2006 Ann B. Davis – The Tenth Anniversary
Tossups for The League of Extraordinary Hentai Men – answers by Bob Kilner, questions by Mike Burger and Craig Barker
FIRST PERIOD – Fifty-or-nothing bonuses in effect
1). The original pilot for this series, Cass Malloy, aired in 1982 with Caroline McWilliams as the title character and featured Corey Feldman and Dick Butkus. (*) Priscilla Barnes later was tied to the pilot, but its star eventually was the actress who Barnes had replaced on a different series in 1981. The plot of the series revolved around a workplace in Lakes County, Nevada where Deputy Max Rubin tussled with his new boss – a woman. For 10 points--name this 1980s syndicated offering starring Suzanne Somers.
Answer: She's the Sheriff
2). In 2005, Maroon 5 played a cover of it at Maria Sharapova's 18th Birthday party, something they had also done at the end of their 1.22.03 Acoustic album (*). The lead track from the 1979 album which shares its name, it was played in lieu of the closing theme on The Simpsons episode "Simpsons Bible Stories". The highest charting AC/DC song with Bon Scott on vocals, name--for 10 points--this song about a diabolical thoroughfare.
Answer: "Highway to Hell"
Do Not Accept: M-36
3). He teamed with El Hijo del Santo as part of La Pareja Atómica and also wrestled in Japan under the name Black Tiger II. Adopting (*) the Frog Splash in honor of fallen tag-team partner Art Barr, he joined WCW in 1996 and left with some of his teammates to the WWF in 2000 as part of the Radicalz. Later storylines included his pursuit of Chyna and eventually won the WWE belt in 2004. For 10 points--name this pro wrestler known for his "Cheat to Win" mantra who died on November 13, 2005 due to heart disease.
Answer: Eduardo Gory "Eddie" Guerrero Llanes
4). In the German version, the title location was beneath the workshop of the inventor, while in France it took place in a bakery. The (*) final episode involved Doc and his dog having to move while voices on the series included current Kermit the Frog voice Steve Whitmire as Wembley as well as Jerry Nelson as The Trash Heap. For 10 points--dance your cares away and name this Muppet series about a radish-based economy and their adventures of the Gobos, Doozers and the title characters.
Answer: Fraggle Rock
5. He provides the voice of Sora in the video game series Kingdom Hearts and was the last actor to play Avery on Murphy Brown. Other TV (*) work by this L.A. native include the TV Movie The Ransom of Red Chief and the series Thunder Alley, The Jeff Foxworthy Show. He lost the 1999 Best Supporting Actor to Michael Caine, but later worked with Caine in Secondhand Lions. For 10 points--name this 17-year-old actor best known as the boy in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and seeing dead people in The Sixth Sense.
Answer: Haley Joel Osment
6). Currently the midday host on KNBR 680 AM in the Bay Area, he led the nation in scoring during 1964-65, posting and average of 37.4 points per game for the Miami Hurricanes. Leading the NBA in scoring (*) in 1967, he left his team due to disagreements with coach Al Bianchi, signing with the Oakland Oaks and leading the ABA in scoring. Returning to the Warriors, he eventually led the team to the NBA title in 1975. For 10 points--name this Basketball Hall of Famer, known for his accurate underhanded free throw shooting technique.
Answer: (Richard Francis Dennis) "Rick" Barry III
SECOND PERIOD – Unlimited guessing on completed tossups
7). The closing track, unnamed on the cover, was written for Johnny Cash, who passed away before he could record it. Kraftwerk granted the band permission to use the main riff from "Computer Love" (*) for the album's third single "Talk". The mysterious colored blocks on the cover encode the title of the album with ITA2, a 5-bit alphanumeric encoding used by telegraphs. For 10 points--name this 2005 Grammy nominee for Best Rock album, the third full-length studio release from Coldplay.
Answer: X&Y
8. On TV, they were packaged with Rainbow Brite, Ulysses 31, and The Get-a-Long gang on KideoTV and were helped out by their human friends Billy and Bonnie. (*) Developed by American Greetings, they had the ability to roll themselves into balls, or, when they weren't rolled up, they could reach into a pouch on their backs and pull out all sorts of goodies. For 10 points--name this creature and TV show -- some of which were PC, Puzzle and Pancake.
Answer: Popples
9. The first episode in this series was a 1972 animated version of The Last of the Curlews, while the last was the 1996 drama Too Soon for Jeff. (*) Sometimes the series involved recycling old TV movies, such as 1981's Angel Dusted with Helen Hunt, while other times they recycled the network's child stars, such as Mr. Belvedere's Rob Stone in Ace Hits the Big Time or Scott Baio in Stoned. For 10 points--name this televised collection of morality plays usually airing on Wednesday afternoons.
Answer: ABC After-School Special
10). A qualifier for the 2006 version of this festival includes a stop in Kuala Lumpur while the Latin version has been discontinued. First held over an entire week in Rhode Island in 1994, they (*) now have split into two weekends, with the 2006 venues being Snowmass, Colorado, and the Staples Center. They've seen some firsts, including a body varial in Moto-X and the first 900 in skateboarding, done by Tony Hawk in 1999. For 10 points--name this competition, owned and hosted by ESPN?
Answer: eXtreme Games
11). Scenes included declining a wedding invitation because it involved a bow tie and a man bowling his first-ever strike. Featuring former SNL feature player Rob Riggle, (*) the regulars on this show cruised the streets of New York City in a Dodge Ram looking for people looking for a life change. Other regulars include Kyle the Information Guy and Curtis the Environment Guy. For 10 points--name this 3-episode Comedy Central series featuring "the Flab 4" that was a parody of a Bravo series.
Answer: Straight Plan for the Gay Man
12). A quarterback at Maryland, his 6' 7" frame saw him convert to tight end during a 14-year NFL career before becoming an offensive line coach when he playing days ended. The first NFL coach to make his head coaching debut on Monday Night Football, (*) he was just the sixth head coach in franchise history, taking over when Dennis Green resigned with one game left in the 2001 season. For 10 points--name this former head coach of the Minnesota Vikings.
Answer: Mike Tice
THIRD PERIOD – No special rules in effect
13. Possibly a member of Scientology, this character isn't a dog and his main goal is to give children seizures (*). He once woke up inside what he thought was a land whale, except it ended up being Toot. He can sew a shoe together in less than five seconds and emits a hallucinogen from his skin when he becomes sad. For 10 points--name this Pikachu parody that has died at least six times on episodes of Comedy Central's Drawn Together.
Answer: Ling Ling
14. TEAM NAME AND YEAR REQUIRED. This was the last season for Dave Winfield while a trade of David Bell brought in Ken Hill. Dennis Martinez lead the team in ERA (*) and Albert Belle became the first player ever to have 50 homeruns and 50 doubles in one season. For ten points--identify this club that won 100 games, winning its first of five straight Central Division titles before losing to the Braves in the World Series.
Answer: 1995 Cleveland or Indians (1995 is necessary, either Cleveland or Indians can be used for the other part)
15. A 90s Women's Cross Country powerhouse, their football team will leave the Atlantic 10 for the Colonial in 2007, while their other sports play in the Big East. They won the 1994 NIT (*) title, helped by the play of Kerry Kittles. In 2005, they made their first NCAA appearance in six years, losing to North Carolina in the Sweet 16. For 10 points--name this Big 5 school that shocked the world when Dwayne McClain and Ed Pinckney led what school over an improbable win over Georgetown in the 1985 NCAA finals.
Answer: Villanova University
16). While the professional season is of indeterminate length, the playoffs, which can last as long as nine months, are played for the Denslow Cup. The referees move around on rollerblades and use potholders (*) to signify which spaces have been used. Defense is played by two opposing players and is achieved primarily through the psyche-out. For 10 points--name this game created by David Zucker in a 1998 movie of the same name starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone?
Answer: BASEketball (note spelling)
17. Premiering in July 2004, the four original titles include Gone Deluxe and Spring Break. They didn't (*) sell well, so Mantra Entertainment, took it up a notch and added three more – The Big Easy, Heatstroke and Dude, Where's My Pants? Like its companion series, you can either get the tamer store version or get the "much more explicit" version via the website. For 10 points--name this video series, yet another sign of the decline of western civilization from film auteur Joe Francis.
Answer: Guys Gone Wild
18. Younger sister Sophie, the straight-A student, tries to escape the shadow cast by older sister and wild child Neddy. (*) They were both adopted by Abbey Spencer, the mega-rich horse farm owner and paramour of dashing attorney Sam Driver. These characters are the main focus of a strip that was the second one created by Nicholas Dallas after Rex Morgan, M.D. For 10 points--name this strip currently produced by Harold LeDoux and Woody Wilson that rarely sees its title judicial character.
Answer: Judge Parker
19. Other than her stint on the last season of Dallas, she has been on the same show since its inception in 1970. Urban (*) legends have her as the daughter of either Joan Rivers or Phyllis Diller, but instead she was born to an Italian-Swedish couple in 1947. She lent her celebrity this season for a charity event on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart while her character got married for the 10th time in 2005. For 10 points--name this actress who has taught the world the 19th time is the charm when she finally won an Emmy in 1999.
Answer: Susan Lucci
EXTRAS
20). The first copies to be released were shipped with a bonus disc Fly on the Wall. "Maggie Mae" and "Dig It" (*) were both dropped, replaced by John's version of "Don't Let Me Down". Also gone is the between track dialogue of the original and the strings and the choir from "The Long and Winding Road". For 10 points--name this 2003 album which presents a stripped down version of the Beatles' final released studio album without Phil Spector's Wall of Sound overdubs.
Answer: Let It Be…Naked (do not accept or prompt on Let It Be)
21. He won the Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1969 under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson and non-fiction works include Jasper Johns and Electronic Life. (*) In September of 2005 he spoke before a U.S. Senate committee about flaws in global warming studies. 13 of his novels have been made into movies, including Rising Sun, Timeline and The Andromeda Strain. For 10 points--name this anthropologist turned science fiction master who wrote The Great Train Robbery and Jurassic Park.
Answer: Michael Crichton
22. He was drafted in the fifth round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by Edmonton and traded for Craig Millar and Barrie Moore two years later. Career (*) highs include scoring 40 goals in Buffalo's run for the 1999 Stanley Cup and becoming one of the Sabres' captains in 2003. When Buffalo renounced his rights after the NHL lockout, he ended up with the New York Islanders. For 10 points--name this player, ID #666 in the ESPN.com databases, who has not played for New Jersey.
Answer: Miroslav Satan [sha-TAN]
2006 Ann B. Davis – The Tenth Anniversary
Bonuses for The Leauge of Extraordinary Hentai Men – answers by Bob Kilner, questions by Mike Burger and Craig Barker
1). Name these nominees for Entertainer of the Year at the 2005 Country Music Awards:
(10) The eventual winner, this Aussie is rumored to be engaged to Nicole Kidman.
Answer: Keith Urban
(10) This past year, Urban toured with this former Entertainer of the Year whose 2005 included a marriage to Renée Zellweger and annulment of that same marriage.
Answer: Kenny Chesney
(10) The dark horse nominee, many thought this youngster might take home the award after a year featuring several hits including "Whiskey Lullaby" and "Alcohol."
Answer: Brad Paisley
2). For 10 points each--given an NFL team, name the stadium they played in during the 1970 season, the first season after the AFL-NFL merger,
(10) New York Jets
Answer: Shea Stadium
(10) New Orleans Saints
Answer: Tulane Stadium
(10) San Francisco 49ers
Answer: Kezar Stadium
3). For 10 points each--name these things about a fictional music group.
(10) Name this group created by Ross Bagdasarian which earned three Grammy nominations.
Answer: The Chipmunks
(10) Bagdasarian created this alter-ego for the Chipmunks' manager, with whom the Chipmunks also lived.
Answer: (David) "Dave" Seville (accept any part)
(10) Before creating the Chipmunks, Bagdasarian had a novelty hit with this 1958 song about a man unlucky in love until he met the title character.
Answer: "Witch Doctor"
4). Name these famous female athletes in the news in the last three years on a 5-10-15 basis.