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ONLINE QUIZ LEAGUE POP SOLOS Packet by De Stijl, For use as OFFICIAL MATCH during Week 7 of Season 1 3/8/2021

Scorer at https://wikiquiz.org/Quiz_Scorer_App.html (use the link on quizcentral.net/matches.php) Correct as of 3/4/2021

Round 1 1a In Season 6 of what series is it revealed that Megan Draper, the wife of the main character, has become a star on the soap opera "To Have MAD MEN and To Hold" after leaving her ad agency job? 1b To pass the Bechdel Test, a film must have two named woman characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. GRAVITY By virtue of largely having Sandra Bullock’s astronaut as the only character onscreen , what 2013 film fails the Bechdel Test? 1c Mike Tyson was fined three million dollars and suspended from boxing after a 1997 fight in which he bit an entire inch of cartilage out Evander HOLYFIELD of which opponent's ear?

2a Which fast food chain has announced perplexing versions of its flame- grilled signature burger as April Fools' jokes on several occasions, BURGER KING (prompt on including a "Left-Handed" version in 1998 and a Chocolate version in "Whopper") 2018? 2b Not long before his untimely death from coronavirus in spring 2020, 's Adam Schlesinger wrote the musical version of which comedian's memoir "The Bedwetter"? She had a viral video on then-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel's show involving her having a fun, sexy time with Matt Damon. 2c Margo Howard, Emily Yoffe, and Danny Lavery are the three people to DEAR PRUDENCE (prompt on just have given advice on which long-running Slate.com column, named "Prudence") for a Beatles song?

3a The first major rhythm game created by Harmonix, which game series's installments have included Legends of Rock, World Tour, and GUITAR HERO a 2015 "Live" version that let players shred before simulated crowds? 3b The 1996 album "El Producto" by Walt Mink is mostly notable as the first recording ever to receive a 10.0 rating from which notoriously PITCHFORK cranky website, originally focusing on Midwestern indie rock and now owned by Conde Nast? 3c The song "Notes on a Conditional Form" by the band called The 1975 begins with a voiceover from which activist, a Nobel Peace Prize Greta THUNBERG nominee and recent TIME Magazine Person of the Year?

4a Which filmmaker won a Student Academy Award for his NYU film, "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads"? He filmed his debut Spike (Shelton) LEE feature, "She's Gotta Have It", for a mere $175,000. 4b In April 2020, which actor became the fifth person to host "" ten times or more? He hosted the show's first "at-home" episode near the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. 4c In 2020, which Major League Baseball franchise hired Kim Ng (pr. ANG) as their new General Manager? They are the first "Big Four" MIAMI MARLINS (accept either) men's sports franchise in to hire a woman as their GM.

Round 2

1a While Bob Dylan insists it's primarily about Anton Chekhov, pretty much everyone else considers which 1975 album to be a meditation BLOOD ON THE TRACKS on Dylan's separation from his then-wife Sara? The album's most successful single was "Tangled Up in Blue". 1b In 2008, a YouTube April Fool's Day prank redirected every link on their front page to the video for which 1987 #1 hit, which was about "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP" as predictable as an internet prank got in 2008? 1c "I had never seen a shooting star before" begins a legendarily effusive review of which 2000 album by Radiohead, which received a rare 10.0 KID A from Pitchfork? "Idioteque," "Everything In Its Right Place," and "The National Anthem" are some of the tracks singled out for praise.

2a What term names a sweetened whipped cream, often containing some vanilla, used in French patisserie (pah-TEE-sir-ree)? It is named Creme CHANTILLY/CHANTILLY for a city in Picardy, France, that is also famous as a center of lace- cream making. 2b GOB (pr. JOHB) Bluth attempts to punch out his girlfriend Marta's presumed lover on the set of the Spanish-language soap opera "El Amor Prohibido", but is knocked unconscious when it turns out his ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT adversary had trained as a boxer to play Oscar de la Hoya. This happens on an episode of which sitcom? 2c Prolific jazz musician Stacey Kent's album "Breakfast on the Morning Tram" features several songs with lyrics penned by which Nobel Kazuo ISHIGURO literature laureate? His novel "Never Let Me Go" was the basis for the 2010 film of the same name.

3a The "historical" American Girl doll introduced in 2020 is a video game enthusiast whose stories are set in the long-ago time of 1986. What is COURTNEY (Moore) her first name, which she shares with a "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" actor and a 1990s alt-rock frontwoman? 3b While a film school classmate of Spike Lee, which future director served as assistant director on "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop"? His own Ang LEE debut film was 1991's "Pushing Hands", the first film in his "Taiwanese trilogy" that ended with "Eat Drink Man Woman". 3c Thanks to scenes in which Anastasia Steele talks to friends and her mother about college graduation, which 2015 film based on a series of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY novels by E.L. James does pass the Bechdel Test?

4a Luis Suarez was ejected from the 2014 iteration of the FIFA World Cup for biting the shoulder of which country's defender, Giorgio Chiellini ITALY (KEY-eh-LEE-nee)? 4b "Waitress" was the first Broadway musical ever to debut with all four of its top creative roles held by women. The music and lyrics were Sara BAREILLES written by which musician, whose debut album "Careful Confessions" featured her first US hit, "Love Song"? 4c "Santorum" and "Saddlebacking" are neologisms defined by readers Dan SAVAGE (accept SAVAGE at the behest of which longtime sex columnist for Seattle's "The LOVE) Stranger" alt-weekly?

Round 3

1a Which future director's NYU student films included "The Big Shave" and "It's Not Just You, Murray!"? While at NYU he met one of his most Martin SCORSESE influential long-term collaborators, the film editor Thelma Schoonmaker. 1b The dough for which type of sponge cake is unusual because it GENOISE sponge/cake (accept includes whole eggs and not just egg whites? The basis for desserts “Genoa” or “Genovese”) like Jaffa Cakes and jelly rolls, it is named for a city in Liguria, Italy. 1c After the success of "Guitar Hero", Harmonix developed which game that gave stand-alone expansions to The Beatles, Green Day, and ROCK BAND AC/DC?

2a Which actor has hosted "Saturday Night Live" seventeen times, more than anyone else? His last turn as host was in 2017, and he won an Emmy award in that year for his work on the series. 2b The title of whose 1978 album "Here, My Dear" refers to the fact that royalties for the album were intended to comprise half of the singer's Marvin GAYE alimony payments to Anna Gordy, per their divorce settlement? 2c Which city's "Herald" newspaper bore the headline "Tree Bites Man" on April 25, 1983, after the Atlanta Hawks' Tree Rollins bit the finger BOSTON (be kind and prompt on of this city's Danny Ainge (AYNGE)? Ainge is now the GM of the team "Celtics") for which he played at the time of the incident.

3a "Prescription: Passion" was a fake soap opera featured on which medical drama? Its title character once kidnapped a star of the show and brought him to Princeton Plainsboro when he believe he spotted HOUSE (M.D.) signs of a serious medical condition based on the actor's performance on the show. It was not Lupus. 3b In 2020, Spike Lee released the film version of which musician's Broadway revue "American Utopia"? This musician's other Broadway works include "Here Lies Love", a Fatboy Slim collaboration about David BYRNE Imelda Marcos, and "The Catherine Wheel", music for a Twyla Tharp dance piece. 3c In December 2020, which longtime Liberty and San Antonio Stars point guard became the first woman to act as head coach during an NBA game? She was hired by the Spurs as an assistant in 2014 and Becky (Rebecca) HAMMON acted as head coach when Gregg Popovich was ejected against the Lakers.

4a Which -based band freely released their 2002 album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" on their website after being dropped from their label, WILCO before signing with Nonesuch Records for a formal album release? The album earned a 10.0 from Pitchfork. 4b One of the first three American Girl dolls released was a braided, bespectacled patriot on the home front during World War II. What is her first name, which she shares with one of the models who hosted MOLLY (McIntire) MTV's House of Style as well as a sitcom character played by Melissa McCarthy? 4c While this 1997 Quentin Tarantino movie fails the Bechdel Test, Alison Bechdel herself said in an interview that its title character, played by JACKIE BROWN Pam Grier, is "one of the strongest female protagonists I've ever seen in a Hollywood movie--it's an amazing feminist text". Which film?

Round 4

1a Who is second to Alec Baldwin with fifteen "Saturday Night Live" hosting turns? While he appeared as one of the "wild and crazy" Festrunk brothers with Dan Aykroyd and famously performed Steve MARTIN his novelty hit "King Tut" on the show, he was, perhaps surprisingly, never an SNL cast member. 1b "Tiny Beautiful Things" is a book-length collection of advice columns from Dear Sugar at The Rumpus, written by which Cheryl STRAYED author and memoirist? By far her most popular book is 2012's "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail". 1c The second African-American doll released in American Girl's historical collection, her story is set in 1963 Detroit, amid the backdrops of Hitsville USA and the Civil Rights Movement. What MELODY (Ellison) is her first name, which she shares with both a musical term and a member of the Pussycat Dolls?

2a Thanks to numerous career-centered conversations among the title characters, which Razzie Worst Picture-winning film from SHOWGIRLS 1995 passes the Bechdel Test comfortably? It features Saved by the Bell's Elizabeth Berkeley. 2b Konami introduced which series of rhythm games in 1998? Popular in arcades, its game mechanic involves stepping on DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION directional pads, and expansions have included Extreme and (accept DDR) Supernova. 2c A January 2020 ad by Microsoft saluted which 49ers Offensive Assistant Coach, who became both the first woman Katie SOWERS and the first openly LGBTQ individual to coach in the Super Bowl that year?

3a In 1996, Taco Bell took out April Fools' Day advertisements announcing they had purchased which Philadelphia landmark, LIBERTY BELL to whose name they intended to append the word "Taco"? 3b What surname is shared by a longtime Pittsburgh Penguins legend nicknamed "Super Mario" and the unrelated right wing LEMIEUX (luh-MEW) Claude, who celebrated his first trip to the Stanley Cup by biting the Flames' Jim Peplinski during an on-ice brawl? 3c After finding out that longtime fiancée Leigh Limon had been HANSEN (accept either having an affair, what singer recorded the 2002 album "Sea name; also accept Bek Change" over a period of just two weeks? CAMPBELL)

4a Salman Rushdie, long considered a favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature, has performed onstage with which band, who wrote a song based on his novel "The Ground Beneath Her U2 Feet"? The same band wrote a hit song as a tribute to the Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. 4b Which Friends character portrays Dr. Drake Ramoray on Days of JOEY TRIBBIANI (accept either Our Lives at various points throughout the show's run? name) 4c A traditional Bakewell tart includes a layer of which almond, butter, and sugar confection similar to marzipan, named for an FRANGIPANE (FRAN-djuh-pan) Italian nobleman?

Round 5

1a Considered a one-hit wonder in the 1990s with the song "Barely Breathing," won a Tony Award for cowriting the score of SPRING AWAKENING which 2006 musical? It helped launch the careers of Lea Michele and . 1b British jazz singer Kate Whitley's 2017 song "Speak Out" takes its lyrics MALALA YOUSAFZAI (accept from a speech given by which Nobel Peace Laureate, the youngest- either) ever winner of the award? A single word answer is fine. 1c In January 2020, which Major League Baseball franchise hired Alyssa Nakken (NAH-kin) as the first full-time female coach in league history? SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS (accept In July of last year, Nakken became the first woman to coach on-field either) during an MLB game.

2a The fourth American Girl doll released was one of two from the historical collection whose story is set in pre-Revolutionary War times, along with Kaya. What is her first name, which she shares with an FELICITY (Merriman) actress briefly imprisoned for college admissions fraud as well as a TV title character played by Keri Russell? 2b In 2020, who received the first 10.0 for a new release from Pitchfork since Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" ten years prior, making her the first solo female artist to receive that accolade Fiona APPLE on an initial release? She had previously earned a stellar 9.0 for 2012's "The Idler Wheel..." 2c Which Chinese-born director won several major awards for her short film "Daughters" while at NYU's film school? She is currently receiving Chloe ZHAO Oscar buzz for "Nomadland" and has been tapped to direct Marvel's upcoming "Eternals".

3a Three women have hosted "Saturday Night Live" six times: , Drew Barrymore, and which actress? Although her most prominent Scarlett JOHANSSON roles have been in dramas and action films, she is currently married to an SNL Weekend Update host. 3b "I Walked In on My Employees Having Sex, and Now I Think There's an Employee Sex Club" is arguably the most notorious installment ever of ASK A MANAGER an advice column titled for what organizational position, written by HR exec and columnist Alison Green? 3c Profiteroles, eclairs, and gougeres (goo-ZHERE) are all made from what type of pastry? It is usually cooked in a saucepan and piped, and Pate a CHOUX (or CHOUX pastry) includes no rising agents.

4a Noted Taylor Swift collaborator Justin Vernon is the frontman for which band? He legendarily wrote most of their debut album "For BON IVER Emma, Forever Ago" in his father's hunting cabin after breaking up with Christy Smith. 4b Arguably the most popular rhythm game of recent years is which Ubisoft series in which players mimic onscreen choreography? A JUST DANCE "Now" version that can be played on a smartphone or computer was launched in 2014. 4c Which company's 2019 April Fool's joke was an announcement that they were rolling out a version of their Audible service intended especially for fish? A non-corporate prank that went viral in 2019 AMAZON involved a woman saving up six months' worth of boxes from this company and piling them on her lawn to terrify her husband.

Tie breaker round. Ask all players tied for SECOND place the first three questions individually, usually by having them leave the room. If there are still at least one player tied, ask them the second set. Remember that both first and second make it to the final, so that’s the only tie that needs breaking.

Please message Steve Bahnaman ([email protected], or on Facebook) basic results of broken ties.

1a The Aaron Paul-voiced character Todd Chavez from WHICH SERIES became arguably the first openly asexual character on American television when he came out in the Season 4 episode "Hooray! Todd Episode!"? BOJACK HORSEMAN 1b WHICH SHOE BRAND, founded by Blake Mycoskie, is perhaps best known for their One-to-One program, in which the company donated a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes they sold? TOMS 1c The landing site for NASA's "Perseverance" rover was officially named for WHICH AUTHOR of the science fiction novels "Kindred" and "Parable of the Sower"? Octavia E. BUTLER

2a In May of 1991, WHOM did Rickey Henderson pass to become #1 on the all-time stolen bases list? This player still holds the #2 spot on that list. Lou BROCK 2b In March of 2021, WHICH CHILDREN'S PERFORMING GROUP covered their countryman Tame Impala's "Elephant", as well as their own "We're All Fruit Salad", for Triple-J's radio and YouTube series "Like a Version"? The WIGGLES 2c According to Technomic, the #3 coffee chain in the United States in terms of revenue, behind Starbucks and Dunkin', is WHICH -BASED CHAIN founded by a namesake hockey player? TIM HORTON’s TB As of March 5, 2021, WHAT IS THE LIST PRICE in dollars of a 2002- $9,050.00 1 20 bag on Hermes.com?

Spare Questions 1 What is the last name of the brothers responsible for the YouTube GREEN (John and Hank) channel Vlogbrothers and the online series Crash Course? One is a very famous author. 2 Clearly still at it, who tweeted on March 5 “Mark McGwire corked his Jose CANSECO bat before every game”? In a famous highlight during his time with the Rangers, a ball bounced off his head and into the stands for a home run. 3 Eric Jerome Dickey, who died in January 2021, wrote a graphic novel STORM or Ororo MUNROE titled for what member of the X-Men? It depicts her original meeting with eventual husband T’Challa.