1. He also used the pen names D.A. Addams, Ted Taine, Curt Cannon, and Richard Marsten. His screenplays include adaptations of his own novels Strangers When We Meet and Fuzz. Goldilocks is his first title featuring lawyer Matthew Hope, though he is better know for books set in the fictional version of Manhattan called Isola, beginning with Cop Hater. For ten points, name this author born Salvatore Alberto Lombino who used one pen name to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and another to write the police procedurals of the "87th Precinct".
2. Recent changes to the show have included the addition of Caitlin Sanchez as the protagonist's voice replacing Kathleen Hurges, and a programming move from its original cable channel to be the flagship program of the former Noggin, now called Nick, Jr. The change that made parents lose their frigging minds was an update to the primary character for an interactive doll from Mattel for a tween version that bears little resemblance to the long-running seven-year-old who has to deal with a kleptomaniacal fox with the help of her talking monkey and talking map. For ten points name this tomboy who is a cousin to Diego Marquez.
3. This was the name of a raven in Dickens' Barnaby Rudge that inspired Poe's poem. It is the acronym for a European Science Foundation project that drilled over 3,000 meters into the Arctic ice between 1990 and 1992, as well as a Linux-based CD copying software program. Professional gymnasts use the dowel type when performing on bars, while fencers utilize the French, Italian, Spanish, and pistol varieties. This term also describes personnel who set up flags, nets, and other gobos used to diffuse light, in addition to rigging camera equipment. For ten points, give this name for a class of movie technicians, the most important of whom is known as the "key."
4. This filmmaker portrayed a baseball-playing android on an episode of Mathnet and picked up a MacArthur "genius grant" after selling Roger Corman his screenplays for Piranha and Alligator in order to finance The Return of the Secaucus 7, Baby It's You, and Lianna. He used that grant to fund a movie starring Joe Morton as an alien who looks like a Black man, The Brother from Another Planet, and he re-told the Gaelic myth of Selkies in The Legend of Roan Inish. His two Oscar nominations came for works about a paralyzed soap-opera star and a small Texas border town, Passion Fish and Lone Star, and he often casts Williams College classmate David Straithairn as real-life figures, such as Sid Hatfield in the story of a West Virginia miners' strike and Eddie Cicotte in a dramatization of the Black Sox scandal. For ten points, name this director of Matewan and Eight Men Out.
5. A Big one is a tourist attraction and working farm near the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, and like bananas they are temperature sensitive fruit. They carry out CAM photosynthesis and are one of the few bromeliad fruits in widespread production. Native to South America, its status as a symbol of hospitality was known to the Spanish explorers who knew they were welcome if one was present at the entrance to a village. At the plantation of the man most often associated with the fruit, one can ride its namesake Express. For ten points, identify this fruit whose juice is found in malis, 19th holes, zombies, and pi�a coladas.
6. He had an unhappy marriage with his wife Marie--played by the actor's then-wife, Deborah Taylor--but by the end of the show, he was happy with his girlfriend Bridget, retiring to join her in real estate. In between, he artificially fathered the child of his lesbian colleague Abby Sullivan and had an affair with secretary Donna Abandando. Originally a recurring character who was bumped up to full cast member in season two, he appeared in all twelve seasons. For ten points, name this Emmy-winning role for Gordon Clapp on NYPD Blue.
7. He was warned by team captain Scott McEachern about his curved stick use and opposing coaches accused him of stick switching after getting caught and losing a 2006 game because of an infraction. Despite that problem, and a January 2008 suspension for pushing from behind, he was named as captain of his squad in January 2009 in a move that was seen as the first step to re-sign this left-winger to the team that used the number one pick to get him in 2001. For ten points, name this All-Star Thrasher who has scored 40 goals in each of the last five seasons in Atlanta.
8. Suffering from high turnover, members included future Minus Five member Barrett Martin and future Queens of the Stone Age founder Josh Homme. Emerging from central Washington state, they released four albums for SST before Epic released Uncle Anesthesia in 1991. Built around the core of the Conner brothers on guitar and bass and lead vocalist Mark Lanegan, their final album, 1996's Dust did feature the hit "All I Know," but did not come close to matching the success the band achieved with songs like "Dollar Bill" and "Shadow Of The Season" from their 1992 breakthrough Sweet Oblivion. for ten points name this grunge sensation, who owe much of their success to the makers of the film Singles since that soundtrack included their biggest hit, "Nearly Lost You."
9. Founded in 1897, it is currently based in the Goodman Building at 39th Street and Second Avenue. Notable employees included Glory Grant and Betty Brant, as well as Randy Green and Ned Leeds. Allied publications include Now and Woman, edited by Carol Danvers. Its owners have included Thomas Fireheart, or Puma, and Dexter Bennett. It once had a glossy section named Pulse. A real-world monthly version covered the 2007 death of Steve Rogers. After supporting the Superhuman Registration Act, it got into hot water when the identity of one of its photographers was revealed. For ten points, name this newspaper published by J. Jonah Jameson, the longtime employer of Peter Parker.
10. This word titles a 1988 Blake Edwards flop in which Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp solve a murder at the 1929 Academy Awards. It's the last word in the title of a 2004 film about jewel thieves Max and Lola, who are pursued by FBI agent Stan Lloyd, and it's the second word in the title of a 1967 song that inspired a 1985 rock opera film directed by Ray Davies. It is in the title of a 2004 movie with Vernon Dobtcheff as a bookstore manager that sees Jesse and Celine reunite, but not in the title of the 1995 romance in which that couple first met. Most famously, it begins the title location where Joe Gillis stays in a mansion with the butler Max and a faded silent-era diva. For ten points, give this noun that follows "After the" in a movie starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, and Woody Harrelson and "Before" in one starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and precedes "Boulevard" in the story of Norma Desmond.
11. Coaches in this family include the loser of Super Bowl 3 and the loser of the 2006 Independence Bowl. But they are surpassed in futility by another member of the family, a Dartmouth grad who compiled a wretched 19-52 record while coaching at old Riverfront Stadium after Sam Wyche decided there were more important things than football. Despite this horrible record, this family owns the most wins record by a father-son combination with 366, owing more to the father's great tenure that included wins in Super Bowls 7 & 8. For ten points, give the family name of current Jaguars QB coach Mike, former Bengals coach Dave, and Dolphins legend Don.
12. The Muzak version of this song plays in the elevator while Jerry is first escaping form Attila the Hun in Night at the Museum, while it plays a more critical role in Preston Myers' decision making in Can't Hardly Wait. Written by Scott English, the original had a faster-tempo and was a hit in Britain but not Stateside, so the title of the song had to be changed after The Looking Glass had a hit with a similarly named tune in 1972. On television, that name has been further changed on South Park when Randy sang about Obama in the hospital, and by the original artist for Glen Quagmire. For ten points, identify the first certified gold single for Barry Manilow, a song written by Scott English that, despite urban legends, is not about a dog.
13. Gambler Nick the Greek allegedly made $250,000 by using sleight of hand at it, and it is popular among con men. It is called Snarfem in Zork Zero. The basis of the Sprague-Grundy theorem, it is best analyzed by looking at the binary digital sum of the sizes of the piles and was named by Charles Bouton. It played a large role in Last Year at Marienbad as the matchstick game. As Thai 21, it appeared as an immunity challenge in Survivor. With a name probably deriving from the German command "Take!", for ten points, name this game where players try to avoid being the last one to remove an object from a central pile.
14. A fake one of these with Abraham Lincoln's likeness on it sold to GoldenPalace.com for 75 grand on February 2005. They receive their own mention on company bags as "the gold standard" for their selectivity and processing. In the early 1980s they were assigned a corporate mascot in the guise of thieving shaggy blobs with spindly legs that spoke in a hushed high-pitched mumble. They are currently the cause of a concerted search for new sources like the Bannock Russet, as its staple ingredient, the Russet Burbank, is a water and nutrient hog and may be unsustainable at the current rate of 3.4 billion pounds of spuds per year. For ten points name this ubiquitous side item for the Filet-o-Fish and Big Mac.
15. With a chip architecture adapted from technology first used on Microsoft's MSX, it had quality arcade ports such as Falcon and Klax and shooters such as Blazing Lazers. It suffered in America due to its suggested price tag of $400, hardware limitations such as only one controller port, and for a shortage of third-party game content, due to pressure by Sega and Nintendo, and for the lack of a signature game such as Altered Beast or Super Mario World; its best known games were in the Bonk series. The first game console to feature a CD ROM option, for ten points name this system marketed between 1989 and 1995, a joint venture between HudsonSoft and NEC, which despite its name, was only an 8-bit gaming system.
16. He was the first player with 100 RBIs in a season and set the season record for RBIs six times over a span of seven years. He led his league in RBIs a record 8 seasons and is credited with 2076 in his career, all in the 19th century and mostly for the Cubs-forerunner Chicago White Stockings. Known in his managing days as "pop," for ten points, name this notably racist Hall of Famer who was the first player to record 3,000 hits.
17. His villainous guest spots include an alchemist named Kierkan who makes his own girlfriend on Charmed and a crazed fan who doesn't want a home run record to be broken on Monk. He showed up as EJ Wilson, a journalist quite like Harry Knowles, on Entourage and had a recurring role as intern Arther Martin on Six Feet Under. He can currently be seen as the parallel to MacKenzie Crooks's Garth Keenan, another pompous Assistant to the Regional Manager. For ten points, name this portraor of Dunder Mifflin's Dwight Shrute.
18. A form of this number appears in the title of a Val Lewton-produced chiller about the devil-worshipping Palladists that was the screen debut of Kim Hunter, as well as in the title of a 1944 film about concentration-camp escapees that earned an Oscar nod for Hume Cronyn. It is in the title of a 1964 Rod Serling-scripted thriller about an attempted military coup, and a musical made the same year teaming Bing Crosby with the Rat Pack features it as the number of Robin's hoods. More recently, it titled a movie about William R. Somerset and David Mills that ends with Mills' wife's head in a box. Also seen in the names of works by Bergman, Kurosawa, and Disney, this is, for ten points, what numeral that titles a David Fincher film about serial killer John Doe, who is obsessed with the deadly sins?
19. This man embarrassed himself when, after an Oscar nod for his film debut as informer Abe "Kid Twist" Reles in Murder Inc., he stood up at the ceremony when the award was given to an actor with the same first name. Nominated again the next year as another gangster, Joy Boy in Pocketful of Miracles, he played crackpot Vince Ricardo, who turns out to be a CIA agent after all, opposite Alan Arkin in The In-Laws and worked with his good friend John Cassavetes on Mikey and Nicky, A Woman under the Influence, and Husbands. He spoofed Bogart in The Cheap Detective and Murder By Death and played himself as an angel in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, in addition to portraying a narrator whose last line, delivered to his grandson, is, "As you wish." For ten points, name this co-star of The Princess Bride best known as rumpled raincoat-wearing detective Columbo.
20. In Sports Illustrated, the Clippers' management joked about hiring a number of Hasidic rabbis to chant this player's name so LA could draft him. His name is currently used as a pun in the new Snickers campaign. He is currently an assistant coach with the Orlando Magic, the team he finished his playing career with in 2002. He missed his second trip to the NBA Finals when he tore his Achilles tendon in the 1999 Eastern Conference Finals. The Rockets' Hakeem Olajuwon prevailed against his team in the 1994 NBA Finals, enacting some revenge on him for the 1984 NCAA Championship game won by this player's Georgetown Hoyas. For ten points, name this long-time center for the New York Knicks.
21. B-sides to singles from this album include the non-album tracks "Half & Half", "Bonfire Blondes", and "Vampire Voltage No. 6". The last album for his current deal with Interscope, a special vinyl addition included codes for downloading MP3s recorded from the vinyl master. Produced by Danger Mouse, it features guest spots by Chan Marshall on "Walls" and the opening track, "Orphans". The first single wsa "Chemtrails" while "Gamma Ray" showed up on the Modern Rock chart. For ten points, name this 2008 album by Beck.