DOKTRINE 2010
Packet by Rebecca Maxwell and Jeff Amoros
Tossups
1. An early appearance of this character was at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, on the French-language program despite a lack of French dialogue. In one episode, he is mistaken for Prince Charles after being mistaken for a hairdresser, and tries to enter his teddy bear in a dog show. He is usually introduced by a chorus singing(*) "Ecce homo qui est faba." He has a recurring feud with the driver of a Reliant Regal; he himself drives a Mini. In the first episode of the show in which he appears, he tries to change into his swim trunks. For 10 points, name this eccentric character, the protagonist of an eponymous television program, played by Rowan Atkinson.
ANSWER: Mr. Bean
2. She played a naive high schooler named Noel opposite Paul Schneider in All the Real Girls, this actress's first lead role. In one of her first on-screen appearances, her character leaves home after fighting with her mother, leaving her younger brother her record collection, which influenced his decision to write about the band Stillwater. In addition to her role as Anita in Almost Famous, this actress has appeared as Nora, the guitar player in Suburban Funk in(*) The New Guy, and sang a duet of "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Buddy in a department store bathroom in Elf. Also known as one half of the band She and Him, for ten points, name this actress who starred opposite Jim Carrey in Yes Man and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 500 Days of Summer.
ANSWER: Zooey Deschanel
3. This school's track and field team competes at Mike Long track, and its alumni include the 2008 Olympic runner-up in the 100-meter dash, Walter Dix. It's baseball team, which plays at Dick Howser Stadium, won the ACC's Atlantic Division in 2007 and 2008 behind the play of catcher Buster Posey, currently on the San Francisco Giants. In 2008, this school's football team suspended players after a brawl with the(*) Phi Beta Sigma at the student union, after suspending more than 20 players for the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl the prior year after a cheating scandal surfaced. The subject of NCAA sanctions that wiped several wins off of coach Bobby Bowden's resume, for ten points, name this ACC school that's home to the Seminoles.
ANSWER: Florida State University or FSU (Accept "Seminoles" before it's mentioned in the question)
4. In the first story in which this character appears, he fights a bear empty-handed. His final appearance is in an unfinished work. Most of his adventures begin when he is sent to do some investigative reporting for his newspaper and gets drawn into international intrigue. His archenemy Rastapopoulos first features in(*) The Cigars of the Pharaoh. One friend of this character is Chang Chong-chen, whom he first meets in The Blue Lotus. Besides China and Tibet, he has also traveled to the Soviet Union, to the moon, and to the Congo with his dog Snowy. For 10 points, name this friend of Captain Haddock, the hero of a series of comics by Hergé.
ANSWER: Tintin
5. It begins with a character in prison, bringing his cellmates into a play as the price for being allowed to keep his possessions. One prisoner, called the "Duke," plays the hero's ultimate antagonist who shows him what he really is; another plays the love interest, a serving girl and(*) prostitute who is raped by her customers. The rape, preceded by a reprise of "Little Bird," occurs some time after she has introduced herself with the song "It's All the Same," and the hero has mistaken her, Aldonza, for his lady, "Dulcinea." For 10 points, name this musical featuring "The Impossible Dream," an adaptation of Don Quixote.
ANSWER: Man of La Mancha (do not accept Don Quixote at any point)
6. Before beginning the work for which he is better known, this man was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Pop Will Eat Itself. His contributions to TV include music for CSI:NY and HBO's Voyeur. His first film score was Pi, the beginning of a collaboration with director Darren Aronofsky that would include The Wrestler and other films. More recently, he composed the score for the 2009 science fiction film(*) Moon. Extracts from his soundtracks are occasionally used in film trailers; "Death is the Road to Awe" appears in the trailers for I Am Legend and Frost/Nixon and comes from the score of The Fountain, and the trailer for The Two Towers uses an arrangement of "Lux Æterna." For 10 points, name this composer of the score to Requiem for a Dream.
ANSWER: Clint Mansell
7. In an episode of Friends, Ross tried to impress then-girlfriend Emily by playing a game of this sport, while a game between teachers and students is shown in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life that segues into a battlefield scene, and this is the sport of a Uruguayan team that suffers a plane crash and cannibalism in the Andes in the film Alive. Matt Damon was first filmed playing this sport in(*) The Departed, where he played flanker in a game between cops and firefighters, and he later took the same position on the pitch as François Pienaar in as the captain of the Springboks. Most prominently featured in a movie that starred Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, for ten points, name this sport played in Invictus that sees players dive into a scrum and attempt to score tries.
ANSWER: Rugby
8. The key action in this film surrounds the issuance of Wing Attack Plan R, which gives field commanders autonomy in calling for retaliatory strikes. The original ending involving a pie fight was cut in part due to the utterance of the line, "Our gallant young president has been struck down in his prime," which was deemed inappropriate due to Kennedy's assassination. That line was spoken by General(*) Buck Turgidson in response to President Merkin Muffley receiving a pie to the face. Muffley had earlier unsuccessfully tried to get an obstinate Sterling Hayden to call off the attack, but despite the assistance of Lionel Mandrake, Muffley is unsuccessful. Based on the novel Red Alert and featuring Peter Sellers as Muffley and Mandrake as well as in the title role, for ten points, name this Kubrick satire of the Cold War era.
ANSWER: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
9. This band's frontman previously fronted Tarkio. In 2008, they released a series of EP singles collectively entitled Always the Bridesmaid. Other releases include an adaptation of an Irish epic, The Tain; "Billy Liar," a single from their album Her Majesty; and their debut album, Castaways and Cutouts. They played at the largest rally during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. While promoting their first album on a major record label(*), Capitol Records, they had a mock feud with Stephen Colbert. One of their music videos, from the album Picaresque, is "Sixteen Military Wives." Their most recent release is the rock opera The Hazards of Love. For 10 points, name this indie folk rock band fronted by Colin Meloy, the creators of The Crane Wife.
ANSWER: The Decemberists
10. Brief cameo appearances in these commercials include director James Cameron, Optimus Prime, and Stephen Hawking. Other people in them appear with animals or in extreme locations, such as with a tarantula or near a volcano; some people in them include Les Stroud, Jamie Hyneman, and Adam Savage, the stars of TV shows Survivorman and Mythbusters. Parodied by(*) xkcd, both commercials in the series begin with two astronauts on a spacewalk, who decide that the sight of Earth makes them want to burst into song. For 10 points, name this advertising campaign for the Discovery Channel, based on a campfire song.
ANSWER: I Love the World or The World is Just Awesome (accept I Love the Whole World or Boom-Dee-Ah-Dah)
11. One game featuring this character brings the player to ancient Rome, where they must talk to Julius Caesar and arrange pipes with the help of Ivan Idea. One show featuring this character starred Lynne Thigpen as the Chief, who gave instructions to members of(*) the ACME detective agency. That show had its theme music performed by Rockapella. Aided by members of V.I.L.E. such as Baron Wasteland and Jane Reaction, this character travels around the world and through time to steal landmarks and historical artifacts. For 10 points, name this red-suited villain of a series of computer games and TV shows.
ANSWER: Carmen Sandiego
12. Rapper The D.O.C. guests on one track on this album, "Parental Discretion Iz Advised." Singles from the album include one talking about the lifestyle that gave the music's subgenre its name, "Gangsta Gangsta," and one about radio censorship and conformity(*), "Express Yourself." One well-known song from this album is a mock trial where the title entity is prosecuted in front of Judge Dre. The lead single, which shares its title with the album, has MC Ren rapping the second verse, while Eazy-E takes the third and Ice Cube the first. For 10 points, name this N.W.A. album containing the song "Fuck tha Police."
ANSWER: Straight Outta Compton
13. In one episode, this character is laid off from his job, causing him to prefer a new career fishing for crabs, living in a tent by the river and using hand-fashioned crab traps. This character occasionally describes himself as a "man of the law," despite his readily apparent illiteracy. He has a routine for getting to sleep in his apartment involving huffing glue and shotgunning a beer, necessary due to his apartment's location next to an alley filled with(*) stray cats. In the first season in which he appears, the McPoyle brothers blackmail him into claiming that his grade school P.E. teacher molested him. In love with a woman known only as "the waitress," for ten points, name this character in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the illegitimate son of Frank Reynolds.
ANSWER: Charlie Kelly
14. This director frequently places the phrase "See you next Wednesday" in his films, a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. This man was charged in the deaths of Myca Dinh Le, Renee Shin-Yi Chen and actor Vic Morrow after special effects charges detonated on the set of his segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie caused a helicopter to spin out of control. He had earlier found success with(*) Kentucky Fried Movie and Trading Places, which marked his second collaboration with the actor who played Elwood in this man's The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd. The director of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, for ten points, name this man perhaps most famous for directing Animal House.
ANSWER: John Landis
15. Initially drafted by the Hawks before being traded for Shareef Abdur-Rahim, he led his first team to three playoff appearances, but his teams were swept in all three, by the Spurs, Suns and Mavericks. Prior to the 2008 Olympics, he was involved in a controversy when his national team posed for a photo using their fingers to slant their eyes in reference to the host country(*), China. Starring on that team alongside Jose Calderon, this man had been traded to his current NBA the prior season for Javarris Crittendon, Kwame Brown and his brother, who also played for the Spanish team in 2008. Formerly the franchise star of the Memphis Grizzlies, for ten points, name this forward-center who teamed with Lamar Odom and Kobe Bryant to win a title with the Lakers in 2008.
ANSWER: Pau Gasol
16. In transition from its former home city, this team spent a season playing at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. They made the playoffs four out of five seasons from 1999-2003, capping the run with a loss in the AFC title game in 2003 to the Raiders. They missed the playoffs for three straight years after that loss, getting rid of Kevin Carter and(*) Derrick Mason, among others, before making it back to the postseason in the 2006-07 season, when they lost in the wild card round to the Chargers, getting only 6 points on two Rob Bironas field goals. Known for a playoff run that included Frank Wychek's Music City Miracle pass to Kevin Dyson, for ten points, name this team formerly known as the Oilers, the former team of Steve McNair and current franchise of Chris Johnson.
ANSWER: Tennessee Titans
17. Near the end of this series, characters attend the thousandth birthday party of Mac McCullum. Among these characters is one now known as Cameron, instead of by his nickname; another is a former flight attendant, Hattie Durham. One plot development is a main character, formerly of(*) Pan-Con Airlines, becoming the pilot of the private jet of the former president of Romania, Nicolae Carpathia. The overarching conflict is that of the Tribulation Force, headed by Rayford Steele and Buck Williams, against the Antichrist. For 10 points, name this fantasy book series by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye.
ANSWER: Left Behind
18. In one episode of this TV show, "Fireflies," an eight-year-old girl missing and presumed dead is found alive after an abduction in a racially tense neighborhood. Several other episodes feature serial killer George Marks, a filing clerk in the Philadelphia police department. Supporting characters include Scotty Valens and Nick Vera, while the main character, played by(*) Kathryn Morris, is a detective with emotional problems and a troubled childhood, Lilly Rush. Episodes usually feature interviews rather than forensic science, end with an evidence box being put on a shelf, and begin with a flashback to the year when the crime took place. For 10 points, name this TV series about a police division that investigates unsolved murders.
ANSWER: Cold Case (do not accept Cold Case Files)