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TERP 2: This Time, it’s TERPsonal

Round 1

Edited by Logan Anbinder

Written by Logan Anbinder, Jeff Amoros, Arun Chonai, Ozzie Fallick, SteveJon Guth, Isaac Hirsch, Marin Lolic, Chris Manners, Paul Marchsteiner, Brian McPeak, and Gary Weiser

1. This man once lost a 36 million pound deposit on the Villa Leopolda, a residence on the French Riviera, and in a 2010 60 Minutes interview, he admitted he had no idea where his 200-foot yacht was at the time. An avid athlete, he trains with a kickboxing coach daily, and once hired a production company to film him performing stunts on a jet ski. This man gained his first break when he and a partner won the right to buy (*) Norilsk Nickel through a government auction of questionable legality. A former financial backer of CSKA Moscow, this man recently announced that he would oppose Vladimir Putin in the Russian presidential election in March. The first European owner of an NBA team, FTP, name this majority owner of the New Jersey Nets.

ANSWER: Mikhail Prokhorov

2. At the beginning of the video for this song, the singer is asleep under a blanket depicting such Disney characters as Dumbo, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and later he holds up a massively oversized watch to illustrate his argument that he will have to go through a certain event “about 200 more times.” The artist asserts that “This isn’t Sha Na Na” and “I’m not Bowzer” in the first verse, while in the second he describes how the two titular people alternate driving and beating him. That action comes after this song’s artist takes a forbidden (*) ride in a Porsche, receiving a speeding ticket after picking up a girl who demands, “drive fast, speed turns me on” but who happens to be a twelve year-old runaway. The speaker is dressed in clothes from 1963 and picked on at school after being bought Zips instead of Adidas by the titular relations of, FTP, what Will Smith rap about his inability to communicate with his mother and father?

ANSWER: “Parents Just Don’t Understand”

3. In one episode of this show, one protagonist responds that she is Lithuanian after misunderstanding a girl at a Gamma Gamma Mu sorority party who says that she is rushing, while in another episode the protagonists question the value of a sexless marriage after learning that one character plans to marry the illegal immigrant Enrico so that he can avoid deportation. In an earlier episode of this series, one character plagiarizes a poem by (*) Emily Dickinson; that character also had the catchphrase “I just had another one of my brilliant ideas!” and was the wealthy Blair Warner. Another character in this show was the Cloris Leachman-portrayed Beverly Ann Stickle, who replaced Mrs. Garrett in her role at Eastland School, whose pupils included Natalie Green and Tootie Ramsey. FTP, name this spinoff of Diff’rent Strokes about titular principles that its theme song noted you would suddenly find out were “all about you.”

ANSWER: The Facts of Life

4. One minor character in this film has a habit of repeating whatever he says by grammatically reversing it, saying things like, “Up you wake!” and “Together are we going to live?” That man is Mister Senor Love Daddy, and one character named Clifton enrages another character by accidentally stepping on his new (*) Air Jordans. This film ends with two conflicting quotes about violence, and one character in this film tries to start a boycott over a non-integrated “Wall of Fame.” The climax of this film sees Sal’s Pizzeria destroyed and Radio Raheem beaten to death. For ten points, name this movie about a sweltering hot day in New York, directed by Spike Lee.

ANSWER: Do the Right Thing

5. A remake of the game featuring this location includes a level titled after the “revenge” of a character fought previously at this location, while another challenge at this location pits the protagonist against a character who can later be rematched at Tiny-Huge Island. Dangers in this location include giant bouncing balls of water, while the first antagonist encountered at this location will hurl the protagonist off his (*) mountain if caught, but may be defeated by grabbing him from behind and throwing him to the ground. This location features cannons which may be activated to “Shoot to the Island in the Sky,” while ground pounding a certain wooden pillar at this location will free a Chain Chomp and allow the protagonist access to a Star, one of the first in the game. FTP, name this location in Super Mario 64, the first playable level that is also a warzone between the red and black types of the namesake explosive characters.

ANSWER: Bob-omb Battlefield

6. The music video for one song by this artist opens with a shot of a storybook, whose words “Lady Delish loved cars” glow and jump off the page. Another song by this artist is a letter that asks of its titular addressee, “What do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?” and those songs by this artist are on the same album as a song that asserts, “I took your words and I believed in everything you said to me.” In addition to “Dear Mr. President” and (*) “Who Knew?” another song by this artist expresses dismay that a waiter has given her table to Jessica Simpson, and appends the titular question with “I’m still a rock star.” That song is called “So What?” while another song by this artist includes the lines, “Party crasher, panty snatcher, call me up if you want gangsta.” FTP, name this singer of “Raise Your Glass” who also asserted that the titular action should begin because “I’m comin’ up” in “Get the Party Started.”

ANSWER: Pink or Alecia Beth Moore

7. In a Five-on-One feature on Sportsfeat about Madden’s discarded QB Vision Control feature, writer Adi Joseph noted that this man had “the peripheral vision of an alligator.” During college, he set the SEC record for QB wins with 39, though he went 0-3 against Florida and lost in his final game to Nebraska, nixing his chance of winning a national title his senior year under Phil (*) Fulmer. The first NFL record this man set, for passing yards in a debut for a rookie QB, was broken this season by Cam Newton, and from that start until the beginning of this season, he had only missed a single snap due to injury for his franchise, a Mark Rypien fumble returned 59 yards by the Dolphins for a TD in 2001. Arguably the most talented of the QB offspring of former Saints Pro Bowler Archie, FTP, name this brother of Cooper and Eli, a future Hall of Famer for the Indianapolis Colts.

ANSWER: Peyton Manning

8. This actress portrayed the female lead in a film whose first scene sees the male protagonist flashback to a childhood trip to the U.S. Mint after he gets shot. This woman also played Mouse in American Gun, and yet another role played by this actress was created specifically for her by director Rodrigo Garcia, and in that role her character’s uncommunicative parents are portrayed by Ian McShane and Sissy Spacek; that film was Nine Lives.In a more recent appearance, this woman plays a resident of the village of Daggerhorn named Valerie, who at the end of the film runs to her (*) grandmother’s house. The most famous roles played by this actress may be Sophie, the daughter of a character played by Meryl Streep, and a character who declares that her breasts can tell when it’s raining, a member of the Plastics who thinks she has ESPN. FTP, name this actress who starred in Red Riding Hood, Mamma Mia!, and as Karen Smith in Mean Girls.

ANSWER: Amanda Seyfried

9. A friend of this figure once referred to him as “captain of the S.S. Tatas,” while on another occasion this person and his brother celebrate the successful purchase of a hydraulic lift by bidding on a longhorn steer at the same auction. This character accompanies his best friend on his trip to a sports agency in New York, and in another episode begins a relationship with the mother of a young fan named Bo. This figure is later is sent to jail after taking the blame for his brother (*) Billy’s chop shop. This character never reciprocates the romance felt towards him by Becky Sproles, but in the first season of the show in which this character appears, he has an affair with Lyla Garrity, the girlfriend of his best friend, injured quarterback Jason Street. Playing number 33 as fullback for the Dillon Panthers, FTP name this character portrayed by Taylor Kitsch on Friday Night Lights.

ANSWER: Tim Riggins

10. In this character’s original appearance, he is the second to begin play, while in a more recent iteration his first name is changed to Jack and he is an ex-football player. This character is played by Martin Mull in a film appearance, in which this character demands to know why J. Edgar Hoover is on another character’s phone, and he earlier asks that same man what his job entails, to which that man responds, “I buttle, sir.” In that appearance this character is a (*) war profiteer who works at the Pentagon, and also begins to reveal his name before he is stopped by Wadsworth, who gives him the alias by which he is best known. One ending to that film reveals that this character did not murder Mr. Boddy, although he did murder the motorist in the library with the wrench. FTP, name this Clue game character, a military man whose playing color is yellow.

ANSWER: Colonel Mustard

11. One iteration of this franchise features the antagonists Ichy and Dil, who seek to prevent the successful acquisition of the Night Flower, while another character who bears a resemblance to the primary protagonist of this franchise is named Ali. Iterations of this franchise include the most recent, The Wisdom of Friends, as well as one called The Mysterious Island. The first entry in this series features the Diana Ross song “If We Hold On Together,” and depicts the protagonists’ attempts to reach the (*) Great Valley. Those characters included Petrie and Ducky, who meet the protagonist after the demise of the his mother at the hands of a Sharptooth. The triceratops Cera teams up with the “long-neck” Littlefoot in, FTP, what Don Bluth film about the prehistoric age of the dinosaurs?

ANSWER: The Land Before Time

12. The protagonist of a movie titled after one of these people has his lack of suavity contrasted with that of Steve Ellinger, while another one of these people deliberately sabotages a ride called the Juggler in Spy Kids 2. In “The Pool Guy” episode of Seinfeld, a man in the fictional movie Chunnel can be heard saying that one of these people is trapped there. In yet another film, one of these people has her wallet stolen by Scotty McGruff, and is inspired to rekindle a relationship by the sight of a Six Million Dollar Man sticker. That character is Anna Foster, played by (*) Mandy Moore. A Disney Channel movie about one of these people is titled after My Date with her, while in videogames one of these people is named Ashley Graham and is kidnapped by Saddler before being rescued by Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil 4. FTP, name this standing that in real life is occupied by Sasha and Malia Obama.

ANSWER: President’s Daughter or First Daughter (prompt on “president’s kid,” do not accept “president’s son”)

13. The focus of this song’s music video is ostensibly the chase of an armadillo by an Arab who spots that creature through his binoculars before being joined in his travels by a Hasidic Jew. This song ends with the declaration that “fundamentally he can’t take it” because “he thinks it’s not kosher.” The titular action is encouraged by the fact that “the local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb,” and by the fact that “the (*) Bedouin they brought out the electric camel drum.” A certain type of music is banned “by order of the prophet” in this song, though it is continued to be played in the title location by many groups despite the fact that “the sharif don’t like it.” FTP, name this song by The Clash that encourages their own type of popular music to be played in a certain Arabic citadel.

ANSWER: “Rock the Casbah”

14. In one appearance, this person stands beside a man telling a story about a friend who demands, “come to the back of the boat!” while in that same appearance, he mistakenly refers to the Batman theme song as the theme from AfterMASH. This man suggests that the word “cat” is in the “R” section of the dictionary, and also clarifies the meaning of the phrase “turn out” as “a prison term” that means that a certain man’s (*) mother is in this figure’s employ. This man once altered a math problem to make “zero plus zero minus zero equals zero” read “poop,” and altered the word “indoors” to read “I heart boobs,” while notable misreadings by this man have resulted in his choosing categories such as “famous titties” and “Jap anus relations.” FTP, name this perpetual antagonist of a fictional Alex Trebek, played by Darrell Hammond on SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy sketches.

ANSWER: Sean Connery (accept “Tom Cruise” until “AfterMASH”)

15. In one incident involving this character, he is accused of reporting that his friend forced his pet chicken to partake in cannibalism, while an exchange with Marilyn Delpy causes this man to investigate the whereabouts of his ex-girlfriend Erica. This man speaks in a heated exchange with his best friend in a sequence in which that friend’s girlfriend Christy sets fire to his (*) scarf. Another associate of this character is a man whose biggest contribution to this man’s company is characterized as the suggestion that this character remove the word “the” from his company name, and who later convinces this man to purchase business cards that read “I’m CEO, bitch.” This character betrays Eduardo Saverin, is sued by the Winklevoss twins, and takes the advice of Internet mogul Sean Parker. FTP, name this character portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network, the real-life founder of Facebook.

ANSWER: Mark Zuckerberg

16. This actress starred as Jane Duden, the wealthy newlywed of a medical student, in the pilot of Marriage: Year One, and as Bonnie Banner, the sister of the protagonist Woody, in Hey, Landlord. This woman won an Emmy for her portrayal of a graduate student who inhabits personalities such as Vanessa and Peggy due to her dissociative identity disorder, in Sybil. Other roles played by this woman include a (*) surfer girl who was featured in a titular TV show with her father Russell Lawrence, while more recently this woman played the matriarch of the Walker family, who must cope with the death of her husband William along with her children, one of whom is played by Calista Flockhart. Her best-known role may be as a woman who gained her titular supernatural ability by catching a breeze in her habit, Sister Bertrille. FTP, name this actress who has starred on Gigi, Brothers and Sisters, and The Flying Nun.

ANSWER: Sally Field

17. One man with this nickname was a surfer known for being the first man to use polyurethane foam in surfboard construction. Another man with this nickname trained Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano as the top boxing trainer of the 1930s and 40s. In addition to Harrison and Bimstein, a former outfielder with this nickname starred for the Whiz Kid Phillies before finishing his career with the ’62 Mets, when he became that franchise’s first All-Star rep. The nickname of the manager who took the (*) Cardinals to three World Series appearances in the 1980s, it also served as the nom de guerre for the pitcher who holds the World Series record for most wins, with 10, and consecutive scoreless innings pitched, a record he took from fellow former Yankee Babe Ruth. Also the nickname of a mobster recently captured in Santa Monica, CA, far from his Boston home, FTP, give this nickname often used as a derogatory term for Caucasians.

ANSWER: Whitey

18. In a one-shot appearance, one of these figures angers his wife, the President of the United States, when he feeds her dog food, while another one of these figures who appeared only once was named Safari Al. A recurring one of these figures describes the two magnums he keeps in his desk, a gun that he keeps loaded and a bottle that keeps him loaded, and that figure attempts to figure out how far apart two drivers started before driving at each other at different speeds. That one of these people is (*) Tracer Bullet, while another one of these figures breaks free of a locker before reciting an acrostic about his name, which he cannot complete because he doesn’t know how to spell “Stupendous.” The best-known one of these figures can be seen setting his Mertilizer to “deep fat fry,” and is about to be suffocated by a disgusting ooze before Susie Derkins yells at him for playing with his tapioca in the final panel. FTP, name these figures, including Stupendous Man and Spaceman Spiff, who are usually featured when their real-life counterpart is separated from his friend Hobbes.

ANSWER: alter-egos of Calvin (both parts required; prompt on “Calvin” and accept clear-knowledge equivalents)

19. Year and team required. On this team’s trip home after a victorious NLCS performance, Doug Sisk and Danny Heep orchestrated drunken mayhem that caused United to charge the team $7,500 for damage to the plane. The MVP of that series was a former farmhand for this franchise before being traded to Houston and allegedly learning how to scuff the ball. The key play of this team’s season came after Bob Stanley threw a wild pitch past Rich Gedman, allowing Kevin Mitchell to score and while moving Ray (*) Knight into scoring position. This team’s troubles with the Astros’ Mike Scott in the NLCS came after a regular season in which it won a franchise-record 108 games behind the pitching of Ron Darling, Bobby Ojeda, Sid Fernandez and Dwight Gooden. Immortalized in Jeff Pearlman’s The Bad Guys Won!, FTP, name this squad that rallied back in the 10th inning of Game 6 of the World Series to win on a groundball by Mookie Wilson through Red Sock Bill Buckner’s legs.

ANSWER: 1986 Mets

20. One collaborator on this song asks, “How you like me now, when my pinky’s valued over three hundred thousand?” and that artist on this song also claims that because “these women all on the prowl, if you hold the head steady Im’a milk the cow.” This song begins with its artist’s call of “Peace up!” and that man recalls of a woman he meets, “from the game she was spittin’ in my ear you’d think that she knew me,” before (*) “thinking that it might be a good idea to take her with me, ‘cause she’s ready to leave.” After that woman asks the singer of this song for “one more dance,” he agrees, asking “how the hell am I supposed to leave?” and this song concludes with several commands to “take that and rewind it back,” because its singer “got the voice make your booty go [clap.]” FTP, name this song featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon, by Usher, whose chorus consists of the titular one-word agreement.

ANSWER: “Yeah!”

1. It might have been the greatest playoff series ever played. FTPE:

[10] In 2009, the Chicago Bulls took this defending champ to the ropes in a surprisingly hard-fought seven-game series. This team lost to the Magic in the next round.

ANSWER: Boston Celtics

[10] In Game 1, rookie Derrick Rose matched this man’s all-time record for most points in a playoff debut with 36. This man set that record against the formidable defense of the 1969-70 Knicks.

ANSWER: Lew Alcindor (Accept Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

[10] This man, recently traded from the Bucks to the Kings in a three-team deal involving Stephen Jackson and Corey Maggette, offset Ray Allen’s 51 points in Game 6 with 35 of his own, and put up 18.1ppg in the series.

ANSWER: John Salmons

2. Answer the following about how-to works that provide information probably not available on Wikihow, FTPE:

[10] Kate Hudson stars as a journalist for Composure magazine in this film, in which she acts as a terrible date for Mathew McConaughey’s character in order to perform the titular action.

ANSWER: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

[10] This 1973 Thomas Rockwell children’s book was adapted into a 2006 movie of the same name. In it, Billy must perform the titular action over the course of 15 days in order to win $50.

ANSWER: How to Eat Fried Worms

[10] This Internet animation by Anthony Scodary and Nico Benitez details the adventures of A Robot Guy who teams up with pirates and, eventually, ninjas before hitting the titular creature with the moon to destroy it.

ANSWER: How to Kill a Mockingbird

3. The music video for this song features a man wearing a crown and a robe carrying a beach chair across the countryside before settling down in front of some snow-covered mountains. For ten points each:

[10] Name this song that claims that “words are very unnecessary; they can only do harm,” after stating “all I ever wanted, all I ever needed is here in my arms.”

ANSWER: “Enjoy The Silence”

[10] “Enjoy The Silence” is a song by this English electronic band formed in 1980. They included songs like “Personal Jesus” and “Policy of Truth” on their album Violator, and also created the albums Music for the Masses and, more recently, Sounds of the Universe.

ANSWER: Depeche Mode

[10] This man is the lead singer for Depeche Mode. He recovered from his severe heroin addiction prior to recording the album Ultra, after he almost died overdosing on a speedball in a Las Vegas hotel.

ANSWER: Dave Gahan

4. Answer some questions about the varied but very Jewish career of Adam Goldberg for ten points each:

[10] Goldberg played this character in Saving Private Ryan. He lies to Upham about the meaning of FUBAR and makes a point of the fact he’s Jewish.

ANSWER: Pvt. Stanley Mellish

[10] Goldberg played Mike Newhouse in this Richard Linklater flick about the last day of high school in 1976, known for its 70s-tastic soundtrack.

ANSWER: Dazed and Confused

[10] Goldberg stars alongside Andy Dick in this Jew-themed send-up of Blaxploitation movies. Goldberg memorably delivers the line, “Shabbat shalom, motherfuckers!”

ANSWER: The Hebrew Hammer

5. The singer describes “coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine” before noting that he’s “gotta gotta be down because I want it all.” FTPE:

[10] Name this song whose chorus includes the lines, “destiny is calling me, open up my eager eyes ‘cause I’m” the titular man.

ANSWER: “Mr. Brightside”

[10] “Mr. Brightside” is a song by this group, who included it on their debut album Hot Fuss and talked about boyfriends looking like ex-girlfriends in their song “Somebody Told Me.”

ANSWER: The Killers

[10] The Killers warn “save some face, you know you’ve only got one” on this other single from Hot Fuss that also declares “some things sat by so carelessly” before issuing the titular command.

ANSWER: “Smile Like You Mean It”

6. Though Hugh Hefner had the authority to review scripts for this series, a producer described him as very “hands-off.” FTPE:

[10] Name this recently-debuted and more recently-cancelled NBC series about the employees of a certain famous nightclub in Chicago.

ANSWER: The Playboy Club

[10] Sean Maher plays a gay man who is in a sham marriage with the secretly lesbian bunny Alice, a far cry from his role as this doctor and brother of River Tam on Firefly.

ANSWER: Simon Tam

[10] The Playboy Club was replaced in its timeslot by this newsmagazine whose interviews have included one in which Bob Costas incredulously received Jerry Sandusky’s denial of pedophilia.

ANSWER: Rock Center with Brian Williams

7. Answer some questions about the questionably competitive scene of competitive video gaming FTPE.

[10] The most recent release in this id first person shooter series is free-to-play and funded through in-game advertisements by ZeniMax. Its fourth entry, which features a war between humans and Stroggs, is a competitive PC shooter.

ANSWER: Quake (accept Quake 4 or Quake Live)

[10] czm and DaHanG are members of this competitive gaming team's Quake Live division. The most sponsored e-sports team in America, other members of this team include Greg "IdrA" Fields, who plays Starcraft II, and Justin "JWong" Wong who plays Super Street Fighter 4.

ANSWER: Evil Geniuses (accept EG)

[10] Chris "Huk" Loranger is a member of team Evil Geniuses currently residing in this country for the GomTV GSL code S tournament. This country is home to Ongamenet, a television station which broadcasts Starcraft Broodwar proleagues.

ANSWER: South Korea (prompt on partial answers)

8. This movie’s Best Picture win at the 46th Oscars was preceded by a streaker running onstage, to which the host responded, “Well, ladies and gentlemen... that was almost bound to happen.” FTPE:

[10] Name this film whose titled segments include “The Players” and “The Set-Up,” and which sees Hooker and Shaw team up to swindle Doyle Lonnegan.

ANSWER: The Sting

[10] Introducing Elizabeth Taylor to present Best Picture and delivering the aforementioned line was this British performer who won Best Actor for appearing in 1958’s Separate Tables. He also played the Phantom in the original Pink Panther.

ANSWER: David Niven

[10] This man was nominated for Best Actor for his performance as “Kelly” Hooker in The Sting. He later won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People and had earlier starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

ANSWER: Robert Redford

9. One episode of this show sees the title character follow a bully home and watch him get abused. FTPE:

[10] Name this FX show starring the titular comedian, about being a single father who has bizarre stuff happen to him in New York City.

ANSWER: Louie

[10] The intro to Louie depicts this NYC comedy club, which is also the setting for many of Louis’s in-show routines.

ANSWER: Comedy Cellar

[10] Louis CK shares his name with fellow comedian Louie Anderson, who hosted a revival of this game show also hosted by John O’Hurley and Steve Harvey.

ANSWER: Family Feud

10. It begins by referencing two year-olds at the “sixth race at Jamaica,” and tells the story of “Air Lift, son of Bold Venture, full brother of Assault.” For ten points each:

[10] This W.C. Heinz story is widely regarded as one of the greatest pieces of sports writing in history, written for the New York Sun about a horse that breaks its leg while making its first start.

ANSWER: “Death of a Racehorse”

[10] “Son of Bold Venture” provides the name of Esquire writer Chris Jones’ blog. Jones is on the masthead for this offshoot helmed by Bill Simmons and named for an old-timey sportswriter.

ANSWER:

[10] Grantland Rice, the namesake of the ESPN site, created arguably the most well-known sports nickname of all time, given to this group that included Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden.

ANSWER: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

11. The music video for this song sees a man advise its two singers to “play along” because the world has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland where everyday everyone is shuffling. FTPE:

[10] Name this hit that also declares, “on the rise to the top, no lead in our zeppelin.”

ANSWER: “Party Rock Anthem”

[10] This group behind “Party Rock Anthem” consists of uncle and nephew duo Redfoo and SkyBlu. This group also featured the ever-terrifying LilJon on their track “Shots.”

ANSWER: LMFAO

[10] LMFAO collaborated with David Guetta, Chris Willis, and Fergie on this song. Fergie laments “all the things I knew right now, if I only knew back then,” and LMFAO raps, “We like to live like class, and pour them shots up in the glass.”

ANSWER: “Getting Over You”

12. After being told that a murder victim had just been involved in speed dating, this man cooly remarks, “Speed kills” before a subsequent scream by The Who. FTPE:

[10] Name this sunglasses-donning police lieutenant of the Miami-Dade Police Department, played by David Caruso.

ANSWER: Horatio Cane

[10] This detective under Horatio, played by Adam Rodriguez, is the drug expert of the team, who was himself arrested for possession of a drug that turned out to be his sister’s medical marijuana.

ANSWER: Eric Delko

[10] This recurring character is Horatio’s nephew. In his first appearance, he has been getting into fights at school with kids who call his father a dirty cop.

ANSWER: Raymond Caine, Jr.

13. The original holder of this title was a college student who gained his ability through the inhalation of hard water vapor. FTPE:

[10] Name this Scarlet Speedster, a DC superhero with a lightning bolt emblem emblazoned on his chest.

ANSWER: The Flash

[10] This second man to hold the title of The Flash did so after a lightning bolt hit a case of chemicals, which then spilled on him. The fact that he is probably the best-known Flash is reflected in the fact that Leo DiCaprio’s character in Catch Me If You Can uses this name as an alias.

ANSWER: Barry Allen

[10] The group of Flash’s enemies led by Captain Cold is known as this name. They also include Mirror Master and the Weather Wizard.

ANSWER: The Rogues

14. We all know saves are a meaningless stat (right?) but Mariano’s march to the record seemed oddly vindicating. FTPE, name some of the men he passed on the way:

[10] This former record holder only led the league twice, but was remarkably consistent in piling up 601 saves over an 18-year career. His Padres faced off against Mo’s Yankees in the 1998 World Series.

ANSWER: Trevor Hoffman

[10] The year before that World Series, Mariano replaced this man as closer of the Yankees. The 1996 World Series MVP, this former Dodger and Expo went on to finish his career with Texas, piling up 150 saves from 1997-2000.

ANSWER: John Wetteland

[10] This long-time Mets captain holds the record for most saves for a left-hander. His Mets lost the Subway Series to Rivera’s Bombers in 2000, the season after this man relinquished closing duties to Armando Benitez.

ANSWER: John Franco

15. The destination in this song is a place where “Life is old there, older than the trees.” FTPE:

[10] Name this song that hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. People who live in West Virginia refer to their home as “almost heaven” in reference to this song.

ANSWER: “Take Me Home, Country Roads”

[10] “Take Me Home, Country Roads” was included in the album Poems, Prayers, and Promises, and is a creation of this American singer-songwriter. This singer also created such songs as “Leaving On a Jet Plane” and “Rocky Mountain High” before tragically dying in a plane crash in 1997.

ANSWER: John Denver

[10] This other John Denver song with a similar theme notes “got me a fine wife, got me old fiddle” and proclaims, “life ain’t nothing but a funny funny riddle” before expressing the titular sentiment.

ANSWER: “Thank God I’m a Country Boy”

16. The beginning of this film sees the servants Mrs. Mills, Mr. Tuttle, and the mute Lydia arrive at the manor. FTPE:

[10] Name this film starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart, a woman living on a Channel island with her children. The end of this film reveals that Kidman’s character actually smothered her children, and the three have been living as ghosts.

ANSWER: The Others

[10] In The Others, Grace shelters her children because of an alleged allergy to this. The fact that it no longer causes them to have a reaction at the end of the film is one indicator that they are in fact dead.

ANSWER: light (accept things like “photosensitivity”)

[10] The plot of The Others resembles that of this 1999 Shyamalan film in which Haley Joel Osment sees dead people.

ANSWER: The Sixth Sense

17. The last time Notre Dame won a national title in football, Reagan was president and Berlin had a wall. FTPE:

[10] The last time the Irish won the title, this current ESPN analyst and former coach at Minnesota and South Carolina won the AP Coach of the Year award.

ANSWER: Lou Holtz

[10] In the middle of that season, Notre Dame faced off against Miami in a 1 vs. 2 matchup given this nickname based on the team’s reputations. The Irish won 31-30 when the Canes failed on a 2-point conversion with 45 seconds left.

ANSWER: Catholics vs. Convicts

[10] After a Week 1 upset loss to USF this year, the Irish took a 31-28 lead with 50 seconds to play against Michigan in the first night game at the Big House the following week. That was 30 seconds too much for this Wolverine’s QB to work with, as he took Michigan 80 yards in 20 seconds to complete the comeback.

ANSWER: Denard Robinson

18. This was the first music video to be inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. FTPE:

[10] Name this 14-minute video with a notable dance sequence that sees the singer turn into a werebeast and opened with its artist’s emphasis that “this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.” It is by Michael Jackson.

ANSWER: “Thriller”

[10] Performing a sinister spoken bit about “the funk of forty thousand years” on the “Thriller” track is this actor, known for his appearances in similarly-themed horror movies.

ANSWER: Vincent Price

[10] Vincent Price provided the voice for Vincent Van Ghoul in a 1985 Scooby Doo series titled “The [these] of Scooby Doo.” In it, Zomba was one of the titular spirits who Scooby and Shaggy had released from the Chest of Demons.

ANSWER: The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (do not accept or prompt on “ghosts”)

19. One show in which this town was set was cancelled in what Wikipedia assures us was CBS’s “infamous ‘rural purge.’” FTPE:

[10] Name this location, featured in the name of a spinoff show starring Ken Berry and Frances Bavier, followed by the initials “RFD.”

ANSWER: Mayberry

[10] Mayberry was also the setting of this show from which Mayberry, RFD was spun off. Its whistled theme song saw the eponymous actor walking down the street with his character’s son, Opie.

ANSWER: The Andy Griffith Show

[10] This man, who starred as Andy’s deputy Barney Fife, also played Ralph Furley on Three’s Company. A Family Guy throwaway gag seems him complaining in his distinctive voice about “Too Many Ostriches.”

ANSWER: Don Knotts

20. In this film, Michael Gambon plays the father of the protagonist, and explains to him the importance of broadcasting. FTPE:

[10] Name this recent film costarring Geoffrey Rush, whose character Lionel Logue helps King George VI with a certain disability.

ANSWER: The King’s Speech

[10] King George was played by this British actor who may be better known by the legion of quizbowl-playing women among you as Mr. Darcy in the 1995 TV version of Pride and Prejudice.

ANSWER: Colin Firth

[10] This British stage actor played the Archbishop of Canterbury in the film. He won a Tony for appearing in Much Ado About Nothing and played the senator Gracchus in Gladiator.

ANSWER: Derek Jacobi

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