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TOSSUPS – DUCK BLIND #3 RC COLA CLASSIC 2005 – UT-CHATTANOOGA

Questions by The Lords of Alacrity (Stan Jastrzebski and Eric Berman) with a few boni from Illinois-Springfield

1. The singer points out that the man of whom he is scared refers to him by his yellow hair. The other man walks into “The Jug” carrying a .44 magnum, apparently mad because the singer has kissed his woman, which the singer says he did not. The singer says he’s simply been dancing with Linda Lu, but before he knows it the crowd has cleared away and he’s looking down the barrel of the man’s gun. The singer gets away when the other man turns to scream at Linda Lu, so he doesn’t have to ask the man with the gun for the title favor. FTP, this is a short synopsis of what song by Lynyrd Skynyrd?

Answer: Gimme Three Steps

2. The first three times this trophy was given out, George Hainsworth won it. In 1981, three players shared the award – Denis Herron, Michel Laroque and Richard Sevigny – because they all played at least 25 games. In fact, Laroque had also shared the award three times prior with Ken Dryden. FTP, named after a Montreal Canadien who collapsed on the ice in 1925 and died a few months later, this is, FTP, what trophy given each year to the NHL’s best goaltender?

Answer: Vezina Trophy

3. Guitarist Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers plays the titular family’s adopted son Donnie. Tim Curry and Jodi Carlisle play the hosts of a nature show who cart their daughter, played by Party of Five’s Lacey Chabert, around the world. Tom Kane, who voiced Yoda in Star Wars Episode 2, lends his vocal talents to the role of Darwin the chimpanzee. FTP, what is this Nickelodeon show currently on hiatus that focuses on a globe-trotting family of explorers?

Answer: The Wild Thornberrys

4. The family from which we know this product bought it after its predecessor was sold following a failed online trading scheme. It can talk, regularly criticizes font choices and is made of bullet-proof plastics. Recently it’s been seen playing Warquest, and it has the ability to change the wallpaper of the room it’s sitting in. FTP, what is this computer brand which once beat Roger Fox 250-thousand consecutive times at chess, of which the Fox family of the comic strip Foxtrot purchased the Mango-Kiwi model?

Answer: iFruit

5. In a concert in Chattanooga last summer, he covered David Dundas’s “Blue Jeans,” Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’ ”, and Dave Edmunds’ “I Hear You Knocking.” He grew up in a farming town north of Brisbane, Australia and recorded his first solo album in 1990. That album spawned four number one hits in Australia, which prompted him to move to the U.S. and take up with a backing band called The Ranch. His self-titled 2000 release featured three number one hits, including “But For the Grace of God”. FTP, who is this country artist whose 2002 album “Golden Road” contained the #1 smash “Somebody Like You”?

Answer: Keith Urban

6. His first notable big screen roles came in musicals, playing Luther Billis in South Pacific and Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees. He’s played great bit parts, including as a blind and deaf newspaper vendor in Johnny Dangerously who briefly gets his senses back and as the mock horse racing announcer in The Sting. FTP, who is this man who won two Emmys for playing Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences and played the title role in TV’s My Favorite Martian?

Answer: Ray Walston

7. WARNING: TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED They both attended the University of Chicago, but spent their professional lives in New York City. She was a writer for New York magazine, he was a political consultant. They became friends, shared a fondness for the movie "Casablanca," and eventually married, ten years after their first two encounters ended acrimoniously. The wedding reception included a chocolate and strawberry cake -- the chocolate on the side, because some people prefer having it on the side. FTP, give the first names of this couple who proved a man and a woman really can be friends, as portrayed by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in a 1989 film.

Answer: Harry Burns and Sally Albright (accept either name for both people, but NOT “When Harry Met Sally” – point out question begins asking for 2 answers and with the word “they”)

 

8. The story takes place 500 years after the first game, presumably after a series of disasters have split the land into many small continents. Players choose to be a part of one of two cities, Queynos (KWAY-noss) and Freeport, based on their tendency to be good or evil. One of the unique features of the game allows players to type a slash and the word "pizza" while still in the game to get to the Pizza Hut website and order a snack. A new interface allows either third- or first-person gameplay in, FTP, what followup to a 1999 Sony massively multi-player RPG?

Answer: Everquest II

9. By one account, the New York Mets used the top draft pick in 1966 on Steve Chilcott instead of him because they considered this man’s girlfriend too light-skinned. He went to Kansas City with the second pick instead, and though he hit only .262 for his career, he hit .310 against the Mets in the 1973 World Series. Four years later, he made an even bigger World Series splash, belting home runs on four consecutive swings in the final two games. That performance cemented his nickname of "Mr. October." FTP, who is this slugger, who ranks ninth on the career home run list?

Answer: Reggie Jackson

 

10. Ana Marie Cox describes her as "a drunk communist with a sense of humor." She broke into the mass media consciousness by exposing Jessica Cutler's affair with a fellow Capitol Hill staffer. A regular competitor with the Washington Post gossip column “The Reliable Source”, this is, FTP, what Cox alter ego -- an often profane, always irreverent Washington-based blogger?

Answer: Wonkette

11. He found a job in the circulation department of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune after graduating from NYU film school. He got his first gig as a writer on the short-lived Chris Elliot show “Get a Life” and later wrote for “The Trouble with Larry”, “The Edge” and “The Drew Carey Show”. FTP, who is this man perhaps more famous for writing movies like “Human Nature”, “Being John Malkovitch” and “Adaptation”?

Answer: Charlie Kaufman

12. The show features a host with a degree in art history, an electrician with psychology training who used to be an underwear model, a New York comedian, and the former carpenter from "Changing Rooms." Together, they help homeowners who can’t seem to repair their homes on their own. FTP, what is this TLC reality show where the faulty family member wears a red shirt with the words "It's all my fault” while the rest of his kin head to a spa for three days, only to come home to a better looking abode?

Answer: In a Fix

13. A male team from Madagascar did it 149 times in 90 minutes in 2002 in protest. The Bulgarian national team did it twice in 1966. The United States beat Columbia on one in 1994. Afterwards, the man responsible for that one, Andres Escobar, was famously murdered by people with alleged mob ties when he returned home. FTP, what is this act of soccer ignominy accomplished when one team puts the ball in the net it’s defending?

Answer: Own goal

14. The show centers around a loft in Soho where 19 girls are gathered under the watchful eye of Johnny Wright, Phil Robinson and the show’s host. Choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson judges dancing and vocal coach Doc Holiday helps the girls fit their voices together better. The girls are never told when one of them is going to be cut, or how many are going to make the final cut, as decided by P. Diddy. FTP, what is this MTV show that aims to produce a new hit girl group?

Answer: Making The Band 3

15. This group’s lead singer eventually went on to do uncredited lead vocals on songs like C&C Music Factory’s “Gonna Make You Sweat”, but was replaced by a thinner model for the music video. This duo began as the group “Two Tons of Fun” before changing their name for their only top 10 hit. FTP, Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes were better known by what name when they recorded the 80’s one-hit wonder “It’s Raining Men”?

Answer: The Weather Girls

16. Kevin Peter Hall played the title role, but neither he nor castmates Bill Duke, Shane Black or Elpidia Carrillo ever ran for elective office. However, Carl Weathers has jokingy offered to. The actors who played Blain and Major Dutch Schaeffer both did, and won -- one even titled his book after one of his lines: "I ain't got time to bleed." FTP, name this sci-fi action flick, in which an extraterrestrial hunter matches wits and firepower with both Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Answer: Predator

17. He hosted the game show "To Tell the Truth" for three months before being replaced by Alex Trebek. Now, 14 years later, he's looking into a run for governor of Pennsylvania. His exploratory committee is called "Team 88"...a reference to his uniform number during nine seasons in the N-F-L, in which he caught 336 passes. Four more catches made him the M-V-P of Super Bowl Ten. FTP, name this Hall of Fame wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Answer: Lynn Swann

18. Held up a grocery store. Dropped out to move to LA. Got popped for a fight with a thug. Got drunk in school at 14. Forgot to say something else. Made out with the homecoming queen. Wrote a song about you today. Had you. FTP, all these are things that nearly happened in what song by Bowling For Soup?

Answer: Almost

19. A 1978 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he began his career as a volunteer assistant coach at Madison High School in Milwaukee and a varsity assistant at Marquette University High School. His successor at his previous head coaching job is set to take over at Purdue next year. This man was also an assistant for Purdue’s Gene Keady (KAY-dee) for 18 years before taking over at Southern Illinois, a team he led to a Sweet 16 berth in 2002. FTP, who is this man who leads the Fighting Illini men’s basketball program?

Answer: Bruce Weber

20. His brother Rod once promised the show’s main characters a white water rafting trip, but skipped out to go after a stewardess, so this man went instead. A former disc jockey, he says his dreams of becoming a pro basketball player were stopped by a nun who kept blocking his shots while in school. The actor who played him was also an educator for a week once while subbing for a friend. FTP, who is this man absent from the College Years season of the show who ruled Bayside High School on Saved By The Bell?

Answer: Mr. Principal Richard Belding

21. The movie’s title song wasn’t even nominated for the Oscar that eventually went to "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from "Mary Poppins." The movie did receive nominations for Original Screenplay and Adapted Score, but lost both. The Academy ignored not only the title song, but also "This Boy," "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You," "If I Fell," "Tell Me Why," "I Should Have Known Better," "And I Love Her," and "Can't Buy Me Love." FTP, name this 1964 release which chronicles a fictionalized 24 hours in the life of The Beatles.

Answer: Hard Day’s Night

22. Her mother is an Austrian psychoanalyst. Her father is a Hungarian who invented self-generating respirators and a land-mine sensor. She's British, and after making her stage debut in Noel Coward's "Design for Living," has played a scheming femme fatale in "Confidence" and "Runaway Jury." FTP, name this actress who played a damsel menaced by government agents in "Chain Reaction," by a mummy in two "Mummy" movies, and by demons in "Constantine."

Answer: Rachel Weisz

23. Jim DeCaire and Joe Potila founded the group in 1975. Albums the group released during the 1990’s included “Jackpine Savage” and “Naked Elves in Cowboy Boots”. The group released its first serious song when it put out 1991’s “When One Love Dies”, but it’s their more comedic fare that draws rave reviews. FTP, what group hailing from Ishpeming, Michigan has released such songs as “Rusty Chevrolet” and “The Second Week of Deer Camp”?

Answer: Da Yoopers

BONI – DUCK BLIND #3 RC COLA CLASSIC 2005 – UT-CHATTANOOGA

Questions by The Lords of Alacrity (Stan Jastrzebski and Eric Berman) with a few boni from Illinois-Springfield

1. Identify these Jimmy Stewart movies from short synopses, 5-10-15.

5 -- Stewart plays the title junior senator whose only ambition is the creation of a national boys camp.

Answer: Mister Smith Goes to Washington

10 – Stewart won his only Oscar for playing reporter Mike Connor in this 1941 film opposite Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

Answer: The Philadelphia Story

15 – Stewart joined Doris Day in this 1956 movie as Dr. Ben McKenna, who accidentally uncovers an assassination plot while on holiday in Africa and has his son Hank kidnapped in order to keep the McKennas quiet.

Answer: The Man Who Knew Too Much

2. 30-20-10, name the artist from lyrics.

30 -- "The poor druggist he was going insane / His stuff is selling out like never before / He finally had to up and close the store"

20 -- "So now sweet sixteens turned thirty-one / You get to feelin' weary when the work days done / Well all you got to do is get up and into your kicks"

10 -- "Just take those old records off the shelf / I'll sit and listen to 'em by myself / Today's music ain't got the same soul"

Answer: Bob Seger (and the Silver Bullet Band)

3. Given a character, tell which incarnation of NBC’s Law and Order they hail from – The original series, Special Victims Unit or Criminal Intent, FFPE. Answers using only initials will be acceptable.

A. Olivia Benson

Answer: Special Victims Unit

B. Serena Southerlyn

Answer: Original series

C. Arthur Branch

Answer: Original series

D. James Deakins

Answer: Criminal Intent

E. Donald Cragen

Answer: Special Victims Unit

F. Elliot Stabler

Answer: Special Victims Unit

4. Name the correct garment or clothing style FTPE.

A. Name this garment that ties behind the neck and across the back, leaving the arms, shoulders, and back bare.

Answer: Halter Top

B. Also a move in gymnastics, this jean design is a modified version of the boot-cut jean.

Answer: Flare

C. This consists of a leotard attached to a pair of tights, which completely cover the legs.

Answer: Unitard

5. In 2004, the Boston Red Sox broke their curse in spectacular fashion.

Down three games to nothing against their archrival New York Yankees, the Sox won two dramatic extra-inning victories at Fenway Park, followed by two wins in Yankee Stadium.

A. FFPE, name the two starting pitchers who earned the wins in those final two games

Answer: Curt Schilling and Derek Lowe

B. FTPE, name the two relievers credited with the Sox's other two wins.

Answer: Tim Wakefield and Curtis Leskanic

6. Torums Scarf Michael, Darbydale's All Rise Pouch Cove, and Kan-Point's V-J-K Autumn Roses are the last three winners of Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show. FTPE, in any order, give the breeds of those three dogs.

Answer: Kerry Blue Terrier; Newfoundland; German Short-Haired Pointer

7. Boy meets girl. Girl wants boy but is of humble origins, while boy is fabulously successful. Love conquers all and girl gets boy and they live happily ever after. That's the plot of approximately 23,000 Hollywood movies, most of them bad...but you only have to name these three, FTPE:

A. Julia Stiles is a commoner who catches the eye of royalty, exactly where you'd expect to meet royalty: a college in Wisconsin.

Answer: The Prince and Me

B. Jennifer Lopez is a hotel housekeeper who catches the eye of American royalty: U.S. Senator and gossip-column favorite Ralph Fiennes (RAYF FINES).

Answer: Maid in Manhattan

C. Hilary Duff is a dorky Valley Girl who works in her evil stepmother's diner, but begins unwittingly corresponding by email with the most popular boy in school.

Answer: A Cinderella Story

8. Given a synopsis of a Monty Python skit, tell who’s playing the character asked about, FTPE.

A. The man in the dirty Hungarian phrasebook sketch who walks into a tobacco shop and earnestly believes he’s asking for cigarettes by proclaiming “I will not by this record – it is scratched!”

Answer: John Cleese

B. The woman who enters a restaurant filled with Vikings, only to learn that most every dish contains spam, which she hates. She also hates the Vikings and their persistent singing about their undying love for the processed meat.

Answer: Terry Jones

C. The brother to the shopkeeper who owns a similar (nearly identical, really) pet shop in Bolton at the end of the dead parrot sketch.

Answer: Michael Palin (who also plays the aforementioned shopkeeper himself)

9. Identify the songs playing in the background during these ads, FTPE.

A. Garnier Fructis (gar-nee-AY frook-TEESE) uses this song by The Transplants with a catchy piano line and people repeating “woo-hoo” in the background.

Answer: Diamonds and Guns

B. This song by the Kinks punctuates commercials for HP printers where a man puts white frames over his head, only to have them turn into photos.

Answer: Picturebook

C. A Dr. Pepper ad uses this song by Meatloaf as it shows a man going to yoga and folding frilly underwear to please his woman, but being unwilling to give up a sip of his soft drink.

Answer: I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)

10. Given an NFL free agent from the off-season, tell which team he’ll suit up for in 2005, FTPE.

A. Titans wide receiver Derrick Mason

Answer: Baltimore or Ravens

B. Carolina wide receiver Mushin Muhammad

Answer: Chicago or Bears

C. Packers offensive lineman Marco Rivera

Answer: Dallas or Cowboys

11. FTSNOP, Name these actors who went on to bigger and better things after inauspicious starts in horror films:

5 -- Name the future Emmy-winning "Friends" star who starred in "Leprechaun."

Answer: Jennifer Aniston

5 -- This two-time Oscar nominee was sliced and diced by Freddy Krueger in the first "Nightmare on Elm Street."

Answer: Johnny Depp

C. 10 points EACH for the "Seinfeld" star and the future Best Actress winner who were cannon fodder in the Friday the 13th knockoff "The Burning" [which your genial quizmaster, who didn’t write this question, actually PAID to see]

Answer: Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter

12. Answer these questions about comic strips FTPE.

A. This comic written by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman chronicles a typical teenager named Jeremy.

Answer: Zits

B. This one frame comic, written by Bil Keane, features a mother, a father, and their 4 young children.

Answer: Family Circus

C. This comic, written by Joe Martin, features a husband constantly complaining about his mother-in-law.

Answer: Willy ‘n Ethel

13. Given an album on the Billboard charts ten years ago this spring, name the artist that made it, FTPE.

A. No Need to Argue

Answer: The Cranberries

B. Yes I Am

Answer: Melissa Etheridge

C. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me

Answer: Gloria Estefan

 

14. Given short plot synopses, name these TV shows that have something in common, FTPE.

A. This short-lived 2003 ABC series followed the lives of trainee police officers like Rico Amonte and Gabriela Lopez as they tried to fit into their roles as LA cops.

Answer: 10-8 (pron. Ten eight): Officers on Duty

B. This show, which ran on TNN, (now Spike TV) from January 2000 to June 2001 featured such notables as G. Gordon Liddy and Billy Dee Williams in supporting roles. Lucky Vanous starred as a Mafia witness who the witness protection program sets up as a long-haul truck driver.

Answer: 18 Wheels of Justice

C. This 1958 to 1964 ABC show centered around Efram Zimbalist Junior as private eye Stu Bailey and Roger Smith as his judo-wielding partner Jeff Spencer. The show took its name from the address of the duo’s detective agency in Hollywood.

Answer: 77 Sunset Strip

15. FTPE, name these 2004 NBA All-Stars who led the league in some dubious categories last season. If you need the team they played on last year, you’ll get 5 per answer.

10 -- The point guard whose 19 technical fouls were the most in the league.

5 – Houston Rockets

Answer: Steve Francis

10 -- The shooting guard/small forward who led the league with 303 turnovers.

5 – Boston Celtics

Answer: Paul Pierce

10 -- The swingman who missed 913 field-goal attempts, more than 100 more misses than anyone else in the league.

5 – Orlando Magic

Answer: Tracy McGrady

16. Choose your poison: Genesis albums or Goo Goo Dolls albums? Choose now. [PAUSE FOR CHOICE]

(if Genesis)Name the Genesis album from songs on it, FTPE.

A. No Replay at All, Man on the Corner, Like It or Not

Answer: Abacab

B. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight; Land of Confusion, Anything She Does

Answer: Invisible Touch

C. No Son of Mine; Jesus He Knows Me, Hold on My Heart

Answer: We Can’t Dance

(if Goo Goo Dolls)Name the Goo Goo Dolls album from songs on it, FTPE.

A. Big Machine, Here is Gone, Sympathy

Answer: Gutterflower

B. Name, Only One, Long Way Down

Answer: A Boy Named Goo

C. Slide, Broadway, Iris

Answer: Dizzy Up the Girl

17. Identify these criminally-minded people on TV’s Alias, FTPE.

A. This former head of SD-6 now leads APO, a black ops group Sidney, Vaughn and others are part of.

Answer: Arvin Sloan

B. This woman wounded Sidney’s sister Nadia while on assignment, shortly after she stole a chemical bomb. She returned to try to assassinate Nadia while she was in a coma, but Sloan alertly switched her hospital room.

Answer: Ana Espinoza (accept either)

C. This former CRF operative was incarcerated before APO sprung him from jail. He led Vaughn and Sidney to an arms dealer in Venice before he was abducted by Ana Espinoza.

Answer: Julian Sarque (pron. SARK)

18. Given a major tennis singles title from the 2004 season, tell which woman won it, FTPE.

Answer: Wimbledon

Answer: Maria Sharapova

B. US Open

Answer: Svetlana Kuznetsova

C. Australian Open

Answer: Justine Henin-Hardenne (EN-uh ar-DEN)

19. Name these professional poker players with something in common, FTPE.

A. He co-hosts Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown" with former "Newsradio" star Dave Foley.

Answer: Phil Gordon

B. As one of the few African-Americans on the poker circuit, he's sometimes called the Tiger Woods of poker.

Answer: Phil Ivey

C. He's nicknamed "The Unabomber" for his standard table attire of a gray hooded sweatshirt.

Answer: Phil Laak

20. You only need to know one degree of Kevin Bacon to rack up the points on this bonus. 5-10-15, name the movies in which Kevin Bacon co-starred with…

5 -- Sean Penn and Tim Robbins

Answer: Mystic River

10 -- Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin

Answer: Hollow Man

15 -- Kyra Sedgwick and Mos Def

Answer: The Woodsman

21. There is nothing like a dame. FTPE, name the beauty titles currently held by these women:

A. Jennifer Hawkins

Answer: Miss Universe

B. Deidre Downs

Answer: Miss America

C. Alicia Hall

Answer: Winner of the Sports Illustrated Model Search

 

22. Xander and Willow survived from start to finish, but some late additions to the Scooby gang met untimely ends. FTPE, identify these "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" characters from their deaths:

A. She taught computer class at Sunnydale High School until she was killed by Angel during his evil period.

Answer: Miss Jenny Callandar

B. Drusilla slit her throat, leaving Buffy as the only slayer after her resurrection had temporarily left Sunnydale with two.

Answer: Kendra the Vampire Slayer

C. Although she was encouraged to use Andrew as a human shield, she died shielding him from the First's bringers in the final episode.

Answer: Anya

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