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December 2014 Music Packet by Jon Pinyan1. Tony Oller lists this singer along with Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn as "Classic" beauties. The fact that this person is from Texas is used to explain why her husband is "driving so slow" in his "off-white Lexus". A song by this singer opens with a recording from the Challenger disaster. Women such as Lucy Liu and her "get on the floor" while listeners are to "shake it like a Polaroid picture" in an Outkast song. For 10 points, name this R&B singer whose own hits have included "Flawless", "Crazy in Love" and "Irreplaceable".ANSWER: Beyoncé2. In a song of this name, Stroke 9 says they "couldn't leave [this place] if I tried to". Dan Wilson of Semisonic says "I dreamed I would find / Some kind of some pick-me-up" in this place. "We've been on the run / Driving in the sun" is the first line of a Phantom Planet song that says "[this place], here we come" and was theme music for a Fox series set in a county of this state. "The grass is really greener" here according to a song in which Snoop Dogg says its women are "Tone, tanned, fit and ready". For 10 points, name this West Coast state, whose "Gurls" are praised by Katy Perry.ANSWER: California3. After shooting her father, a girl with this name says "That man took my soul away" in a 3 Doors Down song about her "Yellin'". "The nurse comes 'round and everyone lift their head" in a Death Cab for Cutie song where "Love is watching someone die" is "What [this person] Said". This person says "You'll all die in your cars" and applauds after Zak-without-a-c plays her favorite song in a Ben Folds song. A real person with this name is the younger twin sister of Tegan Quin. For 10 points, give this first name of singer McLachlan.ANSWER: SarahNOTE: If someone complains that some of these are Sarah and others are Sara, award them -5.4. "I'm just a stranger trying to make my way through life" sings Dexter Freebish in a song with this title and a refrain that asks "Can we [do this]?" "No one can find the rewind button" in a song set at 2 AM with this title, sung by Anna Nalick. A man says he has “the tendency of getting very physical" in a song that asks "Is there anyone out there 'cause it's getting harder" to do this and is Maroon 5's first prominent single. For 10 points, give this verb, also the title of a Michelle Branch song and which Duncan Sheik is "Barely" doing.ANSWER: Breathe5. The members of this band invented the social word game "Say the Same Thing". In 2006, members of the BCA faculty mimicked a performance of this group which includes the line "Lipstick and callous / And fishnets and malice". “The mind has no say in affairs of the heart” according to their song “The Writing's On the Wall” which has a video filled with optical illusions. The Notre Dame marching band appears in one of the two videos for this band's "This Too Shall Pass". For 10 points, give this band known for elaborate videos, the most famous of which, for “Here it Goes Again”, features treadmills.ANSWER: OK Go6. The song "No Baby I" says of someone crying, to "Blame it on [this thing] / Blame it on being a girl", naming the Old 97's album on which it appears. "Why can't we seem to keep it together?" asks Switchfoot on a song with this word in the title. "Twice as much ain't half as good" according to John Mayer in a song which says this thing is "working against me" and "wants to bring me down". A musical theatre song with this word in the title says "If you care to find me, look to the western sky." For 10 points, name this force that Elphaba says she will try defying.ANSWER: Gravity7. In the Moxy Fruvous song "Splatter Splatter", a cheerleader receives a phone call from this person. A person in this position takes advantage of and posts pictures of a "no-name girl in the freshman class" in a song with this title by Kira Isabella. A "Glee" episode with this title aired in memory of Cory Monteith, whose character held this role. A Fountains of Wayne song has this person "under attack / But he knows no one can touch him now". For 10 points, name this position in football, who in "All Kinds of Time" "waits for the snap".ANSWER: Quarterback8. Eight of this type of performance appear on a 2007 album with a scratch-and-sniff cover, including "Subtract One Love". Another example of these answers the question "Who draws the crowds, who plays so loud?" while still another says that "Sad Songs and Waltzes aren't playing this year" and was written by Willie Nelson. The most infamous of these replaced the word "stupid" with an expletive, upsetting Gloria Gaynor, the original singer of "I Will Survive". For 10 points, name these performances of other people's songs by an alternative band best known for "Never There" and "The Distance".ANSWER: covers by CAKE [prompt on partial answer]9. "With confidence I say, we're better than ever" sings Hoobastank in a song with this word in the title. A song with this title has vocals by Martina Sorbara, who sings "Don't get so excited 'cause that's all you'll get from me", while another appears to sample the melody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". A Guster song that promises "Tomorrow, I'll start in a new direction" directs the listener to "Come Downstairs and Say [this]". For 10 points, give this greeting, which Lionel Richie followed up by asking "Is it me you're looking for?"ANSWER: Hello [accept Hello Again before “Martina”]10. The Old 97's song "Niteclub" takes place 1800 miles from this location; another song by the same band says of this place, "I'm Done". Another song ends with the singer yearning for the days when she was "one half of two", and she tells her former love, "You can have [this place]". A Death Cab for Cutie song about this location ends with the repeated line "Your love is gonna drown". Jennifer Warnes was the first to record a Leonhard Cohen-written song mentioning this place. For 10 points, name this island, which is the first place "we take", before "we take Berlin."ANSWER: Manhattan [do not accept "New York (City)" because haha suck it]11. TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. In the N*Sync song "Merry Christmas Happy Holidays", it is time to do these two things because bells are ringing. Motley Crue tells you to "Reach down, scrape it, you just got to" do these two things. In her chorus for "Read All About It", Emeli Sande wants to sing AND do these two other things, “’til the words dry out”. Usher and Tears for Fears each made songs titled after ONE of these verbs. "You are now, now rocking with" the two singers, "bitch", according to, for 10 points, what song by Britney Spears and will.I.am?ANSWER: scream and shout [accept in either order]12. In the Rhett Miller song "Fireflies", his former love interest looked like his mother when she was this age. In an Old 97's song with this title, it is said that this age is not the age of reason. Billy Ray Cyrus sings about a football player who joins the Marines in a song with this title. Another song with this number in the title repeats "Here it comes, here it comes". An album with this title included a song that asks "Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements?" and won its performer the 2009 Grammy for Best New Artist. For 10 points, give this number which, in a Rolling Stones song tells how many nervous breakdowns you've had.ANSWER: Nineteen13. Dexter Freebish says “This time, we’ll get it right / I know we’ll be together” in a song with this title. Leona Lewis’s unreleased demo album had this title. Vanessa Carlton says that “I will never see the sky the same way” and that “I will always reach too high ‘cause I’ve seen” this event. The Paramore song “Decode” was written for the soundtrack to a movie with this title. A Weakerthans song is about a “Civil” version of this event. For 10 points, give this daily occurrence, which that Weakerthans song describes as “between sunset and certified darkness”.ANSWER: Twilight14. A song with this title precedes “Someone Like You” on Adele’s album 21. Another version of that song appeared on the soundtrack to 50 First Dates. The object of the singer’s affection is compared to one of these in a song that claims “You are magical, lyrical, beautiful” and that “I keep hitting repeat-peat-peat-peat.” John Mayer wrote one of these “for No One” and Sara Bareilles said she would not write one of these. For 10 points, give this two-word phrase that describes much romantic music and is the title to a well-covered track by The Cure.ANSWER: Love Song15. Switchfoot repeatedly asks “Is this the new year or just another desperation?” in a song with the plural of this word in the title. According to the Old 97’s, a lonely heart has this property. Billy Joel needs the inspiration of a woman who is described as “Blonde over [this]”. An album commonly referred to by this adjective contains a song that asks “What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl?” as well as “Undone” and was Weezer’s first self-titled album. For 10 points, name this color, the title of an Eiffel 65 song and—in its plural—a genre of music.ANSWER: Blue16. Dozens of these objects are located on a beach in the music video for Augustana’s “Boston”. One of these objects is hit by a taxi and destroyed at the start of the video for “Nolita Fairytale”, representing the singer’s desire to distance herself from a past hit. A large one of these objects at FAO Schwarz plays a prominent role in the Tom Hanks movie Big. For 10 points, name this musical instrument, which Vanessa Carlton rode in the video for “A Thousand Miles”, and which Billy Joel is the “Man” of.ANSWER: PianoNote: synonyms and close equivalents will be accepted for this next tossup17. “Sister Mary in a burning dress” appears in a song whose title tells you to perform this action, because Matchbox 20 says “it’s alright”. In “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love”, Usher and the woman suddenly perform this action. Taio Cruz does this action sometimes, while saying “Ay-oh”. In the Bloodhound Gang song “Fire Water Burn”, “party people” are told to perform this action, with the usual follow up “Wave ‘em like you don’t care”. For 10 points, give this action, which in the song “Team”, Lorde claims she is tired of being told to do.ANSWER: put your hands in the air [or put your hands up; or “throw” in place of “put”]18. The title track of Rhett Miller’s album The Believer is dedicated to this man, of whom it says “You did time in Duncanville”. Jenny Lewis sings “I was even having a good day when I found out we’d lost you” in “Ripchord”, one of two Rilo Kiley songs referring to this man’s death. In “The Other Way”, Rivers Cuomo of Weezer sang “I have many doubts about my motives” to Jennifer Chiba, Cuomo’s ex-girlfriend who was dating this man when he died. For 10 points, name this indie singer whose 2003 death may have been self-inflicted, the singer of “Miss Misery”.ANSWER: Elliott Smith19. A song with this word in its parenthetical title references “the dark punk rock clubs of 1000 American towns”. That song’s main title is “Hammers and Strings” by Jack’s Mannequin. Brandi Carlile sings that “Beautiful bright eyes lie” in one of these set in the “Late Morning”. In a song with this title, three people take a flight: Uncle Richard, Ben Folds, and James Earl Jones. “In your heart, there will always be a part of me” promises the performer of a song with this title. For 10 points, give this type of song—such as Billy Joel’s, subtitled “Goodnight, My Angel”—performed to get a child to fall asleep.ANSWER: lullabye20. A member of this family sings “I thought you were the sun / Shining down on everyone” in a duet with Rhett Miller, “As Close As I Came to Being Right”. Katy Perry compares herself to another member of this family in “The One That Got Away”. On a posthumous album subtitled A Hundred Highways, the most famous member of this family sang “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”. Earlier in that man’s American Recordings series, he covered “Hurt”. For 10 points, name this family of country singers, the most famous of whom was called The Man in Black and sang “I Walk the Line”.ANSWER: Cash21. A song with this title sees Joey Fatone and four others sing “You’re all I ever wanted / You’re all I ever needed.” A song with a very similar title ends with the singer asking “Does this sound like a helicopter?” and earlier complains “Now you’re taking her to every restaurant.” The inclusion of a song with this title and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” led a Slate writer to declare the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack “a mixtape of lies”. For 10 points, give the shared title to N*Sync’s first single and a Jackson Five hit, both about regret following a break-up.ANSWER: I Want You Back22. This word recurs through several songs of Augustana’s self-titled album, culminating in a song of this name where “you can only pray / while you’re waiting out” this event. A Switchfoot song says “Hello” to this event, proclaiming that “you can’t silence my love / I’ve got doors and windows boarded up”. A murder case in Paterson, New Jersey was the impetus for a song of this name which critics accused of taking undue poetic license in describing its subject as a “number one contender”. For 10 points, give this name to a Bob Dylan song about boxer Rubin Carter.ANSWER: Hurricane23. This song provides the melody for a religious song that starts “I danced in the morning when the world was begun” which was itself borrowed for Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance. The Weezer song “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived” uses the tune of this song, as noted in its parenthetical title. Barack Obama’s first inauguration featured a performance titled Air and [this]. This Joseph Brackett-written work was adapted by Aaron Copland for use in a ballet. For 10 points, name this Shaker hymn, prominent in Appalachian Spring.ANSWER: Simple Gifts24. “I need some coffee and maybe a shave” according to a song with this title suffixed “’09”. A record label with this name for music from non-Western cultures was founded in 1989 by Peter Gabriel. “You’re on your own” here, so “don’t go crying to your momma” according to a Paramore song that asks “Ain’t It Fun” living in this place. Rob Thomas had earlier wondered, with his band, “what it’s like to be the head honcho” in a song with this title. For 10 points, name this place that Matchbox 20 wished “would just stop hassling me.”ANSWER: Real World 25. In a Barenaked Ladies song, this person is “Off His Head”. Emilé Sande sings that “You’re dancin’ like you need him, need him” in a song with this title. Weezer plans to take you to Palermo’s and “split a cheese fondue” in a song where they proclaim “I am” this. Yankees fans used a chant with this word in it to serenade Pedro Martinez. Robert Burke and Horace Gerlach wrote a song about this person’s “Little Girl”. For 10 points, name this person who, in an Everclear song, “gave me a name and then he walked away.”ANSWER: Daddy26. A song with this title states that “able-bodied women and agnostic head-strong men” will meet in Bethlehem, and that “if you lose your fear of God” you are the title object. “Our world is spinning at the speed of light” in another song with this title, by Kesha. Another song begins “Here we go again” and states that “I won’t be denied by you” before saying “Take a bite of my heart tonight”. A song with the plural of this word as its title incompetently repeats the last syllable. For 10 points, give this title for a song by Neon Trees or, with an ‘s’, Maroon 5.ANSWER: Animals27. A song with this title samples New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg quoting the Gettysburg Address. That song, which tells the story of a man saved from the World Trade Center on 9/11, is by Yellowcard. A Matchbox 20 song says “I’ll [do this] when everything you say don’t turn out wrong.” A form of this word is, according to John Mayer, “what puts 100,000 children in the sand”. For 10 points, name this common title which “I really don’t think you’re strong enough” to do, according to Cher.ANSWER: Believe28. A Vi Hart video parodying this song explains Carl Gauss’s method for adding an arithmetic series and abruptly stops one verse short. The Relient K version of this song adds an occasional refrain, saying of two items prominently mentioned, “Please don’t ask me / But I can bet those are terrible gifts to get.” PNC Bank publishes a summation of the cost of all the goods listed in this song, of which there are 364. For 10 points, name this holiday classic with increasingly long verses, each of which ends with “a partridge in a pear tree.”ANSWER: The 12 Days of ChristmasSpecial Previously Unreleased Bonus Tossup! Which I didn’t spend the time to make even half-decent.29. “I dig my grave but I just can’t stand to step inside” in a song about this kind of love. That song, whose refrain says “Big hearts are for breaking”, is by Jack’s Mannequin. A song about this kind of skin led to protest from the NYPD against Bruce Springsteen, and was about the death of Amadou Diallo. An album with this word in the title contains the song “Are We the Waiting”. For 10 points, give this nationality, which Lee Greenwood is proud to be, and which describes Green Day’s Idiot.ANSWER: American ................
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