Questions by the Tulane University Krewe of Quiz Bowl

Bayou-A-Drank 2012

Round 11

Questions by the Tulane University Krewe of Quiz Bowl

TOSS-UPS

1. 2012’s iteration of this event included a house party hosted by the cast of Comedy Central’s Workaholics, while two major Hollywood films premiered there, including The Cabin in the Woods. Secret shows are a common feature of this festival, with a 2006 performance at the Fox & Hound by the Flaming Lips among some outlet’s top music festival performances of all time. Hanson met their agent after traveling south from Tulsa to play at this event, while Twitter’s explosion in popularity is often traced to its 2007 iteration. As many as two thousand performers flood this event each year playing in venues off of the host city’s most iconic streets, including South Congress, Rainey, and 6th Streets. Named as a play on a film by Alfred Hitchcock this is, FTP, what annual set of film, interactive and music festivals located in Austin, Texas?
ANSWER: South by Southwest (accept “SXSW”)

2. This football player was a four-year starter in college and broke the NCAA record for most consecutive starts at his position, leading his team to 4 bowl games and winning 3. He entered the league as third on the depth chart at his position, behind a well-regarded forty-two year old yet still ahead of Cleo Lemon. In 2007, he led his team to their first playoff win since 1994. He tore his ACL in the divisional round of the playoffs but played through his injury in the AFC Championship Game, although his team lost to the Patriots. In 2011 a video went viral which caught this player lamenting, “this is the worst day ever” after a Monday night overtime loss to the Chiefs in which he botched a snap. FTP, who is this former NC State and current San Diego Chargers quarterback who was memorably traded for Eli Manning in 2004?

ANSWER: Philip Rivers

3. One member of this duo was originally played by Phil Bruns but was replaced by another actor in the second season of the series in which they appeared. Of his time working under a man named Harry Fleming, one half of this couple says, “Cheap fabric and dim lighting--that’s how you move merchandise.” The merchandise he was selling was raincoats, specifically a beltless style referred to as “The Executive.” This couple was forced to leave their condo in Del Boca Vista after one of them, the president of the tenant’s board, was impeached after their son buys him a Cadillac, and their time spent with that son leaves one of them wondering, “How could anyone not like him?” while an unwanted dinner invitation prompts her to explain, “…we don’t much care for the Costanzas.” FTP, who is this couple, the fictional parents of the protagonist on the show Seinfeld?
ANSWER: Jerry’s parents (accept “Morty and Helen” or “Seinfeld’s parents” before “Seinfeld” is said)

4. This album’s popularity supposedly led to its band’s guitarist John Frusciante to leave the band until 1998. Released the same day as Nevermind, one song on this album includes the lyrics “come-on full of fun, do me ‘till I’m well done,” and “is she talking dirty, give to me sweet sacred bliss”. The cover to this album depicts all four members faces positioned around a rose, while the booklet features photographs of all the members’ tattoos. Other songs from this album include the lyrics “what I’ve got--you’ve got to get it put it in you” and “twisting and turning you’re feelings are burning;” those songs are “Give It Away” and “Breaking the Girl.” FTP, what is this Red Hot Chili Peppers album that includes the hit “Under the Bridge”?
ANSWER: Blood Sugar Sex Magik

5. This player led the American League in hitting at his position in each of the five full seasons that he played in the infield, including a season that saw him hit a three-run home run off NL starter Roger Clemens in the 2004 All Star Game. Clemens had previously been this player’s teammate and had started a World Series Game 7 in which this player’s home run off Curt Schilling seemingly clinched a Yankees victory. Ian Kinsler took over for this player in 2005 when he was traded from the Rangers to the Nationals, where he would later be disgruntled over a position change to left field. With the Nationals he became the fourth player in history to join the “40-40 club,” prompting his decision to enter free agency and ultimately sign an eight-year, $136 million contract with a team from the NL Central. FTP, who is this left fielder for the Chicago Cubs?
ANSWER: Alfonso Soriano

6. This comic book series was quite controversial at the time of its release for implicating the Masons in some pretty gruesome crimes. It begins with a scandal involving a woman in an asylum whose thyroid gland is operated on by an official physician. The title of this series is the first line from a letter written by the work’s main character to the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. The letter was attached to half of a human kidney. This series was adapted for the screen in 2001, starring Heather Graham as a kindly London prostitute and Johnny Depp as a police detective that uses opium to aid him in solving crimes. FTP, what is this comic book series that centers on the life and crimes of Jack the Ripper, written by Alan Moore?
ANSWER: From Hell

7. In 2012, James Horan began appearing as a sheriff in advertisements for this product. A recent ad campaign by this products maker, Innovation Ventures, has tried to push the healthy aspects of this product, claiming that 73%of 3,000 doctors interviewed would recommend thisproduct.Other advertisements for this product ask the question, “Do you know what 2:30 in the Afternoon feels like?” while showing footage of dozing office workers. This product claims to provide a “no wait, no hassle way to a great morning”, as it provides all the caffeine of a cup of coffee without the mess.Vegetarian and certified Kosherthisis, FTP, what low calorie long lasting supplement sold in shot size doses?
ANSWER: 5 Hour Energy

8. This character is told that if she would like to kiss her father then “it would be all right” before sending her attendant home. Over the course of the next few days she haggles with a man developing a cough, shares a bed with an old woman who snores, and witnesses a trial in which it is explained that a local man must have opened fire on a campsite in cold blood. The purpose for which this character eventually hires that “one-eyed fat man” is the same for which she steals apples for Little Blackie. That horse later dies of exhaustion carrying this character away from the scene of a series of gunfights that claimed the lives of Lucky Ned Pepper and Tom Chaney, the man that killed this girl’s father. FTP, who is this character played by Kim Darby and Hailee Steinfeld in the film adaptations of True Grit?

ANSWER: Mattie Ross(accepteither underlined answer)

9. Although skilled at playing the Theremin, he is seldom seen achieving success in his other ventures. He allegedly has a degree in art history, as well as mail order degrees in murderology and murderonomy. As a way to repay his being saved from the Tritonian yeti this character agrees to euthanize his employer if he begins to suffer from hypermalaria. In one episode he is rejected by potential mate Edna for the emperor of his people; this was considered a lucky break because members of his race die after they mate. He has four hearts, an empathy bladder, at least two stomachs, and a “wazoo,” or sex organ for creating “male jelly.” Things this character has eaten include wood and chess pieces, although he has an admitted affinity for anchovies, and once was arrested for eating the American flag. FTP, who is this alien employee of Planet Express on Futurama?

ANSWER: Dr. John A. Zoidberg (accept either underlined answer)

10. One scene from this movie features Jean Stapleton playing the piano while a surrounding group sings a song that begins, “the violin sings with joyful ring.” That group includes Greg Kinnear in the role of the boyfriend of one the protagonists. Dave Chapelle and Steve Zahn also have supporting roles in this movie, portraying employees of the two main characters. The stores in which they work are Fox Books and The Shop Around the Corner respectively, the latter’s name being a reference to the 1940 film on which this movie is based. FTP, the rivalry between two stores is complicated by an anonymous online romance in what Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks romantic comedy with a title based on an AOL greeting?
ANSWER: You’ve Got Mail

11. This athlete was a member of a college team that set the “world best” time in the 4x110 yard relay in 1967. He went on to establish the largest margin of victory ever for a Heisman Trophy winner after claiming the rushing title in the late 1960s. The following year, this running back was the number one overall draft pick out of USC by the team where he spent the majority of his career, the Buffalo Bills. He was the first NFL player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season and the only player to ever do so in a 14 game season. He currently holds the NFL single season record for rushing yards per game. FTP, who is this infamous running back, known by many for his acting role in The Naked Gun film series and by many more for his legal troubles in 1995?

ANSWER: O.J. Simpson

12. This artist made a guest appearance as a voice actor on the children’s show The Backyardigans, performing the song “Almost Everything is Boinga Here.” She broke into the music scene with a contribution to the Men In Black soundtrack titled “Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)”. She has been in several films, including Smokin’ Aces as contract killer Georgia Sykes and The Secret Life of Bees as June Boatwright. She was a major contributor to “The Mega Song,” and her most successful collaborations include her song with Jack White for the Quantum of Solace theme, as well as her work with Usher in 2004 and Jay-Z in 2009. Her debut album in 2001, Songs in A Minor, won five Grammy awards, the most of any artist that year. FTP, name this R&B singer and pianist whose songs include “Superwoman,” “Empire State of Mind,” and “Fallin’”?

ANSWER: Alicia Keys

13.This actress’ recent movies include Bordertown, in which she plays a reporter who attempts to solve murders at a maquiladora, and An Unfinished Life, in which she plays Robert Redford’s character’s long-lost daughter-in-law. The star of The Cell and The Back-up Plan, this actress played an abused wife who learns to fight back in Enough. She also appeared in 2005’s Monster-in-Law as a woman who wishes to marry Jane Fonda’s son and 1997’s Anaconda as a documentary film director. Her first leading role came in another 1997 film about a Tejano music star who is shot to death by her fan-club president. In addition to Selena, this actress has also starred in The Wedding Planner and Maid in Manhattan. FTP, who is this actress and pop singer who co-starred with her ex-husband Ben Affleck in the ill-fated Gigli?

ANSWER: Jennifer Lopez(accept“J-Lo”)

14. It’s not Providence or Detroit, but the parking authority of this city is the subject of A&E’s Parking Wars. Eddie and Joy Stark, Brad Garrett and Joely Fisher’s characters on ‘Til Death, live in a suburb of this city, and it is also the home of the Steadmans and the Westons on thirtysomething. This city is the setting of American Dreams, and two of that show’s characters were dancers on American Bandstand, which was filmed here until 1964. Little Bill and Fat Albert both live in this city, as does Detective Lily Rush of the CBS series Cold Case. Eric and Corey Matthews are fans of this city’s sports teams on Boy Meets World, and its nickname provided the title for a series starring Joey, Matt, and Andy Lawrence. FTP, what is this city, the setting of Brotherly Love?

ANSWER: Philadelphia

15. While he is often a playable character, he sometimes appears in supporting roles, including as a blacksmith in a game titled after another character “and the Black Knight.” His first game as a main character had him teach children about scales and instruments with the “music maker;” he was introduced three years earlier in the second game of a series for the Sega Genesis, in which he is playable from the second controller slot. This character is often given a plane or other vehicle and he can sometimes be seen wearing goggles, fitting his role as a mechanical genius. In his third appearance he is given the ability to swim underwater and to pick up other characters and fly them around using his namesake appendages like the propellers of a helicopter; one of those characters is an echidna named Knuckles. FTP, who is this fox, a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series?

ANSWER: Miles “Tails” Prower (accept any underlined answer)

16. In 2011 when touring with the Foo Fighters, thisband’sdrummer Jared Champion’s appendix burst and Dave Grohl temporarily took over hisduties. The video for a song from their second album features the lead singer digging up his girlfriend’s corpse and bringing it around with him to events such as parties. Another music video sees a man go jogging and seem to relive memories of his life, only for the viewer to see that he was dreaming and died in his sleep. One song on their acclaimed self titled debut album tells the “critics who despise us,” to “go ahead and criticize us;”thatsongis“InOneEar.”Radio play hits from their second album, Thank You, Happy Birthday include “Aberdeen” and “Around my Head.” FTP, what is this band fronted by Matthew Shultz, which has released popular songs such as “Shake Me Down” and “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”?

ANSWER: Cage the Elephant