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TRASHionals 12 Round 4 Toss-Ups

1. The name of one of the earliest all-boy adolescent Mandopop bands in China, a pornstar with this first name formerly hosted the The Porn Hunnies Smut Top 20 and Tushy Talk on KSEX radio. A recent videogame by this name was released for the PlayStation 3, in which one utilizes the Sixaxis motion control to direct pieces of them around the world to trigger releases of color. One animal by this name became the leader of the Whiskers clan in 2002 on Meerkat Manor, though she died late in the third series after being bitten by a King Cobra. In Stranger than Fiction Harold Crick plays with a pun on them to give Ana Pascal a gift, while Pete Seeger asked where have all the real ones gone. For ten points, identify this name for the reproductive part of numerous plants, a name shared with the male Skunk from Bambi.

Answer: Flowers

2. During a local outbreak of xenophobia, he's told that the only thing exchanged by letting him study in the US is our national dignity. The son of a Dusseldorf gum manufacturer, he has an affinity for strange candy, including flavor wax and Marzipan Joy Joys with Iodine. In a Halloween episode he is eaten as a type of sausage, but his actual disappearance occurs when a field trip gone wrong sees him left behind and at the mercies of the reenactors of the Ninth Bearded Infantry. His parents are seen talking with the school principal about finding him, and in a later episode he is seen stuck in a cobweb in one of Springfield Elementary's air ducts. Voiced by Russi Taylor, name, for ten points, this German exchange student on The Simpsons.

Answer: Uter Zorker

3. After successful stints on the "Warped" and "Taste of Chaos" tours, this Tennessee band were signed to the label in 2005. The departure of bassist inspired several of the songs on their debut album All We Know Is Failing; he returned to the band for their platinum sophomore effort, Riot! "Decode" is the lead single from the soundtrack to the film adaptation of Twilight; other singles include "Emergency," and "." For ten points, name this pop-punk band, on tour this summer opening for No Doubt, whose orange-haired lead singer appears as a playable character in Guitar Hero: World Tour, performing their biggest hit to date, "."

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4. He claims he walked away from football in 1988 in part due to a looming third failed steroids test, but league policy at the time wouldn't have punished him. He attempted a comeback with the CFL's BC Lions, which lasted four games in 1990. He also tried boxing, going 15-2 though many of his opponents, including Derrick Dukes, claim they were told to take a dive. He went to prison in 1999 when he violated parole stemming from a domestic abuse conviction. As a player he was known for being flashy, from his dating actress Brigette Neilsen to the dances he did after each of his 107.5 career sacks. Name, for ten points, this flamboyant defensive end who still holds the single-season and career sack records for the New York Jets.

Answer: Mark Gastineau

5. This director told the inspirational story of Harlem music teacher Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart, while a Harvard anthropologist gets caught up in voodoo rituals in Haiti in his The Serpent and the Rainbow. His first film was an uncredited remake of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring; he also cast himself as himself in the ambitiously "meta" New Nightmare, while 2005's werewolf thriller Cursed reunited him with Kevin Williamson, the screenwriter of the trilogy for which he is now best known. For ten points, name this director of Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and all three Scream movies.

Answer: Wes Craven 6. The last piece of it that was opened to traffic was at Glenwood Canyon in 1992. Some of the amazing feats of engineering required to build it include its passing through the aforementioned canyon, the San Rafael Swell and the Eisenhower Tunnel, the highest elevation in the Interstate Highway System. At 2,153 miles long, it is the fifth longest highway in the system after its counterparts connecting Wilmington to Barstow and Jacksonville to Los Angeles. At one end of it, drivers are informed of the distances to various stops along its route, including the terminus located 2200 miles from the sign, as well as Denver at 1700 miles, St. Louis at 845 miles and Columbus, only 420 miles away. For ten points, identify this Interstate connecting Cove Fort, Utah with Baltimore, Maryland.

Answer: Interstate 70

7. [AUDIO] Given a snippet of dialogue from a cutscene, name the game for ten points. [Track #14]

Answer: Kingdom Hearts

8. He attended Passaic Community College during his 2006 call-up, and got rides to practice with his mom, Gisele, as he did not have a license. That season he became the youngest player ever to find the net in the playoffs with his team's lone goal against DC United. In 2007 he made more noise at the under-20 World Cup, where he led the US with four goals, including both in a 2-1 upset of . In 2008 he became the subject of the richest transfer for a MLS player, when Villareal paid $10 million for his services. He's stayed in the US spotlight thanks to his play for the men's national team, where he has six goals in nine appearances. Name, for ten points, this former New York Red Bulls striker who netted a hat trick in an April 1 World Cup qualifier against Trinidad and Tobago.

Answer: Josmer "Jozy" Altidore

9. This performer headlined a 1985-86 show on CBS that starred a pre-Y&R Kristoff St. John and a pre-Urkel Jaleel White, and appeared in ads for Colgate at that time for their then-new attached toothpaste lid. In the 1970's a pull-string doll with this performer's likeness was sold with one of the phrases saying, "help, somebody get me out of this doll." The doll had a dual-sided surface which allowed for his normal persona, and a second side with him in drag that made pull- string statements like, "The devil made me wear this dress." For ten points, name this star of Charlie and Company, a frequent guest on Laugh-in until he hosted his own 1970's NBC variety show that featured his story jokes, and a special handshake and bump with guests.

Answer: Clerow "Flip" Wilson

10. The mellow musical accompaniment and sing-song nature of the lyrical flow mask the fact that the lyrics depict a brutal gunpoint mugging followed by a retaliatory killing, mostly set at or near the intersection of East 21st St and Lewis Avenue in Long Beach, California. Featured in the film Above The Rim its backing track incorporates Bob James' "Sign of the Times" but mostly lifts from Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin." Inspired by a word often invoked in the film Young Guns, which some versions of it sample, this hit song helped popularized the term "G-." For ten points identify this 1994 hit song which featured Nate Dogg and starred Warren G.

Answer: Regulate (G-Funk Era)

11. This woman was born in Muscat, Oman, and named for a location in Scotland. As a teenager, she co-wrote the bestselling novels Bewitched and Seduced by Fame while playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. After supporting roles in Scooby-Doo and I Heart Huckabees, she starred as the love interests for Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Lookout and Ryan Reynolds in Definitely, Maybe, while her breakthrough came as the nymphomaniac Gloria Cleary, who becomes a "stage five clinger" to a character played by Vince Vaughn. Recently seen as Rebecca Bloomwood in a Sophie Kinsella adaptation, this is, for ten points, what Australian star of The Wedding Crashers and Confessions of a Shopaholic?

Answer: Isla Fisher 12. A former prizefighter, he coached Golden Gloves teams for Oklahoma and the US Army. His time as a hobo and on a tramp freighter gave him material for his early writing career; when the market for adventure fiction dried up after World War II, he moved on with Hopalong Cassidy novels and his first original novel, Westward the Tide. He said he wrote to dispel frontier myths like a single gunslinger being able to terrorize a town filled with rifle owners. Near the end of his life he tried to construct an entire fake Old Western town that would be rented as a movie setting, named after one of his novels, Shalako. For ten points name this western author of the Sackett series and Hondo, nicknamed "America�s storyteller."

Answer: Louis L'Amour

13. It has only two events scheduled for 2009, a concert featuring Jackie Chan and a performance of Turandot one the one year anniversary of its opening, with both events directed by the same man. It may still host the Italian Supercoppa, but will not be the home for Guoan, a soccer team who was to make it their home pitch, but backed out as they didn't want to put their average 10,000 fans per game in a stadium seating 80,000. Citic Group, who currently operate it, plan to turn it into a shopping and entertainment venue by 2014, thus ending the athletic career of, for ten points, what iconic site of the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics?

Answer: Beijing National Stadium or The Bird's Nest

14. This director's first feature, the Miles Davis-scored , made a star of Jeanne Moreau, who later starred in his film at the center of the Jacobellis case that prompted a famous Potter Stewart quote about pornography, The Lovers. He co-directed 's Oscar-winning The Silent World and controversially tackled suicide in , incest in , and Nazi collaboration in Lacombe Lucien, and skirted child porn with Pretty Baby. Burt Lancaster's last Oscar nod was for his Atlantic City, while Andre Gregory directs Uncle Vanya in one of his films and has dinner with Wallace Shawn in other. For ten points, name this man who exorcised his guilt over the fate of a Jewish classmate with 1987's Au revoir, les enfants.

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15. The episode "Grey Matter" introduces us to Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz, college friends of the main character who offer him a job at their company, which he rejects. The last episode of the first season sees the main character's wife confront her sister, Marie, about her shoplifting. The second season has focused on a deal with Tuco Salamanca, which ends when he is killed by DEA agent Hank Schrader, who continues to look for the new drug kingpin in the Albuquerque area, unaware that it's his brother-in-law. Centered around the partnership between dealer Jesse Pinkham and cancer patient turned meth cooker Walter White, name, for ten points, this AMC series that garnered an Emmy win for the actor playing Walter, .

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16. In December 2008 Jermaine Blackburn became the first to do this in the history of the CBA in a win over the West Virginia Wild. Ann Myers has the only recorded instance of this in Division I women's basketball in a 1978 game for UCLA. Nate Thurmond's October 1974 effort for the Bulls was the first recorded instance in the NBA since the NBA's official recording of blocks and steals. Since then two other centers, David Robinson and Hakeem Olajuwon, and defensive star guard Alvin Robertson have joined Thurmond as the only official recordings of this statistical feat. For ten points, name this numerical achievement for a player getting more than 10 of any four positive statistical areas in one game.

Answer: Quadruple-double 17. Christopher Walken appears in this movie as a cuckolded husband who fantasizes about stabbing his wife - played by Amy Sedaris - while dancing to Tom Jones' "Delilah," and Eddie Izzard portrays piano-playing pastor Gene Vincent. Executive-produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, it features Mary-Louise Parker and Aida Turturro as sisters Constance and Rosebud, despite both actresses being nearly the same age as the actor portraying their father. Described by its maker as "Charles Bukowski writes The Honeymooners, with music," it centers on Nick Murder, who is torn between his wife Kitty and his sultry mistress Tula, played by Kate Winslet. For ten points, name this 2005 independent musical starring Susan Sarandon and and written and directed by .

Answer: Romance & Cigarettes

18. Top teams in the NXL include the Portland Naughty Dogs, the Edmonton Impact, and the current champions the Los Angeles Ironmen. Radar chronographs are used to check velocity, which is capped at 300 feet per second. Ramping and wiping are major fouls, and new safety equipment has reduced the eye injury rate. First played in 1981, it was originally called the "National Survival Game". Reusable rubber balls are often used in practice, but are impractical for competition since there is no record of a hit. A version using tanks is played in Leicestershire. For ten points, name this activity which typically involves CO2 canisters and pistols originally used to mark trees for cutting.

Answer: Paintball

19. Original singer Darryl DeLoach left after neither debut album Heavy nor single "Possession" gained much traction, leaving this San Diego band in the hands of drummer Ron Bushy and organist and singer Doug Ingle. Their second album, however, sold so well that it was the first album designated "platinum" by the RIAA and a radio edit of its title track reached the Top 40 in 1968. The full-length version took up all of Side Two of the LP and included a three-minute drum solo, and was allegedly used as makeout music for a young Homer and Marge Simpson. For ten points name this acid- best known for their magnum opus "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."

Answer: Iron Butterfly

20. Sid and Marty Krofft won a lawsuit in part because of the similarities between this character and their creation H.R. Pufnstuf, which resulted in $1,000,000 in damages and magic behind his dominion all but eliminated. Though dropped from ads after the lawsuit, he officially appeared in a 1999 VHS entitled, "Have Time, Will Travel," and recently has been seen on Family Guy inquiring about an impossible cosmetic surgery on account of his head structure. Sporting a top hat, the sash of a diplomat and some pince-nez glasses, the last being a necessity on account of his lacking ears, identify, for ten points, this person in charge of McDonaldland who has a cheeseburger for a head.

Answer: Mayor McCheese

21. Captured from the Amitie, he was shipped out to prevent the creation of a rival claimaint to the throne. As of 1808 he had memorized much of the Principia Mathematica, Gibbon�s Decline and Fall, and Laplace�s Celestial Mechanics. Born with a mastery of English, French, Chinese, he picked up Xhosa in Empire of Ivory. Due to the ignorance of the man who harnessed him, his name is not Latin, but French, after a ship of the line. Decisively turning the Battle of Dover with his Divine Wind ability, he has been a thorn in the side of Napoleon, to whom he was originally sent by the Chinese emperor while still an egg. For ten points, name this creature who serves as "Her Majesty�s Dragon" in a series of books by Naomi Novik.

Answer: Temeraire or Lung Tien Xiang TRASHionals 12 Round 4 Bonuses

1. Answer these questions about Literary Review's R-rated version of the Bulwer-Lytton Prize; the Bad Sex In Fiction Award, for ten points each.

1. This author made a minor stir when he failed to be present to claim his 2004 prize for a scene that included the phase, "Slither slither slither slither went the tongue", out of "I am Charlotte Simmons". Answer: John Updike 2. 2007's winner was a scene from The Castle In The Forest, the final novel by this famed American author. The nominated scene refers to a male member as being "soft as a coil of excrement" and turns out to be the conception of Adolf Hitler. Answer: Norman Mailer 3. Last year's winner, perhaps better known as the sister of London's current mayor, won for a scene in her novel Shire Hell that describes a woman's climax as a "mounting Wagnerian crescendo." Answer: Rachel Johnson

2. Everybody loves fishing for points! For ten points each:

1. Rangers fans have been taunting Islanders fans by asking for fishsticks ever since the latter briefly changed their logo in the mid 1990s to something resembling this advertising icon. Answer: Gorton's Fisherman 2. The first single release from Primus (no, not "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver") is this song about another gentleman with an original name and different occupation. Answer: "John the Fisherman" 3. Members of David Berg's Children of God cult were "encouraged" to participate in this form of evangelical prostitution in reference to Matthew 4:17. Answer: Flirty Fishing

3. [AUDIO] TWO ANSWERS PER PART. For five points each, name the song and artist from lyrics that are negative towards the music industry:

1. [Track #15] Answer: "Don't Let Me Get Me" by Pink 2. [Track #16] Answer: "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 3. [Track #17] Answer: "The Entertainer" by Bill Joel

4. For ten points each, name these men who gave rather unorthodox portrayals of Sherlock Holmes.

1. Columbia Pictures is currently prepping a project that will pair this Borat star's Holmes with Will Ferrell's Dr. Watson. Answer: Sasha Baron Cohen (prompt on partial answer) 2. In 1988's Without a Clue, this 2-time Oscar winner played Holmes as an alcoholic womanizing actor, while Ben Kingsley's Watson was the true crime-solving genius. Answer: Michael Caine 3. 1976's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution cast this Scottish actor as a cocaine-addicted Holmes who fantasizes that his old math tutor, Moriarty, is a criminal mastermind. Robert Duvall was his Watson. Answer: Nicol Williamson 5. Identify the following people who have had their remains committed to the "deepest of the deep" for ten points each.

1. Along with Gene Roddenberry and some rocket scientists, this psychedelic drug activist and researcher was one of the first people to have his remains committed to space. Answer: Timothy Leary 2. Following in the footsteps of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, this original cast member had some of his remains shot into space (well, sub-orbit) on April 28, 2007. Answer: James Doohan 3. Within two months of his death, this inventor of instant noodles had some of his remains sent into space. Answer: Momofuku Ando

6. Name these video games that take place on futuristic game shows for ten points each.

1. The title program's announcer memorably exclaims "Big Money, Big Prizes, I LOVE IT!" in this arcade game that features Robotron's dual-joystick controls. Answer: Smash TV 2. A terrorist group known as The Organizers turn Varrigan City into the ultra-violent game show DeathWatch in this recent release. Answer: MadWorld 3. Up to six arcade cabinets can be linked together in this Midway third-person shooter where players can earn cash to obtain power-ups like Da Bomb. Answer: The Grid

7. For ten points each, name these people who have beaten Tiger Woods:

1. 2007 marked the first of Tiger's back to back runner up finishes at the Masters, where he finished two shots behind this golfer, who was the first golfer ranked outside of the top 50 to win a green jacket. Answer: Zach Johnson 2. One event where Woods has had minimal success is the Ryder Cup. In his first Ryder Cup in 1997, Woods to this Italian whose best finish at a major was forcing a playoff versus John Daly in 1995. Answer: Constantino Rocca 3. This Australian's claim to fame is beating Tiger Woods twice in match play, in 2005 and 2007. Answer: Nick O'Hern

8. If you're like me, the series finale of ER was quite a surprise, as I thought the show went off the air years ago. Anyway, answer these questions about how they wrapped things up, for ten points each.

1. New and old cast were brought together thanks to this character's opening a medical treatment center named for his deceased son. Answer: John Carter 2. The plot line involving a teenage girl who may or may not die from alcohol poisoning was inspired by the actual alcohol poisoning death of this ER executive producer's niece last December. Answer: John Wells 3. The finale demonstrated that life in the ER will continue when Rachel, the daughter of this deceased character, decided to follow in her father's footsteps and work in emergency medicine at County. Answer: Mark Greene 9. For ten points each, name the last member of the Montreal Expos to...

1. Strike out 200 batters in a season. Answer: Javier Vasquez 2. Hit at least 40 home runs in a season. Answer: Vladimir Guerrero 3. Start an All Star Game. Answer: Jose Vidro

10. Identify these indie rock bands who might have something in common, for ten points each.

1. The self-titled debut album from this Seattle band, featuring the songs "White Winter Hymnal" and "Ragged Wood," was declared Album of the Year for 2008 by Pitchfork Media. Answer: Fleet Foxes 2. Also originally from Seattle are these fellow old-school rock revivalists, whose latest album, 2007's Cease To Begin features the songs "Is There A Ghost" and "No One's Gonna Love You." Answer: Band of Horses 3. This somewhat more experimental New York avant-rock band, frequently used in commercial bumpers on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, released the album Yellow House in 2006 and the EP Friend, which actually features a Band of Horses version of one of their songs. They opened for Radiohead on a summer 2008 U.S. tour. Answer: Grizzly Bear

11. The only thing sweeter than this bonus are the points you can get from it. For ten points each:

1. 600 times sweeter than sugar, diabetics in the US rejoiced when this versatile Tate & Lyle sugar substitute was approved by the FDA in 1998. Answer: Sucralose 2. This non-saccharide sweetener is marketed under such brand names as Equal and Nutrasweet, has lost a lot of its market share to sucralose because the latter retains its sweetness when heated, making it suitable for baking (it also isn't very good for those with PKU either). Answer: Aspartame 3. This "tooth-friendly" sugar substitute often found in chewing gum can be toxic to pets, so think twice before giving your dog some gum to help with its vomit breath. Answer: Xylitol

12. In the 1980s it was popular for hair metal bands to take half-forgotten boogie-rock hits from the early 1970s and turn them into bigger hits. Given information about such a song and the band that brought the song back, name both, five points per answer.

1. [5,5] This song from the solo career of former Mott the Hoople leader Ian Hunter was recast as glam metal by this L.A. band, setting forth a chain of events that ended in a nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people. Answer: "Once Bitten Twice Shy" by Great White 2. [5,5] This biggest hit in the career of Brownsville Station is better known by a 1985 cover of it which became the first Top 40 hit for this band, helping push them and their album Theatre of Pain, onto rock radio and MTV. Answer: "Smokin' In The Boys' Room" by Motley Crue 3. [5,5] This 1972 Loggins & Messina hit resurfaced in louder form more than once, but most famously in 1989 as the fourth and final single from this band's landmark album Open Up And Say...Ahh! Answer: "Your Mama Don't Dance" by Poison 13. Name these products from Steve Jackson Games for ten points each.

1. SJG's flagship roleplaying line, its first letter stands for Generic, and dozens of historical settings and licensed rulebooks allow players to use just about any setting. Answer: G.U.R.P.S. or Generic Universal Roleplaying System 2. Jackson had a hit with this card game based around dungeon exploration, whose name is slang for roleplayers who are greedy for power. Answer: Munchkin 3. Originally a board game, this conspiracy-themed product based on a Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson trilogy was later released as a card game, subtitled "New World Order". Answer: Illuminati

14. It tells the tale of a spunky Italian American. For ten points each:

1. Identify this Harnick and Bock musical, one of only seven musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which details the life of a New York City mayor and politician. Answer: Fiorello! 2. The role of Fiorello was originated by this actor who provided the voice of David the Gnome and portrayed Howard Cunningham on Happy Days. Answer: Tom Bosley 3. The first musical number featuring the Tammany Hall politicians, in it the four singers describe their search for a congressional candidate for a "hopeless" district over a game of cards. Answer: "Politics and Poker"

15. For ten points each, name the character on Lost who is responsible for the deaths of these other characters:

1. Shannon Rutherford Answer: Ana Lucia Cortez 2. Ana Lucia Cortez Answer: Michael Dawson 3. Michael Dawson Answer: Benjamin Linus (stabbed Martin Keamy, who died from the wounds, setting off the bomb that kills Michael)

16. Name this actresses with something in common from film roles for ten points each.

1. This woman starred opposite Bill Pullman in the 1996 marriage farce Mr. Wrong; she also played TV exec Cynthia Topping in EDtv. Answer: Ellen DeGeneres 2. This co-star of Jerry Maguire and The Green Mile directed the flop Return to Me but found better success with "wife"/"mom" roles in the kiddie franchises Beethoven and Cheaper by the Dozen. Answer: Bonnie Hunt 3. An afternoon talk-show host like DeGeneres and Hunt, this actress was Oscar-nominated for her first movie role, as Sofia in The Color Purple. Not counting voice roles, the only other features she has acted in to date are film adaptations of Native Son and Beloved. Answer: Oprah Winfrey 17. Like Wolverine, he is a product of the Weapon X program who possesses a healing factor. For ten points each:

1. Name this nutty masked mercenary from Marvel and occasional anti-hero whose real name is Wade Wilson, a ripoff of a DC character nicknamed "The Terminator". Answer: Deadpool 2. From 2004 to 2008, Deadpool co-headlined a comic book with this unlikely partner. Deadpool's first appearances usually involved tangling with this powerful mutant who was the leader of the New Mutants and X-Force. Answer: Cable 3. Deadpool has been bested on multiple times by this member of the Great Lakes Avengers with animal powers. Answer: Squirrel Girl or Doreen Green

18. For ten points each, answer these questions about same sex marriages on TV.

1. Ron and Eric tied the knot on a 1994 episode this CBS dramedy set in a remote town founded by lesbians. A post- nuptual kiss was filmed, but edited out of the episode. Answer: Northern Exposure 2. A year later, this ABC saw the wedding between Leon, played by Martin Mull, and Scott, played by Fred Willard. For this episode only, the network moved the show from its regular time slot to a later one due to the "adult" content, which did not include a post-wedding kiss. Answer: Roseanne 3. Not surprisingly, this Showtime series featured the wedding of Shane McCutcheon and Carmen de la Pica Morales. Given that it's Showtime, we saw the couple kiss - and more - both before and after the wedding. Answer: The L Word

19. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about artists who didn't, at least originally, work in the dance music format, but owe some of their fame to club remixes.

1. [10] This light alt-rock duo were introduced to club audiences when producer Todd Terry took their 1994 small hit "Missing," gave it a dance remix, and turned it into a huge hit. Answer: Everything But The Girl 2. [10] A team of Miami producers known as the Bayside Boys made this Spanish flamenco guitar duo world famous by doing an electronic dance remix of their hit song "Macarena." Answer: Los Del Rio 3. [5,5] For 5 points each...while it can hardly be said that Elvis Presley would be obscure without dance remixes, Dutch remixer Tom Holkenborg, better known by this stage name, turned this forgotten minor late-period Elvis hit into an international smash via its use in a Nike advertisement in 2002. Answer: Junkie XL (or JXL), "A Little Less Conversation"

20. For ten points each, name these unlikely screenwriters whose Hollywood credits were often quite different from their most famous work.

1. This woman's scripts for two 1945 romantic dramas, You Came Along and Love Letters, are remarkably free of didactic philosophizing. Answer: Ayn Rand 2. This playwright fictionalized the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in the 1943 Fritz Lang thriller Hangmen Also Die!; its propagandistic tone is miles away from the Verfremdungseffekt advocated by his theoretical writings. Answer: Bertolt Brecht 3. This writer's Oscar nominations for the straightforward dramas A Star Is Born and Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman give no hint of the caustic wit for which she is remembered today. Answer: Dorothy Parker 21. Did you know that there is a World Cup for American football? You do now. For ten points each:

1. The US won the 2007 Cup in its first appearance, but did so in overtime beating this country, the host and winner of the first two Cups. Answer: Japan 2. The coach of the US team was this man, who led Illinois to a share of the 1990 Big Ten title and Texas to the first-ever Big 12 championship. He was also the Kansas City Chiefs head coach from 1983 to 1986. Answer: John Mackovic 3. USA Football required that the World Cup team include players from every level of NCAA competition and from this other governing body, whose focus was originally basketball. Linebacker Adam Paulson from the University of Sioux Falls was its only representative. Answer: National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

22. For ten points each, name the prime time news douchenozzle from a description.

1. He's made a name for himself as host of the "To Catch a Predator" segments on Dateline NBC, where he uses faked online profiles to lure potential predators into his hot seat. Answer: Chris Hansen 2. This whiny practitioner of "advocacy journalism" turned his "Give Me a Break" segments into a regular job as 20/20's co-anchor. Answer: John Stossel 3. While segments like Oddball and Worst Person in the World can be amusing, the increasing smarmy attitude of this MSNBC personality can make Countdown unwatchable at times. Answer: Keith Olberman