F.O.G.H.A.T. 2006: Rock and/or Roll
Packet #11
- Based on a theme by Jeremy White
- Toss-ups and Bonus by Jeremy White
Toss-ups
1.His current stage namewas created when he dropped the “P” from his originalstage name to avoid confusion with a member of A Tribe Called Quest. In 2004, he was sentenced to three years in prison for violating a 1998 probation sentence just as he was “blowin’ up” with his CD Trap Muzik and his song “Rubber BandMan.” For ten points, name this rapper who has used his work release to release a number one album, King, and to star in the movie A.T.L.
Answer: T.I. or Clifford Harris
2.She finished out of the medals in the 1968 US Figure Skating Championships before she moved to a new career, in which she got a boost from figure skating in 1994 when Nancy Kerrigan won a silver medal in a costume she designed. On August 24th, she announced she is designing a clothing line to be sold in Kohl’s in 2007. For ten points, name this former Vogue fashion editor now most famed as the go-to designer for celebrity wedding gowns.
Answer: Vera Wang
3.In 1991, it merged with the American South Conference and added Arkansas-Little Rock. Its non-football members include The University of Denver, which does not seem to fit its name, and Western Kentucky, which still plays in the Gateway Football Conference. For ten points, name this Conference headquartered in New Orleansthat includesNew Orleansamong its members and sends it football champion to the New Orleans Bowl.
Answer: Sun Belt Conference
4. She won the first of her three Tony Awards for playing Blanch DuBois in the original 1947 production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her characterhelped rescue Tippi Hedren’s character from the title characters ofThe Birds and in The Green Years, she played the daughter of a character played by her husband, Hume Cronyn. For ten points, name this actress whose late career renaissance included roles in Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes and Driving Miss Daisy.
Jessica Tandy
5.In March, 2006, this company stopped producing News Central segments, but still distributes “The Point”, Mark Hyman’s pro-conservative commentaries. In October 2004, Jon Lieberman, its Washington bureau chief was firedfor telling a newspaper about plans to air the filmStolen Honor as news. For ten points, name this broadcast company that made news in 2003 by orderingthe ABC affiliates it owns not to broadcast a Nightline tribute to soldiers killed in Iraq.
Answer: Sinclair Broadcast Group
6.They are not Jimi Hendrix, Bon Jovi or David Bowie, but “Machine Gun”, “Slippery When Wet” and “Heroes” are all titles of one of their singles to hit the R&B chart. “Solitaire” was their last song on the R&B chart, “Nightshift” was their last R&B number one and “Still” was their last number one with Lionel Richie. For ten points, name this group whose big hits included “Just to Be Close to You”, “Easy” and “Brick House.”
Answer: The Commodores
7.He directed Hated, a documentary on musician G. G. Allin while still at NYU. Later projects included directing a series of Pepsi One commercials starring Tom Green and directing the controversial documentary Frat House, projects that may have led in part to his first two fiction films. For ten points, name this screenwriter and director whose 2006 release School for Scoundrels follows his success with Road Trip and Old School.
Answer: Todd Phillips
8.He is currently working as the Charlotte Bobcats’ Director of Player Programs. The first Virginia Tech basketball to ever have his uniform number retired, he was selected fifteenth overall by the Utah Jazz in the 1986 NBA draft. He won the NBA Sixth Man Award in 1993-94, retired in 2002 after three seasons with the Raptors and currently ranks 13th in career field goals made. For ten points, name this shooting guard who was an original Charlotte Hornet and is still the Hornets franchise leader in total points scored.
Answer: DellCurry
9.Cellist Angus Cooke is one of this band’s seven members. Their song “The Night That The Lights Went Out in NYC” appeared on the Spider Man 2 soundtrack while another movie inspired their song, “San Dimas High School Football Rules.” They hit the modern rock charts with “In This Diary” and “The Saddest Song” off their album So Long, Astoria. For ten points, name this band whose biggest hit was a cover of Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer.”
Answer: The Ataris
10.A 1989 syndicated remake of this series starred Ethan Wayne and Peter Parros. Its episode “Elegy for a Pig” depicted the death of Tom Porter, the former partner of the more experienced main character. Dispatcher Shaaron Claridge usually said the title several times per episode while contacting the leads in their squad car. For ten points, name this 70s series produced by Jack Webb and starring Martin Milner and Kent McCord as LAPD officers Malloy and Reed.
Answer: Adam 12
11.In Animal House, he portrayed the bassist for Otis Day and the Knights. Along with Johnny Copeland and Albert Collins, he recorded the 1985 album Showdown which won a Grammy as did his later albums Take Your Shoes Off and Strong Persuader. For ten points, name this blues musician best known for songs like “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” and “Smoking Gun.”
Answer: Robert Cray
12.In 1977, forty years after his death, he was given a new headstone reading “I Am Providence.” While Providence was the setting for some of his works like The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Colour Out of Space and Herbert West – Reanimator are set in the fictional Arkham, Massachusetts. For ten points, name this author and creator of the Cthulhu mythos.
Answer: H. P. Lovecraft
13.This film’s villains Ben Pinkwater and Kerr are played by James Gandolfini and Chris McDonald. “It’s the KG used to B” and “I’m a flying penis” are examples of the memorably bad dialogue of Ditch Brodie, an instructor trying to discover how a student played by Natassja Kinski fell to her death during a lesson. For ten points, name this film which climaxes with Charlie Sheen’s skydiving character pulling Kinski out of a falling convertible.
Answer: Terminal Velocity
14.His grandson and great-grandson have both served as Representative forFlorida’s 14th Congressional District. He was a full team-owner from Ben Shibe’s death until selling to Arnold Johnson in 1954 and he racked up 768 managerial wins after his selection to the Hall of Fame in 1937. Of course, 768 is only 20% of his record 3,731 managerial wins. For ten points, name this man who wore a fedora and suit during a 50-year stint as manager of the Philadelphia A’s.
Answer: ConnieMack
15.He briefly talked in a British accent after a laundry accident left him puckered and white. He was fired from the pilot of Bud Court, but the house band played his song “It’s Not Easy Being White, It’s Not Easy Being Brown” during his appearanceon Mock Trial with J. Reinhold,for which he wore a “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black Puppets” T-shirt. For ten points, name this ventriloquist dummy poorly operated by G.O.B. Bluth on Arrested Development.
Answer: Franklin Delano Bluth
16.It was the first PC game release by Codo Technologies and the first two words of its name refer to a 1988 home computer game in which a squad of marines were controlled through a series of missions. Based in part on X-Com, it was made available on-line for e-mail based play in 2003 before it was published in 2005 with mission play added. For ten points, name this turn-based game in which players give orders toMarines, Machina, Spawn or Grays.
Answer: Laser Squad Nemesis
17.Her first TV starring role was the character in the Bewitched spin-off Tabithaand she played Neelyin a TV remake of Valley of the Dolls. Her early music career produced the unsuccessful albums like Letterock, but she later had a number one country hit with the duet “When I Said I Do” with her husband Clint Black. For ten points, name this woman who combined her singing and acting talents playingsingers Ciji Dunne and Cathy Rush on Knots Landing.
Answer: Lisa Hartman
18.Roughly half of this novel, which won the 1977 Nebula Award for best novel, is a dialogue between the main character, Bob Broadhead and an AI psychologist. The title object is the hollowed asteroid space station where Bob goes to make a fortune by piloting an abandoned alien ship. For ten points, name this first novel in the Heechee series written by Frederik Pohl.
Answer: Gateway
19.Its current corporate sponsor came on board in 2005 and in 2006, Madrid became the new site for its Season Ending Championship tournament. It is now composed of 63 events, which include the aforementioned championships,58 Tier 1, 2, 3 and 4 tournaments and four Grand Slams. Its player rankings are led at time of writing by Amelie Mauresmo. For ten points, name this series of events organized in 1973 by a group including Billie Jean King.
Answer: Sony EricsonWTA Tour or Sony Ericcson Women’s Tennis Association Tour
20.Lex Woods, played by Sanaa Lathan, is hired in this film to lead a team to investigate a mysterious heat source in Alaska discovered by the Weyland Corporation. In the ruins of a pyramid below the ice, the team ends up in the middle of a battle when three young Yautija arrive to hunt the species living in the pyramid. For ten points, name pitting the title character of a John McTiernan horror flick against the title character of a Ridley Scott horror flick.
Answer: AVP orAlien versus Predator
21.Name’s the same. The 1979 one has a title track but the 1988 one does not. The 1988 one has two tracks with “shadow” in the title, “Shadow of a Doubt” and “Half a Woman, Half a Shadow,” and the 1979 one has two tracks with “time” in the title, “One More Time” and “Got the Time.” Singles from the 1979 one include “Listen to Your Heart” and singles from the 1988 one include “Sunday Papers.” For ten points, name this common title for the Roxette album featuring “The Look” and the Joe Jackson album featuring “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”
Answer: Look Sharp!
22.The narrator of the 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard reports that some claim it was invented in HazzardCounty. On Family Guy, Chris and Meg are punished by being told they cannot blow on one during a McDonald’s visit. In When Harry Met Sally, Sally’s high maintenance tendencies are illustrated in a scene where sheordersthis unheated and served with strawberry ice cream. For ten points, name this dessert which Jim Levenstein violates in American Pie.
Answer: Apple Pie
F.O.G.H.A.T. 2006: Packet #11
Bonus
1.Name these Florida A&M football alumni from theiraccomplishments for ten points each.
(10)He won the 100 meters at the 1964 Olympics and became the only man to win Olympic gold and a Super Bowl ring during his career as a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys.
Answer: Bob Hayes
(10)This offensive lineman also starred with the Cowboys going to six Pro Bowls and winning three Super Bowl rings, but is remembered for being busted with 213 pounds of marijuana in his van.
Answer: Nate Newton
(10)This quarterback is now on the Kansas City Chiefs practice squad, but in 2004 he was named the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player after tossing for 35 TDs for the BC Lions.
Answer: Casey Printers
2.Name these keyboard instruments from their uses in popular music for ten points each.
(10)Moog introduced the first of these, the Liberation, so namedfor the mobility it offered keyboard players. Three of its first four models were sold to Devo.
Answer: Keytar
(10)New Order’s “Love Vigilantes” and Gorillaz’ “Clint Eastwood” feature solos on this instrument played by blowing through a mouthpiece and pressing keys on its keyboard.
Answer: Melodica
(10)This electronic instrument introduced allowed users to select separate pre-recorded background and lead sounds to play on its two keyboards. It was used by the Beatles to create the intro to “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
Answer: Mellotron
3.Name these game shows once hosted by Joe Garagiola for ten points each.
(10)From 1971 to 1974, Garagiola hosted this show in which contestants earned small amounts of money for answering simple trivia questions and then bought prizes at discounted prices.
Answer: Sale of the Century
(10)Garagiola frequently appeared on the four-person panel that questioned this shows’ three contestants who all claimed to be the same person before he replaced Garry Moore as host in 1976.
Answer: To Tell the Truth
(10)Garagiola had his name in front of the title for this short-lived 1971 show in which contestants were given time to study the game’s questions and answers before playing.
Answer: Joe Garagiola’s Memory Game
4.Answer these questions about animation created by rotoscoping live action for ten points each.
(10)Director Ralph Barshki used rotoscoping to create this 1981 film following a Russian Jewish family from a rabbi’s murder by Cossacks to Pete becoming a rock star.
Answer: American Pop
(10)Richard Linklater used rotoscoping in this 2006 adaptation of a Phillip K. Dick novel.
Answer: A Scanner Darkly
(10)Rotoscoped people complain about broker service and fees in a recent series of animated commercials for what brokerage company?
Answer: Charles Scwab Corporation
5.Name these members of aMarvel comics team of super villains trying to reform into heroes, the new Thunderbolts, for ten points each.
(10)Donny Gill dons a cold-generating suit to become this frequent Iron Man adversary who tries to go straight with the Thunderbolts.
Answer: Blizzard
(10)This alter ego of Janice Olivia Yanizeski wields two energy batons and is billed as the living embodiment of action.
Answer: Joystick
(10)Nuclear physicist Chen Lu became this villain turned Thunderbolt who oddly does not have a sidekick named Fall Out Boy.
Answer: Radioactive Man
6.Name these unrelated songs from their artist and a lyric for ten points each.
(10)Sleater-Kinney. “This could be our very last stand. The Monitor and the Merrimac.”
Answer: Ironclad
(10)The Kinks. “So much to aim for, so much to try for. You’re blowing it all with paranoia.”
Answer: Destroyer
(10)Echo and the Bunnymen. “Conquering myself untilI see another hurdle approaching. Say we can, say we will. Not just another drop in the ocean.”
Answer: The Cutter
7.Name these cable networks that launched in the last eighteen months for ten points each.
(10)Owned by Joel Hyatt and Al Gore, its programming is made up of short viewer created segments called pods.
Answer: Current TV
(10)TransGeneration and Coming Out Stories are among the original programs on this Viacom channel aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual viewers.
Answer: Logo
(10)On January 1, 2006, Trio was replaced by this NBC Universal Channel with a slogan promising “Mystery. Crime. All the time.”
Answer: Sleuth
8.Name these movies with actors playing multiple roles for ten points each.
(10)In this film, Peter Sellers plays three officials—one of them female—who lead the duchy of Grand Fenwick into war with the United States in the hopes of receiving foreign aid.
Answer: The Mouse That Roared
(10)In this film, Jerry Lewis plays a chaeffuer and six relatives—a pilot, a gangster, a sea captain, a clown, a detective and a photographer—from whom a girl must pick a new father in order to inherit 30 million dollars.
Answer: The Family Jewels
(10)Louis Mazzini bumps off eight members of the D’ascoyne family—all of which are played by Alec Guinness—in order to become a duke in this 1949 Ealing comedy.
Answer: Kind Hearts and Coronets
9.For ten points each, name the three members of Major League Baseball’s 3,000 hit club who hit number 3,000 while wearing a Cleveland Indians uniform.
(10, 10, 10) Answer: Napolean Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Eddie Murray
10.Name these people who are or were unable to flip someone the bird with one of their hands for ten points each.
(10)In World War II, he lost his right middle finger while serving as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer. Luckily this late actor had enough fingers to run a warp drive or beam people up.
Answer: James Doohan
(10)His brother Tiff accidentally amputated part of his middle finger while chopping wood, but he was still able to play guitar on songs like “Sugar Magnolia” and “Box of Rain.”
Answer: Jerry Garcia
(10)This Illinois 5th District congressman who lost his right middle finger in a meat slicer accident wrote The Plan: Big Ideas for America.