Round 9 Rc Cola 2008 by Robin Richards, Chuck Pearson, Michael Kearney and Charlie Steinhice

ROUND 9 RC COLA 2008 BY ROBIN RICHARDS, CHUCK PEARSON, MICHAEL KEARNEY AND CHARLIE STEINHICE

1. She was the first female college athlete to win the Sullivan Award. She chose uniform #23 as homage not to Michael Jordan, but to the 23rd Psalm. In her rookie WNBA season, she missed one game due to a finger injury she suffered at the league’s first All-Star Game. She is one of only five WNBA players to notch 20 points and 20 rebounds in a game, and the only one to do so twice. The 1999 WNBA Rookie of the Year, she ranks sixth all-time in points per game and third in rebounds per game. But frequent coaching changes and lack of team chemistry, especially a public feud with Nikki McCray, limited her team’s success, and then in 2004 she left the Mystics and went public with her struggles with severe depression. Retiring from the L.A. Sparks just five games into the 2007 season, FTP name this basketball standout who won three straight national championships at Tennessee.

Answer: Chamique Holdsclaw

1. Formed in 1989, their first rehearsal was canceled due to the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Their name allegedly came from an incident in a San Francisco park where a little boy wanted to feed birds with their leftover pizza, only to have his parents tell him how dirty they were and the band to comment on how “blonde” they were. Their drummer Wanda day was fired after drug use and lead singer Linda Perry prominently displayed a “dyke” sticker on her guitar during a performance on David Letterman. FTP name this 90s one hit wonder known for their hit “What’s Up,” better known for the line “What’s Goin’ On?”

ANSWER: 4 Non-blondes

1. After the Week Two broadcast, her mother died. She continued in the competition and achieved her highest score in Week Three with a passionate performance that left her competition in tears. Her home was under threat due to the Malibu fires in the days leading up to the Week Five broadcast; while she equaled her second-highest score, she controversially landed in the bottom two in voting, but remained in the competition due to Mark Cuban's elimination. She missed the Week Six results show with food poisoning. In Week Seven, she and her professional partner Tony Dovolani were finally eliminated, ending, FTP, the tumultuous Dancing With The Stars season of what former Bond Girl and "medicine woman"?

Answer: Jane Seymour

1. In 1995, we are led to believe he died in Russia in 1986. After WWII, his parents, betrayed by the British government, were killed in a murder/suicide by his father, leaving him an orphan at the age of six and a ward of the very government that betrayed him. Eight years after his alleged death, he hatches a scheme to hijack a helicopter and take control of a secret Russian space weapons system, all under the guise of the two faced Roman god Janus before meeting his demise at the pointy end of a radio telescope in Cuba. FTP name this former partner to 007, the villain from Goldeneye, played by Sean Bean.

ANSWER: 006 Also accept Alec Trevelyan

1. An over-the-phone version was released in 2006, wherein players can call in and play by speaking voice commands. It’s MIT hacker jargon for an unfinished program It has 14 sequels, released over 16 years, even though Wishbringer was never officially linked to the main game. Certain early releases contained a bug that gave the response “I can’t see the Gnome of Zurich anywhere”. The most famous areas in the game are the Flood Control Sam #3 and the White House, which is east of the open field where you begin the game. FTP, name this descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure, the most influential of all text adventure games.

ANSWER: Zork

1. He wiped out of the Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge on November 28, 2005 after getting losing power and communications due to a South Dakota blizzard. He describes his own comic strip as focusing on "an
   idiot who wears a cape for no apparent reason, a scheming teenager, a cocker spaniel dog, a mini-mart clerk, a pink turtle, a super-intelligent board-shaped creature, and the apartment building they share." He's more widely known, however, for founding a website that served as a collective for web-comic authors of all stripes, one that followed in the path blazed by the hosting service Big Panda. FTP, name the artist behind the webcomic Superosity and the CEO of Keenspot Entertainment.

Answer: Chris Crosby

1. This author of the autobiography "I Always Wanted to Be Somebody" served for ten years as New Jersey State Commissioner of Athletics. She achieved little success as a pro golfer, with zero wins in 171 LPGA tournaments, and the absence of pro tennis events meant her only paychecks came from exhibition matches. With Kurt Nielsen she won mixed doubles at the U.S. Open in 1957, and she won women’s doubles at the other three Grand Slam events, including three straight with three different partners at Wimbledon from 1956 to 1958. An Australian Open short of a career Grand Slam in singles, she won the French Open in 1956 and both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1957 and 1958. FTP name this tennis star, the first Africa-American winner of any Grand Slam tennis titles.

Answer: Althea Gibson

1. Number 434 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, it was team written at the Lorraine Motel three years before it would get an infamous claim to fame by Steve Cropper and the singer that it made famous. Upon the singer’s death in 2006, Billy Joel performed this song in his honor at a concert held that evening. At the title time, the singer knows no one else is around and waits for his love to come tumbling down and when the stars begin to shine. FTP name this Wilson Pickett song that shares its name with the time in Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell where she cries “more, more, more.”

ANSWER: In theMidnight Hour

1. Among them: May 26, 1637, September 9, 1956, July 16, 1939, June 21, 1964, and six others. The results, respectively: drastic changes in how Americans and Indians interact, the birth of the Rock n’ Roll culture after Elvis performed on Ed Sullivan, the creation of the atomic bomb and the passage of the Civil Rights Act after Freedom. Also adding the death of President McKinley and the Battle of Antietam, these are, FTP, what events, according to the History Channel program, that made unforeseen changes in American History?

ANSWER: Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America

1. In 1993, a videogame based on it was released, where the protagonist must save his best friend from Zoltar the Gelatinous Cube. The episode of The Twilight Zone mentioned in the movie about a tongue that gives birth to baby tongues does not actually exist. The producers were unable to use Stairway To Heaven because they did not secure the music rights, so all non-theatrical versions use a different song, making the joke involving the “No Stairway” sign completely non-sensical. Broadcast versions also change the ice cream flavor used to describe Benjamin from Pralines and Dick to Jamocha Almond Idiot. It contains small roles for Meat Loaf, ChrisFarley, Ed O’Neill and Stan Mikita, but FTP, it’s best known for introducing the world to assphinctersezwhat, Extreme Close-ups, and headbanging to Bohemian Rhapsody

ANSWER: Wayne’s World

1. She played herself in a cameo in an episode of the Farrah Fawcett-Ryan O’Neal sitcom “Good Sports.” When she visited a St. Louis brickworks plant she inherited, the male executives patted her hand and told her not to worry about a thing; she fired them all. Known for such eccentricities as taking a dancing bear as an escort to a ball, she fought General Motors for two years to keep her late husband’s Buick franchise. A reporter once said her most controversial remarks were fueled by her drink of choice, which in keeping with her penurious ways was cheap vodka. Those remarks included “Only fruits wear earrings” and “Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.” FTP name this woman, who from 1981 to 1999 was owner of the Cincinnati Reds.

Answer: Marge Schott

1. He went AWOL from Celebrity Fit Club during the third show of the 2005 season, resurfaced the following week to take the rest of his team clubbing and to behave erratically, and wound up treating the rest of
   the series as public, on-air rehab. He turned up on 2006's Heavy: The Story of Metal to say "I could shoot myself in the ____ing head for writing that song" that turned out to be his band's iconic hit, cursing the album that should have been named Uncle Tom's Cabin but instead wound up carrying that song's name. These are the highlights
   (such as they are) of the unlikely VH1 career of, FTP, what songwriter of "Big Talk", "Down Boys", "Heaven", and "Cherry Pie", the frontman of Warrant?

Answer: Jani Lane

1. When it was released, it was the highest-grossing independent movie in history. All the shirts that Danny wears in the film have a picture of Sid Vicious on them. Sam Rockwell had one of his first roles as the main thug that runs the warehouse. According to their delivery man, they live at number 122 and 1/8. Jim Henson said that they were the most advanced thing he had ever worked with. Kevin Clash, better known as the voice of Elmo, voiced their father. In the UK release, all scenes involving nunchuks are deleted, which makes the movie pretty short. FTP, name this movie featuring the struggle between the clan of Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki, a movie about anthropomorphic amphibian adolescents

ANSWER: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1. He is a Yellow Trout, which should make him the soulmate of a Blue Fox. Although he is very muscular, he’s incredibly uncoordinated. He launched an attack on the Tower of London, but not the one IN London. When we see him last, he’s dating Bonnie Rockwaller and his father is nowhere in sight. He was trained in the fine arts of fighting and villainy by Shego, but he’d still rather pursue the life of an international pop superstar. FTP, name this man voiced by Nestor Carbonell, son of a multi-billionaire supervillain on Disney’s Kim Possible

ANSWER: Senor Senior Jr

1. WARNING: TEAM AND YEAR REQUIRED. John Vaughan, a conference rookie-of-the-year runner-up the previous year, was lost for the season when he injured his knee in a pick-up game. This team lost their first home game to Creighton, 72-52. After New Year's, they sat at an inauspicious 7-4 and 1-1 in the conference. They beat Wichita State in their BracketBuster matchup to earn a #25 coaches' poll ranking, whereupon they immediately lost to Hofstra. But Folarin Campbell, Lamar Butler, Will Thomas, Tony Skinn, and Jai Lewis followed up their 22-6 regular season with a run of victories over Michigan State, North Carolina, Witchita State (again) and Connecticut in the NCAA Tournament. FTP, what team in what year was coached by Jim Larranaga and lost to eventual national champion Florida after achieving the Colonial Athletic Association's only Final Four berth?

Answer: 2005-2006George Mason Patriots

1. The name’s the same. A tree of the species Cydonia oblongai that creates a pear type fruit. In “Who shot Mr. Burns,” it’s the flavor of the last chocolate Smithers leaves at the end of a binge with Mr. Burns. In “White Man Can’t Jump,” it’s what Rosie Perez’s character answers on Jeopardy to “Adam and Eve dined on this forbidden fruit.” In Hispanic cultures, it’s the equivalent of a “sweet sixteen” party. FTP give the common words, which is also Spanish for fifteen.

ANSWER:Quince

1. It serves as the nickname for the National Association of Women Workers, created in 1973. The original title to Sheena Easton’s “Morning Train,” it was changed so it could not be confused with this 1980 version. One of the few hit songs to include a typewriter, the singer sings of waking up in the morning, pouring a cup of ambition and trying to come alive while, cinematically speaking, you plot to murder your boss. FTP name this Dolly Parton hit that shares its name with film starring her, Jane Fonda, Lilly Tomlin and Dabney Coleman about typical working hours in the corporate world

ANSWER: 9 to 5

1. It began as a stage musical created by Jon William and Leslie Bricusse, but the project was scrapped after ten songs were written, songs which eventually made their way into the film as incidental music Glenn Close’s character gets shoved into a box with a scorpion, while Jimmy Buffett’s character tries to steal the protagonist’s shoes. David Crosby shows up multiple times, while Gwyneth Paltrow plays a younger version of Maggie Smith’s character. Several scenes are shot in Kensington Gardens, where the protagonist wakes up in front of a statue of himself various lines are directly lifted from the book, like Dark and sinister man, have at thee, and the last line of the film “To Live, to live would be an awfully big adventure”, echoing a line in the book.

FTP, name this film where Robin Williams stretches his acting abilities as a man who can’t grow up

ANSWER: Hook

1. Medusa’s Lair, The Viper’s Nest, The Dark Forest, The Pirate’s Cove, The Cave of Sighs, The Treasury of Golden Orbs, The Jester’s Court, The Quicksand Bog, The Tomb of the Headless Kings, The Mine Shaft, The Observatory, The King’s Storeroom, The Pit of Despair, The Throne Room, and The Shrine of the Silver Monkey were all rooms blocked by Mayan guards in this Nickelodeon game show hosted by Kirk Fogg and Olmec

ANSWER: Legends of theHidden Temple accept Hidden Temple before “game show”

1. The name’s the same: One was invented in 1933 by WG Peacock, the other patented by Leon Levavasseur in 1902 and named “Antoinette” in honor of his banker’s daughter. The former, a division of Campbell’s, can be used in the creation of a variant of a Bloody Mary, while the latter, used the world over, can use a cross or flat-plane variety, of which the first massed produced American ones were in Cadillacs in 1914. Also the number letter designation of the Motorola “Razr 2” phone, name, FTP the vegetable drink you could’ve had and the engine your car most like does have.

ANSWER:V8

1. According to its inventor, Walter Diemer, it was created by accident while he experimented with several recipes. Known for not retaining its flavor for very long, it was a mainstay in WWII era army rations until sugar and latex supplies ran low. As part of the “Fleer Funnies” alongside Bazooka Joe, they introduced the comic characters “Dub” and “Bub” in the 1930s, and later added the character “Pud.” FTP name this brand of bubble gum usually touted for its ability to create bubbles twice the normal size of other gums.

ANSWER: Double Bubble

1. Trading Spaces is a great show, but the editor always says it when he means Trading Places, which is a better movie. Answer the following about Trading Places FTSNOP.

FTP, The movie involves the Duke brothers attempt to corner which type of commodities market?

ANSWER: Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (prompt on orange juice)

FFPE, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd play which two characters, for whom the title refers.

ANSWER: Billy Ray Valentineand Louis Winthorpe III

FFPE, the Duke brothers are played by which venerable screen legends?

ANSWER: Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy

1. Ninja Warrior! The greatest reality show of all! Answer the following about Ninja Warrior FTSNOP

For 5, this is the network that is currently airing Ninja Warrior in America.

ANSWER: G4

For 10, name any of the American Olympians who have taken part in the competition.

ANSWER: Morgan Hamm, Paul Hamm, or Paul Terek

For 15, name either of the men who have completed all 4 stages to become a Ninja Warrior

ANSWER: Makoto Nagano or Kazuhiko Akiyama

1. The Casino was a show that no one watched. These are casinos that no one here’s been to. Name them FTPE

Your editor’s got a reservation for the month of July, for this hotel that holds the World Series of Poker every year.

ANSWER: Rio

The Venetian just recently opened this extension, an even more palatial hotel with Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club and a restaurant owned by Charlie Trotter.

ANSWER: Palazzo

This hotel with a red theme has a Ferrari dealership inside it, and also hosts the Vegas productions of Spamalot and Le Reve