2005 Ann B. Davis – January 20, 2005
Packet by Unfit to Direct: Quiz Bowl Veterans for Truth Speak Out Against Mike Burger
AXD 2005
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Tossups
Tossups for Unfit to Direct: Quiz Bowl Veterans for Truth Speak Out Against Mike Burger
by David Thorsley
FIRST PERIOD--Fifty-or-nothing bonuses in effect
1.Covered on Sister Hazel's 2004 release Lift, this debut single reached #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the help of former Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker. Damning its subject with faint praise with lyrics like (*)"I don't mind you comin' here/And wastin' all my time," its popularity helped spawn a string of hit singles that included "Good Times Roll" and "My Best Friend's Girl." For 10 points--name this single by the Cars, currently making the rounds on CircuitCity commercials.
Answer:"Just What I Needed"
2.Geoffrey Bodine won the first exhibition race at this track in 1995, while Dale Jarrett won the first points race the next day. Since 2001 it has hosted an IRL Grand Prix as well as NASCAR, and a 2003 (*) renovation led to this track being awarded new significance in 2004. Originally built to revitalize an area devastated by Hurricane Andrew--for 10 points--name this Miami-area racetrack that was home of the final race in the 2004 NASCAR season
Answer:Homestead-Miami Speedway
3.His one-time band, Foregone Conclusion, was once opened for by the Scottish band Texas. Like some people we won’t mention, he doesn't take well to losing quiz competitions; he claims victory in his (*) company's annual quiz night when his friend Chris Finch tosses Tim Canterbury's shoes over the Slough office building of Wernham-Hogg Paper. For 10 points--name this manager played by Ricky Gervais on The Office.
Answer:David Brent
4.A 1999 renovation replaced its all-black interior with a design based on the Harlem jazz clubs of the 1920's; its re-opening was celebrated with a concert by Courtney Love. Housed in a building on Sunset Boulevard (*) that Bugsy Siegel once used as a gambling den, it became infamous soon after its 1993 opening as the site of River Phoenix's fatal overdose. For 10 points--name this Hollywood nightclub owned by Johnny Depp.
Answer:Viper Room
5.Its dust jacket notes that the audio version is read by Sean Penn. The main character hails from Heartache, Wyoming and travels with his horse Mr. Twain. The characters he meets include poodle ranch owner (*) Thelma Barston and noted country singer Tex Sex. The title location is the island of Cayo Loco in the Bahamas, where Tully Mars works to restore a 150-year old lighthouse. For 10 points--name this 2004 follow-up to Tales from Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett.
Answer:A Salty Piece of Land
6.She returned to the movies after a four-year break in 1978 with Sam Peckinpah's Convoy. She began her career as anphotographer’s assistant for Harper's Bazaar, but was eventually moved in front of the camera, landing her first starring role in 1969's (*)Goodbye, Columbus. Roger Ebert's movie glossary describes a syndrome named for her in which the sufferer grows more beautiful as she dies. For 10 points--name this actress who did grow more beautiful as Jennifer Cavalleri died in Love Story.
Answer:Ali MacGraw
7.A 2002 bill allowed for hotel tax revenues to fund this game to prevent it from moving to Houston. The first game in 1974, was a 21-0 shutout. Its customary date in late November keeps its teams from participating in the (*) I-AA playoffs, but they don't mind as the game pumps $600,000 into the athletic budgets of its SWAC participants. Held at the Superdome since 1976, name--for 10 points--this annual clash between Southern and Grambling.
Answer:Bayou Classic
SECOND PERIOD--Unlimited guessing on completed tossups
8.In November 2004, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint that commercials for this food item were misleading, noting that three servings of the item contained 6,540 milligrams of sodium and 114 grams of sugar. However, those (*) three servings do contain only 30 grams of fat, 3 grams less than one Big Mac. For 10 points--name this sandwich available at Subway, offered up as a healthy alternative to McDonald's Chicken Selects.
Answer:Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki
9.Kim Basinger makes one of her first appearsances in a sixsixth season episode called "Dark Sunrise." Its third season began with the title characters visiting their ancestral home in Scotland, and featured an episode where their housekeeper (*) Mildred was threatened while serving on a jury. In an episode in the second season, Sergeant Enright is accused of killing his wife in front of the main characters, one of whom is the San Francisco chief of police. For 10 points--name this 1970s crime drama starring Rock Hudson and Susan St. James as the title couple.
Answer:McMillan and Wife
10.Big & Rich Todd Rundgren and Mott the Hoople have written ones about themselves. Wendel Clark, Michael Valentine, and Lucy Jordan are the subjects of ones by the Rheostatics, the Killers, and Marianne Faithful, respectively. (*) Big Star's debut album includes one about El Goodo, while XTC wrote one in honor of a Jesus-like figure named Peter Pumpkinhead. For 10 points--name this music form which appears in the title of these songs, as well as songs about John and Yoko and the Green Berets.
Answer:ballads
11.In this 2001 film, aTeenage boys were frustrated when a scene from this film featuring the naked daughter of Congressman Tom Oakley searching for a condom was cut to only suggest nudity. The two main characters are students at Pacific Palisades (*) High School--one is a Latino who has a football scholarship and plans to attend the NavalAcademy; the other is the rich, wild daughter of the aforementioned congressman. For 10 points--identify this 2001 film starring Jay Hernandez and Kirsten Dunst as opposites attracting.
Answer:crazy/beautiful
12.He steals his mother's marijuana in an attempt to lose the dweeb status he earned by trying to start a Space club, but (*) ends up taking a trip to the ER after suffering an asthma attack. His father was a Mexican busboy, but (*) his mother claimed that he was a graduate student in Peru. Vice-president Karen Carmichael and campaign strategist Adam Chasen inform us of his future in politics. For 10 points--identify this younger McAllister brother and future president on a WB teen drama.
Answer:Robert "Bobby" McAllister
13.Their earliest performances were held in late 2001 in an abandoned warehouse they dubbed "the Chateau." The 2003 release of their first EP, Darts of Pleasure, led critics to dub them "the (*) Scottish Interpol," though they beat Interpol to the top 40 when their 2004 self-titled full-length debut spawned a top ten modern rock hit with "Take Me Out." For 10 points--identify this Glaswegian band named for an Austrian archduke.
Answer:Franz Ferdinand
14.This company's name was purchased from a defunct Panamanian company. At its height in the late 1980s, it had the services of directors such as Roland Emmerich, (*) James Cameron, and Paul Verhoeven. A sequence of flops including Air America and Narrow Margin resulted in bankruptcy with the historic bomb Cutthroat Island. For 10 points--name this production company behind 1980s blockbusters like First Blood.
Answer:Carolco
THIRD PERIOD--No special rules in effect
14.Although he began his business career as a watermelon salesman, he rose to become CEO of G.D. Searle from 1977 to 1985, where he successfully lobbied for FDA approval of aspartame as an artificial sweetener. A recent biography by (*) “neo-conservative doyenne” Midge Decter calls him a “studmuffin”; however, he is infamous in some circles for boasting that he stands eight to ten hours a day and for once shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. For 10 points – show you know the known knowns by naming this current Secretary of Defense.
Answer: Donald Rumsfeld
15.He missed the entire 1923 season as the result of a sinus infection that nearly blinded him. Returning as a player-manager the next year, he never again approached the .420 batting (*) average he had in 1922, the year he won the inaugural (*)AL MVP award. He first broke the .400 barrier in 1920, when he set a record that lasted until 2004. For 10 points--name this former St. Louis Brown whose single-season hit record was broken by Ichiro Suzuki.
Answer:George Sisler
16.Its eight competitors are subject to a 10 P.M. curfew and are forbidden from having any romantic entanglements. They are dDivided into Team Aztec and Team Maya, and they compete in seven contests in order to win seven wooden totems. Its producers saw the possibility for conflict when (*) twins Lizzie and Shane Dalton, who live on opposite sides of the country, both auditioned for this show despite having extremely different personalities. For 10 points--identify this reality show from the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen TV movie of the same name.
Answer:The Challenge
17.After suffering a torn labrum in 1999, she attempted to recover without surgery but ended up with one side of her body much more muscular than the other (*) and failed to qualify for the 2000 Olympics. At the prompting of her college coach Teri McKeever, she modified her (*) stroke to compensate and recovered from the injury that kept her from qualifying for the 2000 Olympics. Named Sports Illustrated on Campus' female athlete of the year for 2003, she did not lose a race that year until the NCAA championships. For 10 points--name this Cal swimmer who won five medals at Athens, including gold in the 100-meter backstroke.
Answer:Natalie Coughlin
18.This show has had three main settings over the years: originally it was based around the Church of Five Little Points in Illinois. The show moved to Selby Flats, California along with (*) Ned Holden and Mary Ruthledge. Revolving around the families including the Santoses, Bauers, and Spauldings, it is now set in the fictional town of Springfield.Now set in the fictional town of Springfield, it revolves around families that include the Santoses, Bauers, and Spauldings. Airing continuously on radio and TV since 1937, name--for 10 points--this CBS soap opera.
Answer:(The) Guiding Light
19.Q-Tip and the Jungle Brothers make guest appearances on this album's "Buddy." Extended from a demo tape called Plug Tunin' that caught the attention of Prince Paul, its (*) 24 tracks included "Transmitting Live From Mars," which sampled the Turtles'"You Showed Me" without permission, leading to a lawsuit that restricted the use of sampling in rap albums. For 10 points--name this 1989 release featuring hits like "Me, Myself, and I," the debut of De La Soul.
Answer:3 Feet High and Rising
20.The last name's the same: The former Canadian national basketball team member who plays Dan Scott on One Tree Hill. Sideshow Mel's boss at the Gulp ‘n' Blow. The (*) Swedishdefenseman who holds the Washington Capitals record for most games played. The real name of "Hot Hot Hot" singer Buster Poindexter, formerly of the New York Dolls. For 10 points--give the last name shared by these individuals and the actress who starred in Girl in a Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation.
Answer:Johansson
21.Fisherman's Hut on this island's Palm Beach is considered one of the best windsurfing spots in the Caribbean, while much of this island's inland is part of ArikokNational Park. Located too far south to receive hurricanes, (*) as it lies just 18 miles north of Venezuela, in 1986 it seceded from the rest of the Netherlands Antilles. For 10 points--identify this resort island, birthplace of Sidney Ponson, whose largest city in Oranjestad.
Answer:Aruba
22.The player caught passes in 150 straight games, a streak that lasted from 1980 until 1989. Drafted in 1978 out of Alabama, he played hurt for most of the second half of his 12-year career, but missed out on the Super Bowl due to (*)"The Drive" and "The Fumble." Second to only Shannon Sharpe in receptions by tight ends, name--for 10 points--this longtime Cleveland Brown and current Baltimore Ravensgeneral manager nicknamed "The Wizard of Oz".
Answer:Ozzie Newsome
23.This company’s name was purchased from a defunct Panamanian company. At its height in the late 1980s, it had the services of directors such as Roland Emmerich, (*) James Cameron, and Paul Verhoeven. A sequence of flops including Air America and Narrow Margin resulted in bankruptcy with the historic bomb Cutthroat Island. For 10 points – name this production company behind 1980s blockbusters like First Blood.
Answer: Carolco
243.This song plays over the family's arrival in New York City in In America. It was written a day after the band performed at Greenwich Village's (*) Night Owl Café, where a young girl dancing to the bands performance amid a crowd of beatniks prompted John Sebastian to asked the title question. For 10 points--name this first Top 10 single for the Lovin' Spoonful.
Answer:"Do You Believe in Magic"
2005 AXD
Tossups for Unfit to Direct: Quiz Bowl Veterans for Truth Speak Out Against Mike Burger
by David Thorsley
Bonuses
1.Name these movies featuring mail-order brides, for 10 points each.
A. (10) (10)Ben Chaplin plays a British bank manager who orders a Russian mail-order bride and isn't quite satisfied with her, even though she looks exactly like Nicole Kidman.
Answer:Birthday Girl
B. (10) (10)Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve star in the 1969 François Truffaut film about a tobacco factory owner on Réunion whose bride is a con woman.
Answer:Mississippi Mermaid or La Sirène du Mississippi
C. (10) (10)Adapted from the same William Irish story as Mississippi Mermaid, this 2001 film stars Antonio Banderas as a Cuban who orders an American bride played by Angelina Jolie.
Answer:Original Sin
2.Name these related bands, for 10 points each.
A. (10) (10)Named for a popular mountain for skiing in Colorado, this Denver band hit it big in 1970 with Green-Eyed Lady.
Answer:Sugarloaf
B. (10) (10)This band's lead singer has shown how desperate he is for attention by being a host on Extra!
Answer:Sugar Ray
C. (10) (10)Opening for Green Day for part of the American Idiot tour, their 2004 release Palm Trees and Power Lines spawned the single "Memory."
Answer:Sugarcult
3.In December 2004, it became the only Division I-A school with African-American coaches in both football and men's basketball. For 10 points each:
A. (10) (10)Name this Pac-10 school.
Answer:University of Washington
B. (10) (10)Washington achieved this feat by hiring this football coach weeks after his controversial dismissal.
Answer:Tyrone Willingham
C. (10) (10)Willingham joins this basketball coach who led UW to a preseason top 25 ranking and its first NCAA tournament since 1999 in 2004. and
Answer:Lorenzo Romar
4.A 1980s family sitcom was nearing the end when the oldest child found a significant other. Name these characters in the significant other role, for 10 points each.
A. (10) (10)This apparent greasemonkey was actually a sensitive artist who eventually won over the hearts of the Keatons on Family Ties.
Answer:Nick Moore
B. (10) (10)The Growing Pains Movie revealed that this character and Mike Seaver got married and adopted three children of three different races.
Answer:Kate Macdonald
C. (10) (10)Karen Arnold get married and moves to Alaska near the end of The Wonder Years with this man who was attractive--in an ugly sort of way--as he was played by David Schwimmer.
Answer:Michael
5.Name these websites published by Gawker media, for 10 points each.
A. (10) (10)Written by Ana Marie Cox, this "potty-mouthed" site disseminates gossip on inside-the-Beltway politics.
Answer:Wonkette
B. (10) (10)Also a "gossip rag" like Wonkette, this L.A.-based site deals with entertainment industry gossip.
Answer:Defamer
C. (10) (10)Unlike Wonkette and Defamer, tThis site is not based around a particular city; instead it reports on "the pornography--and sex culture--that the digital revolution…has made possible."
Answer:Fleshbot
6.Name these movies from a musical cameo appearance, for 10 points each.
A. (10) (10)Nicolas Cage stows away on Dwight Yoakam's truck in this 1993 western noir that also starred Lara Flynn Boyle.
Answer:Red Rock West
B. (10) (10)Aimee Mann plays a German nihilist who loses her toe in this Coen brothers film.
Answer:The Big Lebowski
C. (10) (10)Z-Man reveals to Kelly McNamara of the Carrie Nations that he can get Strawberry Alarm Clock to play at his parties for free in this 1970 film.