The 2007 Chris McCray Tournament For Academic Excellence
Extra Round 1 – USE ONLY IN EMERGENCEIS. THESE QUESTIONS HAVEN’T BEEN EDITED.
Packet by Freelance Writers
Written by BB, DL, AJ, JB, JW, AH, DGr, SP, JM, MB, DG
Edited by MAQT

Tossups

1) (BB) Their 1958 defense was nicknamed “The Chinese Bandits” after a line in the Terry and the Pirates comic strip that referred to Chinese Bandits as the most vicious people in the world. They've had two undefeated seasons - 1908 and 1958 and won National Championships in 1958 and 2003. Their home stadium contains dormitories no longer in use to bypass a budget restriction that allowed funds to be used to build dormitories, but not for stadium expansion. For 10 points, name this university located in Baton Rouge whose teams is nicknamed the Tigers or the Bayou Bengals.
ANSWER: Lousiana State University or LSU

2) (DL) He defended his title at the “Massacre at Mareno” after the Russian government arrested the son of his opponent, Viktor Korchnoi. He set an ELO ratings record of 2985 when he won the 1994 Linares. 10 years earlier, he lost twenty pounds during an aborted 48-game defense of his title, which he'd gained in 1975 when the previous holder abdicated, before losing the title in a rematch, though he became world champion again in 1993 when Gary Kasparov left FIDE. FTPE, name this Russian who succeeded Bobby Fischer as World Chess Champion.
ANSWER: Anatoly Karpov

3) (BB) Her sister Kim coming out of the closet helped her presentation on the documentary Degrassi Talks on Sexuality as well as the accompanying book. Kevin Smith wanted her for the role of Rene, eventually played by Shannen Doherty in Mallrats, but Universal wouldn't approve her. For 10 points, name this actress who was Meghan in Under the Umbrella Tree, Lisa Carnard on The Kids of Degrassi Street and Caitlin Ryan of Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi: The Next Generation.
ANSWER: Stacie Mistysyn

4) (AH) The singer speaks of a peddler who challenges a countess to “Name someone that's not a parasite” so he can “Say a prayer for him.” The title phenomena conquer the singer's mind, take his place, kept him up past the dawn, make a discussion of a bejeweled mule and a mustachioed woman who can't find her knees “seem so cruel,” and finally are “all that remain.” Opening “Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?” this song contains the enduring line “The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face,” referring to the title figure. FTP, name this song off of 1966's Blonde on Blonde, one of the best known works of Bob Dylan.
ANSWER: Visions of Johanna

5) (JB) The speaker remembers "learning fast as the weeks went past" and laments that his young love left him for some foreign guy. Now he's crying by the record machine, remembering his old blue jeans, gold Chevy, and the tight dresses his girlfriend wore on Friday nights. He compares them to "something shocking, when your feet just can't keep still", and recalls holding hands and skipping stones with Suzie back when rock was young. FTP, name this Elton John song.
ANSWER: "Crocodile Rock"

6) (BG) During his junior year of high school, he led his football team to the State Semifinals and his basketball team to a runner-up finish in the State Championships. However, during his other three years at St. Vincent-St. Mary's high school, his basketball team earned the title of State Champions in Division III basketball. After he was declared ineligible to play in the NCAA, he declared for the lottery and was selected first overall in 2003. For ten points, name this professional basketball player, whose performance in Game 5 of the Conference Finals for the Cleveland Cavaliers will be a memorable one.
ANSWER: LeBron James

7) (BB) The games GoldenEye007, Gran Turismo and MindGym were the first winners of its Interactive Entertainment Awards in 1998. The award itself is a theatrical mask with a slightly tragic expression, mounted on a rod which is set into a cubical base that contains the inscription. The Los Angeles Branch presents the Britannia Awards, which are given to individuals, not to a film or a specific performance, and may be specifically for lifetime achievement. The television awards are limited to Britsh programs, except for the International category. The film awards are open to all nationalities and could be considered an indicator for the Oscars, but there is a special award for Best British Film. For 10 points, name this award begin by various of branches of Britain's premier cinema and broadcast academy.
ANSWER: BAFTA Award or British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award

8) (DL) Their first hit was 2000's “Prayin' For Daylight,” and their second album produced “Love You Out Loud” and “Mayberry.” They won a Best Country Song Grammy for a song about setting out on a narrow road, which was released the year after Christina Auria appeared nude in their video for “I Melt.” The title of their biggest hit from Me and My Gang refers not to the “rain on the roof of this empty house,” but “being so close.” Covering “Life is a Highway” on the Cars soundtrack, FTP, name this Gary LeVox country band of “Bless the Broken Road” and “What Hurts the Most.”
ANSWER: Rascal Flatts

9) (AJ) In his sole directorial outing, he also starred as an ex-cop who breaks out of prison to visit his sick son in Five Days From Home. He shot most of the pilot for Dynasty as Blake Carrington before being fired for creative differences. His temperament also cost him the Steve McQueen role in The Magnificent Seven, although McQueen being forced to turn down the role of Paul Varjak led this man to be cast opposite Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. He made his mark in TV, first as title freelance Boston insurance investigator in Banacek, then as the Vietnam veteran Colonel John Smith. FTP, name this actor who loved it when a plan came together as the cigar-smoking leader Hannibal on The A-Team.
ANSWER: George Peppard

10) (JB) Its namesake high school features a secret society known as the Tritons. The home of baseball's Sharks and the seat of Balboa County, its recently-proposed incorporation failed after a sex scandal involving County Supervisor Woody Goodman, and there are continuing tensions between its poor and rich residents, who live in the 90909 zip code. Criminal elements here include the Fitzpatrick family and the PCH biker gang, lead by Eli Navarro, while its Sheriff, Don Lamb, got the position after his predecessor was recalled over his handling of the Lily Kane murder case. FTP, name this home of Hearst College and setting of Veronica Mars.
ANSWER: Neptune, California

11) (AH) This band's rhythm guitarist was raised by the strictly religious Reverend Aslaug in a village near Lillehammer, Norway. One of their most famous songs is subtitled “Underwater Friends” and recounts how the narrator bathes in liquid oxygen and drinks his own urine, which tastes like vodka, after a repetitive chorus. That song about killing legendary aquatic creatures is titled “Mermaider,” and this band's members include Nathan Explosion, Swisgaar Skwigelf, Pickles the Drummer, Toki Wartooth, and William Murderface. FTP, name this “Biggest act in the universe,” the fictional band behind the Guitar Hero II song Thunderhorse, featured in Adult Swim's Metalocalypse.
ANSWER: Dethklok (prompt on “Metalocalypse”)

12) (BB) He played with the Clovers during the 1970s and he took his last name from the first name of his mother's boyfriend. He has dabbled in acting, with the role of attorney Billy Flynn on stage in Chicago and singing “Cruisin' ” in the film Duets with Gwyneth Paltrow who was playing his daughter. For 10 points, name this icon of the 1980s who, with his band the News had hits with such songs as “The Heart of Rock and Roll”, “Stuck with You” and “The Power of Love”.
ANSWER: Huey Lewis (He was born Hugh Cregg and his mother's boyfriend was Lew Welch.)

13) (BB) Although they once held properties in Europe, all their parks are in North America, including one in Montreal and one in Mexico City. It has 160 roller coasters in its 30 locations. In 2004-2005, a campaign advertising all the venues featured an elderly man in a tuxedo and red bow tie dancing wildly. Specific properties include Magic Mountain in California, Great Adventure in New Jersey and America in Maryland. For 10 points, name this amusement park chain that takes its name from it's first one in Texas and because several governments have ruled that state.
ANSWER: Six Flags

14) (DGr) This event excluded a team from the British Isles for the first time since 1938. The surprise team was Bulgaria, which eliminated defending champion Germany in the quarterfinals. Awarded to the host nation contingent on them establishing a top level professional league in that sport, the hosts advanced to the Round of 16 by upsetting Colombia 2-1, a result that led to the murder of their goalkeeper Andres Escobar. For 10 points, name this sporting event that concluded with Brazil's penalty kick shootout victory over Italy in the final held at the Rose Bowl.
ANSWER: 1994 FIFA World Cup

15) (AJ) The second time that he was traded by the Texas Rangers, it was for Ken Clay and a minor leaguer to be named later. The first time, it was for Dave Tomlin and cash right before he went 21-6 with a 2.73 ERA to win his second Cy Young Award. His first Cy Young came when he went 24-16 with a 1.92 ERA after he had been traded with Frank Duffy by the Giants to Cleveland for Sam McDowell after the 1971 season. In 22 seasons for eight teams he amassed 314 wins, 99 more than his brother Jim. FTP, name this Hall of Famer best known for his suspected use of spitballs.
ANSWER: Gaylord Perry

16) (DL) During the credits, the two stars exchange Al Pacino impressions. One had earlier complained about having to be “realistic” while sitting naked inside a fake womb talking to the audience. Jennie asks that star to have sex during the filming of a battle scene she wanted cut, and doesn't want to hire Gillian Anderson to play Widow Wadman. Its star is one of the few not familiar with the source book, noting the Observer ranked it #8 among great novels before being told it was a chronological list. FTP, name this 2006 Michael Winterbottom film with Steve Coogan, adapted from a Laurence Sterne novel.
ANSWER: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (accept either)

17) (JB) He has two cameos in Deception: as a prisoner in the "Dark Prison" stage and training to be a Seidan guard. In one possible future, he defeats Blaze and becomes a lawless vigilante. Voiced on TV by Ron Perlman, he was a member of the Riot Control Brigade, explaining his use of tazers and concussion grenades, but when Shao Kahn's portal opened above New York he joined with Raiden and the other chosen warriors. FTP, name this New York cop from the Mortal Kombat series.
ANSWER: Kurtis Stryker

18) (JW) He is friend with the owner of the Cleveland Browns, who sent him clams from the Cuyahoga River. His hero, Don Geiss* removes him as the head of General Electric's microwave division after his fireworks special incites panic in New York City. Responsible for the hiring of Tracey Jordan, this is FTP what inventor of the trivection oven, played by Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock.
ANSWER: Jack Donaghy

19) (DL) Its first track, which was the theme song to 3 South, takes its melody from Cat Stevens's “Father and Son,” and claims “I don't know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins.” Its closing instrumental, “Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon” won a Grammy, while it claims “Everyone you know someday will die” on “Do You Realize??” Its title song describes someone who's “taking lots of vitamins” because “it's demanding to defeat those evil machines.” FTP, name this 2002 album, the most successful by The Flaming Lips, about the struggles of a Japanese woman against colorful androids.
ANSWER: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (accept “Fight Test” before “closing instrumental)

20) (BB) Norman Lear cast him as shallow Presidential aide and joke writer Lanny Wolf in the short-lived Washington-based political sitcom All's Fair. He appeared on Mister Roger's Neighborhood as an acrobat in a Neighborhood of Make-Believe troop called “The Flying Zookeenies”. Born with the name of an Academy Award-winning producer who is still active as an actor, he changed his last name to one shared by two famous screen performers, only one of whom was born with that last name. For 10 points, name this actor who starred as Bruce Wayne and Batman in the two Tim Burton-directed films.
ANSWER: Michael Keaton (He was born Michael Douglas. The other Keatons referred to are Diane Keaton and Buster Keaton. Only Buster was born a Keaton.)

21) (DL) In 2005 he was in a collision that gave him vertigo and injured a teammate for the season. In 2000 he lost his job to Johnny Damon, despite winning Rookie of the Year the year before. In 2004 he was appointed to the National League All-Star team when Ken Griffey Jr. was injured, though he was voted in for the American League before the Royals traded him. He represented the NL's tying run in the 2006 All-Star game, where he earlier scored on a wild pitch after teammate David Wright homered. Best-known for hitting 8 home runs in the 2004 post-season for the Astros, FTP, name this center-fielder for the Mets.
ANSWER: Carlos Beltran

22) (BG) This man's first coaching job came at San Diego State from 1964 to 1966 where he served as offensive line coach under Don Coryell. After that, he moved around to different colleges until Coryell hired him as an offensive backfield coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. Then, in 1981, he was hired by Jack Kent Cooke for head coach of the team he is most associated with. He coached them until 1992, when he retired to focus on his racing team. For ten points, name this current Redskins head coach, the only one who currently coaches while enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
ANSWER: Joe Gibbs