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1. On TV's The ManFrom UNCLE - what organization did Napoleon Solo work for
Hope & Faith
Charles Lindbergh
U.N.C.L.E
Joel Cohen
2. Who's the all-time leading scorer in NHL All-Star Game history - with 17 points in just eleven games?
(The) dodo
Gordie Howe
Benito Mussolini
Racecar
3. Who 'discovered' Lake Victoria?
John Speke (English - 1856)
Coal
Pearl Harbor
(the) New York Mets
4. What fruit comes in these varieties: Beefsteak and Roma?
Tomato(es)
Scoop
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Smerdyakov
5. Who both married and directed Madonna?
Babar
She shot JR (Dallas)
W(orld) T(rade) O(rganisation)
Guy Ritchie
6. What product did Herbert Lapidus invent in 1974 by impregnating latex rubber with coconut charcoal?
I'm a Believer
Bob Dylan
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Bound for Glory (1976)
7. What color was the iconic swimsuit worn by Borat?
Green
Mecca
The Descent
Hope & Faith
8. What novel begins with this first chapter: Marley's Ghost?
Cape Hatteras
(the) New York Mets
Barry Sanders
A Christmas Carol
9. In Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall says he loves the smell of napalm in the morning' because it smells like what?
Dannii
Victory
Jorge Luis Borges
The Hula Bowl
10. Where is the 'Naked Cowboy -' an underwear-clad guitarist - famous for playing?
Steven Spielberg
Ellery Queen
4
Times Square
11. Anoura fistulata - a bat recently discovered in Ecuador - is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal's total length?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Jeff Daniels (star of The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Aaron Copland
Tongue
12. What does the protagonist of 'The Gift of the Magi' sell to buy a watch fob?
(her) hair
Martha Stewart
Abel Tasman (Dutch - 1642)
Nicaragua
13. What baseball team was the 'Gashouse Gang'?
St. Louis Cardinals
Brian De Palma
(Chubby Checker's) 'The Twist'
Farting
14. Who 'discovered' Queensland - Australia?
James Cook (English - 1770)
Pedro Cabral (Portuguese - 1500)
40
Ian Fleming
15. Give the missing last member: executive - legislative - and...
Randy Quaid
Algeria
New Zealand
Judiciary
16. In what state could you visit the Black Rock Desert?
Grenada
Nevada
Candyman
The Mona Lisa
17. In 1967 - who was the first person to be cryonically frozen?
Yes
Sally Ride
Dr. James Bedford
Utah
18. Who both married and directed Arsinee Khanjian?
Atom Egoyan
Bartolomeu Dias (Portuguese - 1488)
Brazil
SD-6
19. What kind of animal is the title character of Dunston ChecksIn?
Buster Douglas
(the) bishop
Orangutan
It Happened One Night (1934)
20. Which artist had the double album Back to Basics?
Elvis Costello
Sleeping Beauty
Christina Aguilera
HP Lovecraft
21. What fictional character married his wife - Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles - during the sack of Rome in 450 AD?
Chantilly
Prince Valiant
Jerusalem
Montreal
22. What Shirley MacLaine movie did Khrushchev call 'depraved' and 'pornographic' when he visited the set in 1960?
Can-Can
Barry Sanders
Nancy Marchand (The Sopranos)
Rochelle - Rochelle
23. What songwriter of 'A BoyNamed Sue' also wrote the children's poems inWhere the Sidewalk Ends?
Nevada
Judiciary
Sleeping Beauty
Shel Silverstein
24. Last names instead of first names: Montague and Capulet
John Speke (English - 1856)
(an) e
Romeo and Juliet
Jean-Luc Goddard
25. What Washington Wizards All-Star still bears the misplaced 'w' in his name from a birth certificate typo?
A Christmas Carol
Federico Fellini
Smerdyakov
Antawn Jamison
26. What foursome--two people - an insect - and a Freudian construct--ask to be entertained in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?
A mulatto - an albino - a mosquito - a libido
Dr. James Bedford
Tiger Woods
EMForster
27. Who was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court?
CONTROL
Antonin Scalia
6
O(xford) E(nglish) D(ictionary)
28. What band recorded the only James Bond theme song to become a Billboard number one?
Duran Duran
Your Girlfriend
G. E. Smith
(a) ginny (or jenny)
29. What explorer wrote the famous reply poem to Christopher Marlowe's 1599 poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?'
Philip Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ernie
Jenny McCarthy
30. First use of the 'f-word'?
Dharma & Greg
London Bridge
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Ulysseys (1967)
31. What part of the eye changes shape during LASIK?
Jerusalem
TheAtlas (A)
Earl Morrall
Cornea
32. Whose look-alike archenemy was named KARR?
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33. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
A-ha
Robert De Niro
American Beauty
Randy Johnson and Curt Shilling
34. On TV's Get Smart - what organization did Maxwell Smart work for?
Finland
V8 (juice)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
CONTROL
35. What word for a retired professional comes from the Latin for 'having earned a discharge'?
The Fantastic Four
Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
Emeritus
(the earth's) crust and mantle
36. What country was invaded in Operation Urgent Fury
Grenada
Cherries
Seal (played by a sea lion)
Steven Biko
37. Name one of the two US states in which it's illegal to pump your own gas
Oregon (or New Jersey)
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
State quarters
Trista Sutter (nee Rehn)
38. Who killed the literary character Lennie Small?
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
Venice
Mitosis
Yellow
39. In 1893 - who became the first woman to appear on a US postage stamp?
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Hydrogen and oxygen
Salzburg
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
40. The title of the song 'Kumbaya' is actually a distortion of what three-word phrase?
Wendy
Duran Duran
(Albert) Einstein
Come by here
41. What fruit comes in these varieties: Bartlett and Bosc?
(the hospice of) S(ain)t Bernard
Colombia
Pear(s)
Chaminade
42. What transmits African trypanosomiasis to humans and cattle?
Cornea
Beverly Cleary
Tsetse fly
Aurora australis
43. First all-sound film?
Crunk
Barry Sanders
Lights of New York (1928)
Wiley Post
44. Which company merged with Viacom?
(an) e
Paramount
Charles Starkweather
A Christmas Carol
45. What movie is divided into chapters bearing title cards that include 'The Gold Watch' and 'The Bonnie Situation'?
Emeritus
Pulp Fiction
Brent Spiner
The Learning Tree (1969)
46. What line of latitude was chose as the boundary between North and South Korea after World War II?
(Sonny Bono) Copyright (Term Extension Act - 1998)
Victoria Falls
Gordie Howe
38th Parallel
47. Who missed out on an Olympic gold medal in 1984 after her famous collision with Zola Budd during the 3 -000 meter final?
Mary Decker (Slaney)
Green
Baltimore
Muammar Qaddifi
48. Who has had a record fourteen videos retired from MTV's Total Request Live countdown?
Mickey Finn
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Britney Spears
Plum(s)
49. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redchief and Earliglow?
Strawberries
Hong Kong
Bound for Glory (1976)
Shel Silverstein
50. Give the missing last member: Alvin - Simon - and...
Theodore
Home Improvement
Sullivan Ordinance
Carrie Underwood