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2000 UTC Trashmasters TOSSUPS - FINALS TRASHMASTERS 2000 - UT-CHATTANOOGA Questions by Tiresias with occasional Victorians 1) Temple head coach John Chaney briefly in 1955. Henry Kissinger in 1976, if only an honorary one. Bob Gibson from 1957-58. Nate "Sweetwater" Clifton, the ftrst black player in the NBA, in the late 1940s. Connie Hawkins for four seasons in the 1960s. Magic Johnson, for one game in 1997. Wilt Chamberlain in 1959. And, of course, Meadowlark Lemon from 1954-1975. For 10 points, name the team all these men played for, founded in 1927 by Abe Saperstein, perhaps the greatest basketball team of all time. Answer: Harlem Globetrotters (RN: Stop and think about that for a minute: Henry Kissinger, a Harlem Globetrotter.) 2) You might remember her as Leanne in two 1998 episodes of Beverly Hills 90210. A few years earlier, she might have caught your eye as Maya Graham in the TV series Flipper or as Maria in an episode entitled "Sexual Perversity in Chicago Hope." There have been a couple of memorable movie roles: Kirsten Liosis in Never Been Kissed and Molly in Idle Hands. But she's probably stuck in your head now as Sara Rutherds, aka Max Guevara. For 10 points, name this actress, the titular heroine of James Cameron's Dark Angel. Answer: Jessica Alba 3) Their greatest hits CD Volare hit stores this year, and featured their versions of "Hotel California" and "My Way". Hailing from ArIes & Montpelier in the south of France, the lead singer's father was flamenco great Jose Reyes, and they claim to be the biggest selling French act ever in the United States, starting with their 13 million seller self-titled debut album in 1987. International renown has followed, a fact highlighted by their song "Oh Eh Oh Eh" for the 1998 World Cup. For 10 points, name this band, whose higgest hits to date include "Djobi Djoba", "Bern, Bern, Maria", and "Bamboleo". Answer: Gipsy Kings 4) Molly is a nine-year old girl with glasses and braids who starts a Victory Garden during World War II. Kit, a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl, comes from a wealthy family who is having a hard time dealing with the great depression. The only minorities are Addy, who is black, and Josefma, who is a Chicana. The world is rounded out by Felicity, Kirsten, and Samantha. All live during pivotal times in U.S. History and each has a bevy of friends and family. FTP, name this series of dolls and books that teach little girls today about American History and daily life. A: AMERICAN GIRLS 5) When you go to this town, you'll want to check out the brand new Veterans Memorial Museum, complete with Adolf Hitler's dog tags from WWI and a wall with the names of 406,000 soldiers who died during WWII. Of course, you'll have to squeeze in time, between catching the Andy Williams Christmas Show at Moon River Theatre and the Tony Orlando Show at the Osmond Family Theatre. For 10 points, identify this resort city, brainchild of Boxcar Willie, located in the southwest comer of Missouri. Answer: Branson 6) Born John Waldo in Nebraska in 1950, he joined a band called Radar Men from Uranus in 1972, changing their name in the process. After that band broke up, he released some solo material, notably the albums Read My Lips and Don't Be Scared by These Hands, as well as beginning an acting career that would have been better served if it had never begun - witness his typecast performance as "80s Rock Singer" inXanadu. For 10 points, name this man, lead singer on such albums as Remote Control and The Completion Backwards Principle for The Tubes. Answer: Fee Waybill 7) Two were drafted in 1969; one from Arkansas AM&N in the 10th round, another in the 1st round from North Texas State. The other two arrived in 1971, a 4th round pick from East Texas State and a 8th round pick from Texas Southern. Together, they would catapult their team to defensive excellence, shutting down the run in front oflinebackers like Jack Ham & Jack Lambert, and DB's like Mel Blount. For 10 points, give the collective name for this group of Pittsburgh defensive lineman, including Ernie Holmes, Dwight White, LC Greenwood, and Mean Joe Greene. Answer: Steel Curtain 8) The Dark One has broken the four seals that hold him in prison, and your mission is to fight and fmd the missing seals. In single player mode, you playas Eleyna, but she only moves by foot. So, you may prefer the multi-player mode, which allows you to use the Portal Stones and Ter'angreal. The big plus of the game, of course, is that you get to personally explore the White Tower, Shadar Logoth, the Fortress of the Forsaken, and the Outpost of the Children of the Light. The bad news is that you don't get to fight Padon Fain, or playas Rand himself. For 10 points, name this game by Infogrames, which serves as a prequel to the (as of this writing) 9- volume novel series of the same name by Robert Jordan. Answer: Wheel 0/ Time 9) In 1997, we learned their fate. One became chief smoke jumper for the US Forest Service, another turned his avocation into a career driving stock cars on the pro tour, and the third went to Duke University, to work on a Ph.D. in ecology. In their hometown, the justice of the peace had passed away and was replaced by the sheriff, a former deputy had become a sergeant in the LAPD, and (in a bit of television verite) a local boy won election to Congress. For 10 points, identify the TV program whose reunion show thus described brought Tom Wopat & John Schneider back together. Answer: Dukes of Hazzard (prompt if they name any of the Dukes or if they say "Hazzard") 10) Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he did his undergraduate work at Marquette, before going to Vietnam as a Navy navigator. He then returned to the US, earning a Master's in computer science from American University, and starting his own business as a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies. As part of this job, he found numerous sources of federal money through various programs, and decided to publish the names and numbers of these federal programs. For 10 points, name this man, who claims to drive the world's only yellow polka-dot Lexus, author of Getting Yours and Free Money to Change your Life, master of the government goldmine. Answer: Matthew Lesko 11) Throwing a pitch when facing away from the batter, throwing a pitch during an intentional walk when the catcher isn't in the catcher's box, unnecessarily delaying the game, standing on the rubber without the ball, dropping the ball, quick-pitching, throwing or feinting a throw to an unoccupied base while on the rubber, feinting a throw to first base while on the rubber, delivering a pitch from the set position without coming to a stop, and failing to step directly toward a base before throwing to it while on the rubber. For 10 points, these are just some of the explicit behaviors that will earn a pitcher, for 10 points, what? Answer: balk 12) Rick Nelson's brother-in-law, he was chosen in 1986 as People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. The next year, he married Pam Dawber. A two-year letterman at quarterback for UCLA, he was undrafted, and so he began a film career, playing Billy Joe Meynert in Alan J. Pakula's Comes a Horseman. Roles in Let's Get Harry, Summer School, and Stealing Home followed. For 10 points, name this poor man's Kevin Costner, perhaps best known as a TV doctor, either Robert Caldwell on St. Elsewhere or Jack McNeil on Chicago Hope. Answer: Mark Harmon 13) Her new album is titled Color o/Silence, and this time, she shares co-writer's credit on most of the album's 13 tracks. By way of comparison, on her first 2 albums, 1987's self-titled debut and 1988's Hold a Friend's Hand, she wasn't credited with co-writing any of them. For 10 points, name this single-named singer, last name Darwisch, who assaulted us all in late 80's mall tours, in support of such classic hits as "Could've Been", "I Saw Him Standing There" and "I Think We're Alone Now." Answer: Tiffany (accept Darwisch before it's said, but not without looking at them in disappointment) 14) Although it contains no violence, no graphic sex, no nudity, and minimal profanity, it was slapped with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA, mostly due to scenes of females reaching orgasm without male assistance. It stars Bonnie Root as Stream, the upper-class daughter of a sculptress who begins a sexual relationship with a Big Man on Campus, only to grow disillusioned by her lack of sexual satisfaction. She remains thus until fmding love and gratification with Henry, played by Ryan Reynolds of _Two Guys and a Girt fame. FTP, name this film, an audience award winner at Sundance in 1999, whose name is a pun for what the women depicted in it would like to be. A: COMING SOON 15) Reason magazine contributor Jesse Walker attempted to cast a write-in vote for this character in the 2000 presidential election. Walker was later disturbed to discover that he ran for office on a platform of "rabbit genocide" in a cartoon called Ballot Box Bunny.
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