COLT Round 12
Questions by Mike Bentley with contributions from Dave Letzler, Jerry Vinokurov and Jeremy Eaton
Tossups
1. One DLC mission for this game ends after you give chase to a harmonica-playing man named Willy; that mission was titled “The Naked City”. Characters in the main game include Leland Monroe, the CEO of the Elysian Fields development project. IGN exposed the poor working conditions under Brendan McNamara at Team Bondi, one of the developers of this game. One story arc in this game sees a bartender named Garret Mason shot dead in the catacombs under a church, part of a series of missions where the hero is partners with (*) Rusty Galloway. Chapters in this game are divided into “desks” like the Arson Desk, and one of its chief gameplay mechanics allows you to select between truth, doubt or lie. This game used MotionScan technology to show subtle face movements, allowing protagonist Cole Phelps to perform interrogations. For 10 points, name this recent Rockstar game set in a West Coast city.
ANSWER: L.A. Noire
2. This artist’s 2008 album debuted at #1 by just 13 units over Slipknot’s All Hope is Gone, prompting a Soundscan recount. A recent double-album mixtape by this artist contained tracks like “In My ‘64” and “Khaki Suit”. This man has signed artists like Famous Fresh and Clyde Carson of The Team to The Black Wall Street Records. This artist of Purp & Patron asks “Low [to] get Dre on the phone quick / Tell him Eminem just killed me on my own shit” on his track (*) “We Ain’t”, while Dre himself bragged Detox would be out soon on this artist’s 2005 song, “Higher”. He teamed up with Ne-Yo on a hit whose chorus mentions, “If I let her take a picture, she gonna roll wit’ me.” That song was titled “Camera Phone”. A rival prevented his song “Hate It or Love It” from hitting #1. Known for albums like LAX and The Documentary, for 10 points, name this West Coast rapper, a former G-Unit member and rival of 50 Cent.
ANSWER: The Game [or Jayceon Terrell Taylor]
3. Des Cave and Donal McCann both played an Irish man named Gar in a film adaptation of a Brian Friel play titled, [This City], Here I Come. This city appears in the title of a film where Henry Daniell plays the publisher of Spy Magazine, a periodical that plans to write an expose on Tracy Lord’s father. This city also appears in the title of a film co-starring Michael Pare and Bobby DiCicco as two (*) sailors sent forward in time to 1984 by Dr. Longstreet, a scientist working on invisibility. One film titled for this city cast Antonio Banderas as Miguel Alvarez, the man whom protagonist Andrew Beckett lives with. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn appeared in a 1940 film based on a Philip Barry play titled for this city’s “Story”. For 10 points, name this city that shares its name with a film where Denzel Washington plays a lawyer representing Tom Hanks’ AIDS-afflicted attorney.
ANSWER: Philadelphia
4. While playing for the Daytona Cubs in 2003, a minor league pitcher from this country intentionally killed an osprey with a pitch. One pitcher from this country, later traded to the Padres for Jared Wells, started some games for the Mariners in 2006 following Jamie Moyer being sent to Philly. Cal Ripken Jr. hit a home run in his final (*) All-Star game off a pitcher from this country. Fernando Tatis once hit two grand slams in the same inning off of a pitcher from this country. A closer from this nation gave up a two-run homer to Scott Brosius to allow the Yankees to tie Game 5 of the 2001 World Series. A pitcher from this country gave up both the 71st and 72nd home runs to Barry Bonds in 2001. The birthplace of Tommy Phelps, it lost to Japan in the finals of the 2009 World Baseball Classic but won gold in Beijing a year earlier. For 10 points, name this country home to players like former Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park.
ANSWER: South Korea [prompt on just “Korea”]
5. This man’s early writings included pieces like one that describe how people’s heads will randomly explode after December 31, 2999, titled “The Y3K Bug”. One novel by this man is narrated by a man who gives Wheatgrass Juice laced with Inderal to his actress neighbor and wins a Most Average American contest held by Tepperton’s Apple Pie. He collected shorts like “Times Roman Font Announces Shortage of Periods” in his anthology, (*) Pure Drivel. His first novel centered on Mirabelle, a woman who sells gloves at a department store. Roz Chast illustrated this man’s children’s book, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z. This man wrote the novels The Pleasure of My Company, Shopgirl, and An Object of Beauty. For 10 points, name this author and comedian, who also wrote the screenplays for films he starred in like Bowfinger.
ANSWER: (Stephen Glenn) “Steve” Martin
6. A YouTube star known for playing this instrument collected her songs onto I Made You a CD … But I Eated It. This instrument is the only one playing at the start of a song that mentions, “I like every minute of the day”. Besides being played by Molly Lewis and appearing on The Who’s “Blue Red and Grey”, a recent album titled for this instrument included tracks like “Hey Fahkah”, “Can’t Keep” and (*) “Sleeping by Myself”. Jake Shimabukuro had a YouTube hit with a cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” performed with this instrument. Eddie Vedder released a 2011 solo album titled for this instrument, which Train used rather than a guitar on “Hey, Soul Sister”. In the ‘90s, popular versions of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “What a Wonderful World” were recorded by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole on this instrument. For 10 points, name this stringed instrument that originated in Hawaii.
ANSWER: Ukulele
7. Alongside Bobby Alto, he played a man who kills Butchie in Debt Collector. He had a turn as a New Jersey man who owned a bowling alley but thought he was going to hit it big in Las Vegas in a film released as both Dear Mr. Wonderful and Ruby’s Dream. He plays Oscar, who connects Alan Alda’s father-of-the-bride character with loan sharks in (*) Betsy’s Wedding. He also had a turn as a Weegee-esque news photographer from the 1940s named Bernstein in the 1992 Howard Franklin film, The Public Eye. In a famous role, he shoots Spider in the foot after “making him dance” and is made to dig a grave to hide Spider’s body with co-horts played by Paul Sorvino and Robert De Niro. For 10 points, name this actor who played a New York lawyer engaged to Marissa Tomei trying to get his relatives acquitted of murder in My Cousin Vinny.
ANSWER: (Joseph Frank) “Joe” Pesci
8. In 1984, this man finished just one behind teammate Karl Allgower in goals scored for his team. On his first non-domestic team, this man scored 14 goals and led his team to a 1990-1991 UEFA Cup victory while coached by Giovanni Trapattoni. This man once tripped over the legs of Frank Rijkaard, setting up a Lothar Matthaus penalty shot, but his team ended up losing that 1988 Euro Championship semifinal game to (*) Holland. Two years later he scored the first goal against Holland after fellow striker Rudi Voeller was sent off. This man once scored four goals in a 6-2 victory over Wimbledon, saving Tottenham from relegation in 1998. Pedro Monzon was once red carded after tackling this man in the final game of the 1990 World Cup. For 10 points, name this prolific striker who coached Germany to a third place finish in the 2006 World Cup.
ANSWER: Jurgen Klinsmann
9. Josh Duhon played a mobster with this first name who got stabbed by Luke on General Hospital. Jean Smart played a woman with this surname who gets romantically involved with Aaron Pierce and eventually stabs her disgraced ex-husband, Charles. One TV character with this first name turns out to be the half-brother of Charlie Stone and used to date (*) Lilly Kane, who once had sex with his father on tape. A character with this first name was once a member of Yale’s Life and Death Brigade and was the son of Shira and Mitchum Huntzberger. The aforementioned Gregory Itzen character with this surname was a president on 24, while a character with this first name has his marriage proposal rejected by Rory on the final season of Gilmore Girls. For 10 points, give this common name shared by a character played by Michael York in a 1976 sci-fi film where, according to the title, he runs.
ANSWER: Logan
10. Country rocker Joe Ely recorded a live album named for the Liberty Lunch venue in this city. The A V. Club has praised bands from this city like Zorch and Follow That Bird! NOFX’s Fat Mike got banned from Emo’s in this city after he dressed up as Cokie the Clown and gave fans tequila shots laced with his own urine. The Descendents headlined the 2010 (*) Fun Fun Fun Fest held in this city. In 2011, Jack White gave an unannounced performance in front of a Third Man Records bus in a parking lot in this city. White’s performance was part of a festival that concluded with a Kanye West mega-show at the VEVO Power Station. The 2007 iteration of an annual “music, film and interactive” festival held in this city is credited with spreading the popularity of Twitter. Zilker Park is the setting of a fall festival named for this place’s city limits. For 10 points, name this city which hosts South by Southwest.
ANSWER: Austin, Texas
11. Non-fiction works written by this person include The Ten Trusts and Reason For Hope. Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell illustrated a recent children’s book about this woman, which shouldn’t be confused with a different 2011 children’s book about her titled The Watcher. A Lego-based version of this woman is a friend of Terry and doesn’t much care for Steve in the webcomic, Irregular Webcomic. This woman gets on Eliza’s case for (*) domesticating Darwin in a Wild Thornberrys episode. A comic where a female says, “well, well -- another blond hair … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with [this tramp]?” inspired her to write the preface to the Far Side Gallery 5. This woman’s own works have included one subtitled 50 Years at Gombe, and she’s best known for interacting with David Greybeard, Fifi, and other creatures. For 10 points, name this chimp expert.
ANSWER: Jane Goodall [or Dame Jane Morris Goodall or Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall]
12. This film was originally to have a secondary villain named Elvira, while the final version does contain minor characters like Peppo, an Italian. Arkansas accents were strangely given to two dogs named Napoleon and Lafayette in this film. Musical numbers in this movie include “She Never Felt Alone” and one where Scat describes how “A square with a horn / (*) Makes you wish you weren’t born / Ev’rytime he plays / Oh, a rinky tinky tinky”. Its theme song describes the title figures as “prone to hardly any flaws” and possessing “the longest pedigrees”. This film was the first one completed by the “Nine Old Men” following the death of Walt Disney and contains the character of Thomas O’Malley. The title characters are thrown out into the countryside by Edgar, the evil butler, forcing Marie, Berlioz and Toulouse to fend for themselves. For 10 points, name this Disney film centering on some well-to-do felines.
ANSWER: The Aristocats
13. One comic character of this name once refused to battle his father until it appeared that his father had mortally wounded his companion, Skyppi. That same character of this name was given Recorder #417 to chronicle his journeys by the Colonizers of Rigel and was known for being from the 24th Century. Another incarnation of this hero was freed by Hawkeye from a trance put on him by the Enchantress and was a member of the Champions of Los Angeles. It’s not The Hulk, but an (*) “incredible” character of this name organized a group of heroes to fight Amatsu-Mikaboshi in the Chaos War storyline. A different version of that character was originally named Alcaeus, and once threw himself into the fire after Hydra’s blood was rubbed on his shirt by his wife, Deianeira. For 10 points, name this mythological Marvel character who once had to battle his father, Zeus, for his immortality.
ANSWER: Hercules [or Heracles]
14. Mr. Bean records himself repeating the word “hello” in an animated short that shares its name with this segment. This segment originally appeared in an episode also containing “Hell’s Grannies” and “Army Protection Racket”, and it ends with a man being interrupted while eating yogurt before transitioning to “frontal nudity”. One character in this sketch claims that his answer of “Ipswich” was intended as either a pun or a palindrome. A self-described (*) brain surgeon at the Complaint Department absolves the British Rail from blame after one character is sent to Bolton in this sketch. The title character in this sketch is described as “probably pining for the fjords”. One of the men in this sketch claims that the titular Norwegian Blue is simply resting and had earlier nailed that animal to its perch. For 10 points, name this Monty Python sketch partially set in a pet store.
ANSWER: Dead Parrot Sketch [accept Pet Shop Sketch until the end]
15. ESPN cameras caught this player dozing off when he unexpectedly was not drafted in the first round, being passed over for players at his position like Brad Muster and Gaston Green; he was eventually drafted after assurances of his health were given by his college coach, Pat Jones. With 21 postseason touchdowns, this player trails just Jerry Rice in that statistic. Although this man rushed for 135 yards on 15 carriers in his first Super Bowl, the MVP award that year went to the other team’s running back, (*) Ottis Anderson. While in college, he was backed up by Barry Sanders. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 2007, this man once missed his team’s first two offensive plays in a Super Bowl because he misplaced his helmet. This running back would have won a Super Bowl over the Giants had Scott Norwood’s game-winning field goal not been wide right. For 10 points, name this Bills running back.