Pop Culture
The Gooch
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Cornel West
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Don Haskins
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Secretary
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Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Sheena Easton
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Stephen Colbert
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Steve Nash
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Stewie Griffin [or Stewart Gilligan Griffin; prompt on Griffin]
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Straight Outta Compton
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Taylor Swift
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Telly Savalas
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The 400 Blows
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Fargo
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Homicide: Life on the Street
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Invader Zim
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Invictus
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Isaac Asimov
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It's a Wonderful Life
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J. Crew
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James Francis Cameron
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Jebus
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Jeff Suppan
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Jennifer Garner
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Jim Henson
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Jim McMahon
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Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner [or Hans Wagner]
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John Carpenter
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John Coltrane
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John Wayne [or Marion Morrison]
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John William Coltrane
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Josiah "Jed" Bartlett
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Juggernaut (accept early: Cain Marko)
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Jules Winfield
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Kansas City Royals [accept Kansas City before it is read]
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Keane or Commander Keen
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Keith Hernandez
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Kelis (Rogers)
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Kenneth Parcell [or Kenneth the Page]
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Kesha [or Ke$ha; or Kesha Rose Sebert]
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Kind of Blue
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Klemperer
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Lamar Smith (prompt on just last name)
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Li'l Penny Hardaway
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Linus
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Los Angeles Lakers [prompt on "Los Angeles"; accept Minneapolis Lakers until "Ralph Sampson"]
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Louis Armstrong
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Love
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Mad Men
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Maury Povich
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Maverick or Lieutenant Pete Mitchell
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McGruff the Crime Dog
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Mega Man
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption [do not accept or prompt on "Metroid" or "Metroid Prime"]
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Michelangelo Antonioni
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Mickey Mouse
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Miles Davis
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Modest Mouse
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Monk
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Monsters, Inc.
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Motley Crüe
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Motown
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Mr. Jefferson Smith
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Mötley Crüe
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Network
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Oasis
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Rushmore [note: filmed at the alma mater of the Dudley Moore of quizbowl, Chris Frankel]
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October: Ten Days that Shook the World (prompt on the subtitle of "Ten Days..." but don't accept it as an answer by itself)
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Olaf Kolzig
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Olivia de Havilland
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Oprah Winfrey (accept either name)
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Quentin Tarantino
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Race Walking
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Radiohead
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Rampage
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Ran (Rahn)
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Real Madrid
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Requiem for a Dream
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Richard B. Riddick
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Robin Yount
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Roger Eugene Maris
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Buster Keaton
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Cake
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CalvinÂ
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Captain Falcon
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Chocolat
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Christian Charles Philip Bale
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!uck Tha Police [accept self-censored equivalents; e.g., F the Police]
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It starts at the King of Clubs, where two characters disagree about whether Shep said to be there at 7:30 or 8:30. One character gets several phone calls from Riley Diefenbach, who wants some serial numbers to be sent to him. Another character expresses his need for what he calls "ung-went" after he is bitten on the hand by a woman. That woman then gets tangled in a shower curtain and falls down a staircase. One of the characters gets a surprise call late at night from Mike Yanagita after he sees her on TV. Another character claims that he just wants to be "in compliance," but his attempt to bribe a traffic cop leads to three murders. Norm and his pregnant wife Margy are the sanest characters in the film, which features a kidnapper who is fed into a wood-chipper. FTP, name this film which stars Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy and Frances MacDormand, a Coen Brothers movie about murders in Minnesota.
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It was an incredibly controversial satire, attacking McCarthyism as well as Communism. Released in 1962, it was pulled from the theaters the next year due to its powerful political assassination scene in the final minutes of the film. FTP identify this John Frankenheimer film starring Frank Sinatra and Raymond Shaw as the American GI brainwashed by Chinese Communist hypnotists during the Korean War.
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It was founded by two brothers named Forrest and Leroy, who originally wanted to name this establishment Big Tex. First opened in 1964 in Ohio, this company is sometimes located together with a T.J. Cinnamons. On the episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Dealership", Elaine and Puddy make a deal to only go to this restaurant once a month. Specialty items here include Jalapeno Bites, Jamocha milkshakes, and Market Fresh sandwiches. The voice of Tom Arnold can be heard in its commercials featuring a talking Oven Mitt. FTP, name this fast-food restaurant noted for their curly fries and roast beef sandwiches.
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It was the first programming language to implement type classes, and some lesser-known compilers for it are Jhc and HBC. It was based on the language Miranda, from which it inherited its best known feature. That feature is implemented using thunks, and because of it, effects are dealt with by being encapsulated in the monad structure. It is implemented in the Hugs and Glasgow compilers. FTP, name this purely functional programming language using lazy evaluation and named for a famous logician.
"99 Problems"
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Cole Porter
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The Rolling Stones
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The Scarlet Witch [or Wanda Maximoff; prompt on Maximoff; prompt on Gypsy Witch; prompt on Wanda Frank; prompt on Wanda Magnus; prompt on Ana Maximoff]
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 Italy [or Italian Republic; or Repubblica Italiana]
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 Scranton
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 The Sopranos
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“The Messageâ€
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A Creole from New Orleans, he was born into a musical family: his father, who abandoned him when he was young, played the trombone, as did his stepfather, Ed. Performing professionally in New Orleans bordellos by the age of 12, he embarked on a decade of itinerant music making with a trip to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. Eventually moving to New York in 1928, he began running an all-girl revue that doubled as a prostitution racket. For 10 points, who was this composer, pianist, and bandleader of the Red Hot Peppers, famous for the songs "Kansas City Stomp" and "Smokehouse Blues"?
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A dirty tackle by Atletic de Bilbao's Andoni Goikoetxea left him severely injured, and helped end his two year stay with FC Barcelona. Earlier, he had debuted in his country's national team against Hungary at the unprecedented age of 16, and had led its under-20 team to a FIFA world youth championship in a final aginst the USSR. After leaving Barcelona, he would lead Napoli to two Italian titles and one UEFA cup. His career was interrupted due to a suspension for cocaine abuse in 1991, and after a brief stay at FC Sevilla, he would return home to play for the Newell's Old Boys. His brilliant passing allowed fellow strikers as Jorge Burruchaga and Claudio Canniggia to score important goals in the '86 and '90 world cups, but he is most famous for two goals he scored against England in the '86 Mundial, one of which involved the "hand of God". For ten points, who is this legendary Argentinian number 10?
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A recent television appearance saw the artist behind this song praise its simplicity while introducing David Beckham to the Chicken and Waffles breakfast experience, while this song's video leads Beavis to claim that he used to go to the Compton Swap Meet with the singer. That video features an extended intro where the purported father of one of the singers tells the singer "don't be messin' with the 8 track". The singer complains that "Every body got their cups, but they ain't chipped in", while the role of the singer's younger brother in this track's video is played by Lil Bow Wow, who had been discovered by the singer a year earlier. Its chorus sees the singer claim that he is "Laid back with my mind on my money, and my money on my mind", perhaps because of his resounding affinity for Tanqueray. For 10 points, name this 1994 track off Doggystyle, a hit for Snoop Dogg.
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Acts of Gord once depicted one of these devices stating "This is all I am good for," being used as a doorstop. The RANDnet online service was established for one add-on to this system, a Disk Drive that featured such games as Doshin the Giant. Sports games for this system included Mike Piazza's Strike Zone, as well as one which featured such teams as the "Foxboro Patriots." Its exclusive games included the original BattleTanx and Blast Corps, as well games like Conker's Bad Fur Day and the first two Banjo-Kazooie games. For 10 points, identify this console, the home to such first-person shooters as Perfect Dark and GoldenEye 007, the successor to the SNES.
his so-called "Four Horseman."
After he was rejected by his love Nephri, he turned against mankind. He came to power by overthrowing the pharaoh Rama-Tut and would take a new name, forever abandoning En Sabah Nur. In an alternate future he had planned to transfer his essence to his heir, Strye, before he died in combat, but in all worlds of the Marvel Universe he is a metamorph, capable of altering his shape at will. It was he who transformed Angel into Archangel. FTP, name this immortal super mutant enemy of the X-Men, who is served by Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence
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Allegedly signed after Ed Barrow saw him throwing rocks across a river, this person was later made the subject of a Royal Rooters taunt which asked him why he hit so badly. This player put up a record six steals in the same series where, according to Ritter, he split an opposing outfielder's lip with a tag during a steal attempt; that being the 1909 World Series in which his Pirates defeated the Tigers and Ty Cobb. The second member, after Cap Anson, of the three thousand-hit club, he won eight National League batting titles with Louisville and Pittsburgh. For For 10 points, name this Hall-of-Fame shortstop of German extraction who appears on T-206, a valuable baseball card.
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Among her first films were Don't Bother to Knock and Gorilla at Large. More recently she has played the dying mother who makes her son promise never to marry and the mother of a lovelorn rabbi who can't marry his non-Jewish best friend in the films Honeymoon in Vegas and Keeping the Faith. This wife of Mel Brooks won the 1962 Oscar for Best Actress for her role in The Miracle Worker. FTP, name this actress whose best-known role might be as Mrs. Robinson, the woman who seduced her future son-in-law, Dustin Hoffman, in The Graduate.
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Among his greatest admirers was Samuel Beckett, who offered him a role in his motion picture Film. He made an appearance late in his career playing himself in Sunset Boulevard, but his most famous work began as a customer buying molasses in 1917's The Butcher Boy starring Fatty Arbuckle. Known for elaborately choreographed and life-threatening stunts, his unflappable demeanor in films like One Week and Steamboat Bill, Jr. earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face." FTP, who is this silent-film giant, star of Sherlock Jr. and The General?
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Among the packet author's favorite episodes were "Full Moon" and "The Gas Man" although it was for "Three Men and Adena" that creator Tom Fontana won a best-writing Emmy in 1993. Among the more interesting characters were cameraman J.H. Brodie played by Max Perlich and Mike Kellerman played by Reed Diamond. Actors Yaphet Kotto, Kyle Secor and Richard Belzer were around for the whole run although the most notable performance was the portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton by Andre Braugher. FTP, identify this artsy 1990's NBC cop-show set in Baltimore.
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Andrea Martin and Nathan Lane voiced two of these animals in a Canadian cartoon based off a book series by James Marshall called George and Martha. Flavio and Marita are blue and purple ones on Animaniacs. One named Gloria accompanies Alex the Lion and Melman the Giraffe and is voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith in the Madagascar films. One named Hyacinth is among several of these who dance a ballet complete with tutus to the "Dance of the Hours" in Fantasia. They also title a game in which purple, green, yellow, and red ones consume marbles. For 10 points, name these animals that are Hungry Hungry in a Milton Bradley game.
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Asterix and Obelix discovered the key to reverse aging here. Its "factor" was the subject of the second NES G.I. Joe game, and Sophia Hapgood accompanied Indiana Jones to this place in a LucasArts game that explores its "fate." One place known by this name was built by the Asurans, and another is located in the Pegasus Galaxy, where it was besieged by the Wraith before an Earth team discovered it and made Dr. Elizabeth Weir its administrator. This placename also appeared in the title of two major films of 2001, one in which Bobby and Elizabeth Garfield meet Ted Brautigan, played by Anthony Hopkins, which is named for "hearts" in this place, and another an animated feature about Milo Thatch, which dubs it the "lost empire." FTP, identify this mythical locale, the setting of a Stargate: SG-1 spinoff and the namesake of a Donovan song explaining how it sunk long ago.
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Cameos in this film include Marina Sirtis's Persian matriarch and Tony Danza's actor, who suggests that a character's dialogue should be dumbed-down. Other minor characters include health care worker Shaniqua Johnson; Peter Waters, a devotee of St. Christopher; and Maria, a Hispanic servant and best friend to an uptight white woman. Tommy Hanson shoots Peter when he mistakes Peter's a figurine for a gun. The film's most emotional scene involves a traffic stop of the Thayers, an affluent Hollywood couple, by racist cop Jack Ryan, who later saves Mrs. Thayer's life. FTP, name this drama about race-relations in the police, featuring Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle, and Matt Dillon.
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Classified into 4 categories, the last is susceptible only to a tachyon heterodyne grid. Used in the Tomad Incident to destroy an S-4023 ship, its weakness, the inability to fire torpedos, was described by the Khitomer Conference and eventually overcome by the renegade Klingon vessel, Dakronh. Used and then set aside by Starfleet, FTP, identify this Romulan technology which allows star ships to conceal themselves.
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Discussing their guns, one speaker in this work claims to own "a sniper with a hell of a scope", while another notes that the sound he makes "all depends on the size of the gat". Another speaker states that "he just laughs" to give a hint "not to step in his path". Another speaker begins his remarks with "I'm tired of the mother!ucking jackin" and goes on to note that "I kick so much butt I kick ass". Another speaker claims that he speaks with authority, because a certain ethnic group on the street is a majority, and another implies that the titular group may be homosexuals because they grab his balls. "I want justice" can be heard yelled at the end of this song, when a conviction for being a white bread, chickensh!t mother!ucker is read in Judge Dre's court. For ten point, name this foundational work of gangster rap, a 1988 NWA single that's disrespectful to law enforcement.
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Dr. Einstein is constantly drunk, and, as a result of his drunkenness, Jonathon returns home bearing a striking resemblance to Boris Karloff. Theodore thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt and is moving people sent by his aunts, who claim to be working on charity cases, to the Panama Canal. He moves a "yellow fever patient" in the window seat, whom his cousin Mortimer later discovers is really just dead. In fact, Mortimer Brewster's relatives are all involved in serial killings in, FTP, what 1944 Frank Capra comedy starring Cary Grant about a family employing the titular poison?
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Due to a brief interruption where he worked with an octet, his periods with larger groups are dubbed the "Old Testament" and "New Testament." Another departure from his major project led to a series of duets with Oscar Peterson. He employed Sweets Edison, Herschel Evans, Lester Young, vocalist Jimmy Rushing, and guitarist Freddie Green in recording such hits as "Every Tub," "Shorty George," and his group's signature tune, "One O'Clock Jump." FTP, name this pianist and bandleader who received his name from a Kansas City DJ's proclamation that he was part of the "jazz aristocracy."
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Early in his career he was known as the "poet prince of Montreal." Now retired in a Buddhist monastery, this Jewish poet-troubadour published his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, which was followed by the controversial Flowers for Hitler. He has a namesake festival in Krakow and wrote the novel Beautiful Losers which prompted the Boston Globe to compare him to James Joyce. The band, Sisters of Mercy, took their name from one of his works, and he has been covered by Billy Joel, Sting, Tori Amos, Elton John, Willy Nelson and Concrete Blond. Name this writer-musician who penned and performed such songs as "If It Be Your Will", "Bird on a Wire", "Closing Time" and "Suzanne."
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Famous scenes in the film include the "walls of Jericho" and the hitchhiking lesson, and sales of men's undershirts supposedly plummeted because of its bare-chested star. In this screwball romantic comedy, a rich heiress runs away from her wedding and winds up on a cross-country bus with a wisecracking reporter. Directed by Frank Capra, it starred Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. FTP, name this 1934 film, the first film to sweep the Academy Awards for Best Actor, Actress, and Picture?
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Felix Mantilla, who had replaced Johnny O'Brien, reached on an error by third baseman Don Hoak. He scored on Joe Adcock's homer, but Henry Aaron was passed by Adcock when he stopped at second base for the third out. Adcock's home run won the game for Lew Burdette and the Milwaukee Braves, 1-0, despite this Pirate's incredible performance. For ten points, on May 26, 1959, what Pittsburgh pitcher had given up no hits through 12 innings, but lost it in the 13th?
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Fictional works by him include Gone Bamboo and The Bobby Gold Stories, about a ex-con who goes to work with a nightclub and restaurant owner. His book The Nasty Bits was dedicated to the Ramones and he has fed such musicians as Johnny Thunders, who was very uncomfortable in his restaurant. He once said that the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten was a Chicken McNugget, as he doesn't even know what it exactly was. In 2006, he had to be evacuated from Lebanon while shooting an episode of his TV show. For 10 points, identify this chef, a vocal critic of people on The Food Network who can't cook and host of the Travel Channel's No Reservations.
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For some reason Pauly Shore makes a cameo in one of his recent videos. Though originally signed by Cash Money Records, he now promotes his own crew with producer Irv Gotti named Murder Inc. First making his name on a remix of Jay-Z's song Can I Get A What, What, his rough, sing-song style has been compared to Tupac's on albums like Veni, Vetti, Vinci and his new Pain is Love. FTP identify this rap star best known for crossover songs like "Livin it Up," "Put it On Me" featuring Lil Mo, and, most famously, "I'm Real" with Jennifer Lopez.
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Garon Michael donned one to play drums to Phil Collins's In the Air Tonight in a Cadbury commercial. Fester Bestertester was pummeled by a certain animal in Don Martin's Don Martin Bounces Back! after he mocked the January 31st national holiday for them. One was allegedly used as a disguise by Theo Epstein when he resigned as Red Sox GM in 2005, and a study by Simons and Chabris that had people count the number of times a basketball was passed showed that subjects would fail to see a person dressed in one because of inattentional blindness. For 10 points, name these full-bodied costumes that allow wearers to portray a certain kind of ape.
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Gunnel Lindblom plays a girl held in a cage, accused of sleeping with the devil. A group of flagellants passes by the farmstead, where the theologian Raval steals the bracelet of a plague victim. A troupe of actors includes Joseph and Mary, who have a young child. The macabre parade of the dead closes the film, and a knight plays for his life in a game of chess against Death. FTP, these are all part of what 1957 film starring Max von Sydow, directed by Ingmar Bergman?
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He flunked out as a freshman at Notre Dame, and later played in Italy for a year before joining the Cavaliers. Although he averaged only 12.1 points per game during the 1989-90 season, he hit six three-points shots in Game 2 of that year's finals tying a record. Despite a nonexistent vertical leap he led the league in rebounding in 1985-86 and amassed a streak of 685 consecutive games played. Currently he is the coach of the 2003 WNBA champion Detroit Shock. FTP, name this much maligned center, the head villain of the "Bad Boys" era of the Detroit Pistons.
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He had a cameo in Coming to America as a young man getting a haircut, and was Roger Moore's suggestion to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. He produced and starred in the underrated A Murder of Crows and appeared as an inexperienced army scientist in Outbreak. More recently he starred in the forgettable Snow Dogs, a far cry from his breakout role as young Tre [TRAY] Styles in Boyz in the Hood. FTP, name this actor who won an Oscar for his role in Jerry Maguire and definitely was "shown the money."
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He made nearly 250,000 thousand dollars when he bet on the Baltimore Ravens to win the Super Bowl before the season began. His switch from a Yonex driver to Titleist equipment led to some controversial comments in an interview he gave with Peter Kessler. Along with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods he is the only man to win the NCAA championship and the U.S. Amateur. He is currently the number three player in the world and is constantly questioned for his inability to win a major championship. FTP, name this professional golfer nicknamed "Lefty."
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He seems to have forgiven his former team for supposedly failing to mail his contract on time to his New Hampshire home; either that or his falling out with the team he subsequently played 13 seasons for influenced his decision about what hat to wear on his plaque. His only Gold Glove was in his rookie season of 1972, but he does hold the all time record for putouts and games played at his position. His lifetime 376 home runs are also tops behind the plate. FTP, name this 2000 Hall of Fame inductee, remembered for trying to wave a home run fair in the 1975 World Series for the Boston Red Sox.
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Her mother was killed by a suicide jumping off of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. She inspires her widowed father to travel by stealing his garden gnome and then sending it on a Polaroid documented world tour. A waitress at the Two Windmills café, she comes upon a man's photo album which consists of torn up photos taken in photobooths. Returning it becomes a complicated affair as she is in love with its owner. Played by Audrey Tautou, FTP, name this titular female character of a nominee for 2001 Best Foreign Film Oscar.
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His first acting job was in 1968's With Six You Get Eggroll, playing Herbie Fleck. He won a Grammy for the album FM and AM, and was nominated two years later for Occupation: Foole, which closed with a bit adapted from his earlier album Class Clown. This first host of Saturday Night Live played Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and more recently portrayed Cardinal Ignatius Glick in Dogma. His written works include Brain Droppings and Napalm and Silly Putty. For 10 points, name this comedian who provoked a Supreme Court Ruling on the "Seven Dirty Words" and passed away from heart failure in June 2008.
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His first big hit was written in 1909 in support of E. H. Crump's mayoral campaign. After leading Mahara's Minstrels, he taught at Huntsville's Agricultural and Mechanical College before forming his own orchestra, with whom he had hits like Yellow Dog, Beale Street, and Joe Turner. FTP, name this American composer, whose most famous songs are named for the cities of Saint Louis and Memphis, best known as the "father of the blues."
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His first professional experience came with a stint in the USBL when he teamed with Hot Rod Williams and Spud Webb on the Rhode Island Gulls. This came after a year at the University of Bridgeport, a decade before he retired in 1995 as a member of the Miami Heat. His NBA career included stops at Golden State and Philadelphia and his rookie year with the Bullets, where he set the single season blocks record. FTP, name this man, often the butt of Charles Barkley's jokes, a native of Sudan who measured seven feet seven inches.
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His later works include That Royle Girl, Sally of the Sawdust, and a film adaptation of The Sorrows of Satan. One of his early films was also known as "the lost art of minding one's business," while another was a "psychological comedy founded on Darwin's theory of the genesis of man" entitled Primitive Man. His film An Unseen Enemy features such notable actors as Harry Carey and Dorothy and Lillian Gish. Lillian would become his favorite actress, and he later gave her a lead role in his films Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm and Intolerance. FTP name this director who also cast Gish as Elsie Stoneman in his 1915 epic Birth of a Nation.
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In 1929, he went to New York City, where he performed with Red Nichols and Irving Aaronson. In 1934, he joined Benny Goodman's band, and after gaining fame for his work on Sing, Sing, Sing, left four years later to start his own band. FTP, identify this jazz musician, who also played with Tommy Dorsey, a percussionist whose lengthy solos helped popularize drums.
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In 1969 he travelled to India resulting in the film Calcutta . Handpicked to shoot Cousteau's The Silent World , he parlayed this experience into his first feature Frantic . A Very Private Affair starred Brigitte Bardot, while Atlantic City starred Burt Lancaster, but his most controversial films focus on intensely private and erotic situations and include Pretty Baby and Damage. FTP identify this French director who married Candace Bergen and is best known for My Dinner with Andre and Au Revoir Les Enfants.
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In February 1999, IBM became the latest of a string of companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Silicon Graphics, to declare that they would begin selling computers with this particular feature, developed in Finland by Linus Torvalds, and distributed by Red Hat Software Inc. For 10 points, name this potential threat to Microsoft, a free version of the Unix operating system.
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In one song, this musician tells a boy to “zip your lips like a padlock.†In another song, she tells the title “old man†that he needs a CAT scan. This singer of “Dinosaur†provided backing vocals for Flo Rida's “Right Round†and appeared in the music video for Katy Perry's “I Kissed a Girl.†One song on her debut album Animal features Three-Oh-Three. In another song, she hits the clubs after brushing her teeth “with a bottle of Jack.†For 10 points, name this “Baby Gaga,†the artist of songs like “Your Love is My Drug,†“Blah, Blah, Blah,†and “Tik Tok.â€
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It derives its name from the song "Les Haricots Sont Pas Sals" which translates from the French literally as "The beans aren't salty." It originated in the early 20th century and gained popularity as a music form in the 1950's with artists such as Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier. In the 1980's Rockin' Sidney had a grammy winning hit with the song "My Toot Toot" which sparked a revival of international interest in the style which is traditionally popular among the African American population of Southwestern Louisiana. Dominated by the accordion and an emblematic appropriated household item --for 10 points-- name this form of Cajun folk music, perhaps most famous for its instrumental use of a washboard.
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It features the musical group The New Bentwood Rockers, which is composed of retirees, and the group 4Evah, which is composed of such teenagers as the vain and perhaps sexually active Becky. One character was assaulted by the creepy Howard, though she was saved by Anthony before a rape could occur. Another character has an unbearable mother-in-law named Mira, and was tricked by his skanky pharmacist wife Deanna into having children. It also features a dentist and a bookstore owner, who are the parents of Elizabeth, Michael, and April. FTP, name this comic strip about the Pattersons, which is set in Canada and drawn by Lynn Johnston.
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Its guest artist alleges that "we blessed and hung low, like Bernie Mac" and states that "For dead presidents I pimp like Huddy-roll." Near the end the primary singer voices her satisfaction that "When they take it to the parking lot/ [...] I bet you somebody's gonna call the cops," while she begins by asserting that she's "paid her dues," is "in mood," and is going to "Dance and get just a little naughty." The line "Gonna get my girls/ Get your boys/ Gonna make some noise" is repeated throughout the song. FTP, name this first single off the album Stripped, by Christina Aguilera.
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Julian Havier and Dale Berra are tied for second place in benefitting from this over their careers, while the record of 29 times is held by Pete Rose. Dale Berra held the single-season record with seven until Roberto Kelly got eight in 1992. In 1991, Paul Molitor became the only player ever to benefit from this in an All-Star Game. In this occurrence, covered by rules 6.08(c) and 7.07, the batter is not charged with an at-bat, even though its namesake is charged with an error. FTP, name this play usually resulting from the batter standing deep in the box and nicking the backstop's glove.
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Key developments include the revelation that English Bob is not as dangerous as he claims and the realization that the Schofield Kid lied when claiming to have killed before. The body of Ned Logan is displayed after he is tortured and killed by the local sheriff, helping to complete Will Munny's regression from a family man to the savage killing machine he used to be, leading to a deadly confrontation with Little Bill Dagett, whose portrayal by Gene Hackman won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. FTP, what is this 1992 film that also won Best Picture and Best Director for its star, Clint Eastwood?
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Kieth Soto of the New York Times is the son of one of its members, but was convinced not to publish a story about it in return for learning how his father died. The wife of its NCOIC at the same time was attempting to get the truth out of a woman who stole $40,000 from an investment club by claiming to be selling her house to move to Minnesota for treatment. Tiffy Gerhardt, however, is having an affair with Colonel Tom Ryan, played by Robert Patrick, who is the group's CO. Operating under the cover of the 303rd Logistical Studies Unit, a reference to an earlier Mamet work, Wag the Dog, FTP, name this drama with Dennis Haysbert on CBS, about a fictional special forces group.
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Known as the "French Griffith," in 1936 this director made The Lives and Loves of Beethoven, though later films like The Battle of Austerlitz and Cyrano and D'Artagnan revealed that his best works were behind him. These earlier successes included 1922's The Wheel, in which he is said to have used the freeze-frame technique for the first time to show death; and 1919's J'Accuse, a searing condemnation of French participation in World War I, which is notable for using real soldiers, many of whom died in combat before the film's release. Best known for a massive 1927 biopic, FTP, name this director most famous for his Napoleon.
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Larry Corcoran threw this club's first 3 no-hitters, and none of its players has thrown one since Milt Pappas. From 1929 to '38, this franchise won the pennant every 3 years, the last with help from Gabby Hartnett's "Homer in the Gloamin'." The single-season RBI record was set by Hack Wilson while playing for this team, which once included the combination Tinker to Evers to Chance. In the 1984 NLCS, mistakes by Leon Durham and Lee Smith knocked them out, while fan interference with a Marlins' foul ball led to their 2003 NLCS loss. For 10 points, name this team now led by Carlos Zambrano and Derek Lee, which last won the World Series in 1908.
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Launched in 1983 and opening its first store in New York's South Street Seaport, this label's catalog features innovative still photography and has been called the vanguard of the now popular direct mail industry. They revolutionized casual dress in America by designing the first stone-washed chino, the roll neck sweater, and the solid cotton pocket-T in unusual colors. For 10 points name this designer label popular among preppy college students for its stylish outerwear and Shetland sweaters.
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Like Charles Oakley he is a graduate of Virginia Union College. In 1996, he hooked up with the Washington Wizards, averaging only five minutes and 1.7 rebounds per game. By 1998-99, he was averaging about 25 minutes and 8 boards a game, and building a reputation as a terror on the boards, in spite of his 6-9 frame, though he measures 7-foot when his hair is in full afro. FTP, name this player, who led the NBA in rebounding and won Defensive Player of the Year honors for the Detroit Pistons last season.
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Little about his personal history is revealed, though he claims to have been one of the Seattle Seven as well as one the authors of the original Port Huron statement, not the "compromised second draft." The only piece of identification he carries on his person is a discount card from Ralph's supermarket and he did work as a roadie for Metallica, whom refers to as "a bunch of assholes," on the "Speed of Sound" tour. Aside from his dislike of Metallica, he hates The Eagles, but seems to enjoy Creedence Clearwater Revival. His best friends include Donny Kerabatsos and Walter Sobchak, who are on his bowling team. FTP, name this marijuana-smoking, White-Russian drinking hero of The Big Lebowski.
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Loosely based on the crimes of Peter Kürten and Fritz Haarman, it was originally banned by the Nazi Party, who had seen its original title as a direct party reference. The only witness to the central crimes is a blind beggar played by Georg John, while the main character is pursued by Inspector Karl Lohmann and Police Commissioner Groeber. Characters like Franz and the pickpocket with six watches attempt to shake police attention by conspiring to capture the main character, whistles In the Hall of the Mountain King. Starring Peter Lorre, FTP, was the first sound movie by Fritz Lang.
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Near the end of this film, Luke Plummer is shown holding a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights, the so-called "dead man's hand." The film is an adaptation of an Ernest Haycox story, itself based on Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de suif." In the movie, the enemies are not Prussians, but Apaches, who famously don't simply shoot the horses that pull the titular conveyance, "Because that would have been the end of the movie," according to director John Ford. FTP name this 1939 movie starring John Wayne as the Ringo Kid.
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Oscar trivia buffs know this movie earned the only posthumous Oscar ever awarded, in this case a Best Actor given to Peter Finch. The film, in fact, took just about every Oscar except for Best Picture, that going to Rocky. Vox Populi, Sibil the Soothsayer, and The Mao Tse-Tung Hour are just some of the fictitious programming featured in this movie that revolves around news anchorman Howard Beale, described as "the only man killed because he had low ratings." Name this movie, which urges you to go to the window and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
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Reflecting on his Irish-Cherokee heritage, he remarked, "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower--they met the boat." On the subject of government, he declared, "I tell you folks, all politics is apple sauce." On the administration of his close personal friend Calvin Coolidge, "He didn't do nothing, but that's what we wanted done." FTP name this man who said that he never met a man he didn't like.
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She grew up on a commune in Caldecott County, Mississippi, but her world changed after her first encounter with an adoptive mother, who has changed her name from Raven Darkholme to something more colorful. A long time foe of Dazzler, she sometimes shares flashbacks with Carol Danvers, the former Ms. Marvel. The first manifestation of her powers occured when she and a boy named Cody Robbins kissed. Since then she has fought alongside such figures as Cable, Havok, and her sometimes lover Gambit. Portrayed in the movies by Anna Paquin, FTP, who is this character, an X-Man with a skunk-like strip in her hair?
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Steve Cauthen was the last to win it, and among the other nine champions are Willie Saunders, Charley Kurtsinger, and Johnny Loftus, who became the first to win it, with the aid of Sir Barton. Eddie Arcaro is its only two-time winner, taking both Whirlaway and Citation all the way, and its last two champions came consecutively in Seattle Slew and Affirmed. In 2005, Visa withdrew the sponsorship of this title and in 2004, its broadcastwas split between ABC and NBC. FTP, give this collective name for the Belmont Stakes, the Preakness Stakes, and the Kentucky Derby.
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Taking place in the year 40000, this work's cast of bizarre characters include Pygar, a blind angel who has lost the will to fly, and an inept revolutionary named Dildano. The screenplay for this film was written by Terry Southern of Dr. Strangelove fame. Although the galaxy's best hope, the title character frequently crashes and is captured by wild children in the Tau Seti system. The action begins when that heroine, floating in zero gravity, is interrupted by a call from the President of Earth. Outlining the quest to find the young scientist Duran-Duran, who threatens the galactic peace, this is, FTP, what campy 1968 movie starring Jane Fonda as the title Queen of the Galaxy?
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The 14th overall pick of the 1989 NHL Entry draft, this goalie played no more than 30 games in his first six seasons in the league. In his eighth, he led his team to the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals, where they came up short to the Detroit Red Wings. Despite not getting though the first round of the playoffs since, he has racked up several individual accolades, including the 2000 Vezina Trophy. FTP, name this South African-born net minder for the Washington Capitals, affectionately named "Olie the goalie."
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The Connie Francis record that was playing on KING-AM never skipped a beat during a 1965 earthquake, even though this building, where the studio was located, shook enough to spill water out of its toilet bowls. First sketched by Edward Carlson on a coffee shop place mat in 1959, it cost only $4.5 million. It was completed in December 1961 but it didn't open for another four months. For 10 points, name this building built for the 1962 World's Fair, the most prominent feature of the Seattle skyline.
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The Rogue and Versa have appeared several times on this show as part of its alliance with Nissan, and this show's most recent season introduced the Sullivan Brother's Carnival. Organizations in this show include the government task force headquartered in Building 26 and the Primatech Paper Corporation, which employed Noah Bennet. This first season of this show concerns an attempt to prevent the destruction of New York predicted by the painter Isaac Mendez. For 10 points, name this show which includes the cheerleader Claire Bennet and the villainous Syler, an NBC show about people with powers.
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The artist behind the 1983 solo album Youngblood would sit except when singing this song in later concerts, and his success on it led to him being selected to sing lead on "Wild Honey" and "Darlin'". Jay Migliori played sax on this pop song's intro, and one cover of this song preceded a duet with Tina Turner on David Bowie's 1984 album Tonight. Mandy Moore's character Hilary Faye sings this song in the beginning of Saved. At one point, its singer states "the world could show nothing to me / so what good would living do me?" Coming after "Sloop John B" on an album Rolling Stone ranked the 2nd best of all time, it begins, "I may not always love you." Sung by Carl Wilson, for 10 points, name this Beach Boys song from Pet Sounds, which controversially invoked a deity in its title.
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The book's title imitated that of a book by the Rombauers. Its chapters have such titles as "Sauces and Pickles," "Starters," "Main Courses," and "Problems." Its drawings feature a hairy-armpitted woman and a man with a scruffy beard. Saul Bellow copied one idea from the book for use as a scene in Humboldt's Gift where with all hands on the table, a woman is brought to orgasm using the big toe. The author's penchant for group sex was even more evident in its sequel. FTP, name this sexual instruction manual by Alex Comfort that took its title from The Joy of Cooking.
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The character was based on a Japanese folk hero with a legendary appetite and derived its name from the word "to eat." Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia wrote a song about it that became a Top 10 hit. This of course happened after rights were acquired Namco Limited by Bally Manufacturing Company. By 1981, 96,000 arcade versions of this game had been sold, surpassing "Space Invaders" as America's favorite video game. FTP name this game built around a character with an insatiable appetite who is chased around by ghosts.
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The film inspired Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. The black-and-white adventure is set in Las Piedras, a Latin American oil town controlled by the Southern Oil Company. Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, and Peter van Eyck star as four European drifters hired to transport two truckloads of liquid nitroglycerin 300 miles. The film's most famous sequence requires the drivers to turn around on a rickety, half-finished timber platform high above a mountain range. FTP identify this 1953 work directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
identify this entrepreneurial association of pre-teenage girls, the subject of a series of books by Ann M. Martin.
The inspiration for the organization occurred while its founder was eating pizza with her brothers Sam, Charlie, and David Michael. Founded in Stoneybrook, Connecticut in 1986, its original membership of four increased to nine over the years with the additions of Jessi Ramsay, Abby Stevenson, Logan Bruno, Dawn Schafer, and Mallory Pike. For 10 points
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The last name's the same because they're all related: Otto was a famous conductor, while his cousin Victor was a romance philologist who wrote the book "LTI" about the Nazi abuse of the German language; the bombing of Dresden allowed him to escape from his confinement to the Jewish ghetto and his journals have recently been edited, translated, and published. Perhaps the best-known member of this family is, ironically, Otto's son Werner, who became famous for portraying Commandant Klink in the prison-camp comedy "Hogan's Heroes." FTP, give the shared family name.
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The lovers exchange names at the end of this film. One is an architect who becomes the only person who knows the story. The other is a French actress who arrives to do a documentary on peace. She shares with him her unexplainable madness and her dead German lover, who promised her to take her to Bavaria. Her name is Nevers, and his name is, FTP, what title location in a New Wave film by Alain Resnais [re-NAY] dealing with love in the Atomic age?
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The protagonist of this work is financially backed by Tim Daland, and engages in a love affair with Dr. Claire Lewicki. A back story involves the mysterious death of Buddy Bretherton, which may have been caused by Harry Hogge's incompetence. The climactic scene occurs when the protagonist defeats Russ Wheeler, redeeming himself and Rowdy Burns, who will regain his sponsorship as a result. Thus ends this 1990 work about the adventures of Cole Trickle. FTP, identify this film often criticized as "Top Gun on wheels," a movie in the world of Nascar starring Tom Cruise.
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The resonance, or vibrating-reed, variety uses a series of consecutively-tuned reeds to match the vibration frequency of the machine. The mechanical type takes advantage of the fact that the centrifugal force on a rotating mass can be used to stretch or compress a spring. The eddy-current, or drag, type uses a magnet rotating with the subject to produce eddy currents that are proportional to the magnet's speed, and a stroboscope can also be used to simulate this instrument. name this type of device that measures the angular speed of a rotating shaft, which, for 10 points, is often used in automobiles in association with a speedometer.
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The speaker notes that he wants to be a lion, but that everybody wants to pass as cats. The speaker wants to be Bob Dylan, and the title character wishes he was someone just a little more funky. The speaker wants to see himself staring back in the TV, and will paint himself in all of the beautiful colors, his favorite of which is gray. It opens at the New Amsterdam with the speaker staring at a yellow-haired girl while the title figure strikes up a conversation with a black-haired flamenco dancer. Those two look into the future, tell each other fairy tales, and stumble through the barrio, all while staring at the beautiful women in, FTP, what song about the title man "and me" by the Counting Crows?
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The writers, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, polished the jokes on the road before they filmed, and Sam Wood directed it. Otis B. Driftwood attempts to con the wealthy Mrs. Claypool into investing, while his two sidekicks draft a pair struggling young performers, Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones, to sing. Bits from it have become comedy classics, including the stateroom sequence, and "party of the first part" contract scene. FTP identify this film, Groucho's personal favorite, which ends in the uproarious staging of Il Trovatore.
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Their earliest success came with the singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" which were followed by an album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. 1969 saw their release of the soundtrack for the film More as well as the double album Ummagumma. They were initially led by Syd Barrett, but he went insane and was replaced by David Gilmour on lead guitar and vocals. However, it was bassist Roger Waters who really took charge of the band, and led it to such songs as "Eclipse" and "Money." FTP, name this band whose albums include The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon.
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These characters made their first appearance in the comic strip "Johan and Pirlouit" in the European publication Spirou. Created by Pierre Culliford, they began appearing on PVC figurines in 1965, sixteen years before their U.S. television debut. Among their ranks, Hefty was strong, Handy could fix things, and Brainy needed to be repeatedly punched in the face. FTP, give the collective name for these tiny blue communists, whose cartoon antics were a staple of Saturday mornings in the 1980s.
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They added a certain slang word to their name after a rival club owner accused them of playing music fit only for brothels. Drummer Tony Sbarbaro on drums, pianist Henry Ragas, clarinet player Larry Shields, cornet player Nick LaRocca, and trombonist Eddie Edwards were all from New Orleans. Together they released the 1917 recordings that gave birth to a genre of music. FTP, name this pioneers of jazz.
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To crush the freedom fighters before the rainy season, he once offered a shiny new donkey for the head of General Montoya. Also known under the alias "Snrub", he owns the only known nude photo of Mark Twain and the only copy of the Constitution with the word "suckers" in it. Much valuable information about him can be found in his autobiography, "Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?", including his desire to be reunited with his stuffed bear Bobo and his nefarious slant oil drilling operation. FTP, who is this ruthless autocrat, the richest man in Springfield?
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Urban legend would have it that the men-bashing songs on Jagged Little Pill were written about him, as he dated the much younger Alanis Morrisette. His recent work has mainly been limited to the game show "To Tell the Truth," but he had previously voiced Peter on "The Real Ghostbusters," hosted "America's Funniest People," and did "Out of Control" for Nickelodeon, where he honed his "Cut It Out" comic routine. FTP, name this comedian and superb actor best known for playing Uncle Joey next to Bob Saget and John Stamos on "Full House."
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What a family! Herbert invented a coupling device essential to World War II bombardiers. Julius wrote Many Happy Returns, a serious study of the American tax system, as well as an autobiography. Leonard was an accomplished pianist, and Arthur was even better known as a harpist. They also collaborated on such classics as At the Circus, The Big Store, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, and A Night at the Opera. FTP name these masters of sibling revelry.
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When faced with his imminent death, the central character of this film breaks down exclaiming, "I can't help what I do! I can't help it, I can't. . ." He is mostly off camera and a snatch of Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" that he often whistles is sometimes the only clue that he is present. The search for him is so intense that it results in local criminal leaders, not the police, hunting him down. This leads to the movie's climax with the execution of Beckert, played by Peter Lorre [LOR-ee]. An actual string of child murders in Dusseldorf was the inspiration, FTP, for what 1931 Fritz Lang film, whose English title was shortened from the original Murderer Among Us?
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With partner Stanislas Wawrinka, this man won men's doubles at the Beijing Olympics. A backpedaling shot this man hit against Andre Agassi in the 2005 US Open was described as one of his namesake "Moments" in an article about this player "as Religious Experience" by David Foster Wallace. Martin del Potro was only the second person to beat this man in a Grand Slam finals appearance, and this man missed the US Open finals for the first time in six years after his loss to Novak Djokovic in the 2010 semifinals. For 10 points, name this Swiss tennis player who won five straight US Opens and Wimbledons but lost the French Open three straight years to Rafael Nadal.
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Without self-respect, you certainly self-destruct, he intones on one track of his CD, which includes "Journey," a discussion of the generational links between spirituals, blues, jazz, and hip-hop. Better known in academic circles for highly analytical works like The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism, and Post-Analytic Philosophy, FTP, name this African-American studies professor whose recordings in Sketches of My Culture act as an audio appendage to his best-selling collection of essays, Race Matters.
"Crazy"
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"Date Rape" [prompt on partial answer]
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"Desperado"
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"Gin and Juice"
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"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"
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"Help Me, Rhonda"
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"Manny being Manny"
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"McLovin" or Fogell
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"Mr. Jones" [accept "Mr. Jones and Me"]
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"Mrs. Robinson"
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"No Woman, No Cry"
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"The Unit"
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"Washington Bullets"
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"Yellow" (accept Yellow Sarong before "Sarong" is mentioned)
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(I Wanna) Pee on You
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21 Jump Street
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A Night at the Opera (1935)
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ALF (accept Gordon Shumway before it is mentioned)
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Abel Gance
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Adam Carolla [accept Ace Rockolla]
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Adam's Rib
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Adamantium (accept The Blood of Chuck Norris or equivalents)
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Adrian Monk
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Al Borland (either name, accept pronunciation as "Borlin" too)
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Albus Percival Wulfric Brian "Snape Kills" Dumbledore
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All About Eve
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Amelie Poulain (accept either name)
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American League Eastern Division [The Detroit Tigers moved to the AL Central, replaced by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.]
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Andrei Rublev
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Angel
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Anne Bancroft or Anne Marie Italiano
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Anthony Bourdain
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Apocalypse (accept En Sabah Nur before the name is mentioned)
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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Arby's
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Arrested Development
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Arsenal F.C.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
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Atlantis
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Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
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Batman [or Bruce Wayne]
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Battle of Helm's Deep [or Siege of Helm's Deep; or Battle of the Hornburg; prompt on anything similar to battle between the Uruk-Hai and Rohan; or to that battle at the end of Two Towers]Â
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Bea Arthur [or Bernice Frankel]
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Beauty and the Beast
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Beck Hansen (accept either)
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Ben Wallace
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Bill Laimbeer
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Billie Jean
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Blackula
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Blade Runner
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Bloodsport
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Bobby Trendy or Bobby Trend (his real name)
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Boogie Nights
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Boos or Boo Diddlys
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Brazil
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Breathless
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Brett Hull
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Bruce Springsteen
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Carl Brutananadilewski
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Carl-Theodor Dreyer
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Carlton Fisk
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Castle Grayskull
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Charles Atlas
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Charles Montgomery Burns
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Charlie Moore
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Charlie Parker [prompt on "Bird" or "Yardbird"]
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Chicago Cubs
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Chrono Trigger
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Cloaking Device
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Conan O'Brien
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Crash
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Criminal Minds
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
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Curry
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DOOM [accept Doom 64 or Doom II on the relevant clues]
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Daredevil (accept Matt Murdock)
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Daria Morgendorffer
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Dark Angel
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Dave Brubeck
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Dave Coulier
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David Cross
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David Wark Griffith
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Days of Thunder
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Del tha Funkee Homosapien
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Diego Armando Maradona
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Dirrty
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Dirt
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Do-Rag [Prompt on "Rag" or on "Skull Cap" if stated by someone who looks like a biker].
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Dollhouse
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Don King
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Donna Karan
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Doom
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Double Indemnity
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Duck Soup
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
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Elaine Benes
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Electro [accept Maxwell Dillon before it is reads]
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Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler [accept either underlined part]
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Evander Holyfield
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Fallout 3 [do not accept or prompt on “Fallout†or “Fallout 2â€]
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Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton or Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe
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Ferdinand Joseph "Jelly Roll" Morton
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Fillmore East Auditorium
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Fire Emblem 7 [or Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken; or Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword]
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Florida Marlins (accept either name)
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Folsom Prison (accept: At Folsom Prison)
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For Better or For Worse
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Fox Mulder (accept either)
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Frogger (prompt on Highway Crossing Frog)
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Full House
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Game 6 of the World Series
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Gene Krupa
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General Zod
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George Denis Patrick Carlin
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Get Fuzzy
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God Only Knows
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Good Times
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Gorillaz
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Grand Hotel
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Green Day
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Gregory House, M.D.
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Guns n' Roses
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Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
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Harvey Haddix
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Haskell
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Hedy Lamarr (accept early Hedwig Kiesler)
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Heroes
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Highway 61 Revisited
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Hiroshima mon amour
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Hot N' Cold
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Incubus
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Ingmar Bergman
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It Happened One Night
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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Ja Rule or Jamal Atkins
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Jesus Christ of Nazareth [accept either first name or title]
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Joe Maddon
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Joe Walsh (Joseph Fidler Walsh)
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie
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Johnny David Damon
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Johnny Unitas
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Joseph Francis "Buster" Keaton
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Karen Walker (accept either)
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Kellen Boswell Winslow II
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Kristen Kreuk
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Krusty the Clown [or Herschel Krustofsky; prompt on Krustofsky]
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Kung Fu Hustle
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Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warner
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La Grande Illusion (or: The Grand Illusion)
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La-Di-Da-Di
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Le Salaire de la peur or The Wages of Fear
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Leonard Cohen
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Lifeboat
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Link, Sworn Brother of Gorons [accept Rinku; prompt on Hero of Time, Hero of Wind, Waker of Winds, Hero of Twilight, or Hero of Men]
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Linux
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Little Miss Sunshine
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Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Louis Malle
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M
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M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder or M: Mörder unter uns (accept early Murderer Among Us)
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Madonna [or Madonna Louise Ciccone]
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Magic: The Gathering [or MTG]
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Magneto [accept Erik Lensherr before stated; or Erik Magnus]
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Magnolia
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Manute Bol
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Miss Cleo!
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NBA Jam [do not accept or prompt on NBA Jam: Tournament Edition or any other superfluous information; only the unadorned NBA Jam was released in 1993 and is the first of the series]
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New Coke (accept Coke II)
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Nip/Tuck
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Nirvana
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Norville "Shaggy" Rogers [accept any underlined part]
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Notorious
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band or ODJB [The word "jazz" came from "jass," or male ejaculate.]
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Orlando Magic (accept either)
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Owl City [accept Adam Young before mentioned]
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Pac-Man
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Paths of Glory
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Paul Verhoeven
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Pedro Almodovar
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Phil Mickelson
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Pink Floyd
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Pink [or P!nk; accept Alecia Beth Moore]
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PowerPC
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Prison Break
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Prom Night
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Purple Rain
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Python
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Quantum of Solace
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R.E.M.
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Republic of South Africa [or Republiek van Suid-Afrika]
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Robocop 3
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Roger Eugene Maris [or Roger Eugene Maras]
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Roger Federer
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Roger Maris
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Roger Waters
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Rogue or Anna Marie
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Roman
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Schindler's List
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Scottie Pippen
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Scrooge McDuck (Prompt on Uncle Scrooge)
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Shelob [SHEE-lob]
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Sideshow Mel [accept Melvin von Horne before mentioned]
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Slumdog Millionaire
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Sonja Henie
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Spike (accept William)
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Sports Night
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Stagecoach
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Star Man
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Sublime
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Subway [prompt on Doctor's Associates]
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Suge Knight [prompt on Suge; or Marion Hugh Knight, Jr.]
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Sunset Boulevard
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Tanqueray [prompt on gin]
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Tara Reid
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The Adventures of Tintin [or Les Aventures de Tintin]
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The Animals
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The Babysitter's Club
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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The Bride of Frankenstein
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The Byrds
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The College Dropout
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The Cosby Show
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The Departed
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The Dude or Duder or His Dudeness or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing (do not accept "Jeffrey Lebowski")
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The Great Pumpkin
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The Ice Storm
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The Joy of Sex
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The Killers
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The Kinks
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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The Magnetic Fields
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The Manchurian Candidate
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The Manchurian Candidate.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers
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The Secret of NIMH
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The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
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The Seventh Seal
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The Seventh Seal or Det Sjunde inseglet
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The Smiths
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The Smurfs
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The Space Needle
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The Strokes
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The Velvet Undergound
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Thelonious Monk
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There Will Be Blood
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Thierry Daniel Henry
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Time Out
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Tokyo Drifter or Tokyo Nagaremono or The Man From Tokyo
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Tommy Lee Jones
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Treacherous Three
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True Blood
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True Grit
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Twilight
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Ultrasound
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Unforgiven
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United States Triple Crown [don't accept specific races, the clues all apply only to the triple crown as a whole]
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Veronica Lake
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Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr.
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Vittorio De Sica
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Vulcans [or Vulcanians]
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Wallace Shawn
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Weezer
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West Side Story
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Whitesnake
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Wilco
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Will Rogers
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William "Count" Basie
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William Christopher Handy
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William Thomas "Bill" Romanowski
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Yoda
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Yojimbo (or: The Bodyguard)
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Yosemite Sam [accept Pirate Sam; accept Riff Raff Sam; accept Sam Schultz; accept any other character he plays, as long as his name is still Sam]
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Zydeco
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catcher's interference
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dynamic programming
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elimiDATE
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fights between Batman and Superman [accept obvious equivalents]
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fruit [accept fruity; accept froot; prompt on fruitylicious]
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goldfish swallowing
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gorilla suits
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hippopotamus [accept plural forms of hippo or hippopotamus]
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hit four home runs in one game [accept clear equivalents]
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love story
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monkeys [or chimpanzees or chimps]
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tachometer (tack-AH-meter)
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the Cleveland Browns (accept either)
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the Geico Gecko [prompt on partial answer]
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the Green Monster [prompt on the left field wall at Fenway Park; prompt on partial answer]
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the Immaculate Reception
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the Jefferson Airplane
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the Marx Brothers
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the Nintendo 64 [accept N64; accept Nintendo Roku Ju Yon]
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the Shredder [accept Oroku or Oroku Saki before it is read]
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the University of Arizona Wildcats [prompt on Wildcats]
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the stethoscope
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the vault
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tight end
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unassisted triple play
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yellow
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A band by this name saw little success with early singles such as "Call me what you like," prompting guitar player Dominic Scott to leave the group. They made headlines over summer 2006 with singer Tom Chaplin's stint in rehab and the release of their second album, Under the Iron Sea, featuring the single "Is it any wonder?" A series of computer games and their lead character also bear this name; in those games, this person visits Fribbulus Xax and uses the Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket to defeat Boobus Toober, the Shikadi, and the Vorticons while avoiding the Dopefish. FTP, give the common name of the British trio which included "Somewhere Only We Know" on their album Hopes and Fears, and the secret identity of eight-year-old genius Billy Blaze, who becomes the "Commander" by this name.
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A basketball team by this name won eighteen Liga and ACB titles from 1960 to 1977, thanks to such legendary players as Wally Szczerbiak's father, and was coached by George Karl immediately before Karl took the Sonics job. That team was also the last pre-NBA stop for Drazen Petrovic and Arvydas Sabonis. Another team by this name won five straight titles from 1986 to 1990 behind the play of the "vulture's cohort." Among this squad's current scoring leaders is Ruud van Nistelrooy, while its other stars include Mahamadou Diarra, Raúl, and a player acquired from Manchester United in 2003. FTP, David Beckham currently plays for what longtime rival of F.C. Barcelona?
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A discussion of sex and pancakes in this work leads two characters to the Blue Ox motel. Another character falsely laments the death of his wife Linda Cooks in a hotel restaurant, which he claims is "a Radisson, so it's pretty good." A gunfight with Carl Showalter leads to the death of Wade, whom Jerry Lundegaard was attempting to scam out of one million dollars by having his wife kidnapped. The protagonist later shoots Carl's partner in the leg upon seeing him shoving Carl's body into a wood chipper. The trail of bodies left by Carl and Gaear Grimsrud involves pregnant deputy Marge Gunderson in, for 10 points, what Coen Brothers film, named for a city.
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A man uses the alias of Ramsey in order to get close to Suite 312 in this film, and a woman in this film is startled by her aunt while examining a medicine bottle, but it turns out that the aunt only wanted to give her a formal shawl. The police officer Winn berates a man on the phone for waiting three days to send a fax in this film, and the first sign of trouble in its main narrative comes when the protagonist is at a hair salon with Claire and Lisa and sees an ominous figure in a mirror. Aunt Karen breaks a dish in this movie, shortly before a hotel maid is stabbed to death. Ronnie's attempt to propose to Lisa is similarly interrupted by Lisa's murder at the hands of Fenton, who does most of his killing at a hotel while a party happens downstairs. The main character is being stalked by the man who murdered her immediate family three years earlier. For 10 points, name this 2008 remake, in which Fenton becomes a serial killer in order to get close to Donna, his former ninth-grade student, and escapes from prison on the titular high school festivity.
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A moment of levity in this film occurs when the protagonist accidentally starts a fire after lighting a candle in a shrine to his hero Balzac, whose paraphrased lines in a school paper result in accusations of plagerism against him. While skipping school he sees his mother conducting an affair, prompting him to claim his mother is dead to excuse his absence. When his lie is discovered he runs away, but winds up in the French penal system after he is caught stealing a typewriter from his father's office. With a title meaning "raising hell", FTP, what is this film about the youth of Antoine Doinel, directed by Francois Truffaut?
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A musical biography starring Gregory Hines as this man appeared on Broadway in 1992. Although his claim that he "invented jazz" in 1901 is a major overstatement, this pianist and composer was among the innovators of formal jazz in New Orleans. Later, in Chicago, he became perhaps the first important jazz recording artist, and formed the band "Red Hot Peppers" in 1926. FTP, name this composer of "King Porter Stomp," "London Rag," and "Jelly Roll Blues."
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A native of Valencia, California, he is of Vietnamese heritage, and uses a professional name consisting of his real name with a "y" added at the end. Shortly before working for such clients as Fernando Vargas, Janet Jackson, and Carmen Electra, he was earning $5 an hour at K-Mart. The client who made him famous hired him in 2002, but despite the sublime artistry of his 10-foot-tall leopard-pattern couch, he lost his client after the box-spring incident and a series of broken promises. FTP, name this fashion designer who frequently appeared on the Anna Nicole Smith show.
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A piece of fan fiction about this game is subtitled "Repercussions of Evil" and revolves around John Stalvern. Spider Masterminds and Revenants were missing from its N64 version, though that game did contain the Laser of the Unmaker. Its first sequel added the Megasphere and ended when the player killed the Icon of Sin by shooting rockets into its brain; that sequel was subtitled Hell on Earth. Its shareware version consisted of the episode Knee Deep in the Dead, which began with the vanishing of Deimos and the arrival of demons on Phobos. For 10 points, identify this id Software FPS, in which the BFG 9000 is among the weapons used by the player, a Space Marine.
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A pink wrestler with this moniker has a somersault kick move in NES Pro Wrestling. The DC superhero of this name has fought villains such as Mist and Extant and has wielded a "cosmic rod." Another "would like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds" in a song by David Bowie. In the SNES game Earthbound, one of these kills Buzz Buzz near the start of this game, and they have appelations like "Jr.", Deluxe" and "Super". This term also designates an unofficial logo for the band Rush and is featured with the red namesake symbol on back of the album 2112. For 10 points, identify this term that also designates the anthropomorphized powerup that gives Mario invincibility in the Super Mario Brothers games.
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A recent Bollywood movie titled after this two word phrase has the year "2050" appended to its title. In one song with this title, the singer refers to herself as a "scarlet letter". A film with this title sees a Harvard Law student struggle with his wife's cancer and his relationship with his father, Oliver Barrett III. In the aforementioned song, the singer commands, "Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone," and exhorts its addressee to "just say yes." For 10 points, name this phrase that titles a Taylor Swift song and a drama that says that the title emotion "means never having to say you're sorry."
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A recent incarnation of this character sees him inherit Robi from his uncle Albert, and pits him against nanotechnology pirate Phineas Phibes. In one movie in which this character appears, he has a love-interest name Sugie, and he is entered into a monster car race. In addition to being the subtitular Reluctant Werewolf, he opens the Chest of Demons, forcing him to work for Victor van Ghoul in order to recapture the titular thirteen ghosts. In a live-action movie, he is portrayed by Matthew Lillard, and in that movie he romantically pursues a girl named Mary-Jane, an overt referrence to accusations that he smoked pot, to Spooky Island. He was originally voiced by Casey Kasim. With trademark word "Zoinks!", for ten points, name this hippy mystery-solver, the owner of Scooby Doo.
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A song of this name refers to the death of a folk musician who recorded such songs as "I Remember You Amanda" and "A Farmer's Prayer" and later became the namesake of the stadium where he and several thousand other political prisoners were executed, Victor Jara. Punctuated by a single-word chorus that is simply the name of the triple album this song appears on being sung by Joe Strummer, this song ends by asking what Afghan rebels or Tibetan monks "think of voting Communist," but previous verses castigate the U.S. for the Bay of Pigs and for supporting Augusto Pinochet. This song from Sandinista! by The Clash shares its two-wored name with a monniker borne from 1974 to 1997 by a team that was long coached by former star Wes Unseld, moved from Baltimore, and changed away from this name before adding such current players as Roger Mason, Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas to its roster. For 10 points, name this former NBA franchise, now known as the Wizards.
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A spider bite incurred on his honeymoon once prevented him from trying out for Chicago, and in his autobiography All Things Possible, he described walking through the red light district of Amsterdam on his way to church while playing in NFL Europe. He went undrafted and was released by the Packers in 1994, after which this Northern Iowa graduate led the Iowa Barnstormers to two second-place finishes. He earned his first NFL starting job after an injury to Trent Green and led the "Greatest Show on Turf." He now has such targets as Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin. For 10 points, name this QB who won the MVP with the Rams, currently for the Arizona Cardinals.
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A very hands on director- he wrote, produced, composed the music for, and even served as set designer for his 1982 release Labyrinth of Passion . His first film, Pepi, Luci, and Bom focused on three women who strive to overcome the corruption of a modern world. Other works like Matador and What Have I done to Deserve This fuse humor with sexuality and are well known for their vivid colors. But he is most famous for collaborations with a young Antonio Banderas such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . FTP identify this flamboyant Spanish filmmaker whose casting of Penelope Cruz in All About My Mother helped catapult her to stardom.
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A “new†version of this song features the chorus “can't nobody take my shine, can't nobody break my stride,†and appears on the album Muscles. This song talks of “walking around like you're Pretty Boy Floyd,†and the singer claims he's got “Neon King Kong standin' on my back.†This song claims “a child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind†and sees the singer declare “I swear I might hijack a plane.†This song's first verse opens with the sound of shattering glass before the singer reports “broken glass, everywhere.†In this song's chorus, Melle Mel claims “it makes me wonder how I keep from going under†after saying “don't push me, ‘cause I'm close to the edge.†For 10 points, name this best known song of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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According to "Am I Annoying" dot com, she was the fourth-most annoying person of 2001. Rumor has it that she guest-starred on Miami Vice, and she might be known around Seattle as Ree Perris, the writer of the play "For Women Only." However, she is probably best-known for her recent works, including the book Keepin' It Real and a series of ubiquitous late-night TV infomercials displaying her garish clothing and Caribbean accent. FTP, name this "psychic" spokeswoman for mindandspirit.com.
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According to her best friend, Gayle King Bumpus, "You can look up generosity in the dictionary and you will find" this woman's name, which is appropriate, since she gave Bumpus $1.25 million dollars so that she could also be a millionaire. At the age of 5, she moved from Mississippi to Milwaukee, but after she became pregnant at 14 she was sent to Nashville, where she became Miss Black Nashville in 1972, which led her to a job at WJZ-TV in Baltimore. FTP, name this television personality, whose talk show went national in 1986, the year she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in The Color Purple.
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According to his creator, this man's name means "bumblebee" in old English, and, in his final living moments, he is compared to a great rag doll. A fan of lemon drops, he claims to have a scar in the shape of a map of the London Underground on his left knee, and, before dying, he leaves behind the book The Tales of Beedle the Bard. A rival breaks into the tomb of this man, who defeated Grindelwald in 1945, but it turns out he had lost possession of the Elder Wand when he was disarmed by Malfoy, after which he was killed by Severus Snape. FTP identify this man, arguably the greatest wizard of modern times, possibly best known as the Headmaster of Hogwarts.
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According to the Old Testament, this name meaning "waterless hill" was used by the pre-Hebrew inhabitants of Jerusalem for the city. Its namesake tribe was the last conquered by Israel in Canaan and may have been the origin of such figures as Nathan and Zadok. More recently, someone by this name failed to respond to entreaties on a shortwave radio and the person behind that attempt declared non-belief in this entity when forced into missionary work to escape from a debt to the PBS pledge drive. FTP, name this botched pronunciation of the name of a major religious figure prayed to by Homer Simpson.
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After attending Northeastern Oklahoma A&M Junior College, he transferred to Houston, where he led the team in rushing in 1992 and 1993. Former Seahawk teammate Mike Frier, paralyzed during this man's drinking and driving crash in 1994, gets half of his salary each year. After playing for the Saints in 1999, he came to his current team as J.J. Johnson and Cecil Collins had not panned out. This season, he had a resurgence that culminated in a record-setting, 40 carry, 208 yard performance against the Colts in the first round of the NFL playoffs. FTP, name this Miami Dolphins starting halfback.
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After being cut by his hometown team, this player signed with Weeb Ewbank. Ends and flankers that benefited from his talents include Lenny Moore and Raymond Berry. Briefly on the Steelers, this player was sold to the San Diego Chargers for 150,000 dollars before his final season. An injury to him caused Earl Morrall to start the first three quarters of one notable game in which he appeared. He threw touchdown passes in a record 47 consecutive games and engineered the winning drive against the New York Giants in the 1958 championship game, often called "the greatest game ever played," but also lost Super Bowl III, an upset victory for Joe Namath's Jets. FTP, name this Hall of Fame quarterback, a longtime starter for the Baltimore Colts.
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After being drafted fifteenth overall, he was traded for Martin Murrsepp, Bubba Wells, and a draft pick. In 2000, he was the #2 scorer, behind Michael Meeks and ahead of Todd MacCulloch and Rowan Barrett, on an Olympic team which upset Russia and Yugoslavia. In 1993, he made six free throws in the final thirty-one seconds of a first-round NCAA game against second-seeded Arizona to lead his West Coast Conference champion Santa Clara team to victory. Now playing with Shawn Marion and Amare Stoudemire, he won the 2005 and 2006 MVP awards. For 10 points, name this Canadian point guard for the Phoenix Suns.
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After one character in this film tries to steal food while being held upside down outside a train, he believes that he has arrived at a hotel, where he poses as a tour guide and claims that its construction was inspired by the ruler's wife's death in a traffic accident on the way to a hospital. Later on, the protagonist learns of the dancer Cherry's existence after confirming Benjamin Franklin's appearance on the one hundred dollar bill, after which Maman is killed by a Colt .45. At this film's end, Salim murders the crime lord Javed as the protagonist correctly identifies Aramis as the third musketeer after reuniting with Latika thanks to his Phone-A-Friend lifeline. FTP, name this 2008 Danny Boyle-directed film detailing Jamal Malik's rise to game show winner from the streets of Mumbai.
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After playing with for two years with the Navy band in Hawaii, he toured with "Cleanhead" Vinson before stints with the Joe Webb Band and the King Kolax Band. One of his later recordings, an album of duets with just himself and a drummer entitled Interstellar Space, differed from early group recordings headed by him as in Lush Life and Giant Steps. However, his best known works are the piece "My Favorite Things" and the album A Love Supreme. FTP, name this jazz musician who, like Charlie Parker, was known for his mastery of the saxophone.
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After the hero shows his mastery of the "dim mak" and snatches a coin from an overzealous Middle-Eastern competitor, he beds the reporter who is looking for a story on the competition. The cheesiest sequence definitely occurs when special agents, one of whom is played by Forrest Whittaker, chase him around Hong Kong. During the tournament he overcomes the crippling of his friend Jackson as well as the treachery of the always menacing Bolo Yeung who plays the Kumite (Kew-mi-tey) champion Chung Li. FTP identify this martial arts classic featuring Jean Claude Van Damme in his breakout role as Frank Dux.
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After the protagonist's partner is killed, he joins the Homeless Underground led by Bertha. His life is saved by Doctor Maine Lazarus, a renegade from OCP, and the film ends with his victory over a ninja cyborg employed by the evil Kanemitsu. FTP, identify this 1993 film, which starred Nancy Allen, Rip Torn, and Robert John Burke, who replaced Peter Weller in the role of Alex J. Murphy, a Detroit policeman who is turned into a cyborg.
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Among those to accomplish this feat were Jimmy Cooney and Johnny Neun, who did it on consecutive days in 1927. George Burns was one of only two first basemen to do it, while Bill Wambganss is the only player to do it in a World Series. In recent years John Valentin, Randy Valarde, Mickey Morandini, and Rafael Furcal have all turned this play after catching a line drive during a hit and run play. FTP, what is this incredibly rare baseball play in which one player records all the outs in an inning on one play?
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An area called Singing Mountain appears only in a pre-release version of this game. Spekkio, a god of magic, eventually allows characters to use magic after they circle his room three times. After the events in Zeal Palace, a former villain, Magus, can be recruited as a playable character. The machine Epoch replaces the Gates late in the game, whose ending depends on when its main villain is defeated. The song Bobonga from this game is often used on YTMNDs containing Brian Peppers, and playable characters include Robo, Frog, Ayla, Lucca, and Marle. FTP, name this Super Nintendo game about time travel and a Lavos-induced apocalypse, the prequel to Chrono Cross.
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Arkady Rossovich was infused with a cheaper variant of it by the Soviet Union, and others who use it include the assassin Yuriko Oyama. The formula is a top-secret government recipe, and one use of it was jointly developed by Lord Dark Wind and Dr. Abraham Cornelius, and later used on Laura Kinney during her childhood in captivity. This same excruciatingly painful process was used on James Howlett during a secret Department H initiative, and he bears both the scars and positive effects to this day. Quite malleable when liquid but indestructible when cooled, FTP, name this fictional metal of the Marvel Comics universe bonded to the skeleton of Wolverine.
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As an actor, this man first appeared in the movie Il Processo Clemenceau, but his directing debut was the 1939 Red Roses. Later works include Two Women, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. FTP, who is this neorealist Italian director of Umberto D and The Bicycle Thief?
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At a dinner party in this movie, a married couple watch a home movie of how they paid off their mortgage on their farm, during which a neighbor makes jokes at the husband's expense, calling wife-kissing an "old Connecticut custom". That neighbor composes the song Farewell, Amanda, and later the husband slaps his wife, whom he calls "Pinkie". Late in the film, the husband catches his wife with Kip, and puts a gun in his mouth, pretending to be committing suicide, but then bites off the gun, revealing it to be black licorice. In the opening scene, Doris shoots her husband Walter after catching him with another woman, and Amander Bonner decides to defend Doris on the principle of equality for women. For 10 points, name this 1949 comedy starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers on opposite sides of an attempted-murder trial.
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At its end, a frightened girl's rendition of "The Faithful Hussar" leads the group to hum along, reinforcing the common humanity of the girl and her captors. The director's future wife Christine Harlan, performing that scene, demonstrates some of the best acting of the film, counterbalancing the over-the-top histrionics of Adolphe Menjou as a harried general. Ralph Meeker gives a competent performance illustrating the injustice about to be done to three soldiers, and George Macready intimates that a promotion will be given to the commander who can accomplish an impossible military objective. Banned for 18 years in France for its negative portrayal of its army during World War I, it was the first collaboration of Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick. For 10 points, name this film which takes its title from "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard," which informs us that the title entities "lead but to the grave."
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At one point in this film, a main character learns that his love interest is a fan of the movie Sixteen Candles, while another character's pubes are later complimented by Jamie Kennedy's character. While sneaking through air ducts at Princeton, this film's protagonists overhear a contest of "battlesh!ts," after which they drop their marijuana in a toilet. At the end of this movie, the man who stole the protagonists' car while on Ecstasy gives them $200 to purchase sliders, and in its sequel, the main characters escape Guantanamo. For 10 points, name this movie in which the titular duo encounters Neil Patrick Harris while searching for the perfect meal, starring John Cho and Kal Penn.
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At one point in this movie, Tappy Tibbons walks into the living room with his 1-900-976-JUICE ad, while audiences on the tube yell "feed me, Sara, feed me, Sara." The anti-black warfare launched by Sal the Geep forces Tyrone and Harry to ask Marion for money, and Marion gets it by sleeping with the obnoxious Arnold. Harry pawns off Sara Goldfarb's TV set repeatedly, until his schemes catch up with him, and he gets his blood-stained arm sawed off, while his mom gets addicted to diet pills. FTP name this 2000 film starring Ellen Burstyn and Jennifer Connelly, based on a Hugh Selby novel and made by Darren Aronofsky, which explores why drugs are bad, mmmkay.
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Based on a future real-estate analyst, at one point, this character nearly reveals a secret by announcing that has mother has granted him permission to take the TV from the basement, and he calls another character Danny Ocean. He lives on 898 Momona Street, and is accused of resembling Aladdin. In reference to women, he describes that he's not concerned about the "going," rather being concerned about the "coming," and he is also accused of thinking he's "Seal." He reveals he's never met anybody from Mohammed in a scene where he reveals he's an organ donor. Interested in the character Nicola and befriended by officers Slater and Michaels, for ten points, name this character who purports to be a one-named 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donor in order to buy booze in the film Superbad.
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Based on a story by John Steinbeck, this film was criticized for making John Hodiak's character appear to be a left-leaning liberal despite the fact that his role represented only one view among the group's spectrum of political attitudes, and for giving Walter Slezak's character the upper hand although he hardly emerges as the hero. Canada Lee's moving recitation of the Twenty-third Psalm is one of this movie's highlights. The director can be seen in a cameo appearance in a newspaper ad for a reducing aid. FTP, identify this 1944 film which begins with the sinking of an Allied passenger-freighter by a Nazi submarine, and which features Tallulah Bankhead and eight other survivors taking refuge in the title object.
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Based on the novel by Charles Portis, it chronicled 14 year old Mattie Ross's search for her father's killer in the wasteland of Oklahoma. Aided by bounty-hungry Texas Ranger La Boeuf, played by Glen Campbell, and a "one-eyed fat" federal marshal, Ross hunts down Tom Chaney and his cronies Moon and Ned Pepper, who were played by Dennis Hopper and Robert Duvall respectively. FTP, what was this movie for which, by speaking lines such as "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch" as Rooster Cogburn, John Wayne won the 1969 Best Actor Academy Award?
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Based on the short story "The Greatest Gift," this work was labeled subversive by the FBI, which claimed that a major plot device "was a common trick used by the communists." In one scene, Carl Switzer plays Freddie, a jealous teenager who, during a high school dance, opens up the dance floor, revealing a pool underneath. Better known characters include Violet Bick, who borrows money from the protagonist to start her life over in New York; Sam Wainwright, who habitually says "hee-haw" and wires twenty-five thousand dollars to the protagonist; and Mary Hatch, the protagonist's wife. FTP, identify this film in which a nightmare trip through Pottersville convinces George Bailey that life has meaning, shown habitually every Christmas.
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Born in Cleveland, OH in 1931, his steelworker-father was killed in a workplace explosion, leaving his mother to raise him and his six siblings. During high school and a year spent at Case Western Reserve University, he ran an illegal lottery, and by the late 1950's had amassed enough money to buy a nightclub. Convicted of manslaughter in 1967, he served a four-year term, but within three years of his release he was at the top of his new profession. In 1997 he was both the recipient of the NAACP's President's Award and the subject of HBO's Only in America. For 10 points, who is this African-American whose first great success was with his 1974 arrangement of the famous "Rumble in the Jungle"?
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Born in Idaho, as a student at Weesur High School he wrote and directed a high school musical called Goodbye Weesur, Hello Broadway. He later went to New York hoping to direct on Broadway, but wound up running only a small group of players in New Jersey. To supplement his income, he became a substitute teacher, and after the departure of Vernon Thomas, spent four years on the faculty as history teacher in the Individual Honors Program. At Fillmore High, his students included Darlene, Eric, Dennis, Arvid, and Janice. FTP, name this fictional teacher, played by Howard Hesseman on Head of the Class.
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Bryan Cranston's character in this film shares his name with Larry Brandenburg's character in Fargo, Stan Grossman, and another character shares his full name with one of the main characters from Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. That character, Dwayne, has a nervous breakdown in California after recognizing his colorblindness and breaks his month-long vow of silence. Not long before, Dwayne's grandfather, played by Alan Arkin, died in his sleep of a heroin addiction. Dwayne's son, a failed motivational speaker named Richard played by Greg Kinnear, has married Stacey, whose brother Frank, played by Steve Carell, is a suicidal Proust scholar. Those characters and Olive Hoover are all on their way to, FTP, what titular beauty pageant in a VW Bus with no clutch?
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Claiming that he was taught to act by James Best, the actor who played Roscoe P. Coltrane on the Dukes of Hazard, one of his first onscreen appearances was as an Elvis Impersonator in a 1988 episode of the Golden Girls. He is embroiled in a feud with Oliver Stone, whom he claims misdirected his story about Charles Starkweather that became Natural Born Killers. His first directing effort was 1987's My Best Friend's Birthday, but he remains best known for the film that won him the 1994 Palme D'Or at Cannes. FTP, name this director of Jackie Brown, Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.
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Claudia Wilson is a cocaine addict. Dixon is a prophet and the son of the Worm who killed his "long time oppressor." Donnie Smith gained fame on the television show now dominated by Stanley Spector and hosted by Claudia's father Jimmy Gator. These are just a few of the characters in a 1999 film that also includes a television producer named Earl Partridge and his estranged son Frank "T.J." Mackey. FTP, name this film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville appears in this movie as a celebrity being interviewed, while the movie's director plays the informant who spots the protagonist. The protagonist's girlfriend hawks the New York Herald-Tribune, while he styles himself after Humphrey Bogart. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, favorite actor of many New Wave directors, as Michel Poiccard, a small-time thief who kills a cop and is betrayed by his unfeeling girlfriend. FTP, name this most famous film of Jean-Luc Godard.
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During the sixties, he produced a trilogy of films set on the island of Faro, including The Shame, Hour of the Wolf, and The Passion of Anna. Following 1984's After the Rehearsal, he stopped directing, but stayed active by writing screenplays for The Best Intentions and Sunday's Children, which were directed by his son Daniel and Bille August. FTP, identify this Swedish filmmaker, whose best known films include Smiles of a Summer Night, Fanny and Alexander, Wild Strawberries, and The Seventh Seal.
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Early on the story of the three arrows is presented, a moment that alludes to this film's less well known source: the legend of Mori. It opens with a boar hunt that displays the extent of the protagonist's power. Kyoami (KYOH-ah-mee) and Tango remain loyal to the head of the house of Ichimonji (EE-chee-moan-jee), as does his youngest son Saburo, even after the main character renounces the title of "Great Lord." But as war starts breaking out across the land, he treacherous Lady Kaede (KAI-ee-day) marries Jiro after her husband Taro dies. Hidetora's foolish decision and subsequent downfall is the subject of, FTP, what 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa that was primarily based on Shakespeare's King Lear?
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Entering a code for this game in MechWarrior II causes it to claim "This ain't [this game], bub!" and self-destruct the player's mech. It ends with the prominent image of a decapitated rabbit for which revenge will be taken in the sequel; that sequel, subtitled Hell on Earth, secretly has the head of a programmer on a stick as its final boss. Modifications could be made by .WAD file editors but built-in cheat codes include idspispopd for no clipping and idkfa for all weapons including the chainsaw, rocket launcher, and BFG-9000. Billed as "Wolfenstein on steroids," it would itself be followed by Quake. FTP, name this classic game by id Software in which you control a lone space marine on a Martian base overrun by the damned.
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Had it been built one year sooner, it would have stood directly behind Duffy's Cliff. The Smith family of Wilmington are the only people allowed to paint it; such care is warranted, as the hiding of old advertisements by a fresh coat of paint in 1947 gave it half of its name. Stool seating near it was added in 2005 and dubbed The Nation's Nest, while it sits directly opposite Pesky's Pole. The screen on top of it protects the denizens of Lansdowne Street, but in July 2005, no one could prevent an episode of urination inside of it, perpetrated by Manny Ramirez. The namesake of Curt Schilling's game company, it contains a manual scoreboard, and its dimensions are the bane of lefthanded pitchers. FTP, name this thirty-seven foot tall structure located a mere 315 feet from home plate at Fenway Park.
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Hair-stylists usually supplement the female variant by separating a handful of hair from the front of the head and flattening it into a single roll. The rest of the hair is french-twisted to the point that it lays against the head. This object was actually first used by Veronica Lake, a 1940's actress, who was asked to change her hairstyle because female factory workers who emulated her were having various machinery accidents. As a result, Veronica pinned her hair up and added a cotton handkerchief. Today, the NFL only allows players with a medical excuse, such as Ray Lewis, to wear this. FTP, associated with everyone from Andre Agassi to Deion Sanders with rappers in between, what is this form of street headgear?
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Harvard freshman Lothrop Withington, Jr. was the first to participate, on March 3, 1939. Three weeks later, a student at Franklin and Marshall, declaring Harvard men sissies, indulged three times. Techniques varied; some chewed, while other students simply gulped. By April, one Clark University student had downed eighty-nine of the creatures in one setting, prompting concern from animal rights activists. FTP name this college craze of the late 1930s.
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He attended Gilmore High School where he was a fencing champion in 1976, and from there he joined the Navy but had his hopes dashed when he was only stationed in Fallon, Nevada. An early girlfriend of his was Greta Post, and he was later engaged to the orthodontist Ilene Markham, played by Sherry Hursey, but they split up at the wedding and he finally married Trudy in the series finale. This came just after the death of his mother Alma, who had been quite a large presence in his life. At one point, he's suspected of carrying on an unlikely affair with Heidi, but that's soon proven untrue. FTP, name this pudgy flannel-wearing sidekick played by Richard Karn, Tim Taylor's able assistant on "Tool Time."
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He claims to keep pretzels in his shotgun and has twice worked as a babysitter, once failing so badly that he was replaced by a robot, and later overseeing Vanessa, Dewey, and Boxy Brown. He has variously attributed his income to "working his ass off twenty hours a week" and "working out of the home." His car, which was once crushed by the Rabbot, has "2 Wycked" painted on it, and he later acquires a belt that gives the wearer all the powers of Foreigner. A devotee of gold chains, green flip-flops, and blue sweatpants, he often has to evict his neighbors from his above-ground pool. FTP, name this Dave Willis-voiced neighbor of Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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He fights such villains as Stilt-Man and Purple Man, who can control people through the power of his radiated skin. With the help of a social worker named Betsy, he helps a man named Melvin regain his sanity and open a costume shop. His romantic life is extremely troubled; in addition to his liaison with the Black Widow, he spends some time engaged to Heather Glenn, who later becomes an alcoholic and commits suicide. Perhaps most disastrous is his affair with his former secretary, Karen Page, who becomes an actress and heroin addict. For a fix, she sells his secret identity to his greatest enemy, who ruins his career in law and blows up his Hell's Kitchen home. Deciding to become a superhero after his boxer father Jack is killed by mobsters, he also runs a legal clinic with his best friend Foggy Nelson. FTP, name this Marvel superhero, an enemy of the Kingpin and lover of Elektra, who is a blind man who fights with his heightened senses.
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He had sex with a woman named Phoebe on the tomb of Arthur Conan Doyle while studying at Oxford. The central episode of his childhood took place on November 27, 1973, while he was watching The Magician on TV. After getting a degree in psychology, he became a student of William Patterson, whose influence was reflected in the monograph he wrote on serial killers which led to the capture of Monte Props. He earned the nickname "Spooky" after graduating first in his class at the FBI Academy, but never overcame the trauma of seeing his sister Samantha kidnapped as a boy. FTP, name this man who opposed the Cigarette-Smoking Man and worked with Dana Scully on The X-Files, a character played by David Duchovny.
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He has an affair with Charlie Blackwood, and is shocked to learn that Mike Metcalf knew his father, Duke, whose death he finally learns the truth about. Hondo warns him and his best friend that if they screw up, they'll be transporting "rubber dog-sh!t out of Hong Kong." His chief rival is Tom Kazanski, who thinks he's "dangerous" because he breaks the rules like engaging Viper below the hard deck. FTP, name this character who finally makes good with Iceman and reconciles himself with the death of Goose, Tom Cruise's role in Top Gun.
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He has disappeared from the rap scene, and is now studying for a degree in Japanese, a fittingly quirky pursuit. He got his start as a member of the San Francisco based Hieroglyphics Crew, and was given a record contract when his cousin, Ice Cube, agreed to produce his first album. The laid-back tales of everyday life in the inner-city he spun distinguished him from increasingly popular gansta rap outfits, but it also limited his commercial appeal, and he was dropped from his label after his 1993 album, No Need for Alarm, stiffed. FTP, name this rapper whose distinctive style is heard on such tracks as "Pissin' on Your Steps" and "The Wacky World of Rapid Transit" from his classic 1991 debut I Wish My Brother George was Here.
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He has written two books, including the cookbook Can You Stew That for a Brother? and the autobiographical Knee High and Livin' Large. A graduate of Wake Forest, he also wrote the lines "Like Fred Sanford has junk / We all must have the funk" for the title track of his album Don't Forget the Funk. His career as a professional athlete took him to Madagascar, where he played with the Antananarivo Lemurs. He is allowed to have regular parties, but after messing up the filter he's no longer allowed to have pool parties. He once claimed to have gone to high school with Kevin Garnett, which surprised the NBA player with whom he usually hangs out. FTP, name this three-foot-tall star of numerous Nike commercials, who has a thing for Tyra Banks and looks a lot like Anfernee Hardaway.
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He instructs someone to "give those pious soldiers / Another lollipop" and informs her that "those road check girls / Will make your brown breath blue" in the song "Peaches and Cream," while he promised to feed someone "fruit that don't exist" in a song about a girl who "looks so Israeli," "Nicotine and Gravy." Those tracks, along with "Mixed Bizness" and "Sexx Laws," appear on his 1999 album Midnite Vultures, which was followed by a 2002 album inspired by a break-up. In addition to Sea Change, his albums include the recent The Information and an album which included "E-Pro" and "Qué Onda Guero." FTP, name this artist who also released Odelay and first hit it big with a song explaining that he was a "Loser."
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He is based on the title character of Lewis Foster's short story "The Gentleman from Montana." The son of a newspaper editor, he edits his own paper, Boys Stuff, and his pet project, aided by his secretary Clarissa Saunders, is a 200-acre boys' camp on Willet Creek. Unfortunately, Willet Creek is the site of a pork-barrel dam project sponsored by corrupt Senator Paine, played by Claude Rains. FTP name the idealistic young junior senator played by Jimmy Stewart who, in 1939, went to Washington.
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He is well known around his office as an intercessory supplication buff, and he claims to keep his secret fears and terrors in an Altoids tin that he threatens to open when contradicted. Recently, he has announced plans to offer opinion, even umbrage, at the media's coverage of the Kobe Bryant trial, but admits that he will probably end up "call(ing) someone a fag" and getting fired. He currently voices the head of Harvey Birdman's law firm, while earlier gigs include the role of Chuck Noblett on Strangers With Candy and the voice of Ace in the Ambiguously Gay Duo. FTP, name this comedian and star of a recent series of Mr. Goodwrench commercials best known as a senior correspondent on the Daily Show.
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He perpetrated the "Great James Robbery" when he enticed Juan Tizol away from Harry James and taking along Willie Smith and Louis Bellson; the latter performed the drum solos in his "Skin Deep." Three of his stars left in 1950 to join his former band member Johnny Hodges, but he continued to reinvent himself with works like Drum Is a Woman and Far East Suite. He was back in the spotlight after a solo by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves in "Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue" for the Newport Festival. FTP name this jazz composer who collaborated with Billy Strayhorn on "Take the 'A' Train" and who earned his rank at the Cotton Club with works like "It Don't Mean a Thing" and "Mood Indigo."
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He played basketball at Oklahoma State under Hank Iba, the third winningest coach in college basketball history, and himself became the ninth person to reach 700 NCAA victories in 1997, the same year he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. His 1966 team was the only team other than UCLA to win the national title between 1964 and 1973 and was also the first championship team to start five blacks. FTP, name this man who has been coaching college basketball since 1961, all 38 years at Texas-El Paso.
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He played college hockey at the University of Minnesota-Duluth before being selected by Calgary Flames in the 6th round of the 1984 NHL draft, but he was traded on March 7, 1988 with Steve Bozek for Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley. He is more than 120 goals ahead of Jaromir Jagr as the most prolific goal-scorer of the 1990s, and on December 31, 1999, he became the 12th man in NHL history to score 600 career goals, doing so in 900 games, the third-fastest to reach that milestone. FTP, name this ex-St. Louis Blues and current Dallas Stars player, son of the "Golden Jet" and a member of the only father-son combination to score 600 career goals.
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He played one of the Sleestak during the first season of the TV show Land of the Lost. He was selected by the Cavaliers, but opted to play in Italy for a year before making his NBA debut. He was a four time all-star, and in 1982 was traded to the franchise with which he is most associated. There he would start alongside such players as James Edwards and Rick Mahorn and become a master of the pick and pop jumper. This Notre Dame graduate's physical play and constant whining even earned him an endorsement for an SNES game called "Combat Basketball." FTP, name this power forward and center for the "Bad Boys" Pistons teams, who more recently has worked as head coach of the Detroit Shock.
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He provided the voice for Commander Nebula in two Buzz Lightyear of Star Command videos, and his role as Agent Sid was cut from the final print of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. His recurring characters include a multitasking strip club DJ, a hack morning radio personality who reminds listeners that every city in Southern California is "checking in" at seventy-seven degrees, and Vietnam veteran Birchum. He is currently working in the rotation of substitute Late Late Show hosts and continuing to assist Dr. Drew on Loveline. FTP, name this co-creator of The Man Show with Jimmy Kimmel.
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He recently played a game for the Sundsvall Dragons in Sweden after completing a temporary contract with Torpat Pojat in Finland, once it was clear he would not make a return to the NBA after an ill-fated final season with his original team in '03-'04. He began his career as a backup to Brad Sellers on the team that, shortly after the draft, traded their pick Olden Polynice for him. In 1994, his questionable foul on Hubert Davis led to that team's loss to the Knicks in a playoff series that also saw him refuse to participate in a last-second play planned for Toni Kukoc due to a claimed migraine. Later a Houston Rocket for a season, this product of Central Arkansas then played for four years in Portland. For ten points, name this forward who won 6 titles with the Bulls alongside Michael Jordan.
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He recorded an album whose song "Petits Machins (Little Stuff)" precedes the title track, Filles de Kilimanjaro, a year before another album whose title track, composed by Joe Zawinul, follows the song "Shhh/Peaceful." In addition to 1969's In a Silent Way, he recorded an album that included tracks such as "The Pan Piper" and "Song of Our Country," as well as his interpretation of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. That album featured the efforts of frequent collaborator Gil Evans and was entitled Sketches of Spain, and his most famous album features the tracks "Freddie Freeloader" and "So What." FTP, identify this jazz trumpeter who released Kind of Blue.
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He sings "I like tits for lunch, a big tits attack / I like tits for breakfast, eggs benedict" in a track from his 1983 album You Bought It, You Name It. His debut solo album was 1972s Barnstorm, and other solo tracks include "Turn to Stone" and "A Life of Illusion." His first experience in a group came with Dale Peters and Jim Fox in the James Gang. On his fifth album But Seriously Folks, he sings "I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door" on the track "Life's Been Good." FTP, name this classic rocker who had a wacky run for President in 1980, sang about the "Rocky Mountain Way," and continues to be the lead guitarist for the Eagles.
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He was born in Scotland, the son of a Glasgow miner, and as a youth he earned money selling shoes and selling firewood. In 1879, he left Scotland and moved to the United States, where his uncle was a riverboat captain on the Mississippi. In 1882 he staked out a claim and mined copper in Montana; the mine boomed. That combined with his stock in RCA gave him 3 cubic acres of money by the late 1940s. In 1910 he moved to the city of Duckberg and constantly battled the Beagle Boys for his fortune. FTP, name this Disney comic book character whose fortune is estimated at 91 multiplijillion, 9 obsquatumatillian, 632 dollars and 62 cents.
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He was sometimes called "The Great Stone Face" for his blank countenance and apparent stoicism against frustration. His first feature-length film was inauspiciously called The Saphead, but he made up for it with movies entitled The Cameraman, The Navigator, and Sherlock Jr. FTP, identify this early American actor, director and screenwriter, the creator of the silent masterpiece The General.
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He worked as a script doctor on Les Visiteurs du soir and Return of the Pilot and started his directorial career with a series of short documentaries, including an analysis of rayon production. One of his films shows an Italian cigarette smuggler, an Englishman who tries to become a media star after finding a woman's body, and a French student killed for money in three parallel murder narratives. He directed a film about a detective named Carloni who has to investigate a young wife named Paola in 1950's Story of a Love Affair. Perhaps his most notable film is based on Las babas del diablo by Julio Cortázar, and shows a photographer named Thomas finding something mysterious in a picture of Vanessa Redgrave's Jane. FTP, name this Italian director of The Mystery of Oberwald, Zabriskie Point, Eclipse, and Blow-Up.
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Her 2001 album Wanderland wasn't released in the US, while her 1999 solo debut Kaleidoscope featured the feminist anger of "Caught Out There." She sang the chorus on the Wu Tang hit "Gravel Pit," but she first came to many people's attention through her performance on "Got Your Money" by Ol' Dirty Bastard. That record was also produced by the Neptunes, who included her newest and now most famous song on their album, The Neptunes Present...Clones. FTP, name this Harlem-born singer, the girlfriend of Nas, whose album Tasty features a refrain about bringing all the boys to the yard: "Milkshake."
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Her flight "from ruin" out of Beleriand is wrapped in mystery. She was the last offspring of Ungoliant, a creature who had helped the evil Melkor in the destruction of the Two Trees of Valinor. Her own offspring are spread from "Ephel Duath to the Eastern hills, to Dol Guldur, and the fastnesses of Mirkwood", and it was the last of these that Bilbo encountered in The Hobbit. Often referred to as "Her Ladyship" by the orcs, FTP, what is this monstrous being dwelling under Cirith Ungol whose name literally means "she-spider".
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Her most major stage success was a Tony Award for playing Vera Charles in 1966's Mame, although her most remembered Broadway appearance is probably premiering the role of Yente in the original Fiddler on the Roof. This actress is the only woman specifically mentioned in the 1992 Beastie Boys ode to hot older women, "Boomin' Granny." In the 1970's, she appeared in several episodes of All in the Family as Edith's liberal feminist cousin, a character which eventually got an eponymous spinoff sitcom of her own from 1972 to 1978. More recently, she appeared as the Amazon "Femputer" on an episode of Futurama, and had a 2000 cameo on a sitcom as an elderly babysitter who is taken away in an ambulance after singing the Abba song "Fernando." In a scene from her most famous role, she unwittingly yells "Condoms, Rose, CONDOMS!" inside a crowded drugstore. For 10 points, name this actress who is best known for her role as Dorothy Zbornak, in which she starred alongside Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty on the sitcom The Golden Girls.
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Her perfumes include Chaos and Cashmere Mist, and stores bear her name as far away as Nagasaki. After working as a model and then an intern for Liz Clairborne, she was eventually hired as associate designer by Anne Klein, and along with Louis Dell'Olio took over when Klein passed away. She broke away and started her signature collection in 1984, but it was her youth-oriented line that focused on a decidedly New York look that catapulted her to the top. FTP identify this fashion designer who changed her original last name Faske, but kept her first name of Donna.
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Hewrote the antiwar song "Handsome Johnny" which Richie Havens performed at Woodstock. While still in high school he won the Donaldson Award as Broadway's most promising newcomer for a supporting role in A Raisin in the Sun. His films include The Landlord, Travels With My Aunt, The Skin Game, Firewalker, Enemy Mine, and Iron Eagle. FTP name this man, winner of the 1982 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman.
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His Harvard thesis was "Literary Progeria in the Works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor." He appeared as Jonathon Silverman's rival Cameron Duncan on "The Single Guy" and as Sean the Doorman in the Five-Time Host Club sketch on Saturday Night Live, where he worked as a writer for two years. He went on to write such classic episodes as "Homer Goes to College" and "Marge Versus the Monorail" as a writer on "The Simpsons", but is now better known for a show featuring characters like Preparation H Raymond, the Masturbating Bear, and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. FTP, who is this host of NBC's Late Night?
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His most recent release is the bilingual opera Ca Ira, his longtime pet project backed by Francois Mitterand, and other recent efforts include the singles "Each Small Candle" and "To Kill the Child" and a concert in support of fox hunting. His older solo work includes the albums Radio K.A.O.S. and an album featuring the songs "Go Fishing" and "The Sexual Revolution", The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking. Work with his most famous band includes a tribute to his father who died at Anzio, "When the Tigers Broke Free", which appears on The Final Cut. FTP, name this man who wrote much of Animals and The Wall, a bassist, guitarist, and singer for Pink Floyd.
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His son Ravi has produced such albums as Moving Pictures and From the Round Box. The final studio album produced by his best-known group was 1965's Sun Ship, which appeared in the same year as the widely-derided Om and Kulu Se Mama. "Number One" and "To Be" appear on Expression, which was made from his final recording sessions prior to his death in 1967. Better known are such tracks as "Naima" and "Countdown," which appear on his 1959 Giant Steps. FTP, name this tenor saxophonist whose other albums include My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme.
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His transformation occurred when he deserted while under fire in Korea. Initially he was believed to buried alive in the temple of Cyttorak, a deity whose ruby granted this figure his powers. However, he resurfaced with his constant crony Black Tom, and it is discovered that his only weak spot is his mind, which is protected by a psionic helmet. FTP, identify this man born Cain Marko, the half-brother of Charles Xavier, and an enemy of the X-Men named for being an unstoppable force.
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Hoagy Carmichael plays Uncle Butch, who will let his nephew Homer Parrish have a beer but not whiskey at his bar. Banker Al Stephenson finds his daughter has grown up. Fred Derry discovers that he doesn't love the wife he had only known for a few weeks and hates his job. Homer Parrish is played by Harold Russell, who really had lost his hands in a wartime training accident. Russell is joined by Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Frederic March in -- for 10 points -- what Best Picture winner of 1946 that details the travails of three returning World War II vets.
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In 1933 she married arms manufacturer Fritz Mandl, and she would later use her observations of his work to develop her own design for "frequency hopping" technology, now used in cellular phones. She is better known as an actress, making her American debut in Lady in the Tropics. Later films included Algiers, White Cargo, and The Female Animal, though she turned down the leads in Gaslight and Casablanca during the same period. Born Hedwig Kiesler, FTP, name this actress who might be best remembered for a nude scene in 1932's Ecstasy and her lead role in Cecil DeMille's Samson and Delilah.
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In 1975, Johnny Rivers scored a Top 40 hit by covering this song. The initial version released on the album "Today" featured harmonicas, playful production, and odd vocal crossfading. Re-recorded as a single from the 1965 album "Summer Days (and Summer Nights)", Brian Wilson shaved off 22 seconds, included falsettos, added a guitar solo, and darkened lyrics so that ruined plans became "shattered." The more rocking approach yielded the Beach Boys their second #1 hit. FTP, identify this song in which Al Jardine, taking a rare lead vocal, pleaded with the title character to assist him on the rebound from another girl.
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In 1986, he was featured in a role associated with his current job, alongside Jerry Orbach in The Imagemaker. In 1999, he enjoyed a brief foray into archaeology when the network commissioned him to host the live, two-hour television special Opening the Lost Tombs: Live in Egypt. This former host of FOX's A Current Affair returned to a fixed primetime slot on NBC as host of the new Twenty One, and in 2006 MSNBC brought him on to host a weekend show with his wife. FTP, name this husband of Connie Chung, best known as a daytime mogul who might inform a given male guest that he is NOT the father.
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In 1995, facing Jim Poole, David Justice homered for the only run in this numerical game after claiming "you would have to do something great to get [Atlanta fans] out of their seats." Kirby Puckett blasted an 11th-inning walk-off home run off Charlie Leibrandt in one played in 1991. Dusty Baker gave Russ Ortiz the game ball, only to see the bullpen blow a 5-0 seventh-inning lead in 2002. Don Denkinger erroneously called Jorge Orta safe at first in one played in 1985, and in 1956, Brooklyn's Clem Labine pitched a 10-inning shutout. The Marlins clinched the 2003 title over the Yankees in this game, but the most iconic moments in this setting are Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning barely-fair home run and Mookie Wilson's grounder causing a first baseman's only postseason error. FTP, identify this game of the World Series, immortalized by Bill Buckner's blunder in 1986.
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In 1998, a sequel to this film was released direct-to-video. The new film is set in Thorn Valley and features Timmy, whose voice is provided by Ralph Macchio. It also features Dom DeLuise in a reprise of his role from the original as Jeremy, the talking crow. FTP, identify this 1982 film, which featured the voices of the young Wil Wheaton and Shannon Doherty, an animated movie about the Brisby family, a group of mice who move their house to the lee of the stone with the help of some superintelligent rodents.
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In 2001, this man fought three consecutive times with John Ruiz, earning one win, one loss, and one draw. The Atlanta mansion of this boxer was foreclosed upon in June 2008 despite the fact that, as recently as 2003, he was paid five million dollars to lose to James Toney. After his first attempt at a title unification fight in 1999 ended in a draw at Madison Square Garden, he lost the rematch eight months later, handing all his belts to Lennox Lewis. He had earlier defeated such reigning champions as Buster Douglas, Riddick Bowe, and Michael Moorer, though he may be best known for his eleven children or for a 1997 bout which referee Mills Lane awarded him on TKO. For 10 points, name this boxer who won his second consecutive fight with Mike Tyson after Tyson bit off part of his ear.
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In 2006, he will star alongside several Saturday Night live alums as Karl in The Benchwarmers. After graduating from Boston College in 1988, he was selected in the third round of the NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers. He later passed through Philadelphia and played as a linebacker on two Super Bowl-winning Denver teams. The attitude behind his declaration "if it wasn't on the list, I was going to take it" led to his wife Julie being charged with illegally obtaining phentermine for him, and his rampant and obvious steroid use probably triggered his confrontation with Marcus Williams. FTP, name this fomer Raider who was recently ordered to pay for causing eye and brain injuries by punching Williams during practice.
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In 2009, physician-blogger Rany Jazayerli was denied media access by this team after criticizing its head athletic trainer, Nick Swartz. A questionable call by umpire Don Denkinger led to this club's only World Series victory. The mythology of The Dugout suggests that a former utility infielder for this team, Bill Pecota, is engaged in an epic struggle with its owner David Glass. One former player on this team was the subject of the 1983 Pine Tar Incident. It spent most of the late 90s losing after trading away Jermaine Dye and Johnny Damon. For 10 points, identify this former team of Mike Sweeney, George Brett, and Bo Jackson, which now features pitchers Gil Meche and Zack Greinke plays home games in Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.
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In August 2005 his family reached a settlement with Anheuser Busch regarding the cancellation of a distributorship contract. After playing the 1957 season with the Cleveland Indians, he was traded to the Kansas City Athletics, and moved again in a 1959 seven-player deal. He was MVP the following year, and one year later sportswriter Dick Young suggested to Ford Frick that his defining achievement be marked with an asterisk. FTP, name this man who broke Babe Ruth's home run record in 1961.
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In Bump Heads, 50 Cent tells Irv that he ain't this person, while in "My Bitch," The Game calls this man the "devil in the red dress" and compares him to a woman who marries without a prenuptual agreement. In the book Married to the Game, Lydia Harris accused this man of scamming her out of hundreds of millions of dollars. A man claiming to be the business manager of Akon was arrested for severely beating this man during a 2009 NBA All-Star Game party. One story tells of this man dangling Vanilla Ice by the ankles from a twentieth story window, and he offered to post bail for Tupac if Tupac would sign with him, as had Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. For 10 points, name this founder of Death Row Records.
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In Europe, the most prestigious competition in this sport is the Lugano Trophy, held biannually since 1961. First included in the Olympic Games in 1908, the IAAF defines legal movement as performed so that at least one foot is touching the ground at all times. When a foot is on the ground, that leg must be straightened. FTP, in what sport does the Olympics award medals for distances ranging from 3 to 50 kilometers, a sport in which even the most unathletic of College Bowlers could probably compete by the age of two?
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In a 1985 play by this author, we learn how one of the titular women came to admire Nazism, while a 1978 play shows us a day in the life of a married couple who loathe each other. In addition to Aunt Dan and Lemon and Marie and Bruce, he has written a play in which a male actor is called upon to have three orgasms in the same scene, rendering A Thought in Three Parts difficult to produce. Jack withdraws from a society that is turning to a police state in The Designated Mourner, while a 1980 work by this man consists entirely of a conversation with a director. FTP, name this author of My Dinner with André, better known for such acting roles as Rex in Toy Story and Vizzini in The Princess Bride.
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In a parody of one song by this artist, Weird Al sings that he will pull someone's insides out to “see what he ate†and claims to have “your kidneys†on his mind. This singer notes that she is “in trouble deep†in the chorus of her song “Papa Don't Preach.†This artist described “dancing…like a dream, no end and no beginning†on her song “Like a Prayer.†She claimed that she “made it through the wilderness†in a song in which she compares herself to the title figure, “touched for the very first time.†For 10 points, name this pop star who sang “Like a Virgin.â€
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In a song about them by Pavement, Stephen Malkmus mentions that his least favorite song from the second album by this group was "Time After Time." They named a 1986 album after a line in a Pink Panther movie. Their debut E.P., Chronic Town, contains "Sitting Still" and "Shaking Through." Dead Letter Office is a collection of B-sides and outtakes, largely from recordings they made for I.R.S. records. More famously, they have recorded albums with one-word titles such as Up, Reckoning, Monster and Green. FTP, name this band known for such songs as "The One I Love," "Shiny Happy People," and "Losing My Religion," a group fronted by Michael Stipe.
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In addition to his fifteen Grammy awards, this artist also received an Academy Award in 1993 for his song for the movie Philadelphia. His most recent Grammy came in 2006 for his folk album covering Bob Seeger, while he won three more for his 2002 album about September 11th titled The Rising. Famous earlier albums include Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. as well as those which include songs about "a brother at Khe Sanh [who's]... all gone", "riding out tonight to case the promised land", and "start[ing] a fire without a spark." Frequently touring with the E Street Band, this is, FTP, which New Jersey-born singer of the albums Born in the U. S. A. and Born to Run?
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In chapter 20 of this work, a night raid led by Oleg surprises the protagonists, who are resting in the port town of Badon after having returned from the Dread Isle. One character, a noble of Pherae, is depressed due to the death of his father Elbert in the previous chapter. However, he is cheered up by Ninian, whom he later kills when he promotes into a Knight Lord and receives a blade once wielded by Roland, Durandal, in chapter 27. These events are seen through the eyes of a wandering tactician who meets Lyndis in the first chapter of this game that takes place on the continent Elibe. For 10 points, name this strategy RPG that stars Eliwood, the seventh installment of a series by Intelligent Systems whose other installments include characters such as Marth and Ike.
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In cricket, bowlers from this nation include Jacques Kallis and Hansie Cronje. At one World Cup, this nation's rugby team won against another including Jonah Lomu in the finals and was led by Francios Pienaar. One runner from this nation won the 800 meters at the 2009 World Championships, and was accused of being not entirely female. Siphiwe Tshabalala scored a goal for this nation against Mexico this year in a group which also included Uruguay and France. For 10 points, name this home of Caster Semenya and Ernie Els whose vuvuzelas buzzed throughout its hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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In current television continuity, he escaped from Mortu's prison ship and brought an expedition of Utroms to twelfth-century Japan, where he forged the Sword of Tengu and eventually founded the TCRI corporation. On the big screen, his lieutenant was Tatsu, and this character played by James Saito fell off a roof into the compacting bay of a garbage truck after his scheme to recruit troubled teenagers into an army of petty thieves was disrupted. In animation, his mother Miyoko is defeated by General Yogure, while this man, also known as Oroku Saki, harbors a decades-old resentment for Hamato Yoshi. His sometime henchmen include Leatherhead, Napoleon Bonafrog, Baxter Stockmann, Rocksteady, and Bebop, and he conspires with the forces of Dimension X at the Technodrome. FTP, name this leader of the Foot Clan and ally of Krang who schemes against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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In high school home games in 1992, he was announced as "the nation's number one player on the nation's number one team." As a minor leaguer in 1993, he was in a commercial with George Brett. He led the American League in 2000 in runs scored and steals, but was traded west the next year. A widespread rumor claiming that he'd failed a steroids test in 2005 was found to be false, though he did play for Oakland after being traded from Kansas City. He helped defeat the team he recently joined by hitting a grand slam in Game Seven of the 2004 ALCS while the Red Sox center fielder and leadoff man. FTP, name this former leader of "The Idiots" nicknamed "Captain Caveman," who joined the Yankees in 2005.
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In his final year in 1990 he played in only 43 games and batted a miserable .200. After breaking into the majors with St. Louis in 1974, four years later he began a streak of eleven gold gloves at the same position. He won the two World Series he played in, in 1982 and 1986, and tied for first in the NL MVP race in 1979 with Willie Stargell. FTP, name this longtime first baseman for the Cardinals and the New York Mets who famously guest starred on Seinfeld.
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In one Friends episode, Monica has a bathroom mishap while singing this song whose royalties support the soup kitchen alluded to in its lyrics. Though a live version is now most often played, the original, with background vocals by the I-Threes, was featured on the Natty Dread album. After a long night, the artist recalls cooking cornmeal porridge by "fire light." He mentions the Yoruban goddess Oba, observes the hypocrites as they "mingle with the good people we meet...the good friends we've lost" and notes "in this great future, you can't forget your past." Taking its title from a Jamaican manner of consoling, this is, FTP, what Bob Marley song whose female object, after being assured that "Everything's gonna be all right!" is urged "little darlin', don't shed no tears?"
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In one episode from this past season, Mrs. Grubman fails to disclose her use of anti-depressants, which results in her having a stroke. Others featured a woman claiming to have the stigmata, Siamese twins joined at the head, and a serial rapist known as "The Carver." It features John Hensley as Matt and Joely Richardson as Julia, the son and wife, respectively, of one of the main characters. That character is Sean McNamara, who is played by Dylan Walsh and is in business with Christian Troy, played by Julian McMahon. FTP, name this drama seen on F/X and featuring two Miami plastic surgeons.
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In one episode he announces that "a business it is" regarding television, immediately before a cut to commercials. He is impressed with a bowling alley while attempting to by a home from Red Blazer Realty, though he admits that he does not enjoy bowling. He laments that his lover, Barbara, will on longer pleasure him with the French Arts. At one point he is sent down a slide into rancid caviar and is forced to conduct an orchestra of kazoo playing monkeys. He also advises not to attempt to dig gum out of one's hair with a bone, as that only makes things worse. For 10 points, name this successor to Robert Underdunk Terwilliger as the victim of Krusty the Clown's hijinks, born Melvin von Horne.
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In one episode he helped a child who had to appear as asparagus in a school play, while the only two-part episode in the first season, "Try to Remember," featured his struggles with amnesia. In the second season he dreamed that he visited Gilligan's Island and joined a monastery upon learning that his parents were married before he was born. Born on October 28, 1756, he had a girlfriend named Rhonda, though he met his better-known associates after replying to a ham radio signal, after which he fell in with a social worker and his family. He ended up living next door to the Ochmoneks after nuclear war destroyed his home planet, Melmac. FTP, name this title character of a 1980s sitcom, whose real name was Gordon Shumway and who enjoyed eating cats.
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In one episode of this show, Dorothy, the mother of the main character, got married on the anniversary of her former husband's suicide. One storyline focused on the death of a cheerleader, which was covered by Willa, while another centered on the sexual exploits and blackmailing of Prince Tyrese, played by former Laker Rick Fox. After Kira Klay killed herself, Holt flipped his car and injured Julia, who turned to drugs while he became a big action star. FTP name this TV show featuring the schizophrenic photographer Don and Lucy Spiller, a program on FX in which the central magazine editor is played by Courtney Cox.
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In one episode of this show, Mothmonsterman drives the Bus of the Undead. Two characters from this show are pixellated green and purple creatures named, Ignignokt and Err, the Mooninites. A guerrilla campaign in Boston for a movie based on this show consisted of LCD displays, which were confused for bombs. Other reccurring characters in this include Dr. Weird and the title group's bald neighbor, Carl Brutananadilewski. For 10 points, name this Adult Swim show whose title characters are the anthropomorphic Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake.
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In one episode of this show, a man obnoxiously sings "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and claims he was persecuted for stealing Girl Scout cookies. In another episode from this past season, a boy known as LJ was kidnapped by a woman with the unlikely name of Susan B. Anthony. Its current storyline involves the search for five million dollars originally stolen by D.B. Cooper, and its pilot showed agents Hale and Kellerman attempting to shepherd the execution of a man convicted of killing the Vice President's brother. For 10 points, name this FOX show which started with Michael Scofield's plan to get Lincoln Burrows out of Fox River State Penitentiary.
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In one episode of this show, the main character saw a murder happening in the kitchen of a restaurant but no one believed him when he saw the "murder" victim throw away garbage at the train station a while after the murder. The Pilot episode featured the main character solving an assassination attempt on the mayoral candidate. Another episode showed Natalie Teeger solve a case when the main character was down with flu. A January 2008 episode guest-starred Howie Mendel as the leader of a cult, and the season finale showed the main character apparently shoot Leland Stottlemeyer before running away. Dr. Stanley Kroeger and Lt. Randy Disher are other characters on, for 10 points, what USA show that features actor Tony Shalhoub as the titular OCD-afflicted homicide detective?
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In one episode of this show, two characters quit their jobs to follow their dreams of becoming an actress and a veterinarian, but end up becoming addicted to crack in order to qualify for welfare. One character, an illiterate pauper, is hopelessly in love with a barista who won't give him the time of day. That character, Charlie, played by the show's producer, Charlie Day, turns out to be the illegitimate son of the wealthy Frank Reynolds. For 10 points, name this show, which just ended its third season on FX, in which the dysfunctional losers Charlie, Dennis, Mac, and Diandra interact with Frank, played by Danny DeVito, and run Paddy's Pub in an east-coast city.
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In one episode, a character debates whether he slept with Bobbi Bernstein at a hotel in Spain and fears that something bad will happen, like in the Three Dog Night song "Eli's Coming." In the last episode, Calvin Trager, the owner of Quo Vadimus, buys out Continental Corp and utters a line about getting out of the money-making business, a clear jab at the unjust cancellation of this show. Dana rushes back and informs the gang, after which Jeremy and Natalie go about their business. Briefly re-aired on Comedy Central, it was called the "best sitcom of the '90s" by two of its stars, Peter Krause and Felicity Huffman. FTP, name this Aaron Sorkin show on ABC about a TV program devoted to athletics.
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In one episode, this character stands in front of an airplane driven by an astronaut, who had murdered his ex while in space. He accidentally gets the police to raid the slumber party of his assistant's daughter Julie. In the last episode, this man's co-worker Randy Disher marries his ex-assistant Sharona, and he meets Molly, the daughter of his murdered wife, Trudy. Both Randy and this character work under Captain Leland Stottlemeyer, and he his helped by Natalie Teeger. For 10 points, name this title character on a USA show who works with the San Francisco Police Department, an obsessive-compulsive detective played by Tony Shalhoub.
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In one episode, this character was called "the Doctor" and his scheme to sell some dangerous eggs went awry when he forgot to keep them refrigerated. In another episode, he went to Los Angeles to retrieve a powerful ring that had been taken from him, but it ended up in the hands of a torturer he had hired to ascertain its location. He killed a number of people due to brainwashing triggered by the song "Early One Morning," but it was defused after he fought Robin Wood. He slept with Anya after she was left at the altar by Xander, and died while using a powerful amulet that enabled him to save the world in the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. FTP, name this peroxided character played by James Marsters.
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In one game in this franchise, beings from the alien Planet FM can allow humans to operate in the Electromagnetic Wave World set up by the satellites Pegasus, Leo, and Dragon. In another game in this franchise, a player receives the Homing Torpedo by defeating a boss named Launch Octopus after being discovered by Dr. Cain. The message “CONGARTULATIONS†is displayed after beating a 1994 soccer game that uses characters from this franchise. In the original game, Dr. Thomas Light creates the title character to defeat the robot armies of Dr. Wily. For 10 points, name this Capcom series that has had incarnations named Star Force, Legend, and X.
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In one hilariously racist appearance, this character laments "he thinks he's speared a lion...he wants me to praise him" when his radio is impaled by an African named Thursday, whom he discovered in a crate of imported bananas. After riding a rhea to the Cantina Argentina, this character once drunkenly leered at a showgirl whom he had mouth-raped in an earlier appearance after failing to coerce her into making out with him by performing dangerous maneuvers; that love interest is saved by expandable granny panties when she risks suicide to escape this character's assaults, leaping out of a shoddily-constructed biplane this figure builds as a tribute to Lindbergh. More famously, this protagonist of The Gallopin' Gaucho and Plane Crazy drowns a parrot who ridicules him after abusing a series of animals to perform "Turkey in the Straw," earning the ire of Captain Pete. For 10 points, name this star of Steamboat Willie who, when not beating Jonas Brothers or abusing his girlfriend Minnie, serves as the rodent mascot for the Walt Disney Company.
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In one installment, we learn that T. J. pushed his paralyzed friend Jonathan off a bridge to end his suffering. In another installment, Kenny Weckerley smothers to death in the vents of a drug rehabilitation center. The first of those installmetnts featured Pauly Shore and Brad Pitt, while the latter featured Christina Applegate. After the pilot, Jeff Yagher was replaced in the lead role, while halfway through the first season Frederic Forrest was replaced by an actor who would go on to appear as the mysterious Mr. X on The X Files, Steven Williams. Judy Hoffs was played by an actress who would later marry Rodney Peete, while Harry Truman Ioki was played by Dustin Nguyen. More memorably, it starred two sons of Dom DeLuise, as well as the brooding Richard Grieco. FTP, name this TV series which first appeared in 1987, which dealt with a special police squadron that investigated youth crime and which starred a young Johnny Depp.
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In one instance, this character's boss is glad to have him back from vacation because a mint-pilfering temp “just wasn't working out at all.†In response to this character putting up ringtones on his company's website, his boss switches to a ringtone that begins “a-ring-itty-ding-ding-dong-doo,†and that boss's idea of a bang-up slogan is “They're the Bees' Knees.†This character panics when his boss suggests conducting a trust exercise in which the boss falls and this character catches him. This character sheepishly questions “fancy a crisp?†after accidentally spending his boss's first-earned dollar. For 10 points, name this green spokesman who wants you to save money on car insurance.
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In one of his stranger appearances, he conspired with Dr. Winkler, a corrupt optometrist who used a modified Snellen chart to hypnotize patients into becoming thieves. As part of an attempt to kill Black Tarantula, this man was given additional powers by The Rose, which required his traditional adversary to enlist the help of X-Man in order to contain him. More recently responsible for freeing the inmates of the prison known as The Raft, this character was previously captured in the opening of the Amazing Spider-Man issue in which Spider-Man married Mary Jane. Defeated in his first appearance by being sprayed with a hose, this villain, whose original name was Max Dillon, wears a star-shaped yellow mask on top of a green and yellow costume. For ten points, name this foe who can shoot energy from his fingers and control most advanced technological devices due to being struck by lightning.
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In one of the many dark scenes in this movie, Rahad Jackson shoots Todd Parker after Todd tries to rob him. Buck and Jessie have a hard time getting a loan to open a stereo shop, and Amber, really Maggie, has a hard time getting visitation rights for her son. Scotty pretends that being drunk made him kiss the main character, and Little Bill, played by William H. Macy, kills his wife, then himself after he gets fed up with her screwing around. FTP name this 1998 movie about Jack Horner, a Golden Globe-winning performance by Burt Reynolds as a producer of porno films starring the likes of Heather Graham's Rollergirl and Mark Wahlberg's Dirk Diggler.
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In one part of this game, typing a code reveals that stress can make one thinner or fatter. The player can earn a "Stylish Kill" for destroying the Skybridge Hera, and receives a prize if all twelve G. F. demolition troopers survive. In order to explore the G. F. S. Valhalla and obtain a code used on a Leviathan battleship, the player must collect nine Energy Cells. Bosses include the cybernetic Ghor, the shape-shifting femme fatale Gandrayda, and the pterodactyl-like Omega Ridley, against whom the player can enter Hypermode by injecting the mutagen Phazon. For 10 points, name this 2007 Nintendo Wii game, the final in a trilogy featuring female bounty hunter Samus Aran.
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In one role, this actress plays a character who falls in love with army officer Gian Singh, and in another role she plays the lead in Kaare Andrews' version of Sleeping Beauty. In addition to those roles in Partition and Dream Princess, she played Laurel, a student at McKinley High School, in the teen drama Edgemont. Her most recent role sees her battling characters played by Taboo and Michael Clark Duncan, while she stars opposite Tom Welling in a series that has seen her character marry Michael Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor. FTP, name this Canadian actress who portrays the title character in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and Lana Lang on Smallville.
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In one song by a band of this name, the singer states that he "had to !erk off the dog just to feed the godd@mned cat." The best-known song by that band is "Texas Funeral", which appeared in From Dusk till Dawn. A film directed by Demetrios Estdelanecropolis tells of a young girl, Shirley Pimple, who battles against a "Temple of Doom" named for another person by this name. This man's ghost appears to advise the title character in the Garth Ennis comic Preacher, and he lent his name to a can opener and became an early spokesman for the American Cancer Society after having a lung removed. That actor is also cited among the casualties of suspected radiation poisoning tied to his role as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. For 10 points, identify this portrayer of Hondo Lane, McClintock, and Rooster Cogburn, an icon of American Westerns.
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In one song by this band, a woman is described as having "perfect breasts that bounce" on the titular piece of furninture. That song, "Italian Leather Sofa," is found on an album which also includes perhaps the only song about the CMB, a track that begins with the lines "We know of an ancient radiation/ that haunts dismembered constellations." This band claimed that "if you want to have cities, you have got to build roads," in a song titled "Comanche" from their first album, Motorcade of Generosity and offered a critique of the music business in "You Turn the Screws," which can be found on Prolonging the Magic. "The wacky morning DJ says democracy's a joke" in the title track from 2001's Comfort Eagle, which was followed in 2004 by the mediocre Pressure Chief. For ten points, identify this band whose album Fashion Nugget includes a cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive," and which is perhaps best known for their song about a racecar driver, "The Distance."
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In one song by this band, the singer notes that "Sometimes I'm a travel man/but tonight this engine's failing." That song, which features Lou Reed, is called "Tranquilize" and appeared on their album Sawdust. Their Christmas singles have included "A Great Big Sled" and "Don't Shoot Me Santa." They recently released the album Day & Age, which features "Neon Tiger", "Spaceman", and a song that asks whether "we" are "dancer" or the title figure, "Human". The two singles from their second album, Sam's Town, were "Bones" and "When You Were Young." For 10 points, identify this Las Vegas-based band whose first album Hot Fuss contained such songs as "Somebody Told Me" and "Mr. Brightside."
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In one song this band sings about a “honey kind of girl†addressed as “Hannah baby,†who “got a mind of her own and she use it well.†Another of their songs claims “what a drag it is getting old†and extols the virtues of a “little yellow pill.â€Â In addition to “Memory Motel†and “Mother's Little Helper,†they sang about a girl who “taste so goodâ€, “just like a black girl should†and about another figure “born in a cross-fire hurricane†who thinks it's a “gas, gas, gas.â€Â In one song, their singer says “I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes, I have to turn my head until my darkness goes,†and another opens with “Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste.â€Â For 10 points, name this band whose songs include “Brown Sugar,†“Jumpin' Jack Flash,†“Paint It, Black,†“Sympathy for the Devil,†and “Satisfaction.â€
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In one song, this artist states that "I'm a hazard to myself" and "I wanna be somebody else." In another from the same album, she says that she "can't stay on your life support" or "your morphine," and that "you keep making me ill." Those songs, "Don't Let Me Get Me" and "Just Like a Pill," are from the album Missundaztood, as is one that proclaims "I'm coming out," "Get the Party Started." In a more recent song, she repeats "I wanna start a fight" and multiple repetitions of "Na na na na na na na." For 10 points, name this singer whose stage name no longer reflects her hair color, most recently behind songs like "Please Don't Leave Me," "Sober," and "So What."
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In one song, this band notes that “life has its problems, and I get my share†before claiming “I'm just a soul whose intentions are good.†Another of their songs is set “in this dirty old part of the city, when the sun refuse to shine†and advocates the title action “if it's the last thing we ever do.†In addition to “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood†and “We Gotta Get Out of this Place,†this group advised mothers to “tell your children not to do what I have done†in a song about an institution that's “been the ruin of many a poor boy.†For 10 points, name this Eric Burdon fronted British invasion group that sang “there is a house in New Orleans†in “The House of the Rising Sun.â€
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In one song, this band's singer describes "walkin' through some youth, smilin' through some pain" before repeating the title message. That song, "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)", can be found on the second of their Music to Crash Your Car To compilations. One song by this group notes that "in seasons of wither / we'll stand and deliver" before advocating that the listener "Be strong, laugh, and" perform the title action. The title figure of another of their songs is said to be both "the one that makes you feel all right" and "your Frankenstein", while in an earlier song, they praised the "red lips, fingertips" of the title figures, who are "dancin' down on the Sunset Strip". For 10 points, identify this band which released the songs "Shout at the Devil", "Dr. Feelgood", "Saints of Los Angeles", and "Girls Girls Girls", founded by Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee.
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In the XS-Form, XO-Form, A-Form and M-Form of this ISA's opcodes, the highest bit is considered the record (pron. ree-cord) bit, which specifies whether to set the condition register. It was first prototyped in the 801 chip, although the 604e would later prove to popularize it for IBM. Its first version required an emulator to run the native 68K code that had not been rewritten for it. Motorola eventually added a vector processor to it, named VMX by IBM, the AltiVec by Motorola itself, and the Velocity Engine by Apple. For ten points, name this RISC-based CPU architecture used by the G3, G4, and G5 Macintosh computers.
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In the case of State vs. De Koenigswarer, it was ruled that the Delaware police had unlawfully detained this musician. He was thought to have played in Jerry Newman's recordings from New York's Minton's Playhouse, where he frequented cutting competitions. His contract with Prestige Records resulted in recordings with Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey such as "We See" and "Bensha Swing." His first recordings were with the Coleman Hawkins quartet, while his works with Blue Note were collected on Genius of Modern Music. He worked with Miles Davis on Bags' Groove, and he led a quartet including John Coltrane that performed at the Five Spot Cafe. FTP, name this composer and jazz pianist known for bebop works like "Round Midnight."
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In the penultimate scene of this music video, the singer leads a zebra towards her significant other. In one scene, the singer reminisces about former days when she and her partner were inseparable. After her lover is confronted by bridesmaids sporting baseball bats, she compares their relationship to a rollercoaster ride. The singer also begs for someone to call a doctor to help with a case of "love bipolar" because her partner changes his mind like a girl changes clothes. The chorus to this song features a list of opposites such as up and down, wrong and right, and also the two which give this song its title. For ten points, name this song by Katy Perry that describes her partner as having the title qualities which are thermal opposites.
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In this film a young woman arrives in the big city looking to be star and falls a musician who is troubled by the abuse of his mother and by friction in his band. About to be fired from First Avenue, his band's venue, things come to a head when his father attempts suicide, and in his grief The Kid finally uses the music his bandmates has written to come up with a song that secures his spot in the light and wins back the girl. Such is the plot of, FTP, what 1984 film whose real draw is the music performed by The Time, and the Revolution, which stars Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, and, of course, Prince.
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In this game, you can go to Oasis to burn down a tree called Herbert, which overtook the body of Harold. This game sees Zimmer search for the lifelike robot A3-21, which calls itself “Harkness.†In this game, dilemmas like Project Purity, Tenpenny Tower's exclusion of disfigured Ghouls, and the fate of the Megaton settlement can change the player's Karma. The father of this game's protagonist flees after a tutorial of VATS, a stop-motion targeting system, in Vault 101. For 10 points, name this 2008 Bethesda Softworks game, which is set in a post-nuclear DC.
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In this musical, Anita sings "A boy like that / Who'd kill your brother / Forget that boy and find another!" In Act I, a male character sings "Something's Coming" while imagining a different and better future, and in Act II, a female character sings "I Feel Pretty." Those two characters engage in a mock marriage ceremony while singing "One Hand, One Heart." Those characters, Tony and Maria, are members of opposite gangss, the Jets and the Sharks. FTP, name this musical based on Romeo and Juliet.
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In this work, an explosion in a restaurant is mostly ignored by patrons; an official on TV attributes to "beginner's luck" his inability to stop the thirteen-year campaign of which that explosion is part. In an earlier scene, a little girl remarks "Father Christmas can't come if you haven't got a chimney" shortly before her apartment is stormed by police and her father is arrested; his arrest was caused by a "bug" at the opening of this film. The protagonist's heater malfunctions at one point, but the rogue repairman Tuttle repairs it. Set in a dystopic future with a bloated bureaucracy, this film features Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry, a government employee searching for a woman who appears in his dreams. For 10 points, identify this Terry Gilliam film known for its theme song, a "Watercolor of" the title country.
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In this work, an image of a government document appearing to be surrounded by snakes as it passes over the mosaic of a Medusa head on the floor foreshadows a more dramatic mythological allusion in which images of Shiva, Buddha, and an Eskimo statue are compared with a Baroque icon of Christ to show the homogeneity of religion. It opens with the toppling of a monarch's statue in front of the Church of Christ the Savior by a mass of soldiers and peasants to depict the events of February, and uses revolutionaries' historical allusions to Napoleon to project imperial ambitions onto General Lavr Kornilov. Taking its distributor-given subtitle after a John Reed history of the proletariat overthrow of the Kerensky government, this is, FTP, what Leninist propaganda film by Sergei Eisenstein about a month with "Ten Days that Shook the World?"
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It arose out of Project Kansas, and, during its development, a shredder was employed so that no documentation was left, and a special suite of offices was rented for the advertising crew. On April 23, 1985, a press conference was held by Chariman Roberto Goizueta and President Donald Keough to announce this product, which was renamed in 1989 and still sold in some markets, despite the overwhelming negative reaction from the public. FTP, identify this product created using Merchandise 7X-100, a beverage dubbed "The Edsel of the Eighties."
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It is blamed for influencing 2Pac to to go crazy in the song "So Many Tears," and Numskull admits that it "straight had me" in the Luniz song "I Got 5 on It." In the title of a track featuring Lady of Rage, Daz Dillinger, and Kurupt, its ingestion is paired with "Puffin' on Blunts." In "Gotta Get Some Lovin'," Too $hort plans on getting an 18 year old girl to "!uck today" after he gets her drunk on a mix of Hennessy and this, while 50 Cent notes that he "don't need sh!t" such as this drink and Alizé because he stays high all the time. The titular liquor of a DJ Quik ode in which he notes that its "little green bottle got you outta ya mind," Dr. Dre comes through with a "gang" of it in the Snoop Dogg classic, "Gin and Juice." For 10 points, name this rival of Seagrams and Beefeater, a British brand of high-end gin.
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It is currently the only division in Major League Baseball, none of whose teams have to share their home ballparks with an NFL football team. As of 1997, a majority of its home parks were named after the teams that played there, a distinction that changed with minor realignment when Tropicana Stadium replaced Tiger Stadium. For 10 points, name the division whose other ballparks include Skydome, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadiums, and Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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It was eventually shown to be vulnerable to the influence of peach schnapps. It was supposed to have been used when Mike Moffett said that Jerry was a phony, while Susan's use of it was evidence that worlds were colliding. Notoriously ineffective, FTP, what was this place where secrets were kept by the characters on "Seinfeld"?
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It was the first track released off the 1979 album "Risque," and it declares that to put an end to cares and strife one should live the sporting life. But the most interesting image combines "clams on the half-shell and roller skates, roller skates." Meanwhile the chorus encourages the listener to embrace a new state of mind and to "leave your cares behind." FTP identify this dance song, whose bass line provided the beat for the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," and was a huge disco hit for Chic.
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Its credits contain a dedication to Howard Ashman, a composer and executive producer for this film who died of AIDS during production. It was the studio's second movie produced via the CAPS method, after The Rescuers Down Under. Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson played the title roles, but such big names as Angela Lansbury, playing Mrs. Potts, and Jerry Orbach, as Lumiere, stole the show in this film, where the villain uses antlers in all of his decorating and is especially good at expectorating. It continued the renaissance that began two years before with The Little Mermaid, and it was followed the next year by Aladdin. FTP, name this Disney animated feature, including the songs "Gaston" and "Be Our Guest," which tells of how Belle's love transforms the prince back to his human form.
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Its house rhythm section included pianist Earl Van Dyke, drummer Benny Benjamin, & bassist James Jamerson. Sold to MCA in 1988, this company was founded in 1960 on a borrowed $700 but by 1965 had 45 Top 20 hits. FTP, what family business of Berry Gordy employed Martha & the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, and the Supremes?
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Its protagonist sees a Waggoner oil painting, a hi-fi sound system, and a 370-year-old cross in the house of one character, but no beds. The cross belongs to a character who swam the Channel to study medicine in Europe, Carlisle. Among Carlisle's "children" are one who was freed from an asylum after she was targetted by the "tracker" James, Alice. Another son, who Carlisle treated for Spanish Influenza, describes the protagonist as his "brand of heroin". The titular time of day is the safest for that family; in sunlight, their skin glitters "like thousands of diamonds were embedded in the surface". FTP, name this first published novel of Stephanie Meyer, which ends at the Forks High School prom as Bella dances with Edward Cullen.
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Its protagonist visits his mother's grave and sees a line from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" on her tombstone. In a dream, that character derives the area of an ellipse using integration in front of the class. One of the plays written by the same character, Heaven and Hell, features several references to Apocalypse Now, but the play was not produced at the titular school because a student got his finger blown off during rehearsal. The film focuses on a poor student with many extracurriculars who falls in love with an elementary school teacher. FTP, name this film Bill Murray as Herman Blume and Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer.
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Its story began in the aftermath of a shockwave known as the Pulse. The main character needs tryptophan to stave off seizures and strives to find Sandeman, who can allegedly read the prophetic Minoan runes. A climactic final scene sees Mole and the gang battle the Phalanx army of Thula and White before they hop on a hover drone and escape to Terminal City, where they raise the flag of the Freak Nation. The protagonist works at Jam Pony as a bike messenger where she argues with her boss Normal and joins up with Logan Cale, the last free voice in Seattle, after escaping Manticore with the other transhumans, but she can't get rid of the bar code on her neck. FTP, name this TV show about Max Guevara, which made a star out of Jessica Alba.
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Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese wrote two scenes each for this film, though neither one received writing credits. Paul Schrader got credit for writing it, and Scorsese received director's credit. With a cast including Harry Dean Stanton and Barbara Hershey in two of the stranger roles of their careers, Willem Dafoe plays the title character and Harvey Keitel plays his betrayer in this story about a messiah faced with a choice of fulfilling his mission or living a normal life. FTP, what is this once-controversial 1988 movie based on a novel of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis?
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Joey Porter claimed “I didn't mean to offend anybody but [this athlete]†after calling him a “fag.†This player was briefly suspended after claiming his team treated him like a “piece of meat†while he was hospitalized with a staph infection. In 2005, this player violated his contract when he tore his ACL after riding his motorcycle over a curb in a community college parking lot. He earned a fifteen yard penalty in a 2003 loss to Tennessee after taunting an injured Corey Campbell, before declaring “I'm a !uckin' soldier!†at a press conference. This man caught his first touchdown pass from Charlie Frye. In 2009, after his trade from the Browns, he has become Josh Freeman's primary target. For 10 points, name this tight end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, whose namesake father was a Hall of Fame tight end.
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John Kundla coached this team to four NBA titles in five years with players like Jim Pollard, Vern Mikkelsen, and George Mikan. They lost to the Ralph Sampson- and Hakeem Olajuwon-led Houston Rockets in the 1986 Conference Finals. This team signed one of its star players to a 25-year, $25 million contract in 1984. This team included players like James Worthy and Byron Scott, losing the 1984 Finals to a team they would beat in 1987. For 10 points, name this NBA franchise whose "Showtime" team included Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and who often battled the Celtics in the finals, as they did in 2010 with players like Ron Artest and Kobe Bryant.
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John McMakin's efforts stopped Phil Villapiano from preventing the occurrence of this event, which was preceded by a 30-yard score by Kenny Stabler. Initially a 66 Circle Option intended for Barry Pearson, Tony Cline applied pressure on this 25-yard completion on fourth-and-10. Fred Swearingen claimed the ball had hit Oakland safety Jack Tatum, but John Fuqua insists that he'll never tell what truly happened on this play. Franco Harris's shoestring catch of a Terry Bradshaw-thrown pass, which gave the Pittsburgh Steelers the lead in a 1972 Divisional Playoff game, is known as, FTP, which football play whose name is similar to that of a Roman Catholic dogma?
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Midway through the first season of this show, one of the three central characters sacrificed his life to save a group of refugees, but not before he kissed another character, giving her his special power. Toward the end of the first season one character was tempted to become good after learning that a blind assassin was going to kill some special children, but then he decided to be evil after all and lost his hand just after bringing someone back to life. In addition to Christian Kane, who played Lindsey McDonald, it featured several actors who also appeared on the show from which it was spun off, such as Julie Benz, Alexis Denisof, and Charisma Carpenter, who played Darla, Wesley, and Cordelia. Featuring the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart, FTP, name this show in which David Boreanaz played the titular vampire with a soul.
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Mind Gardens is definitely about acid, but the band's more famous tune "Eight Miles High" had to do with a fear of airplanes, not drugs. Michael Clarke drummed, Chris Hillman played bass, Gene Clark wrote lyrics, founder Roger McGuinn played lead guitar, and David Crosby penned the music. FTP, name the bluegrass-rock fusion group that created hits like "So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star," "Hey Joe!," and "Mr. Tambourine Man."
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Minor characters include Jesse, a guitarist for the band Mystic Spiral, and as Mack, who is dating the honors student Jodie. Charles, or "Upchuck," chases girls incessantly, and is consistently rejected by Tiffany, Stacy, and Sandi, members of the Fashion Club. Jamie, Jeffey, and Joey obey every whim of the beautiful and shallow Quinn, whose perky nature provides a character foil to the artist Jane Lane, best friend of, FTP, what Lawndale High School senior, the title character of an MTV animated series?
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Mischa Barton was in the video for this artist's song "Addicted." This singer's father covered "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" with Willie Nelson. In one song, he asks "Would you dance if I asked you to dance?" One of his music videos features him riding a motorcycle and trying to reconcile with Anna Kournikova. In that song, this artist says that "You can run, you can hide." In another, he says "I can kiss away the pain" as the title upstanding individual. His more recent hits include songs featuring Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and Pitbull, "Heartbeat" and "I Like It". For 10 points, name this son of Latin artist Julio whose own hits include "Hero" and "Escape".
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Most German theaters chose this as the last film screened before a Nazi ban on Hollywood movies took effect. It was originally planned with a much longer ending that included depictions of a hometown parade, but after a test screening, these were cut in favor of a final shot of a grinning Harry Carey. The title character gets his job over Horace Miller, the favorite of Jim Taylor, and popular choice Henry Hill. He is intended to be an oblivious dupe to Taylor's graft plan, along with Senator Paine, but when those plans run afoul of a bill funding a boys camp, the protagonist protests, culminating in a filibuster and Paine's confession. FTP, name this 1939 Columbia film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claude Rains, Jean Arthur, and, as the title character, Jimmy Stewart.
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Mr. Burns informs Smithers that one of these "is going to need most of your skin" after it is injured in a knife fight conducted in international waters. On Futurama, one of these named Gunther decides he wants to be moderately intelligent and wear a suit, so he promptly transfers to business school. One of them reveals Marion's location to the Nazis before performing a Hitler salute in Raiders of the Lost Ark. A character played by Bruce Willis is sent back in time to prevent the release of a deadly virus in a 1995 movie whose title refers to twelve of them. An undersexed one of these named Marcel is adopted then donated to the San Diego Zoo by Ross Geller, and the Rage virus in 28 Days Later is released when activists free infected ones. FTP, name these animals whose ranks include Abu from Aladdin and Curious George.
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Musicians trying to accompany this album have always run into problems since three of the songs were in the wrong key; thus the recordings were made at the wrong speed and the pitches were slightly sharp. This problem has been corrected on a 1999 reissue that also includes an alternate take of Flamenco Sketches. It features Jimmy Cobb on drums, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Cannonball Adderley on alto sax. FTP, name this album that also features John Coltrane on tenor sax and Miles Davis on trumpet.
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Near the end of his life, which saw recording of works like "Confirmation" and "Bloomdido," he wanted to study with Edgar Varèse, but died before he could. He began playing both blues and dance music with Lester Young, and while in Jay McShann's band, he performed a Ray Noble piece called "Cherokee," which would later be adapted as his solo hit "Koko." Also known for versions of "Billie's Bounce" and "Now's the Time," his friendship with Dizzy Gillespie led to their development of bebop. For 10 points, name this performer of "Ornithology," an alto saxophonist known as "Bird."
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Ninai Games developed a "Puzzle Attack" spin-off of this game for the GBA, while Inuits and Charles Dickens are enemies in a game where its protagonists travel "Through Time". The most recent game in this series saw a Wii port and included unlockable characters such as Fifi the Poodle and V.E.R.N. the Abomination. The original game featured people in bathtubs who would knock the player down, and had the player taking damage from others playing the game. The three protagonists teamed up in a 1997 sequel subtitled "World Tour" where they once again battled National Guardsmen. Starring Ralph, Lizzie and George, for 10 points, name this game where giant monsters try to destroy buildings and get angry.
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Non-American versions of their debut album feature a cover photo of a nude woman's hip with a hand in a black leather glove resting on it, which was decided to be too explicit for American audiences. Led by the son of a modeling agency kingpin, they originally formed while attending a New York City prep school. Massive amounts of hype soon followed and intensified once their debut EP was released in the United Kingdom in January 2001. By summer, their planned side stage appearance at a major UK festival was moved to the main stage due to overwhelming demand. For ten points name the band fronted by Julian Casablancas whose debut album, Is This It? features the single "Last Nite".
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Not much is known about the title character of this film, other than that he is responsible for Old Testament Trilogy which used to hang in the Troitskoe monastery. In the film, the title character kills a Tartar during a raid, and is so overcome with remorse he takes a vow of silence. During the last segment, called "The Bell" a young artisan, after he successfully casts a magnificent bell, confesses that his father had died without telling him the secret of bell making, prompting the title character to break his vow of silence to comfort him. FTP name this Andrei Tarkovsky film about medieval Russia's greatest icon painter.
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Objects crucial to its plot include a crate of oil lamps used to defeat the turncoat Sergeant Barnes; Nancy's camera, whose flash interrupts a romantic pairing at a club owned by Skillet; and a staircase which the protagonist climbs to kill himself. The coroner Sam contacts Lieutenant Peters after finding a pattern of irregularities while examining taxi driver Juanita Jones and antiques dealer Bobby McCoy, two victims of the title character, who fell in love after noting the resemblance of Tina and Luva. That character was once known as Mamuwalde and encountered disaster while seeking support for an anti-slavery campaign in Romania. FTP, name this film starring William Marshall as a vampire, a highlight of the blaxploitation genre.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a ballad about this device, in which a young man is confused by one after some "silly, confused flies" are trapped in a spider's web within it. It was improved by Pierre Adolphe Piorry, who added a "pleximeter" to it. Most of the ones in use today follow a design introduced by David Littmann, while George Camman seems to have invented the first usable binaural one in 1852. The original one was invented after a French scientist saw some children playing with a piece of wood, after which he experimented with paper and wood tubes. Its use was discussed in the Treatise on Mediate Auscultation by its inventor, who originally called it "The Cylinder" before he gave it a name from the Greek for "I see" and "the chest." FTP, name this medical device invented in 1816 by René Laënnec, which allows a doctor to listen to the patient's chest.
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On Arrested Development, news of a copyright belonging to this group leads Tony Wonder to choose "something with Poe" for his next DVD. In one work, we learn that they weigh in at 850 pounds after they call out Mick Wall. The Offspring's Dexter Holland once stated a fake plan to steal this group's next album title. One of this band's songs refers to a man who's been knocking and won't leave the singer alone, and another refers to a place that will "bring you to your knees." Chinese Democracy is a long-anticipated album by, FTP, this band whose songs "Mr. Brownstone" and "Welcome to the Jungle" can be found on Appetite for Destruction.
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On Will and Grace, Grace breaks up with Nathan by quoting the lyrics of this song, which Weird Al Yankovic parodied in a song, in which he asked the title vegetable why it thought it was so holy. The speaker of this song asks, "Don't your feet get cold in the summer time?" after stating that "your prison is walking through this world all alone." The speaker further advises not to draw the queen of diamonds while saying that the title character will be hurt by the things that please him, and he would realize it if he came to his sense. Originally appearing on the 1973 album of the same name, this is, FTP, which Eagles song that asks the title character to come back home?
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On one episode, a man who went on to appear on American Idol noted that he wasn't much of a rapper and called his singing a "secret weapon." Another star of this show went on to appear as Eddie in Frankenbabe and as the "impossibly hot fireman" on an episode of The O.C. In addition to Constantine Maroulis and Chris Showerman, one episode featured Kevin Marlo, but it never aired after he was killed on 9/11. A person who resigned from one episode went on to appear in the third season of For Love or Money, while old people have appeared on the "Fabulous Over Fifty" special. The most recent season adds such innovations as a "Tournament of Champions" and a special high-school edition, and features the return of "Bikini Week." FTP, name this creation of Alex Duda, in which four suitors are whittled down to one champion in a competition which is won with surprising infrequency by the contestant with the largest breasts.
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On one occasion, a Taylor guitar belonging to one of the characters was damaged by another character, which led to a pun involving a man who made sports history on October 2, 1978. The latter character, in a rare moment of altruism, once fixed a watch named "Handy," and has a nemesis who was originally known as Mr. Squiggly. That character is transported to various locations, such as the Füd Shoppe, in a contraption called the "Bundle o'Joy!" One of the three major characters has a friend named Mr. Bones, another has a friend named Smackey, while the only major character who is human has a black friend named Joe, who seems to be a fellow alum of Lowe Tech. Featuing the mysterious ferret Fungo and the lovable Chubby Huggs, this is, FTP, what daily comic strip which follows the adventures of a dog named Satchel, a man named Rob, and the malign Bucky Katt?
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On the episode of Gilmore Girls entitled "Ted Koppel's Big Night Out,"' Richard, emboldened by a fun flask, begins singing one of this man's songs, embarrassing Lorelai. A member of the Wiffenpoofs while at Yale, he "at football games may long for a strong undergraddy,'' and after a brief stint at Harvard Law he took up residence in Paris where he met Linda Thomas. Hollywood started using his songs in The Battle of Paris, and he himself was the subject of the mostly fictionalized film Night and Day. His output decreased dramatically after his leg was amputated in 1958, a consequence of a 1937 riding accident, and his only major work in his later years was the musical Kiss Me, Kate. FTP, name this author of the song "Begin the Beguine," who created the musical Anything Goes.
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On this show, Joel Murray portrayed a character who plays Mozart on his pants zipper, Freddy Rumsen. The office of a Robert Morse-portrayed character on this show contains a print of The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, and that character once advised the protagonist not to fire a character who envied Ken Cosgrove's writing ability, Pete Campbell. It used The Decemberists' The Infanta in the opening of one episode, which showed Betty, Joan, and Peggy dressing for their days as housewife, office manager, and copy writer. For 10 points, name this AMC drama set in the 60s, which stars Jon Hamm as Don Draper, an employee at the Madison Avenue ad firm Sterling Cooper.
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One algorithm that uses this technique is the Smith-Waterman algorithm, which searches protein databases to find those with the best alignment. A common application of it is finding solutions to the chain matrix multiplication problem. It is used in the Viterbi algorithm to find the most likely sequence of hidden events in the context of Markov Chain models. Most easily seen in recursive problems like finding solutions to the knapsack problem, it is an alternative to greedy algorithms or branch and bound techniques. Developed by Richard Bellman, it relies on two features of a given problem, those being memorization and overlapping subproblems. FTP, identify this algorithm design technique that uses the idea that a solution can be constructed using optimal solutions to its subproblems.
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One character in this film has his hair lit on fire while trying to light a cigar which is only made worse when it is 'extinguished' with a flask of liquor. One character in this film is imprisoned in a streetlight after being the victim of three knife wounds and two snakebites while attempting to kill the overweight, chain-smoking Landlady who possesses the "Lion's Roar". This movie's protagonist robs an ice cream vendor twice only to realize that she was actually a mute girl from his childhood with a large lollipop he failed to save using the Buddhist Palm technique. Set in 1940s Shanghai, FTP, identify this 2004 comedy-action film starring Steven Chow in which the Pig Sty district defends itself from the notorious Axe Gang.
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One character in this film introduces himself as a teacher on sabbatical who just won the lottery after refusing to stay at a shoddy hotel. Yusef Kabira is killed after trying to seduce a Canadian with an identical necklace to one carried by the protagonist. Earlier in this film, one character steals an earpiece from a gift bag and uses it to disrupt a clandestine meeting at a performance of Tosca. The ecological organization called Greene Planet is run by Dominic Greene, who is left in the desert with a bottle of motor oil after assisting in a scheme to limit the water supply of Bolivia. For 10 points, name this 2008 sequel to Casino Royale, the twenty second Bond film.
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One character in this film is promised a second date if he really knows what Sigmund Freud said about people of a certain ethnicity. However, the psychiatrist Madolyn Madden also begins to have a relationship with one of Mr. French's associates. The latter character is told by Delahunt to meet at 314 Washington Street, but it is at a nearby building where Captain Queenan, played by Martin Sheen, is killed. Agent Barrigan, after shooting Billy Costello, is framed as the sole rat in the State Police Force, but Sergeant Sullivan is eventually killed by Sergeant Dignam. FTP, name this 2006 Martin Scorsese film that starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon as police officers in Boston.
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One character in this work tells her father that her mother intended to throw out a bracelet if she left it behind at his house. Before this work's climactic scene, a pilot dives his plane at the ground only to pull up and display a good luck message on its bottom. In one scene in this work, which was adapted from John Carlin's Playing the Enemy, a group of kids mob Chester Williams. One of its protagonists visits Robben Island, during which time he hears this movie's namesake poem. In this movie, Zak Feaunati and Scott Eastwood play Jonah Lomu and Joel Stransky, the latter of whom scores a deciding drop-goal. For 10 points, name this 2009 film that stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela, and depicts South Africa's victory in the Rugby World Cup.
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One character known by this sobriquet claims to have locked the Allmuseri gods in a crate. He is a dwarf who issues a loyalty oath after his secret trove of African artifacts is discovered on the Republic by Rutherford Johnson, who is stowing away on an outlaw slave ship commanded by this man in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage. Another character by this name has a son who appears in Maximum Velocity and a clone named Blood; that man defeated Dr. Stewart, Pico, and Samurai Goroh in his debut race. He can perform the Raptor Boost or a powerful namesake punch in Super Smash Brothers. For 10 points, name this driver of a blue hovercar in the F-Zero series.
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One character of this name was transformed into a rabbit when travelling to the Sacred Realm as a result of actions that occurred during the Imprisoning War, during which another figure of this name became engaged to a water princess, Ruto. Aryll is kidnapped due to a resemblance to his sister, and this figure rescues her by defeating the Helmaroc King after travelling the Great Sea. One incarnation of this character is accompanied by Tatl, while another breaks the curse of the Great Deku Tree. For 10 points, give the name of these characters who generally use such tools as the Hookshot, and the Master Sword to defeat Ganon and rescue Princess Zelda.
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One character on this series forces another to play Yahtzee with her before sharing advice. This show's title sequence includes scenes of two women praying, an adult baptism, and the disintegration of a fox into flies. This show is based on a series of books by Charlaine Harris. In this show's second season, one character infiltrates the Order of the Sun after the disappearance of Godric, the sheriff of Area Nine. Characters in this show include the maenad Maryann who is finally killed by the shape shifter Sam Merlotte after she takes control of the town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. For 10 points, name this HBO series about the telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse and the vampire Bill Compton.
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One character on this show has a dream in which he is slapped by a Buddhist monk who accuses him of poorly installing air conditioning in a monastery. One character on this show changes the name of the Lollipop Club to The Crazy Horse. Other institutions on this show include the restaurant Nuovo Vesuvio, which is rebuilt by Artie Buco when his first restaurant burns down. The protagonist's sister changes her name back from Parvatti to Janice, and his daughter Meadow goes to Columbia in this show, which is largely set in the office of the psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi and the Bada Bing strip club. For 10 points, name this HBO show about a New Jersey mob family.
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One character on this show is defeated by Shunk Wugga during his attempt to get his father to sign a permission slip so he can present evidence before The Swollen Eyeballs. In one episode of this show, a girl gets her foot stuck in the title character's lawn while selling cookies. One character on this show often replaces his brain with food, and recurring characters on this show include the Almighty Tallest, the leaders of the Irkens. Dib is the brother of the antisocial Gaz on this show, and attempts to stop the machinations of the title character and his robot GIR. For 10 points, name this Nickelodeon show about the title alien's bumbling attempts at world domination.
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One character on this show was surprised to find out that her choice of Pictionary was too juvenile for party entertainment, and in a later episode, another character earned over two hundred dollars from running a lemonade stand and blew all the profits on a donkey. In later seasons, Alex and Nicky were born to a couple who lived in the attic, and the male half of that couple tried to open a nightspot, but tragedy struck when napkins were misprinted with "The Smush Club." In addition to the lead singer of The Rippers, character on this show included Rebecca, who co-anchored a morning talk show with the protagonist. The series began with Pam Cochran's death in a drunk driving accident, which led a San Francisco household to have Joey and Jesse move in to help Danny Tanner take care of his daughters D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle. For 10 points, name this series starring Bob Saget and the Olsen twins, a former staple of ABC's TGIF lineup.
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One event of this type is engineered by NKVD chief Pyotr Roslov and involves one participant using red lamps and the other participant killing himself. Perhaps the most famous example of this type of event happened shortly after one participant protected his home city from a nuclear winter that was caused when the other participant intercepted a Soviet warhead. That example of this type of event saw the Green Arrow shoot one participant with kryptonite shortly before the other participant faked a heart attack. For 10 points, name this type of event, which was the premise of a canceled Wolfang Peterson movie, and which occurs in both Red Son and The Dark Knight Returns as a result of political disputes between two leading DC heroes.
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One example of his action occurred because of confusion over whether O.J. Simpson or Chad Ogea (oh-JAY-ah) was in a car chase. The CHARLEE Foundation benefits from the sale of a wine that replaces the third word of this phrase with "Merlot." An internet parody of this action saw its progenitor placing Yellow Pages on charcoal, a riff on one example of this action that saw a barbeque grill reach a $99,999,999 price on eBay. This behavior led to such incidents as high-fiving a fan after making a catch in Baltimore and taking potty breaks in the Green Monster. For 10 points, name this behavior that stems from the whackiness of a certain Dodgers' outfielder.
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One explanation for its façade can be attributed to a desire by its builders to repel invaders while another posits that it was intended to mock a traitorous former guardian. Featuring two asymmetric towers, it stands on the ruins of the center of classical Zodakkian culture. Surrounded by the Evergreen Forest, its sole treasure is an orb that contains all the wisdom of the past, the latest official defender of which was chosen by an ancient spirit early in the reign of King Randor. FTP, name this grotesque fortress that has been conquered several times, but is currently safe in the hands of Eternia's great hero, He-Man.
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One figure in this film takes his girlfriend Celia out to a Japanese restaurant until his friend storms in and causes a scare. The main characters in this film get banished to the Himalayas, where they stay with the Yeti, voiced by John Ratzenberger. One protagonist replaces Henry J. Waternoose as CEO at its end after turning the tables on Randall, his second-best coworker. At the end of this film, the protagonists find out that laughs are more potent than screams after some time with the young girl Boo. For 10 points, name this Pixar movie in which Sulley and the one-eyed Mike are among the title creatures who harness energy by popping out of closets and scaring kids.
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One group in the universe of this game, the Tolgath, rang the Apocalypse Chime, which was later recovered in Ulgrotha by the vampire Baron Sengir. A magical ship in the continuity of this game was invented at the Tolarian Academy and transported the Bones of Ramos. That vehicle, the Skyship Weatherlight, was designed by Urza, whose wars with Yawgmoth and Mishra scarred the plains of Dominaria. Recently expanded with the Shadowmoor and Shards of Alara sets, this game has a "Power Nine" that includes the Ancestrall Recall and Timetwister. Common strategies in it depend on using the Counterspell or the Circle of Protection. For 10 points, name this Richard Garfield-designed card game, the flagship product of Wizards of the Coast, which involves tapping lands for white, green, red, blue, or black mana.
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One man who played this position went to Livingstone College before being picked in the fifth round of the 1991 draft, while another was drafted 192nd overall out of Savannah State College in 1990. One of them in the Hall of Fame is a long-time Raider who was nicknamed "The Ghost." Those featured in the 2002 NFL draft included Doug Jolley and Daniel Graham, though the highest profile player at the position that year was from Miami. Those currently playing for the Bengals include Reggie Kelly and Tony Stewart. Hall of Famers who played this position include Dave Casper and Charlie Sanders, while the best collegiate player is awarded the John Mackey Award, which recently went to Virginia's Heath Miller. FTP, name this offensive position which has been played by such greats as Jeremy Shockey, Kyle Brady, and Mike Ditka.
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One man with this surname was the Metro Conference Player of the Year in 1986, after which he was drafted in the first round by the Utah Jazz. That man scored the first four-point play in the history of the Cavaliers, and would later play with Milwaukee and Toronto, though he spent most of his career with a team that picked him in the expansion draft in 1988. Another man with this surname played on a 10-day contract with Washington in 1996, but would have more success with Milwaukee and Detroit, who traded him to Toronto in 2003 for Lindsey Hunter. That man was waived in 2005 when Dale Davis was signed by the Pacers. Another man of this surname was the youngest player ever drafted by his team when he was drafted fourth overall in 2001. In 2003, that man became the first man since Artis Gilmore to lead the league in field-goal percentage as a Chicago Bull. FTP, give the common last name of NBA players Dell, Michael, and Eddy.
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One member of this titular group has reached above his caste to join them, a fact played upon in a running joke in which he has trouble mastering an unruly horse. Another class conflict is explored in the romance of the youngest member of the group with a girl pretending to be boy, daughter of the man who hired them. Another character in this film calls himself "a fencer of the wood cut school," which is a moment of levity in stark contrast to the film's final line, "The farmers have won, not us." That line's speaker, Takashi Shimura, was played by Kambei Shimada. FTP, name this eponymous band of Japanese swordsmen in a 1954 Akira Kurosawa film.
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One memorable scene sees the male protagonist taught his first words by a blind violinist whose forest hut he has stumbled upon. The stylized movements seen in the film "Metropolis" were imitated in the movements of the title character, memorably played by Elsa Lanchester. Lanchester is also seen portraying Mary Shelley in the prologue, which is followed by the film proper, in which Dr. Praetorius determines to create a mate for the creature created in an earlier film. Directed by James Whale, FTP, what is this film whose title figure is famous for her towering, lightning-streaked hair?
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One of his colleagues is outraged upon realizing that this man shares his love of Nike Shox shoes, and he asks another friend for a 5000 dollar loan he doesn't need for a used motorcycle. He willingly breaks his pinky with a paperweight in an attempt to win a bet with his boss, whose home he enters unlawfully in search of mold. His nemesis is Edward Vogler, a billionaire donor that consistently tries to get him fired. His wife, a constitutional lawyer, left him due to his refusal of a course of medical treatment for an infarction in his thigh, a condition that caused his vicodin addiction and need for a cane. FTP name this head of diagnostic medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, played by Hugh Laurie on a Fox show bearing his name.
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One of its characters is killed when he doesn't know the name of a farm. After success in Signal Hill, the killer moves on to Little Boston, where he encounters trouble from William Bandy and the Church of the Third Revelation. The soundtrack is comprised of pieces by noted Estonian composer Arvo Part in this film, whose final scene shows adopted, deaf son H.W. leaving beforeEli Sunday is bludgeoned to death with a bowling pin by Daniel Plainview. Including a scene where a man shouts "I drink your milkshake!" and based on Upton Sinclair's Oil!, name, for 10 points, this 2007 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and directed by P.T. Anderson.
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One of the central characters in this show failed to disclose his sealed juvie record for an aggravated battery charge, and went on to star as Northwestern's quarterback before busting his childhood mentor as a child molester. Another of this show's characters had an abortion in Italy as a teenager, and suspects an Italian Catholic priest of killing her former best friend during a botched exorcism. Early episodes of this show see one of its characters constantly foiled in chess because he cannot “think outside the box.†Agent Hotchner is the head of the unit central to this show, which also features a skinny-tie wearing dude with a 187 IQ named Dr. Spencer Reid. For 10 points, name this CBS show in which a team of profilers from the Behavioral Analysis Unit apprehend serial killers.
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One of the characters in this film briefly agrees to marry Diz Moore, later asking him if he likes her first name of Clarissa. At one point the title character, an "honorary stooge" taking the place of the deceased Sam Foley, goes on a rampage and punches many of the reporters present at his earlier press conference. In another scene, Chick McGann's reaction to the words "Willet Creek" is correctly predicted by the secretary Saunders. Climaxing with Joseph Paine attempting suicide and then confessing his corruption after a marathon filibuster, FTP, identify this 1939 Frank Capra film about a certain senator played by James Stewart.
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One of the characters in this film loses two hats when they are burned by a peanut vendor. When one of the characters calls another an "upstart," drastic consequences ensue. In the central plot, the ambassador from Sylvania sets out to marry a wealthy widow, while a dancer tries to seduce the leader of the country. In the end, that ambassador surrenders after getting his head stuck in a door, at which point the spies he once employed and the man he called an upstart throw things at him. When the movie begins, 20 million dollars are given to Freedonia on the condition that Rufus Firefly take charge of the government. FTP, name this movie which stars Margaret Dumont and the Marx Brothers, whose opening credits feature four birds swimming in a pot.
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One of the characters in this novel is finishing a degree in chemistry at USC, and writes a dissertation on "The Problem of Colloids in the Reduction of Low-Grade Gold Ores." Another character once spent a week at Lake Arrowhead with her future step-daughter's mother, who caught pneumonia there. In the final chapter, two of the main characters find themselves together on a ship off the coast of Mexico, and discover from the ship's paper that Nino and Lola were married after they left California. The novel is told in the form of a confession demanded by Mr. Keyes, who also works at General Fidelity with Walter Huff. FTP, name this novel in which Mr. Nirdlinger is murdered and his body thrown on a railroad track to collect on special kind of insurance, a work by James M. Cain.
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One of the main characters plays bridge at a 20th of a cent a point with a group her lover calls the "waxworks." Another character works on a story about two schoolteachers who are in love, though one works days and the other works nights. That character writes that "untitled love story" with the fiancée of his friend Artie Green, a woman whom he first met when she expressed disdain for his story "Bases Loaded." Later, Betty Schafer comes to visit the mansion where most of this film takes place, and sees the tiled floor where Valentino once danced the tango. In the end, Max von Mayerling manages to coax his ex-wife downstairs by pretending that the cameras are there to shoot her script about Salomé. FTP, name this film in which gigolo and scriptwriter Joe Gillis is shot to death by his has-been sugar mama Norma Desmond, a movie directed by Billy Wilder.
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One of the main roles in this film had to be recast after an accident on the set of Three Came Home prevented Claudette Colbert from taking it. That role was inspired by an incident which befell Elisabeth Bergner during production of The Two Mrs. Carrolls. Two years after this film came out, a group of Chicagoans which included the mother of Nancy Reagan began giving out prizes modeled on the Sarah Siddons Award. After the shoot, Garry Merrill, who played Bill Sampson, married the star, while the actress who played Miss Casswell, a young Marilyn Monroe, became famous. Written by Joseph Mankiewicz, it is about a young actress who worms her way into the life of Broadway star Margo Channing. FTP, name this 1950 film which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, including Best Actress nominations for Anne Baxter and Bette Davis.
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One of their works mentions an astronomer named Tom, a professor named Vernon, and a man named Andy who would bicycle across town in the rain to bring a woman candy, all of whom are upstaged by someone who is lucky enough to have a car. In another of their works, a musical instrument is offered its own car and reminded that it could have belonged to Steve Earle, Charo or Gwar. In yet another, a self-proclaimed "great composer" loses his composure and shoots Ferdinand de Saussure. The speaker of an earlier work remarks that she has a mandolin that makes her want to kill herself, and goes to a park where she sees 100,000 fireflies. This group's early albums include The Charm of the Highway Strip and Holiday, while the title of every song on their most recent album begins with the letter "i." However, they are best known for a work in three volumes, each of which contains 23 songs. FTP, name this musical group led by Stephin Merritt, best known for 69 Love Songs.
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One of this artist's music videos ends with four boys in black pushing a boy in a flying machine off a cliff. In one of his songs, "a disco ball is just hanging by a thread". "Vanilla Twilight" and the aforementioned "Umbrella Beach" are singles off this artist's album Ocean Eyes. Another song from that album has a video that features a room full of children's toys and nostalgic items going into operation as this artist plays the piano. That song by this artist mentions ten million of the title animals and has a chorus beginning "I'd like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly." For 10 points, name this alias of Adam Young whose songs include "Fireflies."
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One of this band's songs states that "in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction." Their first hit ended by asking "Doesn't the sky look green today?" In addition to "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" and "Crown of Creation," this band behind the albums After Bathing at Baxter's and Surrealistic Pillow demanded that you "go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall" and "feed your head" in a song about size-changing pills, "White Rabbit." For 10 points, name this group including Marty Balin and Grace Slick, which recorded "Somebody to Love" and was succeeded by such "spinoff" bands as Hot Tuna and a similarly named "Starship."
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One of this group's albums includes a track asking "What do I think I think?" while another begins, "May day, every day, my day." The title of the fifth song on an album by this group references the institutionalized star of Come and Get It and the second song took its inspiration and lyrics from Patrick Suskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. An album of B-sides and rarities put out by this group includes the song "Mexican Seafood" and covers of songs like "Molly's Lips" by the Vaselines, while their first album included the songs "Negative Creep" and "Floyd the Barber" and was put out in 1989 by Sub Pop. In addition to Bleach, their albums include Incesticide and an album which features the songs "Rape Me" and "Heart-Shaped Box," In Utero. FTP, name this group which put out Nevermind and which was fronted by Kurt Cobain.
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One of this man's films is about the sinking of the USS Montana and the search for its lost nuclear warheads. This director of The Abyss created a television show whose heroine is played by Jessica Alba, entitled Dark Angel. Another one of this man's films stars Billy Zane as Caledon Hockley, who gives the Heart of the Ocean diamond to his fiancée. This ex-husband of The Hurt Locker director Katheryn Bigelow directed a recent film about Jake Sully's adventures on the planet Pandora. For 10 points, name this director of Titanic and Avatar.
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One person who performed this feat completed it against Lou Brissie and was nicknamed "Fat Pat," and another incidence of this happening was against Don McMahon, Seth Morehead, and Lew Burdette. A person whose career highlight was doing it never played another full season afterwards but did tie a separate record held by Jim Bottomley in the process of doing this. Another person, who did this at Shibe Park, lost out on the next day's headlines to the retirement of John McGraw. It was last performed in the National League on behalf of the Dodgers, and in the American League for the Blue Jays, by Shawn Green and Carlos Delgado respectively. Mark Whiten and Mike Cameron are some others who have done it, in addition to Bob Horner, Rocky Colavito, Mike Schmidt, Willie Mays, and Lou Gehrig. For 10 points, identify this feat in which a player ties the record for a single-contest performance of a certain optimal hitting outcome.
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One polity featured in this series remembers the fourteenth-century defeat of Baron Staszrvitch with the motto, "Eih bennek, eih blavek." That place uses Cyrillic orthography but has a language closely resembling the Marols dialect of French. Mineral water near Klow and uranium around Sprodj figure into this series, which at one points depicts an elaborate plot by the Iron Guards to depose King Muskar XII in favor of Müsstler, the dictator of Borduria. King Ottokar's Sceptre is protected by the title character during an adventure in Syldavia, while his other adventures often involve the detectives Thomson and Thomson, the near-deaf Professor Calculus, or a man with a repertoire of nonsensical insults, Captain Haddock. For 10 points, name this comic series created by Hergé in which the dog Snowy also tags along with the namesake teenage Belgian reporter.
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One restaurant featured on this series is Klimy's, while another eatery on this show inspired the song "Big Yellow Joint." One character founded a namesake "Natural Goodtime Family-Band Solution," and dressed as the Mrs. Featherbottom. That character's daughter dated the four-years-running student body president. Another key character fathered a child by Eve Holt and had a ringtone of "The Final Countdown," which played during his magic "illusions." It features Buster, who slept with a his mother's rival, and George Michael, who dates devout Christian Ann Veal. For 10 points, name this show about the Bluth family that starred Jason Bateman and Jeffrey Tambor.
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One scene in this film includes a discussion in German over whether a piece of music was written by Bach or Mozart. Its protagonist is riding on horseback when he spots a girl in a red coat walking next to a man in military dress. Another character in this film shoots people at random from his balcony at Plazow. This film stars Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern and Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth. For 10 points, name this Stephen Spielberg film in which Liam Neeson attempts to save Polish Jews during World War II as the title member of the Nazi Party.
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One series of commercials for this company featured vignettes like “Terror at Five O'Clock†and a “disturbing story of two twenty-something dudes in their first encounter with an ordinary stove.†Another ad for this company describes a patch of “scorpion-covered earth†south of Laredo where rattlesnakes spontaneously combust. This company hired Jon Lovitz as the host of its namesake “Dinner Theater.†Its commercials feature Justin Tuck, Jared Fogle, and jingles about “Five Dollar Foot Longs.†For 10 points, name this sandwich restaurant that encourages you to “Eat Fresh.â€
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One song by this artist claims that “in a box beneath my bed is a letter that you never read.†This singer threatens to “strike a match on all my wasted time†before telling the subject he's “just another picture to burn.†This artist notes that “I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale†in the chorus of “White Horse.†In one of her music videos, she communicates with a high school football star by holding up notes to her bedroom window. That video won a 2009 MTV VMA award, despite Kanye West's stage stealing announcement that “Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.†For 10 points, name this pop-country singer of “You Belong with Me,†and “Teardrops On My Guitar.â€
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One song by this band is an ode to its lawyer, who "won't leave me alone" even though she also represents the Beach Boys. Another song by this band recalls a ten-year-old who shaved his head in order to pretend to be a monk, as part of a ploy to attract "older women," and appears on an album with the print "Night Snow at Kambara" on the front that was originally called Songs From the Black Hole. A single off this band's upcoming album promises that people who are "tools" can be "transformed" by wearing Oakleys and wonders if the singer of this band should work with Timbaland in order to "perfect the art." Proclaming that "I eat my candy with the pork and beans," that song will appear on an album that this band hopes will be more favorably received than their last record, which included "Haunt You Every Day" and "Perfect Situation" and was entitled Make Believe. For 10 points, name this band behind such twenty-first-century singles as "Beverly Hills" and "Dope Nose," whose stronger work includes a concept album based on Madame Butterfly entitled Pinkerton and a song about someone who "don't care what they say about us anyway," "Buddy Holly."
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One song from their first release describes a man "trippin on his shoelace," "Psychopsilocybin." They created a song for Halo 2 titled "The Odyssey," and in one song by this band, the singer notes that "in this moment I am happy" before repeating the title. In a song from their A Crow Left of the Murder, lead singer Brandon Boyd claims that "you're no Jesus, yeah you're no !uckin' Elvis." Those songs by this non-Pink Floyd band are "Wish You Were Here" and "Megalomaniac." Another song by this group asks "Would you choose water over wine" and avers "Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there." For 10 points, name this California band of the song "Drive."
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One song on this album notes that the Hendersons will all be at the title event, a "show tonight on trampoline." In the last song on this album, the singer says he'd "love to turn you on" after noting that he "read the news today, oh boy." Those songs are "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", and "A Day in the Life". This album opens a song that ends by introducing Billy Shears, who sings "With a Little Help From My Friends," and continues with songs like "When I'm 64", "Lovely Rita", and "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds." For 10 points, name this album whose title group "hopes you will enjoy the show," a 1966 Beatles album with a cover featuring lots of famous people.
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One track from this album asks “Do I look like a mother!uckin' role model?†and asserts that “To a kid lookin' up to me / Life ain't nothin' but #itches and money.†Another track on this album claims that “some drop science, while I'm dropping English†and notes that “brain damage on the mic don't manage†while urging the listener not to “be another sequel.†Those songs, “Gangsta Gangsta†and “Express Yourself,†appear on this album after a song whose vocalist claims that certain figures “think / They have the authority to kill a minority.†In its title song, Eazy E asks MC Ren to “Tell ‘em where you from!†after Ice Cube notes that he's “down with the capital C-P-T.†It features “Judge Dre presiding†on the track “!uck Tha Police.†For 10 points, name this debut album by N.W.A.
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One track on this album features a lament about having to show I.D. to get inside of Sam's Club, but notes that when you see what an accident did to Left Eye you should think that angels are watching you from the other side. Another track asks a girl to cover up her mouth as if she has SARS, and features a woman named Lassandra who is delighted about not having to "!uck wit Ray J's broke ass no mo'." In addition to "Never Let Me Down" and "The New Workout Plan," it features Talib Kweli and Common on "Get 'Em High" and Twista and Jamie Foxx on "Slow Jamz." The singer asks God to show him the way because the Devil tries to break him down on its third single, "Jesus Walks." FTP, name this 2004 album, the debut release by Kanye West.
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One version of this man was known as Enrique and served as the Grand Inquistor of Earth-311. His Earth-9997 incarnation ruled a city in the Savage Land before being depowered by the removal of the Earth's vibranium. He placed the Red Skull in "the long dark" with only ten gallons of water, and one version of him led the last resistance against the infected superheroes of the Marvel Zombies universe. His most well-known incarnation was presumed dead after Cassandra Nova attacked Genosha with a fleet of Sentinels. For 10 points, name this alter-ego of Erik Lensherr, leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, master of magnetism, and frequent enemy of the X-Men?
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One was a personification of the old year, or the sorrow of its passing. The second was the son of Apollo and Psamathe, a daughter of the King of Argus, whose death at the hand of his maternal grandfather caused Apollo to send a monster and a plague. Another was also a musician, who tried to teach Hercules but killed after he chastised the hero, and the fourth was a son of a Muse who taught Thamyris and Orpheus. FTP, give the name these four share with an insecure boy attached to his blanket.
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One work with this title from the album Thugs Are Us features Money Mark Diggla, who recommends the listener "hit 'em 16-60 blind, crippled, or po'." A track with this title which describes a figure that "loves velvet in the colors blue" also contains sections performed by a man who'd "rather taste the green than sip the honey," Brother Marquis of 2 Live Crew. Those two songs, by Trick Daddy and Ice-T respectively, are quoted in the most famous song of this title, which notes that "some fools just love to perform" after the singer describes being called "Money Cash Hoes" by critics and getting pulled over in 1994 for "doin' fifty-five in a fifty-fo'." For 10 points, give the title of the third single from The Black Album, a song in which Jay-Z notes that "a bitch ain't one" of the titular afflictions.
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Only draft busts David Clyde and John Stearns were picked ahead of this man who became Dennis Eckersley's first strikeout victim. The only player thus far to have two four-hit games in the same World Series, he almost quit baseball in 1978 to become a professional golfer. He became the first shortstop to lead the American League in both slugging percentage and total bases in 1982, winning the MVP and leading his team to its only World Series appearance. He also won the MVP in 1989 as a centerfielder and in 1992 he reached 3,000 hits. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999 along with Nolan Ryan and George Brett, FTP who is this longtime Milwaukee Brewer?
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Originally dubbed the "Village Theater," it was opened by Bill Graham on March 8th, 1968 with a show by Albert King, Tim Buckley, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Among its memorable guests were the Doors, the Allman Brothers, and the Grateful Dead. FTP, name this legendary New York City rock venue, a parallel club to a San Francisco establishment.
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Originally named Aristotle, this actor's voice appears in Gobots: Battle of the Rocklords. As a GI during WWII, he was injured and decorated with a purple heart and later he joined ABC news where he won a Peabody for his "Your Voice of America" series. He directed himself in Beyond Reason and was nominated for an Oscar for Birdman of Alcatraz, he also appeared in theDirty Dozen and portrayed Blofeld in Her Majesty's Secret Service. FTP identify this actor whose depiction of the lollipop sucking Kojak insured his place in our collective memory.
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Perhaps the most unusual feature of this programming language is that the hierarchy of blocks of code is indicated by the level of whitespace indentation. It is an interpreted language that features dynamic typing and data structures like strings, tuples, and dictionaries. Taking the best features of ABC and Modula-3, its clean and powerful syntax boosts programmer efficiency, and it is gaining popularity as a scripting language over rivals like Perl and Tcl [tickle]. FTP, identify this language developed by Guido van Rossum whose modules usually end with the extension py [P Y].
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Pieces on his Grammy-nominated comedy album include "Monica Lewinsky and the Three Bears," "Phone Call From a Cranky Terrorist," and "Abortion Doctor From Hell." He provided the voice of Zero in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and he has appeared several times on Adult Swim: as intrusive documentarian Todd on Tom goes to the Mayor and on Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Happy Time Harry. This actor has an ongoing feud with Larry the Cable Guy and might still be best known for partnering with Bob Odenkirk on Mr. Show. FTP, name this comedian who starred as Tobias Funke on Arrested Development.
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Preysing is a pompous merchant who is maneuvering to make a merger to save his company; Kringelein is one of his employees who is terminally ill and embarks on one last fling; Flaemmchen is a working girl hired by Preysing for secretarial work and, later, for something more; Grusinskaya is a dancer who has all but given in to depression; and Felix, or "Flix", is an aristocrat and a thief who aims to rob Grusinskaya but ends up falling in love with. Such are the fascinating people you'll meet if, FTP, you visit the location in the title of what 1932 Best Picture starring Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Lionel and John Barrymore, and Greta Garbo?
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Preysing is a pompous merchant who is maneuvering to make a merger to save his company; Kringelein is one of his employees who is terminally ill and embarks on one last fling; Flaemmchen is a working girl hired by Preysing for secretarial work and, later, for something more; Grusinskaya is a dancer who has all but given in to depression; and Felix, or "Flix," is an aristocrat and a thief who aims to rob Grusinskaya but ends up falling in love with her. Such are the fascinating people you'll meet if, FTP, you visit the title location of what 1932 Best Picture starring Joan Crawford, Lionel and John Barrymore, and Greta Garbo?
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Produced by Headphone Records and directed by Chuck Berry, we find out that the artist was "rollin' around, sittin' on dubs," and "high on shrubs." The artist asks, "won't you braid my hair," and its remix is set to the tune of Ignition. 40 ounces of malt liquor makes the artist want to perform the title action, and even though "haters want to hate" and "lovers want to love," the artist "don't even want none of the above." R. Kelly's life won't be complete until he turns your face into a toilet seat, in, FTP, what song parody performed by Dave Chappelle?
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Recently, this filmmaker has leant his name to a franchise that saw a 2005 installment about Jon Bon Jovi's pursuit of the Berziers Cross, which was earlier defended from Valek by Jack Crow, played by James Woods. The failure of his Vampires was punctuated only by a special effects award for a massive sand-dyeing effort. He claimed he attempted to adapt Waiting for Godot "in space" for his Dark Star, and he created the memorable Napoleon Wilson, who withstands a siege with the aid of a character played by Austin Stoker. Another of his films features the central antagonist declaring that "you are really pissing me off to no end" before the hero catches a knife and throws it back at him, leading to Kim Cattrall's rescue by Jack Burton from the clutches of James Hong's Lo Pan. That film, Big Trouble in Little China, featured the star of an earlier outing for this director that saw Isaac Hayes shot by the President after his rescue by Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell. For 10 points, identify this director who filmed Jamie Lee Curtis's pursuit by murderer Michael Meyers in Halloween and helmed Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from New York.
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Reggie Geary holds the career record for steals for this school's basketball program, which plays in the McKale Center. It has made the Big Dance for a record 23 consecutive years, but it lost to the #15 seed Santa Clara in the first round in 1993. Jason Gardner and Gilbert Arenas were part of the 2001 squad that fell to Duke in the NCAA Championship game. Ten years ago, they became the first team ever to defeat three No. 1 seeds en route to winning the 1997 national championship, thanks in part to the efforts of Michael Dickerson and Mike Bibby. FTP, name this Pac-10 basketball program nicknamed the Wildcats and coached by Lute Olsen.
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Rod Stewart was briefly lead vocalist for an early incarnation of this group. Within a few years, they had achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic with such singles as "Set Me Free." However, this was soon limited by an effective ban on performing in America, lasting until 1969. After charting some of their biggest hits, such as "Apeman," they began to experience a commercial drought, with Muswell Hillbillies and several rock operas, including Acts 1 and 2 of Preservation, performing poorly. They returned to form in the late '70's and early '80's with such albums as Give the People What They Want and Low Budget. For ten points, name this band of the British Invasion founded by the Davies brothers and known for such singles as "You Really Got Me" and "Lola."
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Shanley High School did not have a baseball team due to the cold winters of his home state, so this man's career began with the American Legion. Turning down a football scholarship to Oklahoma, he played for Fargo-Moorhead, Keokuk, Tulsa, Reading and Indianapolis before hitting 51 RBIs in his first year for the Cleveland Indians. It was with the Kansas City A's that he first made the All-Star team. Traded east, he missed 17 games, enough to finish second in home runs to a fellow Yankee, Mickey Mantle. FTP, name this 3-year American League MVP best remembered for being the first to break Babe Ruth's record 60 homeruns in 1961.
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She appeared as Cassidy on a short-running program about a Wilderness Outfitters company in Oregon, McKenna. Earlier she appeared as Bernadette Moody in Shaky Ground and as Franny in Byrds of Paradise, which went off the air shortly before her second album, Let's Go Bang, hit the stores. A young Jennifer Garner played Romy in a spin-off in which she starred, Time of Your Life. Though she appeared as Nancy Sinatra in two episodes of American Dreams, she has recently played more bookish roles on screen, including the veterinarian Liz in Garfield. Perhaps better remembered for her starring role in Can't Hardly Wait, FTP, name this star of Ghost Whisperer, who also starred as Julie James in I Know What You Did Last Summer and as Sarah Reeves on Party of Five.
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She is "missed" as the subject of a 1971 short film co-directed by Tinto Brass. She starred as the daughter of a political commentator at the center of a feud between two reporters in Everything Happens at Night. In 1942, she played a girl who mistakes a marine's flirting for a marriage proposal in Iceland. In her American debut, she was brought to Madison Square Garden by a theatrical manager played by Adolphe Menjou. In One in a Million, Happy Landing, and Sun Valley Serenade she appeared on ice, showcasing the talent with which she won six European championships, a record equaled by Irina Slutskaya and Katarina Witt. FTP, name this figure skater, who won three Olympic gold medals and ten world figure skating championships between 1927 and 1936.
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She played Maureen Schuster in a film which starred Michael Caine as a dashing entomologist who tries to save Houston from South American killer bees, The Swarm. She played "Smokey," who burns some documents to protect her boss Ed Browne, in the film Government Girl. She starred opposite Bette Davis in Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, having by that time outgrown the sweet girl she played in such Errol Flynn films as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood. She received Oscar nominations for playing a victim of mental illness in The Snake Pit and for playing a schoolteacher who is duped into marrying a Romanian gigolo in Hold Back the Dawn. However, she may be most famous for the second film she made with Leslie Howard in 1939. FTP name this actress who won Academy Awards for roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress, but lost out to co-star Hattie McDaniel in the year she was nominated for her portrayal of Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.
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She starred in such films as I Married a Witch and Sullivan's Travels, and with frequent leading man Alan Ladd in This Gun For Hire, but her career came to a screeching halt--she ended up waiting on tables in New York City--when she cut her hair. For 10 points, who was this classic Hollywood film actress, impersonated by Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential, who will forever be known for her distinctive long blond hair, which she always let fall over one eye, earning her the nickname "The Peekaboo Girl"?
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Shortly before this event, the official leader of one side said that “The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into shadowâ€Â and later claimed that his men could not win against “such reckless hate.†The attackers' escape route was blocked by a force of Huorns, while the defenders were reinforced by a group coming from the Fords of Isen led by Erkenbrand. Before this event began, one participant remarked “That is no orc horn!†The defenders in this event were forced to retreat to the Glittering Caves after the attackers used “blasting-fire†to open a hole in the Deeping Wall. For 10 points, name this battle fought at the titular mountain fortress between the men of Rohan and Saruman's Uruk-Hai, which ended after Gandalf's cavalry charge and which was featured in The Two Towers.
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Subject of not one but two books that came out in December 2000, its sixth track includes an alternate take of the fifth track, "Flamenco Sketches." Jimmy Cobb was on drums, Paul Chambers on bass, and Wynton Kelly sat in on "Freddie Freeloader," though the usual pianist was Bill Evans. The backing supergroup of musicians continued with both Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane on sax. This album's reliance on modal scales is evident from the first tune, "So What." FTP, name this landmark 1959 jazz recording by Miles Davis.
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Supposedly based on the Monster of Dusseldorf, its working title was Murderer Among Us. Paul Kemp plays a pickpocket with six watches, and Georg John plays a blind beggar who unravels the mystery. Inspector Karl Lohmann and Police Commissioner Groeber consort to capture the main character, and earn the assistance of other criminals. The murderer is done in by his constant whistling of In the Hall of the Mountain King whenever he struggles to control himself. Centering on the child murderer Hans Beckert, FTP, name this 1931 Fritz Lang film starring Peter Lorre.
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Talib Kweli references it in "Talkin' to You," foretelling a chump's death in the street, while Beanie Sigel mentions a worker by this name who leaps "when I say jump" in the track "Mac Man." Its first sequel, subtitled "Three Deep," includes underwater and airborne screens, while more recent sequels include ones subtitled "Helmet Chaos" and "Ancient Shadow." The truck driver Shlomo and the electrician Slippery Pete are enlisted to transport a unit of it containing G.L.C.'s high score of over 860,000 points, though it, like this game's protagonist itself, is ironically smashed by an oncoming truck. FTP, name this classic Konami arcade game purchased by George Costanza in an episode of Seinfeld, in which a player has to avoid gators in a river and traffic on a street to guide an amphibian to its lily-pad home.
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The actor who plays this character grew up in Macon Georgia, and studied theater at the University of Evansville, before performing at improvOlympic and Second City. That actor's first break into show business came when he performed as a waiter at the country club in two episodes of Arrested Development, and he performs a two-man show with Paul Scheer. The character, on the other hand, grew up on a pig farm in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and graduated from Kentucky Mountain Bible College, where he studied television theory. He has an ongoing feud with a character portrayed by Paul Scheer named Donnie, who is the head of the NBC pages. For 10 points, name this lovable yokel portrayed by Jack McBrayer on the series 30 Rock.
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The character of Dot was played by The West Wing's Allison Janney, while Francis Davenport was played by a young David Krumholtz. One of the families in this film includes such youngsters as Sandy and Jim, who were played by Adam Hann-Byrd and Jamey Sheridan. Another member of that family, Mikey Carver, was played by an actor who more recently played a cannibal hitman named Kevin in Sin City. Wendy and Paul, the children of Ben and Elena Hood, were played by Christian Ricci and Tobey Maguire. FTP, name this 1997 film which also starred Joan Allen and Kevin Kline, a work set in Connecticut during Thanksgiving in 1973 which was directed by Ang Lee.
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The cover for the single release of this song features a blue butterfly over a bouquet of flowers, which form the head of a man in a white suit. This song takes its bass line from "Nel Cimitero di Tucson," a tune from the 1968 Western Preparati la Bata! After it remained #1 on the UK singles chart for nine weeks, the longest reign in more than a decade, its band pulled it from the UK market in May 2006 so it wouldn't be too overplayed. It ends with the twice-shouted word "probably!" and begins with the narrator remembering when he lost his mind. FTP, name this hit from album St. Elsewhere by Cee-Lo Green and Danger Mouse, a.k.a. Gnarls Barkley.
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The final song heard in this film originally contained a line about being a fool, but that was changed to "What grace have I, to fall so in love" at the request of the director. At the end of this film, the protagonist puts a cockroach in a freshly-made bed after her husband leaves for work. That protagonist masturbates over the prospect of being compelled to eat exactly four peas, and possesses a notable collection of drill bits and porcelain ballerinas with sharpened toes. Toward the end of the film, she goes on a hunger strike, soiling her wedding dress and refusing to move. She rejects her boyfriend Peter, played by Jeremy Davies, in favor of E. Edward Grey. Directed by Steven Shainberg, FTP, name this dark comedy released in 2002 in which Lee Holloway overcomes the urge to cut herself by taking the title position, a film which stars James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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The frequencies of the waves used range from 1 to 10 MHz, and the signal is produced by the application of a steady electrical sine wave applied to a transducer. The distance from the reflecting surface is obtained from the time delay of the echo and the Doppler shift of frequency is used to measure speed of moving objects such as red blood cells, and a coupling gel is usually used to eliminate the air gap between the transducer and the patient's skin. FTP, identify this method of examining the shape and movement of organs in the body, most associated with pregnancies.
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The group's saxophonist said that the third song on this album was "never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo." The group experimented with Indian and Middle Eastern music, most notably in the album's first song, "Blue Rondo a la Turk." None of the seven songs are in normal 4/4 time, but in 5/4, 9/8, 6/4 and combinations of 3 and 4. FTP, name this album by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, which features the aforementioned solo "Take Five," which shares its name with something that is lost when an NFL coach loses a challenge to instant replay.
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The last track on the album named for this place was written by Glen Sherley, who was an inhabitant of it. The same year that album was released, its artist released The Holy Land and From Sea to Shining Sea. It ends with "Greystone Chapel," which follows a song about the green, green grass of home and another about John Henry's hammer. More memorably, it includes songs about a dirty old egg-suckin' dog and one about life in a coal mine, "Dark as a Dungeon." The speaker of the album's first song bets that there are rich folks drinking coffee and smoking big cigars in a fancy dining car, and is tortured by the fact that those people keep moving. That speaker was told as a baby not to play with guns, but when he grew up he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. FTP, name this institution which was home to a famous concert in 1968, whose "blues" were sung about by Johnny Cash.
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The lead singer of this band has written a book called Adult Head, and he, along with his band's drummer Kevin Coomer and bassist John Stirratt, used to be in a band with Jay Farrar of Son Volt. Their 2003 EP More Like the Moon is probably their least known effort. They scored a minor hit with "Box Full of Letters" from 1995's A.M. and gained critical acclaim from a 1998 collaboration with Billy Bragg. They are the subjects of the Sam Jones film documentary I am Trying to Break Your Heart, and the book Learning How to Die. The album Summerteeth emerged in 1999, but the 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is widely considered their best effort to date. Their most recent effort was 2004's A Ghost is Born. FTP, name this Jeff-Tweedy-led alternative country band.
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The lead singer of this band never released Hoodoo largely due to issues with Fantasy Records. The rhythm section played in the Don Harrison Band and Southern Pacific. The entire band participated in the Zephyr National sessions. Originating as the Blue Velvets, they were later called the Golliwogs. Their final album, Mardi Gras, terminated a streak of eight consecutive gold albums, including Cosmo's Factory and Pendulum. Doug Clifford and Stu Cook were two members, and the band's singles included "Travelin' Band" and "Up Around the Bend." FTP, name this 1960's heartland rock band fronted by John Fogerty, best known for songs like "Green River," "Born on the Bayou," "Fortunate Son," and "Proud Mary."
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The liner notes to this album acknowledge that John Cohen, Mozart, and Quazimodo were right, and feature an episode in which Paul walks by in an umpire's suit and replies to a sarcastic remark made by "some college kid who's read all about Nietzsche." One song features a junkyard angel who always gives the singer bread, while another features a man who has been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. Another song offers suggestions on what to do if you're lost in the rain in Juarez in the Eastertime, while the longest song on this album features Dr. Filth, the Phantom of the Opera, and Casanova, and begins by noting that "they're selling postcards of the hanging" in the titular location. The song which gives this album its title mentions Mack the Finger, who wants to get rid of a thousand telephones that don't ring, and includes God's suggestion that Abraham do some killing out at the title location. FTP, name this album which features "Desolation Row," "Tombstone Blues," and "Like a Rolling Stone," one of the greatest records made by Bob Dylan whose title suggests a return to a certain road.
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The name of these two films is the same. One, a 1988 work, was the autobiographical debut for writer-director Claire Denis [deh-NEECE] and was based on her childhood in French West Africa. It deals with a young French woman's relationship with, and attraction to, her family's Cameroonian houseboy Protee [pro-TAY]. The other, a 2000 film based on a Joanne Harris novel, tells of a woman who sets a strict French village on its ear by opening a candy store. FTP, give the common name for these films, the more recent of which is directed Lasse [LA-say] Hallstrom and stars Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche [bih-NOESH].
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The narrator wakes up at ten in the morning, puts on his Gucci underwear and Kangoal hat, and, when leaving his house, bumps into his girlfriend Sally, who is from the Valley. Also with Sally is her mother, who proceeds to attack Sally in an effort to win the narrator's affections, but he ultimately rebuffs her, saying that he already has a wrinkled pussy, and doesn't need another. FTP, name this rap story-song, about a guy who just likes to party without bothering anybody, with a vocal track by Doug E. Fresh and rhymes by Slick Rick.
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The only other person who ever saw him was a female exchange student from Italy named Carmella, and she confronted this bully on behalf of her continually harassed friend. This nasty character was never seen by any other students or authority figures, and was commonly believed to be imaginary, despite his frequent victim's insistence otherwise. Arnold was never able to beat him up, even with his incredibly powerful foot. FTP, name this nemesis of Gary Coleman's character Arnold Jackson, who remained unseen by the audience for the entire run of Diff'rent Strokes.
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The original name of this band was "Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem" and, after a name change, they released their first self-titled album in 1984. They suffered a tragedy in 1988 when original guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose and drummer, Jack Irons, left the band. After finding a new drummer, Chad Smith, and guitarist, John Frusciante [fra-shawn-tay], the band has their first commercial success with their album Mother's Milk. They really hit it big with their next album Blood Sugar Sex Majik. FTP name this quartet whose hit singles include "Scar," "Californication," and "Under the Bridge."
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The original song by this name encouraged the listener to "look at my fingers vibrate" and "leave the land of noise," while the singer can "hear ev'rything you're thinking." That song appeared on the soundtrack to True Stories, performed by the Talking Heads. The phrase was reclaimed when the band On a Friday was looking for a new name, and Phil Selway, Ed O'Brien, and Jonny Greenwood agreed to adopt it for their group, a few years before this band released videos for "Just" and "Fake Plastic Trees" with singer Thom Yorke. FTP, name this group whose albums, including Pablo Honey and Kid A, have also included the songs "Subterranean Homesick Alien," "Karma Police," and "Creep."
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The plot remains unclear at the end, although we do know that after following the protagonist through a bedroom window, the stalker with the huge sunglasses is arrested by a policeman. Sequences include a billboard whose figures change to reveal different female faces, disappearing cats, and odd split-screen runway action. For forty days and forty nights/ The law was on her side/But who can stand when she's in demand/ Her schemes and plans/ 'Cause we danced on the floor in the round. FTP identify this mysterious title figure whose story is told as the floor beneath Michael Jackson's feet lights up, a woman who claims that he is the one, though the kid is not his son.
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The self proclaimed "foot master", he has a girlfriend who's a vegetarian and that he doesn't eat pork because pigs are filthy animals. He is unwilling to tolerate abuse, claiming that "every time my fingers touch brain, I'm Superfly TNT, I'm the Guns of the Navarrone". After experiencing divine intervention, he gives a thousand dollars to Pumpkin and goes off to "wander the Earth." Earlier, he proves resourceful by remembering his friend Jimmy's garage and making a liberal translation of Ezekiel 25:17. FTP, name this hitman played by Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
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The singer advises the title character of this song to "hide it in your pantry with your cupcakes" and "most of all, you've got to hide it from the kids," while later, he describes a "candidates debate." This song was the first played at the famous Concert at Central Park. At one point in this song, the singers ask "Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio? The nation turns its lonely eyes to you," before noting that "Joltin' Joe has left and gone away." One verse in this song details the title characters time at a mental institution, while the song begins by informing the title character that "Jesus loves you more than you will know" and saying "Here's to you." For ten points, identify this song written for The Graduate, a work by Simon and Garfunkel.
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The title character chooses to call himself "Mulberry Field" on a whim. In the movie's final scene, he cuts the ropes off an old man who had been hanging in the town square. Previously, he had given a dying man back his pistol, which nearly cost him his life. He first knows that there will be problems when he sees a dog running through the street holding a severed human hand in its mouth. Later, a man who had assassinated an officer is used as a pawn to play Ushitora and Seibei against each other, but the title character takes a sound beating before finally managing to clean up a corrupt village. FTP, name this 1961 film that stars Toshiro Mifume as the titular masterless samurai, an Akira Kurosawa work which was remade as A Fistful of Dollars.
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The title character is married to a nightclub singer and sings and whistles throughout the film. The villain wears bright red shirts and an outlandish moustache. The protagonist is trying to go straight even as rival gangsters try to kill him and refuse to follow the Yakuza code. FTP, name this 1966 Seijun Suzuki movie, whose protagonist cannot stay put within a certain Japanese city.
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The two most famous films starring Sylva Koscina were produced in this country and kicked off its “Sword and Sandal†film craze. Bruno and his father Antonio clasp hands and cry at the end of one movie from this country in which Antonio's family faces the prospect of starvation when a thief runs off with Antonio's bicycle. One director from this country adapted Cortazar's The Droolings of the Devil into Blow Up. A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly were directed by a director from this country. For 10 points, name this country whose directors established the “spaghetti western,†and included Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini.
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The year after this film was made Werner Florian, who appeared in it as Sergeant Arthur, made his only other known film appearance. Marcel Dalio had previously appeared in The Golem and went on to appear as Robert de la Cheyniest in a later film by the same director, after appearing in this film as Rosenthal. When this film was made, one of its stars had spent so long in America that he had almost forgotten his native language. Featuring Pierre Fresnay as the aristocratic Captain de Boeldieu and Jean Gabin as the lowly mechanic Lieutenant Marechal, it is better remembered for the role of Captain von Rauffenstein, who was played by Erich von Stroheim. FTP, name this 1937 film about some French officers captured during World War I, which was directed by Jean Renoir.
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Their bitter rivals took revenge after a nine-year drought on January 22, 2008, when at White Hart Line, Tottenham Hotspur thrashed this team 5-1. This team imploded on the field, evidenced when striker Adebayor and Nicklas Bendtner came to blows at the end of the match, forcing team captain William Gallas to intervene. Manager Arsene Wenger was apparently unaware of the row; however, despite losing the Carling Cup match, the North London club is still in contention for the FA Cup and is currently second in the Premier League behind Man U, For 10 points, name this soccer team which plays its home fixtures at Emirates Stadium, nicknamed the Gunners.
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Their first manager was Rene Lachemann, and they used their first expansion draft pick on Nigel Wilson. They used their first real draft pick on catcher Charles Johnson, and Brian Harvey and Gary Sheffield were the team's first All-Stars, in their inaugural season of 1993. FTP, name this National League baseball team, which became the first wild card team to win the World Series in 1997, and then won again in 2003.
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Their original name was coined from the musician who originally performed "Who Do You Love?" They are commonly used in one series to steal opposing players' coins and stars, but they debuted as a playable character in that fifth installment of Mario Party. A group of them are devoured by Tubba Blubba, though he eventually regurgitates them. Specific examples of this species includes Lady Bow and her butler from Paper Mario, and more hostile ones are hunted using Elvin Gadd's Poltergust 3000. Their homes include the Ghostly Galaxy and Luigi's Mansion. For 10 points, name this normally invincible enemy of Mario, who debuted in Super Mario Brothers 3 and will stalk the title character until he faces them, at which point they cover their eyes.
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Their record sleeves have featured pictures of Vanessa Redgrave, Truman Capote, and James Dean. Accused of condoning pedophilia in the songs "Handsome Devil" and "Reel Around the Fountain," their most successful album, The Queen is Dead, featured the classic tearjerker "There is a Light that Never Goes Out." Famous for the song "How Soon is Now," name, FTP, this Manchester band of the 1980s, whose lead singer Morrissey went on to have a successful solo career.
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Their self-titled single debut was released on Calvin Johnson's K Records label in 1994, and after moving to the Up label, they released both Interstate 8 and This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About in 1996. The next year saw release of The Fruit That Ate Itself and The Lonesome Crowded West, the latter of which got them signed by Sony. The Moon and Antarctica and Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks saw moderate success, though the first top 40 hit did not come until recently for this trio of Isaac Brock, Eric Judy, and Jeremiah Green. FTP, name this band whose 2004 album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News includes "The World at Large" and "Float On," though the band doesn't actually include any rodents.
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This 10th grade regional discus champion is currently directing "Marathon of Hope", a movie about runner Terry Fox, for ESPN's 30 for 30 series. He rides a tandem bike down Santa Monica Boulevard alongside blue-shutter shade wearing Baron Davis in the internet video "Step Brothers", while it is rumored that the concept behind "Shaq Vs". was stolen from this athlete. He played "the most ridiculous man on earth", in a viral commercial as a spokesman for Vitamin Water, while in the 2005 Dunk Contest this man passed the ball off his head to one of his teammate using his renowned soccer skills. After backing up Jason Kidd for his first two years, this Santa Clara alum emerged as an All-Star after being traded to the Dallas Mavericks. Born in South Africa but raised in Canada, for 10 points, name this two time MVP who passes to Jason Richardson and Amare Stoudemire as point guard of the Phoenix Suns.
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This 1993 work, the first of a series, incorporated the acting talent of Chicago bouncer Willie Morris, who appears under the pseudonym "Air Dog." The code MJT 3/22 allows one to use Mark Turmell, who claims to be included in it as an unfair advantage for Detroit. In this game, the announcer will exclaim "is it the shoes?" "the nail in the coffin!" or "boom shack a lacka!" if impressed, and making two field goals leads that announcer to note "He's heating up." Three consecutive scores allow your player unlimited Turbo because "He's on fire!" FTP, name this 2-on-2 Midway video game whose sequel included expanded rosters under the subtitle "tournament edition," an arcade basketball classic.
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This active member of the controversial Jesus Seminar earned a doctorate in mathematics and physics in at the University of Leyden. He directed a foreign television series about a medieval Ivanhoe called Floris that was a smash, and a string of European hits including A Girl Called Keetje Tippel, Turkish Delight, and Soldier Of Orange brought him to the attention of Steven Spielberg. His 1987 farce about a police officer turned into a destructive machine was followed by a tale of mind-tampering in the 21st century, Total Recall. FTP, name this director of Robocop, Starship Troopers, and Showgirls.
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This actor played Abner Snopes in a 1980 TV adaptation of "Barn Burning." This actor played a man who goes unarmed into the Oregon woods to confront the unbalanced assassin Aaron Hallam in The Hunted. He directed a film in which Mike Norton kills the title character, then is forced to dig him up and take him to Jimenez by Pete Perkins. The director of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, this actor described waking up after dreaming of his father riding on ahead to make a fire in "all that dark, all that cold" in a 2007 movie starring this actor as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell. He played Colonel Hayes Hodge in Rules of Engagement and portrayed a marshall trying to capture Dr. Richard Kimble in the 1993 movie The Fugitive. For 10 points, name this actor who played Agent K, the mentor of Will Smith's Agent J, in Men in Black, and attempted to track down Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.
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This actress, one of the most talented women in the world, once had a role as Jennifer Love Hewitt's roommate on the tv series, Time of Your Life. Married to Scott Foley, who she met on the set of Felicity, she won the 2002 Golden Globe for best actress in a dramatic tv series, and in her acceptance speech, she extolled her performance in Dude, where's my car?. FTP, name this actress who plays agent Sydney Bristow on Alias.
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This adjective appears in the title of a song about a "man in the moon" who "taps at the window"; that song by Yo la Tengo refers to a "sarong" of this hue. Another song mentioning this adjective in its title begins "unsealed on a porch a letter sat" and ends with the repeated line "I don't want to stay." A less cryptic song of this name was the second single off a 2000 album, and features the singer's claim that he "drew a line for you" and repeated requests to "look at the stars" and "how they shine for you." FTP, name this adjective which describes a "ledbetter" in a Pearl Jam song and which names a sappy hit by Coldplay.
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This artist, a 2004 inductee into the Casino Legends Hall of Fame, won a Grammy award in 1985 for a duet with Luis Miguel, "Me gustas tal como eres," which appeared on her only Spanish-language album. She also collaborated on "Arms of Orion" for the Batman soundtrack, and appeared in Indecent Proposal, performing "The Nearness of You." Noted for singing the theme song to For Your Eyes Only while on-screen, she may be better known for her collaboration with Prince, "U Got the Look," and for a cover of "We Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers. FTP, name this adult contemporary singer, also known for "Modern Girl" and the working girl's anthem "Morning Train (Nine to Five)."
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This athlete was played in a Billy Crystal-directed HBO film by Battlefield Earth star Barry Pepper. Ron Rakowski discovered that this man was wrongly given an RBI in a game against the Indians, which led Jim Gentile to win a share of a fifty-year-old RBI crown in 2010. He was the younger half of the original “M&M Boys.†Ford Frick allegedly suggested putting an asterisk in the record books next to this player's most famous accomplishment. For 10 points, name this player who outpaced Mickey Mantle in 1961 to break Babe Ruth's record by slugging 61 homers.
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This author of the poetry book Ten Last Night and performer of the vocal jazz albums The Other Parade and One Man's Meat played Caspar Goodwood in 1996's adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady and later painted the murals attributed to his character David Shaw in A Perfect Murder. He was also present at the "Miracle on Ice" game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in his official capacity as the English translator for the Swedish hockey team. While playing Jerome Stample in Salvation!, he met his onetime wife Exene Cervenka, and their son Henry convinced him to take his most successful role on short notice, replacing the fired Stuart Townsend. FTP, name this actor who recently portrayed Tom Stall in A History of Violence after starring as Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings films.
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This author wrote mystery stories involving the Black Widowers and fantasy stories featuring a demon named Azazel. In one of his novels, Andrew Harlan operates a time-travel device known as a "kettle" as one of the Eternals, while in another an amnesiac discovers that Florina's sun is about to explode. Those early works, The End of Eternity and The Currents of Space, are peripherally related to this author's most famous series. In one novel, Golan Trevize and Janov Pelorat search for Earth, while earlier in the series the science of psychohistory is invented by Hari Seldon. For 10 points, name this science fiction author known for the Foundation series and I, Robot.
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This band emerged from a 1981 ad placed in L.A.'s Recycler Magazine, that read: "loud rude aggressive guitarist seeks bandmates". The surprising success of their first single, "Live Wire" off the Too Fast For Love album, spawned follow-up hits including the raunchy "Ten Seconds To Love", "Looks That Kill", and the occult influenced "Shout at the Devil". Reacting against trendy bands like Poison, the band moved away from glam in with the 1987 album, Girls, Girls, Girls. FTP, name this rock band that featured Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Tommy Lee.
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This band sang about “Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather†in the Sacher-Masoch inspired “Venus in Furs.†This group claimed that “women never really faint, and the villains always blink their eyes†in a song recorded after guitarist John Cale left this band. In addition to writing “Sweet Jane,†this group claimed that “it makes me feel like I'm a man, When I put a spike into my vein†in “Heroin.†This group was a part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, and their first album featured several songs by Nico and a cover with a peel-away banana designed by Andy Warhol. For 10 points, name this seminal punk band led by Lou Reed.
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This band sings “Do as I say, not as I do†to open their song “Walking Contradiction,†which can be found on their album Insomniac. One of their choruses begins “No time to search the world around.†In another song, they sing “summer has come and passed, the innocence can never last.†Their songs “Basket Case†and “When I Come Around†are on their album Dookie. More recent hits by this band include “Boulevard of Broken Dreams†and “Know Your Enemy.†For 10 points, name this band whose latest albums are 21st Century Breakdown and American Idiot.
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This band's lead vocalist is said to smell like butterscotch. One of this band's songs implores the listener to "get the cool shoeshine," though it's better known in a remix by Soulchild. Along with "Rock the House" and "Tomorrow Comes Today", this band's eponymous first album featured the single "Clint Eastwood." One song about "a melancholy town where we never smile" featured De La Soul, and songs like "Kids With Guns" and "Dare" appeared with "Feel Good Inc" on their most recent studio album, Demon Days. For 10 points, identify this band created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, comprising Russel, Murdoc, 2D, and Noodle, a bunch of cartoons.
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This band's most recent release contained a cover of "Scarlet Begonias" from a KUCI Radio performance and an acoustic version of Bob Marley's "Real Situation", a compilation album titled Everything Under the Sun. "Rawhide" for a time appeared after one of their first hits, a song that ends with a man encountering "a large inmate." Their most popular album contained a track about the Rodney King riots, "April 29, 1992", and their song "Badfish" has lent its name to a popular tribute band that exists mainly due to vocalist Bradley Nowell's 1996 death. Also recording "Smoke Two Joints" and "Date Rape", for 10 points, identify this band of"Wrong Way" and "What I Got".
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This band's song “Step Out†was relegated to a b-side when Stevie Wonder demanded 10% royalties due to its resemblance to “Uptight.†This group sang that “Sally can wait, she knows it's too late†in a John Osborne inspired song. This group repeatedly asked “Where were you when we were getting high†in a song which inspired the name of a structure that seems to violate the Chandrasekhar limit. This band sang “Don't Look Back in Anger†and “Champagne Supernova†as part of the “Battle of Britpop†against rival group Blur. For 10 points, name this recently-defunct band fronted by Liam and Noel Gallagher, whose songs include “Supersonic†and “Wonderwall.â€
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This character claims to know about hardship because she had to attend Tufts when all the other colleges to which she applied rejected her. Her legendary temper is seen after her fish die in a parking garage and during numerous fights with a boyfriend she describes as having a "kroner-comprehension problem". She loses another boyfriend and her job at Pendant Publishing due to her love of Jujy Fruit, but later works as the assistant of Mr. Pitt and as publisher of the J. Peterman catalog. FTP, who is this Seinfeld character, Jerry's former girlfriend?
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This character is first seen as one of the twelve survivors of the wreck of the Hunter Gratzner, after which he dislocates his shoulders to escape. In a 2004 game by Starbreeze Studios, he escapes from Butcher Bay with the bounty hunter Johns and his special sight is the result of an operation performed on him by Pope Joe. Aeon Flux creator Peter Chung based a short film subtitled Dark Fury on his adventures and, in a more famous appearance, he defeats the Lord Marshall and the Necromongers, finding out in the process that he is a Furyan warrior. FTP, identify this character first appearing in a movie loosely based on Asimov's Nightfall, Pitch Black; a Vin Diesel character whose Chronicles were told in a 2004 David Twohy movie.
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This character wins the Employee of the Week award at Happy-Go-Lucky Toys, and is then depicted going for his fourth Birdie on a mini-golf course. Peter confuses this character with The Incredible Hulk at Mr. Weed's funeral. Stewie walks in on this man washing himself, and witnesses him wash all the suds away from his body. According to Stewie, this character is actually Chinese, and his second name is Hong. Usually depicted driving a Cadillac Escalade, this character is depicted in an NRA movie killing Romans along with Moses, while he's depicted with the power to turn water into funk on another episode. For ten points, identify this character portrayed on Family Guy in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ II: Crucify This!
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This character's former lover, Andrea Beaumont, became the Phantasm in one animated movie. Psychologist Chase Meridian falls in love with him and his alter ego in one movie named after this character. Another movie features a crime boss named Carl Grissom and sees another villain fall from a cathedral after attempting to kidnap Vicki Vale; that man is played by Jack Nicholson. A TV series saw Burgess Meredith play the Penguin against Adam West, who played this protagonist. For 10 points, name this comic book character whose most recent movie featured Heath Ledger as The Joker and was called The Dark Knight.
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This character's introductory speech in one of his appearances had the line "and I don't mean Mahatma Ghandi" changed to "And I ain't no mamby pamby". Until 1959, he was featured only in shorts directed by Friz Freleng, on whom he was based. In one appearance, he attempts to force his main enemy to fill in for the absent high-diver Fearless Freep, while in another he repeatedly answers his enemy's challenge to step over a line drawn in the sand, even when the line is drawn at the edge of a cliff. Other appearances involve portraying a jailer named Schulz, a Black Knight accompanied by a dragon with a sneezing problem, and, frequently, a pirate, in which guise he was accompanied by the Tasmanian Devil as the villain in Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island. For 10 points, name this "hootinest, tootinest, shootinest bob-tailed wildcat in the west", a red-haired cowboy antagonist of Bugs Bunny.
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This character's suspicion that his friend may be the tooth fairy leads to the revelation that this character keeps a picture of Chris Noth in his wallet. He overplays radio sound effects when he co-hosts “Dingo and the Baby.†His sister cons restaurant patrons into thinking he's addicted to crack when he becomes obsessed with pancakes. He listens to Air Supply while battling his unborn nemesis, Bertram. His teddy bear is named Rupert, and he often says “what the deuce?†For 10 points, name this cartoon character, an infant bent on world domination on Family Guy.
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This city is the setting for a Harry Chapin song in which a fatal truck accident spills the title amount of fruit. This setting for “Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas†is also the setting of a play and film about the twenty five year reunion of a basketball team called That Champion Season. Along with Wilkes-Barre, this city has a Triple A baseball team which dropped its association with the Phillies and replaced the Columbus Clippers as the Yankees top farm team. This city's Poor Richard's Pub is a favorite haunt of characters like Kevin Malone and Stanley Hudson. For 10 points, name this Pennsylvania location of Michael Scott's branch of Dunder Mifflin on The Office.
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This culture's most famous custom often involves the greeting “Dif-tor heh smusma.†Their polytheistic religious beliefs include a conception of the soul known as the katra and an Eden known as Sha Ka Ree. The Decapodian tradition of “Claw-Plach†on Futurama is a parody of this culture's mating ritual of koon-ut-kal-if-fee, which occurs when a female refuses marriage during the mating time of pon farr. This race's telepathic abilities allow them to perform their namesake “mind-meld.†Their “Time of the Awakening†began when the philosopher Surak led a revolution that incorporated logic into the very essence of their culture. For 10 points, identify this alien species that includes Tuvok and the half-human Spock, noted for their split-fingered salute.
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This early rap group has long been championed by acts such as Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys, who cite them as a major influence, a status attained despite having never released a full album. Their output consists of a series of singles released in the early 1980's on the independent Enjoy label, none of which sold well. They subsequently broke up to pursue solo careers, and their lead vocalist went on to one of the most successful hip-hop careers of the late 1980's. FTP, name this rap trio, whose songs included "The New Rap Language" and "Body Rock," and was fronted by Kool Moe Dee.
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This figure appointed his greatest enemy as the leader of Red Shard, whom he later attempted to assassinate during a labor guild hostage situation. Sam Lane later orders Ral-Dar to shoot this figure, whose biological son has begun a romantic relationship with Thara Ak-Var. After Non was lobotomized by the science council, he served as an enforcer for this man, whose sentence was recently commuted by Alura. The lover of Ursa, this figure was sealed away for attempting to overthrow the government. In a more famous incarnation, this figure was freed when his enemy threw a hydrogen bomb into space, resulting in a portal to the Phantom Zone opening. For 10 points, name this figure played by Terence Stamp, who demanded that Superman, among others, “kneel before†him.
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This figure once decided against altering the memories of Arhul Hexaphron, and his future abilities were honed by Gormo. The X'Ting built a 70-meter statue of this figure, who also won a contest set up by King Katuunko alongside three subordinates. He commanded the Chu'unthor and gave its data to a member of the Singing Mountain Clan of Dathomir, from whom this figure's most famous student would later obtain them. He once defeated a Bpfasshi whose spirit would later enter a tree, and Bail Organa helps this figure escape after his failed duel in the Senate Chamber with Darth Sidious. For 10 points, name this figure who died on the swamp planet Dagobah, the last head of the Jedi Council and teacher of Luke Skywalker.
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This figure once said “academia, here I come!†after presenting a “Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes†called “The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane.†His artistic pursuits include a series of 100 shrunken heads of popular cartoon characters, and a sculpture in which one figure contemplates evolution while holding a snowball. His adopted sobriquets include “the Bold†and “Boy of Destiny.†His alter egos include Tracer Bullet and Spaceman Spiff. This co-founder of G.R.O.S.S. used the same cardboard box to invent a time machine, a duplicator, and a transmogrifier. He often crashes his toboggan or his wagon. For 10 points, identify this protagonist of a Bill Watterson comic strip who is often accompanied by his tiger Hobbes.
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This figure puts out a bounty on a character who once messed up giving his name to Peggy Jean in a 1986 hyper-violent Jim Reardon animated short. This character supposedly resides in the "most sincere" location, and in a special named for this character, his primary supporter gives the advice of "never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker." An episode of Robot Chicken saw him defeated by the Kite Eating Tree after killing all the children, and a parody of him was defeated by Tom Turkey in the last segment of the most recent Treehouse of Horror. Mistaken for a zamboni and a dogfighter, this character is often waited for by Sally, although Lucy refuses to believe in him. For 10 points, name this character who never appears to Linus in a Peanuts Halloween Special.
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This film long claimed to have been the first American movie in which a fight using karate was presented. Janet Leigh is very hot as a minor character and Laurence Harvey gives an under-rated performance as an "unloveable" main character. However, only the actress playing the scheming and sinister senator's wife earned an Academy Award nomination. Starring Angela Lansbury and Frank Sinatra, this 1962 film was recently remade by Jonathan Demme. FTP, name this film about a man brainwashed during the Korean War to become an assassin, whose 2004 version starred Denzel Washington.
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This film's protagonist is able to find Zhora due to her use of a synthetic snake, a scale from which he locates in a bathtub. A vision of an origami unicorn in its director's cut is a crucial clue regarding his nature omitted from the original. At its beginning, Leon is unable to answer a question about his mother and attacks Holden while, near its end, Gaff notes "It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?" of the protagonist's love interest, Rachel, who almost passes the Voight-Kampff test. FTP, name this film by Ridley Scott based on Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and featuring Harrison Ford as Deckard, one of the title replicant hunters.
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This is the second word of the title of a song in which Donovan notes that he's "just mad about Saffron," and it signifies industrial zoning in a certain Maxis series. This type of "kid" was the main character of Richard Outcault's Hogan's Alley, while this kind of fog "rubs its back against the windowpanes" in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and tartrazine is known as this "No. 5." A song of this title notes that "your skin and bones/turn into something beautiful" and asks the listener to "Look how" the stars "shine for you." For 10 points, identify the hue that titles that 2000 Coldplay song, the color of Pikachu, tennis balls, Big Bird, and the sun.
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This is the surname of the Dodge Viper-driving alter-ego of Sherman Klump in the Eddie Murphy vehicle The Nutty Professor. Another character with this surname frequently masturbates with a lightsaber, and takes her surname from a Teresa Graves blaxploitation film entitled Get Christie [this surname]!. One family with this surname has produced an Oregon Athletic Hall of Famer named Stan, a man co-credited with writing "Fun, Fun, Fun" named Mike, and a fifth overall NBA pick who was traded from the Grizzlies for O.J. Mayo. For 10 points, name this surname shared by Drawn Together's Foxxy and former UCLA star forward Kevin.
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This man authored The Theory and Practice of Macroeconomics in Developing Countries after attending the London School of Economics, a work for which he won a Nobel Prize. Like his ancestor, who signed the Declaration of Independence, this man served as Governor of New Hampshire. His court appointments include Christopher Mulready and Evelyn Baker Lang, and he was wounded during an attack in Rosslyn. He defeated future running-mate John Hoynes in the Democratic primaries with the help of his chief of staff, Leo McGarry, and is first mentioned in the phrase "POTUS in a bicycle accident" during the pilot episode. For 10 points, name this United States president played by Martin Sheen, a central character of The West Wing.
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This man had a habit of taking a disassembled mountain bike onto planes, then putting it back together in order to ride to the ballpark, while serving as bench coach for the Angels from 1994 to 2005. In a 2006 game against the Mariners, this manager's team completed the first-ever 2-6-2 triple play. In a 2008 game against the Rangers, he ordered a bases-loaded intentional walk of Josh Hamilton. He was once associated with the slogan “nine equals eight,†and his coaches include Dave Martinez, Jim Hickey, and former Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer. He passed Larry Rothschild to become his team's all-time leader in wins. He succeeded Lou Piniella as manager in 2006. For 10 points, name this 2008 AL Manager of the Year, the current skipper of the Tampa Bay Rays.
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This man once compared his religion to a strip club due to its preponderance of rules, and at one point, he advertised a free trampoline in the local paper in order to help transition his act to dirty limericks, offering "there once was a man named Enos" as an example. His boring early career included asking AFL-CIO president John Meany if there was a "labor crisis" and interrupting his show to report that Britain had invaded the Falklands. He later bore a startling resemblance to Handsome Pete and lived under the alias Rory Bellows to escape a tax lien, following such poor financial decisions as betting on the Washington Generals. During the Los Angeles Olympics, this man promised to spit in every free burger won due to the Soviet boycott. A quote from Sammy Davis Jr reunites this man with his estranged father, who was voiced by Jackie Mason and is a rabbi named Hyman. For 10 points, name this owner of an eponymous burger chain who airs The Itchy & Scratchy Show and works with Sideshow Mel as the leading children's entertainer in Springfield.
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This man played Jim Hawkins in a 1990 film version of Treasure Island, three years after playing Jamie Graham in Empire of the Sun. He appeared as Pelagia's fiancée Mandras in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, voiced the title role in Howl's Moving Castle, and practiced Gun Kata as John Preston in Equilibrium. He lost sixty pounds to play Trevor Reznik in The Machinist and appeared as yuppie-turned-serial-killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. He tells Aaron Eckhart's character that "You're the symbol of hope I can never be" in a film that sees him chase Heath Ledger a lot. For 10 points, name this actor who played the title role in The Dark Knight and Batman Begins.
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This man spent two years in foster homes until being adopted in 1891. He got his start in the film industry as a caption writer and made his first film, The President, in 1919. 1921's Leaves from Satan's Book, established him as a director with high artistic standards, but Vampire, the first movie which followed his most famous, received mixed reviews. FTP, name this Danish director of The Passion of Joan of Arc.
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This man was replaced by Steve Whitmire after his death from pneumonia, and, in a tribute to him, his creations asked who he was and then sang "Just One Person." His funeral featured a jazz band and spontaneous singing, but his most famous character sat on his casket with a sign saying "I lost my voice." He had actually been the voice of two characters: one was famous for singing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" and "Rubber Duckie," while the other sang "Rainbow Connection" and "It's Not Easy Being Green." FTP, identify this children's television pioneer who created Ernie for Sesame Street and Kermit the Frog for The Muppet Show.
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This man, who started two games for the Arizona Cardinals in 1994, hosted the 2006 Barefoot Open, so named because he prefers to play golf with bare feet. Defensive tackle Charles Martin became infamous for his dirty hit on this player, who first came to attention during the 1981 Holiday Bowl, when he led a miraculous comeback win over SMU while playing for BYU. In 1996, he won a rather ironic Super Bowl ring as a backup to Brett Favre, but he's better remembered for throwing deep to Willie Gault and mooning a television station helicopter en route to another Super Bowl win. FTP, name this headband-wearing "punky QB" who got under the skin of Mike Ditka while leading the 1985 Chicago Bears to glory.
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This movie would have had Vivien Leigh in the starring role if David O. Selznick had had his way. Only at a party near the end is the mcguffin revealed to be something hidden in a wine cellar. The hero is first introduced upside down in a blurry shot, and then recruits Alicia Huberman to reacquaint herself with Alexander Sebastian. Its famous last scene is that of Devlin carrying Alicia down the steps to their freedom, while Claude Rains must reenter the house to his death. FTP, name this 1946 Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
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This musician found work with Cab Calloway's band, but Calloway didn't take kindly to this musician's adventurous solos, which he branded "Chinese music." However, he got himself thrown out of the Calloway band for another reason entirely, as he stabbed the bandleader in the leg with a switchblade after Calloway accused him of firing spitballs at him during a concert. Later, he moved up to Harlem, where he helped to plant the seeds of bebop at Minton's Playhouse. There, he began to use an instrument with its bell pointed at a 45-degree angle, and also began to play original compositions like Woody n' You, Groovin' High, and Con Alma. FTP, name this lightning-fingered jazz trumpeter, who composed A Night In Tunisia.
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This musician got his start replacing the legendary King Oliver in Kid Ory's band, and after serving as lead cornet soloist for Fletcher Henderson's band recorded his early masterpieces, the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, which included songs like "Potato Head Blues". He abandoned the cornet for his trademark instrument, and after forming his "All-Star" sextet became renown for both his non-stop tour schedule and for his command of the high registers and melodic inventiveness, which contrasted with the gruff voice he used to became the first great jazz singer, incorporating scat singing on recordings of "Hello, Dolly!" and "Mack the Knife". FTP, who was this great trumpeter known as "Satchmo"?
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This past September, he debuted a jazz opera based on Steinbeck's Cannery Row. His group was one of the first to play regularly at colleges, which resulted in their Jazz Goes to College album, and other albums by his group the Jazz Impressions series. After serving in a band in Patton's army during World War II, he finished his studies at Mills College, where he formed an octet. His group's experimental music didn't sell and he cut it down to a trio that played jazz standards until Paul Desmond joined to make his group a quartet in 1951. FTP, name this jazz musician noted for his use of polytonality and unusual time signatures in pieces like Unsquare Dance, Blue Rondo a la Turk, and Take Five..
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This person holds the dubious distinction of having been replaced by Derek Jeter in a Gillette commercial with Roger Federer and Tiger Woods. This player scored the goal that eliminated Brazil from the 2006 World Cup. Just before that, this player lost in the Champions League final to the club he currently plays for. He sits behind only Alan Shearer and Andy Cole on the list of top Premier League scorers. He scored over 20 goals for five straight years at Arsenal. He has recently come under fire for a handball which set up the winning goal in a World Cup Qualifying Playoff to beat Ireland. For 10 points, name this French striker who is currently plying his trade at FC Barcelona.
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This player has spent short stints with the Arizona Diamondbacks, who drafted him as their third expansion pick, and with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who traded him away with Anastacio Martinez and Brandon Lyon in return for Freddy Sanchez. Initially drafted by the Red Sox, he spent four mediocre seasons with the Royals after being acquired in 1998. Both of his career home runs have come off of Steve Trachsel, the last of which being the most memorable en route to a 5-0 victory in the playoffs. Just recently given a 4-year deal by the Milwaukee Brewers, FTP, name this pitcher who won MVP honors this year after starting game 7 in the NLCS for the St. Louis Cardinals, and is fittingly nicknamed "Soup."
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This show's episodes include one about a character having a nightmare with the Muppets after a late-night snack, as well as one where that same character dreams that he, his son, and his son-in-laws Martin and Elvin have become pregnant. Sondra first appeared midway through season 1 of this show, which sees Denise leave Hillman College and marry a Navy man, whose daughter Olivia comes to live with Rudy. This show ended with Theo graduating from NYU despite his dyslexia. FTP, name this late 1980s-early 1990s TV sitcom set in Brooklyn, featuring the family raised by Clair Hanks, played by Phylicia Rashad, and Dr. Healthcliff Huxtable.
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This song was the artist's first single since 1969's "For What It's Worth", and it was succeeded as number on the on the Billboard charts by the Theme from "Shaft". One character in this song is given a ride to Memphis and filled with a hot meal; that character has a smooth southern style but is not seen for a while. One character in this song makes a living by preaching gospel and selling bottles of Dr. Good, and it repeatedly notes that "every night the men would come around / and lay their money down". For 10 points, name this Cher song, whose protagonist was born in the wagon of a traveling show, for which she is subjected to the titular epithets.
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This specific activity is mentioned in reference to Raven Simone in the Notorious B.I.G. song "Just Playin'," and it is part of the title of an A Tribe Called Quest song in which Phife claims a woman is "hotter than Meshach, Shadrach and Abendego." In a music video of this title, we learn that its perpetrator drives a van with license plate "stabbin' cabin," and Ron Jeremy appears as both a judge who sentences that criminal to 25 years and the "large inmate" who later sodomizes him. The titular offense takes place after an encounter at "a bar in downtown hell," and the criminal, who has "light skin, light blue eyes, a double-chin and a plastic smile" claims that "if it weren't for" it, he'd "never get laid." FTP, the album 40 Oz. to Freedom contains what Sublime song denouncing a serious crime that often involves alcohol or rohypnol?
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This team acquired cornerback Gary Baxter and safety Brian Russell following the 2004 season, and their other defensive additions include Jason Fisk and Matt Stewart. On offense, they picked up linemen Joe Andruzzi and L. J. Shelton and acquired a Super Bowl-winning quarterback who most recently played four seasons with the Seahawks. They drafted wide receiver Braylon Edwards, while Steve Heiden at tight end will have to fill in for the injured Kellen Winslow Jr. FTP, name this team in the AFC North which features Trent Dilfer and Lee Suggs on offense, and which is now coached by Romeo Crennel.
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This word titles the most recent release of Lucky McKee, which is a gender-reversed retelling of his 2002 film May. It also names the former lover of Freddy, who visits New York with Harold Waldorf on an episode of Gossip Girl. This adjective appears in the title of an orchestral work that reuses a saltarello from its creator's opera Benvenuto Cellini. One dish described by this adjective consists of veal rolled with ham and sage and cooked in butter and Marsala. For 10 points, give this adjective that describes a "Carnival Overture" by Berlioz and, in a 1953 Audrey Hepburn film, a "Holiday."
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This work was inspired by a painting by Albertus Pictor that its creator saw in Taby. Early on, one of the characters claims he has heard of two horses devouring each other after he sings a song about strumpets. Other omens include an acrobat who has a vision of the Virgin Mary dressed in a blue robe and a troupe of performers dancing the tarantella. The climax comes when the protagonist reveals his plan to win a contest to a priest that turns out to be his adversary in disguise, leading to his inevitable failure. FTP name this film in which Max von Sydow plays chess with death, the best-known work of Ingmar Bergman.
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This work's inside cover shows the artist playing a Fender J-bass at left and near an upturned barstool at right. This album's tracks were produced by Bob Johnson except for its first, which was recorded at an ersatz New York studio with Al Kooper on Hammond. The title track is the seventh and discusses a location where Georgia Sam may run, but it is not nearly so famous as "Queen Jane, Approximately;" "Desolation Row;" "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues;" or "Like a Rolling Stone." FTP, identify this 1965 Bob Dylan album, ostensibly about returning to the title roadway.
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Thomas Shepherd and Billy Kaplan were discovered, in 2005, to be the long-missing sons of this woman. She had previously enlisted the aid of Agatha Harkness to forget the existence of those children, who first appeared after her move to Leonia. Born at Wundagore under the supervision of a cow who was transformed into a nurse, she later teleported Century to Earth in her role as the founder of Force Works. More recently, she uttered the phrase "no more mutants," ending the House of M saga and depowering many background Marvel characters. The world-altering abilities of this wife of the Vision come from her new "chaos magic" abilities, which enhance her former power to alter probabilities in her favor. FTP, name this former member of the Avengers who is the twin sister of Quicksilver and daughter of Magneto.
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Though she did not use her alias when she appeared as a dominatrix in the adult film "Next to Godliness," whenever she is at Taco Time or a hotel bar, she refers to herself as Anastasia Beaverhausen. She gets involved with Lionel Banks, but realizes that she loves her 500-pound husband Stan, only to find that he has fallen for a lunch lady in his prison's cafeteria. She then lives out of a limo and at the Palace Hotel, all while being the world's worst assistant to Grace Adler. FTP, name this rich socialite, played by Megan Mullally.
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Two characters in this show are eventually revealed to be the PTSD-suffering veteran Anthony Ceccoli and the painter Priya Tsetang. Its final episode will revisit the future world in which Mag and Zone are searching for Safe Haven. In the current season of this show, Senator Daniel Perrin has cleared Rossum Corporation of official wrongdoing, and Fran Kranz's character Topher Brink has developed the technology for remote wipes. This show's protagonist developed a romantic relationship with Paul Ballard, whose personality was stolen by Alpha, and allied with Adelle DeWitt after achieving self-awareness and escaping from the Attic. For 10 points, name this recently-cancelled FOX show which starred Eliza Dushku as Echo and which was directed by Joss Whedon.
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When Lisa Simpson asked Marge whether it would be better to "attack the roots of social problems instead of jamming people into overcrowded prisons," Marge responded by operating a puppet of this figure saying his catchphrase. Named by New Orleans police officer John Isbell, he appeared on Webster in 1986 to denounce school bullying, and he has now branched out into discussing bike safety, cultural diversity, and identity theft. He always wears jeans and a gray trench coat and has recently been assisted by his nephew Scruff. FTP, name this mascot who encourages you to "take a bite out of crime."
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When appended with a "y," this adjective replaced "Plenty" in "Good n' Plenty" to describe a version of that candy with red licorice, and it also describes a cereal that has come in novelty "fiesta" and "Bronto bright" versions. A terrible brand of children's gum that comes with temporary tattoos and has a zebra mascot is called the "stripe" of this. General Mills makes this in "roll-ups" and "by the foot," and it also appears "on the bottom" in some Dannon yogurts. A form of this word modifies the non-cocoa type of Pebbles cereal. For 10 points, name this adjective, which describes a type of "loop" advertised by a fellow, who will follow his nose wherever it goes, Toucan Sam.
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When he came to Brooklyn from southern Italy in 1905, he became sickly and grew spindly. As he later recalled, "I was a 97 pound runt. I was skinny, pale, nervous, and weak." After observing a tiger at the zoo, he developed his concept of isometric exercises, pitting muscle against muscle. Soon, he had a flourishing mail-order business that promised to turn wimps into bulging he-men. Six million purchased the course making him a millionaire. FTP name this body-building guru, born Angelo Siciliano.
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When this group reformed in 1997, Adrian Vandenberg and the vocalist were the only holdovers from their previous incarnation. That version performed an unplugged show in Japan which was released as Starkers in Tokyo as well as the album Restless Heart, which wasn't released in the United States. After that, the lead singer put the band on hiatus to release the solo effort Into the Light, having previously put the group on hold to collaborate on an album with Jimmy Page. The third version of the band produced Slip of the Tongue with Steve Vai, while the first produced such albums as Northwinds and Lovehunter. But it is the second version, whose songs included "Still of the Night" and "Slide It In," which is best remembered today. FTP, name this "hair metal" band fronted by former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale, whose hits include "Love Ain't No Stranger" and "Here I Go Again."
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With their only pick in the 1999 draft, this team took Maryland's Laron Profit in the second round. In the 1997 draft, they took Chattanooga product Johnny Taylor in the first round, while the 2003 draft saw them take Louisville's Reece Gaines in the first round. In 2002, they swapped first round picks with Utah, getting Ryan Humphrey in exchange for Curtis Borchardt. In 2004, they used the first pick of the second round to take Brazilian star Anderson Varejao, having used an earlier pick on a forward from Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, and most recently they drafted Spain's Fran Vasquez. FTP, name this NBA team which has used the first overall pick in the draft on such players as Chris Webber, Dwight Howard, and Shaquille O'Neal.
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Would you cut out the psychobabble bullsh!t mom? There's pictures of me on the internet is a notable line from her role as Marci Greenbaum in Cruel Intentions and "I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars" is a great line from her role as Bunny in The Big Lebowski She plays Connie in Doctor T and the Women and Sasha Thomas, a slutty college radio show host, in Urban Legend. "If I could go back in time, I'd meet Snoopy," is a memorable line from her character as an airheaded drummer in a recent movie. FTP name this blonde actress, a former girlfriend of the nauseating Carson Daly, who starred as Melody in Josie and the Pussycats and as Vicky Latham in the American Pie movies.