- It was originally released in 1989, and sold more
than one million copies before being discontinued. Returning to stores
in 2004, it is a game in two phases. The first phase is a
Monopoly-style effort where players gobble up properties, cash and
cards. These are then used in the second phase for wheeling and
dealing. At the end of all this, the hidden cash is removed from the
properties and the person with the most total cash wins. Taking a cue
from The Apprentice, the second edition features the phase "You're Fired" on the box. For ten points, name this board game all about The Donald.
Answer: Trump: The Game
- After breaking up in 1994, this band got back
together to record "On the Inside" as a new track to a 2001 greatest
hits album before appearing on the 2002 Hollywierd Tour with Cinderella
and Poison. "Down Incognito" and "Easy Come, Easy Go" are latter minor
hits by this act founded by a former bassist for Alice Cooper. For ten
points, name this hair metal band whose songs "Seventeen" and "Headed
for a Heartbreak" were probably memorized by Stuart from Beavis and Butthead.
Answer: Winger
- In 1920, Dodgers catcher Ernie Krueger hit a ball
that rolled under the temporary stands in center field at Ebbets Field,
while Tommy Leach of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a ball into the crowd
of standing-room patrons in the outfield in the first game of the 1903
World Series. Both accomplished this feat which urban legend falsely
claims is possible at Fenway Park. For ten points, name this quirky
type of hit in which you get one more base than a ball that bounces
over the outfield wall.
Answer: ground rule triple
- Charlie Murphy plays Gusto, a criminal who believes
the titular group set him up and stole his persona. MC Gusto, Dead Mike
and Stab Master Arson rise to the top of the rap world with songs such
as "I'm Black," "Straight Outta Locash," and "Sweat from My Balls." For
ten points, name this 1993 rap mockumentary starring and co-written by
Chris Rock.
Answer: CB4
- Founded in 1927, it originally featured residential
cottages, though large new dormitory buildings house many of its 1042
residents. Phone use is limited to five hours a month, visitors allowed
from Friday through Monday, and for the first 90 days new residents
work in the kitchen before being sent to work elsewhere, such as
landscaping the 159 acre campus. Famous alumnae include Billie Holiday,
Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose, and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. Located in
West Virginia, this is, for ten points, what first federal prison
specifically for women, currently home to Martha Stewart?
Answer: Alderton Federal Prison Camp (also accept Camp Cupcake)
- Home to such animals as yelks and hoxneys, its
population fears diseases such as “bone fever” and “fat death,” both of
which are caused by a tick parasitized by the intelligent phagors. Its
small year corresponds to 480 days and orbit around Batalix, while the
“Great Year” around the supergiant Freyr created the spectacle watched
on the Eductainment Channel on Earth. For ten points, name this planet,
the setting for a trilogy by Brian W. Aldiss?
Answer: Helliconia
- Her later works included Dorothy in 1999's Click Three Times and Gracie in 1996's Original Gangstas.
A New York native, she worked as a keypunch operator and spent nights
in off-Broadway plays for 30 years. Moving to L.A. in the 1960s, she
earned fame playing Tillie the maid in 1967's Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,
which led to her greatest role as a dry cleaner’s wife. For ten points,
name this actress, who received six Emmy nominations for her work as
Weezie on The Jeffersons, and who died in 2004.
Answer: Isabel Sanford
- According to the Internet Movie Database, the 2004 flop National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
was originally going to be released under this name. The original
version, released in 1955, earned a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination
for William Rose and featured Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and Herbert
Lom as members of a criminal gang. A 2004 remake moves the setting from
London to the American South, but maintains the general plot of
criminal masterminds and their frequent failures to eliminate an old
woman. For ten points, give the common name for these films, remade in
2004 by the Coen brothers?
Answer: The Ladykillers
- Limo driver Chris Seletti claims that he mailed the
lyrics for this song to himself in 1990 as proof that he wrote it, but
it is unclear why anyone would want the credit for writing sappy lines
such as: "It's a long road / When you face the world alone / No one
reaches out a hand / For you to hold." The song notes that you can cast
your fears aside and know you can survive if you finally see the truth
that within you lies a person who "comes along / with the strength to
carry on." For ten points, name this 1993 #1 hit by Mariah Carey.
Answer: Hero
- Bill Elliott played him in a series of 1940s
Westerns. Josh Brolin played him on "The Young Riders" and Gary Cooper
portrayed him in 1937's The Plainsman. Jeff Bridges played this titular
role in a 1995 Walter Hill film, and Keith Carradine plays him on an
HBO series. For ten points, name this US Marshal, shot while playing
cards in Deadwood, South Dakota.
Answer: James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
- FIRST AND LAST NAME IS THE SAME. The first has the
fifth-highest career winning percentage among active Division One
college basketball coaches. The second had seven interceptions and four
fumble recoveries in his first two pro seasons. The third holds the
University of Texas record for career receptions. The first won 418
games at the University of Kansas. The second went to college at the
University of Oklahoma, while the third is a wide receiver who wears
#11 in the NFL. For ten points, give the common first and last name for
a University of North Carolina coach, a Dallas free safety and a
Detroit wide receiver.
Answer: Roy Williams
- Warning: onomatopoeia required. Mick Foley said that
the words proceeding it reminded him a little too much of a
pro-wrestling speech. Played over 700 times by the media, it inspired
its own dance mix. ABC, CBS and CNN later apologized for taking it out
of context, as the maker of this sound was using a noise cancelling
mike at the time and couldn't actually be heard by the crowd he was
addressing. For ten points, make the bizarrely compelling and horribly
cheesy sound that effectively killed the aspirations of Howard Dean.
Answer: Yee-awwwwwah!!!!!! (should be two syllables, and contain "Ye" and "Aw" --use your best discretion).
- He hails from Bill's house in Durham, North
Carolina. He says he's been to Swaziland, Greenland, and Portland, and
he prays to the goddess Silly Nellie that the joyride he's on never
ends. We've seen him get bubbles up his whoopsy-daisy at a ski resort,
find large hairy men wearing Speedos too much of a gamble, and be
forced to watch his captors get amorous. Reminding us to not forget our
hat, this is, for ten points, some of the travels of what spokesbeing
for Travelocity?
Answer: The Roaming Gnome (prompt on just gnome - need the roaming part)
- Among the women who rejected parts in this film were
Myrna Loy as Cleopatra and Jean Harlow as Venus. Hans dumps his fianc�e
to pursue Cleopatra, an aerialist. But she's just after his money,
conspiring to kill Hans with the help of her lover, Hercules the
Strongman. Comeuppance ensues. For ten points, name this 1932 Tod
Browning film which used actual circus sideshow performers in major
roles.
Answer: Freaks
- Among this book's targets is the news delivery style
of Diane Sawyer and the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. In it, the
author wonders if Dale Evans ever yelled "Giddyup, Roy!" while being
intimate with her husband. Observations are made on the propensity of
newly-cut toenails to fly several feet and the use of the word
"exploration" rather than "drilling" by oil companies in an effort to
make the process sound better. In the end, though, it was a cover
riffing on the Sistine Chapel ceiling that got it banned by Wal-Mart.
Name, for ten points, this new book from George Carlin.
Answer: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
- After a night of partying, he found himself married
to a woman named Saffron, who turned out to be a con artist. His war
buddies include Monty; Tracy, who dies while smuggling organs within
his own body; and Zoe, his second-in-command at the Battle of Serenity
and on his current ship. Although he appeared on television in only 12
of 15 produced episodes, he and his crew will hit the big screen in a
2005 Joss Whedon film. For ten points, name this captain of the
Firefly-class ship Serenity, played by Nathan Fillion.
Answer: Malcolm Reynolds
- One alternate meaning of this term references the
New Jersey town where the man most associated with it had a barber shop
and where some people such as Eddie Hazel and Bernie Worrell grew up.
The term can describe a genre of music or serve as the title of a song
that begins by telling you not to adjust your radio because nothing is
wrong, the first track on the album Mothership Connection. For ten points, what term is also an abbreviated amalgamation of two groups associated with George Clinton?
Answer: P Funk [P Funk can refer to "Plainfield Funk" or "Pure Funk" in addition to the groups Parliament and Funkadelic.]
- Although this building was home to the 1988
Republican National convention, it is better known as a sports venue. A
cemetery was demolished in order to make room for this location,
erected between 1971 and 1975, which some blame for the bad luck of its
primary tenant. Home to more Super Bowls than any other site, for ten
points, name this stadium where the Saints kick off home games.
Answer: Louisiana Superdome
- Among his more out-there ideas: men should remain
virgins until they turn 30, you should sleep with the windows open
regardless of weather, and ketchup and mustard cause insanity. Less
unusual was his idea that people should eat less meat and white bread,
ideas that led to near-violence by butchers and bakers before an 1837
lecture in Boston. Today, he is best known for a product originally
made from unsifted, coarsely-ground flour. Name, for ten points, this
eccentric food reformer who would likely frown on the use of his
namesake cracker in smores.
Answer: Sylvester Graham
- She landed her first TV role in 1995, playing Emily Bowen-Quartermain on General Hospital. She arrived in prime time in 2003, and is currently shooting The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Her dad was a teen actor in his own right, appearing in Father of the Bride and Father’s Little Dividend before costarring as Riff in West Side Story. For ten points, name this actress, the star of CBS’s Joan of Arcadia.
Answer: Amber Tamblyn (more on "Tamblyn")
- Bright Eyes in Philadelphia. My Morning Jacket, Ben
Harper and Jurassic 5 in State College. Keb’ Mo’ in Erie. Babyface in
Wilkes-Barre. Death Cab for Cutie in Reading. These are among the
lower-level acts who appeared with Dave Matthews Band, John Mellencamp,
James Taylor, Pearl Jam, John Fogerty, R.E.M., Dixie Chicks and Bruce
Springsteen in, for ten points, what concert tour of swing states
dedicated to ousting George W. Bush from office?
Answer: Vote for Change