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F.O.G.H.A.T. 2006: Rock and/or Roll

Packet #6: Space, bitches. Space.

▪ Based on a theme by Craig Barker

▪ Toss-ups and bonus by Craig Barker

1. Tom Selleck, a year after turning down Raiders of the Lost Ark, turned down the male lead in this film due to his shooting schedule for Magnum, P.I. Its star was terrified by cockroaches, so the bug the title character placed in her dinner to earn a free meal was in a deep freeze during the shoot. Based on a 1933 German film, a down on her luck opera singer finds work by disguising herself as a female impersonator, leading to an investigation by Chicago "businessman" King Marchand, played by James Garner. For ten points, name this 1982 Blake Edwards film starring Julie Andrews in the title role(s).

Answer: Victor/Victoria

2. During his tenure in Pittsburgh, he helped incorporate the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and used the predecessor of the Rule 5 draft to sign Roberto Clemente away from the Dodgers. Nicknamed "The Mahatma", as Cardinals' general manager, he created, much to the dismay of Commissioner Landis, the framework for the modern baseball farm system, while in 1959, he proposed a third major league, known as the Continental League. For ten points, name this baseball executive, best known as the Dodgers' GM who signed Jackie Robinson in 1946.

Answer: (Wesley) Branch Rickey [JD, 1911]

3. First published in the New Orleans Times Picayune in 1937, the title character is said to hail from "the faraway Thule" which is purportedly located somewhere near the western Norwegian city of Trondheim. Fantastic elements soon gave way to more historical themes, drawing on items including the death of Attila the Hun, the murder of Aëtius, and Geiseric's 455 sacking of Rome. Currently drawn by Gary Gianni, with writing by Mark Schultz, for ten points, name this Hal Foster created cartoon, set "in the time of King Arthur".

Answer: Prince Valiant

4. While working as a lawyer in Beijing, he was hired as a translator for Dan Rather during the Tian an Men Square protests in 1989, leading him to consider a career change. His current company hired him in 1996 and assigned him to the Justice Department beat. But it was his international reporting in the wake of 9/11 that earned him the DuPont-Columbia and Peabody Awards as well as a promotion to anchor of World News Tonight Saturday. Along with Elizabeth Vargas, he was named as Peter Jennings replacement. For ten points, name this ABC newsman, injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in January 2006.

Answer: (Robert William) "Bob" Woodruff [JD, 1987]

5. Now developed as under teams at EA Los Angeles, the first game in this series built upon the success that Westwood Studio had with Dune 2. In that first series, the United Nations Global Defense Initiative battles against Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod. The second grouping of games in this series feature an alternate timeline where Albert Einstein went back in time to remove Hitler, but left Europe open to a Soviet conquest, hence the "Red Alert" subtitle. For ten points, name this series of real-time strategy games whose latest grouping is "Generals."

Answer: Command and Conquer

6. Once wrongly proclaimed dead on during a Pittsburgh Pirates game in 1998, he has earned two Tonys for his work in The Great White Hope and Fences. Making his film debut in Dr. Strangelove, he was often paired with Madge Sinclair, including as the royal couple in Coming to America. He also played Admiral James Greer in two Tom Clancy adaptations and reclusive author Terrence Mann in Field of Dreams, while his commercial work includes efforts for Verizon and CNN. For ten points, name this actor and voice of both Mufasa and Darth Vader.

Answer: James Earl Jones [BA, 1955]

7. Kasabian's cover of this song was used to introduce ITV's World Cup 2006 coverage, while Phillip Glass based the first movement of his namesake 1997 symphony off this song. Co-written with Brian Eno, the title was based on a 1975 track by German band Neu! It tells the tale of a pair of lovers who kiss in front of a wall, who realize that they have a tremendous amount of courage, if just for one day. Covered by the Wallflowers for 1998's Godzilla soundtrack, for ten points, name this 1977 song from David Bowie's "Berlin" period.

Answer: "Heroes"

8. His first script, The Bodyguard, was a vehicle for Diana Ross which was put in "development hell" by Warner Brothers until it was made in 1992 with Whitney Houston. His writing misses include Continental Divide, Dreamcatcher, and Wyatt Earp, the last of which would reteam him with his Silverado star Kevin Costner. However, he is credited with penning the best episode of the Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, as well as releasing a plague of Ewoks upon the world as the writer of Return of the Jedi. For ten points, name this writer/director, best known for his "love letter to Michigan", 1983's The Big Chill.

Answer: Lawrence Kasdan [BA, 1970, MA, 1972]

9. The name's the same. One was first published by Hugo Gernsback in April 1926, often featuring cover illustrations by Frank R. Paul, and is considered the first magazine devoted to publishing stories of science fiction. The second was an anthology series that had a 45-episode run from 1985-1987, and was named by creator Steven Spielberg after the aforementioned magazine that he had read as a child. For ten points, what title is shared by both the sci-fi magazine and NBC television series?

Answer: Amazing Stories

10. Selected seventh overall by the Mets in the secondary phase of the 1974 amateur draft, he never played more than 80 games in any of his six major league seasons. He did get one World Series at bat when he drew a walk against John Stuper in Game 6 of the 1982 World Series, replacing Ted Simmons behind the plate. After a stint as the Braves bullpen coach from 1991-98 and Third Base Coach from 1999-2002, he rejoined the team which had selected him the Rule 5 draft in 1977, and has served as their skipper ever since. For ten points, name this manager of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Answer: (Edgar Fredrick) "Ned" Yost

11. It's not "Missing You" but a cover version by Tyler Hilton and Bethany Joy Lenz is included on the One Tree Hill soundtrack. Another cover by The Corrs for a VH1 Live in Dublin recording includes guest vocals by Bono. Its original is the seventh track on Ryan Adams’ 2001 album Gold. For ten points, name this song that ponders "where do you go when you're lonely" which hit #4 on the country charts in 2006 as covered by Tim McGraw.

Answer: "When the Stars Go Blue"

12. During his rookie year, he went 1 for 3 in a Thanksgiving Day game against the Detroit Lions and was behind both John Friesz and Michael Bishop on the depth chart. The year before, he threw four touchdown passes, including the overtime game-winner to David Terrell, to lead his team to an Orange Bowl victory. The official coin tosser at Super Bowl XL, for ten points, name this New England quarterback and most successful member of Michigan's Class of 2000.

Answer: (Thomas Edward Patrick) "Tom" Brady, (Jr.) [BA, 2000]

13. Formed on June 6, 1925 out of the assets of the Maxwell company, it became the first company in its industry to use a wind tunnel to test its products, but poor sales of its Airflow model stifled innovation in design until the postwar "Forward Look" style, as seen in the Fury and the 300C model in the late 1950s. Represented through the 1970s and 80s by the "Pentastar" logo, its saw the U.S. Congress authorize a massive bailout in 1979, which it paid back, in part, through development of the K-Car and the first minivan. For ten points, name this car company which merged with Daimler-Benz in 1998.

Answer: Chrysler Group (take Daimler-Chrysler, but then stare at them grudgingly.)

14. Focusing on an employee of Product Testing, Inc, the first collection of strips from this comic were published in 1982 as Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon. Earning the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award for its creator in 1993, the strip took a new direction in February 2004 when the title character's longtime boyfriend Irving proposed marriage, nuptials which occurred on February 5, 2005. Examining the four guilt groups of work, food, mom, and love, for ten points, name this comic strip whose title is taken from its creator's first name.

Answer: Cathy [Cathy Guisewite, BA, English, 1972]

15. Her daughter Margo was once married to Ken Howard, and currently follows in her footsteps working for Yahoo! News. Following her death from multiple myeloma in 2002, Dan Savage purchased her desk for his own use. Believed to be the reason that the urban legend of Halloween candy poisonings gained widespread credence, it is a credit/blame she shares with her twin sister, with whom she had a public reconciliation in 1964 after a professional falling out. For ten points, name this advice columnist, the doppelganger of "Dear Abby".

Answer: Ann Landers or Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer

16. An avowed fan of the Grateful Dead, her early career included clerking for Eighth Circuit Judge Pasco Bowman II and working as counsel for Senator Spencer Abraham on crime and immigration issues. Hired by MSNBC in 1996 as a legal correspondent, she was fired after she insulted disabled Vietnam veteran Bobby Muller on-air, but found work as a free-lance pundit and penned her first book 1998's High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton and served as an unpaid legal advisor to Paula Jones. For ten points, name this conservative pundit, the author of the books Godless and Slander

Answer: Ann (Hart) Coulter [JD, 1988]

17. The 1975 Peanuts special celebrating this holiday is the last to feature original music from Vince Guaraldi. The rear of the Iowa state quarter is based on a Grant Wood painting celebrating this holiday at a one-room school house. Currently promoted by the mascot Carly Cardinal, it was established by Detroit native J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska City, Nebraska in 1872, in order to cultivate what was then known as "the Great American Desert." For ten points, name this holiday, celebrated annually on the last Friday in April with the planting of trees.

Answer: Arbor Day

18. Early in his career, he was the announcer for radio action shows like Ned Jordan, Secret Agent and The Green Hornet. In the early 1960s, he was the primary spokesman for Parliament cigarettes, but returned to news after his eldest son Peter died in a mountain climbing accident. Diagnosed with clinical depression after an accusation of libel and a subsequent lawsuit, he publicly discussed it for the first time in May 2006 on the show for which he serves as correspondent emeritus as well as with his son Chris on Fox News Channel. For ten points, name this television journalist, one of the original correspondents on CBS' 60 Minutes.

Answer: Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace [BA, 1939]

19. Fluent in seven languages, including Lakota, he was created by Len Wein, John Romita, Sr., and Herb Trimpe in 1974. Born James Howlett, the son of wealthy Albertans John and Elizabeth Howlett in the 19th century, and on this estate, he met Dog who became his greatest rival. In the 1960s, Canada's secret "Department K" captured him and made him the greatest success of the Weapon X project by infusing his skeleton with adamantium, including his retractable claws. For ten points, name this X-Man, played on screen by Hugh Jackman, bub.

Answer: Wolverine (prompt on Logan)

20. In 2006, she executive produced a documentary on the 1956 uprising in Hungary, a film which culminates in the "Blood in the Water" water polo match at the Melbourne Olympics. Having begun acting when she won the lead in Michigan's production of Alice in Wonderland her senior year, she landed a number of television guest roles, but had a break-out movie year in 2000 which saw her featured as Princess Pei Pei in Shanghai Noon and as Alex Munday in Charlie's Angels. Fry's robotic "Nappster" love interest on Futurama, for ten points, name this actress, best known for her roles as O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill and as Ling Woo on Ally McBeal.

Answer: Lucy Liu [BA, Chinese Language and Culture, 1989]

21. Its name comes from the title of the original song he performs in his 1955 debut. Voiced by Richard Beavers, Chuck Jones purportedly claimed it as his favorite creation. Buried in a time capsule in the cornerstone of a building in 1905, his discovery by a construction worker leads the gentleman to believe he has struck gold, since it seems to have an extensive knowledge of early 20th Century Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley, but will only perform when no one else is looking. For ten points, name this cartoon amphibian, pronounced dead by WB Chairman Garth Ancier during fall preview press conference.

Answer: Michigan J. Frog

*--The title of this packet is explained by the thread here



F.O..G.H.A.T. 2006: Packet #6, Space, bitches. Space.

Bonus

1. For 10 points each, name these NHL players, all of whom plied their collegiate trade at the University of Michigan.

(10) Backstopping the Wolverines to national titles in 1996 and 1998, this Dallas Stars' netminder was named to Team Canada in 2006, but did not see any action in Turin.

Answer: Marty Turco

(10) Currently Michigan's head coach, he was the first U.S. collegian to play in the NHL as well as being the only NHL player to score six goals in a game on the road. As an NHL coach, he won the Jack Adams Award in 1981 as coach of the St. Louis Blues.

Answer: Gordon "Red" Berenson

(10) Holder of the NCAA record for career short-handed goals, this Devils' alternate captain won the Selke Award as the NHL's best defensive forward in 2001, but is still better known for sharing his name with a Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders.

Answer: John Madden

2. For 10 points each, name these Academy Award-nominated films based upon books penned by Michigan alums.

(10) Based on Judith Guest's 1976 book, it tracks the downward spiral of an upper-middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois. Its 1980 Academy Award wins include Best Picture, Best Director for Robert Redford and Best Supporting Actor for Timothy Hutton.

Answer: Ordinary People

(10) In this 2002 film, Meryl Streep plays Susan Orlean, whose book The Orchid Thief is creating a difficult time for screenwriters Charlie and Donald Kauffman. Chris Cooper won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role as John Laroche.

Answer: Adaptation

(10) This 2004 animated film, starring the voice of the film's producer Tom Hanks, was nominated for three Emmys, two in the area of sound. It is based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1986 Caldecott Medal winning children's book.

Answer: The Polar Express

3. For 10 points each, name these people, all of whom can be seen on ESPN in one capacity or another.

(10) Formerly a regular anchor of the 6 PM SportsCenter, in March 2005, she was named as co-host of Cold Pizza.

Answer: Dana Jacobsen

(10) Known for his trademark cigar and fedora, this former editor of Ring Magazine co-hosts ESPN Classic's Classic Ringside with Brian Kenney.

Answer: Bert (Randolph) Sugar

(10) The former general manager of the New York Mets, he has been a regular on Baseball Tonight as well as serving as a fill-in for host Mike Golic on ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning.

Answer: Steve Phillips

4. For 10 points each, name these things related to the career of poet John Sinclair.

(10) Abbie Hoffman interrupted what band during their Woodstock performance of "See Me, Feel Me" to protest Sinclair's arrest and ten year jail sentence for selling two joints to an undercover narcotics officer, an interruption which saw Hoffman get bonked on the head.

Answer: The Who

(10) Two answers required: Sinclair's sentence was the focal point of the Free John Now Rally at Michigan's Crisler Arena in 1971, featuring what married duo who performed a song called "John Sinclair".

Answer: John Lennon and Yoko Ono

(10) Sinclair now records with a band called The Blues Scholars, who are named after a former backing band of this late New Orleans blues pianist born Henry Roland Byrd.

Answer: Professor Longhair

(Author's Note: The Free John Now Rally is the agreed upon origin's of Michigan's "Hash Bash" which celebrates Ann Arbor's five-dollar pot law. It is often not understood however that the Ann Arbor law does not extend to the campus, which is still subject to Michigan state laws with regard to controlled substances.)

5. For 10 points each, name these national chains, founded wholly, or in part, by former Michigan students.

(10) Founded in 1971 by namesake brothers Tom and Louis, their flagship store at East Liberty and Maynard in Ann Arbor, and is currently the second largest bookstore chain in the United States.

Answer: Borders Books Movies Music Café or Borders Group

(10) Founded in 1955 in Kansas City by namesake brothers Henry and Richard, they employ over 70,000 seasonal white-collar workers just four months a year. 1

Answer: H&R Block

(10) Founded in 1960 in Ypsilanti, Michigan by brothers Thomas and James Monaghan, advertising mascots for this company have included "Fudgeums", "Bad Andy" and "The Noid!"

Answer: Domino's Pizza

(1 clues in this bonus part were taken largely from the November 30, 2004 episode of Jeopardy!)

6. For 10 points each, name these NBA players who had plied their trade at the University of Michigan, none of whom were members of the "Fab Five".

(10) Lakers' coach for 41 games in 2004-05, this man won a pair of titles with the Houston Rockets, but is perhaps best known as a player as the victim of Kermit Washington's punch in 1977.

Answer: Rudy Tomjanovich

(10) Most Outstanding Player of the 1989 Final Four, he still holds the NCAA record for most points in a single tournament with 184. In the NBA, he won 1997 All-Star Game MVP honors and a title with the Lakers in 2000, as well as still being, for now, the all-time leading scorer in Miami Heat history.

Answer: Glen (Anthony) Rice

(10) His #33 was the first retired number in Michigan basketball history and Crisler Arena is also known as the house that he built. The first player taken in an NBA entry draft in 1966 by the New York Knicks, this swingman helped the Knicks to the 1970 NBA title.

Answer: Cazzie Russell

7. For 10 points each, name these works from regular character actor and "That Guy" Hall of Famer, David Paymer.

(10) Paymer played mobster Jonah Malloy, known for his catch phrase "And that's that with that!" in this critically acclaimed 2003-04 ABC series.

Answer: Line of Fire

(10) Paymer played Dan Enright, the producing partner of Christopher MacDonald's Jack Barry, in this 1994 Robert Redford film.

Answer: Quiz Show

(10) Paymer earned an Oscar nomination for playing Stan Yankleman, the long suffering brother of Buddy Young, Jr., the "comic's comic" in this 1992 film, star Billy Crystal's feature directorial debut.

Answer: Mr. Saturday Night

8. Name these things related to the last U.S. president to attend a state-supported public university, Gerald R. Ford.

(10) President Ford has always been very proud of this accomplishment, earned by 1.5 million young men who have earned at least 21 merit badges and having completed a service project.

Answer: Eagle Scout

(10) The name of Gerald Ford's Golden Retriever might be lost to history if not for Chevy Chase's repeated commands to a stuffed version of the dog on SNL.

Answer: Liberty

(5/5) For five points each, name any two of the stated causes of Gerald Ford's death listed by Dana Carvey's version of Tom Brokaw on a 1996 episode of Saturday Night Live.

Answer: shot

committed suicide by jumping out of an office building

overdose of crack cocaine

chopped into little bits by the propeller of a commuter plane

eaten by wolves (He was delicious.)

strangled to death by Richard Nixon's zombie corpse

mauled senselessly by a circus lion in a convenience store.

9. For 10 points each, name these things related to former Michigan Marching Band member Chip Davis.

(10) Davis is perhaps best known for co-founding with Jackson Berkey, what "18th century classical rock" group best known for their modern instrumental takes on Christmas music?

Answer: Mannheim Steamroller

(10) Before founding Steamroller, Davis was a country music lyricist who helped co-create the character of "C.W. McCall", best known for what 1975 novelty song about civil unrest among the nation's truckers.

Answer: "Convoy"

(10) One of Davis' other well-known collaborations is with Mason Williams in a remake of what 1968 instrumental piece?

Answer: "Classical Gas"

10. For 10 points each, name these physicians who went to the University of Michigan.

(10) OK, so we can blame Cornell for his MD, but this cardiologist, best known for his namesake nutritional approach wherein a person eats low-carb, high-fat and high-protein foods to lose weight, went to Michigan for his undergrad degree.

Answer: Dr. Robert (Coleman) Atkins

(10) Currently a board certified neurosurgeon and professor at Emory University, this Time columnist is better known as the senior medical correspondent for CNN.

Answer: Dr. Sanjay Gupta

(10) A jazz flutist featured on the album A Very Still Life, this pathologist is better known for his controversial "suicide machine", helping roughly 100 terminally ill people voluntarily euthanatize themselves.

Answer: Dr. Jack Kevorkian

11. For 10 points each, name these figures from Major League Baseball, the three players with the most MLB games played by Michigan alums.

(10) This Hall of Fame second baseman for the Detroit Tigers was known as "The Mechanical Man" because as Lefty Gomez said "You can wind him up in the spring and he'll hit .320 with 40 doubles."

Answer: Charlie Gehringer

(10) Purportedly George Will's favorite player, as a member of the St. Louis Browns in 1920, he set the single season record for hits with 257 hits, good for a .407 average and a mark that would stand until it was broken by Ichiro Suzuki in 2004.

Answer: George Sisler

(10) A native of Cincinnati, he replaced Dave Concepción as the Reds' shortstop in 1986 and was named the first Reds' captain since Concepción' in 1997. A 12-time All-Star, he was the National League MVP in 1995.

Answer: Barry (Louis) Larkin

12. The packet author's college roommate once said that this man lived the dream of every Wolverine English major, he won a Pulitzer and married Marilyn Monroe. For 10 points each, name these things about Arthur Miller.

(10) Miller won a Pulitzer and three Tony Awards for this 1948 drama about the travails of Willy Loman.

Answer: Death of a Salesman

(10) Based on a short story he had written, Miller penned the script for this 1961 John Huston vehicle for Monroe, which turned out to be her final screen appearance as well as that of Clark Gable.

Answer: The Misfits

(10) Miller's 1964 play After the Fall saw him reunite with this one-time friend, a two-time Academy Award winning director who was famously pressured into naming names during the HUAC hearings of the 1950s.

Answer: Elia Kazan

13. The University of Michigan vs. Children's Television Workshop. For 10 points each,

(10) Along with Susan, this man, a 1954 Michigan School of Music grad, has been the longest lasting human character on Sesame Street. We just need a first name.

Answer: Bob McGrath

(10) The executive producer and head writer of this 1987-1992 Children's Television Workshop series devoted to teaching children math, were both Michigan graduates, hence a larger than usual number of references to Michigan, including Mathman, a walking green head in a winged helmet.

Answer: Square One Television

(10) The closing segment of every episode of Square One was this police procedural parody about the crime solving efforts of Detectives Kate Monday and George Frankly.

Answer: Mathnet

(Author's Note: Seriously, it was like the elementary school version of Numb3ers. Oh, and in researching this packet, I learned that the voice of Cookie Monster went to Michigan.)

14. He didn't go to Michigan, but he's an integral part of the Ann Arbor experience. For ten points each, name these Bob Seger songs from lyrics and a clue.

(10) "Twenty years now, where'd they go? Twenty years, I don't know. Sit and I wonder sometimes, where they've gone." Dig deep in your advertising memories for this one, as it served as the theme for Chevy Truck commercials for nearly a decade from 1987-1996.

Answer: "Like a Rock"

(10) "Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my 60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues…" Bob's ode to teenage lust, a video made for the song in 1994 featured a just barely on Friends Matt LeBlanc.

Answer: "Night Moves"

(10) "No matter what you think you've done, you'll find it's not enough. No matter what you think you know, you won't get through. It's a given, L.A. law; someone's faster on the draw." Seger's only #1 hit was this song from 1987's Beverly Hills Cop II.

Answer: "Shakedown"

15. 30-20-10-5-1, name the Michigan alum from software he developed.

(30) 1984's Spitfire Ace, 1984's NATO Commander, 1984's Solo Flight, 1985's Kennedy Approach

(20) 1994's Colonization, 1987 and 2004 editions of Pirates.

(10) 1990's Railroad Tycoon, 1998's Railroad Tycoon II, 2003's Railroad Tycoon 3, and 2006's Railroads!

( 5) Civilization, Civilization II, Civilization III, Civilization IV.

( 1) Many of the aforementioned titles have been preceded by the possessive phrase Sid Meier's.

Answer: Sid Meier

16. For 10 points each, name these figures from the National Football League, all of whom played their college ball in the Big House.

(10) MVP of the 1993 Rose Bowl, he is the only Michigan running back to have a 1,000 yard season in the NFL with Oakland in 2000, but his 4,962 career yards are the most by any Wolverine running back in the NFL.

Answer: Tyrone Wheatley

(10) The immediate predecessor to Peyton Manning as Indianapolis' starting quarterback, his mantle of "Captain Comeback" was earned during the 1995 season when he took the Colts to the AFC title game.

Answer: (James Joseph) "Jim" Harbaugh

(10) A member of the Pro and College Football Halls of Fame, he spent 12 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals before becoming a broadcaster, first on Monday Night Football, now paired with Greg Gumbel on CBS.

Answer: Dan(iel Lee) Dierdorf

17. For 10 points each, name these films which make reference to Ann Arbor traditions.

(10) In this 2005 Joan Allen film, Denny Davies, a ballplayer turned radio DJ played by Kevin Costner sports a shirt for Ann Arbor's Mr. Stadium laundry.

Answer: The Upside of Anger

(10) This 1993 football movie starring James Caan as Coach Sam Winters has to be fiction, because one of the opposing teams, Michigan, has a Heisman candidate…at quarterback.

Answer: The Program

(10) Portions of this 2002 documentary about Motown's Funk Brothers were shot in Ann Arbor's Blind Pig bar.

Answer: Standing in the Shadows of Motown

18. We can forgive the fact that he played quarterback for UCLA, since, well, his dad was "Ol' 98", Tom Harmon, 1940 Heisman Trophy winner for Michigan. For 10 points each, name these things related to the TV career of Mark Harmon.

(10) Harmon can currently be seen starring as Special Agent Jethro Gibbs on this CBS show, which apparently old people love!2

Answer: NCIS or Naval Criminal Investigative Service

(10) From 1991 to 1993, Harmon played Det. Dicky Cobb, who was assigned to Assistant District Attorney Tess Kaufman because he was one of the few detectives who knew sign language, on this NBC series which co-starred Marlee Matlin.

Answer: Reasonable Doubts

(10) Name either of the long-running medical shows on which Harmon spent at least one season as a doctor, either a 1980s NBC series or a 1990s CBS series.

Answer: St. Elsewhere (as Dr. Robert Caldwell [1983-1986]) or

Chicago Hope (as Dr. Jack McNeil [1996-2000])

(2-Actually, the packet author does as well, but he's learned to stop admitting it.)

19. For 10 points each, name these colorfully related songs.

(10) A Pearl Jam concert staple, this B-side of the "Jeremy" single is named for a Chicago friend of Eddie Vedder and purportedly steals guitar riffs from both Hendrix's "Little Wing" and "May This Be Love"

Answer: "Yellow Ledbetter"

(10) Covered by Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton for the Two Weeks Notice soundtrack, this Joni Mitchell song claims that we "paved paradise to put up a parking lot."

Answer: "Big Yellow Taxi"

(10) The theme of Homer and Marge Simpson's prom, this 1974 title track of an Elton John album laments a country boy's move to the city and getting caught up in a hedonistic life there.

Answer: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

20. Name these things related to Michigan engineers.

(10) Named for its creator, a 1957 Michigan B-School alum, this stainless steel car is best known for its gull-wing door design and optional flux capacitor.

Answer: De Lorean DMC-12

(10) DeLorean's previous innovation was this Pontiac muscle car, nicknamed the Goat, and was recently re-launched as an American version of Australia's Holden Monero.

Answer: Pontiac GTO

(10) In addition to creating the iSight camera, Michigan Engineering alum Tony Fadell has been the "father" of all five generations of this product, often advertised with silhouetted figures.

Answer: iPod

21. Michigan has had an Olympian in every Games since 1900. Name some of the more prominent ones, for 10 points each.

(10) A six time gold medal winner in Athens, because of sponsorship deals, he does not currently swim for Michigan, but rather for Club Wolverine while serving as an assistant coach for the swim team.

Answer: Michael (Fred) Phelps (II)

(10) An Olympian at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, this African-American tennis player is better known for losing to Richard Krajicek in the 1996 Wimbledon finals as well as now serving as an analyst for ESPN.

Answer: MaliVai Washington

(10) Asthmatic, this swimmer captured the first American gold medal of the 1996 Atlanta games when he beat fellow Wolverine Erik Namesnik in the 400 m individual medley, earning him July 29, 1996 Sports Illustrated cover honors and would repeat in the event at the 2000 Games

Answer: Tom Dolan

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