Michael Arnold and Susan Ferrari

Paul Goodman Memorial Open – July 25, 2010

Michael Arnold and Susan Ferrari

Round 10

1. Fans of this show question why the Tuska warriors were left out of a group that includes a character that lives on Hook Mountain, the sisters Willa and Nayda, and Mandora the Evil-Chaser. The blind-but-wise father of one of the characters on this show is Claudus, a ruler of a planet that is reformed at the beginning of season 2. Another planet in this show includes the absurd Ro-Bear Berbils, who form part of the previously described League of the Third Earth. One character on this show is actually named “Osbert,” but is better known by the annoying sound he punctuates his speech with. An attempt to capture the Sword of Omens leads the Mutants of Plun-Darr to try to capture this show’s protagonists, while other villains include Grune and Mumm-Ra. The title group is comprised of WilyKit and WilyKat, Snarf, and the leader Lion-O. FTP, name this cartoon show about a group of feline aliens.

ANSWER: Thundercats

2. One song written by this man tells the title figure “you’ll live on in my memory” though “how can I tell them you’re dead?” That song is “Sad Song for Susan,” while many of his songs have been recorded by Christy Moore. The Undertones’ Damian O’Neill wore a black arm-band on Top of the Pops the day this man died, as his actions inspired their only hit “It’s Going to Happen.” Films where this man is depicted include H3 where he is played by Mark O’Halloran and another where he is played by John Lynch and acts as an inspiration to Gerard Quigley, much to the chagrin of Quigley’s mother, played by Helen Mirren. That movie is Some Mother’s Son, which dramatized events at Maze Prison. Michael Fassbender played this man in 2008 in the Camera D’Or winning movie Hunger depicting his 1981death. FTP, identify this IRA martyr that died after a hunger strike.

ANSWER: Bobby Sands

3. One music video from this band shows a note saying “I know what you did last album,” has cameos from Kid Rock and Pam Anderson, and uses a banana to parody a scene from the movie that shares the song’s name. Another video has a burger cook, a dishwasher, and a kid taking a Scan-tron singing along with lines like “she tore my feelings like I had none,” “la-la-la-love,” and the titular profane declaration. The former song appears on their album Famous. The latter appears on their debut album along with “Piss It All Away,” “Control”, and their best known song which claims “the ocean’s between us, but that’s not very far” and a chorus that asks “can you take it all away? You shoved it in my face, this pain you gave to me.” With the single “She Fucking Hates Me” from their album Come Clean, FTP, identify this Wes Scantlin-fronted band best known for “Blurry.”

ANSWER: Puddle of Mudd

4. In the TV-movie about this man’s life, he is played by Victor Love, Father Dave is George Kennedy and his mother Lucille was played by Nell Carter. He played for Dobbins Technical High School in Philadelphia, and from there he was successfully recruited by David Spencer, working for head coach Stan Morrison. That led this man to University of Southern California, but after Morrison was fired this man and his most talented high school teammate transferred to a school whose home gymnasium, Gersten Pavilion, is located across town near LAX. That teammate took the first free throw of every 1990 tournament game left-handed to commemorate this man, who believed beta blockers hurt his play. Falling during a West Coast Conference game while being coached by Paul Westhead, FTP, identify this Loyola Marymount player whose best friend was Bo Kimble.

ANSWER: Hank Gathers

5. At the beginning of this movie, a character living in the Yukon Hotel doesn’t know what a tortoise is, while that character later puts disembodied eyeballs on Hannibal Chew’s shoulder during a tense conversation. This film’s protagonist knows another character remembers playing doctor and seeing an orange spider that was eaten by its own young, but those memories actually belong to Tyrell’s niece. During this movie’s climactic chase scene through the abandoned Bradbury, Roy Batty fights off paralysis by stabbing his own hand with a nail then speaks of his experience in the “shoulder of Orion” and “Tannhauser Gate” before dying. This was shortly after he rescued Deckard, the title character, from falling. Directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from a Philip K. Dick novel, FTP, identify this movie starring Harrison Ford as the title killer of the humanoid replicants.

ANSWER: Blade Runner

6. During the skits on this group’s second album, Hemorrhoid uses the creative insult “hamster penis” while listening to and criticizing this group. On their debut album, they possibly speak to quizbowlers when they discuss “all the misery you’re bringin’ […] there’s no quota on your odor” as they suggest the title remedy for B.O. That album has the running theme of contestants on a fake game show and includes a more famous song that repeatedly samples Fiorello La Guardia asking “and think children: what does it all mean?” Those songs are “A Little Bit of Soap” and “The Magic Number” from this group that released Grind Date and Buhloone Mindstate, the last album produced entirely by Prince Paul. Including Pos, Dove, and Mase, and with the biggest hit “Me, Myself, and I,” FTP, name this rap group behind the classic 3 Feet High and Rising.

ANSWER: De La Soul

7. The supine "bubbies" created by one character in this work appear as upright Venus of Willendorf-like figures in one adaptation, in which a dance sequence involving a dessert cart and a balloon-packed staircase occurs to the accompaniment of "Nessun dorma". Over martinis and Triskets, its main characters discuss the sexual voracity of Greta, Walter Neff's German wife, and this work's antagonist leaves town with his brother-in-law Chris after his wife Jenny Gabriel succumbs to cancer. A swiftly-cancelled adaptation of this work in 2009 featured Rebecca Romijn as Roxie Torcoletti, while in another adaptation, newspaper editor Clyde Alden beats his shrill wife Felicia to death after she vomits out a flood of cherry stones due to the efforts of Jane, Sukie, and Alex, played by Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Cher. FTP, name this book by John Updike whose most famous adaptation featured Jack Nicholson as Darryl Van Horne, the Mephistopholean antagonist to the three titular sorceresses.

ANSWER: Witches of Eastwick

(distressingly, there's not enough room in this tossup to allude to The Witches of Breastwick...OR The Witches of Breastwick 2!)

8. The recent injury of Rangers’ fan Tyler Morris echoes Curtis Staker’s 1998 headfirst, rib-breaking fall reaching for a homer from this team’s Eddie Taubenesee. In a 1981 game in which Mike LaCoss took the loss for this team, another fan hung on the upper deck railing after trying to snag a foul ball from the bat from the 1977 NL MVP. Other men in the lineup that day for this team were Junior Kennedy and Ray Knight. The foul was hit by George Foster, who played along with Dan Driessen in this team’s best-known era. Playing in the plunge-inviting Riverfront Stadium, Dave Concepcion and Ken Griffey helped win five pennants and two Series from 1970-76 with a roster led by Tony Perez, Joe Morgan, and Pete Rose. FTP, identify this franchise known in its heyday as a Big namesake-colored Machine.

ANSWER: Cincinnati Reds (accept either)

9. One institution on this show has staff like Myron the unhelpful guidance counselor and Chancellor Murphy, the father of the bitchy-but-hot Bridget, who tries to enslave the central characters. One girl attending that institution when it’s introduced in Season 5 feels responsible for killing Chet after feeding him cake before his heart attack and ultimately joins the Peace Corps with a main character. Maitland Ward plays that girl, Rachel, who causes friction between Jack Hunter, the half-brother of Shawn, and Eric Matthews, the central character’s brother. A man who worked at both Penbrook University and John Adams High says this show’s final lines “I love you all. Class dismissed” to the group he mentored, which includes Danielle Fishel’s Topanga. With William Daniels playing George Feeny, FTP, identify this 90s ABC show following Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage, coming of age.

ANSWER: Boy Meets World

10. Tracks on this label’s 10th Anniversary Anthology include “The Banjo’s Categorical Gut,” “One, Two, Three… Barbie Dolls!” and “Booker to Hooker.” Glasser, Tanlines, and Magic Kids are now signed to this record label after its 2009 purchase of True Panther Sounds. One of this label’s founders maintains a blog with categories like “Hate Fuck Radio,” “Total Fucking Terror,” and “Will Leitch Sucks.” That author of the sports blog “Can’t Stop the Bleeding” is Gerard Cosloy. “Julian Plenti is… Skyscraper” was released on this label using the alter ego of Paul Banks, the lead singer of the band that released Turn on the Bright Lights on this label. Besides Interpol, which recently re-signed with this label, other notable bands include Yo La Tengo, Pavement, and the New Pornographers. FTP, identify this indie-beloved label with an appropriate label of a waving cape.

ANSWER: Matador Records

11. As a player, this man sported a self-described “Charles Bronson-like” moustache and was nicknamed “The Butcher.” A theatre lover with a cameo in Heart of Men 2, this man’s first big coaching job came after the team he played the most games for was purchased by plutocrat Jean-Michel Aulas. In another role, he claimed “I’d select myself if I could,” declared he would force one player to play “as long as he can walk,” and criticized the sportsmanship of Scottish “boy balls” [sic]. Erik Bielderman informed Bob Ley live on-air that this man was told “to go to fuck yourself” during a training-field spat that led to his replacement with Laurent Blanc. Famously excluding Robert Pires because he was a Scorpio and recently enduring a conflict with Nichoals Anelka, FTP, identify this man who recently ended his tumultuous tenure as soccer coach of the French national team.

ANSWER: Raymond Domenech

12. Discourse analysis published by this organization revealed the deleterious effect of using the word "pretty" as an adjective rather than an adverb, and it also recently determined that gay or bisexual men were less likely than women or straight men to know the meaning of the term "mofo." Other recent exploits of this entity, which was developed by the founders of SparkNotes, include the debut of its MyBestFace software and an incident in which it contacted some of its members to inform them that they were in the top half of its most attractive users. In addition to its main purpose, this site allows users to discern whether they, like Eric Mukherjee, are Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamers, otherwise known as Slow Dancers. FTP, name this online dating site which also features purity tests and quizzes.

ANSWER: OkCupid.com

13. In one of this man's earliest musical performances, he wet his pants while performing "I'm an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande" on the harmonica. Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, Zoot Sims, and this man, who all played the same instrument, were known as the "Four Horsemen," and this man's career was launched when he joined the band of his legal guardian, the epic drunkard and trombonist Jack Teagarden. He collaborated with Johnny Smith on Moonlight in Vermont and with Chick Corea on Sweet Rain, but his biggest hit was an album that he recorded with a husband-and-wife team which won Grammies for Record and Album of the year in 1965, though he alienated one of those collaborators after having an affair with the other, Astrud Gilberto. A collaboration with Charlie Byrd entitled Jazz Samba was one of his other popular bossa nova releases. FTP, name this "top tenor technician," a saxophonist whose biggest hit was "The Girl from Ipanema."

ANSWER: Stan "The Sound" Getz (or Stanley Gayetzky)

14. A 1996 stand-up routine from this actress features hilarious jokes about eating 13 candy bars and having a pimple inside one’s nose, as well as Arsenio Hall adding an ‘r’ to her name. This actress’s first appearance on a television show featured her giving a supposedly comfy but actually spring-loaded chair to Kevin the stage manager. In one movie, this actress plays a title character who thwarts the Sara Paxton-portrayed president of Kappa Phi Nu by befriending members of the Vortex. In another film, this actress plays a character who attends the Illyria school, is frightened of a tarantula named Malvolio owned by Malcolm Feste, and befriends Duke Orsino. Those “Twelfth Night” references accompany the story of this All That alumnus taking her brother Sebastian’s place on a soccer team. FTP, identify this actress who starred in Sydney White, She’s the Man and is the namesake of The Amanda Show.

ANSWER: Amanda Bynes

15. An album with this name includes Jerry McBee penned songs like “Why a Woman Cries” and “Run the Engines Up High.” That Roy Orbison album appeared after Roy Orbison Sings and before Milestones. A David Bryan and Joe DiPietro collaboration called this says the title place has “streets paved with soul,” and includes musical numbers like “Scratch My Itch” and “Crazy Little Huey.” That musical centers on Huey Calhoun, a pastiche of Dewey Phillips, a white radio DJ who was the first to play black music in the title city. Besides naming the 2010 Best Musical Tony winner, this city names a song depicting a phone conversation concerning a man’s six-year old daughter by Chuck Berry, covered by Johnny Rivers. Fred Smith is the founder and CEO of the largest company in this city, which is found in Shelby County. With tourist attractions like the Lorraine Motel, the Pyramid Arena, and Beale Street, FTP, name this city that shares its name with an Old Kingdom capital and is the largest city in Tennessee.