DOKTRINE 2010
Packet by the University of Pittsburgh
Questions by Mike “Sergeant Showtime” Davies (plus five questions by Dan “Captain Chaos” Christman-Crook and Doug “Drum Boogie” Slocum)
Tossups
1. In a Thought Industry song, “Love is (this) Spelled Backwards”. It’s the title of Razorlight’s first U.K. #1 single, and a song with an unusual hemiola rhythm sung by Anita and Rosalia in West Side Story. Preceded by “Hey” it’s a Christmas song by James Brown, and preceded by “White”, it’s a song from The Eminem Show. The narrator(*) and his lover Kathy travel the highways to look for this, in a Simon & Garfunkel song. On Saturday Night Live Will Ferrell played Neil Diamond explaining that he wrote this song because “I’m fueled creatively by my massive hatred of immigrants”. FTP, name this polity, which is also followed by “Fuck Yeah!” in a song from Team America: World Police.
ANS: America
2. Chi McBride plays the father, and Wayne Brady plays DJ Johnny Feelgood. Wesley Jonathan is Sweetness, the overlord of a gang of dandies whose dominance of Sweetwater is challenged by the crew whose regular venue, The Palisades Garden, is being closed down. Jamiroquai updated the song “Hollywood Swinging” for(*) the soundtrack to this movie, in which it’s played by Kool & The Gang at the climactic dance-off. The third movie by Undercover Brother director Malcolm D. Lee, it got good reviews for its evocative 1978 Chicago setting, as well as Bow Wow’s performance as the paperboy and rink patron X. FTP, what was this 2005 coming-of-age film set amidst the disco roller skating craze?
ANS: Roll Bounce
3. His name derives from a failed videogame made by his creator. After a tense negotiation with a US president, he loses several useless organs and a deviled egg. He calls himself as a “crafty consumer” who pursues a “conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio”. A star(*) and producer of The Magnificent Three, he can digest many substances inedible to humans,but eating dirt causes him to vomit blue beads, which are then sold by his coworkers. His people are responsible for the extinction of the anchovy, and during mating season they sprout a fin on top of their head and prepare for Clawplakh.. FTP identify this Decapodian, the staff doctor on Futurama.
ANS: Dr. John A. Zoidberg (Accept Dr. John D. Zoidberg)
4. Chita Rivera led 50,000 people in setting the world Macarena record here on August 17th, 1996. Its last concert was a Pink Floyd show in 1994, two years after U2 filmed the video for “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses” here. Teams that called it home included the NPSL’s Generals; the Skyliners of the USA; and the Cosmos of the NASL(*). The first overtime game in NFL history was the 1958 championship here between the Colts and the Giants. The site of 3 different masses by 3 different popes, it has now been replaced by a namesake stadium built on Macombs Dam Park. FTP, a 1923 performance led by John Philip Sousa inaugurated what Bronx venue, which was soon designated the “House that Ruth Built”?
ANS: Yankee Stadium
5. She’s played the wife of Gerard Butler, Tim McGraw, Johnny Depp, and Nicolas Cage. She’s had few successes in the last five years, starring in The Jane Austen Book Club; an update of Chekhov’s Three Sisters; The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,and the universally reviled suicidal-depression torture drama Downloading Nancy. In The Yellow Handkerchief she’s the(*) lost love of the character played by William Hurt, who co-starred with her in a movie where both had scenes with Tom Stall but they had no scenes together. She first achieved fame as the proprietress of the titular saloon in Coyote Ugly. FTP name this actress who had memorable sex scenes with William H. Macy in The Cooler, and Mortensen in A History of Violence.
ANS: Maria Bello
6. Asia’s “Only Time Will Tell” has an intro similar to the one played on a Korg Polysix in one of this band’s hits. They were originally called Force, and briefly traded bassists with Yngwie Malmsteen before winning a contest and getting a record deal, despite resistance to signing bands who sang in English. Guitarist John Norum left in 1986, because of(*) what he called “the spandex, poodle-rock thing” championed by singer Joey Tempest. Follow-up album Out of This World went platinum in the US, but didn’t have the success of the album that contained “Rock the Night”, “Cherokee”, and a song whose narrator is “leaving for Venus, and still we stand tall”. FTP what Swedish rock band is best known for the album, and song, “The Final Countdown”?
ANS: Europe
7. He had 11 points for the second-place team at the 2009 World Championship, soon after scoring 100 goals in 124 games for the Sarnia Sting. Vaclav Prospal was moved to a line with Radim Vrbata and Matt Pettinger when this man was promoted to the first line. With a pass from Andrej Meszaros, he beat Scott Clemmensen to complete an accomplishment which only Jimmy Carson and Wayne Gretzky have(*) done at a younger age. Linemates have included Steve Downie, Ryan Malone, and Martin St. Louis [“San Lou-ee”]. He almost tied Vincent Lecavalier’s team record of 52 goals, and shares this season’s Rocket Richard Trophy with Sidney Crosby. FTP name this 20-year-old star centre for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
ANS: Steven Stamkos
8. Original plans to include collection items that unlock cheats in the sequel failed after a rerelease of the console involved, though this functionality was added to a later version of the game. The plot of this game begins after the witch(*) Gruntilda kidnaps the sister of one of the main characters in order to steal her good looks. In order to progress, the two main characters must solve puzzles by collecting Jiggys. Special moves are gained by finding molehills and include flight, invulnerability, and the ability to shoot eggs. For ten points, identify this Nintendo 64 game recently released on Xbox Live Arcade that stars a titular bird and bear.
ANS: Banjo-Kazooie
9. Bernice and Joy got to the Grand Canyon in these devices, which are powerful enough to pull a 2-ton van, although the disclaimer warns “Never Pull Anything”. They comewith an introductory VHS tape, and a certificate for a free test drive.9 out of 10 people got these for little or no cost last year(*), according to Tom Kruse (pronounced Cruise), who is “a nurse by profession”, and invented this device and narrates its commercials. The Round For A Reason™ design maneuvers through doorways more easily than those other power chairs. One commercial contains the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around”. FTP the ads for whatcompact scooter-like wheelchair feature senior citizens rolling around on these devices in choreographed formations?
ANS: The Hoveround
10. Possibly the only use of this phrase by the Discovery Channel is in a “Time Warp” episode about carnival fire-eaters. In the movie named for one of these, Clive and Jessica are cursed by ancient Abyssinian earrings. In one SouthPark episode Mr. Garrison decides to get a rhinoplasty and live out his dream of hanging out with these people. There are(*) websites devoted to photos of them “smiling at ground zero”, “plunging their toilets”, and “with dogs with boners”. A realtor sells a house with a room where they party 24 hours a day, in an Upright Citizens Brigade sketch. FTP, give this two-word phrase for sexy ladies, which has been the subject of a popular photo website and book when followed by “With Douchebags”.
ANS: Hot chicks (prompt on partial answer – do not accept equivalents)
11. “Today we make microchips from silicon, which is common sand, but far better than gold.” “Oh no, Country Bear Hall has been crushed!” “I keep her on because even though I can't feel it, I know I get erections in her presence.” “I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt.” “I'm the Antichrist. You got me(*) in a vendetta kind of mood.” “I never got away with anything, and I never killed anybody that didn't deserve it.” “I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years.” These are quotes from films including A View to a Kill, The Prophecy, True Romance, King of New York, and Pulp Fiction, all uttered by, FTP, what dancer, actor and 7-time host of Saturday Night Live?
ANS: Christopher Walken (accept “A View to a Kill” during the first quote)
12. There are namesake clubs in Turku and Porto Alegre, while Rochdale and Arminia Bielefeld share their color scheme. They haven’t been champions of Europe since 1965, but since then they’ve won 8 league titles and 4Coppa Italias. In the 1960s their coach Helenio Herrera developed the “catenaccio” system; their 1989 title was led by Lothar Matthäus and Andreas Brehme, befitting a(*) club that always welcomes foreigners to the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. Davide Santon, Mario Balotelli and Marco Materazzi are the only Italians who regularly play for this team, whose other stars include Esteban Cambiasso, Maicon, and Julio Cesar. FTP what Italian football powerhouse has a longstanding rivalry with A.C. Milan?
ANS: InterMilan or Football Club Internazionale Milano
13. It was produced by RedOne and at one point combines a faux-European accent with Vittorio Monti’s “Csárdás” on violin. Steven Klein is rumored to be directing the video for this song, which Slant Magazine called “an apparent homage to ABBA and Ace of Base”; specifically, lines like “Don’t wanna kiss, don’t wanna touch” sound likecallbacks to(*) Ace of Base’s “Don’t Turn Around”. Currently Billboard’s #26 pop song in its second week on the chart, it’s about a character whose “boyfriend’s like her dad”, who must resist falling in love with a Latin friend. FTP name this single from Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster, whose titular figure is contrasted with “Fernando” and “Roberto”.
ANS: “Alejandro”
14. FBI agent Karen Sympathy tries to prevent the launch of this man’s Really Bad TV network in a movie where Robert DeNiro plays his boss. His pseudonyms include the detective Hemlock Soames, Gunga Drain, and Sir Hillary Pushemoff, and he once led an army of metal-munching moon mice.He refers to(*) Uncle Vanya’s Fireside Crookbook for techniques, and claims to have graduated from “State Pen”. Played by Jason Alexander in a 2000 film, he was voiced by Paul Frees from 1959 to 1964. Known for his Homburg hat and Stakhanovite dedication to eliminating the threat of Moose and Squirrel, FTP what partner of Natasha Fatale is the primary antagonist of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show?
ANS: BorisBadenov (accept either)
15. Martin Luther King III, Sir Edmund Hillary, Chuck Hagel and Julius Erving have all been given this honor, which was first conferred by Theodore Metcalf when Charles W. Bryan was on an executive vacation. Recently they have emphasized outreach to the seamen of the Trident submarine named for the state where this honor is awarded. Their SeaBees have reunions(*) at the Vets club in Aurora, near Kearney. On the certificate, the governor – currently Dave Heineman – instructs “all officers, seamen, tadpoles and goldfish under your command to be obedient to your orders as”, FTP, what highest naval rank, conferred in a light-hearted tradition by a Midwestern state?
ANS: Nebraska admirals (accept anything including those two words; technically Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska)
16. This was the stage name of vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin of Mayhem. It’s part of the name of a psychedelic band on Matador Records; a rap group led by M1; “Mike” from CB4, and an early punk band led by Cheetah Chrome. The narrator “came back as a bag of groceries” in the song of this name by They Might Be Giants(*). Fat Freddie is this, and Bela Lugosi is this, in songs by Curtis Mayfield and the Birthday Party. Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson havecovered the Rolling Stones song in which the resentful narrator asks to have the titular type of flowers sent to him every morning. FTP what is this adjective which precedes “Milkmen” and “Kennedys” in the names of two 1980s punk bands?
ANS: Dead
17. The protagonist rejects the principle that “the artist creates his own moral universe”, as spouted by Rob Reiner’s sexually voracious character. “Nagasaki” is one of the numbers performed at the Three Deuces in this film. An actress rejects Nick Valenti’s gift of black pearls, claiming that they(*) “probably came from defective oysters”. Dianne Wiest won an Academy Award for playing Helen Sinclair, who tells John Cusack’s character that the world will open up for him, “not like an oyster…like a magnificent vagina”. Also starring Chazz Palmintieri as a hoodlum who becomes a brilliant playwright, FTP name this 1994 Woody Allen comedy, set during Prohibition in the titular locale.
ANS: Bullets Over Broadway
18. In his first three years as a Big Twelve head coach he suffered two big upsets in the NCAA tournament, losing to Bucknell and Bradley. He was hired by Leonard Hamilton at his alma mater, after being berated by Larry Brown in his first job as an assistant. After leaving OklahomaState he brought OralRobertsUniversity a postseason appearance, and led Tulsa to their(*) first Elite Eight. In 2000 he took over from Lon Kruger and led Sergio McClain and Frank Williams to a #1 seed; he recruited stars like Deron Williams to play for Illinois, but then returned to the site of his first job, where his team won the 2008 NCAA tournament and was the #1 overall seed in 2010. FTP name this men’s basketball coach at KansasUniversity.
ANS: Bill Self
19. The name’s the same. Tetley, a voice actor who spent decades playing adolescents including Sherman from Rocky & Bullwinkle. Bernstein, the screenwriter of Fail-Safe, The Molly Maguires and The Front. Pidgeon, who starred in The Last Time I Saw Paris and Forbidden Planet. Peck, the officious EPA agent in Ghostbusters. Burns, the Cary Grant character in His Girl Friday(*). Murch, a nine-time Oscar nominee for sound editing. Melon, the evil mastermind in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. Mitty, played by Danny Kaye in an adaptation of a James Thurber story. FTP, all these people share what first name with Sobchak, played by John Goodman in The Big Lebowski?
ANS: Walter
20. On Will & Grace he played Ian, who breaks up with Grace when she disapproves of adultery. Born in Italy, he got a Rose Bowl ring as a walk-on tight end for the University of Washington. After college he joined the Seattle sketch comedy institution Almost Live, and played a bank manager in Spider-Man 2. He hosts a(*) show with recurring bits including a scrawny guy in a bikini; a studio audience that sounds like it contains about five people; “Let’s Take Some E”, and the mascot Lou the Chihuahua. FTP, name this comic actor who played the sidekick to Scott Bakula’s FBI agent in The Informant!, hosts Talk Soup on the E! network, and plays the protagonist, Jeff Winger, in Community.
ANS: Joel McHale
Tiebreakers
TB1. In one game against the Chargers he and Tony Sheffler connected for two touchdowns in 48 seconds, a new record for two rookies. That season he won the competition for the backup job over Bradlee Van Pelt, and after months of speculation he was promoted to starter over a ten-year veteran. He set school records for total offense and passing yards as a senior, and was SEC offensive player of the year(*). The third quarterback taken in the 2006 draft. He replaced Jake Plummer and started 37 games, before deeming himself mortally insulted by new coach Josh McDaniels, and was traded for draft picks and Kyle Orton. The third first-round draft pick ever from Vanderbilt, FTP name this Chicago Bears quarterback.
ANS: Jay Cutler
TB2. He had two sons with his wife Francesca, when he was the mayor of Salsiccia in Tuscany. He contributes to Reader’s Digest’s “Life in These United States”, and has helped society by working as an assistant school janitor and capturing the would-be assassin of the King of the Mardi Gras. His head has been seen encased in gypsum in the infirmary, and hiding behind a statue of(*) five jet contrails. This character’s voice is an imitation of Broadway actor/director Ellis Rabb, although in early episodes he communicates only via slide whistle. The host of a short-lived “Cavalcade of Whimsy”, son of Dame Judith Underdunk, and brother of Cecil, this is FTP what criminal mastermind, a recurring character on The Simpsons voiced by Kelsey Grammer?
ANS: Sideshow Bob or Robert Underdunk Terwilliger
TB3. Working titles included Great Southern Land,and Faraway Downs, which is the destination for the film’s hero.Its local cast includes David Wenham, and David Gulpilil, who plays King George, father of Nullah. The director’s goals included depicting the Japanese bombing of a city on the Timor Sea, and merging the stories of aristocrats and(*) the “Stolen Generation” of children. It grossed $50 million in the U.S., less than half its budget, but is the second-highest grossing film in its nation’s history. FTP name this 2008 drama, directed by Baz Luhrmann, and starring Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley and Hugh Jackman as the drover who leads her cattle on an epic journey across the Northern Terrority of the titular island.
ANS: Australia
DOKTRINE 2010
Packet by the University of Pittsburgh