F. O. G. H. A. T. 2009: The Ninth Tournament Should Be Double Live



Download 73.12 Kb.
Date31.07.2017
Size73.12 Kb.
#25329
F.O.G.H.A.T. 2009: The Ninth Tournament Should Be Double Live

Packet #10

Written by Jeremy White

Based on a theme by Jeremy White


Toss-ups
1. A gorilla performed this song in a 2007 English Cadbury Dairy Milk ad and Lil Kim’s version of it is featured on the tribute album Urban Renewal. Hugh Padgham discovered the gated reverb effect used in its most famous section while recording Peter Gabriel’s “Intruder.” In films, this song was used as a recurring motif in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie and it has accompanied both a Risky Business sex scene and a Mike Tyson air drum solo. Eminem’s “Stan” references the urban legend that the drowning described in its lyrics actually happened. For ten points, the album Face Value opens with this song that includes a famous drum break and describes something that Phil Collins can feel coming.

Answer: In the Air Tonight


2. This company developed a 1993 Super NES game in which Loudmouth Larry’s announcements and a classic rock soundtrack accompanied on-track action and this company developed another Super NES game about the exploits of Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout. Both Rock n Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings were published under their original name, Silicone and Synapse. ArenaNet, the creators of Guild Wars, was founded by several former employees of this company. The sequel to one of its games featured playable characters like The Amazon and The Necromancer and the ability to transmute objects with the Horadic Cube. This company’s most famous offering has been expanded with “Cataclysm”, “The Burning Crusade” and “The Wrath of the Litch King.” For ten points, name this developer of Star Craft, Diablo and World of Warcraft.

Answer: Blizzard Entertainment Accept Silicone and Synapse before it is read


3. In September, 1999, this player’s 99-yard completion to Vinny Sutherland set an NCAA record, and in 1998, this player led an eighty-yard drive to upset number four ranked Kansas State in the Alamo Bowl. In January, 2007, this player threw an interception to Nathan Vasher during the NFC Championship Game and in November, 2003, this person’s poor play against the Bears led to Doug Flutie taking over as starter. In the 2004 season, this player won Comeback Player of the Year even though Phillip Rivers had been expected to take his starting job. For ten points, name this person who in 2009 became only the second NFL player to throw for 5,000 yards in a season while playing quarterback for the New Orleans Saints.

Answer: Drew Brees


4. Max Lugavere and Jason Silva host this network’s late night program, Still Up. Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox host the film review program, The Rotten Tomatoes Show on this network and it also airs the partially animated comedy program, Super News. Underground rapper MURS has introduced documentaries as a host on this network. In 2009, near the Tumen River, two employees of this network, editor Euna Lee and reporter Laura Ling, were arrested and subsequently released from North Korea following a high-profile visit by Bill Clinton. For ten points, name this news network founded by Al Gore that devotes some of its time to viewer-generated content.

Answer: Current TV


5. This person wrote a blog supposedly by a Belarusian administrative assistant entitled “Red Secretary,” wrote about a past job in the book Candy Girl and writes “Binge Thinking” for Entertainment Weekly. This person bought a dress from Donna Martin during a 90210 cameo and created a television series in which characters Gimme, Buck, Alice and T are all played by the same person. One filmed screenplay by this person has “Needy” Lesnicky trying to stop a killing spree by the title character and was promoted via the tagline, “She’s evil, not just high school evil.” Another of this person’s filmed screenplays features the title character saying lines like “I’m forshizz up the spout”, “they call me the cautionary whale” and “Paulie Bleeker is totally boss.” For ten points, name this former stripper and screenwriter of Jennifer’s Body and Juno.

Answer: Diablo Cody

6. In 2007, Christopher Gay stole this person’s tour bus. This artist has two children with husband Bill Gatzimos and once told Regis Philbin that her most famous physical attribute was like having another child. Her debut single “I’ve Cried the Blues Right Out of My Eyes” hit the country charts in 1970 and was written by a sister who is sixteen years her senior. This artist’s last two country number ones came in 1986 with a cover of Johnny Ray’s “Cry” and “Straight to the Heart” and she had a big hit with the Eddie Rabbitt duet “You and I.” For ten points, name this younger sister of Loretta Lynn with floor-length hair whose best known songs were the cross-over hits “Talking in Your Sleep” and “Don’t it Make Your Brown Eyes Blue.”

Answer: Crystal Gayle or Brenda Gail Webb


7. Year and event required. Doron Sheffer was selected in its second round, but chose to sign with Maccabi Tel Aviv instead. Drew Barry was its penultimate selection and Chucky Atkins and Ben Wallace are among current pro players not selected during this event. Vlade Divac was traded for the rights to its final lottery pick, a Lower Merion High School student. The Toronto Raptors won the lottery for its top pick, but their expansion agreement forced them to settle for the second pick, with which they selected Marcus Camby. Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Jermaine O’Neal and Steve Nash were non-lottery picks among its record ten future All-Stars. For ten points, Ray Allen and Kobe Bryant were selected in what draft in which Allen Iverson was the number one pick.

Answer: 1996 NBA Draft


8. Name’s the same. Hot or Not, Hit Parade, Memory Lane and Dead or Alive are the categories in the trivia board game of this name. A short story by this title describes the death of the son of James Bond and Kissy Suzuki. A British woman is pursued by a former flame who became the American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in a novel of this title by Ben Elton. In another novel of this title, a visit from Abbie Hoffman sets Kinky Friedman on the path to becoming a detective. Some attribute this phrase’s creation to The Geator, a 1960s DJ who used it to describe oldies records. For ten points, a thirty-five-year-old emerging from a bomb shelter was played by Brendan Fraser in the movie named for this common phrase that can describe anything provoking reminiscence.

Answer: Blast from the Past


9. Classmates of this series’ title characters have included Mitch Mitchelson, who flushed Twiggy, the class hamster, down a toilet; Mike, whose imaginary friend is named Patches; and Ace, Grubber and Snake of the Gangreen Gang. This series’ title characters were once advised to kiss Butch, Boomer and Brick by Sara Bellum. A woman named Ima Goodlady once grounded the title characters and took away Octi, but was later revealed to be Sedusa. The title characters of this series are taught by Pokey Oaks teacher Ms. Keane and frequently assist the mayor of Townesville. For ten points, Professor Utonium created Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles, the kindergarten-aged superheroes who were the title characters of what former Cartoon Network series?

Answer: The Powerpuff Girls


10. In a 2001 film, this actor played Gabe Law, an LA County Sherrif’s Department employee being attacked by an alternate universe version of himself. In 2008 films, this actor played both a character who gives an unrequested golden shower to a scholar named Lu Yan and the latest villain to bedevil Rick and Evy O’Connell. After several appearances as Wong Fei Hung, this actor played a Triad member who quickly disassembled Riggs’ gun in Lethal Weapon 4. In a 1994 remake, this actor played Chen Zhen, a character who avenges the death of the same historical figure this actor portrayed in Fearless. For ten points, name this actor and star of martial arts films who played a former cop and escaped prisoner in Romeo Must Die and Nameless in Hero.

Answer: Jet Li or Li Lianjie


11. Trippin’ Balls and Peace Soldiers are some of the alter egos this band has assumed in order to open for their own concerts and their drummer Brian Rosenworcel frequently sings covers in encores. In 2007, this band headlined the Crocs Next Steps Campus Tour some sixteen years after they formed at Tufts. This band played “Satellite” during a Lido deck set on the Mayercraft Carrier 2 followed by a jam session led by their lead singer Ryan Miller and they later in 2009, this band announced plans to release their first album since Ganging Up on the Sun. For ten points, name this Boston based alternative band whose songs include “Amsterdam” and “Fa Fa.”

Answer: Guster

12. Patented by Charles Foley and Neil Rabens in 1966, Rachel insisted on playing this game in “The One with George Stephanopoulus” and it was the last of the four contests in which Bill and Ted bested Death. The original features a board with twenty-four spaces and a spinner with sixteen different outcomes with each of four different colors appearing in four different quadrants. This game became famous after it was played by Eva Gabor on The Tonight Show. In the comedy song “Alone Again”, Henry Phillips entertains a significant other’s sister in a naked game of this and “Weird Al” Yankovic refers to it as a “def one” in a Beastie Boys pastiche on Even Worse. For ten points, left hand red and right foot green are possible outcomes of a turn in this Hasbro game in which the object is not to touch the ground with any part of the body but the feet and hands.

Answer: Twister


13. In this film, the female lead throws a set of keys into water to buy time for husband John only to have them fetched by Ben, the family dog, who is later accidentally harpooned. This film was based on a Charles Williams novel of the same name that was also the basis of an abandoned Orson Welles film called The Deep. In this film, John and Rae Ingram respond to the death of their son in a car accident by taking a yacht cruise in the Pacific, but find more troubles when a cameraman flees a sinking ship and comes on board. For ten points, a couple played by Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman are attacked by a Billy Zane portrayed psycho in what 1989 thriller?

Answer: Dead Calm


14. This character sang an original composition called “Walking Down the Road” during a visit to Abbey Road Studios while dating a recording engineer. Claiming to be two stone overweight, this character considered liposuction prior to a visit by Penny Caspar-Morse, aka “The Stick”, but just wore a sweatshirt instead. June Whitfield played this character’s kleptomaniac mother and this character once fell into her father’s grave. Clients of this character included both Twiggy and Lulu. Even though the child was actually named Jane, this character insisted on using the name “Lola” to refer to the daughter of John Johnson and daughter Saffy. For ten points, name this best friend of Patsy who was played by Jennifer Saunders on Absolutely Fabulous.

Answer: Eddy or Edina or Edwina Margaret Rose Monsoon


15. In a June 29, 2007 game, this athlete both hit for the cycle against the Los Angeles Angels and reached the 1,000 career hit mark. This player has a tattoo of a guitar in honor of his father who was killed in 1981 trying to break up a domestic disturbance. A trade for Ben Zobrist led to his departure from Tampa Bay, the franchise he still leads in home runs and in 2009, a trade for Brett Jacobson led to his departure from the franchise whose city he described as “horseshit” in an interview with Bubba the Love Sponge. In 2008, this player led the American League in extra base hits and ended David Ortiz’s five year monopoly on the Edgar Martinez Award. For ten points, name this designated hitter who in 2009 was traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the Detroit Tigers.

Answer: Aubrey Lewis Huff


16. This character has images of the Guardian Force Griever on a pendant, a ring and a trademark weapon. In Kingdom Hearts, this character adopted a shorter name after failing to save Hollow Bastion and was voiced by David Boreanaz. This character mistakenly believed “Big Sis” Ellone abandoned him while growing up in Edea Kramer’s orphanage. He gets a facial scar from a training duel with rival Siefer Almasy at the Balamb Garden while training to be a SeeD and later falls in love with Rinoa Heartilly. For ten points, name this master of Renzokunen and the gunblade who is a playable character and the main protagonist of Final Fantasy Eight.

Answer: Squall and/or Leonhart Also accept Leon


17. A Vermont farm was the recording location for both this album’s 30-plus minute recording of frogs entitled “Marais La Nuit” and the “orchestra” of free Craigslist pianos featured on several of its tracks. “Someone made a fool of me ‘fore I could show ‘em how it’s done” is a lyric in its title track. Its artist kneels on a 1968 Mercury Cougar on its cover and it includes covers of Nilsson’s “Don’t Forget Me” and Sparks’ “Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth.” Its lead single references a “man, man, man eater” and a killer whale and its first track “This Tornado Loves You” references a similar meteorological phenomenon to the one in its title. For ten points, “People Got a Lotta Nerve” was the lead single from what 2009 album by Neko Case?

Answer: Middle Cyclone

18. In Freakonomics, a misunderstanding of this actress’s name was cited to Albany Judge Dennis Duggan as the reason for a fifteen-year-old juvenile offender’s unusual first name. This actress had a recurring role as the mother of a boy expelled for sexual harassment on The Practice and took over for Erica Hubbard as the voice of Riley’s best-friend Abbey on the Disney Channel series, The Replacements. This actress is best known for playing a character who was once engaged to a man named Dabnis Brickey, was friends with the babbling Kara and was once banished to the basement for a fight with little sister Rudy. The Fox Reality show Househusbands of Hollywood profiles this actress’ relationship with Daryl Bell, who is best known for playing Ron on A Different World. For ten points, name this actress who played Vanessa on The Cosby Show.

Answer: Tempestt Bledsoe


19. “My Dinner with” this person is a special feature on the unrated DVD of The 40 Year Virgin and this actress made a cameo on Dirt as a woman assisting in blackmailing a basketball star played by Rick Fox. This actress is the co-writer and star of Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre and roles like Princess Hubba Bubba helped this actress win the 2004 AVN Best New Starlet Award. In 2009, a car bomb destroyed a vehicle belonging to Brian Welch, an advisor on this person’s exploratory committee. For ten points, name this blonde porn star featured in films like Space Nuts who in 2009 was considering a run against David Vitter for a Louisiana Senate seat.

Answer: Stormy and/or Daniels or Stephanie Gregory Clifford


20. A defensive end for this team, Adewale Ojomo, suffered a broken jaw after being punched in the locker room by a walk-on following a pre-season practice. Jimmy Graham, who had played power forward for the men’s basketball team at the same school tried out for this team in 2009 as a tight end. Before their 24 to 17 loss to California in the Emerald Bowl in 2008, then quarterback Robert Marve was suspended and thus their current quarterback, Jacory Harris, started instead. For ten points, name this ACC college football team coached by Randy Shannon that is trying to regain the glory of their national championship following the 2001 season with a team featuring Jeremy Shockey, Clinton Portis and Ken Dorsey.

Answer: University of Miami Hurricanes


21. The Phil Spector box set Back to Mono claims this song borrowed “the title, the ambiance and even the rhythmic spirit” of a Spector-produced Gene Pitney single.  An ashtray morphs into a snare drum head at the beginning of this song’s video, for which Daniel Pearl won the first cinematography award from the MTV Video Music Awards. This song’s B-Side was “Murder By Numbers” and large portions of its verses and chorus were the basis of “I’ll Be Missing You”, Puff Daddy’s tribute to Notorious B.I.G. For ten points, vows broken, claims staked, games played and moves made are among the things Sting plans to watch in what number one hit for the Police?

Answer: Every Breath You Take


22. Fred Crane and George Reeves play a pair of twins in this film. The male lead in this film had been expelled from West Point and the female lead settles for sawmill owner Frank Kennedy after a dress made from drapes fails to land a rich suitor. In one of this film’s scenes, India views the female lead in an embrace that causes a minor scandal defused when the resultant gossip is refuted by Melanie Wilkes, played by Olivia DeHavilland. For ten points, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar for playing Mammy in this film that starred Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara.

Answer: Gone with the Wind

Bonus
1. For ten points each, answer these questions relating to Jules Shear.
(10) Shear conceived and hosted the first thirteen episodes of what MTV series that later spawned an Album-of–the-Year-Grammy-winning CD for Eric Clapton.

Answer: MTV Unplugged


(10) Shear wrote “All Through the Night”, which was a top five hit from this singer’s album She’s So Unusual.

Answer: Cindy Lauper


(10) Shear’s breakup with Aimee Mann inspired “J for Jules” a song by what “Voices Carry“ band?

Answer: ‘Til Tuesday


2. For ten points each, answer these questions about Shadow Lass.
(10) Shadow Lass, a Talokian with the ability to project darkness, was a member of this organization founded by Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl.

Answer: Legion of Superheroes


(10) Shadow Lass was once married to this fellow Legion of Superheroes member who hailed from the planet Daxam and who Superboy once mistook for a fellow Kryptonian.

Answer: Lar Gand or Mon El or Valor


(10) Shadow Lass re-emerged as a Legion of Superheroes member using the codename Umbra after the Legion re-formed following this five-issue 1994 series written by Dan Jurgens in which actions taken by Hal Jordan as Parallax led to a re-boot of the DC Universe.

Answer: Zero Hour


3. For ten points each, answer these questions relating to the film The Fall.
(10) The Fall is a 2008 film set in an early 20th Century California hospital that was directed by what person who also helmed The Cell and the video for R.E.M.’s video for “Losing My Religion”?

Answer: Tarsem and/or Singh


(10) One of the two main characters in The Fall is a stuntman played by Lee Pace, best known for playing the owner of the Pie Hole who has the power of resurrection in this former ABC television series.

Answer: Pushing Daisies


(10) The Fall used some footage from this 1992 Ron Fricke film shot on 70-millimeter Todd-AO, which is named for a word meaning blessing and depicts a wide range of striking images from sites around the world including Luxor, the Wailing Wall, Persepolis and Mecca.

Answer: Baraka


4. For ten points each, answer these questions about some famous chimes.
(10) In 1929, the notes G, E and C became a radio service mark that was still prominently being used by what television network in “Chime In” promos during the 2008 and 2009 season?

Answer: NBC or National Broadcasting Corporation


(10) One “Chime In” promo featured the principal cast members of this series – Lindsay Price, Kim Raver and Brooke Shields—touching their butts and singing “bum bum bum.”

Answer: Lipstick Jungle


(10) In this actor’s “Chime In” spot, he is dressed as his character Noah Bennet and makes the chime sounds by bouncing a rubber ball against the walls of a prison cell.

Answer: Jack Coleman


5. For ten points each, answer these questions about former Formula One and current NASCAR driver Scott Speed.
(10) In 2006, Scott Speed became the first American to compete in Formula One since the 1993 F1 stint of this person who took third in the 2006 Indinapolis 500 driving for the team he co-owns with Kim Green.

Answer: Michael Andretti prompt on Andretti or “M. Andretti”


(10) Speed currently drives for what NASCAR Sprint Cup racing team both owned by the same Austrian and named for the same brand as Speed’s former Formula One team, Scuderia Toro Rosso.

Answer: Red Bull Racing Team or Team Red Bull


(10) Speed’s teammate at Red Bull is this 2003 Busch Series champion whose gamble to not pit for fuel led to winning the Carfax 400 at Michigan International Speedway in 2009.

Answer: Brian Vickers


6. For ten points each, answer these questions about “Waiting in Vain.”
(10) “I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love” is a line oft repeated in the song “Waiting in Vain,” a 1977 single by what musical act?

Answer: Bob Marley and the Wailers


(10) “Waiting in Vain” was part of what studio album for Marley and the Wailers that also includes “Jamming” and a title track describing “movement of jah people.”

Answer: Exodus


(10) “Waiting in Vain” was a single from this artist’s covers album Medusa as was “No More ‘I Love You’s.”

Answer: Annie Lennox


7. For ten points each, answer these questions about NHL defenseman Aaron Ward.
(10) Although Ward started playing in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings, Ward was drafted in 1991 by what team that became the Phoenix Coyotes?

Answer: Winnipeg and/or Jets


(10) Ward’s biggest moment may have been scoring the first goal in the decisive Game 7 for this team that defeated the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup Finals in 2006.

Answer: Carolina and/or Hurricanes


(10) Although since traded back to Carolina, Ward played the 2008-2009 season with this team along with fellow defensemen Zdeno Chara and Dennis Wideman.

Answer: Boston and/or Bruins

8. For ten points each, answer these questions about everyone’s favorite asthma hound Chihuahua, Ren Hoek.

(10) On an early 1990s Nickelodeon animated series, Ren was a co-titile character with what not-so-intelligent Manx cat?

Answer: Stimpy or Stimpson J. Cat
(10) Ren was originally voiced by this Canadian animator who created The Ren & Stimpy Show but was later fired by Nickelodeon for including too much violence.

Answer: John Kricfalusi


(10) Ren got quite a shock during a visit by cousin Sven Hoek after deciding to urinate on what favorite board game of Stimpy’s?

Answer: Don’t Whiz on the Electric Fence


9. For ten points each, answer these questions about those appearing in The Big Chill.
(10) This actor plays Harold, the executive who, along with wife Sarah, played by Glenn Close, hosts the old friends gathered for the funeral of Alex and is later asked to impregnate Mary Kay Place’s character.

Answer: Kevin Kline


(10) This actor was cast to play the corpse of the recently deceased Alex in The Big Chill. His performance is arguably better than his work in Swing Vote and The Postman.

Answer: Kevin Costner


(10) The Beaufort, South Carolina house at which The Big Chill was filmed was also the main filming location for this 1979 film based on a Pat Conroy novel that explored the home life of a Marine played by Robert Duvall.

Answer: The Great Santini


10. For ten points each, answer these questions about the video game Resistance.
(10) Subtitled “Fall of Man”, Resistance is a first-person shooter that was the first million-selling game for what video game console?

Answer: Playstation 3 or PS3


(10) The main character in Resistance was this sergeant presumably named for a man who was hanged after the Battle of Long Island.

Answer: Nathan and/or Hale


(10) Resistance was developed by Insomniac Games, whose past hits include this 2002 PS2 game with two title characters who are a Lombax and a small robot.

Answer: Rachet and Clank


11. For ten points each, name these athletes that have won gold for their exploits on a half pipe.
(10) This snowboarder won the halfpipe gold at the Torino Winter Olympics in 2006 and won a fourth Winter X Games Superpipe medal in 2009. He also won the vert skateboarding gold at the 2007 X Games.

Answer: Shaun White


(10) This competitor holds the record for most career skateboarding medals at the X Games and won the first six X Games vert doubles gold medals while teamed with Tony Hawk.

Answer: Andy Macdonald


(10) In 2009, what Montreal native won a second consecutive gold medal in the skateboard vert competition?

Answer: Pierre Luc Gagnon


12. For ten points each, answer these questions about the FX series, The Shield.
(10) The Shield’s main character is Strike Team member Vic Mackey played by this actor who won an Emmy for the role in 2002.

Answer: Michael Chiklis


(10) This character played by Benito Martinez was the original chief of “The Barn” who has since successfully run for LA City Council.

Answer: David Acevada


(10) Seasons five and six of The Shield were focused on an internal affairs investigation led by Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh, played by this actor whose film roles include playing the titular hit man in Ghost Dog.

Answer: Forest Whitaker


13. For ten points each, name these baseball players who broke records once held by Pete Rose.
(10) Rose retired with the record for most post-season hits, a record that was broken in 2001 by what infielder who also holds the postseason record for most runs scored?

Answer: Derek Jeter


(10) Rose’s record for most postseason games played by a National Leaguer was broken by what third baseman and 1999 NL MVP who trails only Eddie Murray and Mickey Mantle for most home runs by a switch hitter.

Answer: Chipper Jones


(10) Although now held by Jimmy Rollins, Pete Rose’s single season plate appearances record was broken in 1993 by what then Philadelphia Phillie who was hailed as an investing genius by Jim Cramer prior to declaring bankruptcy in 2009?

Answer: Lenny Dykstra


14. For ten points each, name these artists responsible for songs about tunnels.
(10) Singles from this artist’s album Tunnel of Love album included the title track, “One Step Up” and “Brilliant Disguise.”

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


(10) “Neighborhood 1 (Tunnels)” opens Funeral, an album also featuring “Rebellion (Lies),” “Wake Up” and other songs by this Canadian alternative band.

Answer: Arcade Fire


(10) “Tunnel,” “Your Love, Oh Lord” and “Consuming Fire” are notable tracks for this Georgia-based Christian band that has charted top ten on the Billboard album chart with Wherever You Are and Revelation and gone platinum with their live disc Offerings: A Worship Album.

Answer: Third Day


15. For ten points each, answer these questions about 2009 films inspired by works from the small screen.
(10) Rick Marshall, a paleontologist who once attacked Matt Lauer, travels back in time with tour guide Will Stanton and teacher Holly Cantrell in this box office disappointment starring Will Ferrell.

Answer: Land of the Lost


(10) Based on a six-part BBC series of the same name, this film centers on a reporter and a blogger investigating the murder of Sonia Baker, a researcher for Congressman Stephen Collins.

Answer: State of Play


(10) Director Aviva Kempner released a 2009 documentary about Gertrude Berg, the star of this 1950s program about a New York City Jewish family that is generally considered the first sitcom and was adapted into the musical Molly.

Answer: The Goldbergs


16. For ten points each, answer these questions relating to the novel The Body Farm.
(10) The Body Farm along with Blow Fly and Postmortem is part of this author’s series about a medical examiner. This author also published Portrait of a Killer in 2002 asserting that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.

Answer: Patricia Cornwell


(10) This main character of Cornwell’s most popular series is the medical examiner who investigates Emily Steiner’s murder in The Body Farm and is the title character of Cornwell’s most recent novel.

Answer: Kay and/or Scarpetta


(10) This recurring character in Cornwell’s Scarpetta novels is Kay’s niece who has a lesbian affair, wrecks a Mercedes and does an internship with the FBI in The Body Farm and later becomes a millionaire developing Internet search engines.

Answer: Lucy and/or Farinelli


17. For ten points each, answer these questions about Breaker.
(10) Breaker is a bubble-gum-loving Moroccan communications officer played by Said Taghmoui in what 2009 film directed by Stephen Sommers?

Answer: G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra


(10) According to the 80s G. I. Joe toy line, Breaker was a communications officer hailing from Gatlinburg, a city just a few miles from Dollywood, in what state?

Answer: Tennessee


(10) In the Real American Hero animated series, one of Breaker’s best friends on the Joe team was this expert driver hailing from Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Answer: Clutch or accept Lance and/or Steinberg


18. For ten points each, answer these questions about media featuring apparently sentient bags.
(10) This television program features the title character and the monkey Boots frequently receiving impossibly large items from the inside of Backpack.

Answer: Dora the Explorer


(10) Talking paper bags discuss buying movie tickets in a series of commercials for what service?

Answer: Fandango


(10) Promoted with the tagline “Play, Create, Share”, this Media Molecule game allows users to customize and control a “Sackboy” or “Sackgirl.”

Answer: Little Big Planet


19. For ten points each, answer these questions relating to figures in music that don’t surf.
(10) “Charlie Don’t Surf” according to a song on what band’s 1980 triple-LP entitled Sandinista?

Answer: The Clash


(10) This musician cranked out songs like “The Ostrich” and “Johnny Won’t Surf No More” as staff songwriter for Pickwick before writing his own solo songs like “Satellite of Love” and “Walk on the Wild Side.”

Answer: Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed


(10) The irony has been frequently noted that the Beach Boys did not surf with the exception of this drummer who released the solo album Pacific Ocean Blue before drowning in the Pacific in 1983.

Answer: Dennis Carl Wilson (prompt on Wilson)


20. For ten points each, answer these questions about Debbie Rowe.
(10) Debbie Rowe was the second wife of what musician who passed away in 2009?

Answer: Michael Joseph Jackson


(10) Rowe was a dermatologist’s nurse who reportedly met Jackson while the King of Pop sought treatment for this condition that causes depigmentation of skin.

Answer: Vitiligo


(10) Name either one of the two children that Jackson had with Rowe.

Answer: Prince-Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (Accept Michael Jr.)

or Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
21. For ten points each, answer these questions about cornerback Quentin Jammer.
(10) As a senior, Jammer and D. D. Lewis were named team co-MVPs in 2001 while playing under coach Mack Brown at what school?

Answer: University of Texas - Austin


(10) Jammer now plays for this NFL team in a secondary that also features the 2007 season’s interception leader, Antonio Cromartie.

Answer: San Diego and/or Chargers


(10) Some San Diego fans used to respond to poor plays by Jammer by chanting the name of this Florida alum who was selected after Jammer in the 2002 NFL Draft and made two Pro-Bowls for the Eagles before being traded to the New York Jets.

Answer: Lito Sheppard



FOGHAT 2009, Packet 10, Page


Download 73.12 Kb.

Share with your friends:




The database is protected by copyright ©ininet.org 2024
send message

    Main page