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1. What country overthrew its authoritarian regime via the bloodless 'Velvet Revolution?'
Topper (1937)
Pulp Fiction
Czechoslovakia
Baden-Baden
2. Who's the younger sister of Lindsay Lohan?
Cape Hatteras
Aliana
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
(Dallas) Love Field
3. Who is worshiped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Ganesh
Nicaragua
Yellow
Shrek 2
4. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
The Maltese Falcon
Radar
Will & Grace
Harold and Maude
5. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
The Artful Dodger
Tammy Faye Bakker
Earl Morrall
Garo Yepremian
6. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Britney Spears
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
The Artful Dodger
Shel Silverstein
7. The Whalers - the Sabres - or the Nordiques--what team's Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous 'Fog Game' of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
Cornea
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Bicycle(s)
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
8. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Omega
Ernesto
Victory
Snape
9. In what does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass's head?
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10. What novel begins with this first chapter: Orleanna Price?
Jenny McCarthy
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
11. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Hips
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
Mau Mau
Ernie
12. What year's Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham - NC?
Pearl Harbor
Milk Duds
1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
Gomer Pyle
13. Who both married and directed Judy Garland?
Kali
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
The Artful Dodger
Vincente Minnelli
14. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm - Vooruitzigt - in 1870?
De Beers
George Deukmejian
Jive
Italy
15. What 1972 comedy begins 'Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag'?
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16. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
5
Hips
Lean on Me
17. After Toyota's Corolla - what coupe introduced in 1972 is the second oldest Japanese car model still on the market?
(Bond foe) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Gypsy Rose Lee
Lillian Hellman
(Honda) Civic
18. What TV series is about this show: The Alan Brady Show?
Home Improvement
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Bicycle(s)
Brazil
19. What nation's only female leader has been Violeta Chamorro?
Black
SD-6
John Cassavets
Nicaragua
20. In what movie does Daveigh Chase play a ghost?
Coal
Chinese Democracy
Donner Pass
The Ring
21. Who's the only two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - so named in 1996 and 2000
Palmer
Kali
Baden-Baden
Tiger Woods
22. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Brent Spiner
Atom Egoyan
Alfred Hitchcock
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
23. What ominous signature first appeared at the bottom of the 'Dear Boss' letter of September 25 - 1888?
Jack the Ripper
Croatia
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
Bling bling
24. What 'hip-hopera' did R. Kelly divide into twenty-two serialized chapters?
HL Mencken
Kitty Genovese
Trapped in the Closet
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
25. What term does rapper B.G. say he wishes he'd patented when he used it for the title of his massive 1999 hit?
Bling bling
O. J. Simpson
A Room With a View (Forster)
Kali
26. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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27. The beaver is North America's largest rodent.What South American animal is the world's largest?
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
Fish
Capybara
B. J. Armstrong
28. Last names instead of first names: Sanders & Sanders & Henderson & Henderson
Bob Dylan
Aglet
Ghost
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
29. In the Bible - who is the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Aurora australis
Hannah
G. E. Smith
Hannibal
30. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
The Boston Celtics (21)
Oregon (or New Jersey)
Haiti
Robert De Niro
31. What two chemical elements make up the mineral quartz?
Silicon and oxygen
St. Louis Cardinals
(the) Republican Party
Beverly Cleary
32. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Kazakhstan and Iran?
Turkmenistan
Nicky
Royal jelly
'A Spoonful of Sugar
33. On what PBS TV show did the Bloodhound Gang solve mysteries?
London Bridge
Kate & Allie
3 2 1 Contact
Mitosis
34. How many band members were there in Toto?
6
Teapot Dome
M. C. Hammer
Queen Anne's Lace
35. In what movie does Alec Baldwin play a ghost?
Sirhan Sirhan
Vitus Bering (Danish-born Russian - 1741)
9
Beetle Juice
36. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
North America
Argentina
Rene Descartes
Panama
37. Who both married and directed Brigitte Bardot?
Smerdyakov
Roger Vadim
Ashlee
(Albert) Einstein
38. What's the only land animal taller than the elephant?
(the) giraffe
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
MMMBob
James Cagney
39. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
Carrie Underwood
Bicycle(s)
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
Inspiration (1915)
40. What nation's only female leader has been Yulia Tymoshenko?
Mississippi - Pennsylvania
Ukraine
Limp Bizkit
Jorge Luis Borges
41. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
In Cold Blood
M. C. Hammer
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
CONTROL
42. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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43. Whose first album was meant to be titled for the Mexican expression Orale - before a misspelling intervened?
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Chinese Democracy
Beetle Juice
Beck (Odelay)
44. What's the only nation that borders both of these countries: Israel and Libya?
Maya Angelou
Egypt
Wilco
Aladdin
45. What skyscraper's exterior ornaments include radiator caps on the thirty-first floor and hood ornament eagles on the sixty first?
Venice
The Chrysler Building
The Pope
Howard Hughes
46. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?
(the winner of the) Kentucky Derby
MCI
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Baden-Baden
47. From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: 'A Little Girl from _____'
Leopard
Little Rock
Roberto Rossellini
Jamie Lynn
48. HO scale is the world's most popular size of what?
(an) e
Model railroad
(The St. Louis) Blues
A Midsummer Night's Dream
49. 'Shepherd moons' in the solar system - such as Prometheus and Pandora - are so called because the help shape what?
V8 (juice)
(planetary) rings
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Nevada
50. Scotland - Wales - or Northern Ireland--the Plaid Cymru party seeks independence for what country?
Radar
Wales
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
Six