- On this TV show, David Hume works for the Citizens Protections
Bureau, a group whose mission is to defend innocent parties from
unchecked societal powers, mainly big corporations that have virtually
taken over the world. One such company sells vacations for the mind,
thanks to the latest in mind-altering electronic thingamajigs. For ten points name
this TV series, which is very loosely based on a Philip K. Dick story and
a 1988 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
Answer: TOTAL RECALL 2070
- Born in 1953 in New York, she was named Ms. Magazine¹s Woman
of the Year in 1983. Between 1976-80, she was the lead singer and
songwriter for Blue Angel, a New York bar band whose major label debut
album bombed in 1980. After signing in Japanese restaurants dressed as
a
geisha girl for three years, her boyfriend/manager, David Wolff,
signed
her to CBS. For ten points name this singer, who said Captain Lou Albano taught
her
how to groom herself and be polite, who earned kudos from Ms. For her
1983 anthem Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.
Answer: Cyndi LAUPER
- He's been romantically linked with Dr. Juliana Cox, crime-scene modeler
Emma Zoole, and restaurant owner Christopher Rawls. His early casework was
based loosely on that of real-life detective Tom Pellegrini, in that he
transferred from the mayor's security detail and immediately caught the
case of a murdered 11-year-old girl, which remains unsolved and continued
to haunt him for years. His recent conversion to Buddhism appears to be
his way of dealing with that case, as well as childhood molestation by his
uncle; getting shot last year; and the subsequent retirement of his
partner, Frank Pembleton. For ten points, name this character played by Kyle Secor
on Homicide: Life On The Street.
Answer: Det. Tim BAYLISS
- A reviewer once called this Canadian singer "God's gift to the
male race."
Ironic, considering her following among lesbians. She once earned the
ire of
Boy George saying she'd hated singing Karma Chameleon because it was
"such a
piece of shit." for ten points, name this former gym teacher from Nova Scotia
more famous
for singing Snowbird, You Needed Me, and for her cover of Daydream
Believer.
Answer: Anne MURRAY
- Lee Richmond for Worcester in 1880. Monte Ward for
Providence, also in 1880. Addie Joss for Cleveland in 1908. Charlie
Robertson for the White Sox in 1922. Len Barker for Cleveland in 1981. Tom Browning for the Reds in 1988. Ernie Shore, but not officially, in
1917. Harvey Haddix, for 12 innings, in 1959. All of these pitchers
accomplished, for ten points, what feat, the most famous one performed by Don Larsen
in the 1956 World Series?
Answer: PITCH A PERFECT GAME (accept equivalent)
- He was associated with 2 successful groups, the Beach Boys and The
Champs, and played guitar on Frank Sinatra's number one hit Strangers
in
the Night, but solo success was elusive until he cracked the top 10 in
1968 with Wichita Lineman, seven years before his first number one
hit. For ten points name this singer whose quiz-bowl identity is mainly as a Tom
Waters
lookalike, but who will always be remembered elsewhere for the 1975
song
Rhinestone Cowboy.
Answer: Glen CAMPBELL
- WARNING: TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. They were probably the most talked
about couple at the London premiere of the film Gods and Monsters. This
would partly be due to her high visibility book tour in the UK, partly due
to the rather public discussion of her affair with a married man, and
partly due to his being openly gay. For ten points, name this couple, he the star of
the film being premiered, she the fellatrix who nearly toppled the Clinton
White House.
Answer: Ian MCKELLAN and Monica LEWINSKY
- (AUDIO) Two Answers Required for this Audio tossup. For ten points, name that
tune AND the artist.
Answer: CONSULT AUDIO CUESHEET
- Every Wednesday in March this network featured an Irish film, such as
The Manions of America and The Girl With Green Eyes. March also featured
Joseph Feinnes in The Vaciliations of Poppy Carew. They're also
sponsoring the In Royal Fashion mall tour, which sports an actual Diana
dress, as well as the WWWedding, which they bill as the biggest on-line
vow-swap ever. All of these love-related things are brought to us by,
for ten points, what cable channel, an off-shoot of American Movie Classics that
focuses on affairs of the heart?
Answer: ROMANCE CLASSICS
- On April 1, 1931, demolition began at the corner of Church
and Carlton Streets. Opening night was on November 13, where Chicago beat
the home team 2-1. This facility, which originally featured a bowling
alley, billards room, and gymnasium, featured approximately 16-thousand
seats and 85 private boxes. For ten points name this building, located on 60 Carlton
Street, which was closed for good in 1999, to be replaced by the Air
Canada Centre.
Answer: MAPLE LEAF GARDENS (not Maple Leaf Garden)
- She owns an occult shop in Hollywood, and she got her name right after
birth when her father saw her unusually blue eyes. She won a Cable Ace
award and an Independent Spirit award in 1992 for her roles in the TV
movie "Shame" and the feature "Gas, Food, Lodging", and her mainstream
breakout role came in 1996 as Nancy Downs in "The Craft". For ten points name this
actress seen more recently in American History X and The Waterboy.
Answer: Fairuza BALK (note: "Fairuza" is Turkish for turquoise)
- Son of a railroad and coke tycoon, he married a showgirl and
was disinherited. That showgirl had, before their marriage, been
romantically involved with a prominent local architect, and their
affair ate at him. On June 25, 1906, he and his wife attened the
rooftop supper club on Madison Square Garden. Dining alone was his
wife's former lover. After several passes, he finally stopped and
shot the architect, Stanford White, to death. While his wife,
Evelyn Nesbit, did all she could to save her husband, he was
eventually found insane and spent most of the rest of his life in
an asylum. Thus went the life of, for ten points, what society murderer?
Answer: Harry THAW
- She got involved with the Black Panthers in the late '60s, and
figuring no one would suspect a white actress, actually stored their guns
in her house. Her first film role came after a nationwide search for the
lead in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan, but the film flopped, and she proved
more successful playing an American girl in French films than vice versa. For ten points name this actress, whose leading roles came in Paint Your Wagon,
Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, and most famously in Jean-Luc Godard's
Breathless.
Answer: Jean SEBERG
- At age 19, he won the 1968 U-S Amateur, then shot four
strokes better than playing partner Arnold Partner in the first round of
next year’s Masters. He drifted on and off the PGA Tour for the next 10
years before quitting altogether to stay with his family and become a
club pro. He won his only PGA event in 1991, but had to finish second in
last year’s qualifying tournament to be exempt for the Senior Tour. For ten points
name this 50-year-old, who in 1999 became the first golfer to win his
first two Senior PGA Tour events, winning the Royal Caribbean and AmEx
Invitationals.
Answer: Bruce FLEISHER
- Walter Paisley, a bus boy and aspiring artist, is a failure until he
accidetally kills his landlady's cat and then passes it off as a sculpture
called "dead cat." His next work, "murdered man" takes things a bit too
far in, for ten points, what horror classic shot five days by Roger Corman.
Answer: A BUCKET OF BLOOD
- With a time four seconds over his personal best already
recorded, he
was paired with the distance's current world record holder. All this
after he overslept by an hour. Going out in a 14:30 pace his challenger,
Viktor Leskin, faded, but he picked it up and won with a time of
14:28.13, smashing Leskin's mark by over six seconds. Had he been a
country, this win would have put him third in medals, trailing just the
USSR and East Germany. For ten points, name this skater who made history the hard
way by sweeping
the men's speed skating events at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
Answer: Eric HEIDEN
- WARNING: TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED! One, the son of Lord
Llangattock, was selling Panhard automobiles when he met the
other, who was preparing to enter the car market with three
designs of his own. Impressed by the latter's demand for quality,
the former agreed to sell all the cars the latter could build. Their named entered automotive history with their 1906
introduction of the Silver Ghost. For ten points, name these British auto
legends, whose company also produced the Corniche and the Silver Shadow.
Answer: Charles Stewart ROLLS and Frederick Henry ROYCE
- In his last three major league seasons, this ballplayer hit 100
homers and drove in 303 runs, including 35 homers in his last season,
1986. He stands fifth all-time in striking out, with 1816, but led the
National League twice in homers, including 48 while a Cub in 1979. Two
years earlier, he became the first and only player in major league
history to hit a homerun for four different teams in the same season. For ten points
name this infamous power hitter, who's ineligible for Cooperstown despite
hitting 442 career home runs in 16 major league seasons.
Answer: Dave KINGMAN
- According to legend, this rock group got its name from the
Anglicized version of lead singer Bobby Kimball¹s real surname. However,
Kimball IS his real surname, so the band now says it was based on a
character from a 1939 movie. Led by brothers Jeff, Matt, and Steve
Porcaro, they were the big winners at the 1983 Grammy Awards, winning
six
trophies, including Record and Album of the Year. For ten points name this band,
who
late 70s/early 80s cheese included Hold the Line, Rosanna, and
Africa.
Answer: TOTO
- In 1997, he rode his 7000th winner, the fifth jockey to do so. He
won on eight of his nine mounts at Arlington International in 1989, a
record. His Breeder's Cup wins include Timber Country in the 1994
Juvenile and Wild Again in the 1984 Classic. Never a yearly top money
winner, he's won 4 Eclipse Awards as top jockey, incluing back to back
wins in 1988 and 1989. For ten points, name this jockey who recorded his first
Triple Crown win at the 1985 Belmont aboard Tank's Prospect, and who
nearly guided Tabasco Cat to the 1994 Crown, taking a 6th
place at the Kentucky Derby.
Answer: Pat DAY
- First sold in Europe in 1974, it was exported to the US a year
later. The first foreign automobile plant on US soil, located in
Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, opened to build them in 1978. In 1984,
it stopped being called the Rabbit in the US and was sold under
the same name as it was in Europe. For ten points, name this front-wheel
drive hatchback, a consistent top seller in Germany, made by
Volkswagen.
Answer: GOLF (accept RABBIT up to where "Rabbit" is in the question)