Round 1: Tossup 13

The text “America is Wonderful” introduces a nightclub sequence set to songs by this musician’s band in Haskell Wexler’s film Medium Cool. A spoken-word segment about the monster from It Conquered the World opens this musician’s song “Cheepnis.” Due to a special exemption, the end credits of Y Tu Mamá También are the only media to feature this musician’s song “Watermelon (15[1])in Easter Hay.” Cowboys attack this musician’s band in the town of Centerville in a “surrealist documentary” that parodies the departure of their bassist Jeff Simmons. Shirley Temple, who was then ambassador to (*) Czechoslovakia, was asked for her opinion on this musician upon his arrival in Prague. Two 1970s songs by this non-South American musician are featured in Happy Together: “Chunga’s Revenge” and “I Have Been in You,” the opening track of his album Sheik Yerbouti (“shake your-booty”). For 10 points, what musician’s film 200 Motels features music by his band, The Mothers of Invention? ■END■

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