1. This director's abstract short Boy and Bicycle can be seen on the DVD of his first film, the Joseph Conrad adaptation The Duellists. Several of his protagonists are NYC cops: Tom Berenger plays a married one who falls for a witness he's protecting in Someone to Watch Over Me, while Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia play two who tangle with the yakuza in Japan in Black Rain, and a more recent film was based on Det. Richie Roberts. He cast Alison Lohman as a con artist's daughter in Matchstick Men and Orlando Bloom as a Jerusalem-defending crusader in Kingdom of Heaven, while Brad Pitt's first prominent role was as a hitchhiker who robs his heroines Thelma & Louise. For ten points, name this American Gangster helmer who turned Mark Bowden's book about a Ranger mission in Somalia into Black Hawk Down and pitted Maximus against Commodus in Gladiator.

2. The NBA career leader in assists per game for players from this school is Kelvin Ransey at 5.2. Brad Sellers is a distant second in blocked shots behind Herb Williams. Jim Jackson is second to Michael Redd in NBA three-pointers among the school's alumni, although this school's best NBA products are clearly Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek. For ten points, name this Big Ten school whose current NBA contingent includes Thunder reserve center Byron Mullens, Grizzles point guard Mike Conley, Jr. and Blazers center Greg Oden.

3. An early arcade version featured a continue screen with the player lying under a circular saw. The first console game of this series was also the first console game to use cinematic cutscenes to tell the story, and featured 'arts' which required powerups to use. Released as "Shadow Warriors" in other countries, enemies in the 1988 Tecmo platformer included the Kelberosses as well as Jaquio. A 2004 update set in the city of Tairon in the world of Dead or Alive includes flails and staves alongside the familiar shuriken and dragon sword. For ten points, give the shared name of these games featuring Ryu Hayabusa.

4. Commissioned as a way to make use of MCA's archives, it was executive produced by John Landis and created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane. Later re-edited so that it could be broadcast on Fox, its cast included Chris Demetral, Michael McKeen, and Wendy Malick. For ten points, name this HBO sitcom featuring a book editor played by Brian Benben, which made use of clips from old movies.

5. A former archivist for the Nashville Network, he released his self-titled major-label debut, which included "My Last Name" and "How Am I Doin'" in 2003. Mandolinist Ronnie McCory has frequently appeared on his songs, many of which are co-written by the artist with producer Brett Beavers. Both his self-titled album and its followup Modern Day Drifter have gone Platinum, and in 2008 a CD compilation named for one of his country chart-toppers, Every Mile A Memory, was released. For ten points name this Arizona born singer-songwriter, who released the album Feel That Fire in 2009 and whose hits include "Sideways," "Come A Little Closer," and "What Was I Thinkin."

6. This woman was the basis for a character played by Anita Gilette in the 6th-season Law and Order episode "Remand." In the graphic novel Watchmen, Rorschach's mask is made from a dress originally meant for her. The painstaking work of amateur historian Joseph De May debunked a 1964 New York Times story by Martin Gansberg involving her and inspired a 2007 article by Manning, Levine, and Collins in American Psychologist about the "social psychology of helping." This was in response to several experiments by John Darley and Bibb Latane on the "bystander effect," which is often named for her. Winston Moseley received a life sentence for the rape and murder of, for ten points, what NYC barmaid whose name has become synonymous with urban apathy?

7. This man had a bit part as "Second Soldier" in The Singing Detective and played sexual predator James Jackson in Prime Suspect 3. Author of the novel The Late Hector Kipling, he can be seen in The Big Lebowski as video artist Knox Harrington and appeared alongside Brad Pitt as an Austrian mountain climber in Seven Years in Tibet and Leonardo DiCaprio as French poet Paul Verlaine in Total Eclipse. More recently portraying an SS officer whose son befriends a concentration-camp inmate in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and a decapitated photojournalist in the remake of The Omen, he won numerous awards for his first major role, the bitter yet eloquent street philosopher Johnny in Mike Leigh's Naked. For ten points, name this actor known widely as the Harry Potter franchise's Remus Lupin.

8. A picture of his left hand was featured in The Body Issue of ESPN the Magazine in Fall 2009 with a prominently disjointed middle finger displayed, the badge of pain from a 2007 injury sustained against the Steelers. In a 41-0 blowout loss to the Seahawks, he caught 7 passes for 95 yards to reach the 13,000 yard plateau in his eleventh season, and his first in Jacksonville. As a rookie he had 788 receiving yards as the second target of Kurt Warner in the Rams offense, scoring a touchdown in their Super Bowl 34 win. Wearing number 81 for the Jaguars, for ten points name this Wolfpack alum who is the only player besides Marvin Harrison to catch for 1600 yards in multiple seasons.

9. Launched in January 1941 by Earle McAusland, its early focus was French, and readers were advised to preserve it until the end of war rationing when it might be more usable. Contributors included Ray Bradbury and E. Annie Proulx. Known as "the magazine of good living:, in 1983 it was purchased by Conde Nast, and it hit the news recently due to the advice of McKinsey and Company. Its recent cable ventures Diary of a Foodie and Adventures with Ruth as well as its web site, Epicurious, will continue despite its impending suspension of publication. For ten points name this high-end cooking magazine edited by Ruth Reichl.

10. A 2002 "deluxe edition" re-issue of this album includes versions of Otis Blackwell's "Daddy Rolling Stone" and Garnet Mimm's "Anytime You Want Me" which were dropped after manager Kit Lambert decided to move away from the original R&B direction. It retained covers of Bob Diddley's "I'm a Man" and "I Don't Mind" and "Please, Please, Please" by James Brown to go along with the instrumental track "The Ox", and UK singles "A Legal Matter", and "The Kids Are Alright". For ten points, name this 1965 debut album for The Who whose title track claims that "People try to put us down / Just because we get around".

11. On this show, an appearance by the band Within Reason, the use of Gavin DeGraw's song "More Than Anyone", and a non-kiss at the Swinging Donkey were chosen by fans through AT&T. The kiss would have been with Taylor, who tries to get with her younger sister's husband. The song was used when that sister, Haley, renewed her marital vows with Nathan Scott, layed by James Lafferty, who is set to become the main focus with, for ten points, the departure of Chad Michael Murray from what CW teen drama?

12. The versions made by Colgin and Lazy Kettle use this as the brand name, while the version made by Wright's references its source material. An ingredient in Homer Simpson's Space Age Out of This World Moon Waffles, it is made by heating wood to its smoldering point and then rapidly cooling the gases that are released, which also removes most of the tar and other carcinogens, making it safer than the actual product. Used by meat processors to add flavor to items like jerky and hot dogs, name, for ten points, this aqueous preparation of the vapor created by burning popular grilling woods like hickory and mesquite.

13. This athlete wore a silver V-neck gown for a YOU magazine September cover shoot only weeks after her astonishing victories in Berlin. She set national and meet records at the African Junior Championships in July, winning the 1500 and her signature event in what was the fastest time of the year to date. She would shave more than a second off of that time in Berlin, winning her race with a time nearly two and a half seconds faster than the second place runner. Her quick development, coupled with her appearance, led to a second test to make sure she falls within certain guidelines for competing in her current gender. A word scramble of "a secret man, yes" , for ten points name this South African runner whose 800 meter win at this year's World Track and Field Championships earned her a gold medal and a gender test.

14. In June 2009 it was inducted into the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in Cleveland with designer Jim Mariol as an honored guest, and is manufactured in nearby Hudson. An NPR story that noted that unlike other car makers, its factory could hardly keep up with demand for its 30th anniversary model that finally added a cup holder to its standard model and a cell phone for its pink princess model. For ten points, name this top-selling car of 2008, with a list price of $49.95, a yellow and red plastic blow-molded smiling four-wheeler with removable floorboard from Little Tikes.

15. The "Special Edition" DVD of this film promises a Japanese version with subtitles translated back from the Japanese, a Lego version to show how cheaply the film could have been made, and "Subtitles for People Who don't Like the Film" taken from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II. It also contains "enlightening commentaries" by the two directors with "general complaints and back-biting" by three cast members. In the scene selection menu, scene 13 is "Scene 24" and the final scene is "The End of the Film," while others include "Roger the Shrubber," "Constitutional Peasants," "Tim the Enchanter," and "The Black Knight." For ten points, name this comedy whose characters include Brave Sir Robin, King Arthur, and the Knights who say "Ni!"

16. Its staff has produced books such as Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself and a guide subtitled "Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors, Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas". "The Michael Showalter Showalter", "Street Fighter: The Later Years", and Streeter Seidel and Amir Blumenfeld's duel of one-upmanship, "Prank Wars", are among its videos, which also sports user-contributed video and pictures. For ten points, name this comedy website which got a 2009 MTV series.

17. Pete Redfern lost the first game pitched in this facility to Seattle's Floyd Bannister. Bobby Keppel was the winning pitcher in the final game at the facility as Fernando Rodney allowed Carlos Gomez to score in the bottom of the 12th inning on October 6th. On the October 3rd edition of "A Prairie Home Companion" Garrison Keillor remarked in "News from Lake Woebegon" that someday children will never know of indoor baseball. The only major league baseball facility named for a former U.S. Vice-President, for ten points, name this former home of the Twins.

18. The son of the sociologist who coined the term "meritocracy," this man played an MP in the poorly received sex farce Rabbit Fever. He publicly feuded with writer Julie Burchill after he shut down Modern Review, the magazine they had co-founded, in 1995. He then turned his experience working at Vanity Fair into the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which was made into a movie in which he was played by Simon Pegg. His most visible current job grew out of a stint as a restaurant critic for The Evening Standard. For ten points, name this gadabout who serves as a permanent judge on Bravo's Top Chef.

19. Name's the same. One is a rap song while the other is predominantly a rock song that includes Spanglish rapping thankfully excised from some radio edits. One was accused of plagiarizing Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" while the other lifts most of its musical backing from Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" and some material from an earlier song of the same title by Kool Moe Dee. One references Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier" as well as the title character of the movie it appears in; the other song has nothing at all to do with that movie or the TV show of the same name on which it was based. One repeatedly exhorts the listeners to "live it up" while the other serves as a warning to the villain Arliss Loveless. For ten points, name this 1988 hit by the Escape Club as well as a 1999 hit by Will Smith from his own movie of the same name.

20. On a May 2007 episode of Ellen, this woman was surprised to be presented with her bachelor's degree in French, and in 2009 she enrolled in Harvard's JFK School of Government. She played Ensign Robin Lefler on ST:TNG and Swoosie Kurtz' daughter on Sisters before her breakthough star turn in Ruby in Paradise. She followed this up with roles as Harvey Keitel's daughter in Smoke, and Matthew McConaughey's wife in A Time to Kill, while more recent roles include real-life photographer/activist Tina Modotti in Frida, Linda Porter in De-Lovely, and Agnes White in Bug. For ten points, name this actress best known as the tough action heroine of Twisted, High Crimes, Kiss the Girls, and Double Jeopardy.

21. Creatures introduced include Episiarchs and Acceptors and the Jophur, who are bloodthirsty tyrannous plants. Two languages spoken by one of the main species in this book are haiku-based. Occurring years after the events of Sundiver, the McGuffins in this book are Progenitor artifacts and an alien corpse nicknamed Herbie, which causes alien flotillas to mobilize. A portion was published as "The Tides of Kithrup". A major subplot involves the mutinous Takkata-Jim and other Stenos sentient dolphins rebelling against their captain. For ten points, name this Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning space opera, the second novel in the first Uplift trilogy by David Brin.