Questions by BADASS! Editors

Bayou-a-Drank 2011

Questions by BADASS! Editors

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1. Bill Hader impersonated this actor in a 2006 chastising Mel Gibson for giving a bad name to alcoholics everywhere. Recent roles by this actor include Pope Paul III in the second season of The Tudors, the voice of food critic Anton Ego in Ratatouille, and Maurice in Venus, a performance that garnered this actor his eighth Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. One of this actor’s children, Kate, is named after Katharine Hepburn, a close friend of this actor with whom he played Henry II to her Eleanor of Aquitane in The Lion in Winter. Another of this actor’s close friends is Omar Sharif, his co-star in the David Lean-directed film for which he received his first Best Actor nomination. FTP, who is this Irish actor, the record holder for most Academy Award acting nominations without a win, the lead actor in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia?

ANSWER: Peter Seamus Lorcan O’Toole

2. Bucknell won the first game with this name in 1935, shutting out the hometown team and holding them to four first downs and twenty-eight total offensive yards. Former MVPs of this game include Ahman Green in the 1997 season, Adrian Clayborn in 2009, and Torrance Marshall in 2000. That season’s version of this game featured the seventeenth appearance in it by the Oklahoma Sooners, whose 13-2 victory over Florida State in this game resulted in the team’s only national championship under head coach Bob Stoops. This game, originally known as the Palm Festival Game, was sponsored by FedEx from 1989 to 2010, but is now sponsored by Discover Financial. Played at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, this is, FTP, what BCS bowl game that most recently saw Stanford defeat Virginia Tech 40-12?

ANSWER: Orange Bowl

3. This song has been covered and sampled many times since its initial release in 1973, including by Mary J. Blige in “What’s the 411?”, former American Idol contestant Jason Castro in 2008, and Warren G on his album Take a Look Over Your Shoulder (Reality). This song’s lyrics assert that “every day the bucket goes to the well” but that “one day the bottom will drop out” in its final verse, after explaining that the singer had seen freedom coming his way one day as he started out of town. The singer of this song also laments that someone “always hated me, for what I don’t know,” and that whenever he tries to plant a seed that same person says to “kill it before it grows.” The cover of this song that appears on the album 461 Ocean Boulevard was Eric Clapton’s only number one hit in the U.S. FTP, what is this song, Bob Marley’s explanation that he did not kill the deputy?

ANSWER: “I Shot the Sheriff”

4. In a June 2011 appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Larry King stated that he did not know if he had this, while Asher Roth claims to have this “for real” and that it is “everything.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was accused of not having this following the cancellation of a meeting between him and its namesake. Debby Ryan paraphrased Henry David Thoreau in saying that the only cure for this is to do it more, as it is “almost indescribable and uncontrollable.” People suffering from this affliction were hostile to Esperanza Spalding’s winning the 2011 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. MTV describes symptoms of this as ranging from “frequent high-pitched shrieks” to “an affinity for the color purple,” among others. FTP, what is this phenomenon, once notably experienced by singer/actress Selena Gomez, describing an affinity to a Canadian pop superstar?

ANSWER: Bieber Fever

5. A Detroit-based band that shares part of its name with this man released the EP Horse Power and the album It’s a Corporate Worldin 2010 and 2011. This driver has appeared in several music videos, including those for Sheryl Crow’s “Steve McQueen,” Jay-Z’s “Show Me What You Got” with Danica Patrick, and Three Doors Down’s “The Road I’m On” with Tony Stewart. He has eighteen wins in Sprint Cup races, including six in 2004, but has not won a Sprint Cup race since the Lifelock 400 at Michigan International Speedway in 2008. One of those 2004 wins came at a race known as the “Great American Race” six years to the day after his father won there and three years after his father’s death there in 2001. FTP, who is this NASCAR driver of the #88 AMP Energy/National Guard car?

ANSWER: Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

6. This character claims to have invented the phrase “Got Milk?” and conceived the original story for Jurassic Park. One episode of the show in which this character appears sees him arguing that “unagi” is a state of total awareness, while others try to convince him that it is actually Japanese for freshwater eel. A pet that this character owns goes on to become the mascot for a beer company and the star of Outbreak 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan after this character donates him to the San Diego Zoo. The purchase of that pet is prompted by this character’s divorce from his first wife. That woman, Carol, is the mother of this character’s son Ben who was named after a janitor’s nametag, but not Emma who was named by this character’s sister, Monica. FTP, who is this character on Friends, a paleontologist with an off-and-on relationship with Rachel Green?

ANSWER: Ross Eustace Geller

7. This game was the first designed exclusively for its system’s dual-shock controller. The antagonists of this game wear different colored pants indicating personalities that can vary from blue for docile to red for aggressive. Those antagonists often have names that fit their environments, such as “Elvis,” who sits on a throne and “Indiana,” who hides in a temple. Items in this game include a stun club, a slingshot, an RC car, and a time net, which is used to capture the antagonists. Those antagonists wear helmets with lights that flash when they are approached that are given to them by Specter, an albino chimpanzee who commandeers The Professor’s Time Station to send an army of his minions back in time. FTP, what is this PlayStation game that follows The Professor’s assistant Jake and his attempts to capture a bunch of monkeys?

ANSWER: Ape Escape

8. This character was the third string quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams when he lived in Malibu in the 1980s. Prior to his professional football career, he was a soldier in Vietnam, where he was captured by the Viet Cong, but ended up getting lost with and befriending his captor, Phred. In recent years, an injury suffered by this character led him to drink heavily and to enter therapy. Other people in this character’s life include his daughter Sam and Ray Hightower, a friend that this character makes in the Army reserves. While in the Army, this character served in the first Gulf War and as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom until 2004, when the loss of his leg prompted him to yell “son of a bitch!” and take off his helmet for the first time in thirty-four years. FTP, who is this Doonesbury character, a former highway patrolman based on former Yale quarterback Brian Dowling?

ANSWER: B.D.

9. The name of this movie is different from the play on which it is based because it was thought that Americans would think that the use of Roman numerals would indicate that the film was a sequel. The title character first sees a group of doctors who use blistering and purges, and Dr. Pepys, who believes that a cure to that character’s maladies may be found in his stool. When the title character of this movie’s condition worsens, he begins seeing Dr. Willis, an ex-minister played by Ian Holm, to prevent Greville, played by Rupert Graves, from replacing him with the Prince of Wales, played by Rupert Everett. As the titular character’s condition continues to worsen, probably from porphyria, his relationship with Queen Charlotte, played by Helen Mirren, deteriorates. FTP, what is this 1994 film starring Nigel Hawthorne as the titular Hanoverian monarch?

ANSWER: The Madness of King George

10. A Big Star cover of “Thirteen,” a song from this album, was included on the soundtrack for the film Thumbsucker. An orchestral version of “Between the Bars” and two other songs from this album appear in the soundtrack for Good Will Hunting. Many of the songs on this album were recorded at Joanna Bolme’s house, while others, such as “2:45 AM,” “No Name #5,” and “Rose Parade” were recorded at Undercover Inc. This album built on the success of the artist’s previous self-titled album that included the hit “Needle in the Hay” and that was released eight years before the artist that made this album died from two stab wounds to the chest.This album shares its name with an 1843 existentialist work by Soren Kierkegaard that deals with the choice between aesthetic life and ethical life. FTP, what is this 1997 album by Elliot Smith?

ANSWER: Either/Or

11. This character has been voiced by Tomohisa Aso in the Japanese version of the Nintendo 64 game in which he appears and Dex Manley in the English version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. This character is a widower after the death of his wife Vivian, has a daughter named Lucy who was once an astrophysics teacher on Fichina, and is known to say things like, “You’re becoming more like your father.” Following the second Lylat Wars, this character retires from active duty and, following the resignation of General Pepper due to illness, becomes the general of the Cornernian army. This character narrowly escapes death after the treachery of Pigma Dengar results in the loss of original team member, James McCloud. FTP, who is this member of the Star Fox team, a rabbit known for his advice to “Do a barrel roll”?

ANSWER: Peppy Hare

12. This rapper began his career with the group Leaders of the New School until the group broke up on the set of Yo! MTV Raps in 1993. In recent years this rapper has appeared on Asher Roth’s debut album Asleep in the Bread Isle on the track “Lion’s Roar” as well as releasing his own songs such as 2008’s “We Made It” featuring Linkin Park. This rapper’s most recent album, which included songs such as “Hustler’s Anthem ’09,” “Arab Money,” and “Respect the Conglomerate” was his only album to not go at least Gold. That album, Back on My B.S., was this rapper’s eighth, coming after Anarchy & Genesis, It Ain’t Safe No More, and The Big Bang--an album that, thanks to hits like “Touch It,” became the first number one album of his twenty year career. FTP, who is this rapper that collaborated with Chris Brown and Lil Wayne on the 2011 song “Look at Me Now”?

ANSWER: Busta Rhymes or Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr.

13. There are two colleges with this name, one in central Kansas and one in Craftsbury Common, Vermont that, with only 100 students, is considered the smallest accredited four-year college in the country. An actress with this word in her last name appeared as Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers movies, while an author with this word in his name wrote the Mirrorshades anthology. A wide receiver with this word in his first name was a five-time Pro Bowl selection with the Green Bay Packers and is now an analyst on the NFL Network. An NBA owner with this name refused to pay his coach’s prostate cancer surgery fees, and it is also the first name of an animated character voiced by H. Jon Benjamin. A fictional character named this is one of the founding partners of a firm with Cooper, Draper, and Pryce. FTP, what is this word that can also be used to describe a reputation or silver?

ANSWER: sterling

14. This comedian joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for the 2004 season where he portrayed celebrities such as Mark McGwire, Howard Dean, and Rick Sanchez. Since then he has appeared in sitcom Gary Unmarried as Jay Mohr’s brother Mitch as well as in the films The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Killers, and Step Brothers as Derek’s best friend Randy. More notable film roles by this comedian include two roles as a police officer: Detective Martin, partner to Damon Wayans, Jr.’s Detective Fosse in The Other Guys and Las Vegas Police Department Officer Franklin in The Hangover. However, this comedian is probably most well known for his three-year stint on The Daily Show where he was the correspondent from China for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was often the show’s “military analyst” due to his years of service in the Marine Corps. FTP, who is this physically imposing actor and comedian?

ANSWER: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Allen “Rob” Riggle, Jr.

15. This man was the number one ranked golfer in the world for nine weeks and holds the record for most weeks in the top ten with over 780. This 2011 World Golf Hall of Fame began displaying an “Autism Speaks” logo on his golf bag in 2008, shortly before announcing that his son Ben suffers from the disorder. He placed second at the Masters in 2000 and 2004 and has won three major championships, the most recent being the 2002 Open Championship. Nicknamed “the Big Easy” because of his height and his fluid swing, this golfer missed time in 2005 after injuring his knee while sailing. This man may be best known for finishing runner-up to Tiger Woods in major championships more than any other golfer, and also for his charitable work with fellow countryman Gary Player. FTP, who is this South African professional golfer?

ANSWER: Theodore Ernest “Ernie” Els

16. Roscoe Brown, a character in this series played by Barry Corbin, is killed by the half-Indian bandit Blue Duck while waiting for Sheriff July Johnson, played by Chris Cooper. Johnson’s wife Elmira, played by Glenne Headley, is killed by Indians while riding to St. Louis with a buffalo hunter played by Steve Buscemi. Woodrow Call, another character in this series, refuses to acknowledge that Newt Dobbs, played by Rick Schroder, is his son, despite pressure to do so from the other proprietor of the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium, Gus McRae. Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry, this is, FTP, what critically acclaimed miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall as cowboys leading a group of cattle to Montana from the titular Texas town?

ANSWER: Lonesome Dove

17. One person with this distinction, Bernard Koyne, was verified when his World War I draft registration card was examined. Another person with this distinction, Edouard Beaupre, performed feats of strength with Barnum and Bailey’s circus before dying from a tumor on his pituitary gland. The person who currently holds this distinction, Sultan Kosen, has done so since September 2009, when Guinness World Records verified him. A Sufjan Stevens song from Come On Feel the Illinoise entitled “[This type of person], the Tallest Shoulders” comes after “The Seer’s Tower.” Swedish musician Kristian Matssan, who performs with this as his moniker, released the albums Shallow Grave in 2008 and The Wild Hunt in 2010. FTP, what is this distinction, used to describe people such as Robert Wadlow who died measuring eight feet, eleven inches?

ANSWER: tallest man on Earth(prompt on “tallest person”)

18.This man has been arrested for murder twice, once for shooting someone who was attempting to rob one of his gambling houses and another time for stomping to death an employee who owed him $600. He served four years in prison for the second murder, and four years after getting out he was able to secure a $10 million purse from the government of Zaire. That event, along with one the next year in the Philippines, allowed this man to expand his roster during the 1970s and ‘80s to include Felix Trinidad, Bernard Hopkins, Alexis Arguello, Andrew Golota, Evander Holyfield, and Mike Tyson. This man is also known for his flamboyant personality and distinct hairstyle and he has been parodied in many TV shows and movies, most notably in Rocky V. FTP, who is this boxing promoter, known for his catchphrase “Only in America”?

ANSWER: Donald “Don” King

19.The music video for this song begins with the singer sitting on a log in a swamp with people dancing around in the mud below her. The singer of this song is then pulled into the mud after realizing that there is an “aching inside [her] head” and that it’s telling her she’s “better off alone.” Later scenes in the music video for this song show the singer dancing around a Buddhist temple and sitting in a chair in an old house singing that she lives her life “by the moon” and pleading “I’m running, I’m running, catch up with me life.” This 2001 song was the first single on an album that also featured “…On the Radio (Remember the Days)” and that built on the artist’s earlier success with 2000’s “I’m Like a Bird.” FTP, what is this song by Nelly Furtado about a girl that acts “too tough, tough, tough” before performing the titular action?