BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: ROUND TWO
AW – LE
1. Identify these winners in the 2000 VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards FTPE from the award or FFPE if you need another clue.
a. 10: Most Stylish Video (The name of the video)
5: Performed by No Doubt
“Ex-Girlfriend”
b. 10: The Versace Award – Given to the person who best continues to represent the energy, creativity, and daring that he
represented
5: She was a shoo-in after she wore an infamous Versace design earlier in the year
Jennifer Lopez
c. 10: Designer of the Year
5: This offspring of a Beatle designed the rhinestone-studded sunglasses that were the hit of the summer and
popularized 30s-style chiffon blouses with low-slung jeans
Stella McCartney for Chloe
CR – WD
2. Identify the Western lawmen from clues 5-10-15.
a. 5: A rare exception among his fellow frontiersmen, he didn't drink, never cursed, and enjoyed only one vice: gambling,
mainly poker. Legend has it that he faced down and disarmed Ben Thompson in Ellsworth, Kansas. He was a deputy
marshal in Wichita and later in Dodge City.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (First AND last names required)
b. 10: During his first eight weeks on the bench, of eighteen people tried for murder, fifteen were convicted. Six of the
convicted were sentenced to death, eight received long prison terms, and one was shot to death while trying to escape. He
quickly earned a reputation as the "hanging judge" and his court became known as the "Court of the Damned" because this
trend continued for his 21 years on the bench in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Isaac C. Parker
c. 15: Elected sheriff of Bannack, Montana in 1862, he erected a scaffold to execute villains, and his influence later
extended to Virginia City. He was hung from his own scaffold when it was finally discovered that he secretly headed a gang
known as the Innocents that was responsible for much of the town's illegal activities.
Henry Plummer
MF – MR
3. Name these films from the '70s featuring Harrison Ford FTPE:
a. In this 1979 film, an American bomber pilot and a married British nurse fall in love in war-torn Europe.
Hanover Street
b. Ford plays a small role in this 1974 movie, considered one of the best films of the '70s, in which Gene Hackman plays a
surveillance expert increasingly uneasy about his job as he begins to suspect he is an accomplice to murder.
The Conversation
c. This 1978 film is the mediocre sequel to the 1961 hit based on Alistair MacLean's novel. It follows a group of saboteurs
whose aim is to blow up a bridge vital to the Nazis in Yugoslavia.
Force 10 From Navarone
MF – MR
4. Answer the following questions about everyone’s favorite archaeologist, Indiana Jones, FTSNOP.
a. 5: This is Indiana’s full name.
Henry Jones, Jr. (do not accept Henry Jones)
b. FFPE, these two former co-stars appear in hieroglyphics on the wall of the Well of Souls in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
R2-D2 and C3P0
c. 15: This is the club that Indiana meets Willie Scott, along with trouble, namely poison and Chinese men with guns.
Club Obi-Wan
LIT – MR
5. Identify the following vampires from Anne Rice novels, FTPE.
a. Quite possibly the only vampire, ever, to not enjoy killing people and drinking their blood, he is one weird vampire. He
was bitten after he got drunk one night, got lost, and said some stupid things to a very pale man walking down the street.
Later, he fell in love with a 12 year old.
Louis
b. He was the leader of the vampires in Paris. He was the only one who treated Louis well, despite any ramifications that it
had. He was the only one to escape the nightclub when Louis torched it.
Armand
c. He is the “evil” vampire in Interview. After biting Louis made himself at home on his plantation. Later, after pissing him
off one too many times, Louis tricked him into drinking the blood of a dead person, then dumping him in a swamp filled with
alligators. But he didn’t die, so they lit him on fire. But he still didn’t die, and is around today.
Lestat
MU – LE
6. Identify the vocalists behind these major hits of 1983 FFPE.
a. “Maniac”
Michael Sembello
b. “Electric Avenue”
Eddy Grant
c. “”Making Love Out of Nothing at All”
Air Supply
d. “Jeopardy”
Greg Kihn Band
e. “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
Bonnie Tyler
f. “True”
Spandau Ballet
GAM – MR
7. When not playing games, many computer gamers turn to another honorable profession, spoofing them. Identify each
spoof from clues, FTPE.
a. This Star Wars spoof from Palladium Interactive’s Parroty Division features such “games” as “U Don’t Know Jedi,”
“Flawed Fighters” (whose combatants fight with pieces of Luke Skywalker), “Death Star Destruction” (in which the player
destroys Star Wars merchandise), and “Whack the Ewok,” where you can brain those annoying little buggers.
Star Warped
b. After going almost insane from the original game, this Myst spoof from Palladium treats the gamer to an alternate world
where humor is the main theme. After falling through a manhole cover during the opening scene, the gamer is treated to a
trashed-up dock scene, featuring signs such as “Secret door-duh!” and other delightful treats.
Pyst
c. This Parroty game spoof of X-Files features agents Mully and Scudder. Sub-games include Conspiracy Computer,
where a shot of Ronald Reagan’s neck offers a topographical map of Mars, and Abduct This!, where players try to beam up
everything in sight.
X-Fools
d. This spoof by Parroty caused a stir at the Macworld Expo. A Bill Gates look alike hired to hand out buttons got booted off
the floor, along with everyone in Parroty’s booth. Featuring the Billagotchi virtual pet, Roll Ahead, where players play
monopoly a la Bill style, and Winblows Explorer, where players try to shoot their way through a universe of viruses and error
screens.
Microshaft’s Winblows 98
8. Given a player who both won the Heisman Trophy and was the #1 draft pick in the NFL, identify both the college that he
played for and the team that originally drafted him, five points per player (all or nothing).
A.
Vinny Testaverde
Miami (Fla.) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
B.
Bo Jackson
Auburn and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
C.
George Rogers
South Carolina and New Orleans Saints
D.
Billy Sims
Oklahoma and Detroit Lions
E.
Earl Campbell
Texas and Houston Oilers
F.
Jim Plunkett
Stanford and New England Patriots
SP – EO
9. Identify the sports trophies from a description on a 15-5 basis.
A. 15: It is made of sterling silver and was designed by the London jewelers R. & G. Garrard. It measures 2 feet, 3 inches
tall and weighs 16 pounds.
5: First presented by England's Royal Yacht Squadron to the winner of an invitational race around the Isle of Wight, it was
renamed for the winner of the first race.
America's Cup (Prompt: “Hundred Guinea Cup”)
B. 15: It stands 34 ½” tall, 108” around the base, and weighs 400 pounds. Its two-tiered base contains rosters of previous
winning teams.
5: It is officially known as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy, and is contested for yearly in a 16-team
competition.
Davis Cup
CTV – WD
10. FTSNOP, answer the following questions about country music's answer to "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."
a. FTP, name this series that was first telecast on June 15, 1969 and was dropped in 1971, despite a top 20 national
ranking, a victim of CBS' decision to "de-ruralize" its programming. It was, however, in first-run syndication from 1971-1993.
“Hee Haw”
b. FFPE, name the two regular co-hosts of "Hee Haw" for the majority of the series' run.
Roy Clark and Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens
c. FTP, identify this spinoff in which 5 members of the show's cast appeared as operators of a Nashville nightclub.
“Hee Haw Honeys”
CTV – WD
11. Identify the following short-lived TV series from clues for 15 points each.
a. Running from January to June 1980, this detective series featured a charming hustler and master of disguises played by
Ben Vereen. His partner was a well-to-do and somewhat niave romantic, played by Jeff Goldblum, whose idea of sleuthing
was rooted in 1940s novels and old Bogart movies.
“Teenspeed and Brown Shoe”
b. Andy Griffith played Harry Broderick who ran a scrap company, headquartered in Southern California in this series that
aired from January to November 1979. He specialized in such exotic missions as retrieving old B-52s from a jungle, oil from
dried-out oil wells, diamonds from an active volcano, and icebergs from the polar ice cap that he could steer to droughtsticken islands. His most spectacular forays were into outer space, however, using a Vulture rocket to lasso abandoned,
gold-encased satellites and recover scientific "junk" on the moon.
“Salvage I” (“Salvage One”)
MTV – LE
12. Identify these PBS shows for kids that were popular back in the day FTPE.
a. This show, which aired from 1980-1989, was about science discovery and always ended with a brief story about a
group of young scientific sleuths.
“3-2-1-Contact”
b. This show tried to make learning math fun and featured a “Dragnet” spoof called “Mathnet” at the end of every episode
“Square One”
c. One of the most memorable episodes of this series, which gave recommendations on books to young readers, featured
a guided tour of the set of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the host’s “other job.”
“Reading Rainbow”
MF – MR
13. You’ve seen the movies. You’ve read the books. You even have a plush Rancor next to your bed. But can you act?
FTPE, ACT out the following scenes from the four Star Wars movies. (Moderator: score on a scale of 1-10).
a. The scene where Obi-Wan neatly bisects Darth Maul.
b. The scene in Jabba’s throne room right before Luke is dropped into the rancor pit in Return of the Jedi. Make sure to
include Oola, the dancing girl.
c. The garbage pit scene in A New Hope in which Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie are trapped in a garbage chute with a
Dianoga.
MF – LE
14. Name the film from quotes 40-30-20-10.
40: Name it now.
30: “See you Monday. We'll be talking about Freud and why he did enough cocaine to kill a small horse.”
20: “Sometimes I wish I had never met you. Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like
you out there.”
10: “But you know what the best part of my day is? The ten seconds before I knock on your door, 'cause I let myself think I
might get there, and you'd be gone. I'd knock on the door and you wouldn't be there. You just left. Now I don't know much,
but I know that.”
Good Will Hunting
MF – LE
15. Given a quote from the greatest movie ever made, The Usual Suspects, name the character who spoke the line FTPE.
a. “One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.”
Kobayashi
b. “So who the goddamned piss-hell stole the fuckin' truck?”
Fred Fenster
c. “Let me tell you something. I'm smarter than you are. I'm going to get it out of you whether you like it or not.”
Special Agent Dave Kujan
CAR – LE
16. VISUAL BONUS: IDENTIFY THESE CARTOON CHARACTERS FFPE.
a. Hong Kong Phooey
b. Huckleberry Hound
c. Brak
d. Screwy Squirrel
e. Magilla Gorilla
f. Snagglepuss
SP – EO
17. VISUAL BONUS: IDENTIFY THESE LESS-THAN-RECOGNIZABLE NBA COACHES FTPE.
A. Randy Wittman
B. George Irvine
C. Byron Scott
MU – LE
18. VISUAL BONUS: GIVE THE YEARS THESE ALBUMS WERE RELEASED FFPE.
A. Appetite for Destruction: 1987
B. Physical Graffiti: 1975
C. Street Survivors: 1977
D. Bat Out of Hell: 1977
E. Beggar’s Banquet: 1968
F. Velvet Underground & Nico: 1967
CAR – LE
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SP – EO
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MU – LE
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