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F.O.G.H.A.T. 2005: Fool for the City

Packet #1

▪ Based on a theme by Jeremy White

▪ Toss-ups and Bonus by Jeremy White

Toss-ups

1. He was an All-American for Texas Southern in 1992 and was second round NFL draft pick in 1993. Luckily football worked out, because his attempt at golf in a Right Guard commercial caused a squirrel to faint out of a tree. He was named AP Defensive Player of the Year after he found Brett Favre on January 6, 2002 to break a record held by Mark Gastineau. For ten points, name this New York Giants defensive end who holds the single season sack record.

Answer:  Michael Strahan

2. His musical references to the order Rodentia include smelling a rat on “Gotta Make it to Heaven”, claiming to be “similar to a squirrel” on “Patiently Waiting,” using an arcade on Beaver Street as the setting for his “Piggy Bank” video and “shopping for chinchillas” in “P.I.M.P.” For ten points, name this rapper you might see “In Da Club” or at the “Candy Shop.”

Answer: 50 Cent

3. This film closes with Zack and Jack parting at a fork in the road after a squirrel hunting joke causes them to switch jackets. At Luigi’s Tintop, Zack and Jack parted with Roberto, who crossed the bayou with them after the trio escaped Orleans Parish Prison. For ten points, name this 1986 Jim Jarmusch film starring John Lurie, Tom Waits and Roberto Benigni.

Answer: Down by Law

4. Carol Runowicz in the book To Be Alive says this substance makes “men go crazy.” Jeff Foxworthy wonders in The Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again if it could keep squirrels off a bird feeder pole. The flagship product of Biofilm, Inc., it is now available as a gel or strawberry flavored. For ten points, name this “personal lubricant” that is “second only to nature.”

Answer: Astroglide

5. He is a connoisseur of the arts as evidenced by his assertion that Fitzcarraldo was flawed while helping tow a school bus and his insistence on watching an Andy Williams show while traveling through Branson. He displayed a rougher side as the driver of Roadkill 2000 and as the creator of “Wasting Squirrels with BB Guns,” an entry in Springfield Elementary’s Science Fair. For ten points, “ha ha” is the catchphrase of what bully on The Simpsons?

Answer: Nelson and/or Muntz

6. Originally a doo-wop group called the The Chanteurs, they settled on their name after Marshall Thompson joined a lineup that already included Robert “Squirrel” Lester and Eugene Record. Their politically minded hits included “For God’s Sake Give More Power to the People” and “There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)”, but, for ten points, name this soulful group better remembered for “Have You Seen Her” and “Oh Girl.”

Answer: Chi-Lites

7. Highlights early in this film include the Echo Game at the Peony Palace and Wind tying a squirrel to a sword in order to peek at a bathing Mei. Wind is really Jin, an undercover lawman working for the Tang Dynasty who pretends to help a blind assassin return to the titular rebel group. For ten points, name this film, director Zhang Yimou’s follow-up to Hero.

Answer: House of Flying Daggers

8. He closed his February 18, 2005 set on Late Night with Conan O’Brien with a joke about chasing a squirrel up a tree with a car and one of his comedy albums features a jingle for Downers Grove, Illinois. He was executive producer of the original 1992 Meet the Parents and in Weird Al’s Behind the Music, he shows off a royalty check for his role as a shop teacher in UHF. For ten points, name this stand-up comic whose act is captured on the CD, E=MO2.

Answer: Emo Phillips

9. An office worker casually predicts that a dropped umbrella will cause a squirrel to dart in front of a milk truck causing it to overturn and attract cats in one of this cable network’s “Know More Than You Should” commercials. Apparently series like Go Ahead, Make My Dinner and Surprise by Design lead to such viewer enlightenment. For ten points, name this once science themed network that now “entertains your brain” with American Chopper and Monster Garage.

Answer: Discovery Channel

10. In 1999, he became the youngest ever CART champion and in 2001, he was nicknamed “The Squirrel” by for displaying “considerable nutsack” as a Formula One rookie. His five Grand Prix wins include the 2005 British Grand Prix, but he has mostly toiled in the shadow of his MacLaren-Mercedes teammate, Kimi Räikkönen [pron. Rike-kuh-nun]. For ten points, name this Colombian driver who in 2000 won his only start in the Indianapolis 500.

Answer: Juan Pablo Montoya

11. As this novel opens, only a squirrel named Smooch and four-year-old daughter Jennie had heard Maggie Bradford’s songs, but an audition with Barry Kahn launches a career as a successful singer-songwriter. The details of the death of Maggie’s first husband Phillip begin to prompt suspicion when Maggie’s second husband, soccer star Wil Champion, is found dead. For ten points, a woman kills two abusive husbands in what novel by James Patterson.

Answer: Hide & Seek

12. This one-word title is shared by the third track on For Squirrels’ album Example and the ninth track on Usher’s Confessions. Ruben Studdard covered the most famous song by this name for the flip side of “Flying Without Wings” and Sonic Youth covered that same Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell composition for a tribute album. For ten points, name this Carpenters hit about a long ago night of passion with someone who plays a sweet guitar.

Answer: Superstar

13. She created an annual charity auction of Emmy nominees’ red carpet wear to benefit Cure Autism Now. She played Susan in the 1986 John Denver TV movie The Christmas Gift and she says a stuffed dead squirrel was the first Christmas gift she received from her husband Bradley Whitford. For ten points, name this actress whose own Emmy red carpet strolls came with playing harried mother and Lucky Aide employee Lois on Malcolm in the Middle.

Answer: Jane Kaczmarek

14. This network’s website features only results for hockey leagues at the Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville, Illinois, but its promos feature shots of futsal, squirrel water-skiing and lawn mower racing. Pepper Brooks and Cotton McKnight cover its highest-rated event, which ends in a face-off between the Average Joes and Globo Gym. For ten points, if it’s almost a sport, it’s on what network that broadcasts the action in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Answer: ESPN 8 or The Ocho

15. This team selected David Lee with the final pick of the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft. Their second round pick, Dijon Thompson, was promptly traded with Kurt Thomas to Phoenix for first round pick Nate Robinson—who hoospworld calls the next Earl “the Squirrel Boykins”—and Quentin Richardson. For ten points, name this team that in the off-season also drafted Channing Frye, traded for Jerome James and hired new coach, Larry Brown.

Answer: New York and/or Knicks

16. A forced relocation took him away from the window through which he watched the squirrels that were “married.” He was already frustrated at the decision to make Boston the approved supplier of his favorite piece of equipment. After he is moved to the basement and the Bobs correct a glitch in payroll, he makes good on a muttered threat and burns down Initech. For ten points, name this red Swingline loving character played by Stephen Root in Office Space.

Answer: Milton and/or Waddams

17. After crew complained the set for this street had no squirrels, co-executive producer Michael Edelstein wore a squirrel costume to the final day of shooting for the pilot of the series set on it. It is filled with old TV series houses, like the Munsters house used for an upcoming Oprah cameo and the Marcus Welby house, which became the home of narrator Mary Alice. The old TV houses were updated with $700,000 worth of Sears merchandise and silk versions of the namesake flower. For ten points, name this street that is home to the Desperate Housewives.

Answer: Wisteria Lane

18. On World AIDS Day in 2004, he and Viacom’s Sumner Redstone rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and he is the only person to mention a squirrel in Blender’s “Tell Us a Joke” feature. In 2004, he covered “Fortunate Son” for The Manchurian Candidate and got some airplay with “President” from his album Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101, but did not match the chart success of “Gone Till November.” For ten points, name this musician who has announced plans to reunite Lauryn Hill and Pras for a new album by The Fugees.

Answer: Wyclef Jean

19. This character’s first scheduled match was against Ahmed Johnson during a November, 1997 episode of RAW and in June of 1998 he won the WWF championship from Stone Cold Steve Austin in a First Blood Match at King of the Ring. In 2002, he presented a video supposedly showing doctors removing a squirrel, a steering wheel and Triple-H’s head out of Triple H’s ass, which was supposed to counter charges that he engaged in necrophilia with Katie Vick. For ten points, name this Glen Jacobs character, the 7-foot-tall half-brother of the Undertaker.

Answer: Kane

20. Year and team required. They used July trades to shore up pitching needs, acquiring Mark Eichhorn from the Angels and sending Jeff Kent to the Mets for David Cone. Jack Morris went 0-3 in the postseason for them after starring in the Series for the Twins the previous year, but Duane Ward and Jimmy Key both won two Series games apiece. For ten points, name this World Series champ that beat the Braves in 6 games on an 11th-inning Dave Winfield double.

Answer: 1992 and Toronto and/or Blue Jays

Note: Are you thinking Jeremy forgot something? Know what “Eichhorn” means in German?

21. Memorable images in their commercials include a toy squirrel trying to save a toy racecar driver from a vacuum and a horde of barbarians running to the sounds of “The Boys are Back in Town.” Another campaign features David Spade’s endless denial of requests to use reward miles. For ten points, name this credit card company that asks, “What’s in your wallet?”

Answer: Capital One

22. He narrated a PBS documentary on puppies called Dogs: The Early Years, which made sense since he voiced the title character of PBS’ Clifford the Big Red Dog. He played a reverend on The Waltons, a character far removed from Jack Tripper. For ten points, name this actor best known for 8 Simple Rules and Three’s Company.

Answer: John Ritter

Bonus

1. For ten points each, identify these reality TV series from a description of something a hungry contestant did to get food.

a. In the Survivor season set in this location, Twila of the Yasur tribe made an ineffectual attempt to hunt a chicken with rocks and a machete.

Answer: Vanuatu: Islands of Fire

b. In an episode of this series’ sixth American season, Beau won a food challenge that took the form of a 70s style game show called “Matching Munchies.”

Answer: Big Brother

c. Spanky survived a week-long hunger challenge on this series by killing and eating the squirrels and birds that arrived after Wooldor asked Clara to sing a song about bullies

Answer: Drawn Together

2. For ten points each, name these men whose sex scandals rocked the world of English soccer.

a. Rebecca Loos and Sarah Marbeck both claim to have had affairs with this Real Madrid midfielder who is married to Victoria Adams.

Answer: David Beckham

b. Colleen McLoughlin threw her engagement ring into a squirrel sanctuary after her fiancé, this striker for Manchester United and the youngest English player to score a goal in international competition, admitted that he had also scored with a prostitute.

Answer: Wayne Rooney

c. Although FA’s chief executive resigned following the revelation of FA secretary Faria Alam’s affair with this man, he retains his job as the coach England’s World Cup team.

Answer: Sven-Göran Erikkson

3. Name these rock acts with members who have special aptitudes for killing animals for ten points each.

a. This duo’s members have revealed in song that they are Wonderboy and Nastyman, whose superpowers include the ability to kill a yak with mind bullets.

Answer: Tenacious D

b. Jesse Hughes claimed in a magazine interview that by “shooting sexy glances left and right,” he can “decimate the squirrel population of any given park.” Hughes is lead singer of this band that got some airplay with a Stealer’s Wheel cover on their album Peace Love Death Metal.

Answer: Eagles of Death Metal

c. No rocker has killed more animals than Ted Nugent, who last entered the Billboard pop charts as a member of what group that had a hit with “High Enough”?

Answer: Damn Yankees

4. Visual Bonus. Given the cover picture of a book on an list called The Best Non Fiction of 2005…So Far, name the book’s title for ten points each. The titles, of course, have been painted out, but we have spotted you the author and subtitle.

[Moderator: Handout is the last page of the packet.]

a. Answer: Freakonomics

b. Answer: The World Is Flat

c. Answer: Suburban Safari

5. William H. Macy and wife Felicity Huffman played a defense attorney and a judge who affect the fate of “Squirrel” Gandolph in the TV movie of Scott Turow’s Reversible Errors, but that was far from the first Macy-Huffman joint. Name these other films that qualify for ten points each.

a. Nearly a decade before they were married, Macy played Billy Frank and Huffman made her film debut as “Wheel of Fortune Girl” in this film co-written by David Mamet and Shel Silverstein. In it, Joe Mantegna plays a mob thug guarding an 80-year-old shoe-shiner played by Don Ameche.

Answer: Things Change

b. Huffman and Macy both had game show related roles in this film as both played characters whose lives were impacted by What Do Kids Know.

Answer: Magnolia

c. In this 1999 TNT movie, Huffman played the suspicious girlfriend of a film critic played by Macy who accidentally kills a lover. That triggers both a blackmail plot by a PI played by James Cromwell and an investigation by a detective played by Adam Arkin.

Answer: A Slight Case of Murder

6. For ten points each, name the actor from a description of their recurring guest role in the 2004-2005 season of Will and Grace.

a. The gang celebrated Thanksgiving at the Brooklyn home of Will’s boyfriend, Vince D’Angelo, who was played in several episodes by this former Third Watch actor.

Answer: Bobby Cannavale

b. This actor played Karen’s nemesis Scott Wooley, who in one episode tries to get Grace to fire Karen and in the Valentine’s Day episode, returns to try and win Karen’s affections.

Answer: Jeff Goldblum

c. In the season’s final two episodes, he played a mysterious businessman who sat next to Will in the park and made a joke about squirrel racing and later convinced Will to join a mysterious law firm that appeared to be a front for the Russian mob.

Answer: Alec Baldwin

7. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about films that have nothing to do with Madonna, but have titles that sound like they should.

a. The film Material Girls is planned for 2006 release and will feature the acting of two sisters. For five points each, give the first and last name of these two actresses, one of whom played Natalie Connors in Agent Cody Banks and the other played Summer Wheatly in Napolean Dynamite.

Answer: Haylie Duff (5pts) and Hilary Duff (5pts)

b. In the Showtime TV movie, The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie, the title character was played by what actress who was married to director John Cassavetes and who received Best Actress Oscar nominations for A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria.

Answer: Gena Rowlands

c. This fictional Disney home video advertised on SNL’s Saturday TV Funhouse honors the MVP of Superbowl 35 because Trent Dilfer sucks.  In one key scene, Shannon Sharpe tells a group of deer, rabbits and squirrels to focus on the Pittsburgh game.

Answer: Ray of Light

8. Name these products introduced by Apple in 2005 for ten points each.

a. This member of the iPod family can hold up to 1 gig of songs but has no screen or menus so songs can only be played randomly.

Answer: iPod Shuffle

b. This is Apple’s most affordable desktop computer, a 2.9 pound, 2-inch high computer with a suggested retail price of $499.

Answer: Mac Mini

c. If you need an input device with four programmable buttons and a so-called “squirrel ball” to enable even diagonal scrolling, this device has come to save the day.

Answer: Mighty Mouse

9. For ten points each, name these people who contributed vocals to the new Gorillaz album, Demon Days.

a. Posdnuos, Trugoy and Pasemaster Mase, the three members of this group, contribute the rap in the hit single “Feel Good, Inc.”

Answer: De La Soul

b. This Mancunian contributes vaguely menacing vocals to the second single, “Dare”, just like he did as lead singer for the Happy Mondays on albums like Squirrel and G-Men 24 Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile.

Answer: Shaun Ryder

c. This actor reads an allegorical monologue in the song entitled “Fire Coming Out of a Monkey’s Head.”

Answer: Dennis Hopper

10. Mitch Albom once noted that dome teams lose in the NFL playoffs like squirrels that didn’t store enough nuts for winter. Albom’s adage is supported by the fact that no dome team has won a Conference Championship game outdoors. Name these teams thus affected for ten points each.

a. The most recent outdoor Conference Championship game loss by a dome team occurred in January, 2005 when this team lost the NFC title game to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Answer: Atlanta and/or Falcons

b. This team now in the NFC made their only AFC Championship game appearance following the 1983 season, but lost to the then Los Angeles Raiders.

Answer: Seattle and/or Seahawks

c. This team is the only dome team to get blanked in an outdoor conference championship game losing 41 to 0 against the New York Giants in January of 2001.

Answer: Minnesota and/or Vikings

11. Answer these questions about plot differences between the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for ten points each.

a. Squirrels sort this character out as a bad nut in Charlie and throw her down a garbage chute, but in Willy Wonka she is deemed a rotten egg by a scale.

Answer: Veruca Salt

b. This Wonka competitor is briefly mentioned in Charlie, but in Willy Wonka he visits each of the Golden Ticket winners and offers a substantial reward for the secrets of the Everlasting Gobstopper.

Answer: Arthur Slugworth

c. This Middle Eastern prince is not mentioned at all in Willy Wonka, but in Charlie Grandpa Joe tells a tale of how he paid Wonka to build him a castle made of chocolate.

Answer: Prince Pondicherry

12. Name these tracks from Adam Sandler’s CDs given information about the title character.

a. The title character of this song on They’re All Gonna Laugh at You survives a planned revolt by the chocolate pudding and garlic bread with the help of Sloppy Joe.

Answer: Lunchlady Land

b. The title character of this song on What’s Your Name came to this country for fortune and fame, but now drunk guys push him into a hibachi after the game.

Answer: The Lonesome Kicker

c. The title character of this sketch on Stan and Judy’s Kid ineffectually pretends to be a squirrel after a policeman discovers him wearing nipple clips in a tree.

Answer: The Peeper

13. Children’s books keep hitting the shelves that have been penned by celebrities from other walks of life. Perhaps they fear we don’t think they can write at an elementary school level. For ten points each, name these celebrities turned authors.

a. This actress’ collaborations with illustrator Laura Cornell include It’s Hard to Be Five and Where Do Balloons Go: An Uplifting Mystery.

Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis

b. In Eddie: Harold’s Little Brother, this politician tells the story of a boy who learns his talent for public speaking while describing the athletic exploits of his older brother.

Answer: Ed Koch

c. High in the Clouds, this musician’s first children’s book, features Wirral the Squirrel, a character he introduced in the animated short “Tropic Island Hum.”

Answer: Sir Paul McCartney

14. For ten points each, name these TV series that debuted in the 2004-2005 season from a summary of what happened in their second episode. Hint: Asking about the second episode means Who’s Your Daddy and The Will are not among the answers.

a. NYPD detective Jim Dunbar solves a child’s murder, but angers wife Christie when he goes into a rage at a dinner party after thinking he sensed her flirting with her boss.

Answer: Blind Justice

b. When daughter Megan breaks curfew, Tony tries to dispense tough love after taking the advice of his on-air sidekick Bernie.

Answer: Listen Up

c. Voltron gets served, Walt Disney eats Cuban children and a montage of groin kicks and the toppling of a squirrel’s acorn pile is presented as “Ode to the Nutshot.”

Answer: Robot Chicken

15. In a St. Louis Post Dispatch column entitled “If Boston is Cursed, I’m a Shaved Squirrel” written during the 2004 World Series, Bob Rybarczyk argues that Boston’s luck in sports is far better than that of St. Louis. Answer these questions about his rationale for ten points each.

a. Boston has 16 NBA titles with the Celtics, but St. Louis only has one NBA title with what franchise that long since departed for another city.

Answer: St. Louis or now Atlanta Hawks

b. The Blues have never won a Stanley Cup, but the Boston Bruins have won the Cup five times, most recently in 1972 when this defenseman won his third Hart Trophy.

Answer: Bobby Orr

c. In the “Big 4 sports”, Boston has 23 national titles to St. Louis’ 11 since this year, which until 2004 was the last year the Red Sox won a World Series.

Answer: 1918

16. Name the character from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy from an animal related quote for ten points each. If you can only name the actor who portrayed the character, you will receive five points. Choose to try for the character or actor, you cannot guess twice.

a. “Sorry, Champ. I think I ate your chocolate squirrel.”

Answer: (10pts) Brick and/or Tamland or (5 pts) Steve Carrell

b. “It's called Sex Panther by Odeon; it's illegal in nine countries. It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good.”

Answer: (10 pts) Brian and/or Fantana or (5 pts) Paul Rudd

c. “It was quite a show down here at the Pet Shack and just for today, fashion curiosity did not kill the cat.”

Answer: Veronica and/or Corningstone or (5 pts) Christina Applegate

17. For ten points each, name these novels with possibly insulting titles.

a. This first novel of John Jakes’ Kent Family series describes Phillippe Charboneau’s attempt to claim his inheritance and his participation in the American Revolution.

Answer: The Bastard

b. This Brian Wiprud novel tells the tale of a taxidermy collector attempting to solve the theft of the titular stuffed squirrel that was the star of an old children’s TV show.

Answer: Pipsqueak

c. With some help from Peter Golenbock, Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon wrote this book subtitled “Beating the Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life.”

Answer: Idiot

18. Name these nations given some recent highlights in the Summer Olympics for ten points each.

a. This nation won the 2004 gold medal awarded in baseball.

Answer: Cuba

b. In 2004, this nation won both the men’s volleyball gold medal and the men’s beach volleyball gold medal with the duo of Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santo.

Answer: Brazil

c. Blyth Tait on Reddy Teddy and Sally Clark on Squirrel Hill took the gold and silver home to this nation for equestrian individual mixed eventing in 1996 and Hamish Carter took home the gold in the triathlon in 2004.

Answer: New Zealand

19. Comedy Central trotted out a rash of new late night comedy talk shows in the summer of 2005. Name the series from a description of one of its promos for ten points or the comedian who hosts it for five points.

a. This show’s host used promos to note that he had seen thousands of squirrels but had never seen one taking a crap, but he had never seen a horse not taking a crap.

Answer: Too Late with Adam Carolla (10 pts) or Adam Carolla

b. This series was plugged with spots where the host said his series was just like The Daily Show except there was no cussing and the host has an afro, but can’t get a cab.

Answer: Weekends at the DL (10 pts) or DL Hughley (5 pts)

c. This series’ promos included previews of its bits like “Out the Beaner” and meeting the only white dude in the barrio.

Answer: Mind of Mencia (10 pts) or Carlos Mencia (5 pts)

20. Name these Dr. Pepper knock-offs for ten points each.

a. A New Hampshire blogger claims this Coca-Cola knock-off of Dr. Pepper is a squirrel aphrodisiac.

Answer: Mr. Pibb or Pibb Xtra

b. Pepsi’s attempt at knocking off Dr. Pepper led to this bright red extension to the citrus soda line that was discontinued in favor of Sierra Mist

Answer: Dr. Slice

c. This is the name of Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Choice Dr. Pepper knock-off.

Answer: Dr. Thunder

21. Name the Elvis Costello song from lyrics that reference the use of firearms for ten points each.

a. “It nearly took a miracle to get you to stay. It only took my little fingers to blow you away.”

Answer: Watching the Detectives

b. “There was a Checkpoint Charlie. He didn’t crack a smile, but it’s no laughing party when you’ve been on the murder mile. Only takes one itchy trigger.”

Answer: Oliver’s Army

c. “He's out in the woods with his squirrel gun to try to recapture his anger. He's screaming some words at the top of his lungs until he begins to feel younger.”

Answer: Poor Fractured Atlas

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