ASS II – Round 12 – Presidents – Page 1
ASS II
Round 12 – Presidents
Packet by Jonathan Magin et al.
Theme: All of the questions in this packet will relate to Presidents of the United States in some fashion.
TOSSUPS:
1) This actor played a stock-car driver Ken Boyd alongside Henry Winkler in 1977's Heroes and also served as the executive producer of K-19: The Widowmaker.His early roles included Tommy Lillard, a gunslinger who guides a rabbi played by Gene Wilder through the Wild West in The Frisco Kid, and Martin Stett, the villain of The Conversation. He helps brief Benjamin Willard about Kurtz as Colonel Lucas in Apocalypse Now, and starred as Dr. Norman Spencer in What Lies Beneath. He plays a pilot who gets stranded on a tropical island with Anne Heche in Six Days, Seven Nights and this actor played Bob Falfa, who wears a cowboy hat and likes to drag race, in American Graffiti. In another movie, he battles a group of Russian terrorists as President James Marshall, and notably yells "get off my plane!" FTP, name this star of Air Force One, who also starred as Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
ANSWER: Harrison Ford
2) Some of his incomprehensibly-titled solo albums include Hey Man, Smell My Finger and Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends, while some of his recent guest spots have included People Under the Stairs' "The Doctor and the Kidd" and Wu Tang's "Wolves." With his most famous group, he asked "how else can you capture a boogie if you don't attack from the back?" and "They still call it the White House, but that's a temporary condition," in "Theme From the Black Hole" and "ChocolateCity." His primary avatar notes, "They say the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill; well, baby, call me the Big Pill" and arrives to splank the world with a Bop Gun with Star Child on the Mothership. For 10 points, name this man who brought together Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, and others into Parliament-Funkadelic.
ANSWER: George Clinton
3) This man currently trains athletes at the FAST program, which he partly owns. As a player, his main superstition was attempting to catch a fifty yard pass behind his back in warmups, and in college, he was ruled ineligible after signing with agent Norby Waters before his senior season at OhioState. The 1999 NFL Man of the Year, this receiver was drafted by the Eagles in the fourth round of the 1987 supplementary draft, only to be waived in 1990 because of his addiction to cocaine. In 1994, he set a then-season record with 122 receptions after his team acquired Warren Moon, and he is still the only receiver to catch 120 passes in a season twice. Currently, his 130 career receiving touchdowns and 1,101 career receptions are second all-time to Jerry Rice. FTP, name this wide receiver who teamed with Randy Moss during the 1990s while playing for the Minnesota Vikings.
ANSWER: Cris Carter
4) The arcade version of this game, which features an isometric three quarters perspective, involves stopping the boss's plan of using an extraterrestrial laser to destroy the world. That version takes up to three players--all as differently dressed version of the protagonist who occasionally become robots--through levels like The Graveyard and the Evil Fortress, helped by the use of "dance magic" against gyrating robot enemies. In the console version of this game, after the protagonist rescues everyone in the level a chimpanzee appears on his shoulder to guide him towards the boss. Its protagonist, who cameoed in the Space Channel 5 games by the same developer, was fighting against Mr. Big and had to rescue children that all looked like Katie from its film inspiration. Containing synthesized versions of "Another Part of Me" and "Smooth Criminal", FTP, identify this Sega game starring a certain pop star, based on his movie and backwards walking dance step.
ANSWER: Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (prompt on partial answer)
5) Its central character was created after editors rejected a gigantic nose and a hippopotamus, and Gawker noticed that its depiction of a TV executive in 2005 featured disturbing similarities with anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda. Its minor characters include Vietnamese immigrant Dave Quat, education expert Dr. Dilton Twinkley, and Congressman Pinkford Veneer. It slandered Jon Stewart by asserting that he had sleepovers with drunk, underage boys after America: The Book contained a parody of it ending with the title character saying "Oops! I forgot to tell a joke!" The title character is hired at WFDR-TV by Mr. Noseworthy for being an "Amphibious-American," and consistently deplores political correctness while espousing Republican causes. Drawn by Bruce Tinsley, FTP, name this comic strip starring a duck named for the president who brokered the Compromise of 1850.
ANSWER: Mallard Fillmore
6) "According to Wikipedia", a 2007 episode of this show titled "Strangers on a Train" possibly parodies Snakes on a Plane. In one episode of this show, a character believes that he has cursed the hometown Grebes, but is corrected of this delusion after meeting characters voiced by Edgar Renteria, Mike Timlin, and Johnny Damon. In another episode, Frank Gehry helps the title character build a treehouse. Set in ElwoodCity, it features annoying characters like Tommy and Timmy Tibble, as well as Mr. Ratburn, Binky Barnes, and Nadine, the imaginary friend of the protagonist's sister D.W. In 2005, Margaret Spellings demanded that this show return federal funding for a segment where a lesbian couple in Vermont was visited by Buster Baxter. FTP, name this PBS show focusing on the title anthropomorphic aardvark.
ANSWER: Arthur
7) The original version of this script was set in Queens and had the protagonist desiring to travel to Sydney, Australia, while the final version of the script involved the protagonist unsuccessfully attempting to go to Fiji. The protagonist's friend complains that his biggest decision of the day is "whether the Almond Joys look better next to the Snickers", as he stocks vending machines for a living, a discussion had while hitting golf balls off the unfinished Sea Haven Causeway. The protagonist's father, Kirk, causes trouble when he returns after an apparent drowning. Holland Taylor plays actress Alanis Montclair in this film, whose insurance salesman protagonist's wife apparently makes ten thousand dollars every time she sleeps with him, all the while hawking products like an Elk Rotaries lawnmower. Sylvia attempts to inform the protagonist that Ed Harris's character Christof is behind everything in this film. FTP, identify this film starring Jim Carrey as one Mr. Burbank, a man unaware he's in a reality show.
ANSWER: The Truman Show
8) One member of this band appears as a sketchy man with extensive pharmaceutical knowledge who tells Jason Statham about the ephedrine in nasal spray in Crank.Their early evolution was overseen by Jeff Blue of Zomba, who recruited a frontman from Grey Daze. Side projects that delayed their third album include Dead By Sunrise and a group responsible for The Rising Tied, FortMinor. One video by this band was created with anime studio 4ºC and rewinds from a suicide, while a more recent one uses a similar reverse-narrative to depict a bar fight. They are also responsible for the second EP to ever hit number 1 on the Billboard 200, producing Collision Course, which contains the memorable "Encore" collaboration with Jay-Z. Known for the Projekt Revolution Tour, this band's most recent singles are "Shadow of the Day," "Bleed it Out," and "What I've Done," all from Minutes to Midnight. Including turnablist M. Hahn, Mike Shinoda, and Chester Bennington, FTP, identify this group who first gained fame for "Breaking the Habit," "Numb," and "In the End."
ANSWER: Linkin Park
9) According to The Smoking Gun, in 2006 this player filed for a rebate to regain child support he paid to Laurel Roszell. On screen, this pitcher defeated the Twins during the final game of Little Big League. For some reason, this pitcher nicknamed his slider "Mr. Snappy," and he combined with Chuck Finley to throw a no-hitter in Tokyo in 1990. The Montreal Expos traded him away for Mark Langston, and this first left-handed pitcher to strike out Wade Boggs three times in one game threw a fastball over the head of John Kruk during the 1993 All-Star Game. He earned his nickname after colliding with Tim Raines in 1988, and was traded to the Astros for John Halama, Carlos Guillen, and Freddy Garcia in 1998. More recently, he killed a dove with a fastball, became the fourth pitcher to record four thousand strikeouts in 2004, and was named co-MVP of the 2001 World Series along with Curt Schilling. Nicknamed "The Big Unit," FTP, identify this 6' 10" pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
ANSWER: Randy Johnson [accept the Big Unit before mentioned]
10) The Internet tells us that the improbably-named Buck McDancer played this role in Hot Shots, Part Deux. Frank Langella will reprise his role as this man in a Ron Howard-directed film of a 2007 Peter Morgan play about him, and in 2004, Sean Penn played the man who tried to assassinate him. A mask of this man was worn by Patrick Swayze's character in Point Break, who was played in 1999 by Dan Hedaya in a film where he hires the ditsy Betsy and Arlene as his dog walkers in a failed effort to keep them from leaking secrets. In another film, he hypothesizes that "The Beast" is responsible for the death of JFK and his own downfall. For 10 points, name this title character of All the President's Men, who was played by Anthony Hopkins in a 1995 Oliver Stone film.
ANSWER: Richard Milhouse Nixon
11) On YouTube, a video set to "Highway to Hell" features a man throwing a bowling ball into the "glory hole" of this place. In Barbara Kingsolver's novel Pigs in Heaven, Turtle sees a man fall into this location, which titles a song featuring the lyrics "I'm on the centerline / Right between two states of mind" that appears on the albumCopper Blue. Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur features a plot to blow up this site, which istoppled by an earthquake during the original movie version of Superman. Clark Griswold climbs the full length of this structure in National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation, and in Civilization III, building this acts as a Hydro Plant in every city. Sector 7's secret base is located inside this structure in the 2007 movie Transformers. FTP, name this structure located on the Colorado River, named for a president who defeated Al Smith in the election of 1928.
ANSWER: Hoover Dam
12) This album's liner notes describe a man named Frank who punches a through a plate-glass window in order to heal three visiting kings. One song on this album warns "Stay free from petty jealousies, / Live by no man's code," while the singer of another wakes up after imagining that he helped kill the author of the City of God. In addition to "I Am a Lonesome Hobo" and "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," this album includes a song which ends "don't go mistaking Paradise /for that home across the road," "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest," as well as an acoustic version of "All Along the Watchtower." Its title trackdescribes a"friend to the poor" who "trav'led with a gun in ev'ry hand," and it was recorded in Nashville after its singer's motorcycle accident. FTP, name this followup to Blonde on Blonde, a 1967 album by Bob Dylan.
ANSWER: John Wesley Harding
13) In the second movie he appears in, this character complains that the promo for his film didn't "show the real dramatic parts, like when they kill my boa constrictor and I vow revenge." In the original movie, this character advises a co-worker reading Moby Dick to tail a woman home from the library, and buys one hundred pairs of black gloves, which he gradually nails to his wall. Lou Brown tells this character "you hit like shit" after he first introduces himself, and he appears in an American Express commercial wearing a tuxedo while sliding into home plate. Later, he scores on a bunt single by Jake Taylor to give his team a one-run victory over the Yankees. Played by Wesley Snipes, FTP, name this extremely fast player for the Indians in Major League.
ANSWER: Willie Mays Hayes
14) This character's great uncle Chet died "sometime between the Tonight Show and the Today Show", while his brother Broderick is a surgeon who specializes in liposuction. On a sound stage, one character was asked by "current temporary Fox President Kevin Riley" to introduce him and he will soon be living next to a redneck and a family of bears. His neighbor once placed him inside of a Plinko chip. He will be reuniting with his long lost lover Donna in a new series he is starring in starting this fall. In one flashback it is revealed that he used to be an auctioneer before suffering a bump to his head, and his hyper son of the same name is sort of adopted by his neighbor because that son is good at golf. The owner of a namesake Deli in Quahog, FTP, identify this Family Guy character who got divorced from his wife Loretta following Quagmire's affair with her.
ANSWER: Cleveland Brown
15) This man recounted experimenting with LSD in his 1975 book Maverick, and was was nicknamed "The Mop" while playing college basketball for the University of North Dakota. He coached the Albany Patroons to the 1984 CBA title, and caused controversy when he alternated images of Kings coach Rick Adelman and Adolf Hitler to motivate his team in 2000. His first NBA success came with the triangle offense developed by his assistant Tex Winter, and his studies of the Lakota Sioux inspired him to lead his team in Native American chants. He replaced Doug Collins to get his first NBA head coaching opportunity, and motivated his players by assigning To Kill a Mockingbird to Horace Grant and Ecce Homo to Shaquille O'Neal. Known for his interest in Zen Buddhism, FTP, name this coach who won three titles with the Lakers and six with the Bulls, who shares his surname with the victorious commander of the Battle of New Orleans.
ANSWER: Phil Jackson
16) In a Nothing Nice to Say comic, Ian MacKaye is asked to "act as a spokesman for an evil conglomerate who represent the opposite of everything you stand for" by advertising these. The company that make them are apparently also considering bringing out a similar product with a Hunter S. Thompson license, while imitation ones of these can be purchased from the Blackspot Anticorporation. They can be traded online through a namesake Connection website, and Dean Smith provided a forward to a biography about the man most associated with this product. Now that they're manufactured in China, their quality has been reduced to a 1-ply textile, although they still retain the distinctive blue star logo on their side. FTP, identify these types of shoes that gained popularity following their adoption by a namesake basketball player and salesperson.
ANSWER: Chuck Taylors (or Chuck Taylor All Stars)
17) This is the name of an Australian pop duo who recorded "Don't Call Me Baby," as well as dance club that calls itself the "hottest entertainment complex in Wisconsin." The most famous area of this name includes the Surrey and Carlyle hotels and the "Carnegie Hill" neighborhood, just south of the Harlem River. It includes both the anchor store of Barney's as well as the Whitney Museum, which are found at its intersections with 60th and 75th Streets. Originating at a square that once housed "the world's most famous arena," it is located between Park and Fifth Avenues on the East Side of Manhattan. FTP, name this street associated with the shopping and advertising industries.
ANSWER: Madison Avenue
18) One of their songs, describing a man who "drank 16 beers" and "started up a fight" was used in a rape scene in the movie Grindhouse, while another song by this band describes how "Zen fascists will control you" and Jerry Brown’s desire to become president. Their cover of a David Allen Coe song about a bitter employee is often used on radio call-in stations by people who wish to quit their job. Sometimes their songs were presented from the opposite political view, such as one song which advocated using the neutron bomb against the titular group, “Kill the Poor”. They faced obscenity charges with 1985's Frankenchrist, while other albums included Plastic Surgery Disasters. FTP, name this punk band, originally including Jello Biafra and East Bay Ray that had such songs as “Holiday in Cambodia” and “California Uber Alles”.
ANSWER: Dead Kennedys
19) After making a pilgrimage to visit his Mende roots, this man founded the Gondobay Manga Foundation, vaulting him to popularity and earning him a gig as host of the 16th Pan-African Film Festival. One of this actor's characters is introduced after bing told to "stop robbing the vending machine" and partner with Steven Segal in Exit Wounds, while another is ultimately shot by Aaliyah after scheming to take over the O'Day crime syndicate from Delroy Lindo in Romeo Must Die.He teamed with Harry J. Lennix to portray a gay couple enduring a separation against the backdrop of the Million Man March in Spike Lee's Get on the Bus, and later re-united those themes when he declared that his identity as a "strong," "deep-voiced" black man was the reason the character of Preston Burke was written off, and that it had nothing to do with a fight with Patrick Dempsey and subsequent humiliating Golden Globes appearance. FTP, identify this black actor who admitted, then denied, then admitted, then denied using a derogatory slur towards T.R. Knight's sexuality on the set of Grey's Anatomy.
ANSWER: Isaiah Washington