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This Tournament Has Eleven Thousand WritersPacket by Mike BentleyTheme: Music That I LikeTossups:1. Mike Bentley considers the second best song he ever recorded as part of his novelty punk act to be a song about a wasteland of this type. Mike’s second favorite song with the title “Modern Man” appears on a record titled for this place, which also contains tracks like “City with No Children” and “Rococo”. Ben Folds declares that he wants to “rock” this place like Michael Jackson did on the title track of one of his solo albums. An album of this name was the follow-up to Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. For 10 points, name this place, where a certain Jesus hails from according to a track from American Idiot.ANSWER: The Suburbs [or Suburbia or Suburban Wasteland]2. The speaker in one song titled for this location complains, “Taxes takin’ my whole damn check, / Junkies makin’ me a nervous wreck” and opens by stating, “a rat done bit my sister Nell”. Besides that song from the album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox by Gil Scott-Heron, this place appears in the title of a song that lists the games, “Monopoly, Twenty-one, Checkers and Chess” before stating, “If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve, then nothing is cool”. That song originally appeared on Automatic for the People and provided the title for a Jim Carrey film about Andy Kaufman. For 10 points, name this location, a paper type of which titles a popular Broadway song.ANSWER: The Moon3. One band named for a type of these objects performs a cool live show where Corin Roddick taps lightbulbs to make sounds while Megan James sings songs like “Ungirthed” and “Belispeak” from their debut 2012 album, Shrines. Mike confused that band for an emo band that released albums like Electric Pink that played at Bumbershoot this year. A song named for one type of these objects contains lyrics like “The taste of love is sweet / When hearts like ours meet” and continues, “I fell for you like a child / Oh, but the fire ran wild.” For 10 points, name these objects, which come between colly birds and geese a laying in the “Twelve Days of Christmas”.ANSWER: Rings [accept things like Purity Rings and Golden Rings and Rings of Fire]4. A Bad Religion song about this action specifies that it’s “not the after dinner kind” and sees Greg Graffin declare he’s “gonna build a world / Independent and exempt”. Another awesome song about performing this action describes a man who “watches my little children, play some board game in the kitchen / And I sit and pray they never feel my strife” and goes on to proclaim, “I’m just too much a coward / To admit when I’m in need.” That song about performing this action opens the album Gossamer by Passion Pit. This action also appears in the title of a song where the speaker declares, “To the victims of Welfare for we living in hell here” and notes in the chorus, “I want to talk to God but I’m afraid because we ain’t spoke in so long.” For 10 points, name this action that Jesus partakes in according to a Kanye West song.ANSWER: Walking [accept word forms and stuff like Take a Walk or A Walk or Jesus Walks]5. This song broke when KEXP DJ John Richards declared their single the “best song of the year” on January 2nd, 2012 and started playing that song two times in a row; KEXP would later play a “bathroom” demo of this song. This was the first single off of a self-titled album that contains songs like “Flowers In Your Hair” and “Stubborn Love”. You probably first heard this song playing in the background of the “Discovering Hawaii” Bing ad. This song imagines a scenario where we “Took a bus to Chinatown, / I’d be standin’ on Canal and Bowery, / And she’d be standin’ next to me”, and opens with the line, “I been trying to do it right / I been living a lonely life”. The chorus of this song goes, “I belong with you, you belong with me / You’re my sweetheart”. For 10 points, name this hit for the Lumineers.ANSWER: “Ho Hey”6. A great cover of a song of this name appears as the B-Side on Summer 2012 release by Superchunk. An album of this name contains a track whose third verse opens, “Break records at Louis, ate breakfast at Gucci / My girl a superstar all from a home movie” and has Big Sean giving a hook that states, “Ain’t nobody fucking with my / Clique, clique, clique, clique, clique”. That same record of this name contains the Kid Cudi track, “Creepers”. A song of this name opens, “Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning / I sit around trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry”. This phrase also identifies a recent compilation album by Kanye West’s GOOD Music label. For 10 points, identify this Bananarama song where the title season is “Leaving me here on my own”.ANSWER: Cruel Summer7. Bonus acoustic tracks like “Adam’s Atoms” and “Chronophobia” appeared on a 2007 album titled for the “New Maps of” this place by Bad Religion. This place appears in the title of an album which contains the hook, “Syrup, painkillers, cigarette, weed, / Hennessy, vodka, hah-hah-huh, hah-hah / I’m on everything” as well as a track featuring a Bruno Mars cameo, “Lights”. That album titled for a sequel to this place was by Bad Meets Evil. The singer of one song named for this place states, “I used to think the idea was obsolete / Until I heard the old man stomping his feet” and goes on to sing, “All the things you try to hide / Will be revealed on the other side”. That song titled for this place is the best known track of swing revival group the Squirrel Nut Zippers. For 10 points, name this place “where eternally / fire is applied to the body” according to song.ANSWER: Hell8. This song lends its name to a record where on one track the singer is told, “Welcome in, Welcome, if you’re White, my friend” titled “Talking Birmingham Jam”. One section of this song describes how “United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore”, and it opens by describing a time when “the young land started growing / the young blood started flowing”. The album of this name contains the tracks “Here’s to the State of Mississippi” and “Draft Dodger Rag”. This song’s chorus declares, “It’s always the old who lead us to the war / it’s always the young to fall”. The penultimate verse in this song has the singer “[flying] the final mission in the Japanese sky / Set off the mighty mushroom roar” before making the title protestation. For 10 points, name this Phil Ochs song about no longer participating in armed conflict.ANSWER: “I Ain’t Marching Anymore”9. The cover of this album was designed by Winston Smith and contains a large eight ball and a blond woman holding a guitar and pointing a gun at a man sleeping in a hammock. Some editions of this album end with the bonus track, “I Wanna Be on T.V.”, which later appeared on the B-Sides collection, Shenanigans. The final track on this album contains the lyric, “Call it as I see it even if / I was born deaf, blind and dumb” and begins, “Do as I say not as I do because / The shit so deep you can’t run away”. Prior to the release of this album, the band recorded the single “J.A.R.” for the Angus soundtrack. The biggest hit from this album contained lyrics like, “I’m having trouble trying to sleep” and was strangely co-released with “Jaded”. It concludes with “Walking Contradiction”. Featuring tracks like “Brainstew”, for 10 points, name this album that came in between Dookie and Nimrod by Green Day.ANSWER: Insomniac10. Some soldiers in this conflict added the verse, “That’s the wrong way to tickle Mary / That’s the wrong way to kiss” to a song whose chorus says “Goodbye Piccadilly, / Farewell Leicester Square”. On The Warrior’s Code, the Dropkick Murphys covered a song originally recorded by Eric Bogle about this conflict that asks “are you a stranger without event a name, / Forever enshrined behind some glass pane” of a 19 year old named William McBride. “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” was a popular song during this conflict. Perhaps the best known song about this conflict declares that “The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming … and we won’t come back until” the war has ended in the title place. For 10 points, name this conflict whose popular songs included “Over There”.ANSWER: World War I [or the Great War]11. Daniel Tosh opened the most recent season of Tosh.0 by wearing an overpriced concert T-Shirt from this group. They covered X’s “Sex and Dying in High Society” on a single not included on their first album titled “Younger Us”. This band first gained popularity when Pitchfork recommended their song whose chorus goes, “We used to dream / Now we worry about dying”; that song was titled “Young Hearts Spark Fire”. Dryw Keltz wrote an article on why this band would “totally be better” if they had a bassist. Their most recent album included a single that begins, “When the soul of the city / Was laid to rest / And the nights forgotten / And left for dead” titled “The House That Heaven Built”. For 10 points, name this Canadian garage rock duo behind albums like Post-Nothing and Celebration Rock.ANSWER: Japandroids12. Songs by this group that didn’t appear on studio releases include “Hedgecore”. Reel Big Fish often close their live shows with a cover of a song by this group whose second verse starts, “Civilization? Ha! I call it as I see it. / I call it bullshit, you know, I still cannot believe it”. On one of their albums, the instrumental track “Bankshot” is followed by a cover of “One of These Days” by Nancy Sinatra. At live shows, Green Day often covers a song by this group which contains lyrics like, “I know things are getting tougher when you can’t get the top off from the bottom of the barrel” titled “Knowledge”; like Green Day’s early albums, this group was a top seller on the Lookout record label. Despite breaking up 15 years earlier, this group contributed their song “Unity” to the Rock Against Bush, Volume 2 album. Known for tracks like “Sound System” and the album Energy, for 10 points, name this East Bay punk band, many of whose members went on to form Rancid.ANSWER: Operation Ivy13. Near the end of this song, the title character is described as sitting like Buddha and is contrasted with people “in their coats and ties” who are free to drink martinis. This song describes jailhouses as places where “they try to turn a man into a mouse”. The singer of this song declares that Bello and Bradley “both baldly lied” and blames the newspapers for going along with the ride. The first person described in this song is Patty Valentine who enters “from the upper hall” after hearing “pistol shots ring out in the barroom night”. The title character of this song “was just a revolutionary bum” to the white folks and “could take a man down with just one punch”. For 10 points, name this Bob Dylan song about a boxer named Rubin Carter who was framed for murder.ANSWER: “Hurricane”14. Near the end of this song, the singer describes how his eye had great joy. One character in this song is noted for his “wanton cruelty” and was discovered after the singer overheard him “exchanging words” with the prior. The singer notes how even though he was “a child of three” he remembers the addressee as “a lad of eighteen”. Audience participation was requested for a performance of this song at Sasquatch where “the crew all was chewed alive”. The singer’s mother instructs him to “Find him, find him / Tie him to a pole and break / His fingers to splinters”. This song appeared on the album Picaresque and opens in a place where “ribs are ceiling beams” and “guts are carpeting”, namely the belly of a whale. For 10 points, name this Decembrist song.ANSWER: “The Mariner’s Revenge Song”15. This album doesn’t contain the “extra gory” version of the final track, where the title figure dies. One song on this album opens with a cover of “Loser” and ends with a cover of “Basket Case”, while its second track sees the singer guessing whether it’s “Uncle Frank of Cousin Louie” when hands are placed over his eyes. The final song on this album describes how the title figure is now “in a federal prison for his infamous crime” and goes on to note that the title figure’s wife is “on the phone every night / with her lawyer negotiating the movie rights”. This successor to the TV Album contains a track which samples from a Bart Simpson prank call and was inspired by a TLC track. The singer on its title track has “churned butter once or twice” living in the title place. For 10 points, name this 1996 Weird Al album that contained tracks like “Gangsta’s Paradise”.ANSWER: Bad Hair Day16. Brad Pitt is slated to play Vaughn R. Walker opposite George Clooney’s David Boies in an upcoming play based on this cause. One song advocating this cause opens with the rapper sharing an affinity with his uncle “Cause I could draw” and declares that “America the brave / Still fears what we don’t know”. That song features a hook where Mary Lambert sings, “And I can’t change / Even if I tried / Even if I wanted to” and appears on the album The Heist by Macklemore. Jack Black has a cameo as Jesus who claims “the Bible says a lot of things” in a Funny or Die mini-musical titled for a law opposing this cause. For 10 points, name this cause advocated for in songs like “Same Love” and the aforementioned Prop 8 – The Musical.ANSWER: Gay marriage equality [accept equivalents]17. In one of these works, a man is described as having moves “slow as a tortoise” to “taste my slipper shoe”. In another of these works, Angela Trimbur declares, “[you] married a writer, but I don’t even think you can read”. The final entry in the first series of this works contains the line, “But for now, just stick to editing that gay ass Monday Show” and was delivered by Epic Lloyd; later, Nice Peter declares, “I’m the one who had the brains to let a midget play the bad guys”. The first of these works contains lines like “I’m the ORIGINAL Dark Lord / You’re like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice!” and the punch line, “Your style smells something sour / You need to wash up / Here, take a step inside my shower”. Entries in this series have featured people like Bruce Lee, Bill O’Reilly, and Darth Vader. For 10 points, name this popular YouTube series of dis raps.ANSWER: Epic Rap Battles of History18. This song shares its name with the only Bad Religion song I can think of that uses the word “proximad”. It was once combined in a mash-up with Jay Z’s “Numb/Encore” for a Grammy medley. The writer of this song was dissed for not recording anything else of note on another artist’s track, “How Do You Sleep?” Jimmy Fallon’s Blow Your Pants Off contains a version of a song of this name with its original lyrics, “Scrambled Eggs”. This song describes a woman who “would not stay” because “I said something wrong”. For 10 points, give this name of a track from Help! which describes a time when “all my troubles seemed so far away”.ANSWER: “Yesterday”19. The 2012 edition of the best music festival in this country featured local acts like Funk That Shit! and the awesome Apparat Organ Quartet. A band from this country describe a family that “had a pet dragonfly / The dragonfly it ran away” on their track “Dirty Paws” and had a breakout hit with a song whose chorus declares, “’Cause though the truth may vary / This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore”. That same group from this country released songs like “Little Talks” from their album My Head Is an Animal. Another artist from this country recently released the Biophilia album which comes with 10 companion iPad apps and is probably best known for appearing at the 2001 Oscars in a swan dress. For 10 points, name this country home to Of Monsters and Men and Bjork.ANSWER: Iceland20. The Vandals recorded a song about changing the world with an instrument from this sport. Tom Connors claimed that this sport was “the best game you can name”. A song about an athlete from this sport declares that on a playoff run he “could make a dad go buy the new TV”. That song, “Petition” was recorded by Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson. The singer is going to “take the Red and the Orange line” to attend a game in this sport in “Time To Go” by the Dropkick Murphys. Tom Cochrane’s song “Big Leagues” describes an aspirant in this sport. This sport is played on the roof of the store in Clerks. For 10 points, name this sport, which is often the subject of songs by the Zambonis.ANSWER: Ice Hockey [or Street Hockey]21. One band named for this place apparently did the theme song for some versions of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus and is known as this city’s “Ska Paradise Orchestra”. Another band named for this place declared, “These are the lines / That we straighten every year / But it’s the second time / They mapped the constellations” on the track “Your English Is Good”, which appeared on their 2008 album Elephant Shell. That Canadian band is named for a police club in this city. A movie set in this city featured the song “Sometimes” by My Bloody Valentine on its soundtrack, along with four original Kevin Shields tracks. That same movie set in this city contains characters like John, a photographer played by Giovanni Ribisi who is married to Scarlett Johansson’s character, and was the follow up to the director’s debut film, The Virgin Suicides. For 10 points, name this city, the setting of the film, Lost in Translation.ANSWER: TokyoBonuses:1. Identify the following about some novelty songs popular on WXPN’s Kid’s Corner, for 10 points each.[10] Many of the songs first appeared on this dude’s syndicated radio program. He’s credited with discovering artists like Tom Lehrer and Werid Al.ANSWER: Dr. Demento [or Barret Eugene Hansen][10] Kid’s Corner’s #10 song of 2010 was this song by The Firm, also popular circa 1995. One of the singers near the end of this song states, “It’s worse than that, it’s physics Jim”, and the group is “boldly going forward ‘cause we can’t find reverse”.ANSWER: “Star Trekkin’”[10] A perennial favorite is “NO!”, the title track of one of this band’s children’s albums. Their other kids albums include Here Come the ABCs.ANSWER: They Might Be Giants2. The singer of this song lays down the ultimatum, “The charade / it won’t last / when he’s gone / I won’t come back”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this song whose chorus declares, “But everybody’s gone / And you’ve been there for too long”. It also describes seeing a former lover at a “movie, sneak preview”.ANSWER: “Dammit”[10] “Dammit” was an early hit by this pop-punk band, who would go on to release songs like “All the Small Things” on Enema of the State.ANSWER: Blink-182[10] This most recent Blink-182 album was okay. It contained tracks like “Up All Night”.ANSWER: Neighborhoods3. Identify some bands with places in their names, for 10 points each.[10] Despite their name this indie band hails from Georgia and are members of the Elephant 6 collective. They had their biggest success with albums like Skeletal Lamping and False Priest.ANSWER: Of Montreal[10] This English band included tracks like “Lights Out, Words Gone” and “Shuffle” on their latest release, A Different Kind of Fix. ANSWER: Bombay Bicycle Club[10] This great band fronted by Jonathon Newby released albums like A Hostage and the Meaning of Life and The Philosophy of Velocity. They’re not to be confused with the 1985 Terry Gilliam film of the same name. ANSWER: Brazil4. Identify the following about folk songs, for 10 points each.[10] “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” by the Dropkick Murphys was actually based on some lost lyrics written by this folk great, who recorded songs like “This Land Is Your Land”.ANSWER: Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie[10] Guthrie recorded lots of songs while with the Bonneville Power Administration, but this is really the only good one. Guthrie sings, “Other great rivers add power to you / Yakima, Snake and the Klickitat, too” in this song.ANSWER: “Roll On, Columbia, Roll On”[10] Guthrie wrote many songs while living on this street in Brooklyn. Billy Bragg and Wilco would record many such songs on a record of this name.ANSWER: Mermaid Avenue5. The creation of this song was documented in the NPR piece, “How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?” For 10 points each:[10] Identify this single from Loud. The singer “took his heart when / I pulled up that gun” and then declares, “Ram pa pa pam ram pa pa pam ram pa pa pam” in this song.ANSWER: “Man Down”[10] “Man Down” is a song by this artist, who you may have seen “acting” in Battleship. Her breakout hit declared, “You can stand under my Umbrella”. ANSWER: Rihanna [or Robin Rihanna Fenty][10] Rihanna apparently won a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Breakout for her performance in Battleship. Another dude in that movie was this actor, who played Meekus in Zoolander and some guy I don’t care about on True Blood.ANSWER: Alexander Skarsgard6. The title character in this song declares that he’s going to name his daughter Bonnie and offers condolences to the addressee’s Uncle Ronnie. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this song partially addressed to “Mister ‘I’m Too Good To Call Or Write My Fans’”. The title character drives his car off a bridge near the end of this song.ANSWER: “Stan”[10] “Stan” is a track by this artist of “My Name Is”.ANSWER: Eminem [or Slim Shady or Marshall Mathers][10] Eminem re-teamed up with this rapper to release Hell: The Sequel in 2011. Eminem and this rapper were once part of the duo, Bad Meets Evil.ANSWER: Royce da 5’9” [or Ryan Daniel Montgomery]7/ Among the earliest songs recorded by this band are “The Invisible Gardener” and “Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this band behind albums like The People’s Key and Fevers and Mirrors.ANSWER: Bright Eyes[10] Mike’s favorite Bright Eyes song is their cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Devil Town”, which appeared in two episodes of this awesome show. Landry Clarke, best friends with quarterback Matt Saracen, played in the band Crucifictorious on this show.ANSWER: Friday Night Lights[10] Bright Eyes’ cover of “Devil Town” appeared on the same album as this group’s cover of “Walking the Cow”. Pitchfork really loved their albums Return to Cookie Mountain and Dear Science.ANSWER: TV on the Radio8. This song was written for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band but was relegated to appearing on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this song critical of the namesake publishing company. The singer complains, “It doesn’t really matter what chords I play / What words I say or time of day it is”.ANSWER: “Only a Northern Song”[10] “Only a Northern Song” was recorded by this man, who also wrote tracks like “Here Comes the Sun” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.ANSWER: George Harrison[10] This other Harrison track appeared on Abbey Road in between “Come Together” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. Covered by artists like James Brown, its second verse notes, “I don’t need no other lover”.ANSWER: “Something”9. Deluxe editions of this album contain a live recording of its track “The Good Life” from a Y100 Sonic Session. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this album containing tracks like “Pink Triangle”.ANSWER: Pinkerton[10] Pinkerton was the sleeper follow-up to this group’s debut Blue Album, which contained hits like “My Name Is Jonas”.ANSWER: Weezer[10] Pinkerton emerged after the cancellation of this rock opera. Tracks from it like “Blast Off!” were eventually included on Rivers Cuomo solo releases.ANSWER: Songs from the Black Hole10. Songs on this 2001 album included “Mix Tape” and “Failure By Design”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this debut pop punk album by Brand New.ANSWER: Your Favorite Weapon[10] This religious figure appears in the title of a song on Brand New’s album The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. DC Talk described being a “Freak” for this dude, who is the title character of an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical containing the song, “Superstar”.ANSWER: Jesus Christ [accept either underlined answer][10] This actor is paired with a semester abroad in a title of a Brand New track. He played Jack Burden in the 2006 version of All the King’s Men and an expert Russian sniper in Enemy at the Gates.ANSWER: Jude Law [or David Jude Heyworth Law]11. This album was preceded by the demo, Rules of the Game, which also titles a track on it. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this seminal ska album, re-recorded by Streetlight Manifesto in 2006. Among its legion of awesome songs are “Dear Sergio” and “As the Footsteps Die Out Forever”.ANSWER: Keasbey Nights[10] Keasbey Nights is an album originally recorded by this band, who are named for a novel featuring characters like Doc Daneeka, Ex-PFC Wintergreen and John Yossarian.ANSWER: Catch-22[10] Keasbey Night’s somewhat disappointing follow-up, Alone in a Crowd, contained a cover of this song, also covered by the Beach Boys. The singer laments, “I want to go home … why don’t you let me go home” while onboard the title ship.ANSWER: “Sloop John B”12. This group released Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts in 2003. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this rockin’ French electronic group whose song, “Midnight City”, was Pitchfork’s top track of 2011. They shouldn’t be confused with an astronomical object.ANSWER: M83[10] M83’s “Another Wave From You” was used on the penultimate episode of this series. Another episodes saw the title character, played by Zachary Levi, get past a kill screen in Missile Command with the aid of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”.ANSWER: Chuck[10] “Midnight City” ends with a solo by a member of Fitz and The Tantrums playing this instrument. Lady Gaga’s “Hair” and “Edge of Glory” also feature solos from this instrument.ANSWER: Saxophone [accept more specific forms of saxophone]13. She has recorded kids’ albums like Alphabutt and described switching from Jay Leno to Da Ali G Show on the track, “Singing Machine”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this member of the Moldy Peaches.ANSWER: Kimya Dawson[10] Kimya Dawson provided the quirky soundtrack for this film, although some of the songs were covered by its stars, Michael Cera and Ellen Page. It was written by Diablo Cody.ANSWER: Juno[10] This musician provided backing vocals for Dawson’s song, “Moving On”. She notes how “I hold on to your secrets in white houses” in a track from Harmonium and her biggest hit came off of 2001’s Be Not Nobody.ANSWER: Vanessa Carlton14. Name some SNES games with cool soundtracks, for 10 points each.[10] The title track and first level in this Kemco SNES racing game are pretty awesome. It shares its name with an overrated British series featuring personalities like Jeremy Clarkson and The Stig.ANSWER: Top Gear[10] The soundtrack of this Capcom shooter was heavily inspired by Top Gun. You could choose between Shin, Mickey and Greg, and the second level has you fighting a gigantic stealth bomber.ANSWER: U.N. Squadron[10] Lots of Nintendo Power subscribers first heard about this game via a special VHS tape mailed to them. Its title screen opens with one character cranking a gramophone before the rocking boombox remix of that song starts playing.ANSWER: Donkey Kong Country15. One album by this band opens with a track about Fu Manchu author Sax Rohmer. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this indie band fronted by John Darnielle. It has released albums like Transcendental Youth and Heretic Pride.ANSWER: The Mountain Goats[10] Mike only recently learned that the “Going to Georgia” was a Mountain Goats track and not an original by Atom and His Package. Atom is probably best known for a song about what Jews do on this holiday; namely, going to the movies eating Chinese food.ANSWER: Christmas[10] An early Mountain Goats album titled for this country contains songs like “Sept 19 Triple X Love! Love!” and “Neon Orange Glimmer Song”. A musician from this country on Konichiwa records found success with her Body Talk album.ANSWER: Sweden16. One verse in this song describes how, “Everyone’s a superhero / Everyone’s a Captain Kirk”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this track originally recorded by Nena.ANSWER: “99 Red Balloons” [or “99 Luftballoons”][10] A pretty good cover of “99 Red Balloons” was recorded by Goldfinger, whose song “Superman” appeared on the soundtrack to this videogame. The Suicide Machines contributed “New Girl” to its soundtrack, and it received an HD remake on Xbox Live in 2012.ANSWER: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater[10] Another song on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtrack was “Police Truck”, which appeared on this group’s 1987 album, Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.ANSWER: The Dead Kennedys17. This band altered the lyrics of their biggest hit to state, “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” during an appearance on David Letterman. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this radical English band comprised of members like Jude Abbott and Boff Whalley. Their later albums included English Rebel Songs and The Boy Bands Have Won.ANSWER: Chumbawumba[10] Chumbawumba recorded a song for these people on their English Rebel Songs album. Also known as the True Levellers, this group active during the English Civil War wanted to abolish property laws.ANSWER: The Diggers[10] The sixth track on Chumbawumba’s A Singsong and a Scrap describes the meeting of these two historical figures. The chorus of the song declares, “take my hand / I’ll take yours / Save my life / I’ll save yours” and the third verse implies one of these two people attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick. ANSWER: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman18. A spin-off album from this TV show included the song “Chocolate Salty Balls”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this show. Its theme song, written by Primus, appeared on the album, Chef Aid.ANSWER: South Park[10] This excellent song, which first appeared in “Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo”, was reprised in the South Park movie. Just to be different, on Sundays the title person is a “super, king, kameha-meha” type of the title person.ANSWER: “Kyle’s Mom Is a Big Fat Bitch”[10] This guy contributed the track “Wake Up Wendy” to the Chef Aid soundtrack. His hits over the years have included “Sad Songs (Say So Much)” and “Philadelphia Freedom”.ANSWER: Elton John [or the Elton John Band or Reginald Kenneth Dwight]19. The narrator of this song asks his wife who’s Dan, “and she says who’s Marie?” For 10 points each:[10] Identify this track from the 1984 album, Riddles in the Sand. The title character “lives by the sea” and the singer notes, “this side of Texas, is all new to me”.ANSWER: “Who’s the Blonde Stranger”[10] “Who’s the Blond Stranger” is a track by this artist of “Come Monday”, “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” and “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”.ANSWER: Jimmy Buffett[10] “Cheeseburger in Paradise” originally appeared on an album of this name. The title track on that album describes a man who “went out on the sea for adventure / expanding the view of the captain and crew / like a man just released from indenture”.ANSWER: “Son of a Son of a Sailor”20. Their most recent album opens with the track “Moonjock”, while they may be best known for a track where the singer declares “I only want a proper house”. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this band behind the albums Centipede Hz and Merriweather Post Pavilion.ANSWER: Animal Collective[10] This other band recorded popular versions of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “The House of the Rising Sun”. Eric Burdon sang vocals for this classic rock band.ANSWER: The Animals[10] This guy plays bass in Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem alongside Animal on drums. He sang songs like “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” on The Muppets Show and shouldn’t be confused with Janice.ANSWER: Sgt. Floyd Pepper [accept either underlined answer]21. This rapper considers killing himself on the track “Escape Artist” from his 2005 release, A Healthy Distrust. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this white rapper who used to appear on Punk-O-Rama compilations. ANSWER: Sage Francis [or Paul Francis][10] Sage Francis is probably best known for “Makeshift Patriot”, a song responded to this event. The chorus notes that the “flag shop is out of stock” after this event, while its second verse described how “leaping lovers are making decisions to jump”.ANSWER: September 11th Attacks [or 9/11 or Attacks on the World Trade Center][10] This punk rock band’s album Mobilize contained the song “911 For Peace”, which samples from the “I Have a Dream Speech”. They had an early hit with “You’ve Got to Die for the Government” and more recently recorded albums like The Bright Lights of America and The General Strike.ANSWER: Anti-Flag ................
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