Bayou-A-Drank 2011
Questions by Matt Berry of Tulane University (@mttbry)
feat. Charles "In Charge" Bramesco, Esq.
TOSSUPS
1. In one episode of Family Guy, Stewie is disappointed that Santa's workshop looks like this city, and the show later describes it as "among the world leaders in abandoned buildings, shattered glass, boarded up windows, wild dogs, and gas stations without pumps." American Idol season 7 finalist Syesha Mercado was born here before moving to Sarasota. True Life: I'm Bisexual was filmed in this city, and it was the hometown of Robert E. Hogan on Hogan's Heroes. The Bluefish play in The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in this city, and an AHL affiliate of the Islanders play next door in The Arena at Harbor Yard. In a certain novel by Mark Twain, Hank Morgan mistakes Camelot for this city, famous for circuses. Home of P.T. Barnum and the Sound Tigers hockey team, FTP, what is this city on Long Island Sound, the largest in Connecticut?
ANSWER: Bridgeport, Connecticut
2. This woman was briefly engaged to José da Silva Pereira, but he broke off the engagement. She visits Sally Tomato every week, and delivers a message about the weather. She is saving up money to support her brother Fred when he gets out of the Army. She lives in a comfortable apartment on the East Side with an unnamed pet, and was married as a teenager, although the marriage was annulled. She buys her neighbor a typewriter ribbon and invites him to a party. That neighbor, Paul, gives her a ring from a box of Cracker Jacks that they later get engraved. This woman once sang “Moon River” on a fire escape, and she goes window shopping in the morning on Fifth Avenue in a little black dress with a pastry and a cup of coffee. FTP, who is this woman, played by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
ANSWER: HollyGolightly (accept Lula Mae Barnes or Lula Mae Golightly)
3. On this event's 100th anniversary, 129 nations competed, setting a new record. The first iteration of this competition was held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1900. That first year, only two countries competed, but in five years the tournament would expand to include Belgium, Austria, France, and Australasia, which competed separately from the British Isles team. Including Australasian wins, Australia has won this event 28 times, but Sweden has had more wins in the Open Era with 7. Australians who have competed in this event include Lleyton Hewitt, Patrick Rafter, and Mark Philippoussis. Serbia won this for the first time in 2010 thanks in part to ATP number 1 player Novak Djokovic. FTP, what is this annual tournament, the premier team event in men's tennis?
ANSWER: Davis Cup
4. This song debuted at number 16 on the Billboard charts and finally reached number 1 after six weeks. This is the eleventh number one hit for its artist, who is tied with Whitney Houston for third place among females for most number one singles, after Madonna and Mariah Carey. It is also the twentieth top ten single for the artist. British alternative rock band Coldplay covered this song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, in a performance that MTV News called "flawless" and "haunting." The song, released by Def Jam records, was written and produced by a Scottish singer-songwriter who gets featured credit on the track despite not contributing any vocals. The chorus asserts that the singer and her paramour performed the title action "in a hopeless place." Replacing “Someone Like You by Adele” as number one on the Billboard Top 100 this is, FTP, what Rihanna song that is the number one song in America RIGHT NOW?
ANSWER: “We Found Love”
5. When agitated, this creature flaps its wings at high speed, and its wings are covered in scales. It collects honey by harvesting pollen from flowers, and can locate blooming flowers as far as six miles away from its nest. It develops a powder coat on its wings that allows it to fly even during heavy rains and the dust from this powder can be poisonous to humans if inhaled in large quantities. Specimens of this creature average three feet and seven inches in height and 70.5 pounds. This species has compoundeyes, which increases its accuracy by 30%. Creatures of this species are monogamous, and mate after a spectacular courtship period, famously over cliffs outside Saffron City. It learns Psybeam at level 34 and PoisonPowder at level 13. FTP, what is this Bug and Flying type Pokémon, once owned by Ash Ketchum, which evolves from Metapod at level 10?
ANSWER: Butterfree
6. This man had a successful playing career in high school and at Oklahoma State University before replacing John Calipari as an assistant to Larry Brown in 1985. From there, this man went on to be an assistant coach at Oklahoma State before becoming the head coach of another Oklahoma school in 1993. After turning the Oral Roberts basketball program around and leading them to the NIT in 1997, this man was hired to the be the head coach of the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, leading that team to their first Elite Eight appearance in 2000. When Lon Kruger left the University of Illinois to become the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, this man became the head coach of the Fighting Illini until leaving that position to replace Roy Williams when he left to become the head coach at North Carolina. FTP, who is this current coach of the Kansas Jayhawks?
ANSWER: Bill Self
7.A remix of this song was used in the soundtrack to the 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and was also included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It is featured in the trailer for an upcoming sequel to an Oscar-winning 2006 movie. It was track 8 on an album of the same name. At the end of the video to this song, the title figure addresses the artist as "Todd" and nags him to take out the garbage. The artist threatens that his jammy might go "BLAW," calling himself a "maniac psycho." The artist says he's "kinda like Shaft" and alsocompares himself to Cassius Clay, encouraging the listener to "listen to the bass go boom" after he makes "tears rain down like a monsoon." Beginning with the lyric, "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years", FTP, what is this single by LL Cool J, which you had better not call a regular jam?
ANSWER: “Mama Said Knock You Out”
8. This actress won the role of Laurie on a 2004 VH1 reality show looking for a new generation of David Cassidys. She voiced Mazie in a movie adaptation of the comic strip Marmaduke. In one film she played sorority president and virgin Natalie, and covered "I Know What Boys Like" for the film's soundtrack. In a 2009 film she played a protective sister named Krista who spends time in an amusement park with Jesse Eisenberg and in 2011, she played a John Mayer enthusiast named Kayla. Her first film credit was as Jules, a high schooler to whom Seth wants to lose his virginity in Superbad. This actress will be returning to her natural blonde hair color to play Gwen Stacy opposite Andrew Garfield in an upcoming movie. Also known for playing Skeeter Phelan in The Help this is, FTP, which redhead whostole hearts as "fake school slut" Olive Penderghast in Easy A?
ANSWER: Emily Jean “Emma”Stone
9. The Winner Corporation is a major mining company in this show. The heir to the corporation's fortune is a pacifist who grows up believing he's a test tube baby, when actually his mother died while carrying him. Another character, Lucrezia Noin, goes only by her surname and is an instructor at Lake Victoria Academy. One character on this show says he wears a mask to hide a facial deformity, but he really wears it to hide that he is actually Milliardo, the brother of Relena. One character adopts the surname Maxwell after a Roman Catholic priest who cares for him when he is orphaned. Treize Khushrenada, who pilots the Tallgeese II, allows Chang Wufei, who pilots the Shenlong, to kill him in battle. Heero Yuy is a mobile suit pilot and the primary protagonist in, FTP, what anime series which takes place in the After Colony timeline of a famous mecha franchise?
ANSWER: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing(do not prompt on “Gundam”)
10. The intended title to this movie was "Greyshot," after a location in Central Park. Ryan Key from Yellowcard has a cameo in this movie as a bartender at a party in Brooklyn. That party is a surprise for a man who is moving to Japan to work for Slusho. That man, Rob, sleeps with Beth in her father's apartment in the Time Warner Center, and Rob spends most of the movie trying to return there to tell Beth he loves her. They make plans to spend the day on Coney Island, which are fulfilled in the final scene of the movie, where careful viewers notice a large object fall into the water. Rob and friends eventually rescue Beth, who is impaled on rebar, and everyone dies but Lily. Rob and Beth are killed during the HAMMER-DOWN Protocol in, FTP, what 2008 J.J. Abrams-producedfound footage movie about six twenty-somethings in Manhattan?
ANSWER: Cloverfield
11. This show was the top Nielsen rated network television show for three straight years from 1991 through 1994. The show has had four different sin-offs over its run, and there have been local versions in Australia, Germany, and New Zealand, although the American version is the original. Another show, "This Hour Has Seven Days", aired in Canada in the 1960s and had a similar format. Saturday Night Live often parodied this show with Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd, with Aykroyd popularizing the line "Jane, you ignorant slut." A 2003 episode of this show centered around a debate between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Mike Wallace appeared on the show until 2006, and Connie Chung appeared on this show from 1990 to 1993. FTP, what is this show, whose reporters have included Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, and Andy Rooney, a newsmagazine airing on CBS?
ANSWER: 60 Minutes
12. On August 7, 2005, this song was used to wake up astronauts on Space Shuttle Discovery on the first U.S. Space mission after the Columbia disaster. The chord sequence of the bridge is the same as the verses but transposed up by awhole tone. The original single version of this song begins with a fiddle solo with the Irish folk song "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms." The lyrics include an allusion to rock and roll pioneer and crooner Johnnie Ray. It prevented Michael Jackson from having two back to back number one hits, holding the number one spot for one week in 1982, between "Billie Jean" and "Beat It." In this song, the singer confesses that, related to the title figure's red dress, his thoughts, well, they're dirty. Number 3 on VH1's 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders this is, FTP, what song, by an overall-clad Dexy’s Midnight Runners?
ANSWER: “Come On Eileen”
13. The American Museum of [this activity] is located in Manchester, Vermont, while Theodore Herman, whom Wikipedia describes as a “consumptive hermit,” wrote about performing this activity in the Catskill Mountains. Along with bullfighting, Ernest Hemingway wrote about this activity in The Sun Also Rises, while a 1976 novel describes a family involved in this activity in early 20th century Montana. That novel about this activity was made into a movie in 1992 that was directed by Robert Redford and that starred Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer as Paul and Norman Maclean. Distinctions are usually made between the cold and warm-water varieties of this activity, and the lures used in this activity usually resemble aquatic insects. FTP, what is this recreational activity, the performance of which frames the story of A River Runs Through It?
ANSWER: fly-fishing (prompt on “fishing”)
14. In the first-ever match-up of the number one and number two high school football teams in the country, this player scored all four of De La Salle High School’s touchdowns in a defeat of Long Beach Poly in 2001. From there, this player was recruited out of high school by Karl Dorrell to the school where he would set the NCAA single-season record for punt-return average with 28.5 yards and became the first player at his school since Jackie Robinson to lead the nation in punt returning. Drafted in the second round out of UCLA, this player allegedly chose the number 32 because all 32 NFL teams passed on him at least once. This player passed Fred Taylor on his team’s depth chart in 2008, and has since been the number one rusher on his team, ahead of other running backs such as Deji Karim. FTP, who is this Pro Bowl running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars?
ANSWER: Maurice Jones-Drew
15. This movie has been called "the simultaneous perfection & death knell of the high concept film!" on a spinoff of the tumblr "Look at This Fucking Hipster". In 2011 folks on the Internet raised over $50,000 to get Mayor Dave Bing to erect a statue of this film's title character in Roosevelt Park as part of his urban renewal project. This movie, the first of a trilogy, has an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and was released for BluRay on October 5, 2010 by MGM. The movie's director was Paul Verhoeven, who is said to have thrown the script away in disgust before his wife convinced him of its substance. In the movie, Omni Consumer Products seeks to destroy Detroit and replace it with Delta City, a fully privatized municipality that it will own. Noted for over-the-top violence, FTP, what is this 1987 science fiction film a police officer who is murdered and recreated as the title superhuman cyborg?
ANSWER: RoboCop
16. This woman was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame one year later. With eleven number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, she is tied for most hits by a female artist on that chart since 1991, with Reba McEntire. She famously joined Vince Gill to sing "How Great Though Art" at the Academy of Country Music Awards, at a ceremony where she became the first woman to win Entertainer of the Year twice. She is the only solo country artist to have a number 1 hit on the Billboard Top 100 from 2000 through 2009. That hit, "Inside Your Heaven", was her coronation song for a certain competition. Wife of Nashville Predators center Mike Fisher and winner of the fourth season of American Idol, FTP, who is this country music sensation, singer of hits like "Before He Cheats" and "Jesus Take the Wheel?"
ANSWER: CarrieUnderwood (Accept Carrie Fisher before“Fisher”)
17. This team, owned by Shamrock Holdings, was founded by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, and has maintained its nickname since them. In 1948 and again in 1949, this team beat the premier NBA team, a Minnesota Lakers team led by George Mikan, which was historically significant for the majority-black team. One of this team's earliest star players was Albert "Runt" Pullins, a skilled dibbler and shooter. Pullins was soon joined by Inman Jackson, a 6'3" center. Other famous players include George "Meadowlark" Lemon, Freddie "Curly" Neal, and Hubert "Geese" Ausbie. The team has played more than 20,000 games in 118 countries. The subject of a 1970s Saturday morning cartoon, FTP, what is this exhibition basketball team named after a Manhattan neighborhood which contains the Apollo Theater?
ANSWER: HarlemGlobetrotters
18. D.J. MacHale, who wrote the pilot episode of this show, has said that the show's title figure was Jamal's ancestor, and escaped slave who educated himself and learned the value of reading. In the episode "Over a Barrel," Tina and Alex share their first kiss, and in "What's up with Alex?" Kevin offers Alex marijuana. In "Am I Blue?" Gaby steals money from the cash register in the bodega to buy a "Galaxy Girl" costume, and Daisy Fuentes would later appear as Galaxy Girl herself. Samuel L. Jackson appeared as Jamal's father Reggie. Members of the team on this show would have a casebook where they store evidence, clues, and information about suspects. FTP, what was this show, which aired on PBS from 1992 to 1995, about a group of students at Zora Neale Hurston Middle School in Brooklyn, who solve mysteries with the help of the titular literate spirit?
ANSWER: Ghostwriter
19. Thomas Jane appears in a cameo in this film for a few seconds as a younger version of one of the film's main characters. This movie was released in 1999, and netted three Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Original Song for the song "Save Me" by Aimee Mann. Mann's music figures prominently into the film, with one character saying to another "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?”--a line taken right from Mann's song "Deathly". Mann's music also provides one of the movie's two climaxes, in which all of the film's nine interconnected main characters join together for a sing-along of Mann's "Wise Up.” The other climax comes later in the movie, when the sky opens and rains frogs on the nine protagonists. FTP, what is this third film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which also earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Tom Cruise?
ANSWER: Magnolia