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1. First Best Picture Oscar?
Wings (1927)
Odor Eaters (insoles)
Cocoon
Pachyderm
2. What is a female donkey called?
Sweden
Wiley Post
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Nuclear disarmament
3. What is a female donkey called?
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Italy
India
When a Man Loves a Woman
4. Give the missing last member: Triassic - Jurassic - and...
K. d. lang
Cretaceous (Mesozoic era)
S(ain)t Louis
Otto
5. Whose estate was disputed in the 'Mormon will' belonging to Utah gas station operator Melvin Dummar?
Hong Kong
Billy Martin
Beverly Cleary
Howard Hughes
6. What year was Guy Fawkes tried and executed for the Gunpowder Plot?
Dharma & Greg
Odor Eaters (insoles)
1606
Antawn Jamison
7. Give the missing last member: Emerson - Lake - and...
(a) ginny (or jenny)
Aladdin
Palmer
Jerusalem
8. Who both married and directed Nancy Allen?
Sirius (Satellite Radio)
Kitty Genovese
Brian De Palma
George Milton (of Mice and Men)
9. What was 'Che' Guevara's real first name?
Ernesto
France
Jack Kevorkian
B. J. Armstrong
10. Who both married and directed Emma Thompson?
(The) dodo
Kenneth Branagh
Koran
Fontanelles
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?
LeBron James
Nicky
Tongue
Stevie Wonder
12. What had Adams - Norris - Patrick - and Smythe divisions prior to 1993?
Colombia
(The) NHL
Tammy Faye Bakker
(the) giraffe
13. What city is home to the Big Bat - a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth's baseball bat?
Milk Duds
20
Louisville (Kentucky)
(The) Delmarva (Peninsula)
14. As mystery fans know - cyanide is often said to have the bitter aroma of what?
Tarzan
De Beers
Palm Sunday
Almonds
15. What holiday is the setting for the novel and the film The Ice Storm?
U.N.C.L.E
Thanksgiving
Aaron Copland
Hips
16. What World Heritage Site is found along the Zambezi River - in Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park?
The (Buffalo) Sabres
Victoria Falls
Salt Lake City
Roger Maris
17. What 1980s icon married her second husband - contractor Roe Messner - in 1993?
M. C. Hammer
IMDb
(George) Clooney
Tammy Faye Bakker
18. Who created 'the Chipmunks'?
David Seville (real name - Ross Bagdasarian)
Foo Fighters
Apocalypse Now
McDonnell Douglas
19. How many band members were there in Slipknot?
9
Clownfish
Draw
Mary Decker (Slaney)
20. In what city did Charles Lindbergh take his first piloting job - flying the mail?
S(ain)t Louis
Judy Garland
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Sleeping Beauty
21. The Khmer words for 'city temple' give what building its name?
Rocky Balboa
Angkor Wat
Aurora australis
Blue
22. What song - Status Quo's biggest hit ever - was originally intended as the B-side of the long-forgotten 'Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe'
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Michigan
Rebecca
Field of Dreams
23. What unknown revolutionary was - alongside 'The American GI -' one of only two nameless entries on Time's list of the twentieth century's most influential people?
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24. What issue was addressed by congressmen Phil Gramm - Warren Rudman - and Ernest Hollings's namesake Act?
Steven Spielberg
Turkey
Sean Connery
(Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) Balanced Budget (and Emergency Deficit Control act - 1985)
25. Who complained that his most famous book had been given then 'more reverent' title 'A Cynic's Word Book' by his publisher?
Antonin Scalia
Mitosis
Hydrogen and oxygen
Ambrose Bierce
26. What do Mary Ann Nichols - Annie Chapman - Liz Stride - Catherine Eddowes - and Mary Jane Kelly have in common?
Jim Valvano
TheName of The Rose
Grenada
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
27. What kind of animal is the title character of The Yearling?
Deer
(the earth's) crust and mantle
She shot JR (Dallas)
Queen Anne's Lace
28. In what city could you see the Seagull Monument at Temple Square?
Salt Lake City
The Weekly World News
Trapped in the Closet
Czechoslovakia
29. What was - famously - the phone number of NYC's Hotel Pennsylvania?
(PE)6-5000
Scoop
Nicaragua
Pocahontas
30. On what REM debut album would you find their song 'Radio Free Europe?'
Murmur
(Pendleton) Civil Service (Reform Act - 1883; stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit)
I've fallen and I can't get up
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
31. In what movie does Nicole Kidman play a ghost?
Royal jelly
Scrooged
Pakistan
The Others
32. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five 'dronkeys'?
Shrek 2
(The) Jordan (River)
(give) electric shock(s to other people)
Shiva (the destroyer - of the Trimurti)
33. Who killed the literary character Albus Dumbledore
Phoebe Buffay (from Friends)
Snape
Hong Kong
The Bridge over the River Kwai
34. In 1797 - the Cispadane Republic adopted a flag which is what country's national flag today?
Italy
(the) Alabama Crimson Tide
Utah
Croatia
35. Dutch-born Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk was Elvis Presley's longtime manager - better known by this name
Betty (Rubble)
Aladdin
Colonel Tom Parker
Body Count
36. From Kiss Me - Kate: 'We Open in _____'
Frank Zamboni
Scoop
Mia Farrow
Venice
37. What fictional foreign film often referenced on Seinfeld describes 'a young girl's strange - erotic journey from Milan to Minsk?'
Rochelle - Rochelle
Pear(s)
Oregon (or New Jersey)
The Cincinnati Reds
38. What coach famously ran up and down the sidelines in disbelief after his team edged Houston in the 1983 NCAA Finals?
(The St. Louis) Blues
Antonin Scalia
Jim Valvano
Buster Douglas
39. What animal's intestine secretes ambergris - a strong-smelling - waxy gunk used in making perfume?
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Knoxville (home of the Tennessee Volunteers)
(Sperm) Whale
Queen Isabella I (on a Columbus anniversary stamp)
40. What Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' is a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo?
(All) killed by Jack the Ripper
A Fistfull of Dollars
Edith Head
1606
41. What issue was addressed by congressmen Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley's namesake Act?
(Corporate) accounting reform (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
New Zealand
Atropos (the moirai - or Fates)
Emeritus
42. In 2006 - 7-Eleven ended its twenty-year association with Citgo - in part - it claimed - because of the comments of what world leader?
30 Rock
The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Buster Douglas
Hugo Chavez
43. The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' divides what?
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44. Who's the younger sister of Britney Spears?
(the) bishop
Venus
Jamie Lynn
(The) Jordan (River)
45. What nation is divided in two by the Cook Strait?
Sirhan Sirhan
New Zealand
Ukraine
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
46. What peninsula is located between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea?
What's Up - Doc?
Mulan
Everybody Hates
(The) Crimea(n Peninsula)
47. What fruit comes in these varieties: Redhaven and Harmony?
Horse
Leopard
Richard Cory (himself)
Peach(es)
48. What kind of animal is the title character of Paulie?
The Age ofInnocence
Parrot
Shel Silverstein
A-ha
49. In the Bible - whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
HP Lovecraft
Omega
Garo Yepremian
Naomi
50. What colonel commanded the first African-American army regiment during the Civil War?
Will & Grace
Queen Anne's Lace
Pachyderm
(George Bernard) Shaw