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1. What novel begins with this first chapter: progris report 1 martch 5 - 1965
Flowers for Algernon
Nicaragua
Thailand
Crunk
2. What was Bill Clinton's answer to the infamous underwear question seventeen-year-old Laetita Thompson asked him at a 1994 Rock the Vote event?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Mostly briefs
Hannah
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
3. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
O. J. Simpson
Jose Carreras (the Three Tenors)
Ernesto
Plantagenets (Tudor dynasty founded)
4. Alicia Keys's hit 'Fallin' is written in E minor - but the album title suggests it should be sung in what other key?
Martin Landau
Sonic Youth
(Songs in) A Minor
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
5. What style of 'Dirty South' hip-hop was pioneered byAtlanta rapper Lil Jon?
Paradise Lost
Crunk
Atom Egoyan
Chantilly
6. Where did the Beagle 2 crash and disappear on Christmas Day 2003?
J. M. Barrie
Peach(es)
Mars
(The St. Louis) Blues
7. What actress is the daughter of the Scottish singer Donovan?
Hercules
Ione Skye
Jenny McCarthy
Pictures of Matchstick Men
8. First use of the 'f-word'?
Argentina
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Turkey
Ulysseys (1967)
9. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Bo Derek - in 10?
Bunker Hill
Yellow
Eve
The gingerbread man
10. Despite retiring form NASA in 1977 - what astronaut and physicist was the only person to serve on both the Challenger and Columbia investigation panels?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Milk Duds
Sally Ride
TheName of The Rose
11. Give the missing last member: Clotho - Lachesis - and...
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Salt Lake City
EMForster
Christina Aguilera
12. In 1982 - what tiny Hawaii Division II school somehow beat Ralph Sampson's number one Virginia Cavaliers?
1606
Steven Spielberg
Chaminade
Salt Lake City
13. What novel's events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?
The Age ofInnocence
Afghanistan
Pago Pago (American Samoa)
10
14. In what movie does Vincent Schiavelli play a ghost?
Moby Dick
Nicaragua
Westworld (1973)
Ghost
15. How many band members were there in The Dave Matthews Band?
Eris (Discord)
Afghanistan
5
(the) Motorwagen
16. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
Earl Morrall
John F. Kennedy
Ione Skye
Dollar
17. Kirk Van Houten on The Simpsons and Monica Geller on Friends have both owned a bed shaped like what?
Roger Maris
Stalingrad
(the) Jack of diamonds
Racecar
18. How many different types of falling pieces are there in the game Tetris?
A Room With a View (Forster)
Dharma & Greg
Seven
The Others
19. WC Minor - a murderer and schizophrenic - spent the last decades of his life in a lunatic asylum writing hundreds of entries for what reference work?
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
The Artful Dodger
Sugar Ray Leonard
8
20. How many band members were there in UB40?
Mahi mahi
You Bet Your Life (Starring temple grad Bill Cosby)
Will & Grace
8
21. What's the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
Ernie
H. G. Wells
Bicycle(s)
Pete Seeger
22. What - at their most difficult - are rated 'Double Black Diamond' in the United States?
Cherries
Queen Anne's Lace
Plum(s)
Ski slopes
23. What was the hometown of WC Fields - which he joked he wanted to put on his tombstone?
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
New Zealand
Philadelphia
(The Temple of) Artemis (at Ephesus)
24. Joseph Pujol - the french entertainer known as 'Le Petomane -' built a whole stage act out of his virtuosity doing what?
Black
Spellbound
Red
Farting
25. What NHL team is named for a WC Handy standard?
Arkansas
Lillian Hellman
(The St. Louis) Blues
(the) Jack of diamonds
26. Who's the younger sister of Jessica Simpson?
Ashlee
Jorge Luis Borges
The Learning Tree (1969)
Louisana (Superdome)
27. What style of pants is named for an island in the Gulf of Naples?
Green
William Tell
Marven (Marvin) Gardens
Capri
28. Last names instead of first names: DeFazio & Feeney
Country (West Point motto)
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Laverne & Shirley
29. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
John Cassavets
Silicon and oxygen
Prostitution and human trafficking (White-Slave Traffic Act - 1910)
North Korea
30. Who killed the literary character Captain Ahab?
Upset
Moby Dick
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
North America
31. What song about a glass of wine is Don Ho's signature tune?
The Age ofInnocence
Oort cloud
The Sparrow
Tiny Bubbles
32. 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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33. Who spoke in his native Amerinian - not Kazakh - while playing Azamat in the Borat films?
Small intestine(s)
Ken Davitian
(Sperm) Whale
(The) Jordan (River)
34. Who both married and directed Gena Rowlands?
Limp Bizkit
John Cassavets
EMForster
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
35. The Dartmouth - the Eleanor - and the Beaver were the three ships on which what famous event from American History occurred?
Padre
Seven
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush
(the) Boston Tea Party
36. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
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37. What novel begins with this first chapter: January: An Exceptionally Bad Start?
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38. Who killed the literary character Vladimir Lensky?
(The) Jimi Hendrix (Experience)
Cherries
V2 (rocket)s
Eugene Onegin
39. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
3 2 1 Contact
Mary Decker (Slaney)
KITT('s) (Knight Rider)
Louisville - Kentucky (The Louisville Lip)
40. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Victory
Location (its on the edge of the coin)
(the) ear
Jurassic Park
41. Who's the younger sister of Kylie Minogue?
Indian land (surveyed and divided into allotments for individualIndians - 1887)
Ashlee
Paul Newman
Dannii
42. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
The Weekly World News
Wiley Post
Oedipus
Mia Farrow
43. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar - but he did direct one Best Picture.What movie?
Mitsubishi
Pegasus
Rebecca
Freddie Mercury (Queen)
44. What issue was addressed by congressman Andrew Volstead's namesake Act?
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45. How many band members were there in Iron & Wine?
(Ford) Excursion
Buster Douglas
1
(the) bishop
46. Last names instead of first names: Dickinson and Sawyer
She shot JR (Dallas)
Cat
Strawberries
Thelma and Louise
47. What nation is divided into 26 cantons - each of which was an independent state until 1848?
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Switzerland
Cocoon
Blue
48. In what movie does Rex Harrison play a ghost?
Jack Kevorkian
Queen Anne's Lace
Rulon Gardner
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
49. In 1927 - the Harlem Globetrotters (then the Giles Post American Legion) played - and lost - their very first game; whom against?
Carrie Underwood
Hinckley (Illinois) Merchants
Mitosis
Kate & Allie
50. Who 'discovered' The St. Lawrence River?
Oort cloud
Aladdin
Jacques Cartier (French - 1534)
Louisana (Superdome)