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.