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1. With over 5.3 million sold since 1959 - what's by far the most successful British car of all time?
Randy Quaid
The Chrysler Building
The Mini (Cooper)
Brian De Palma
2. In what movie does Alan Rickman play a ghost?
(George) Clooney
Charles Lindbergh
Truly - Madly - Deeply
I've fallen and I can't get up
3. In which Disney cartoon is the title character's love interest named Esmerelda?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Alsatians
Egypt
(The St. Louis) Blues
4. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Harold and Maude
5. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Jack the Ripper
Tsetse fly
Turkey
(a) Yo-yo
6. Where is Jacques Plante's name misspelled five of the six times it appears?
(the) bishop
The Stanley Cup
Croatia
Steven Spielberg
7. The Captain Underpants books take place at Jerome Horwtiz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz is the real name of what comedian?
Jorge Luis Borges
Curly Howard
Truly - Madly - Deeply
Jim Lovell
8. What classing Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman's five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?
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9. The first name of the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System was what famous author's last name
The Age ofInnocence
Sonic Youth
Charles Lindbergh
Melville
10. Who killed the literary character Elizabeth Lavenza?
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11. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Palm Sunday
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
The valley of the shadow of death
Philadelphia
12. What territorial capital is located beneath Mount Alava on the island of Tutuila?
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
Thanksgiving
Edith Head
Jeremy Bentham
13. In what non-Spanish-speaking world city would you find the Spanish Steps?
Desiderata
Horse
Roger Bannister
Rome
14. Name the two-time number one song sung by both Bill Withers and Club Nouveau
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Lean on Me
Hips
Do The Right Thing
15. In what movie does Ian McShane play a ghost?
J. M. Barrie
1606
Mickey Finn
Scoop
16. Who killed the literary character Jay Gatsby?
George Wilson
Sleeping Beauty
Carbon dioxide
Ben Hogan
17. 007 has been wearing a Swatch since 1995 - when what upscale Swatch brand became the official wristwatch of the James Bond films?
Omega
In Cold Blood
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Jamie Lynn
18. According to Bob Dylan in 'Subterranean Homesick Blues -' 'Don't follow leaders. Watch your--' what - instead?
Martha Stewart
Parking meters
John Speke (English - 1856)
Model railroad
19. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos - the blind librarian in Umberto Eco's TheName of The Rose?
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James Cagney
Jorge Luis Borges
Yellow
20. What Canadian singer appeared on the first cover of Entertainment Weekly? (Two initial names)
When a Man Loves a Woman
Lemon(s)
K. d. lang
Paramount
21. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Roberto Rossellini
Louisville (Kentucky)
Smerdyakov
American Beauty
22. Who was known to his Meccan customers as 'al-Amin -' 'the trustworthy one'?
Alfred Hitchcock
Muhammad
O. J. Simpson
London Bridge
23. The first two times two different versions of a song hit number 1 - the same songwriting team was responsible.Who were they?
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24. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
SD-6
By Love Possessed (1961)
38th Parallel
Basalt
25. In what 1986 film does Brian Cox portray 'Hannibal Lecktor (sic)?'
Gomer Pyle
I'll Be There
Manhunter
Inspiration (1915)
26. Which company merged with Boeing?
Sugar Ray Leonard
McDonnell Douglas
Yes
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27. What country was invaded in Operation Uphold Democracy?
Chaminade
Thailand
Haiti
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
28. The Good Shepherd - about the founding of the CIA - was only the second movie ever directed by what legendary actor?
K. d. lang
Robert De Niro
The Age ofInnocence
Rulon Gardner
29. What planet is home to the Jedi Temple?
(The) Jordan (River)
Coruscant
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Jack the Ripper
30. In what movie does Cary Grant play a ghost?
Topper
Turkmenistan
Bam(m-)Bam(m)
Ohio and North Carolina
31. Which company merged with Chevron?
Texaco
Gypsy Rose Lee
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Sugar Ray Leonard
32. What fruit comes in these varieties: Hass and Florida?
Guy Ritchie
Maya Angelou
Subaru
Avocado(s)
33. Who 'discovered' Tierra del Fuego?
Chantilly
Pete Seeger
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
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34. Last names instead of first names: Chasen and Chardin
I'll Be There
Sally Ride
Teapot Dome
Harold and Maude
35. What fruit comes in these varieties: Eureka and Meyer?
Lemon(s)
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
The Lion King
Stevie Wonder
36. Who is pop band Fall Out Boy enjoying an Evening Out with - according to the title of their first album?
Dannii
Little Rock
Your Girlfriend
Pachyderm
37. Who founded the 'People's Temple' in 1955?
TheAtlas (A)
Jim Jones
Kali
Apocalypse Now
38. 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?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spanish - ~1513)
Capri
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese/Spanish - 1520)
The (Buffalo) Sabres
39. Who's the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
The Stanley Cup
Salzburg
Angkor Wat
Roger Maris
40. What editor of The American Mercury was called 'the Sage of Baltimore'?
The White Witch
Your Girlfriend
HL Mencken
Seven
41. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds - author of The Autobiography of a Thief?
Westward Ho!
Emeritus
(the) evacuation of Saigon
(the) Great Train Robbery
42. In 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first gas-powered automobile - calling it what?
(the) Motorwagen
Antonio Stradivarius
Atom Egoyan
Topper
43. What TV actor recorded an album of pop standards appropriately titled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back?
Brent Spiner
The Learning Tree (1969)
Ants
Pennsylvania
44. What composer's tune 'Hoe Down' is the background music for the 'Beef--its's what's for dinner' TV ads?
Frank Zappa
Fraternite
Aaron Copland
Manhunter
45. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
Antonio Stradivarius
Mecca
Dannii
James Cook (English - 1770)
46. What country's highest decoration is the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
Thailand
U.N.C.L.E
47. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Gordie Howe
Rene Descartes
The Chrysler Building
Naomi
48. What 1950s Kikuyu uprising helped end British rule in Kenya?
Capri
Mashed potatoes
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Mau Mau
49. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
(the) evacuation of Saigon
Hamlet
Mellon Collie and theInfinite Sadness
Parrot
50. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Phoebe Cates - in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Red
Upset
Travelers Group
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)