music. Its distinctive sound was created in part by vibrating masonite, which the singer called a wobble board. This song’s original artist once performed it with The Beatles and said Ringo’s drum skins were the hide Fred is told to tan. This song’s oft-omitted controversial fourth verse instructs Bruce to let the Abbos go loose and an earlier verse provides feeding instructions for the wallabies. For ten points, name this song that describes an Australian stockman’s last wishes and was a top 5 US hit for Rolfe Harris.

Answer: “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”

16. In a scene in this film, a character tells superiors to “Ask Angela Lansbury” even though the source book mentions Kristy McNichol instead. Early in this film, Rebecca Mader plays the wife who leaves the main character for an editor at the Ann Arbor Daily Telegram. The main character survives the Battle of Ramadi, fought between rival security contractors, and finds Larry Hooper in charge of the P.S.I.C. unit, despite having conducted the LSD experiment that led to Bill Django’s dismissal. A Jon Ronson book was the source of, for ten points, what film in which Ewan McGregor’s reporter character investigates the claims of George Clooney’s character who was part of a military unit dedicated to exploiting psychic powers.

Answer: The Men Who Stare at Goats

17. In 2007, this organization held its first World Cup at Gold Coast, Queensland, an event featuring five-person national teams that has now been won twice each by Brazil and the US. Before leaving to the Indy Racing League, Randy Bernard was CEO of this organization for 15 years. This organization’s regular events end in a 15-person “Short Go.” Adriano Moraes, Chris Shivers and Justin McBride are multiple-time winners of this organization’s World Finals, which are the culmination of its 31-event Build Ford Tough Series. For ten points, name this sanctioning body for an endeavor in which competitors try to reach eight seconds on the titular animals.

Answer: Professional Bull Riders Accept PBR

18. This four-word phrase was created during banter with Nick Gregory and prompted obvious shock from Dari Alexander. Jon Stewart said this was his new catchphrase and The Urban Dictionary says it means to continue doing good work. This phrase may be explained by the fact it was uttered shortly after a paraphrase of a Perdue slogan, specifically “it takes a tough man to make a tender forecast.” For ten points, in September of 2009, New York news anchor Ernie Anastos became a viral video sensation after saying to a weatherman what four-word phrase, which seems to encourage continued bestiality?

Answer: Keep Fucking that Chicken Accept euphemisms for “fucking” at your judgment

19. A sequel to this game subtitled “Adventure” required the player to re-unite Princess DeeDee and Prince AbeAbe after completing quests in the underwater world Kongri-La. A 2010 sequel to this game introduced a new playable character named Jam Jam, Balance Board playability and an in-game sponsorship change from Dole to Chiquita. Playable characters in this game include Baby, MeeMee, AiAi and Gon Gon. For ten points, a banana-shaped controller was a highlight of early arcade machines for what game in which users tilt an environment to control the movements of orb-enclosed simians?

Answer: Super Monkey Ball

20. Chubby Checker, in a novelty hit called “The Class”, sang this song while imitating Frankie Avalon and The Chipmunks. Smashing Pumpkins, in “X.Y.U.”, claimed the title character of this song “got some deep shit.” Stevie Ray Vaughn’s album, Texas Flood, featured a cover of Buddy Guy’s version of this song. A 1972 version of this song was the follow-up to “Give Ireland Back to the Irish.” An acapella version of this song in Menlo Park, New Jersey some ninety-five years before Paul McCartney and Wings’ hit version was the first test of Thomas Edison’s phonograph. For ten points, name this song, a rhyme purportedly inspired by a young Massachusetts girl bringing a farm animal into a classroom.

Answer: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”

21. In 1956, this person succeeded Perry Moss as coach of the University of Miami baseball team. In 1945, this person pitched 22 innings and led the Phillies in ERA during his final season as a player. In summer of 1929, he appeared on the cover of Time with a caption saying “He joined the 400” even though he eventually hit .354 for the season. In 1940, while playing for the Boston Red Sox, he committed seven passed balls while catching only 42 games, but more notably hit a George Caster pitch out of the park against his first Major League team for his 500th home run. In 1932, he hit 58 home runs but lost the MVP award to teammate Lefty Grove. For ten points, name this long-time Philadelphia A’s first baseman who won his first of three AL MVP awards after taking the Triple Crown in 1933.

Answer: James Emory “Jimmie” Foxx

22. “Candlelight” was the second word in this song’s title when it first appeared as a track on Willis Alan Ramsey’s debut album. Dr. Demento’s 30th Anniversary compilation features a parody of this song by Big Daddy. The first cover of this song was the opening track on Hat Trick. “Doin’ the town and doin’ it right”, “singin’ and jingin’ the jango” and “nibbling on bacon, chewin’ on cheese” are among the activities that this song describes being performed by its two characters, Sam and Susie. For ten points, ondatra zibethicus find romance in what song covered by America and made an easy listening hit by Captain and Tenille.

Answer: “Muskrat Love“

Bonus

1. Answer these questions about films starring a particular actor for ten points each.

(10) What actor’s roles include playing a Delta Force sergeant nicknamed “Hoot”, a vengeful Romulan named Nero and a mild-mannered genetics researcher named Bruce Banner.

Answer: Eric Bana

(10) Bana played Hector in this film for which Bana and Brad Pitt won the Best Fight MTV Movie Award?

Answer: Troy

(10) Bana’s directorial debut was what documentary film in which Bana soups up, races and wrecks a beloved Ford muscle car?

Answer: Love the Beast

2. For ten points each, name these unsuccessful Republican candidates in 2010 elections who ran despite having some arguably embarrassing video clips in their past.

(10) This Connecticut Senate candidate’s numerous potentially embarrassing videos include kicking husband Vince in the groin for an on-screen affair with Trish Stratus.

Answer: Linda Marie McMahon

(10) Mentioning experimenting with witchcraft on Politically Incorrect and an anti-masturbation campaign on MTV made what Delaware senate candidate a favorite target of comedians?

Answer: Christine Therese O’Donnell

(10) This New York gubernatorial candidate used working in the construction industry as an explanation for why he had e-mailed bestiality videos.

Answer: Carl Pasquale Paladino

3. Rock legend has it that Led Zeppelin, while staying at Seattle’s Edgewater Inn in 1969, stuffed a mud shark into a groupie’s private areas. Answer questions relating to the story for ten points each.

(10) What artist, whose band The Mothers then included former Turtles Flo and Eddie, recounted the incident in the song “Mud Shark” on a 1971 live album recorded at the Fillmore East?

Answer: Frank Zappa

(10) Zeppelin manager Richard Cole claims to have actually carried out the incident along with Tim Bogert, a member of what band whose other members included Carmen Appice and who had a top ten hit with a 1967 hard rock cover of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”

Answer: Vanilla Fudge

(10) The mud shark story was discussed in what 1985 book written by Stephen Davis and with a title taken from an implement mentioned in “Immigrant Song.”

Answer: The Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga

4. Answer these questions about the TV appearances of an actor for ten points each.

(10) What actor’s prime time roles include playing “Dog Boy” in Providence, J.D.’s brother on Scrubs and a record executive in Love Monkey.

Answer: Thomas “Tom” Cavanagh

(10) Cavanagh is arguably best known for playing an unemployed lawyer who buys and operates a Stuckeyville, Ohio bowling alley on what early 2000’s series?

Answer: Ed

(10) For one season, Cavanagh and Eric McCormack played Chicago ad men on what TNT series?

Answer: Trust Me

5. In April 2010, ESPN’s John Hollinger wrote a column listing the players who, in his opinion, were the NBA’s 15 biggest ball hogs. Name players on Hollinger’s list from a description for ten points each.

(10) Taken just after Derrick Rose in the 2008 draft, this former Kansas State star took a shot every 2 minutes for the Miami Heat in 2009-2010 before being traded to Minnesota to help clear cap room for LeBron James.

Answer: Michael Paul Beasley Jr.

(10) The NBA’s all-time leader in technical fouls, this retired forward and four-time All Star for the Trail Blazers and Pistons was suspended for threatening Tim Donaghy in 2003 and made a memorable tirade about “entertainment” in the 2008 NBA Easetern Conference Finals.

Answer: Rasheed Abdul Wallace

(10) “Seven Milliseconds or Less” was how Hollinger described this forward who was drafted out of a New Jersey high school by the Indiana Pacers in 1998, allegedly faked a back injury to get traded to the Knicks in 2008 and spent 2011 with the Nuggets.

Answer: Albert “Al” Harrington

6. Answer these questions about musical acts who have recently made lyric changes to a song when performing live for ten points each.

(10) In 2010, an episode of the series Dive Detectives prompted Gordon Lightfoot to replace the line “a main hatchway caved in” from future live performances of what 1976 hit song?

Answer: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

(10) In recent concerts, this band changes “reading Playboy on your couch” to “reading Barnyard on your couch” in performances of “Radiation Vibe”, which is on their debut album along with “Leave the Biker”.

Answer: Fountains of Wayne

(10) This rapper changed “Fuck SNL and the whole cast” to “the brown hero, live from Ground Zero” while performing “Power” on SNL surrounded by a bevy of ballerinas.

Answer: Kanye Omari West

7. Answer these questions relating to the phrase “sleeps with the fishes.”

(10) The phrase caused confusion between two mobsters on The Simpsons when it was used to describe what actor, voiced by Phil Hartman, who was a star of Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want to Get Off and The Muppets Go Medieval.

Answer: Troy and/or McClure

(10) The Godfather put the phrase in the pop culture lexicon when Clemenza used “sleeps with the fishes” to say that what effective Corleone family hit man had died?

Answer: Luca and/or Brasi

(10) During the run-up to the O. J. Simpson murder case, Jennifer Peace, aka adult film actress Devon Shire, claimed to have been told the murder weapon “sleeps with the fishes” by what driver of the white Bronco in the infamous chase?

Answer: Allen G. “Al” Cowlings

8. Answer these questions about a cable network for ten points each.

(10) With the tagline “Always On, Slightly Off”, this cable channel shows re-runs of series like Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks, the reality series Bollywood Hero and sometimes the titular movies.

Answer: Independent Film Channel or IFC

(10) On this IFC program, a sister series to Comedy Central’s Sports Dome, Brooke Alvarez reported on a Congressman in love with a horse, a white girl being tried as an African American adult and the Snowpocalypse.

Answer: The Onion News Network

(10) David Cross played a temp who is suddenly assigned to head marketing of the energy drink Thunder Muscle in the UK on what IFC comedy series?

Answer: The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

9. For ten points each, name the 2010 video game release from characters killed in the game’s story.

(10) In this game’s single-player campaign, Dr. Clarke, the inventor of Nova-6 is killed by General Dragovich, who is later killed on a numbers station by SOG operative Alex Mason and CIA agent Jason Hudson.

Answer: Call of Duty: Black Ops

(10) In this game, John Marston is coerced into bounty hunting by the government and kills former gang members Dutch Van Der Linde and Bill Williamson and Mexican Colonel Allende.

Answer: Red Dead Redemption

(10) Players of this 2010 game control a mischievous teddy bear living on Perfection Island who has to kill other teddy bears like a mayor named Chubby and an oil baron named Trembles.

Answer: Naughty Bear

10. For ten points each, name these NFL teams from a time they took a real pounding from the Dallas Cowboys in the post-season.

(10) This team was blown out by the Cowboys 52-17 in Super Bowl 27. Of course, this team did not do much better in the next year’s Super Bowl when the Cowboys stuck it to them again by a score of 30 to 13.

Answer: Buffalo and/or Bills

(10) In the Divisional Round in January, 1996, the Cowboys beat this team 30 to 11. Randall Cunningham ran for their only touchdown in relief of an injured Rodney Peete.

Answer: Philadelphia and/or Eagles

(10) Vince Ferragamo was unable to lead this team to a score against the Cowboys’ “Doomsday Defense” when Dallas beat them 28-0 in the January 1979 NFC Championship Game.

Answer: Los Angeles and/or Rams

11. Remember when the defending champs were taken out in the playoffs by a team with a regular season record under .500? No I’m not talking about the New Orleans Saints in 2011, but the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins in 2010. Answer these questions about the Penguins’ misfortune for ten points each.

(10) This NHL team was the Eastern Conference’s eighth seed but made an improbable run to the conference finals by beating the top-seeded Capitals in the first round and then taking it to the Penguins in the second round.

Answer: Montreal and/or Candiens

(10) Arguably the Canadiens best player in the series was this goalie, who made saves on 93% of the shots the Penguins took against him. He was traded to the Blues before the next season.

Answer: Jaroslav Halak

(10) The Penguins’ loss in Game 7 was their last game in this arena as they moved into the Consol Energy Season for the next season.

Answer: Mellon Arena or Civic Arena

12. For ten points each, name these women who met a future husband while performing in a Broadway stage production.

(10) This actress met current husband Taye Diggs while making her Broadway debut originating the role of Maureen in Rent and is now better known as the original Elphaba in Wicked.

Answer: Idina Kim Menzell

(10) This late actress met second husband Liam Neeson starring in a revival of Eugene O’Neil’s Anna Christie.

Answer: Natasha Jane Richardson

(10) What late comedienne met first husband G.E. Smith performing a 1979 Broadway show featuring songs by her characters Lisa Loopner and Candy Slice and a tune entitled “Let’s Talk Dirty to the Animals.”

Answer: Gilda Susan Radner

13. Answer these questions relating to recent activities of founders of wikis for ten points each.

(10) This founder of WikiLeaks signed a book deal to raise funds after Pay Pal, Visa and Master Card halted donations to the site.

Answer: Julian Paul Assange

(10) Wikipedia reported quickly raising millions of dollars from a series of vaguely creepy banner ads in which this Wikipedia founder stared at users.

Answer: Jimmy Donal Wales or “Jimbo” Wales

(10) Andy Schafly, creator of what wiki encyclopedia, also created a project to eliminate liberal bias from the Bible and had a widely dissected letter exchange with biologist Richard Lenski?

Answer: Conservapedia

14. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about TV shows you may want to record if you would like to use your DVR to hoard shows highlighting hoarding.

(5, 5) For five points each, what networks are home to the rival hoarding shows Hoarders and Hoarding: Buried Alive.

Answer: A&E (Hoarders) and TLC (Hoarding: Buried Alive)

(10) Animal Planet carries this program that has shown a woman suffering bird lung due to having 25 parrots and a woman with over 60 cats.

Answer: Confessions: Animal Hoarding

(10) On this Style Network show originally hosted by Niecy Nash and now hosted by Tempestt Bledsoe, a team arrives at a house filled with hoarder level clutter, runs a yard sale and cleans the place.

Answer: Clean House

15. Answer these questions about unrelated albums for ten points each.

(10) Morrissey sang tracks like “There is a Light That Never Goes Out”, “I Know it’s Over” and “Bigmouth Strikes Again” on The Queen is Dead, the third studio album by what English band?

Answer: The Smiths

(10) This Colin Meloy-fronted alternative band released The King is Dead in 2011 and is known for past songs like “O Valencia!”, “Sixteen Military Wives” and “The Crane Wife.”

Answer: The Decemberists

(10) This singer released a gospel album called Who Says God is Dead?, the same year this singer released hit country singles like “Fist City” and “Your Squaw is on the Warpath.”

Answer: Loretta Lynn

16. Answer these questions about a literary series for ten points each.

(10) In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, former Texas Ranger Woodrow Call drives cattle intending to start a ranch in Montana and is joined by Gus McCrae, who hopes to see Clara in Nebraska.

Answer: Lonesome Dove

(10) Lonesome Dove and a series of three other related novels that followed were written by what novelist also responsible for the novel Terms of Endearment.

Answer: Larry Jeff McMurtry

(10) In what Lonesome Dove prequel are teenaged McCrae and Call captured by a Native American named Buffalo Hump and forced to make the titular trek from Santa Fe to El Paso.

Answer: Dead Man’s Walk

17. For ten points each, answer these questions South Park episodes involving one or more of the four main characters participating in the search for a dangerous person or creature.

(10) Al Gore led the South Park boys on a dangerous quest for what hybrid animal?

Answer: Man-bear-pig

(10) The boys once helped search for the “Chickenlover” terrorizing local barnyards. The culprit was a bookmobile driver trying to make what local policeman literate?

Answer: Officer Barbrady

(10) In a 2010 Tron parody, Stan eventually travels to Café World to find a monstrous version of himself who Stan defeats in Yahtzee after being sucked into what?

Answer: Facebook

18. Name the film from animal-related lines of dialogue in it spoken by a character played by Seth Rogen.

(10) “I did it for you, you know, so you wouldn’t get road rash during our scene, but I shoulda asked first. I look like a beluga whale.”

Answer: Zack and Miri Make a Porno

(10) “You think ‘A woman fuckin' a horse’ and you get there and... it's a woman fucking a horse. It was really giving it to her.”

Answer: The 40 Year Old Virgin

(10) “It's doggie style. It's just the style. We don't have to go outside or anything.”

Answer: Knocked Up

19. Answer these questions about albums with the same name.

(10) Beginning with contentious recording sessions at Twickenham Film Studios, what Beatles album included songs like “Dig a Pony” and “I Me Mine” and later appeared in a “Naked” version that removed controversial Phil Spector produced overdubs?

Answer: Let it Be

(10) “How do you say goodnight to an answering machine” is a question posed by the last song of this band’s album Let it Be, which also featured “Unsatisfied” and “Androgynous.”

Answer: The Replacements

(10) This group’s album Let it Be featured several songs later re-worked for their album, Cereal Killer Soundtrack, which contained the novelty hit “Three Little Pigs.”

Answer: Green Jello or Green Jelly

20. Name these actresses who have played Catherine the Great for ten points each.

(10) This actress played the empress in a 1995 TV movie and got it on with Peter Gallagher’s character in the CBS 1996 miniseries Titanic before a star-making turn in The Mask of Zorro.

Answer: Catherine Zeta-Jones

(10) This actress played Catherine in a fictional affair with Robert Stack’s John Paul Jones in a film in 1959, three years before a tenth Oscar nomination for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Answer: Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis

(10) Better known as a journalist on Hitchcock’s Lifeboat and Black Widow on the Batman TV series, this daughter of a Speaker of the House played Catherine the Great in A Royal Scandal.

Answer: Talullah Brockman Bankhead

21. Name bands who won the UK’s Mercury Prize for an eponymous debut album for ten points each.

(10) Arguably the best-known album in the US to have won the Mercury Prize was the debut of this group responsible for “Take Me Out,” “This Fire” and “Michael.”

Answer: Franz Ferdinand

(10) “Animal Lover”, “Metal Mickey” and “The Drowners” were key tracks on the Mercury-winning debut album of what Britpop band fronted by Brett Anderson?

Answer: Suede or London Suede

(10) The 2010 winners of the Mercury Prize, they won for an album featuring singles like “Crystalised”, “Islands” and “VCR.”

Answer: The xx

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