2008 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Memorial Open



2009 Ferdinand Tönnies Memorial Trash Open

“Gemeinschaft und Abfall”

Round 10

1. This movie includes a note thanking Ron Jeremy in the end credits, presumably in reference to a scene in which a man watches “The Plumber Comes 2.” The title action of this film is performed by a character who went on to win Dennis Survival national titles 8 years in a row; that character supposedly feels that Patchouli is a way of life, not just a fragrance. One character in this film recalls dreaming about a titanic, naked woman swimming backstroke. It opens with a dream involving a pack of 26 dogs, and the central character has a recurring dream in which he and other young men rise from the water while orange flares fall around them. The film closes with a shift to live action, archival footage of piles of corpses and grieving Palestinian women. FTP name this mostly-animated film focusing on the Sabra and Shatila massacres, written and directed by Ari Folman.

ANSWER: Waltz with Bashir or Vals Im Bashir

2. A recent Pittsburgh band founded by Bill Deasy and Rich Jacques, which has released the album The Invisible Ocean, is named for this figure’s “aeroplane.” A con man played by Eddie Murphy in the 1992 film The Distinguished Gentleman is named for this figure. This man announced “May the Force be with you” and “I invented America” before giving the middle finger to the audience of Maury. That took place after Dr. Spaceman [spuh-CHEH-mun] told Tracy Jordan that he was a descendant of this politician. A 2005 Christopher Hitchens book described this man as the “author of America,” while Joseph Ellis wrote about him in American Sphinx. FTP, name this third President of the United States.

ANSWER: Thomas Jefferson (accept Thomas Jefferson’s Aeroplane before the second sentence)

3. This group fell into obscurity after the massive failure of the single “One Sunday Morning” led to the non-release of an album in which they were to “bite back.” Earlier, this band expanded to nine members with the addition of Mike Berkowitz and Wolfgang Meltz, to form probably its worst lineup since founding members Jules Alexander and Terry Kirkman met. One song by this band discusses a woman who “gives … a pack of memories” and “let[s] them see reality,” rendering the singer’s “empty cup… as sweet as the punch.” This opening band of the 1967 Monterey Festival also had a hit with a song about a woman “calling a name that’s lighter than air” and having “wings to fly / Above the clouds.” FTP, name this California-based band known for such hits as “Cherish,” “Along Comes Mary,” and “Windy.”

ANSWER: The Association

4. Her game suffered after the divorce of her father Wink, a former Olympic volleyball player, and her mother Ann, but she got back in shape thanks to the training regime imposed on her by Robert Van’t Hof. In 2008, this athlete won New Zealand’s ASB Classic before getting smoked by Maria Sharapova in the second round of the Australian Open, but went on to tie a record held by Virginia Wade at a tournament in Memphis. In 2005, Serena Williams beat her in the finals of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam final she had made since the 2000 US Open. She won the last of her three Grand Slam titles at the 2000 Australian Open, where she defeated Martina Hingis. FTP, name this winner of the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics, the top-ranked woman’s tennis player in 2004 and 2005 and arguably the greatest American woman tennis player since Chris Evert.

ANSWER: Lindsay Davenport

5. This character’s comments in the Bassment on the tribal qualities of hip-hop music lead a bystander to note that this character is using Descartes’ philosophy to say she’s “down with the music.” She spends part of her considerable fortune to rebuild a bridge to Huntsville, West Virginia, and she kills Pam Nunan at the Checker Box after Pam interrupts her rendition of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” She also hotwires a cell phone to a car horn after falling victim to the Grave Digger together with a co-worker who is the sole heir of the Cantilever group. Another of her co-workers makes a set of dentures out of human canines for a cannibal serial killer known as Gormogon. She works at the Jeffersonian Institute alongside her best friend Angela Montenegro, played by Michaela Conlin, but frequently travels to work on cases with her partner, FBI special agent Seeley Booth. FTP name this forensic anthropologist played by Emily Deschanel on a namesake Fox show.

ANSWER: Bones or Temperance Deassee Brennan (accept any underlined name; also accept Tempe or even Bren)

6. This artist complained “I can’t believe in anything / I know that Mary lied” in the song “Never Gonna Be the Same,” which was the final track on a 2004 solo album. This artist observed “If I was the battle / Baby you’ve won the war” on a single from that album, “Hold on to Me,” though the single “Mono” got somewhat more acclaim. Both of those songs come from this artist’s album America’s Sweetheart. This artist was the lead singer for a group which had success with the song “Teenage Whore” from the 1991 album Pretty on the Inside, though this singer is better known for proclaiming “I’m Miss World / Somebody kill me” in a track from Live Through This, which came out days after her husband’s death. FTP, name this one-time singer for the group Hole who was married to Kurt Cobain.

ANSWER: Courtney Love

7. This phrase appears, along with a photo of the planet Earth, on the cover of a 1989 album by thrash band Nuclear Assault. This phrase also names a recent novel in which Charlotte O’Keefe contemplates suing the woman who is both her best friend and her ob/gyn after her daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta. In addition to that work by Jodi Picoult, this phrase names a 1977 film about CB radio which was directed by Jonathan Demme. A notable song with this title asserts that the singer has been “beat up and battered round,” and observes that “everybody’s got somebody to lean on” before inviting someone to “put your body next to mine and dream on.” FTP, give the three-word phrase which names the first track from the first Traveling Wilburys album, an instruction which may often be found on delicate packages.

ANSWER: “Handle with Care”

8. This franchise broke a color barrier in 1969 by hiring John McLendon as its coach, as he was the first African-American head coach in its league. Two years before joining its current league, this franchise changed to its current name because its former name was already in use. Two years after that, a player from this team lost the league scoring title on the final day of the season, when George Gervin’s 63 points were enough to overcome the 73 dropped by David Thompson. The start of this team’s second era of success coincided with the arrival of a small forward who’d been drafted out of South Carolina to replace Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Milwaukee and a guard whose name was synonymous with the jab step. The aforementioned players are Alex English and Kiki Vandeweghe, who was recently this team’s general manager. FTP, name this NBA franchise whose classic logo shows a rainbow sky above a rainbow skyline in front of some white mountains.

ANSWER: the Denver Nuggets (accept either underlined part; accept Denver Rockets; prompt on Rockets)

9. This first name was the title of a ‘90s TV series on the BBC in which Michael Elphick played the owner of a news agency in Darlington who would stop at nothing to get stories to sell to the papers. On the sitcom Home Improvement, this was the first name of a man who was married to Delores; that character was played by Blake Clark, and ran the hardware store where Tim Allen spent way too much time. This is also the first name of the character played by James Remar on Dexter; that character is the title character’s adoptive father, and Dexter follows a “code” named for him. Bruce Davison starred in an early ‘90s sitcom as a member of the title family which adopts an unusual figure of this name; that sitcom was inspired by a 1987 film in which John Lithgow appeared. Woody Allen played a writer with this first name in a film whose title alludes to deconstrution. FTP, give this name which was shared by a Bigfoot taken in by the Hendersons.

ANSWER: Harry

10. One novel feature of this song’s recording was a response to Wilson Picket’s sound achieved by Geoff Emerick through the use of a polarity-inverted loudspeaker and Rickenbacker bass. This song was an attempt to use only one chord in the verse, though that failed, as some verses contain a late inversion to C followed by a chorus that, like the third movement of Mahler’s First Symphony, is based on “Frère Jacques.” The original cover for the single of this song would later be used for a compilation album, and featured the band in butcher smocks covered with raw meat and decapitated baby dolls. The title object of this song is apparently based on a work of Edward Lear and could “make a million for you overnight” as the “dirty story of a dirty man.” FTP, name this song which takes the form of a letter to an editor from an aspiring novelist, a non-album song by the Beatles.

ANSWER: “Paperback Writer”

11. This man played quarterback for Baldwin Wallace College, and he served as running backs coach for Keith Byars the year Byars finished second in the Heisman voting. This man's first bowl game appearance as a head coach was a 31-28 loss to South Carolina in the Outback Bowl, and he has coached players such as Will Smith and Nick Mangold in his current position. This coach won his first title in 1991, defeating Marshall, while he lost the most recent bowl game he coached in thanks to a Colt McCoy touchdown pass. He has a 1-2 record in BCS title games, having beaten Miami in 2003 and lost to Florida and LSU in 2007 and 2008. FTP name this head coach, often seen sporting a sweater vest, who runs the Ohio State Buckeyes football team.

ANSWER: Jim Tressel

12. He wrote about a New York cab driver named Patrick Coyne who wouldn’t let him pay for a ride in “The Cab Driver and the Gold Necklace,” which appears in his book Common Nonsense. He wrote about his coming of age during World War II in a book which featured a forward by Tom Brokaw, My War, and wrote about such subjects as “the sports fan” and “daily life” in his recent Out of My Mind. In 1990, he was suspended from his best-known job after The Advocate quoted his assertion that black people had “watered down their genes” because the “less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children.” He started in that job in 1978, when Point/Counterpoint was replaced with a segment known as “A Few Minutes.” FTP, name this curmudgeonly writer who can been seen on Sunday nights babbling about random issues at the end of 60 Minutes.

ANSWER: Andy Rooney

13. An Indonesian version of it features Peter Gontha, who employs the snappy catchphrase “Anda saya pecat!” The implausibly named Tokyo Sexwale, who was once imprisoned on Robbin Island with Nelson Mandela, was central to the South African version of it, while Roberto Justus has been seen on the long-running Brazilian variant. In America, a recent installment of it saw Roxanne Wilson and Lee Bienstock fail to triumph, while an episode called “Backs Against the Wal-Mart” helped propel Sean Yazbeck to victory. Earlier champions included Kendra Todd and season 1 winner Bill Rancic, who were evaluated by the avuncular George Ross and the savage Carolyn Kepcher as they battled to obtain the title position. FTP, name this reality competition on NBC in which aspiring tools competed to be a hireling for Donald Trump.

ANSWER: The Apprentice

14. One song about creating these items features a character named Pixel claiming that “it’s just like science,” just before warnings against deviating from “the book” to prevent these items from “end[ing] up crazy” are issued by Stephanie. Another song that mentions these equates running out of them with the creation of a “neat gun,” before a non sequitur sees the singer note that one of these “is great” and that she is “still alive.” Still another song finds the singer recalling “the yellow cotton dress / Flowing like a wave” and nebulously connects that memory with a place that is “melting in the dark” while one of these items is destroyed. FTP, name these sometimes delectable items, a pretty one of which can be had by following directions from Lazy Town, the running out of which can cease science in the closing song from Portal, and one of which was left in the rain according to “MacArthur Park.”

ANSWER: cakes

15. James Millican played this man in a 1951 film about John Vickers, who is trying to get revenge on the men who killed his fiancee. In a 1940 film in which Raymond Massey played abolitionist John Brown and Errol Flynn played Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, Santa Fe Trail, this man was portrayed by Ronald Reagan. The next year, Sydney Greenstreet appeared as Winfield Scott in a film about the life of this man, who was played by Errol Flynn. In addition to They Died with Their Boots On, this historical figure is central to an Arthur Penn film based on a Thomas Berger novel, and was played by Gary Cole in a film based on Evan Connell’s Son of the Morning Star. FTP, name this American general who was killed in 1876 while fighting the Sioux in Montana at Little Big Horn.

ANSWER: George Armstrong Custer

16. One song named for one of these creatures announces “You’re a retrograde, a vacancy” and accuses someone of “sucking your tantric suck, fooling your one-eyed cat.” In another song, this creature says “Did you hear that, Bear? We’ll get out of here, fair and square”; in that song, Ursula is asked to understand that “my heart is a furnace.” That song, which notes that “sooner or later you’ll bare your teeth” and observes “Darling, there’s a place for us / Can we go, before I turn to dust?” appeared on Ys by Joanna Newsom. A song about these creatures also appears on Crocodiles by Echo and the Bunnymen, while a group sort of named for these creatures released such albums as Changes, Headquarters, and one which included “Circle Sky,” Head. FTP, name these humanoid critters who inspired a band which included Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones.

ANSWER: Monkey (accept The Monkees or monkeys or clear-knowledge simian equivalents)

17. During the 1980s, he directed a film about two violinists of the Roaring Twenties who both fall in love with a woman named Romaine, who goes on to kill herself. More recently, he directed a musical inspired by Dennis Potter’s works which won the César for Best Film in 1998. In addition to Mélo and Same Old Song, he used the ideas of philosopher Henri Laborit in a film about a man named René who becomes an executive. Gérard Depardieu starred in that 1980 film, My American Uncle, while the poetry of Jean Cayrol was the basis for a documentary film this man made in 1955 about the concentration camps. FTP, name this French director of Night and Fog, who worked with Alain Robbe-Grillet on 1961’s Last Year at Marienbad.

ANSWER: Alain Resnais

18. This is the first name of an author who wrote a novel whose characters include Benderesk and Serret, the Lord and Lady of the Terrenon. A character of this name has a sister named Morgana who winds up encased in a block of ice. An actress with this first name is given as the first response to the $800 Foreign Flicks prompt in an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy on SNL; that response is later expanded to include “Catherine Deneuve and Charo, twice.” The author of this first name described the recovery of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe by a disciple of Ogion in The Tombs of Atuan. The character of this name sings “Poor Unfortunate Souls” and later appears disguised as a human named Vanessa after taking another character’s voice. FTP give this name shared by the actress who portrayed Honey Ryder in Dr. No, the Disney villainess who opposes Triton and Ariel in The Little Mermaid, and the author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series.

ANSWER: Ursula (accept Ursula Kroeber Le Guin before “block of ice”)

19. He recalled chidhood fights with his sister Mary Lou in Big Rush Run, Ohio, as well as an anecdote about digging an outhouse for his Uncle Og in exchange for his first baseball glove, in his authorized biography, Twin Killing. He followed Dave Winfield’s Hall of Fame induction speech in 2001 by thanking the Veterans’ Committee for recognizing defensive skill, then weeping for two minutes. The winner of eight gold gloves between 1958 and 1967, he was mobbed by fans on one significant occasion after hitting a Ralph Terry pitch beyond both Yogi Berra and the left field wall of Forbes Field. FTP, identify this long-time Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman, best known for his walk-off home run in game 7 of the 1960 world series.

ANSWER: William “Bill” Mazeroski

20. This person eventually apologizes to Bassett on Boston Common after calling the latter’s wife a “bloated wart hog.” This character upholds a tradition of lighting a candle on the birthday of his spouse, which she requested at her death. This character makes an important discovery near Lake Shiel, where he feels a strange affinity for a Black Knight; he is later taught the meaning of that feeling by the chief metallurgist to Charles V, Juan Sanchez Villa Lobos Ramirez. While known as Russell Nash during The Gathering, this warrior wins The Prize by defeating that same knight, who is known as The Kurgan, and receiving The Quickening. FTP, name this Scottish immortal portrayed by Christopher Lambert as the main character of the Highlander films.

ANSWER: Connor MacLeod (prompt on MacLeod or The Highlander)

Bonuses:

1. This artist’s third solo LP, in which he Gets Next to You, contains a highly novel cover of “Light My Fire” in addition to the major hit “Tired of Being Alone.” FTPE:

[10] Name this soul and R&B singer.

ANSWER: Albert Greene

[10] This second Al Green LP, his first on a major label, consists mostly of covers, including one of “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” It may address a philosophical problem posed by Nelson Goodman.

ANSWER: Green is Blues

[10] Al Green’s next album after Al Green Gets Next to You is named for this song, in which Green requests that he and the addressee follow the title request “Whether times are good or bad / Happy or sad.”

ANSWER: “Let’s Stay Together”

2. Answer the following about perfect games and the Chicago White Sox, FTPE:

[10] Earlier this year, this pitcher throw a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays in a hitters’ park with the third-worst defensive team in baseball behind him.

ANSWER: Mark Buehrle

[10] The White Sox were the victims of Addie Joss’ 1908 perfect game; Joss was then pitching for a Cleveland franchise that was named for this second baseman who won a share of the 1910 batting title.

ANSWER: Napoléon Lajoie

[10] The White Sox defeated this franchise behind Charlie Robertson’s perfect game in 1922. This team’s star outfielder was allowed to search Robertson personally, but could not find his means of doctoring the ball, if indeed he was doing so.

ANSWER: the Detroit Tigers (accept either underlined part)

3. He played Pennsylvania’s John Dickinson on HBO’s John Adams. FTPE:

[10] Name this actor, who appeared on film in 2008 as a Canadian tourist in In Bruges.

ANSWER: Zeljko Ivanek

[10] Ivanek won an Emmy for playing Ray Fiske, a lawyer who commits suicide, in the first season of this cable drama which stars Glenn Close.

ANSWER: Damages

[10] Ivanek appeared on the first season of 24 as a member of this evil Balkan clan; his father Victor was played by Dennis Hopper.

ANSWER: the Drazens (accept Andre Drazen)

4. FTPE, name these radio comedians who got first billing in doubly-eponymous shows.

[10] This ventriloquist appeared on The Chase and Sanborn Hour with such dummies as the stupid Mortimer Snerd and the wise-cracking Charlie McCarthy. His daughter played Margaret Bourke-White in the film Gandhi.

ANSWER: Edgar John Bergen or Bergren

[10] This Jim Jordan character lived next door to Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve in Wistful Vista. Jim’s real-life wife Marian portrayed this character’s wife Molly.

ANSWER: Fibber McGee (accept either name)

[10] This man interacted with music director Artie Shaw, announcer Bill Goodwin, and neighbors Blanche and Harry Morton on a radio show that closed with him telling his wife, “Say good night, Gracie.”

ANSWER: George Burns or Nathanael Birnbaum

5. Name these artists who have immortalized the Bronx in song, FTPE:

[10] This rapper described a DJ who was “up in the Bronx where the people are fresh” in one song, while he wrote about a man who can’t explain to the IRS why he “claimed his cat” in the classic “The Breaks.”

ANSWER: Kurtis Blow (accept Curtis Walker)

[10] “Bronx Tale” led off his 1995 album Jealous One’s Envy, which he has followed with such albums as Me, Myself, & I, which featured the hit “Make It Rain.”

ANSWER: Fat Joe (accept Joseph Cartagena)

[10] Their 2000 album Private Personal Parts included “Back to the Bronx,” though they are best known for an album deemed “legally obscene,” As Nasty as They Wanna Be.

ANSWER: 2 Live Crew

6. The plot of this film revolves around the difficulty in covering up the murder of the child-molesting Paco by the main character. FTPE:

[10] Name this film in which Raimunda stokes business at her restaurant by singing the title song.

ANSWER: Volver

[10] Volver was written and directed by this man, who also created Labyrinth of Passions and The Flower of My Secret.

ANSWER: Pedro Almodóvar Caballero

[10] Raimunda, the main character in Volver, was played by this actress, who also portrays Lena in the recent Broken Embraces.

ANSWER: Penelope Cruz Sánchez

7. With medical students like Sudheer Potru, it’s no wonder so many Michigan State footballers find easy access to drugs. Name some such players, FTPE:

[10] This starting quarterback missed part of the 2002 season with cocaine nose, but was welcomed back to the team by coke-lovin’ coach John L. Lewis and made the Rams roster for a season.

ANSWER: Jeff “Cock” Smoker

[10] This former Spartans wideout probably smoked some of O.J. Santiago’s sticky cheeba in 2001, but more recently fucked his career by shooting himself in the leg.

ANSWER: Plaxico Antonio Burress

[10] This Sparty kicker from 1996 to 2000 verified rumors that he regularly got liquored up and took baseball bats to mailboxes during his time in East Lansing. This man with an unorthodox “corkscrew” kicking motion now allegedly runs a camp in Costa Rica.

ANSWER: Paul Edinger

8. Answer the following about the work of Geoff Johns, FTPE:

[10] In 2007, Johns helped launch a new series about this vain hero whose real name is Michael Carter, and who is often accompanied by a small floating robot named Skeets.

ANSWER: Booster Gold

[10] Johns was responsible for the relaunch of this DC comics group, whose new incarnation includes Wonder Girl, Beast Boy, and Kid Flash.

ANSWER: the Teen Titans

[10] In his work on a series about the “rebirth” of this figure, Johns brought Hal Jordan back to battle the evil Parallax.

ANSWER: Green Lantern

9. The title character realizes that Roger Podacter was murdered, and later tracks down Ray Finkle, who harbors a grudge against an NFL great. FTPE:

[10] Name this 1994 film, which featured the talent of Sean Young and Tone Loc.

ANSWER: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (prompt on partial answer)

[10] Earlier in the ‘90s, Sean Young starred with Matt Dillon in this film based on an Ira Levin novel; in it, she played the daughter of the wealthy Thor Carlsson, played by Max von Sydow.

ANSWER: A Kiss Before Dying

[10] Young was originally slated to play this role in Tim Burton’s Batman, but after she injured herself in a horse-riding accident, Kim Basinger got the part.

ANSWER: Vicki Vale (accept either)

10. Its first single was “French Navy,” and it also includes such tracks as “Honey in the Sun.” FTPE:

[10] Name this 2009 album, whose title track repeatedly notes “I don’t want to be sad again.”

ANSWER: My Maudlin Career

[10] My Maudlin Career is the latest release from this Scottish band which has long labored in the shadow of Belle and Sebastian, despite the success of Let’s Get Out of this Country.

ANSWER: Camera Obscura

[10] My Maudlin Career also features a song with this name which is presumably a tribute to this Manchester band best known for their hit “Laid.”

ANSWER: “James”

11. A popular movement arose to keep the Dolores Claman and Howard Cable theme song to this program, even though it was replaced in 2008. FTPE:

[10] The ridiculous commentary and wardrobe of Don Cherry is an integral part of this CBC Sports broadcast.

ANSWER: Hockey Night in Canada

[10] Don Cherry’s analysis is presented in this segment, in which he debates with Ron MacLean.

ANSWER: Coach’s Corner

[10] Examples of the long-alleged pro-Maple Leafs bias in the show include showing a tribute to the Leafs’ Tie Domi instead of the ceremony for this Canadiens great after his 2006 death. Nicknamed “Boom Boom,” some claim that this man invented the slapshot.

ANSWER: Bernie Geoffrion

12. Since you already know about the Jets and Raiders, answer the following about adaptations of Heidi unrelated to football, FTPE:

[10] The infamous version of Heidi featured this man as Heidi’s grandfather. With a Best Actor nomination for Mourning Becomes Electra, he may be best known for his children Vanessa, Lynn, and Corin.

ANSWER: Michael Redgrave

[10] This Rat Pack-member voiced Head Ratte in the animated Heidi. He also starred in One More Time.

ANSWER: Sammy Davis Jr.

[10] This woman played Blind Anna in the original Heidi, but made a career playing strict, stuffy old women in Shirley Temple movies.

ANSWER: Helen Westley

13. The premise of this game is remarkably similar to real life: out-race fellow motorcyclists, possibly by beating them to death, to earn cash to buy better motorcycles. FTPE:

[10] Name this game in which reversing the order of the last five characters of the initial key from 000KU to UK000 nets you $10 million.

ANSWER: Road Rash

[10] Road Rash was initially released on this Motorola 68K-based platform.

ANSWER: Sega Genesis (accept Sega Mega Drive; prompt on Sega)

[10] The cartridges for early, unlicensed Genesis games from this publisher of Road Rash were longer than standard cartridges and had characteristic yellow tabs.

ANSWER: Electronic Arts

14. Name these Led Zeppelin albums, FTSNOP.

[5] This 1973 studio album, the band’s fifth, opens with “The Song Remains the Same.” The cover art shows a bunch of naked children clambering up the Giant’s Causeway.

ANSWER: Houses of the Holy

[5] The songs “Black Country Woman,” “The Rover” and “Houses of the Holy” were recorded during the Houses of the Holy sessions, but appeared on this succeeding double album.

ANSWER: Physical Graffiti

[10] The song “Bron-Yr-Aur” appears on Physical Graffiti, but was written and recorded during sessions for this album, whose songs include “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp,” “Tangerine,” and “The Immigrant Song.”

ANSWER: Led Zeppelin III

[10] A studio version of Willie Dixon’s song “I Can’t Quit You Baby” appears on Led Zep’s debut album, but a live version can be found on this 1982 outtakes album, which also includes “Bonzo’s Montreux.”

ANSWER: Coda

15. Answer the following about the first season of Desperate Housewives, FTPE:

[10] The show opened with the suicide of this character, played by Brenda Young, who would spookily narrate subsequent episodes from beyond the grave.

ANSWER: Mary Alice Young (accept either)

[10] In the first season, this character became pregnant after her husband surreptitiously replaced her birth control pills with sugar pills. She also had an affair with her gardener, John Rowland.

ANSWER: Gabrielle Solis (accept either)

[10] The first season also led to a Golden Globe award for this actress, who played Susan Mayer; she also appeared as Lois Lane on a ‘90s TV series.

ANSWER: Teri Hatcher

16. Answer the following about films featuring martial arts that aren’t kung fu or karate, FTPE.

[10] This 2006 comedy features Danny McBride as Fred Simmons, a Taekwondo instructor who idolizes Chuck “the Truck” Wallace until he catches Chuck sleeping with his wife Suzie.

ANSWER: The Foot Fist Way

[10] The 1993 capoeira film Only The Strong stars Mark Dacascos, who currently appears as the Chairman on this Food Network show.

ANSWER: Iron Chef America: The Series (prompt on partial answer, e.g. “Iron Chef”)

[10] This Muay Thai martial artist starred in the Prachya Prinkaew films The Protector and Ong Bak. Don’t take his elephants or desecrate his village’s Buddha statue.

ANSWER: Tony Jaa or Jaa Panom or Tatchakorn Yeerum or Panom Yeerum

17. Answer the following about novels which are scheduled to appear later in 2009, FTPE:

[10] Don Sportello is the protagonist of this new Thomas Pynchon novel, which is set during the ‘60s.

ANSWER: Inherent Vice

[10] Chronic City, a novel about life in Manhattan, will be published this fall by this author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.

ANSWER: Jonathan Lethem

[10] In September, this author’s dystopian novel The Year of the Flood will appear; previous dystopian novels by this author include one about Snowman.

ANSWER: Margaret Atwood

18. He hosted Triple Threat alongside MTV VJ Alan Hunter, as well as Give-n-Take. FTPE:

[10] Identify this game show host of Bullseye and, following Tom Kennedy, the last version of Name That Tune.

ANSWER: Jim Lange

[10] Jim Lange is best known for hosting this iconic show where three eligible people were asked probing questions.

ANSWER: The Dating Game

[10] Gong Show host Chuck Barris created The Dating Game, and in this book, his “unauthorized autobiography,” he describes both recurring Dating Game-themed nightmares and his purported time as a spy.

ANSWER: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

19. The namesake “Strut” of this group discusses an animal that doesn’t bother chasing mice around and gets its dinner from a garbage can. FTPE:

[10] Name this rockabilly revival band led by Brian Setzer.

ANSWER: The Stray Cats

[10] The Stray Cats moved to England to take advantage of a bizarre revival of this type of ‘50s youth culture named for its fondness for costumes from the first decade of the twentieth century. They really hated The Blackboard Jungle, and immigrants.

ANSWER: Teddy Boys

[10] The Stray Cats most enduring hit is this one, in which a bar is abandoned because “All they played was disco, man” and “there’s a-gonna be a fight” in a second bar if “a real square cat” “look[s] at [the singer] again.”

ANSWER: “Rock This Town”

20. This team is currently shopping Carlos Boozer for pieces to build around point guard Deron Williams. FTPE:

[10] Name this NBA franchise.

ANSWER: the Utah Jazz (accept either underlined part)

[10] Part of the reason the Jazz are okay with trading Boozer is the ascendency of this Louisiana Tech product and fan of Martin at the four. The Jazz matched an offer sheet from the Blazers to keep him this offseason.

ANSWER: Paul Millsap

[10] Jazz fans may or may not have been excited about the team’s decision to draft this VCU point guard in the first round of the 2009 draft.

ANSWER: Eric Maynor

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