TOSSUPS – TULANE BACF DETOX 2005 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by Tulane B with an assist from your genial quizmaster
1. The offending party’s name was Murphy and the year was 1945. The opposing team was the Detroit Tigers. Murphy and his companion, tavern owner William Sianis, actually strutted about on the field before the game. However, during the game, team owner Philip Wrigley ejected them because of Murphy’s objectionable odor wafting from their box seat. Sianis’s angry response most recently reared its ugly head in the 2003 NLCS when Steve Bartman just had to reach for that fly ball. FTP, what is this curse, cited as the reason for the Chicago Cubs’ failure to win a pennant since 1945 or a World Series title since 1908, and named for the type of animal Murphy was?
Answer:The Billy Goat Curse (accept Curse of the Billy Goat and similar)
2. This album debuted in 2003, and while songs such as “H. W. C.” (Hot white cum) didn’t become hits for obvious reasons, one of its songs was used by ESPN as the theme for ads for the 2004 NCAA women’s basketball tournament. This album’s production was slicker than that on the artist’s other albums, “Whip-Smart,” “whitechocolatespaceegg” and “Exile in Guyville.” FTP, name this eponymous 4th album which featured “Extraordinary” and “Why Can’t I?”
Answer:Liz Phair [Sorry, need full name without prompt – the question begins “This album…”]
3. While it was originally released in 1984, the full American release was only scheduled for late in 2004 and was mysteriously postponed despite rumors that the new dub had already been completed with Patrick Stewart voicing Lord Yupa and Alison Lohman lending her voice to the titular protagonist. This version was finally released earlier this week under the agreement between Disney and Studio Ghibli. FTP, what is the name of this Japanese cartoon released concurrently with Porco Rosso and The Cat Returns, movies by the same author, Hayao Miyazaki.
Answer:Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (also accept Kaze no tani no Naushika)
4. Frequently appearing characters on this television series (according to IMDB) include Miles Knobnoster and Man. Airing in first run from 1985 until 1990, this sitcom told the kooky story of the Owens family, employers of the title character. Loosely based on a character from a series of 1940s movies starring Clifton Webb, FTP, identify this series which costarred Bob Uecker and Christopher Hewett, the latter as an English housekeeper.
Answer:Mr. Belvedere
5. 250 calories worth of this liquid, 140 more than competitor Red Bull, is sold in 8.5 ounce red-and-silver-striped cans. Red in color, it counts Taurine, Royal Jelly and Inositol among its ingredients, and its taste is reminiscent of Dimetapp. According to its manufacturer, Jones Soda Co., it “revitalizes attitude and restores faith in mankind.” FTP, name this beverage that finally allows one to literally “open up a can of” it.
Answer:Whoop Ass Energy Drink
6. As an art student at Orange Coast College, he impressed his friends with his sewing-machine works of patches on sweaters and a wallet made from spare orange vinyl. He also produces swimsuits, sunglasses, watches and home décor lines along with his most popular line. First inspired by the brightly-painted Sun View Elementary school which he attended in 1972, he has participated in numerous collaborations, most recently with the Elvis Presley estate and Nirve Bicycles, but will always remain loyal to Skurvy, Clancy the short-necked giraffe, Worry Bear and his other character creations. FTP, name this edgy young clothing designer, whose logo consists of the stylized outline of a house and two trees, most well-known for his t-shirts featuring cartooned animals like Julius the Monkey.
Answer:Paul Frank
7. This man was chosen for a record 13 consecutive Pro Bowls from 1986-1998. He began his career with the Memphis Showboats in 1984 and joined the Philadelphia Eagles in 1985 after the USFL folded. He played for the Eagles for the next nine years and then joined the Green Bay Packers, signing a 17 million dollar contract. Until Bruce Smith scraped up one more half-sack to top him, he had the most career sacks of any player since the stat was kept. FTP, name this Chattanooga-born defensive end, known as the “Minister of Defense,” who died on Dec. 26.
Answer:Reggie White
EDITOR’S NOTE: I have too much respect for the late Mr. White to comment on the fact that on his last night on Earth, he sat in a theater and watched Fat Albert.
8. Last year she had a small part as Mary Jane Hutchinson in her highest-profile film in years, I Heart Huckabees. Along with the few surviving members of Ed Wood’s regular troupe, she appeared in the 1998 film I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, based on Wood’s last screenplay. She took an active interest in promoting animal rights after her work with lions in the 1981 bomb Roar, which also included her daughter Melanie in the cast. In 1962, as a model on a commercial on the Today Show, she was spotted by the director who brought her to Hollywood and (at least briefly) stardom. FTP name this actress, whose reputation rests on two Alfred Hitchcock films, Marnie and The Birds.
Answer:Nathalie “Tippi” Hedren
9. There was a span of over 12 years between his only two #1 hits in America, and he was the only member of his first eponymous band to carry over to his second eponymous band. Born Michael Lubowitz, he was a native South African who’d studied classical music at Juilliard, and he’d lived in Britain for only three years before becoming part of the British Invasion. Though he had another top 10 hit with a Dylan song in 1968, because the first hit was so lightweight, critics didn’t take him seriously till his Earth Band’s #1 hit in 1976 with a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Blinded by the Light.” FTP name this musician, namesake of the band whose first and biggest hit was “Doo Wah Diddy Diddy.”
Answer:Manfred Mann
10. Born January 3, 1975 in La Jolla, California, she began acting at a young age in her mother’s dance studio. She got her big break in 1988, while her younger sister landed a less visible role as Becky Slater. She seems to have survived child stardom quite well – she graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1998, and earlier that year published a mathematics paper in Britain’s Journal of Physics A: Mathematics & General. She is also fluent in French, but spoke very little of it in her most famous role. FTP, this is what actress, forever immortalized alongside Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold’s girlfriend Winnie Cooper in “The Wonder Years?”
Answer:Danica Mae McKellar
11. Thinkway Toys released a line of these creatures that respond to ambient sound in various ways. The voice activated organisms include the Acara, Gelert, Shoyru, Grarrl, Ixi, Mynci, Scorchio, Uni, Kacheek and Kougra who were all originated as virtual domesticated animals that need to be fed in order to keep them happy and healthy so that they can fight to the death in the Battledome. FTP, what is the name of these critters that have been made into a line of stuffed animals, pocket playsets and, perhaps most tragically, a collectible card game by Wizards of the Coast.
Answer:Neopets
12. It features amazingly descriptive card names like 30, 20, 18, 15, 14, 12 and many more equally fun numbers, with a Mobius Tubes or Negotiation card thrown in here and there. Trader, Virus, Zombie, Void, Amoeba, Clone, Empath, Macron, Oracle, Philanthropist, Vulch, and Chronos are among the various races one can use. FTP name this game, originally created by Eon Games and now distributed by Avalon Hill, which involves alien races trying to conquer five foreign planets in space.
Answer:Cosmic Encounter
13.He is considered both a legend and certified nutcase in soccer circles. In a World Cup playoff match in 1990, he attempted to dribble past Cameroon striker Roger Milla, but failed, and the resulting goal put Cameroon into the quarterfinals. Presently a goalkeeper coach for Ecuador, he’s trying to convince none other than Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write his biography. When he tested positive for cocaine in October 2004, many were not surprised since he is rumored to have been a good friend of drug lord Pablo Escobar. His most famous moment, however, was a friendly on September 6, 1995 against England at Wembley Stadium in which he executed his unbelievable and self-invented “scorpion kick,” featured in a recent PowerAde commercial. FTP, this is what Colombian madman and goalkeeper, nicknamed “El Loco?” Answer: René Higuita
14. Featuring a memorable score by Craig Safan, this movie was the first in which all special effects (apart from make-up) were done with computers. The title character finds himself hunted by a Zan-Do-Zan, a long way from his trailer park home. Notable characters include the “gung-ho iguana”, Grig, and Centauri, a jovial alien who devised the means that identified prospects for the titular occupation, FTP, identify this 1984 movie starring Lance Guest and Robert Preston, in which a young kid is recruited with an arcade game to battle an invading alien force.
Answer:The Last Starfighter
15.He began work on his first book after reading Sydney Sheldon’s Doomsday Conspiracy. He graduated from Amherst college and Philips Exeter Academy and his first novel, published in 1996, was a nationally bestselling e-book. His latter two books feature the snazzy Harvard professor of religious iconography, Robert Langdon. FTP, name this author of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code.
Answer:Dan Brown
16. This New York native’s 2004 debut double album’s title is believed to be making fun of Norah Jones, but she has actually drawn numerous comparisons to the chanteuse with her jazzy piano-and-vocals style. Her album appeared on Rolling Stone’s “Top 50 Albums of 2004,” while she garnered critical acclaim with lyrics such as “yeah I’ll have my coffee black/hey look we’re bombing Iraq.” FTP, name the songstress behind the album “Get Away From Me.”
Answer:Nellie McKay
17. A math whiz in high school, he dropped out of the University of Arizona after one year to pursue his current profession. This helps explain why he’s prone to malaprops using big words, like saying the atmosphere at the Bristol track “circumferences you.” His P.R. skills are so poor that he was perceived as the bad guy after goading Jimmy Spencer into punching him in the face. Going into the last 10 races in 2004, he was a distant seventh in points and thus benefited greatly from the new championship format, although a broken engine in Atlanta kept him from running away with the title. FTP name the winner of NASCAR’s 2004 Nextel Cup.
Answer:Kurt Busch
18. The Contessa, Double Trouble, Vic the Slick, Robocrook, Top Grunge, and Eartha Brute all debuted in September 1991 in this game show. Also present was a stern chief who barked out orders and encouragement, but she had to be tough if she expected somebody to apprehend the infamous head of the crime syndicate they were tracking across the globe. FTP, name this PBS game show, hosted by Greg Lee with Lynne Thigpen and Rockapella, based on an insanely popular computer game of the same name.
Answer:Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
19. It began on January 18, 1971, when fog forced a London-bound airplane to land in Shannon, Ireland. Bill Backer, creative director for the McCann-Erickson ad agency, and the rest of the irate passengers had to remain near the airport in case the fog lifted. The next day, in the airport café, Backer saw some of the most furious passengers from the day before, laughing and telling stories over bottles of a familiar liquid. Once in London, Backer told fellow songwriters Billy Davis, Roger Greenway, and Roger Cook of this inspiring scene. The result was originally called “Mom, True Love, and Apple Pie,” and later accompanied by a video featuring a group dubbed “The Hillside Singers.” This is, FTP, what timeless carbonated beverage jingle, part of the 1969 “It’s the Real Thing” campaign?
Answer:I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke or I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
(accept either name, but exact answer required in either case)
20. This term was coined in April 6, 2001 in a weblog by Adam Mathes when he realized that a search for the term “internet rockstar” returned the website of Ben Brown as the first result, even though the words did not appear anywhere on Brown’s site. However, two years earlier it was discovered that a search for “more evil than Satan” returned Microsoft’s homepage, and this may be the first recorded use of the phenomenon. Also behind such pranks as a link to John Kerry’s website when “waffles” is entered, and a link to a false “Did you mean French military defeats?” site when “French military victories” is entered, this is, FTP, what nickname for the manipulation of a popular search engine’s PageRank algorithms in order to influence the ranking of a given site in the results page?
Answer:Google bombing (accept Google washing)
21.As of this week, this movie, which in the U.K. had the subtitle “Lust for Glory,” ranked #118 in the Internet Movie Database’s Top 250. Some of the actual stock war footage was filmed by combat cameraman and future softcore porn director Russ Meyer. One of its seven Oscars, for Adapted Screenplay, was shared by two men who had never even met – Edmund North and the then-unknown Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was not present to accept his Oscar, nor was either director Franklin J. Schaffner or the film’s star. FTP name this film, winner in 1970 for Best Picture and for Best Actor George C. Scott.
Answer:Patton
22. In this game, threats come from a distant corner of the galaxy, as an evil alien race sets in motion a sinister plan to conquer the Earth. They unleash a powerful catalyst - Energy X - that imbues the planet's worst miscreants like with super-powers to bring justice to its knees! Earth's only hope to defeat foes like Lord Dominion, Nuclear Winter, and the Time Master himself lies with the few brave characters who will use their new-found power for good including Eve, The Bullet, Law & Order, Sea Urchin, El Diablo, Alchemiss, and Man-Bot. FTP, name this highly satirical product from Irrational Games that takes on the overly patriotic tone of a cold war comic book while it follows the adventures of Minute Man, Liberty Lad and the various members of their titular superheroic organization.
Answer:Freedom Force
23.What scholars do know is that it was written sometime before 1500. It is in half English, half Latin and satirizes the Carmelite monks in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It contains a simple letter-replacement code to disguise the line that contains the offending word, considered even then to be taboo. However, when decoded, the word isn’t even a legitimate Latin verb form. The poem takes its name from its opening line, which is translates as “Fleas, flies, and friars.” Immortalized forever as the first written use of the F word, or at least a related form, “fuccant,” and thought to be its origin, this is, FTP, what classic poem?
Answer:Flen Flyys (also accept Flen Flyys and Freris)
BONI – TULANE BACF DETOX 2005 – UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by Tulane B with an assist from your genial quizmaster
1. Answer the following before-and-afters based on famous court cases involving baseball FTPE. For example, if I said this case reinforced the principle of “one Cubs manager, one vote”, you’d say “Dusty Baker v. Carr.”
A)An argument about the rights of an NL West baseball team accused of a crime.
B)A former Red Sox, Yankees, and Devil Rays 3rd baseman stood in the way of a woman's right to choose.
C)An early 20th century Hall of Fame pitcher used his physical disability to his advantage, thus refuting the notion of “separate but equal” and overturning the landmark decision Plessy v. Ferguson Jenkins.
Answers:
A)Miranda v. Arizona Diamondbacks
B)Roe v. Wade Boggs
C)Mordecai (or Three-Fingered) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS
2. Before and After Again: A Hobbit's Tale by Tulane B. The B is for Baggins. 10 PE.
A)Wagner's keystone work concerning the pursuit of an all-powerful ring and the group of short people who try to destroy it.
B)Thankfully, Aragorn comes back just in time to eat all of the orcs of Mordor and protect his castle over yon, gaining the trust of all the denizens of Free Country, U.S.A. Nobody cares anymore that his pantry is full of the personal belongings of Marzipan, Strong Bad and many others.