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FOGEY (For Old Geezers and Everyone Younger) 2017Round 11Toss-Up 1Every Valentine’s Day, her mother sends her a cactus which she says stings worse than her mother’s abandonment. She has a guitar named Roosevelt, named after Franklin rather than Theodore, and she’s allergic to dog saliva. When she tells the story of a girl who ripped her clothes off, jumped into a fountain, and said “I am a kraken from the sea,” Su-Chin says it is about this character. At the beginning of the film in which she appears, she guzzles Sunny-D so that she can have enough urine to pee on the stick for a pregnancy test. After she confirms that she is pregnant, she finds a couple to adopt her baby by looking in the PennySaver. For ten points, name this high school girl, played by Ellen Page.Answer: Juno MacGuff.Bonus 1This game takes place in three cities: Vice City, San Andreas, and Liberty City. For ten points10] Name this Rockstar game, the first in a series, in which players perform missions for a local crime syndicate.Answer: Grand Theft Auto (accept: GTA)10] One character with this first name is the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto 2. Another charater with this first name is the protagonist in GTA III and makes a brief appearance in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.Answer: Claude (accept: Claude Speed)10] This son of a crime boss is the lead character in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. He kills his uncle to become the new boss of the Traid.Answer: Huang Lee (accept first or last name)Toss-Up 2He released his first album, Pain in My Heart, with Stax Records which included the self-written “These Arms of Mine.” An album of duets with Carla Thomas entitled King and Queen produced the song “Knock on Wood” which would later become a disco hit for Amii Stewart. After his death, Atlantic records released four posthumous albums, including Tell the Truth and Love Man. The title track of one of those albums, a more laid back work than previous hits such as “Mr. Pitiful” or “Hard to Handle,” features whistling during its fadeout. For ten points, name this “King of Soul” whose only number one single was his posthumous “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay.”Answer: Otis ReddingBonus 2Name these baseball players memorably hit by a pitch, for ten points each.10] Before managing the Padres, Red Sox, Rangers, and Cubs, this athlete was hit in the temple while playing for the St. Paul Saints in 1953, leaving him in a coma for 13 days. While a bench coach for the Yankees, he tried to slug Pedro Martinez during the 2003 ALCS.Answer: Don Zimmer10] A Dennis Martinez pitch broke this player’s jaw during a September 1995 game. He retired the next season after losing vision in his right eye.Answer: Kirby Puckett10] The only player to have died from an injury during a major league game, this Cleveland Indians shortstop’s death in 1920 contributed to the banning of the spitball.Answer: Ray ChapmanToss-Up 3This actress played a woman who disguises herself as a 12 year old to get a cheap ticket on a train and falls for Ray Milland’s army officer in The Major and the Minor. In Bachelor Mother, she played a fired salesgirl who is mistaken for the mother of a child left at an orphanage, and she won an Oscar award for her role as a woman torn between a Philadelphia socialite and a doctor in 1940’s Kitty Foyle. Between 1933 and 1939 she appeared in nine films with the same actor. One film, Roberta, sees her sing “I Won’t Dance,” while another, Top Hat, features her as Dale Tremont, who is annoyed by the man dancing in the room above hers. For ten points, name this actress often partnered with Fred Astaire. Answer: Ginger RogersBonus 3It was the last year that neither Taylor Swift, Adele nor Beyonce was nominated for Album of the Year. For ten points each, name these Grammy nominated albums from 2013.10] This second album by fun produced three successful singles: “Carry On,” the title track, and the Grammy-winning “We are Young.”Answer: Some Nights10] In addition to “Gold on the Ceiling,” this Black Keys album spawned the single “Lonely Boy,” which won Best Rock Song at the Grammys. Answer: El Camino10] Winning Album of the Year in 2013 was this Mumford & Sons work, the follow-up to 2009’s Sigh No More. Answer: BabelToss-Up 4After four years at South Dakota State, he played for the Amsterdam Admirals for the 1995 season before moving to the NFL. While this player recovered from surgery in 2009, Matt Stover was signed to replace him. He himself had replaced Mike Vanderjagt who signed with Dallas as a free agent. He scored the winning points in both Superbowls XXXVI (36) and XXXVIII (38), and led the league in points scored in 2004, with 141 points, including 31 field goals. He kicked the game winning field goal to beat the Raiders in the 2001 AFC Divisional Playoff game, nicknamed the “Tuck Rule Game.” For ten points, name this oldest NFL player, a former Patriots kicker now playing for the Indianapolis Colts.Answer: Adam VinatieriBonus 4For ten points, name these characters from horror films.10] Wearing a red and green striped sweater and a brown fedora, he was a child-killer who was burned alive by a mob. His spirit returned to prey on his victims in their dreams.Answer: Freddy Krueger10] The perpetrator of the various traps in the original Saw movie, he poisons a woman, leaving the antidote inside someone else’s body and later chains two men to pipes, expecting them to cut through their own ankles.Answer: John Kramer (accept: Jigsaw)10] This antagonist of The Ring is suffocated and dumped in a well, leading her to find her revenge through a video which causes those who watch it to die within seven days.Answer: Samara Moran (accept first or last name) Toss-Up 5When this show debuted, it included New Jersey governor Harold Hoffman and poet Louis Untermeyer with Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto as its last guest. When Bob Hope was on this show, Clifton Fadiman guest hosted as John Daly was in Tokyo. Though it is not The Tonight Show, Steve Allen was on this show in the 1950s and frequently appeared throughout the 1960s. To Tell the Truth regular Kitty Carlisle appeared as a panelist on this show, filling in after Dorothy Kilgallen’s death. When Richard McMichael was on the show, Steve Allen asked if he sold a product larger than a breadbox. For ten points, name this game show in which panelists ask yes-no questions to determine to profession of the contestant.Answer: What’s My LineBonus 5Suffer from celiac disease? You may want to stay away from certain games. Name these games which include collecting wheat, for ten points each.10] Players in this game collect and trade ore, lumber, brick, wool, and wheat (officially called “grain”) as they build roads and settlements. A roll of 7 unleashes the robber, but 10 victory points wins the game.Answer: Settlers of Catan10] In this game, players try to corner the market by collecting all nine cards of a particular commodity: Barley, Corn, Flax, Hay, Oats, Rye, or Wheat. Play begins and ends with the ringing of a bell.Answer: Pit10] The Traders and Builders expansion of this game set in France includes some tiles with a wine, cloth, or wheat icon. Players build roads, monasteries, and cities. The expansion also includes pigs which can be placed on farms.Answer: CarcassonneToss-Up 6This song plays in the Mist Mobile as Red Mist and Kick-Ass drive to the D’Amico lumber warehouse. A cover of this song was packaged with Ray LaMontagne’s cover of “Jolene” while Nelly Furtado’s cover of this song was the B-side to her single for “Promiscuous.” When this song was performed at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, the performers dressed as characters from Star Wars. Two videos for this song exist, one directed by Mina Song; the other video, directed by Robert Hales, consists of inkblots in which the band members, animals, and the gunshot/heart image can be seen. Beginning with the line, “I remember when, I remember when I lost my mind,” this is, for ten points, what song by Gnarls Barkley? Answer: “Crazy”Bonus 6In a 1992 film, a puppy that is adopted by the Newton family grows to be a 185 pound St. Bernard. For ten points each:10] Name this film starring Charles Grodin that began an eight film series and a Saturday morning cartoon.Answer: Beethoven10] The first Beethoven film was written by Edmond Dantes, a pseudonym used by this writer/director whose writing credits include Mr. Mom, Home Alone, and multiple teen-oriented films.Answer: John Hughes10] This actor played Dr. Varnick, the villain of the first film. He voiced the Newton patriarch in the animated series and had been the title lawyer/sheepdog in the 1976 film, The Shaggy D.A.Answer: Dean JonesToss-Up 7Originally a horror and science fiction anthology, this comic featured the first appearance of Xemnu the Living Hulk. First published by Atlas Comics, this series – along with Patsy Walker – was the first to be printed as a Marvel comic. Ten years into its run, it began printing superhero stories and changed its name with issue #126 which was titled “Whom the Gods Would Destroy.” Prior to the name change, this comic introduced Gorr, Korg, and Margus: The Stone Men From Saturn, as well as The Executioner and The Enchantress. For ten points, name this comic which would eventually be renamed for its primary character, Thor.Answer: Journey Into Mystery Bonus 7In 1970, CBS began its “rural purge,” cancellation of shows which were seen as light hearted and appealing to older audiences. For ten points each, identify these shows which didn’t survive the purge.10] Though not really a rural show, this variety show which began in 1951 was the first to be cancelled. Its namesake host played such characters as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Freddie the Freeloader in sketches. Answer: The Red Skelton Show10] One of the first shows to go was this one set at the Shady Rest Hotel in Hooterville. The show centered upon Kate Bradley and her three teenage daughters.Answer: Petticoat Junction10] A spinoff of Petticoat Junction, this show starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a New York City couple living on a farm was cancelled the next year.Answer: Green AcresToss-Up 8During this team’s only World Series appearance, it won the first game 10-0 as Mike Campbell pitched a no-hitter against Bob Forsch. Bob McClure was credited with two saves during the series but also lost two games including game seven, leading this team to lose the 1982 World Series. This team’s starting pitcher for that final game was the AL Cy Young Winner that year while the 1981 winner, a reliever with a handlebar moustache, sat out the series due to a torn muscle. In addition to Pete Vuchovich and Rollie Fingers, this teams’ success in 1982 was aided by future Hall of Famers Paul Molitor and Robin Yount. For ten points, name this former AL team which moved to the NL Central in 1998.Answer: Milwaukee and/or BrewersBonus 8He is the author of the work The Hive Queen, which recounts the story of the Formics as well as this character’s part in their destruction. For ten points:10] Name this person who, as a child, won the Bugger War through the use of the MD device and who, as an adult, became a Speaker for the Dead.Answer: Andrew Wiggin (accept: “Ender” Wiggin)10] The book Ender’s Shadow follows many of the same events as Ender’s Game but from this character’s point of view. He was part of an experiment involving Anton’s Key.Answer: Bean Delphiki (accept: Julian Delphiki)10] This artificial intelligence which lives within the ansible network originates from the fantasy game that the Formics use to connect with Ender and is modified by Bean to control Ender’s investments. She eventually takes on the corporeal form of Ender’s sister Valentine.Answer: JaneToss-Up 9The camera focuses on one of these animals after Skat (“scott”) is killed in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. Though not a bird, in It’s a Wonderful Life, one of these animals sits next to Uncle Billy on the bench after he loses the money. One of these animals is in love with a transformed Wart in The Sword in the Stone and bites a wolf’s leg to save Wart. Twiggy, a waterskiing one of these animals, appeared in both Anchorman and Dodgeball while these animals drag Veruca Salt to the garbage chute in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For ten points, name these rodents, examples of which include Over The Hedge’s Hammy, Scrat in Ice Age and Surly in Nut Job.Answer: Squirrel(s)Bonus 9Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc kids aren’t the only ones unmasking villains. Name these other cartoon mystery solvers, for ten points each.10] This car, whose free will was occasionally compromised by a remote control, was joined by Tinker, Mark and Debbie on various adventures. His catchphrases included “Vroom-a-zoom-zoom.”Answer: Speed Buggy10] Using a multi-purpose club and spouting the occasional “unga bunga,” this prehistoric man solved mysteries along with the Teen Angels in a 1977-1980 series.Answer: Captain Caveman10] Using many of the Snagglepuss catchphrases, this Revolutionary War ghost and his cat Boo help three teenagers and their dog who drive a dune buggy named the Looney Dooney solve mysteries.Answer: Funky Phantom (accept: Jonathan Wellington Muddlemore or "Mudsy")Toss-Up 10The githyanki, a D&D monster from the first Fiend Folio, takes its name from a race in this author’s works, particularly the novels Tuf Voyaging and Dying of the Light. Other works by this author include a novella in which a human couple, who are both psychic, investigates why people are committing suicide by joining with a parasite called the Greeshka, as well as a story in which Simon Kress acquires new pets which are divided into mobiles and maws. These works, A Song for Lya and “Sandkings,” preceded a popular series of novels which will end with the book A Dream of Spring. For ten points, identify this author who introduced the continent of Westeros in his novel The Game of Thrones. Answer: George R(aymond) R(ichard) MartinBonus 10He co-wrote and sang on the song “Touch” off Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. For ten points each: 10] Name this songwriter whose other compositions include the lyrics to the theme song of The Love Boat and the song “The Rainbow Connection” for the 1979 film The Muppet Movie. Answer: Paul Williams10] Williams also wrote a number of songs recorded by this sibling duo, including “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”Answer: The Carpenters10] Williams won an Oscar for writing the lyrics to this song, the love theme to Barbra Streisand’s film A Star is Born. The song begins with the line, “Love soft as an easy chair.”Answer: “Evergreen”Toss-Up 11Originally named The Green Channel, this cable network was first available to Wilkes-Barre, PA, customers, showing the film Sometimes a Great Nation, followed by a Rangers-Canucks hockey game. Early programming on this network included live coverage of the 1973 Pennsylvania Polka Festival and the miniseries The Seekers. While not ESPN, it became notable for its sports programming including airing the Thrilla in Manilla bout as well as the series 1st and Ten and 31 seasons of Inside the NFL. In 1999, it became the first cable channel to have a show nominated for a Best Drama Emmy for The Sopranos. For ten points, name this premium cable channel who current shows include Girls and Curb Your Enthusiasm.Answer: Home Box Office or HBOBonus 11Name these NHL coaches, for ten points each.10] He has won nine Stanley Cups as a coach for the Canadiens, Red Wings, and Penguins, and has won more regular season wins than any other coach.Answer: Scotty Bowman10] He has coached eight NHL teams, being fired from positions with the Blues and the Canucks and resigning from the Panthers. He left the Rangers after they won the 1994 Stanley Cup.Answer: Mike Keenan10] During his first full season with the Philadelphia Flyers, this coach led the team to a 35-game winning streak. In 1986, he controversially became the President of the Canucks while still under contract as coach of the Kings.Answer: Pat QuinnToss-Up 12French film director Albert Lamorrisse is credited with creating this game which originally came with 6 dice and 44 cards used in play, two of these being wild cards. While the 1980s incarnation of this game used plastic Roman numerals or spoked pieces, the original 1959 version used cubes and triangular oblong prisms to denote ones and tens. The recent Godstorm version of this game focuses primarily upon Europe and Northern Africa and allows defeated units to enter heaven from which they may invade the underworld. The classic game board has six continents and 42 territories, including Afghanistan, Congo, and Kamchatka. For ten points, name this game of world domination.Answer: RiskBonus 12Name these actresses who got their big break as part of Nickelodeon shows in the 1990s.10] She appeared in the sketch comedy All That as well as an eponymous show on Nickelodeon, later joining Jennie Garth on What I Like About You. Answer: Amanda Bynes10] She had the title roles in Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. In 2010, she and Joey Lawrence starred in a sitcom in which she hired Lawrence as a nanny.Answer: Melissa Joan Hart10] After playing the title role in The Secret World of Alex Mack, this actress had a recurring role as Tommy’s girlfriend on 3rd Rock from the Sun and more recently played Cynthia Cosgrove on Mad Men.Answer: Larisa Oleynik (oh-LAY-nick)Toss-Up 13This player was presented the Hart Trophy for 1995 by singer Neil Young and Neil’s journalist father Scott. In the 2000 NHL Eastern Conference Finals this player was knocked out by a check by Scott Stevens and wouldn’t play again for the next year, choosing to sit out when he wasn’t traded to Toronto. A first round draft pick in 1991, he was traded a year later for $15 million, 2 future first-round picks, and six other players including Steve Duschene and Peter Forsberg, after he said he would never play for the Nordiques. For ten points, name this center who played for Philadelphia for eight years, nicknamed “The Big E.”Answer: Eric LindrosBonus 13Name these characters played by Tim Curry, for ten points each.10] This Curry character kills Eddie, makes a man named Rocky, and seduces both Brad and Janet, all the while singing songs such as “Sweet Transvestite” and “Wild and Untamed Thing.” Answer: Dr. Frank-N-Furter10] Curry also played this butler and possible FBI agent who blames Mr. Boddy for his wife’s death. In one ending, this character turns out to be Mr. Boddy himself and then is killed in the hall by Mr. Green with a revolver.Answer: Wadsworth10] In a made-for-tv series, Curry played this manifestation of a monster that awakens in Derry, Maine, and kills Georgie Denborough. Offering Georgie a balloon, he reiterates, “Oh, they float and … you’ll float too.” Answer: Pennywise the Dancing ClownToss-Up 14This song samples the breathing from Bette Midler’s “Daytime Hustler,” while a sample from Dennis Coffey’s “Scorpio” follows the line “Break it down for me fellas.” The main bass line, pulled from Ballin’ Jack’s “Found a Child,” is played by Flea who appears in the video wearing stuffed animal pants. Actress Cindyana Santangelo wears stop sign shorts in the video for this song, and Crystal Blake sings the line, “You want it, baby you got.” Rather than standing against the wall like Poindexter, the title action is encouraged after sitting next to a woman dressed in yellow and after a bridesmaid winks while you are the best man at Larry’s wedding. For ten points, name this 1989 song by Young MC.Answer: “Bust a Move”Bonus 14Answer the following related to comic book writer Tony Isabella, for ten pints each.10] Isabella was responsible for the creation of this superhero team consisting of Ghost Rider, Hercules, Black Widow, Angel and Iceman.Answer: The Champions10] Isabella also created Bill Foster, a Marvel-based African-American hero using this name, who was once saved from radiation poisoning by a blood transfusion from Spider-Woman but is later killed by a Thor clone in Civil War #4.Answer: Goliath (accept: Giant-Man or Black Goliath)10] In a different story arc, Isabella had this alter-ego of Ghost Rider become a Christian, but Jim Shooter demanded the story be rewritten so that the Christ-figure was a demonic illusion.Answer: Johnny BlazeToss-Up 15In one scene in this film, Pooter the Clown, played by Mike Starr, shows up drunk after a bachelorette party and gets punched in the nose. Miles interrogates the title figure of this film, finally telling him, “You have much more nose hair than my dad.” On his birthday, Miles receives a breakfast of sausage links and pancakes so large they must be flipped with a snow shovel. After an assistant principal in this film calls his niece a twiddler and a sillyheart, the title character flips a quarter to her and tells her to have a rat gnaw a mole off her face. For ten points, name this 1989 John Hughes film in which three kids are taken care of by their father’s brother, played by John Candy.Answer: Uncle Buck Bonus 15Dairy Queen owner Omar Knedlik began selling partially frozen soda to customers and worked for five years to create a machine that would create the frozen beverage. For ten point each:10] Name this beverage company Knedlik founded, identified by its red, white and blue snow-covered logo and its polar bear mascot.Answer: ICEE10] A licensing deal with ICEE in the 1960s allowed 7-Eleven to create this brand of the frozen carbonated beverage, named for the sound the machine makes. On July 11th, customers can get a free one of these at participating stores.Answer: Slurpee10] Created by Will Radcliffe, this beverage is a non-carbonated frozen drink which combines syrup and water and freezes the mixture. Its mascot is a dog with a toboggan.Answer: Slush Puppie Toss-Up 16Kid-friendly tutorials for this game are provided on YouTube by Joseph Garrett under a pseudonym. In the game, priests wear purple robes and librarians wear white. Players in this game can wear a pumpkin for a helmet or can place a pumpkin on top of two snow blocks to create a snow golem while an iron golem may spawn in a space with at least 21 doors and 10 villagers. Players receive the Repopulation achievement for breeding two mooshrooms and the Into Fire achievement for getting a rod from a Blaze. Though a second Boss, Wither, was added, the original end game boss was the Ender Dragon. For ten points, name this open world game in which players build structures and avoid Creepers.Answer: MinecraftBonus 16While some players move from team to team during their careers, other set down roots. For ten points each, name these basketball players who spent their entire career with the Utah Jazz. 10] This point guard led the league twice in steals but was the leader in assists nine straight years between 1987 and 1996. Teamed with Karl Malone, he comprised one of the best pick-and-roll duos ever.Answer: John Stockton10] Nicknamed Dr. Dunkenstein while at Louisville, this guard brought in to replace the retiring Peter Maravich won Rookie of the Year in 1980 and made a record 92 three-pointers during the 1984-85 season.Answer: Darrell Griffith10] This center had limited playing time at UCLA but averaged 3.4 blocks per game during his career with the Jazz and had a record 456 blocked shots during the 1984-85 season.Answer: Mark EatonToss-Up 17This character shows her inability to act on an episode of The Kelly Green Show and her inability to sing while dueting with Aretha Franklin. In the last season of the show on which this character appears, she battles breast cancer, including a controversial 1997 episode in which she smokes marijuana with her colleague Jim. After she becomes pregnant by her ex-husband Jake Lowenstein, she chooses to raise her son Avery alone, leading to this character being criticized for “mocking the importance of fatherhood” in a speech by Dan Quayle. For ten points, name this investigative journalist played by Candace Bergen.Answer: Murphy Brown (prompt on incomplete name)Bonus 17Fort ten points each, identify these song associated with a particular city.10] This Steve Goodman-penned song about a train became Arlo Guthrie’s highest charting single in 1974. It’s chorus claims the train will “be gone 500 miles when the day is done.”Answer: “The City of New Orleans”10] This 1959 historical ballad by Johnny Horton begins, “In 1814 we took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.”Answer: “The Battle of New Orleans”10] A version of this folk song recorded in 1964 by The Animals warns against going to the titular location in New Orleans which “has been the ruin of many a poor boy.”Answer: “The House of the Rising Sun”Toss-Up 18In one commercial, he is shown at Katz’s Deli using Samsung Pay. He wrote for a year for Saturday Night Live with only one skit making it to air, one about Charles Barkley’s bad golf swing, and spent six months writing for 30 Rock. He has released three comedy albums including Live From Chicago and Animal Furnace, and his stand-up routines have included jokes about kicking pigeons and having a surplus of pickle juice which he uses to flavor his sandwiches. However, a stand-up routine he did at the Tracadero in Philadelphia made him more recognizable. For ten points, name this comedian who became a viral sensation after calling Bill Cosby a rapist. Answer: Hannibal BuressBonus 18Name these film roles played by Audrey Hepburn, for ten points each.10] Hepburn played opposite George Peppard as this character from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. .Answer: Holly and/or Golightly10] In a 1954 film, Hepburn starred as this title daughter of a chauffeur who becomes the love interest of two brothers, played by Humphrey Bogart and William HoldenAnswer: Sabrina and/or Fairchild10] In Roman Holiday, Hepburn played this princess who, along with Gregory Peck, tours Rome to escape the limits of her scheduled life. Naturally, they fall in love. Answer: Princess Ann (accept: Anya or “Smitty” Smith)Toss-Up 19This country won back-to-back World Cups in the 1930s, defeating Czechoslovakia in 1934 and Hungary in 1938. Their next World Cup championship came in 1982 when they defeated Brazil in a historic second round game and beat West Germany in the finals. Brazil would give this team their only two losses in finals, winning 1970 and 1994. The latter game ended in a 0-0 tie and was determined by a shootout miss by the 1993 FIFA World Player of the Year. This country’s fourth World Cup came in 2006 with another shootout. In that game, France’s Zinedine Zidane headbutted this team’s Marco Materazzi. For ten points name this country whose players have included Dino Zoff and Roberto Baggio.Answer: ItalyBonus 19Name these characters who appeared on the show 30 Rock, for ten points each.10] This star of The Girlie Show won an Oscar for his role in Hard to Watch. At one point he played Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and King George III in a prospective film. Answer: Tracy Jordan (accept either name) (do not accept “Tracy Morgan”)10] This former star of TGS appeared in The Rural Juror, starred in an unreleased biopic of Jackie Jormp-Jomp, and played Avery Jessup in the tv movie “Kidnapped by Danger.”Answer: Jenna and/or Maroney (accept Yustrepa Gronkowitz)10] This character once ran for a city council seat, played Trigorin in a production of The Seagull, and had dreams of premiering off Broadway in Big Dreams, Bigger Heart.Answer: Dot Com (accept Walter Slattery)Toss-Up 20On the short-lived James Naughton sitcom Raising Miranda, this actor played Miranda’s Uncle Russell, who lives in a van in the driveway. He played Det. Curt Sincic [sin-sick], best friend of Louie Anderson’s therapist character on The Louie Show before playing one of the Heffernans’ neighbors on King of Queens. His characters include a man who ran a pirate radio station under the name Kid Charlemagne and a dentist accused of converting to Judaism for the jokes. In addition to Hal Wilkerson and Tim Whatley, this actor also won an Emmy as a former chemistry teacher who manufactures meth. For ten points, name this actor famous for his parts on Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad.Answer: Bryan CranstonBonus 20It officially adopted its current three letter name in 1991, an initialism of the name it carried since the 1950s. For ten points:10] Name this restaurant whose founder has been played in commercials by Jim Gaffigan, Darrell Hammond and Norm Macdonald.Answer: KFC (accept: Kentucky Fried Chicken)10] This 1986 song by Run DMC describes a customer ordering a Big Mac at Kentucky Fried Chicken, a man yelling “touchdown” at a 76ers game, and someone eating dog food, all prompting the title declaration.Answer: You Be Illin’10] In this first film in a franchise, Jake Taylor gives a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken to Pedro Cerrano in an attempt to help Cerrano appease Jo-bu and hit a curve ball.Answer: Major LeagueToss-Up 21One track off this album tells of the death of a young moonshining gangster from Kentucky while another speaks of getting “bombed for breakfast” and “bombed for dinner time and tea.” In addition to “The Ballad of Danny Bailey” and “Social Disease,” this album contains a song about a lesbian with “a double barrel name” who is found dead in the subway, “All the Girls Love Alice.” Side one of this album consists of the 11 minute “Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding” and the last two singles released from the album, “Benny and the Jets” and “Candle in the Wind.” For ten points, name this 1973 double-album by Elton John whose title track draws imagery from The Wizard of Oz.Answer: Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadBonus 21At the 2013 Waste Management Phoenix Open, this golfer watched the ball circle the cup and lip-out, ruining his chance at shooting a 59 at a PGA tour event. For ten points:10] Name this 3-time Masters champ, nicknamed “Lefty,” whose 2004 victory over Ernie Els came with an 18-foot putt to birdie the final hole. He also lipped out at the 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.Answer: Phil Mickelson10] This golfer watched a 2-foot putt lip-out in the playoff at the 1989 Masters, losing to Nick Faldo on the next hole and earning him the epithet “the Choke.”Answer: Scott Hoch (HOKE)10] This golfer missed recording the first 62 in a major championship when the ball lipped-out at the 2007 PGA Championship. He still won, adding to his 14 majors, including a 15-stroke victory at the 2000 US Open.Answer: Tiger WoodsToss-Up 22In the film Night on Earth, this profession is shared by the characters played by Winona Ryder, Amin Mueller-Stahl, and Roberto Benini. The Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged has this job as does Edward Burns’s character in She’s the One. After being kidnapped, a man with this profession shoots his abductor on the subway in Collateral while a character with this profession kidnaps his romantic rival, Bandhu, in Deadpool. In another film, a former marine with insomnia takes up the night shift in this job and helps a young prostitute named Iris escape her pimp after attempting to assassinate a senator. For ten points, identify this profession held by Robert DeNiro’s Travis Bickle in a titular 1976 film.Answer: Taxi Driver (accept reasonable alternatives) ................
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