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F.O.G.H.A.T. 2011: Observing a Moment of “Slowride”

Packet #10

Written by Jeremy White

Toss-ups

1. Florist Michael Grimm is a frequent guest on the TV series of this name, which had a recent episode featuring an auction winner eating lunch with Alec Baldwin and Mariska Hargitay. Edmond O’Brien won an Oscar playing the publicist who masterminds the film career of a Spanish dancer in the 1954 film by this name. The aforementioned TV series by this name is hosted by a woman who twice turned down Make-a-Wish Foundation requests from a terminally ill six-year-old boy, is married to a Yale professor named Jeffrey and demonstrates the preparation of beef bourguignon or other elaborate French dishes in its episodes. For ten points, give this common name of a 1954 film starring Ava Gardner and the Food Network series focusing on dinner parties thrown by Ina Garten.

Answer: The Barefoot Contessa

2. Confucius Told Me and Ya Gotta Be Fast were comedy LPs by this person who played a pool hall owner on the TV series Barefoot in the Park. The captain in the film Car 54, Where Are You? was played by this person who had played an officer in the original series. “What Would I Do If I Could Feel” and “Slide Some Oil to Me” are songs this person sang as the Tin Man in The Wiz. “The opposite of ‘pro’ is ‘con.’ This fact is clearly seen, but if ‘progress’ means move forward, then what does ‘Congress’ mean?” is an example of the work for which he is best known. For ten points, name this comic whose work on game shows like Match Game led to him being nicknamed “poet laureate of television.”

Answer: Julius “Nipsey” Russell

3. This nation’s team has won a record eight Olympic gold medals in men’s field hockey. Paul DiResta is a driver for the Formula One team with a name that includes this nation, which will host the 17th race of the 2011 Formula One season pending track approval. This is the only nation to have qualified for a FIFA World Cup yet never play a World Cup match because they dropped out in 1950, which according to FIFA’s website, was due to a ruling that the team could not play barefoot. This nation was the birthplace of a WWE heavyweight champion whose finishing moves include the brain chop and the vise grip, namely The Great Khali. For ten points, in 2011, what nation’s biggest recent sports story was winning by six wickets over nearby Sri Lanka in the finals of the 2011 Cricket World Cup?

Answer: Republic of India

4. The voice of a disembodied brain in The Man with Two Brains was provided by this person whose character announced plans to commit suicide in ‘night Mother. This person’s recent roles include Mattie Darrow, a widow once courted by the hermit who throws his own funeral in Get Low, and the mother of the title character in Hot Rod. The South Dakota girl who joins Kit Carruthers on a killing spree, a Kentucky woman whose “Honky Tonk Girl” earns a spot at the Grand Ole Opry and a girl who is doused in pig’s blood are among her best known roles. For ten points, name this actress who won an Oscar for Coal Miner’s Daughter and played the title character in Carrie.

Answer: Mary Elizabeth “Sissy” Spacek

5. This person sings “name of care, fast asleep in a room somewhere” on a song named “Frederick” in honor of her husband. In 2009, this person became Meg White’s mother-in-law. This person wrote a 2010 memoir in which she recalls tourists in Washington Square arguing if she and then boyfriend Robert Mapplethorpe were artists or “just kids.” Her most acclaimed album opens with the line “Jesus died for someone’s sins but not mine” and “She is benediction. She is addicted to thee” are the opening lines of her song “Dancing Barefoot.” For ten points, name this artist best known for the song she co-wrote with Bruce Springsteen, “Because the Night”, and the album Horses.

Answer: Patricia Lee “Patti” Smith

6. One member of this duo wrote a book published by Barefoot Books entitled Herb the Vegetarian Dragon and the other member wrote a TV movie starring Carl Weathers entitled The Bermuda Depths. In the works with which this duo is most associated, Buddy Hackett narrated a story about the Cossack king Kubla Kraus, Ethel Merman portrayed the ringmaster of a circus and Harold Peary voiced a whale named Big Ben. In another production by this duo, a compromise between the Heat and Snow Misers helps prevent The Year Without Santa Claus. For ten points, name this duo that produced several stop-motion-animated holiday specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Answer: Rankin/Bass Productions or Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass

7. The Center of Two Worlds is the sub-title of the Leigh Montville-penned biography of this person who, in various 1989 news articles, was credited with popularizing the phrase “my bad” during Golden State Warriors practices. In 2002, this person signed a contract with the CHL’s Indianapolis Ice despite not knowing how to skate and defeated William “The Refrigerator” Perry on Fox’s Celebrity Boxing. This person is credited with having first taught Luol Deng basketball and is the only NBA player to finish their career with more blocked shots than points. For ten points, a seven-foot-six-and-three-quarter-inch barefoot height was key to the formidable shot blocking skills of what late Sudanese center?

Answer: Manute Bol

8. “The Saga of Sponge Bob Vegas Pants” is one of five segments in Dancing Barefoot, a book by this person whose longest running TV character resigned to follow a spiritual leader called The Traveler. This person played the son of Jerry Orbach’s Mafia boss character in Toy Soldiers and played a hacker named Chaos during an appearance on Leverage. This person won a “Mystic Warriors of Ka’ah” tournament and broke up Penny and Leonard during appearances on The Big Bang Theory. This person also played the young version of writer Gordie LaChance in Stand By Me. For ten points, name this actor best known for playing Ensign Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Answer: Richard William “Wil” Wheaton

9. In this game, the final boss is set free when The Mourning King attacks the Tree of Life. Early in this game, the title character loses a gold laden donkey named Farah. Bosses in this game guard the fertile lands, release traps like walls of corruption and have names like The Concubine, the Warrior and The Alchemist. Collecting light seeds in this game increases the powers of one non-playable character, a barefoot girl named Elika. For ten points, the Zoroastrian deity Ahriman is the final boss of what 2008 reboot of a game series that was previously rebooted with a game subtitled The Sands of Time.

Answer: Prince of Persia

10. This song’s title was inspired by co-writer Bill Dees’ comment when its singer asked if wife Claudette needed money. Its first verse ends with a riff played by future Barefoot Jerry guitarist Wayne Moss and the singer saying “Mercy.” A live version from the TV special A Black and White Night won a Grammy in 1991 after its inclusion in a film soundtrack. The bass solo “Intruder” precedes a cover of this song on Diver Down, an album by Van Halen. A sample of its original version was the subject of the Supreme Court case Campbell v Acuff-Rose Music. This song’s title is sung after the initially dismissive title character is “walking back to me.” For ten points, name this song in which the title character walking down the street is asked to talk awhile and give her smile to Roy Orbison.

Answer: “Oh, Pretty Woman”

11. Early in this film, a character claims KA-12 will initiate Day X. In one sequence, its title character walks barefoot along a narrow building ledge after going into an apartment to retrieve a terrier, a poisonous spider and a weapons-filled backpack. The title character breaks into St. Bartholomew’s chuch during a vice president’s funeral in order to shoot the Russian president and is pursued by Peabody and Winter, who are played by Chiwetel Ejiofor [pron. Chew-ee-tell Uh-gee-uh-for] and Liev Schreiber. For ten points, name this film in which Angelina Jolie plays a CIA agent who may be a Russian spy.

Answer: Salt

12. A character on this series admitted to having wanted to marry Gina Lollobrigida as a child while drinking in a bar during a performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Another character on this series carved a cell phone out of soap, was pictured on a van under the sentence “Let me make your dreams come true” and sent boyfriend Dylan outside barefoot while babysitting. Another character on this series danced in a flash mob to “Free Your Mind” and admitted to intentionally using Cam’s surname as a middle name on Lily’s adoption papers. For ten points, name this ABC sitcom for which Sofia Vergara won an Emmy playing the mother of Manny and the wife of a character played by Ed O’Neill.

Answer: Modern Family

13. The losing team in this game only managed scores on an eight-yard pass to Tony Krepfle and a thirty-yard field goal by barefoot kicker Tony Franklin and saw star running back Wilbert Montgomery held to 44 yards rushing. A pending anti-trust lawsuit caused some to incorrectly speculate that Pete Rozelle would refuse to present the Lombardi Trophy if the AFC team won this game. An 80-yard pass to running back Kenny King was a highlight for the winners while a lowlight for the losers was the three interceptions thrown by Ron Jaworski. For ten points, name this game in which Jim Plunkett led the Oakland Raiders to a championship with a 27 to 10 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.

Answer: Super Bowl XV or accept the Super Bowl played in January, 1981

14. A supermodel named Uvula was kidnapped in the short story this author wrote for the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and this person’s first novel involves Las Noches de Diciembre’s plot to kidnap a beauty queen. A barefoot boy known as Mullet Fingers vandalizes the construction site for a pancake restaurant in this author’s work that was named a Newberry Honor book. Road Stain Jesus becomes a tourist attraction in another novel by this person, whose non-fiction works include Team Rat: How Disney Devours the World and Kick Ass, a collection of his Miami Herald columns. For ten points, name this author of Hoot, Sick Puppy and Strip Tease.

Answer: Carl Hiassen

15. This person mentions “itsy bitsy diamond wells” in “Inaudible Melodies” right after singing his debut album’s title. This person sings “Watch you when you take your aim at the sum of everything” in his highest charting hit before noting the titular entities “shouldn’t feel so far apart.” In an SNL skit, this person promoted footwear that allowed one to simulate going barefoot and this person was barefoot in the video for “Upside Down,” one of the songs he recorded for the soundtrack to the film Curious George. For ten points, the album Sleep Through the Static and the songs “Bubble Toes” and “You and Your Heart” are all releases from what Brushfire Records founder and Hawaiian singer?

Answer: Jack Hody Johnson

16. In Dean Koontz’s novel The Darkest Evening of the Year, detective Vernon Lesley visits this location using the alias Von Longwood. One area of this location features a tractor and a TV showing Boy in Court and is used for punishment. Its Lerappa Island was the site of an American Apparel store and The Maldives and Sweden are among nations to open embassies on its Diplomacy Island. On The Office, Dwight Shrute created a business in this location for people wanting to be even further removed from the real world. For ten points, name this virtual reality environment created by Linden Labs, which was parodied in a Darren Barefoot-created site called Get a First Life.

Answer: Second Life

17. On August 25, 2009, this person’s most recent album was publicized by setting a Guinness-certified world record for the most interviews given by one person in 24 hours. The aforementioned album, Big Dreams and High Hopes, featured a country hit in which this person sings “My heart’s skipping like a rock across that water. Don’t ever want to stop going barefoot and crazy.” Another album by this person featured country hits like a cover of Hinder’s “Lips Like an Angel” and “Maybe She’ll Get Lonely.” For ten points, name this singer who had a number one country hit with “Wherever You Are.”

Answer: Jack Ingram

18. Carlos Knox holds this college basketball team’s game, season and career records for points. A Matt Crenshaw buzzer-beater in the finals of the 2003 Mid-Continent Conference tournament led to their first NCAA tourney appearance. In 2008, this school had its first-ever first-round NBA draft pick when the Spurs selected George Hill. This team’s coach, Ron Hunter, annually coaches a game barefoot to raise money for charity. In 1998, this team moved to D1 and changed their name from the Metros to the Jaguars. For ten points, name this Summit League school whose key rival in Fort Wayne is also a campus at which students can earn degrees from two different Big Ten schools in the Hoosier State.

Answer: IUPUI or Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

19. In 2007, this list was presented in the Macon City Auditorium and The Onion’s AV Club said its items lined up with the symptoms of clinical depression. Jay-Z’s Decoded and Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening are the most recent books to make this list. In 2008, this list was presented “with a twist” due to the poor economy and in 2009 it was skipped altogether. In 2005, it was presented to Hurricane Katrina volunteers and in 2006, it was replaced with one thousand dollars, a camcorder and instructions to film good deeds. Barefoot Dreams robes, Garrett Popcorn tins and lululemon relaxed fit pants have all seen sales spikes from, for ten points, being included on what list of objects usually presented near Thanksgiving by a Chicago-based talk show host?

Answer: Oprah’s Favorite Things

20. This person’s first feature film role was as Socrates’ son Lamprocles in Barefoot in Athens and he played Shondor, a Jewish mobster in a recent film. In “Hackensack”, Fountains of Wayne sing about seeing a woman on TV talking to this person. This person played a character who sought revenge on a Colombian dictator who killed a Vietnam War buddy in McBain and in another film, memorably discussed hiding an uncomfortable hunk of metal for a Vietnam War buddy. This person flew around the lobby of the Los Angeles Marriott in a music video and played the father of a con man in Catch Me If You Can. For ten points, name this actor who played would-be Silicon Valley destroyer Max Zorin in A View to a Kill and won an Oscar for playing a Russian Roulette enthusiast in The Deer Hunter.

Answer: Christopher Walken or Ronald “Ronnie” Walken

21. Cesar Puello, Wilmer Flores and Jenrry Mejia are this team’s top three prospects according to Baseball America and their 2010 Organizational Player of the Year, Lucas Duda, replaced one of their injured stars early in 2011. In 1985, this team’s top prospect pitched with one bare foot and one hiking boot and threw 168 miles per hour according to an April Fool’s Day joke published in Sports Illustrated. In 2011, this team’s owner was trying to sell part of team since he was a plaintiff in the Bernie Madoff case and Terry Collins replaced Jerry Manuel as their manager. For ten points, what National League team has a roster with Johan Santana and Jose Reyes and has a first base coach, Mookie Wilson, who hit a ball that went between Bill Buckner’s legs when they won the World Series in 1986?

Answer: New York Mets prompt on New York

22. This album’s last track describes a woman who is pretty nice but changes from day to day while another track describes a woman in jackboots and kilt. Booker T & the MGs covered most of this album on an LP entitled McLemore Avenue. The Autostadt Museum in Wolfsburg, Germany displays the white Volkwagen Beetle on its cover, which had a license plate reading “28 IF”, which along with the fact that someone on its cover was barefoot, was supposedly a sign that the composer of its track “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” was dead. Most of its second side is dedicated to a medley that ends with the declaration “The love you make is equal to the love you make.” For ten points, “Come Together” and “Something” open what Beatles’ album named for the street outside a London recording studio?

Answer: Abbey Road

Bonus

1. Answer these questions about music mentioning hoodrats for ten points each.

(10) Kanye West confesses to being “addicted to them hoodrats” in this song in which West offers a “toast for the scumbags” and advises someone to do the title action “as fast as you can.”

Answer: “Runaway”

(10) “I ain’t ever been with your little hoodrat friend” according to a song on this band’s second album Separation Sunday. More recent songs gave advice to “Hurricane J” and predicted a “Constructive Summer.”

Answer: The Hold Steady

(10) “Even when she’s pregnant, she still likes to skeez” according to “Hoodrat,” a song by the rap group named the “Most Wanted” of this place that is also notable as the place from which NWA were “Straight Outta.”

Answer: Compton

2. Name these Ford drivers from information about their experience in the 2011 Daytona 500.

(10) In one of the biggest ever NASCAR upsets, the Wood Brothers’ team won the Daytona 500 for the first time since 1976 with this 20-year-old driver behind the wheel.

Answer: Trevor Bayne

(10) Bayne took the lead when this Roush driver, who won the Driver X reality show in 2005, was black flagged for changing lanes before reaching the start line on the final re-start.

Answer: David Ragan

(10) This 2003 Winston Cup champ had Kenny Wallace standing by to drive at Daytona in case his pregnant wife went into labor. He won a rain-shortened Daytona 500 in 2009.

Answer: Matthew Roy “Matt” Kenseth

3. Answer these questions about cinematic explorations of male pregnancy for ten points each.

(10) Billy Crystal played a man who gets pregnant after a one-night stand in Rabbit Test, a film directed by this woman who was called “A Piece of Work” in a 2010 documentary and beat out Jesse James and her daughter Melissa to win Celebrity Apprentice in 2009.

Answer: Joan Rivers or accept Joan Alexandra Molinsky or Rosenberg

(10) Arnold Schwarzenegger played a male gynecologist who becomes pregnant in a fertility drug experiment gone wrong in what film also starring Emma Thompson and Danny DeVito?

Answer: Junior

(10) A scene in this film features a group of Judean revolutionaries agreeing to demand the Romans recognize the right of Stan to have a baby. Stan is played by Eric Idle.

Answer: Monty Python’s Life of Brian

4. Answer these questions about Quinn Fabray for ten points each.

(10) Quinn is a cheerleader who was pregnant in the first season and trying to strengthen chances of being homecoming queen by dating Finn in the second season of what Fox series?

Answer: Glee

(10) The father of Quinn’s baby was not Finn, but what other football player who has spent the second season wooing wrestling champion Lauren Zizes?

Answer: “Puck” or Noah and/or Puckerman

(10) Quinn’s daughter Beth was adopted by Shelby Corcoran, the coach of what rival glee club whose star vocalist is Jesse St. James?

Answer: Vocal Adrenaline

5. Answer these questions about beverage brands for ten points each.

(10) Having an antioxidant potency index of 100 and easing nausea in pregnant women are benefits listed on the website of this juice brand that is the title sponsor of a Morgan Spurlock film.

Answer: POM Wonderful

(10) In 2010, this brand launched its new “G Series” featuring “Prime” to be consumed for an energy boost before a sporting event and “Recover” to be consumed after a sporting event.

Answer: Gatorade Prompt on G

(10) In 2011, Kraft launched this new “Liquid Water Enhancer” brand, which is a zero-calorie color and flavor concentrate solution sold in teardrop shaped bottles.

Answer: MiO

6. For ten points each, answer these questions about the 2011 men’s basketball team at a university.

(10) A Sweet 16 loss to Florida ended the NCAA tournament run for this team that was the regular season Mountain West champion, but fell to San Diego State in the conference tournament.

Answer: BYU or Brigham Young University Cougars

(10) BYU’s leading scorer in the 2011 season was this guard who won the Wooden and Naismith Awards and broke most of the school’s scoring records that had been held by Danny Ainge.

Answer: James Taft “Jimmer” Fredette

(10) A pregnant girlfriend was reportedly what led to this BYU sophomore forward being suspended for honor code violations.

Answer: Brandon Davies

7. Answer these questions about the rap stylings of Bret Mackenzie for ten points each.

(10) Mckenzie raps that “Eminem is not very good” in a song that this title duo of an HBO series performed in a library in front of their fan Mel and their manager Murray.

Answer: Flight of the Conchords

(10) “My rhymes are so potent that in this small segment I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant” is a line from a Flight of the Conchords song in which Jemaine raps as the Hip-hop-apotamus and Bret uses what other pachyderm-inspired pseudonym?

Answer: The Rhyme-noceras

(10) In “Hurt Feelings”, Bret raps that friends once ditched him to see this film depicting a romance between a hotel employee played by Jennifer Lopez and a politician played by Ralph Fiennes.

Answer: Maid in Manhattan

8. Answer these questions about movies featuring an ordinary person deciding to become a superhero.

(10) In this 2010 film, Aaron Johnson is a teen who becomes the titular superhero and helps Big Daddy and Hit Girl fight a drug dealer whose son is played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Answer: Kick-Ass

(10) In this 2011 film with a similar premise, Rainn Wilson plays a man who goes after a drug dealer played by Kevin Bacon by beating criminals with a pipe wrench as The Crimson Bolt.

Answer: Super

(10) In Super, this actress plays the comic book store employee who becomes The Crimson Bolt’s sidekick, Boltie. In another film, Wilson played the convenience store clerk who sold this actress’ character a pregnancy test.

Answer: Ellen Phillpots Page

9. Answer these questions about songs in which female vocalists equate violence with romantic pleasure for ten points each.

(10) Who sang “I like the way it hurts” as the hook girl of Eminem’s domestic violence song “Love the Way You Lie” and sang “pain is my pleasure” on her own “S&M.”

Answer: Rihanna or Robyn Rihanna Fenty

(10) This singer’s first single contended “a kiss with a fist is better than none.” She replaced a pregnant Dido in performing “If I Rise” at the Oscars and performed her second single, “Dog Days Are Over” at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.

Answer: Florence and the Machine or Florence Welch

(10) A Goffin and King song entitled “He Hit Me and it Felt Like a Kiss” was a Phil Spector-produced single by this girl group whose other hits included “He’s a Rebel” and “Da Doo Ron Ron.”

Answer: The Crystals

10. For ten points each, answer these questions about an actress and fashion designers.

(10) On past Oscar red carpets, this actress wore items from the collection of shoes for vegans she designed with Te Casan. In 2011, she was escorted on the red carpet by Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied.

Answer: Natalie Portman or Natalie Hershlag

(10) At the 2011 Oscars, a pregnant Portman wore designed by this Pasadena-based fashion brand founded by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy.

Answer: Rodarte

(10) Portman has been a spokesperson for Christian Dior and indicated she was “shocked and disgusted” by this Dior head designer’s “I love Hitler” comment.

Answer: John Galliano or Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano-Guillen

11. Answer these questions about a player in the NHL for ten points each.

(10) This Vancouver Canuck won the Art Ross Trophy in 2011, a year after his twin brother Henrik did the same.

Answer: Daniel Sedin

(10) After missing time to be with his pregnant wife, Sedin returned to score two goals in a March 23, 2011 game against this team, who played without injured players Chris Osgood and Pavel Datsyuk?

Answer: Detroit and/or Red Wings

(10) Daniel and Henrik Sedin were key members of what nation’s gold medal winning hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin?

Answer: Sweden

12. For ten points each, answer these questions about parasitic life forms in video games.

(10) Tracy Jordan likes this game so much, he wants to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant. Villains in this first game of a Microsoft-published series include parasitic aliens known as The Flood and a fighting force known as The Covenant.

Answer: Halo: Combat Evolved

(10) This sub-titular villain of Resident Evil 3 was created by The Umbrella Corporation by infecting the Tyrant bio-weapon with a parasitic organism.

Answer: Nemesis

(10) In this sequel released in 1993, the player takes the role of Rick, who saves son David from the Evil One and wife Jennifer from being eaten inside out by a parasitic bore worm while destroying the Terror Mask.

Answer: Splatterhouse 3

13. For ten points each, answer these questions about a singer and songwriter.

(10) What artist had a number one hit with “Diana” as a teen idol, wrote the song “My Way” and co-wrote the theme to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson?

Answer: Paul Albert Anka

(10) Anka’s last number one single as a performer was this song featuring Odia Coates in which a pregnant woman is told the title activity is a “lovely way of saying how much you love me.”

Answer: “(You’re) Having My Baby”

(10) Originally entitled “I Never Heard”, Anka and Michael Jackson co-wrote this ballad that became the title of a 2009 Jackson concert film.

Answer: “This is It”

14. For ten points each, answer these questions about TV doctors taking a trip abroad.

(10) A former UCLA chief of surgery played by Martin Henderson runs a clinic in a remote South African village on what new ABC series?

Answer: Off the Map

(10) While actress Jessica Capshaw was pregnant, this series’ character Dr. Arizona Robbins went to Malawi on a grant. Robbins is now engaged to another of this series’ characters, Callie Torres.

Answser: Grey’s Anatomy

(10) What character on House has taken leave for a trip to Thailand and spent six months in prison for euthanizing a brother with Huntington’s disease?

Answer: Thirteen or Dr. Remy Hadley

15. For ten points each, answer these questions about stage shows in which tigers are somehow involved.

(10) Fueled by tiger blood, this person embarked on his twenty-city “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour in 2011 with his two “goddesses” in tow.

Answer: Charlie Sheen or accept Carlos Irwin Estevez

(10) In 2011, this actor made his Broadway acting debut as the title character of Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo. His previous stage work includes co-hosting Comic Relief and the HBO comedy special Weapons of Self Destruction.

Answer: Robin McLaurin Williams

(10) “The Lady or the Tiger” is the basis of one act of this musical by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. A memorable scene in another act has Adam asking a pregnant Eve about her sudden weight gain.

Answer: The Apple Tree

16. For ten points each, answer these questions about instances of a woman coaching while pregnant.

(10) Brenda Frese coached this school’s women’s basketball championship team while pregnant with twins in 2008, two years after leading them to a national championship. The men’s team at this school won a national championship in 2002 with a team featuring Juan Dixon.

Answer: University of Maryland College Park

(10) This woman led the Tennessee Lady Vols to an SEC women’s basketball championship in 1990 while pregnant with son Ross, who is currently on the Tennessee men’s team.

Answer: Patricia Sue “Pat” Summit or Patricia Sue “Pat” Head

(10) This defender, who was captain of the 2008 US Women’s soccer team, was three months pregnant when as player-coach, she led Sky Blue FC to the first Women’s Professional Soccer League championship.

Answer: Christie Patricia Rampone or Christie Patricia Pearce

17. Answer these questions about an actresses’ work in black-and-white films for ten points each.

(10) What actress gave an Oscar-winning performance as the alcoholic wife of real-life husband Richard Burton’s character in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Answer: Elizabeth Rosemond “Liz” Taylor

(10) Taylor played the daughter of Spencer’s Tracy’s title character in this comedy later re-made with Kimberly Williams and Steve Martin in the equivalent roles.

Answer: Father of the Bride or Father’s Little Dividend

(10) Montgomery Clift’s character drowns a pregnant girlfriend in a lake to be with Elizabeth Taylor’s character in this film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.

Answer: A Place in the Sun

18. For ten points each, name the film given a quote from it spoken by a Sandra Bullock character.

(10) “I should probably tell you that I'm taking the bus because I had my driver's license revoked.”

Answer: Speed

(10) “Michael, I want you to have a good time but if you get a girl pregnant out of wedlock, I will crawl into the car, drive up to Oxford and cut off your penis.”

Answer: The Blind Side

(10) “So you drink unsweetened cinnamon light soy lattes?”

Answer: The Proposal

19. For ten points each, answer these questions about songs by T.I.

(10) This number one hit about lavishing gifts on a woman prompted “Weird Al” Yankovic’s parody of it in which “Stacks on deck, Patron on Ice” is replaced with “Tater tots, cold duck on ice.”

Answer: “Whatever You Like”

(10) A nine-months-pregnant M.I.A. participated in a Grammy performance of this collaboration of T.I., Kanye West and Jay-Z that takes its title from a sample of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes.”

Answer: “Swagga Like Us”

(10) T.I.’s “Got Your Back” features this R&B singer who was also featured on Timbaland’s “The Way I Are.”

Answer: Keri Lynn Hilson

20. Answer these questions related to a television series for ten points each.

(10) Ben Rappaport plays Todd Dempsey, a manager at a Kansas City novelties company who moves to India to run a call center in what current NBC sitcom created by Ken Kwapis?

Answer: Outsourced

(10) Todd’s friend Charlie works at a call center for American Hunter and is played by what actor who played a helpful neighbor in Office Space and Oswald on The Drew Carey Show?

Answer: Karl Diedrich Bader

(10) The manager of Koala Airlines’ call center is played by Pippa Black, who earlier played Elle Robinson, a woman who faked a terminal illness to stop a boyfriend from re-uniting with a pregnant ex, on what Australian soap opera that has also starred Kylie Minogue?

Answer: Neighbours

21. For ten points each, answer these questions about games involving agriculture.

(10) The most played game on Facebook is this Zynga rip-off of Farm Town that recently expanded to the English Countryside.

Answer: Farmville

(10) In this 1998 SNES game, which has been followed by sequels like “Friends of Mineral Town”, the player can marry one of five women—and even get her pregnant—if successful enough in farming tasks like building fences, watering crops and milking cows.

Answer: Harvest Moon

(10) Sim Farm, like Sim City and The Sims, was a game released by this game development company that was created in 1987 by Will Wright.

Answer: Maxis Software

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