2008 Erik Axel Karlfeldt Memorial Open Round 8 1. According to one website, this man had a “brief but heated affair” with Elliot Sanders while at Southeastern Missouri University; that website claims that this man’s third wife agreed not to disclose his homosexuality in a divorce settlement. He used the pseudonym “Jeff Christie” early in his career, and worked for the Kansas City Royals before moving to Sacramento and becoming successful in a different field. He had a TV show in the ‘90s which was produced by Roger Ailes, while his more recent achievements include “Operation Chaos,” in which he allegedly inspired Democrats to vote for Hillary Clinton. His addiction to prescription painkillers was exposed in 2003. FTP, name this leader of the “Dittoheads,” a conservative radio host. ANSWER: Rush Limbaugh 2. The episode “One of Our Running Backs is Missing” saw the main character of this show save a kidnapped football player played by Larry Csonka, while the episode “Burning Bright” featured William Shatner as an astronaut with special powers. Andy in The 40 Year Old Virgin has an action figure of the boss of the main character of this series. The main character was employed by the Office of Scientific Investigation, and this series originated the character of Jaime Sommers. The main character on this show, who was horribly injured in a plane crash, was played by Lee Majors. FTP, name this show which centered on the “Better, Stronger, Faster” Steve Austin, the titular bionic figure. ANSWER: The Six Million Dollar Man 3. “A Little Bluer Than That” was the second track on a 2002 album of this name. The original song “Lucky” and 15 blues covers appeared on a 2003 album of this name, which was the last album released by Robert Palmer. One song of this name begins “Sometimes I feel the fear of / Uncertainty stinging clear,” while another notes that you “can’t go on thinking / Nothing’s wrong.” Yet another song of this name instructs someone to “tie another one to the racks” and asks “What if you rock around the clock?” FTP, give this word which names songs by Incubus, The Cars, and R.E.M., the last of which was the lead single from Automatic for the People. ANSWER: Drive 4. This team drafted Joe Namath, taking him with the 12th pick the same day he was drafted first by the Jets in the AFL draft. Members of this team’s Ring of Honor include NFL Hall of Famer Charles Trippi and Dan Dierdorf. This team franchised Karlos Dansby this offseason, signed Travis LaBoy, and lost Calvin Pace in free agency. It only has one playoff appearance since moving to their current location in 1988, upsetting the Cowboys in the Wild Card round in 1998, which ended a 41-year drought between playoff wins. In 2006, after a loss to the Bears, this team’s then-coach Denny Green declared “They are who we thought they were.” FTP, name this NFL team that features Edgerrin James and plays in the southwest. ANSWER: Arizona Cardinals (accept either; accept St. Louis Cardinals before “this offseason”) 5. A recent book by Anne Megowan about Paul Splingaerd describes him as this kind of “mandarin.” One song on the Mountain Goats’ album We Shall All Be Healed notes that “the men were here” to get this kind of “things,” which will be stored in an airplane hangar. Dog breeds of this kind include the Malinois and Tervuren, while beers of this kind include Achel, Gulden Draak, Hoegaarden, and Stella Artois. FTP, give this adjective which also describes Eurocentric quizbowl player Kristiaan DeGreve and a particularly tasty kind of waffle. ANSWER: Belgian (accept The Belgian Mandarin before the second sentence) 6. The music video for Paris Hilton’s “Nothing In This World” is a well-crafted pastiche of this movie. In 2007, Blythe Auffarth and Daniel Manch starred in a movie of this name, an adaptation of a Jack Ketchum novel. In the better-known film of this name, the main character wants a scholarship to Georgetown, though he botches the required speech while on Ecstasy. The Ecstasy came from Kelly, played by Tim Olyphant, who robs a Cambodian’s scholarship fund to recoup losses from Danielle’s retirement. Aspiring director Eli and Matthew are involved in the theft of a solid gold penis and the creation of a prom-night sex-ed video in, FTP, this movie starring Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert as the titular proximate female. ANSWER: The Girl Next Door 7. He was traded six times in his career, the first time in 1992 when he went to the Clippers in exchange for a group of players that included Doc Rivers. His high in points per game came in 1988-89, when he averaged 16.9 points in his only all-star season. He is the lowest ever draft pick to win Rookie of the Year honors, doing so in 1988 after being drafted by the Knicks. In the 2002-2003 season he was on the Jazz, where he backed up John Stockton, the only player with more of a certain stat than him. FTP, name this commentator for ESPN, who as a player had the second most assists in NBA history. ANSWER: Mark Jackson 8. In one song from this work, someone laments that she thought that “each expensive gift you’d arranged / Was a token of your esteem / But when I think of what you want in exchange / It all seems a horrible dream.” Another song notes that you can feed someone all day with “the vitamin A and the bromofizz / But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the trouble is.” In that song, a female character reads from a book on psychology and comments on her illness. In addition to “Adelaide’s Lament,” it features “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” and “Luck Be a Lady.” FTP, name this musical featuring Nathan Detroit and Sarah Brown, a work by Frank Loesser which is based on the fiction of Damon Runyon. ANSWER: Guys and Dolls 9. One character in it is the “first American-born poet ever in the Nobel Prize for Literature’s distinguished 94-year history” to receive that prize, and is depicted lying in the sun reading Newsweek. Eric Yang and County Mental Health Director Dr. Hdiawar figure in “Church Not Made with Hands,” while “Hensonian epiclete” Ovid the Obtuse tells the story of Agon M. Nar in the almost-unreadable “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko.” In the last of the title pieces, the narrator describes how a “Granola Cruncher” told him how she persuaded a killer not to torture her to death. Also including several “Examples of the Porousness of Certain Borders,” FTP, name this 1999 collection by David Foster Wallace which is being made into a film by John Krasinski, whose title suggests a set of conversations with quizbowlers. ANSWER: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 10. In one episode of this show, one character was given a pendant by Mary which permitted her to listen to other people’s thoughts. In another episode, an autopsy was postponed while another character went to a fortune teller who sent him to an abandoned church, where he found a resurrection glove. In addition to such characters as Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato, it features a former con artist who was captured by the title organization in the 19th century, and became the leader of its Cardiff branch. Starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, FTP, name this BBC sci-fi drama, a spin-off from Doctor Who which is noted for its portrayal of bisexuality. ANSWER: Torchwood 11. Regular columns on their website include a daily preview by Caleb Peiffer, “Can of Corn” by Dayn Perry, and columns by such co-founders of the group as Rany Jazayerli and Christina Kahrl. They run the HACKING MASS competition, which inverts the rules of a popular pastime, and their managing partner offered to watch games in person with any critic. That man, Nate Silver, invented their PECOTA projection system. Discussions of those projections, plus statistics like VORP and Peripheral ERA, are published in the yearly volume that names this group. FTP, name this organization co-founded by former UVA quizbowl coach Clay Davenport, an authority on sabermetrics. ANSWER: Baseball Prospectus (prompt on BP) 12. This is the name of a 1990 “sleaze rock” album by Dirty White Boy. In one song of this name, the singer is “suddenly down in Harold’s Square” and notes that seven years disappear beneath his feet. That song features the query “Do you want me now?” and expresses the wish to give someone “everything / You know I haven’t got”; it was the first track on 1994’s This Perfect World album by Freedy Johnston. Another song of this name proclaims “You’re living in the past / It’s a new generation,” and was the theme song of Freaks and Geeks. FTP, name this title track from a 1981 Joan Jett album, in which the singer doesn’t give a damn about having the title quality. ANSWER: “Bad Reputation” 13. This character revealed in the episode “City Slackers” that he once skipped school, contradicting a claim he made in a previous episode. He once coached a Knowledge Fever team comprised of Hair, Lips, and Braniac 14. Early in Season 5 he retired and moved to Wyoming. However, he returned and became a student at Pennbrook College, where he would later marry Dean Bolander, played by the actor’s wife Bonnie Bartlett.