Bayou-A-Drank 2012
Round 5
Questions by the Tulane University Krewe of Quiz Bowl
TOSS-UPS
1.The artist behind this song performed it on a 2007 episode of the Late Show with David Letterman with members of Grizzly Bear and The National. Recently covered by Kenny Loggins and Joy Electric, a Sesame Street version of this song includes “monsters walking ‘cross the floor” and “chickens just back from the shore.” It was originally written and performed by Sally Seltmann, and it appears on the album The Reminder after “The Limit to Your Love” and before “Brandy Alexander.” Including the lines “sweetheart, bitter heart--now I can’t tell you apart; cozy and cold, put the horse before the cart,” this is, FTP, what Feist song famous for its use in commercials for the iPod nano?
ANSWER: “1234” (pronounced “one two three four”)
2.This actress is the voice of Elise in the 2001 video game SSX Tricky. The star of the short-lived ABC series Cashmere Mafia, she was, along with James Hong, the only major voice actor to appear in both the Kung Fu Panda movies andTV show. Inaddition to her role as Master Viper, this actress has appeared on television several times as a lawyer, including a role as Nola Lyons on Dirty Sexy Money and as a member of Cage, Fish & Associates on Ally McBeal. A 2001 episode of Futurama sees Fry download and then date a robotic version of this actress, and she hasrecently played Officer Jessica Tang on TNT’s Southland andWatson on CBS’s Elementary. FTP, who is this Chinese-American actress?
ANSWER: Lucy Liu
3.This player was not selected to the All-Star team during a season that saw him set the record for runs-batted-in before the All-Star break with 103. The first player to hit at least 25 home runs in a season in each league and winner of the MVP award at two different positions, this player notably supported Curt Flood and Jackie Robinson because of his experiences with the reserve clause and discrimination. On September 11, 1934, the Detroit Free Press ran the Hebrew lettering for “Happy New Year” on its front page after he hit two home runs on Rosh Hashanah, but he would not play against the Yankees later that month on Yom Kippur. FTP, who is this famously Jewish baseball player?
ANSWER: Hank Greenberg
4.Although perhaps better known for comedic roles, this man began his career with relatively serious roles, appearing in a number of dramatic films including Ransom!, Hot Summer Night, and, more notably, the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet. Thesuccess of that role would not be met again until 1972 when he appeared as the captain of a doomed vessel in the disaster filmThe Poseidon Adventure. In addition to his film work, this actor appeared in more than 1,500 television shows, including small roles in shows like The Night Gallery and The Golden Girls, as well as a featured role in the short lived series that would later inspire one of his best known film roles. This series was Police Squad!, and the resulting role was that of Detective Frank Drebin. FTP, who is this actor, the star of the Naked Gun film series?
ANSWER: Leslie Nielsen
5.Two answers required. These men, one from Kansas City and the other from Manhattan, met at the insistence of music publisher Tommy Valando. Their early collaborations included the songs “Sara Lee” and “My Coloring Book.” Their first musical together was Golden Gate, which was never produced, but which helped them get the job writing the score of Flora the Red Menace. Later collaborations included The Happy Time, Steel Pier, and Curtains, but their best known works were the stories of Cliff Bradshaw and Sally Bowles, whomeet in 1930s Berlin; and of Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, two murderesses in a 1920s Midwestern city. FTP, what is this writing duo that wrote the theme from New York, New York as well as the musicals Cabaret and Chicago?
ANSWER: JohnKander and FredEbb (either order acceptable)
6.After leaving the University of Alabama to be with his high school sweetheart Ann Estock this man started his coaching career at Howard University as a Track and Field Coach. His first football head-coaching job was at West Virginia. Oneof this man’s sons is the head coach of the Akron Zips, while another led Tulane to a 12-0 record in 1998 before moving to Clemson where he regularly played against this coach. Players under this coach have included two Heisman Trophy winners, Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke, while other notable players have been Warrick Dunn, Derrick Brooks and Deion Sanders. FTP, who is this former coach at FSU who now owns the Division I-FBS record for all time wins?
ANSWER: BobbyBowden
7.This woman can be heard singing backing vocals on Sheryl Crow’s song “Soak Up the Sun” but is better known for her previous solo work. In 1998 she joined Lilith Fair in order to promote her third album, Whitechocolatespaceegg, but she was still unable to recreate the success of her first album. That debut album can be listed to as a track-by-track response to a 1972 album by the Rolling Stones, with songs like “Soap Star Joe” and “Divorce Son.” That album was Exile in Guyville and was released in 1993 by indie label Matador Records. This artist would abandon her alternative style for a more pop-based sound with a self-titled album in 2003. That album featured the song “Extraordinary” which was used in Gatorade advertisements, as well as the more popular single “Why Can’t I.” FTP, who is this alt-rock singer-songwriter, the performer of “Fuck and Run” and “Never Said?”
ANSWER: Liz Phair
8.One star of this series would later find success on a series with former Three’s Company cast member Suzanne Somers; that show was Step by Step. One season finale of this series, titled “A Family Divided,” sparked such curiositythat the subsequent season premiere gained the highest rating of any television episode up to that point. That episode, while more frequently referred to by another question, was entitled “Who Done It?” and revealed that it was Kristin Shepard who attempted to kill the Larry Hagman played oil tycoon. Originally airing from 1978 to 1991, a continuation of this series began airing on TNT in July of this year. FTP, what is this show which followed the dealings of the Ewing family and famously asked “who shot J.R.?”
ANSWER: Dallas
9.This man’s first tour win was in 2010 at the Travelers Championship in a playoff with Corey Pavin and Scott Verplank. The pride of Bagdad, Florida, he was a part of the Georgia Bulldogs SEC title in 2000. His second win came in 2011 against fellow lefty Phil Mickelson at the Famers Insurance Open. He appears on the viral video “Oh Oh Oh” as a member of golf’s first boy band, the appropriately named Golf Boys. His actual first name is Gerry, but he is better know by a nickname given to his father, a former football player. He is probably known best for landing a ball on the green from the woods to win his first Major Championship in sudden death. FTP, who is this golfer who defeated Louis Oosthuizen to win the Masters in 2012?
ANSWER: Gerry “Bubba”Watson, Jr.
10.One character in this movie has just finished talking about tattooing his penis and wearing a prosthetic nose when a one-eyed drug dealer shoots him through the neck. That character had been one of the central figures in the TV show that inspired this movie, which features Brie Larson as the drama student Molly and Ellie Kemper as a chemistry teacher who is poor at concealing her lust for a new student. One character in this movie shoves an old woman into a stack of shoeboxes when she calls him by his real name; that character, Schmidt, had earlier prayed to “Korean Jesus” after he and his partner were given assignments at a local high school. Starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as undercover narcotics detectives, this is, FTP, what 2012 movie?
ANSWER: 21 Jump Street
11.This song was featured in the 2008 season premiere of Grey's Anatomy. The music video, which is set mostly in a Mad Platter Café, features former Laguna Beach star Stephen Colletti as the singer’s love interest, with whom she decides to break up via a phone call. Winning the award for “Best Country Song” and “Best Female County Vocal Performance” at the 52nd Grammy Awards, this song has been compared to Dolly Parton’s 1973 hit “Jolene.” Notorious for using failed relationships as inspiration for lyrics, the singer and co-writer of this song explained that it was based on an ex-boyfriend who wasn’t as much of a “Prince Charming” as he originally seemed. With the lamentation “I’m not a princess and this ain’t a fairytale,” this is, FTP, what track from Fearless, a song by Taylor Swift?
ANSWER: “White Horse”
12.One scene in this movie sees the mother of one character compare raising children to replacing parts of a car before saying that she hopes her daughter isn’t a lesbian. When asked what he did over the summer another character in this movie jokes that he went water-skiing and kick boxing. That character dresses as a roller skate for Halloween, dances for “a candy bar and a whole nickel” at the mall, and says that a figure skater was a “walking gay pride parade” after his parents discover dirty magazines under his mattress and send him to Mercy House. Cassandra unbuttons her shirt and seems to say that she has a “hot pussy” while pretending to speak in tongues, and the discovery of receipts from the Home Depot reveal who vandalized American Eagle Christian High School in this movie. FTP, what is this 2004 film starring Jena Malone, Macaulay Culkin, and Mandy Moore?
ANSWER: Saved!
13.MinorcharactersinthisgameincludeHarold MacDougal, an anthropology professor who works with the Native American Nastas, and Seth Briars, a grave robber who causes the dead to rise at the end of this game’s spin-off Undead Nightmare. This game’s challenges involve searching for hidden treasure, collecting wild plants, and hunting, while it also offers the player the opportunity to play horseshoes, “five finger fillet,” and Texas hold ‘em with townsfolk like Herbert Moon, the shopkeeper in Armadillo. Pressing the Y button in this game accomplishes a number of tasks, from accepting bounties to hogtying disabled enemies and stealing other character’s horses. Those actions can affect John Marston’s honor and fame in this game. FTP, what is this 2010 Rockstar game set in the Old West?
ANSWER: Red Dead Redemption
14.A betting scandal once rocked this team when its star shortstop bet five cents on a game with another player. That player is the younger brother of this team’s second baseman and its right fielder, who was once traded for a pizza. This team’s third baseman is frequently seen kicking up clouds of dirt while running the bases,and its piano-playing catcher always walks the ball to the mound. That catcher on this team is one of the few supporters of its player-manager, who is a diehard Joe Shlabotnik and San Francisco Giants fan and can often be seen being knocked off the mound by line drives. Usually seen losing by scores such as 200-0, this is, FTP, what fictional baseball team from Peanuts?
ANSWER: Charlie Brown’s baseball team (accept variants; prompt on “the baseball team from Peanuts” before “Peanuts” is mentioned because there are several teams in the strip)
15.This man’s accountant’s failure to pay thirty-two million dollars in taxes in 1990 led directly to the release of his 1991 album The IRS Tapes: Who Will Buy My Memories? The artist behind “Living in the Promiseland,” he allegedly smoked marijuana on the roof of the White House while visiting Jimmy Carter. With Julio Iglesias, this man recorded “To All the Girls I’ve Ever Loved” in 1984, eight years after his version of “If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time” reached number one on the country charts. “Time of the Preacher” and “”Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” are two tracks from his 1975 album Red Headed Stranger. FTP, who is this musician behind hits such as “On the Road Again”?
ANSWER: Willie Nelson
16.A football team named for this animal once beat a spread of seventy points on a late touchdown pass following a halftime performance by John Stamos’ brother Richard. PETA would later intervene and force that team’s school to drop this animal as its mascot, leading to a contentious election between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. The FBI tried to stop a group of these animals from worshipping a giant clock shaped like one of them, leading them to jump one-by-one off a cliff. Local schoolchildren locked themselves in a bedroom and demanded that Worf drive them to the airport in a protest against the consumption of “tortured baby” ones of these. One of those boys, Eric Cartman, was abducted by aliens in an episode where many of these were turned inside-out. FTP, what are these animals, the mascot of South Park Elementary’s sports teams?
ANSWER: cows
17.When this team was first founded in 1967, it was named after the state bird. It changed names five years later when it was bought by San Diego businessmen Frank Goldberg and Bill Fisher. In 1983, they played a game against the Detroit Pistons in which they combined for an NBA record 370 total points. The current head coach of this team picked up his 800th career win as a head coach against the Seattle SuperSonics, which he coached from 1991-1998, and this team just signed JaVale McGee to a four year, $44 million dollar contract. FTP what is this NBA team that made a blockbuster trade in 2012 in which they received Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, and others in return for Chauncy Billups and Carmelo Anthony?
ANSWER: DenverNuggets (accept either underlined answer)
18.This woman is known to often tell “inspirational stories” that invariably end with someone killing themselves, a trend which eventually becomes clear after she admits to having attempted suicide as a teenager in the sixth season. According to various patients this woman’s bedside manner is very cold and impersonal, a feature which leads hersuperior to split the role of chief resident between her and another character. That other character was often uncomfortable with her other relationships, including her brief engagement to Keith Dudemeister. Twoofher close friends on the show on which she appeared are played by Judy Reyes and Donald Faison; these characters are Carla Espinosa and Christopher Turk. Some of her nicknames include Marshmallow, Mole Butt, and Barbie. FTP, who is this friend and love interest of John “J.D.” Dorian, played by Sarah Chalke?
ANSWER: ElliotReid, M.D.(accepteitherunderlinedanswer)
19.The music video for one song off this album depicts a series of picture frames inside of each other that show a ballerina, members of a choir, and a person dressed as a gingerbread man. Another video for a song off this album shows the singer’s chest being cut open to reveal that the organs were a series of paper lanterns; that song wonders if there shouldn’t be a more practical name for the glove compartment. One song on this album states that the singer will “sit and wonder of every love that could’ve been if I’d only thought of something charming to say” while another song off this album asks God to “damn the black night with all its foul temptation.” With a cover featuring a black bird tied up in red yarn, FTP, what is this 2003 album by Death Cab for Cutie that also includes the track “The Sound of Settling”?
ANSWER: Transatlanticism
20.A man named Hoffstetter admits to his psychiatrist that the archangel came to him in a dream and revealed the location of one of these objects shortly before a computer refuses to aid in the pursuit of these because it would be cheating. An employee in a peanut factory receives a one-pound bonus in her pay packet for finding one of these, while a Paraguayan casino owner briefly fooled international media outlets into thinking he had found the fifth and final one. The actual recipient of the final one of these objects is a paperboy who at one point decides that they must make the product around which they are wrapped taste terrible. Won by Mike Teevee, Violet Beauregard, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, and Charlie Bucket these are, FTP, what prizes found in Wonka chocolate bars?
ANSWER: golden tickets
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