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2006 Ann B. Davis – The Tenth Anniversary Tossups for Babies Ate My Dingo by Geoff Zmyslowski and Joe Wright FIRST PERIOD – Fifty-or-nothing bonuses in effect 1). Flak Magazine called them "lowbrow and small-time, underachieving and unpopular, the Roger Clinton of the Frito-Lay family," and said their mouth-feel is like "oversized Styrofoam calamari."(*) They now come in original, mini, and Wasabiflavored varieties, all in the trademark yellow bag with lime-green lettering. For 10 points--name this snack product that a more favorable reviewer called, "the standard by which all other onion-flavored rings are judged." Answer: Funyuns (Note: Still more popular than Responsibilityuns) 2). A man wakes up to find he's in a strange bed with a strange woman, and when he tries to leave her fifth-floor apartment, he finds her preacher (*) husband is coming up the stairs. Hiding doesn't work because his cell phone rings, leading to the discovery that the preacher was sleeping with another man, and the singer's woman was also sleeping around. For 10 points--name this five-part 2005 song by R. Kelly, whose title refers the physical location of the singer and the symbolic condition of the preacher. Answer: Trapped in the Closet 3). Trained as a dancer, her first on-screen role came in a shampoo commercial. Cast in The Road Home as a girl who falls in love with her teacher, she made her American debut in Rush Hour 2 (*). She did her first martial arts work in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the governor's daughter and followed this up with roles as Broken Sword's servant, Moon, in Hero and as Mei in House of Flying Daggers. For 10 points--name this actress seen currently as Bai Ling in 2046 and Sayuri in Memoirs of a Geisha. Answer: Zhang Ziyi or Ziyi Zhang 4). YEAR AND TEAM REQUIRED. The season started off with four double-digit wins and they only lost two games, both road defeats against North Carolina (*) and Wake Forest. They cruised through the early rounds of the tournament and the final turned into a second-half rout, but the semi-final against Indiana was only a three-point victory and the quarterfinal was even closer. For 10 points--what team needed Christian Laettner's last-second shot to defeat Kentucky in the Elite 8, 104-103? Answer: 1991-1992 Duke University Blue Devils 5). He has guest-starred on prime time shows twice, appearing as himself in a very special Election 2000 episode of The Parkers, and portraying Thurgood Marshall on American Dreams. He has hosted three (*) talk shows since 1998, first on BET, then on NPR, and moving in 2004 to his current gig. For 10 points--name this man whose eponymous show won the 2005 NAACP Image Award for Best TV News, Talk, or Information Show and, along with Charlie Rose, appears nightly on PBS. Answer: Tavis Smiley Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 1 6). The world cups were held in Egypt in November 2004 for the beach version of this sport. The 2005 men's World Championships were marred by malicious last-minute intentional fouls, such as in Slovenia's win over Iceland, leading to rule changes. Held in Tunisia, the host country finished fourth, while 74 goals (*) were scored in a fast-paced final between Croatia and eventual champion Spain. For 10 points--name this sport that actually happens more than once every four years, loosely combining soccer and basketball. Answer: Team handball (prompt on: handball) SECOND PERIOD – Unlimited guessing on completed tossups 7). It begins with a man in a bathrobe playing poker calling a man smoking a pipe and inviting him to come to his house to play a song for his girls (*). It turns into a party featuring foosball, pool, soccer, monkey-feeding, and hanging out in a grotto. Filmed on location at that house, the Playboy Mansion, this is, for 10 points--what 2005 music video about envying celebrity life, performed by Weezer? Answer: "Beverly Hills" 8). In The Matrix: Reloaded, you can hear this show's name repeated over a police radio. Resurrected alongside The New Dragnet (*) in 1989, the revival lasted only 12 episodes. The original aired from 1968-1975 on NBC, starring Martin Milner and Kent McCord. Although the characters crossed over with Emergency! several times, one Emergency! episode featured a paramedic watching this show on TV. For 10 points-name this LA police drama with a call sign for a title. Answer: Adam-12 9). In the first scene, a cop takes down a psycho holding hostages in a supermarket, quipping "You're the disease, I'm the cure." A member of the Zombie Squad (*), he's after the Night Slasher killer and learns that the murders are the work of a cult led by Brian Thompson. He and his partner must protect witness Brigitte Nielsen, but a mole in the department tips off the cult. Nominated for six Razzies in 1987--for 10 points--name this movie starring Sylvester Stallone as Lt. Marion Cobretti. Answer: Cobra 10). Bartholomew Rossi begins his research in the 1930's, but vanishes in the 1950's shortly after confiding in Paul his results. Paul's daughter, Elsie, finds a medieval book (*) hidden in her father's library that contains nothing but the woodcut of a dragon. Before Paul can tell his daughter the full story, he too vanishes. A Hopwood Award-winner for the Novel-in-Progress, this is the plot of--for 10 points--what first novel by Elizabeth Kostova? Answer: The Historian 11). In 1995 they released a third and final album, The Road Goes on Forever, which failed to match the success of their 1985 debut and its sequel. The later disc contained the minor hit "Silver Stallion", while the earlier featured top 20 country hits "Desperadoes Waiting for the Train" (*) and the title track, along with cover art depicting the four band members' faces floating Rushmore-like over a desert vista. For 10 points--name this supergroup of Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson. Answer: The Highwaymen Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 2 12). He gave up his band, The Pacific Ocean, to try an acting career. He's often played real men, including Santa Ana early in his career and Rafael Trujillo later. He won a Golden Globe for his turn as Wilson Pinheiro (*) alongside Raul Julia in The Burning Season. For 10 points--name this Latino actor best known for his roles as Jaime [hi-me] Escalante in Stand and Deliver and as Commander William Adama in Battlestar Galactica. Answer: Edward James Olmos THIRD PERIOD – No special rules in effect 13). A former linebacker at Towson State, he broke into the NFL in 1979 as Baltimore's strength coach following a bout with testicular cancer. He served as a position coach for various teams every year from 1982 to 2003 before joining the (*) Rams in 2004 as linebacker coach. For 10 points--name this man who, following Mike Martz's heart problems, compiled a 4-7 record as St. Louis's interim head coach in 2005. Answer: Joe Vitt 14). This two-word term was coined by Stuart Cramer in a paper describing a new procedure for textile mill humidification. The New York Stock Exchange built in 1902 featured a primitive version (*), but only the post-World War II explosion of massproduced houses brought it into widespread home use. For 10 points--name this modern necessity partially responsible for the Sun Belt boom, whose earlier proponents focused more on dehumidification rather than indoor temperature control. Answer: air conditioning 15). Formerly consistent performers in the Western Conference, they've failed to make the playoffs since 2002 and long in the past is their 1977 (*) championship. At the beginning of the current season with new head coach Nate McMillan, the team released Nick Van Exel and Derek Anderson. They signed Shareef Abdur-Rahim as a free agent but the discovery of scar tissue in Rahim's knee scuttled his trade to the Nets. For 10 points--name this NBA franchise owned by Paul Allen. Answer: Portland Trailblazers (accept either) 16). The original version was featured in the Broadway musical The Silver Slipper in 1902 and 1903, and it was used by the Royal Rooters to rally support for the home team at Game 5 of the first World Series. (*) The new version debuted in America in July 2004 before Jason Varitek and A-Rod "brawl game" and became an anthem for Boston. For 10 points--name this song about an "only, only, only" girl, recorded in 2004 by the Dropkick Murphys. Answer: "Tessie" 17). Founded as Anabasis Investments, its first hits were the first two Rambo (*) movies, and its biggest hit was Terminator 2. Releasing most of its films through Tri-Star, it became the first independent studio in the '80s making big-budget movies, but it went bankrupt following the mid-'90s bombs Chaplin, Cutthroat Island, and Showgirls. For 10 points--name this defunct studio not affiliated with either Mrs. Channing or Burnett. Answer: Carolco Pictures Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 3 18). He composed the theme song to The Commish and the music for the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 2002, he won an Outstanding Music and Lyrics Emmy for his work on Family Guy (*), 30 years after starting in TV as an arranger for Doc Severensen. Often mixing popular and classical styles, it was that formula that was responsible for his lone Top 40 hit, fronting the Big Apple Band. For 10 points--name this man responsible for the unlikely #1 disco hit "A Fifth of Beethoven." Answer: Walter Murphy 19). He appeared briefly in a 1975 episode of The Waltons and the 1977 miniseries Aspen, and six years later, this hotel marketer was portrayed by Daniel J. Travanti in the TV-movie (*) Adam. That movie covered the kidnapping and subsequent death of his son, which strangely led to a television gig beginning in 1988. For 10 points--name this fugitive-finding host of America's Most Wanted. Answer: John Walsh EXTRA 20). Gil's, the name of the guitar shop where Patrick sees Kat playing, is a reference to director Gil Junger. The only direct quote from the source material is delivered by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (*) although David Krumholtz quotes from another of Shakespeare's works. Other nods to The Bard include Padua High School, Patrick Verona, and Kat & Bianca Stratford. For 10 points--name this update of The Taming of the Shrew starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. Answer: 10 things i hate about you 21). Initially settled by the Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians, the city's original name meant "The palm of God's hand." To the west of the city, an aerial tramway takes visitors up the side of Mt. San Jacinto (*), from the top of which the Salton Sea is visible. To the east lies Joshua Tree National Park and nearby Indian Wells, which hosts the Pacific Life Open on the ATP and Sony/Ericcson tennis tours. For 10 points--what desert town has streets named for Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, and Gene Autry? Answer: Palm Springs, California 22). It has the potential to strike anyone who was born over two months late and exposed to gold dust, and sufferers have included Pete Sampras. Also known as Van Horton's Syndrome (*), reports vary as to whether it affects as many as six people annually or affects over 700 Americans each year. Analogous to the real condition expressive aprosodia, for 10 points--name this condition characterized by the inability to control the volume and intonation of one's own speech, dramatized on Saturday Night Live by Jacob Silj. Answer: voice immodulation (prompt on: unable to control the volume of one's voice or aprosodia; accept: Van Horton's Syndrome on early buzz) Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 4 2006 Ann B. Davis – The Tenth Anniversary Bonuses for Babies Ate My Dingo by Geoff Zmyslowski and Joe Wright 1). Name these unrelated films, for 10 points each. (10) Matthew Broderick leads the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry into battle in the Civil War. Answer: Glory (10) Robert De Niro is a police photographer to whom mobster Bill Murray gives the gift of moll Uma Thurman. Answer: Mad Dog & Glory (10) There never was any real intention to use Jesus Christ: Lust For Glory as this film's title. Answer: Monty Python's Life of Brian 2). Name these secondary characters from the world of Archie Comics, for 10 points each. (10) Riverdale's principal, he has an apian nickname. Answer: Mr. Waldo Weatherbee (His nickname is "The Bee") (10) Veronica's mother, she shares her first name with a Harry Potter character. Answer: Hermione Lodge (10) A big, dumb jock, he's very possessive when it comes to his girlfriend, Midge, often leading Reggie to fall afoul of him. Answer: Marmaduke "Moose"/"Big Moose" Mason (accept Moose McGee or Marmaduke Mason) 3). Longtime Pittsburgh Pirate executive Charlie Muse died at 91 in May 2005. Answer these questions about his most enduring contribution to baseball, for 10 points each. (10) That contribution was what piece of equipment, which the Pirates pioneered in 1952? Answer: batting helmet (10) Muse developed the helmet at the behest of what innovative general manager, who had less success in Pittsburgh than with his two previous clubs? Answer: Branch Rickey (10) Major League Baseball rapidly adopted the helmet after what Braves first baseman was knocked out by an errant fastball but saved from permanent injury? He collected over 1,800 career hits and, until 2002, held the record for total bases in a game with 18. Answer: Joe Adcock Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 5 4). Name these indie rock labels, 5-10-15 (5) Initially a fanzine, they released the debut albums of Nirvana, Mudhoney, and The Shins. Answer: Sub Pop (10) The current label of Belle & Sebastian, Interpol, and Cat Power, they've also been home to Liz Phair, Superchunk, and Spoon. Answer: Matador (15) Elliott Smith's label, the Decemberists recently jumped from here to Capitol, though it retains artists like Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu. Answer: Kill Rock Stars 5). Identify these pre-Star Wars-era sci-fi movies, for 10 points each. (10) In this 1976 film, Michael York plays the title character that spends the film eluding the elite Sandmen before his 10,958th day in the dome. Answer: Logan's Run (10) A scientist finds two aloof colleagues and, more strangely, his dead wife on a planet with mysterious alien intelligence in this 1972 Soviet film, remade in 2002. Answer: Solaris (10) Don Johnson starred as Vic, a rare fertile teen with a telepathic pet in a post-apocalyptic world in this 1975 film based on a Harlan Ellison novella. Answer: A Boy and His Dog 6). That '70's Show has limped on into an eighth season on FOX. For 10 points each, answer these questions about recent developments. (10) Two actors from the main cast left the series in 2005. One did so in the seventh season, one in the eighth. For 10 points--all or nothing, name both. Answer: Christopher "Topher" Grace and Christopher Ashton Kutcher (10) This MadTV refugee and C-list brother has joined the regular cast as Randy Pearson. Answer: Josh Meyers (10) At the beginning of this season, which character returned from Las Vegas married to a stripper? Answer: Steven Hyde Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 6 7). Answer these questions about a creepy medical procedure for the stated number of points. (10) For 10 points--to repair damage from a dog attack, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo what type of surgery? Answer: face transplant (5) For five points--the surgery was performed in what nation? Answer: France (15) For 15 points--the team was led by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, who performed what other surgical first in 1998? Answer: hand transplant 8). Given the NHL player, name the nation on whose 2006 Olympic hockey roster he appears, for 10 points each. (10) Arturs Irbe Answer: Latvia (10) Doug Weight Answer: United States (10) Peter Bondra Answer: Slovakia 9). 2005 saw the release of some well-received albums by women. Name them, for 10 points each. (10) They took a major detour from their previous albums, opening with a squall of feedback and a dense guitar attack on their Dave Fridmann-produced efort, The Woods. Answer: Sleater-Kinney (10) It's hard to blame this woman for citing John Mayer as an major influence, after all, this artist behind the album Wreck of the Day and the single "Breathe (2 AM) is a mere 20 year old, so she may not know any better. Answer: Anna Nalick (10) Blending continents worth of music, her album Arular was released in March 2005, after its lead single, "Galang", had come out in 2004. Answer: M.I.A. or Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 7 10). For 10 points each, name these things related to critically-adored, commercially-shunned TV projects. (10) He created the Judd Apatow-produced show Freaks & Geeks based on his time at Chippewa Valley High. Answer: Paul Feig (10) Following the cancellation of Freaks & Geeks, Feig followed Apatow and many of the actors to FOX where he directed several episodes of this college-based series. Answer: Undeclared (10) Feig's latest directing gig to air has been the episode "The Ocean Walker" for this series. Answer: Arrested Development 11). Bow down before the Gawker Media Empire and answer these questions about the blog most obsessed with New York, celebrities, the media, and overlap of those three For 10 points each. (10) This rhyming Gawker regular feature is composed of reader-submitted celebrity sightings from in and around Manhattan. Answer: GawkerStalker (10) The LA version of Gawker, this industry-focused blog features the Hollywood PrivacyWatch and the Blind-Item Guessing Game. Answer: Defamer (10) Gawker Media also owns this Beltway blog, edited by Ana Marie Cox Answer: Wonkette 12). Long before he was on some Crumb-y, closeted ABC comedy, Fred Savage appeared on The Wonder Years, along with, for 10 points each, these people. (10) Long before executive producing "I Want to Be a Hilton," he was the quintessential '80s jerk teenage boy in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Back to School, and as older brother Wayne Arnold. Answer: Jason Hervey (10) Recently settling into TV guest appearances and video game voiceovers, she was a lowrent sex symbol in movies such as Greedy and Clean Slate after playing oldest sibling Karen Arnold for four seasons. Answer: Olivia d'Abo (10) Winnie Cooper. 'Nuff said. OK, fine, she did show off her mad math skills on a recent guest shot on NCIS. Answer: Danica McKellar Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 8 13). For 10 points each, name these 2005 NCAA Women's College World Series softball teams. (10) Having won 11 Women's College World Series titles in the past, this school relied on freshman pitcher Anjelica Selden to bring them to the 2005 finals. Answer: UCLA or University of California – Los Angeles Bruins (10) Samantha Findlay's 10th-inning 3-run homer off of Selden earned this team the first Women's College World Series title won by any team east of the Mississippi. Answer: University of Michigan Wolverines (10) Pitcher Cat Osterman returned from a year with the U.S. national team to lead this team to a third-place finish. Answer: University of Texas – Austin Longhorns 14). Name these rap artists from their debut albums, for 10 points each. (10) Paid in Full Answer: Eric B. & Rakim (10) AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted. Answer: Ice Cube or O'Shea Jackson (10) Radio Answer: LL Cool J or James Todd Smith 15). 40-30-20-10-1, identify the two-word phrase. (40) It's a two-word phrase. (30) It names a 1981 song by The Jam about modern urban British life, discussing things like "pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete" and "reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs." (20) The original version, sung by Fred Astaire, Oscar Levant, and others in the musical The Band Wagon, includes possibilities such as Oedipus Rex and a gay divorcee who is after her ex. (10) That song proclaims, "The world is a stage, the stage is a world." The phrase also names 2 documentaries filled with clips and stars of MGM musicals of the Classic Hollywood period. (1) The second of those documentaries is called That's Entertainment II. Answer: That's Entertainment Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 9 16). Name the following about TV executives, for 10 points each. (10) Following the Viacom split, he now controls CBS Corp. and may or may not replace wife Julie Chen with that chick from Cold Case with the messed-up hair. Answer: Leslie "Les" Moonves (10) Answering to Moonves is Dawn Ostroff, president of this network. Answer: UPN or United Paramount Network (10) Despite the hemorrhaging of ratings under his watch, he was named CEO of the newlycreated NBC Universal Television Group in December 2005. Answer: Jeff Zucker 17). Name these men inducted in the Builders section of the Hockey Hall of Fame, for 10 points each. (10) He took over the Maple Leafs in 1927 and oversaw the building of Maple Leaf Gardens and a 1945-1951 dynasty. Answer: Conn Smythe (10) Assistant general manager and assistant coach of the Miracle on Ice team, he later won 2 Stanley Cups as GM of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Answer: Craig Patrick (10) This pizza magnate and former Detroit Tiger minor-leaguer has won three Stanley Cups since buying a then-struggling franchise in 1982. Answer: Mike Ilitch 18). ABBA meets George Santayana. For 10 points each, identify… (10) The song where everyone's favorite Swedes proclaim, "The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself." Answer: "Waterloo" (10) ABBA no doubt pissed off the Dutch in 1974 when Waterloo beat out "Ik Zie Een Ster" by Mouth en MacNeal to win this international competition. Answer: Eurovision Song Contest (10) In May 2005, "Waterloo" was voted the best Eurovision song of all time. Second was "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi", Celine Dion's 1988 winner, inexplicably from this country. Answer: Switzerland Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 10 19). Given characters an actor has played in Coen Brothers movies, name the actor For 10 points each. (10) Pappy O'Daniel, Waring Hudsucker Answer: Charles Durning (10) Mink, Chet, Beatnik Barman at Ann's 440, Carl Showalter, Donny Kerabotsos Answer: Steve Buscemi (10) Pete, Bernie Bernbaum, Jesus Quintana, Barton Fink Answer: John Turturro 20). Remember when Nickelodeon didn't have shows starring Master P's spawn or Britney's sister? For 10 points each, answer these questions about the Golden Age of Nick. (10) Christine Taylor, the future Mrs. Ben Stiller, played Melody on this series set at the Bar None ranch owned by Mr. Ernst. Answer: Hey Dude (10) In many ways the progenitor of what would become the fare for [adult swim], this John Kricfalusi creation is your basic cat and dog story. It eventually made a comeback on Spike TV. Answer: The Ren and Stimpy Show (10) A part of the original SNICK lineup, it was a sketch comedy show with the episodes structured around a theme. Oh, and the dad rode around on a motorized lounge chair. Answer: Roundhouse 21). Set your wayback machine to 1995 and identify the one-hit wonders responsible for these, well, one hit on a 5-10-20-30 basis. (5) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Answer: Deep Blue Something (5) "Total Eclipse of the Heart". Remember, we want the 1995 artist. Answer: Nicki French (X) "I Got 5 on It" Answer: The Luniz (X) "I Wish" Answer: Skee-Lo Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 11 22). For 10 points each, given a move allowed by a card from the board game Sorry!, name the card that allows this maneuver. (10) Move two pieces forward a certain number of spaces, the sum of which add up to the number on this card Answer: 7 (10) Move one piece out of Start, draw again Answer: 2 (10) Switch places with an opponent's pawn Answer: 11 (Accept Sorry! grudgingly, since their pawn doesn't end up in your Start) 23). Identify the actor who played each role in the 1988 American adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. (10) Tomáš. Answer: Daniel Day-Lewis (10) Teresa. Answer: Juliette Binoche (10) Sabina Answer: Lena Olin 24). Name the family sitcom based on the TV dad for 15 each or for 5 if you need the actor who played him. (15) George Papadopolis (5) Alex Karras Answer: Webster (15) George Owens (5) Bob Uecker Answer: Mr. Belvedere 26). In the final, and we do mean final, ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll after the 2004 college football season, five teams from non-BCS conferences finished in the Top 25. For five points each plus a 5-point bonus for all correct, name those schools that include three from west of the Rockies, one independent, and one that moved to a BCS conference in 2005. You have 10 seconds Answer: Boise State University Fresno State University (accept: California State University-Fresno) University of Louisville Navy (accept: U.S. Naval Academy) University of Utah Babies Ate My Dingo Ann B. Davis 2006 12