Bill Gates and the Inner Head Round 1 - Ann B. Davis Pop Culture Fest 1. Although short lived his Paramount produced show was widely acclaimed as being among the hippest and freshest of its genre. David Letterman, comedian Kevin Meaney and musical group Buffalo Tom were the guests on his final show. F.T.P. name the host o f this offbeat talk show which featured freakish sidekick Howard Feller and sketches including the adventures of an action figure named "Talk-Show Jon". Answer: Jon Stewart. 2. He and Lije Baley first met in the novel The Robots of Dawn. He would later team with Baley's partner R. Daneel Olivaw in battling a madman intent on destroying the earth. F.T.P. give the full name of this individual whom Baley discovered had the ability to read and influence minds and who first put the "Zeroth Law" of robotics into practice. Answer: R(obot). Giskard Reventlov. (Prompt on an early _Giskard_) 3. Among his hits are The Jumpin' Jive and Are You All Reet! His film credits include 1937's Manhattan Merry-Go-Round and 1980's The Blues Brothers. F.T.P. name this band leader who replaced Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club and is most famous for his enduring hit Minnie the Moocher. Answer: Cab Calloway. 4. This former model's screen debut was so inauspicious that Glenn Close had to be hired to dub over her voice. F.T.P. identify this actress who flopped mightily in Greystoke: the Legend of Tarzan but went on to star in films such as Sex, Lies and Videotape and last year's surprise hit Four Weddings and a Funeral. Answer: Andie MacDowell. 5. With Thunder Gulch's victory in the '95 Belmont Stakes D. Wayne Lucas set a new record having trained 5 consecutive winners of Triple Crown races. He had previously shared the record with the trainer of '71 Belmont Stakes winner Riva's Ridge. F.T.P. name this man who also trained '72 Triple Crown winner Secretariat. Answer: Lucien Laurin. 6. Worldwide there are approximately 200 small study groups devoted to this cult. It is based on a 2,097-page book that cautions against the evils of masturbation, liquor and tobacco; touts the importance of regular bowel movements and discloses the precise speed at which angels fly as well as the number of wings they use. F.T.P. name this cult whose tenets were promoted by Dr. William Sadler and Dr. John Kellogg and is the subject of a recent book by Martin Gardner. Answer: Urantia. 7. After an advertisement including his photograph appeared on The Late Show he was asked to toss the ceremonial coin at the beginning of a Saskatchewan Roughriders game and hundreds of people flocked to his place of work. F.T.P. name this Regina gas station operator whose surname coincidentally also made a prominent appearance on an episode of Seinfeld. Answer: Dick Assman. 8. Unlike American Bandstand there was no lip-synching on this show when it took to the air in 1964. Dedicated to bringing live rock to prime time television it was produced by Jack Good and hosted by Jimmy O'Neill. F.T.P. identify this program on which Teri Garr appeared as a dancer and, after O'Neill quit, featured guest hosts ranging from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Boris Karloff. Answer: Shindig!. 9. Based on a film school project and starring Robert Duval, it deals with a future society in which people are known by 7 digit "names" composed of 3 letters and 4 numbers and rigidly controlled through drugs and the use of robotic law-enforcers. F.T.P. name this first feature film by George Lucas which shares its name with its protagonist and features the famous scene of a man emerging from an underground complex to stand before a giant setting sun. Answer: THX-1138. 10. It consists of three books: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons, and deals with, among other things: alternate universes, trans-sexuality, drug use and world domination. F.T.P. name this trilogy written by Robert Anton Wilson and named after a theoretical experiment meant to demonstrate problems with the probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory. Answer: The Schroedinger's Cat trilogy. 11. Lord Kitchener, Lord Melody and Mighty Sparrow are just some of the legendary singers of this genre. F.T.P. what is the name of this music, which originated in the West Indes and is typified by such songs as Big Bamboo, Yellow Bird, and Kingston Market. Answer: Calypso. 12. Rumour had it that one team offered $30 million to procure his services for the 1996 season. Not bad for a 26 year old with only 5 years experience in Formula 1 racing. F.T.P. name this youngest ever F\1 champion who hails from Germany and has fairly dominated the circuit since the tragic death of Ayrton Senna in 1994. Answer: Michael Schumacher. 13. The original London cast of this musical featured Keith Michell in the title role and Joan Diener as the woman whose life he turns upside down. F. T.P. name this musical play-within-a -play which features such songs as The Abduction, I'm Only Thinking of Him, and most famously The Impossible Dream (The Quest). Answer: Man of La Mancha. 14. The Cowboy Junkies, Crash Test Dummies and Barenaked Ladies are just some of the artists on a collection of Canadians-only music from this radio program which has produced 6 Best Of compilations. F.T.P. name this weekly two-hour live performance program produced by West Virginia Public Radio and broadcast on more than 120 stations across the U.S. Answer: Mountain Stage. 15. The subject of the Moxy Fruvous song: The Greatest Man in America, he once lost a job when hundreds of baseballs rained onto the field after he asked the crowd at a game if anybody had one he could use. F.T.P. name this man who is best known for his syndicated radio talk show and his legion of concurring fans. Answer: Rush Limbaugh. 16. Following an undistinguished pro-baseball career he returned to the sport at which he excelled and while still a player served as the first president of the American Professional Football Association (which eventually became the N.F.L.). F.T.P. name this man whom Burt Lancaster portrayed in a 1951 film and who was voted the greatest American athlete, of the first half of the 20th century. Answer: James Francis (Jim) Thorpe. 17. Produced by the B.B.C. and broadcast by P.B.S. in 1979 it was conceived in the tradition of the highly popular Civilisation and The Ascent of Man. It combined popular science and detective work to retrace the steps that led to eight seminal inventions in the history of the technological age. F.T.P. name this series which is a perennial favourite on the Learning Channel and has produced a recent 20 part sequel with James Burke reprising his role as host. Answer: Connections. 18. Irving Thalberg acquired its screen rights in 1935 but it would not be filmed until 1939, three years after Thalberg's death. It introduced Greer Garson to movie audiences as the warm-hearted, independent woman who captures the title character's heart. F.T.P. name this international hit which starred Robert Donat as a proper boys-school instructor whose life is forever changed by a trip to Austria. Answer: Goodbye, Mr. Chips. 19. A sampling of some of this book's chapter names are: Spelling Tuesday, Nowhere and Nothing, and That Sort of Bear. F.T.P. name this surprise bestseller by Benjamin Hoff which seeks to explain the principles of taoism through references to A. A. Milne's most famous creation. Answer: The Tao of Pooh. 20. Truman Capote, James Dean, Elvis Presley and an unknown Italian child actor are just some of the people whose photographs have appeared on the covers of singles released by this band. F.T.P. name this rock group which in 1995 released a compilation of its singles which includes the songs: Shakespeare's Sister, Hand in Glove, and Shoplifters of the World Unite, but not Meat is Murder. Answer: The Smiths. 21. Led by a trio of All-Americas they claimed the national championship with a 70-64 title-game victory; accomplishing something that had been done only once before. F.T.P. name the 1994-95 NCAA championship team which completed a perfect 35-0 season with their defeat of the Tennessee Lady Vols. Answer: The Connecticut Huskies. (accept _UConn_) 22. Although it was only his second title defense he retired after knocking out Tom Heeney in their July 1928 bout. F.T.P. name this former heavyweight champ who is best known for his first defense when he defeated Jack Dempsey in a rematch which featured the famous "long count". Answer: Gene Tunney. 23. One of its principal characters was introduced as an elevator operator on Perfect Strangers. Seeking to beef up its lineup ABC soon spun-off this sitcom featuring a working class Chicago family. F.T.P. name this show centered on the Winslows and their endlessly annoying neighbour Steve. Answer: Family Matters. 24. This band recently lost a court decision over ownership of the lyrics to the song Don't Break My Heart. The band's name comes from the benfits card issued to unemployed people in Great Britain. F.T.P. name this reggae band which is perhaps best known for it's #1 hit Red Red Wine. Answer: UB40. 25. In 1984 this silent-screen triumph was re-released with a rock score supervised by Giorgio Moroder and featuring: Pat Benetar, Adam Ant and Freddie Mercury among others. F.T.P. name this 1926 Fritz Lang sci-fi classic which offered a vivid portrait of a future society. Answer: Metropolis. 26. Lynn Armandt gained her 15 minutes of fame for a photo she snapped while on vacation in Bimini. In its premiere issue American Photo dubbed it the "photo scandal of the '80s". If you still haven't figured this one out it may help to know that the shot showed Armandt's friend, Donna Rice, sitting on a married man's lap. F.T.P. identify the married man who, at the time, was the leading candidate for the Democratic party's 1988 presidential nomination. Answer: Gary Hart. 27. Jose Feliciano sang the theme song for this NBC sit-com which premiered in 1974 and starred a relative unknown opposite old-pro Jack Albertson. F.T.P. name this show about a crusty shop owner and his brash employee which rocketed Freddie Prinze to stardom. Answer: Chico and the Man. 28. This film, about a party given by 3 women and the memories of now-dead acquaintances that it stirs up, was director John Huston's final film. F.T.P. name this 1987 release which starred John's daughter Anjelica and is based on the final story of James Joyce's The Dubliners. Answer: The Dead. 29. For a quick 10 points, how many daily double "answers" do the Jeopardy writers have to prepare for the annual Tournament of Champions? Answer: 30. 30. Written by Angie Fenimore it purports to: "reveal the dark side of the near-death experience". F.T.P. identify this 1995 book which is subtitled: My near-death journey to the Edge of Hell and Back. Answer: Beyond the Darkness. 31. He didn't speak a word until age three when he began speaking in complete sentences. At eighteen he joined the armed services to support his widowed mother and his life was changed forever. F.T.P. name this man who has garnered more fan letters than most of National Geographic's non-fictional employees. Answer: Robert Kincaid. Bonuses from Bill Gates and the Inner Head [30] 1. Identify the following location on a 30-20-10 basis. a) It's the club where Tom Arnold first met his new wife Julie Champnella. b) This Sunset Strip venue gets its name from a 1920's slang term for a pot smoker. c) Co-owned by Johnny Depp it may be best known for River Phoenix's 1994 collapse and subsequent death just outside its front doors. Answer: the Viper Room. [30] 2. Given the names of the following collections identify the syndicated comic strip each features for the stated number of points. a) 5 pts. 'Toons For Our Times Answer: Bloom County. b) 10 pts. Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies Answer: Dilbert. c) 15 pts. It's All Downhill From Here Answer: For Better or For Worse. [30] 3. Given its breakthrough song identify the following Seattle-based bands FTPE. a) "Man in a Box." Answer: Alice in Chains. b) "Outshined" Answer: Soundgarden. c) "Overblown" Answer: Mudhoney. [30] 4. Identify the following film 30-20-10. a) In order to fund the picture its director checked himself into a research hospital to be experimented on and, while there, wrote the screenplay. b) Released in 1993 it garnered stellar reviews despite the fact that it was made on a budget of a mere $7000. c) It tells the story of a musician who arrives at a small Mexican border town and is mistaken for a marked man. Antonio Banderas takes over the starring role in the sequel, titled Desperado. Answer: El Mariachi. [30] 5. No trash packet can be complete without the mandatory Star Trek question. So, FTPE, answer these questions about the guiding principles of the Ferengi. a) State the First Rule of Acquisition Answer: Once you have their money... You never give it back. (accept close equivs.) b) How many Rules of Acquisition are there in all? Answer: 285. c) Give the name of the Ferengi who originated the Rules of Acquisition. Answer: Grand Nagus Gint. [30] 6. Miguel Indurain recently accomplished an amazing feat by winning his 5th straight Tour de France. Five different men have finished 2nd to Indurain during his remarkable run of titles. FFPE, name them. Do it in chronological order and you get an extra 5 points. Answer (in order): Gianni Bugno, Claudio Chiappucci, Tony Rominger, Piotr Ugrumov, Alex Zulle. [30] 7. Soap operas often get a bum rap from intellectual snobs who say they all have the same plots. Those of us how take the time to watch them know differently. FTPE, identify the following daytime dramas based on plotlines from earlier this year. a) Brooke fakes being pregnant with his child in order to get Todd to marry her. Answer: One Life to Live. b) Taylor fakes being pregnant with his child in order to get Noah to marry her. Answer: All My Children. c) Sammi announces she's pregnant with his child in order to keep Austin from marrying her sister Carrie. Answer: Days of Our Lives. [30] 8. More and more, famous people seem intent on branching out into different areas of the performing arts. For the indicated number of points identify the following individuals, who are best known for their work on television, from the name of a musical album each released. a) Old Yellow Eyes is Back Answer: Brent Spiner. (5 pts.) b) Monterey Nights Answer: John Tesh. (10 pts.) c) Well... Answer: Katey Sagal. (15 pts.) [30] 9. Another popular trend among acting types is supplying the voice for a cartoon character. FTPE, identify the following actors from the syndicated television cartoon character whose voice they provide. a) The Simpsons's "(Side Show) Bob Tewilliger" Answer: Kelsey Grammer. b) Aladdin's "Abiz M'All" Answer: Jason Alexander. c) Gargoyles's "Demona" Answer: Marina Sirtis. [30] 10. Those crazy actors just don't quit. Now they're even showing up in video games. F.T.P. each: identify the following recent video games for P.C.'s given the actors starring in each one. a) Brian Keith, Russell Means, Margot Kidder Answer: Under a Killing Moon. b) Grace Jones, Stephanie Seymour, Dennis Hopper Answer: Hell:A Cyberpunk Thriller. c) Malcolm McDowell, Ginger Lynn Allen, Mark Hamill Answer: Wing Commander III:The Heart of the Tiger. [30] 11. Big budget features like Bram Stoker's Dracula and Interview With the Vampire are carrying on the rich tradition of these blood-sucking villains in the movies. For the indicated number of points identify these other films featuring vampires. a) (5 pts.) F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic starring Max Schreck. Answer: Nosferatu. b) (10 pts.) This 1948 release, named for another stock horror movie villain, was the first of the highly successful series of films starring one of comedy's greatest teams. Answer: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. c) (15 pts.) 1985 movie about vampires from outer space who hire 2 idiot mechanics to kidnap teenagers for them. Answer: Evils of the Night. [30] 12. In the first 27 Wimbledons of the open era no player had ever been defaulted; by the end of 1995's fortnight 3 had. FTPE, name these three people now destined for the All England Club's "Hall of Shame". Answer: Jeff Tarango, Murphy Jensen and Tim Henman. [30] 13. Identify the following musician 30-20-10. a) Born in 1910, he dropped out of school at 16 to play with a road band. At 19 he worked with Cab Calloway's band for a week when he won an amateur guitarist competition. b) In 1940 he joined Les Hite's Los Angeles Cotton Club Orchestra as featured vocalist. In '42 he recorded his electric guitar for the first time when he cut I Got A Break Baby and his first real hit: _Mean Old World_. c) Known as the "Father of Electric Blues" his 1947 hit Call it Stormy Monday made him a household name from coast to coast. Answer: Aaron Thibeaux (T-Bone) Walker. (If Walker is given prompt for more info, we need either Aaron or T-Bone) [30] 14. Answer the following questions about television's Northern Exposure for the indicated number of points. a) (5 pts.) Name the fictional Alaskan town where the show is set. Answer: Cicely. b) (10 pts.) Name the burrough of which KBHR (K-Bear) is "the voice". Answer: Arrowhead county. c) (15 pts.) Since any casual fan of the show should know that the exteriors for the show were shot in Roslyn, Wash. you'll have to give the city where the interiors were shot if you want to earn these 15 points. Answer: Redmond, Wash. [30] 15. F.T.P. each, identify the fantasy-genre authors who created the following characters. a) Melkor, Elendil, Smaug Answer: J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien. b) Nakor the Isalani, Kulgan, Pug Answer: Raymond E. Feist. c) Firble, Regis, Drizzt Do'Urden Answer: R(obert) A. Salvatore. [30] 16. Identify the following best-foreign-film oscar award winners for the stated number of points. a) (5 pts.) This Bille August-directed film, about a Swedish widower who takes his son to Denmark to find a better life only to wind up worse off than ever, won the award for 1988. Answer: Pelle the Conqueror. b) (10 pts.) Winner of the first competitive, rather than commitee awarded, oscar for a foreign language film. It focuses on a peasant girl and the circus strongman she is sold to. Federico Fellini gained his first international acclaim for this 1954 release. Answer: La Strada. c) (15 pts.) Directed by Akira Kurosawa this Japanese-Russian co-production about the charting of the Siberian wilderness won the award for 1974. Answer: Dersu Uzala. [30] 17. When the L.A. Rams moved to St. Louis last year Jackie Slater went with them. Should he make the Rams' roster Slater will become only the 4th man to play 20 or more seasons in the NFL. FTPE, name the three men whose ranks Slater is attempting to join. Answer: George Blanda, Earl Morrall, and Jim Marshall. 18. CCGs (collectible card games to the uninformed) are booming in popularity. I hope you've been keeping abreast so that you can correctly answer the following questions FTPE. a) Unless you've been locked away studying for ACF the past 3 years you've almost certainly heard of Magic: The Gathering. Name the company that publishes this most successful of all CCGs. Answer: Wizards of the Coast. b) Decipher has produced 3 editions of its popular Star Trek: The Next Generation CCG: a black bordered limited edition, a white bordered unlimited edition and a special collector's edition. What color are the borders of the limited edition's cards? Answer: Silver. c) Fleer, best known for its sports trading cards, recently came out with a CCG based upon the characters of the Marvel comics universe. Name it. Answer: Marvel OverPower. [30] 19. Identify the following person on a 30-20-10 basis. a) As a young man he caught frogs and small animals, watched intently as they mated, and then dissected them to study their reproductive systems. In 1960 he enrolled in medical school at George Washington University where he developped a chromosome harvesting technique. b) Credited with being the first American to perform Amniocentisis for prenatal diagnosis, he went on to become one of the most highly respected fertility specialists in the country. c) Quoted as having once said: "God doesn't make babies - I do.", he became known as a miracle worker and was labeled "the babymaker"; until he was exposed as a fraud who induced false pregnancies in some patients and even fathered as many as 75 children by inseminating unknowing patients with his own sperm. Answer: Dr. Cecil Bryan Jacobson. 20. Since you've managed to get this far you're obviously aceing this packet, so here's a question that's a bit more challenging. F.T.P. each: identify the following men whom Rolling Stone magazine labeled The Godfathers of Rap. a) He now records under the label: Planet Rock Music, named after his landmark 1982 12-inch single: "Planet Rock." Answer: DJ Afrika Bambaataa b) In 1974 a DJ who went by the name Flash (later Grandmaster Flash) teamed up with this man, who, by shouting party rhymes to the crowds while Flash played a special dual-turntable machine, became one of the first MCs (microphone controllers). Answer: Keith Wiggins or Cowboy. c) This first hip-hop DJ was never captured on record. Born in Kingston, Jamaica he was pumping his blistering Caribbean sound system at block parties in the South Bronx as early as 1969. Answer: Kool DJ Herc(ules). [30] 21. The 1994\95 television season will probably be remembered for the debuts of ER and Friends, but as always there were plenty of other, less successful, shows rolled out by the networks. Shows that will be relegated to the scrapheap of boob tube history. So, let's see if, FTPE, you can recall the following flops from the season that was. a) This CBS show starred Dudley Moore as a father of three girls whose wife just ran off with his business partner. Answer: Daddy's Girls. b) This ABC show centered on a back-to-nature mail-order company and the attraction the 2 guys who run it feel towards their new business manager. Answer: Blue Skies. c) Meant to be a cross between James Bond and Police Squad this Fox show revolved around the adventures of Carlton Dial, an undercover agent for Intercept, the agency the CIA turns to for help on its most sensitive cases. Answer: Fortune Hunter. [30] 22. While numerology is often thought of as a new age practice the ancient Greeks had their own version of this numerical study of personality and predestination. The Greeks believed that a person's life progressed in a series of 7 year cycles. F.T.P. each: identify the following stages, based on the attributes the Greeks assigned them. e.g. The ability to produce seed: 2nd seven years (i.e.ages 7 to 14) a) the season for marriage Answer: 5th seven years. b) the period of equity & mildness Answer: 9th seven years. c) the maturity of reason Answer: 7th seven years. [30] 23. All the attention that the media has been paying to illnesses from H.I.V. to necrotizing facitis has spawned a horde of books on the same subject. For 10 pts. each: identify the authors of the following books on emerging diseases. a) The Hot Zone Answer: Robert Preston. b) The Coming Plague Answer: Laurie Garrett. c) Ebola: a Documentary Novel of Its First Explosion Answer: William T. Close. [30] 24. Director Lindsay Anderson helped liberate British cinema from a rigid tradition that eschewed individuality. F.T.P. each identify the following films which are among Anderson's finest. a) In this 1987 film Lillian Gish and Bette Davis star as 2 sisters whose mutual dependancy threatens to unravel when, after 60 summers together on an island in Maine, they must decide whether they should give up their family home or not. Answer: The Whales of August. b) Richard Harris and Rachel Robarts both garnered oscar nominations for their performances in this 1963 release about a former coal-miner who finds his success as a pro soccer player is over-shadowed by his unhappy life away from the playing field. Answer: This Sporting Life. c) A young Malcolm McDowell stars in this 1968 film about the exploits of a group of British boarding school students and the results of their apparent attempt to take over the school. Answer: If.... [30] 25. One thing you can never get enough of is questions about the Tour de France so FTPE, name the three men other than Miguel Indurain who have won 5 Tours. Answer: Eddy Merckx (MERKS), Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault. [30] 26. New "tell-all" celebrity biographies are always appearing on the shelves of bookstores, it's a bit daunting trying to keep track of them all, so let's see just how well you've managed to stay abreast of this never-ending tide. Identify the subjects of the following biographies for the stated number of points. a) (5 pts.) A Passion for Life by Donald Spoto Answer: Elizabeth Taylor. b) (10 pts.) Pearl by Ellis Amburn Answer: Janis Joplin. c) (15 pts.) In Her Sister's Shadow by Diana DuBois Answer: Lee (Bouvier) Radziwill. (accept either _Radziwill_ or _Lee Bouvier_) [30] 28. From Lyle and Julia to Bruce and Julianne, marriages between musicians and actresses are far from uncommon, and while they often fail to work out they almost invariably inspire a song. So, FTPE, given the title of a song and the singer who penned it identify the actress he was commemorating. a) I'm Alive by Jackson Browne Answer: Daryl Hannah. b) I'm a Fool to Want You, Frank Sinatra -colyricist Answer: Ava Gardner. c) Here, There and Everywhere, Paul McCartney -cowriter Answer: Jane Asher. [30] 29. One of the few things that television families have in common with real families is that most of them have addresses. F.T.P. each: identify the T.V. couples who lived at the following street addresses. a) 148 Bonnie Meadow Rd. Answer: Rob and Laura Petrie. b) 15 Robin Hood Lane Answer: Jason and Maggie Seaver. c) 34 Lakeside Dr. Answer: Hayden and Christine Armstrong-Fox. (either one works)